Chapter 24: The Search for Tea
Nie Ming made it to the entrance of the cave with a halberd in his hand, he quietly distinguished the sound in the wind, and finally came to a conclusion that there seemed to be several forces fighting in the valley in the distance, because the sound in the wind was very noisy, and it was not a simple battle.
The battle went on for a long time, but the battle was settled before the moon was in the middle of the sky.
Knowing that Nie Ming was still guarding the entrance of the cave for a long time after the battle, he slowly returned to the cave after confirming that no one was approaching here, and at this time Xiao Chong had already fallen asleep with a thin blanket, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised at this time, as if she was sitting in a beautiful dream.
Looking at Xiao Chong's smile, Nie Ming also felt that his tense heartstrings were also loosened, and he leaned against a rock wall, and Nie Ming slowly fell asleep.
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The next morning, the two began to stroll through the bullpen pit.
Although the bullpen pit is called a pit, it is not a valley or a stream, but its actual area has always been no smaller than several surrounding tea producing areas, and I don't know if the downstream has become the relationship between the broken head river, there is a large amount of rich land in the lower reaches of the original river, and it is also a rare dangerous place with clear settlement of alien beasts in the inner mountains.
Bullpen pit, Bullpen pit, in addition to the shape of the mountain shape of the bullpen, there is naturally a cow-shaped beast, this beast is called the rock-shaking cow, although the name sounds very simple and simple, but this thing is really not something that ordinary people can deal with.
The charge that exceeded the weight of an adult of four thousand catties alone was not something that ordinary people could resist, and even a martial artist who had exercised his body would not be willing to wrestle with the other party.
"Tea is a spiritual plant, and you can't get any good tea if you compete like this." Walking in the beautiful and delicate mountain forest, the small species sighed softly.
"Indeed, the collection of cow-chewing peonies is indeed our problem." Nie Ming nodded, and under Xiao Chong's guidance, he also tried to collect at the same time as her, but the final harvest was a huge surprise.
Xiao Chong nodded: "The skill of tea picking is passed down from hand to hand, and the tea picking technique has formed a variety of different tea picking methods due to the movement of the fingers, the direction of the palm and the different efforts of the fingers on the new shoots. There are mainly pinching and direct mining, both hands are close to the mining surface, and the method of carrying the handle is used, and the two hands cooperate with each other and alternately to pick the buds and leaves that meet the standards. The efficiency of two-hand tea picking is high, and the speed of tea picking is fast, and the key to mastering this picking method is exercise. ”
"Exercise is not made overnight, this time we should not be able to pick good tea, but it is enough for you to protect the inheritance of tea." Nie Ming slowly stood up, and the halberd slowly stopped in front of her, "Don't worry, I will definitely send you to Jiulong Cave." ”
"I believe in you." Kozune nodded and chuckled.
The two walked slowly, and at the beginning of the morning sun, they found a tea tree of a water golden turtle.
As one of the four major tea bushes in Wuyi, the characteristics of the tea tree are also very obvious, the bark color is gray-white, the branches are slightly curved, and the leaves are oblong, emerald green, and shiny. The effect of such characteristics is that the shape of the tea is tightly knotted, the color is dark green and moist, the aroma is fine and remote, the taste is sweet and mellow, the soup color is golden, and the bottom of the leaves is soft and bright.
Of course, although this tea tree is very distinctive, but the problem of collection is not this, because on the side of this tea tree, there is a huge bull looking at Nie Ming and the others, this bull is not like a general cattle in the south, its body length is three meters five, and the height has reached nearly two meters, it is a huge biao-shaped object, from the protruding muscles on its body, it seems that it is a power-type existence.
"Good guy, it looks like this brute is really big!" Nie Ming exclaimed as he took out the double halberd behind his back, "Will this guy give up the new leaves on the tree because of the dumplings?" ”
"No, tea works better on them, and cows don't seem to have a very high intelligence." Xiao Chong shook his head, "Nie Jun, don't you work hard, drag it away, I only need two quarters of an hour at most." ”
"Well, three quarters of an hour, come on!" Nie Ming stood with his halberd, and a murderous aura shot directly at the wild bull lying on the stone not far away.
As a strange beast, the wild bull was naturally very sensitive to killing, and it stood up violently before Nie Ming could make a move, and after shaking off the dust on its body, it rushed towards Nie Ming. The brute bull moved like a landslide, and in the dust rolling, it came straight to Nie Ming below, with an unstoppable momentum.
The corners of Nie Ming's mouth lifted lightly, and he suddenly flashed to the right before the other party was approaching, directly letting go of this indomitable monster.
But just as a man and a beast staggered by, the wild bull actually showed a humanized contempt, and then it jumped on the spot, and then suddenly froze in place! And when jumping in the air, the wild bull even completed a turn!
