Zha Gong's evolutionary path

It was getting colder.

Walking in the valley during the day, the gas exhaled condensed into a white mist; at night, the clean water in the copper basin for scrubbing became as cold as ice after a while.

Lin Gongru greatly admired the young doctor who could persist in scrubbing his body every day under such harsh conditions without even frowning.

Of course he couldn't see the scrubbing process of the unknown doctor.The other side guarded against him very strictly, so they took down the white curtain hanging on the bed and used it as a screen; after cleaning the body, they took painstaking efforts to hang it back up again.

Lin Gongru could only see the indistinct figure of the doctor through the white tent, with a slender figure and graceful posture, indeed he had a figure commensurate with his good looks.

The man also maliciously speculated that the other party was so wary of him, was it really because of his daughter?

But through the white tent, even if you can't see it clearly, you can still barely tell that the man's chest is flat and flat.Based on Lin Gongru's messy experience in his previous life, it is impossible for this person to be a woman disguised as a man.

Then the reason why he is so guarded against himself, who is also a man, is very intriguing.

But Lin Gongru didn't intend to investigate.

This doctor who had never met before said it well, he had less than half a month's life at best, since he didn't even care about life and death, how could others care about a little quirk in life.

The doctor seems to have said that although the elixir he took called "Huisheng" has the power to revive the heart for a short time, the residual poison will affect the operation of the meridians of the human body; The longer it takes, the more toxic it becomes. When the toxin accumulates to a critical point, it will become a lethal drug.At that time, even if he recovers from his injuries, he will belch directly under the poison.

That's fine too, Lin Gongru thought viciously, since Ye Mingjue was gone, he simply followed him to the underworld, and made a couple of happy ghosts with him outside the Nether Palace; he didn't care about the shitty mission of Yan Jun, he would not accompany him at all .

He died at someone else's hands, and he didn't seek suicide. Even if that cold-faced person wanted to make him feel bad, he couldn't find any excuses, so he wasn't afraid that he would send him back forcibly.

After figuring out this joint, the original attitude of being anxious to seek death became a little more active, and became more or less energetic.

Lin Gongru has been busy in the past few days, with the feeling that people who are dying will do good, and earnestly repaired and fixed the dilapidated thatched cottage for the unappreciative doctor.

Although he was used to doing nothing in his previous life, this simple farm work was extremely rough, but compared to the young doctor who didn't care about his living conditions at all, he was still slightly better.

So these past few nights, even though he was still sleeping in the corner, and the cold wind was still raging outside, the brazier started to be lit inside the house, and it was barely warm after all.

The doctor never commented on his deeds, and always watched with cold eyes.

Sometimes before he went out, Lin Gongru would be tinkling and nailing things in front of the house, and he would glance over and walk past him noncommittally.

When he came back, he saw the thatched hut that had changed a lot before Yu Lin went out,—it could be seen that Lin Gongru had really put in a lot of hard work—the corners of his mouth twitched slightly at most, and he didn't know whether it was a sneer or a carelessness, and passed by without saying a word. The man enters the house.

The two of them talked very little. First, Lin Gongru thought he would be a dead person soon, so he didn't deliberately search for topics;

Moreover, the doctor often has a wandering expression, which makes people wonder whether he has listened to it, or simply regards Lin Gongru as a dead person in advance.

After a few days of being peaceful and respectful to each other, the house was almost repaired, and Lin Gongru had less than ten days to live.

The doctor routinely went out to collect herbs this morning, and the man who was always busy in front of the house followed him out of the house with the worn-out knife and axe.

The doctor glanced at him with a rare surprise in his eyes.

Lin Gongru said: "I'll go around the neighborhood and hunt some live food for you, pickle it and store it dry. In case the mountains are covered by heavy snow, you should always have some food to save your stomach. Fruits alone won't fill you up."

This was beyond the expectations of the doctors.

Looking at this man's appearance of a playboy, he thought that he just repaired the thatched cottage, and then he should run away.

He still has to hunt for live food for himself, and he doesn't even look at how much he has recovered from his injuries. The toxins in his body are getting heavier every day?

The doctor frowned slightly.

He looked at Lin Gongru calmly for a moment, and said, "...do you know the way?"

"Don't worry, Baiji is following me."

Before he finished speaking, the little monkey who usually followed the man in black, miraculously appeared on Lin Gongru's shoulder, and stuck out his tongue at his master embarrassingly.

"..."

"With it, I can always find my way back." The man smiled.

Seeing a bit of displeasure on his face, he added, "If I don't come back, the doctor will treat me as the end of my life, and it's only a few days earlier anyway."

The doctor said: "It makes no difference to me whether you live or die. Just don't die in front of my eyes."

Lin Gongru's sentence "So that's why you saved me" stuck in his throat, and he couldn't spit it out for a long time.He was still thinking about what to say, but the other party turned around and walked away.

The little monkey was bouncing around on his shoulder, looking eager to fight.Lin Gongru watched the figure of the man disappear into the woods, so he shrugged and walked in another direction.

The valley is inaccessible, and it is an excellent place for all kinds of animals and plants to grow freely.

Previously, he was seriously injured, and Lin Gongru's range of activities was centered on the healer's thatched hut, with a radius of no more than [-] miles; now that his injury is slowly recovering, he walked slowly all the way to the other side of the valley.

