"Well, I remember that the girl who came to your house before mentioned Lingshan, didn't she say that she wanted to go with you to pick herbs? In the past two days, you have gone to Lingshan with her to pick herbs, the one I boiled for me to drink every day? ”

Hua Qing thought to herself, it was a thousand flowers and plants that she picked herself, and Sister Yang said to accompany her, but she didn't let her. After all, Sister Yang is a person who wants to be a bride, and she has been busy embroidering wedding dresses for the past few days. She couldn't delay Sister Yang embroidering her wedding dress because of the fact that she was collecting medicine by herself.

"Well, Lingshan is the sacred mountain of our clan. When you go up the mountain, you may see some animals you don't like, but you can't hurt them anyway, you know? ”

Mo Huaijin saw Hua Qing's serious look, so he had no choice but to nod in agreement.

When she arrived at the foot of the mountain, Hua Qing took out the compass, Mo Huaijin was full of curiosity, and before she could ask a question, she pointed in the direction of the compass and said:

"From this side."

"What's the point of that?"

"Well, you may not believe it when I say it, as long as you are at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, the direction measured by the measurement at different times is different, but our clan has a particular point, that is, the mountain must go in the northwest direction. If you go down the mountain, you must go in a southeasterly direction. Otherwise, you won't be able to climb this mountain. ”

Mo Huaijin listened to what she said mysterious and mysterious, although she didn't believe it in her heart, but she was not familiar with life, so she had to listen to it.

"Then I'll follow you."

"Well, I'm just afraid you'll lose it. That way, it's going to be a problem if I can't find you. ”

Mo Huaijin followed her, and after walking for a long time, she heard Hua Qing scream "ah", and as soon as he took it, Hua Qing's whole person jumped up, straddling his waist with two legs, and his hands around his neck.

Mo Huaijin didn't know what was going on, but subconsciously caught her.

"What's wrong with you?"

"There's a nocturnal snake."

Mo Huaijin looked at the ground by the moonlight, but no, there was really a black and white snake on the ground. As soon as he raised his hand, Hua Qing stopped:

"You can't kill it. Otherwise, we won't be able to get out of the mountain. ”

Mo Huaijin thought to himself, if we don't kill it, are we waiting for it to bite us? Just as he was about to start, Hua Qing shouted again:

"As long as you don't hit it, it won't bite us. If you hit it, we won't be able to get out of this mountain. ”

Mo Huaijin glanced at the snake on the ground, only to see that it stretched its neck and stuck out its tongue to look at them, looking very scary, but it didn't seem to have any more movements except for looking at them.

He lost patience and said:

"And I'm just staring at it?"

"My backpack has stone flow yellow, you sprinkle a little under your feet, and it's gone."

Mo Huaijin noticed the bag on Hua Qing's back at this time, hey, isn't this the cloth bag she brought back that night? He opened it and saw that it was a bag of yellow stone powder, which smelled pungent.

He did as she told him to throw Stone Flowing Yellow to the ground, and the Nocturnal Serpent was gone.

It's really getting more and more oblique, it turns out that she is not pretending to be a ghost.

"Why can't we get out of the mountain if we kill it?"

"I just heard from Sister Yang, and my aunt also told me that animals on Lingshan should not be killed. If you don't attack it, it won't attack you, but if you attack it, it's like the nocturnal snake just now, and if you kill one, it will come six at once, because legend has it that it has seven sisters. Then its sisters will also report on the way here, and before, one of our villagers killed a snake by mistake, and was swallowed by the snake clan of Lingshan. I can't even find the bones, and my life is in it, how can I get out of the mountain? ”

"What if we don't kill snakes, but other animals? For example, rabbits and the like, rabbits don't have seven sisters, right? ”

"There are no other animals in Lingshan except snakes."

"A holy mountain with only snakes? So why isn't it called Snake Mountain? ”

"Who said that there are only snakes, it is a moving creature, only snakes, but there are many herbs, and every step is herbs, which is not an exaggeration at all. For example, we now have a sprig of flowers, unicorns, and small herbs such as desmodium under our feet. ”

Hua Qing got down from him, turned around, and pointed to the herbs on the ground that were almost up to his waist:

"Then, the thousand flowers and herbs I boiled for you, this one is."

