26. The Last Memories of the White Butterfly (13)

Since Daqingshan (later Daxue Mountain) was occupied by Erma, in addition to hunting and killing the aborigines every day and turning this place into a purgatory on earth, he chose a condescending address and built a high-rise building for their old master to repair. At that time, before the high-rise building was built, the master took a group of apprentices to the mountains to play, in order to find a clean place.

No one thought that just five hundred miles away in the south, there was a worldly immortal source, and the fourth son of the martial saint, Houhe, and the people who followed him were living a life of no quarrel with the world. But how did he get there? This is thanks to his third brother. Sangodun was originally a person who liked to travel in the mountains and rivers, and often took three or five retinues, swords, firearms, and dry food for ten days and half a month, and explored the seclusion along the mountain stream. There are many fruit trees in the mountains, and there is never a shortage of food along the way, plus the dry food they brought, sometimes they even went home after half a year. In the past three or five years, he has traveled all over the thousands of miles, and he knows all about where there are fruit trees to pick and where there are drinking water.

So when the fourth son Hou abdicated and lived in seclusion, although the third brother had passed away, there was still one of the three or five people who followed him back then, so he sent someone to find him. That person is called "Lao Gao", he is nearly sixty years old, and he wanted to spend his old age in peace, but he saw that Daqingshan was made miserable by Wuzihan, and his name was boring, and he also had the idea of being born in his heart, but his old eyes were dizzy, and his legs and feet were not good, so he was really depressed. Coincidentally, at this time, Sizihou sent someone to explain the plan, and Lao Gao didn't wait for him to finish speaking, so he patted his thigh and agreed.

When they left Daqingshan, they used Lao Gao as their guide, because he was old, Si Zihou asked someone to make a soft chair, and arranged for four people and two by two to take turns to carry Lao Gao. There were also two samurai who had been with him for many years, Li Long and Zhao Lin, who were opening the way in front. Everyone's family members were walking slowly behind, and dozens of young people among them had their own division of labor, some were responsible for guarding, some were in charge of logistics, and some were driving livestock.

So at dawn of the day, the group of more than 200 people quietly left their homes and walked south through the boundless forest. Wu Zihan knows, and he doesn't stop it, thinking that the farther you go, the better!

That forest has not existed for thousands of years, and the grass inside is overgrown, and the fallen leaves are extremely thick, and it is very difficult to walk in, and it is like stepping on thin mud to lift and land. Although Li and Zhao led the team to open the road in front and cut grass and thorns, they could only advance 20 miles in one day, because there were old people, women and children in their families, and if they didn't pay attention to the elongation of the team, some people would fall behind. In addition, the air inside is thin and the smell of rotting leaves is stinking, adults can still tolerate it, but children can't, wow wow straight cry. A group of people walked and stopped in the forest, crossed the mountains and mountains, walked day and night, and walked for more than three months before walking more than 100 miles, and at this time, Lao Gao was seriously ill, and before he died, he relied on his memory to ask someone to draw a map, pointed out the direction of progress, and then died.

After Lao Gao's death, the daily itinerary was greatly reduced, because when they encountered a fork in the road, everyone looked at the map, and they couldn't decide to enter from that mouth for a long time, and then they argued, wasting a lot of time. Finally, one day, the group came to the vicinity of the big river in Lao Gao's mouth, set up camp, washed well, rested for two days, and then cut wood to make boats and crossed the river one by one. After crossing the river, Li Zhao and the others found that there were traces of wild beasts in the forest in front of them, and told everyone to tighten the team, open their eyes wide, and quickly sound the alarm when they found the big insects and insects, so as to gather all the people. And so on for more than two months. Seeing that the food and drinking water were about to be eaten up, there was no way to advance or retreat, and when they were about to die, suddenly the willows were bright, and they found that a line of white light was exposed in front of the forest. That is, the peach lake where the four sons and they once came.

Peach Lake is such a great place!

At this time, it is the early summer, and I saw that the lake is surrounded by wild peach trees, most of the trunks are thick and have two hugs, which are more than ten meters high, and the branches are luxuriant, and the bowl-sized peaches are full of branches. Even the ground has fallen a lot of ripe peaches, although there are many delicious, can not be wasted, four thick assignment tasks, one of the people to pick up the peaches on the ground, washed and wiped clean, cut into pieces, distributed for everyone to eat. If you can't eat it, take it and make it into peach wine.

Sizihou and his party, except for Lao Gao, who died of illness and several domestic servants and slaves who died of snake and insect plague malaria, the others were all safe and sound. Relying on the strength of the people, the four sons were very resourceful and thoughtful, and the grain of the livestock they brought with them was not lost. Once you enter this paradise, everyone feels that they have a place to settle down, and they are all overjoyed and energetic.

Sizihou gave the first order, everyone first set up tents on the lakeside, and the women cooked pots. Then he took Li and Zhao around to survey to see where it was suitable to build a house and where it was suitable to build a road...... After planning one by one, and then calling in carpenters and stonemasons, everyone worked together, and it took more than two and a half months to build a wooden house by the lake.

The water source of that lake swings comes from the streams of the Daqing Mountains, and the streams seem to rest here, drawing a circle, leaving a piece of lake, and then going south, and finally merging into a big river, mighty and mighty. Because it is a place of living water and a deep lakebed, the water will never recede, no matter how dry the weather is. When there are flash floods in spring and summer, there is never a flood here, except for the rapid lake waves and a slight rise.

