After the establishment of the Angel Country, due to the urgent need for a large number of medicines for the military and the people's injuries and health, Xia Xue, who is proficient in chemistry, biology, botany and other professional knowledge, always likes to take Ouyang Qian to the places rich in medicinal materials to personally inspect when he has nothing to do.

One day, Xia Xue heard from an official whose hometown was in Gansu that there was a village called Yanqu Village in Gansu, which was rich in turmeric, gastrodia, dogwood and other medicinal materials, with high output and good quality.

Turmeric can detoxify and reduce swelling. It is used for carbuncles that are not broken in the early stage, acute purulent infection of the skin, soft tissue damage, bee stinger bites, etc.

The function of gastrodia is mainly to calm the liver and calm wind, dispel wind and relieve pain. Gastrodia has sedative, analgesic, and anticonvulsant effects; It can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce cerebral vascular resistance, slightly constrict cerebral blood vessels, and increase coronary vascular flow; It can lower blood pressure, slow down heart rate, and have a protective effect on myocardial ischemia; Gastrodia polysaccharides are immunoactive. In addition, because of the sweet taste of gastrodia, there is nothing to be afraid of. It is especially suitable for patients with hemiplegia, neurasthenia, dizziness, spinning, headache, numbness of limbs, vascular neuropathic headache, cerebral arteriosclerosis, senile dementia, sudden deafness, central retinitis, cervical spondylosis, Meniere's syndrome and other diseases.

The flesh of dogwood contains 16 kinds of amino acids, in addition, it contains a large number of essential elements for the human body. In addition, it contains physiologically active saponin raw sugar, polysaccharides, malic acid, tartaric acid, phenols, resins, tannins, vitamins A and C. Its taste is sour and astringent, and it has the effects of nourishing, strengthening the stomach, diuretic, tonifying the liver and kidneys, and benefiting qi and blood. It is mainly used for the treatment of high blood pressure, waist and knee pain, dizziness, tinnitus, menorrhagia and other symptoms. The ripe and dried fruit of dogwood is the flesh of the precious medicinal herb after being pitted. Fruit medicine is used as an astringent blood tonic and strengthening agent; It can strengthen the stomach, tonify the liver and kidneys, treat anemia, low back pain, nervous and heart weakness and other diseases. Its taste is sour and astringent, and it enters the liver and kidney meridians. Sour and astringent, has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidney, and is suitable for the symptoms of soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus caused by liver and kidney insufficiency.

Yanqu Village in Gansu Province produced so many good medicinal materials, of course Xia Xue was overjoyed, and after arranging the internal affairs, she immediately set off with Ouyang Qian to investigate. Anyway, the ministers of the Angel Kingdom have become accustomed to the character traits of this beautiful queen with strong martial arts and unique skills, who does not like to stay in the palace and like to run around, and no one objects, and everyone is at ease, and all work is running normally.

In order to prevent leaking the news and disturbing local officials and the masses, Xia Xue decided to let Ouyang Qian accompany her alone. This time, because Xia Xue mainly went into the mountains to investigate the resources of Chinese herbal medicine, she did not dress as a man, and only wore a veil and hat on the road. After all, it is more troublesome for female companions to wear men's clothes, and it doesn't matter if they wear men's clothes, the main thing is that they have to wrap their full xiong parts tightly with a bunch of xiong cloth throughout the day, and they have to keep a low voice when they speak. The plump Yufeng was wrapped for a long time, and it was also uncomfortable and abnormal. It's actually very hard for a woman to dress up as a man, and it's not as easy as it is in movies and television. Therefore, Xia Xue is generally reluctant to disguise herself as a man unless she has to do it as a last resort, such as disguised as a minister and other officials to conduct secret visits.

Xia Xue pretended to be a minister, governor and other officials, and had to dress as a man, because the officials of the ancient government were basically men, and there was no way to do it. In this era, "women are not talented is virtuous", women are generally not allowed to read, most of them are illiterate, how can an illiterate be an official, especially in the angel country, pay attention to meritocracy, illiterate people, that is, Xia Xue favors women, and they can't be allowed to serve as high-ranking officials, if these illiterate women are forcibly promoted to officials, it will be a disaster for the country and the people, and the intelligent Queen Xia Xue will not give orders according to her emotional preferences.