Mo Huaijin took a closer look, and saw that this herb was full of flower spikes, the reason why it was named Qianhua was not because it really had more than a thousand flowers, but because there were many flowers on the branches, and the whole herb did not have a single leaf.

Hua Qing reached out and folded some and put them in her backpack.

"I can assure you that except for Lingshan, there are no other places where you can see a thousand flowers and plants, and the flowers of a thousand flowers can be used in medicine, and they can cure all diseases."

"Say whatever you want, whatever you say, I believe it. I just want to get out of here. ”

Hua Qing was silent, she knew that he was in a hurry to return to his hometown, because he said that there were people he cared about there.

The two followed the moonlight and continued on their way. They didn't rest for a night, until the sky was hazy, and the two of them, who were physically exhausted, went down halfway up the mountain. Mo Huaijin's stomach was already rumbling with hunger, so Hua Qing unwrapped the package and gave him two glutinous rice to make dumpling-like food.

Mo Huaijin remembered that in the Central Plains, food like dumplings was full of vegetable filling, but the food given to him by Hua Qing looked like dumplings, but it was larger than ordinary dumplings, and the taste was glutinous when bitten, followed by the sweet fragrance of sesame seeds and peanuts mixed sweetly and filled the entire mouth.

"What is this? Sweet? ”

"Well, glutinous dumplings, made of glutinous rice, are peanuts and sesame seeds that have been crushed after being stir-fried, and mixed with honey. Is it tasty? ”

Mo Huaijin nodded, and Hua Qing couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded when she saw him eat four in one go. I thought, this guy is too good to eat. I don't know how many mountains there are behind Lingshan, and the food she brought is actually not too much, she is afraid that the food will not last to send him out, so she will go back to the village.

"Why don't you eat it?"

Mo Huaijin looked back at Hua Qing, whose face was slightly flushed, and asked.

Hua Qing rubbed her calf, then cleaned up her things and put them back in the package.

"I'm not hungry, I've read in books that both the Central Plains and Fusang eat three meals a day, but here in southern Xinjiang, we only eat two meals a day. I'm in poor health, so I'd better wait until dawn to eat! When I got down the mountain, I went to fetch some water. ”

After going down the mountain, the sky was bright, and after Hua Qing took the things off, she turned back to Mo Huaijin and said:

"I'll go to the stream and get some water. You are here to rest. ”

Mo Huaijin sat down, just unbuttoned his clothes and wanted to inspect the wound, and heard Hua Qing scream "wow", he hurriedly buttoned his shirt and ran to find her in a panic, only to see the green grass, Hua Qing raised her sleeves to wipe her tears, the whole person's shoulders were shaking, and when he saw her face clearly, he found that she was crying.

He ran up to her and hugged her in a few lunges and asked:

"Why are you crying?"

"There are snakes."

She looked at Mo Huaijin very aggrieved, her body stood stiffly in place, not daring to move, Mo Huaijin had to pick her up sideways, and lowered her head to pick up the water bag she was so frightened that she threw away, only to find that there were yellow mud snakes sticking out their tongues in the east, south, and north directions.

He was suddenly annoyed in his heart, and she said that she should follow her when fetching water, and this place was lush with grass, which was where snakes and insects were found.

"Don't be afraid, I'll take you back."

He wanted to kill all the snakes, but he was afraid that she would be afraid, and seeing that the snakes had no intention of harming them, he turned back.

On the next journey, as long as he saw the dense grass, Mo Huaijin would take the initiative to pick up Hua Qing, sometimes on the mountain, sometimes on the mountainside, and sometimes at the foot of the mountain where the two mountains were connected.

The night was dark, and the sky was bright again. It wasn't until the clothes on the two of them were torn by the branches and thorns along the way, and their fair and ruddy complexion turned a little gray and yellow, that they saw the post station with wine flags waving in the distance on the top of the mountain.

"Childe, look, we're about to leave the mountain!"