Pick up the Dragon

Peng Yu shifted his gaze to the Dragon King's face with some doubts: "Why? Shouldn't we go straight into the city before it's dark?"

"Don't worry, the city is right here, and you can still run long enough. Know yourself and your enemy, and you can win a hundred battles. Let's go to the village to rest and inquire about the situation by the way."

In fact, the main reason is that he is hungry, the half sesame seed cake at noon is really useless, and the physical exertion in the afternoon is too great, which makes him a little weak now.

Of course, the Dragon King didn't say that.face.

The carriage soon arrived at Chenjia Village, the two jumped out of the carriage, and Qian Yue also unloaded the horse.At the entrance of the village there was a small pond that was about to dry up. The horse had been running all afternoon and his mouth was already parched, so he snorted and wanted to drink water.

"Hey," Li Yi grabbed the rein of the horse and said to Qianyue, "Go get the bucket of frozen water on the cart and give it a drink."

Peng Yu understood the meaning of his words, and asked in a low voice, "Is there any in this water?"

"It's so much, take it out and stir-fry a pot, enough for us to eat for three days."

Peng Yu shivered with a "hiss", rubbed his goose bumps, and quickly walked away from him.

Qian Yue tied up the horse and let it graze under the tree, and Li Yi threw a few drops of dragon's blood nearby - people can be cured if they are hit, but if the horse falls down, they can only walk back on two legs. home.

The three of them continued to walk towards the village. Before entering the village, they saw a few people gathered at the head of the village. When they got closer, they found that those people were surrounded by a little girl.When the girl was about ten years old, she was kneeling on the ground with dull eyes, and there were two corpses in front of her, covered with tattered sackcloth, the cloth was not long enough, exposing the feet of one of them.

Those were a pair of men's feet, with thick calluses growing on the soles, they must have often worked in the fields.The surrounding villagers didn't seem to dare to get close to the two corpses, they just watched from a distance and whispered.

"Two more died. The couple are usually in good health, but they can't stand this plague."

"Isn't it? If you leave a child, it's still a girl. How can you live alone?"

"I don't think this child will live long, maybe tomorrow I will go to Lord Yan to find her parents."

Li Yi looked at the girl, her face was yellow and thin, she looked sick.He stepped forward and knelt down gently in front of her: "little sister, does your stomach hurt?"

The girl opened her big eyes and nodded blankly.

Li Yi sighed and was about to get up when the girl suddenly grabbed his arm as if alive, and two lines of tears flowed from her eyes: "Big brother, please! Please help me bury my parents." Right! I may be dying...you can ask me to do anything before I die!"

Li Yi was startled, but didn't answer.Among the watching crowd, a middle-aged man shouted at them: "Outsiders! Go back and forth from wherever you come from! There are no living people in Chenzhou City, and Chenjia Village is almost dead! If you don't want to confess yourself here, Just go quickly!"

Looking at these old, weak, sick and disabled, Peng Yu didn't know what it was like for a while.In the past, his father taught him not to sympathize with others casually. Those people were not because of their hard lives, but because they were not up to date and couldn't live up to their individuality.But now he found that what his father said was not entirely true. Just these people in front of him, they couldn't resist the attack of insect disease, and they lost their lives for no reason. Is it their fault that they are living like this?

The reason why the Peng family's caravan has a foothold in Chenjia Village is because Chenjia Village used to be relatively rich. If there were no harmful insects, would the villagers still work as hard as before and live a life of mediocrity and happiness? ?Will they still warmly send a worthless gift when the caravan leaves?

He was suddenly a little confused, these people were not related to him, and he had no obligation to help them.But if he left like this, wouldn't it be the same as watching them die?Just like the child in front of her, maybe when she woke up tomorrow morning, she would have turned into a cold corpse like her parents.

He muttered something in a low voice, took out the prescription given by Zhou Huai, and handed it to the middle-aged man.After some explanation, the man looked at him in surprise, took the prescription, but only glanced at it before returning it.

Peng Yu didn't understand, so the man said: "Forget it, we can't read, and we can't understand it. Even if we can understand, where can we find medicine? A paper prescription...why dig a hole for ourselves, etc. Death comes quickly."

Peng Yu was stunned.

As expected, his thinking was too simple. To the villagers, this prescription was like a box of gold found by a thirsty man in the desert. No matter how precious it was, could it compare to a worthless glass of life-saving water?

He walked back to Li Yi and murmured: "If I had known... I would have asked the caravan to bring the medicinal materials along with it."

"It's useless." Li Yi shook his head calmly, "Those medicinal materials may be able to save people in a village, or all the cities with a radius of hundreds of miles? Can you guarantee that the medicinal materials will not deteriorate at all on the road? You Can you guarantee that the spoiled medicinal materials are still medicines that save people and not harm people?"

Peng Yu's Adam's apple slid twice with difficulty: "So you asked me to only deliver the prescription, and you can't say where it came from... You have already expected this situation?"

Li Yi didn't answer, just took a deep look at him, reached out and patted his shoulder: "Let's resign ourselves to fate."

After all, the three of them entered Chenjiacun.

In fact, apart from the prescription, they also brought two packs of prepared medicinal materials on the road, just in case they needed it.At this moment they discussed it, and decided to take out one of the packs, and called all the children in the village under the age of 16, including the little girl before, and fried the medicine for them to share.

One batch of medicine can be decocted up to three times, and the worms should be cleared after three times.But if there are many people who drink the medicine, more water must be added, and the effect of the medicine will be weakened if water is added to dilute it.Whether these children can survive or not, it really depends on what Li Yi said - they are resigned to their fate.