Xia Xue went to Yanqu Village in Gansu this time mainly to go into the mountains to investigate the resources of Chinese herbal medicine, and there was no need to pretend to be an official, so there was no need to be so troublesome to disguise herself as a man.

The hat is a hat designed for women to cover their faces and prevent passers-by from prying eyes when they travel in ancient times. The hat was surrounded by a wide brim with a drooping silk mesh veil that reached to the neck to cover the face and protect it from wind and sand. This kind of hat was very common in ancient times, and Xia Xue wore it inconspicuously.

Xia Xue and Ouyang Qian disguised themselves as medicinal herb vendors, and in the Angel Country, because Xia Xue continued to improve the status of women and encouraged women to go out to work, it was also common for female businessmen and female traders to work.

The two walked unhurried all the way, enjoying the scenery and inspecting the people's conditions along the way, and arrived near Yanqu Village in Gansu six days later.

To enter Yanqu Village, you must first pass through Dasangyuan Village and Xiaodongling Village.

Dasangyuan Village, located at the foot of Xiling, on the north bank of the Zhangjiang River, is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with 100 acres of rice fields, fertile land and beautiful water, and drought and flood protection. It is named after the two mother and child mulberry trees that are a few thick by the river. Because this section is leeward to the sun. The water is stable, there is no "big wave into the boat, dumping the bag" after the confluence of the two rivers below the bamboo forest pass, and there is no "Nu Creek like a galloping horse, the two mountains are sandwiched, the twists and turns linger, and the thunder enters the ground" of the upper section of Lujia Mountain and Yueri Beach, the boatmen all love to rest here, park the boat in the shallow water bay, lead the boat with a bamboo rope or hemp rope, and fix it on the hundred-year-old mulberry tree, and people will surround the mill plate under the mulberry tree, or squat or stand, eat dry food, and gossip. Because the mulberry tree has deep roots and thick leaves, the canopy is large, it can avoid the scorching sun in summer, and can withstand the wind and snow in winter.

Xiaodongling Village is a mountain ridge that runs east-west, and the villagers live on the ridge, the road is on the ridge, and the cultivated land is also on the ridge. Although the terrain is high, the mountains are high and the water is high, and the deep red soil is rich in products. Standing on the ridge, you can look down on the bending Zhangjiang River, you can look down on the Zhougong Temple on the West Ridge, overlook the peach blossom village behind the Zhulin Pass and the moon platform farther away, and you can enjoy the magnificent landscape of "Cangshan is like the sea, and the remnant sun is like blood" in the evening of a sunny day.

Although the scenery is beautiful, due to years of war, war, and rampant thieves, and the scourge of most people's arable land, they live a life of "only collecting August grain a year, eating grain bran for four months, and making a spring famine in every family, and living a life that is too difficult". During the war, the food eaten by the family was tight, and the shadows of people could be seen in the rice bowl of a meal. Poverty is like a stone on a mountain, layered on top of each other, weighing heavily on the heads of the villagers.

Xia Xue implemented a series of policies and measures to develop production, especially the promotion of angel wheat, angel corn and other high-yield varieties, the implementation of the reward and punishment system for farming, which stimulated the enthusiasm of the masses to grow grain, the villagers planted the wasteland and woodland that could be planted, and they were willing to spend money to buy good seeds, collect farm fertilizer, and pound in the ground without darkness or light. Soybeans, mung beans, hemp beans, red beans, and several eight-bucket urns can't fit it, and the corn harvested can only be hung on the tree in front of the door by the gable under the eaves, and it is yellow and clear throughout the autumn and winter.

