his dragon [farming]

Chapter 54 Negotiations

After Shi Laoliu left, Shen Baocheng stood outside and smoked a cigarette. After the smell of the smoke dissipated, he came into the room and leaned against the stove to warm up.The fire shone on the old man's face, and there were serious thoughts hidden in every crease.

Qiu He glanced at Grandpa several times, then couldn't help it anymore, and said, "Grandpa, sit here, let's talk."

When Shen Baocheng sat down on the bedside chair as promised, Qiu He said in a low voice, "You guessed right, those people went up the mountain not to hunt bears, but to hunt dragons."

The old man was stunned, looked at Qiu He in shock, and asked after a while, "How do you know?"

"A few days ago, I have been looking for Bai Chuan." Qiu He paused and said, "Grandpa, do you know who Bai Chuan is?"

Shen Baocheng looked at him, hesitantly said: "Isn't the Lin family sent to guard the mountain?"

Qiu He smiled and said, "You actually guessed that he is the dragon, right?"

Shen Baocheng paused in astonishment, and after a long silence, he said, "Is this really true? I vaguely guessed so. In the past, the old people used to say that spiritual animals would change their shape after living for a long time, and some I still don’t really believe in being able to transform into a human being. Later, after living with Bai Chuan for a long time, I always felt that there was some chance between him and that dragon, but I never expected... how did you know about this?”

Qiuhe then told about the encounter with old man Ding in the ginkgo forest, and said: "I thought it was strange at the time, and I went to his house again the next morning and spent the whole morning before he finally revealed the secret. .”

Shen Baocheng listened silently, and asked: "Then you...you went to find Bai Chuan by yourself later? Was it the day you got sick?"

Qiu He nodded and said: "We went to a cave before, and he said it was a dragon's nest. I went there to see it, and it was really inside. I was injured and couldn't become a human, so I had to hide in the pool to recuperate. "

Shen Baocheng was still immersed in the shock of "Bai Chuan is a dragon", so that he ignored the information that "the two of them traveled together in the Dragon's Nest before". Hearing that Bai Chuan was injured, he hurriedly asked with concern: "Is the injury serious?"

Thinking of the many scars on Bailong's body, Qiuhe felt sad, bowed his head and said, "I can't speak after becoming a dragon. I don't know if the injuries are serious or not. It shouldn't be life-threatening, but..., it seems It hurts."

For a while, neither father nor son spoke.After a while, Shen Baocheng said: "What's the matter? Be careful, these people still come. Jiang's family knew about Bailong, and they were still beaten like that. How could they be reconciled? I'm afraid it will happen soon." Come to seek revenge."

After talking for a long time, Qiu He got a little tired, so she slid down from the bed and lay down, opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling. Hearing this, she thought for a while and said, "Grandpa, don't worry, we'll talk about things later. solution."

These words sounded familiar to the old man, and he suddenly remembered that Bai Chuan often used this tone.He sighed in his heart, and said: "That's the only way, let's take a step and see."

In the early morning of the next day, Shen Baocheng couldn't sleep, so he went to the ground to dig two radishes, and prepared to come back to make breakfast.As soon as he entered the courtyard, he heard Shen Dasheng yelling twice in the west chamber, and after a while, someone came out from inside, it was Bai Chuan.

The two looked at each other in the yard, and Bai Chuan greeted him, saying, "Grandpa."

Shen Baocheng had mixed feelings in his heart, but said in a calm tone, "Chuan'er, are your injuries feeling better?"

"Well," Bai Chuan nodded indiscriminately, and after a moment he was startled and looked up at Shen Baocheng.

"Where are you hurt?" Shen Baocheng dropped the basket, walked over and said, "Come on, let Grandpa take a look."

Bai Chuan was a little embarrassed, lifted a corner of his coat, only showed Shen Baocheng the scab on his abdomen, and said, "It's much better, Grandpa, you...you know all about it?"

Shen Baocheng nodded and took a closer look. Seeing that the wound was healing well, he breathed a sigh of relief, pulled up the hem of Bai Chuan's clothes, and said, "Fortunately, there is no inflammation. Qiu He told me. You just came down from the mountain. Let's go, let's go to the house and rest for a while, and we will have dinner together this morning."

