Hearing the crying outside, the middle-aged man who had just gotten up and had not had time to wash hurriedly ran out of the backyard, carrying the shirt that he had not had time to put on.

Zhou Tianshen saw the comer clearly, and greeted politely, "Uncle Tieliu." ”

The middle-aged man nodded, put on his shirt, picked up Wang Duozhan, carefully patted off the dust on his body, and carefully examined the injury on his forehead.

Tie Liu frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

Zhou Tianshen explained with some embarrassment, "I was so scared that I fell on the threshold of your house." ”

Tie Liu touched the red envelope on Wang Duo's forehead and said, "It shouldn't be a big deal, you wait for me here, I'll go get him some swelling ointment and apply it." ”

Zhou Tianshen asked curiously, "You still sell ointment here?"

Like the Ma family grocery store next door, the forest shop mainly sells some trivial items related to life, but the Ma family grocery store sells things purchased from Tianxiang County, and the forest shop sells mostly things collected from the nameless mountains behind the village.

The middle-aged man put on his shirt, walked behind the counter, rummaged on a newly added wooden shelf, and said, "In the past few days, Doctor Zhang of Sanyang Medical Center has some things that need to go to Tianxiang County, so he entrusted me to help him take care of the patients in the village, and by the way, he gave me these ointments and some herbs for treating simple diseases, which I thought would not come in handy." After all, the people in the village are all in good health, and since I came to the village, I have never been sick, and when I entered the mountain, I received some abrasions, and the ointment in the hospital was very effective. By the way, don't go into the mountains alone during this time, it will be dangerous. ”

Tie Liu applied the cyan ointment to Wang Duozhan's forehead, and Wang Duozhan only felt a cool feeling spreading in the red and swollen area, which was very comfortable.

Zhou Tianshen took out a cloth bag from the bamboo basket and sighed, "I knew you were so cowardly, so I wouldn't scare you, give it, this is my mother's bun, and I will apologize to you." ”

Wang Duo snatched the bun and took a bite resentfully, "Who said I was cowardly, I was just too attentive to be scared by you." ”

Zhou Tianshen rolled his eyes and said speechlessly, "If you concentrate, you won't be reprimanded by Grandpa Kou for liking desertion, in other words, what are you doing with the bamboo basket on your back?"

Wang Duo licked his fingers and said, "I knew that you would leave the village at this hour, so I was waiting for you here early, where are you going to find treasures today?"

Zhou Tianshen covered the little boy's sparkling eyes, clenched his fists, and said proudly, "There are no treasures, just go pick some herbs." I plan to start cultivating the Tao today, and wait until three years from now to study at Huang Zhao Academy to prove the path of immortality. ”

"Wow!"

Wang Duozhan looked at Zhou Tianshen with admiration, and couldn't wait to put his face on the latter's body.

"I also want to cultivate the Tao and be a great hero like the Emperor of the Lockdown!"

Tie Liu walked out of the shop, carrying a bamboo basket larger than Zhou Tianshen's entire person behind him, and said with a smile, "Emperor Suo Yuan is the first cultivator in the Tianshou Continent to become an immortal, and his demeanor ten thousand years ago has been reduced to a good story now, if you want to compare with him, you are still many years earlier." ”

Wang Duo retorted unconvinced, "You are not a cultivator, how do you know that I will not become a great hero like him, I just want to become a great hero like him." ”

Tie Liu waved his hand again and again, "I'm afraid of you, I'd better go pick my mushrooms." ”

Zhou Tianshen stepped forward and asked, "Uncle Tieliu, where are you going to pick mushrooms?"

Wang Duozhan carried the small bamboo basket on his back, pouted his buttocks, chased after the two, and shouted, "Wait for me." ”

The two slowed down so that Wang Duozhan could keep up.

Zhou Tianshen tiptoed to look at the bamboo basket behind the middle-aged man, in which were shelved a few oilcloth packages and a polished firewood knife, and asked, "Uncle Tieliu, why didn't I know that there were edible mushrooms on the mountain, where did you find them?"

