Song Yi

Chapter 272
The wind was howling, the sky was full of snowflakes, and it was impossible to see clearly in the dark night. Two lives were now tied under the four hooves of this bay red horse.Fortunately, the eldest princess on Du Wenhao's back was fastened quite firmly, and after such a long period of violent bumps, she did not fall off.

He wanted to rein in the horse, but the rein was not in his hand, and he didn't dare to stand up and touch the horse's head to find the rein. He was afraid that he might not be able to find the horse's head in the dark night. The two fell off their horses.

He also tried grabbing the saddle with one hand and pulling back the mane with the other, trying to stop the horses, but not only was it useless, but it made the horses romp more frantically and nearly threw them off.I had no choice but to hold on to the saddle beam tightly and lie on my stomach as far forward as possible, not daring to move.

Running all the way, while Du Wenhao was frightened, a thought that seemed a little funny at the moment popped up in his head - he really looked like Chang Shan Zhao Zilong in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fighting with thousands of troops behind his back, Now this frightened bay red horse is galloping wildly on the snowy hillside. If one inadvertently bumps into a cliff, or falls into a valley, or trips and hits his head on a rock or a tree trunk, he will die. This danger is no less dangerous than Zhao Zilong entered and exited Cao Cao's thousands of troops seven times.

He didn't dare to jump, so he could only pin his hopes on this horse. The horse should be psychic, and the horse should also cherish its own life. fall.Running wildly all the way, he didn't hit anything. If it wasn't for the horse being able to see the road, it was the wilderness.

At this moment, he would rather believe in the former, than dare to play with his head and the life of the eldest princess, taking a risky gamble on the vault.

From time to time, he yelled wildly to remind the eldest princess to let her hug him tightly. In fact, he didn't need to tell her. The eldest princess was already hugging his waist tightly, her face against his back, like a hundred-year-old vine wrapped around an old tree. It stuck to his body like a suction cup.

The bay red horse galloped for an unknown amount of time with the two of them on its back. Finally, what he was most worried about happened.

When the bay red horse ran up a slope, he felt the bay red horse suddenly fall forward!Is this the so-called stumble?
When he was galloping earlier, he had already thought about what to do if the horse stumbled, but now that he really encountered it, he had a plan in his head, and he rushed forward sideways, so as to prevent the horse from turning over and pressing them down. At the same time, he put his hands together Pushing forward, he fell into the snow with a plop.

The snow was very thick, even though he was pushing forward with his hands, the huge forward force still knocked half of his body into the snowdrift, and he rowed for a distance of one or two feet like a plow plowing the field in spring, and then stopped down.

He felt his head buzzing from being bumped, and stars burst out in front of his eyes.This is a concussion symptom of a violent impact.

He struggled to pull his head out of the snowdrift, shook it twice, and suddenly found that there was no weight on his back, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart,—the eldest princess is gone!
This scared him out of his wits, he turned his head and shouted, "Eldest Princess! Eldest Princess! Where are you?"

There was only the howling blizzard above his head, and the screams of horses not far away, but there was no answer from the eldest princess. He stretched out his hands in horror and pawed around, except for the cold snow or snow!

He sat up suddenly, calm down, must calm down!He was panting heavily, trying to calm himself down——he fell forward and rushed out. Under the action of inertia, the eldest princess should have jumped out from the top of his head, which should be in front of him!

How stupid!In a panic, I didn't even think of this, I just groped behind me!He knelt and crawled a few steps on the snow, and finally, with the faint reflection, he saw a black shadow on the snow a few steps away.Fumbled over and grabbed a foot!

"Eldest Princess!" Du Wenhao was pleasantly surprised, and as he touched it, it was indeed the Eldest Princess' limp body.He hurriedly pulled her into his arms, shook her vigorously and shouted, stretched out his fingers to pinch her acupoint.

After a while, I finally heard the eldest princess groan.

The eldest princess is still alive!

