??????? The woman continued, "We are also taking you by the way, and it is as if we have blackmailed you for money." Hurry up and take advantage of the morning to go back the way you came. We still have to go into the mountains. I won't accompany you. Be careful yourself. After speaking, several people waved their hands to Xiao Tao and walked towards the mountain again. Only Xiao Tao was left standing in place. With gratitude.

Zhao Kuangyi slept on the table in the restaurant for a while, the fatigue of the overnight journey made him sleep a little heavy, and he woke up suddenly in less than half an hour, and when he saw that there was no one around, he hurriedly walked out. When I saw the shopkeeper, I asked, "What about the girl in the house just now?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled, "You mean the girl who came with you, right?" Seeing Zhao Kuangyi nodding, he continued, "There are just a few people in the store, who are from the Qihuang Medicine Association in the town, ready to go into the mountains to collect medicine." The girl followed. ”

Zhao Kuangyi's heart trembled, and his brows furrowed tightly. couldn't help but grab the placket on the store's chest, and his voice was cold: "Why did she follow the medicine collector when she was so dignified?" But what kind of magic did someone do? ”

The shopkeeper said helplessly: "I don't know what they said, but the girl suddenly had to go." Maybe it's fun. Only command me to take care of you. But don't worry, those people are all from the town, and they have some fame, and we are all familiar with them on a daily basis. Not a bad guy. ”

Zhao Kuangyi was in a hurry, where could he listen to it, he only felt that his limbs were numb, what was this little peach running around? Zhao Kuangyi shook off the store vigorously. Anxiously asked, "Where did they go to collect medicine?" How to go? ”

The shopkeeper saw that Zhao Kuangyi was really anxious, so he hurriedly walked to the door, pointed to the southeast direction and said: "Just follow the path from here to the end, and soon reach the suburbs, and then turn three forks in the road to the east, you remember to go left, or ask people." The entrance to Shaofeng Mountain, where they collected medicine. ”

The shopkeeper also wanted to talk about what signs were around the mountain, where Zhao Kuangyi could listen to it, went out to untie the carriage, and rode his horse to the southeast quickly.

Asked all the way, because I couldn't recognize the road and took a lot of wrongful roads, the road was sparsely populated, and sometimes no one asked if I wanted to ask. It wasn't until the afternoon that Zhao Kuangyi finally arrived at the entrance of Shaofeng Mountain. Shaofeng Mountain is a lotus-shaped mountain group, the entrance is relatively gentle, but there are many forks in the road ahead, Zhao Kuangyi looked a little confused. Where can I find this?

Zhao Kuangyi's heart seemed to be scratched by a hundred cats, where did Xiao Tao go? What are the origins of those people? Could it be a spy from Nantang? Looking at the empty mountain with a wet and cold mist, Zhao Kuangyi couldn't help but shout loudly: "Taoyi, little peach!" But only his own echo was in response.

Zhao Kuangyi waited in the mountain pass for more than an hour, no one passed, and he was even more panicked, and waited for more than half an hour before a medicine boy came down from the mountain in the east, and he was still searching around while walking with a medicine basket on his back. Zhao Kuangyi seemed to see a savior, and hurriedly rushed over and asked, "Did you come down from the mountain?" Have you ever seen a girl in a green dress? ”

The medicine boy shook his head blankly: "I didn't go deeper, I just picked some herbs nearby, and I didn't look at people." ”

Zhao Kuangyi's heart cooled, and he asked again: "Then which way do you usually take to collect medicine?" ”

The medicine boy pointed to the east and west roads: "If you want to take the ordinary, you can go to the east." If you want to pick something valuable, go to the west, but the mountains on the west side are high and deep, and it is easy to get lost when you go in. The medicine boy looked at Zhao Kuangyi and said curiously, "You don't want to go into the mountain, do you?" Don't go if you don't know the road, especially to the west, beware of wolves at night. ”

The medicine boy was originally kind-hearted, but when he met a wolf, Zhao Kuangyi's heart was pinched again. Zhao Kuangyi quickly calculated in his mind, Xiao Tao followed more than one medicine picker, and he heard what the store said was Qihuang Yaohui. If you are picking ordinary medicinal materials, you don't have to go with so many people, it must be the road to the west to collect precious medicinal materials. Zhao Kuangyi didn't say anything more, and strode towards the road to the west.

At first, there were some stone steps on the west road, which were paved with stones for the convenience of entering the mountain, but after walking about 200 steps, there were no stone steps, and all of them became mountain paths. Zhao Kuangyi walked up the road that people stepped on. At first, the slope is gentle, and the further back you go, the steeper the slope becomes, and the thorny grass on both sides of the road becomes more and more difficult to walk.

Zhao Kuangyi climbed up for more than half an hour, getting more and more anxious. The road here looks like someone walking, and the thin snow on the ground shows signs of being trampled on. Zhao Kuangyi carefully stared at the clues on the road, and quickly climbed up along the place where there were people. The sun is getting wester, and he must find Xiao Tao as soon as possible. Otherwise, at night, I am afraid that I will get lost. Zhao Kuangyi quickened his pace.

I climbed up quickly for a long time, and finally came to a platform, where there were several smoothed tree stumps, since the stumps were smoothed, it meant that there were often people stopping here. Zhao Kuangyi walked back and forth near the platform, searching, and suddenly saw a path leading to a pavilion behind, Zhao Kuangyi hurriedly walked over.

