Xiao Sanye wanted to accompany her, but Ying Fang refused.

"Dad, you're not tired today, sleep more tomorrow, I won't run far, at most I will go to the spring pool, and I can come back before noon." ”

Hearing her say this, the family didn't insist anymore.

The next morning, at five o'clock, Yingfang fed the baby, ate breakfast, brought a back basket, a medicine hoe, and a sickle, shook it in the yard, sneaked back to the east house, and went up the mountain through the tunnel.

"I haven't climbed a mountain for a long time, and it feels like it's getting rusty. ”

Out of the cave, Yingfang stretched.

In the mountains in the early morning, the air is good. The chirping of birds and finches is refreshing.

Yingfang dug up a few herbs nearby, not all of them were to cool off the heat, and she picked what she saw was useful. Ice grass and mushrooms were also dug up several bushes.

Because she is more familiar with this area, she buried herself in digging and picking, filling the entire back basket, and it only took half an hour.

Then he went back to the cave, stuffed the back basket into the mouth of the tunnel, dusted his hands, and let Xiaojin lead the way.

"Where do you want to take me last night?"

"Silk—"

Xiao Jin seemed to be in good spirits, and quickly ran among the trees, turning his head from time to time to urge Yingfang to hurry up.

Ying Fang looked in the direction that didn't look like a valley.

Also, that part of the valley has now become a troop station, Xiao Jin knows it, so naturally it is impossible to take her there.

Where would that go?

"Silk—"

Xiao Jin turned her head, her small eyes showing a look of disdain, thinking that she was too slow.

Yingfang is angry and funny, and she is no longer distracted and speculating at the moment.

A man and a snake walked quickly through the forest for more than an hour.

Just when Yingfang was so tired that she was panting and really wanted to find a place to sit down and rest, Xiao Jin swam in front of a large rock, and her tail slightly wrapped around the protrusion of the stone, and the stone was carried by it. Behind the stone, a half-foot-wide crevice emerged.

Xiao Jin glanced at Yingfang, threw the stone to the side, swam into the cliff crevice, and put his head and tail on the cliff crevice on both sides.

Seeing this, Ying Fang still didn't understand anything, Xiao Jin obviously wanted her to squeeze through the cliff cracks.

It's all here, you can't give up halfway. Besides, Xiaojin will not harm her.

Ying Fang leaned sideways, carefully navigating the twenty-meter-long crevice.

Out of the cliff crevice, it is a relatively steep hill.

Yingfang followed Xiao Jin to turn east and west, trying to pick a flat road downhill.

At last I reached the bottom of the slope, and I walked around a large and chaotic thicket, and my eyes lit up.

"Here ......"

She couldn't believe that there was such a beautiful place hidden at the bottom of the cliff.

The turquoise pool, which is more than 10 times larger than the lotus pond in her mother's backyard, is crystal clear, and fish jump out of the pool from time to time.

On one side of the pond is a meadow of flowers, and on the other side is a lush forest of golden silk nan, looking up, the treetops reach into the sky.

There were two trees planted behind the pool, one was easily recognizable as a peach tree, and although the peach blossoms had been gone, the peach leaves were very dense, and the other was a tea tree that Yingfang recognized as she approached. Looking at its DBH of half a meter, the chest circumference is almost one meter, and the height of the tree is not necessarily shorter than that of the Nanmu in the Nan forest, and it is estimated that the age of the tree is at least 500 years.

"Yo-"

A herd of wild deer hissed and came to the pond to drink. I don't know if I found her, or if it was a habit to do so, I drank the water vigilantly and spread my hooves and ran into the Nan forest.

Ying Fang could see it, and suddenly heard a "bang", and a big splash splashed on the surface of the pool like a mirror.

Following the prestige, it turned out to be a large turtle, pulling its limbs on the water, swimming happily to the shore and lazily drying its shell.

If you look closely, isn't this the big old turtle that went missing from her house? Originally, Xia Lao was going to take it to the provincial zoo.

She said that after that day, Xiao Jin disappeared from the snake shadow and ran away from home with the turtle.

But if it were her, she would definitely be happy and linger when she found this beautiful paradise of Elysium.

Who is so stupid, let go of the good days of freedom, but, what a zoo!

"Smack!"

Xiao Jin twisted a Nanmu branch with his body, held it in his mouth, shook his triangular flat head towards Yingfang, and then swam into the Nan forest.

"You're going back, aren't you?"

Ying Fang lowered her eyes and looked at her watch, it was already half past nine, and she promised her parents to rush back before noon, and now she was going to break her promise. It takes at least two hours to go back the way you came.

Passing through the Nan forest, what lies in front of you is not the steep slope that you have just come down, but a sinkhole.

The pit is seven or eight meters deep, and the pit wall is smooth. If it weren't for Xiao Jin throwing a few big bluestones stacked together to form steps, she really wouldn't dare to climb down.

In the center of the pit was a dark hole.

Kim was the first to swim in.

Ying Fang followed.

The cave was pitch black, and it was impossible to see clearly, but you could hear the sound of "tick-tock" water droplets with echoes.

After walking a few steps, my eyes gradually brightened.

The faces of the cave also fell into view one by one.

The more I look at it, the more familiar it feels.

After a while, Ying Fang was so shocked that she covered her mouth with her hands.

Here it is...... The dungeon?

To be exact, it was the unlucky dungeon after encountering the earth dragon.

Except for a few pillars that supported the palace and were still standing on the posts, most of the pillars had collapsed into stone slag. At first glance, it looks like a ruined wall.

"Xiao Jin, you recognize it too, don't you? That's why you brought me here. Ying Fang's eyes were hot.

Even if she has gradually adapted to this world, she can't help but feel sad when she sees the scene of her former life, like a funeral object that has been randomly pulled out of the ground.

Xiao Jin gently patted Yingfang's arm with his tail, as if to comfort her.

Touched its head.

Under the guidance of Xiao Jin, Ying Fang walked around the decadent underground palace that had been buried by mountains and rocks for an unknown number of years.

It was found that all the palaces were in ruins, except for the remnants of the pillars.

The only catch was a small silver gilt jewelry box pulled out from under a carved wooden door.

This is a New Year's gift given to her by a female doctor one winter. said that he thanked her for her help in the past year, and also gave her a lot of homemade rouge gouache.

Unfortunately, the copper lock was smashed by the fallen pillar, and the rouge gouache in the box was also spilled when the earth dragon turned over. There was also a dent on the surface of the box.

Yingfang's fingers stroked the dents, and her heart turned a thousand times.

I once thought that the world she and Xiao Jin came to inexplicably had nothing to do with their previous lives. The life of the previous life, for her now, is like a dream, a dream with a beginning and no ending.

However, now, seeing these dilapidated but real stone pillars and pillars, she clearly realizes that the life in her previous life is real, not a dream.

"Xiaojin, it's time for us to go back!"

Packing up her mood, Yingfang wiped the jewelry box clean with the corner of her clothes, hugged it in her arms and said to Xiaojin.