The five children gathered around the cauldron, watching their mother-in-law filling them with medicine in a daze.The youngest of the children was three years old, and the oldest was fifteen. All of them looked haggard, with a malnourished innocence.The mother-in-law was the only healthy old man left in the village. She had some prestige. After filling the medicine for the children, she made dinner for Peng Yu and his party.

In such a big village, there are no more than thirty people left.It is said to be a dinner, but it is just some rice bran, clear soup with little water, it looks like a lot, but in fact it can barely fill the bottom.

For the Dragon King, it's not enough to get between his teeth.

Li Yi felt that he was really aggrieved. During the few days when he was dropped into Peng's house, he couldn't eat anything because of his dizziness and lack of energy.Now I finally have an appetite, but I have nothing to eat.After all, he is a dragon, not those bigu Taoist priests, how can he bear it all day long.

When will he be able to return to Xianzhou, he suddenly doesn't want to do it anymore, and he is asked to work hard even if he can't eat enough, what is he planning?

The three of them hastily finished their dinner, and it was already dark, so they reckoned that when Chenzhou opened the city gate, they rode the carriage again to the bottom of the city tower.

Qian Yue didn't have enough to eat, and he didn't have much energy to drive.In order to prevent accidental shock, she tied the horse farther away.Peng Yu took the "bright and blind" oil lamp, lifted it up and took a look around, saw something boxy stuck to the base of the city wall, picked it up and looked at it - a small yellow book, probably from that day After the caravan was left behind, it was blown by the wind.

The corner of his mouth twitched and he was about to throw it away, but Li Yi quickly stopped him: "Don't throw it, it might be useful."

What is the use of a little yellow book?Show it to a ghost?

The Dragon King said he had no choice but to hold it, and took a photo up, and saw that the dilapidated plaque in Chenzhou was far from the one in Xianzhou by more than a thousand miles.This plaque has not been repaired for some time, the wood is almost rotten, and the edges are jagged like dogs gnawing on it, only the word "Chenzhou" is still clear.As soon as the wind blows, the plaque creaks and creaks, and I don't know when it will die.

Peng Yu thought, this broken plaque will fall down sooner or later.

Li Yi leaned on the side and waited for the city gate to open. Since the city gate could open by itself, he didn't bother wasting talisman papers and energy.According to the villagers of Chenjia Village, in fact, no monsters and ghosts will come out after the city gate is opened, at most it is strange wind and bad smell. Find a way to harm people.

This is why they still dare to live here and have not moved away.

Li Yi had already made up his mind, and took out a square-folded talisman paper from his bosom, with a flying snake scale wrapped inside.He picked up the scale and put it on the tip of his nose to sniff it, he remembered the smell.

As soon as Haishi arrived, the gates of the city opened as scheduled.

Li Yi dragged the ignorant young master over and behind him, squinting his eyes at the gate of the city.The thick city gate was in disrepair for a long time, and there was a creepy creaking sound, and the putrid wind came out from the crack of the gate, piercing like a scream.

The Dragon King immediately covered his nose and was almost smoked.

This smell, how many people have to die?It smelled ten times worse than the bug swarm that day.

Peng Yu was also so disgusted that he rolled his eyes, the oil lamp in his hand was blown left and right by the wind, and the light became unstable in an instant.He hid behind the Dragon King, but unfortunately the Dragon King's body was too thin to block the wind.

When the city gate was completely opened, the goosebumps on Peng Yu's body had already dropped three times.In this hot summer, he felt a little cold for no reason, so he couldn't help rubbing his arms.

But after the city gate was opened, there was no movement, and the surroundings fell into a dead silence, not even the sound of insects chirping or birds flapping their wings.Due to the limited vision, what Peng Yu can see is only the area illuminated by the oil lamp, and there is no difference in the further distance, which makes people feel a little... frightening.

However, the Peng family's brains are not normal, and Young Master Peng's brain circuit is very clear. He not only does not hide back when he gets scared, but also walks forward.Li Yi grabbed him: "Why are you going?"

"Well, I'll explore the way for you."

A bit of doubt suddenly appeared in the long eyes like bright lights, thinking that this person is half-blind at night, and still looking for the way?In the end is to explore the way or die?

Do you feel that you will lose money if you bring that bag of paper money?

So the Dragon King grabbed his wrist and said, "No need, follow me."

Peng Yu had no choice but to follow the good advice, but Qian Yue was left at the end.The three of them walked towards the dark city gate, and the only light was an oil lamp. Even though it was a "Bright and Blind" sign, it seemed a little powerless at this moment.

The smelly wind was still blowing from the city, Peng Yu thought that when he went back, he would have to bathe him thirty times from the inside to the outside, from top to bottom, and take thirty different kinds of spice petals to bathe and burn incense.

The Dragon King was more uncomfortable than him, he wished he could turn into a dragon now, and blow away the nauseating wind in one breath.Plunging headlong into the East China Sea, he would rather smell the fishy smell of the sea than the rancid smell.

As for Qianyue... She is still brooding over the unsatisfactory meal that night.

The three of them had their own concerns, and soon came to the bottom of the city tower. Because Peng Yu was eager to hold the lamp for the Dragon King, he unconsciously walked side by side with him—even though the Dragon King didn't need a lamp at all.

At this moment, there was a sudden strange sound above the head, the wood was blown by the wind and creaked a few times, and then——

Someone's unlucky crow's mouth fulfilled his test.