"One life is two, two is three, three is ......"

"Ahem, ahem!"

"Are you awake?" Hearing the movement, I hurried to see the situation of Peony.

Peony's face seemed to be a little better, but she was still weak, and she had to rely on my support to sit up.

"What are you muttering?"

I glanced at the place where the fire was lit and motioned for her, "Cook." ”

"Cooking?" Peony Red didn't understand what I meant: "Cooking, why are you reciting the mantra in your mouth?" ”

"Formula? Haha, that's right, it's a mantra. I was amused by her in a daze, "a little cool water, two wild vine grasses, three fires, and my stomach depends on it." ”

Peony smiled with me, but her pale face inevitably made her smile look barely fragile.

"Do you always like to have fun in this way?" Peony asked me.

I rolled the big leaves I picked into a shape with one end open and the other end closed, and filled a little hot soup for Peony to drink, but Peony just took a sip and spit it out, and after vomiting it was not enough, she arched herself and kept retching, until her hair was wet with sweat, and she gradually calmed down.

"What's wrong with you?" I've tasted this soup, and although it's not delicious, it's definitely not going to throw up after drinking it.

Peony shook her head and leaned against the stone wall as if she were out of strength.

Her condition is very bad, I think it's better not to ask for it and let her rest for a while.

"I'll go out to explore the way, you can rest here for a while, and tomorrow, I'll take you out." I gave her a word of advice, and left the cave to find the way.

Peony and I fell from above, although the top of the cliff above our heads is not far from us to be invisible, but first, there are not many vines on the stone wall of this cliff, and it is difficult to say whether it has grown to the top of the cliff, and secondly, I now have a dislocated arm, and I still have a peony that seems to have a dark disease, and I can't climb it at all, so if I want to get out of here alive, I must find another way.

If you simply go down......

I looked down at the bottomless cliff beneath my feet, thought about it, and decided to forget it.

How do I get out now?

I looked up and tried to recall the map Cen Xi gave me, which seemed to mark this cliff, but the specific situation in the cliff did not make much ink and ink, and the people who wanted to make this map did not expect that the person who used it would be so unlucky to fall in.

Can't go up, can't go down, is it really heaven that wants to kill me?

I twitched the corners of my mouth.

If it's, one day I really can't do it, and then I'll sigh.

I grabbed the vine on the stone wall with one hand, and with the force of my left foot, my whole body swung to my right, and then I immediately grabbed the other vine and swung it again, and I repeated this movement five times in total, before stopping at a narrow hole.

The structure of the cave is peculiar, and there are still two adults standing at the same time, and gradually only one person can pass inside, and then inside, only a thin man or woman can go on their stomachs. A thin stream of water gushes out of the depths of the cave, moistening the vines near the entrance of the cave, and as a result, the vines here are strong enough to probably bear the weight of two people.

This is what I found when I was looking for water, and I looked inside, and there was a faint light, which means that this hole could lead to another place, and now I just need to find out if there is enough space for people to pass through, and if not, then I will have to use violent means.

However, before bringing Peony here, it is better for me to go first to investigate, in case something happens, I may not be able to protect her with my current situation.

I pulled out the dagger pinned to my waist and walked forward, as the cave got smaller and smaller, I also pressed my body down more and more, until finally I had to lean down and lie on the ground and walk forward, there were many sharp stones protruding along the way, and the place where the clear water flowed was also full of dense and slippery moss, I carefully flattened them with a dagger, and then crawled forward little by little, about the time of climbing a stick of incense, the halo in front of me became a lot larger, and the field of vision gradually widened, and then crawled forward for a while, I was able to stand up and hunch forward, and I heard the sound of rushing water.

Could it be that there is a waterfall outside this?

I frowned and continued to walk out, the sound of the water getting louder and louder, and when I saw the entrance to the cave, a splashing waterfall appeared in front of me.

It's too bad for me, most of the waterfalls are hanging on the cliff wall, even if I brought peony here, there was no way to escape. sweet potato

I had come here, and I was inevitably unwilling, and I walked to the entrance of the cave with a glimmer of hope.

"There are stone steps here?" I looked in amazement at the mossy stone steps that went down the moss stone steps outside the cave, and I didn't know what to say.

