Thirteen prisons

Chapter 30
"You really don't want to eat it? The skewers here are really delicious."

The three of them were sitting in a small shop. Lin Jing watched them while putting many skewers with meat and vegetables on them into the steaming hot pot.

Zhou Yuan and Hu Dongdong shook their heads in unison.They didn't expect Sichuan people to love hot pot so much, Lin Jing actually brought them to eat skewers at noon.This thing seems to be no different from a hot pot. There is a thick layer of peppercorns and peppers floating in the pot, which looks very scary.The two people's throats are still burning. Zhou Yuan looked at the bottom of the pot that was gradually boiling, thinking that if he ate it again, the chili pepper would burn him directly before the strange disease occurred.

"Here's a bunch of beef. If you don't eat this in Sichuan, it's nothing." Lin Jing picked up a bunch of beef and handed it to Zhou Yuan. Zhou Yuan didn't dare to take it, and waved his hand to refuse.She passed it to Hu Dongdong again: "Are you men?"

Hu Dongdong was so excited by Lin Jing, he didn't want to lose face, he unbuttoned two shirt buttons, took it and stuffed it into his mouth: "Joke! This thing is just an appetizing snack."

"You're still refreshing." Lin Jing praised, then rolled her eyes at Zhou Yuan.

The atmosphere became active, and Zhou Yuan also took a bunch.But it tasted much stronger than boiled fish. When he took a bite, he felt like a fire had entered his mouth, and his tongue immediately lost consciousness.

Lin Jing smiled and took a glass of cold beer and handed it over: "It's like this for the first time, drink some of this to relieve the spiciness!"

Zhou Yuan hastily drank a big sip of beer, looked up and found that Lao Hu was holding the cup and had already finished the cup, and he kept sucking in his breath. Compared with Lin Jing, who kept his expression unchanged after a string of strings, he looked even more embarrassed, and couldn't help but Laugh out loud.The atmosphere also became lively.

After all, Zhou Yuan just had a meal, he just drank cold beer and ate a bunch from time to time.Looking at Lin Jing with a smile on her face, happily focusing on the delicious food in front of her, she couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Who knew that such a cheerful and smiling girl in front of her would actually try to commit suicide not long ago.

"Do you feel it?" While eating, Lin Jing suddenly stopped and asked.

Zhou Yuan was stunned: "What does it feel like?"

Lin Jing said: "The two of us have the same disease, you don't feel anything when you see me?"

Zhou Yuan was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "Uh...they are all patients, so there is some comfort, does it count?"

"I'm talking about something special, not when Sazi meets a patient." Lin Jing rolled her eyes at him, as if the girl liked to roll her eyes, but she looked very cute when she did this.

"You ask that, do you have feelings?" Zhou Yuan asked back.It is said that Sichuan girls are hot and straightforward, so they will not fall in love with themselves at first sight.

"Don't you feel scared when you see your blood burning?" Lin Jing curled her lips, showing a sly smile, and asked this question seemingly casually.

Zhou Yuan was teased a little too hard by her, but he didn't know how to answer. To be honest, he didn't want to talk about it.Because it reminded him once again that he is not a leisurely tourist, but a "terminally ill" patient who is dying.After thinking for a while, he still answered honestly: "I'm very scared. Because I don't know what will happen to me, whether it will be like that Lin He. He was right in front of me..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuan suddenly remembered that Lin He was Lin Jing's elder brother, and quickly shut up: "That's right. Lin He is your elder brother, right? I'm sorry, but I couldn't save him."

"It's all over." When Lin Jing heard Lin He's name, her smile disappeared, and she shook her head lightly, "I should be the one who said sorry to you. If it wasn't for him, maybe you wouldn't have been involved. forced to come here."

Zhou Yuan took a sip of wine and didn't continue to ask.This topic is too heavy, and the atmosphere will only become more and more depressing if it continues, and with my current relationship with her, it should not be enough to discuss life and death at will.Although she seemed to be fine before, but under the cheerful surface, there should be a lot of negative emotions suppressed.

At this time, Lao Hu suddenly kicked Zhou Yuan with his foot. Zhou Yuan followed his gaze and saw a person passing by on the street outside the restaurant. It was Yan Yi.

