Ji Qingyue cut wheat for two days and finally finished tidying up his wheat field.

He cut the wheat straw into short lengths and placed the short straw with wheat ears on the open space in front of the brick house, spread it out to dry, and then put it away for storage after drying.

Now that the weather has turned warm, there is a bit of coolness in the morning and evening, but the heat is steaming at noon. People put on thin shirts and short coats when working, and some people even tie their clothes around their waists and go bare-chested.

After Ji Qingyue finished harvesting the vegetables, he was not in a hurry to plant the next crop. He asked Li Silang to take some and put the rest in the ground to wait for the vegetables to mature.

I heard from Li Silang that the new village school has been built, but because he has not found a teacher for a long time, he has not been able to study again until now.

The four or two bundles of repairs that were originally ordered must not be raised any more, but when the people who came to inquire heard that they were from a village near Shiliang, they all shook their heads and refused to come, because the bandits were becoming more and more rampant, and even the county government officials Even if we can't completely wipe them out, how can they come to teach with peace of mind.

Ji Qingyue returned to the kitchen and began to prepare things for the long journey. After a long period of careful consideration, he decided to climb up the mountain behind the thatched cottage and get to the top to see what was on the other side of the mountain.

A barrier traps him, living in the painting as a blob of ink.

He was not reconciled.

Before having enough food and clothing, these emotions were buried deep in my heart. Now that the weather has warmed up, the ice and snow have melted, and I am no longer hungry. After struggling hard to have enough food and clothing, these thoughts slowly emerged.

Just like a special intuition appears when facing a barrier, with a quick glance in the sky, there may be a different world behind the mountain.

He was going to take a look.

If the ending was the same as now, he would just stay there and never want to go out again.

Because he didn’t know how long it would take to cross the mountain, Ji Qingyue wanted to be as prepared as possible.

The dry food is just scones, the thermos cup is filled with water, and a water bladder is also filled. A machete and flint are essential, as well as a bundle of rattan that has been dried and woven for reinforcement.

The next step is to wait for the wheat to dry and the vegetables to mature.

While waiting for the wheat to dry, he picked a warm morning, buried a cotton seed in the ground, marked it, and then took all the seeds and fruits in the vegetable field back to the thatched cottage for storage. deal with.

Li Erlang is very busy these days, so it is Li Silang who delivers food in the evening.

The wheat has completely dried out during the day. As long as the straw is knocked hard, the wheat will fall off the ears. Ji Qingyue used a wooden fork to pick up the detached wheat stalks and put them aside, leaving plump wheat grains on the ground.

He swept the wheat grains into a pile. The thick pile looked very safe.

The disadvantage of drying on the ground is that the wheat pile will be mixed with stones and soil, so it is impossible to pack the wheat directly for storage. You have to sift the wheat grains with a round dustpan to remove as much stones and soil as possible.

After doing all this, Ji Qingyue looked at the jars filled with wheat and felt much more at ease.

At first, I planted more than ten kilograms, but now I have harvested ten times more.

That night, Li Silang still came to deliver food. Li Erlang repeated the work of pulling the plow every day. The two families had hundreds of acres of land. How could he not be tired? Even the cattle were not used like this.

Ji Qing felt more and more sorry for him and gave away most of the vegetables he grew. If he couldn't let him eat meat to supplement his nutrition, he would let him take more vitamins. This is the greatest sincerity of a foodie.

He told Li Silang his plan to go out, and Li Silang nodded: "I will tell my brother when he wakes up tomorrow. Brother Ji, you must be careful! You must remember that we are waiting for you at home, and you must come back!" I will miss you!"

The child's abundant emotions were unabashed, and they were all filled with reluctance and worry for Ji Qingyue.

The more Ji Qing wanted to touch the child's head, the childish words could always touch the soft spot in his heart.

"it is good."

It was still dark the next day, so Ji Qingyue had already changed into the jeans, sweatshirt and sneakers he had worn when he first came here, put on a robe, rolled up his cloak and stuffed it into his backpack, and set out while the temperature was cool in the morning.

On the way, I picked up a handful of dried pine needles and bark in the pine forest. This is what Mr. Bei did, just in case of emergency.

The rooster crowed several times, and Li Erlang finally opened his eyes. He heard his brother's words before he woke up. He was so anxious that he didn't even have time to put on his clothes and ran into the study room: "Yue Lang?"

No one responded.

