warm and deep

Chapter 37
The storm is coming!With the bursts of fierce wind blowing, the dark blue rain curtain swept from the top of the mountain, covering the whole mountain in an instant, turning the forest into a vast expanse of darkness.Liang Shi felt that he was put into a dark blue bag by some monster, and then the monster kept pouring water into it from the top of the bag.He was dangling in this bag, with nowhere to lean on, nowhere to rely on, nowhere to stand, no way to breathe.The dense and violent rainwater kept hitting him, he could only close his eyes, grit his teeth, and grasp the rope tightly with both hands.

At this time, the rope was also blown by the strong wind and slid back and forth on the rock wall, and the huge current that gathered on the mountain instantly also crazily impacted the rope, making it like a straw in a huge wave. , can't stop swinging and ups and downs at all, it just shakes and slides repeatedly, and every time it shakes or slides, under the urging force of the strong wind, the beam that is holding it is slammed once and thrown off the cliff. The wall, was beaten to the cliff again.Liang Shi couldn't help but think of playing with the plasticine monkey when he was a child. He grabbed the end of the tail of the plasticine monkey and threw it out. The monkey stuck to the ground with a snap. He pulled it lightly and the monkey bounced back. , and was thrown out by his tail again.The plasticine in the hands of nature was solid, and soon his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, his eyes were full of stars, and his muscles and bones ached.

In the wind and rain, Liang Shi couldn't open his eyes to see where he was, and he didn't know how Zeng Wenwei was.He yelled loudly, even roared, but he soon found out that it was all in vain. His voice was completely drowned out by the earth-shattering thunder and lightning and the deafening mountain wind and forest waves.He knew that he couldn't hear Zeng Wenwei's cry either.

Without any hesitation, Liang Shi quickly calmed his mind, and tried his best to make his limbs keep up with the rhythm of the wind and rain. Cooperating with the swing of the rope, he opened his arms when he was thrown off the cliff, and hugged his knees when he fell to the cliff.In this way, he felt that he was not the plastic monkey who was thrown passively, but more like a swallow moving around in the storm, drawing the most graceful posture and playing the melody in harmony with the wind and rain. melody.

Fortunately, some weeds and branches sporadically stretched out on the cliff, they greatly cushioned the strength of Liang Shi being thrown back and forth by the strong wind, and sometimes even hung him lightly, allowing him to relax while shaking. Rest, though soon to be scraped off again.

Finally, the wind stopped and the rain stopped, and the mountains became quiet.Liang Shi opened his eyes and found that he had been blown to the bottom of the valley.The bottom of the valley is overgrown with weeds, covered with dead leaves and broken branches blown by the storm, and it is desolate everywhere.

Liang Shi stood at the bottom of the valley and looked around, but Zeng Wenwei was nowhere to be seen.Then he turned around and looked up the cliff, only to see the cluttered grass and trees blown to and fro, and there was no trace of Zeng Wenwei.

Liang Shi panicked, opened his throat and shouted, "Zeng Wenwei, where are you?"

"I'm here." Zeng Wenwei's weak voice came from the cliff.Liang Shi followed his voice and searched carefully. It turned out that Zeng Wenwei accidentally let go of the rope in the storm, and the strong wind immediately blew him into a 360-degree rotation. entangled.He was hung in mid-air, sprawled on all fours, unable to move.Looking from the bottom of the cliff, it looks like a fat dragonfly turned over.

"Just wait, I'll come up to rescue you right away." Liang Shi said and was about to climb up.

Zeng Wenwei immediately stopped him loudly: "No! Liang Shi, don't worry about me. Go find the medicinal materials quickly, and I'll find a way to get them down."

Liang Shi looked at the sky, although it was already clear and bright, but it seemed that it was getting late, it would be better to find medicine by himself first.He raised his voice and shouted: "Then I'm going forward, be careful."

"Okay, you also pay attention to safety!" Seeing that Liang Shi had reached the bottom of the cliff, Zeng Wenwei felt that his son's medicine had hope and his mood improved, so he paddled his body in mid-air, trying to find a way to turn over.

This storm is moving forward all the way.When Liang Shi and the others were still on the hillside, the torrential rain had already swept through the small area of ​​Qingshi Village.Lightning and thunder, and heavy rain, it was like a big hole had been opened in Tianhe.

Guo Zisu curled up with two terrified children in Uncle Gu's house, standing against Uncle Gu's bed.Listening to the rain hitting the tiles like guns on the roof, several people stared at the roof with wide eyes, really worried that the roof would be leaked.

The lightning exploded, like a golden dragon running and jumping on the clouds.Suddenly, a thunderstorm exploded outside the window, and the sound of the bombing scared the children subconsciously to cover their ears...

The gust of wind whipped the rain like countless whips, lashing fiercely at the glass window, streams of rainwater got in through the cracks of the window, flowed down the window sill, and drenched the entire room in the blink of an eye.

Uncle Gu sat upright on the bed, listening to the wind and rain peacefully, muttering: "Everything has a cause and effect."

Guo Zisu took the minced meat and moved things in the room in a hurry, and took a broom to sweep the water out.It is rare for Minced Meat to see such a heavy rainstorm, especially when the rainwater came into the house. He was so happy that he jumped around the house to avoid the water flow, which was very fun.Zeng Zihao looked at him eagerly, hoping that his father would come back from gathering the medicine soon. His legs were healed, so he wanted to have fun playing in the water and go to the sea, haha.Zeng Zihao yearned so much, he couldn't help laughing at the minced meat.

