The mountain of Miao Minzhai is no different from other mountains, the same vegetation is lush, but there are often people going up and down, and there are fewer thorns.

Jiang Yunheng followed Xiao Zhen and climbed up, and when he was halfway up the mountain, he was already tired and sat on the ground.

Xiao Zhen handed the cowhide water bag to Jiang Yunheng, Jiang Yunheng picked it up and drank half a bag. "It's high enough."

Jane giggled. "Can you still climb?"

Jiang Yunheng returned the water bag to Xiao Zhen. "You don't seem tired at all?"

Jane puts the hydration bag back in the basket. "I've been walking around this mountain a lot, and I'm used to it."

Jiang Yunheng got up from the ground and looked up. "It's a nice view."

Jane asked him, "Do you like it here?" ”

Jiang Yun shook his arm horizontally. "Of course I like the beautiful place."

Xiao Zhen smiled lightly: "If you are allowed to stay here all the time, are you willing?" ”

Jiang Yunheng was stunned. "Stay here?"

"No, I'll just ask." Jane glanced away, as if she was running away from something. "Let's go, we have to hurry up the mountain, Miss Wenwen is still waiting for us to go back!"

Jiang Yun ran forward sideways and stopped Xiao Zhen. "Is there something unspeakable in Xiao Zhen's heart?"

Jane shook her head a few times. "Don't ask."

Jiang Yun tilted his head sideways, allowing himself to see Xiao Zhen's eyes. "You seem to be sad."

Jane turned to the side. "Nope."

"Your eyes are red." Jiang Yun turned sideways and stood in front of Xiao Zhen again. "What the hell is going on? Say it and maybe I can help. ”

"Me!" Xiao Zhen raised her eyes and looked at Jiang Yunheng. "I just thought of Abba and Grandma!"

"...... they?"

Jane's lowered eyes looked at her toes. "They're gone."

Jiang Yunheng really wants to give himself a mouthful, and every time he doesn't open which pot he can't mention. "I'm sorry, my mouth is really annoying."

Jane tugged at the corners of her mouth. "It's okay, it's been ten years anyway, and I'm used to living alone, and I just think of them occasionally."

"Are they sick?"

Jane shook her head slightly. "Not sick."

"...... that?"

Jane looked up the hill. "When I was ten years old, Abba went up the mountain and never came back."

Jiang Yunheng asked, "What about your grandma?" ”

Jane took a deep breath and exhaled. "Grandma loves me very much, Abba didn't come back, she went to look for him, and she never came back."

Jiang Yunheng sighed: "In this way, this mountain is quite dangerous, and you often come as a girl." ”

Jane shrugged and said it didn't matter. "I'll be fine if I don't go to the top of the mountain."

Jiang Yun raised his head horizontally, but the trees were luxuriant, and he couldn't see far at all. "Where are we going today?"

Jane pointed ahead. "There will be a temple in a little while, so let's go and worship the gods first."

Jiang Yun shook his eyebrows. "The oracle is the god you said earlier?"

"It's not." Xiao Zhen said as she walked forward, "The messenger of God is the messenger of God. ”

Jiang Yun was puzzled. "Then why doesn't the temple offer to the gods, but to the gods?"

"Because ah!" Xiao Zhen turned back mysteriously. "The gods are on the top of the mountain, and there is no need to build a temple at all."

"God at the top of the mountain?" Jiang Yunheng was surprised and ignorant. "How could it be ......?"

Xiao Zhen knew what Jiang Yunheng was going to ask. "They all said that my Abba and Aunt were chosen by God and became God's attendants, so they didn't come back"

Jiang Yunheng tried to ask Xiao Zhen: "Then you, do you believe it?" ”

Jane smiled and was noncommittal. "They're just never going to come back anyway."

Jiang Yunheng didn't know how to continue, so he simply didn't talk about it. "How far is the temple, Wenwen is still waiting for us at home, let's leave quickly!"

"Good!"

