"Are you still thirsty?"
Daina looked at Li Rui with a faint smile. Her pale lips were red from the intense exercise just now.
Li Rui was amused. So the water she was talking about was this kind of water. Alright, even though he didn't exchange too much, it stimulated him to secrete quite a bit. Moreover, because of the excessive secretion of adrenaline, he was in a state of excitement and didn't feel thirsty. He nodded and said, "I think we can continue on our way." After that, he turned his back to her and bent down.
Carrying her on his back, he quickly walked into the winding canyon between the two mountains. Li Rui's gaze landed on something on the ground and suddenly became excited. He shouted, "We can get out!"
Daina's little head was completely on his shoulder and swayed up and down as he walked. Her eyes were closed and her face was red. She looked helpless and pitiful. She leaned on Li Rui's back and didn't move. She looked as if she had fainted. However, after hearing Li Rui's words, she quickly opened her mouth and asked, "Why … why do you say that?"
Li Rui chuckled and said, "Look at the ground. There's a line of sheep dung on the ground. It means that the people who herded the sheep went in and out of here. This also means that this place leads to the village outside. Haha, hold on a little longer. We'll be able to get out soon."
Daina mumbled an "oh" and closed her mouth again.
At this time, the sky was dark and there were only about ten minutes left before it completely turned dark. Li Rui couldn't help but quicken his steps. This canyon was formed by the mountain torrents and was equivalent to a river channel. It was full of strangely shaped, hard and sharp gravel. Fortunately, people and animals often came and went here. They stepped on the grass beside the river channel to create a winding path. Even though there were gravel on the path, they were relatively small and most of them were soil. Therefore, Li Rui didn't feel uncomfortable walking on it. However, he would occasionally step on a gravel and it would hurt for a while.
"Why did you … kiss me just now?"
As they walked, Li Rui asked. He had long wanted to know Daina's motive. He also wanted to use this question to boost her spirit and prevent her from fainting. No matter what the reason was, it was definitely not better than being awake.
Daina didn't open her eyes and only showed a dry smile. She gathered some strength and said, "You … helped me … behind my back. I … cough … of course I have to reward … you."
Li Rui said, "But two nights ago, you wanted to kill me?"
Daina gasped for breath and said, "I won't … I won't … kill … kill you."
Li Rui smiled bitterly and said, "Then you won't be able to complete the mission? Your professional ethics will be stained. Don't tell me you … "
Before he finished his words, he felt a weight on his shoulder. Daina suddenly dropped her chin and hit his shoulder. His heart skipped a beat and he hurriedly stopped. He turned his head and saw that she had fainted and was unconscious. He tried to call her, "Daina, wake up. Daina, can you hear me …?"
Daina had fainted and couldn't hear him.
Li Rui's nose was sour. He tried to hold back the tears in his eyes and took a deep breath. He strode forward.
After walking for another two hundred meters, the canyon was still not over, but it was not far from the exit. The canyon had become very spacious and there were forests and wastelands. Although it was hard to see clearly in the night, it could be estimated that this place was not far from the village.
"Hmm? There's a light there? "
When Li Rui looked around, he suddenly saw a light at the foot of the mountain in the northeast. The light was not very bright, but it was very obvious in the night. If there was a light, there must be someone. He was overjoyed and almost ran over.
When he got closer, Li Rui was a little disappointed. He thought that there was a decent person living here. He didn't know that it was just a stone house with walls made of mountain rocks and thatched roofs. There was a window on the left side of the stone house with a plastic sheet hanging on it. The light came from the window. On the right side of the stone house was a broken wooden door with a single door. At this time, the wooden door was wide open and there was some light coming from inside.
"Is anyone there?"
Although Li Rui didn't have any hope in this house, he still wanted to ask the person inside for a drink. He also wanted to know how far it was to get out of here.
He shouted three or four times and a person came out from the wooden door of the stone house. His appearance and clothes couldn't be seen clearly in the night. He could only vaguely tell that he was a man from the way he walked.
This person didn't say anything when he came out. He only looked at Li Rui and Daina who was on his back.
Li Rui said, "Friend, me and my … my girlfriend went into the mountain to play and was accidentally bitten by a leopard. It wasn't easy for us to escape and now we want to go to a village outside for treatment. How far is it from here to the village outside?"
The person said in a wooden voice, "It's about seventeen or eighteen li away from the nearest village." He didn't speak in the local dialect, but it wasn't too far off.
