Chapter 42 Wolf
Ye Liusha was injured in Ye's mansion for a few days. He didn't make a big fuss like when he first came because he knew that Bailong was not in Ye's mansion.
Ye Liusha was not only simple-minded, but also practiced Gu in the valley since he was a child. He had never seen the world and did not understand the world. These days he had eaten and drank heavily in the Ye Mansion, and only Ye Fuping took care of him.
Fortunately, the Ye Mansion is in trouble now. Not long after Ye San died, the old city lord was critically ill, but the people in the mansion did not pay much attention to Ye Liusha.
After Ye Liusha recovered from his injuries, he left Ye's mansion to find his senior sister. Before leaving, Ye Fuping gave him some silver. Ye Liusha said something foolishly, and even made Ye Fuping laugh.
He said: "The most toxic woman's heart is wrong, because you are as kind as your senior sister and as beautiful as her."
Ye Liusha walked on the street, watching people coming and going, looking for the traces of his senior sister, but he was lost. He was wide and hungry as much as he ate. He just left Ye's mansion and was hungry again.
He looked around and found a teahouse not far away. He had never drunk tea before. Seeing that the people there were savoring it carefully, he swallowed his saliva and walked towards the teahouse.
"Come in there, guests!" The teahouse staff greeted the guests in front of the door, and Ye Liusha also mingled in with the others.
Ye Liusha found a seat, sat alone at the table, and ordered a pot of high-quality tea as others were like.
He sipped it carefully. At first, he felt that it was not as good as the water, but after taking another sip, he felt the faint fragrance and fresh sweetness, and he immediately praised it.
However, although this tea is delicious, it is not too hungry after all. Even if he drinks this pot of tea, he will not be able to fill his stomach.
Therefore, he took two sips and was about to leave. At this time, the teahouse man stopped him and said with a bad expression: "Customer, you haven't paid yet."
"Drinking water costs money?" Ye Liusha was surprised.
The teahouse guy immediately grabbed Ye Liusha's collar and shouted: "Don't learn from others to drink tea. If you dare to come here to drink, you will ask someone to break your legs!"
"Haha, you are a thin monkey and want to break my legs. Besides, I'm not without silver." As he said that, he took out a ingot of silver from his arms and placed it directly on the table. The guy looked at the big ingot of silver and stared at the boss with his eyes wide open. He immediately changed his face, apologized to Ye Liusha, and invited him upstairs.
Because Ye Liusha was hungry and wanted to eat, the teahouse staff specially ordered some servants who were doing odd jobs to buy some good wine and dishes outside, and of course they cheated Ye Liusha of a silver ingot.
Ye Liusha, who was cheated, thought this guy was a good person and kept thanking others. The teahouse guy smiled and flattered him on the surface, but scolded him in his heart.
The guests on the second floor are either rich or noble, and there is a storyteller in front of them performing.
Ye Liusha was eating big while listening to the story.
I heard from the storyteller:
"Today I will tell you a story about a wolf. Everyone knows that a wolf is a fierce beast, and it even eats people. When telling this story, it is said that there was a girl named Xiaohua. Xiaohua's mother left the world after giving birth to her fifth child. Originally, her father Li Laosan was hunting, and her mother collected herbs and barely maintained her family life. This made her life even more difficult. The next year, Li Laosan went to the mountains to hunt and was attacked by a tiger. In order not to make a tiger's meal, his father jumped on the cliff. Although he saved his life, he broke his backbone and became a disabled person.
That year, Xiaohua just turned fifteen and had to take on the heavy responsibility of the family's life with her tender shoulders. Every day before dawn, Xiaohua gets up and prepares breakfast, takes a quick bite, and follows the women in the village to the mountain to learn to collect herbs. At night, after taking care of her father and younger brothers and sisters, she learns to put on the soles of her shoes under the dim oil lamp and prepares cotton shoes for winter. Her fingers are often poked by the tip of the needle, and she grits her teeth and doesn't say anything..."