"Okay," Bai Chuan said, but didn't move, looked at Shen Baocheng hesitating for a moment, and said, "Grandpa, you, aren't you angry?"

Seeing the young man's apologetic expression, Shen Baocheng suddenly felt sour. He quickly smiled and said, "Why am I angry? Naturally, this matter must be kept secret. How can I casually tell outsiders?"

"You are not an outsider." Bai Chuan lowered his head and said sullenly.

"I know, don't I already know?" The old man comforted him, and then said, "I'll cook, do you want to eat stewed pork with white radish?"

"Eat!" Seeing Shen Baocheng's results, I really don't blame him, Bai Chuan felt relieved, smiled, helped Shen Baocheng lift the vegetable basket into the kitchen, and asked seemingly unintentionally: "Where is Qiuhe? Haven't gotten up yet?"

When mentioning Qiuhe, the old man wanted to sigh, and while lowering his head to peel the radish, he said, "I'm sick! I got sick as soon as I came back from the mountain! I was so burned that I lost consciousness a few days ago, and I haven't recovered yet!  … The entrusting person brought the letter and told Lao Ding to come over and show him, so I figured it would be time to come today.”

Before Bai Chuan could finish speaking, his complexion changed suddenly, he stood up and said, "I'll go see him!"

"Alright," the old man said, looked up and saw Bai Chuan walking into the bedroom, and hurriedly shouted: "He's afraid of the cold, I told him to sleep in the fire room."

Bai Chuan agreed in the yard, then turned around and went into the fire room.

The fire room was not turned on, and the windows were covered with cotton curtains, making the room very dimly lit.In the faint light of the fire, Bai Chuan saw the person lying on the bed at a glance - the person who made him think about it day and night, scratching his heart and liver, sleeping there quietly.

He knelt down slowly in front of the bed, his eyes caressing the boy's face inch by inch.Although I had been mentally prepared, my heart still felt like someone had stabbed me out.

The person on the pillow looked haggard and his hair was messed up.The eye sockets covered by the long eyelashes showed a sickly bruise, and the slightly parted lips were dry and chapped. It looked like he was still recovering from a serious illness.

Bai Chuan was so distressed that his breath trembled.He knew it, something must have happened, he knew it!

The boy slept soundlessly, and looked strangely fragile, like a breath of white air in winter, blown away by the wind.Bai Chuan watched, and suddenly a terrible thought came to him, would he just die like this?

Great fear seized him instantly.Bai Chuan panicked, his mind roared into a mess, but he didn't dare to reach under his nose to see if he was breathing, as if as soon as he stretched out his hand, the nightmare immediately became real.

Qiu He, who was sleeping, suddenly coughed, coughed and coughed, shrunk into a small ball, and finally woke herself up from the cough. When she opened her eyes, she saw Bai Chuan squatting on the bedside, and immediately froze in surprise and joy.

"When did you come back? Is your injury better?"

He had just coughed, his voice was hoarse and trembling, and he cleared his throat several times before finishing a sentence.Bai Chuan was in a state of shock, unable to speak for a while, and after a long pause, he managed to force out a sentence: "Why are you so sick?"

Qiu He sat up from the bed, seeing his blank eyes, quickly smoothed his fringy hair with his hands, and said nonchalantly: "I have a little cold, and it is almost gone. How is your injury? Come and let me see." .”

Bai Chuan stared at him blankly, without saying a word, after a while, he suddenly hugged Qiu He.

Qiu He was strangled by him, almost out of breath.Thinking of him being alone in the cave, looking forward to seeing him for some reason, but not being able to wait for him, my heart suddenly softened, and I didn't move, letting him hug me.

Bai Chuan hugged him for a long time before letting go, his eye circles were red, Qiu He caressed his face, and whispered, "What's wrong?"

Bai Chuan bowed his head and said, "I'm on the mountain, looking forward to you every day, thinking about you coming to see me, I'm going crazy..." He suddenly choked up, and it took a long time before he said again: "It was clearly agreed that I would live to be two hundred years old. , to stay with me well, to live well for the rest of my life, how can I be sick?"

It meant to blame, Qiuhe couldn't laugh or cry, but seeing him being wronged like that, is it time to argue?I could only comfort in a soft voice: "I don't want to either..." As he spoke, he felt that he had broken his promise first, and coaxing people is the top priority right now, so he said indiscriminately: "I'm sorry, I was wrong, okay?"

