The castle is built in the barren mountains and mountains, except for a few feet around the castle can also expose the ground, and further away are the barren grass that is taller than a person, mixed with a few tall ancient trees that are not going to wither, and the crows hovering and perching on the trees are late, and from time to time they make a terrible cry.

After Shao Zongyan identified the direction, he rushed into the grass without hesitation. The wild grass here is very hard, and if you push it away with your hand, it will bounce back quickly, and the blades of the grass are slender and sharp, and if you accidentally scratch your body, it will cut a bloody hole like a small knife.

His own skin was covered with a layer of protective true qi, and he was not afraid of these small blades of grass, but the master's exposed calf was cut a few times, and he was drenched in blood, and hurriedly asked, "Tan Yue has any wound medicine in his hand?" These vampires are particularly adept at distinguishing the smell of blood, and the poor monks are afraid that the bloody smell of their wounds will attract them. ”

Shao Zong hurriedly took out a quilt from his bag and spread it on the cut grass, then threw the master on it, used the cotton swabs and iodophor that came with the survival kit to debride, and finally wrapped it in layers of gauze. He did this quickly and ruthlessly, just chasing speed, for fear that those vampires would wake up from the drug; The master was also quite patient, and without saying a word, he allowed him to clean the wound and bandage it vigorously.

It's just that when he was about to be wrapped in a thin space blanket at the end, Master Shi Nian couldn't help but speak again: "The Taoist may wish to borrow a pair of shoes from the poor monk, the poor monk is also used to walking on mountain roads, and walking by himself will not hold you back." ”

"The master of grievances has been wronged." In such a tall and dense grass, it is indeed easy to get injured if you don't wear good clothes, but now I don't have time to dress him too well, and everything has to be practical. Shao Zongyan looked at his figure, took out jeans and a pullover for him to change on, and personally squatted down to change cotton socks and leather boots for him, put away the rest of the things, and took a knife to mow the grass in front of him to open the way.

Shi Nian can really catch up with him, occasionally a few steps behind, gritting his teeth and catching up, faster than the speed of carrying people by him. The two stumbled from the middle of the night to the early morning before dragging a body of dew and sporadic wounds out of the grass.

Beyond the grass is a steep slope of broad-leaved trees with dense green leaves, and the roots and stems of the trees are intertwined, and there are many wild grasses and wild flowers mixed with unknown mushrooms, which look like the weather in late spring and early summer.

At this time, the whole land has not yet woken up with the morning light, and the leaves are condensed with clear dewdrops, and from time to time you will encounter meat insects hanging from silk threads in the understory, but some small rodents come out early to feed. A few steps into the forest will alarm sleeping snakes, insects, rats and ants, making small squeals and rustling footsteps, which fade away as humans invade.

In this moment of silence, the only thing that is clear is the sound of rushing water not far away.

Shao Zongyan's spirits perked up, he turned around to support Shi Nian, who also had a red face and a heavy breath, and swept the road in front of him with a knife, startling away the snakes, insects, rats and mosquitoes lying under his feet, and comforting the master at the same time: "We will go to the water source soon, and we can rest for a while when we get there." ”

Fortunately, the water source was not far away, and after a short time of diagonal through the woods, they found the small river that turned down from the adjacent hill. The river is not deep, and the surface of the water is only two or three meters wide, but the current is very fast, whirlpooling where there are large stones, rolling the green leaves or branches that fall from the head, and rushing downstream.

Seeing the river, Shao Zongyan was not in a hurry to rest, but turned back to Master Shi Nian and smiled: "Let's walk in the river for a while first, and then rest when we get downstream." ”

He smiled very reservedly, his eyes were slightly squinted, the plump lying silkworm was horizontal under his eyes, and his lips were curved into a curled water chestnut shape, showing a rare innocence. Shi Nian couldn't help but smile back at him, it was really like melting snow in the mountains, clear to the end, and suddenly lined Shao Daochang, who was so easy to purify, into a demon road.

Fortunately, Shao Zongyan had already resigned himself to his appearance, and he had no thoughts of being purer than a monk, and after shaking his eyes with a smile, he stepped forward and grabbed his waistband and carried it on his shoulder, took out the clothes to dry as a crutch, and stepped heavily into the river without saying a word.

