She had a phobia of deep water, so she hurried to the side of the mountain, away from the river.

The sun was setting in the west, and it was about to set, but she had only reached the halfway point of the mountain, and she had to find a place to rest for the night, and then she could continue her climb again tomorrow.

She took a fancy to a tall and thick tree, sprinkled it with realgar powder and kudzu vines around the tree, and sprinkled tobacco oil on it to prevent most snakes and insects.

Then he took out his bow and arrows, tied a rope firmly to the arrows, and shot an arrow into the thick branches of the tree, and dragged the rope up.

He also cut down some branches with leaves and spread them on the branches, so that they could serve as supports and block the view from below, so that they would not be targeted by wild beasts.

Zixuan installed the pulley on the tree to make it easy to go up and down the tree, so she rested peacefully for the night.

The next day, she continued to climb up, and it was not until the end of the afternoon that she finally reached the top, and the higher she went, the cooler it became.

This point has not been said in the book, Zixuan clasped her hands in front of her abdomen to keep warm, and looked for the blue flowers in all directions.

After searching for a long time, I finally found a large cluster of blue flowers next to a mountain spring.

Its blue petals are layered on top of each other, half-covered and half-opened, very similar to the beauty face that is still holding the pipa and half-covering, and sure enough, it is the same as written in the book, the blue continuation is not alone, it can be found is a cluster, and if you can't find it, you don't have it.

Before picking, Zixuan knelt down and worshiped heaven and earth, "The little girl is here today, not only to cure her husband's poisonous leg disease, but also to come for the righteousness of the people of Li. ”

After the salute, she began to collect medicine, not too greedy, only half a cluster, and a few other plants with soil, wrapped the roots in a plastic bag, stored in the space with the half of the cluster, refrigerated, and waited to see if she could cultivate it when she returned.

After the harvest, she picked up the hoe and wanted to go to the spring to clean it, but for some reason, as soon as she lifted her footsteps, a strong sense of unease immediately welled up in her heart.

When the python appeared yesterday, she also had this intuitive sense of crisis.

Zixuan's heart tightened, and she didn't think about it, so she immediately stepped back and quickly left there.

It is said that where there are rare treasures, there must be mountain spirits or fierce beasts guarding them, so if you don't feel right, leave immediately, and don't offend because of curiosity.

It's much easier to go down the mountain than to go up, Zixuan looked at the compass, returned to the big tree where she rested last night, pulled the rope up, the sun set, the sky had darkened, she had to spend the night in the mountain, and she could go down the mountain back to Kyoto tomorrow.

Just as she was about to take out the dry food and pad it, she suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps and ran towards it.

At such a time, who will appear in such a terrible mountain, it is not a wild beast?

She vigilantly picked up her bow and arrow, and as she pulled the bowstring, she gathered her thoughts, and an arrow that had been poisoned appeared in her hand out of thin air, and the sharp arrow was aimed in the direction where the footsteps came.

She listened carefully, and as the footsteps got closer, the imaginary "beast" finally appeared in her field of vision.

It's just that, to Zixuan's surprise, it was not a beast, but a real person, but a Hun man, he wore a fur hat, a belt, and a short fur around his shoulders.

The only thing that is different from the Huns is that he is tall and has a Han face.

The man looked around in a panic, and suddenly there was a "whoosh" arrow sound, and his leg was pierced by a sharp arrow, and he fell to the ground in pain, rolled down, and stopped under the tree where Zixuan was.

Zi Xuan relaxed the bow and arrows, she had been practicing to the first stage of knowledge for a while, and she only had to listen intently, and she could hear the movements within a radius of hundreds of miles.

About ten of them were coming this way, and it seemed that they were chasing the man under the tree, and if she didn't save him, he would surely die tonight.

Zixuan hesitated for two seconds, but decided to save the person and quickly threw down the rope.

The people under the tree were startled for a moment, and immediately looked up at the tree, their eyes full of murderous aura.

Zixuan poked her head out, beckoned to him, and shouted softly, "Come up!" ”

The man stared at Zixuan for a few seconds, feeling that she had no malicious intent, and only then did he relax his vigilance slightly, he hesitated to look around, and found that there was no better shelter than on the tree, so he pulled the rope and prepared to go up.

Zixuan pulled the other end of the pulley and helped him up.

After he came up, Zixuan said softly: "You lie here and don't move, I'll go down to see if there is any blood, and I have to lure them away." ”

The man didn't speak, just stared at her.

Zixuan thought that he couldn't understand Chinese and was about to make a gesture, when the man suddenly nodded in agreement.

In this way, he can understand Chinese, Zixuan no longer wastes time, immediately went down the tree, wiped the blood stains on the tree with alcohol, and threw the snake-proof kudzu vine into a bundle and threw it into the distance, otherwise, the man-made traces are too obvious, and it is easy to expose the hiding place.

Immediately after, she took out a bag of blood from the cold storage of the space, dripped the blood in the opposite direction, and then hurried up the tree, which took less than three minutes in total.

Not long after she went up the tree, the men came after her, and they followed the trail of blood in the opposite direction.

Seeing them chasing away, Zixuan breathed a sigh of relief, she looked at the arrow that pierced the person's leg, and said, "Fortunately, this arrow is not poisonous, don't make a sound, I will help you deal with the arrow wound." ”

The man looked at her suspiciously, and only nodded when he saw Zixuan take out the medicine bottle and gauze from his sleeve pocket.

Zixuan gave him a bite splint and said, "It hurts when you deal with it, you bite this to prevent you from biting your tongue." ”

The man shook his head, and finally said, "I can bear it." ”

I didn't expect him to speak Chinese, Zixuan was a little surprised, and began to treat the wound in surprise, she broke the arrow, cut off the burr with a knife, and then pulled it out from the end of the arrow, pressed it with gauze to stop the bleeding, put on the golden medicine, and bandaged it.

Throughout the process, her movements were fast and swift.

The man looked at the neat bandage, his hoarse voice, and said jerkyly: "Thank you." ”

"You're welcome." Zixuan also admired him, and pulled the arrow out of the flesh, it was very painful, he only gritted his teeth, and he didn't snort.

She sighed silently and began to pack up her things, putting the remaining blood bags, broken arrows, and bloody waste gauze in plastic bags and putting them aside.

She sat down on the trunk of the tree on the opposite side, rested for a while, then reached into her sleeve pocket, and with a movement of her mind, took out the dry food and the lightly salted sugar water she had prepared, and asked him, "Would you like to eat some?" ”

The man shook his head, Zixuan was not reluctant, and chewed it herself, but she only ate half of the food, and left half a pot of water and dry food there.

In the middle of the night, the man said to Zixuan, "Brother Tai, can you give me some water to drink?" ”

Zixuan was closing his eyes to recuperate, listening to him finally couldn't stand it anymore, holding back the smile in his heart, and said flatly: "That half pot of water and dry food is left for you." ”