Yan Ran started with Xie Anran's eating habits, and continued to ask how to live on weekdays, how to deal with beast attacks, and the climate characteristics of the swamp...... As soon as you start the conversation, you can't close it anymore. Yunshang saw that they had no intention of stopping for a while, so she beckoned Shi Jian and Old Uncle Cui to cook. Old Uncle Cui led her to the back of the straw hut, where there was a vegetable garden with some ordinary lentils, cucumbers, and chrysanthemums. He asked Yunshang to help pick some vegetables, and he took a hung of air-dried roe deer meat from the wall of the hut, which he had hunted from the mountains and had eaten for almost a month. Prepare dinner for the crowd to eat.

Until dinner was ready, the brother and sister were still talking. Yan Ran had finished talking about what she had experienced for seven years, and An Ran knew that this sister had also experienced hardships, and she couldn't help but cry sadly; heard that Tairan was actually his half-brother and had ascended the throne, and sighed, and his feelings for Xie Zhenyu became complicated, and he didn't know whether to hate or forgive. Fortunately, the Si man has passed away, and it doesn't matter if the credit is due to him.

An Ran, Old Uncle Cui, Yan Ran, Yun Shang, Shi Jian, and Fengyu Erwei crowded into the only small table in the grass hut for dinner. Although the food is light, Yanran is also bitter, and she can eat the fragrance in it. After dinner, I asked Uncle Cui about the agarwood bones in the swamp. Old Uncle Cui pondered and said, "I have indeed heard of this, but I have never seen it. Fifteen miles from here live a few families of hunters, and I would periodically exchange rice and noodles with them, and they once told me that an old man had gone to this swamp to look for such things, and I don't know if he finally found them. ”

Yanran is very happy: since there is, as long as you take the time, you will always find it. She happily took Xie Anran's hand: "Brother Anran, I'll take you back when I find the agarwood bone." We live together in the palace, and the five brothers and sisters are together, how wonderful! ”

Xie Anran looked at her with a yearning face, and couldn't help but sigh: "Yanran, the palace, I won't go...... There are so many memories there that I don't want to touch in this life. If I can leave here, when you heal my legs, I will be an idle cloud and wild crane, and see the great rivers and mountains that shine on this moon, even if this life is in vain. ”

Yan Ran's eyes suddenly darkened. It was really unnecessary for him to go back to the palace, just as she refused to go back in the first place, and if she hadn't been imprisoned later, she had planned to never set foot in that place again for the rest of her life. Then he smiled and said: "It's okay not to go, let's buy a small house in Yongzhou City to live in first, I can accompany you every day, and they can often go to see you." ”

An Ran pursed his lips and smiled.

Yan Ran found a few suitable for Xie Anran from the large package of wound medicine she brought, half of which she gave him to take internally, and half of which was applied to his legs. He also asked Yunshang to boil hot water, let An Ran clean his face, wash his hair, and shave the beard on his face with the dagger he brought. So his original face was revealed: white skin, long face, sword eyebrows, thin lips, six or seven points similar to Tairan, only more mature. Yunshang and Shijian were all amazed by the side. Uncle Cui sighed and said: "On weekdays, we two men don't know how to pay attention to it, and we have wronged our son!" Yan Ran also said: "Brother, now I have found you from the past!" ”

That night, Xie Anran, Old Uncle Cui, Shi Jian, Feng and Yu squeezed on the ground of one thatched hut and slept indiscriminately, and Yanran and Yunshang slept in another thatched hut. At night, all I heard was the howling of the wind in the swamp, and the murmuring of wild beasts, which frightened Yunsheng. And Yanran has lived in the mountains for five years, and these sounds are equivalent to a lullaby for her, nesting on the thick dry thatch laid by Uncle Cui, and sleeping very sweetly.

Before going to bed, the two of them went out sneakily as usual, and while arguing, they wrote Yanran's experience for a day into chicken feet and reported it to their master.

Early the next morning, Yanran went out with the sword and the two guards of wind and rain to find agarwood bones. An Ran was not at ease, and repeatedly told him not to go deep into the swamp, because there were not only traps that could swallow people, but also unknown beasts in the mud. Yanran agreed one by one.

On the first day, they searched to the west of the swamp, and walked for twenty or thirty miles, but they did not find the agarwood bone painted in the medical book.

The next day they searched eastward, but found nothing. On the third day, I searched south, and I walked to the edge of the Longyuan Continent, but there was still nothing.

Yan Ran finally started to worry. Tairan spent his days in the palace waiting for her, and he said that whether he could find it or not, he would have to go back within a month. Ever since he had been bent on dying, she had never dared to let him down. So, she didn't have much time to spend.

I looked for a few more days, but I was still disappointed. On the evening of the sixth day, Yan Ran read and read the medical book until midnight, and finally blessed her soul: this mushroom will not grow in water, nor in the mud, it will definitely be attached, yes, you must find it from a place where there are trees in the swamp!

She was so excited that she almost jumped up, only complaining that she didn't use her brain before, and she couldn't think of such a simple truth. She wanted to go to the trees in the swamp right away.

On the seventh day, she set out south again with the wind and rain and the sword to pick up the book. After checking all directions, she was so anxious that there were only some unknown trees growing to the south. This time, the goal was much clearer, because the tree was much easier to find than the ethereal agarwood bone. At noon, they saw a large tree, shaped like a willow tree, but it had long since died.

The fact that the trees in the swamp will die is strange in itself. Yan Ran approached the tree and saw that it was growing on a smooth black mud. The trunk of the tree was crooked, covered with thick moss and some insect corpses, and the original bark was not visible. Just as she wanted to step forward, the wind grabbed her: "Princess, this place is dangerous!" ”

Yan Ran was stunned, she didn't see any danger. The wind fetched a piece of dead wood from nearby and threw it near the willow tree, and the dead branch fell on the black mud, and immediately sank silently, and the black mud was smooth and smooth again.

It turns out that this is the legendary bottomless pit!

Fortunately, Yan Ran has long understood the power of the swamp in these days, and has made full preparations, seeing this situation, she frowned and said: "Bring the rope, I will tie it to my body, and you will pull me,"

She had to go to the tree to check before she could give up. What if there are agarwood bones growing on the tree?

The sword shouted: "I'm small, my body is flexible, I'll go!" "I picked up the book and rushed to go. Yan Ran said: "Even if you see the agarwood bone, you don't know it. Or I'll go. ”

The sword was helpless to pick up the book, and the two guards had no choice but to hand the rope to Yan Ran, and the sword threw the pine planks he brought one by one on the black mud leading to the willow tree, and gave Yan Ran to step on. She wrapped the rope around her waist and under both armpits, tied it, took a deep breath, filled her body with the internal force in the sea of qi, stepped out of the phaseless step, and stepped onto the plank.

I saw that her figure was like a rabbit, and she stepped on the planks lightly and quickly towards the willow tree, although the planks would sink into the black mud with every step, but her people borrowed strength, and always moved on the plank, and her shoes did not get a little mud, and in a blink of an eye they reached the bottom of the tree and ran up the trunk. (To be continued.) )