Chapter 0412 - Long-term Plans
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The cave is not big, and you can see the situation inside at a glance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info inside is actually very wide, there is a wooden bed, there is nothing on the bed. There is also a stone desk with some bamboo slips and a stone carving knife.
On the innermost wall of the cave, there is a big "Dao" inscription, and on the entire stone wall next to it, there are dense small characters.
There is a rattan futon underneath the word "Dao", and on the futon there is a skeleton shelf, sitting in a standard meditation position. On the ground next to the skeleton shelf, there was a tattered Taoist uniform, which should have fallen off from this skeleton shelf. In other words, this skeleton shelf should be a Taoist priest in front of him.
Zeng Cheng walked into the cave, glanced at the bamboo slips on the table, did not move, walked straight to the skeleton, looked carefully, and found that the Taoist priest had long hair and beard before his death. The beard and hair are all white, and the age should not be low, I don't know if it was old before it fell, or if it was in the cave and lived to old age and died without finding a way out. If it is the latter, Zeng Cheng is also worried about his future.
Stand in front of the skeleton and watch the small inscriptions on the stone wall, in traditional Chinese.
"The Great Dao is named after the heavens, the earth, the people, and the creatures, including the opportunity of yin and yang movement, the principle of creating and transforming the subtlety, and the unification of Wuji, and the birth of Taiji. Wuji is nameless, nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth, and Taiji is famous, famous, the mother of all things. If you are famous because you are nameless, you are born, earthly, life, and things. Now I will talk about life. Before the parents were born, a piece of emptiness was too empty, entrusted to Mu, and this is the time of no end. Nothing is extremely quiet. Yin is quiet and yang is also quiet. ”
The words are not big, just around the word "Dao", carved all over the entire wall behind the stone cave. Zeng Cheng carefully identified it for a while, and seemed to remember, this seems to be the words in Zhang Sanfeng's "Treatise on the Great Dao", which has no practical significance, and may have some kind of spiritual sustenance for Taoist disciples, Zeng Cheng did not make any evaluation.
The identity of the Taoist priest was not found in the text on the stone wall, and he returned to the bed, which was mostly made of soft grass and no other cloth or cotton. However, on the outside of the head of the bed, there was a rusty long sword full of chips, and the tip of the sword was even slightly broken.
Zeng Cheng gave a salute to the dry bones and said: "Senior, excuse me, the younger generation has fallen here, first borrow the treasure land as a shelter, and I will get a good coffin and give you a beautiful burial, which is considered a reward for the younger generation." ”
After speaking, Zeng Cheng turned around and walked out of the stone cave, preparing to go downhill to hunt some small animals and make himself a lunch.
However, when he came to the platform outside, Zeng Cheng saw two large snakes with the thickness of a baby's arm in the grass next to the platform.
When the two big snakes saw Zeng Cheng, they immediately showed their murderous aura and came straight to him.
"Haha, I was thinking about what to eat at noon, and you delivered it to the door by yourself, so it's no wonder to me. Zeng Cheng laughed, his true qi poured into his hands, and he quickly pointed at the two big snakes that had been killed.
With Zeng Cheng's strength of the eighth layer of Qi cultivation now, the two big snakes had no power to resist at all, and they were hit by seven inches by his two fingers and died.
Zeng Cheng took out pots and pans from the Baicao space and other things that he used when he used to go to the field for picnics, and even took out a large pile of dry firewood to make a fire to make lunch. As for the water used, it is the water of the aura taken directly from the canal in the Baicao space.
First, he quickly peeled off the snake's skin, cleaned the two snakes, and put them in a pot to stew.
It takes a while to stew snakes, so Zeng Cheng took advantage of the sunlight to observe the surrounding situation.
Looking up from here, it seems to be very close to the crack in the sky, but if you look closely, you will find that it is not like that at all.
There are no other boundaries of the stone walls from here, as there is sunlight in some places, but it is pitch black in most places.
However, Zeng Cheng still found traces of climbing up on this platform of about 200 square meters, all of which were chiseled with grooves and blocked by dense grass and vines.
Since the old Taoist priest who died couldn't get out, it means that this road will definitely not work.
After watching it for a while, Zeng Cheng felt that the snake was stewed, so he went back and fished out the two snakes, put them in a small pot, dismantled the snake meat, and removed the whole snake bone. In the original broth, add the rice and bring to a boil again.
Snake soup, you can't make soup without rice.
After enjoying the beautiful snake soup, Zeng Cheng decided to take advantage of the opportunity that the cave was still bright to prepare for the rest of his life. After all, I don't know how long I'm going to be trapped in this damn place, and he can't sit back and eat.
This should be the busiest time in the cave forest, and although it is dangerous, it is also the best time for hunting.
Zeng Cheng's luck was good, he walked a little way, went around to the dark river, and found that there was a splash in the river, and it was fish gushing out of the water to bask in the sun.
There are three or four baby fish actually climbed to the boulder by the river, is "wow" call, there is a really big, actually more than a meter long, lying on the stone, like a lizard, the appearance is a little scary, the back is rock-like markings, there are limbs and tail, the head is chubby, there is a kind of fleshy feeling.
