Chapter 31: The Return of the Expedition

On the 60th day of entering the mountain, at midnight, the first cavalry team led by Yikang to contract 1,000 oxen to open the way, the second cavalry team took 2,000 cattle to look for trees that were not dense and dragged back to build houses and giant beehives, and the third cavalry team was carried by Dingtian and pulled 190 fully loaded carts back the same way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Qingsong said to Dingtian: "When you return to the grassland, remember to cut and sow with ten carts of sugarcane, and then send one hundred and eighty carts back to the station to unload, and if there is a way to boil sugar, he will arrange for people to boil sugar, and you will return with supplies as soon as possible after unloading the sugarcane! Follow our footsteps from here, and I will leave the sons of the second team here to guard the sugarcane forest!"

Dingtian said: "Father-in-law, don't worry, I will come back as soon as possible day and night, fortunately, I don't have to open the road, I will be able to catch up with you in nine days at the latest!" The bee demon was still excited, beckoning the swarm of bees that could fly up to spit honey into the big wooden barrel that had been eaten up before, and when it was gone, it went back to eating sugarcane juice! The bee swarm also ate and drank as violently as crazy, and even didn't care about the meat!

In the afternoon, the bee colony filled the big wooden barrels, and many of the bee colonies survived without dying in battle! But the bee demon was not sad at all, and she also said: "There have never been bees that have been supported to death, they are happy to die! It is much better than being tired to death!" But this kind of death stopped because the barrels were full! In order to find something to do for the bee colony, Qing Song asked the people of the second team to build a giant beehive first. Within a day, the second team had built twenty giant beehives on the northeastern side of the sugar cane grove with saws and ingots. The bee demon divided the species, the bee colony also had something to do, and the worker bees were busy building nests! The soldier bees fell asleep in a pile, and when they woke up, they went to eat sugar cane juice by themselves!

It wasn't until the third day that it rained, and the soldiers were busy moving all their supplies into their tents and wooden huts. The bee colonies were all cats in their own nests, and the soldier bees were taken into a large wooden house by the bee demon to hide from the rain! The corpses and those who died in battle were moved to the nests of the carnivorous bees, and the rain stopped after a long time. Qing Song and 50 cavalry, surrounded by more than 20,000 oxen, and 10 carts also set out on the road of advance! The road in the sugarcane forest that had been trampled by the cattle was not bad, and although it had rained, it was not muddy! Before dark, Qing Song led the cavalry out of the sugarcane forest, and the cavalry set up tents outside the dry forest and made dinner again!

On the sixty-first day of entering the mountain, Qingsong did not follow the road opened by Yikang, but led by Zhuang Zhuang to detour back to the north to find the whereabouts of the Dan furnace. As for why they didn't hide the Dan furnace in the place where it was refined, but moved it so far, Qingsong and Xiaogang both felt that there was a problem, Zhuang Zhuang was half stupid and half stupid in the past when the bull demon used to, and of course there would be an error in asking Zhuang Zhuang.

Xiao Gang and Qing Pine felt that it was unreasonable, so Qing Song asked Zhuang Zhuang: "Zhuang Zhuang, why don't you see giant trees so far around the sugarcane forest?

Zhuang Zhuang said: "The iron-billed crane burned the big trees around here into charcoal for alchemy, so there are still some giant trees in the northeast position, and these positions are gone! The blue-faced dragon also asked him to burn more, and the sweet bamboo was relocated, and the land was burned red, and it was normal for the grass not to grow for many years!" Qing Song was stunned and said, "Aren't they afraid of burning the whole mountain?" Zhuang Zhuang said indifferently: "The white tiger and his apprentice roared twice at the large fire area and the fire was extinguished, what are they afraid of?"

Qing Song asked Bai Ping beside him: "Is the White Tiger really so domineering?" Bai Ping said gloomily: "That's the ninth-layer exercise, it's true! But it's not easy to use when the two armies are fighting, and even your own people will roar to death! Shibo you know, our two families now have six layers of exercises left, even if you can improve your skills to the ninth layer with the help of the original liquid, you can only use the six-layer exercises to urge!" Qing Song asked Zhuang Zhuang again: "How many giant trees did the three ancestors of my family burn? Why weren't these mosquitoes burned to death?"

Zhuang Zhuang said: "They were afraid that the mosquitoes would be burned to death and the sweet bamboo would be eaten by other wild beasts, and they burned it when the southeast wind rose, and I don't know how much it burned! But after the fire burned, they slept for two days before they went to extinguish the fire!"

Qing Song's facial muscles trembled violently, and he wanted to scold the loser! So many resources were ruined like this, even if the murdered beast was pulled home, it would not be a poor clank, and the salt was almost unaffordable! With their high martial arts, they were rampant in this mountain, and if they encountered the demon king, their martial arts would be useless! Of course, they could not have been killed by the old monkey, and if the old monkey had killed them, Xiao Gang and himself would have an inexplicable sense of hatred! How did they come to an end?

