Folk Tales: Old Things in the Mountains

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government was corrupt! The Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, various wars and disputes continued, and the lives of the people were like grass and mustard, which can be described as living in the depths of the waters!

There is a village in the south called Pingxi, because it is in a very remote mountainous area, the people here are still quiet and have not been affected by the war. At that time, the traffic in the mountains was closed, and communication was not developed. The people here work at sunrise and breathe in and out. They turned a deaf ear to the outside of the window and lived a self-sufficient, largely isolated life.

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Sixteen-year-old girl Ah Huan is the most beautiful girl in this place. There was no young boy in the village who did not love her. But her flattery to all of them was always faint, and she did not give the slightest response, which made the young boys sad!

Ah Huan's mother was also a rare beauty, married to a foreigner who was far away from Pingxi Village, and the man's surname was Li. His appearance and character are all first-class, and his talented and female appearance has been rumored to be a good story! The Li family is a famous local squire! Because of their rich lives, they were targeted by bandits in the mountains, and the entire Li family suffered. At that time, Ah Huan, who was only half a year old, was still asleep, hidden by her mother in the grass of the horse barn.

The Li family was all killed by the bandits, and only Ah Huan escaped the disaster. When she woke up, she cried incessantly, which attracted the neighbors, and the family was kind-hearted, and had come to Pingxi Village when she helped the Li family pick up relatives. He sent the young Ah Huan to his grandfather's house in Pingxi Village.

Since then, the young Ah Huan, following his grandfather and grandmother, has been living in Pingxi Village. Ah Huan's maternal grandfather knew medicine and was highly respected in the village. Under the guidance of his maternal grandfather, Ah Huan also learned a lot of medical science.

When Ah Huan was fourteen years old, her maternal grandfather went up the mountain overnight to collect medicine in order to save the villagers who had been bitten by poisonous snakes. Because the medicine grew on the cliffs and no one recognized it, Ah Huan's grandfather had to take risks to collect medicine. When he struggled to collect the medicine, he climbed back and accidentally stepped on the air because he relaxed his vigilance and fell off the cliff.

When the villagers found him, he was completely devoid of breath of life. He still clutched the medicine he had collected, and the villager was rescued, while Ah Huan's maternal grandfather left forever. After that, only the family remained, and she and her grandmother were dependent on each other.

In Pingxi Village in autumn, the temperature difference between morning and evening is too large, and there are many villagers who have a cold. On this night, Ah Huan's grandmother suddenly developed a high fever, and the herbs that can be used to reduce fever at home are used by Ah Huan to treat the villagers during the day. Ah Huan took the flint stone and carried the lantern up the mountain to collect medicine overnight.

The mountains at night were full of dangers, and Ah Huan was actually very scared in his heart! But for the sake of her grandmother, she quickly overcame the fear in her heart and walked quickly into the mountains. Ah Huan listened to the sound of the wind blowing in the forest and rustling the leaves, and always felt as if something was following her behind her, which made her fear that she had so hard to suppress doubled out!

Ah Huan went up the mountain to collect medicine all year round, knowing where the medicine she needed to grow was, she walked two steps at the same time, wanting to quickly collect the medicine and go down the mountain. Ah Huan walked too quickly to pay attention to the road, was tripped by a tree stump and fell to the ground, and the lantern was also extinguished! She couldn't feel it everywhere when she got up, and she was carrying a flint stone!

"Ah Huan is you?" When Ah Huan was extremely panicked, a man's voice sounded behind her.

Ah Huan heard it, and the voice was Brother Ah Yu from the same village. She looked back in surprise, looked at Ah Yu who was holding a lantern behind her and said, "Brother Ah Yu, why are you still in the mountains so late?" ”

"I see that you are hurrying into the mountains alone, and the mountains at night are not calm!" I'm a little worried... I went home and got the lantern and followed, I didn't think you were going too fast to catch up with you! Why did you still go into the mountains to collect medicine at such a late hour? ”

"My grandmother has a high fever and can't go away, I have to take medicine back quickly, I can't care so much!" Thank you Brother Ayu, if you hadn't come with me, I would have been in trouble tonight! ”

"You're welcome, you're a girl, and when you encounter such an emergency in the future, you must call someone to accompany you into the mountains, don't do such a risky thing!" Ah Huanlian nodded and said yes! With the help of Ah Yu, Ah Huan quickly collected the medicine and went down the mountain! After her grandmother drank the medicine, the high fever finally subsided.