Tie Liu smiled, "Actually, it was a chance encounter, when I was chopping wood on the mountain, I saw dark clouds floating in the sky from a distance, faintly heard thunder, thinking that there was going to be a heavy rain, so I hurried down the mountain. In order to avoid the rain, I found a random tree hole and wanted to wait for the rain to stop before going down the mountain, and then, in the deepest part of the tree hole, I found a mushroom that glows pink..."

Wang Duozhan hurriedly interrupted the middle-aged man and said with a dance, "Could that be a mushroom essence?" ”

Tie Liu laughed and said, "At that time, I also thought that it was a mushroom essence that was about to be cultivated in human form, so in order not to touch the foundation of their body, I invited Master Kou over, and it turned out that it was just a very ordinary mushroom, according to Master Kou's conjecture, the reason why this mushroom can fluoresce is mostly because of the environment, because this mushroom can only live in cold and damp places." ”

"Oh. Wang Duozhan lowered his head in disappointment and said nothing.

Zhou Tianshen said, "It is already not easy for human beings to cultivate the Dao, and you still expect that the flowers and plants all over the mountains and fields can be cultivated into refinement, and then they all belong to you." ”

Tie Liu played the round field and said, "This can't be too sure, you must know that the place east of Zhongzhou, there are two continents, Nanzhou and Kunzhou, where they are all occupied by cave beasts, not to mention that the cave beasts that have cultivated to the essence are crawling all over the ground, but at least they will not be much less than the human beings who cultivate the Tao." And Feiyu Prefecture to the west of Zhongzhou is simply a paradise for elves, and all the elves who live there can already transform into human form. ”

Wang Duozhan hurriedly stepped forward, raised his little face and asked, "What is the difference between a cave beast and an elf?"

The middle-aged man scratched his head, thought for a moment, and didn't say a single reason.

Zhou Tianshen walked up to Wang Duozhan and said, "Don't you have that "Tianshou Diary", there is no answer to this on it?"

Wang Duozhan said, "I read it, and the above is also vague, only saying that the beasts living in the caves are all called cave beasts, and the mountain monsters that have cultivated to become refined are collectively called elves, but aren't those cave beasts also mountain monsters, once they have cultivated into essence, they can also be called elves?"

"This..."

Hearing the little boy's repeated questions, Zhou Tianshen suddenly felt speechless for a while, and was silent for a while.

When the three of them walked to the entrance of the village, they happened to see a bald man with a flat shoulder and a girl beside him, the girl was holding a string of sugar gourds in her hand, jumping around the bald man, and laughing like silver bells from time to time.

When the five of them met at the entrance of the village, they exchanged pleasantries.

Tieliu said, "Brother Ma He, you came out of the stall so early, why did you come back at this hour?"

The bald man is the owner of the Ma family's grocery store, Ma He, and the girl next to him is his daughter, Ma Xiandi.

Ma He put down his flat shoulder, wiped the beads of sweat from his face, and sighed, "Don't mention it, recently the Treasure Pavilion of Tianxiang County has entered a new batch of treasures, among which is a precious fish named Three-Scale Fish, I heard that it comes from Babaoyang. The Treasure Pavilion is preparing to exhibit and auction the treasures in the past few days, and in order to protect the safety of the treasures, no one is allowed to enter and leave Tianxiang Town until the treasures are not exhibited. I thought about going over early and taking a good place outside the town to sell something, but what I didn't expect was that before I reached Sanmapo, I heard a sound of selling, and I walked in to take a look, let alone set up a stall, and there was no place to stay. ”

Tie Liu said, "It seems that this group of people wants to occupy a place first, and when the auction starts, they will block outside the county and make a lot of money, otherwise, they would not have come out to set up a stall so early." Brother Ma He, it seems that you can't do business these days. ”

Ma He looked sad, "Who said it wasn't." There is no way, the county lord of Tianxiang County has always ignored Tianxiang County, it is nothing more than a name, everything is handed over to the people below, who knows how much money has been paid in the treasure pavilion. Brother Tieliu, you are..."