Zhou Yuan was embarrassed to be caught by the head teacher for skipping class, but Lin Jing didn't seem to realize that Yan Yi's face was unfriendly, and instead greeted him loudly: "Godfather, are you here? Let's eat together!"

There is no way to hide now, Zhou Yuan looked at Yan Yi with a bit of embarrassment as he walked into the store with a cold face.

"Lin Jing, why are you so disobedient? Still drinking?" Yan Yi didn't look at them, but looked at Lin Jing. Although his words were reprimands, his voice was very soft, and he could tell that he was full of doting on Lin Jing.

"I'm sorry godfather, I've been too quiet these days. I really miss this too much." Lin Jing lowered her head with a pitiful look on her face.But Zhou Yuan was keenly aware that her feet under the table were constantly tapping the ground easily.This ghost girl is obviously pretending to be pitiful in front of Yan Yi.

"You have just recovered, eating these is not good for you. Let's go, go back." Yan Yi looked at the steaming hot pot and frowned.

"En." Lin Jing obediently agreed, stood up and walked to Yan Yi's side, looking like a well-behaved and sensible boy.

Zhou Yuan watched from the side a little wanting to laugh, this girl is really like a child, and she is also a typical double-faced person in front of adults.

After listening to Lin Jing's words, Yan Yi didn't move his eyes, as if he didn't see Zhou Yuan and the others, he pulled Lin Jing around and left.Lao Hu and Zhou Yuan looked at each other: "This old man must think that Lin Jing was kidnapped by us."

Zhou Yuan was also a little helpless, Yan Yi was obviously angry.If it was because of this, if he used some means to treat himself, it would be really wronged.Thinking of this, I was not in the mood to continue eating. After paying the bill, I took Lao Hu back to the small building, and wanted to explain to Yan Yi again.

But back in the small building, Zhou Yuan realized that things were not what he thought.

Yan Yi was indeed angry, but not because Zhou Yuan and Lao Hu took Lin Jing out to eat hot pot, but because of Lu Ming.

Zhou Yuan was a little confused. When they were upstairs in the morning, they were quite normal. I don't know what happened. Now the two of them have thin anger on their faces, as if they had a quarrel.

"What happened?" Zhou Yuan asked Lu Ming secretly.

"There are disagreements on some matters." Lu Ming was reluctant to elaborate, his face was gloomy, and he could see that he was very angry.

Zhou Yuan was a little anxious when this unexpected situation happened.

However, seeing Zhou Yuan's anxious expression, Lu Ming told him the whole story after a while.

The differences between Lu Ming and Yan Yi are mainly in two aspects.The first is the communication after the experiment is completed.After reconfirming the fact of the blood type change, Lu Ming asked Yan Yi for more research materials.After all, Yan Yi's research on this disease has been started a long time ago, but Yan Yi has been going around in circles and is unwilling to hand it over.In other words, if Lu Ming wants to make further progress, he has to start from scratch, which makes him have great doubts about Yan Yi's sincerity.

Another reason is also related to this, Lu Ming is very dissatisfied with such a treatment environment, and refuses to start any treatment for Zhou Yuan without his knowledge.And he was worried that Zhou Yuan and Lin Jing would have problems like Xiaoqing at any time. After all, Zhou Yuan had this kind of situation when he was in the central hospital, but he miraculously recovered when he was in critical condition.Moreover, Zhou Yuan's blood can burn, which Lu Ming saw with his own eyes. Although the medical facilities here are well-equipped, it is too remote after all. If there is any problem between the two of them, the consequences will be very serious.

But what made Lu Ming angry was that Yan Yi didn't take his question seriously.Yan Yi is full of incomprehensible confidence in this, and he promises again and again that there will be no danger again.His attitude made Lu Ming very angry, thinking that he didn't care about Zhou Yuan's life or death at all.

But on the other hand, Lu Ming could confirm that Lin Jing's symptoms were the same as Zhou Yuan's, and believed that Yan Yi would not make fun of his adopted daughter's life, so he did not choose to leave immediately.

But in any case, Yan Yi's self-confidence was unreasonable, so Lu Ming was angry and puzzled.

