Yin’s mother first walked into the courtyard to take a look at her husband-in-law, and found that he had red cheeks and was sleeping soundly on his stomach. Then she looked in the courtyard, and there was no one there.
“Qing’er, didn’t you say that a scary old gentleman got your father drunk and he left?”
Yin Qing also looked around and ran outside the courtyard gate to take a look, but saw no one.
“Maybe he left…”
Yin’s mother touched her husband’s face and found that it was a little hot, but she couldn’t smell much alcohol.
“Qing’er, come here and help me. We’ll take your dad home to sleep. How much wine did your dad drink?”
“It’s not much. I saw dad fell down after just one drink.”
Yin Qing ran back from the courtyard gate. Just as he was about to help his father up with Yin’s mother, he suddenly thought of the old man’s words and hurriedly stopped his mother.
“No, no, the old gentleman said, let dad sleep here tonight, we’d better leave dad alone and let him sleep!”
While Yin Qing was speaking, he had already covered his father with a blanket. He also carefully stuffed the hanging part of the blanket into his father’s chest and tied it into a knot.
Mother Yin looked strange.
“What’s wrong with this? What if your dad catches a cold while sleeping here? He’s going to take the exam soon, so don’t delay your trip due to illness!”
“Mom! That old gentleman…”
Speaking of this, Yin Qing looked around guiltily, then walked to his mother, leaned close to her ear and whispered:
“That old gentleman is a good friend of Mr. Ji. Maybe… he is not a mortal, so it is best to listen to him!”
When Mother Yin heard this, her hand movements stopped.
Ji Yuan is a strange person. In Ning’an County two or three years ago, this topic was an exaggerated chat topic for other villagers and neighbors after dinner. For the Yin family, it was an affirmative sentence.
Today, three years later, not many people in Ning’an County still mention Mr. Ji. It is estimated that only old man Sun from Sunji Noodle Stall will talk about Yin Zhaoxian occasionally when he sees him.
But the Yin family would never forget Ji Yuan, so after hearing what her son said, Yin’s mother gave up her plan of bringing her husband home to sleep after thinking about it deeply.
“Then, let your father sleep here all night?”
“Well, don’t worry, mother, I will get up a few more times at night to see daddy!”
When Mother Yin heard what her son said, she reached out and hit him on the head, then put her hands on her hips.
“What does it mean to wake up too many times at night? Your father is drunk, so he will inevitably feel uncomfortable at night. You brought tea and watched your father here in the first half of the night, and I will take your place in the second half of the night. Do you understand!”
Yin Qing rubbed his forehead and replied weakly: “I know.”
There is always a feeling in my heart that my mother loves my father even more now.
In the second half of the night, Yin Qing’s feeling became even stronger. He slept for a while, and it had been a long time since he heard the clock banging, but his mother didn’t come.
Although it has not yet entered autumn and the weather is not very cold, it is still uncomfortable to sleep on the stomach in this courtyard. Yin Qing had to pour a cup of tea and took a few sips and waited for her mother to come over. As a result, she found out that Bangzi was on the fourth watch. When the bell rang, my mother came apologetically for being late…
Dawn of the second day.
“Oh~~~oh oh oh oh~~~~~~”
The moment the first **** crow sounded in Tianniufang, Yin Zhaoxian opened his eyes naturally.
I felt a blanket covering my body. I turned my head and found that my wife was lying next to me covered with a blanket. I looked around inexplicably and found that it was still the courtyard of Ju’an Pavilion. There was a teapot on the stone table. cup.
“Strange…why am I sleeping here?”
Then after thinking carefully, Yin Zhaoxian remembered what happened yesterday. There was an extraordinary old man who claimed to be Mr. Ji’s friend. He not only swallowed half of the fruit of the jujube tree in one gulp, but also invited him to drink a glass of wine. , and then there is no intermediate memory.
Yin Zhaoxian raised his head and saw that the jujube tree was indeed missing half of its fruits. It looked like he was not dreaming.
‘Could it be that I fell unconscious after just one drink? ’
Just as he was thinking this, Yin Zhaoxian suddenly noticed something was wrong with the jujube tree.
“Huh? Why is a small part of this date red?”
I saw scattered dates on the branches that had turned into an overall red color, which was very eye-catching among the green trees, but I just looked at them and didn’t think much about them for the time being.
Yin Zhao first rubbed his forehead, but didn’t feel any hangover or headache. Then he looked at his wife, who felt moved and warm in her heart after spending the whole night with him.
I wanted to wake her up, but although the roosters were beginning to crow now, seeing that it was still dark, I couldn’t bear to disturb my wife.
Taking off his blanket and placing it on the stone table, Yin Zhaoxian stood up and stretched his legs. After sitting all night, he didn’t feel any pain at all, but felt refreshed!
‘Let’s set off tomorrow! ’
. . .
Another gust of autumn wind is coming, the rice fields are already golden, and the mountains and fields are filled with fruits and maple leaves are red.