The local climate is mild, like spring at all times, the plains are green, and the flowers are constantly blooming. The four sons are thick enough to make people plant plums, plums, willows, cinnamon and other trees along the lake, as well as other famous flowers and strange flowers, which are mixed in the meantime. Whenever the spring and autumn flower season, it is not the spring color, bright like the golden clouds, it is fragrant and bright, and the wind and rain are sweet. And the land is extremely fertile, the products are extremely rich, especially in the lake, it is rich in water chestnut, lotus root, callus, ci, all kinds of fish, fat and delicious.

Such a good and blessed place, why is there no one inhabited?

First of all, it is located in the deep mountains, which is very remote, and the roads are so heavy that people often give up halfway. If it weren't for Sanzidun's tour of Yaxing, no one would have set foot today. Secondly, the forest is dense, the beasts are rampant, and there are dangers everywhere, and the general ones are simply unable to go on the road. If it weren't for the map instructions left by Lao Gaohe, they would probably have panicked and lost themselves in this thousand-year-old forest.

Although the lake here is connected to the river downstream, its exit is hidden in a hole in the root of the mountain, and boats cannot pass through, which is equivalent to an undercurrent current, so outsiders cannot find it.

In addition to this, there are two natural risks. The first natural danger is more than 300 miles downstream of Peach Lake, there is a long and big ravine, the danger of the situation, needless to say, the most powerful is a kind of money miasma, its poison is incomparable, no matter whether it is morning or night, it often appears in this area. Looking from afar, I saw patches and clusters of colorful clouds, which were clustered with countless yellow and round circles, which were money miasma. If anyone walks there, without waiting for him, he will fall to the ground unconscious as long as he smells the smell of foul smell and stink, as if people had eaten too much wine and meat and vomited out. In severe cases, the human body will turn into a puddle of yellow water, leaving only bones and hair. Even if a bird in the air strays this way and flies a little lower and closer, it will surely fall unconscious and die of a poisonous miasma.

The second natural hazard is the primeval forest that is also downstream for thousands of years. Those ancient forests, since they were born from the ground, have grown more and more over time, and they have grown higher and higher. Below are dense clusters, no place to foothold, and the densest places, often crowded and arranged with each other, stretching for hundreds of miles. Even if there is a little gap in it, it is not far ahead, and there is the same giant wood forest blocking the way. Because it grows densely, the branches are furious, and when they see the cracks, they drill and press into a large tree curtain. Woody plants, with strong vitality, have no gaps horizontally, so they all go up, and when they reach the top, they squeeze each other and make mistakes, and finally they gather thicker and thicker, blocking all the skylight. Rotten grass is piled up underground, snakes rush and scurry, and vicious thorns and poisonous weeds abound. There are all kinds of ants and mosquitoes entrenched in the trees, forming a formation and flying is a piece, and a fall is like a heavy rain from the sky, which is very terrifying and incomparably strange. As long as a person is stung by one, the thousands of them think that the territory has been violated, and they will swarm up and sting the person beyond recognition, and the swelling will only dissipate. Although it cannot be said that he will die, he will be swelled for at least ten days and a half months, and if it is serious, it will cause other illnesses and lose his life. And damp miasma, not to mention. So with so many poisons, don't say that people can't get close, even if they have good protection, high skills, and all kinds of preventive elixirs, there is no way to go through these hundreds of miles of tree array forest. In addition, the forest is as dark as the night, dense and opaque, if you are not careful, you will lose your direction, and nine times out of ten you will be trapped in it, and you will not rest until you die.

The peach lake and the fertile fields by the lake, together with the lofty mountains and mountains on the left and right, happen to be in the midst of these two natural dangers. Therefore, since ancient times, it has only been a place for the food and rest of rare birds and beasts, and there are no people.

When the houses are built, the roads are paved, the fields are evenly divided, and everyone's lives are on track. Si Zihou took Li Long and Zhao Lin to patrol around, so he found out two natural hazards around Peach Lake. When I think that there are fish to catch and animals to hunt, the land is fertile, and the spring planting and autumn harvest are not only sufficient within a year, but also rich. Even the clothes you wear can be collected from the silk of wild silkworms and the skins of wild beasts for application.

In the end, there are still a lot of things that are in short supply, and the most difficult thing is salt, because the salt brought in will be used up after a year. But there are dangers and obstacles ahead, how can people fly across? Or look slowly in this mountain, maybe there will be a mountain salt mine.

In the summer of the second year, Si Zihou, Li Long, and Zhao Lin took their children and drove a small boat with wine and meat, wanting to swim all over Peach Lake. Coincidentally, there was a great drought this year, and a water hole was exposed under the cliff on the opposite side of the lake. Li Zhao and the others recommended themselves to explore, and came back to report that the cave was originally a waterway. At that moment, Si Zihou decided to go outside to have a look, probably at this time, he also inherited the good habits of Sangodun, and he would take risks when he was in danger.

The boat entered the cave, everyone lit the torch, only to see that the waterway inside is very tortuous, in some places, only a foot away from the top of the cave, people must lie on their backs in the boat, hand support the top of the cave to cross.

The exit was at the base of a cliff in the lower reaches of the river, and the cliff wall was covered with thousand-year-old vines, covering the entrance of the cave tightly. So outside, it's impossible to find this hole.

Sizihou asked someone to bring the wine and meat ashore, and everyone sat on the ground, enjoying the scenery while raising a glass and drinking. When they had eaten and drunk enough, they sent two young men to take a boat down the torrent to see what was there.