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Chapter 8 Healing

Chen Yao rode his horse and chased for a while in the bamboo forest, but he never saw the two people. Feeling strange, he immediately reined in the horse.

The bamboo forest after the rain was very damp, with large dewdrops hanging on the tips of the bamboo leaves. Chen Yao jumped off his horse and bent down to look at the fallen leaves on the ground, but it didn't look like someone had just passed by.

He looked around the bamboo forest, and couldn't tell where the road was for a while, but felt a cold aura coming up from the ground, which made him feel a little bit of chill.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and began to focus on the sounds around him, which his mother taught him one snowy winter many years ago.

At that time, he didn't understand, so he asked his mother: "Mom, you can't see it when you close your eyes, how can you see the snow?"

His mother patted his little head and said, "Try closing your eyes first, don't think about it, don't talk, close your eyes, and listen carefully."

He closed his eyes, concentrated all his energy on his ears, and suddenly heard rustling sounds, as if someone was walking softly, or who was talking to someone. It turned out that only he and his mother suddenly changed in the yard. It was very lively.

He opened his eyes in surprise, only to find that those voices disappeared all at once, no matter how hard he listened, he couldn't hear them anymore.

He wanted to ask his mother, but his mother put her index finger in front of her mouth, telling him to keep silent, then pointed to the snow falling slowly above the yard, and said softly, "Listen."

That winter, whenever my mother was free, she would sit in the yard and listen to Xueluo's voice. Chen Yao also followed his mother's example, closing his eyes and listening to Xueluo, and fell asleep in his mother's arms while listening.

At this time, there is no snow, no mother, but the mountains and forests have far more sounds than their small courtyard, far and near, chirping, even if you don't close your eyes, you can hear a lot.

But Chen Yao needs to hear more subtle sounds. Without the support of his eyes, the effect of his ears will be magnified several times. In addition, he has been deliberately practicing his hearing ability over the years. At this time, he closed his eyes, and the wind blowing over the bamboo within a hundred miles away The sound of the leaves are all heard.

Soon he heard some strange sounds, very noisy, he could distinguish the direction, but he couldn't make out what the sound was, and his intuition told him that Xu Xiaoxian and the others should be there.

When he opened his eyes, those voices disappeared from his ears, and his eyes began to regain their color. He rode on his horse and ran towards the direction of the voice.

When he got close to the place where the sound came from, he saw a red light shining on the bamboo forest in front of him, waves of heat rushed towards his face, the horse under his crotch was frightened, and stopped in his tracks, no matter how much Chen Yao pulled and beat him. go further.

Chen Yao jumped off his horse and was about to get close to the burning bamboo forest when he saw a black shadow jumping away from the side and was about to jump into the fire. force, and went straight after the shadow.

His premonition was right, that black shadow was the little goddess, but fortunately his lightness kung fu was still better than the little goddess, and he finally stopped her outside the fire circle, and he hugged the little goddess by the waist Stop and turn back to where the horse stopped.

Naturally, the little goddess refused, she cried and made noises, kicked and kicked him, and even bit him on the shoulder.

Chen Yao placed her next to a big bamboo tree, and tapped a few acupuncture points on her body with his fingers to prevent her from running around.The little goddess found that she couldn't move, she opened her eyes and looked at Chen Yao angrily, she couldn't move her body, she just moved her mouth: "Chen! What do you want to do if you stop me like this! A thief! A beast in clothes! Shameless!"

Chen Yao's face turned red and white after being scolded by her, but in fact, he pressed very lightly. Even if he didn't understand, he would untie it by himself in half an hour. He sighed and looked back at the burning flame , suddenly asked: "Where is the half-immortal? Why are you allowed to go into the fire?"

The little goddess was so angry that she talked nonsense at first, she didn't listen to his explanation at all, she scolded all the curse words she usually heard, but this time she heard Banxian, struggling to get up, but found that she couldn't move at all, she stared helplessly. Seeing the fire getting bigger and bigger, tears fell down,

"Chen Yao, you scoundrel, why don't you let me save Banxian, you want to kill Banxian..."

Chen Yao was stunned for a moment, and before the little goddess could finish speaking, he was already rushing towards the circle of fire. The thick smoke and hot air made it difficult for him to see the road ahead, but he was tripped by something. He fell down and landed on a soft object, only to hear a muffled groan.

