He Qizhou followed Xu Muxue's slender pointer and looked into the valley. There was a veil-like light smoke floating on the narrow lake, which was like a golden mirror under the sunlight. The breeze blew through the lake, reflecting the forest and mountains on the lake.
, the top of the snow trembled, as if it was instantly covered with golden scales.
Green horses are grazing leisurely by the lake. The lush shades of green trees are shiny and cover the entire valley like a carpet. Above that are the gray-white mountains that reach into the sky. The snow-white peaks are inserted into the vast blue cloudless sky.
A group of black and white cranes are flying in a column over the top of the snow to the south...
"The water and sky are clear, the shadows are clear and the waves are flat!" He Qizhou intertwined his hands with Xu Mu's ten fingers and sat down side by side, admiring the beautiful scenery in front of him, and then sighed: "It's a pity that there are no fish in the water, and the bow fell off, so I can't shoot.
Birds of the sky!”
"Bah, bah, bah! What a disgrace to the scenery!" Xu Muxue pointed at the green horse and spat: "Look, we were able to escape thanks to that horse. Have you ever thought of giving it a name?"
"Well, if it hadn't screamed, we would have squeezed into the snake's belly for the night. What do you think about calling us Xiaoqing? Or Xiaobai." He Qizhou suggested with deep sympathy.
"Are you still thinking about Rhubarb? Why is the name so tacky?"
"Oh, I remembered, it's called Xiaoxue. Don't you see those white spots on its body just like the patches of white snow falling on the blue sky? What do you think, Xiaoxue!" He Qizhou said excitedly.
"It's really similar." Xu Mu seemed to be unable to find anything wrong with it.
He Qizhou suddenly stood up, clasped his hands in front of his mouth like a trumpet, and shouted loudly in the valley: "Xiaoxue-I will be with you in this life-together-together-together-" In the valley
It stirred up countless echoes.
"Fuck you!" Xu Muxue blushed and kicked He Qizhou's calf hard, but in the end she touched it lightly.
He Qizhou didn't feel Xu Muxue's power at all, thinking that something was wrong with her again, so he hurriedly sat down and listened to the other party's pulse. His body temperature had risen. Although he was weak, his condition should be better than when he first came out of the cave.
Don't worry, he said: "I'm serious. By the way, what do you think I should call you? Xiaoxue? Could it be confused with that Xiaoxue? Xu Mu is definitely inappropriate. Well, let's call you Muxue, Muxue,
Do you agree?"
"Call me mother!" Xu Mu replied angrily.
"Oh, mother," He Qizhou shouted seriously.
"Come here, this Kun Dao wants to eliminate demons and defend the Dao!" Xu Mu opened his teeth and claws, as if he was going to bite someone.
"I'm afraid of you. I'm afraid of you. Let's call it Xiaoxue. Others also call it Xiaoxue. Xiaoxue, I'm thinking about something. Look, autumn is coming and the cranes have all flown south. Shouldn't we buy some leather clothes?
"He Qizhou thought that Xu Mu would not catch the cold again at night.
"I think so too, but where can I find a leather jacket? This bird skin on your body doesn't keep you warm either." Xu Mu pointed at He Qizhou's bird patch and said.
"I'm wondering if I should take off the skin of that yellow sheep and wash it..."
"The end in the snake's belly?"
"Um"
"Eh - I don't even want to kill you. I want to wear it for you. By the way, that snake skin is a good thing. Either peel it off and keep it." Xu Mu said with a disgusted look on his face.
"Okay, I'll go do it now. You can bask in the sun here first. If something happens, throw a stone to the north of the hill. Remember not to hold on!" He Qizhou gave a demonstration and casually excreted into the big snake.
A stone was thrown from the place where they were sitting. The place where they were sitting was the top of the huge pile of rocks, which was more than 20 feet higher than the hillside where the boa constrictor was abandoned yesterday. It took a long time for the stone to fall to the ground, making a soft sound. The next scene made people laugh.
The two of them broke into a cold sweat again...
As the stone fell, a sound suddenly came out from under the cliff on the right side of Xiaoshi Mountain. Groups of "dark clouds" suddenly rose from below, and then circled over He Qizhou and Xiaoxue, blocking out the sky and the sun.
, turned out to be dozens of ugly-looking vultures. They were frightened by the stone and flew up one after another. Maybe they found that there was no danger, and flew down again in the blink of an eye.
This back and forth really frightened He and Xu. He Qizhou wanted to pat Xiaoxue's chest to calm her down, but his claws were knocked off by a palm. He could only run to the cliff of the stone mountain and look down.
It was a breath of air.
The number of vultures was at least twice as much as what we saw just now. They were crowded in a dark mass on the hillside twenty feet below. Most of them were crowding around the big snake and extending their long snake-like heads and necks into the snake's body to feed.
There was a group of larger vultures, which seemed to have eaten enough. They were basking in the sun while combing their feathers with their curved beaks. The yellow sheep that rolled out of the snake's belly now only had a skeleton left, covered by thousands of
Wrapped in scarred sheepskin.
"Eat, eat, the leftover snake skin will save me the trouble of skinning it." He Qizhou muttered to himself after seeing this spectacular sight.
