The green mountains are faint, and the rivers are long. Birds undulating in the mountains, and the sound of joy is like that of newborn children. In the hazy spring light, at a glance, the spring color of the mountains and forests is refreshing.

Originally, it was a beautiful spring color of mountains and forests, but Yang Yi didn't have much heart to appreciate such a beautiful scenery at the moment, because appreciating the beautiful scenery usually requires a corresponding mood.

The never-ending mountain roads and never-ending mountains and forests are like the misty forest in front of the Witch's Tower in a fairy tale, far less quiet and peaceful than it seems from the outside.

The thin mud that can stick to the feet and can't lift it, the miasma that can make people die in an instant, and the fierce beast that can make Hu Shou unable to name it. As soon as you want to sit down and rest, there will be countless poisonous insects, snakes and ants that are desperately burrowing into the trouser legs, and you can know what the consequences of being bitten will be just by looking at the colorful appearance of those snakes and insects.

It is hard to imagine that there are people who can survive and survive in this environment, and Yang Yi finally understood why the Zhen people were so strong, and the 300,000 troops of Guang Taizu could not defeat them back then. It is absolutely impossible for the race that survives in such an environment to be cowardly, and on the surface, the Zhen people are only a few tens of thousands, but they have endless mountains as reinforcements.

Guang Taizu can defeat the people of the Zhen tribe, but he can't defeat the countless creatures in the mountains.

Yang Yi was even more fortunate at this time that he did not recklessly lead 10,000 northern troops into Shuzhong, conquering a place not only to defeat the people there, but also to defeat every inch of land and every living being.

At noon, the group rested by a small stream of living water, and according to Yang Yi's regulations, even living water must be boiled before drinking.

Hu Shou casually pulled away a big stone on the side of the road, pulled out a centipede with a ring knife, shook his head and said to Yang Yi: "If I stay here for a few years and am familiar with the environment here, I am definitely sure to kill more than ten times the enemy." ”

Hu Shou, who grew up in the mountains, knows better than anyone how terrible the wrath of the mountain god is.

Yang Yi squatted by the stream, his head still dripping from the sweat on his face, and complained to himself: "This should be the place where the devil lives, and people suffer here." This place should be fenced off and a sign should be put on the outside that says "Virgin Forest Nature Reserve!" ”

Monkey Jian'er walked up with a bowl of hot water and a hard-boiled egg, and handed it to Yang Yidao: "The guide said that we will not arrive at Connecticut until at least tomorrow sunset, and there will be no accidents." ”

"Do you understand what's going on?" Yang Yi took a sip of hot water, smashed the egg shell little by little on the stone, and asked.

Monkey Jian'er shook his head and said: "No, so far we have not encountered a passer-by and mountain people, the guide said that the southwest of Shuzhong is sparsely populated, and sometimes you may not meet a person for a few days." ”

Hu Shou on the side saw Yang Yi's brows furrowed, thought for a while and said in a low voice: "Son, why don't we go back to Chengzhou?" ”

Yang Yi shook his head and said, "Since Tao He doesn't want us to know about the situation in Connecticut, it's useless for us to change a hundred guides." Taking the handkerchief handed by Monkey Jian'er, Yang Yi wiped the water stains on his face and said: "When we left, the Chengzhou army surrounded the Su Mansion on the grounds of protection, which was to blackmail us not to go back." ”

As she spoke, the bushes not far away shook slightly, and Tao Yingying's slender body came out of there, and everyone saw that although she had just wiped her body, she was still drenched in sweat.

Everyone knew Tao Yingying's identity, so she quickly stopped the topic and went to her own business.

Tao Yingying went to the stove and took a bowl of hot water, walked to Yang Yi and sat down, while blowing the boiling water in the bowl vigorously, she complained: "At this time, you should drink two sips of cold stream water, why do you have to boil the water before drinking?" It's really uncomfortable. ”

Yang Yi said with a smile: "This is the quirk of these people, Miss Yingying doesn't have to be hypocritical with us, you are not within the scope of the rules, no one dares to stop you even if you plunge into the water and drink wildly." ”

Tao Yingying saw Yang Yi looking at herself with a smile, of course she knew that there was something greasy in it. Yang Yi and his generals have a lot of quirks, that's right, Tao Yingying is still difficult to understand at first, for example, Yang Yi They have to eat three meals a day, such as having to take a bath every two or three days, and for example, everyone must drink the milk laid by the cow tomorrow like a barbarian on the grassland?

However, with the advancement of time, Tao Yingying found that those inexplicable rules always made sense.

Tao Yingying smiled: "You are the little girl's teacher, the teachers are all suffering, how can the students be alone?" ”

Yang Yi was noncommittal, and said strangely: "It's also embarrassing for you to follow me to Connecticut, I thought you would give up if you couldn't walk a few steps, or make trouble all the way." ”

"Who said women can't endure hardship?" Tao Yingying asked rhetorically.

"Whoever suffers should not suffer from you, you are the precious niece of Chengzhou Thorn History." Yang Yi actually wanted to ask Tao Yingying why he was locked up in the secret work of the Five Immortals Village in the first place, but once he asked this question, he would undoubtedly expose himself.

Tao Yingying didn't continue to answer his question, took the tea bowl in Yang Yi's hand that had already finished drinking, stood up and said, "Hurry up and pack up and hurry, I don't want to sleep with the moon in the forest tonight." ”

Although everyone came on horseback, the mountain road was difficult to walk, but half of the time people led the horses, and the role of the horses was no longer to carry people, but to carry goods.

After another day of walking and stopping, at noon on the second day, everyone finally saw a village at the foot of the opposite mountain, which was the first time Yang Yi and others saw a place with people after entering Connecticut.

Wangshan ran a dead horse, the distance of a mountain, it took more than two hours to reach the front of the village, but when everyone entered the village, they found that there was no one in this small village, after Hu Shou and others checked, there were no traces of fighting, not like it was robbed by thieves.

The guide was called to inquire, and he didn't know why this was the case, but said that the village was inhabited before, and told everyone that a few hours further there would be a county town, where officers and soldiers were stationed.

Yang Yi's bad premonition in his heart became stronger and stronger, and he became more and more careful when he walked further, but except that he still couldn't see people, there were no accidents.

Before sunset, Yang Yi and others arrived at a small county town under the rule of Kangzhou Prefecture, and heard the guide say that this is Guchuan County.

Kangzhou is a multi-ethnic place, the southwest is basically inhabited by the Zhen people, and the northeast, including the capital city of Kangzhou, is inhabited by a large number of Han people.