Little Zhuangtou and the Great General

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Shen Miao didn't pay attention to the change of the old man, she just secretly thought that it was not good, it was safe in this poor mountain pass, but she couldn't find the doctor, this man was injured and had a high fever, what should I do?

The old man changed his question and continued to ask the question just now: "What's the matter with this man, why are there so many wounds?"

Shen Miao had no choice but to answer honestly: "I don't know."

"Don't know?" The old man was surprised, "You don't know him?"

Shen Miao nodded.

The old man was even more surprised: "I don't know him, why did you take him away?"

Shen Miao had no choice but to tell the whole story, including being nailed into a coffin and dragged to a mass grave when she still had breath, and meeting this man at the mass grave, and because this man's horse was very spiritual, he couldn't bear it. He was rescued by refusing, and he was stopped on the road, so he was sent here regardless of March 21 and [-].

The old man was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and looked at Shen Miao with complete disbelief.

Shen Miao also knew that what happened was so bizarre that others might not believe it, so she could only say in a broken jar, "Anyway, what I'm telling is the truth, believe it or not, it's up to you."

Unexpectedly, the old man seemed to believe it. He dug out a bag of salt from a corner of the room and gave it to Shen Miao: "Use this to wash his wound. There are only weeds and no herbs on this mountain, so there is no way to cure it."

How can there be no herbs?Shen Miao was surprised. Although he didn't understand it very well, he vaguely remembered that the vitality of some herbs was not bad, so why didn't they grow?What made him even more surprised was that the old man handed over a catty of salt. Salt should have been a rare commodity in ancient times. How could a place that was so poor that it couldn't even eat rice produce so much salt?

The old man explained the problem of salt with a cold snort: "The matter of salt is all a 'good thing' done by Dong Chang."

Upon hearing the word "Dong", Shen Miao couldn't help paying attention, and asked a little more: "What's going on."

"Dong Chang is the observation envoy of Yuezhou. He is not very capable, but he is so ambitious and focused on making big things. He thinks he has promulgated many 'beneficial' policies, and the abolition of the monopoly of salt is one of them. Once this thing is abolished, private salt will flood , every family hoarded a lot of salt and tried to transport it to other states for profit. However, smuggling salt in other states is a source of income for the government. It is so easy for you to make profits. , can only be piled up at home and eaten slowly." The old man said sarcastically.

Shen Miao understood, and secretly looked at the old man sympathetically. His family also had salt, which meant that he was also a member of the army that lost everything.

Noticing Shen Miao's gaze, the old man glanced back in displeasure.

Shen Miao hurriedly restrained herself and said goodbye, dragged the man back home with great difficulty, moved the man onto the bed with great effort, and then went to the main house to find a pot for boiling water. The pot was successfully found, but the water could not be found. The place has obviously been flooded, and the creek stones are all wet, but there is no water accumulation.

Shen Miao had no choice but to ask the old man again.

When the old man heard that Shen Miao came to ask for water, he immediately refused: "Just put salt on the wound, what kind of water should you boil?"

"How painful is that? It's not salted pork." Shen Miao continued begging for water.

The old man said with disdain: "The most precious thing in this mountain is water. If you want it, you can find it yourself."

Shen Miao was surprised, the climate of this place does not look like the north, how could this kind of mountain be short of water?

The old man still didn't explain it, so Shen Miao had to work hard on her own. She couldn't find any common method, so she could only take advantage of it.Don't you have a smart horse?Let it look for it.Shen Miao walked up to the horse, and explained it dancing and dancing. The horse seemed to understand, and then turned around and led Shen Miao to walk around the mountain along a small path on the mountainside.

After walking for about half a mile, he bypassed this mountain and went around to the back of the mountain. The scene presented surprised Shen Miao. The huge mountain body had slipped down as a whole, and the hillside was full of various rocks. The landslide appears to have been going on for some years.

The horse led Shen Miao down the landslide carefully, and stopped in front of a dark, man-made mine.It snorted to indicate that there was water in it.

Shen Miao was puzzled: "Why is there water in here?"

The horse didn't answer his question, but the old man's voice suddenly said: "There is indeed water in it, your horse is really spiritual."

Shen Miao was startled, without realizing it, the old man followed him all the way, seeing that he had found the entrance of the tunnel, he even lit a torch.

"Come with me." The old man walked in holding a torch, Shen Miao hesitated and followed.

The mine tunnel is in a mess, scattered gravel can be seen everywhere, and the wooden bars supporting the mine tunnel are also crooked and may collapse at any time.After walking about fifty steps, the mine tunnel began to descend, the gravel gradually increased, the wooden strips almost disappeared, and the ground became wet. After another fifty steps, the mine tunnel was completely blocked.There is a pool of water below the blockage, not much, but enough for Shen Miao.

"This place used to produce a kind of precious stone, which was made into seals and was very popular among officials and lords. Many people came to pick it. You dug one, and I dug one. They refused to give in to each other. As a result, one day the mountain god was touched, and all the mines It's all collapsed, and those who didn't have time to escape died inside." The old man looked at Shen Miao who was drawing water and said slowly.

