Song Yi

Chapter 271

Seeing that Du Wenhao didn't speak, the eldest princess tilted her head and said angrily, "Hey! I'm asking you something!"

"Well, I have a wife and two concubines, which one do you ask?" Du Wenhao said.

"Ah?" The eldest princess obviously didn't expect that Du Wenhao had already taken in two concubines at such a young age, she curled her lips: "Hmph, it turns out that you are a big philanderer. of."

Du Wenhao laughed dryly, but did not answer.

"Then let me ask you, how am I better than your one wife and two concubines?"

"Of course you are beautiful, you are the eldest princess, is there any princess who is not beautiful?"

These words are obviously a compliment, but it doesn't sound like that at all. The eldest princess gave him a dissatisfied glance: "What do you mean?"

"It is said that the princess is more beautiful than my one wife and two concubines."

"Hmph! Then why do you bring up my princess status? Is it possible that I am not the eldest princess, so I am not beautiful, and I am not as good as your one wife and two concubines?"

"No, princess, you are so beautiful whether you are a princess or not. Princesses are all transformed from fairies in the sky. They are too beautiful. My one wife and two concubines are just ordinary women. How can I be with the princess?" Compared to you fairy."

The eldest princess glanced at him with a half-smile: "Then tell me, how can I be so pretty?"

Du Wenhao thought to himself, I don't plan to marry you because you are so beautiful.Just about to search for a few words to praise her, such as shameful flowers and closed moon, suddenly a gust of cold wind blew, and I couldn't help shivering. When I looked up, I saw that the edge of the lead-colored clouds in the sky had turned into tens of thousands of people. A silk thread is connected to the faintly visible mountains.

"It's going to snow again!" Du Wenhao changed the subject nervously, pointing to the sky, "Princess, look, this snow may not be too small, we have to find a shelter from the wind and snow quickly."

The eldest princess curled her lips and said: "At first glance, you are a frail scholar, isn't it just a heavy snow, what are you afraid of."

Du Wenhao had never personally experienced the horror of a snowstorm, but he always felt inexplicable fear, and said in a low voice: "Princess, the snowstorm is not a joke. You don't have much clothes on, and you fell into the water and caught a cold just now, so I'm afraid..."

"I'm not afraid of anything you are afraid of! Coward! Okay! Listen to you, let's drive forward quickly and find a village to avoid the wind and snow! Drive!" He rushed out first.Du Wenhao and his followers hurriedly followed.

They headed west all the way, and rushed forward for dozens of miles.

While running, Du Wenhao suddenly felt a chill on his face, and he reached out to touch it, only to find a few snowflakes falling, it turned out to be snowing!

The heavy snow fell flutteringly at the beginning, and soon the wind picked up.The wind was very strong, mixed with snowflakes, and it hurt people's faces.Fortunately, they are taking the official road, so they don't have to worry about getting lost.However, the wind and snow greatly slowed down their progress.

After driving west for another hour or two, they entered the hills in the afternoon.The terrain began to become undulating, and further forward, the mountains became higher and higher.

The road passed through several small villages, all of which were too dilapidated. The eldest princess was unwilling to stay overnight and wanted to find a slightly larger village.

However, they soon discovered the meaning of the phrase "there is no such shop after passing this village". When it got dark, they still didn't meet the village, or even passers-by.

The mountains are steep, the mountain roads are rugged, the wind and snow are getting bigger and bigger, and there is a vast expanse of whiteness around.

It's getting dark, and it's dangerous to walk on the snow-covered mountain road in such a snowstorm.Under repeated persuasion by Du Wenhao and his entourage, the eldest princess finally decided to find a hidden place to camp for the night.

Everyone regretted not staying in the last village just now.But I don't want to go back.Before it was completely dark, they found a small loose pine forest under a cliff sheltered from the wind, and pitched three tents, two small ones and one big one.The small ones were given to the eldest princess and Du Wenhao respectively, and the big ones were squeezed together by several followers, and people were also left on duty to prevent attacks by villains or beasts.

