Xia Qingyun finished eating a grilled fish and licked his lips unsatisfied, like a greedy kitten.

She looked up in the direction of the cave, intending to leave the remaining one for the wounded man.

Next, we have to hurry up and continue to look for medicinal herbs in the forest. A month is fleeting, and she doesn't want to be sent to Master Jin to be a concubine.

Suddenly, her eyes were drawn to an old verdant tree above the cave.

The bark of the old tree is gray, and the roots are clinging to the crevices of the rock wall, and the branches are erect and luxuriant. The new branches drawn from the top of the tree are reddish-brown, and the lush foliage is dripping green. The thick green leaves shine brightly in the sunlight.

Xia Qingyun's heart was pounding, judging from the thickness of the trunk, it was very likely that this was a thousand-year-old tea tree!

In her previous life, her family's business started with tea, and its tea gardens were all over China. Every year, the production of tea accounts for more than half of the entire China. She has personally inspected every tea plantation and clearly grasped the process of planting, picking and making tea.

If this thousand-year-old tea tree in front of you was placed in the previous life, one or two tea leaves could be sold for tens of thousands of yuan!

Heaven is not endless! Xia Qingyun clenched his fists and shouted to the sky, as if he saw that the white silver was flying towards him with an ingot.

Covered in blood, she raised the grilled fish in her hand and quickly climbed towards the cave.

This is called good retribution, if she didn't save the injured man, and walked away directly after waking up, she wouldn't have found this thousand-year-old tea tree.

She thought again, isn't it because she donated a lot of money to charity in her previous life that the cup of poisonous wine didn't make her soul scatter, but was reincarnated as Xia Qingyun? It seems that you have to have good thoughts and accumulate character at all times.

My mind turned a thousand times, and I came to the cave in a blink of an eye. Adjusting to the dim light in the cave a little, he bent down and slipped in.

"Stop!" There was a low shout from the cave.

Xia Qingyun was stunned, could it be that someone came in again?

Seeing clearly that it was her who came in, the voice softened and said, "It's you who come in." ”

The injured man was leaning against the rock wall, sitting in the corner, a pair of dark and shining eyes staring at Xia Qingyun intently.

She walked over, threw the grilled fish in her hand at him, and walked away without saying a word.

"Wait." The man whispered.

Xia Qingyun didn't want to talk nonsense with this person at all. Seeing that he was dressed in black and covered with blood, there was a good chance that he was either a mountain bandit or a robber, or a fugitive wanted by the government.

She stopped and said without looking back, "How are you?" You're welcome. I still have something. Good bye. ”

"I said wait." The man shouted again, his voice a little cold.

Xia Qingyun suddenly thought that the arrow was still in his hand!

She stood still, spread her hands, and slowly turned around.

It was too dangerous to turn your back to him just now.

"I took care of that wound for you." She tried to squeeze out a smile, "There is also grilled fish, the fish is also grilled by me, you eat slowly, I still have something to do"

As she spoke, she moved back in small steps.

The man coughed lightly, but accidentally pulled the wound on his back, causing him to breathe in pain.

"I won't hurt you." His voice was deep and slightly magnetic. "Don't go yet, do me a favor."

He took out a bamboo tube from his arms and handed it to Xia Qingyun, "Take this out of the cave and open it." After that you're good to go. By the way, what's your name? ”

Seeing her standing still, the man explained, "In the bamboo tube is a messenger bird. I was hunted down by the enemy. This bird can bring my friends here to save me. ”

So it was, Xia Qingyun took the bamboo tube and shook it up and down a few times, and there was a sound of wings fluttering inside.

"Okay, I'll help you again. The hero does not ask the provenance, and the name is exempted. ”

She took out a gourd from her back basket, which contained the spring water of the Wishful Treasure Pavilion.

"Good people do it to the end, and I don't know when your friends will come, so leave this little water for you to drink."

As he spoke, he put the gourd on the ground and raised his foot and kicked it over.

The man grabbed the gourd to his side, opened it and drank a few sips, picked up the grilled fish on his body and gnawed it down.

Xia Qingyun pursed his lips, he ate and drank, and the treatment was not bad. He said he didn't need to thank him, he really didn't say a word of thanks!

Forget it, for the sake of the thousand-year-old tea tree, don't worry about him.

She walked outside the cave and opened the lid of the bamboo tube.

Out of it flew a small bird, which was only an inch long, and its feathers were as white as snow, and there was not a single variegated color.

The birds chirped and circled the sky a few times, as if to say goodbye to their owners. Then he flailed his wings, and shot like an arrow into the air, and in a blink of an eye, there was no shadow.

Xia Qingyun threw the bamboo tube into the cave and climbed towards the top of the cave.

Looking up at the waterhole below, I felt that the ancient tea tree was not very far from the cave. But from the cave, there is at least a hundred and ten zhang away.

The rock wall is steep and slippery, and if you are not careful, you will slide down, Xia Qingyun grabbed the small tree that grew on the rock wall, and climbed up carefully.

Suddenly, the weathered rock beneath his feet shattered into several pieces and rolled down the rock wall. As soon as she stepped into the air, her body was crooked, and she was about to fall. In a hurry, he grabbed a tree vine and hung his whole body in the air.

Xia Qingyun clenched his teeth and tried his best to control himself from looking down. Hold on to the vine with both hands and climb up little by little.

Eventually, the soles of his feet reached the rock wall again, and he climbed onto a protruding rock with his hands and feet.

