Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 77

077 Chapter 77 Qilin exhaustion
We saw Wu Xie being sent to the hospital, and the little brother and the fat man decided to separate.

Fatty followed Wu Xie into the hospital to inquire about Wu Xie's injury.After examination, it was found that although Wu Xie was seriously injured, his life was not in danger, but he would not wake up for a while.

The little brother took me to the hotel first. After he asked me to freshen up and change clothes, he applied medicine to my injury and then let me rest first.

Later, the fat man also came back. His body was mostly covered with bruises, some of which were hit by fragments and gravel from the collapsed plank road, and some of which were caused by knocking against the small waterfalls at the end. He took a bath and changed. He took off his clothes and his whole body relaxed, as if all the pain in his body came out. He grimaced when he moved. The little brother handed him my ointment and said to him: "Put some medicine on."

The fat man took the medicine, opened it, smelled it and said, "I am sure this is the fragrance. Oh, dumb Zhang, what kind of medicine is this for your little dumb Zhang? It can heal injuries, detoxify, and repel insects?"

The little brother glanced at him indifferently and sat aside. The fat man looked at him and ignored him: "Okay, if she doesn't say it, you won't say it either. Hey, it's good medicine anyway." Then he dug some out and applied it to himself. , after a while he wanted to apply some paint on a wound on his back. The wound was more serious, and it hurt the most when he moved, but he couldn't reach it. He looked at the little brother and said, "Well, help me apply it." Here’s a little bit, I can’t reach it myself.”

The little brother still looked at him indifferently, took the medicine and applied it to him. As soon as the little brother started applying it to him, the fat man's eyes widened in pain and he shouted: "Be gentle, be gentle, you are treating him differently." , How gentle you are to apply the medicine on the girl, but you are too cruel to attack me."

The little brother raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said, "Stop talking nonsense, otherwise, wipe it yourself."

The fat man had no idea: "Yes, yes, I won't talk nonsense. Just be gentle."

In the next two days, Fatty would go to the hospital to check on Wu Xie. He hadn't woken up yet. As for me, I was much better. My brother asked me to continue to rest.

On the third day, it happened to be a visiting day in the hospital. We went to see Wu Xie together. This time Wu Xie woke up. The moment he opened his eyes, he felt like the world was spinning, and he couldn't stop feeling nauseous and dizzy. He opened his eyes in a daze and saw the fat man's big face, staring at him blankly. His first reaction was that he was very surprised.

From the corner of his eye, he saw someone else next to him. He turned his head slightly and saw me and my little brother. He was very surprised, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Why are you here?"

As a result... none of us could understand what he said, not even himself. The voice was quite strange and weird... He said a few more sentences, but it was still the same. He was suddenly at a loss and even felt that he Maybe my brain was damaged? As soon as I saw him waking up, I pressed the pager in front of the hospital bed.

The fat man couldn't help laughing when he saw him like that and said to him, "Hey, what's got you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

The fat man teased him hard, poking him and slapping him. He felt like "Come on, hit me, la la la." Wu Xie had so many fractures that he couldn't move at all, which made the fat man angry. He rolled his eyes, gritted his teeth and glared at him fiercely, Wu Xie thought to himself, you fat guy who takes pleasure in others' misfortune!When I can get up, I will kick you away!

The little brother looked at the corners of their mouths and shook their heads helplessly. They looked like two big kids who hadn't grown up yet.

After being stunned for a while, the doctor came. The fat man suddenly became very well-behaved and stopped making noises. The fat man smiled and imitated Wu Xie's behavior. The doctor said to us: "This is just the sequelae of his severe concussion, which affects his speech." My nerves will be fine in a few days.”

Wu Xie was so frightened by his strange noise just now. When the doctor said this, he felt much more at ease.

After staying for a while, we went back to the hotel first, saying that we would wait until he felt better to talk about anything else and then come back to see him.

It wasn't until the fourth day that Wu Xie reluctantly asked the doctor about his condition and how he got here. The doctor told him: "You were brought back by some armed policemen. I can't tell you exactly. Your whole body is probably broken." The twenty bones should have been caused by falling from a high altitude."

Wu Xie only knew that his chest and left hand were in plaster. After hearing what the doctor said, he knew that he was destined to die.Wu Xie asked the doctor again: "When can I be discharged from the hospital?"

The doctor smiled at him and said, "You will be injured and you won't be able to get out of bed for less than ten days and a half. You should take good care of yourself."