The two of them climbed for about half an hour to reach the temple that Xiao Zhen said. It's not so much a temple as a log cabin. The layout inside is also different from the temples Jiang Yunheng has seen before, there are no Buddha statues, no gods and other things, only an empty shelf is placed in a relatively high place, and there is no futon for kowtowing below.

Jiang Yunheng looked strange and asked Xiaozhen. "There are no statues of oracles here?"

"Statues?" Jane said, "Our oracle is not a statue. ”

Jiang Yunheng asked again: "The divine envoy?" ”

"Shh Xiao Zhen raised a finger to tell Jiang Yunheng not to speak, and then took out a cloth bag full of fishy smell from the back basket and put it in front.

"What is this?"

Jiang Yunheng just wanted to speak but was stopped by Xiao Zhen, pulled him out of the temple, and said when he got outside, "Okay." ”

Jiang Yunheng looked confused. "That's it?"

Jane nodded. "Hmm!"

Jiang Yun pointed horizontally inside. "Where is the oracle?"

Jane smiled and began to walk towards the woods next to her. "Since the messenger of God is the messenger of God, he must not be seen by us mortals."

After a while, Jiang Yunheng captured the key information from Xiao Zhen's words. "What do you mean that the oracle is alive?"

"Poof!" Jane chuckled. "Of course the messenger is alive, but is there still a dead God?"

"No, no, no, that's not what I meant." Jiang Yun's side-by-hand explanation. "I mean, God made him the kind that could run?"

"Is it not true that the gods you worship will not run?"

Jiang Yunheng's explanation became more and more unclear. "I mean to say that God made him ......"

"I know what you mean." Xiao Zhen interrupted Jiang Yunheng. "Our gods and envoys are different from you strangers, you don't understand too much, you just have to remember to go up the mountain, and you must not go to the place behind the temple."

Jiang Yun pointed horizontally upward. "Because of God?"

Xiao Zhen didn't say much, just smiled again. "There are a lot of medicinal herbs in front, I usually pick some and go back, today we will go a little farther away to see if there is anything we can use for Miss Wenwen."

Xiao Zhen didn't want to say more, Jiang Yunheng didn't ask, and followed her words. "I don't know about medicinal herbs, you have to tell me if it's useful, I'll pick it."

Jane pointed to a tree in front of her. "See the tree?"

Jiang Yun looked in the direction that Xiao Zhen was pointing. "We're going to cut down that tree and go back?"

"Of course not." Jane went under the tree. "We're going to skin it."

"Uh...... "Jiang Yunheng hadn't done this before, and he looked confused." Peel the skin! ”

Jane made several small cuts in the tree with a sickle. "I don't usually get any of this, and I don't usually need this."

Jiang Yun patted the trunk of the tree horizontally, and an unusually rough feeling came from his hand. "What can this cure?"

Jane began to cut the bark. "Boil water with this skin and soak the feet of the injured person, and it can get better much faster."

"That can be used by Wenwen." Jiang Yun took the scythe in Xiao Zhen's hand. "I'll do it!"

Xiao Zhen was not polite to him and stood aside. "From the top down, you can shave the skin."

"I'll try!" Jiang Yun waved the sickle horizontally, found a place to start, and cut it, but not only did the bark not look down, but the knife was still stuck. "This ......"

"Hahaha!" Jane smiled and crossed her waist. "You've never done anything like this before!"

Jiang Yunheng pulled out the knife with great effort. "In my house, it's illegal to cut down trees."

Jane thought for a moment. "Does that mean you'll be punished?"

"Almost!"

Jane put down the basket. "I'd better do it!"

Jiang Yunheng handed the sickle to Xiao Zhen. "The ......"

"Whoa!" Xiao Zhen motioned for Jiang Yun to look sideways. "That kind of small vine, there are a lot of people who need it, and it's very popular in the market, you go pick that."

"Good!" Jiang Yun ran over and began to pull out the vines, he and Xiao Zhen came in the hope of helping, and they could only feel at ease when they had work.