"Half Immortal?!" He fixed his eyes and saw clearly that the person lying on the ground was Xu Xiaoxian, he quickly got up and picked him up, and was about to leave the fire circle first, but he suddenly heard something flying behind him, and without thinking He stretched out his hand and pulled out the umbrella on his back. The moment he unfolded it, he heard a "pop" sound from the umbrella surface, and a stone fell down.

Without thinking about it, he picked up Xu Xiaoxian and quickly ran out of the fire circle. He ran all the way back to the little goddess before stopping. Before he could catch his breath, he looked back for a long time, making sure no one was following him, and then he sat down on the ground, on the little goddess. The acupoints were indeed very shallow, she struggled for a while and finally untied it by herself, and threw herself on Xu Xiaoxian.

Xu Xiaoxian probably didn't expect that he would be revived in this way, he coughed a few times, the wound on his shoulder suddenly bled, he wanted to stand up, but his body couldn't use the strength, Chen Yao held him down Stop the bleeding from his wound.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen... are you alright, little goddess?" Xu Xiaoxian thought that he would not live long, and his voice was as thin as a thread. Chen Yao, who was sweating profusely, raised his hand lightly. The little goddess understood and held his hand immediately, but he didn't look at the little goddess. He took Chen Yao's hand with difficulty with the other hand, leading it to the back of the little goddess. Hold it tightly, and it took a lot of effort to finish the whole sentence: "Little Goddess, Mr. Chen will be your brother from now on. You must be obedient and don't mess around. Do you hear me? Xiaoxian wants to go to the fairy grandpa, I will May the fairy grandpa bless you..."

The two of them heard that his words meant last words, they couldn't help being startled, the eyes of the little goddess were red from crying, she kept shaking her head and said no, but she couldn't say anything else.

Xu Xiaoxian didn't look at the little goddess, looked at Chen Yao, and said, "Mr. Chen, the little goddess is entrusting you..."

"Are you kidding me?" Chen Yao bit his lip and was about to pull his hand back, but Xu Xiaoxian thought he thought the little goddess was cumbersome, so he quickly held that hand and struggled to say: "Mr. Chen, Chen Yao, Xiaoxian , Just as I beg you, sir, sir, come back..."

Xu Xiaoxian still wanted to talk, but after a flash of light just now, her body couldn't hold on anymore, she suddenly felt empty, she couldn't see anything in front of her eyes, she couldn't hear her ears, and even the wounds on her body didn't hurt anymore.

"Half Immortal!" Chen Yao grabbed the falling hand instead, only to feel that it was very cold. He quickly pulled away Xu Xiaoxian's lapel, touched a few big acupoints to protect his heart veins, and the blood from the wound barely stopped live.

"Mr. Chen!" The little goddess suddenly called his name. He was stunned for a moment, and saw the little goddess kneeling on the ground, and said in a crying voice: "Mr. Chen, please forgive me for the little goddess' words just now. After Banxian said that Mr. Chen is a miracle doctor, the little goddess begged him to save Banxian."

Chen Yao opened his mouth, and didn't know how to answer for a moment, but the little goddess continued to say: "The banxian is seriously injured, if Mr. Chen needs any rare medicine, the little goddess Daoshanhuohai will definitely find it, and I just ask you to save the half fairy." Immortal lives."

Chen Yao bit his lip, and quickly cleared out the messy emotions in his mind. While calling the little goddess to get up, he held Xu Xiaoxian's wrist to feel the pulse.

Xu Xiaoxian's pulse condition was extremely weak, seemingly non-existent, but did not stop at all, as if the body had reduced its consumption in order to protect itself. Chen Yao took a deep breath and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He had never seen it in any medical book. Had such a pulse.

But such a pulse showed that Xu Xiaoxian would not die for a while.

He said, "Little Goddess, I haven't saved anyone yet."

"That half-immortal is your first one."

Hearing what the little goddess said, Chen Yao smiled wryly, took a few deep breaths, tore off the clothes around Xu Xiaoxian's wound, checked the wound, tore off a few straps from his body and bandaged it briefly, and said to the little goddess: : "I need needles..."

Before Chen Yao finished speaking, the little goddess suddenly interjected, "Don't worry about the clothes."

"It's not needlework, what I want is the silver needle in the medicine box," Chen Yao explained, looking up at the sun on the top of his head where the injury started to slant, "Little Goddess, do you still remember the way to Chen's Mansion?"

The little goddess understood immediately, nodded, got up and was about to run back to the Chen Mansion to get the medicine box, but Chen Yao hurriedly called her: "Wait a minute, do you know where to find it? You ran so fast!"