Ah Yu's grandfather was a foreigner, and he was a good-looking and cultured person. When he fled to the south, he fainted in the mountains. Ah Yu's grandmother was still a young girl at the time, and it was she who saved him, and then they became married! Ah Yu's grandfather was very fond of Pingxi Village, saying that Pingxi Village was a paradise in the midst of chaos, and he became the only teacher in the village.

Ah Yu learned a lot of culture from the teaching of his grandfather, he grew tall and handsome, only three years older than Ah Huan, and has always been very protective of Ah Huan! Because Ah Huan's maternal grandfather fell off a cliff two years ago just to save Ah Yu's grandfather, ah Huan has been interested in alienating Ah Yu since then.

Although Ah Huan also understood that her grandfather's accident was an accident, she was still very embarrassed in her heart. There is no longer any way to get along with Ah Yu's family as warmly as before, and ah Yu is even more alienated!

"Did Ah Yu send you back last night?" Ah Huan's grandmother was in good spirits in the morning, and when she got up and saw Ah Huan sitting in a daze, she asked.

"Is my grandmother better?" Ah Huan did not answer and diverged from the topic.

"Good boy, your grandfather is gone all at once, and I have been deeply saddened, and I have neglected you a lot. When your grandfather was alive, he often said that it was the duty of a medical student to save lives and help the injured. Everything is fate This thing is an accident, it is really no wonder that Ah Yu's grandfather, you and Ah Yu have been very good since childhood, and you should not be separated because of this! Over the years, Ah Yu's family has also been feeling guilty because of this! If we do this again, will we not fail to live up to your grandfather's original intention of sacrificing himself to save others! Ah Huan's grandmother took her hand and said.

"Grandmother is worried! Avoid suspicion because we are all old, if we are tired of being together, it is inevitable that others will laugh! Ah Huan said and lowered his head.

"The people in Pingxi Village are very united and always help each other. When I was pregnant with your aunt, your grandfather went to see someone. Suddenly it rained heavily, and I was anxious about the herbs in the yard, and if I accidentally slipped and fell to the ground, I couldn't get up! If it weren't for Ah Yu's grandmother who happened to pass by, then your aunt might not have come to this world safely! ”

"Grandmother, I understand that it is no wonder that his family, before I was just afraid to see them and think of my grandfather!" Unconsciously, it becomes more and more distant! Uh huh... Uh huh... Whimpering," Ah Huan cried and buried her head in her grandmother's arms.

Since Ah Huan cried that day, his heart knot had opened a lot, and he no longer consciously or unconsciously avoided Ah Yu, which made Ah Yu ecstatic. He has liked Ah Huan since he was a child, and when he was a child, he didn't know anything, but he just looked at her and rejoiced. He himself couldn't remember when he started to have that kind of love between men and women for Ah Huan.

Since Ah Yu got Ah Huan's good looks, he cut firewood for Ah Huan's family for a while, and carried water for a while. Those young boys who thought they still had a chance were also heartbroken by the re-affinity between Ah Yu and Ah Huan, and they thought that they were inferior to Ah Yu, so they gradually stopped thinking about Ah Huan.

There is also an older brother above Ah Yu who has become a relative, and the family is very happy to see that his relationship with Ah Huan is better than before! After discussing together, they decided to let Ah Yu enter Ah Huan's house and raise Ah Huan's grandmother together.

