Sheng Wanxiang is also a smart and clever woman, seeing that Wu Zhiyuan wanted to speak and stopped, she understood what Wu Zhiyuan was thinking, she hurriedly pleaded: "Brother Zhiyuan, you take me, I don't want to be separated from you, I want to be with you, I can take care of myself, I can take care of you, I won't hold you back, besides, I also want to help Sister Moon Shadow find the three elixirs that can cure the heart Gu, if her poison can't be solved, I won't be at ease." ”

Sheng Wanxiang's first half of the words are overconfident, but the second half of the words in the Moon Shadow Fuxian can't be cured, and she won't be at ease, but it is completely from the bottom of her heart, she and the Moon Shadow Fuxian are sisters, there is no doubt about it.

Wu Zhiyuan was silent, the situation in front of him really did not allow him to bring Sheng Wanxiang, which would slow down his efficiency, but Sheng Wanxiang had no safer place to go. After thinking about it, Wu Zhiyuan had no choice but to agree.

Sheng Wanxiang couldn't hide the excitement on her face, and chatted with Wu Zhiyuan about the things in Wujia Village these days, Wu Zhiyuan only cared about his parents' bodies, and he was still a little energetic at first, but then he became sleepy, and he fell asleep on the table.

When he woke up, it was already cold, Wu Zhiyuan sat up straight, and found that there was a dress draped on his back, which was Sheng Wanxiang's coarse cloth coat, and the door was closed.

After cleaning up, Wu Zhiyuan went to the next room to return the clothes to Sheng Wanxiang, and after a while, Sheng Wanxiang also packed up and walked out, at this time her face was ruddy, she looked in a good mood, and she was no longer as melancholy as Wu Zhiyuan saw when he was in Maoshan.

After a hurried breakfast, Wu Zhiyuan bought a carriage, inquired about passers-by from time to time, and got on the official road to Jiangxi. At this time, he became more skilled in driving, and the carriage came and went as fast as he wanted.

Jiangxi is more than 1,000 miles away from Jiangsu, and Wu Zhiyuan hurried non-stop until after nightfall, and then arrived in Nanchang, Jiangxi.

At this time, the horse was too tired to walk, Wu Zhiyuan found an inn to stay, fed the horse good forage, and he and Sheng Wanxiang went back to their rooms to rest.

There is such a sentence in Su Dongpo's "The Story of Shizhong Mountain": "Peng Li's mouth has Shizhong Mountain." This sentence is also the original sentence in the ancient book "Water Classic", Peng Li is Poyang Lake, so it can be seen that Shizhong Mountain should be at the mouth of Poyang Lake. Although Wu Zhiyuan has never been to Shizhong Mountain, he can still infer from the poems of Su Dongpo and the "Book of Water" that Shizhong Mountain should be at the intersection of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River.

If you find Shizhong Mountain, you can also find the forest under the mountain, and the ancient villages in the woods can naturally be easily found.

Early the next morning, Wu Zhiyuan and Sheng Wanxiang went on the road together. Because they had to constantly inquire about the direction of Shizhong Mountain, and the mountain road was difficult to walk, it was not until noon that the two arrived at a small city called Jiujiang.

The vast Poyang Lake is not as vast as the sea, but its area is still breathtaking. Wu Zhiyuan looked along the shore of the lake and found that there were many mountains near and far, none of which were too big, and they were somewhat similar to the height of the hills in the north.

"Brother Zhiyuan, look, could it be that mountain?" Sheng Wanxiang stretched out her hand and pointed to a strange-looking hill not far to the left of the two of them and said.

Wu Zhiyuan followed her direction and saw that it was a stone mountain less than 100 meters high, the mountain was steep, and there were sparse green pines, and what attracted Wu Zhiyuan's attention the most was the shape of the mountain, which was very much like an inverted bell, standing on the shore of Poyang Lake.

"It's it!" Wu Zhiyuan's spirits were lifted, and he took the lead in walking briskly towards Nashi Zhongshan Mountain. Sheng Wanxiang hurriedly followed.

