Xiao Yu set up a posture in the courtyard for morning exercises. She moved her muscles and bones first and began to box.

Xiao Yucheng walked beside him, his hands and feet tied to sandbags, standing still steadily. Since he began to practice martial arts under the influence of Xiao Yu, Xiao Yucheng has persevered and learned decently in the past year. Next to him, Xiao Yu gestured with the bamboo sword for a while, practiced the bow and arrow against the straw-tied arrow stacks in the yard for a long time, and watched that it was not early before he relaxed.

"Look at this punch move is bland, why is it so powerful?" Xiao Yucheng also put the bow and arrow away, and said suspiciously. At the beginning, Xiao Yucheng was quite unimpressed with Xiao Yu's martial arts practice, and the two were convinced after Xiao Yu knocked him down with one move after fighting several times.

Xiao Yu said with a smile: "It is said that the more exquisite the martial arts, the more ordinary they look, and the two of us who have only just started can see whether they are good or bad." It's good that I met an ordinary martial artist like me, but if I really come to a master, I probably won't be able to pick up a few tricks. ”

It is true that what his father taught was extremely exquisite boxing and swordsmanship, but Xiao Yu was still young and had a short time to practice martial arts, and his main energy was on poison and medicinal materials, so Yu Wuxue was really mediocre.

However, if you only go up the mountain to collect medicine to make a living, you don't need much good martial arts, and with Xiao Yu's current level, there is no problem with shooting a rabbit pheasant or something.

Xiao Pei took out the baked cake and the full sheepskin water bag, and said with a smile: "It's not like you want to become a martial arts master, just learn some self-defense." When are you two leaving? ”

Xiao Yu smiled: "I'm ready to leave." ”

Xiao Yucheng had already taken the dry food and water, and asked puzzledly, "What are you going to prepare?" ”

"You'll find out right away." Xiao Yu walked into the house. After a while, she came out with a handful of purple and black hay, still holding a fire fold in her hand.

"What is this?" Xiao Yucheng and Xiao Pei both asked curiously.

"Purple symprime, I saw it picked back in the back mountain. Last year, the summer and autumn mosquito repellent had this, and I smoked the clothes to repel snakes and insects, and I also added a special grease to enhance the efficacy, so that it can be stained on the clothes, and it will not fade for a day. Xiao Yu Yingying smiled, "Otherwise, if you enter the mountain like this, not to mention poisonous snakes, beasts and miasma, the mosquitoes alone can eat the two of us." ”

Xiao Pei praised when he heard this: "Ah Yu has thought it through. ”

Xiao Yu had rolled the purple primrose in paper and lit it. The smell of purple primrose after burning has a faint bitterness, which is not unpleasant, on the contrary, it is refreshing. She smoked the clothes on her body carefully, and prepared to smoke them for Xiao Yucheng as well.

"I'll do it myself." Xiao Yucheng said and reached out to take it.

Xiao Yu checked the things he wanted to bring, and made sure that he had all the dry food, water, knives, bows and arrows, medicine hoes, bags, and pills, and the medicine basket on his back.

Xiao Yucheng quickly made preparations, both of them had brown hair tied up, wore small leather boots, had a short knife pinned to their waists, carried bows and arrows and bamboo baskets with things, and looked energetic.

"Be careful, come back early." Xiao Pei tidied up the big bamboo basket on the back of the two of them and admonished.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yucheng agreed in unison and strode out.

When passing through the fields, I met many villagers, and when they heard that their two and a half children were going into the mountains, they dissuaded them one after another. Because although there are also hunters in the village, some men also go to the mountains to hunt in their spare time, but they are all young and middle-aged people who are strong and skilled in martial arts, which is comparable to Xiao Yu and the others.

Even so, when I came back, I was often injured, so I know how dangerous it is.

This going to the mountain to pick herbs was discussed by Xiao Yu, Xiao Pei and Xiao Yucheng. None of them knew how to farm, they had no fields, they couldn't grow anything on the homestead next to their houses, and they didn't have any skills to make money. Although Xiao Pei has good cooking skills, she has not found a good place to be a cook for the time being, and she is just in good health and should not be overworked.

Xiao Yu thought about going up to the mountain to collect medicine to make a living first, and he could get medicinal materials to study poison. She doesn't know much else, but to grasp this business.

At first, Xiao Pei naturally disagreed, and only let him pick some herbs on the side of the mountain. Xiao Yu soon found that there were no medicinal herbs that could be sold nearby to dig, and resolutely wanted to go into the mountains, and showed that she had gone up the mountain with her parents many times to collect medicine and hunt, and promised that she would not go far at the edge of the mountain forest.

Xiao Yucheng offered to go with Xiao Yu at this time, and Xiao Pei thought that many people would also take care of him, so he agreed.

Last night, Xiao Pei told the two of them many times.

Xiao Yu had already guessed such a situation, how could he turn back because of the persuasion of the villagers? At that moment, he smiled and thanked everyone for their kindness, said that it would not go deep on the side of the mountain, and continued to walk towards the mountain at the edge of the village with Xiao Yucheng.

When he came to the foot of the mountain, Xiao Yu looked at the reckless jungle, and couldn't help but think of the scene of the family in the mountains when he was a child.

"Sister." Xiao Yucheng saw that Xiao Yu suddenly stopped and looked ahead, and already suspected that she was thinking of the past again, so he couldn't help but interrupt his thoughts and shouted.

Xiao Yu raised his head and smiled at Xiao Yucheng, and walked up the path in a few steps. Xiao Yucheng didn't know if he was not used to having more people in the family or if he was awkward, he was only a month younger than her, but he had to be a younger brother, and he rarely called her sister, but it was rare to open his mouth today.

There are all kinds of strange caterpillars on the mountain, most of them are poisonous, and you can also see all kinds of hair moults and fresh feces from time to time. The forest outside is full of villagers who cut firewood and look for mountain goods all year round, and there are almost no valuable herbs to be seen. However, Xiao Yu still picked some medicinal materials that people didn't know at the time.

Then the two continued to walk into the forest.

The deeper you go into the forest, the harder it becomes. The path that used to be a parallel path for two people gradually narrowed to the point that one person would encounter weeds and shrubs on both sides, and then the path was covered by weeds and slippery moss. From time to time, thorns covered with spikes lay across the road, making it extremely difficult to walk.

Wild mice, snakes, and insects flew underneath quickly, but because they were smeared with repellents, they were not attacked by those poisons.

Xiao Yu took the knife in his hand and cut all the weeds, shrubs and thorns in the way to pass through. It was also a hard work, and it didn't take long for a thin layer of sweat to start on her forehead. Xiao Yu and Xiao Yucheng didn't talk much along the way, and at this time, Xiao Yucheng took the initiative to squeeze to the front and took on the important task of opening the way.

After moving forward for a while, Xiao Yucheng suddenly asked: "You are so good at detoxification, then do you know how to use poison?" Did you study medicine or poison? ”

Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Medical poison is not separated, medical skills can also be used to harm people, and poison can also save people, it just depends on what the person with this technique thinks in his heart." ”

Xiao Yucheng nodded, thinking to herself, it turned out that she was good at poison arts. He originally thought that he would be afraid and disgusted with her after knowing that she would use poison, but now he guessed that she had poison skills, but he did not stay away from her as he imagined. On the contrary, she felt that she should keep it a secret for her and not let outsiders know about it.

Is it because she saved my sister? Xiao Yucheng thought.