"Just one shot?"
"Yes, just one shot."
"The name of your acupuncture method is a bit hasty." Shao Xi knew without guessing that this acupuncture method requires only one needle.
Guo Youde smiled and waved his hand and said, "It's just a name, I'm too lazy to use my brain."
Shao Xi looked back at the hay shed, then turned back and asked Guo Youde, "Do you want to perform the acupuncture now?"
"Hey! This injection is the most important one in my life. How can I be hasty? Come back tomorrow. I will give you the injection when I am ready."
"Okay, then I'll come back tomorrow. I hope your shed will be cleaned up tomorrow so we don't have to sit outside."
"Look, little friend, you have passed the test, and I have agreed to help you. Do you think the elixir recipe is -?" Guo Youde's face was full of smiles, and his eyes were full of expectation.
Shao Xi also knew that he would not give up, so he said with a smile: "I will tell you the ingredients first, and after you open my pulse, we will refine it together."
"Okay, okay, if a friend is there to correct me, I think the refining will be successful."
"Remember it and prepare it first. Quartz sand, feldspar, limestone, dolomite, Glauber's salt, and alkali. In addition, you'd better build a small kiln next to it. Your furnace is not hot enough."
Guo Youde counted it with his fingers and nodded quickly in agreement: "Everything will be arranged by my little friend. When my little friend comes tomorrow, everything will be ready."
Shao Xi stood up and said, "That's it, I'll go back first and come back tomorrow."
Just when Shao Xi turned around and was about to leave, Guo Youde stopped him.
"I just saw my little friend wandering around here, looking for the Sky Eye Stone?"
"Exactly, how do you know?"
Guo Youde said with a non-surprised expression: "There's nothing else around here, only that one thing."
Shao Xi became excited again when he heard this, "I am depressed about this matter. Do you know where I can find this thing?"
"No need to look for it, I have a lot here, just give it to the kids." With that said, Guo Youde turned around and ran towards the hay shed.
After a while, Guo Youde ran out carrying a pineapple-sized cloth bag.
"Although this kind of thing is not common, you will always pick up a lot if you stay here for a long time."
Shao Xi opened the bag and took a look, what a guy! There are more than thirty pieces. Although most of them don't look as good as the ones Uzhina gave to him, they are almost as good as the ones Old Wu took away.
Shao Xi handed the bag back after reading it.
Guo Youde looked at him in surprise and asked, "Little friend, what do you mean by this? Do you think these things I gave you are not good enough?"
"I heard these things are very valuable, how could I take them from you for nothing?" Shao Xi replied.
"Hey! What are you saying, little friend? These things seem to be worth some money in the Central Plains, but they are worthless here. Besides, I have given such important elixirs to me, so how can I say that? Is it for free?"
Guo Youde reached out and pushed back the hand that Shao Xi held out.
"Okay, then I'll be disrespectful. By the way, remember never to put saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal together at the same time to make elixirs." Shao Xi tied the bag around his waist, raised his hand to Guo Youde and turned around to leave.
From behind, Guo Youde shouted loudly: "My little friend, remember to come tomorrow! I am waiting for you here."
Shao Xi recalled the whole process of meeting Guo Youde and felt dumbfounded. A sloppy old man and a six-year-old child went from staring blankly at each other to having an inexplicable quarrel, to talking happily, and in the end they were a little reluctant to part with each other.
With so many Sky Eye Stones given by Guo Youde, Shao Xi naturally no longer had to look for them, so he returned the same way to find Muren and Wu Rina.
When he found Muren and Uzhina, Shao Xi was dumbfounded. He saw that these children were no longer playing football, but fighting in a group. Muren stood in the middle, pulled one away, and the other ran over; pulled away the other, and the other rushed over again. Muren was so anxious that he was sweating. Uzhina couldn't help, so she was stamping her feet anxiously beside her.
He hadn't been away for long, so why did he become like this in the blink of an eye?
Shao Xi pulled Uzhina over and asked, "What's going on? We were having a good time just now, why did they start fighting all of a sudden?"
When Uzhina saw it was Shao Xi, she immediately pouted, "It's not all your fault. There were so many people and you only brought one ball over, and they started fighting over each other."
Shao Xi was happy when he heard this and asked Uzhina: "How did they rob it?"
"When they saw you kicking the ball at first, they kicked it with their feet. Later, when someone couldn't kick it, they rushed over, picked up the ball and ran, and the others chased after it."
Good guy! I made them a football, but these guys turned it into a rugby ball. I also blame myself for not explaining the gameplay and rules clearly to them before running to pick up rocks. But now that we know the cause of the matter, it will be easier to handle.
