Old Man Ling was full of doubts when someone outside the house said, "It's too late to save the child in the house!" When Old Man Ling heard this, he felt excited and almost dropped the oil lamp in his hand to the ground.
Old Man Ling hurriedly opened the door, and under the bright white moonlight, he saw an eight-foot-tall man standing outside the house. He looked about thirty years old and had good features.
This man was wearing a gray burqa, with a bun on his head, and was carrying a small package on his back. It was bulging, and he didn't know what was inside.
The young man entered the room without waiting for Old Man Ling and the two to speak, and went straight to the head of Ling Yun's bed. He lifted the quilt, squatted down and looked at Ling Yun lying on the bed, and his eyes were surprised.
The man turned to Old Man Ling and Grandma Ling and said, "Two old men, could you please step aside for a moment?" Old Man Ling asked, "Do you really have a way to save Yun'er?" The young man replied, "Old man , I’m afraid no one in this world can save him except me!”
Old Man Ling still couldn't believe it, and asked tremblingly: "Brother, it's not that I don't believe you, the doctors in the town said that the child is dead, what can you do to save him? "
The young man said: "Since you have already said that this child is dead, why don't you let me try?" Grandma Ling said to Old Man Ling: "Old man, I don't think he is a bad person, so let him Try it!"
Old man Ling thought to himself that the old woman was right. Anyway, he was planning to arrange the funeral arrangements for Ling Yun and his child tomorrow. With all these people coming to his door, let's just treat him like a dead horse.
So Old Man Ling said to the young man in front of him: "This little brother, if you can't do it, don't force it, don't hurt him again, ah?" Hearing this, the young man stood up and said: "Old man, aunt, don't worry. , you two, please stay away, wait outside, and don’t go near this house, I promise to give you a lively grandson!"
Old Man Ling thought that this young man was afraid that they would secretly learn his medical skills. He thought to himself, that's all, I'm already old, why should I learn this thing? If he could really save Yun'er, he would have met a great benefactor.
Although Old Man Ling and the two men were still doubtful about this, they still walked out of the house with the attitude of giving it a try and closed the door.
Old man Ling and his wife came outside the house and stood in the yard, looking in the direction of the house. With the light of the oil lamp, they could vaguely see the figure of the young man inside.
The man took off the baggage on his back, took out a small square box, and took out a pill from it. He sat on the bedside, helped Ling Yun sit up, fed the pill into Ling Yun's mouth, patted Ling Yun's chest, and the pill Swallowed by Ling Yun.
The young man put Ling Yunping back on the bed, took out a round object of unknown origin from his arms, and said to himself: "Brother, thank God, I found this child, and you can be saved!" , he brought the object close to the head of the bed and reached out to open the lid. Suddenly, a faint blue light emerged from the object in his hand, almost covering the light of the oil lamp, but it disappeared again in just a moment.
The man put the object in his arms and shouted outside the house: "Uncle, aunt, you two can come in!"
Old Man Ling and Grandma Ling had been dumbfounded for a long time. When they heard the man calling them in, they walked over as if they were waking up from a dream, pushed the door open and walked into the house.
Old Man Ling and the other two came to the bedside. The young man stepped out of the way and raised the oil lamp above his head so that they could see clearly. Old Man Ling and the two men leaned over to look at Ling Yun, and saw that his originally pale face had returned to rosy, and his eyes were closed tightly, as if he was asleep.
Old Ling turned to look at the young man beside him and asked in surprise: "Is... Yun'er, is he... okay?" The young man smiled and said: "It's okay, but his body is still very weak. He is weak and needs to rest for a few days. You only need to feed him some water during these days, and he will wake up after a few days."
Ling Yun's face had returned to its original color, and Old Man Ling couldn't help but not believe it. At this time, he was so excited that he could no longer speak. He was about to kneel down on his knees and kowtow to the young man to thank him. Grandma Ling on the side also knelt down. Go down. Seeing this, the young man hurriedly put down the oil lamp. Before they knelt down, he lifted the two of them up with both hands and said, "No way, no way, two old people, this is absolutely impossible!"