Du Wenhao was ecstatic: "Princess, how are you? What's wrong?"

"Headache..., the head hurts...!" the eldest princess moaned weakly.

Fortunately, the snow was very thick, and the quilt on the eldest princess was not thrown off, so there was no fall or bruise, but the previous concussion of the eldest princess has not been cured, and now she was thrown again, the concussion must have intensified .

He wrapped the eldest princess tightly with a quilt, tied it with a ribbon, and held her in his arms.

The blizzard was like countless devils roaring in the sky in the dark night, waving their claws non-stop in the heavy snow, turning the whole world into a pot of porridge.

The official hat on Du Wenhao's head had fallen to nowhere. Even though he had tried his best to tuck his head into his stomach, the wind and snow kept pouring down his neck, burrowing into his cuffs, hem of his clothes and trouser legs.Let his whole body be soaked in ice water!

His body was frozen like a popsicle, and his thin clothes couldn't stop the erosion of the wind and snow.Not only the coldness of the ice and snow, but the icy storm will blow away the poor heat from the body, multiplying the coldness.Therefore, the time that people can persist in a snowstorm will be much shorter than that in a snowy day without wind.

He gritted his teeth and shivered, hugging the eldest princess tightly, and pressed his chest and abdomen against the brocade quilt, protecting the last position.I tried hard to think about what to do with my already frozen head.

He had to find a place to hide from the wind and snow as soon as possible, otherwise, he would turn into an ice sculpture in less than half an hour!Although the eldest princess is wrapped in brocade, in such a blizzard, I'm afraid she won't be able to survive for an hour!
Safe haven, where is safe haven? !

Calm down, you must calm down, Du Wenhao yelled in his stomach, I worked so hard to come to the Song Dynasty, not to freeze to death here, I am a fucking higher animal, smarter than snakes, voles, and bears, they can To survive in the ice and snow, I will definitely find a way to survive!
Du Wenhao anxiously opened his eyes and looked around, muttering to himself: "Tree hole! It would be great if there was a tree hole, but this dark one can't see it even if there is a tree hole next to it. Damn it, Lao Tzu It's time to return!"

When he was in despair, he suddenly heard the eldest princess in his arms say: "Snow Cave!"

"What?" Du Wenhao lowered his head and asked.

"Snow cave...! Dig..., dig a snow cave!" The eldest princess raised her voice a little, and said slowly with difficulty, "First dig a... snow trough, then dig in sideways, dig a hole that can hold Go down to our hole..., hide in it..., can avoid the wind and snow...!"

yes!Du Wenhao slapped his forehead, why didn't he think of this trick himself!If there is no tree hole, you can make a snow hole!Block the snow with snow!That's what Eskimos do on TV, build snow houses!

The Eskimos build igloos out of ice blocks, and it is too late to make ice now, and their current location seems to be on the mountainside, where the snow only reaches the calf, not enough to dig a snow hole.Get down the valley.

Du Wenhao hugged the wrapped princess in his arms, and walked down the valley with one foot high and one foot low.

The hill they were on was not too high, and the horse had galloped along the slope close to the valley, not far from the valley, so it quickly descended into the valley.

The snow here is already very deep, covering the waist, and I can't even step on it.Du Wenhao put the eldest princess down, and crawled a few more steps inside. Guessing that the snow was deep enough, he frantically dug down the snow trough with his hands.

However, the ice and snow were too cold, and his hands soon became numb. He tucked his hands under his armpits, shivering with cold.I thought that if this continues, I am afraid that if the snow trough is not dug, my hands will be useless, let alone digging a snow hole.

what to do?I have to find tools, how can I find tools in this dark place?Just when he was at a loss, he heard the mournful cry of the bay red horse on the hillside.