There is a lot of silt and aquatic weeds accumulated at the bottom of the river, and people will sink into the slippery mud when they step on it, and every time they pull up their feet, they will bring up a piece of turbid water, and the fish and krill in the water are alarmed by the humans, and they swim to the places where the water is clearer, and the animals that come to drink also retreat to a little farther away, staring at them vigilantly.

Because the water is turbulent and the silt is soft, the road in the water is not easy to walk, Shao Zongyan must first use a clothes fork into the bottom of the water every step to ensure that he will not be directly washed downstream by the water before daring to step forward. Otherwise, in such a steep and rapid waterway, once you stumble, you will be swept away like sawdust falling into the water. In the future, whether it is swept into deep water by a vortex or hit by a big rock and beaten to the ground, it will not be something you can collide with.

And Yan Hanjiang stayed in his arms. In case the clothes are loosened in the water, if such a little bit of small grass carp essence lets the water roll away, where will he catch it!

He gritted his teeth, pulled up his heavy left foot, and continued to walk forward. He thought he had been walking for a long time, but until the sun had fully risen over the horizon and the entire forest had reawakened with the sunlight, they had actually only walked a dozen meters downstream.

"It's dawn." The Master of Liberation on his back looked at the sunlight reflected in the turbid water in front of him, and said loudly: "Dao Chang, rest for a while, now that the sky is already bright, vampires can't see the sun, and we are safe throughout the day." ”

"Really?" Shao Dao was overjoyed, his steps were much lighter, he walked to the shore, put down his thoughts, and sat on the rocky beach gasping for breath: "I'm really tired enough, I don't know what's strange in this place, it's more tired than the time in the desert." ”

Yan Hanjiang climbed out of his chest, and when he saw that he was not far from the collar, he simply said sullenly in the placket of his clothes: "Maybe this mountain is too high." We were originally in a low latitude area of four or five hundred meters, and suddenly coming to this kind of high mountain, we probably had some altitude sickness. You see if there is any medicine in your hand, and if you have a reaction, take a pill on top. ”

There is medicine in his hand, but the Yunling Pill he ate when he was doing the gong is too wasteful to eat here. On the contrary, it is precisely because the area is too high that it is uncomfortable, and it is good to wait for the mountain to go down.

Master Shi Nian gasped and asked, "Who is the Dao Chief talking to, isn't it the Immortal of the 'Thousand Mirage Pavilion'?" ”

Yan Hanjiang slapped his chest muscles with his tail flicking, and finally crawled out of his neckline, grabbed his collar and said calmly: "It's okay to sue sù this master, anyway, I will follow you everywhere in the future, and I can't hide without seeing anyone all the time." ”

The top of his head just poked out from under Shao Zongyan's neck, and as soon as Shao Daochang looked down at him, his chin was just on top of his plush head, slippery, itchy, and it felt too good.

Shao Daochang had the intention to rub it twice, but he was afraid that the customer would think he was unprofessional. I had to endure the itching and take out the little robe and stuff it into the neckline, let him change in his arms, hold the fishtail slightly outside his hand, and introduce with a smile: "This is Brother Yan Hanjiang Yan, but the Yuanying monk, he has repeatedly saved me in danger, he is not only my benefactor, but also my lifelong confidant." ”

Shi Nian looked at it in amazement for a long time, sang the Buddha's name, put his hands together, and also gave a salute to the grass carp essence. Yan Hanjiang nodded coldly as a salute, patted his tail in his clothes, and asked Shao Zongyan to take him out.

Shao Daochang carefully fished him out of his arms and held it in the palm of his hand, and wanted to put it in the fish tank, but Yan Hanjiang was troublesome, shook his head and said: "It's much lighter to carry me than to hold the fish tank, if you can't do it, you can tie my belt to the belt hook around your waist, so you don't have to occupy one hand." ”

Is there a small fish spirit tied around your waist as a charm...... No, no, no, this is abusing grass carp! Shao Zongyan was reluctant, and took out a large square towel from his bag, twisted it on both sides and tied it around his neck, and pulled it up a little in the middle, which naturally formed a hammock, which was just enough to accommodate grass carp to lie in it.

It took him a few minutes to take care of Yan Hanjiang, and then he remembered the customer who had not eaten or drunk for half a night and was desperately rushing to the mountain road, so he hurriedly poured out the large vat of water from his bag and asked him to drink water, and comforted: "The river water is not clean to drink, and it is too late to purify it now, the master first drinks some old water, which is used for cooking at my home." ”

The master was also so thirsty that if he didn't stop him, he would have gone down and drank raw water. thanked him immediately, took the water scoop in the jar and drank it happily. Shao Zongyan also took a bowl himself, drank it himself, and took a small spoon and gave it to Yan Hanjiang.

