After three days of recuperation, Hua An's injuries gradually healed, and the scabs had completely fallen off, and he came to the front yard to chop wood as usual early in the morning, and Li Shang also took care of him, and did not give him a fixed task, just let him do as much as he could.

Hua An was not lazy, first carried more than ten trips of water to fill the big water tank in the yard, and then worked with Li Shang to chop all the remaining firewood and put it neatly.

"After the firewood is chopped, it's time for us to go to the mountains to chop firewood!" Hua An looked at Li Shang and said eagerly. After holding back in Situ Mansion for a few days, he had long wanted to go to the mountains for a walk.

"You can't go, there are hungry wolves in the mountains, and they eat children." Li Shang saw that Hua An had just recovered from his injuries at such a young age, and he had already done so much work early in the morning, saying that he couldn't let him go to the mountains to chop wood with him, so he used wolves in the mountains to scare him.

"I'm not afraid, I just killed a few wolves a few days ago, and my forehand is itching now?" Hua An said and touched the axe in his hand.

"This kid is really good at blowing." Not only Li Shang, but also several subordinates who chopped wood together also shook their heads again and again.

Seeing that everyone didn't believe him, Hua An unbuttoned his shirt, pointed to the wounds on his body that had healed, and said proudly: "You see, these wounds were scratched by wolf claws." ”

Li Shang and the others have been chopping firewood in the mountains for many years, so they have naturally seen the appearance of the wound after being scratched by the wolf's claws, so they can see at a glance that what Hua An said is true.

"It's really a wolf paw print, this kid's life is really big, it's amazing that he can come back alive after fighting with wolves at such a young age!" Everyone couldn't help but admire Hua'an from the bottom of their hearts.

Li Shang was even more stunned, his aunt Li Da Niang learned in a chat with Needle Niang that Hua An was scratched by a thorny acacia tree in the mountains, and she told her nephew Li Shang about it.

Li Shang didn't think much about it, he always thought that this was true, but he didn't expect that the reason why Hua An was really injured was an encounter with a wolf, obviously Hua An concealed the truth in front of his mother in order to reassure his mother, such an excellent quality actually happened to a little child, Li Shang sighed for a while.

"Since you insist on going, let's go!" Li Shang finally agreed to Hua'an's request, he was already moved by Hua'an's filial piety, and at the same time admired Hua'an's courage to fight the wolf.

"Okay" Hua An prepared the equipment for chopping wood, and happily followed Li Shang and them to the mountains outside the city.

When passing by the bazaar, looking at the bustling crowd, Hua An unconsciously thought of Wang Ling, and thought of the longing and longing expression that Wang Ling stood on the willow branch and looked at here from afar that day.

Hua An turned around and looked back, and could vaguely see a few tall willow trees exposed in the courtyard wall of Situ Mansion, whether the young lady was still sitting under the willow trees and waiting for herself to tell a story, and whether she would be sad to see herself.

He suddenly had an inexplicable melancholy, which was the first time in his previous life. Hua An didn't quite understand what it was like, in short, as long as he thought of Wang Ling, the corners of his mouth would be filled with a sweet smile.

"What do you think? Laughing so sweetly. Li Shang walked up to Hua An, patted Hua An on the shoulder and asked with a smile.

Hua An was stunned, his cheeks suddenly turned red, and he stammered and lied: "I want to chop wood, chop a lot of firewood,"

When a subordinate of the house heard this, he pouted and said: "Chopping wood, chopping wood can smile so sweetly, yo, still blushing?" Miss the girl! ”

"Oh, Hua'an misses the girl, there are so many beautiful maids in the backyard?" Everyone teased.

Hua An's face suddenly turned even redder, he didn't argue, there was nothing to argue, what they said was the truth, and it was reasonable to lie Hua An couldn't do it for the time being.

"What nonsense are you talking about, go your way," Li Shang saw that everyone was casually ridiculing Hua An, and scolded loudly. He absolutely didn't believe what these people said, after all, Hua'an was still so young.

Everyone laughed boredly, turned around and walked towards the mountain.

After entering the mountain, because Li Shang knew the situation in the mountain well, they quickly found a place with more dead branches, each of them cut two bundles of firewood, and did not encounter a wolf.

When passing a ridge, Hua An saw that there were many soldiers in black armor patrolling back and forth in the valley not far from the mountain, this place was sparsely populated, how could there be patrolling soldiers, there must be a secret hidden here.