"I almost thought that you don't want me anymore." The man was even more sad.

"How could it be?" Qiu He held his hand and coaxed him sweetly: "It won't be good in another day, I have to climb up the mountain to see you."

Bai Chuan raised his head, fixedly looked at Qiu He, and shed tears unexpectedly, "Please don't get sick! Live well! Don't die! Don't abandon me..."

This time, Qiu He hugged Bai Chuan.Qiuhe's heart was broken, he choked up, and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry! I want to get better soon every day, so I can go up to the mountain to see you. I'm sorry... I'm much better, really! I'm a puppy for lying to you ..."

Just as they were talking, they heard footsteps outside, and the two hurriedly separated, wiping their faces and turning aside.Shen Baocheng came in with a stewed hot pot and put it on the stove.Seeing that Qiu He also sat up, he hurriedly said, "Are you awake? Just in time, wash your face and get ready to eat!"

Qiu He was worried that her grandfather would notice something strange, so she rubbed her face, coughed, and ordered Bai Chuan who was sitting dumbfounded: "Go and open the window to get some air. This room has been stuffy all night, and the smell is too bad."

Bai Chuan walked over silently, rolled up the cotton curtain, opened the window a slit to let the air in, and went to the kitchen to serve the food.Qiuhe also got dressed and got up, Shen Baocheng called hot water and asked him to wash up in the room, and the father and son sat by the stove and had breakfast.

Early in the morning, Bai Chuan's mood was ups and downs, which seriously affected his appetite, and he stopped chopsticks after eating more than half of the bowl.Qiu He was also a sick patient with low combat effectiveness, so he drank some porridge.The breakfast ended hastily, and when Shen Baocheng took the hot pot away, he was extremely disappointed with his cooking skills.Fortunately, when he fed the dog with vegetable soup and rice later, Shen Dasheng was very strong, worked hard, and finally regained [-]% of the old man's confidence.

Bai Chuan helped clean up the dishes, sweep the floor and wipe the table. After finishing their work, the three of them sat around the stove again. Shen Baocheng asked carefully about the situation of the Jiang family brothers entering the mountain that day. I thought that the wild boar array could drive people away. Unexpectedly, these people set fire to the mountain. In the end, I had no choice but to come out and fight head-on.”

Even though he spoke sloppily and briefly, Qiu He and Shen Baocheng were still shocked when they heard it.Shen Baocheng said again: "I heard that the brothers of the Jiang family were beaten badly. Is it true?"

Bai Chuan thought for a while and said, "I can't remember clearly. It seems that I was beaten quite hard."

Shen Baocheng couldn't help worrying when he saw that he didn't care about anything, and said, "Silly boy! I don't remember how you beat them up? Those people will never forget, and will always remember this grudge!"

But Qiu He said: "Grandpa, we can just beat him, and we can't just bear with it! Didn't they also hurt Bai Chuan? Could it be that we should sit here and let them beat us?"

Bai Chuan also comforted: "Grandpa, don't worry, I've cleaned up the meal. If they want to come again, they will have to wait for a while—at least until the injury recovers."

Shen Baocheng had no choice but to bury his head in drinking tea, and secretly prayed for God's blessing in his heart, hoping that those people would give up after being beaten and stop making trouble. —but that must be unlikely.

Not long after the three of them sat together, Shen Dasheng yelled in the yard. Shen Baocheng opened the door, and was immediately overjoyed. It turned out that old man Ding had come to the door.

When old man Ding entered the room and saw Qiuhe, he clicked his tongue twice and said, "Look at how delicate you are! You became so ill after walking in the snow? Everyone is like you, who dares to go out in winter?"

Qiu He just smiled, Shen Baocheng respectfully and sincerely went to get the snacks for the guests, while Bai Chuan made tea with a face full of awkwardness, and brought it to the table in front of old man Ding.Old man Ding was greatly surprised by this situation, he didn't understand why this bastard suddenly became so polite to him.

Shen Baocheng brought out a plate of sliced ​​candies and a plate of fried peanuts from the room, entertained everyone to drink tea, and chatted with Lao Ding.After Lao Ding finished drinking his tea, Shen Baocheng said, "Brother, I'll leave the doll to you. You can show him carefully. I'll cook and stay here at noon. Let's have a good glass of wine!"

