Chapter 59: The Little Bell
The beautiful scenery of the Taihang Mountains stretches more than 800 miles from north to south, because its form is precipitous, it is an important place for soldiers since ancient times, now it is the end of autumn, the climate is cold, it is covered with snow as far as the eye can see, standing on the top of the mountain can feel the picturesque scenery of its rivers and mountains, but under this beautiful appearance is full of mysterious colors, rich underground metal resources, countless exotic flowers and plants and rare treasures are all hidden here, the aura of heaven and earth is gathered, so it is also the gathering place of most of the world's outer sects, called East China and the world.
A petite shadow walking on the thick snow on the North Tianchi Mountain, with a crisp and pleasant bell sound, dressed in thick snow clothes, looking at it from the left side, although the delicate little face was frozen red by the cold wind, but the corners of the mouth showed a row of neat Hao teeth because of happiness, and the eyes looked at the top of the mountain like stars.
The girl wiped the fine beads of sweat on her forehead because she had climbed for thousands of meters, and after exhaling lightly, she thought that it was finally almost here, as long as she got the ice needle spirit leaf, the little brother would be saved, thinking of this, she couldn't help but show a knowing smile, and continued to climb up.
After an hour of gritting her teeth and persevering, the girl finally climbed to the top of the mountain, she was tired and exhausted, and fell to the ground with an unsteady foot, and only after a soft cry did she get up with a bitter face and pat the snow on her body, looking up, her face was full of excitement that could not be concealed, and she said happily: "Great, I finally caught up!" ”
The so-called Tianchi is a kind of small lake formed at a very high altitude, because the water in it is all snow water, so it is extremely cold, ordinary creatures can not survive in it at all, and the ice needle spirit leaf is not this kind of cold and extremely cold place can not survive, is a kind of treasure in the "Hundred Herbs", and the same growth environment is extremely harsh Tianshan Snow Lotus, its petals can effectively treat Yan zhòng internal injuries. Adjust the essence, but this guy's flowering period is very short, only at the end of November every year at dusk will bloom, each flowering is only a short half an hour, mainly growing in the stone crevices under the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain, because the water temperature is really biting, even if the people who practice the cold-based martial arts do not dare to go into the water lightly, unless with the help of special drugs, otherwise once the cold poison is like the body, it will have to turn into ice cubes in a few minutes.
Originally, the Tianchi of the Northern Tianshan Mountains did not grow ice needle spirit leaves. It was a few seeds that the girl got by chance to see here, but these things were only known to the girl, and there was no need to use this kind of thing before, so she didn't come here, but she would occasionally come to see and take care of it. Although the flowering period of the ice needle spirit leaf is short, and the petals after withering are useless, this is recorded in the Hundred Herbs Sutra, when the flowers bloom. The Ice Needle Spirit Leaf began to absorb the essence on the petals to nourish itself, so the petals withered so quickly, but although the petals withered, it would enhance the spirituality of the Ice Needle Spirit Leaf. Let the next flower bloom more bewitching, and the effect will be much stronger than the last time.
These three Ice Needle Spirit Leaf Girls have been taken care of for more than ten years, and although they can't achieve the effect of resurrecting the dead, they are enough to treat half-dead people.
"Count the hours. It should be about the same! The girl looked at the sky and saw that the sun was about to set, and she didn't care that it was a snowfield at an altitude of two thousand meters. Directly took off the warm snow suit, wearing only a thin long sleeve, didn't get used to it for a while, couldn't help sneezing, and then trembling took out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket, poured out two pills the size of a dragon's eye from it, and took it orally.
These two pills have the effect of resisting the cold qi, and the continuous effect depends on the strength of the cold qi in the outside world, if you just deal with the cold wind of this North Tianchi Mountain, it is absolutely no problem to hold on for three or four hours, if you want to fight with the thousand-year-old snow water in the Tianchi, I am afraid it is not enough for half an hour, but the girl has no choice at this time, if she wants to get the ice needle spirit leaf, she must enter the Tianchi.
"Poof!"
The girl plunged into the heavenly pool without hesitation, the water under the pool was surprisingly clear, pure as if there was no impurity, although she took the medicine to keep out the cold, but she could still feel the coldness that penetrated into the bones, and immediately sped up and swam forward, and soon came to the stone crevice where she planted the ice needle spirit leaf, the turquoise rhizome, the slightly translucent red needle, and the cold silver flowers bloomed at the top, gently swaying in the water. When picking petals, you can't mess around, otherwise the whole plant will wither, and you can only use a silver knife to gently separate it, and then use silver tweezers to remove it, which shows that this thing is very noble
The girl didn't return to the Yunyan Pavilion until late at night, as a small sect outside the world in North China, there is no feng shui from the purple east, no disciples of three thousand people, no luxurious buildings, just a nobody located in this snowy mountain, leaving the folk to do some small business, tenaciously surviving in this environment of the jungle, it is estimated that it is the idea of a small company and a small business, and there is not much ambition, after all, they can't get much capital if they want to fight.
