Chapter 5: The Empty Valley
The two asked for directions and set off for the Empty Valley, and just as they were passing through a dense forest, suddenly the sky suddenly darkened. The fog above the empty valley was thicker and thicker, and gradually it was as dark as ink, and even the road in front of me could not be seen clearly.
"This is the thick fog on the empty valley, and most of the miasma that comes with the thick fog is miasma, we need to be careful!" They held their breath and groped their way forward, and after a while, suddenly their eyes lit up, and in front of them was a waterfall, surrounded by peaks, and the waterfall appeared to be agile.
The waterfall is surrounded by pale green cypress trees, making it a beautiful sight. It contrasts sharply with the foggy scene above.
"The miasma under the waterfall is thinner, let's go through here," Zimo said, pointing ahead.
The two of them walked by the waterfall, and the miasma drifted with the wind, although there was a waterfall to avoid the miasma, but they also felt that their breathing was not smooth.
Just when the two of them wanted to rest, they suddenly heard the sound of the piano in front of them, and when they heard it from a distance, the difficulty of being attacked by the miasma was actually relieved. The two of them were overjoyed and followed the place where the sound of the piano came from to find the entrance. Soon a young man dressed in a white robe was found sitting in the pavilion and playing the harp.
The sound of the piano is cold, drifting into the ears with the wind. It seems to be in a different world, listening quietly, like being in a paradise fairyland, making people forget the troubles of the world.
Qin Yu stepped forward and asked, "I'll wait for me to come to the Empty Valley today to seek medical treatment, and dare to ask if Gongzi can lead the way?" ”
I saw the man in white say unhurriedly: "Everyone in the world is troubled, and everything is empty." Master Venerable has gone into retreat, and there are no idle people. Please come back! After saying this, the man in white had already disappeared, along with the lyre he had just had.
By this time, when they looked back at the waterfall, the hole under the waterfall had been closed.
Qin Yu looked around, looked back and said lightly: "A few years ago, this was just a primitive wilderness in the Beichuan Mountains, called Lin Feng Mountain, according to legend, the ancestors of medicine lived in this mountain to collect medicine and dug up meat Ganoderma lucidum in this mountain, and used meat Ganoderma lucidum to cure many local incurable diseases. Today's Lin Feng Mountain is called an empty valley. The poison in Yue'er's place is only afraid that only the medicine refined from the flesh lingzhi in this empty valley can be detoxified. We'll have to look a little more for the entrance, and we'll be able to find the entrance here. ”
So they searched for the entrance to the valley again, where the terrain was strange, and the mountain roads were twisted and changeable, and those who did not know how to discern the direction could really get lost.
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At the top of the empty valley, the aura is gathered here. The air is very good, and the plants and flowers on the mountain grow very luxuriantly.
At the top of the hill, the path winds and winds to a pharmacy. A woman dressed in yellow was decocting medicine by the medicine stove, and there were more than a dozen medicine stoves in the pharmacy at the same time. The sizzling of charcoal fire on the medicine stove.
At this time, the woman in purple walked in quickly, and said arrogantly: "Early tomorrow morning, the patients in Zhu Que Pavilion will take the decoction of meat Ganoderma lucidum as medicine, and you must prepare medicinal materials tonight." ”
"Senior sister, why didn't you say it earlier, it's getting late now, and there isn't much left of the meat lingzhi, even if it's too late to collect medicine now. Fleshy reishi mushrooms grow on extremely high rocks. The woman in yellow said dissatisfiedly.
"Whether you can get the medicine or not, that's your problem. Anyway, I'll come over on time tomorrow to get the medicine. If these patients delay treatment due to lack of medicinal materials, can you afford this responsibility? The woman in purple looked at the woman in yellow with stern eyes.
At this time, there was a sound of soft footsteps outside the pharmacy, and a man with a silver mask came in, and both of them called him in unison: "Master."
"What are you arguing about?" Master Zun asked solemnly.
The woman in purple was the first to answer: "I just discussed with my senior sister the medicinal materials that I need tomorrow, it seems that I will be tired of my senior sister." ”
"Yanran has been working hard to diagnose and treat this batch of injured people recently, and you will be responsible for this batch of medicinal materials tomorrow." The masked man said lightly.
"Yes, Master!" Lingxi lowered his head in response.
The woman in purple looked at the master to help her speak, and she looked so embarrassed. It's just too much to see.
In a forest in the empty valley, Zimo was busy making a pile of firewood: "It seems that we have to sleep in this barren mountain and wild forest tonight." ”
Qin Yu touched his stomach: "I was hungry for a day during the day, but now I know that I am hungry and panicked when I rest, Zimo, you take care of Yue'er here, I will go and see if I can catch some game nearby and come back to satisfy my hunger." ”
"Wait!" Zimo looked at Qin Yu with a solemn expression.
"What's wrong?" Qin Yu looked at Zimo.
Zimo looked at His Highness: "Have you heard?" There seemed to be a faint sound of footsteps. ”
Qin Yu listened carefully, and sure enough, there were footsteps, and after a while, a black shadow came this way.