Lao Ding agreed, and said: "In the bag I brought, there is a fat rabbit, and I will eat that at noon." Shen Baocheng went back to the kitchen to work.

Lao Ding began to call Qiuhe's pulse, counted his left hand and his right hand, looked at his tongue coating, asked about the condition of his illness, and then turned to the next table to ask for a prescription.

Qiu He then said to Bai Chuan, who was waiting on Hushi, "Grandpa has a bad leg, go and see him, if there is anything I can help you with."

Bai Chuan listened, glanced at him, and got up without saying a word, and went to help Shen Baocheng prepare the meals.

Lao Ding looked at Bai Chuan's back, and whispered to Qiu He, "He listens to you quite well. It seems that I underestimated you. Unexpectedly! Now even the coquettish is so courageous! Even the living dragon is not afraid. "

Qiu He smiled indifferently, and said, "Grandpa Ding, I heard that you saved those hunters and prevented Bai Chuan from causing a catastrophe. Otherwise, if people die here, there is no way to explain it anyway. I Thank you for him."

Lao Ding wrote in a fluttering manner without raising his head, and said, "You sent Bai Chuan away, so you want to say thank you to me?"

Qiu He was a little embarrassed, and said, "Did you see it? I do have other things to ask you. I haven't told the elders about Bai Chuan and I, and I will tell them slowly in the future. Grandpa, please help me keep it safe." It's a secret."

Lao Ding glanced at him and said sarcastically, "Young man now, it's amazing! Don't you even blush when you mention such a thing?"

As if he had never heard of it, Qiu He regained consciousness and said suddenly: "Since you can save the hunters of the Jiang family, you must have a close relationship with them, right?"

Lao Ding straightened his expression, turned around to look at Qiuhe, looked at him for a moment, and said, "You are smart, yes, I was also a hunter before."

Qiu He felt a little apologetic, and hurriedly said, "I didn't mean to inquire about your privacy, but I have a few words that I would like to ask you to pass on to those in the Jiang family." He paused, pondered for a moment, and said, "You Tell Jiang's family that they don't bother Bai Chuan anymore."

Old man Ding raised his eyebrows and looked at him in surprise. Qiu He didn't wait for him to ask, and said slowly: "If they must come to seek revenge, then I have no choice but to take those hunters in my hands who tortured and killed animals." The pictures and videos were published and sent to animal protection organizations all over the world—don’t ask me where I got them, I have a lot of them, including photos of the Jiang brothers hunting around. They are all well taken.”

Lao Ding was calm at first, but he was finally shocked when he heard it, and said, "You threatened them?"

Qiu He said calmly: "It's not a threat, I just want everyone to have a good talk."

Lao Ding looked at him in disbelief, "Then do you know who you offended?"

"I don't know, and I don't want to know." Qiu He smiled and said, "I only know one thing. Whoever makes Bai Chuan feel bad, I will make all of them feel bad. The job of hunting master has always been to the world. They are mysterious existences. Now, it is time for the public to understand them. I want everyone to discuss whether there is any need for hunters to exist today; To kill rare animals instead of the excitement and pleasure that come here! Should this kind of behavior be punished!...Grandpa, I guess, the reason why you left your family and came to live in seclusion in Liangshi Town is because you can’t get used to the hunters. Do you want to take some actions? I believe that there will be many people who hold the same views as you. Once this matter is announced, it will definitely arouse heated discussions. Maybe some of them will become Internet celebrities.”

Lao Ding kept silent for a long time before he asked: "You let people all over the world know about Hunter, aren't you afraid that they will also know that there is a living dragon here?"

Qiu He put her hands in front of her mouth, coughed twice, cleared her throat and said, "If it is being chased by hunters, it is better to let it live in the eyes of the whole world. What's wrong with it? It is likely to be the last dragon in the world, and normally people would think, besides hunting, there should be other ways to treat it in this world, right?"

Old man Ding looked at Qiuhe and felt that the young man was quite strange for a moment.Seeing him leaning on the bedside, coughing a few times before he could say a few words, he was really pitiful and fragile, but his expression showed a trace of awe, as if he was telling the world clearly: the dragon is mine, and you are the last one. Don't mess with me.