The baby fish is also called the giant salamander, and in some places it is also called the dogfish and the fish dog. Don't look at its name, although it also has a fish character, it is actually an amphibian. Nowadays, it is extremely rare and is listed as a second-class protected animal by the state. Because its meat is extremely delicious and has a high nutritional value, it is known as "ginseng in water", and some people take all kinds of dangers and find it difficult to resist their appetite.
Zeng Cheng is such a person, if no one is watching and watching, he will never miss it when he sees something like a baby fish.
In fact, he came for these baby fish. Just now, he was startled by the sudden screams of these guys, and he almost made a fool of himself. Zeng Cheng is a person who holds grudges, and he turned around and came to take revenge.
This kind of thing is rarely seen around Qinglong Village, even if you enter Qinglong Mountain, it depends on luck. But in this underground cave, he often hears the cry of the baby fish, which shows that there is a lot of stock, he not only wants to eat, but also wants to catch more, first put it in the canal between the medicine fields in the Baicao space, and wait to go out to open a baby fish farm.
Since there were no outsiders here, Zeng Cheng didn't use a net or harpoon, and directly used the power of Baicao Space to collect these four baby fish at once and throw them into the canals in those medicine fields.
Zeng Cheng continued to look for the baby fish in the cracks of the stones along the underground river, these fish have a similar skin color and the color of the rocks, and it is difficult to find them if you have poor eyesight.
Sometimes Zeng Cheng would use the power of the grass space to cover the rocks by the river and collect all the small things around the rocks, regardless of whether he saw it or not.
The so-called grass and rabbits, Zeng Cheng not only received a lot of baby fish, but also a lot of crabs with dark backs.
These crabs don't look big, dry, and black, and they don't feel like they have any chewy heads, and they don't have hairy claws. Zeng Cheng caught a lot of them, didn't care about them, and threw them all into the canal in the space medicine field, waiting to feed other pets later.
Zeng Cheng walked along the river for a while, and the river bank in front of him was relatively low, and he actually saw two big wild boars with a litter of piglets drinking water by the river. These are two big guys, and if they are killed, they will be enough for him to eat meat for several months.
However, Zeng Cheng didn't plan to do it, it's not that he can't deal with these two big guys, but now he doesn't have much interest in these two big guys. There is a special wild boar farm in Xianyuan Farm, and Zeng Cheng has been a little tired of eating wild boar in the past two years. There was so much game in this underground cave that Zeng Cheng planned to try something else.
A few hundred meters away from them, Zeng Cheng saw the big boar turn his head vigilantly, squint, and snort a few times, as if to warn him.
Zeng Cheng was a little speechless, these two guys even dared to threaten themselves, they were really impatient. I don't really like to eat your meat, but I don't mind killing you if I don't know each other.
Perhaps sensing the danger from Zeng Cheng, the two big wild boars quickly left with the little piglets, humming and humming, leaving a cloud of dust and smoke.
Then Zeng Cheng met a group of Xichuan black goats.
Xichuan black goat muscle fiber is fine, the hardness is small, the meat is delicate, the taste is delicious, the smell is very small, the nutritional value is high, the protein content is more than 22%, the fat content is less than 3%, the cholesterol content is low, 75% lower than pork, 6% lower than beef and sheep, and contains more than 15 kinds of essential amino acids, especially the glutamate content is high, up to 11%. It has the effect of nourishing yin and aphrodisiac, replenishing deficiency and strengthening the body, improving human immunity, prolonging life and beauty, especially for the elderly and frail, sick patients have obvious nourishing effects, suitable for both old and young.
Fresh black goat meat is shiny, red evenly and slightly dark, fat is white or light yellow, the appearance is slightly dry or air-dried film, not sticky, good elasticity, and fresh meat taste. The meat of the old black goat is dark red and coarse, while the meat of the young black goat is light red, firm and fine, and elastic.
Black goat meat, not only good taste, medicinal value is also very high, food has the effect of nourishing the spleen and stomach, strengthening the muscles and bones, dissolving phlegm and relieving wind, quenching thirst and salivation, suitable for people with hidden middle qi, shortness of breath and weakness, soreness and weakness, anemia and long-term illness and yellow face and dizziness.
Zeng Cheng had eaten it at his second uncle's house a few times when he was a child, and it was sent by a patient cured by his second uncle, but unfortunately he hadn't eaten black goat meat since then.
Although ordinary mutton is also good, it is obviously a grade worse than black goat meat, and I can't say where the specific difference is, but the feeling of putting it in the mouth can be clearly distinguished.
There were about sixty or seventy black goats in this herd, and they appeared at the water's edge at the point where the wild boar had left, looking around vigilantly. All of them are pure black, and even the horns seem to be black, like elves in the dark, mysterious and deep.
This herd of wild black goats is larger than the one seen outside, and its fur is longer, and the fur is black and bright, smooth and shiny like satin in direct sunlight.
The adult black goats outside are about fifty or sixty centimeters tall, but the wild goats here don't know which period of breed they originate from, but they are all eighty or ninety centimeters, extremely strong, and the horns on the top of their heads are sharp and long, facing upwards and forwards, which are very suitable for attacking.
But for Zeng Cheng, there is no threat either. He touched his chin, wondering if he could get a taste of it. (To be continued.) )