In the evening, everyone invited Li Benqing and his uncle to have dinner together. Wang Aoya sent someone to bring a lot of food and rice wine, just in time to treat the guests. Xiong Buyou inquired about the situation in the village. It turned out that this time the opponent in the village was in Rendong.
After the death of the Lord, because his son was still young, he was assisted by four Aoya from the village. All major and minor matters were decided collectively by the Aoya. The leader was named Wang - the oldest one who came to invite them. Wang Ao
Ya is also the uncle of the owner of the cave, and they are part of the same family. As for the young man who is quite active outside the shed, he is the son of another Zhen Oya named Zhen Huan. He is a good hunter and is very popular among the young people in the village.
prestige.
Li Benqing, who was a little drunk from Shanlan Wine, also revealed that the woman designated as the "forbidden mother" was Zhen Huan's best friend in her boudoir, named Jianda. During the ceremony, Zhen Huan fell out on the spot and almost wanted to kill her.
Li Daogong was suppressed by the other Oya alliance.
"The life of Zhen Oya was not easy," Li Benqing said. "Everyone said that his son instigated Jianda to ban the cave owner."
"Why?"
"The earliest owner of the cave in Zhen Xinzhai was a member of the Zhen family." Li Benqing drank too much rice wine and said, "The Zhen family has established the stronghold here for ten generations—"
"So long?" Fang Jinghan was a little doubtful.
"Don't interrupt, just listen to what Li Baya has to say." Mu Min said.
Li Benqing was all smiles when he heard Mu Min call him "Baya". This is the name that Li people use for their close and respected elders.
"About four or five generations ago?" Li Benqing didn't know the specific year. "The ancestors of Lord Wangdong and their family also moved to this village. Their family was originally Han Chinese. According to the genealogy, they came from a place far north on the mainland.
He was some kind of general of the Han people. At that time, our village was at war with the nearby Shuishizhai. At that time, there were many casualties among the children of the Zhen family. The Wang family’s children knew how to wield swords and guns, and led everyone to destroy the Shuishizhai in one go. From then on,
The Wang family is now the owner of the cave."
"So the Wang family is actually Han?" Xiong Buyou said, "But how could a general move his family to live in Li Village?"
Fang Jinghan said while making this record: "The so-called generals are probably because they exalt themselves, right? Maybe they are local fugitive military households."
Li Benqing said: Since then, two major factions have formed in the village, one is the Wang family, and the other is the Zhen family. Although the Zhen family is no longer the owner of the cave, it is still deeply rooted and very powerful in the village, so the four
At least one person in Oyali is from their family.
Now that the Wang family's cave master is young, the Zhen family has given birth to a disciple like Zhen Huan who has great appeal among young people. The balance of strength is obviously beginning to tip towards the Zhen family.
"Zhen Huan is not only famous among teenagers, but also very popular among boudoirs." Li Benqing rarely drinks alcohol, but now he drank freely, and his nose turned red. "Which boudoir should I stop in the evening?"
, the door opens, no need to speak, no need to sing. Tsk tsk. But Wanda is his favorite."
"Sounds like a copycat version of Gongdou?" Mu Min said, "Could it be that Zhen Oya's son wants to take advantage of the opportunity to rise to power? That's why he's preventing us from treating the cave master? By the way -" she became excited, "Maybe
He is also responsible for the bamboo thorn!"
"You must have read too many novels." Cui Yunhong disagreed, "Even if it is true, you don't care about our affairs."
"Alas." Mu Min sighed regretfully. In the past few minutes, she had already completed an outline of a palace fight novel in her mind that could be sent to Jinjiang.
For the next two days and nights, the boy's high fever persisted. He Ping took his temperature every two hours, gave him sulfonamides every six hours, and then changed his dressing. On the morning of the third day, the boy's body temperature dropped to normal levels and he was conscious.
Too much, and he began to feel hungry. When He Ping changed his dressing, he found that the drainage strip had no traces of new pus and blood - the wound could be bandaged.
Now everyone knew that the cave master's illness was cured. While the expedition team was thankful that the incident had finally come to an end, all kinds of illnesses were popping up in the village. Cold and fever, toothache, stomachache, and trauma.
Inflammation is all involved. After all, He Ping is just a second-hand hygienist, and he immediately messed up with such abundant internship opportunities. He didn't have many medicines in his medicine box.
At that moment, he had no choice but to treat all the easily treatable and diagnosable diseases one by one. He also underwent seven or eight minor surgeries in succession. Now, He Ping was able to perform surgery with great ease. He even dared to treat styes that he thought he couldn't treat in the past.