Tieliu noticed Ma He's gaze, touched the bamboo basket on his back, and explained, "Oh, you mean this. In the past few days, Zishan has been a little greedy and wants me to pick some mushrooms for her, I want to take advantage of the dawn to pick some fresh mushrooms and wild fruits, and see if I can catch a few wild meats by the way. ”

Ma He nodded, then took a few steps forward, and whispered, "Listen to Senior Kou, the mountains have not been peaceful recently, you better stop hunting, so as not to get into any trouble, just pick some wild fruits, and the two of them." ”

Ma He suddenly shouted to Zhou Tianshen and the others, "You don't want to stay in the mountains for too long, there are cave beasts in the mountains and forests recently, don't be bitten, after entering the mountain, you must follow Uncle Tieliu, don't go alone." ”

Zhou Tianshen and the two said yes again and again.

Ma He picked up the flat shoulder again and said goodbye to the three of them.

Ma Xiandi followed behind the bald man, never saying a word, and the man who noticed the strange thing turned his head to look at the daughter behind him and asked, "Xiandi, what's wrong?"

Ma Xiandi looked up at Ma He and said angrily, "Dad, I'm a little sleepy." ”

Ma He smiled and said, "I reminded you last night, I have to get up early today to let you rest early, you don't listen, now you know it's amazing." ”

The little girl grimaced and complained, "It's not that the story you told me was so scary that I didn't sleep well all night, and you and my mother were always snoring, and I was sandwiched between the two of you and couldn't sleep at all." Dad, didn't you say you were going to make me a small bed, when will you give it to me?"

Ma He stopped, picked up his daughter, who had just passed her eighth birthday, and said with a smile, "I'll do it for you today, so that my daughter won't be able to sleep at night." ”

"Hee-hee. ”

Walking out of the village and walking a short distance, you can see a path leading to the nameless mountain on the side of the road, there is a log on the right side of the path, and a wooden sign is fixed on the wood, and the words 'nameless mountain' are written in block letters.

The three people with bamboo baskets on their backs stood next to the wood, looked up at the mountain, and a trunk thicker than the old locust tree in the center of the village blocked the way up the mountain, and there were several footprints on the trunk larger than Zhou Tianshen's body.

A white-haired young man dressed in green squatted on the trunk of a tree, with one arm on his stomach and the elbow of the other on it, pinching his chin with two fingers, staring at the big footprints on the trunk, frowning and contemplating.

Wang Duo looked at the tree trunk and the white-haired young man squatting on it with palpitations, his legs trembled a little, and his voice trembled and said, "What's going on, I didn't have it yesterday, could it really be the cave beast on the mountain who did it." You see that man, he is dressed differently than us. Maybe it's really some kind of mountain spirit and wild monster. I think we'd better go back first. ”

Zhou Tianshen looked around, and did not find any traces of fighting, and there were no traces of dragging on the road, and said uncertainly, "If it was really the cave beast's doing, we should be able to hear the sound in the village, and Uncle Ma came from outside the village, and when he met us, he didn't mention anything here, which means that this tree didn't appear before Uncle Ma came back, maybe it just appeared." The "Diary of the Head of Heaven" explains the formation of the blind eye method. ”

Zhou Tianshen turned his head to look at Tie Liu and asked, "Uncle Tie, did you say it would be a trick?"

The middle-aged man scratched his head, "I'm not a cultivator, and I don't know much about some spells, but there shouldn't be any problems." We are located in the middle of nowhere, so there should not be any cave beasts or elves that are too powerful, and it is even more impossible for those cultivators who can soar through the clouds. ”

Wang Duozhan listened to the words of the two, and snorted coldly in his heart, isn't this nonsense.

While the two were talking, the white-haired young man stood up, ducked behind the trunk of a tree, and fell asleep.

Suddenly, on a whim, Zhou Tianshen picked up a stone at his feet and threw it on the trunk of the tree, only to hear a muffled snort.