The wind and snow were too great to make a campfire.The tents are all four feet tied to the roots of the trees so as not to be blown away by the strong wind.Fortunately, I am well prepared to go out this time. The air-dead wind lamp with windproof has a strong windproof function and is most suitable for outdoor use.

All the three tents hung wind lanterns, and the attendants brought out dry food and water bags to the eldest princess and Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao sat in the tent, wrapped the quilt around his body, ate up the dry biscuits in cold water in twos and twos, did not take off his clothes and shoes, only took off his official hat, changed a towel to wrap his head, and then Curled up in the quilt and closed eyes to sleep.

The wind was howling outside, and even though the tent was well covered, snowflakes still rolled in through the cracks from time to time, and after a while, his quilt was covered with white snow.

I had no choice but to sit up and shake the snow off, otherwise the snow would soak the quilt, not to mention keeping warm, and I might catch cold and get sick.Not long after Du Wenhao lay down, he felt colder and colder as he slept. When he got up and looked, he found that the blanket was covered with snowflakes again. He was so angry that he almost went crazy. Holding his wife tenderly in his arms, he doesn't need to suffer from the cold in this damn place.

You can't treat your head and feet like this. You must clean up this rotten tent.

He untied the button rope on one side of the tent curtain, and the cold wind mixed with snowflakes rushed in, pushing him staggeringly.He hurriedly grabbed the door curtain, grabbed the ground with both feet to stabilize his figure, and stretched his head out to see the situation before talking.

He got his head out of the tent and found that it was pitch black outside. Although the surroundings were covered with white snow, there was almost no reflection. There was a small pine forest all around.

Although the environment was very dangerous, he still gritted his teeth and unfastened a few buttons, got out with a bent body, knelt down on the ground, swept away the snow on the ground with his elbows, and found stones to press the tent.After only so much effort, the snow on the ground has covered the ankles.It was dark again, and he searched all over for a long time but couldn't find a suitable stone, either too big to carry or too small.

At this time, the guard on guard duty heard the noise, but he couldn't see clearly in the dark, and asked in surprise, "Who?"

"It's me!" Du Wenhao replied angrily when he couldn't find the stone.

"Oh, it's Master Du. Do you have anything to do?"

"I didn't press the side of the tent properly. The wind and snow kept blowing in, and the quilt was wet. I wanted to find some stones to press the tent."

"Yes, then I'll help you find it!"

After all, the guard was from the army, so he quickly found a few big stones and helped Du Wenhao press down the edge of the tent.

Du Wenhao thanked him and asked him to continue on duty. He was about to get into the tent and sleep again when he saw that the wind lamp was still on in the tent of the eldest princess not far away, and the lights were flickering. There is also a lot of snow, if necessary, help her to press the edge of the tent, so I decided to go and have a look.

He came outside the tent of the princess and called out in a low voice, "Princess! Princess!"

"Well……!"

Weak groans came from the tent.

Du Wenhao was startled, and reached out to lift the tent, but stopped again.The one who lives inside is the eldest princess, the emperor's own younger sister, and no one can break into her tent.

At this time, there were two more groans from the tent, as if they were calling for something vaguely.This time, the eldest princess did not bring her personal maid, and all her attendants were men, so she could only take care of herself.

Du Wenhao heard that the sound was not right. During the day, the eldest princess fell from a huge boulder more than ten feet high, smashed the ice and fell into the lake, and passed out again. Maybe she was sick.Du Wenhao yelled a few more times, but still he could only hear groans but no answer.

Du Wenhao was heartbroken, anyway, he had already seen the eldest princess' body all over, and in this blizzard, she couldn't take off her clothes to sleep, saving people is the most important thing!

Immediately, she reached out to lift the door curtain, but she didn't pull it for a while. Obviously, before the eldest princess fell asleep, she tied the belt of the tent door curtain from the inside.Du Wenhao knelt on the ground, raised the hem of the tent and got in.