When the mountain wind blew, she shivered, only to find that her clothes were soaked with sweat.

You must not rest at the time, and if you rest, you will have no strength. Xia Qingyun tightened his back basket and continued to move forward in the direction of the thousand-year-old tea tree.

After half an hour, she finally climbed onto the stone platform where the tea tree grows, and sat down against the tea tree, with a triumphant smile on her face.

Looking up, the lush oval leaves are shiny green with jagged edges. Pale green shoots emerge from the tips, and the buds and leaves are covered with white hairs, gilded by the sun.

This is not only a thousand-year-old tea, but also a great variety of white tea!

Xia Qingyun felt a burst of ecstasy in her heart, no matter whether the people here had ever drunk white tea or not, she had absolute confidence that the tea she made would definitely sell for a good price!

This thousand-year-old tea tree grows extremely luxuriantly, and if you pick one bud and two leaves, you can make at least four taels of excellent white tea. If it were at the price of the previous life, it would have to be sold for hundreds of thousands. Even if the tea here is not expensive, you can still earn ten taels of silver.

She thought about it beautifully, and gave Mr. Jin two taels, and the rest to the family to buy some rice, flour, grain and oil, pots and pans, and the rest

What is that? Xia Qingyun's smile froze on her face, and among the branches of the tea tree, a poisonous snake covered in turquoise spat out a letter and crawled towards her.

The triangular snake head, with the pupils in the golden eyes, was staring at him coldly.

A white lateral line runs from the snake's neck, and next to the white lateral line is a bright red corrugated lateral line. The snake's belly is light green, and its thin tail is burnt red.

Bamboo leaf green snake? Xia Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief, the toxicity of bamboo leaf green is not very great, and it generally does not cause death. But it's a hassle to be entrenched here, because you have to climb a tree to pick tea. And it doesn't seem to want to let itself go.

The snake may have been sleeping in a tree and had his good dreams disturbed. Apparently it didn't like the intruder. Its head was slightly raised, ready to attack at any moment.

Xia Qingyun's hand groped in the back basket, grabbed the harpoon, and slowly pulled it out.

When it was too late, she swung her harpoon violently and struck at the bamboo-leaf green snake in the tree.

The snake was knocked down on the stone platform, Xia Qingyun jumped up, grabbed the snake's tail with his hand, and shook it back and forth vigorously.

Then, he threw the snake on the stone platform, grabbed the snake's head and neck with his left hand accurately, stepped on the snake's tail with his right foot, took out the knife with his free right hand, and stabbed it according to the position next to the gallbladder.

The snake's belly was cut open by a sharp knife, and she reached out to pull out the snake's gall bladder, kicked the dying snake aside, and quickly tied a knot in the freshly peeled bile duct.

This sequence of actions is almost in one go. No one can believe that this delicate and thin girl is so neat.

Xia Qingyun carefully wrapped the snake gall with a cloth, thought about it, and directly put the snake gall into the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion.

To be cautious, she hammered her harpoon between the branches to prevent snakes from hiding in the trees. I went around the ancient tea tree again.

In the void at the root of the tea tree, she found a pile of snake eggs.

As can be seen from the soft shell of the snake egg, the baby snake inside has been formed and will soon hatch.

I felt sorry for a while, it turned out that this bamboo leaf green snake was to protect its children, so it would attack itself. If I had known this, I would never have killed it.

At this point, it is useless to regret it.

Xia Qingyun counted, there were a total of nine snake eggs. Left unchecked, these yet-to-be-hatched baby snakes will soon be eaten by their predators. So they were put into the Wish-Wishing Treasure Pavilion one by one and placed next to the hot springs.

She found some rubble and pressed it against the female snake, "I'm sorry, rest in peace, I'll take care of the little snakes for you." ”

After taking care of the female snake's funeral, she did not rush to pick tea, but entered the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion to bathe and clean.

In the minds of tea lovers, the thousand-year-old tea tree is both mysterious and sacred. It has weathered the wind and rain, and grows on the cliffs, like a noble goddess who cannot be desecrated at will. Therefore, before picking tea, you must take a bath and change your clothes, calm your mind, and pick it with reverence and gratitude.

An hour later, Xia Qingyun finally picked all the young shoots according to the method of one bud and two leaves, and received them in the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion.

A few days ago, she experimented with wild herbs, and all the plants that were put into the Wishful Treasure Pavilion, whether they had roots or not, could keep them fresh for a long time when they were just picked. If you put it in the soil and water it with spring water, it will soon take root and grow leaves.

So next, she selected a few thick branches from the ancient tea tree and transplanted them to the Ruyi Treasure Pavilion.

Succeed with flying colors! Xia Qingyun was in an excellent mood at this time.

Humming a little song, she cut down several vines from the rock wall, carefully tied the knots, twisted them into long strips, tied one end firmly to the ancient tea tree, and tied the other end around her waist, and slowly slid down the rock wall.

It was much faster than climbing the rock wall, and with just a cup of tea, she was back on top of the cave. Untying the vines, she deliberately went around to the cave to take a look, and the injured man didn't know when he had left.

Xia Qingyun shrugged, guessing that his friend must be looking for him not far away, so he followed the messenger bird to find the cave and rescue him so quickly.

It's still early, so if you hurry up, you'll be home before dark. Without further thought, she went down to the waterhole and walked back the way she had come.

Not long after she left the cave, a sturdy man in black flashed out of the cave, following her from a distance.