Drink decoctions, take pills...... When he was a child, Shen Tan was once extremely sensitive to the smell of medicine, and he tasted those bitter, astringent and sour things every day.

Until the death knell in the palace sounded, countless false voices of mourning pierced the earthen walls and seeped into the dungeon.

Yun Yi died in the prime of life, and her eighteen-year-old daughter Yun Ning succeeded to the throne as the eighth empress.

And her lover, the high-flying saint Yueying of the Kasumi West Kingdom, invited herself to the imperial tomb to guard the tomb.

The originally dark dungeon was stained with blood, and Yun Ning hated her mother, who was addicted to medicine, and even wanted to wipe out all traces of her.

Eleven or twelve-year-old Shen Tan was the only lucky one in that massacre, and he survived and crawled out of the mountain of corpses and blood in the mass grave.

Covered in bruises, covered in blood, his skin was unusually white, and his eyes had turned from misty black to crimson—the color of dried blood, just as scarred as he was.

Hunger mixed with sleepiness, Shen Tan walked all the way to the mountains.

Just when he felt that his eyes were difficult to open anymore, he met the woman who had worried him all his life - Yun Qian.

At that time, Yun Qian had just turned twelve years old.

She was dressed in a coarse linen dress, and most of her hair was casually draped, except for the upper part of her hair that was simply braided and tied with the thick hemp rope.

Don't say that peasant women, some of the daughters of the Orion family also had regular buns than Yun Qian at that time.

But in Shen Tan's opinion at that time, the girl with a bamboo basket in her hand and a soft voice was like a fairy descending to earth.

At a glance, he had already taken this woman to heart.

She saved him, named him, and spent five years with him, but he finally left her.

In order to survive, he became a closed disciple of Xi Jin and spent more than ten long years on Xi Mountain.

When I said goodbye, it was fifteen years later, and the girl who used to speak softly had become the mother of four children, and Shen Tan was still seventeen or eighteen years old.

And Yun Qian also fixed his life forever in the year when the two reunited.

A feeling of amazement rose from his heart, and Shen Tan got up and poured himself a cup of cold tea, the fragrance of tea was completely gone, and the bitterness pierced his heart.

I bought a map of Xiaxi, basically familiar with the nameless border city, and the three of them who had had enough of wandering went back to the inn.

Yun Yuan slept in the guest room and slept again, she was so hungry that she couldn't do it, but she didn't dare to walk half a step, with the urine nature of the Xiaxi people, a black cat with such a look was probably shouted and killed by everyone.

The door opened, and Wan Jinyue looked at the black cat in a circle with the food tray.

"Hungry? Why is Xiao Aliang so unenergetic? Wan Jinyue knew that Yun Yuan was depressed because she didn't dare to go out, and she still held back a smile and teased the kitten.

Meow~ Yun Yuan screamed and jumped on the round table, this little girl didn't know who she learned from, and it became more and more bad.

For the sake of the dried fish, forgive you.

"We must leave the city tomorrow morning, and if nothing else, we will enter the mountains tomorrow evening."

After eating the dried fish, Yun Yuan lay on the round table and licked her paws, while Wan Jinyue quickly ate the meal in front of her.

The twilight was deep, the sun was setting, and the three of them led the horses smoothly into the mountain, while the three carriages were hidden in the cave, and the black cat leaned forward nimbly.

In the east of Kasumi and to the west of Kasumi, the serpentine mountains form a natural border.

It is both the barrier of Xiaxi and the barrier of Kundong.

The ultimate goal of the three of them was Yuxi Mountain, a dangerous mountain that was closely connected to Kunshan Mountain.

There are many stones in Yuxi Mountain, the road is difficult to walk, and the people are inaccessible, so there are many creatures on Yuxi Mountain, and it is the most likely place to find all the medicinal herbs.

Meow woo~ Just a few steps into the mountain, Yun Yuan scratched the reddish soil with her claws.

In the soil grew a small grass with slender leaves, which looked no different from ordinary weeds, but the black cat's front paws scratched vigorously.

Meow~ The rhizome of the grass was exposed, and it turned out to be a tender white shape like a ball.

Wan Jinyue leaned over and grabbed the plant, and a small tingling sensation came from between her fingers, this herb is still thorny?

Tiny beads of blood bubbled out, and she quickly let go, grabbing the white rhizome instead.

"Familiar with the smell of grass?"

Meow~ Yun Yuan nodded, and Wan Jinyue handed the grass to Xue Qing behind her.

As soon as you enter the mountain, you will have a harvest, which can be regarded as a good start.

Meow~ The meow came, Shu Bai hurriedly stepped forward to help with a small medicine hoe, and Yun Yuan turned around and ran in the other direction.

Xue Qing also took a medicine hoe from her baggage, learned from Shu Bai's appearance, and followed behind Yun Yuan to wait for instructions.

Along the way, the harvest is very fruitful.

As the night began to darken the sky, the three of them finished their work and found a flat and open place to make a fire.

Although the cat's body is fast, compared to humans, its physical strength is much worse after all. Yun Yuan lay on the ground panting, looking very tired.

Shu Bai carried two hares and peeled them skillfully to clean, while the two girls found a lot of dead wood in the mountains to add to the fire.

It's the end of March now, and there is no rainy season in Xiaxi, so you don't have to worry about finding suitable dry firewood in the summer.

"Is the water bladder full?" Shu Bai returned to the fire with the two processed rabbits.

"It's full." Xue Qing answered, took a rabbit, and put it on a sharpened stick.

The crackling sound of the spark exploding came, and the atmosphere seemed to be a little wrong.

Yun Yuan raised her head and looked at the silent three, as if she saw a faint yellow light, which was emanating from Wan Jinyue's body.

Wan girl is so abnormal today, since she entered Kunshan, she has been talking less and less, and the whole person is inexplicable.

If you want to say that you are cowardly in your hometown, this taciturn person should also be yourself.

She quietly approached, facing away from the fire to arrange the medicinal herbs.

The little black claw will be on the woman's wrist, and a burst of bright yellow seems to instantly illuminate the heavens and the earth.

Yun Yuan entered a familiar and unfamiliar world, where it became a stone.

On the towering mountain, the serpent spread its wings and soared in the sky, and on its back was a girl of seven or eight years old, giggling and giggling.

They stopped, at Yun Yuan's feet.

"Yan Wu, do you want to take a bath with me?" The girl was dressed in purple, with her hair braided and silver ornaments tinking.

The serpent shook its head and burst into the sky again, disappearing into the thick clouds.

White skin, deep eye sockets, Roland purple eyes? This girl, who is not like Wan Jinyue anywhere, gives Yun Yuan a deep sense of familiarity.

The girl by the waterhole was undressing with her back to the water, and Yun Yuan, who had turned into a plain white stone on the side of Tan, saw two girls in the reflection, one with blue eyes and the other with light brown eyes.

Yun Yuan, who still had time to think about it, returned to the campfire again and became the fluffy black cat.

If you want to know cause and effect, follow me.

The deep voice echoed in the mountains, and the aroma of roast rabbit wafted.

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