Shao Xi and Muren spent a lot of effort to calm down the group of children. Shao Xi asked a few children to help draw the field, and then called everyone together to briefly explain the gameplay and rules of football. The children on the grassland are sincere. They had a fight just now, and now they are playing together again. Shao Xi then ran to the side and watched the excitement with Uzhina, while Muren also changed from a quarrelsome one to a referee.
Looking at Muren and Wu Zhina, looking at these children, they all smiled so brightly, Shao Xi suddenly felt very emotional. On the surface, he looks like a child, even younger than the children in front of him, but is he really still a child? Although he regained his child's body, he could never regain his childlike innocence.
He suddenly felt that nothing could go back.
Wu Zhina blinked her big eyes and looked at him steadily: "Feng Yuyan, do you miss your Abu and Eji?"
Uzhina's words broke Shao Xi's guard, and tears fell uncontrollably. yes! He missed his alcoholic father and his mother, but no matter how much he thought about them, they would never come back.
Uzhina, who realized that she had gotten into trouble, hurriedly pulled Shao Xi's sleeve, shook it and said, "I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing. Don't be sad."
Shao Xi was actually not sad, but regretful. There are too many things that I thought I could do, but I didn’t.
"From now on, we will be your relatives. Muren's Abu and Eji and I are your Abu and Eji. Muren is your Aha, and I am your Egeqi."
"I don't want to call you Egeqi."
"Why?"
"I don't want to scream."
"Why don't you want to scream?"
"If you don't want to scream, you just don't want to scream."
"Why don't you bark if you don't want to?"
"..."
It starts again...
As the sky gradually darkened, the children on the grassland began to ride their horses towards home...
The children were talking and laughing along the way, and they all found the new game that Shao Xi taught them particularly interesting. So everyone agreed to come out tomorrow. This is exactly what Shao Xi wants. If he goes to find Guo Youde alone tomorrow, he is really worried about whether he can control the white horse.
When everyone was about to return to the tribe, Muren first discovered that something was wrong with the situation.
On the periphery of the tribe, there were many riders cruising, and on the edge there were many men patrolling with weapons. The atmosphere of the entire tribe seemed very tense, as if they were on guard against something.
"Something happened. Let's go home quickly to find our respective Abu and Eji." Muren seemed to know exactly what happened.
So, a group of children ran towards their own felt tents.
When Shao Xi followed Muren and Uzhina to the open space in the center of the tribe, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. I saw a group of injured men lying on the ground, some with knife wounds and some with arrow wounds. The old healers in the tribe were helping them clean their wounds and apply medicine and bandages. Some of the women were busy heating hot water, while others were cleaning the blood-stained cloth strips.
On the ground in the distance, there was a row of dead men, and another row next to it.
Muren gritted his teeth and said: "It must be the Mao'an Department, it must be them, these jackals on the grassland."
Shao Xi actually roughly guessed what happened? In the past, in TV dramas with historical themes, I also learned that some battles often occurred between grassland tribes in history. Although he didn't like it, he didn't find it strange. What he saw in his eyes was the difficulty of survival and the difficult and painful struggle of the grassland people, as well as the perseverance and courage to fight against nature.
"Su He, arrange for people to clean up our fallen warriors and prepare them for cremation. As for those from the Mao'an Department, just leave them there, waiting for them to send people to take them back by themselves." Xuri Qian was directing everyone to do the aftermath.
Seeing Muren coming with Shao Xi and Uzhina, he went up to him and said, "Muren, you Abu and Eji are in the felt tent. You and Uzhina should go back and take a look. You Eji don't know that you Wherever I went, I was worried to death.”
"I know, uncle Xuri, let's go back and take a look."
When Muren and Uzhina's Eji saw them walking into the felt tent, they rushed over and held the two children in their arms. Crying and saying, "Where did you run away? I thought something happened to you too."
When Shao Xi was lamenting that others had parents but he had nothing now, Eji had already pulled him over and held him in his arms.
"The most pitiable thing is this child. Even the only adult around him left yesterday. Let's live with Muren from now on. We can take care of each other like a family in the future."
Shao Xi was very touched. It felt good to be treated as a family member.
At this time, Zhuoligetu was arranging his equipment, as if he was about to go out.
"You take the children at home, and I'll go discuss the next steps with Xuri Qian." He said and walked out of the felt tent.
"Abu, I know what you are going to do. Take me with you, I am also a warrior on the grassland." Muren caught up and said.
"Of course my Muren is a warrior on the grassland, but now this is a matter for adults. You and Uzhina stay with Eji at home. The future of the Tote Department depends on you children." Zhuolige Tu patted Muren's shoulder and said.
"Maybe, there's no need to be in such a hurry."
