At this time, it was the rainy season, and the Cloud Inn was very deserted, and a few guests sat in the hall and drank wine on the table with a few small dishes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"How many guests are staying or eating?"

As soon as the three of them sat down, a middle-aged beautiful woman in her forties greeted them.

"Stay in the hotel, let's give us something to eat first, after a day's journey, now there is a famine in the stomach"

looked at the middle-aged beauty, Zou Yi withdrew his eyes, and secretly praised the water and soil in this southern Fujian land, although he was in his forties, he did not look old at all, even if he stood with Tigula, others would only see them as sisters.

"It's not a good journey, is it?"

The seemingly casual words of the middle-aged beauty inadvertently alleviated the psychological fatigue of the three of them, and made people feel a little intimate.

"Silver Bell, get some food for the guests"

shouted into the house from the back of the lobby, and the middle-aged beauty naturally sat down opposite Zou Yi.

"Grandma, that's all there is to eat"

After a while, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl came to this table with a few small dishes in her hand, the girl was very smart, with big eyes, delicate little face, and a pleasant national costume when she walked, which was much better than those little stars on TV.

Looking at the stack of boiled beef, a stack of peanuts, and a few side dishes with southern Fujian characteristics on the table, Zou Yi looked at the girl and smiled: "It's good to have these, just give us some staple food." ”

"I'll do it"

As she spoke, the middle-aged beauty had already gotten up and walked towards the back room.

"Don't stand, sit down and talk to us, your name is Yinling?"

As soon as the middle-aged beauty left, the girl was left standing alone at the table, looking at the young people in front of her curiously, she was not unfamiliar with her generosity, and it looked very interesting Zou Yi beckoned her to sit down opposite.

"Yinling is my nickname, my name is Liu Yuling"

The girl obviously grew up in the mountains, she was very hearty, and she answered all questions about Zou Yi, but she lacked the pretending to be reserved and twisted outside.

After eating a little, Tigula went back to the room to rest early due to physical discomfort, and followed Ruan Yujie to go out, saying that he was going to prepare some tools, and it didn't take long for only Zou Yi and the middle-aged beautiful woman and mother and son to be left at this table.

"Little brother, it's not the season to travel, where are you going?"

"I just want to go around the mountains"

Zou Yi put the dishes and chopsticks on the table, picked up the kettle and added a cup of tea to each of them, looked up at her and said with a smile: "We are students of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Huaqing University, and we have been studying several extinct Chinese medicinal materials recently. ”

"Huaqing University, it's amazing"

The middle-aged beautiful woman smiled and praised it, and then said curiously: "There are a lot of people who come here to collect medicine, if you don't dislike it, you might as well tell me about it, maybe I can give you some hints and avoid a lot of detours." ”

"That's a good feeling."

Zou Yi pretended to be surprised: "I don't know if you have heard of a place called Hualong Valley?" ”

"Hualong Valley?"

The middle-aged beauty frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and shook her head, "Are you sure this place is in the Cloud Mountains?" ”

"You shouldn't be wrong, this news was revealed by one of my mentors"

Zou Yi picked up the teacup and took a sip, revealing a trace of doubt in his eyes through the cover of the rim of the cup.

Anyway, when he said the three words Hualong Valley, he obviously felt that the middle-aged beauty's body tightened, and it was not difficult to guess that she must know where this Hualong Valley was, even if she didn't know, she should have heard of it, otherwise there would be no such reaction, since this is the case, why hide it, this is what Zou Yi can't understand.

"So I can't help you, it's no wonder that the Cloud Mountain Range is too big, I haven't even heard of this place, little brother, you eat slowly, I'll go to the back to prepare, and I'll send you some supper later"

The middle-aged beauty shook her head and smiled, got up to confess her guilt and left with the silver bell.

"It's kind of interesting"

Looking at the back of her leaving, Zou Yi smiled secretly in his heart.

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stayed at the Cloud Inn for one night, and the next morning before dawn, the three of them left in a hurry, leaving a few bags of snacks for Xiao Yinling, which made the little girl very happy, but a trace of worry faintly revealed in the expression of the middle-aged beauty was still captured by Zou Yi.

"That's the tool you prepared yesterday afternoon?"

Looking at the brand-new bamboo raft less than two meters wide in the river in front of him, Zou Yi frowned slightly.

Guessing what he was worried about, Ruan Yujie hurriedly explained: "It's the rainy season now, and many roads in the mountains must have collapsed, even if they don't collapse, it's very dangerous to walk, although the waterway is a little turbulent, but I have been fishing in this river on my own bamboo raft since I was twelve years old, if you want to talk about technology, those old tricks are not necessarily better than me, don't worry,." ”

Seeing Zou Yi looking at him worriedly, Tigula shook his head and smiled: "I'm fine, just listen to him, so you can hurry up."

Since Tigula didn't object, Zou Yi nodded at Ruan Yujie and said, "Okay, it seems that this rain will not stop, you should be careful yourself, the raft will definitely slip." ”

"No problem"

Ruan Yujie patted his chest, raised his foot and shook it in front of Zou Yi's eyes, but saw that he had tied a piece of bark with some burrs under the shoe at some point, and he was relieved to see this Zou Yi.

Ruan Yujie really didn't brag, this bamboo raft was like a toy in his hands, if he wanted it to go to the left, to the right, to the right, even if the turbulent river was under his control, there was no danger, and under the drizzle, this lonely boat shuttled in the river for more than half an hour before the momentum of rushing forward slowed down.

"This section will be a little smoother, take advantage of this time for you to relax and rest, and then there will be another rapid, and after that rapid, the river is too shallow to use a bamboo raft, and you have to walk."

Ruan Yujie sat down as he spoke, took out a few dried food rolls prepared in advance from his travel bag and handed them to Zou Yi and the others.

"How long will it take to walk?"

Zou Yi took the dry food roll, gave one to Tigula, took a bite, and asked vaguely.

Ruan Yujie looked up at the sky, frowned, and said: "If the road is good, it will take more than an hour to get to the place, but I think it will rain heavily for a while this day, and I am afraid that it will take a lot of time." ”

"Is there a place to shelter from the rain?"

Feeling the change in humidity in the air, Zou Yi also frowned.

"The other party sheltering from the rain?"

After a little hesitation, Ruan Yujie shook his head resolutely and said, "No." ”

glanced at him thoughtfully, and it was not difficult to see from his previous expression that he must have thought of something, but in the end he vetoed it, in view of his trust, Zou Yi did not ask again,

After destroying the dry food rolls, Zou Yi and Tigula closed their eyes back to back to recuperate, and more than ten minutes passed, with the shaking of the bamboo raft, Zou Yi opened his eyes and saw that Ruan Yujie had stood up, holding the bamboo pole with both hands and staring nervously at a stockade not far from the shore.

Rustle~

As the half-human-tall weeds on the shore shook and drifted away, Zou Yi and Tigula looked sideways at the same time. (To be continued.) )