The taste of apricots was not sweet, and even slightly sour, but this was already a rare delicacy for Huo Wuxian, at least much more ideal than the wet green frog.

The old ape sat honestly under the tree, watching Huo Wuxian eat apricots from a distance. It seemed to be extremely interested in the human in front of it, or maybe it regarded Huo Wuxian as its own kind.

"Give me another one." Huo Wuxian stretched out his palm at the old ape and stared at its movements with his eyes. This time he was engrossed in his full attention, and he was determined to catch the flying apricots.

But things were beyond Huo Wuxian's expectations, this time, instead of giving him the apricot, the old ape grabbed a stone from the ground and threw it at him.

Facing the flying stones, Huo Wuxian immediately turned over and dodged in a sitting position, but he was slow to move because of the injuries on his body, and the speed at which the stones flew was also fast, hitting him in the arm.

The old ape reached behind his buttocks and scratched it a few times, and the long curly tail behind him immediately wrapped around a stone and handed it to his palm. It seemed to want to play with Huo Wuxian in this way, letting out a high-pitched cry of ecstasy, excited like a child obsessed with games.

"Wait a minute!" Huo Wuxian shook his hands, but the old ape ignored him at all, and threw the stone in his hand again, this time hitting the arrow wound on his shoulder, and suddenly there was a heart-rending pain.

"You stinky monkey!" Huo Wuxian finally became angry, pulled out the dagger on his waist and rushed towards the old ape. He thought to himself: I haven't eaten ape meat yet, so I'll try you today.

When the old ape saw him rushing towards him, he became even more excited, and his long tail full of white hair wrapped around the trunk of the tree beside him, and climbed up cleanly. Leaving Huo Wuxian standing under the tree stupidly, there was no way to take it.

"If you have a kind, you will come down!" Huo Wuxian gritted his teeth and shouted, but the old ape happily danced on the branches.

"Ah......" Another apricot smashed on top of Huo Wuxian's head, he covered his head and picked up the apricot, and scolded while eating: "Damn monkey, I don't believe you won't come down in this life." ”

The old ape stuffed the last two remaining apricots into his mouth, and then quickly grabbed the branch with both hands, shook his body like a swing, and in an instant, he jumped out of a distance of more than ten meters like a fast arrow, and landed smoothly on the ground. Huo Wuxian immediately caught up, but how could his speed be compared to that of the ape, and he was left far behind.

Pushing aside the dense fog in front of him, Huo Wuxian endured the pain and ran. Leaving the river beach was a forest, and the fog was getting heavier and heavier here, and it was impossible to see what was close in front of me. The old ape didn't know where he had gone, and there was silence all around, not even the sound of birds.

The rain is still falling, and the muddy roads are covered with puddles, and stepping on them has a sticky feeling, which makes it very uncomfortable. Maybe it was because the wound was hit by an ape, Huo Wuxian was in unbearable pain, and finally gave up and stopped and leaned against a tree. The wound had ruptured due to the strenuous activity, and the blood had re-covered the blood stains that had been attached to the clothing. He felt an endless exhaustion come over him, and he fell into the mud as soon as it was dark.

The second brother Huo Yunqi was dancing with guns and sticks in the courtyard, there was a golden full moon in the sky, and the corner of the courtyard was lit with a dim lamp, and the light reflected his shadow on the wall, distorted like a ghost. Huo Wuxian wanted to step forward and call his second brother, but found that he couldn't make a sound at all. Then, he found that all sounds did not seem to exist, the sound of the second brother dancing the gun did not exist, the sound of insects chirping in the night did not exist, and even the sound of the wind did not exist.

"Second brother!" Huo Wuxian woke up from his dream and found that he was lying on the bed, and outside the window was a small courtyard with peach blossoms, and he could hear the sound of birds chirping.

Unable to understand what was happening to him for a while, Huo Wuxian lifted the quilt and sat up from the bed, only to notice that he was wrapped in bandages, and the wound was no longer so painful.

Looking around the room, in addition to the bed, there is also a set of handmade bamboo tables and chairs. A whole bunch of colourful bells hangs from the window, a pot of unusually luxuriant aloe vera grows on the windowsill, and a hand-polished wood watering can sits next to it. There are two landscape paintings hanging on the wall, both depicting the same forest stream, but in completely different seasons of summer and winter. Near the door was a half-man-tall wooden cabinet with vases of unnamed yellow wildflowers. A faint fragrance wafts through every corner of the room, giving people a sense of comfort and relaxation. Looking down at the quilt he had just lifted, beautiful peonies were sewn out of the quilt with red thread, and the corners of the quilt also revealed the fragrance of a woman's body.

"Ah, you woke up, I just made something to eat." The woman's soft voice came from the door, and Huo Wuxian hurriedly raised the tip of his nose that was about to reach the corner.

"You are? Where is it? Am I? He spoke incoherently in a panic.

The woman just smiled at him and didn't give any answer. She placed the bamboo basket she was carrying on the table and took out all the food from it. Among them are roasted sweet potatoes, taro, corn, potatoes, as well as cleaned pears, grapes, apples, and apricots.

Huo Wuxian looked this woman up and down, she should be about the same age as herself, wearing a beautiful lilac floral dress, her black hair hanging straight down her waist was tied with a red rope at the end, her face was docile and easy-going, and she was full of gentleness with a smile.

