his dragon [farming]

In the depths of the darkened cave, Shen Qiuhe coughed desperately, almost holding his breath, and then developed a fever, fluctuating cold and hot, sleeping and waking up.

The crying of the baby came intermittently in the darkness, and Qiu He no longer felt terrified, and even lost the strength to fear.In bouts of dizziness, once he saw his father whom he had not seen for a long time. His father was standing in the distance, with his back to the light, and he turned around and called him: "Qiuhe!"

Qiu He suddenly remembered that his father had passed away.He thought, am I already dead?

He no longer hurt, no longer uncomfortable, as light as a feather, he walked towards his father, thinking to himself, forget it, just die.

However, that figure always seemed to be at the end of the road, and he couldn't catch up no matter how far he walked.

"Qiuhe!"

The voice became very anxious, and Qiu He looked around, this time the scene turned into a familiar city and streets, but the streets were empty, it was getting dark, and the lonely traffic lights were flickering on and off.

"Qiu He, Qiu He!"

Who is calling him?Why are you in such a hurry?Is it Shen Lin?Or grandpa?

Qiu He was shocked, he still had so many relatives, he couldn't just die like this!

Numerous intertwined and messy pictures rushed towards the face, piercing through the nothingness of the body, turning Qiuhe from a feather into a heavy lump of iron.All kinds of noisy voices sounded in his ears. It seemed that many people were calling his name. It was so loud that Qiu He frowned.

I'm going to be mad, he thought.

His feet began to ache, and the pain became more and more severe, and then, the dormant pain all over his body couldn't wait to respond, making Qiu He anxious and angry.

He struggled to open his eyes, and there was a yellow lamp in his eyes, and two people were shaking in front of him.The eyes slowly focused, and finally saw one of the faces clearly, which turned out to be Hua Niangniang.

"Amitabha!" Hua Niangniang proclaimed Buddha and said, "You are finally awake!"

Hua Niangniang's curly hair, which was used to being obedient, was now disheveled like a handful of dead grass. She turned her head and walked outside the house. A mother-in-law quickly took her place, and she came up to Qiuhe and said, "My good boy! Just wake up! It's a good thing! Wake up, if you don't wake up, you will be sent to the county hospital. Be good, what do you want to eat?"

Qiu He recognized a mother-in-law surnamed Shi in the town. He squinted his eyes and didn't have the energy to speak, when he saw a person rushing into the door like a whirlwind, it was his grandfather.

Shen Baocheng's face was swollen and emaciated, and he was several years old. He squeezed to the head of the bed, touched Qiu He's forehead with a callused hand for a while, and said in a low voice, "The fever is finally gone, Qiu He He, are you still feeling uncomfortable?"

Before Qiu He could answer, Grandma Shi was already standing beside her, and started nagging with tears in her eyes: "Son, don't dare to run around anymore, it scared your grandfather to death! The old man didn't dare to close his eyes for two nights!"

Qiu He looked at Granny Shi, then at Grandpa, and said, "Grandpa, I'm fine!"

He obviously exerted a lot of strength, but the voice that came out was extremely weak and hoarse, which even made him feel terrified.

Shen Baocheng's old eyes turned red, he just rubbed Qiuhe's head with his rough hand, and said, "It's fine as long as it's all right."

At this time, Empress Hua came in with a bowl of brown sugar and eggs. Grandpa hurriedly picked up Qiu He, lay down on the pillow, took the bowl, and said, "Come on, eat something first. I've been hungry for a few days."

Qiuhe's mouth was bitter and he had no appetite. Looking at the bowl handed to his mouth, he had to drink a few sips with all his might.Seeing everyone looking eagerly, he drank a few more sips, then shook his head.

After eating the steaming hot food, I finally added two spirits.

Hua Niangniang took the bowl, and said bitterly: "Wait, I will definitely ask your grandfather to beat you! You are so courageous, a child from the city dares to run around in the mountains! It is your fate, and you were found by the adults." , if you are caught by a bear and leave your grandfather behind, wouldn’t your bowels burst from tears?”

Granny Shi hurriedly tried to persuade her, "How does he know so much about his little baby? I've already found it, so I won't say a word!"

Some images flashed through Qiu He's mind like a lantern, and he thought, how did Grandpa and the others find him?Did they venture into the cave?