He took action. However, he was still very careful and did not dare to give antibiotics indiscriminately, for fear of messing up the microbial environment here. As for stomachaches and other diseases whose causes are difficult to determine, He Ping simply used rice noodles sent from the village and honey.
Some pills were distributed, and many people claimed to have recovered from their illnesses after taking them - the power of placebo is still very powerful.
In this way, the Shilu Iron Mine expedition team became miracle doctors. Every day, items were delivered to every household in Li Village. When everyone found that these "miracle doctors" did not eat pork and beef very much, and seemed to prefer chicken, everyone in the village
There was not a single live chicken left. Cui Yunhong looked distressedly at the various gifts piled in the yard in front of Li Benqing's house, ranging from game, live chickens, rice wine, leather, kapok cloth, grass cloth and various rattan utensils...
...There are so many things, and it can be seen that they have brought out the best products nearby. Cui Yunhong suddenly found that people kept bringing cattle and tying them in front of the door.
"What is this for?" Cui Yunhong asked Wang Huoji.
"This is money for your medical treatment." Mr. Wang was very happy to see how powerful these hawkers came from the boat. A rising tide lifts all boats. In the past few days, he had been treated privately by many people, including wine and meat. "Li people
Those who have no money only have mountain products and cattle.”
"This -" Cui Yunhong thought to herself that Wu Nanhai liked the local cattle very much. The problem was how to drive the cattle back to Changhua Fort? This is a technical job.
While they were hesitating, the Oyas sent someone to invite them to a banquet.
At the banquet, all the four great Aryas came together and took turns toasting to the expedition team. The young cave master was weak after falling ill and did not eat or drink. He only sat in Kamishuri with his mother accompanying him, looking curiously at this group of strange people.
Merchant.
After drinking a few rounds of rice wine, Wang Oya, the leader of the four major Oyali, clapped his hands. At that moment, someone brought out a plate. Cui Yunhong took a look and saw that it was so white that it was filled with small and large pieces of silver and copper coins. It didn't look good.
Less, actually only a dozen taels of silver and more than a thousand copper coins. The Li people don't pay much attention to money and wealth. All transactions are barter, and they don't accumulate yellow and white things. If they can get these, they will already turn the village over.
It's all over the place.
"These are some meager things," Wang Oya said, "and fifty cows were given as a thank you gift."
Li people love to raise cattle and have a lot of cattle. Li people often use cattle as a price for transactions.
This number shocked them. Not to mention, how could so many cattle be driven back to Changhua Fort? Besides, Changhua Fort itself could not raise cattle, so they had to be transported back to Lingao and handed over to the Agricultural Committee.
Thinking that they would have to feed cows and collect cow dung in the next few weeks, everyone looked at the leaders of the team and asked him to refuse the job immediately.
Mu Min said to Cui Yunhong: "We can't accept this gift. These many cattle, probably half of the whole village, have been given to us. What will they do with their farming?"
Cui Yunhong did not think so noblely, but was afraid of becoming a herdsman. Although their starting points were different, their views were the same, so she refused firmly and said: they were just doing good deeds to help the cave owner and the people treat diseases, and it was not appropriate to accept such a big gift.
Seeing that their words were sincere, and that they were completely different from the usual hawkers who opened their eyes at the sight of money, the Oyas felt a little more respectful in their hearts.
"You have shown such great kindness to me in Li Village, but you refuse to accept gifts." Wang Oya felt embarrassed, "I don't know how to thank you?"
Mu Min felt that an opportunity had come. The girl who was falsely accused of being a "forbidden mother" was still locked up in the village. She had to kill the owner after she recovered. So she asked if she could forgive Junda if she was afraid that she would do harm to others.
, they were willing to take her out of the village and never let her come back.
Li Benqing, who served as the translator, looked embarrassed and reluctantly translated their meaning. This request made the leaders sitting here look embarrassed. From the bottom of my heart, it would be natural to remove dangerous "forbidden mothers" like Jianda from our eyes.
It's a good thing, but asking the Han people to take away a girl of their own tribe cannot be justified in any case. They also have a great favor to the village, so refusing to agree does not seem to be the way to treat guests.
After a long while, Wang Oya said: "Junda is a 'forbidden mother'. If she brings you a 'forbidden mother', how can we afford it? It's better to kill her on the spot."
Mu Min asked three times, but Wang Oya just refused. Suddenly, Zhen Oya said: "This is a scourge. Even if she is killed here, she will still harm people as a ghost. Several Ba and powerful people brought her there
I'm afraid I can still control her."
