[HP Tomb Raiders Notes] Zhaoming

They entered the village in a cart pulling goods.The roads in the countryside are rough and full of rocks of different sizes. After a few hours, you are exhausted and your head is dizzy.The men were okay, but Jiang Lin had never experienced this kind of transportation. Her face was pale, her mouth was tightly pursed, and her nose turned red.Zhang Qiling pulled the girl into his arms, and the other party didn't care about being shy, and simply buried her head on his shoulder.The hard time finally passed, and they got off at the entrance of the simple village. The village is not big, only a few dozen houses, all with mud brick walls, and occasionally a red brick house. Colorful prayer flags are hung in front of each house.Tashi led the people to a mud house. The door was strong red and painted on the top, which looked very much like the headscarves worn by Tibetans.After walking in, a mixture of milk fragrance, green tea and Tibetan incense came to the face, accompanied by a warm current, which shocked the spirits of the few people who had been blowing the cold wind for most of the day.Tashi greeted, and a tall and strong Tibetan woman opened the woven colorful curtain and came out. She muttered when she saw the room full of people, and after a while, she lowered the curtain and came out with a pot of thermos.

Everyone sat down and looked at the room. The chairs, wooden tables and TV cabinets were all bright red, and the walls and ceiling were painted with complicated patterns. There was a large-sized chairman portrait hanging in the middle, and a smaller photo of the living Buddha in front of it. Fresh fruits are enshrined on the table, a stick of incense is burning in a small incense burner, and there is a large pot of yellowed oil next to it, like ghee, a typical Tibetan dwelling.

The Tibetan woman poured a full cup of buttered tea for everyone, and set out two large plates of oil cakes and beef. Her dark and red face was full of wrinkles, and she smiled and gestured for the guests to enjoy.Several men picked up small wooden teacups and took a big sip. The slightly sweet milky fragrance entered their throats, driving away a lot of fatigue.Jiang Lin took a sip, feeling that it was similar to the milk tea he usually drank, and then whispered to Zhang Qiling next to him, "What kind of tea is this?"

"Sweet tea. Butter tea has ghee added to it. It is usually drunk in winter."

Everyone was eating pancakes and chewing beef. When everyone was resting, Lao Zhao asked Zhang Qiling to help the two communicate. The Tibetans who bought the goods collected some, and a pile of dried Cordyceps was placed on the table. The body of the worms no longer had the bright yellow color when they were fresh, and turned a little gray.The two negotiated the price and paid for the delivery on the spot.

When Lao Zhao and the others were carefully packing the caterpillar fungus, Zhang Qiling asked Tashi about the medicinal mud mask. Tashi frowned and thought about it, and then said something, and he couldn't help but become serious after hearing this.

"What's the matter?" Because of the language barrier, Jiang Lin had been paying attention to the conversation between the two, and he couldn't help asking when he saw the other party showing a rare serious expression.

Zhang Qiling thought for a while and said: "There are not many houses in this village that have medicinal clay masks, and those who are a little old are not in the village. There is a temple about [-] kilometers away from the village. This kind of mask may be enshrined in it, but you can't get out." I don’t know when I get out.”

"That's it. Let's try it. A Yuan's condition is not good recently, so I need to find a suitable medicinal mud mask." She was a little anxious, and her tone was a little more worried.

He nodded and talked with Tashi for a while.Just at this time, Lao Zhao and the others also finished packing the caterpillar fungus, and were about to charter a car back to the county. Seeing that the two of them had no intention of leaving, they said, "Brother Zhang, do you still want to stay here? Do you want to go with us tomorrow?"

"No, thank you. The next town is not far from here, we plan to go and have a look."

Hearing what he said, Old Zhao smiled and said, "Then you should pay attention to safety on the road. Although it is already summer, this is a plateau after all, and the weather can change at any time. Maybe it will snow when there is a gust of wind."

The two thanked Lao Zhao, and the other party couldn't help waving his hands and said that it was thanks to them that the deal was made.It was getting late, so they stayed at Tashi's house. Lao Zhao and the others were fine, and the three of them lived in one room.But Jiang Lin was really stunned when the enthusiastic Ram—the woman who poured sweet tea for them just now—pushed away the room prepared for them.

The room is relatively small, and the bed can barely sleep two people, with quilts and blankets on it.

Zhang Qiling simply said something in Tibetan to Lamu, which should be a word of thanks, but the other party smiled and closed the door, leaving Jiang Lin standing in front of the low window.