Did they run into that dragon?

Shen Baocheng asked Qiu He to lie down again, tucked him a blanket, and said, "If you're sleepy, sleep a little longer."

Qiu He couldn't speak, so he smiled at the three people in front of the bed, and closed his eyes in a drowsy state. He vaguely heard Shen Baocheng thanking everyone and sending them out. When the surroundings became quiet, he fell asleep again. caught.

Qiuhe lay on the bed for a week before she could go to the ground.

His right ankle was swollen almost transparent, his body was covered with bruises, and he often had chest tightness, shortness of breath and palpitations.But when he woke up the next day, he called Shen Lin early in the morning and reported that he was safe with a happy face.

Shen Lin still doesn't know about Qiu He's disappearance.The father and daughter never called each other on the phone, thanks to this, this matter can be hidden from the past.Otherwise, Qiuhe estimated that Shen Lin would go crazy on the spot.

One night, seeing that there was no outsider in the room, Qiu He asked Shen Baocheng how he found him.Shen Baocheng said that when he came back from the mountain patrol, he saw that Qiuhe was gone, and he thought he had gone home first, but when he got home, there was no one there, so he panicked and called several stronger men in the town to go up the mountain overnight to look for him. After searching for two days and two nights, I finally found the drenched autumn grass on a rocky beach in Tianxi.

Shen Baocheng didn't ask Qiuhe what happened, but told him again with lingering fear, never to run around on the mountain in the future.

"Grandpa," Qiu He looked up at him with sparkling eyes, "Have you seen that strange thing before? Then... what is it?"

In the past two days, Qiu He thought about it, and always felt strange.That monster lives in the pool under the observation deck. Grandpa has guarded the mountain for so many years, how could he not know?

He also repeatedly warned Qiuhe not to approach Shitan when he was alone, but why did he keep repeatedly emphasizing that there were bears there, but never mentioned that there was a dangerous dragon?

Moreover, before he passed out, he clearly remembered that he was in the cave. Why was he by the stream when grandpa found him?

These questions were buried in Qiu He's heart for several days, and then sprouted again, and grew into a towering and tangled tree.

Shen Baocheng fell silent.He rubbed his big rough hands, and said after a long time: "Let me tell you a story. Ten years ago, in Tiger Chong at the east end of our town, the beams of an ancestral hall collapsed, and the bricks and tiles fell to the ground." It happened to be in the shape of a dragon. After the news got out, hundreds of thousands of people went to see it. The common people didn’t care, they were just curious, but later, many people came from nowhere, secretly carrying knives and guns , lived in Chongli for several days before leaving, it was very scary! Later, afraid of accidents, the town pushed down the entire ancestral hall and poured it on the concrete floor, and it was over."

Qiu He looked at his grandfather with a confused face, not understanding why he told himself this.

Shen Baocheng said again: "Whether that is a dragon or not, I dare not say. It has lived in the pool for many years, maybe it was there before me, before your great-grandpa. Said. Once someone knows that there is a dragon here, it's hard to say whether that dragon will survive in the future. I'm afraid it will attract all kinds of people, and even this town will have a catastrophe. Do you understand? ?”

Qiu He was silent for a long time before saying, "You and Bai Chuan don't want to attract the attention of outsiders, is it because of this dragon?"

Shen Baocheng nodded, thought for a while, and added: "Don't even tell your mother about this, if one less person knows, it will save you trouble, you know?"

Qiu He agreed, and the two sat in silence for a moment, Qiu He asked again: "Does Bai Chuan know about the dragon? ——Is this why he let Lin Zihuang here all these years?" Pause, Qiu He His thoughts began to diverge, "Does their family know about this? Is he specially sent to guard this dragon?"

Shen Baocheng was noncommittal, and just tucked Qiu He in a blanket, and said, "Of course Bai Chuan knows about this, don't worry, he won't say anything."

Qiuhe thought for a while, and then said: "I was in the cave, and I heard a child crying. I was scared to death."

Shen Baocheng groaned, and said, "That's not a monster, it's a salamander. The spring in the mountain is clear, and there are wild salamanders in it....Don't tell anyone about this, lest you attract fish thieves—those people For money, what can't you do?"

After Shen Baocheng left the room, Qiu He lay on the bed alone and thought for a long time.