"Good fellows! What a beast! Nie Ming praised with some surprise.
Hearing Nie Ming's praise, the other party's face actually had a look of pleasure visible to the naked eye, of course, although the pleasure was still there, its charge was launched again.
This time, Nie Ming, who understood the characteristics of the other party, was not dodging, only to see that the halberd in his hand was directly rounded in the air, and then he slashed directly at the opponent's head!
The halberd blade and the horn collided in the air, and a loud sound echoed through the bullpen pit!
Nie Ming only felt a huge force coming, and the whole person was directly repelled by the huge force for a few steps, but in the process of retreating, he swung out again with the help of his force, directly blocking the opponent who attacked again.
The same scene appeared three times in a row, accompanied by a bell! Clang! Clang! Three loud noises echoed through the valley, and Nie Ming and the brute bull each retreated a few steps.
Nie Ming shook his numb arm, and the brute bull shook his huge head.
"What a powerful beast, it's really hard to deal with if it's a head-on confrontation, but the mountain people have their own clever plans!" Nie Ming thought of a way to deal with it or delay time in the collision just now, only to see that he began to charge quickly towards the top of the valley, and the brute bull who had returned in vain was directly behind him.
One person, one cow, one chased and one fled, and soon ran away.
During this period, a large number of bull heads protruded from everywhere, and after seeing Nie Ming running away and the wild bull chasing after them, they retracted their heads boringly. Such a scene scared Nie Ming a lot, and it also reminded him that this is the opponent's home field!
So in the subsequent collision, Nie Ming was very measured, the original plan was to lure the other party to a small stone wall to get stuck, and then trap it, but now it should only be able to wait for the small species to collect enough tea and then run away, it seems that these intelligent creatures should not give them many opportunities to kite.
So one person and one cow jumped up and down in the valley, and finally when Nie Ming was sweating profusely, he heard Xiao Chong say the finished words.
This made him breathe: "Let's get out of the valley, let's get out, this beast is not easy to deal with." As he spoke, he took the lead and rushed out of the valley.
Zhou Xiaochong covered his mouth and chuckled, and slowly walked out of the valley.
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After returning to the cave where he was resting for work, Nie Ming fell to the ground directly: "Damn, the strange beasts in this valley are not easy to deal with, no wonder the water golden turtle is so precious." ”
"Not really, but we don't know about this kind of food that cows like, and the tea farmers who have mastered this secret recipe don't know who it is, so the origin of the water beetle has always been very mysterious." "We can pick these leaves enough to make some tea, so let's try it again in the afternoon, and tomorrow we'll go look for the Nine Dragons." ”
Nie Ming smiled bitterly: "You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, okay, okay, I'll rest for a while." ”
With that, he went to the stream to wash it briefly, and then began to rest, but this time when he bathed in the river, he obviously felt that there were some peeping eyes around him, which made him feel a little bad.
In the afternoon, they made another attempt, and after Nie Ming had spent a lot of physical strength, they had obtained a certain amount of original leaves again, but this time there were several other places in the valley where the sound of battle was also remembered, and it seemed that some latecomers had also rushed here.
And this also made Nie Ming and the others make up their minds, and they will leave here tomorrow morning and go to Jiulong Cave. Little did they know, however, that this was not a wrong choice, as two valleys away, the two sides were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire.
If Nie Ming is nearby, he can recognize that the leader of one of them is the masked man brigade led by the Sancai assassins, they have a large number of people, although Nie Ming killed more than 20 people, there are still more than 20 people here, and the other is Ren Zongheng's five-person group, which has four thousand households led by Ren Zongheng and a tea-picking tool man, the tool man naturally has no combat power, so each of them is facing several times the opponent.
Of course, the core of the battle is the duel between Ren Zongheng and the Sancai Assassin, Ren Zongheng's battle with them is very anxious, although the Sancai Assassin suffered a lot of injuries in the collision with Nie Ming, but I don't know why Ren Zongheng's state is not at its peak, at this time he has a wound on his chest, and a white silk scarf is tightly wrapped around his chest.
With a motley army of many and miscellaneous on one side and four elites on the other, the outcome of this battle is still unknown.
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In the evening, a stumbling footstep appeared outside the cave, and Nie Ming, who was lying on the ground, got up like an electric shock and rushed out with a halberd.
After he rushed out, he saw a staggering figure rushing out of the deep forest, his right arm with its roots broken, covered in wounds and bleeding.
Nie Ming stepped forward to help him, and looked at this bloody man who was actually Ren Zongheng!
Nie Ming asked hurriedly while helping him stop the bleeding, "What happened!" How can this be"
"This is the big picture!" Ren Zongheng spat out a mouthful of blood, "Please send the big red robe and my nameplate." Delivered. Capital city... Before he could finish his words, his eyes lost their sparkle.