His eyes scanned the paintings on the wall, and the next moment he saw many things he had never seen before on the paintings. Hanging on the thatched hut is a row of things woven from wheat straw - cats, dogs, fish, birds, flowers. In addition, there are many unnamed things: a round head like a doll, with a piece of cloth under the head. , hung under the thatched hut by a rope tied around his neck.

These things seemed to be guarding the thatched cottage, and seemed to be greeting him.

Ji Qingyue has already left.

Li Erlang had no choice but to turn around and walk out of the study in depression, feeling completely disappointed. I haven't been able to say a word to Ji Qingyue these days, so I don't know that he has already had this idea, and I don't know how long he will be going this time, and whether he has all the preparations.

However, Li Erlang was full of expectations for Ji Qingyue to find a way out.

In the painting, Ji Qingyue followed the previously chosen climbing route, a short but steep road, so he slowly climbed up the mountain along the stones from the foot of the mountain.

There were only pine trees and rocks on the mountain, and Ji Qingyue felt tired after a while.

Since coming to Huali and experiencing a period of survival in the wilderness, his physical fitness has been much better than before, but climbing mountains is still a bit uncomfortable for him.

He said that it was because many parts of the mountain were too steep and there were very few gentle places at the foot of the mountain. The whole mountain seemed to suddenly rise from the ground, and a towering mountain grew out of the flat ground. Although it was not It's a 90-degree climb up, but the slope is steep enough for a person to bend over and use both hands and feet to climb up.

After finally finding a relatively gentle slope, Ji Qingyue cut a branch he picked up in the pine forest into a hiking pole and used his strength to walk upward along the direction of the stone.

As the sun rose, Ji Qingyue finally decided to take a rest. When he sat on a stone, unscrewed the thermos cup, drank water and looked down, a mouthful of water suddenly spurted out.

After climbing for so long, we finally reached this height. The thatched cottage appeared clearly in sight, hidden in a pine forest, as if it was still very close.

He didn't go very far!

The loud sound of the waterfall falling into the pool was not far to the right. Although the route he chose was close to the water source, he had to go up the zigzag path around the huge rocks. It takes a little more time.

Before setting off, Ji Qingyue had estimated his own strength and did not dare to brag about it. With his current physical strength, it might take him two to three days to reach the top. Although he knew that sleeping in the wild was inevitable, he still carried it on his back. After five days of dry food, I can only say that I was really hungry.

After resting for a while, Ji Qingyue set up his hiking pole again and continued to climb up. As he went up, the pine trees became sparser and the exposed stones became larger and larger. He reached the edge of the pine forest. As he went up, the pine trees no longer grew, but filled the ground. Weathered rocks have fallen off the mountain, and large chunks of stone have sharp edges exposed and stand on the ground at various angles. If you walk on them wearing cloth shoes, the soles of your shoes may be cut.

At this time, the sun has set, and the temperature has dropped significantly. When the shadows of the trees fall on your body, you will feel the biting cold. The sparse pine trees cannot block the howling mountain wind. The roar of the wind is shaking the sky and the earth, and it is noisy to Ji Qingyue's ears. Keeps buzzing.

It was no longer suitable to continue climbing today, so Ji Qingyue had no choice but to go back to the woods, tighten his robe, take out his cloak, put it on, and then find a place to sit down.

Just in time to rest for a while and fill my stomach.

Ji Qingyue was chewing pancakes and observing his surroundings. Without the activities of the Li family to take in the picture, he could only roughly judge the current time based on the position of the sun. At this time, Li Erlang should still be busy in the fields.

He had not expected such a strong wind blowing on the mountain. Li Erlang said that it rarely rained heavily in April, so he was relieved not to prepare rain gear. However, this kind of strong wind, the darker the sky, the stronger the wind, and it seems to be able to People overturned. If we continue walking up and cannot find a suitable cave when it gets dark, we will have to sleep in the cold wind.

Sleeping outdoors without shelter in this weather is no different from sleeping directly in a refrigerator.

After thinking about it for a while, Ji Qingyue decided to retreat to the forest with thicker trees to rest for one night, and then climb over the ridge in one go tomorrow.

Then he picked up the branches that fell in the woods, cleared a clearing, and then used stones to circle a fire pit to light the bonfire.

Preventing wildfires is everyone’s responsibility.

After the fire was lit, Ji Qingyue sat quietly by the fire pit, his eyes empty.

Since coming here, he has become more and more dazed because he often has nothing to do.

It’s rare today to enjoy the sunset from a different angle, but it’s a pity that I can’t record and share it.

