[Three Kingdoms] Burning incense and sacrificial wine

Cui Song didn't know the meaning of the "just right" jade cup in his heart. He found his saber in a piece of gravel, took it back, brought over the boiled water and dragged a large pot, Throw in the lit charcoal and use it as a stove.

Even if there is no wind in the late autumn night, the cave is very cold. Although the two are young and vigorous, they can't stand the damp and cold in the cave. Besides, they are both injured, so they have to pay more attention.

Cui Song rummaged through the pile of utensils for a while, and found a heater through his memory, and took the heater back with him.

There is a stove and a heater, which finally drives away a little chill.When Cui Song went back with a stack of fabrics used as quilts, Guo Jia was holding a dagger and was cutting the processed jerky into small pieces.

Cui Song glanced at it, and saw that the blade of the dagger was sharp, cutting iron like mud, and there was no redundant engraving on the body, only the handle was carved with complicated patterns.

When he was looking for the box, he didn't see the dagger, so he thought it was Guo Jia's own.

After Guo Jia finished chopping a small plate, Cui Song took the plate and put it on the steamer to steam.

The steamed jerky was finally not so hard, the two of them filled their stomachs without eating, cleaned up a little, and kept warm around the charcoal fire.

The two of them sat and chatted for a while before they fell asleep.Cui Song recalled what happened in the daytime, caught some doubts, and asked: "Who are those people who chased me outside the cave? They seem to be very hostile to the Han people...and they call the Han people Qin people?"

Cui Song really couldn't call out any insulting title.

Guo Jia paused, took a piece of wood from the side to hold the fire, and carved it with a dagger: "Qin united the six kingdoms, and since then the name 'Qin people' has spread all over the world. Since the great ancestor, everyone has been called 'Han people'." Self-proclaimed. However, some foreigners are still accustomed to the title of "Qin people". The mountains are high and the waters are far away, and they have never changed. There is a tribe on this mountain, who call themselves the Wuwei Huns, and they are of the same lineage as the Northern Xiongnu Zhizhi. They kill Han people when they see them... Guo Jia stopped, "They like to call the Han people 'Qin people' and 'Qin pigs'."

Cui Song whispered: "The people we met were from this family?"

"It should be." Guo Jia put down the dagger and handed the board to Cui Song, "This is the topographic map of the vicinity, please remember it carefully."

Cui Song took the board, dumbfounded.

In terms of technique alone, this is no different from the most exquisite map.

Cui Song turned the topic to the map and stopped talking about those people.

Although Guo Jia didn't have any special reaction this time, he could still feel Guo Jia's rejection of those people... It wasn't pure disgust, but a more intense emotion.

So despite some doubts, Cui Song still didn't want to get entangled in this topic.

Because I moved too much when I first woke up, I hurt my right elbow and broke out in a cold sweat. I didn't feel it when I was busy, but now I calm down and the sweat evaporates, which makes me feel a little colder.

Under the chill, Cui Song sneezed solidly.

Guo Jia glanced at him, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by another sneeze.

Guo Jia added a fire to the stove and waved to him, "Sit closer."

Cui Song rubbed Qi Luo's face, and slowly moved over.

Before he could sit still, Guo Jia wrapped him into a rice dumpling with three layers of cloth.

Cui Song: ...

Guo Jia probed his forehead again to confirm that there was no fever, and stuffed the stove with charcoal fire next to him into his arms.

"It shouldn't be..."

"Prevent the infancy, and worry about it before it's born [1]." Guo Jia wrapped him up again, "I don't know how long I will stay here. If I get sick, I will suffer in vain."

Cui Song struggled to free himself from the "silkworm chrysalis", and also grabbed a ball of cloth and put it on Guo Jia's body, just covering his head: "Brother Guo is right, as the saying goes, it's not rude to come and go..."

In the end, it turned into a farce, and all the fabrics were tangled up, as if there had been a big fight.

After a day of fleeing, he relaxed at this moment, and a deep sleepiness flooded his consciousness.

Wrapped in a "thin quilt", Cui Song leaned against the mountain wall behind him and fell asleep.

Half asleep and half awake, he moved towards the heat source, put a soft cushion on it, and pressed his head over it without hesitation.

Guo Jia, who was being used as a hug pad, reluctantly put down the pliers used to poke the fire, straightened someone's head that had slipped on the ground, leaned firmly on his shoulder, and grabbed the "quilt" that fell to avoid someone's injury hands, tucking them in little by little.

A night without dreams.

When Cui Song was awakened by the urge to urinate and opened his eyes in a daze, he found that his head was leaning on a pillow that was not too hard and not too soft, and at the same time, a heavy object was pressing on his head, making him unable to move.