Strange to say, the side where they live has already entered the cold winter season ahead of time, and the night drips into ice; the side of the valley seems to be still at the end of autumn, and the last bit of scenery of the bright red maple leaves can still be seen, and very few branches of the trees are still there. Hanging heavy fruit.

In the woods, the vigilant figures of hares flashed from time to time, some wintering birds spread their wings and flew away, and there were foxes, wild badgers and other small carnivores in the grass.

Lin Gongru lamented that in the same valley, the wonders of autumn and winter seasons can appear at the same time; while holding the worn-out axe, he tried his best to chase after a fat rabbit.

The rabbit probably grew very well because it seldom encountered natural enemies, and its bulky body was not as sensitive as its kind. It was blocked by Lin Gongru and Baiji in two or three strokes, and it shivered.

The little monkey was dancing, and without waiting for Lin Gongru to issue an order, it rushed forward and hugged the rabbit.The latter couldn't dodge in time, and was tightly stuffed into his arms by the bletilla striata, frightening his three-gapped mouth to twitch wildly.

Lin Gongru left the rabbit to the little monkey, aimed at a wild badger hole, and tiptoed over.

When I got to the entrance of the cave, I took a look inside, oh, there are four or five little wild badgers, trembling and huddled together.

With two hands in one hand, the man took out all the small furry animals and threw them into the big basket dragged by the bletilla striata.

Feeling in my heart, how easy this hunting is, as long as I stretch out my hand, I can catch these animals that don't want to make progress.It seems that the reason why the quiet doctor eats fruits and vegetables for three meals a day is not because live food is difficult to catch, but purely because of laziness.

He and Bai Ji wandered in the woods for most of the day, and without any effort, they killed all the living things they saw.Those animals have never seen human beings since they were born, and they are easy to catch. Except for a few strong ones who instinctively resist, they are basically sure to catch one.

The basket was full of prey, making a lot of noise, and the bletilla striata carefully tied it tightly with bamboo strips.Lin Gongru also brought a few pheasants in his hand, ready to return home with a full load of bletilla striata.

The moment they turned their heads, everyone was stunned.

A wild boar about the size of an adult man, with red eyes, stood on a field of golden fallen leaves, panting heavily at them.

When did it come behind, and why did it stare at the two of them, Lin Gongru and Baiji were so engrossed in hunting that they didn't realize it.

They bullied the weak a lot just now, and now it's their turn to be targeted by the Shashen, and the world's news came too fast.

But then again, this wild boar is not light. If it is killed, it is better than this basket of animals that have not grown up or are petite.

Lin Gongru winked at Baiji.

The little monkey is very human, after a few days, he probably figured out Lin Gongru's routine.

It slowly loosened the basket tied to itself, and cautiously backed away slowly, assuming a ready-to-run action at any time.

Lin Gongru moved extremely slowly, lowering the pheasant in his hand to the ground little by little, while trying to avoid looking at the wild boar.

As long as you don't attract the wild boar's attention and avoid a frontal attack, you can find a chance to kill it later.

He made a lot of wishful thinking, but the wild boar didn't know whether it had seen through his thoughts, or it had become murderous because of the panic-stricken pheasants on the ground. Coming here to collide.

Lin Gongru only had time to yell "Run!", and Bai Ji quickly jumped out.

His reaction was not as fast as the monkey's, and he was not as flexible as the monkey's. Most of the wild boar's targets rushed towards him.I had no choice but to use all my strength to roll the gourd on the spot, barely avoiding the head-on collision of the beast.

Even so, the impact brought by the wild boar's full impact still knocked him far away, eating a lot of dust, coughing and coughing non-stop.

The animal was too late to catch up, and rushed a long way, only to turn around again with bloodshot eyes.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Gongru got up and found the nearest big tree, and tried to climb up.

The wild boar came under the tree, and refused to give up, lowering its head and charging over and over again.Lin Gongru, who was hugging the tree, was shaken by the huge vibration of the tree body, and suspected that he would be shaken off the tree in the next moment.

Bletilla striata was on another tree not far away, pointing fingers at the man, grinning, very anxious.

Lin Gongru raised his voice and said to it: "Don't worry - let's fight with it - as long as it doesn't fall - this guy will always be exhausted -"

Although he was busy running for his life just now, the not-so-sharp ax was still firmly in his hand.

This ax is a bit like the one in Suining, it is also worn out and old, and it feels like it will be rusty and dusty in the next moment.

However, holding it in his hand, he didn't have Suining's soaring murderous aura, the bloodthirsty desire to become one with people, to prevent people from killing Buddhas.

When Lin Gongru thought of Suining whose whereabouts were unknown, he thought of Ye Mingjue who died for himself.

Suddenly there was another sharp pain in my heart, and I could hardly hold the ax tightly.

He was in a trance for a moment, before he was drawn back to the bletilla striata's almost maddened squeak.

"Baiji, don't panic, I told you—" He looked down, and his voice stopped abruptly.

Finally, he understood why the wild boar stopped hitting the big tree he was in just for a short moment.He thought that the animal was already exhausted, but he didn't expect that there was a person standing not far from under the tree.

The young healer appeared on this side of the valley at some unknown time, perhaps to look for them.

He was carrying a half-full herb basket, pale, and stood beside a bush of hibiscus holding his breath.However, the wild boar still changed its target and made a charging posture towards the new prey.