Chapter 75 Childhood
The drizzle finally stopped, and the sun suddenly jumped out of the clouds. In an instant, a dazzling light covered the earth.
The flood is still in the river, and the vast land of the two states of the lake are rampant. The water is filled with dead bodies, emitting a wave of unpleasant odor under the scorching sun.
A rush of rapids came over, throwing Li Ming high with a loud bang, hitting a treetop that was unconscious, awakening Li Ming in a coma.
Li Ming subconsciously reached out and grabbed a branch, sprayed a mouthful of dirty water from his mouth, and gasped quickly. The severe pain on his body made him breathless. His right arm was probably broken, and he couldn't lift it up at all.
Another rapid rushed towards Li Ming. Before he could think about it, the rapid had broken the branch he had grabbed, and Li Ming fell into the torrent again.
Li Ming struggled hard in the torrent, and the flood continued to pour into his mouth and nose, making him unable to breathe at all. He only felt his lungs explode, which made his eyes appear and his consciousness gradually blurred.
Suddenly, a heat current rose from the dantian and flowed rapidly in his body. Li Ming felt his chest relax on the edge of his coma, and the feeling of depression disappeared without a trace. His head suddenly woke up, and he felt this wonderful feeling without moving.
This is the first time that Li Ming can feel so good without breathing. At this moment, he has long forgotten the pain on his body and the surging torrent. He is just experiencing it with all his heart and experiencing the true energy in his body.
The flow of true energy was different from the Taiqing Gong he practiced on weekdays, which made him feel very strange. The six years of skill Lin Lingfeng transmitted to himself was almost the limit for him, and he had always practiced internal skills according to Taiqing Gong's cultivation method, but today's internal breathing route is very different from the past. Many of his meridians that he had not practiced were actually opened at this moment, and this route of practice seemed a bit familiar, which really made Li Ming, who was already a little confused, even more confused.
In this way, Li Ming was rolled around in the torrential flood, floating and sinking in the mixed flood, but his head never left the water surface for a moment. He had long forgotten where he was, but just felt this wonderful feeling forgot to feel.
I don’t know how long it took, but Li Ming felt that the true qi in his body became weaker and weaker, and his chest began to become stuffy again. He suddenly woke up and realized his dangerous situation. He currently relied on the true qi stored in his body to maintain the energy needs of his body. Once the true qi in his body was exhausted, he would really die in this torrent.
Realizing this, he no longer cared about experiencing the increasingly weakened true energy. He hurriedly raised his head from the water, forced open his blurry eyes, and faintly saw a piece of land under the swaying waves in front of him.
He was excited and hurriedly pushed out the water in his lungs. He forced his breathing to recover with coughing and choking, and swam towards the land in front of him with all his last little energy.
However, when he had only one arm to move, it was not easy to swim ashore. The closer he got to the shore, the greater the speed of the water flow, and the rapid turbulence turned his efforts into a bubble. Seeing that the shore was getting farther and farther away from him, Li Ming couldn't help but feel despair. In desperation, he took a deep breath, looked at the direction and suddenly dived into the bottom of the water, and launched the last effort toward the shore.
However, he finally failed. After swimming for more than ten minutes, he no longer had the strength. He could only give up his efforts and let his body float to the water. He saw that the shore was within reach and drifted helplessly with the waves.
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a rope falling to his side, and he hurriedly stretched out his left hand and grabbed the rope tightly.
On the shore, a solid boy was grabbing the rope and pulling it back with difficulty, while shouting loudly: "Dog! Come and help! I can't pull it alone."
"Erniu, what are you doing!" A middle-aged man walked over very angrily and scolded: "Children will meddle in other people's business. Our food is not enough. What should you eat if you rescue him? Give him a penny? Let it go! Maybe he has already died."
A trace of stubbornness appeared on the boy's face and he argued loudly: "No! I see he was still moving just now, and he must be alive. The gentleman often teaches us that we should be kind and not be saved by death. You are not a good person, and I want to save him without your help, and you don't need you to care about my affairs!" After saying that, he used all his strength to pull the rope to the shore.
The middle-aged man was furious and shouted, "You don't know what you are doing! Now is the time for you to be kind? I will tell you that even if you rescue him, I will not give him food. We don't have enough food to eat, so how can we care about an outsider!" After that, he turned around and left angrily.
The boy grimaced at the middle-aged man and continued to pull the rope with difficulty. At this time, the two boys ran over again. When the boy saw it, he was overjoyed and hurriedly shouted: "Dog, Xiaohua, come and help me! I can't pull it anymore."
The two teenagers hurriedly came forward and pulled Li Ming and finally pulled Li Ming ashore. The three of them were so tired that they were panting. The little girl named Xiaohua reached her hand in front of Li Ming's nostril and tried it, and said in surprise: "Brother Erniu, he is still alive!"