There were a few people in the pavilion who were resting, taking dry food out of their pockets and preparing to eat, and a few others were talking. Zhao Kuangyi hurriedly went over and hugged his fists, and asked in a deep voice: "Dare to ask if you are from the Qihuang Medicine Association in Shanxia Town?" ”

Those people were stunned for a moment, looked Zhao Kuangyi up and down, their faces were surprised, they didn't write on their foreheads, where did this strange young man see that they were from the Qihuang Medicine Society? The eldest of them nodded and said, "Your Excellency?" ”

Zhao Kuangyi's heart finally eased after hanging for a long time, and said, "Is there a girl in the restaurant who went into the mountains with you to collect medicine this morning?" Wearing a green dress, where is she now? ”

"She?" One of them laughed, "Who is she?" You're running down the hill just to find that girl? Then why didn't you come with her before? When the woman saw the stranger, she talked a lot, and she couldn't help talking.

Zhao Kuangyi was in no mood to say something irrelevant to her, and his brows became more and more wrinkled. At this time, the elder next to him coughed and said, "Okay, don't joke with this son." Saying that, he said to Zhao Kuangyi, "In the morning, there was a girl who went into the mountain with us to collect medicine, but we were already separated under the tree next to the water stream on the east side of the main peak. After thinking about it, he said, "If she had gone back the same way at that time, she would have returned to the restaurant by now." Will you happen to be separated? ”

When Zhao Kuangyi heard this, his heart swooped up, he still made a mistake after a thousand calculations, if he took the road to the east, Xing and Xiao Tao would have met. Zhao Kuangyi hurriedly thanked him, regardless of the steepness of the downhill road, he ran down the mountain with three steps and two steps.

"Hey!" The girl behind her said regretfully, "It's all your fault, after talking to him so soon, there is no one to talk to." I haven't told him that I helped the girl dig up the Five Flames Radix Ginseng°°°°° really. Several people around laughed, "Little sister should also find someone to marry." ”

Zhao Kuangyi returned to the bottom of the mountain from the original road and galloped back to the restaurant on horseback. His heart was a little expectant and a little scared, and he only prayed in his heart to wait for him to go back, and Xiao Tao sat down in the restaurant in a dignified manner. Zhao Kuangyi hurried back to the restaurant, rushed in and asked the shopkeeper, "Is that girl back?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned: "No." Didn't you go looking for it? Didn't find it? ”

Zhao Kuangyi only felt a chill in his heart, spreading from head to toe and to limbs. She didn't come back °°°° From the entrance of Shaofeng Mountain to here, even if she left, she would have walked back a long time ago. panicked, and Zhao Kuangyi shook a little. The shopkeeper looked at the sky outside that was already dark, and said to Zhao Kuangyi: "It's already dark." I'll call two guys, bring torches, and go into the mountains to find them. There will be wolves in the mountains at night. ”

Zhao Kuangyi's heart was torn back and forth, and he hurriedly hugged his fists: "Thank you." ”

The shopkeeper sent a man with torches and dry food and wine to accompany Zhao Kuangyi into the mountains again. This time, Zhao Kuangyi led the way at the east entrance, and as he walked, he used torches to shine around. Those herb pickers said that next to the water stream, Zhao Kuangyi and his men kept looking for it by the water.

It was completely dark, and the moon was rising, streaking its path along the night. The moon rose to the middle and then slid to the east. As the moon trails, the weather gets colder and colder at night. Zhao Kuangyi was even more anxious, Xiao Tao wore such a skirt, how could she stand it?

Turning over a bitter grass slope, the voice of one of the fellows suddenly trembled: "There, there" said with a trembling hand pointing ahead. Abundant to blood.

Zhao Kuangyi paused, under the moonlight, the withered branches of the fallen leaves swayed in the wind, and the back in front of them was a wolf with its head held high. Hearing their voices, the wolf quickly turned his head, saw the torch in their hands, the wolf's head tilted to the side, and continued to look back in the direction just now.

And in the grass opposite the wolf, there was a faint voice that was almost breathless: "Help me." ”

Zhao Kuangyi's heart ached, and in an instant, the big man's hand trembled slightly, and the torch in his hand trembled unsteadily. It's the voice of a little peach. She's alive. Zhao Kuangyi walked forward desperately, and the two guys hurriedly grabbed him desperately: "Wolf, don't you want to die?" ”

Zhao Kuangyi smiled faintly, he wanted to die, but when Xiao Tao's life was threatened, his life was nothing. Zhao Kuangyi motioned to the two guys and asked them to go to a safe place on the side, Zhao Kuangyi took the torch in his right hand and walked towards the wolf.

On the desolate grassy slope, the half-quarter moon hung in the curtain-like sky, Zhao Kuangyi was dressed in a robe like ink, holding a torch in his hand, and walked towards the wolf without hesitation. The fierceness in his eyes looked at the fierceness in the wolf's eyes, and he couldn't even tell who was more like a wolf.

The wolf's interest finally shifted from Xiao Tao's body to Zhao Kuangyi's, staring at Zhao Kuangyi for a long time, the torch in Zhao Kuangyi's hand gradually burned out, and the light weakened. The wolf looked at the time and rushed towards Zhao Kuangyi, so fast that people couldn't dodge.