Li Rui was shocked. He had carried Daina down the mountain for several hours and only walked a total of four or five li. If there was still seventeen or eighteen li, then he wouldn't be able to finish walking even if he walked until the next day. Besides, he couldn't last that long. He frowned and asked, "Why is it so far?"
The person said in a daze, "It's just that far."
Li Rui cursed in his heart and muttered, "Then what about my friend's injury? Her wound is infected and she's heating up. If she doesn't get treatment in time, she might not make it through the night. Do you have a phone here? Or a means of transportation? "
The person shook his head and said, "I don't have anything here. Other than a flashlight, I don't have any electrical appliances."
Li Rui cursed again and said unhappily, "If you don't have anything here, then why are you still here?"
The person didn't care about this complaint and said, "Let me see your girlfriend's injury."
Li Ruixin moved his head and said, "Okay, no problem. Can you treat it?" As he said this, he carefully put Daina down and hugged her.
The man went back to the stone house and took out a candle. Li Rui untied the bandage on Daina's injured arm and lifted it to show him. Under the candlelight, he could see clearly that the skin around the four punctures was swollen, black and red. At first glance, he could tell that the infection was very serious.
The person used the fingers of his left hand to gently press around the hole. After a while, he finally squeezed out some blood. The blood was bright red and there were no other impurities. The person nodded and said, "Luckily, it's not very serious. I have some herbal medicine here. If you apply it to her wound, it will remove the poison. Give her more water to reduce the fever. She should be able to make it through the night. Don't carry her out of the mountain. It's too dark and you won't be able to go out."
Li Rui was very happy to see that he had a way to treat Daina. However, he was not without doubts and asked, "She was bitten by a leopard. Leopards have a lot of germs on their teeth. Can ordinary Chinese medicine kill them? Also, what if there's rabies? "
The person said, "This is Chinese medicine. I don't pay attention to germs or viruses. I also know about rabies. It shouldn't exist in wild leopards. There are leopards in the mountains. They ran out of the mountains. Their shepherds said that they saw them. They even ate two lambs. "
Li Rui suddenly realized that the two leopards ran out of the mountains. They probably thought that it was too troublesome to hunt in the mountains, so they ran to the mountains near the human settlements to make a living. There were cows and sheep to hunt here, and there were also dogs, pigs, chickens, ducks and other domestic animals. In short, it was very easy to find a place to eat. They accidentally came to the mountain where Qingtai Temple was located and found the cave on the cliff at the back of the mountain, so they used it as their nest. Today, when they walked into the stone room, they alerted the leopards who had extremely sensitive hearing and smell. The leopard went around the cave from the nest and rushed to the stone room. In the end, it attacked them who had accidentally entered its territory. In its eyes, they were a threat to its territory, so it naturally wanted to bite them all to death.
He understood this point and secretly sighed at God's design. Although the four of them were blessed with great luck and finally found the Buddha's sarira, God secretly arranged another coincidence for him and Daina to face the attack of the two leopards. It was just like the old saying, "Misfortune is a blessing in disguise." Alas, God really didn't have any favor for him.
The person asked, "Do you want to cure your girlfriend? If you do, quickly carry her into the house. "
Li Rui hesitated for a moment. He knew that he couldn't carry Daina for seventeen or eighteen miles at night even if he was exhausted, let alone in the complicated area where mountains and plains intersected. In this case, he could only stay with this kind person for the night and receive treatment. They could leave the mountain at dawn tomorrow. He nodded and said, "Okay, thank you. By the way, may I ask your name?"
The person said, "I'm a monk. I don't need a common name. You can call me whatever you want." Then he turned and walked into the stone house.
Li Rui was stunned. After a while, he recovered and caught up with him. He said, "My name is Li Rui. You should be older than me. You can call me Xiao Li."
Walking into the stone house, Li Rui found that such a small stone house was divided into two rooms. The outer room was the place for boiling water and cooking. The stove was the simplest of earthen stoves built with mountain rocks. The other cooking utensils such as iron pots, clay pots, bowls and chopsticks were the most old-fashioned. The inner room was the bedroom. There was no furniture or electrical appliances in the bedroom. There was only a stone table with candle oil on it. It should be the place where the candle was placed. Under the stone table, there was a layer of hay similar to the size of a single bed. It should be the bed.
The person put the candle back to its original position. He walked to the hay and pointed at it. Li Rui understood what he meant. He bent down and laid Daina flat on it. The person went to the window to get the medicine.
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