Huo Wuxian was attracted by this woman's temperament, and he forgot the question he had just asked, and just stared at her back. The woman put the food into the small plate one by one, then turned to him and said, "Eat something first, don't ask about other things first, I will tell you little by little." ”

In front of such a gentle woman, Huo Wuxian had no way at all, as if speaking a little louder would hurt her. At this time, his already shriveled belly also became noisy, so he had to get up from the bed in silence, sit down at the bamboo table like an obedient child, pick up a piece of taro and peel it and eat it.

"Ah......" Before Huo Wuxian could take two bites, his head was hit by something. When he looked down, an apricot had fallen to the ground, and the old ape was grinning at him by the aloe vera tree on the windowsill.

"It's you stinky monkey again!" Huo Wuxian was about to get angry, and the woman's white palm had already landed on his shoulder like a fluttering petal.

"Don't be angry, this old ape was raised by his father, although he is naughty, his nature is not bad." She turned her head to look at the old ape on the windowsill again, and said angrily: "You cunning, you are naughty again, why don't you go and fetch water." ”

The old ape seemed to be a little afraid of women, and lowered his head and rubbed the white hair on the top of his head with his hand, and his cheeks suddenly floated with a rosy color, like a man who was ashamed of what he had done wrong. Then it suddenly turned on the spot, jumped out of the window with all its limbs at the same time, picked up the wooden barrel hanging by the courtyard gate, and ran into the woods.

"Does this monkey have a name?" Huo Wuxian continued to eat the uneaten taro.

"Mei Shixue."

"Huh?" Huo Wuxian was surprised at first, and then frowned in confusion.

"You think it's weird, right? This name was given to it by my father, and it is the surname of our Mei family. ”

"And what's your name?"

"My name is Mei Wanchen." The woman replied with a smile.

Huo Wuxian stared at her smile and suddenly remembered the women he knew in the past. Whether it is the charm of Yu Xueyu or the shyness of the maid Xiaoya, although they all have their own characteristics, they are not as gentle and elegant as the Mei Wanchen in front of them. What really attracts people is not a woman's face and flesh, but the personality charm that permeates the soul through the shell. When a person's own cultivation and habits reach a certain level, this charm will naturally appear. Just like a flower that blooms after bathing in the sun, it may take a long time to wait, but when it is in full bloom, it is extremely delicate.

"What about you? What is your name? Mei Wanchen asked as she removed the grains from the corn cob with her snow-white fingers and gently put them in her mouth.

"Huo Wuxian."

Mei Wanchen also showed a puzzled look, "What a strange name, why did your parents give you such a name?" There must be some reason, right? ”

"Listening to my eldest brother, it seems to be a poem that our mother liked when she was alive."

Mei Wanchen pursed her lips lightly, and then in order to avoid embarrassment, she asked with interest, "Let's hear it." ”

"Dreams are born without a trace, I only know this sentence."

"I see, no wonder your name sounds so strange, but your eldest brother's name is very good, whether it is Mengsheng or Yunqi, it sounds very smooth."

"I have two elder brothers, the eldest brother is called Mengsheng, and the second brother is called Yunqi."

"That's right! How did you pass out in the foggy forest? ”

"I ......" Huo Wuxian was speechless for a while, not knowing how to answer this question.

Mei Wanchen saw that he was a little embarrassed, and said slightly apologetically: "I'm sorry, I asked too casually." ”

Huo Wuxian hurriedly shook his head, "No, I'm ...... Alas......" sighed, the memories of the battlefield hit his heart like the rising tide of the sea, and in the face of Mei Wanchen, a gentle woman who knew nothing, he couldn't stop the unspeakable sadness. The emotions in his heart were extremely excited, so he simply told Mei Wanchen all about his affairs. Mei Wanchen was both surprised and excited when she heard this, it turned out that she had lived in this place called the fog forest since she was a child, and she didn't know anything about the outside world.

"Why did your father bring you here to live?" Huo Wuxian grabbed a whole bunch of grapes and asked while eating. This grape is different from what you can eat in the imperial capital, and it is full of sweet taste like a spring in the mountains and forests.

Mei Wanchen gently chewed the corn kernels in her mouth, "This father didn't tell me, and he didn't want me to know too much, but just told me to live in the fog forest, saying that the outside world was too dangerous, and told me not to go." ”

Huo Wuxian said strangely: "Then you will obediently listen to your father's words?" ”

Mei Wanchen held the corn in both hands and nodded like a little rabbit, looking like a matter of course.

"What about your mother?"

"I've never seen one, I've lived with my father for as long as I can remember."

"Your Father......"

"It's gone."

The two fell silent at the same time, perhaps because they remembered their relatives who were no longer there, and the atmosphere in the room became heavy and oppressive.

The fog forest is a mysterious place, the dense fog here does not disperse all year round, except for the extraordinary year to live here, otherwise once outsiders enter, they can only end up with no return. There are many kinds of poisoned insects and beasts in the mountains and forests, and strange fragrant and exotic grasses take root everywhere in the deep valley, which is really a wonderland that is difficult to find in the world.

Huo Wuxian has not recovered from his injury, although he is worried about his father's safety, he also knows that he will not be able to leave in a short time. In fact, there are some personal thoughts in his heart, that is, Mei Wanchen, the gentle woman in front of him. He believes that he has met a person of the opposite sex who is truly tempted.