After a while, Xiao Zhen cut the bark and came to Jiang Yunheng's side. "How?"

Jiang Yunheng picked up a messy mess of vines. "That's all."

"Wow!" Xiao Zhen sighed when she looked at that mess. "You didn't work much before, did you?"

Jiang Yunheng smiled awkwardly. "I don't do it often."

Jane pulled the basket over and began to arrange the vines one by one. "If this is too messy, it will not be easy to clean up when it is done, and it may even be pricked."

"Wow!"

As soon as Xiao Zhen's words fell, Jiang Yunheng let out a small exclamation.

Looking at Jiang Yunheng, who was putting his finger in his mouth, Xiao Zhen asked him, "Did you get your hand?" ”

Jiang Yunheng couldn't speak with his fingers in his mouth, so he only nodded.

"Be careful!" Xiao Zhen pushed Jiang Yun sideways. "These vines have thorns."

Jiang Yunheng spat out bloody saliva in his mouth. "The thorn is quite hard."

"Okay, I'll do the rest, and you can pick something else for me later."

"Good!" Jiang Yunheng continued to suck his fingers, but after a while, Xiao Zhen's vines were almost finished, and there was still a smell of blood. "Does this vine have the effect of invigorating blood?"

"That's right, the people in the village, especially those who do heavy work, like to take this water to drink at night, which can relieve fatigue."

Jiang Yunheng spat out another mouthful of blood spit. "The effect is so good, it's still bleeding for half a day."

"Bear with me, there's nothing to bandage you here." Jane tidied up the vines and carried the basket. "It'll be fine in a while."

Jiang Yun nodded horizontally with his fingers in his hand, and gave way to signal Xiao Zhen to go ahead, and he followed behind. Gradually, I couldn't see the place where I had cut the bark just now, and I couldn't see a big snake as thick as a bowl quietly crawling there, and after staying for a while where Jiang Yunheng had left blood spittle, he crawled into the grass.

"It's hard to imagine" Jiang Yun swept away a branch blocking in front of him, sighing at what he saw around him. "Where people often come, the ecology is so good."

"This mountain is big, there are many things, and only the people in our village will come." Jane tossed a mushroom into the basket. "Of course."

Jiang Yunheng's fingers were no longer bleeding at this time, helping Xiao Zhen pick mushrooms. "How many people are in your stockade?"

Jane tilted her head and thought about it. "A few hundred."

Jiang Yunheng gave a handful of mushrooms to Xiao Zhen. "None of them have ever been out of the stockade?"

"Nope!" Xiao Zhen took the mushrooms in Jiang Yunheng's hand and looked at them one by one. "You haven't picked mushrooms either?"

Jiang Yun pursed his mouth into a line. "Uh...... Any questions? ”

Xiao Zhen took out the mushrooms and showed them to Jiang Yun. "It's all poisonous."

Jiang Yun scratched his head. "I used to read in books, saying that the more beautiful the mushroom, the more poisonous it is, these are so ugly, I thought ......"

"Some of the things that are not good are also poisonous." Jane threw the poisonous mushrooms on the ground and put the rest in the basket. "What is life really like out there?"

"Life out there!" Jiang Yun rolled his eyes horizontally. "Unlike you, most of what we eat is bought with money, except for farmers, there are few people in Zhongdi, and they will not go up the mountain to collect medicine to exchange things like you."

Jane's face was wistful. "Sounds good."

Jiang Yunheng continued: "There is also a light, that is, it is lit at the touch of a button, which can illuminate the entire house, and it is very convenient to turn it off when you don't need it." ”

"I'd love to go out and have a look."

Jiang Yunheng asked Xiaozhen: "Why do you have a rule that you can't go out in your village?" ”

Jane lowered her eyes and shook her head. "I don't know, it's always been this rule."

Jiang Yunheng asked again: "Didn't anyone think about going out?" ”

"Yes, but ......" Jane said this and suddenly paused. Forget it, it's useless to talk too much. ”

"You don't seem to like it very much."