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Title: Chao Gang's Weakness

Summary: "Don't eat horses." Wei Yan said while tearing the meat, "Master eats snakes. I caught them."

On the road, the horse speeded up and took all the shortcuts, only resting for three hours at night.It is needless to mention Shen Lian and Wei Yan's martial arts training. Even though Liang Zeren was a Jinshi, he was skilled in all six arts, and he was able to drive horses.Only Shen Sheng and I suffered.

Seven days later, the inner side of my leg was ground to a bloody mess. I bought some medicine for sores temporarily, and I limped when I got off my horse and entered the inn.In the evening, when Wei Yan and the bodyguards went to drink horses, Shen Sheng yelled in the courtyard of the inn: "I can't take it anymore, I can't take it anymore, walk slowly."

The four of us went back to the room first, Liang Zeren sighed when he went upstairs: "Oh, how did you raise you like this..." Shen Lian turned to look at him, and said peacefully: "Shen Sheng, why don't you hire a car and walk slowly?"

Shen Sheng immediately shut up.I said at the end: "I bought a wound medicine, and I will go to your room to apply it to you later." Shen Sheng said: "Doctor Li, you must come."

In the evening, I went to his room according to the appointment and applied gold sore medicine to the heels of his legs, and he was sweating profusely from the pain. "You are so afraid of pain." Shen Lian came over and leaned against the door of his room and said with a smile.Shen Sheng ignored him, and halfway through the application he cried out in pain and struggled.I didn't hold him down, and the embroidered pouch on his body fell to the ground, and a jade tablet fell out, with a small Yang engraved word "Yao" on it.He quickly picked it up and put it in his pocket.After I finished applying it for him, I went back to my room to apply it for myself.

Because I don't want my obsession with broken sleeves to cause more trouble, these days Wei Yan and I live separately under the name of master and servant, but he is next door to me.The dressing itself is simple for me, just the pain in the side of the leg.As soon as I put it on with one hand, he landed in front of me, stretched out his hand to hold my left hand and said, "Master, it doesn't hurt." I squeezed his rough and callused palm, and while applying the medicine to myself with my right hand, I laughed at him reluctantly : "In terms of enduring pain, I am far inferior to you." After the session, he went back to rest by himself.

After riding for a while on the second day, Jinchuang Medicine was soaked by blood again.I gritted my teeth, pretending that my legs didn't belong to me.After more than ten days, a callus was formed on the inner side, and the pain was no longer there.

The horse I rode was nice and kind to me all this time, rubbing my head every now and then when I dismounted.It followed me when I forgot the rope.Therefore, in addition to the roughage for the rest of the horses, whenever farmers sell soybeans, peas, and fresh carrots in June and July, I always buy them with the scattered copper coins I carry to feed them.When we arrived in Ezhuzhou in August, the weather became hot because it was south and it was midsummer.I thought that August was the time for pear production, so I secretly bought a few pears on the way to feed the snowflake silver-maned horse to quench its thirst.

In the northernmost part of Ezhu, there is a small and prosperous town, but the richness also reveals dilapidation.We came down to eat, and stocked fodder and dry food on our horses.During the period, she was entangled by begging women, children and children, and it took a while to escape.When the horses passed by wealthy households, the sound of singing, dancing, and bamboo hadn't stopped, and the big dog guarding the house at the door was fed fat.There was a thin child who rushed to snatch food from the big dog, and was chased and bitten by the dog in front of me.

Liang Zeren sighed beside me: "The government is weak, and disasters continue for years."

I couldn't stand it anymore, and called: "Wei Yan", Wei Yan went over and kicked the big dog away, and the child smiled happily while holding the meat.I want to unburden my bag, Shen Lian pressed my hand: "You are always kind to the healers, but saving him for a while will not save him forever." He murmured, "I know I should save these people from the fire."

Then continue south.

