When Yang Xiaohu asked, he hurriedly picked up the Dragon Yin Sword from the edge of the bed and put it next to Dakui: "Father, the Dragon Yin Sword is here, don't worry."
Dakui smiled and said, "Without this sword, my life would be at an end."
The father and son were chatting, but Ouyang De came into the room with a bowl of medicine in his hand.
"General, the medicine is ready. Drink it while it's hot." Ouyang De held the medicine and said to Yang Xiaohu: "Help General, get up. This medicine is precious, so you must drink it while it's hot."
Yang Xiaohu stood up and helped Da Kui sit up as instructed. Da Kui frowned. He was most worried about taking medicine. When he saw a large bowl of medicine in Ouyang De's hand, he couldn't help asking: "What kind of medicine is this?"
Ouyang De laughed and said: "This is a mixture of tiger gall and several kinds of herbs. Among them, panax notoginseng and safflower help the general's trauma healing, and the tiger gall helps you detoxify. Take this bowl of medicine , which is more than ten times more effective than ordinary decoctions." As Ouyang De said, he handed the medicine bowl to Da Kui's mouth, and Da Kui just took a small sip, and suddenly frowned.
Yang Xiaohu smiled and said: "Father, if you are afraid of hardship, I will help you."
Ouyang De nodded and said: "Young General Yang is absolutely right. If you are afraid of the bitterness of the medicine, you can hold your nose and drink it in one breath."
Dakui didn't say anything when he heard the words. He drank a large bowl of medicine with his mouth. After drinking the medicine, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "If you are not afraid of death, why be afraid of suffering? Senior, don't underestimate me. "
Ouyang De chuckled and said, "The general is indeed very brave." After saying that, he took the empty bowl and turned around and walked out of the room with a smile on his face.
As soon as Ouyang De left, Dakui quickly called out: "Bring me some water quickly."
Yang Xiaohu quickly turned around and poured a glass of water into the pot on the table. Dakui couldn't move his arms, so Yang Xiaohu had to feed the water in the cup and drink it. After drinking the water, Dakui breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This medicine It’s too bitter,”
Yang Xiaohu smiled and said: "Good medicine tastes bitter but is good for the disease. My adoptive father should know this truth."
Hearing this, Dakui complained: "I would rather not get sick." Speaking of this, Dakui not only thought of something, but also hurriedly asked: "My father has been ill in bed these days, and he doesn't know anything about the outside world. There is only this room in this farmhouse." But I don’t know where Ouyang’s senior couple is staying,”
Yang Xiaohu then said: "My adoptive father doesn't know something. Senior Ouyang and his wife have been living in a thatched shed under the cliff these days. Senior Ouyang goes into the mountains to collect herbs every day. When he comes back, he takes good care of you. His wife gives you medicine every day at the foot of the cliff." The soldiers cook,"
Dakui was moved when he heard this and couldn't help sighing: "Senior Ouyang is so righteous."
Yang Xiaohu continued: "Senior Ouyang said that the foster father drove the Tatars out of Pingliang and was the benefactor of the people. He did this to repay the kindness of the people."
Da Kui was shocked in his heart and couldn't help but said: "In this case, it is our father's duty to thank him face to face. It is our responsibility to expel the Tartars. Senior Ouyang understands the righteousness, but we cannot accept favors in vain." As he spoke, Da Kui stretched out his legs I have to get out of bed.
Yang Xiaohu quickly stopped him and said, "My foster father is still injured and should not move around."
Dakui immediately scolded: "I hurt my arms, not my legs. It doesn't matter if I walk a few steps. Help me up."
Yang Xiaohu couldn't resist, so he had to put on Da Kui's shoes and helped Da Kui out of bed.
After not seeing the sun for a long time, Dakui felt refreshed when he walked outside the house. However, Ouyang De was nowhere to be seen. There was only one soldier in the garden looking at the medicine jar on the fire stand. Soaking is not just about getting some medicine.
When the soldier saw Dakui, he stood up and saluted: "General,"
Da Kui nodded slightly and couldn't help asking: "Where did Senior Ouyang go?"
The soldier hurriedly replied: "To tell you what the general said, Senior Ouyang has entered the mountain."
"Well, this is the medicine prepared by Senior Ouyang for me," Dakui asked, pointing to the earthen pot on the fire rack.
The soldier said truthfully: "Senior said that the general has recovered his vitality in three days and does not need any more medicine. What is stewed in this earthen pot is a tonic."
Hearing this, Dakui not only smiled but said: "Senior Ouyang is really a thoughtful person."
"The general has misunderstood. What is stewed in this earthen pot is tiger kidney. Senior Ouyang said that the general is an extraordinary man in the world and does not need this thing to replenish his body. This tiger kidney is used by senior Ouyang himself."
Dakui was stunned when he heard this, and then he understood: 'Ouyang De is old and weak, so he needs to use this tiger kidney to replenish his body...,'
Thinking of this, Dakui not only felt great, but immediately took Yang Xiaohu out of the courtyard and prepared to go to the cliffside hut to have a look.
Kang Maocai led his soldiers to guard the chariots and horses. Although there were only twenty people, they could practice as usual every day.
As soon as Dakui entered the camp, Kang Maocai ordered the soldiers to rest for a while, and all the soldiers followed Kang Maocai to greet him.
"General, you are feeling better," Kang Maocai was the first to ask with concern. All the soldiers also asked questions. Dakui not only smiled and said: "My injury is nothing, it's just because of my impulsiveness that I delayed my return to Lanzhou." Returning to life is Zhang Dakui's crime."
Kang Maocai laughed when he heard this and said: "Why did the general say this? General Wei is the only one who fights tigers in the Ming army. The general is a role model for us, so why should he be guilty?"