Hua An suddenly became interested, he grabbed Li Shang's arm and asked, "Brother Li, why are these soldiers patrolling in this deep mountain, what treasures are hidden in this valley." ”

Without waiting for Li Shang to answer, a subordinate in the house grabbed his mouth and said: "Little brother, you don't know this, there are countless treasures in this valley, what rare and exotic beasts, precious medicinal materials are everything, such as thousand-year-old ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, hundred-year-old He Shou Wu, as well as the four dislikes, sable, red fox, money leopard and big worm, that is a lot of the same!" ”

When Hua An heard this, he suddenly grew his mouth in shock, but then he was a little suspicious, how could so many treasures be concentrated in this valley, and ginseng should grow in the north, but the standard southern climate here is not suitable for the growth of ginseng, if you remember correctly, sable seems to be an animal that should survive in the north, why did these run to a valley south of the Yangtze River, it is too unreasonable.

"Impossible!" Hua An said and glanced at the man.

The man "cut" and pouted, "This matter is absolutely not fake, I don't believe you ask a few of them." ”

Hua An glanced at everyone sideways, and then nodded thoughtfully, maybe the climate of this valley is just enough to meet the survival needs of these animals and plants, but soon he realized that even if there are rare beasts here, there is no need to send so many forbidden troops to guard them, for the common people, these can indeed be called treasures, but for the royal family, these things are nothing.

Hua An frowned and expressed his doubts.

Li Shang listened, patted Hua An on the shoulder, and told the secret here.

Originally, most of the rare beasts and precious medicinal materials in this valley were not native, and there were only a few rare beasts and medicinal materials here like other valleys, but later the imperial court took a fancy to this valley, and divided this valley as a royal hunting ground and sent a forbidden army to guard it, and the common people were not allowed to enter it.

Rare medicinal herbs naturally grow more and more without anyone picking, and the hunting of the royal family is only a few times a year at most, and the number of beasts naturally increases, and the foxes in several nearby valleys have fled to this valley in order to escape the hunting of the hunters.

And those most valuable deer and leopards are tributes from various states and counties, and the palace really can't put it and it's not easy to put it, so it's stocked in this valley, and precious medicinal materials such as ginseng are also deliberately planted here, and as time goes by, there are more and more treasures here. ”

Li Shang explained it very well, Hua An'an understood, this was originally the royal hunting ground, a place for the royal family to play and hunt, no wonder the court sent so many forbidden troops to garrison.

These princes and nobles have no ability to govern the country and fight wars, but there are quite a lot of ideas to enjoy it, and they must have collected so many rare and exotic beasts to collect a lot of people's fat and people's ointment, Hua'an was secretly frightened for a while.

"Since there are so many treasures here, there must be a lot of people who go in and poach!" After Hua An finished speaking, the corner of his mouth smiled slightly.

He believes that as long as there are enough interests, there will be people who will take risks, and these things belong to the people. And at this moment, his own heart is also quietly thinking about how to sneak in and catch a few pieces, Hua An felt angry in his heart about the royal family's looting of people's fat and people's ointment, and naturally he would not be polite.

"In previous years, there were many lucky people, but now almost no one dares to enter this valley, because no one has been able to come out of it alive for a long time." Li Shang looked at Hua An with a stern expression as he spoke, as if he was warning Hua An not to think about it.

When Hua An heard this, he couldn't help but feel nervous, he looked at the valley carefully, and saw that the valley of thousands of acres was thousands of acres apart from an exit guarded by a large number of forbidden troops, and there was no other exit, the valley was surrounded by steep slopes, the slope was at least eighty degrees or more, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as a cliff, and there were two small rivers in the valley that converged into one flowing out of the valley.

In such a treacherous valley, there is only one road leading to it, and now that it is guarded by the forbidden army, it is really not easy to sneak in, either by breaking through or risking to climb down from the surrounding ridges.

But obviously these two are not good ideas, and if you are caught by the forbidden army, you will definitely be killed, and if you climb down the ridge, you may fall to pieces if you are not careful.

Even if you are lucky enough to enter the valley, how can you take out the wild beast when you hunt it, you can't climb the ridge from the valley to the ridge with the beast on your back! If it is discovered by the patrolling forbidden army, it is even more difficult to escape death.

It's really not easy to do! Hua An frowned, carefully looked at the valley again, and suddenly his eyes stopped on the small river at the exit of the valley.

The creek doesn't look very wide, it seems to be about two feet, the water is blue-green, and obviously the surface of the river is covered with a thick layer of duckweed.

If you can get to guò from the bottom of the river, you will not know it, and you only need to prepare a breathable reed, and if you hunt a wild animal, you only need to tie some stones to it and let it sink in the water and carry it out of the valley.

Such a good idea can be thought of by himself, Hua An suddenly showed a smug smile.

"Hua'an, it's time for us to go back."

Li Shang saw that Hua An's eyes had been staring directly at the royal hunting ground in front of him, and a knowing smile appeared in his mouth, afraid that he would get into trouble and hurriedly urged.

"Hmm" Hua An responded, walked two steps and glanced back at the valley behind him, and secretly thought in his heart: "Royal Hunting Ground, how can I not go shopping when I have time in the future." ”