Chapter 391: Crossing the River
Not long after leaving the city, it was already raining and the sky was clear.
The moat mountain is dangerous, and there are many strange stones, but there are no soldiers and horses of Dachu here, except for some people in the city who will climb the mountain to pick some things they need, few people will haunt here.
You can still try it, but crossing the Tianqian Mountain is the dense forest of Gu worm poison in southern Xinjiang, except for the people in southern Xinjiang, few people dare to cross this place, and then it is the territory of southern Xinjiang.
Although the rain has passed, the sky has cleared. But the mountain road is not easy to walk, wet and slippery. She found a bamboo stick to make trekking poles and slowly climbed up. Natural danger is nothing to her, and the real trouble is still to come.
Fortunately, this is not the first time she has entered southern Xinjiang, the last time she was here was several years ago, when the prince and princess had not yet been taken captive. The Heavenly Trench Mountain is not a difficult thing for the Queen Mother and others who really want to be rescued, it is rare to be the Gu Worm Forest behind the Heavenly Trench Mountain.
If it is somewhere else, you can't enter the Gu Worm Forest, then a single fire is enough to devour this poisonous jungle. But it's different here, it's rainy and wet, the jungle is full of mud, and the fire can't be lit at all, so it's rare to get in and out of the jungle freely.
With a bamboo stick, she has climbed halfway up the mountain, and the mountain road is slippery, so it's not easy to walk! But...... She looked up at the clear sky. Right now, everyone is cheering for the sky to be clear, and soon, everyone will not be able to laugh. As an official of Qin Tianjian, she naturally has to be clearer about the weather and rain than ordinary people, and she has done a good job of this, and the predictions she has handled have never been wrong.
If there is no mistake this time, after this rain, there will be no rain in southern Xinjiang for half a year, and an unprecedented drought will come to a large area of land around the southwest province, which is the reason why she dares to go this time, and it is also her greatest confidence.
Such a great drought has never been seen in the records of the Southwest Prefecture, at least, after the establishment of Great Chu, but it happened at such a time. She climbed to the top of the moat in one step, overlooking the strange rocks at her feet, and she believed that this was the will of God. I have been climbing for half a day, the mountain road is not easy to walk, and I have to identify the direction, fortunately, after more than ten years of experience outside, I have already practiced the ability to distinguish the position.
After a moment's pause, he continued in the direction he remembered. The way down the hill is steeper, but faster. The mountain road is steep, but the girls walk steadily.
The last time she came, she walked much slower than now, and at that time, Mr. Miaoyuan was by her side, and ordinary people who don't know martial arts always have to accommodate one or two.
There are a lot of rattan hanging on the mountain, it seems to be the only help for walking on the mountain, but the girl has no idea of moving the rattan, step by step, walking down the mountain, the walkway is halfway down the mountain, and she is about to approach the jungle that raises Gu insect poison, she slowed down a little, untied her coat, and carried a burden on her back, inserted an umbrella in the baggage, untied the burden, and there were many bottles and bottles in it, walking from the forest. A flash of light flashed in the corner of her eye, and what was faster than her head was the reaction of her body, and the thin stone in her hand had been thrown over.
There was a small soft sound, and a poisonous snake with a strange color and used to make Gu lay on the ground and did not move.
There was a sound of a rushing rope in the jungle, she stepped forward and took out the snake gall with a close-fitting dagger, the movement was crisp and sharp, and there was a sound of a rushing rope, and she only had time to see the slowly retreating Gu worm from the corner of her eye.
Look! Even Gu insects and poisonous ants have the instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, and seeing her fierce, they slowly retreated. But only the timid ones can be scared, and the more toxic ones are still inside, but she is not afraid.
The medicinal powder on her body emitted a rushing smell, she walked into the wet and dark jungle, the trees in the jungle where the poison was nourished were luxuriant, like a big net covering the sky, separating the sun and the moon, it was the season of Gu cultivation in southern Xinjiang, and the people of southern Xinjiang rarely entered it to destroy the growth of Gu worms, so they would hardly meet anyone when they entered the jungle at the moment. She had always thought that no matter how dangerous Gu worms were, they were far less dangerous than encountering people.
This trip was more than half a month, and the Gu snake gallbladder that she shot was packed into a bag, and it could be soaked in a lot of wine. I don't know how many bamboo sticks in my hand have already been replaced. In this situation, it was only when she walked out of the jungle and saw a large area of Daze that she took a deep breath: she finally came out.
After passing through this piece of Daze, you will officially enter southern Xinjiang, and the place in southern Xinjiang is not very large, and it is not difficult to find people.
She washed her face and hands by the lake, and after washing her eyes, she realized that someone seemed to be watching her. She looked up and saw an old boatman standing on the boat in the middle of the lake, with a big hat on his head, but the hair exposed outside the hat was mixed with white hair, and he looked very old.
Suffered! Before she could apply the disfigured powder, the old boatman saw her.
She continued to wash quietly, took off her dirty robe, put on a new robe, and then beckoned to the old boatman and shouted: "Boatman, cross the river!" ”
The old boatman looked up, looked at her with a straight look, and came with a boat.
Now it is the sunset, the sunset is soaked in the sky, the boatman is coming to the shore with a light boat, and the wonderful hand of nature is incomparable to any Danqing skillful hand. This natural wind and flow even the old boatman who supported the boat seemed to have a little more extraordinary posture.
But this admiration was only for a moment, she shook her head, and when she looked again, it was still the wrinkled face, the old boatman had already supported the boat to dock, she stepped on the boat, and secretly sighed "sin".
It's a real sin. It's really been in the jungle for a long time, the Gu worms and poisonous snakes have been watching for a long time, and I haven't seen anyone for a long time, and even the old man with a wrinkled face feels that his eyebrows are clear.
A fishing rod was placed on the boat, and the boatman propped the boat along.
"Boatman." When the boat reached the middle of the lake, she spoke in time to call him.
The old boatman looked back, and the girl was sitting in the somewhat dim cabin, and her beautiful appearance had an indescribable feeling in the dim light, half light and half dark, both good and evil.
"How much?" The girl spoke again.
"Fifty big bucks." The old boatman spoke, and then said, "I'm the only boat here at the moment. The latter sentence seems to explain why fifty big bucks.
The girl nodded: "Then what if I want to spend the night in your cabin?" ”
There were not many things in the cabin, and there was no clear view, and the soft bedding seemed to be the old ship's own.
The old boatman was silent for a moment: "You have to add money!" ”
He was greeted by the sound of a few strings of large coins falling in the cabin, and the look of hesitation on the girl's face.