The owner of the cave, who had been silent all this time, also nodded and said: "Let a few Bahe take her away. After all, the Taoist priests in the village can't suppress her."
Wang Oya looked unhappy, but because of the owner's wishes, he didn't get angry. That was the end of it. Wang Oya wanted to give them gifts again and again. After some courtesy, Cui Yunhong felt that it would be too much not to accept them.
It was rude, and besides, the Agricultural Committee also needed cattle. It immediately agreed to accept ten cattle. Wang Oya was overjoyed and immediately asked people to prepare ten healthy cattle.
Cui Yunhong thought of the saponaria forest outside the village again, and proposed to take a few hundred kilograms back with her.
"Okay!" Zheng Oya didn't know why they were interested in those beans, but since they wanted to, he agreed and arranged for people to pick them. The two parties also carved a wood as a contract, and the travelers came to Li Village at least once a year to treat their illnesses, and
As long as travelers go to Li District to do business, with this wooden sign, they can stay and stay in the village. All food and firewood will be provided by Li Village. If necessary, they can also support porters and cattle to transport items.
That night everyone had a great time, and early the next morning, the expedition team set off back to Changhua Fort. We all got along with Li Benqing day and night for more than ten days, and naturally there was an inseparable bond when we parted. But Mr. Wang was very happy. This time
When I brought this group of people to Li District, I not only got rare white sugar as a foot payment, but also received many gifts from the local Li people. It was a small fortune.
Each of the ten cows was tied with baskets of sapodilla beans and many local products. Because there were so many gifts, Cui Yunhong could only take one or two more useful things from each family's gifts and return all the others.
The whole village was deeply moved by what he did, and he was known for his benevolence and righteousness.
Mr. Wang drove the cattle in front, and the expedition team then left the village gate. The Oyas and many people walked together at the gate of the village to see each other off. The atmosphere was warm. Xiong Buyou said: "Now I know what it feels like to be the Eighth Route Army -"
Mu Min said with emotion: "This is the people's sentiment."
Three or four miles out, by the woods, Zhen Oya and several Li Ding were waiting for them. There was a woman tied with a rope to the tree, and her hands were tied.
"This is Wanda," Zhen Oya ordered, untying the rope and handing it to Mu Min. "She is yours. Take her as far away as possible. Don't bring her back. Even her name is
It’s best to change it too.”
"I know, we will treat her well." Mu Min looked solemn.
Zhen Oya's always indifferent face showed a hint of gratitude: "Hunda is a poor child, you are good people, take more care of her."
After Zhen Oya finished speaking, he turned around and left with the others. Everyone was disappointed for a while. Xiong Buyou said:
"Why do I feel that Oya doesn't really believe that she is the 'Forbidden Mother' right now?"
"There's probably some hidden secret, we don't care about it. We're just trying to save someone's life." Cui Yunhong said, "Let's go."
Mu Min walked up to the woman. Probably because of being imprisoned, the woman's hair was messy. She was wearing a low-collared short shirt on her upper body and a long blue barrel embroidered with white flowers on her lower body. There was a lot of dirt on her clothes, and there were also
It was torn in several places and looked very embarrassed.
She glanced at the group of people in horror, then bent back and shrank back. Only then did everyone see that her face was not heavily tattooed like other Li women, but there were only some thin tattoos along the edges of her forehead and cheeks.
With light tattoos and curved eyebrows, she looks like she is no more than sixteen or seventeen years old. She has pretty features. After seeing many tattoos, at first glance at the face of such a young woman, everyone feels that her eyes are bright.
Mu Min was surprised and asked Mr. Wang: "Her tattoo is very light?"
"This counts as tattoos." Mr. Wang said, indeed some women are not willing to get tattoos, but only have some symbolic tattoos - after all, everyone has a love for beauty.
The group of people took this unexpected gain and embarked on the return journey. Mu Min originally wanted to untie the rope that bound her hands, but Cui Yunhong said that they promised to take the girl away, and if they were untied, she would run back to Li Village.
, on the one hand, it harmed herself, and on the other hand, it also showed that we did not keep our word.
Junda was very obedient, leaving when asked and resting when asked. However, no matter who asked, she was speechless. Mu Min thought that at a young age, she followed a group of strange foreigners because of an unfounded crime.
I don’t know where I am, but I can imagine the pain in my heart. It’s better not to talk more and ask more.
After walking more than ten miles, I suddenly heard a "whoosh" in the air, followed by a sharp neighing sound.