Ye Liusha was attracted by this story and stopped eating. She looked at the storyteller seriously and listened carefully.
The storyteller continued: "This kind of miserable life ended completely when Xiaohua was eighteen years old, and her family became a wealthy family in the village. This is backed by a strange adventure when Xiaohua was collecting herbs. Therefore, this story has a name, called 'The woman who collects herbs delivers a mother wolf with a difficult birth, but unexpectedly, the day of marriage attracted a group of wolves to congratulate herbs'"
"Don't dislike the long name, let me continue to tell it." The storyteller shook his head, which was quite funny, which caused the tea lovers to laugh. Ye Liusha also smiled foolishly with people, and was infected by such an atmosphere.
After laughing, the storyteller continued to preach: "The rainstorms for several consecutive days have made the mountain roads wet and slippery, and it is impossible to pick herbs, but the rice in Xiaohua's rice jar is almost bottoming out. Looking at the sallow-faced younger brothers and sisters, Xiaohua was anxious. That morning, as soon as the rain stopped, Xiaohua carried a basket of medicine and asked the women in the village to go up the mountain to collect herbs from house to house. Looking at the mountains in the distance wrapped in gray mist, the women kindly advised Xiaohua, "Xiaohua, it's just raining, the mountain is wet and slippery, and the dew is heavy, so it is impossible to pick herbs. Let's go up the mountain to collect herbs when the sun comes out tomorrow."
When Xiaohua returned home, Li Laosan relapsed due to a fall. The severe pain made him, the tough guy, moan in a low voice. Because he had no money to treat, Li Laosan was paralyzed in bed. His father's illness needed treatment, and it was urgent. Xiaohua ordered Laosan and Laosan to take care of their father and younger brothers and sisters at home, and walked towards the mountains alone.
The road up the mountain was indeed slippery and difficult to walk. Xiaohua had to hold the wild shrub with one hand and walked forward with difficulty, and her whole body was wet with heavy dew. Along the way, she had basically no gains. As it was noon, she only dug up a dozen cheap isatis roots. Xiaohua found a big stone to sit down and rest. Looking at the mountains, her face was covered with sorrow, and her father's painful moan seemed to sound in her ears. The little faces of her younger brothers and sisters appeared in front of her... She made her mind and walked towards the Wolf Valley..."
Speaking of this, everyone holds their breath, and the quicksand at night is no exception.
The storyteller's expression also became solemn, saying: "Xiaohua heard from Mr. Li in the village that the Wolf Valley is covered with cliffs on three sides, with only one valley entrance. There are many rare medicinal materials in the Wolf Valley, but it is a dangerous place where wild animals appear. Even if hunters are in groups, they will never dare to step into the Wolf Valley. Forty years ago, there were more than a dozen hunters in the village formed a hunter group and entered the Wolf Valley to hunt. Only Mr. Li survived, but his arm was bitten by the wolf, and the rest were buried in the wolf's belly. Mr. Li was already in his seventies. As soon as he mentioned the Wolf Valley, his eyes would still be filled with fear.
However, the huge temptation of finding rare medicinal materials in the Wolf Valley made Xiaohua decide to try her luck. The distance between the Wolf Valley was getting closer and closer, and the howling of the Wolf Valley came from time to time. Xiaohua was cautious step by step and slowly approached the Wolf Valley. She unconsciously held the shovel of the medicine. Xiaohua's heart was in her throat, and she felt her heart beating almost popping out.
In the bushes under the cliffs of Gukou, Xiaohua was surprised to find several Polygonum multiflorum, growing very vigorously. Judging from the appearance, it has been at least a hundred years. She put down the medicine basket and looked around, but did not see a wolf. While she quickly dug up Polygonum multiflorum, she alertly observed the movements around. Whether she was afraid or exerting too much force, Xiaohua's clothes were soaked in sweat. In the end, she dug out all Polygonum multiflorum and put them into the medicine basket.