Claret horse!
He remembered that Zaohong immediately had a long sword, bow and arrow of the eldest princess hanging on it, which can be used as tools for shoveling snow!
He immediately followed the sound and climbed up the hillside again, and came to the bay red horse. With the reflection of the white snow, he could vaguely see the outline of the horse lying on the snow, with its two front feet turning strangely, probably because it was stepped on by the floating horse while running. In the gully covered by snow, the front leg was broken.

The horse's two legs were broken, and it meant it was doomed in this stormy and icy world. Now that I couldn't protect myself, I didn't have the ability to treat it, and I didn't have the tools and medicines to treat it.He could only pray that it would die auspiciously, even though he knew that the possibility of this was almost zero.

He fumbled to remove the quiver from the horse's back. It was so big that it could be used as a shovel!Forget about the sword, it's too narrow to shovel snow, and if you don't do it well, you'll hurt yourself.

He took the quiver down to the valley again, under the reflection of the snow, he faintly saw a person standing there staggeringly, Du Wenhao was startled, and when he got closer, he realized that it was the eldest princess, who had already got out of the quilt , standing there looking at him.

Du Wenhao hurried over to support her: "What are you doing? Hurry up and get under the quilt! I dug the snow hole soon!"

"No! Let's dig together!"

"Ah? No! You are very ill...!"

The eldest princess suddenly shouted hysterically: "Shut up! You can't do it alone! You don't know how to dig, and it's too late! Let's dig together! I don't want to see you die from exhaustion, and then freeze to death myself! We must live together! We must die together!" die!"

Du Wenhao's heart warmed up: "Okay! Let's dig together!" Grabbing the arrows in the quiver, he pulled it out and handed it to the eldest princess: "You dig with arrow clusters, I will use the quiver!"

Holding her hand, he crawled forward a few more steps, guessing that the snow was deep enough, and began to dig down.

"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools." This sentence is absolutely true. With quiver and arrow clusters as digging tools, the speed is doubled, much faster than hands, at least you don't have to stop because your hands are cold. , especially the quiver, which is long and wide, like a shovel.

According to the arrangement of the eldest princess, the two dug face to face first, and each was responsible for half of it.Du Wenhao was stronger than the eldest princess, and the tools he used were also handy, so he dug quickly. When the progress gap was too big, the two switched places to dig.

Soon, the two dug down a snow trough that was nearly one person tall and shoulder-and-a-half wide.People in the snow trough, like hiding in the trenches, feel that the blizzard whizzing past their heads is not so violent.

The eldest princess gasped and said, "Yes..., it's ok, dig horizontally... horizontally!"

The two began to dig in sideways, the eldest princess was in charge of digging in, and Du Wenhao was in charge of shoveling the snow she dug out of the snow trough with a quiver.The two cooperated tacitly, and soon dug a hole in the snow.The eldest princess went in to dig, while Du Wenhao continued to shovel the snow outside.

I don't know how long it took to fight, and a snow cellar was finally completed.

When the eldest princess got out of the quilt earlier, she knew the importance of the quilt and could not lose it, so she stuffed the brocade quilt in the bushes with snow emerging, so it was not swept away by the snowstorm.They ran to fetch it and spread it on the snow cellar floor. The two of them sat cross-legged, feeling that their skeletons were about to fall apart.

But the hole that came in was still open, and the wind and snow were still pouring in.

Du Wenhao anxiously asked the eldest princess what to do.The eldest princess asked him to block the entrance of the cave with something, and after a while the snow trough would be completely filled by the wind and snow.

Du Wenhao hurriedly took off his official robe, blocked the opening of the cave, nailed the official robe to the snow wall with a spiked arrow, and pressed the snow underneath.

After a while, no more wind and snow rolled in.I can't even feel the cold wind from the gap.Du Wenhao lifted the official robe a little, reached in and touched it, and the hole was gone.Carefully took off the official robe, pushed it with his hands, and the original hole was completely covered with snow.The snow trough outside must have been reburied by the wind and snow.

Du Wenhao was a little nervous: "Princess, how do we get out later? We won't be suffocated inside, right?"