Are there really dragons in this world?

He reviewed his own experience: He accidentally broke into a dragon's territory and was dragged into the dragon's lair, but then when he was about to die, the dragon let him out again?

In any case, there is a dragon here, and the fact that the dragon is still very human, still makes Qiu He strongly stimulated.It was difficult to accept all this, which subverted his perception of the world.

Finally, he remembered the story he read in the book. The last white rhino in the world had its horns sawed off and a group of soldiers guarded it with guns, so that it could tragically survive from the guns of poachers.He used this story to convince himself: what Grandpa and Bai Chuan did was right, once people knew that there was a dragon in Liangshi Town, what would happen here, Qiu Heguang shuddered when he thought about it.

One day, Shen Baocheng served Qiuhe after breakfast and went out. He came back around noon, followed by an old man of his age, who was as short and stout as him.When the two entered the room, Shen Baocheng politely put a chair on Qiuhe's bedside, asked the old man to sit down, and said to Qiuhe, "This is your Grandpa Ding."

"Grandpa Ding is good." Qiu He greeted politely.

"Well, good boy!" Old man Ding sat upright, looked at Qiu He's feet first, and after a while, squeezed them with both hands and pulled them in the middle vigorously.

Qiu He howled miserably, almost crying in pain.Old man Ding took out another cloth bag, and there was a row of silver needles in the bag. He didn't pay much attention to it, so he asked Shen Baocheng to pour a cup of white wine and soak the needles in it for disinfection. Then, old man Ding put his wrist He dragged it over to feel his pulse, measured his left wrist and his right wrist, and asked Qiuhe to stick out his tongue to have a look. Finally, he shook his head and said, "The young people of today are not as strong as an old man!"

After feeling the pulse, he picked up a thin and long needle and wanted to prick Qiuhe's foot.

Qiu He gasped, waved his hands wildly, and shouted: "No, no, no! It hurts!"

Old man Ding glared at him, and reprimanded him, "Squeamish!"

After speaking, the needle had already been stuck in—it wasn't as terrible as imagined, but it was so painful that Qiu He yelled loudly, and the lingering sound lingered.

Old man Ding silently tied Qiuhe's foot into a hedgehog, stood up and walked out, Shen Baocheng followed behind, and asked respectfully: "Brother, can the baby's disease be cured?"

"Both qi and blood are deficient, and the meridian is blocked. I will adjust it slowly!" Old Man Ding said brazenly, and the two went to the main room to drink tea and discuss.

Qiuhe thought to himself, I don't know where my grandfather invited a Mongolian doctor. If the money is short later, I will bear with it. If the money is too much, I must let my grandfather drive him away!

As a result, old man Ding didn't ask for money at all.Shen Baocheng cooked a table of dishes. The two old men chatted with each other while drinking, and they chatted very well. They ate a meal all afternoon, and old man Ding left at dusk. Before he left, he left two pairs of plasters.

After putting on the plaster overnight, the swelling in the ankle was really not so bad the next morning.Qiu He was secretly amazed, thinking in his heart, he never thought that the charlatan had two hands!

However, not long after breakfast, Shen Baocheng brought over a bowl of traditional Chinese medicine, which was cloudy in color and smelled not only bitter but also earthy.

Qiuhe felt nauseous when he smelled it, and didn't want to drink it, so he found a reason to evade it.Contrary to his amiable look these days, Shen Baocheng frowned and said, "Drinking this medicine is still annoying! For the herbal medicine here, Bai Chuan went to the mountains to search for it for several days! Drink it while it's hot!"

Qiu He thought, I asked him to look for it!But he thought about it again, recently, because of his disappearance, the old grandfather was very frightened, forget it, he can't die anyway, so it's better to comfort him.

While drinking the medicine, he made all kinds of bitter faces, trying to win grandpa's sympathy, so that he would drink less in the future, but Shen Baocheng didn't feel distressed at all when he saw it, and scolded him, "Squeamish!"

Qiu He was about to die of anger, thinking that Old Man Ding, an old liar, not only swindled food and drink, but also cheated Grandpa's trust in him.Lying on the bed angrily, he thought, old man Ding is really good at fooling around, and he might be a good hand if he doesn't become a charlatan in the future, but instead becomes a pyramid scheme.