That night, the armed police who sent him to the hospital heard that he could speak, and brought him a fruit basket to see him. Wu Xie also asked him some questions, and the armed police replied: "I don't know the specifics. , several villagers from Lantian found you by a stream. You were placed on a bamboo raft, and the wounds on your body had been simply treated. The medicine on your body smelled like flowers. The doctor said that he had never seen that kind of medicine before. Medicine, and said that if it weren’t for these treatments, you would have died long ago.”

When Wu Xie heard about the flower-flavored medicine and the appearance of his brother, Xiaoxun and Fatty, he already knew in his heart that he should have been saved by them, but how could they appear there...

And the strangest thing is that this Lantian is seven or eight miles away from the Jiazigou area. Could it be that the distance traveled by the underground river is already such a long distance?

Anyway, he couldn't say that he was here to fight, so Wu Xie had to make up a lie about climbing a mountain and falling off a cliff. He sent the armed police off with a lot of thanks and immediately called Wang Meng.Ask him to come to Xi'an and bring some money and his own clothes. Wang Meng will arrive the next day.I paid off the medical bills myself, and then bought him a new mobile phone and laptop.

Wu Xie asked Wang Meng how his business was lately.The answer is still "business is bleak."His father looked for him many times.I must have been out for too long and I was worried, so I reported to my family that I was safe, and asked about my third uncle by the way, but there was still no news, so I sighed helplessly.

In the next few days, the fat man couldn't stay any longer and wanted to go out. He said to us: "It's a rare trip to Lantian. Let's go out to see the scenery and find some delicious food. Anyway, Xiao Wu can't leave the hospital now. It's not If you have nothing to do on a visiting day, let’s just treat it as a trip and have fun for a few days.”

The little brother looked at him indifferently and didn't respond at all. He grabbed my arm and pulled me to his side. He looked at me and said to me, "Is this your first time here?" I nodded.Following him, he pushed me in front of the little brother, looked at him and said, "Look, it's your girl's first time here. Why don't you take her out to play? Don't always take her to play in the tomb." Right." Then, the fat man naturally achieved his goal of traveling to find delicious food. He was as happy as a child and took my brother and I around. When we arrived at a place with beautiful scenery, he took us to take pictures.

The fat man also said: "Although you, Fatty, and I still love meat the most, I do as the Romans do. Now that I'm here, I have to eat Lantian's glutinous rice cakes, fairy powder, crystal cakes, soaked oil cakes, potato glutinous rice cakes, and steamed steamed buns with high delicacies... ...Eat those Lantian-specific snacks."

In the next few days, Wu Xie was lying on the hospital bed, bored, and suddenly thought of Lao Chu again, and his heart felt sour.Lying on the hospital bed, I looked through the completely tattered mountaineering clothes I wore when I went to the tomb, and read for a while the diary of Lao Itch, which was already blistered and hard to read.After that, I could only kill time online, and muttered unhappily: "Didn't you say you would come see me in a few days? Where have everyone gone!"

Since I really had nothing to do, I had to look up information about the Bronze Tree on the Internet. However, the information on the Internet was limited, so I had to briefly describe the scene of the Bronze Tree in my memory and send it to some friends to see.

Later, I received replies. Either they didn’t believe it or they didn’t know about it. Only a few letters were somewhat enlightening to me.

There was a letter from my father's friend from the United States, saying that this kind of bronze tree is called a "pillar". One of them was found in a mine in Panzhihua in [-], but it was not so big. There was only one section, which went deep into the ground. A section has been completely rusted, and there is no documentation to explain what this thing is used for. However, according to the Classic of Mountains and Seas and some ethnic minority narrative poems recorded in written texts, this thing is related to the activity of catching "earth dragons" in ancient times. The ancients used The blood draws Zhu Jiuyin out of the deep earth veins, and is shot to make a candle.

He also handed over a fragment of a notebook novel, which recorded an incident that happened during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It was said that a blue and white stone dragon pattern box was dug out in a mine in Xi'an. Emperor Qianlong opened it and secretly recruited several people that night. The ministers entered the palace and talked secretly until midnight, and then there was a fire in Qianqing Palace.Among those ministers, except for one who was famous, all the others did not die well, and were all killed inexplicably in the end.

The time of this story should be the same as the story about digging out the white stone dragon-patterned box in "Hemu Ji".The emperor was so determined to keep a secret, so what exactly was in the white stone dragon-patterned box?Could this be the origin of this ancient bronze tree?
Another is a reply from his second uncle. He said that at that time, the culture of ethnic minorities inherited the decorative style of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but at that time, interethnic exchanges were limited and transportation and communications were extremely underdeveloped, so there should be a time lag. According to general rules, At that time, the Central Plains region should have been in the late Qin Dynasty.