The young man's strength was astonishing. He held the two's arms with both hands. No matter how hard Old Man Ling tried with all his strength, he couldn't move downwards. The two had no choice but to give up. With tears in their eyes, they didn't know what to say for a moment, so they only murmured three words: "You are really our great benefactor!"
The young man helped the two old people sit on the edge of the bed and said to them: "Old man, don't say that. What I did was to save him, but not all of it, so you two don't have to." Thank me!" Then, he picked up a wooden box from the chair nearby. This wooden box was three inches square. It must be the one that Old Man Ling saw outside the house just now.
The young man opened the box and took out an object wrapped in cotton and a white pendant. He first opened the piece of cotton cloth, revealing two crystal-clear things as big as cherries inside, and said to Old Man Ling: "Old man, these are the pills to treat this child. I just gave him one, and I have two more here." If he has symptoms like today again in the future, take another pill with him!"
He picked up the pendant again and continued: "This pendant is for him to wear with him throughout his life. However, this thing is extremely rare and must not be shown to others easily to avoid disaster!" After that, he wrapped it up again. He closed the wooden box with the two pills and handed them into Old Man Ling's hands.
Old Man Ling took the wooden box, his lips trembled a few times, but said nothing. The young man straightened up and bowed, "Two old men, I came to visit you late at night and disturbed your dreams. It's over for now. I'll take my leave!"
Old Man Ling and Grandma Ling didn't know why this man was in a hurry to leave. Seeing that he was about to leave, they hurriedly stood up and tried to persuade him to stay: "My benefactor, it's already late at night. It's better to stay one night before leaving!" The young man replied: "No, I'm with you. You have important things to do, so don't stay here for too long!" After a pause, he added: "Remember, that pill can only be taken with him. If anyone else takes it, it will be a life-threatening poison!"
Old Man Ling nodded and said, "I have taken note of it!" Then he asked, "I don't know where my benefactor lives. When Yun'er wakes up, I will definitely bring him to visit to thank me!"
After hearing this, the young man was startled. He didn't know how to answer for a moment. After thinking for a moment, he said: "To be honest with you, I have no fixed place to live, and my home is all over the world. You don't have to run around looking for it now. Let’s just say nothing happened tonight!”
After hearing this, Old Man Ling felt very uncomfortable. He couldn't explain how he felt. He felt lost and helpless. Old Man Ling thought for a while and asked, "Then, after my benefactor leaves, will he come back to see Yun'er?"
The young man turned around, faced the door, looked up at the sky, and replied: "Let it go, it's getting late, it's time for me to leave, two old people, take care!" After saying that, Old Man Ling and the other two didn't wait. After speaking, he walked out quickly and disappeared into the hazy night.
Old Man Ling stared blankly at the direction in which his back disappeared, until Grandma Ling pulled his sleeves and said, "Old man, don't be stunned, put this thing away quickly, don't lose it!" Old Man Ling said this After realizing it, he glanced at the square box in his hand and then at Ling Yun lying on the bed to make sure that this was not a dream. Then, he picked up the oil lamp beside the bed, walked into the inner room, opened a wooden box in the corner, removed the clothes inside, hid the wooden box at the bottom of the wooden box, covered the box, and moved the box next to it. Get up and press on the wooden box.
After doing this, Old Man Ling returned to the outer room again, took a closer look at Ling Yun lying on the bed, then blew out the oil lamp, and went back to the inner room to sleep with Grandma Ling.
In the next few days, Old Man Ling was afraid that Ling Yun would be hungry. He tried many times to feed Ling Yun some millet porridge, but failed. He couldn't feed Ling Yun anything except water, so he had to give up.
After about ten days like this, Ling Yun woke up and regained consciousness. He looked no different from before. The most incredible thing is that Ling Yun has been hungry for so many days without even the slightest sign of weight loss or weakness.
After Ling Yun woke up, Old Man Ling originally planned to follow the young man's words and give Ling Yun the pendant in the box to wear. But then I thought about that person saying that this thing should not be shown to others easily, so as not to cause disaster, and considering that the child was only six years old, I gave it up and thought that if I put it somewhere easily accessible, there would be no problem, so , and has been hiding in the box in the corner. It was not until ten days ago that Ling Yun fell into coma again that he took it out again and handed it to Ling Yun.