In the boundary of Juntianfu in Yizhou, on a short peak deep in Junyuan Mountain, there is a grotto more than two feet deep. Inside, there is a ragged and skinny man sitting there motionless, his eyes opening and closing all the time. Look at the chessboard in front of you.
“Papa~”
As soon as a white porcelain chess piece fell, it turned into broken porcelain pieces at the fingertips. The figure’s body was shaken and he finally came to his senses.
“Buzz…buzz…”
The ivy sword leaning on the outside of the grotto screamed with excitement, and the entire sword body and scabbard were shaking “kaka kaka…”.
“Oh…”
Ji Yuan opened his mouth, but no sound came out. His dry throat could only make a hoarse exhale.
In the blurred vision, you can see the fallen leaves and branches beside you, you can see the excrement of animals in the mountains, you can hear the sound of the autumn wind blowing in the forest, you can hear the flow of mountain springs, and you can also smell a burst of Ripe or green fruity aroma…
The moment he woke up, Ji Yuan tried his best to empty his mind and controlled himself not to think about any unnecessary things. There was only one thing he had to do, and that was to eat and drink!
“Hoo…ho…”
Standing up unsteadily from the grotto while holding on to the cave wall, Ji Yuan staggered out of the cave, while the Ivy Sword levitated in the air and followed closely behind him.
Smelling the fruity aroma, I came under a wild persimmon tree. I looked up and saw a blurry scene. I stretched out my hand to grab it but couldn’t reach it. Instead, my body swayed and I almost fell down.
“Ren~~~”
The sword rang and chanted, and the Ivy Sword was unsheathed for the first time in three years. The whole mountain seemed to be illuminated by a layer of light, the horses flashed past, and the fruits on the wild persimmon trees rained down from their branches.
Ji Yuan knelt down on the ground and tremblingly picked up the fruit from the ground. This wild persimmon was not much bigger than a jujube, and its yellow and red appearance was also very attractive.
However, Ji Yuan didn’t care at all. He picked off each piece and put it into his mouth without washing or wiping it. He didn’t spit out the seeds. He chewed them roughly and swallowed them, eating faster and faster. , hands and mouth full of juice.
In the past quarter of an hour, all the fallen fruits had been eaten, but Ji Yuan did not stop, and continued to search frantically in the mountains, eating all the edible fruits, and finally came to a mountain stream and directly ” With a thud, he fell down by the stream.
Ji Yuan buried his head in the stream.
“Gulu…Gulu…Gulu…Gulu…”
Drink water until your belly swells and shrinks, then swells and shrinks again. I don’t know how much mountain spring water I drank in one breath. I didn’t let go of the small fish, shrimps, mountain crabs, loaches, etc. in the stream. Swallowed alive…
“Crash…”
The disheveled Ji Yuan raised his head and let the mountain wetly lie on the rock, breathing heavily.
“Huh…huh…huh…huh…”
After lying down for another half an hour, I regained some composure before sitting up.
He raised his hand and looked at his palms. He was originally as thin as a bone, but now he looked better. He didn’t know how much wild fruits he had eaten and how much water he had drank during the half day. He could only find Shuyuan www.zhaｏｈhuyuａ.com Knowing that all his actions before were just instincts to protect himself.
The time spent in Yanqi this time was much beyond Ji Yuan’s expectation. Although I didn’t know the specific time, it was definitely not short. However, my consciousness was deeply shaken at that time, and I was no longer in a completely clear and rational state.
Just like when I started to play chess in a confused obsession, I just imitated that feeling the moment I woke up, using my strong willpower to eliminate all other thoughts, leaving only the instinct of looking for food.
Because Ji Yuan also knew very well how much weight he had in Tao Xing at the beginning. It would be fine if he did not eat or drink for a few months, but if it lasted longer, his life would be in danger.
When he walked out of the chessboard in his last life, when he met the search and rescue team and was killed if time was broken, Ji Yuan thought of the “mandarin duck method” said by the old man Xu from Shanghegou Village in Suiyuan County more than once.
When you just wake up, you may be in a state of “digging your heart out”.
Ji Yuan didn’t dare to take this risk, didn’t dare to let himself guess and analyze how much time had passed, and didn’t dare to run into someone else and have someone tell him something, at least not until his body was replenished.
Otherwise, it is very likely that the “mandarin duck method” will be broken and the person who deserves to be “awakened” with a stick will be completely wiped out!
But now, it’s okay.
Ji Yuan calmed down his breathing and smiled self-deprecatingly. At first it was just a slight laugh, then the smile gradually grew bigger, and finally it was like a crazy smile.
“Tsk…hum hum hum…hehe, hehehehe…hehehahahahaha…hahahahahahaha~~~~~~”
Rumble, rumble… the laughter shook the fields, and the birds and beasts in the mountains and forests fled…
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PS: I found that many book friends don’t know, so I would like to inform you again that this book will be on the shelves on October 1st. Big book owners also hope to support it then!