"It seems there really isn't much food in this mountain, otherwise we wouldn't have attracted so many vultures at once!" Xiaoxue said worriedly.
"No matter so much, I'm going to go work first, remember to throw stones if you have anything to do!" He Qizhou saw that Xiaoxue's condition seemed to be okay, so he thought about getting some food for Xiaoxue who hadn't eaten for more than a day. Then he discovered
There are still many things to be busy with.
First, he exposed the snake gallbladder in the cave to the hot sun, along with the clothes he had changed out of yesterday;
I went to fetch water from the puddle dug by the reeds yesterday, but I found that the puddle had the largest concentration of footprints. The water was already turbid, so I had to dig deeper and larger water further away from the lake shore.
Then he found a few thick branches and some large leaves to cover it. From now on, this water hole would be his and Xu Mu's exclusive well;
While the water in the pit slowly overflowed, He Qizhou built a stone stove in a sheltered area near the cave and cut and polished the stone pot he used yesterday;
While cutting firewood in the nearby woods, I discovered a patch of bamboo forest. I cut off the thickest and largest one, and the two of them now had cups, bowls, ladles, basins, spoons, and chopsticks.
When boiling water, I found a fine stone to use as a sharpening stone. This sword will be used every day to chop wood, hunt, dig holes, and defend myself... It will be useless without sharpening;
In order to prevent another wild beast from suddenly appearing, I checked around the cave again. Except for the discovery of an astonishingly large snake slough in a cave, there was no other abnormality. The snake slough was obviously left by a big snake.
It seems that no animal dares to live next to it;
When he went up to investigate, he saw Xiaoxue once. Xiaoxue was a little sleepy and asked him to continue doing what he was doing. Almost half of the vultures on the hillside had flown away;
When we came down, the water had already boiled, and we filled two large bamboo tubes, ready to go back to the cave for a good cleaning later;
It looked like the sun was already here. Breakfast must have been missed. Lunch was pancakes and meat strips stewed with cheese. Anyway, I only had these three items on hand now. Cooking them into a paste was also convenient for the sick Xu Mu to swallow.
After more than an hour of busy work, He Qizhou squatted beside the stone stove and watched the white flowers bubbling in the stone pot. He was thinking about when he could cook it out. He was almost starving.
I don’t know if I can eat this whole thing...
"Click!" As a stone fell, the remaining vultures also fluttered their wings and flew away. He Qizhou was startled again. This time, he was not frightened by the vultures, but by Xu Mufa on the hill.
A distress signal!
He Qizhou suddenly woke up from staring at the "delicious food", and flew up to grab the mountain bag. When he thought about the pot of precious food on the stove, he didn't care about heating it, and put his hands in his sleeves to directly hold the stone pot.
After landing on the ground, he ran up to the top of the stone hill in three or two steps. After throwing the stones, he saw that Xu Mu had fallen on the big flat stone, and he didn't even have the strength to speak.
Picking up Xu Mu, He Qizhou was frustrated to find that he had almost the same symptoms as yesterday after being poisoned by sand poison. His body was hot, his heartbeat was racing, and he was close to coma!
Seeing this situation, He Qizhou didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly carried Xu Mu back to the cave, and then wiped his face with cold water. Seeing that Xu Mu had regained consciousness slightly, he said: "This heat poison is extremely violent, so I still need to take some bile!"
"It's too bitter. Can you wait a little longer? Wait until I pass out before you feed me?" Xu Muxue was really afraid of the smell. Seeing that the half-sun-dried food in He Qizhou's hand was sticky and black.
The huge green snake gallbladder is really hard to swallow.
"Yes!" He Qizhou remembered how to take pills, broke off a small ball of dough, rolled it into a small ball, made a hole in the middle with freshly cut bamboo chopsticks, and then dipped the bamboo chopsticks in a small drop of bile.
Wrap it in the middle, feed it to Xu Mu with water, and then say: "Now we can only use this expedient. When the snake gall is ground into powder, I can find an auxiliary medicine to remove the cold poison and make it into pills."
"
Although you can still feel a bit of fishy odor at the entrance, compared to the taste last night, it is definitely a delicacy in the world. Xu Mu nodded and said: "Is there more bread? You can overcome hardship with hardship, and don't waste food when taking medicine.
It’s a waste of food.”
"Hey, you're already half-dead and you still want to laugh at me?" He Qizhou couldn't laugh or cry.
"I just want to see if you can resist the bitter taste and shed tears when you lick bile, okay? You just went down for a while, and the sun and heat almost killed me! You just think it's pitiful
Take pity on me and lick it! Okay?" Xu Mu leaned against the stone wall at the deepest part of the cave, blinking his big eyes, looking pitiful.
"I'm afraid of you!" He Qizhou really couldn't bear to see Xu Mu like this. Although his heart was pounding at the thought of licking the bile alive, it was worth dying for him to smile for the beauty! "I ate too much bile yesterday.
The heat poison is far less severe than yours, and I don’t know when it will attack next time. I’ve agreed that it will only happen once!”
"Yeah." Xu Muxue nodded with some satisfaction, but finally couldn't hold on and fainted.