"You've found Crystal Orchid again?" Fu Xiaojiu turned his worries into joy and asked excitedly.

But Fu Xiaojiu was excited for a moment and felt that something was wrong, "You and Uncle Ji have both walked through that fork in the road, how can you still go the wrong way?" ”

Wan Lin's eyes also showed a puzzled look, and he said with a deep look: "We didn't find the crystal orchid all morning, Uncle Ji said that there is probably no crystal orchid at this season, so we plan to come back." But as we walked, the road became foggy, and the two forks in the road appeared again. Uncle Ji and I also knew which way to choose, but suddenly there was a cry for help at another fork in the road, and we went to that fork in the road. ”

"Someone shouting for help?" Fu Xiaojiu suddenly felt that this matter was too weird.

Ji Erzhu had already eased up, and Wan Feizhi helped him, walked to Wan Lin's side, and said to them: "That's right, we all heard someone shouting for help on that road, so we ran over to take a look." Anyway, we know which way is right, so we think about saving people first. When we arrived at the fork in the road, we found that the road was empty, and who were there? We all felt that something was wrong, and we were about to go back. At this time, we suddenly found that there was something shiny not far away, I thought it was a crystal orchid, so I walked over to look at it, but when we came to see it, it was really a crystal orchid! ”

Old Man Wan took Ji Erzhu's words and said, "That's right, we have all seen the crystal orchid!" This made a few of us happy, and we all only went to Crystal Orchid, and we forgot that someone was shouting for help. The three of us picked some one by one, just put the crystal orchid away, and suddenly smelled a pungent fragrance, a few of us looked for the fragrance again, and found a piece of fat mushrooms, originally we were still thinking that this mushroom must be poisonous and could not be eaten, but I don't know what's wrong, we are all hungry, so we want to try to eat it. There was a stream next to it, so we washed the mushrooms, put them on the fire, roasted them, and ate them. ”

Wan Pozi said disgustedly: "You are all so old, can you still be coveted by mushrooms to develop this virtue?" Is there a shame in it? ”

Old man Wan said with an aggrieved face: "Don't blame me, the eldest brother Ji and the third brother are not greedy, and I am not alone." Besides, we happened to be hungry at the time. ”

Wan Lin's two thick eyebrows were locked together, and he said questioningly: "Actually, the more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes, how did we hear the sound of help?" What exactly are those mushrooms? How do you make people want to eat when they smell it? ”

Fu Xiaojiu stiffened his face and said to everyone vigilantly: "I suspect that there is something strange here, we must figure this matter out!" ”

"Isn't this a ghost?" Ji Erzhu couldn't help but get goosebumps.

When the village chief heard this, he said puzzledly: "That path has been appearing for many years, and in my opinion, it is also a ghost, or let's invite a Taoist priest to come over tomorrow to do the practice!" ”

Fu Xiaojiu smiled, "Uncle Village, it's a little too early to just blame the ghosts for now." Let's go there tomorrow during the day, and maybe we'll find something. ”

"Still going?" Old man Wan has some shadows in his heart about that path.

Fu Xiaojiu said firmly; "Gotta go! Otherwise, someone will die there in the future. This time, you were treated in time, otherwise someone who eats poisonous mushrooms in the future will die if they can't be treated in time. Isn't there a cliff in that? You are lucky not to have made it to the edge of the cliff by mistake, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Fu Xiaojiu's words made Wan Pozi break out in a cold sweat, and Wan Pozi hurriedly said: "Xiao Jiu is right, we can't let that place harm people anymore." Whether it's a ghost or what's the reason, we'll have to find out! ”

The village chief immediately said, "Good! I agree! As the head of a village, I don't want any more villagers to have an accident on that path. Then we'll go there again tomorrow morning! ”

He Huzi and the others also became interested in the path, and they all wanted to find out what was going on, so they agreed with the village chief that they would meet at the entrance of the village tomorrow to find out.

Ji Erzhu said to Fu Xiaojiu's family: "Although my family can't be compared with your family, there are still places, why don't you just make do with me all night now, and you don't have to toss tomorrow." ”

Fu Xiaojiu replied without thinking; "Okay, we'll stay tonight."

The others had no opinion, so they made do with Ji Erzhu's house for one night.

When Fu Xiaojiu lay down, he was thinking about what caused the strangeness of that path.

In the unsolved mysteries of the world, the "ghost island" and "ghost ship" sometimes appear and appear, is that the path "ghost road"? ”

Wan Lin was not lightly harmed by poisonous mushrooms, and fell asleep when he lay down, Fu Xiaojiu kept searching for all the information he had seen in his mind, and fell asleep after thinking about it.

There were more people visiting in the morning than last night, and almost the whole village came.

During the day, the sight was good, and everyone quickly found the intersection where the fork in the road appeared.

Fu Xiaojiu carefully observed the surrounding environment and surveyed all the plants.

Suddenly, a plant hidden under a layer of vines caught Fu Xiaojiu's attention.

"How can there be such a thing here?" Fu Xiaojiu muttered to himself strangely.

"Lady, what did you find?"

