Chapter 128: The Cave
Li Changqing carried the medicine basket on his back and held the basket, shuttling through the forest easily and comfortably.
Along the way, the vegetation is abundant, the landscape is heavy, and the scenery is like a landscape painting with a far-reaching artistic conception.
Across the ravine between the seventh and eighth peaks, and up the slopes, tall and thick trees cover the sky and the sun, and vines with the thick arms of babies are wrapped around them.
Compared to the previous peaks, the soil is soft and moist and covered with moss, and there are various mushrooms hidden in the moss.
Usually, Li Changqing would definitely pick some mushrooms and go home to make a bowl of mushroom soup.
But today, when he went up the mountain to find medicine, the time was very short, and Li Changqing directly ignored it and continued to move forward.
Li Changqing came to the location in his memory, only a few birds looked at Li Changqing curiously on the high branches, and there was no monkey group.
"This is where we last met the monkeys, so could they have moved somewhere else?"
Li Changqing was very confident in his memory, and carefully confirmed the surrounding environment.
"Click!"
A small branch broke and fell from the sky.
Li Changqing looked up and saw a fluffy pale yellow tail in the green leaves, smiled slightly, and uncovered the cotton cloth on the basket, and the fragrance of leek egg cakes spread in the forest.
"Boom......"
In an instant, dozens of monkeys emerged from the canopy, and the white-haired monkey stood in the middle.
The group of monkeys danced with their hands, eagerly looking at the basket in Li Changqing's hand, making a 'babbling' sound, and even a few of the more funny monkeys stared at the basket and kept swallowing saliva.
Although the monkeys had a contact with Li Changqing, they were still more vigilant due to the nature of animals.
Li Changqing took a leek egg cake from the basket and threw it into the air, and the white-haired monkey grabbed a vine and leaped up, grabbed the leek egg cake in mid-air, and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
After eating, the white-haired monkey stretched out its scarlet tongue to lick its teeth and palms clean, and looked at the leek egg cake in Li Changqing's basket with hot eyes, and the monkeys behind him faintly pounced.
Li Changqing threw out the leek egg cake in the basket like a goddess scattering flowers, and the monkeys rushed to make a mess, except for the white-haired monkey who had absolute authority, the other ordinary monkeys purely relied on physical strength, and some old and young monkeys could only pick up some missed slag.
The monkeys show the social law of the strong respecting the strong, as natural and primitive as before the uneducated wolves.
But the wolves listened to Li Changqing read on the hillside every night, and the social structure was a little less wild than before.
The road is long, and Li Changqing aims to explore the idea of 'education without class'.
And last time, Li Changqing read a passage from the "Book of Rites" to the monkeys, and he received wine from the white monkeys, indicating that the monkeys can also accept education.
Looking at the scene of the monkeys grabbing food, like a naughty boy who doesn't understand personnel, Li Changqing opened his mouth to read:
Mencius said: The old and the old, the young and the young. The road is also a trip to the world, the world is for the public, the selection of talents and abilities, and the belief and harmony. Therefore a man does not kiss his own kinsman, nor does he have only his son. So that the old have the end, the strong have use, and the young have growth. The widowed, the widowed, the lonely, the lonely, and the disabled are all supported......"
The sound of reading renders the righteousness of Haoran, and instills the truth in the sound of the book into the monkey group.
Ordinary monkeys have limited intelligence, even if Li Changqing's reading voice has a heroic and righteous bonus, it is difficult to have an immediate effect, after hearing Li Changqing's reading voice, his movements are dull and his eyes are confused.
The white-haired monkey was deep in thought with a leek egg cake in his hand, and his dark eyes were bright and shining.
Li Changqing's reading continued, and the white-haired monkey listened to it with understanding, looked down at the two leek egg cakes in his hand, threw one to an old monkey sitting under the tree and gasped, and threw one to the little monkey who was picking up leek egg cake crumbs on the periphery, and then roared at the monkeys.
The monkeys are not as chaotic as they were just now, and the old and weak monkeys and the young monkeys can get some leek omelets.
"It's so smart, it's teachable!"
The white-haired monkey's spirituality was no less than that of the gray wolf, Li Changqing nodded with satisfaction.
A basket of leek omelets was simply not enough for a few dozen monkeys, and a few monkeys were cradling the basket and licking wildly.
The white-haired monkey approached Li Changqing, pulled off Li Changqing's clothes, took a few steps forward, and then glanced back at Li Changqing.
Li Changqing understood, followed behind the white-haired monkey, first went down to the valley, and then went up along a small stream.
Halfway up the mountain, there is an open mountain forest with many fruit trees, and the yellow and red leaves of the trees fall into the water and go down the water.
The end of the stream is covered with vines, and the white-haired monkey pushes through the vines and burrows into it.
"Hey, there's a hole!"
The entrance of the cave was extremely well hidden, and Li Changqing was less than three meters away from the entrance of the cave and did not find it.
The white-haired monkey called anxiously at Li Changqing at the entrance of the cave, Li Changqing carefully observed the entrance of the cave, which was about the height of an ordinary adult woman, which could pass normally for monkeys, while Li Changqing needed to bend down, and the water level under his feet was just up to his calf.
Continuing more than 100 meters from the entrance of the cave, there is a natural stalactite cave with stalactites in various shapes.
There is a small lake with a radius of more than ten meters in the middle of the stalactite cave, and there are normal roads around the lake.
Li Changqing has lived in Lijiaao for more than 20 years, and he has never heard of such a place in Zhong Nanshan, so he was very surprised.
The entrance to the cave is so well hidden that if it weren't for the white-haired monkey to lead the way, Li Changqing might never have discovered such a place, and he had to admire the magic of nature.
The white-haired monkey continued to beckon Li Changqing to walk forward, and the road in the small lake gradually narrowed, with some potholes on both sides.
"Squeak ......"
The white-haired monkey pointed to a pothole and barked at Li Changqing.
Li Changqing looked in the direction pointed by the white-haired monkey, and there was a pool of red water, exuding an intoxicating strong aroma of wine.
"Monkey wine!", Li Changqing could smell the sweetness from the aroma of the wine alone.
Basically, there is a pothole two or three meters away, and there are various colors of monkey wine in the pothole, and the aroma of each monkey wine is somewhat different, but it is undoubtedly the best in the wine.
The temperature and humidity in the cave are very suitable, which is very suitable for preserving monkey wine, and Li Changqing only uses the kettle he carries with him to hold a pot of monkey wine.
The white monkey tugged at Li Changqing's clothes and continued to walk along the cave.
More than a thousand meters later, there was a blinding light.
"There is an exit ahead!", Li Changqing was curious about where it would lead.
The light seems to be close, but in fact it is a long way.
Li Changqing followed behind the white-haired monkey and stepped out of the hole.
The eye is drawn to a canyon flanked by high cliffs.
The narrow canyon is full of flowers and plants, but Li Changqing's heart is like turning over the river and the sea.
All flowers and plants are herbs!