only in this mountain

When Yang Lixing carried Jiang He back to Nanxing Village, he was already asleep. Seeing his distressed appearance, Zhang Huai couldn't bear to wake him up, washed him clean, treated his wounds, and put him on the bed.

Maybe it was because he went to bed earlier than usual. Jiang He woke up before dawn the next day. As soon as he moved, the people next to him moved too. They just wiped his face and mouth with a towel. Zhang Huai looked a bit like a night Didn't sleep much.

Jiang He wanted to ask him why he did this, but he felt that his mouth was completely uncontrollable, or that his entire face was completely numb, and he couldn't speak, feeling terrified in his heart for a moment. Could it be that he was sleeping? Did you paralyze your face from sleep?

After a while, Zhang Huai wiped his mouth twice, and said helplessly, "Xiaohe, I think your wisdom teeth may be inflamed."

Inflammation of wisdom teeth is not mentally handicapped, why should I look at myself with such sympathy?

Zhang Huai continued: "I found in your pocket the wild fruit you didn't finish eating. That kind of wild fruit has a small amount of toxins that paralyze the nerves, but you may have eaten too much, and the poisoning is serious. Now half of your face is swollen. I didn’t hear you screaming for pain, but I just kept drooling all night, if you don’t continue to sleep, I’ll make breakfast right away and go to the hospital later.”

Jiang He babbled and couldn't say a complete sentence, wasn't it because his wisdom teeth were inflamed?Why is it poisoned again?Is he unable to speak now because his wisdom teeth are inflamed or poisoned?Touching his own face does seem to be asymmetrical. He himself has no experience of wisdom teeth inflammation before, but he has seen college roommates face swollen like a pig's head, and he was so painful that he couldn't sleep all night. If he really If he doesn't feel any discomfort due to inflammation in this situation, then he feels lucky.It's just that he doesn't know if the neurotoxin is only temporary, he doesn't want to still have facial paralysis after his wisdom teeth heal...

Zhang Huai's face was solemn, but he understood. While reassuring Jiang He that he would be fine, he wiped his saliva again.His appearance as if he was taking care of a hemiplegic patient who couldn't take care of himself made Jiang He burst into tears.

"What happened?" On the car to the hospital, Zhang Huai prepared a pen and paper for Jiang He, apparently planning to communicate with him like this.

After being ridiculed by all the animals and people all morning, Jiang He also looked away, and wrote down his experience yesterday on a piece of paper.He is also very clear-headed now, and after finishing writing, he added his own guess: "I think that little girl came to seek revenge on me, do you still remember that I told you about the girl I met when I first came to Nanxing Village?" Snake and bird fight, the snake swallowed the mountain god stone, but it was forced out by me and the bird, the little girl is the snake, she came to me for revenge and wanted to grab the mountain god stone!"

After Zhang Huai read what had happened, he frowned and asked, "She wanted to snatch the mountain god stone, why didn't Huang Shan come out to stop her?"

There is no time to write Jiang He's next long speech. For example, why the little girl didn't kill him directly, but threw him into a tree for a group of snakes to watch. It took so long to find him, probably because of her vitality Seriously injured, unable to chew or digest for a while, or want him to starve to death on a tree, after all, Huang Shan said that only when he is dead can others get the mountain god stone... Zhang Huai's question stopped him immediately , yeah, how could the yellow jerseys let everything just happen like that?Isn't he afraid that other monsters will get the mountain god stone?

Recalling the little things after encountering the yellow shirt, the true or false of the monster has always been unclear. He once said that he wanted to watch snakes and birds fight to the death, and then he came with a yellow sparrow behind him, and called it Phoenix. The bird is extremely disdainful, and even Heiyu, who is a mountain god, has no sense of awe. Jiang He said that he was protecting the mountain god stone. Clear, otherwise no one can guarantee the accuracy of the guess.

"Maybe the monster was taking a nap and didn't notice it." Jiang He wrote on the paper like this. In fact, he himself forgot about Huang Daxian.

Even when Jiang He stayed up and down the tree yesterday to face the group of snakes he was most afraid of, he never imagined that he would be in real danger. Even without the help of that strange person, he was confident that he could return to the village. The big deal is to wait, Zhang Huai will always find him.

He became more and more calm, and maybe his life became more and more comfortable. He felt that those potential dangers were out of reach.

However, Zhang Huai seemed worried, and was still struggling with the problem of the yellow shirt: "If he is protecting the mountain god stone, but the snake can swallow the mountain god stone, and he dare not confront the snake directly, then he may not be stronger than the snake. He is now If you don't notice it, you won't be able to protect the mountain god stone, what will you do when the snake finds it again?"

He didn't use "snake spirit" or "snake demon" to describe it. Words that were too fantasy would make him feel that the invisible danger was more complicated than he imagined and he didn't have much ability to resist as an ordinary person.

