Li Laodan's love story made men silent and women shed tears. Why didn't Liu Ruxiang react at all?
I turned to look at the cook, looking at her with a strange expression.
Her face was straight, almost paralyzed, and she looked around from time to time.
Li Laodan wiped his eyes, nodded and agreed to Liu Ruxiang, and said no more, and the speed of his feet gradually increased.
The mountain behind their village is a branch of Longming Mountain. As long as you keep going east, you can reach Longming Mountain.
There are many traces of human activities on the outside of the mountain. A few of us can just walk along the path on the mountain. There is no need to cut through the thorns to open the way. After walking for more than 20 minutes, we have climbed to the halfway point of this branch mountain. .
When we arrived here, there were gradually more and more big trees, weeds, and shrubs on the mountain, and the speed of our group gradually slowed down.
However, Li Laodan is indeed very familiar with this place. He said very confidently: "This mountain, including the western half of Longming Mountain, I am afraid no one will avoid me and become more familiar with it!"
"Over the years, I have been going up the mountain to pick astragalus for my wife every two days, and I have never stopped. I stood on the mountain and looked down at which areas of the land were soft and which were wet. It's clear at a glance." Mr. Li stroked his beard with a smile on his face.
In my heart, I admire him very much. A man insists on going to the mountains to collect medicine for decades in order to treat his wife's illness. How many people can do this?
However, Liu Ruxiang was not interested in Old Li, and still urged him to lead the way with a straight face.
Walking up the mountain, we climbed a long and steep slope.
Although Li Laodan is old, he is still strong and strong. He still has a lot of muscles in his lean body, and the skin on his body is not as loose as that of ordinary old people.
However, despite this, several of us were a little tired, so we stepped on a piece of thatch and sat on it to rest.
We were sitting on the ground drinking water. Just after resting for a while, a cool breeze suddenly blew in the forest.
It's already January. It doesn't snow here like in the north, but the temperature drops sharply, and the hot and humid climate immediately turns into cold and wet weather. I heard that many northerners can't bear this kind of cold.
In this mountain forest, I rubbed my hands and looked at Liu Ruxiang, and suddenly I thought of something.
"Master, can you still summon the big snake?"
Liu Ruxiang rolled her eyes at me.
"Little idiot, there are no snakes anywhere in this winter. Snakes are going to hibernate. At this time, the snake's five senses are closed. They won't come out until next spring. No matter how good you are at snake calling skills, you can't bring down the snakes underground. come out."
Liu Ruxiang continued: "Let me tell you that when you escaped from the hospital, you were surrounded by those people. At that time, Master couldn't breathe out the powerful Bungara snake because it was already in season and it was time to rest."
This can be regarded as clearing up the doubts in my heart. Doesn't this mean that Liu Ruxiang's hand is missing a big killer weapon? At least this thing is very powerful against people.
Liu Ruxiang smiled: "Everything has its pros and cons. Don't rely too much on others or external objects. You must be fully prepared to face unknown problems. If there is a person who specializes in this kind of magic, wouldn't he have to shut up in cold weather? You can’t go out and stay at home all day long?”
I scratched my head and suddenly realized.
Our master and apprentice just chatted without avoiding this old man Li.
After eating a few more pieces of cake and snacks, the three of us continued on our way.
At this time, it was already past noon. Liu Ruxiang looked at her hand and saw that the time showed three o'clock in the afternoon.
Liu Ruxiang was a little anxious at this time, urging Li Laodan, and asked him: "Old man, where is the corpse dog? Why haven't you seen it until now? Didn't you say that after you enter the mountain, there will be Are corpse dogs just following you?"
Li Laodan stopped and looked behind him and around him: "Come on, Master Liu, please follow me for a while. After all, this is still the outskirts of Longming Mountain. There are not many rabbits, deer, etc., and there are corpse dogs." There’s nothing to eat here.”
However, one thing is quite curious. I heard Mr. Li say that this dog still eats these animals. Could it be that we misunderstood him and did not eat dead people?
My uncle who I thought was cheap was injured and lost his soul.
Leaving a body at home is very similar to a dead person. Liu Ruxiang said that this is also the time when corpse dogs are attracted, so they come to block our way.
Liu Ruxiang said this. Could it be that this corpse dog doesn't eat dead people, is it because we misunderstood it?
Li Laodan was trying his best to defend his dog: "That dog will only go out of the mountain to eat corpses when it is extremely hungry. I know him better than all of you."
My eyes widened for a moment, as if I vaguely thought of something.