Going south for another month, it is obvious that it has penetrated into the south of Ezhu, but it has become more and more desolate.We eat dry food every day.In the wilderness, I occasionally met a peasant woman passing by with a basket filled with dark brown pancakes.Liang Zeren said: "Buy pancakes." The peasant woman was stunned, Liang Zeren got off the horse and took out twenty coins and stuffed them into her hands, and took ten distributions for himself.The peasant woman walked away silently, Shen Lian sniffed it, and the rest of the people hurriedly stuffed it into their mouths.

As soon as I had a strong earthy smell, I coughed and vomited it all out, and then everyone vomited.Wei Yan came over to pat me on the back, Liang Zeren frowned and asked: "What is this?" Shen Lian turned sideways and replied: "It should be Guanyin soil, it's also the first time I've seen it."

I looked around, and my mouth was sour and bitter, which almost overwhelmed the smell of earth.The world is gray and brown, and the scattered trees have no skin and green leaves, leaving only bare trunks.

Shen Lian rode forward and said: "I'll go ahead and have a look." We got off the horse to have a rest, and he ran back and said: "There are hungry people with different death patterns everywhere."

Ten of us marched forward in a team. The horses of Shen Lian, me, and Shen Sheng moved faster, and the remaining seven fell behind.Going forward, there are indeed many dead people, and there are several wild wolves eating the corpses in the distance.Most of the deceased had skinny limbs, blue meridians floating on the superficial layer of the skin, and bulging stomachs.When I took a urinate again, the white clay was exposed after my toes rubbed off the gray-brown ground.I squatted down and dug up some, rubbed my hands and patted it off. Recalling the medical principles, I rode my horse to the rear and warned the seven people: "These hungry people ate Guanyin clay pancakes to satisfy their hunger, but they couldn't get rid of it after eating too much. They He died of inflation, not starvation." Liang Zeren sighed.

When returning to the front, Shen Lian was talking with Shen Sheng.Shen Sheng's face turned pale: "I thought it would be very sad for those who served me when I grew up to be sent away. I never thought that such tragic things would happen in the world." Shen Lian asked: "When you grow up, your family has Someone else will take care of you?" Shen Sheng frowned and shook his head: "I have been away from home since I was a child, and I have never seen my family. Only Mr. Liang, who I met when I was a child, came to take me away again this time. The place where I grew up is very deserted." Shen Lian asked sympathetically: "Even if the journey is difficult and dangerous, the journey will be worth it when you bring the documents and return home smoothly." Shen Sheng said: "But my identity documents are with Mr. Liang, and he hasn't given them to me yet. Shen Lian smiled and said, "He should have given it to you when he arrived in Lizhou. Don't worry." As he spoke, he threw the water bag to Shen Sheng, and Shen Sheng took a big gulp.

At dusk, villages appeared on the gray-brown surface, mixed with two wisps of cooking smoke far apart.I cheered up, got off the horse first, and led Snowflake and Silvermane in. Unexpectedly, naked corpses were piled up at the door of every house.When I passed the stove window of the house in the village where the smoke was blowing, a dull farmer was cooking rice bran.I stood there motionless.After a while, Liang Zeren and Wei Yan arrived.Liang Zeren said: "This household has rice bran, which is better than other households."

I finally shook my head: "The others died of starvation. This family always eats rice bran, and they will suffer from edema and die of illness." The knee was lifted suddenly, Wei Yan hugged me and said, "Master, let's go." Shen Lian took my hand horse.Wei Yan didn't let me go until he got out of the village.At the entrance of the village is another household with cooking smoke, and the peasant woman at the entrance is grinding small stones into powder to make batter.At this time, Shen Lian finished rummaging through the fodder carried by the escort on the horse's back, and said: "I'm afraid the forage I brought before is not enough for ten horses to go out of Ezhu." Some snowflakes and silver manes agreed: "Yeah."

In the evening, after traveling for more than sixty miles, there are graves of thousands of people, and I dare not look closely.Going forward, a young girl crawled out from the arms of the fallen young man in elegant clothes, and was parked beside my horse, begging for food with her head raised.I unpacked my luggage, pressed my hand next to Shen Sheng, and said anxiously, "Are you crazy? I don't know how long it will take to buy food."

