Water lanterns and dreams in 1 nights

What difference does it make to go home?How naive the past days are now, and now it is far behind. "

He made the atmosphere extremely heavy. I tried to comfort him with a few words, which were all Da Guangming's clichés, because I wanted to say goodbye the next morning, and he would go back to his hometown to settle down. Never mind.

He saw that I was absent-minded, so he didn't say anything more. It was dark like ink, and we said good night to each other and went to sleep.The next day, I woke up early, washed up by the river, packed my bags, and said goodbye to Xiao Wu symbolically, but I couldn't wake him up.He was leaning against a tree to sleep, I approached him and gently pushed him, and he slipped weakly and collapsed on the ground.He was wearing a blue gown, so I immediately saw a stained water stain on his abdomen. I untied his coat and found that it was not a water stain, but blood oozing from a severe wound on his stomach. Touching his forehead again, it was getting hot.

It seems that the "minor injury" he said is pure nonsense.

I brought water to boil to treat his wound, fed some water, left the fire for him to keep warm, and put a change of clothes on him before leaving.This area is actually not far from where people live, so there should be no beasts.That's all I can do.

Then I put the bag back on my back and walked out of the forest in the direction of the river.

67. Twins 05

I didn't stay to take care of him, and it was obvious that I didn't want to get involved.Last time, he still had the energy to chase despite his injury, after all, the wound was not serious, but this time his abdominal injury almost pierced him right through.If he had sense, he shouldn't have come.

But two or three days later, he caught up again.

I knocked on the door of a farmhouse, expressed my desire to stay overnight, and gave an appropriate amount of compensation.They had already had dinner at that time, and they built a stove for me alone, steamed sweet potatoes, stir-fried fresh vegetables, and pumpkin porridge, trying to make them as simple and rich as possible.They asked me to sit at the dining table in the main room and eat while the hostess went to call the goose-herding children home, while the host sat by the door frame and cut bamboo strips to weave bamboo cages for chickens.He didn't talk much, he asked me a few words about my identity and occupation, and then he concentrated on doing his own thing.

I haven't eaten this kind of home-cooked meal for a while, and I ate it with relish for a while.Not long after, the hostess drove a flock of white geese home, and my young son ran into the yard bouncing around. Just as I was about to say hello to her, she first said with a smile on my face that my lost brother was here.Looking back, who else could there be besides Xiao Wu.

His complexion was not only bad, it was so bad that it was frightening, and he had no blood at all.

I put down my chopsticks and asked him, "You really don't want to live anymore?"

"When I think about going home, I'm alone. I don't feel like going home, so I might as well be your company." He replied kindly.

I put him aside, picked up a large chopstick dish, and ate comfortably.He actually waited honestly, as if he would not sit down or speak unless I spoke.

The host started weaving baskets after finishing the bamboo strips, and asked about our relationship in words. I said my brother was disobedient and asked him to take care of the house, but he wanted to follow.The host asked him if he had eaten, and Xiao Wu gave me a pitiful look, but made no sound.Although I am tired of his asserting without authorization, I am also afraid that if he does not rest, he may die here.His injury was so serious.

Worth mentioning.The right is humanistic care, I can only ask the hostess to cook.

In the evening, the host’s house specially cleaned up a room for us to live in. There was only one bed in the room. Because it was rarely used by people on weekdays, a lot of sundries were piled up. After removing them, there was still an indelible smell of dust and smoke in the room.I opened the doors and windows for ventilation, boiled a pot of hot water, and borrowed a basin and clean cloth from the host. When I returned to the room, Xiao Wu was lying on his side without much heaving in his chest.

I checked his breath, touched his wrist, his pulse was weak but steady, much better than he looked on the outside.I undressed him and healed his wounds according to the old method. He didn't wake up during the process, and I didn't think it was necessary to wake him up. overnight.

I took good care of him, but he still developed a high fever the next day. I couldn't just walk away in someone else's house, I had to admit that I was unlucky.He abused his body too much, and my wound medicine didn't work, so I had to find a doctor.According to him, the high fever is caused by a wound infection, so he needs to pay more attention to the hygiene of his body. In this way, I have to give him the task of wiping his body.

After all, when we are temporarily staying in someone else's house, the host thinks that we are real brothers, so naturally we can't be reluctant to take care of our younger brother.

While Xiao Wu had a fever, his mind was still clear, and he was extremely resistant to rubbing himself.It's just for his little life, this matter has to be done.

I took off the clothes on his upper body first, wrapped the quilt after wiping, and then went to the lower body, so I found that the injury on his body was far more than just the abdomen.On the back, lower back, legs and many other parts that are usually not seen, there are dense marks of whiplash, scald and even the marks of being scalded by a branding iron. Although they are old, they are shocking enough.There are also new additions, which cannot be counted in detail.I asked him if it was the trace left by the enemy.