"Dead girl, stop me!"
An angry shout came from behind him, and the girl's smiling face, which was originally happy because she got the ice needle spirit leaf, immediately put it away, turned around and bowed her head respectfully, and shouted: "Senior Sister Xiaoyue!" ”
Xiao Yue scolded: "I told you that there are a lot of medicinal herbs to be refined today, and I told you to fill the water tank, and you actually ran out secretly for me!" ”
Hearing Xiaoyue say this, the girl suddenly realized, but she still lowered her head and spoke, because the other party didn't like to see her face, she didn't want to beg for a beating, and apologized: "I'm sorry Senior Sister Xiaoyue, I have something urgent today, and I forgot about it when I was busy!" ”
Xiao Yue's face was angry, her chest rose and fell in anger, and said: "Urgent, what urgent, you have to remember that you are just a subordinate, everything must be based on the interests of the sect, now go and fill the water tank for me immediately, if you can't finish it, don't give me sleep today!" ”
"Yes!" The girl answered, but she was worried about her little brother's condition.
"If it's not done tomorrow, you can wait for me to die!" After Xiao Yue finished speaking, she shook her hand and left angrily.
The girl raised her head at this time, looked at Xiaoyue's back and sighed sadly, she was picked up by the master from under the cliff six years ago, I heard that she was covered in blood at that time, it should have fallen, as for why it fell I don't know, but unfortunately, a face that should have been ruined miserably, and therefore no one likes to be friends with her, even disgusted, and then the master passed away, she has been living in the broken thatched hut in the back mountain, doing people's work every day, but she doesn't care, it's all trivial things anyway, It can be done in a few hours.
She likes medicine very much, and she also likes to study medicine, so she hides in her own small broken thatched hut to study, thinking that one day when she has learned something, and grows up, she will go down the mountain to hang the pot to help the world, although she may sleep in the open all day, but it is much better than staying in this ghost place, she is sixteen years old this year, no name, just because she picked her up when she had a bell all over her body, so the master named it "Little Bell".
In the dead of night, there is only the whistling sound of the north wind mixed with the flying snow, and the goose-like snowflakes gently fall on the lonely thatched hut.
"Jingle Bell"
"She's back!" The man's face showed a happy look, the sound of this bell was the sound of heaven that he had never tired of hearing in the past half a month, as well as her care and care and the occasional voice of dissatisfaction with his movements, which filled all the joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and he couldn't see with his eyes, so he could only look for the sound and come forward in the dark.
The little bell carried three large jars of water, because the water for refining medicine was very special, and she had to carry the bucket to the ice spring at the bottom of the mountain to fill it and bring it back, so tired that her arms were so sore that she couldn't do it, and when she came back, she saw this patient running around, I don't know if it was snowing now, I don't know if his injury is not healed, really, she rolled her eyes and stepped forward.
"Little brother, why are you moving again, aren't you suing you, this will make your injuries more serious, why don't you always listen to me?"
The little bell scolded as she walked, but she didn't want the little brother in her mouth to take her into his arms as soon as he walked in front of her, as if he hadn't heard her at all, and asked in turn: "Why did you come back so late, do you know I'm worried about you?" ”
His arms are so comfortable, it turns out that being held by a person can be so warm, those people used to see her like this and it was too late to hide, and who dared to hug her, but think about the little brother is also because he can't see it, if he knows that she is an ugly monster, it is estimated that he will be the same as everyone else, and the expression of the little bell will be happy and low.
"Why did you come back?" Seeing that she didn't speak, the little brother asked again.
At this time, the little bell came back to his senses, left his warm embrace, shook his head and said, "No, I see that your internal injuries are getting stricter day by day, so I will go out to find you the ice needle spirit leaf!" ”
"Mess up," the little brother frowned slightly, and said: "The ice needle spirit leaves all grow in the bottom of the Tianchi pool, and the pool water absorbs the cold ice qi all year round, and it is extremely cold, you little girl has no power to restrain the chicken, what if something happens?" ”
The little bell waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I'm measured, you see, I'm not coming back well?" ”
"But"
"No case, little brother, don't worry," the little bell knew what he wanted to say, interrupted his worry, and helped him to walk into the house, "Come, first let me into the house and lie down, I'll go and boil medicine for you!" (To be continued......)