The two giant apes on the left and right sandwiched the two of us, and with a long vine, they soared into the air with their arms, and they flew to a big tree opposite. The castration was too urgent, I was afraid of flying into the branches of the tree and hurting my body, and I was about to perform the light body exercises to go up the tree, but I knew that the two giant apes were familiar with the road, and the left and right arms were divided, and we were so fluttering that we got into the green and oily ten thousand leaves, and stopped on a huge stem that stood out. The gigant was thicker than the ox's loin, and the two apes stood on it as if they were on flat ground.

At this time, I can see clearly this kind of huge and friendless different wood, the skin color is blue and white, the wood grain is fine, more than ten zhang away from the water, only layer by layer dry cloth strips, straight out in all directions; the leaves are big and strong, and the green oil is thick and firm, as if the whole piece of jade is cut in general. This kind of rare ancient wood is about what Huainanzi said about Shalangji and the like. This kind of primitive ancient wood, look at the forest from a distance, close to see, the ranks are very distant, the distance between each tree is always more than ten zhang away, only the ox waist giant branches that grow on all sides, intersect with each other.

There are many apes, large and small, fleeing and playing. There are a few golden haired giant apes like the same as around, using the empty vine in the forest, the swing is generally leisurely, a leisurely is more than ten zhang away, with the leisurely momentum of the claws of a loose, a hanging bucket, and hanging on the long vine on another tree, with the momentum into the depths of the woods, live like a bird swimming fish. The most strange forest flying, jumping all kinds of beasts, free procession, never avoid people, sometimes a strange bird flies, it stops on our shoulders, Russell Su is so happy that he can't close his mouth, we are in a different world, as if this body has gone to another world, maybe this is the fairyland.

We stopped on the trunk for a moment, and two great apes led us around the tree, over several of the trunks, to the other side of the tree. This side of the scene is different, this kind of forest is divided into north and south sides, although the distance is only ten zhang away, but it is very neatly arranged into a long tree alley. There is a turbulent stream below, rushing like an arrow, with a murmuring sound, looking west and rolling away, and there is no end in sight.

Looking at the forest opposite, on a half-withered and bald tree, layers of open windows supported the windows, and the figures in the windows flickered, as if there were people living in the big dead tree. Outside the sunny window, there is still a pole of children's clothes, and behind the dead tree, a wisp of cooking smoke rises. This kind of tree house, ingenious, is really unseen and unheard of.

The vine in our hands hung from the top of the big dead tree opposite, and Russell smiled and said, "This kind of house is not in the sky and not in the field, it is really special! Before he could finish speaking, the bodies of the two giant apes had already walked over first, stopped on the cross-trunk of the dead tree opposite, raised their paws and beckoned, and we looked at the place where we landed, and with a little foot, we also flew into the air.

As soon as the two apes stretched out their arms to catch them, they stopped, abandoned the vines in their hands, and followed the two apes towards the tree, and actually walked into a portal.

It turned out that this big withered tree was more than half waist, and the center of the tree was hollowed out, leaving only a shell one or two feet thick, and people entering the heart of the tree were like walking into a huge circular pavilion. Windows were dug out on all sides, and many household items were piled up in the pavilion, and a long and heavy wooden ladder led to the upper floor.

We went up the ladder to the first floor, and this floor of the house was dug more cleverly, digging the center of the tree into two half-moon shapes, leaving a thick wooden wall in the center, separating the two sides into two rooms inside and outside. There is a double portal on the wooden wall that connects the inside and outside, and a heavy straw curtain hangs on the door.

As soon as we went up, a huge ape came out of the straw curtain, carrying a girl of three or four years old on her back, with a red shirt hanging down, picturesque eyebrows, a pair of lacquered eyes, staring at us with a bone, stretching out her little hand to point into the curtain, and said with a smile: "My mother's long-awaited guest is coming, why don't you go in and meet my mother?" The giant ape with the child also lifted his broad lips, laughed strangely, and went down the stairs by himself.

As soon as the thought arose, someone inside the curtain said, "The good guest has come from afar, and I am sick and unable to move, so I have to please give me a look." The interior was elegantly furnished, with brilliant animal skins on the underground walls, tables and chairs carved from tree roots, planters dug into planters along the windows, and planted with many unknown fragrant flowers and plants. The two beds by the window and the wall are about pre-drawn, and they are carved and dug by using the heart of the tree itself.

The position of the pen and inkstone books on the bookcase is clear, the bed is thickly stacked with animal skins, the right couch is empty, and on the left half-lying and half-sitting lies a woman with a yellow face like wax and a thin skinny woman, covered with a thin quilt from the waist down, and two dry wood-like arms resting outside. Although the face was yellow and withered, two beautiful eyebrows that flew diagonally into the temples, a pair of sparkling slender eyes, and long black hair, it could be seen that the woman was no more than thirty years old.

As soon as she saw us enter the house, she bowed her body and reached out to tuck back the long hair that was draped over her shoulders, and at the same time two sharp eyes swept back and forth between the two of us.

With a wry smile on his face, he nodded to Russell and said, "I am the Rakshasa lady who corresponds with you, and you must be the junior sister that my master often mentions." He glanced at me again and said, 'Since this one has come here with his sister, he is certainly not an outsider.' ’

Russell Su hurriedly approached the couch and said that he was a senior brother of the same family, but I had already instructed me in advance about my official rank, of course I didn't say it, I only said that I was a companion all the way.

However, judging from the look on my face and the smile on my lips, Lady Rakshasa must have thought that although we belonged to the same family, lonely men and widows walked together for a long time, and of course there were differences from ordinary people in the same family.

After we met with Lady Rakshasa on the sickbed, according to the words of the letter, we took out the human skin mask, handed it back to Lady Rakshasa, and sat down on two chairs carved from the roots of the two trees near the bed, and the chairs were cushioned with thick cushions woven with fine grass, and sat very comfortably.

As soon as Russell sat down, he asked his father-in-law about his whereabouts, but Lady Rakshasa said, 'It is not easy for you two to come from a long way away, so please sit down and let me tell you slowly.' After speaking, he picked up a small wooden stick and knocked on a piece of jade on the side of the couch, and a giant ape in the outroom staggered in with two long claws. Lady Rakshasa gestured to it, and the giant ape immediately went out, and suddenly, the straw curtain floated up and jumped into two little snow-white monkeys, each with a wooden plate on its head, and the two little monkeys holding the edge of the plate, squatting in front of the two of us.

Lady Rakshasa smiled and said, "It's past noon, you two must be hungry, there is nothing delicious to serve here, so we can mix some rough products from the mountains and wilderness to satisfy our hunger!"

We were really hungry and hungry at this time, and we were not polite, but we ate deliciously and fragrantly. The two little white monkeys squatted on the ground and waited until we had finished eating and drinking, and then withdrew with the wooden tray on their heads. We couldn't help but thank our master, Russell was bent on seeing his father-in-law, and after the meal he couldn't help but inquire about his father's whereabouts, and Mrs. Rakshasa took it a slow time to tell her how her husband and wife had come to seclusion here, so we had to listen to her calmly. ”