Later, the people in the town were surprised that Ling Yun had come back from the dead, and they couldn't help but be very curious. After everyone asked frequently, Old Ling could only lie and say that he went to Jinling City to invite an unknown miracle doctor. He was cured.
When Old Man Ling said this, this little-known past event was finally finished. Li Dongming and others were stunned after listening to his story. I thought that Old Man Ling really invited some kind of miracle doctor from Jinling City, but I didn't expect that a miracle doctor came uninvited and gave Ling Yun such a few treasures.
Li Haoyang asked: "Grandpa Third, did you see that person again later?" Old Man Ling shook his head and said, "No, at first I was thinking whether that person would come over and take a look when he passed by. Later, I also asked people in the town, and no one had seen anyone coming here. Later, I gradually forgot about it!" When he said this, he suddenly thought of something again, glanced at Li Haoyang, and said He glanced at Ling Yun and asked: "Yangyang, Yun'er, you two tell the truth to grandpa, where did you go that day and did you meet anyone?"
Li Haoyang lowered his head and rolled his eyes wildly, thinking, what's going on with Third Grandpa? Why are you still holding on to this matter for so many days? Why do you insist that we went somewhere we shouldn't have gone?
Just when he was hesitating how to answer, Ling Yun replied: "Grandpa, Brother Yang and I didn't go anywhere. We were just hunting between Yangxian Ridge and Jinji Ridge. If you don't believe me, you can ask Brother Yang, or you can ask Sister Mengyao!"
Li Haoyang didn't expect that Ling Yun could continue to conceal it calmly at this time. He raised his head and glanced at him, then turned to Old Man Ling and said, "Yes, Third Grandpa, please don't ask. I've said it several times. It's really not possible." Where to go? Besides, there are snow-capped mountains to the west of Niu Shi Ao, and it’s impossible to go up there. Is it possible that we can still go to Juelong Ridge?”
Seeing that the two children denied it so firmly, Old Man Ling stopped asking further questions. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not that grandpa doesn't believe you. These more than ten years of experience, especially what happened to Yun'er, always make me feel that that young man back then didn't look like a mortal. !”
Li Dongming listened and interjected: "It doesn't look like a mortal? Third uncle, what are you talking about? Is it possible that there really are gods in this world?"
Old Man Ling said: "I have lived for more than eighty years, and I have never seen any gods or ghosts in my life. But after thinking about what happened to Yun'er over the years, I think it is probably the same as that young man." The pills you gave me are related!" Ling Yun sat aside and listened quietly, as if he was distracted, and as if what Old Man Ling said had nothing to do with him.
Li Dongming asked: "You mean?" Old Man Ling continued: "Do you still remember that Yun'er jumped into Xiangyun Lake to rescue Mengyao a few years ago?" Li Dongming said: "I heard it, it was spread throughout the town. I've been praising Ling Yun all over the place!" Old Ling turned to Ling Yun and asked, "Yun'er, tell everyone, I've taught you since you were a child not to play in the river, let alone swim in Xiangyun Lake, for fear of Something happened to you again, when did you learn to swim?"
Ling Yun, like Li Haoyang at this time, only listened to it as a story. He was asked this question out of the blue. He almost didn't react for a moment. He looked at Li Haoyang next to him and murmured in reply: "Grandpa...Grandpa, I No, Brother Yang taught me how to do it in a small ditch!"
After hearing this, Li Dongming and Aunt Li glared at Li Haoyang. Seeing this, Li Haoyang stood up and explained hurriedly: "Grandpa Third, Dad, Mom, I'm just afraid that he doesn't know how to swim, and it will be dangerous if he falls into the river again. So... ..I took him to the irrigation canal in Lujiacun to learn how to swim, but the water there was very shallow and only reached my waist!" As he spoke, Li Haoyang made gestures with his hands on his waist.
