Chapter 60: Wrapped like a Mummy
The night is as dark as ink and the moonlight is as clear as water. In the quiet and peaceful countryside village, the villagers usually gather in groups of three or four to chat after dinner.
Tang Xiaoyun carried Tan Tai Lie on his back and fled here to avoid the pursuing enemies.
His white hair and black marks were too conspicuous. In order to prevent him from being recognized, Tang Xiaoyun took off his robe and covered Tan Tai Lie with it.
As he entered the village carrying Tan Tai Lie on his back, several villagers came towards him, and he quickly turned into a small road.
The Quanzhen Sect must be sending people to look for them everywhere now. In order to avoid complications, it is better to be cautious.
With the dim moonlight, he came to the end of the village, outside a house near the river bank.
He reached out and knocked on the door.
“Knock knock knock!!”
After waiting for a while, candlelight lit up in the house. With the creaking sound of the door opening, an old man's voice, sounding a little vicissitudes of life, came over.
"Who is it?"
Seeing the old man come out to open the door with a tired face and clothes on, Tang Xiaoyun hurriedly said embarrassedly: "Old man, my two brothers are passing by here. It's getting late now. Can you let us stay for one night?"
Hearing this, the old man narrowed his eyes and looked at Tang Xiaoyun. He habitually sniffed his nose and smelled a bloody smell.
He immediately frowned and asked, "What are you doing? Why is there such a strong smell of blood?"
Tang Xiaoyun hid the surprise in his eyes and said calmly, "We are hunters in the mountains. My brother was injured while chasing a bear, so there is a smell of blood."
The old man's frown slowly relaxed when he heard what he said. Seeing that Tang Xiaoyun did not look like a vicious person, even though he still had some doubts in his heart, he still stepped aside to let them in.
"Come in."
"Thank you very much."
Tang Xiaoyun carried Tan Tai Lie on his back and followed the old man into the house. He took Tang Xiaoyun to the door of an empty room and said, "No one has lived in this room. You can stay here for the time being."
"good."
Tang Xiaoyun walked into the house. The room was extremely simple, with only a bed and a table, nothing else.
He laid Tan Tai Lie flat on the bed, and with the help of candlelight, the old man could see clearly that Tan Tai Lie's face was covered in blood.
He was shocked and sighed: "He is injured so badly, is he still alive?"
Hearing the old man's words, Tang Xiaoyun calmly pulled his robe over Tan Tai Lie's face, then said to the old man, "Could you please give me some hot water and a pair of scissors?"
The old man caught a glimpse of Tang Xiaoyun's movements and tactfully didn't ask any more questions. He put down the candlestick in his hand and said, "Yes, wait, I'll get it."
"Thank you very much."
After the old man left, Tang Xiaoyun lifted up his robe and reached out to feel Tan Tai Lie's breath.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the extremely weak breathing sound.
At this time, the system popped up: [This is completely off the mark. I clearly detected that the master's life force was cut off. I didn't expect the Xiu Yuan Dan to be so useful.]
Hearing the system's words, Tang Xiaoyun felt a wave of fear: "Thanks to the Xiu Yuan Dan, otherwise..."
He didn't dare to think about the consequences.
Thinking of the system's previous mention of the Lord God's punishment, Tang Xiaoyun hurriedly asked, "You mentioned the Lord God before. Now that you have broken the rules, what punishment will you face?"
system:……
[Don't worry about that. What the Lord God said sounds scary, but it's actually nothing.]
Tang Xiaoyun could tell that the system was pretending to be relaxed, and he thought the punishment was not easy.
He had always thought the system was unreliable and a deadbeat, but this time he was truly grateful.
"007, thank you, thank you for helping me save him."
Hearing this, the system was moved, feeling like it had finally been affirmed: [Wu... Host, this is the first time you've called me that in such a long time.]
Tang Xiaoyun was stunned. Thinking back to the past, he either called it a system or a scam, and never affirmed it.
"Okay, I'll call you 007 from now on."
Upon hearing this, the system became embarrassed: [007 is my number. In our world of systemic manipulation, we all call it a number. But I'm used to you calling me that, so you don't need to change it.]
"Forget it, whatever you want." Tang Xiaoyun was in no mood to chat with it.
Soon, the old man came back with hot water and scissors.
Placing the basin and scissors on the table, the old man asked, "Do you need anything else?"
Tang Xiaoyun glanced at the wounds all over Tan Tai Lie's body, turned around and asked, "Do you have any medicine?"
The old man was silent for a moment, turned around and left. A moment later he came back with some herbs and said, "We don't have the best medicine for wounds, but we do have this."
"This is..." Tang Xiaoyun knew nothing about herbs.
[Host, this is Panax notoginseng leaf, it has the effect of stopping bleeding.]
The system reminded.
When he heard it could stop the bleeding, Tang Xiaoyun reached out and took it, "Thank you."
The old man thanked him several times after hearing that he had only known him for less than three quarters of an hour. He coughed lightly, turned around and said, "Call me if you need anything."
After the old man left, Tang Xiaoyun crushed the Panax notoginseng leaves, then took off Tan Tai Lie's clothes and applied the crushed Panax notoginseng leaves on the wound.
Then he tore the robe into pieces and wrapped Tan Tai Lie around it again and again, making him look like a mummy.
[Host, your bandaging technique is too...]
Tang Xiaoyun's eyes twitched as he said helplessly, "There's no other way. He has too many wounds. How else can I bandage them?"
The wounds on the body were not so bad, but the cut on the head was a bit tricky.
He picked up a handkerchief, wet it in hot water, wrung it dry, and gently wiped the blood off Tan Tai Lie's face.
Looking at his pale face, Tang Xiaoyun felt a lump in his throat and tears welled up in his eyes.
"It's strange. I wasn't a crybaby before. Why do I cry so easily?"
He raised his hand to wipe away the tears that were about to fall, and gently wiped the bloodstains on Tan Tai Lie's white hair with a handkerchief.
After cleaning, apply the Panax notoginseng leaves on the cut on the head and then wrap it with a cloth strip.
Finally, after feeding Tan Tai Lie a Xiu Yuan Dan, Tang Xiaoyun fell asleep on the edge of the bed.
The next morning, Tang Xiaoyun was awakened by the sound of the door opening.
A young man with short hair and wearing animal fur pushed the door open and walked in, holding a bowl of rice in his hand.
"It's strange. How come there are so many strangers in the usually deserted village?" The boy put the food on the table and muttered to himself.
Hearing this, Tang Xiaoyun's heart moved and he asked, "Brother, are there more people in the village?"
Hearing this, the young man glanced at Tang Xiaoyun and the person wrapped up like a dumpling on the bed, and said, "Yeah, those people weren't here yesterday, and their clothes were weird too, all the same. It seems like they've been here since you entered the village..."
The young man paused, as if suddenly remembering something. He stretched out his finger and moved it back and forth between Tang Xiaoyun and Tan Tai Lie, saying, "Could they be here to look for you?!"
Tang Xiaoyun pretended to be calm on the surface, but in his heart he admired the boy's quick thinking. At the same time, he was also panicked that the Quanzhen Sect people found this place so quickly.
"Brother, we brothers are just hunters in the mountains. We don't know the person you are talking about."
Seeing Tang Xiaoyun's denial, the young man chuckled and said in a pretentious manner, "I understand, I understand. You don't look like hunters when you're dressed like that. But don't worry, I won't tell anyone about what happened here."
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