Ah Er lit mosquito coils outside the hall, and after the maid set the dishes and chopsticks, she dodged away from a distance under Ah Er's instructions. In front of the huge hall, only Yang Ling and Qu Xiaobai were left.

As the sun set and the cool breeze was blowing, Yang Ling took the wine jug, poured two glasses of wine, and handed one to Qu Xiaobai, Qu Xiaobai raised his eyebrows: "Drink?" It's not impossible, I'm afraid I'll get drunk if I drink too much. ”

Yang Ling chuckled, "It's okay, let you play." Do what you like. ”

In the troubled times, there can still be such a quiet time of being pampered, Qu Xiaobai's heart is warm.

The two of them drank a slow sip and enjoyed a rare tranquility.

In front of the hall, you can see a corner of the green peak that extends from the northeast direction, the peaks and peaks are stacked, the cliff is like cutting, a white light is poured down on the cliff, the visual inspection should be a waterfall, because it is far away, and can not see the whole picture.

Qu Xiaobai asked Yang Ling: "Don't you have to go to the court recently?" Don't you need to go there? ”

"You don't have to go."

"That's good. You look at that mountain, it feels so strange. Why don't you go hiking tomorrow? ”

When did she become such an active person? Yang Ling couldn't help but wonder: "On such a hot day, are you sure?" ”

Qu Xiaobai looked at the green mountains with peaks and peaks, and hesitated a little, but finally said, "I just want to go and see." ”

There seemed to be some force pulling her back, making her want to go and see it. Yang Ling glanced at her. He does not reject such a thing as intuition, sometimes, intuition is the instinctive perception of the unknown, which cannot be denied, especially Xiaobai, whose arrival itself is a mysterious thing.

He couldn't help but glance up at the mountains in the distance. It's so far away that I can't see anything. But the location of that mountain is indeed quite delicate. The main mountain is located in the northeast direction, what he and Xiaobai see, is the southeast direction, is the mountain range extends to this, just like the corner of the eaves, straight into the nine skies, and then fly straight down, the section is like cutting.

It really deserves the name of Qishan.

The night gradually rose, and the distant mountains and rivers were all hidden in a fog, gray, and not very real.

Qu Xiaobai was able to sleep well, and the next day, early in the morning, the weather was fine, she woke up with her eyes open, she didn't see Yang Ling, got out of bed and put her shoes on, took the gauze clothes she was wearing from the hanger and put them on her body, and went outside to look for someone.

Yang Ling took a tray in his hand and walked over from the sandwich road of Huamu Fusu, which looked like breakfast, Qu Xiaobai greeted him, "Why is it so early?" ”

Sure enough, it was breakfast on the plate, a simple soup and a meal, and an assorted fruit and vegetable platter, which was Qu Xiaobai's consistent breakfast style.

Qu Xiaobai wanted to pick up the tray, but was stopped by Yang Ling, "You go to wash, come over and eat after washing." ”

Because he said that he was going to climb the mountain, Qu Xiaobai moved quickly, and after washing, he sat down at the dining table and began to eat breakfast, "Is there anyone to take care of An An?" ”

"Don't worry, there are Luoluo and Ah Wu and Ah Liu taking care of them over there. Are you sure you want to go hiking after eating? ”

"Well, go ahead, Hengzhi is going on vacation, how can it be called a vacation if you don't play some excitement. I used to be a master climber, you know? I can't do you as lightly as you do, but I can also fly the wall. ”

"Hmm. In the past, you had to learn martial arts, but now you don't have the opportunity to learn it, and now it's a little time, and we can learn it. Of course, it depends on whether you want to or not. ”

"Well, my mouth says yes, but my body says it probably can't. It's so hot, I'll talk about it later. You're protecting me now, aren't you? ”

Yang Ling smiled: "Well, I will protect you." But you're okay these days, and you're idle, don't you want to learn from me? Well, it's okay if we don't want to learn, we can do something else. ”

Qu Xiaobai was excited: "Learn!" I learn! ”

His uncle, it's not easy for him to do something else like her, isn't it difficult for a strong man!

There was a faint smile on the corner of Yang Ling's mouth.

It's not that he's ruthless, it's not that he can't protect her because he is incapacitated, it's really that the undercurrent in the capital is turbulent and dangerous, and she doesn't have any kung fu to protect herself, in case he is not around, isn't it dangerous? Always let her have a little self-protection capital, the worst, but also to strengthen the body.

After breakfast, Qu Xiaobai changed into a short coat and trousers, tied up his long hair, found a sunhat to put on, Yang Ling also changed his clothes, the two did not bring an entourage, rode a horse together, and went to Cuifeng.

There is a small road leading to Hecui Peak in the palace, although it is narrow, but it is not difficult to walk, and it can accommodate a horse galloping.

He Cuifeng looked not far away, walked up, but it was the distance of the dead horse running in Wangshan, and the horse galloped for more than half an hour before reaching the foot of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, there is the sound of roaring water.

As I expected yesterday, there is indeed a waterfall here. Listening to this sound, the waterfall is not small, but the waterfall is not visible from the angle in front of you.

Looking at the mountain from the foot of the mountain, the mountain is steep and the boulders are craggy, and the trees that grow in the cracks of the boulders have grown into towering trees because of the passage of time, so that you can't see the whole picture of the mountain clearly.