Soon, the strong wind blew away the darkness, like a howling wind that made Ji Qingyue barely sleep in the darkness.

The wind blew all night, colliding with the rocks, and it was too noisy.

As soon as the sky started to lighten up, Ji Qingyue had already packed up, put out the fire completely, and set off again with his backpack. Yesterday there were trees to rely on, but today he could only climb up a little bit along the cracks and depressions of the boulders.

Ji Qingyue leaned against a rock and took a breath to rest.

It’s been another day of hiking today, and the sun will set soon!

As long as you go around it, you can reach the top!

Ji Qingyue took a deep breath and slowly walked around a huge 10,000-ton boulder. He gritted his teeth and climbed up a big boulder. As soon as he showed his head, he was almost overturned by the sweeping mountain wind.

After finally stabilizing his body, Ji Qingyue raised his eyes at the next moment. After seeing the scene in front of him clearly, he was so shocked that his lips trembled.

The other side of the mountain is not a mountain or water, but a side of surging ink.

A huge black lake! !

If it is fine, it will become rain and mist; if it is coarse, it will become water flow; if it is light, it will become wind; if it is thick, it will outline all things.

The stream at the foot of the mountain that he relied on for survival came from here. The ink flowed from the lower part of the ridge and turned into running water.

The sound of the wind disappeared without a trace at that moment.

Ji Qingyue couldn't help but stepped forward and lightly touched the foggy surface in front of him. As soon as he touched the foggy "water vapor", his fingertips melted into ink and blended with the ink marks in the foggy surface.

He was so frightened that he immediately pulled his finger back, but it was still intact.

The moment the finger disappeared, Ji Qingyue had mixed feelings and was exhausted mentally and physically, thinking that this would be it.

He sat silently on the stone, looking at the continuous flow of splashed ink, his eyes divergent.

I don't know how long I sat there, but when I came back to my senses, Ji Qingyue seemed to be feeling something, and turned around in panic. It was pitch black under the mountain, and I couldn't see anything. It seemed like everything was sinking into black ink.

He immediately remembered a picture sent by the space station - the dark earth.

At this time, he seemed to have a space perspective and saw the "dark world."

Suddenly, Ji Qingyue stood up like an electric shock, staring closely at the splashing ink and flowing water.

He remembered what he vaguely saw when he was hanging in the sky. There was a dark black lake on the other side of the mountain, and there seemed to be a building in the lake.

Just because I fainted quickly at that time, when I woke up, it just felt like a dream.

Now that building suddenly appeared in the splash of ink, he immediately thought of it.

He wants to go in.

Li Erlang sat on the donkey cart and sighed. Today is the fourth day since Ji Qingyue left. Every morning before he went out, he would go to the study to take a look. If the straw doll on the thatched hut was not picked off, it meant that Ji Qingyue Haven't come back yet.

He didn't go to farm that day, not because he was finished with the work in the field, but because his sister-in-law's delivery was approaching, and his mother-in-law and his aunt asked him to go to the county to pick up the doctor.

The hall sister-in-law had some stomach discomfort last night. The doctor in the village had seen the hall sister-in-law before and wondered whether she had one big fetus or two.

Li Erlang's father and uncle were brothers, and his aunt even gave birth to a third child and a twin. It was normal for the hall's sister-in-law to be pregnant with twins. When the time came, many people in the village would envy their family.

But they say that giving birth is like walking through a closed door. When my aunt gave birth to her cousin, she almost didn't make it through. There was no doctor to consult, so she survived with just one breath.

Now that the cousin is about to give birth, and the two families have less than 20 acres of uncultivated land, Aniang asked him to take a rest while they were taking care of the cousin, so she sent him to the county today, and by the way, he sent something to Sanlang to inform the family. The situation allows Saburo not to worry about his family.

Nowadays, the gatherings in the county are more lively than in winter. Spring has begun, and all kinds of wild vegetables, flowers and herbs are growing in the mountains. Many people come to the county with fresh mountain products to join in the fun.

Before the field holiday ended, when Li Erlang found Sanlang, Li Sanlang was studying in his dormitory. He gave Sanlang his clothes and food, and took back his heavy winter bedding and coat to unpack and wash.

When he heard the news that his sister-in-law was about to give birth, Li Sanlang immediately wanted to go with him to the county to find a doctor.

So the two brothers went down the mountain side by side.

Since he went down the mountain during the last problem-solving meeting, Li Sanlang has not left the academy gate these days. He has been studying the questions in the problem-solving meeting with his classmates in the academy and condensing the answers.