Cui Song turned his head slightly, and found that the neither hard nor soft pillow was Guo Jia's shoulder, and the heavy object on top of his head was Guo Jia's head.

In this way, he was resting on Guo Jia's shoulder, and Guo Jia was resting on his head. The two leaned on each other, and he couldn't get away.

Once he moved his head away, Guo Jia, who had lost his fulcrum, would definitely fall to the side.It is basically impossible to solve the three urgent problems without waking up the other party.

Cui Song looked at the moonlight and guessed that it was about three o'clock...it was almost one o'clock in the morning, he couldn't help hesitating even more, wondering if he should bear it for a while.

Another burst of drowsiness struck, Cui Song closed his eyes again, and before being summoned by Duke Zhou again, he suddenly heard a slight "beep" sound.

He opened his eyes vigilantly and looked around, but did not notice any abnormalities.

Cui Song couldn't help but feel a little strange. After waiting quietly for a while, he heard the crisp cracking sound again.

This time he was told to find his way and look towards the south corner of the wall.

A few pieces of gravel rolled down, but other than that, there seemed to be no other movement.

But all right, why would there be gravel rolling down?

Is there going to be an earthquake again?

Cui Song raised his full attention. Although he had never experienced an earthquake before, he also knew that some earthquakes have aftershocks.

He was about to wake Guo Jia up when he heard another click.

The mountain wall where the stones fell suddenly broke open, and the surging water rushed in like a fierce horse.

Cui Song's complexion changed.

When he was looking outside, the cave was only one person high, but the collapse caused the ground to drop by more than two meters... In other words, their seat is below the horizon at this moment, and this place is close to the largest river outside, and the mountain walls are very thin... …

Cui Song didn't dare to think about it anymore, so he quickly woke up Guo Jia.In just a short while, half an inch of river water has accumulated in the cave.

Guo Jia's face was serious, and he got up with Cui Song's strength, and calmly and quickly punched holes all around: "Brother Cui, fetch the cowhide and bamboo pipe."

Cui Song followed his words and insisted that Guo Jia use his sword as a kidnapper, and then set off to get the things Guo Jia named.Guo Jia divided the cowhide into two, connected each to a bamboo tube, and tied them with silk strips to form two leather bags.

At this time, the hole on the mountain wall became bigger and bigger, and the water pouring into the hole became more and more urgent, and soon it reached their knees.

This collapsed burrow was wide and flat, with no high point to rest on.The mountain wall leading to the exit is extremely flat, and there is no possibility of climbing it.

Cui Song was thinking "take the sword and poke the footholds one by one" and found it unrealistic, Guo Jia suddenly stuffed the dagger with its scabbard into his hand.

"Go from there."

Guo Jia pointed him in another direction.Cui Song took a quick look and saw that the mountain wall near the hole was uneven, obviously easier to climb than this side.

Moreover, there is a big hole on the top of the mountain wall that shines into the sky, and you can see the starry sky. Although it is about four meters high, twice the height of the exit of the tunnel, according to Cui Song's preliminary calculations, it is found that the success rate there is much higher than this side.

If Cui Song hadn't been injured, with the original owner's skills, there was about a [-]% chance of winning the climb to the cave.But when he folded his right hand, the odds of winning dropped to [-]%.If you carry another person...

"What are you waiting for, the water is coming up." Guo Jia put one of the cowhide bags into a simple shuttle-shaped backpack made of Qiluo, quickly tied it to Cui Song's back, and pushed him hard, "Go quickly .”

Cui Song turned around in astonishment: "But you—"

"No but." Guo Jia smiled faintly, "I know what you want to say, but you also know that it's impossible."

"Haven't tried yet..."

"There is no time for you to try, and you should know better than anyone else what the consequences of failure are."

In Guo Jia's view, whether one can escape or be buried with two people is not even a multiple-choice question.

It has nothing to do with emotion and morality, this is the most rational judgment.

Seeing that Cui Song was still refusing to move, Guo Jia laughed again and said, "It's just for everyone to follow their own destiny, and don't treat Jia as a high-ranking scholar who sacrificed his life for others. If Cui Di couldn't catch the rock wall when he was climbing and fell from it, Jia would be fine. I'll make meat pads for you."

Joking as usual, but it couldn't make Cui Song feel at ease.

The mood was extremely heavy, but I still forced myself to suppress all my emotions, and argued with Guo Jia: "In your current unhealthy state, you can't connect with me even if you want to."

Cui Song took a breath and pointed to his right hand that was tied into a triangle: "Climbing requires the strength of the upper arm. Now my right hand can't move. It must be very difficult to climb up... Brother Guo just injured his leg, why don't you let me be Guo's brother?" Brother Guo's leg, Brother Guo as my hand, let's work together and leave here together?"