When it was almost noon, Zhuang Zhuang said: "When we arrive, the Dan furnace is hidden in the cave in front of us! Do you see that cliff? It was made by three big men, it is fake haha! They used the Dan furnace to refine the stone into magma, and then the four of them worked together to send the Dan furnace into the cave, and the iron-billed crane quickly took out the magma, and the thirteen heroic boys pushed a large number of stones to the door, and then the magma was poured into the shape of a cliff!"

Bai Ping raised his thumb and said, "Genius!" The pillar said, "Now we will be in a difficult position, how can we take it out?" Qing Song pointed to the wooden box on the cart behind him and said, "Take the detonator and blow it up!" The pillar asked while working: "Shouldn't the stone be lime when it is burned, why is it burned into magma?"

Bai Ping replied to him while working: "Alchemy is different! Do you know that mercury is mercury, and alchemy can easily be made into gold!" Xiao Gang finally understood, why the gold here is not very valuable! He finally understood why some of the weapons left by the ancestors were treasures, and the iron weapons were not opponents at all! Just thinking about these things, he heard Qing Song shouting: "Sons, it's time to cook and eat, cook some whole rice and bacon! Giant python bone marrow boil some soup and drink, follow the old man, I can't let you go hungry!"

The soldiers giggled and began to unload their things from under the carts. Zhu and Bai Ping dug a seven-foot-deep hole under the cliff and were about to bury a detonator in it. Qing Song shouted: "Don't be busy, you guys come back for lunch first, and we'll do it again! Don't mess up the food!"

After lunch, Zhu and Bai Ping buried all the detonators in the pit dug out, and could not estimate the thickness and strength of the cave door, so they had to do so, this mountain looks like a stone mountain, and the mountain should not collapse, right? Everyone hid five hundred paces away, and the cattle also retreated far away to rest.

After a loud bang, a hole was blown out of the cliff, and Qing Song immediately ordered the soldiers to carry the stones, and some huge ones were roped for the cattle to help drag. The stones at the entrance were gradually cleared less and less, and the situation inside the cave became clearer and clearer. This is a karst cave, the stone bell stone milk stalagmites in the cave are strangely displayed in front of everyone's eyes, and there are bursts of mist seeping out inside.

Zhuang Zhuang said: "This water vapor is not poisonous, hehe! It is because of this water vapor that the iron-billed crane put the Dan furnace here! He said that this water vapor can help him coat a layer of rust on the Dan furnace, and only with this rusty Dan furnace can it be considered complete!"

Qing Song said: "Why don't they care about you at all? Tell you everything!" Zhuang Zhuang said: "What do they use to worry about me? Run, I can't outrun the iron-billed crane, even the blue-faced dragon, and I can't beat me as an opponent of the white tiger, and the family is still on the grassland! I don't have any use for these things! Besides, I still have to take refuge with the three adults! They will take me with them when they come back! Lord Iron-billed Crane also said that alchemy will help me survive the tribulation, hehe! Now it seems that the alchemy tribulation is not reliable at all! The old monkey is a good proof of this! Is it still useful if the power is so great that he can't control it?" These words stunned the green pine, the pillar, and the white flat!

Finally, after clearing the stones at the door, the huge round Dan furnace with two people high and wide appeared in front of everyone. Qing Song asked: "Zhuang Zhuang, you said that you helped pull this thing here? You can pull it for me to see!" Zhuang Zhuang said: "Of course you can't pull it like this! Make a big plate with a giant log, and the log will be pulled and moved!" Qing Song immediately beckoned the soldiers to make a flat plate, and Bai Ping said: "Shibo, we have so many big cars, you can try to merge the big cars, as long as the big car can withstand it, you can save a lot of things!" The pillar said: "Forget it! The big car can't hold the wheels, and the road is tall and short!"

In the end, everyone still felt that it was safer to use the old way! While they were discussing, Zhuang Zhuang carried Xiaogang to the cave, where there were many hot springs. Xiao Gang found a suitable temperature to soak, Zhuang Zhuang found the coolest soak, and after a while, people outside also ran in to soak in the hot springs.

Danlu had already found Qingsong and was not in a hurry to move it back to the station, so that the soldiers would also come to the hot springs! Bai Ping asked Zhuang Zhuang: "Zhuang Zhuang, why don't you call the cow to take a bath?" Zhuang Zhuang said: "It's not appropriate for them to come to soak in this, it's too hot!" Everyone had eaten their fills at dinner, and at night they slept on a mat in a dry place in the cave.

On the sixty-second day of entering the mountain, at the end of the day, the soldiers on duty at night caught a lot of eyeless fish in the cave, and they did not dare to eat breakfast. Zhuang Zhuang called two cows to try the food, and when he saw that it was all right, he picked up a cauldron and ran away! Bai Ping was about to chase after him, but Zhuang Zhuang shouted: "What are you chasing me for? If you don't hurry up and wait, it will be gone!"

As soon as Bai Ping turned around, sure enough, except for a pot for Qingsong, the soldiers were eating the rest hard! Bai Ping didn't catch a single fish, only scooped a bowl of fish soup! Holding the fish soup and nibbling on the buns, squatting and scolding, the pillar beckoned to him: "Come here! Uncle will keep the fish for you!" Bai Ping happily ran over and grabbed a fish with his hands and ate it, the taste was delicious, the meat was delicate and smooth!