"Isn't it just Dianyingyuan? I'll find it for you. I know where your mother's medicine box is. Don't worry, no one can catch me." After the little goddess finished speaking, her figure lightly jumped into the depths of the bamboo forest up.

Dianyingyuan is the small boudoir courtyard where Chen Yao’s mother lived. After her mother passed away, Dianyingyuan still maintained its original appearance. Uncle would ask someone to clean it up every now and then, so that the courtyard did not become wild. Except for Chen Yao, no one will go.

Chen Yao didn't know how the little goddess knew that there was a medicine box left by her mother in Dianyingyuan.

He looked down at the unconscious person in his arms, and he always felt that this half-immortal who pretended to be a ghost knew a lot of things.

The fire behind them has been quietly extinguished, and only a few wisps of smoke are left, which will soon be gone.

Xu Xiaoxian had a messy dream. In the dream, the sky was full of flames, ice and snow, day, and night. He couldn't tell what was going on in this dream. He just kept running, running, without purpose, Feeling tired, I don’t know how long I’ve been running, and suddenly I start to feel warm, and my surroundings become soft, as if I’ve fallen into a pile of cotton, but I can’t run anymore, I can’t use any strength, and I just keep sinking, sinking…

"what……"

Xu Xiaoxian vaguely woke up from the pile of cotton in his dream, opened his eyes, but saw the beeping fire, thought that he was still in the fire, his body jumped up with a jerk, and the wound on his shoulder It made him cry out in pain.

"Half Immortal has come back to life!" The little goddess was closest to Xu Xiaoxian, when she heard his cry, she threw herself on him and hugged him tightly, which made Xu Xiaoxian's wound even more painful, and the little goddess heard him screaming , also followed suit, with snot and tears all over his body.

"Little Goddess! Let go of me, the wound is about to bleed! Where is Mr. Chen? Mr. Chen! Help!"

Outside the entrance of the cave, Chen Yao heard Xu Xiaoxian's cry, thinking that this guy would not be able to die for the time being anyway, so he didn't plan to rescue him.

With great difficulty, Xu Xiaoxian pulled the little goddess away from her body. While comforting her, she looked around. It was a small cave. There was a whistling wind outside the cave, but there was no feeling inside the cave. The fire raised by Chen Yao Roast the cave nice and warm.

He grabbed the coat covering his body, turned his head, saw that the little goddess was still crying, frowned and said: "Hey! Don't cry, Xiaoxian is not dead yet! Where is Mr. Chen?"

The little goddess sniffled, pouted her lips, and stretched out her fingers to the outside of the cave. Xu Xiaoxian heard the low sound of xun besides the sound of wind outside the cave.

"Go and return the clothes to him."

"No, he's not cold." The little goddess wiped her eyes, crossed her hands on her chest, and resolutely refused to do this errand work.

Xu Xiaoxian didn't know what happened to Chen Yao and the little goddess when he was in a coma, but she always felt that the little goddess had a strange attitude towards Chen Yao, and asked, "What's wrong? Mr. Chen bullied you?"

The little goddess said angrily: "He won't let me sleep with you!"

"Cough cough..." Xu Xiaoxian choked on these words, coughed twice and pulled the wound with pain, thinking that the little goddess grew up with him since childhood, and it is normal for brothers and sisters to eat and sleep together in the village , probably because Chen Yao felt that men and women were different. If he didn’t explain clearly, he might not be able to explain clearly in the future. He looked at the little goddess, cleared his throat, put on a serious face, and said, “I have injuries on my body. , you'll hurt me by sleeping with me."

"Then why should he sleep with you!"

"Pfft..." Xu Xiaoxian just picked up a bamboo tube next to him and wanted to drink water to moisten his throat, but the water spit out before swallowing, "Wait, wait, tell me clearly, who is he sleeping with? Why? sleep?"

"How do I know! He won't let me see it! He even touches my acupuncture point and won't let me move! Anyway, I won't let him in, so I'll let him blow it!"

"Ah..." Xu Xiaoxian covered his head and let out a long growl, suddenly regretted why he woke up, why the wound should be healed, and let him die of pain.

"Chen Yao, please remember!"

The evening breeze was cool, and the little goddess fell asleep on the straw next to Xu Xiaoxian. Xu Xiaoxian carefully untied the cloak on the little goddess, covered her, got up quietly, and walked out of the cave.

Before they got out of the cave, they happened to meet Chen Yao coming back with Tao Xun, and both of them froze for a moment.