The two of them ran all the way to the bottom of the mountain, although the stone bell mountain was not big from a distance, but when they got closer, they found that the mountain area was not small, one side of the mountain faced Poyang Lake, and the two of them could hear the sound of the lake hitting the stone bank from time to time when they were standing, and the other side was scattered with some woods of different sizes. The forest is a messy mix of pines, elms, poplars, and deciduous shrubs.

Looking at the woods in front of him, Wu Zhiyuan was a little confused, where should he start with the ancient village?

At this moment, Sheng Wanxiang gently touched Wu Zhiyuan and said in a low voice: "Brother Zhiyuan, look." ”

Wu Zhiyuan turned his head to look, and saw an old woman walking on the path leading to the lake, the old woman was about seventy or eighty years old, with a basin in her hand, and clothes were placed in the basin, as if she had come back from washing clothes by the lake.

Wu Zhiyuan didn't think much about it, and said in a low voice: "I'll go and ask her." ”

Sheng Wanxiang stretched out her hand and grabbed him, and whispered, "I'll go." So saying, he walked towards the old woman.

"This lady, I want to ask you, is there a village in the woods under Shizhong Mountain?" Sheng Wanxiang asked with a gentle and polite smile.

The old woman looked Sheng Wanxiang and Wu Zhiyuan standing beside her up and down when she heard the voice, her eyes were ejaculating, her voice was hoarse, and she asked vigilantly: "What are you asking about that village?" ”

"Oh, that's right, we're going to visit a relative in that village, but I didn't expect to come for many years and can't find the way." Sheng Wanxiang had an idea and came up with these words. Although this is a lie, this lie has no stake in this old woman, so it is harmless.

"Do you have relatives in that village?" When the old woman heard this, there was a distrustful expression on her face, and she looked at Wu Zhiyuan and Sheng Wanxiang with more vigilant eyes.

"Hmm." Sheng Wanxiang nodded and smiled, "Do you know where that village is?" ”

The old woman squinted her eyes slightly and stared at Sheng Wanxiang, and asked with an unkind face: "The people in that village have never interacted with outsiders, and they never leave the village for half a step, how can you have relatives there?" Without waiting for Wu Zhiyuan and Sheng Wanxiang to answer, they asked again, "Who are you?" Why inquire about that village? ”

Wu Zhiyuan observed the old woman's reaction, thinking that she must know something, so he stepped forward and said respectfully: "Auntie, in fact, we want to ask for a medicinal herb in that village, I have a friend who has been poisoned and is in danger, in order to help her detoxify, we have come all the way here, and I ask you to help, Auntie." ”

The old woman looked at Wu Zhiyuan with a straight face, and Wu Zhiyuan's words were more credible than Sheng Wanxiang's words. She seemed to be moved by compassion, stretched out her hand and pointed to the grove at the foot of Shizhong Mountain and said, "The village you are looking for is called Zixu Village, and it is in that grove." ”

"Purple Void Village?!" Wu Zhiyuan and Sheng Wanxiang shouted at the same time, the name Zixu Village also has the word "Zixu", it seems that Zixu Pingshi is inseparable from this village.

The two of them were in the right place.

The old woman didn't pay attention to the reactions of the two, but said in a dark voice: "The people in the Purple Void Village are very strange, they are isolated from the world, they never go out of the woods, and they don't socialize with people outside. If you want to find that village, I am afraid it will depend on chance. ”

"Serendipity?" Sheng Wanxiang was stunned and said, "Isn't that village in the woods, let's just go into the woods to find it, what chance does this need?" ”

The old woman glanced at Sheng Wanxiang like a bean, and said slowly: "We people here rarely go into that forest, let alone that village. However, if you are lucky, you will be able to see the village when you walk into the woods, and if you are unlucky, you will get lost in the woods, and you will not be able to get out of it, and what is even more terrifying is that there is a ...... in the woods."

At this point, the old woman's voice became lower and lower, and she actually stopped.

"What's in the woods?" Wu Zhiyuan and Sheng Wanxiang asked in unison.