On the hook in the middle of the tent was a dead wind lantern, and the dim light swayed as Feng Xueer blew in.The floor was covered with a waterproof and moisture-proof linoleum blanket, and a brocade quilt wrapped a body curled up into a ball. Only a head of beautiful hair fluttered outside the brocade quilt, covered with white snow, and became a white-haired witch.The pattern of the quilt was no longer visible, and it was already covered with wind and snow that had penetrated through the gaps in the tent.

Du Wenhao yelled twice again, and there were two groans from under the blanket, which was regarded as an answer.

Du Wenhao was in a hurry, and hurriedly patted off the snow on her brocade quilt, lifted a corner of the quilt, and finally saw the face of the eldest princess.It looks sallow and sallow in dim light.His eyes were closed tightly, his lips were trembling, his arms were clasped tightly in front of his chest, and his delicate body was trembling.

Du Wenhao shook her a few more times: "Princess! What's wrong with you?"

The eldest princess finally opened her eyes slowly, and said tremblingly: "It hurts..., my head hurts..., I want to vomit..., it's so cold...! It's so cold..."

Headache?nausea?Aversion to cold?Du Wenhao's heart sank, did he have intracranial hemorrhage?Immediately, he denied this speculation again, because the eldest princess could accurately answer her own question, which showed that her consciousness was still clear.This doesn't seem like a symptom of intracranial hemorrhage, and I carefully checked the princess's head during the day, and found no trace of trauma.

Recalling the situation witnessed at that time, the eldest princess slid down smoothly, and her feet hit the ice first.The head did not hit the ice directly, so there should be no possibility of head trauma causing intracranial hemorrhage.

After being rescued and regained consciousness, the eldest princess complained of a headache. Although she didn't say anything about it afterwards, she was not in good spirits. It seemed that the headache didn't ease, but she forcibly suppressed it.

Du Wenhao also recalled that from the time when the eldest princess fell into the water to when he jumped into the water, there was about a minute. In such a short period of time, a drowning person would not be unconscious due to suffocation according to common sense. Not only was the princess unconscious, but she also sank to the bottom of the water and did not move. From the perspective of drowning, it would take at least 1 minutes of complete drowning and suffocation before it could appear.It shows that the eldest princess fell into a coma underwater, the main reason was not drowning and suffocation, but a concussion!
A concussion can be caused by a direct impact on the head, or it can be caused by the buttocks and legs hitting the ground during a fall, and the force is transmitted to the head concussion. The latter causes a concussion without obvious head trauma.Judging from the current situation, the eldest princess probably had a concussion caused by this reason.

There is no specific medicine for concussion in Western medicine, but Chinese medicine has advantages in this regard.Generally, medicines for calming the liver and resolving phlegm, suppressing yang and calming the wind are used. In terms of drug compatibility, Du Wenhao likes to use ocher.This kind of simple medicine is re-administered mainly because of its purity and strength, and the effect is often very significant.

However, this hunting trip came in a hurry, and he only brought a simple medical kit.There are only first aid tools and first aid medicine in the box, no conventional medicine, and of course there is no substitute ocher.

He pondered in his head for a moment, carefully recalling all the medicines in the outpatient box, none of which could replace the applicable ones.

At this time, the eldest princess grabbed the corner of Du Wenhao's quilt with trembling hands, put it on the top of her head, and moaned tremblingly: "It's cold..., it's so cold...!"

Du Wenhao hurriedly stretched his hand into the quilt and probed her forehead, he was shocked again, he felt that the eldest princess' forehead was hot like burning coals.

Hot?Aversion to cold?It must be the eldest princess who fell into the ice hole and felt the cold!

Exogenous wind-cold is a common disease, but precisely because it is a common disease, the medicines needed can be found in any pharmacy, and exogenous diseases are not emergencies, so he does not have such commonly used medicines in his outpatient kit.

If it wasn't for the blizzard and the darkness, Du Wenhao wouldn't have been troubled. He would be able to collect the medicine he needed to treat exogenous diseases if he went out for a walk and came back.But now, apart from the white snow and the strong wind, there is nowhere to look for the dark ones.

It seems that acupuncture can only be used to relieve pain and relieve symptoms.