Ah Huan's grandmother was quickly persuaded by Ah Yu's grandmother, and in this way Ah Yu and Ah Huan became intimate! Ah Yu became the pillar of this family, and did not let Ah Huan do any dirty work. He had a strong learning ability, and he quickly learned about medicinal herbs with Ah Huan, and after that, he even went up to the mountain to collect medicines.

Their married lives are considerate of each other, sweet and beautiful, envious of others! A year later, Ah Huan was pregnant, which made Ah Yu surprised and happy, eager to stare at Ah Huan all the time, afraid that she would bump into it! The whole pregnancy ah huan was very smooth, and the following year safely gave birth to a son for Ah Yu. Because Ah Yu's original surname is Gong, Ah Huan's surname is Li, and Ah Yu named the child Gong Li!

When the child was three years old, a villager in the village who had gone down the mountain many years ago and had gone out to wander returned. I just don't know why, he came back for more than ten days and people disappeared!

Then several of the villager's family members suffered from dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea and fever! Then the people in the village, one after another, suffered from dysentery. Ah Huan saw that the anti-diarrhea herbs did not work at all, and she had a bad guess in her heart!

She personally went to the previous one who went out to return, and it wasn't long before the dead villager's home inquired, only to learn that he had died of dysentery, and the family saw that the family had the same disease, and there was also a bad guess, so they told Ah Huan about the situation.

"Brother Ah Yu, you haven't taken your children out lately, and I suspect that what you have this time is not ordinary dysentery but plague!" This virus was probably brought in by the villager who returned from the trip, and now I am afraid that it has spread all over the village! When I was a child, I heard my grandfather mention that I can't cure it at present, and I don't dare to tell everyone the truth, for fear of causing panic! When Ah Huan returned, he used sterilized herbs to fumigrate his whole body several times. Seeing that only Ah Yu was in the room, he spoke.

"Plague! Ah Huan, are you sure? Ah Yu stood up and asked in horror.

"Alas! Eight or nine is not far from ten, ordinary herbs can not stop at all, seeing that there are two people who can't stand it! I don't have any way at all, I can't ask for help in this chaotic world, Pingxi Village is really dangerous this time! Ah Huanlian sighed several times.

"This can't be hidden, until it is really dead again, everyone will understand that things are not simple!" Ah Yu said and frowned. This night Ah Yu and Ah Huan lay together and hugged each other, without a little drowsiness.

Ah Huan asked the villagers to disinfect the herbs at home every day, and although the villagers had doubts, they also did it according to Ah Huan's request. Until the death of people in Pingxi Village one after another, which made people begin to realize the unusualness of things, under everyone's questioning, Ah Huan told everyone the truth.

After that, people are dying every day in Pingxi Village, and people are living in extreme fear! Ah Huan studied the prescription every day and night, but he still didn't see any effect! Ah Huan's grandmother was also taken away by this cholera! She couldn't even care less about her grief and threw herself wholeheartedly into researching new prescriptions.

In less than a month, hundreds of people in the village died! When Ah Yu went to help others carry the body, he was also infected! Ah Huan was desperate, she didn't care to accompany Ah Yu all day, she couldn't study the prescription to save everyone, she also gave up on herself, just wanted to infect herself, so that she could accompany Ah Yu to go.

She and the child accompanied Ah Yu every day, and Ah Yu didn't stay up long and left! Ah Huan and the child were not infected with the virus, which made her sad and confused!

This cholera caused only a few dozen people left in Pingxi Village, where hundreds of people died! After the epidemic, those who survived were particularly grateful! Ah Huan didn't know if this was Heaven's mercy, or because their own immunity was strong, so that they survived this disaster!

Ah Huan lived alone with her children and never remarried in her life! Gong Li is very sensible and looks very similar to Ah Yu, which is also the only comfort for Ah Huan for the rest of his life!

Those who remained in Pingxi Village lost a lot of their relatives due to this cholera. None of them said words of comfort to each other, but became more and more united, helping each other and trying to live! No one has easily gone down the mountain, and no one wants to mention those painful past events, and gradually they are buried in the deepest part of their memories!