In addition, there are many wasteland and woodlands that can be cultivated in the mountainous areas, and as long as people are diligent, they will harvest what they have to plant, and the food they eat will gradually become abundant. If you can't run out of food, feed one or two more pigs. Generally, it catches a pig baby in spring, and it can grow to about 100 catties in winter. If you want to make the pig stronger, you need to grow for more than a year and a half, and then put on more corn and bean feed, and the fat will be three or four fingers or a hand thick. At the end of the year, in the month of Layue, the pig killing method came, in the village yard a large cauldron, put a square table, with a few wooden rafters to build a pig shelf, the male laborer helped to lift the pig to the square table and press, the master knife down, the blood hula lala down the neck wound, flowed into the wooden basin with the salt grains. After bloodletting, the formula is pricked in the pig's mouth with a pig-killing knife, tied to the kudzu that has been soaked the day before, and tests the water temperature with his hands, so he arranges for one person to lift the pig's head, one person to lift the pig's tail, and the rest of the people help to grab the pig's feet, put them into the steaming cauldron, and rhythmically pull and send, and then turn over after a while, and pull and send. At this time, the style sat on the wooden chair and squinted and drank tea, and when he was full of sticky tea, he stood up and commanded the laborers to carry the pig to the square table, and took out the pumice stone from the tool bag with his hand and burst violently. The hair fell to the ground one by one, and the pig's head was scraped with an iron scraper, and a black pig became white and smooth after a while. Cut off the pig's head, cut off the pig's tail and clip it in the pig's mouth, hang it on the pig frame first, command the labor and then hang the pig body on the pig frame, and open a small hole in the pig's belly, insert a bamboo tube, at this time hold the pig body with both hands and squat on the horse, the cheeks are round and round and blow into the pig's belly, and the pig's body will roll round in a moment, and then gently slide it again with an iron scraper, and then open the belly, take out the intestines and heart, liver, lungs and kidneys, and then open the pig body along the backbone of the bone piece, and finally rinse the blood and pigs with warm water. Mao, and the pig will be killed. At this time, both men and women came up, boldly measuring the thickness of the fat with their fingers, and estimating in their hearts how much feed and grain the master could give the pig, and the male owner greeted everyone with a smile, while calculating how much to eat and how much to sell, and how much to send to the relatives in Zhouchuan. The women of the village helped to light a fire in the stove room, wash the radishes, cook the meat, and entertain the people and the neighbors to eat meat and drink grain wine. From the beginning of the month to the new year, it is the happiest time for the people in the mountains, and it is also the most lively time in the mountain villages, and it is also the day when the people in Sichuan Daoli look forward to the arrival of their relatives in the mountains.

The villagers live in adobe wooden frame houses. When the wall is raining, he pulls the soil and beats it with a pestle to make a hut, or expands it with mud to make an adobe to make up for it. If the roof leaks, find a few people to help, find the leaking place, erect the wooden lining, wipe it with mud, and mix the tiles again, so that it will not leak. After Xia Xue pacified Jiangnan, the society gradually stabilized, and the lives of the masses began to improve.

Xia Xue and Ouyang Qian walked about five kilometers along Xiaodongling, and finally arrived at Yanqu Village, which was surrounded by mountains.

The mountain road in Yanqu Village is a sheep intestine trail that has been walked out for many years, winding in the woods on the stream, on the bluestone, "the mountain is high and there are many stones, and when you go out, you will climb the slope, and it will rain and mud." "Touch your nose uphill, squat hook downhill". It is difficult to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, so it is easy for people in the mountains not to go down. Going down the mountain is a tight job, either someone in the family is sick to see a doctor and buy medicine, or it is a happy event for the family to have a red and white wedding, and when going down the mountain, bring some coarse and fine grains to the relatives, and then bring back the production and daily necessities such as the pickle, the head, the oil, salt, salt, sauce, vinegar, needles, threads, and brains that are needed.

Due to the difficulty of the mountain road, there are few people to see along the way. As soon as the mountain breeze blows, the dense forests on both sides of the hillside make a rattling sound, coupled with the cries of various unknown wild birds and beasts, which is very infiltrating. Ouyang Qian felt a chill on her back, her hairs stood on end, she glanced at Xia Xue in shock, but when she saw that the little queen was light and calm, she couldn't help but be embarrassed, and quietly took a few deep breaths to calm her pounding little heart.