Qin Yu instinctively used the dart hidden weapon he carried, the gold-like light emitted from the dark night, and the dart was thrown towards the black shadow, and he was about to stab the other party, but at this moment, the dart was suddenly blocked by someone with a stone.
"Senior sister, are you okay?" The man in white asked with concern as he helped Lingxi.
Lingxi shook his head and said, "I'm fine." ”
The white-clothed man looked at Qin Yu and said angrily: "I have made it very clear to the two of you today, but I didn't expect that Your Excellency still had to break into the empty valley, and you almost accidentally injured my junior sister." ”
When Qin Yu was about to open his mouth to explain, Lingxi looked at the woman lying under the tree, although it was dark, they had made a pile of firewood enough for Lingxi to see the situation of the girl who had fallen asleep.
Lingxi saw that her face was not very good, so she felt pity: "That girl is highly poisoned, it seems that she can't be delayed, senior brother, why don't you let them come for treatment." After that, he gave a medicine bottle: "This, give it to her, and tomorrow morning you will keep walking in the direction of the east, and you will reach the empty valley." ”
Qin Yu caught the medicine bottle, and the man in white disappeared into the dark night with the woman just now.
Qin Yu looked at the medicine bottle in his hand, walked in front of Zimo and opened the medicine bottle: "I finally got something tonight" and Zimo kept standing there and didn't answer his words.
"Zimo, I said you shouldn't be smoked by this medicine bottle, right?" Qin Yu took the medicine bottle and shook it in front of Zimo.
"Nope!" Zimo blocked the medicine bottle with his hand, thinking in his heart: a thought had already sprouted in his heart, and the voice of the person just now had a sense of déjà vu.
The next day, the sky was bright, Zimo and Qin Yu set off and walked all the way to the east, there was an eye-catching meadow on the mountainside of the empty valley, among the green grass blades, gray and white bare stones were scattered, like hard scales, forming a stone formation, and when they walked to the center of the stone forest, a dark and cold deep hole suddenly appeared in front of them, which could not help but surprise people.
Going down from this cave, you will enter the unfathomable Empty Valley Underground Palace. The caves in the naturally formed underground palace are one after another, the scenery is eerie and strange, the sharp stalagmites rise from the ground, and the stalactites on the top of the cave hang upside down, like the huge mouth of the monster's fangs.
Walking out of the cave and following the trail to the top of the mountain, Qin Yu looked at the sea of flowers all over the mountain and said, "The hibiscus flowers in the wood are red calyx in the mountains. The stream is lonely, and they open and fall. It's this Xinyi flower, and these are century-old trees next to it. Qin Yu touched the trunk of the tree.
"I usually look at your cynical appearance, but I didn't expect you to be quite knowledgeable." Zimo said half-jokingly.
"I'm just a good drinker, when did I become cynical in your eyes, didn't you wronged me." Qin Yu frowned slightly.
"It's here!" Zimo looked at the entrance of the valley above the mountain in front of him, and saw that the man in white had been waiting here for a long time yesterday, and stepped forward to say to them, "Please come with me, two of you!" ”
"Then there is Gongzi Lao, and I haven't asked for the name of Gongzi yet." Zimo asked, holding his sword and saluting.
"In Xia Gongzi Xiao, a small name, not enough to worry about." The man in white spoke lightly, without too much emotion.
Hehe, maybe the people who live here don't eat the fireworks of the world, they are so immortals.
Qin Yu and Zimo followed Gongzixiao all the way into the Xuanlin Pavilion in the west of the Empty Valley, and saw that as soon as they walked in here, they could smell the unique smell of medicinal herbs everywhere. After Yue'er was placed, Gongzixiao personally diagnosed Yue'er's pulse.
"I'll prescribe a prescription later, and you can be cured after taking the medicine for three days according to the prescription, this place is the most quiet, and it is appropriate to give this girl a prescription for healing." After Gongzixiao finished speaking, he wrote down the prescription and left.
Gongzixiao returned to the pharmacy, only to see that she couldn't see her sister in the front yard, so she walked to the backyard. Sure enough, I found that Lingxi was specializing in pharmacopoeia again.
"Decoct the medicine according to this prescription, and send it to the patients in Xuanlin Pavilion after decocting the medicine." Gongzi Xiao said to Lingxi.
I saw that Lingxi had been concentrating on reading the medicine book, but he didn't look back at his senior brother, but replied: "Yes!" ”
"These are not in a hurry, I will take you to check the pulse when I am free tonight." Gongzixiao took down the book in Lingxi's hand.
Lingxi held her chin and said, "Senior Sister Yanran is the latest to get started, but the master has passed on more homework to her than mine, and if I don't work hard, I'm afraid it won't be suitable for me to stay in this empty valley." ”
"I don't know what Master thinks, and even for me, I've never been so dedicated to preaching. But you're okay, after all, I'm still here. Gongzixiao said and looked at Lingxi and found that she had lost weight again.
Then he comforted her and said, "Don't be so anxious, it's not good for your body's recovery!" After all, learning pharmacopoeia depends on talent! ”
Hearing this, Lingxi looked at the scenery outside the window and didn't speak for a long time.