When Shen Miao heard this, she immediately looked around, people died here, can this water be used?

"Don't worry, the water is still clean." The old man said, "Since the mountain god got angry, the terraced fields on the mountain have collapsed, and the streams can no longer accumulate water. The grass is dead and cannot survive the autumn harvest. The grass and trees on the mountain are the same, because of lack of water, they are all dead. Only during the rainy days of the Qingming Festival, some grass will grow. There are only two ways to drink water in the village. , either catch the water when it rains, or come here to draw water. But the water here will dry up if it doesn’t rain for seven or eight days, and the people in the village can’t live on anymore, so they leave one after another.”

After hearing this, Shen Miao finally understood what was going on with all the strange things she had seen before.

This is caused by the cracks in the mountain caused by the collapse of the mine tunnel. After those coal mines permeate and collapse, such problems will also appear on the surface.Water falling on the mountain can no longer be stored, and it leaks into the mountain through the cracks in the soil, and the interior of the mountain will gradually be hollowed out, gradually forming an underground underground river, and the living environment of the vegetation on the mountain has been destroyed since then.

"So this Zhuangzi's rent will never be collected. No matter how many people Yang Xingfeng hacks to death, no matter how many Zhuangtou he sends, it will not help. Dong Chang handed over this Zhuangzi to him, and asking him to manage it is just because he can't get used to Yang Xingfeng's perverted behavior. The violent whereabouts are just to teach him a lesson and give him a difficult problem. It's a pity that Yang Xingfeng can't see it through, or he can see it through, but he dare not ask Dong Chang to reason, so he can only vent his anger on others." The old man sneered Said, looking down at Shen Miao, as if laughing at Shen Miao's stupidity.

Shen Miao paused for drawing water, and the old man's words explained the cause and effect of the matter clearly, objectively and clearly, straightforwardly and cruelly.Governing this Zhuangzi is a joke, a product of the struggle between two big men, a ants like him caught in the middle, doomed to die for no reason.

This was a huge blow to Shen Miao, who had just built up his confidence. He remained silent for a long time, and made a choice between accepting his fate and sinking to wait for death, or working hard to change his fate.In the end, he firmed up his previous idea and chose the latter.

He is not reconciled!It's hard to live another life, I don't want it to end so quickly!

Shen Miao took a deep breath, tightly grasped the basin's hand, lifted it vigorously, and smiled at the old man: "I can't change the fact, but I want to live, and I will work hard for it."

The old man was very surprised and surprised. He had seen countless Zhuangtou, and after knowing such a situation, he would cry in his arms and have nothing to love, but this person's reaction was completely different.This man who looks like a woman shouldn't have reacted like this. What's going on?The old man frowned and thought for a long time, not even noticing that Shen Miao had gone out with water.

Seeing that Shen Miao came out safely, the horse rubbed against Shen Miao very happily. Shen Miao patted the horse's head and took it back with the water basin in his arms.

The water boiled quickly, and Shen Miao dug out the knowledge of natural science that he hadn't used for a long time from the cracks in his brain, barely prepared the ratio of normal saline, and started to deal with the man.

The man's body was full of knife wounds, and he seemed to have been searched before he was thrown into the mass grave. His belt and shoes were gone, his upper body clothes were in strips, and his lower body pants were also crumbling. Except for a little cleaning after washing, the rest of the wounds are embedded with unknown soil brought from the mass graves, and many of them are knotted with the wounds. It is a huge and painful process to deal with.

Shen Miao dug out a low stool from the dining room of the main house, found a few chopsticks, cut them into thin slices, then sat down and began to deal with them.

In the first few days, Shen Miao was born with a new hand, and he struggled to deal with it, and often stretched the wound, so that even if the person was unconscious, he was so painful that he reacted slightly.After getting more proficient, the situation got better. Shen Miao also explored other methods. First, he used a cloth soaked in ordinary warm water to stick the wound, and after the scabs and dirt softened, he treated it with salt water.

Working so patiently and meticulously, when it was completely dark, Shen Miao finally finished all treatment, including the head wound.He breathed a sigh of relief, and stood up from the bench, but after sitting for too long, his legs were already numb, and he couldn't stand upright at all, and fell to the ground at once.There was a basin of water on the ground, the pain of being planted this time can be imagined, Shen Miao closed her eyes and waited for the pain to come.

Unexpectedly, the pain did not come, the old man suddenly appeared to support him, Shen Miao was very surprised.

The old man didn't explain, but just handed over a small cloth bag with a cold face: "Here are some brown rice, not much, cook porridge, enough for you for ten days."

Shen Miao was even more surprised. According to previous observations, the old man's life was very poor, and he mainly ate wild vegetables. Although these were brown rice, they should be his most precious food. Why did they give it to him?

The old man still didn't explain, just said: "If you don't want it, forget it."

Shen Miao quickly took it, appreciated the old man's kindness, and said gratefully, "Thank you."

The old man let go of Shen Miao, opened the door and went out.