Yanqu Village is surrounded by mountains and lush vegetation, and dozens of families live in the ditches and forks. The bamboo forest in the courtyard of the house is shaded, the water is murmuring in the ditch in front of the door, the trees on the slope are towering, the thick oak tree and the green bar tree can be seen everywhere, the thick leaves cover the slope, a pocket of orchids grows in the middle of the fallen leaves in the forest, evergreen in all seasons, between spring and summer, the fragrance is pleasant, you can't help but stop to come down and smell it, sigh the infinite magic and selfless gift of nature.

Several cats jumped up and down inside and outside the villagers' houses, meowing and whispering. The pig hummed in the pen, got up and took a few bites, and lay down again. The dog is loyal, standing in the yard or squatting on the road, and when he meets the living, he pounces on the living, which is regarded as a message to the owner. It is a good pastoral life of cultivating fields and weaving cloth, carefree and indisputable with the world.

It was almost dusk when they entered Yanqu Village, and Xia Xue and Ouyang Qian found a relatively clean family to live in temporarily. The owners of this family are a couple over 60 years old, and they learned that they have a son and a daughter, and because of the difficult mountain roads and remote geography of Yanqu Village, the son became a son-in-law in Dasangyuan Village at the foot of the mountain, and the daughter also married to Zhulinguan. His old couple was reluctant to live here because of the landscapes, ancestral industries and fields of Yanqu Village. Seeing that the two beautiful girls were so bold and dared to come to this remote mountainous area alone to collect and purchase medicinal materials, the old couple was amazed again and again, and was very enthusiastic about Xia Xue and Ouyang Qian, gave them a detailed introduction to the medicinal resources of Yanqu Village, and made a delicious farmhouse meal to entertain the two. After dinner, I cleaned the room where my daughter lived in the past and let Xia Xue and Ouyang Qian stay.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Xia Xue and Ouyang Qian got up, and after they hurriedly had breakfast, they impatiently entered the mountains east of Yanqu Village, where the mountains were big and the forests were deep, and the villagers introduced the most abundant wild medicinal resources.

The two of them walked around the mountains for a long time, and sure enough, they found that there were a lot of medicinal materials such as turmeric, gastrodia, and dogwood, and they also found new medicinal materials such as forsythia, skullcap, aranan, honeysuckle, and ganoderma lucidum. The two of them were very happy, sat down on a big rock to rest, and at the same time ate some dry food, drank some water, and happily discussed how to establish a medicinal herb cultivation base here.

Suddenly, a strong uneasiness surged in Xia Xue's heart! A hint of vigilance suddenly sounded, although no abnormal movement was found, but the experience of rolling on the edge of life and death for many years gave Xia Xue an almost miraculous sixth sense. This feeling has also pulled her back from the brink of death many times.

Xia Xuefeng's eyes swept away, and an undetectable cold light rose in Xia Xue's mind like a bomb.

"Get down!"

Everything happened almost in a fraction of a second, and in just an instant, Xia Xue flew up and pounced on Ouyang Qian's body, knocking her to the ground.

Almost at the same time, a dense rain of sharp arrow locusts shot in. Hundreds of enemies suddenly poured out on the high slope in the distance, all of them were holding bows and crossbows, the sound of bowstrings was constant, Xia Xue pulled Ouyang Qian and rolled on her side, countless bows and arrows were densely inserted in the place where they were sitting just now, some of the arrows flashed with a faint blue light, and at a glance, you could know that they were all quenched poison.

Damn it! turned out to be poisoned arrows, it seems that this group of people is determined to kill them.

At the same time, the sound of killing was everywhere! Countless enemies jumped out of thin air on the high hillside, all armed with swords or war knives, dressed in civilian clothes, black and masked, shouting and killing.

Xia Xue and Ouyang Qian took out their bows and arrows, and fought back fiercely while running, the arrows seemed to have eyes, the arrows were not missing, and a terrible scream sounded with each arrow.

There were shouts of killing in all directions, the arrows were emptied, the shouts shook the sky, and the other party's men and horses rushed over like a tide, and there were thousands of people.