Regardless of whether the little girl is a snake or a ghost, if he can be taken away from the village for the first time, he can have a second time. If he is lucky this time, what about the next time?

"There won't be so many accidents, right? It's only happened once in more than a year, and it's not easy for spirits to cultivate."

"Hopefully."

After going to the hospital for an examination, the wisdom teeth were in the inflamed phase and could not be pulled out. He prescribed some anti-inflammatory drugs. Jiang He asked Zhang Huai why he didn’t ask the doctor if there was a cure for facial paralysis. Zhang Huai told him again that his toxin would not cause permanent pain. The damage will slowly dissipate with the body's own metabolism.

"You know so much." Jiang He wrote on the paper, and drew another like emoji.

After leaving the hospital and returning to the village, I saw people gathering in front of a tricycle to buy tofu at the entrance of the village.Zhang Huai asked Jiang He if he wanted to eat it, Jiang He shook his head: "It looks too old, it's full of scum, I like to eat tender ones, there used to be a small cart selling iron plate tofu at the place where I got off the bus at work, it was super delicious. "

It was originally because his wisdom teeth were inflamed and he wanted him to eat something that was easy to chew. Although he didn't feel pain, it was still inconvenient to open his mouth and bite.

Jiang He is sometimes very casual when it comes to eating, and sometimes he is very picky, and he still remembers to eat but not to eat.

When they returned home and saw a basket full of red, yellow, blue and purple wild fruits in bright, beautiful and delicious colors, Jiang He's saliva flowed out uncontrollably.

I don't know who put it at the door of his house, and the big and small animals in the house didn't notice if anyone passed by.Baskets made of fresh rattan, plums, bayberries, wild mulberries, etc. There are many fruits that Jiang He has never seen before, but this does not affect Jiang He's thinking that they are delicious!

He looked into Zhang Huai's eyes and knew what it meant. He shook his head and said to him, "You should eat less irritating food now."

"Fruit, very light, and rich in vitamins..."

"Have you forgotten why you look like this?"

"Inflammation of wisdom teeth is not caused by eating, but because they are crooked and prone to inflammation."

Zhang Huai confiscated the notebook and pen in his hand, along with the basket of wild fruits. Jiang He couldn't speak, covered his face and complained for a while, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration, took out his phone and sent Zhang Huai a message: "I didn't If you want to eat it, you don’t even know whose it is.”

Zhang Huai came out from the kitchen and asked him, "Will you still eat in the future?"

Jiang He nodded, and Zhang Huai also took his cell phone away.

Jiang He felt that he was abnormal, and he was inexplicable, so he couldn't eat it even after he recovered?

The diet for the next two days was extremely light. Zhang Huai also soaked soybeans and made tofu with a soymilk machine. Sometimes it was tofu nao, sprinkled with chopped green onion and minced meat. At first, it really felt tender and smooth. I ate it three times a day. Anyone will be bored.Jiang He usually doesn’t like spicy food very much. Recently, he always stares at the chopped peppers in the refrigerator and drools. He doesn’t eat peppers, but he misses Zhang Huai’s sour and spicy taste after adding sweet and sour and chopped peppers to his fish. It's light, and I feel a little anxious because I can't eat what I want.

It may also be that the toxins of the wild fruit were slowly diminishing, and the aftereffects of the toothache began to be obvious. Jiang He's current state can be said to explode at one point. Zhang Huai comforted him several times, but he turned a blind eye. Later, he was too busy to take care of him. , he started to think wildly by himself again.

He felt that Zhang Huai was deliberately alienating him, and the stalemate of the passionate love period no longer existed, and he would soon lose patience with himself, otherwise he would not stop hugging him when he went to bed at night.Probably people will naturally feel low or even depressed when they are in pain or illness, and they don't want the situation to continue to deteriorate, and they are unwilling to take that step on their own initiative.

It is to save face and suffer.

He was already able to speak, but because of this inexplicable bad mood, Jiang He didn't really want to speak.

Not long ago, after the last art class, the students began to prepare for the final exam, which meant that he had taken summer vacation early.At the end of June, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and Snowball yelled that when the temperature reached [-] degrees, he had to buy an air conditioner, otherwise he would get stuck in the refrigerator and could not come out.

Xiao Moru came to see Jiang He, and saw that Jiang He was going to put snowballs in the refrigerator, and asked the reason, he said: "This year seems to be hotter than usual, and there is less rain. Ferrets are not heat-resistant, but you can put them in the refrigerator directly." Is the refrigerator door closed or not?"

Jiang He just pretended that he didn't intend to let Xueqiu live in the refrigerator. He let go of Xueqiu and said to it silently, "Go and find the yellow shirt. It's cool in his place." Xueqiu seemed to understand, and disappeared in front of the two of them. not see.