Erniu said proudly: "Of course, I was still moving in the water when I was just him! I must be alive." After that, he put his face in front of Li Ming and looked at it, "This person is so pitiful, with injuries everywhere on his body. I think it's better to ask the gentleman to come over and see him. Dog, go and invite the gentleman quickly."
The boy named Dogzi responded and got up and ran towards the woods next to him.
Li Ming slowly opened his eyes, looked at the boy in front of him, and reluctantly smiled and said, "Thank you Erniu."
Erniu suddenly widened his eyes and said in surprise: "Hey? How do you know my name? I don't know you? I understand. Did you hear it just now? You didn't fall into a coma just now."
Li Ming nodded slightly, smiled at Erniu with praise, and said, "That's right, you are very smart. Where am I?"
Hearing Li Ming's praise, Erniu said excitedly: "This is Taohua Mountain. We all live in the village at the foot of the mountain. When we were in the water, the adults took us to the mountain."
"Taohua Mountain?" Li Ming felt excited. Since this place was Taohua Mountain, it means that it was not very far from the Mid-mountain Lake. It seemed that he had not been in the water for a long time, otherwise he would have been washed to where he had been washed with such a hurry.
The little flower next to him looked at him curiously and asked, "What's your name? Are you from here? It's so pitiful, your parents must be very anxious."
Hearing the words of parents, Li Ming couldn't help feeling sad. He forced a smile and said, "Little sister, my name is Li Ming. I live in the nearby Mid-mountain lake. I accidentally fell into the water and was washed here."
"So you are a fisherman living in the lake." Erniu said suddenly: "No wonder you can survive. You will definitely swim. I saw many people floating in the water on the shore who died, so I only saved you, a living person."
Xiaohua shouted in surprise: "Sir, here, Erniu Brother, it's Mr.."
Li Ming turned his head and saw that the dog was pulling a thin middle-aged man toward him. Erniu hurriedly ran forward and pulled the middle-aged man to Li Ming and said, "Sir, this is the person I saved. He is still alive, but his whole body is covered in injuries. Please treat him quickly. He is a fisherman, so pitiful."
The middle-aged man touched his head lovingly, squatted down in front of Li Ming, carefully examined his whole body, and looked at him and said, "Young man, you are very injured! You are covered with wounds all over your body, especially your right arm is broken. I need to re-attach you immediately, otherwise your arm will be ruined over time. You have to endure it, it hurts very much, and it will be fine in a while."
Li Ming nodded gratefully to him and said, "I can stand it, sir, please let it go."
The middle-aged man smiled with praise, held his arm and squeezed it hard into the middle, and at the same time, he pushed the two misaligned bones together. A burst of heart-wrenching pain spread to Li Ming's brain. Although he had been mentally prepared, he was extremely weak and could not stand the strong stimulation and fainted."
It was already late when Li Ming woke up, and a bonfire was burning beside him. An iron pot was sitting on the fire, and the pot emitted a tempting fragrance. Li Ming, who had not eaten a meal for several days, suddenly felt hungry and couldn't help but rumbling in his stomach.
A chuckle sounded in Li Ming's ears, and then a snow-white little hand held a bowl of porridge to Li Ming, and a girl with a cute little round face appeared in front of Li Ming.
The girl had a little shy face, and she took a spoon in her hand and delivered a bite of porridge to Li Ming's mouth and said, "Eat it quickly. This bowl of porridge is specially reserved for you, and it is already cold."
Li Ming looked at the girl gratefully, opened his mouth and drank a bowl of thin porridge in just a few sips. After that, he looked at the girl with unsatisfactory feelings and said, "Is there any more? I want to drink another bowl."
The girl showed a look of embarrassment on her face and said, "I'm really sorry for you, there's only this bowl. The porridge in the pot is prepared for those who are looking for food. Even your bowl of porridge was saved by Erniu and the others for you." Speaking of this, she lowered her head embarrassedly and her voice slowly lowered.
Li Ming felt a violent shock in his heart, and he asked hurriedly: "So Erniu and the others are not full? How can that work? Why didn't the girl say it earlier? Li Ming couldn't steal the child's food even if he was hungry!"
"Now do you know you are redundant?" A middle-aged man came to Li Ming with a rotten and smelly pig on his shoulder. He looked at Li Ming with contempt, and then said: "When Erniu saved you, I said that there was no extra food here, you were superfluous at all. Do you know now? You are still embarrassed to eat it if you rob the children's food!"
Li Ming's face turned red immediately, and he couldn't say a embarrassed sentence. The girl hurriedly begged: "Uncle Zhang, please stop talking. He is so pitiful now. You still say that. If you don't, you can give him my share in the future."
The middle-aged man sneered, looked at Li Ming and said, "If I had committed suicide long ago, would you be embarrassed to live? Is there still a snatch of these women and children? Humph." After that, he turned around and left Li Ming's sight.