Zhou Yuan understood the root of their conflict, but felt helpless.From his personal point of view, he also doesn't like receiving treatment in this remote town.But Yan Yi's meaning is obvious. He said that he is the only one who knows how to treat this problem.To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to being pinched by Yan Yi's neck, and it is impossible not to listen to him.Thinking about it, this is also the most fundamental reason why Lu Ming got angry.

After hearing this, Lao Hu didn't express any opinion, but just smoked one cigarette after another.

As soon as Lin Jing came back, Yan Yi locked her in her own room to rest, and she didn't come out for dinner at night, which made Zhou Yuan a little disappointed.However, Yan Yi and Lu Ming replied to the conversation again. It seems that the relationship has eased a lot, and I don't know if Yan Yi finally made some concessions.

Early the next morning, the sky was slightly bright, and a knock on the door woke Zhou Yuan up from his dream.Looking up in a daze, half of Lin Jing's face flashed in from behind the door.

"woke up?"

"What are you doing? It's early in the morning." Zhou Yuan was taken aback.

"Put on your clothes and let me go!" Lin Jing threw something onto my bed.

"Where are you going? What is this for?" Zhou Yuan turned his body sideways and found a pair of labor insurance gloves, feeling a little dazed.

"Go out and play." Lin Jing said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, several black lines appeared on Zhou Yuan's head.He was dragged back by Yan Yi in the street yesterday, and again today?
"Your godfather will kill me!" Zhou Yuan shook his head and refused.

Lin Jing made a cut, and explained with a smile: "Is it a man? I asked you to help. Find some herbs to prepare for tomorrow's treatment. There is a girl, and the godfather is afraid of problems, so he asked you to accompany her." .It's rare."

"Really?" Zhou Yuan was a little dubious.Yan Yi barely talked to them at dinner yesterday, Zhou Yuan was thinking whether it would be better to leave earlier, if it was really Yan Yi's order, it means that he intends to ease the relationship.

"Fake!" Lin Jing gave him another look.

Zhou Yuan looked at her, trying to see something from her face, but this girl was very strange, and he didn't know which of her words was true and which was false, so there was nothing he could do about her.After thinking for a while, he raised his voice and shouted: "Old Hu, Lao Hu~" He wanted Lao Hu to go with him, but Lin Jing said: "He went out early in the morning, and I came here when I saw him get up in the living room I'm looking for you. You're the laziest." He suddenly chuckled and said, "It's so interesting that such a big guy is called Hu Dongdong."

After quickly getting dressed and washing up, Zhou Yuan followed Lin Jing out the door.

Because it is in the mountains, the small town is still shrouded in a blue mist in the early morning, and it looks very quiet. It will take another hour or two for it to become lively again.Under Lin Jing's guidance, Zhou Yuan followed him up the mountain.

On the way, Lin Jing roughly explained that the herbal medicine she was looking for was a unique local plant called horn root.It can be used as the main ingredient and mixed with other medicines to make a plaster, which has a certain effect on lowering body temperature.

Zhou Yuan suddenly remembered that when he was in the central hospital, he also received strange plaster treatment, but later thought he was being fooled, so he didn't take it to heart.I didn't expect to hear Lin Jing's meaning, but this thing actually has a certain effect?Zhou Yuan was a little puzzled, so he asked Lin Jing why the whole body should be covered with that kind of ointment for treatment.Lin Jing looked very surprised: "No need! Godfather just put it on the rash on my body."

Zhou Yuan knew that he had been cheated by Yan Yi, and a group of mud horses galloped past in his heart.Lu Ming also raised doubts about this at the time, presumably Yan Yi did this to cover up his identity and treatment methods.

"That thing only grows under one mountain wall. It is said that the beasts in this mountain are injured, and if they rub against that mountain wall, the wound will heal." Lin Jing explained why she wanted to climb the mountain.From what she said, it was obviously not the first time to go up the mountain to collect herbs.

"It's so amazing, is that mountain blessed by a mountain god or something?"