After the three of them drank enough water and rested for a while, Shao Daochang put Yan Hanjiang in a small bowl, and stacked the firewood into a round pyre with a hole in the middle, and built a rotating fire similar to that of a gas stove.

It was near the river, and the water was so muddy with the mud he had brought up as he walked, that all the fish in the river swam to the shore to breathe, and it took him little effort to catch a slippery little fish with his bare hands. It's a pity that the water here is shallow, and you can't raise big fish, and the top is only more than a catty, but it is round and slender, and it looks like a meat roller.

I just don't know if this kind of fish is good for boiled fish, or just grill it directly, and then grill the leftover steamed buns in the bag and eat it?

While thinking, he quickly cut the fish, took a branch and put it on the stove to barbecue. When he went to the downstream stream to wash his hands, he saw a few small shrimp outcropping, so he simply took a basket and took a few turns in the water, took it up and controlled the water, and sure enough, he saw a bunch of transparent shrimp at the bottom of the basket.

The shrimp are not big, so let's fry them as snacks.

He floated the shrimp in the river a few times, poured it into the basin and mixed it with salt after he went back, grabbed and kneaded it back and forth with his hands to flavor the shrimp, and finally sprinkled it with flour, kneaded it a little bit, and sat on the oil pan to fry it.

The fried shrimp cooked very quickly, and as soon as it entered the pot, the fragrance came out with the sound of boiling oil, and the shell turned red after a few times with a latte spoon. He took out a colander and strained the oil, and was thinking about getting something to fry it again, when he suddenly heard a very low chanting sound in his ears.

That's right...... This time, the client was a vegetarian again.

Last time, the elf could still accept meat, but the disciples of Buddhism couldn't see the killing and eating meat, the two of them ate fish and shrimp, and they couldn't let the master eat dried steamed buns with the fragrance!

He deeply reflected on his indifference to customers and wanted to make some vegetarian dishes for the master, but when he rummaged through his backpack, he found that the fresh vegetables he brought at home had been made a few days ago when he was waiting to jump the dragon gate, and now he can only find them in the woods. But they don't have the time to travel far to find food, so they can only meet what to eat......

No, there was a food that was always in front of him, but he didn't notice it!

There are rows of pampas with slender stems and leaves on the riverside, and there are candle-like flower heads on the top, and the roots of this thing are peeled out and fried, but they are crisp and tender, no worse than any melon and vegetable.

He got up and plucked a few grasses, and when the master saw it, he knew that he was preparing it for himself, so he hurriedly stopped: "Daoist friends just prepare their own, the monks can have a bowl of cold rice to wrap their stomachs, and they don't dare to work Daoist friends to do it." ”

Shao Daochang said with a smile: "The master doesn't have to be polite, it's because I'm used to making meat and vegetables, and I forgot that the master wants to fast." It's just that the pot here has fried the shrimp, I'm afraid the brush is not very clean, and the master grass is disgusted. ”

The master sang the Buddha's name and said "don't dare": "Where do you dare to pick three or four when you run for your life?" It's hard to worry about Taoist friends burning vegetarian food. ”

He didn't think of himself as a god at all, and went over to help the Taoist chief pull weeds. After pulling out a small pile, Shao Daochang cut off the top part, washed and peeled the skin, revealing the bottom piece of crisp and slightly sweet stem meat, cut it into small pieces and put it in the pot to stir-fry.

Because Buddhism doesn't eat five meats, you can't put garlic slices when stir-frying pu cabbage, and it won't be too delicious just to rely on a little oil and salt to enhance the flavor. Shao Daochang had no choice but to sacrifice a major killer weapon of modern society - monosodium glutamate.

Although MSG is not as healthy as natural fresh soup, it can be freshly added by adding a little, and then put a spoonful of oil in the pot, and the whole dish will be fresh, spiritual, and fragrant. Even though you don't add fish, you can taste a flavor that you would never get if you cook vegetables alone.

Shao Daochang threw the steamed buns to the fire again. Bake until the skin is slightly cracked, and the steamed bread near the crack becomes brown and crispy, and when it emits the unique aroma of baked pasta, he picks it up, hands it to the master, and slowly peels it himself, breaks the crispy dough into small pieces and feeds it to Yan Hanjiang.