Xiao Moru smiled without saying a word, and was about to go to school after standing for a few minutes.Jiang He was in the yard and heard him shouting at the door: "Mr. Jiang, did any student give you a fruit basket? Why did you leave the door and run away? Could it be that he skipped class and saw me inside and was scared? I'm not a scourge, am I?"

Jiang He walked out suspiciously. Xiao Moru had already picked up the fruit basket and said, "It's quite heavy. It will take a lot of time to pick this basket."

It's still the kind of basket made of ivy, and the wild fruits inside are fresh and bright, which is very beautiful.

"I don't know either." He walked up to Xiao Moru and saw that the top fruit in the fruit basket suddenly moved, and then moved again. He vaguely felt that something was wrong, and just as he was about to take it, Xiao Moru suddenly threw the basket out .

"Don't touch!"

The fruit basket was not thrown very far, and wild fruits were scattered all over the ground. Dozens of thumb-thick snakes climbed out of the overturned fruit basket. According to Xiao Moru's experience, one of them was a poisonous snake.

"No wonder it's so heavy..." He didn't dare to act rashly, he could only quietly wait for the snakes to leave voluntarily, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

"They're all snakes..." Jiang He had already jumped onto the threshold in fright. If it wasn't for Xiao Moru's seniority, he would probably be on Xiao Moru's back now.

"This must not be done by any student, they won't tease you like this." Xiao Moru looked calm, and analyzed, "Jin Song will come back next month, and it can't be him."

When he said this, Jiang He couldn't help laughing, thinking that Xiao Jinsong's two hundred and five seemed to have done bad things before, otherwise Xiao Moru would not have thought of him immediately.

Coming down from the threshold in shock, I couldn't help but start thinking, wouldn't the fruit basket this time be delivered by the same person as last time, right?I don't know how Zhang Huai dealt with those last time... Does the snake have something to do with that little girl?

In fact, there was indeed a connection, because when Jiang He went to sketch by the river in the afternoon, the little girl stood at a distance and watched him silently.Jiang He found the little girl, collected his things and was about to run away, but the girl had a sneer on her face, and stopped him a few steps forward.

"What are you running for? Are you able to run?" The girl sized Jiang He up and down with critical eyes, "Ge Qing is just soft-hearted, obviously the mountain god stone is of no use to you, why don't you allow me to scare you again? No, I No! I want to scare you to death!"

After finishing speaking, the girl was about to transform, but a man's hoarse voice came from behind: "Aunt Jiao!"

But the girl still transformed into a snake, stood up much higher than Jiang He, and opened her bloody mouth threateningly, successfully scaring Jiang He into a cold sweat.

"Jiang He, don't be afraid! I'll help you!"

Jiang He heard the cries of the second idiot very close at hand, but it was just bluffing. On the one hand, it was probably the first time he had seen such a thick and terrifying snake when it grew so big.

Although it was the second time for Jiang He to meet him, he still had to be weak-kneed. This thing will not automatically improve the immune function as the number of meetings increases.

"Aunt Jiao!" The male voice rang again, a little more sullen and reproachful than before.

"Hmph!" Suddenly, the huge python changed back into a little girl, "One day..."

She looked directly at Jiang He, with a trace of grievance and loneliness remaining in her eyes, and more of a determination to achieve something.

Jiang He couldn't control that much, he patted his chest, and just begged her not to turn into a snake again.

The person behind the girl was still there, Jiang He turned around, saw that it was the person who had helped him in the woods last time, and gave a strange "Huh".

"Do you know?"

If you don't know him, how can you call that girl aunt? How can that girl who looks younger than Xiao Yuzhu listen to him and stop threatening herself?

The man didn't respond, and looked back from the direction the little girl left. Jiang He also knew what to do, whether to run back home or wave to him. After a long silence, he asked, "You called her aunt, did you Is it also a snake demon?"

Otherwise, how can people be with monsters?Looking at the lines on his body, is it really just a skin disease?

If this is the case, they are all snake demons, but one wants to hurt him, but the other stops it. Could it be that the family is in conflict?

A strange emotion flashed in the man's eyes, he shook his head and said, "No."

Jiang He immediately felt apologetic: "I'm sorry, I saw that she was a snake demon, so I thought you were one with her. Your name is Ge Qing, right?"

The man hummed, and said to him again: "It's not my aunt, it's Aunt Jiao, who is as bright as the bright moon. The mountain god stone is on you, and you should also understand the changes in yourself and the surroundings. Aunt Jiao didn't want the mountain god stone for her." , but because of me, I will persuade Aunt Jiao to let her stop disturbing you."

Jiang He nodded and smiled at him: "Thank you."

But he sighed and continued: "But you still need to be vigilant and try not to go to the mountains alone."