The air in the slightly cramped space became tense.

Jiang Lin put down his backpack, and there was a sound of zipper behind him.She turned around and found that her companion had already taken out a sleeping mat and spread it on the floor. He didn't even take off his coat, and then closed his eyes with his clothes on.

Zhang Qiling felt in a trance that the girl stared at him for a while, and then there was another rustling sound, and after a while, the girl's soft voice sounded.

"It's cold at night, put this blanket on it. I've used a warming charm, so it shouldn't be cold,"

He opened his eyes, and the other party was standing in front of the bed holding a blanket.He took it and thanked him in a low voice, and the girl turned sharply when he took the blanket.

All night without incident.

He woke up early the next morning. There was still no movement on the bed. He packed up the things on the floor, put the folded blanket beside the bed, and went out with a towel and a toothbrush.At the door, he met Lao Zhao and his party who were about to leave. The other party greeted him warmly and then left.

When Zhang Qiling returned to the room after washing, Jiang Lin was coughing softly, his voice becoming softer.He suddenly felt that something was wrong, put down the things in his hands and walked over to check the other party's condition. Jiang Lin's face was flushed abnormally, and his forehead was covered with sweat marks.He probed his hand to test the temperature on his forehead, and it felt a little hot, which was by no means a normal body temperature.

It seems that the wind was blowing while riding in the car yesterday, and I caught a cold, and I didn't eat anything at night, so it's no wonder I can't get up now.

Just as he was about to withdraw his hand, he was suddenly pulled by a soft force. Jiang Lin dragged his right hand over his face, and then rubbed it comfortably like a cat.It is estimated that the temperature on the hand is relatively cold, and the girl used it as an ice pack.

He gently withdrew his hand, soaked a small piece of compressed biscuit in boiling water and fed it to the girl. After about half an hour, he took out the antipyretic medicine from the bag and let the girl take it with water.Jiang Lin moved restlessly, dreaming of something, his brows furrowed even tighter, his sweaty hair sticking to both sides of his cheeks, showing unprecedented fragility.

She rarely showed such a fragile look, even when she fainted and was covered in blood by the woods that time, she was not as pale and weak as she is now.

Zhang Qiling put down his cup, went out and got a basin of warm water to wipe his petite face carefully.

It looks like I have to stay here for a few days.

It was dark all around.She didn't know why she was standing here, nor how long she had been standing here.There was a little bright light in front of her, and she walked over, her steps were heavy, so she had a hard time walking, but fortunately, it didn't take long before she saw a thin figure sitting there with long hair, and a The clip is in the shape of a rose.

It appears to be a girl.

She felt that the other party had an inexplicable sense of familiarity, so she asked softly, "Who are you? Why are you here?"

The girl with the hairpin ignored her, and seemed to be concentrating on drawing something on the ground.

She boldly approached, only to find that the other party was holding a wand in his hand and was slowly waving it in front of him, as if he was tracing a magic circle, and he was also chanting words, but the voice was so small that he couldn't hear it clearly.She was a little anxious, so she continued.

"Hello, my name is Jiang Lin. Who are you? What is this place?"

The girl still turned a deaf ear to her, she continued to sing, her voice became clearer and clearer, and the trajectory of the wand in her hand was gradually revealed. The silvery white silk thread formed complex and profound patterns on the ground, and they overlapped and overlapped, finally forming a huge circle, countless Complicated runes and patterns were embellished in it, and some even spread to Jiang Lin's feet.

Jiang Lin couldn't help but knelt down to touch those threads. The silk threads wrapped around her wrist like life, and a cold breath penetrated into her skin, and she couldn't help shivering.No wonder these patterns are familiar, this is clearly the weird magic circle seen in that closed stone room before.

What about that strange man?

She looked around hastily, at this time the magic circle emitted more dazzling light, almost illuminating the entire space.Jiang Lin saw clearly where he was.

She is in that stone chamber.

The colorful prayer flags moved without wind, and a lot of blood oozes from the magic circle, which almost buried her heels, while the girl on the opposite side held a sharp dagger in her hand, and slammed into a man's neck, and the man twisted in pain. Moved, the gushing blood flowed into the magic circle below him.

"No!" Jiang Lin yelled anxiously, trying to run over to stop the other party, but his feet could not move the slightest as if they were stuck.