"Some are him, some are his apprentices, and some are his daughters...I can't remember." Except for the embarrassment of being undressed at the beginning, he looked at me calmly, When I wiped it for him, he raised his arm to carefully consider the veins and veins on it, as if he was very unfamiliar with his own body, "I'm sorry, but I have to trouble you to take care of me."

"It wasn't long before we separated."

"Alas. Things change."

When the towel was cool, I put it in hot water and wrung it dry, took it out steaming, and continued to wipe down to the bend of my leg and calf.His calf is thin but strong, not simply slender, but has beautiful but not exaggerated lines. I have to sigh, there are really two people who are so similar in the world.

"Aren't you Little Five?"

"Otherwise who else would I be?"

A question and an answer, without any panic.

"I don't know if you have these injuries before, but at least you know a little." I gently wiped the towel over his emaciated ankle, and touched it with my fingers to signal, "There should be a knife mark here. I Cut it with your own hands to bleed it, but you didn’t.”

"who are you?"

"Xiao Wu is my name." He smiled, "Although I haven't heard it for a long time. Five is not a number, but Wu of martial arts. My name is Yan Wu. The one you know may be my younger brother Xiuwen."

"He mentioned that he had a brother and said he was dead." I put the towel back in the basin and set it aside, and covered him with a quilt.

"It's no wonder. I haven't heard from me since I was kidnapped by the thief. I should be damned, but he kept me by his side to humiliate me, and gave me a chance to take revenge." He tried to use the original cloth to bandage the wound, and I stopped him. He found a new piece of cloth that he had brought in advance and gave it to him.He sat up with difficulty and wrapped the cloth around his stomach.

"I didn't know he used your name. I thought Xiao Wu was him. After all, you look so alike."

"Did he call him 'Little Five'?"

"I recognized him as you, and he didn't refute, so I thought his name was this."

Wu Yan asked me unexpectedly, "Have we met?"

"Several years ago, you gave me a piece of cake in front of our house. At that time, you wanted the second volume of 'Yanyuntai'. Later, I passed by and gave it to you as a gift."

He still has no memory.Later, I said, probably the one I gave the book was also Xiuwen.

"Haven't you seen the second book?"

"No." Yan Wu said with a good temper: "Although we have the same mother, Xiuwen and I don't have a very good relationship. He doesn't tell me everything."

Seeing that he could heal the wound by himself, I took the basin out of the house and poured out the dirty water, washed my hands by the way, sat on the bed with cold fingers and told him that I would leave a sum of money to the farmer so that he could stay for a while.

He insisted on following me.

I calmly persuaded: "I am very happy for you that you have avenged your vengeance. From now on, you will be free again. The road is wide. Which direction can you go?"

"You are alone outside and you don't know martial arts. It is inevitable that you will not encounter some troubles. Wouldn't it be more convenient to have me by your side in such a situation?"

I looked at his and Xiaowu's, or Xiuwen's, faces that were exactly the same, and sighed that he was indeed a twin brother, and his moves were exactly the same.

"When I'm by myself, I can go days without talking, and it's not much fun."

"What a coincidence! I'm not a person who talks too much, and I'm even less talkative than Xiuwen. If you can bear him, you won't find me troublesome."

"I have no money, I don't cook well, and I sleep in the open, all of which are very bad for the injury."

"After I recovered from my injury, I was able to do things very well."

"I have a bad temper and curse at people at every turn. I'm really not a kind travel companion."

He smiled and said, "For pigs and dogs, for maggots and low animals, I have survived."

No matter what he said, he had something to say, he was well-bred and polite, and he really didn't understand why he wanted to follow a stranger like me.After all, our intersection was only once when he was a teenager.Finally reached a settlement, he agreed to go his own way, go home to visit, I continue to go alone, but he wants to know where I am going.

My destination is always different, and I can go wherever I want. It is true that there are many obstacles along the way. Settling down is the best for my health, but the attraction of a stable life is limited to me.I really want to see the snow this winter. Even if it is very cold, I plan to go all the way north. I will go to the northernmost part of the border and live there for a few days. I am not sure about the specific things.Knowing that Beijing is vast, even if I told him the general direction, he would not be able to find me, so I told him this bit of information.

Yanwu pondered for a moment, then discussed with me: "This time, I will go home to take care of the trivial matters first, and then I will go to the north to handle errands. It's fine if we don't see each other; if we meet again, it's fate between you and me. Let's have a drink together." how?"

He talks about this, I