After the wind calmed down and the rain stopped, Guo Zisu thought, what happened to the two people on the mountain with such a storm?She took out her cell phone and dialed Liang Shi's cell phone.The phone went through, but no one answered.Suspiciously, she called three times, but no one answered.After thinking about it, he found out Zeng Wenwei's cell phone number and called, but he got through, but no one answered.

This is strange, why don't two people answer the phone?She became restless, worried that something had happened to them.

Uncle Gu saw her calling the cell phone repeatedly, and the more she dialed, the more ugly her face became. He knew that she was looking for Liang Shi.He didn't ask too many questions, just peeked at her expression occasionally.

Guo Zisu didn't know that when the rain stopped in her place, it was the time when the rain clouds moved to the cliff area, so when she called the mobile phone, Liang Shi and the others were being thrown back and forth on the cliff in the wind and rain, and they couldn't hear the phone ringing at all. .Even if I heard it, I couldn't take it out to answer it.

She walked out of the house and looked at the direction of the high mountain in a daze. The time passed by. She glanced at her mobile phone from time to time, and dialed the two numbers from time to time, but no one answered.Did they all lose their phones?Impossible, Guo Zisu repeatedly recalled the scene of helping Liang Shi put the mobile phone into the embroidered purse, and carefully tightening the two straps.She was sure that the phone would never leave Liang Shi, but why didn't he answer the phone?Even if you are climbing on the cliff, you can take it out and pick it up. They have ropes tied to their bodies, so what are you afraid of.

The more she thought about it, the more flustered she became, and she decided to go to the mountains to find them.Thinking of going up the mountain, she became inexplicably afraid again, and went to pick up Zeng Wenwei that night, and that was also when the two parties were on the phone, to make sure that there was someone waiting for you in front of you, not far away.But now the mobile phones of these two people are not connected, I don't know where they are, and I have never been to the mountains alone, can I do it?
Guo Zisu sat there restlessly, not saying a word for a while.In his mind, he quickly imagined various situations that Liang Shi and the others might have.In her opinion, there was no reason for them not to answer their phones other than the possibility that something had happened to them.She decided to go to the mountains to see.

She stood up and walked into the room, but she didn't know how to speak to Uncle Bone.

Uncle Gu knew what was on her mind and said, "Mr. Guo, you don't have to worry, they will be fine."

"Then why don't they answer the phone?"

"It's possible to dig medicine on the cliff, so it's inconvenient to answer. You can call again in about an hour."

What Uncle Bone said is not unreasonable, so wait a little longer.She went outside again and grabbed the phone in her hand, thinking that after they finished their work, if they looked at the phone and knew that she had called desperately, they would definitely reply.She walked from the house to the house, and from the house to the house, and the two children looked at her as she walked in and out from time to time, their eyes full of puzzlement.After thinking about it, she went to the kitchen and wiped the tables and chairs that had already been wiped down.

While Guo Zisu was waiting anxiously, Liang Shi had already walked through a long and narrow muddy road at the bottom of the cliff and came to an open valley.The weeds in this valley are luxuriant, and there is no sign of withering and yellowing at all. It seems that the temperature here is higher than that on the mountain, so the plants also maintain a longer youth.Liang Shi observed carefully along the way, his eyes widened and he searched, but he didn't find any plants that were similar to the elderberry described by Uncle Bone.

Is there no such grass under this cliff?Liang Shi guessed, but continued to search without giving up.Unconsciously, he came to a steep cliff.This cliff cuts off the road at the bottom of the valley.The cliffs are covered with clumps of thorns.

Liang Shi thought for a while, took out his Swiss Army knife, cut through the thorns and thorns again, mowed the grass to open the way, and climbed up.

Standing on the top and looking at it, there is a bottomless pool on the other side of the cliff, which is white and calm without waves.Liang Shi looked around, and on the other side of the pool, he could see some unknown flowers blooming at the bottom of the narrow valley.

Maybe those flowers contain the grass we are looking for.Thinking this way, he decided to cross the pool and look for it among the flowers.

He bent down and put on his wading shoes.I tried to probe and found that the water was above my knees.The places near the edges are all this deep, and maybe even deeper in the middle.After thinking about it, he decided to leave the phone here so that it wouldn't break if it got in the water.

Put it here and hang it up, and come back later to pick it up.He took out the embroidered purse containing the mobile phone and tied it to a thorn by the water.

After exercising his muscles and bones and warming up his body, Liang Shi stepped on the water and left.

The water in winter is already very cold, not to mention the water in a deep valley where the sun is hard to see.As Liang Shi walked forward, he felt that the water was getting colder and colder. It was icy cold, piercing his heart and lungs. His lips soon turned blue from the cold, and his teeth kept chattering.

The bottom of the water is covered with steep stones and dead branches and aquatic plants, which entangled his feet from time to time. After a while, he felt that his shoes and trousers were covered with mud, and the water became colder and deeper. over his chest.He gritted his teeth, jumped into the cold water, stretched his limbs, and swam to the opposite bank.

(End of this chapter)