Wan Lin saw Fu Xiaojiu staring at the plant in front of him in a daze, and asked curiously.

Fu Xiaojiu suddenly said to Wan Lin: "Hurry up and tell everyone to cover their mouths and noses!" ”

"Good!"

Wan Lin didn't ask the reason, and immediately shouted: "Everyone is looking for something to cover their mouths and noses!" Be sure to cover it tightly! ”

Some people are very obedient, some people cover their mouths and noses with their sleeves, some people cover their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs, and Fu Xiaojiu and Wan Lin both cover their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs.

Fu Xiaojiu pointed to this seemingly inconspicuous plant and said, "This flower is called a mandala flower, and its fragrance can make people hallucinate. There is a medical term called collective hallucination, and the reason why the non-existent path appeared was because the mandala released hallucinogenic gases. ”

Fu Xiaojiu said and walked forward.

The road in front of her seemed to have no road at first glance, and after Fu Xiaojiu walked for a while, she suddenly raised her hand and lifted the dense vines that were blocking in front of her, and an inconspicuous path actually appeared in front of everyone.

"There's a road here!" Wan Lin immediately walked over.

Everyone else couldn't believe that this path could come this way.

Fu Xiaojiu said calmly to everyone: "This road has always existed, but these drooping vines are too dense, so the road is blocked, and ordinary people will not notice this road." ”

After Fu Xiaojiu finished speaking, he walked up to the mandala flower and continued: "When you pass by here, you will inhale the smell released by the mandala flower, and if you inhale it in your nose, it will make people hallucinate. This is a kind of subconscious mind, and after people hallucinate, they will become interested in a hidden path, and through the hallucination, they will come to this path. Whether it is hearing the sound of help or seeing the fog, it is an illusion. Therefore, some people fall off the cliff directly, while others regard the poisonous mushrooms on the side of the road as a delicacy, and after eating the poisonous mushrooms, they continue to hallucinate, have nerve paralysis, and their limbs are uncoordinated, and when they come out of this path, they will be regarded as monsters......"

Fu Xiaojiu didn't wait to finish speaking, and the village chief said bitterly: "God, how can this be!" The villagers before that were burned as monsters by us! ”

Not only the village chief, but everyone else also stomped their feet in annoyance and pain.

Fu Xiaojiu couldn't bear to see them like this, so he said: "You don't have to feel guilty, because even if they are not burned to death by you, they will be poisoned to death, because you don't know that they are poisoned, and you don't know how to heal them, so they will eventually be tortured to death by poisonous mushrooms, which is similar to the pain of burning to death." My father-in-law was treated by me in time, so he was lucky enough to get his life back. ”

"Really?" The village chief's heart instantly felt better.

Fu Xiaojiu comforted: "Really." We don't have to dwell on the past now, the first thing we need to do now is to burn all these mandala flowers, and then cut off all the vines blocking this path, and set up a sign at this intersection that says "There is a cliff ahead, pay attention to safety." ”

The village chief immediately agreed: "Okay, just do what you say!" ”

With the joint efforts of the villagers, the mandala flowers were burned to the ground, the vines blocking the path were cleared, and a sign indicating that there was a cliff ahead was also erected.

After doing all this, the village chief gratefully bowed his hand to Fu Xiaojiu.

"I've heard that you're a man, and you're still a lucky person. You're really a lucky star, and as soon as you came, you solved the puzzle that had been in our village for many years. If it weren't for you, I don't know how many villagers would have died in vain in the future! ”

Fu Xiaojiu said with some embarrassment: "It's all because I didn't notice these flowers when I came last time, if I had noticed these flowers in time, I could have dealt with them earlier." ”

"Don't say that, if it weren't for the loneliness of us countrymen, we wouldn't let this flower blossom here. But then again, how the hell did these flowers end up here? ”

The village chief looked at Li Zheng and the other villagers, and everyone shook their heads helplessly.

Fu Xiaojiu guessed: "Maybe the seeds of this flower were blown here by the wind." ”

Fu Xiaojiu was still in a hurry to go back to plant crystal orchids, she didn't have time to find out how the mandala appeared, and after saying goodbye to Ji Erzhu and the village chief, the group hurriedly returned to the county seat.

Fu Xiaojiu's family did not go home first, but went to the county government first, wanting to thank the assassin Shi.

But Thorn Shi is busy with official business, and he doesn't want their gratitude, so it is good for people to spread the word that they are all safe.

The family thinks that Thorn Shi is a good person, and hopes that he can send a reliable new county commander to succeed him.

But this is not something they can worry about, and the family finally returned home after a long round of tossing.

Fu Xiaojiu gently put the crystal orchid on the table, and began to think about how to successfully plant the crystal orchid.

Fu Xiaojiu thought about it for a while, so he dug some soil from the backyard, found some leaves, mixed the leaves with the soil, and then pinched his nose and added some chicken manure to it, and carefully planted the crystal orchid into the flower pot.

This is not the end, considering that the crystal orchid needs a dark and damp growth environment, Fu Xiaojiu decided to build an exclusive "greenhouse" for the crystal orchid.