"Of course not. People in the mountains don't understand, so they say it's the power of ghosts and gods. In fact, it's the plants that grow on the mountain that work. Of course, the minerals in the mountain rock can also play a certain role in stopping bleeding, but That can be replaced by other medicines, we only need the horn root. Godfather analyzed it and said that it is particularly effective in stopping bleeding and healing skin wounds, but we use it to make plasters, not because of this. It can suppress rashes spread, but the godfather did not analyze the specific reason."

When Zhou Yuan heard the function she described, it looked a bit like Yunnan Baiyao, so he said casually: "It's not bad, it's said that there are many treasures in the mountains. If I get some and sell them online, maybe I can make a fortune." Hu Dongdong smacked his lips and said .

"Don't think about it, this kind of thing is only available in the morning, and it will be dry at noon. If you don't process it, it won't take long for the medicinal properties to dissipate after you take it off."

"Oh, let's take a closer look. Rare things are more expensive. You know that ginseng fruit will melt when it hits the ground. It's the same principle as this." Zhou Yuan talked nonsense with her seriously, he rarely walked this kind of mountain road, After walking for a while, my legs felt heavy.Fortunately, talking and laughing with the beauties all the way, you can ignore the physical fatigue.

Soon after entering the mountain, the sun rose, and the scenery along the way began to be beautiful.Zhou Yuan lived in the plains since he was a child. Standing on the mountain at this time, he looked at the towering mountains in the distance, and the clouds and waves rolling between the mountains. The feeling of being distant and ethereal was very shocking, and it was a rare experience.The fresh air and the tranquility of the mountains made him feel much better.

After walking like this for more than an hour, I came to the bottom of a mountain peak.

This mountain is very strange. Looking up, it looks like a huge staircase with a layer of tens of meters. It is like a landscape painting on the top of the head. It gradually extends above the clouds and mist in the green, black, yellow and white. Seeing this kind of mountain scenery, Zhou Yuan raised his head in admiration.

"Those are the black ones." Lin Jing pointed to the mountain wall and said.Zhou Yuan had seen it a long time ago, but thought that those black traces were the result of natural oxidation of the mountain wall, but she didn't expect that it was the magical horn root in her mouth.

Out of curiosity, Zhou Yuan jumped over in three steps and two steps, reached out and grabbed a handful and sniffed it, but he let out a distorted expression: "Why is there a strange smell?"

"Who made you owe it!" Lin Jing walked over angrily.Zhou Yuan carefully looked at the plant in his hand, and found that it was actually very similar to moss, but it was much more delicate and smooth to the touch, but it smelled fishy, ​​but it didn't hit the nose, it was the kind of earthy smell .

Zhou Yuan rubbed the thing with his hands: "Is this an old folk prescription? I don't know if there is any record of this kind of thing in the Compendium of Materia Medica."

"Where will there be? These are folk remedies in folk remedies." Lin Jing took out white linen gloves from her backpack and put them on: "Hurry up and pick them up, these horns will be dried after going back, so you need to get more."

Zhou Yuan heard from Lin Jing that the thing would dry up and fall off when the sun shines at noon, so he immediately started working.When it was close to noon, I picked up two large backpacks, wrapped them tightly in plastic bags, sprinkled some pure water on them to keep them hydrated, and finally I was done.

After finishing this work, they sat down to rest and eat.The sunshine in the mountains is much gentler than that in the town. Occasionally a small wind blows, even in summer, you can still feel chilly.Lin Jing took out some pickled radish strips and dried tofu. Of course they were all spicy, but they tasted very good. With the white rice, they were so delicious that people couldn't stop eating.

"Sichuan people are really good at making spicy pickles." Although Zhou Yuan was so hot that he couldn't stop drinking water, he still praised him sincerely in the Sichuan dialect he just learned: "I can't see that you are young, and you still have to be good at cooking. .”

Lin Jing covered her mouth and said with a smile: "I don't know. I bought this in the town. Is it a mistake? But Sichuan people like spicy food naturally. Unfortunately, I couldn't eat it during the years abroad. It's really slanderous."

Hearing what she said, Zhou Yuan asked her to talk about things abroad.Lin Jing didn't refuse to talk about what she saw and heard in the United States, which sounded very fresh, and then she talked about her mother somehow, and her tone became flat and calm.

(End of this chapter)