He got out of the tent, ran back to his own tent, brought the outpatient kit, took out the golden needle, and treated the eldest princess' acupuncture points.

After a while, the Eldest Princess felt her headache subside a little bit. Although the chills continued, she was able to open her eyes and look at him. She tried her best to smile and said in a weak voice, "Thank you!"

"Princess, how do you feel now?"

The eldest princess gritted her teeth: "The headache is better, but I still feel nauseous... My body is very cold..."

At this time, a blizzard was blowing outside the tent, causing the tent to fall sideways, and the snowflakes that got in got bigger, and soon covered everything in the tent, including Du Wenhao's body, which was covered with white snow.

The eldest princess was even shivering from the cold, and curled up under the quilt.

Du Wenhao is also very cold, he himself is like this, not to mention the eldest princess who is still having a fever and chills, if this continues, I am afraid that her condition will deteriorate very quickly, so she must find a way to keep her warm.

Du Wenhao ran back to his tent, brought a package, and there was a change of clothes in it. He took them out and stuffed them into her quilt, and then wrapped her and the quilt tightly with a long robe.This strengthens the insulation layer and wraps it tightly again, and it will feel better.

At this moment, a stern howl of the storm swept over the head, the tent was overturned with a whoosh, and wrapped in the wind and snow, it instantly sank into the darkness.The angry wind lamp was also swept away, but fortunately the quilts on the two of them were tightly wrapped by Du Wenhao just now, so they were not swept away.

The barking of their hounds could be heard in the distance, and the attendants shouted: "The eldest princess! Lord Du! Where are you...?"

Du Wenhao struggled to raise his head, squinted his eyes and looked around, but couldn't see anything in the black hole.Judging from the shouts of the attendants, they should also be outside the tent, presumably their tent was also swept away by the strong wind, so they searched for the two of them.I'm afraid that his own tent will not escape bad luck.

Du Wenhao shouted loudly: "We are here! The eldest princess and I are fine! The eldest princess is ill, and our tent was blown away. Hurry up and find it!"

The attendant agreed loudly, and searched for the tent down the direction of the wind.

After a while, the attendant's voice came from not far away in the dark night: "Master Du, the tent is nowhere to be found. I don't know where it went. Our tent is gone!"

Du Wenhao's heart turned cold, it's over, in this icy and snowy field, the blizzard is so big, there is no tent to block the wind and snow, and he must freeze to death in the snow.

The eldest princess squirmed a bit, stuck her head out of the quilt, and asked Du Wenhao nervously, "What should I do?"

Du Wenhao gritted his teeth: "What else can we do? Go back and spend the night in the last village we passed by! Otherwise, we will freeze to death in the snow!"

"okay……"

"You wrap the quilt tightly, the quilt can help you keep out the cold. I will help you get on the horse later."

Du Wenhao loudly ordered his attendants to bring the horse over, and walked back to the last village.

At this time, the blizzard was a little bit weaker, and the attendants hurriedly took advantage of the glimmer of light reflected by the white snow to lead Du Wenhao and the eldest princess' horse, and helped Du Wenhao help the eldest princess who was wrapped in a quilt onto the horse.

The eldest princess was sitting on horseback, swaying constantly in the strong wind, and the quilt was quickly scattered.

Du Wenhao said: "The eldest princess is very ill, so I'm afraid she won't be able to sit still. We have to tie the princess to the horse."

The attendants hurried over to help, let her lie on her stomach, tied the eldest princess and the quilt on the horse's back with ribbons, and Du Wenhao pulled the horse.

After getting ready, two guards explored the way in front, three guards guarded behind, and Du Wenhao walked in the middle.

After leaving the grove and returning to the official road, the light will be a little brighter, and the blizzard is still raging. The mountain road is covered with snow, and the edge can't be seen at all. If you don't pay attention, you may slide downhill again.

The guards all got off their horses, and led the horses carefully groping forward.A guard came over and took Du Wenhao and the others by the horse's head, leading them forward.