The girl dragged another man wearing a wizard robe, raised the dagger high, and swung it down neatly, without any hesitation or hesitation.

"Stop!" Jiang Lin felt the knife stabbing her heart, and the temperature of her blood gradually dropped as time went by, and a sharp pain spread from her heart to all her limbs, like the despair of being wiped out by a flood ,

She suddenly found that the girl had raised her head, and a pair of familiar eyes were staring at her.

Has the same face as hers.

Jiang Lin woke up from the nightmare. Her whole body was sore and weak, and she was sweating from fear. Her clothes were sticky to her skin, which made her feel extremely uncomfortable.There was no one else in the room, she turned her head and saw Zhang Qiling's backpack by the wall, she was relieved immediately.

Her throat was so dry that it was almost smoldering. She caught a glimpse of her thermos cup on the low cabinet by the bed, and struggled to get up, but she couldn't use any strength in her hands. She couldn't reach the cup, and instead shook the thermos cup. shake.

do not!

The exclamation in my heart was not over yet, the cup fell to the ground as expected, and made a loud "boom" when it hit the ground.So it sounds like there is a lot of water in it.

After a while, the red lacquered wooden door creaked open, and Zhang Qiling saw her leaning on the edge of the bed, trying to pick up something on the floor, her small body was almost hanging on the bottom of the bed, and the quilt was pulled to the ground.He walked over to pick up the cup, fished the koala-like girl back by the way, and after setting her up, he unscrewed the lid and handed it to her.

Jiang Lin drank water in small sips, his ears were already red.

It's like this every time, when he sees him in the most embarrassing moment.It was nothing before, but now the mood is very different, so it is more embarrassing and embarrassing.

"Better?" Zhang Qiling asked after watching her swallow another dose of medicine.

She nodded, and agreed grumblingly: "Well, I don't feel dizzy anymore, and I can start after taking a rest."

"Yeah. You just stay here. I've made an agreement with Tashi. I'll take care of A Yuan's affairs."

"How can that be done?! I have to go with you. Medicinal mud masks are rarely used to treat people. If you are alone, they probably won't believe it. Please let me go with you."

"Besides, A Yuan is also my friend, and I want to do something for him."

Jiang Lin lowered his head and said, clenched the thermos cup in his hand. The body of the cup was extremely hard, like the ice and snow that never melted on the snowy plateau.

"I know, I have always been the one who dragged you down, and it was also in Chencang before. If it weren't for you, maybe no one would know that I died in the woods. However, this is the last time I will trouble you."

The room was silent.

She tugged at the corner of the quilt uneasily, feeling like a brazen kid, and she did not hesitate to speculate that the other party thought the same way as much as possible.

Time became difficult to endure, and finally, Zhang Qiling said: "Can you hold on?"

She nodded quickly: "Yes. I forgot to tell you, but I actually brought some refreshments - after drinking it, my energy will be much better. I promise that this situation will not happen again." She stretched out a palm to lean on In the ear, looking up into the other's eyes assured.

"Hmm. Are you hungry? I'll go get something to eat."

"Okay, anything is fine, just don't ask for pancakes." When it came to food, the girl finally seemed to regain her spirits and made additional requests.

It seems to be recovering really well.

Zhang Qiling turned around and closed the door.

An ordinary narrow alley, a tall man wearing sunglasses came in from the bustling street, carrying a bag of cooked food, he whistled and stopped in front of a painted iron gate, and then walked in from the black leather jacket He took out a rusty key.After closing the door, he pressed the switch familiarly, and it was so bright that some dazzling lights came on. The house was not big, with two bedrooms, one was used as a bedroom, and the other was used as a utility room, which was bought on a whim. all sorts of oddities.After walking into the living room, he put the bag on the table, and then took out a file bag from the back. The paper bag was crumpled, there was no writing on it, and it was clean.He opened the rope wrapped around the top and took out a few thin sheets of A4 paper, and read it by the light.The more he looked at the back, the more dignified his face became, and when he reached the last page, he pursed his lips tightly.After a while, the man put the A4 paper aside, opened the bag and began to eat leisurely.

The last page of paper on the table was turned to the top, and there were a few words written next to the inch photo of a young girl. It was a familiar address, and there was a line of red letters beside it——

The information is unknown, and there is no such person.

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It's the season to eat red bayberry again. One day, I will make a can of red bayberry sauce and eat it with steamed buns.