Dakui just smiled, and a soldier came forward and asked with a smile: "General, the tiger you killed is so big, and the tiger meat is enough for us to eat for many days, hehehehe,"
Dakui not only smiled and asked: "How does it taste?"
When Kang Maocai heard this, he kicked the soldier on the butt and scolded him with a smile: "You kid, you only know how to eat."
The soldier chuckled and scratched the back of his head, but Kang Maocai said to Dakui: "The general has not recovered yet, and the general has not eaten. How can we eat it? No one has touched a bite of this tiger meat. We have eaten it these past few days." dry food,”
"Hey, why don't you eat," Dakui said somewhat reproachfully: "Whether it's in the military or privately, we are all brothers who eat from the same pot. Since we are brothers, we naturally have to share blessings and hardships," Dakui said. After a while, he asked: "Where is the meat? Come and stew it with me quickly. I will eat it with all the brothers today."
The soldiers cheered loudly and dispersed to prepare their own preparations. It was only then that Dakui saw that strips of meat were hanging under the eaves of those huts. Now that the weather was getting colder, the meat hung there without worrying about getting smelly.
The soldiers gathered firewood and water. In a short time, the pots and stoves were ready, and smoke was rising from the cooking pots.
Ouyang De's wife specially brought several kinds of medicinal materials from home and put them into the pot together. With the help of the soldiers, a large pot of tiger meat was cooked. This good thing cannot be used too much. Tiger meat is a great tonic. If you eat too much, your body may not be able to bear it.
The tiger meat is slightly sour in the mouth, but very chewy, especially with the addition of several medicinal herbs. It tastes like taking medicine. Not only did Dakui frown, but the soldiers ate it with gusto.
Ouyang De's wife saw the bitter look on Da Kui's face, but she smiled and said: "The general doesn't know, this stewed tiger meat was specially ordered by my old man. He said that the general is too tired and weak, so this tiger meat It can replenish the body, so I specially ordered the servants to prepare the medicine and stew the meat according to the recipe." He chuckled and looked around at the soldiers who were eating the meat, and then continued: "Ordinary people eat this tiger meat, which can ward off the cold and strengthen the body. Sick people can greatly replenish their vitality by eating it, but the general is tall and thin, so he needs to eat more."
It was what Ouyang De had told him. Naturally, Dakui believed it and immediately started eating.
Yang Xiaohu, Kang Maocai and all the soldiers each ate a big bowl, but they refused to eat any more, because some soldiers had nosebleeds after finishing the tiger meat and before they had a cup of tea, and kept shouting "heat". All of them are in good health, but they have over-replenished themselves by eating tiger meat.
But Dakui had been poisoned by Fang Jiutian, and he was thin and just needed to take supplements. When he ate this, he was sweating profusely and kept mouthing. This tiger meat tasted sour at first, but after eating too much, it became extremely delicious. Everyone ate most of the large pot of tiger meat, but there were still five or six bowls left. Da Kui actually ate three large bowls in one go.
Yang Xiaohu was dumbfounded when he sat next to Dakui. It wasn't until Dakui finished eating and wiped his mouth that he asked, "Father, your injury is okay."
Dakui couldn't help being surprised when he heard this. He had served the bowl and chopsticks by himself when he had just eaten the meat. At first, the injury was a little painful, but now he felt that the injury was slightly warm, but it didn't hurt anymore. Dakui stood up and felt energetic all over his body. I just want to run wildly to be happy.
"You wait here to pack your bags and get ready to leave at noon. I'll go for a walk and I'll be back in a moment," Dakui said without waiting for Yang Xiaohu or Kang Mao to say anything, and left the camp alone.
On the road, Dakui felt that his whole body was unbearably hot. He took off his cotton robe every now and then, leaving only his middle coat on.
This was the east-west post road. Dakui not only took a deep breath but ran all the way towards the due east.
Dakui tried his best to run along the road, but the scenery on both sides seemed to be flying backwards, as if he was riding on the wind.
Da Kui walked this road and it still took two hours to reach the south slope. However, this time Da Kui used all his strength and reached the west of the south slope in only an hour and a half. Da Kui never expected that he would finish this meal of tiger meat. , his own power actually increased greatly.
Stopping and looking around, the surrounding fields were vast. Dakui adjusted his breath and found that he didn't feel tired at all. His whole body was originally hot, but after running, the feeling of hotness in his body was reduced a lot. Dakui was ecstatic in his heart. My body finally recovered.
Along the way, Dakui ran at full speed again, this time running as fast as the wind and lightning.
It was just after noon when he returned to the camp, and Dakui retrieved the cotton robe thrown on the roadside, dressed neatly, and then entered the camp to join the others.
When he was about to leave, he naturally had to say goodbye to Ouyang De. Da Kui ordered Kang Maocai to lead the troops ahead while he and Yang Xiaohu stayed to wait for Ouyang De.
Less than half an hour later, I finally saw Ouyang De who had returned from going into the mountains to collect herbs.
Seeing Dakui and Yang Xiaohu wearing armor, they were about to leave.
Ouyang De felt a little reluctant in his heart: "The general is leaving, when will he come back again?"
Dakui smiled and said: "As a soldier, I can't help myself. I have to take care of you these days, senior Ouyang." After saying that, he turned around and took out a bag of silver that had been prepared from the saddle bag of the horse. He was going to hand it to Ouyang De. De, however, refused repeatedly.
Dakui sighed: "In the battle of Pingliang, without the help of senior Ouyang, the outcome is unknown. Zhang was traveling in danger in the mountains. Without the help of seniors, how could Zhang survive?"