Following Ah Nai's previous instructions, the two went to the Yishan Hall in the county to find a doctor who specialized in obstetrics and gynecology, and invited him to come to their home for a consultation.

Most of the doctors at Yishantang are good at treating diseases of women and children. The gynecological master is stationed in the hospital and usually does not leave the city easily. Those who visit are his disciples. When women in the village give birth, they are hired by well-known stable women and doctors near the village. They generally do not go to the county to hire a doctor. If it is not a last resort, who is willing to pay such a high medical fee.

A year ago, Li A'nai went to Yishan Hall to set up a time to ask the doctor for a consultation. She had already paid the deposit, and now Li Erlang was here to pick her up. After both parties confirmed, Dr. Zhang, who was visiting the doctor, packed the medicine box and followed Li Erlang back.

The three of them walked out of the hospital and were heading to where the donkey cart was parked. Suddenly they heard a woman crying and howling on the roadside, shouting something, which seemed to be related to the child. Doctor Zhang who was next to Li Erlang heard the sound and walked over immediately. , parting the crowd, I found an elderly woman holding a seven or eight-year-old child, sitting on the ground crying, with a vegetable basket in her hand. She must be a woman who lives in the county and went shopping with her child. people.

She didn't expect that the child would suddenly become like this, which made her panic and at a loss.

"I am a doctor from Yishantang, let me see the child!" Doctor Zhang knelt down and pulled the child out of the woman's arms.

The woman seemed to have found support and kept begging the doctor to save her.

Doctor Zhang quickly checked the child's condition. The child was still awake. He was held tightly by the woman and could not move. Now after being pulled out by Dr. Zhang, although his eyes rolled up in discomfort and his face turned red, he still pointed consciously. The position of the throat, Doctor Zhang immediately understood what he meant.

This is choking.

He opened the child's mouth and looked inside, but he couldn't see the foreign object blocking it. He used a wooden stick to poke inside, but he couldn't find the location of the foreign object. Just when he was about to carry the child back to the hospital, Li Erlang hurriedly came up and hugged him. Live the kids.

Dr. Zhang just thought that this man was really kind-hearted and took the initiative to help carry the person. He never expected to see Li Erlang's next action and was so frightened that he froze. The woman sitting on the ground was so stunned that she stopped wiping her tears.

Li Erlang then hugged the child and kept pressing hard. The child's face turned red and he kept wanting to vomit under Li Erlang's forceful squeeze.

After repeating the action a few times, the child vomited out the contents deep in his throat with a "wow" sound, and then cried loudly and threw himself at the woman.

From the time the child choked to the time the child vomited up the foreign object, everyone felt that it was a long time. After seeing that the child was safe, they couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Li Erlang, too, finally relaxed his tense heart and quickly raised his hand to wipe his forehead. Sweat on.

The woman knelt on the ground with her child in her arms and kept kowtowing to express her gratitude. Just as Li Erlang was about to open his mouth to ask the woman to get up, he suddenly caught a glimpse of someone he had never seen before outside the crowd, giving him a thumbs up. That person's eyes Full of pride and joy.

A strange face, but there is a feeling of familiarity.

Who is this person?

Li Erlang couldn't help but froze on the spot.

"Jiro, well done."

After seeing the man's mouth shape clearly, Li Erlang's breathing seemed to slow down a little bit, and his eyes widened a little bit. The next second, he immediately dropped everything here and rushed over.

As soon as he stepped out, he saw the crowd pushing and shoving. The man was pushed and disappeared outside the crowd in an instant.

The next moment, Li Erlang rushed away from the crowd and came outside the crowd, but he no longer saw the strange and familiar figure.

The crowd gathered around him again and gathered him in the middle. The voices of praise surrounded them, so hazy and psychedelic that he couldn't hear them at all.

What was that just now?

Is it a hallucination or a ghost?

Is that really Yue Lang?

Just when he was stunned, Li Sanlang pulled his hand: "Second brother?"

Li Erlang held his forehead and returned to reality.

The woman and child had been taken back to the hospital by Dr. Zhang, who asked them to wait for a while before leaving.

He looked at his younger brother's worried expression and said with a smile: "Nothing, maybe I'm tired these days and I just want to take a break in the past two days. You don't have to worry."

After Li Erlang sent the doctor to his aunt's house, he hurriedly ran home. The sound of his aunt leaving him for dinner behind him could not be heard in a long string. He just wanted to go home as soon as possible.

When I opened the study door, it was still quiet in the painting.

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