Previously, Jiangdong sent Master Abandoned to disguise himself as villager Meng Laoer and control the little mandrill in Fang Xiaomei's belly. When we went into the mountains with him, we encountered a monkey attack.
Those monkeys were also driven by the old mandrill. Could it be that the old mandrill drove away the corpse dogs, causing the corpse dogs to find no food in the mountains, so they went down the mountain and happened to stare at my uncle's body?
This suddenly became a perfect logical chain, and the time was very similar.
I turned my head, slowed down my pace, and told Liu Ruxiang what I had in mind.
"I see."
Master only replied to me with these three words, which is so unpredictable.
If you look at it this way, the corpse dog is a good dog that is not so bad. If you go to kill it now, wouldn't it be considered an indiscriminate killing of innocent people?
Liu Ruxiang did not answer my doubts and continued to follow Li Laodan towards the mountains.
The sky slowly darkened.
The days in winter are very short. It's almost dark when it's only around five o'clock.
At this time, only his wife was left in Li Laodan's house, that is, the old woman who was covered in teeth by the master. She was lying lonely on the bed, her eyelids rolled hard, trying to look at the window behind her. .
But her whole body, almost every muscle, was covered with those white bone teeth.
I don’t know if anyone has suffered from diseases such as lumbar disc herniation and bone spurs. The former is caused by the protrusion of the nucleus pulposus in the bones of the human lumbar vertebrae, as if there is a finger on your eyeball, compressing the nerves, causing severe pain when the disease occurs.
Bone spurs and bone hyperplasia work on a similar principle. When they grow out, they compress nerves and tingle muscles, making life worse than death. The person is considered semi-invalid, unable to bear shoulder resistance and unable to lift hands.
As for my wife, Li Laodan, the tooth drop in her head is extremely vicious. It’s like every bone in a person’s body has bone hyperplasia. Even if he lies in bed motionless, he will be like ten thousand ants. Heart-gnawing.
The old woman has suffered a lot over the years. If she hadn't been reluctant to let go of the man who had been taking care of her and the little boy who played truant back then, she might have figured it out a long time ago.
But...thinking of the strange pair of master and apprentice today, she slowly felt relieved.
In the last journey of this life, I can finally take out the things that have tortured me for so many years from my body.
Although the derived false teeth are still in her body, it is as if her heart disease has been removed. She feels comfortable and no longer has the uncomfortable feeling.
Thinking of this, she looked up and saw that the walls of the roof were getting darker and darker. It should be dark soon.
Time is up……
Her wife had already washed her, and in her hand, she was still holding a silver ring gently.
This was the first gift he gave her when she remarried Li Laodan when she was young.
In this life, she has been married twice, but she has never had a serious life. When she got married for the first time, she was just a woman who was sacrificed. Her brother liked the sister of that family, but the brother of that family didn't like her.
After getting married, I would often stay late at night to watch the vacant house, and only in the middle of the night would I see my husband come back from gambling outside in the dark.
Later, the family failed, and she was married into Li Laodan's family. Because she had to give out dozens of kilograms of rice, the rest of her life was tight.
When the wheat was sold that year, Li Laodan took her to buy this thin silver ring in the last episode.
Time flies, when the couple stole a dog, she was unfortunately bitten on the finger by the dog, but the dog happened to bite on the ring. Her hand was fine, but the ring was broken.
The broken ring at the back was kept away until Mr. Li left at noon, when it was quietly handed to her hand.
She didn't look at the ring, but as soon as she touched the familiar texture and pattern, she knew it was this ring.
She knew what her wife, Li Laodan, was thinking, and he told her all the plans.
They can never meet again...
A line of clear tears flowed from the old woman's eyes.
She choked and wanted to cry, but she couldn't cry. She could only make an unpleasant sound from her throat.
The old couple saved two coffin books. They bought a coffin first and threw it in the front room.
It was a big coffin, already painted with red paint.
Her wife said to her: "Sister, this is my last gift to you... If there is a chance, we can sleep together. If there is no chance, you can make good use of it."
The old woman was lying on the bed. As early as half a day ago, she felt a faint feeling of chest tightness. She was thinking wildly, always feeling that she was leaving.
This feeling is what people feel when their end is approaching.
She sighed and moved her body slightly with all her strength.
With just a slight twist on her waist, the teeth in the muscles all over her body rubbed and squeezed against each other, as if they were chewing her flesh, blood and nerves.
Cold sweat broke out from her body. She exhausted all her strength and finally fell off the bed as if struggling to death.
The bed was very short, not high, and the pain from falling from it was not even as good as the pain she endured every moment.
Her mouth trembled as she crawled outside.
She wanted to see what the last gift this brother gave her was like?