I tried my best to break free: "I'll untie my burden, what's your business?"

I took a dry steamed bun, got off the horse and gave it to the little girl.The young girl gnawed a few times with her soft gums and crawled back to the young man, waking him up.The young man opened his eyes, took the dry steamed buns, chewed them up and fed them to her.Wei Yan got off his horse and handed him dry steamed buns from his bag, and Shen Lian opened the water bag to feed him.Master Liang Zeren turned around and asked the bodyguard: "Can you rest here tonight?"

The leader of the bodyguards turned around and said, "Camp camp." They said they were camping, but in fact they just cleared an open space.

After the young man finished eating, he said after a long time: "Thank you very much." Liang Zeren asked him: "Is this girl your child?" The young man shook his head and said, "Eldest brother loves my daughter."

I am in awe.Shen Lian took out another steamed bun and handed it to him: "You don't look like a farmer in your clothes, why are you here?"

He slowly gnawed and said: "I am a scholar who did not pass the exam in Wangzhou. My eldest brother in the south of Wangzhou died of an illness. I want to entrust my niece to my sister in Yutan City and join Tianyi Sect myself. I didn't expect Ezhu to have The hungry people risked their lives to take a shortcut and arrived outside Yutan City. Yutan City refused to use the stored food for relief, and locked the city and confronted the hungry people for more than a month. I couldn’t enter Yutan City, so I had to take my niece and continue to go north to my parents. I didn’t bring enough dry food , and fell on the side of the road.”

Blowing on the fire, Shen Lian broke some branches and asked, "Is there a shortcut to Yutan City?"

The young man said: "There is a gorge on a tributary of the Huangshui River, but underneath is the wolf valley full of miasma. It is difficult to get out alive if you fall down. When you go out of the gorge, you will be across the river from Yutan City. If it weren't for the disaster in the south of Ezhu Prefecture, it would be the same. Seriously, the hungry people are eager to survive, and the canyon road is usually not used by anyone.”

Shen Lian said: "Draw a map." The young man sighed, took out a piece of wood from the fire and blew it out, smoothed the ground, and drew it with charcoal.After reading it, Shen Lian said, "I remember it." Then he wiped the map away.In the morning of the second day, after we distributed them to the young man, he parted ways with us with the girl in his arms.

In the afternoon, Mr. Liang came to me three times, hesitating to speak.

When he came for the fourth time, I said lightly: "We shared dry rations, so we might not survive the canyon. The horses didn't have enough fodder. It's important for people to live. The snowflakes and silver manes are the smallest, and there are few things on the load. They are slaughtered and eaten." Let's go." It's just that I haven't even found the pears in season to feed it.

In the evening, the smell of horse meat was so strong that everyone ate happily after not eating meat for a long time.I reluctantly took a bite and said, "I'm going to urinate." Then I ran away and spit out the horse meat under a dead tree trunk.

I didn't go back for a while, only the dark red and sad sunset on the horizon accompanied me in a trance.But one person landed next to me, stuffing chicken neck-like barbecue meat into my hand. "Master doesn't eat horses." Wei Yan tore the meat and handed it to my mouth, "Eat snakes. I caught it." I was a little afraid of snake meat, so I closed my eyes and swallowed it reluctantly. After I swallowed half full, my mouth felt cool.I opened my eyes, and he was holding the green gall, I closed my eyes and opened my mouth wide, just slipped the snake gall into my throat, and my hands were stuffed with dry branches.Most of the roasted birds are strung on the branches.Shen Lian said reluctantly: "I don't like horse meat, it's too sour. I can't finish eating the birds, so I'll give you the rest."

I didn't want to worry anymore, so I forced a smile and said, "Thank you very much."

Remarks: Oh, it's time for the unavoidable martial arts scene in the martial arts theme.Really annoying........