Cui Song thinks that "I carry Guo Jia on my back, Guo Jia hooks him with one hand, and climbs rocks with him with the other hand" is a feasible plan, but Guo Jia only thinks he is whimsical.

"But it only increases the difficulty." Guo Jia was very calm, "After all, two people's cooperation is not the same as one person's action. Even if you have all the second-hand and second-hand feet, the weight of two people will increase."

Not to mention anything else, just letting Cui Song carry him on his back is enough to make Cui Song consume more than twice as much physical strength.This mountain wall is already difficult to climb, and if one is not careful, all previous efforts will be wasted. Even if it is all hands and feet, it will only increase the burden of a grown man on his back, not to mention the fact that his right hand is injured now, and his balance is greatly restricted?

With only one left hand, bear the weight of two people, and carry a big burden to climb up this difficult mountain wall... Not to mention four meters, even if the height is reduced by half, it is as difficult as climbing the sky.

According to Cui Song's judgment, how can he not know the hardships involved? In this way, he is just looking for reasons and doesn't want him to stay.

"Cui's brotherhood, Jiaming feels deeply in his heart." Guo Jia stood firm, raised his hand, and bowed with the hilt of his sword, "It's just that many things in this world can't be controlled by others, it's not a 'want' or 'won't' It can be left or right.

"Brother Cui, don't worry about Yu Jia, water can drown people, but it can also support you with your body.

"When the water rises, Jia may be able to swim with the water by relying on box boards and other things. No matter how bad it is, there will be this cowhide bag as an air bag. This is a glimmer of life given by the destiny.

"Climbing to the top of the cave through this wall is only a sliver of life, so why should Brother Cui be persistent and stick to this meaningless advance and retreat together?

"The so-called peace of mind is the best choice for each other."

Seeing that the water in the cave was up to his thighs and Cui Song still didn't move, Guo Jia couldn't help frowning: "Why don't you leave. If you don't move, it will be too late."

"Wait until you finish." Cui Song smiled at him, and crossed his arms without any haste, "Keep talking, I'm all ears."

Guo Jia: "..."

"When the water is full, it happens to really 'wash your ears'."

Seeing that Guo Jia was choked by him, Cui Song took two steps forward and grabbed his own sword, throwing it away.

Anyway, if you want to escape by rock climbing, it is impossible to carry such a long saber.Guo Jia probably also looked at this, so he exchanged his dagger with him.

Guo Jia barely stood still: "You..."

"This sword is called 'Lu Shuang', brother Guo, do you know what it means?"

Guo Jia stared at his face, only to see that his expression was peaceful, he could not see any mood, and said slowly: "The poem said: "If you are entangled, you can walk on the frost." , there must be a sad heart, not the cold.'Yi said: 'When walking on the frost, the ice is as hard as the ice.' No matter which sentence, it can be used as a self-warning. Cui Di named this sword 'Shuangshuang', which is Do you want to follow the heart of a gentleman, the filial piety of a gentleman, or the wisdom of a gentleman?[2]”

Cui Song shook his head: "This is a gentleman's explanation, not the meaning of a song.

"The poem says: 'If you are facing an abyss, it is like walking on thin ice.' If you step on thin ice, you are trembling. If there is no flat support, what about 'walking on frost'?

"Or overestimate one's strength and fall into the abyss of eternal doom..." Cui Song seemed to be unaware of the white-capped river below his legs, and he didn't care. I lost my life here because I overestimated my own strength, and I will follow my heart, so I won’t leave regrets in vain, and I won’t be entangled in regrets for the rest of my life. I ask my heart and listen to my heart. What do you think, Brother Guo?”

Even if he had to destroy another of his own violins, he still inherited the ideas in it.

Have a clear conscience, that's all, that's enough.

Guo Jia smiled and reached out to him.

"Ah."

Cui Song lowered his body slightly, and took advantage of the buoyancy of the river to carry Guo Jia on his back very smoothly, and handed over a long and thin belt: "Tie us together, and tie it tightly."

Guo Jiafu was on Cui Song's back, tied the waists of the two of them several times with belts, and tied the knot: "Okay."

"Hold me tight."

Cui Song took a deep breath, grasped the rock above with firm eyes, and took the first step up.

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[1] Precautions against erroneous progress, worry before it emerges: Taken from "Book of Songs", it refers to preventing and stopping wrong thoughts and behaviors as soon as they have signs or symptoms, and resolutely preventing them from continuing to develop. ...Don't ask me why I use the idioms of the Three Kingdoms and Later Dynasties, how to write smoothly and how to come (Fu Di)

[2] Poetry = Book of Songs, Li = Book of Rites, Yi = Book of Changes.The heart of a gentleman, the filial piety of a gentleman, and the wisdom of a gentleman correspond to the quotations in the previous three sentences respectively.