In the dark, I heard the Eldest Princess say weakly: "No..., the snow is breathable, so it's okay to be bored for a day like this. When the time comes, dig up and you can get out..."

Du Wenhao was still worried, thought for a while, and said: "How about I use the arrow cluster to dig a small hole upwards for ventilation, okay?"

"It's up to you..." The princess's voice was weak.

Du Wenhao stabbed upwards with the cluster of arrows until the end, and when he drew it back, there was no wind blowing in. It seemed that the snow outside was thick enough, and he was a little worried, so he said, "Shall we go further up? The snow is too thick!"

"If you want to die, just dig it..."

"What do you mean?"

"If the snow layer above is too thin, it will..., it will collapse, and it will be over at that time..., I can..., I don't have the energy to dig a second snow hole..."

"Oh, have you ever lived in a snow cave?"

The eldest princess didn't answer, but moaned weakly: "I..., I'm so cold..., cough cough... cough cough cough"

Only then did Du Wenhao recall that the Eldest Princess suffered from a cold and strong fever, and now she has been frozen in the ice and snow for half a night, exhausted and dying, her condition must have worsened, and now she has a cough, has it caused a lung infection?

Aversion to cold, fever, arthralgia, floating tight and strong pulse, these are the typical characteristics of Taiyang typhoid syndrome! ——Sweat must be produced to release the surface, ventilate the lungs and protect the lungs, unimpeded the ying yin, and let the cold evil go out from the sweat.To treat this disease, use ephedra soup!The medicine of Mahuang Decoction is easy to collect, and it should be available in the nearby mountains, but now there is a snowstorm outside, there is no choice but to wait for the dawn and the snowstorm to stop before going.

I don't have any medicine at hand, I don't even have acupuncture needles, so I am helpless.He hugged the trembling eldest princess and said, "Lie down, keep warm first!"

The eldest princess's body was limp, trembling like sifting chaff, and coughing in a low voice from time to time, without any resistance, she lay down along his hand.

The eldest princess's brocade quilt was relatively wide. Du Wenhao lay on one side with his arms around the eldest princess, and rolled the other side to cover the two of them. It just covered them, and his body quickly warmed up, because the eldest princess was strong and hot. , like a stove.

Du Wenhao hugged her tightly, feeling her body shaking violently, knowing that she must sweat in the cold, but the walls are empty, and she can't even let her drink hot water to sweat, there is no other way but to hug her tightly , to help him resist the cold.

However, a new crisis has arrived.

Du Wenhao heard that the eldest princess was silent for a long time, so he hurriedly shook her and asked, "Eldest princess, how do you feel?"

The eldest princess said drowsily: "I..., I don't feel well..., I'm so sleepy..., I'll sleep for a while..."

Du Wenhao was shocked. Although the ice cave can avoid the blizzard outside, the ice cave is still an ice cave after all, which is equivalent to living in a refrigerator. The temperature is still very low. You can’t sleep at this time. If you fall asleep, you may never wake up Come on, there are many such cases when the Red Army commander climbed the snow mountain.Gotta keep her awake.

Du Wenhao reached out and patted her face: "Hey! Princess, don't sleep, if you fall asleep, you will be finished. Be awake, and find a way to stay awake!"

"I..., I'm so sleepy, I'll sleep for a while..." the eldest princess murmured.

Du Wenhao clapped and twisted again, but the voice of the eldest princess was getting lower and lower, and she was woken up by him several times when she fell asleep, and fell asleep again after being woken up.

Du Wenhao said anxiously: "Don't sleep! Talk to me, or you will die!"

"Ah?" The eldest princess also knew the danger, but she couldn't bear the drowsiness and murmured, "Speak? What are you talking about?"

"Well, let's talk about how you know about making ice caves!"

"Ice cave? It's... I learned it from the local people when my husband and I were in Qinzhou."

"Is your husband treating you well?" Du Wenhao had nothing to say.

