lanterns illuminate rivers and mountains

All beginnings are hard.Ye Zhen had experienced countless strange things during his six months in Miao Village, but the most difficult and unexpected thing was the first one after he became a teacher.

——He was locked in an ice cave in the back mountain of Miao Village, without food or drink for three full days.

Bao Weng didn't lead him to that ice cave. As an elder of the Miao Village, Bao Weng has so many important things to do all day long, so how could he do everything by himself?That's what Ye Zhen did, and when he was ignorant of his future life, he was taken away by the two Miao sisters who took his clothes off.

They walked for three or four hours in the back mountain, from the sun rising in the east until the fog was thick, and finally reached a dark depth in the dense forest of the back mountain.You can hardly see your fingers here, Ye Zhen squinted hard to see what is inside the cave, he just felt the cold air wafting out of it, the weather in late spring and early summer was bitingly cold.

Miao Nu pursed her lips and smiled, pushed Ye Zhen and pointed to the entrance of the cave.

Ye Zhen didn't know why, so he walked a few steps inside, then turned around and asked, "What's inside?"

Miao Nu smiled and made a gesture of three, then waved for him to continue walking in.

Ye Zhen thought that the two of them would go in with him, so there were three of them in total, so he turned around and walked in boldly.Who knew that before walking a few steps, all of a sudden, she heard Miao Nu's coquettish smile like a silver bell, followed by a cracking mechanism, and a stone gate weighing more than a thousand catties was slowly hanging down from the top of the cave!

Ye Zhen turned around and rushed back like crazy, hitting the cold rock with a bang!

"Come on! Come on! Let me out! Let me out!!"

His screams echoed in the cave for a long time, but no matter how much he slapped and knocked on the door, the rock remained motionless, and he couldn't even hear the sound from outside the cave.

"Fuck! Fuck! What's going on, come here!!" Ye Zhen kicked Shimen so hard that he almost jumped up in pain.

What exactly is going on?What are they trying to do, are they trying to lock me up here?

Ye Zhen panted heavily and sat on the ground. After he calmed down, he felt that the cave was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers at all.Moreover, this place is isolated from the human world, and there is no sound at all. Because of the excessive silence, the ears are filled with strange micro-sounds—this is the illusion caused by the blood hitting the eardrums.

Ye Zhen raised his head in fear, and tried his best to open his eyes wide to see a little light, but as far as he could see, it was completely bottomless darkness, as if he had sunk deeply into the ground.

He finally stood up, leaning on the wall and slowly walking in, while touching the cold rock, trying to find a gap to get out.

However, after searching for an unknown amount of time, he could no longer walk, and there was no sign of light in the cave, let alone a gap to get out.Ye Zhen didn't know how far he had gone. He only felt the bone-chilling cold. At first, his teeth were still chattering, but later he didn't even feel the chattering anymore. He just felt that his limbs were not his own, and his bone marrow and blood were frozen. With one step, there was a creaking sound.

No, I will freeze to death if this continues!

Ye Zhen fumbled to sit on the ground, crossed his legs with great effort, folded his arms and curled himself up as hard as he could.

But when he didn't move, the cold became more clear and piercing, and even the cracks in the bones seemed to be blowing with wind.He wanted to exhale into his palm, but even the air he exhaled was not warm at all, it was wet with ice scum.

Ye Zhen's whole body trembled, and he called out in a low voice and vaguely for a while: "Mom..."

He bowed his head deeply, and half-curled his body, like a small ice sculpture, frozen for a long time.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the cave fell into silence, as if even the last bit of life had disappeared.

I don't know how long it took, Ye Zhen suddenly moved his fingers, struggling as if in convulsions, and slowly raised his head from his chest.

If there was light, one could see that his complexion was no longer that of a living person, his cheeks were black and blue, his lips were purple, and there was a faint layer of frost on his eyebrows, he looked like a walking dead.

But his hands were still able to move. Although he had to exert all his body's strength for every movement, the hands were still trembling and lifted up, slowly placed on his knees, and deeply pinched the hiccup point of the middle finger.

"The heart doesn't go out, the intention is to return to the center, the qi walks along the spine, and walks to the jade pillow..."

The sobs in the young man's throat were hoarse and muddy, and it was difficult to hear clearly.

"Go up the Chongmai, go down to the Crimson Palace, life and death are divided, the root of the eight meridians..."

Qi moves through the Niwan, condenses the purple mansion; mind guards the axils of the abyss, and the mind leaves the occipital bone.

The true energy moves back and forth nine times, and then circulates in the meridians of the whole body, gradually forming a small circle.Ye Zhen's body gradually became hot, all the openings and openings of his body were opened and closed, and the cold air no longer poured into his body viciously.

He sat cross-legged without moving, with his back straight and his eyes closed tightly. Whenever his heartbeat weakened and he couldn't breathe, he would tightly pinch his palms with his nails and hiccup.

There was silence in the ink-like darkness, only Ye Zhen's short and even breaths were heard, and there was nothing else.

"Is it the third day?"

It was already dusk when Baoweng asked this question, and the Miao girl who was waiting on the side immediately bowed her body and smiled, "It's the third day, and I should go to pick up the child tonight."