Xiaohua packed up the medicinal tools and carried the medicine basket, thinking to herself: "Hurry out the place of right and wrong with the Wolf Valley." After walking a few steps, suddenly, a miserable scream of a wolf came from not far ahead, followed by a painful baby cry, followed by another heart-wrenching and sharp cry. Listening to the sound, Xiaohua knew that the wolf was hurt, and she couldn't get around, so she tried to walk forward carefully.
Pulling open the grass, she found a female wolf lying on the ground with bloodstained on her hind legs. The female wolf saw Xiaohua's eyes full of desire to survive. The female wolf's helpless eyes reminded Xiaohua of how painful and despair she was when her mother gave birth to her fifth sister... Thinking of this, she suddenly felt pity and said to the female wolf: "I'll save you and try it. Don't eat me!" The female wolf stopped moaning as if she understood. Xiaohua moved towards the female wolf step by step.
Xiaohua saw Wen Po delivering her mother. She squatted down and massaged the mother wolf's abdomen. The mother wolf was also very cooperative and very gentle. However, for a long time, the wolf cub was still not born. At this time, the mother wolf was dying and sank on the ground, and there was no strength to struggle and sob. Seeing this, Xiaohua took out a kettle, washed herbs, and then imitated Wen Po's appearance and put his hand into the mother wolf's belly...one, two... A total of four little wolf cubs were taken out. Xiaohua found some anti-inflammatory and bleeding-resisting herbs from the medicine basket, chewed it, and put it into the mother wolf's mouth.
The mother wolf was saved, and it looked extremely grateful to the little flower. After a long time, the mother wolf stood up and took the wolf cubs one by one into the nearby cave...
Xiaohua rushed home, afraid of meeting wolves again. When she got home, Xiaohua found herself in a cold sweat. She sold Polygonum multiflorum, but her father's illness still did not improve for a while. A month later, Xiaohua took the risk to the Wolf Valley again. The mother wolf stood at the entrance of the valley to greet her early. Behind it, four little wolf cubs were laughing and fighting. Under the leadership of the mother wolf, Xiaohua entered the deepest part of the Wolf Valley and picked many rare medicinal materials.
Later, Xiaohua entered the Wolf Valley many times, and she returned with a full load every time. The medicine basket was filled with rare medicinal materials, and even picked two thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum plants. In this way, Xiaohua's family's life became better and better, and she became a wealthy family. Because her father was well treated, he miraculously stood up with a crutch and could take care of himself.
A few years later, Xiaohua reached the age of starting a family and starting a business. In order to take care of her father, she married a young man named Liu in the village. The wedding day came, Xiaohua put on her new clothes and sat in the sedan chair for the wedding. Suddenly, she heard hundreds of wolves howling one after another from the mountain not far away, and the sound was getting closer and closer. A group of wolves ran down the mountain, rushing straight to the mountain village. The villagers were shocked and called them to go back to the house quickly, but before they could enter the house, the wolves had already arrived in front of them.
What surprised the villagers was that the wolves did not attack the crowd or livestock. Each wolf held something in his mouth, either game, Ganoderma lucidum, or ginseng, and the leader was the female wolf rescued by Xiaohua... They placed the things in their mouths in front of Xiaohua's sedan chair and then retreated to the hillside outside the village.
Xiaohua told everyone not to be afraid and to get up the sedan chair as agreed. When the sedan chair entered the groom's house, the majestic howling of wolves sounded again on the hillside. Hundreds of wolves lined up in a row and raised their heads to roar. The momentum was really spectacular. The villagers were surprised when they saw it.
Someone in the village said that I heard from my ancestors that it was the top gift from the wolf clan to his benefactor.”
At this point, the story ended. The guests applauded, and the storyteller stood up and returned the greeting.
At this time, Ye Liusha suddenly remembered what his master once said:
Chapter completed!