Since the upper part of the cave is slightly more protruding than the lower part, the waterfall splashes outwards along the river, and the steps are hidden behind the waterfall and are not eroded by the waterfall. However, due to the waterfall, most of the stone steps are blocked by the mist formed by the small splashing droplets, and it is impossible to see how deep it is.

But how can there be steps here?

I crouched down and scraped the moss off a piece of the staircase with a knife, then touched the edge of it with my hand.

"It turned out to be chiseled with a knife or other tool." I stood up thoughtfully.

Since there are stone steps that have been carved out of this place, it should not be far to the ground.

I turned and walked back, back to the cave where I had been sheltering. At this time, it was already dark, and the cold of the night gradually invaded, and I saw that Shaohong was still asleep, so I hurriedly lit the extinguished fire, and knew that Shaohong could not drink the soup I cooked, so I simply boiled a little hot water for preparation.

"Wake up, wake up." I nudged the peony.

Peony opened her eyes slightly, her face was no longer as gray as it was at the beginning, but luster, an unusual luster.

I helped her drink some of the warm water that had been cooled, and then asked her, "What the hell are you?" The sleeves are already like this, and they still don't want to say it? ”

Peony coughed twice, gasping slightly and looking up at me.

"Brother Shen, let me tell you a story."

I didn't say anything, but the night was too cold, so I took her into my arms, sat down on the dead vines I had picked up, and wrapped my coat around her.

"Ahem...... In a place far away to the south, there is a poor village, where every family makes a living by clearing the wasteland and farming, but there is a perennial snow cover, and the land is barren, so they work day and night, and there is not much grain to harvest all year round. ”

"One day, a baby girl was born in this barren village...... Ahem......"

At first, no one cared about such a baby girl, but as the little baby girl grew up, her complexion became fairer and fairer, her eyes were like water, and her face was like white jade, and she looked like a beautifully carved porcelain doll. Later, the little girl became a little girl, and the little girl became a slim girl, and the name of her beauty spread not only in the small village, but also to the outside world. ”

"One day, a wealthy merchant covered in gold, silver and jade came to the village, and he fell in love with the girl at first sight, and made up his mind to get her. The wealthy merchant approached the girl's father and promised him a generous bride price to take the girl as a concubine. The girl's father agreed, and despite the girl's pleadings, and despite the fact that the rich merchant was already a dead wood, he forcibly stuffed the girl into the rich merchant's carriage. ”

"Ahem...... cough cough ......" Shao Hong said in a hurry, and immediately coughed up blood.

"If you can't support it, go to sleep." I said softly.

"Nope." Peony shook her head, "I want to say, I really want to find someone to talk to." ”

I wiped the blood from her lips with my sleeve and nodded, "Okay, you say." “

The girl was taken by a rich merchant to a far, far away part of the village, and every night she cried until dawn. She never dared to step out of her house, everything around her was so strange and terrible to her, that every day when the rich merchant left, his wife and concubine would come and insult her, beat her, and forbid her to eat, and she could not see the color of the sky, because her world was already a fog. ”

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

Later, because the girl was so beautiful, many dignitaries and nobles visited the rich businessman, and the rich businessman knew that the opportunity was coming, so he not only asked the girl to accompany him every time, but also forced the girl to talk to them and spend the night with them...... The girl tried to commit suicide, but the rich merchant had already sent someone to keep an eye on her, and she was powerless and could only wait for fate. ”

"Not long after a young man, the rich merchant died of a cold, and his wife's son became the head of the house. The girl thought that the suffering of her life was finally over, and she would always be with the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha in the future, and she was also happy, but one night, the son of a rich merchant broke into the girl's house......"

"Sister Shaohong, don't talk about it anymore." I stopped her.

Peony raised her lips and smiled, "Actually, it's nothing, it's just a story......"

This matter was still known to Mrs., she couldn't tolerate the girl anymore, and sent someone to sell her to the Qinglou. When the Qinglou was chaotic, the girl stayed there for three years in a blink of an eye, and she also changed from a delicate and gentle girl to a bewitching woman. ”

Xu is sky finally took pity, and she took an opportunity to escape from the green building. She missed her mother, she wanted to go back and see, so she kept hurrying day and night, but when she returned to the place where she was born and raised, there was nothing but a barren land, only white snowflakes remained. ”

"The girl was so desperate that she cut her wrist with a hairpin and lay quietly on the snow and ice waiting for death to come."