Xia Xue saw that there was a dense forest not far away, and shouted loudly: "Retreat into the forest!" ”

The sharp sword blade came on, Ouyang Qian accidentally tripped over the vines, and screamed in panic, Xia Xue quickly stepped forward and kicked hard. Body, the scream like killing a pig suddenly sounded, but before the man's voice could lengthen, Xia Xue pulled out a Tang knife and cut off half of the man's head with a knife.

Blood sprayed Ouyang Qian's body in an instant, Xia Xue grabbed Ouyang Qian's hand, pulled her and rushed into the forest, the rain of arrows behind her was suddenly blocked by the dense woods, only a few arrows would rush in, but the strength was not as good as before.

When the enemy saw them hiding in the woods, they immediately abandoned their bows and crossbows, and brandished their swords and chased after them.

I saw that there were enemies in all directions, dense like locusts, Xia Xue's knife was amazing, and the blockers were invincible. Her brain was running quickly, searching for the void of the enemy's encirclement network, killing six or seven people in a row, extraordinary talent, advanced martial arts concepts and years of hard training finally played a huge advantage in this jungle battle, she was slender and light, and she could use the terrain better, moving and slashing between the jungle almost no one could be her edge.

Xia Xue flew up, kicked on the shoulder of a big man who pounced on him, and slashed down with a knife in the air, Tang Daolong groaned, slashing diagonally along the big man's cheek to his shoulder, only to hear the man's scream and fall to the ground, his skull shattered, and blood was dripping.

Xia Xue's left shoulder suddenly shook, she raised her eyebrows, and her left hand backhanded out a dagger tied to her calf, which stabbed into the eye socket of the thief. With a shake of the wrist of his right hand, he grabbed a long sword from the right, and when the other party staggered back, Tang Dao stabbed violently, flew up, and kicked the man's head and face with his right foot, and Tang Dao followed it and stabbed into the man's heart.

Thanks to his high-tech bulletproof clothing, he would have been injured if he was attacked just now. Fortunately, I have always developed a good habit of wearing high-tech bulletproof equipment whenever I go out.

Xia Xue quickly pulled down the bulletproof glass mask, and secretly said in her heart: "It seems that there is a fierce battle!" ”。

Xia Xue shouted at Ouyang Qian, "Follow me!" ”

The sharp Tang knife, with a bang, only a short section of the long sword of the oncoming enemy remained, and the man was shocked and was slashed by Ouyang Qian, who followed behind, and fell to the ground covered in blood.

In such a dangerous situation, Xia Xue did not panic and fear, she knew that the brave would win when they met on a narrow road. Xia Xue ignited her fighting spirit, her blood boiled, and she was full of murderous intent, and her knife momentum was like a rainbow. With the strong protection of high-tech equipment, facing the enemy's bow and crossbow sword, he took the lead, although he was hit by several arrows, but he was unscathed.

Xia Xuejiao screamed, rushed into the enemy formation blocked in front, slashed with a knife, and cut people when she saw them, basically killing with a knife, and the momentum was impressive. In a matter of moments, dozens of people were killed, and the enemy was so shocked that they thought they had run into the Hellish Star.

The open gun is easy to dodge and the dark arrow is difficult to defend, although he is not afraid of arrows, but in order to protect Ouyang Qian, Xia Xue gives priority to killing the enemy with a bow and arrow, for some distant ones, he will draw out a Ma drunk pistol to assist in shooting, although the Ma drunk pistol cannot kill the enemy, but it can also make the enemy unconscious within four hours, reducing his combat pressure. Under the cover of Xia Xue, Ouyang Qian followed closely behind Xia Xue, and also slashed more than a dozen enemies with a knife.

After breaking out of the encirclement, the two ran all the way to the depths of the dense forest. Xia Xue was already familiar with speeding in the jungle and mountains, if she was just by herself, she would probably have escaped from the enemy's pursuit, however, Ouyang Qian was not very familiar with the jungle and mountain escape, and was often tripped by vines, Xia Xue regarded Ouyang Qian as her own sister, and she must not be left behind, so she had to slow down her attack and pull Ouyang Qian to escape to the depths of the dense forest.

Xia Xue raised her head and looked into the distance, this bumpy escape had made them lose their path, and now they saw the forest in front of them, the grass was close, and they really didn't know where they were.