At that time, almost all activities were related to the construction of the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, and the hunting of Zhu Jiuyin was probably for the purpose of refining "dragon oil".Pay tribute to the emperor for alchemy or similar activities.Moreover, according to geological survey, there are also huge metal objects on the lowest floor of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum.Surrounding the entire mausoleum, logically, the metallurgical technology at that time should not be able to complete such a huge project.The builders of this part should be foreign nations with particularly advanced metallurgical technology.

After playing for a few days, Fatty finally gave up and planned to go back to the hospital to see Wu Xie. Wu Xie was doing much better. When he saw us, he let out a "humph" and acted like a child and said to us: "You know these days?" God, it’s so boring for me to be alone. You promised to come and see me, but where is he? Where is he? "

The fat man said with a smile: "Isn't this coming? Look, it's the first time for little Xun. She wants to walk around. As a tour guide, it's not like she has to go out for a few days with her."

"What did you say? Fatty, you..." The little brother patted me and shook his head, forget it. I had no choice but to say "oh" and pouted, thinking, you damn fat man is using me as a shield again.

When Wu Xie heard that he was taking me out to play, he lost his temper and said softly to me: "Xiao Xun, let me take you to Hangzhou next time, and I will take you to have fun for a few days."

I smiled at him and said, "Okay." As expected, he was the innocent and kind brother Wu Xie.I saw the fat guy across from me making a face at me.

Suddenly Wu Xie asked: "By the way, you rescued me from the river, right? Don't try to hide it from me. The person who sent me to the hospital said that when I came here, I had a kind of disease that doctors didn't know. I have seen the fragrant medicine and asked, have you gone there too and what are you doing there?" After saying that, he glanced at the fat man.

The fat man shrugged and said, "Of course we are the ones who saved you, but why are you there? Don't look at me. I was called here by them." After saying that, Wu Xie looked at us again, but the little brother still didn't answer. The words came to my head again, and I could only smile awkwardly.

Wu Xie looked at me: "You don't want to say yes, okay, then let me ask you, did you give me the black armor-like Qilin Jie? What on earth is Qilin Jie? Xiaoxun?" His tone became more and more serious as he spoke.

I felt a little confused and said to him: "Qilinjie, Qilinjie is a very precious traditional Chinese medicine. This plant is called Qilin Blood Vine, also known as Blood Snake Vine. Things like Qilinjie become more and more popular as time goes by. , it will turn from dark red to black, and the darker it becomes as time goes by. At a certain point, its properties will change and it will melt in the mouth. After people eat it, evil insects will not come near, and even mosquitoes will not dare to eat it in summer. Looking for yours. The longer this thing is left, the better the effect will be. Well, the one you took is more than 3000 years old. It has very good medicinal effects and is rare. "

Wu Xie asked again: "That's it, then why is that thing in the ancient tomb?"

I looked at my little brother pitifully, meaning you could help me pick up the conversation, but he just tilted his head and looked at me calmly: "Qilin Jie, in the early stage, it only has some ordinary functions. It is used as medicine. As for why it is in the tomb, it is because in traditional Chinese medicine, there is a rare use of it, which is to use it to smoke corpses. In ancient times, it was the custom of some ethnic minorities and some mountain villages to press a piece of unicorn stems on the tomb. The corpse is buried above the belly button, so that the Yin energy of the corpse can be removed. Although the corpse will rot, it will not attract maggots."

Wu Xie looked at me with wide eyes, and I continued: "I gave you the food that day because you had the hallucination of a blue-eyed fox. Eating it can relieve the hallucination. Besides, if I hadn't given you Qilin Jie, you would have been deceived by Da Kui." Once you catch him, you'll be just like him, right?"

Wu Xie looked at me and suddenly smiled and said to me, "Thank you. Without you, Qilin Jie, I would have died several times."

The fat man answered: "This Qilin is so amazing, girl, do you still have any? Give me one too."

Wu Xie glared at him: "You, forget it, didn't you listen to Xiaoxun? The longer the thing is, the better. There are not so many that are thousands of years old."

The fat man turned his back on him and said, "Tch, you've been eating for thousands of years and then you start to pull it up..."

The younger brother took my hand and took me to the side to sit down. I started to argue with each other as I watched the two of them say something to each other.

(End of this chapter)