The wind and snow are getting bigger and bigger, whistling from time to time, and branches and small stones are often rolled up and hit the face and body, causing pain.The road was extremely difficult, and under the blizzard, Du Wenhao felt his whole body was about to freeze.

After traveling for half an hour, the blizzard was getting bigger and bigger, turning the whole world into a mess. I couldn't see the road at all, so I had to stop and wait.

Suddenly, amidst the wind and snow, a huge object appeared above their heads and shot down at them overwhelmingly.

Du Wenhao and the others had no time to dodge, and were immediately covered by the huge object.

Du Wenhao was frightened half to death, but soon found that he was not dead, but his body was heavy, and he touched them with his hands, and found that the snow on the trees was blown up by the strong wind, forming a big ball, hitting their heads and covering their faces. body.

Fortunately, it was only snow on the trees. If there was an avalanche on the mountain, it would be buried under it.

Du Wenhao loudly reminded everyone to be careful, so they all walked forward with fear and difficulty, and greeted each other.

Du Wenhao paid attention to reminding others, but he didn't notice that his foot slipped and he slid towards a slope.

Thankfully he had a firm grip on the reins.That's why I didn't slide down the slope.It was an unusually smooth slope, and once it slipped down, it would be submerged in the wind and snow, and it would lose contact with the eldest princess and the others.That would be horrific.

Du Wenhao pulled the rein with lingering fear, and pulled himself up.

He held the reins fast with one hand and the saddle with the other.

The eldest princess said with all her strength: "The wind and snow are so heavy, we have to find a place to hide from the snow, otherwise we will freeze to death."

Du Wenhao said angrily: "You think I don't want to find a place to hide from the wind and snow? But there must be one!"

The eldest princess said: "Isn't it resourceful? Think of a way!"

Du Wenhao said: "How about we find a leeward place and dig a hole to drill into the snow cave, which should be able to withstand the wind and snow."

The eldest princess said happily: "I think this method is possible, so let's quickly find a shelter from the wind."

Du Wenhao loudly ordered the guards behind to look for shelter from the wind.However, the visibility was almost zero during the snowstorm, and the wind and snow were too heavy. They looked around for shelter from the wind like chickens without their heads, but they couldn't find it.

As he was walking forward, suddenly, a storm swept across with snowflakes, and a broken branch was rolled up. It flew towards Du Wenhao with a pounce, and pierced the eye of Du Wenhao's claret horse!

The bay red horse neighed long, and the man stood up, almost throwing the eldest princess on his back off the horse.Fortunately, Du Wenhao was holding on tightly to the horse's reins, and the eldest princess was tightly tied to the horse's back.

But a bigger danger appeared, the bay red horse was startled suddenly, let out a burst of neighing, rushed forward, kicked off its hooves, and rushed down the hill!
Du Wenhao couldn't let the eldest princess be taken away by the frightened horse alone. In desperation, he grabbed the rein with one hand and the saddle with the other. He stuck his whole body to the side of the horse, and rushed into the wind and snow with the horse.

The mountains in this area are not too high, between the hills and the mountains, the slope is not too steep, and the bay red horse will not fall down under the fast gallop.

There was no time for the guards to stop this sudden change. Before they came back to their senses, the bay red horse had already taken the eldest princess and Du Wenhao into the blizzard like arrows and disappeared.

Several guards were so frightened that they got on their horses and chased after him.Chasing down the hillside indiscriminately, shouting until his voice was hoarse, except for the whistling of the blizzard, he couldn't hear the answer.

The horseshoe prints left by them could not be found in the dark night, and, in a snowstorm, the horseshoe prints would be obliterated in an instant.The guard with the hounds thought of using the hounds to track them down, but in this blizzard, the smell left behind was also blown away in an instant. The hounds could only raise their necks and bark into the night sky and snow. There was nothing they could do.

Du Wenhao held on to the saddle and reins tightly, unable to free his hands to take care of the eldest princess on his back. He could only hope that the ribbon was strong enough to prevent the eldest princess from being knocked over.

The bay red horse sometimes climbs the hillside, sometimes dives into the valley, and gallops in the dark night in the storm.

(End of this chapter)