Looking at Li Ming's awkward expression, the girl hurriedly comforted: "Brother, don't be angry. Uncle Zhang is actually very kind-hearted. He is also very embarrassed. So many people have to rely on him to arrange for food. Our village is already very poor, and this flood is very urgent. I can't bring so much food at all. I have almost finished eating it in just a few days. Now everyone is relying on these porridge to live. Everyone can only get two small bowls of porridge every day. There is really no way!"
Li Ming smiled bitterly and said, "Miss, don't get me wrong. I don't mean to blame Uncle Zhang. He said it very reasonably. It's really embarrassing to appear as a useless man like me in such a difficult time. It's a huge favor if he didn't drive me away. Girl, I'm really sorry to you. I, Li Ming, don't know how to repay you."
The girl hurriedly said, "Don't say that, this big brother, everyone is in trouble and needs help each other. Don't feel guilty. If you want to repay us, we should recover our injuries quickly and then follow everyone to find food."
Li Ming nodded in emotion and said, "Thank you, Miss, you are right, I will definitely recover from my injuries. By the way, where did the uncle above me go?"
The girl smiled and said, "That's my dad. He just followed Uncle Zhang and the others to find food. He hasn't come back yet. Don't worry, my dad has good medical skills. Your injury is nothing in his hands and will heal soon. Your right arm has been broken, and my dad said he has already collected the bones for you and it will take a month to heal. Do not move the branches tied to your arm, otherwise your bones will be misaligned."
Li Ming was not only surprised when he looked at the earthen plywood on his right arm. He didn't expect that there was such a master in this small countryside. It seemed that this person's medical skills seemed quite good, but you can tell by looking at the cloth strips he bandaged on himself.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked, "I'll ask you a presumptuous question, is it not just your father's surname Gao?"
The girl smiled and said, "Brother Li, don't be so polite. My father's surname is Gao Wei. When he came here eight years ago, he opened a private school in this small village at the foot of the mountain. He usually gathered some half-year-old children to teach them to read and read. My father didn't charge them money. Don't misunderstand it. He only taught them when he was idle and had nothing to do. My father and daughter have a very high medical skills. Several villages at the foot of the mountain rely on my father to treat them, and then they will send some rice, grain, etc. We, father and daughter, live on this."
After hearing this, Li Ming sighed: "I didn't expect that it would be a place where there are hidden dragons and creeping tigers in this mountain village. I see that your father's medical skills are no worse than those famous doctors in Linbin City. Alas! I'm really ignorant."
The next day, when Li Ming woke up, the sun was already rising very high. Li Mingqiang climbed up his body with pain all over his body and sat on the ground and looked around. The quiet woods were quiet, only the flood under the hillside was still roaring, and a bunch of bonfires with smoke slowly burned beside him. The toxic and hot sun shining on his face made people feel a scorching pain.
Li Ming slowly stood up with a tree trunk, his whole body empty without any strength, and his abdomen was as hungry as if he was squeezing his true energy, but his dantian was empty and as if nothing had happened. He sighed softly, sat down against the tree trunk, his mouth full of bitterness.
A sound of footsteps came in this direction, and Erniu and Gouzi's dirty faces appeared in front of Li Ming.
Seeing that Li Ming had already sat up, Erniu showed a simple smile on his face. He hurriedly ran to Li Ming and shouted, "Brother Li, you are awake. I didn't call you just now. You must be hungry, I still have a piece of meat here, you should eat it soon." After saying that, he took out an egg-sized piece of meat from a straw basket on his belt, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, handed the meat to Li Ming, and then said, "Yesterday Uncle Zhang and his friends caught a dead pig in the water. This morning, each person divided a small piece, and I was not willing to eat it. You have injuries on your body, so I just happened to replenish it."
Looking at the honest smiling face in front of him, Li Ming felt something blocked in his throat. He hurriedly pushed the piece of meat back and said to Erniu: "Good brother, you should eat it. I have been soaked in the water for a long time, so now I don't have an appetite, and I can't eat it if you give it to me. You should eat it soon. It's so hot, it's a pity to smell it. Don't worry, I don't matter."
Erniu looked at the piece of pork in his hand hesitantly and asked in a suspicious tone: "Is this true? Brother Li, don't lie to me! It doesn't matter. I'm strong. Don't look at me as young as a young man. I'm a strong laborer now, you really don't eat it?" After saying that, he mumbled and swallowed another mouthful of saliva.
Li Ming shook his head slightly, pushed the piece of meat to Erniu's mouth, and nodded firmly. Erniu hesitated for a moment, opened his mouth and stuffed the piece of meat into his mouth, and a very enjoyable smile appeared on his face.
When Li Ming saw this, he felt that blood was dripping in his heart. What a simple child, he would rather be hungry than letting him, a person he had never known before, have eaten. It seems that the simple words "A man is born good at nature" are very reasonable. Erniu finished eating the pork in his mouth and jumped away with the dog. Looking at their backs, Li Ming felt mixed feelings. Have he ever encountered such a pure relationship? If he had the chance, he would definitely compensate him well.
Chapter completed!