Qing Song said: "If there is a little sauerkraut made by Sister Cuihua in the soup, this fish soup is the best in the world!" Everyone who has eaten sauerkraut nodded vigorously! The soldier on duty at night said: "This fish is very easy to catch at night, it has a faint glow!" Bai Ping said: "Shibo, since we are still making big wooden boards, we are not in a hurry to leave, right? I will catch fish tonight!" Qingsong said: "Leave 40 people here to make a big board car, and we will take 10 people to drive after Yikang!" Bai Ping had no choice but to nod his head and not think about catching fish, and when he set off, Bai Ping said to the people who stayed behind: "Remember to catch some fish at night and save them, don't eat them all! Take them back to cook sauerkraut and fish soup!" The people who stayed behind said: "How can you take this with you? Aren't they all dead on the way?" Bai Ping said: "Remember the wild boar herd, don't you take salt and salt it!"

On the sixty-fifth day of entering the mountain, Qingsong finally joined the first cavalry of Yikang. Yikang was carrying a bowl and reporting to Qingsong: "Father-in-law, we have been here for three days! In the past three days, we have encountered thousands of big geckos, and I saw that their minions were sharp and could not be underestimated, so I fired three rounds of salvos in the distance with my throwing spear! Only hundreds of them were killed, and the rest were taken to escape! Because I didn't know this thing, everyone was not allowed to eat it, and then a wild boar went to eat those who were not poisoned, so I led a team to drive away the wild boar and pull the big gecko back to eat! The meat is excellent, please try it! Since then, we have been collecting vines to make a big basket!" Qing Song happily greeted the people who came to eat together!

It's a very large volcano that can't be seen at all, and it looks like it hasn't erupted on a large scale for hundreds of years! Maybe it's thousands of years, maybe tens of thousands of years, and the huge mountain is now covered with vegetation, and about 40 miles away there is a lake with no edge in sight. Unlike the soil around the volcano, the soil here is dark brown and is probably made of volcanic ash.

After lunch, Zhuang Zhuang became a big buffalo carrying Xiao Gang and Qing Song, and Zhu and Bai Ping followed him from a distance to inspect the surroundings! Xiao Gang pointed out everything he could know to Qing Song and explained them one by one! An hour later, Qing Song asked Yikang to send people to pick mangoes, cut bananas, harvest pineapples, and collect sulfur! Afraid that wild boars would make trouble, he asked Bai Ping and Zhu to take 20 people each to make traps. According to Yikang, the wild boar herd here is very large, and the wild boars weigh thousands of pounds! It is already April, and the weather is not suitable for large-scale hunting of wild beasts.

Zhuang Zhuang said: "The tribe I brought has found a lot of wild beasts, because we have a large number, and the three adults packed them up eighty-three years ago, and the wild beasts did not attack us, this place is not a good place! Since we don't plan to hunt them, let's go back as soon as we do it!" Qing Song said: "We can come back with the convoy in two days, and the baskets made by Yikang are not enough!"

In this way, everyone waited for the convoy in the volcanic area, and it was three days to wait, and it rained heavily for three days.

On the sixty-eighth day of entering the mountain, at noon, Dingtian appeared in the valley in the distance with a huge convoy, and was found by the wandering cattle and reported to Zhuang Zhuang, who immediately said to Qing Song: "The convoy is coming! Ding Tian is coming with a large string of four-wheeled vehicles!" Qing Song immediately shouted to Yikang: "Pack the collected things and get ready to go home!" Xiao Gang pulled Qing Song's sleeve and whispered: "If you can have enough baskets, and then go collect some dust and bring it, this dust will be better used to make cement!" At the foot of the mountain, those cotton-like stones should also be taken away, so that they can be made into refractory materials!" At that moment, Qingsong asked Bai Ping and the strong man in the human form to go up the mountain with fifty men and five hundred oxen to collect dust, and the oxen kept loading things on them and went back to the original road by themselves.

This time, Dingtian brought a convoy of 500 carts, and after eating the meals prepared by the cavalry team, they also joined the busy procession! At the end of the day, it rained heavily in the sky, and everyone had to rest for another day.

On the sixty-ninth day of entering the mountain, everyone cooked and ate, and began to load with torches. At that time, Qingsong took 2,000 cattle and 100 four-wheeled carts and set out on the road back, but there were not enough people, and only 20 people were arranged for this 100 carts to catch the car! Finally, before the rain, the whole team was loaded with things and lined up in a long line with no end in sight to go home!

On the seventy-fifth day of entering the mountain, the vanguard led by Qing Song had already arrived at the northeast garrison of the sugarcane forest, and the forty men and a thousand cattle who were transporting the Dan furnace had already been waiting here.

Qing Song asked them to continue to expand their station here, because the Dan furnace was too big, and it would hinder the transportation if they were on the road now! The bee demon left all the bee colonies they brought, and let the two ignited soldier bees manage the bee colony, and the bee demon turned into a little bee and hung on Xiao Gang's shoulders and followed Qing Song to continue walking back.

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