"That kind of leaf is really effective. I can stand there all night. You can take good care of your injuries. We can also take advantage of this time to prepare the items for crossing the Gobi." Xiaoxue said.
"You shouldn't stay up all night...Forget it, let's heal together. When the heavy snow falls, I can walk out of the Gobi with Zhongxue Xiaoxue." Looking at Xiaoxue, who was out of shape, He Qizhou couldn't bear to stop anymore.
Although he was seriously injured, he collected enough herbs and was still full of confidence in the future.
Xiaoxue said: "We now have about thirty kilograms of dried meat, ten kilograms of dried apricots, and some fresh berries you picked yesterday. Even if we deduct the ones left in the valley for consumption, it still doesn't seem to be enough." Xiaoxue said worriedly.
He Qizhou said: "You think I eat too much, right? It seems that the berries are starting to ripen. I picked up a ripe pine cone yesterday. In a few days, after the injury is healed, I can pick more, and then I can pick more.
Zhongxue, prepare more fodder, we won’t starve to death!”
"I feel like I can eat something. By the way, lend me your dagger. I'm going to use that snake skin to make a robe for the snow dragon horse!" Xiaoxue said.
"That thing is too difficult to cut. Just draw the lines and I'll cut it for you in two days."
"Okay, but you still have to use a dagger to drill holes, otherwise the needle won't be able to sew." Xiaoxue said.
"Well, there's no rush. Don't worry yourself too much. I never thought that the mighty young hero Xu Mu would become a popular girl."
"roll!"
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Half a month passed, and He Qizhou's injury had healed by six to seven points. In the past half month, He Qizhou had picked enough pine nuts and berries, and also hauled more than 200 kilograms of fodder for the snow dragon horse. He also collected some wild millet, shelled and ground it into powder.
After steaming, mix it with the dried leaf powder of 'Pig's Head Grass', add almonds and honey and knead it into an off-white pill about the size of an adzuki bean. It has a sweet taste and is named Baimitan. The snake gall that still has more than half of it left is cooked in the same way and made into a slightly
The pills are smaller, about the size of mung beans, and are named black honey pills because of their dark color.
After several days of testing, He Qizhou found the best dosage for Xiaoxue. He took three pills of white honey pills and two pills of black honey pills in alternating order every day. Although he was still frighteningly thin and couldn't draw in energy, his appetite was improved.
The number of days has increased, and the spirit has improved a lot. There is no longer the alternating situation of cold and heat. Xiaoxue, who has slightly improved, has not been idle for half a month. She actually made a robe for the snow dragon horse; and used "rabbit and mouse"
The skins were used to make boots and gloves for the two of them, and yellow sheepskin and roe deer skins were used to piece together a robe for He Qizhou.
"Why do you think of soaking in hot springs again?" He Qizhou got too hot after being in the water. He stood up straight, with his upper body exposed from the water. The wounds that had just peeled off were still dazzling on his fair skin, and snowflakes fell in succession.
Immediately after he got on it, it turned into water droplets, slowly rolling down Qiu Jin's muscles.
Xiaoxue in the pool opposite had only one end above the water. She looked at He Qizhou's muscles and said: "We will set off tomorrow. I don't know when I will be able to take a hot bath. Of course I have to wash it off before leaving. You have such muscles
He looks like a reckless man, and he would look better shirtless in the Military Inquisition."
"That's not skinny. Of course, after removing the fat, only muscles are left!" He Qizhou said nonchalantly, but found that Xiaoxue, who had been teasing him just now, fell silent. Thinking that the other party didn't even have much muscle left, he hurriedly said
Said: "Sickness comes like a mountain falling, and sickness goes away like a thread. Don't worry, as long as the poison is detoxified, it will grow back."
"To be honest, I'm so ugly that I don't even dare to go out and meet people. Now I can't even put my face on this face." Xiaoxue walked down the hillside a few days ago. When she saw the reflection on the water, she never looked back.
be happy.
"My poison has been eliminated, and you will get better too. Just think of it as a difficult disguise. Besides, why do you care what other people think of you? As long as I like it!"
"It's up to you! I don't want to take another look at it myself, but you think it's pleasing to your eyes? By the way, are you surprised? It's the third snowfall, and instead of freezing, the hot spring seems to be getting hotter.
"Xiaoxue said.
"If you really can't bear it, how many more days can we stay here?" He Qizhou asked.
"No, if we don't leave until the heavy snow closes the mountain, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out."
…
"Let me down, I can walk a few steps by myself." Xiaoxue said. From early morning to afternoon, He Qizhou carried Xiaoxue over the second hill and was walking downhill. He should be able to walk out after climbing two more hills.
The mountains lead into the boundless desert desert of the Gobi.
"Don't make any noise, haven't you seen how steep this slope is?" He Qizhou said as he carried Xiaoxue down the slope: "Uncle Xu, did you learn to be a female celebrity from the Beggar Clan?"
"What?" Xiaoxue was about to get angry when she saw that the leather robes she and He Qizhou were wearing had sleeves that were either big or small, and the hems were uneven in length. What was even worse was that the robes were patchworked with various animal skins.