Seeing that he was holding the coat in his hand, Chen Yao smiled slightly, and said, "It's windy outside, the half-immortal should take care of himself first."

After speaking, he took the coat, and put it on Xu Xiaoxian's shoulders like when they met by the river in the west of the city.

Xu Xiaoxian looked at Chen Yao, and thought, it would be better to explain the matter now, lest the other party misunderstand, so he said: "That, Mr. Chen, that, what the little goddess said, doesn't mean that, don't misunderstand."

Chen Yao pursed his lips and smiled. He heard the conversation between the little goddess and Xu Xiaoxian outside the cave just now. The fire burned so loudly that the temperature in the cave made people feel hot, but Xu Xiaoxian still seemed to feel cold.

"I don't misunderstand, and I ask Banxian not to misunderstand."

Thinking of the second half of the story of the little goddess, Xu Xiaoxian couldn't help but blush, thankfully she couldn't see it under the light of the fire in the cave.

Chen Yao: "The little goddess said that it is always warm when you hug her to sleep in winter. When she heard me say you are cold, she said she would hug you to sleep."

"This, it's really Xiaoxian's negligence in teaching, please don't be angry, Mr. Chen, Xiaoxian must teach her well in the future." As he said, Xu Xiaoxian wanted to bow and apologize to Chen Yao, but Chen Yao stopped him in time .

"There's no need to apologize," Chen Yao said in a soft voice, with a little smile, "The trick of the little goddess is more effective than those needles."

Chen Yao is not a person who likes to play tricks on others, but he always finds it fun to play tricks on Xu Xiaoxian, not to mention, he doesn't always have such a chance.

Xu Xiaoxian has always wanted to find a suitable time to say thank you to Chen Yao, but he couldn't say that about the story of the little goddess. He always felt that things were going in a strange direction. He even felt that looking directly at Chen Yao Yao is an embarrassing thing, but Chen Yao teases him with it, so he can't speak anymore.

Chen Yao didn't know what he was thinking, and was worried that standing for a long time would be bad for the wound, so he helped him back to the cave and sat down by the haystack. Chen Yao added more firewood, and the fire burst out again. He looked at the flames , asked softly: "Did you set the fire that day?"

"Well," Xu Xiaoxian didn't intend to hide anything, raised his hand and drew a pentagram symbol in the sky above the flames, which he set up in the bamboo forest, just waiting to lead the man in black into the formation, and the fire would trap them In the formation, "It's a pity that I didn't run fast enough. He stabbed me with a sword, and I almost went to see Grandpa Immortal."

Chen Yao went to see the star fire array during the day, and only five bamboos were charred on the spot, and the ashes that fell on the ground showed the pentagram drawn by Xu Xiaoxian. There was some paper dust under the five bamboos, and the rest None remained.

"That's a summoning talisman. Once the paper is burned, the fire will be gone. By the way, you didn't get burned by the fire when you came here that day, right?" Xu Xiaoxian was afraid that the fire would hurt the little goddess, so she made up a lie to coax her to leave. Small but thoughtful, he went back to look for him halfway, but fortunately was stopped by Chen Yao.

Chen Yao shook his head and asked, "What happened to the fire?"

"It's a summoning talisman, so of course it's not a fire in the world. If you touch that kind of fire, it will leave scars, and even a genius doctor can't cure it." Xu Xiaoxian lifted up his sleeves, pointed to the position of his arm near his shoulder, and said A purple-black spot the size of a copper coin, like a withered camellia, "I didn't draw this talisman properly when I first drew it, and the flame jumped out, and it bounced to my arm, and that's it."

Chen Yao didn't notice the scar when he was treating him, and now he took a closer look at it after hearing him talk about it, and stroked it lightly with his fingertips, but it felt the same as the surrounding skin.

Chen Yao: "Does it hurt?"

"Of course it doesn't hurt now, it's better now, but it didn't hurt very much at that time, like being burned by a candle." Xu Xiaoxian put down his sleeves, propped his arms and looked at the fire, remembering what he learned secretly without telling her husband. , Not to mention how excited I was, later I was discovered by my husband, I was scolded a lot, and I was imprisoned for two months. I couldn't help but find it funny, and laughed out loud after thinking about it.

"What are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing." Xu Xiaoxian didn't want to share with Chen Yao what happened when he was a child, so he yawned, turned around and lay down in the haystack, and squeezed closer to the little goddess, leaving only one person.

Chen Yao smiled helplessly, sat on the haystack and looked out of the cave, and said softly, "Good night."