Yang Ling hugged Qu Xiaobai and got off the horse, there was no way forward, he turned his head to look at Qu Xiaobai: "Can it work?" ”

"Let's go up and see first. I really can't say it anymore. ”

Looking up at the mountain peak with no road at all, Qu Xiaobai really didn't have a score in his heart to see if he could go up. The mountain is steeper than expected.

The two of them began to climb upward, and the first section was not as difficult as expected, there were no shrubs in the mountain, there were not many rocks, and the slope was not too steep. Up to the middle section, the mountain is steep and difficult to walk, not only steep, but also the rocks are knife-like boulders, even if Qu Xiaobai has experience in rock climbing, he is helpless.

Whenever there was a boulder that she couldn't climb, Yang Ling carried her up for a while, and if there was a section of the road where she could go up on her own, she would toss it by herself, and he was guarding her.

The mountain was also cool, although the tossing time was not short, and I didn't feel too tired, and after walking up a little further, both of them found that something was not quite right.

On those rocks, there seem to be traces of artificial excavation.

At first glance, it is not clear what the marks are for, not a pattern, nor a pit for climbing, nor is it so evenly distributed.

The two of them glanced at each other, and then carefully studied the small obviously chiseled holes, Qu Xiaobai said: "It doesn't look like it's too old." It should have been chiseled in recent years. But what do these little potholes do? Even if it's for people who don't know how to climb and step on their feet, it's not like ah, some are so far away. ”

Yang Ling raised his eyes and looked at it for a while, then went up, looked at it, flew down, and said, "No matter what it's for, there is no doubt that there are people here who are active, I'll take you up to have a look." ”

Yang Ling took Qu Xiaobai in the crook of his arm, exerted light skills, flew the eaves on the cliff, and after a while, he went up the cliff, and above the cliff, it was a relatively flat hillside, but on the hillside, there was a stone cliff, and it did not reach the top of the mountain.

There are tall ancient trees on the hillside, which shade the sky and the sun, and the hillside is blocked from the sun, and the ground exudes the smell of humus, but there is wind on the mountain, and there is no miasma in the ancient woods.

Seeing nothing from the periphery, Yang Ling shook Qu Xiaobai's hand and walked in tentatively.

The sound of the waterfall came from one side, and the sound was much quieter than when I was down the mountain, indicating that it was far from the deep pool below.

Qu Xiaobai exclaimed: "There is such a place in the suburbs of Beijing, which is very unexpected. There won't be any beasts here, right? ”

"With me, don't be afraid of even wild beasts." Yang Ling pulled her to her side and let her cling to his side, so as not to protect her as soon as possible if there was any danger.

"Hmm."

Qu Xiaobai simply grabbed his arm and clinged to his side.

Yang Ling felt for a while, remembering that she took the newborn An An to the primeval forest and experienced all kinds of difficulties and dangers, and her hands couldn't help but tighten.

The more he walked inside, the more he could hear the gusting mountain wind, mixed with the sound of the falling waterfall, and there were no people on the ground, Qu Xiaobai wondered again: "How can there be no beasts in this kind of place?" ”

Yang Ling naturally had such doubts, but he didn't say it, "I don't know yet, let's go up and see." ”

Go up for a while, there is a cliff above, this cliff is a strange rock, and even some caves are distributed on the cliff, Yang Ling holds Qu Xiaobai, jumps to a rock that protrudes from the mouth of the cave, the rock is not big, can accommodate two people, two people are not in a hurry to enter the cave, stand on the stone and observe inside, only to see a bunch of unknown thorny bushes growing at the entrance of the cave, and the branches bear fruits the size of red beans, and the colors are bright.

It is said that the brighter the color, the more poisonous it is, Qu Xiaobai didn't know if this thing was a poisonous weed, so he pinched it carefully and asked Yang Ling: "What kind of plant is this?" ”

"It's andrographic. Highly toxic. ”

Yang Ling said.

Qu Xiaobai secretly rejoiced, "I went, it was really poisonous, fortunately I didn't plan to touch it." The opening of the cave does not look natural, but it also does not look like it was recently chiseled, and it should not be from the same period as the chisel marks just encountered below. ”

Yang Ling nodded: "Hmm." ”

"Who has carved so many caves in such a place? Hidden treasure? Qu Xiaobai made a joke.

"Probably."

"Huh?"

"Maybe someone has taken refuge here, who knows?"

"Cut, what you said is equivalent to not saying it. Let's go in and take a look. ”

Qu Xiaobai probed her brain, Yang Ling grabbed her, "Don't move." He pulled out the fish intestine dagger from his boots, brushed aside the branches of the heartbreaking grass in front of him, and walked in with Qu Xiaobai behind him, "Be careful." ”

"Hmm."

Yang Ling used a dagger to cut off the branches blocking the entrance of the cave, kicked it open, the hole was not big, only one person was allowed to pass, Yang Ling went in first, Qu Xiaobai followed behind him, and also followed.

After entering the cave, it was a long and narrow corridor, Yang Ling was in front of Xiaobai in the back, the hands of the two people were tightly clasped, the more inside, the darker it was, Yang Ling lit the fire fold to illuminate.