Bao Weng said: "Don't worry. Gu Tong said that the child is born to be connected with the supervisor, and the true energy flows faster, so he will definitely be able to last for half a day longer than ordinary people. I'll pick him up tomorrow morning."

Miao Nu hesitated and said, "What if something happens?"

With a sullen face, Bao Weng snorted coldly and asked, "What could happen?!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't listen to others' persuasion, flicked his sleeves and left.

In fact, he said that at the time just because he hated Long Jiwei for being a shopkeeper and turned his anger on Ye Zhen.On the other hand, he also believes that Ye Zhen's bones are really excellent. For ordinary martial arts practitioners, the elderly are not as vigorous as him, and the young are not as vigorous as him. Therefore, theoretically speaking, he should indeed be stronger than most people. Can hold.

But Bao Weng didn't expect that such a one-night delay would almost kill Ye Zhen.

Because that night, Ye Zhen's inner breath went astray.

It's not Ye Zhen's fault, even if he can hold on, he's still only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old kid.It’s not unheard of to retreat for three days before, but it’s never happened in a world of ice and snow without eating or drinking for three days.

By the afternoon of the third day, he couldn't hold on any longer, and could barely hold his last breath.That night, the temperature dropped sharply, and the dark wind in the deep mountains and old forests was strong again. In the middle of the night, the cloudy energy entered his body. Ye Zhen finally couldn't hold on, and the breath surged from the life and death orifice to the Niwan, which made him vomit instantly.

This breath stimulated the meridians and stomach gallbladder. If he hadn't eaten for three days, he could even vomit out the acid water in his stomach.When he vomited, he couldn't hold his energy anymore, and all the inner breath he had been holding on for the past few days was released. He tried his best to stand up against the wall, but as soon as he got up, his eyes turned black, his ears buzzed, and his whole body The person suddenly fell limp to the ground.

He didn't even realize that he had passed out. At the last moment, he only felt a huge gust of wind blowing on his face, and the smell had a fresh earthy smell, as if it was blown from outside the cave.

He only vaguely saw a few people running towards him, but he couldn't see what happened, and when he closed his eyes, he didn't know anything.

Ye Zhen woke up in the early morning of the next day.

He thought he was asleep for a long time, but it was only a few hours.

The sky in the mountains is gray and blue, the moon has just gone down, and there is no sound in the valley.He struggled to get up, only to see a bonfire beside him, and a man was sitting next to him on the ground.

"You are..." Ye Zhen opened his eyes wide, and his mind was muddled before he realized that it was Kurosawagawa.

Kuisawa gently pushed him to the ground, and said condescendingly, "Don't move around."

As he spoke, he pressed his hands on Ye Zhen's chest and rubbed his skin repeatedly from top to bottom.Kurosawa's strength was great, and his palms had many calluses, and soon he rubbed Ye Zhen's skin red and hot, and the severe pain caused by the cold also eased a lot.

Ye Zhen struggled a few times to think about it, but was pushed down by Kurosawa lightly, and after a while he asked humiliatingly, "Why are you here?"

"This cave is called the Ice Bed."

"what?"

"This kind of extremely cold cave is artificially dug, and it is very rare to be formed naturally. In the past, people who practiced martial arts found this kind of cave, and they retreated in it to meditate, and used the cold to force their inner breath to circulate, and they often made great progress. territory."

Ye Zhen closed his eyes and tried his inner breath, and found that he was much more relaxed and flexible, as if his body became more flexible and tough after undergoing severe abuse.

"I've been in this kind of place in my early years." Hazel paused, didn't mention much about himself, and only said: "Stay in this kind of place for up to three days, because I didn't eat, and my body will reach its limit after three days." You are still a child, no matter what, you won’t be able to survive tonight. I will watch outside until midnight, and if no one takes you out, I will know that something is wrong.”

His hand has already moved to the root of Ye Zhen's thigh. This action is actually very intimate. Ye Zhen moved uneasy, but was immediately pushed down by Kurosawa.

In order to relieve the embarrassment, Ye Zhen had no choice but to pretend that he didn't feel it, and asked, "Then how did you get in?"

Kuisawa didn't even raise his head: "There are organs outside the cave."

His massage technique is quite unique, after a while Ye Zhen's skin all over his body became hot, and he felt hungry.Kurosawa took out a bottle of something like oral liquid from his bag, opened Ye Zhen's mouth and poured it in.

Ye Zhen didn't have the strength to resist at all, and asked feebly, "What is this?"

"High-energy nutrient, you have been hungry for too long, so you can't eat for a while."

It was almost dawn at this time, Kurosawa looked around, stood up and looked at Ye Zhen condescendingly: "This is the territory of the Miao people, I have to leave before they find out. We can only bid farewell for now...Of course I will come back to see you."

Ye Zhen hummed and asked: "Do you think I will think you are a good person? In my heart, you will always be a Chuan Chuan, Chuan Chuan~"

"I know." Kurosawa smiled, the smile was so slight that it passed through his eyes in an instant.

Without saying anything more, he tucked the blanket under Ye Zhen's delicate and soft neck, turned around and strode into the dark woods before dawn.