"Okay! Very good! But..., I don't know why... it happened like that...cough cough cough..." The princess's voice was low and dim, recalling the past, her husband was raped and beheaded by everyone because of his involvement in the case of collusion with the enemy, but she was the only one who got it. Forgiveness, feeling sad, coughing repeatedly.

When Du Wenhao heard her talking about this matter, his mood was agitated. Although his words were a little choked up, his drowsiness seemed to be much less, and he knew the right way, so he used words to seduce her: "Princess, I have never been to Qinzhou. I heard that That place is close to Xixia Kingdom, can you tell me something interesting about where you are?"

"There's nothing funny, there's just sadness..."

"I don't believe it. If you're stumped, there's nothing to be happy about?"

"No..." The princess's words faded again.

Du Wenhao was anxious, and quickly pushed her: "I heard that the flowers over there are very beautiful, can you sing it to me?"

"Flowers? What flowers?"

"Northwest flowers. Oh, it's your Qinzhou folk song."

The name Northwest Hua'er was first recorded in the Ming Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the Northwest folk song was not called Hua'er, so the eldest princess didn't know it.He smiled and said, "Oh, folk songs—you big man also likes to sing folk songs?"

"I like to listen to it, but I don't dare to sing because of my bad voice, but I really like the flowers in the northwest. I can still hum a few words!"

"Yeah?" The eldest princess tried to smile in the darkness, "Then I'll listen to you sing a few lines."

"Well, good! But, you can't laugh at me if you don't sing well." Hua'er has a high-pitched voice with a high-pitched voice, perfect for waking up and dozing off.Du Wenhao cleared his throat, opened his voice and sang in a high-pitched voice:

"There was a mutiny in Lanzhou City,

The gates of the four cities are locked;
My sister Ga's heart has changed,

Big eyes can't recognize me. "

The eldest princess laughed out loud: "Is this called Hua'er? It's obviously a folk song."

"Then can you sing?" Du Wenhao deliberately led her to talk to him.

"Yes!"

"Sing it and let me listen to it, so as not to fall asleep."

"Okay then! What song should I sing, let me think about it first..." After a while, the eldest princess also tried to keep herself awake. She cleared her throat and sang softly:
"The crescent knife held by Master Guan,

Huarong Road cut Cao Caoli;
Today's people, you are on guard,
Such kindness should be revenged! "

Du Wenhao applauded exaggeratedly and said with a smile: "Okay! The eldest princess has a melodious voice, and she can't stop singing for three days. Not only is the voice good, but the song is also good! In this day and age, we have to guard against those who will repay their kindness with revenge." Well, I used to practice medicine, but I have encountered this kind of person quite often. You treat him with good intentions, but he relies on you to say that the cure is bad, and wants to extort your money. You treat him with good intentions for a disease that is mortal. Of course, the possibility of the disease being cured is extremely slim, so you can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. It’s okay to say that it’s cured, but if it’s not cured, some black-hearted people will blackmail you. Alas!”

The eldest princess said quietly: "Yes, people's hearts are not old when the world is going down."

Du Wenhao laughed, thinking that these words are heard a lot in modern society, why did some people say that in the Song Dynasty.It seems that nostalgia for the ancient style is not the monopoly of modern people, and some ancient people also miss the ancient people. As long as people are dissatisfied with the reality, they will use the past to illustrate the present.

Du Wenhao's purpose was to get the eldest princess to talk, seeing that she was very familiar with Hua'er, and he liked her tone very much, he put his arms around her back and patted her, saying: "Eldest princess, please teach me a few more flower songs. , it’s your folk song, I want to learn it, okay?”

The eldest princess also knew Du Wenhao's intentions, agreed, and curled up in his arms, humming softly, teaching and learning a sentence.Du Wenhao was tired of listening to her singing, so he sang some modern folk songs to her, such as "Half Moon Climbing Up", "Jasmine Flower", and "Kangding Love Song". Let him teach himself to sing.

(End of this chapter)