, it really looks like a beggar’s tattered robe that has been mended countless times;
The boots under his feet are nothing more than leather bags tied with cowhide rope! What’s even more funny is that Yinlongma and Xiaoxue sewed animal skins on both sides of the snake skin. When the skin was not enough, they even added more than ten pieces of rabbit and rat skins.
, Tianju has a strange appearance, so it turns into a monster that is neither a horse nor a sheep, nor a deer nor a deer.
"As long as you dress warmly, that's all. Why talk so much!"
"Warm, warm, warm to the heart!" He Qizhou hurriedly complimented. "By the way, is it still cold now?"
"It's much better now. It was really freezing when we were at the top of the mountain!" Xu Mu, who was wrapped in animal skins with only his big eyes exposed, said pitifully as he sat there.
He Qizhou sighed: "It's been so cold just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it will only get colder in the future! If only I had found the 'Pig's Head Grass' earlier."
"Don't be so greedy. In fact, I'm very satisfied! How about I still ride a horse?"
"Do you think the snow can still squeeze you on the back? How about I carry more than two hundred kilograms of fodder? I really wonder why you went to all the trouble to sew animal skins on both sides of the snake skin. What a good horse.
It’s so miserable.”
Xiaoxue said proudly: "What do you know? It's ugly to wear snake skin, and it's so conspicuous, so the outer layer is to cover up the snake skin; and the inner layer is of course to make the snow dragon horse more comfortable, and even if it is hit by an arrow in the future,
With an extra layer of skin on the inside, it will be less likely to be damaged.”
He Qizhou could only praise: "The only person I can think of who can disguise a horse is our genius Xu Muxu! The three of us are dressed in the same way now. If the Beggar Gang wants to build a snow mountain branch, the position of the helmsman must be you.
It belongs!"
"You're still a beggar gang!" Xiaoxue hit He Qizhou on the head hard and said, "After you get out, the helmsman will ask you to go to the market every day to perform!" "Has your chest been broken?"
"Um!"
"You swinging a sledgehammer? But it's nothing unusual. You can't earn a few copper coins. If you fall down, I'll swing a sledgehammer..."
"You're going to die!" Xiaoxue started to fight again.
It's not that Xiaoxue didn't use her strength, she really couldn't use any strength. He Qizhou, who received a punch, said hurriedly: "Don't fight, don't fight, don't hurt yourself! We are in the valley below today."
Let's spend the night. The piles of rocks are now covered by a thin layer of snow. The snow dragon has carried so many things on its back. It's too dangerous to travel in the dark!" The food, luggage, and fodder they prepared were all on the horse's back. Fortunately, there were piles of dirt everywhere.
Snow, the two of them don't need to bring much water.
At the bottom of the valley, He Qizhou still picked up some firewood. After lighting a fire, he used a bamboo tube as a pot and melted some snow to drink. His dinner was dried meat, dried apricots, and dried berries with a handful of pine nuts. The snake slough that was originally used as a door curtain was also used.
The two men brought it out, and only a few sticks were needed to transform the snake into a light tent. The tent was set up behind the leeward cliff, with one end open and facing the fire. Although the valley was not as cold as the top of the mountain.
But it was suddenly cold at night, and the tent made of snake sloughs was far less warm than in the cave. The thin leather mattress could not isolate the cold from the ground. Xiaoxue, who was so weak, was so cold that her red lips turned purple. After the fire burned out in the middle of the night,
He Qizhou poured in Qi for Xiaoxue several times but still could not completely drive away the coldness of the other party, because this coldness not only comes from the cold poison, but also comes from the good fortune of this world.
He Qizhou had an idea. The animal robe on his body was already wide. Regardless of Xiaoxue's struggle, he untied the robe and wrapped the extremely slender Xiaoxue in his arms. The two fell asleep hugging each other sideways. Inside the leather robe, there was a breath like
The warmth like the spring breeze gradually drives away the severe cold in the snow-capped mountains.
Xiaoxue has fallen asleep in He Qizhou's arms more than once, but that was when she lost consciousness due to a poisonous attack, but now she is very awake. Although she struggled a lot, the warmth radiating from He Qizhou's chest was so...
It was so irresistible that it seeped into the body, even making his own face flush. The hateful guy even put his head under his head, with his face touching his face. Only his own face seemed to be warmer than the other person's.
Some……
"Stop moving, air-conditioning is coming in again, use my head as a pillow!" He Qizhou finally adjusted his posture, and had to tighten his robe again because of Xiaoxue's tweaking.
"Um……"
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"Your Majesty, the envoys from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty have arrived." Manager Tang said in a low voice to Jiang Cong who was reading the book.
"Bring them all in." Jiang Cong didn't even raise his head, but the hand holding Zhezi trembled inadvertently.
"Do you want to ask Eunuch Xu to come and wait on you? Lin Hu is also here..." Manager Tang continued to ask.
"Isn't it enough to have you? Xuan." Jiang Cong raised his head and said, with a smile on his old face.
"The envoy of Xinluo is here to see you -" Tang Taicheng announced the decree softly in accordance with the emperor's wishes. A young eunuch then brought two men in black cloaks into the imperial study. One of them was of medium build, and the other was unusually tall.
Later, they all took off their hoods. The man of medium build had a gray beard, was over sixty years old, and had a rather elegant appearance. The other man was a middle-aged man as tall as an iron tower, over eight feet tall, with a face full of