After hearing this, Li Dongming pointed at him with his index finger and said, "I'll deal with you when I get home!" Li Haoyang looked at his father with an aggrieved look, then glanced at Ling Yun with a slight reproach, and sat down slowly.
Then, Old Man Ling asked again: "Forget about swimming, it's over. But after you jumped into the lake that day, how come your clothes were completely dry in just a moment?" Ling Yun himself couldn't remember what happened at that time. Although he didn’t know the specific details, he knew very clearly that his body had the ability to quickly dry the clothes on his body. However, in order to eliminate Grandpa’s doubts and prevent him from becoming suspicious, he had no choice but to answer: “Grandpa, I’m afraid you may have remembered it wrong. I took off my clothes and went into the water!"
After hearing this, Old Man Ling was doubtful and said to himself: "Could it be that... I am an old fool and have remembered it wrong?" Old Man Ling tilted his head, as if he was lost in memories. After a while, he said to everyone: "Others It may be that I am old and confused, but there is one more thing, I will never remember it wrong!"
Li Dongming asked curiously: "Uncle Third, what's going on?" Old man Ling looked at Ling Yun and Li Haoyang in front of him and said, "Do you know why I asked you repeatedly where you two have been as soon as something happened to Ling Yun?" Li Haoyang and Ling Yun After hearing this, the two shook their heads and said in unison: "I don't know!" They said this, but in fact they secretly said in their hearts: "Oops, are they asking us again if we have been to Juelong Ridge? "
Li Haoyang and Ling Yun were distracted, thinking about how to fool him, and they remembered Old Man Ling's voice again: "That night, when the young man left, the old woman and I went out to see him off, and he waved his hand. Let us stay, and I will stand at the door and watch him leave, but do you know where he went?"
At this point, not only Li Haoyang and Ling Yun, but also Li Dongming and Aunt Li leaned their heads forward to listen carefully to what Old Man Ling said.
Old Man Ling went on to say: "I clearly saw him heading towards the back mountain through the moonlight!" After hearing this, several people seemed not to understand what Old Man Ling meant, and looked at Old Man Ling in confusion. Li Dongming asked: "Back Mountain? You mean..."
Old Man Ling nodded and continued: "Yes, he went to the back mountain. As you all know, the back mountain is deserted, and there is only one road leading to Yangxianling. But Yangxianling is a snow mountain, and the weather on the mountain is freezing. There is no one's house either. To the north is Niu Shi Ao, and beyond Fenggang is the Juelong Ridge forbidden area..."
Speaking of this, Old Man Ling suddenly stopped and looked at Li Dongming and others. Li Dongming took a breath and asked, "What do you mean, third uncle?"
Old Man Ling sighed and said: "Juelong Ridge is a place where mortals can never come back. But going west to Yangxian Ridge, there are continuous snow-capped mountains, which are even more dangerous than Juelong Ridge." Ah! So I said, maybe the young man who saved Yun'er's life was not a mortal after all!"
Li Dongming and the others were still stunned. Old Ling laughed a few times as if he was self-deprecating, shook his head and said, "Oh, maybe I'm old and always have random thoughts. How can there be any gods in this world? It's been a long, long time." It’s just a legend from the past.”
Li Dongming said: "Third uncle, since that man can make such a magical elixir and save Yun'er, he must be a reclusive master even if he is not a god. He can travel through the snow-capped mountains or the Juelong Ridge. Time, it’s probably not a rare thing, now that Yun’er has recovered as before, don’t think too much about it, just have a good rest after eating.”
Aunt Li also said: "Yes, Third Uncle, you better take care of yourself and don't think nonsense." Li Haoyang said: "That's right, Grandpa, there are no gods in this world. Let me see, the tall man you met He may be the disciple of an old Taoist priest who lives in seclusion in the mountains. He happened to be passing by here that day and heard about Ling Yun, so let's take it easy, Ling Yun?" As he spoke, he bumped Ling Yun's shoulder with his elbow, thinking to himself : "Eat and sleep quickly, and don't let him ask about whether we went to Juelong Ridge again."
Ling Yun understood and said: "Yes, yes, he should be a reclusive master. Grandpa, don't think too much about it!"
