After getting Ning Hui's affirmative reply, the old rooster breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked to Ning Chen's side with his head held high and said loudly: "Ning boy, I don't think it's too early, let's go back first, I think the boys and your friends should be impatient." ”

So Ning Chen looked at the objects around him, picked up the fairy water specially instructed by the old rooster, checked the box of yellow sheep wood, answered, and led out of this immortal mansion, after drilling out of the cave, he waited for a while, and never saw the old rooster, there was no way, so he had to look at the surrounding environment first, because the sky was still dark, and there were dense trees around, and he couldn't see too far in the dark, Ning Chen subconsciously looked up, only to find that the sky was still the moon rabbit sinking westward, and the sun had not yet risen, so he couldn't help but think about it: Could it be that he was too nervous just now and miscalculated the time, which seemed to be less than a while away。 Without waiting for him to think about it, he saw the old rooster walking out without hurrying, smiled awkwardly at him, did not speak, and walked straight past him.

After Ning Chen followed, he found that the old rooster had sped up, and began to turn around again in this dense forest, at this moment Ning Chen didn't look around, lowered his head and stared at the old rooster, if he lost it, he didn't have the ability to touch back to the meeting place, just when Ning Chen was concentrating on following the old rooster to move, he suddenly saw the old rooster relax, turned around and said: "Ning boy, here, don't forget what I said." ”

Before Ning Chen could react to where he was, he looked up and saw the moon pine tree in front of him snorting, stretching his waist, constantly looking at Ning Hui around him, and couldn't help shouting: "Ah Hui!"

Ning Hui heard the shout, reflexively turned around and saw Ning Chen, the two immediately dropped the things in their hands, walked quickly together and hugged each other, Ning Hui looked at Ning Chen with some excitement and shouted: "Brother Ning!" Then he looked Ning Chen up and down, and after a while, he swept to the yellow sheep wooden box on the ground. "Brother Ning, what is this?"

Ning Chen then saw the wooden box on the ground, and said solemnly: "This is a good thing, it is Ganoderma lucidum, we have been saved this year." ”

Ning Hui listened, hurriedly walked up, picked up the wooden box from the ground, and after opening it carefully, he first felt a burst of heat coming, like a spring breeze, and saw the five fiery red and bright Ganoderma lucidum in the box, took a deep breath, and said excitedly: "Brother Ning, where did you find these good things, we, we really got through this year." ”

"Good things, good things" Ning Chen whispered these three words with blank eyes, and couldn't help but reach into his arms with his left hand, touching the little gourd that was covered with body temperature, his eyes were fixed on Ning Hui, who was still inspecting Lingzhi, and was about to tell Ning Hui about the fairy water, when he saw the old rooster standing next to Ning Hui turning his gaze from Ning Hui to himself, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and finally didn't say anything about it. Seeing that Ning Chen didn't say it, the old rooster was obviously relieved, and said to Ning Hui in a teasing tone: "Ning Hui boy, if you keep looking at it like this, maybe this Huo Yunzhi will be useless." ”

Ning Hui instinctively wanted to turn around and refute when he heard the tone of this old man, but seeing Ning Chen nodded, he couldn't help but hurriedly close the lid of the box. Hand the wooden box back to Ning Chen. "Senior, don't scare me with this. Ning Hui muttered casually.

The two of them then walked to the open field, and saw the old rooster coming back, and the flock finally broke out into a loud noise after a long silence, and the old rooster had to return to the flock and crow at the flock. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ning Hui hurriedly told Ning Chen about his experience, and said in a slightly exaggerated voice: "Brother Ning, these little chicks are really not smart, and they don't know how to be flexible, all the stupid pestles are here, and I am not allowed to move, the three sticks can't make a fart, and there is no sound at all, so they don't give me ...... It's boring, yes, it's suffocating me. By the way, Brother Ning, what about you?" Ning Chen looked at the old roosters and chirping chickens in front of him, and whispered: "That old thing, I didn't support you." ”

"Old man, Ah Hui, this time thanks to the care of the old Feng seniors, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to find these Ganoderma lucidum. In the future, do not say this again. Ning Chen corrected Ning Hui seriously, Yun Jinji didn't say anything else, just said that they could still remember the good of the Ning family for hundreds of years, and remember the affairs of the Ning family, so they were worthy of respect.

Looking at the box in Ning Chen's hand, Ning Chen whispered: "This time they helped us, our Ning family is not ignorant, it's just that he scared the two of us so badly at the beginning, and he thought that he had to explain here, every time he thought of this, he felt a little uncomfortable." ”

"You're just hard-mouthed. Ning Chen gently hammered Ning Hui's chest with his free hand, and looked at Ning Hui touching his head and smirking. "Do you want to hear what happened to me? ”

Ning Chen was going to give Ning Hui a good talk about his experience after separation, of course, he wanted to hide a section of Yunjin Mansion, and he was thinking about how to say this. I saw the chickens on the opposite side walk by, both old and young walked in front of the two, let's just line up, standing respectfully on the snow, with the old rooster and a few other slightly older Yun Jin chickens saluting first, the Yun Jin chickens behind all saluted to Ning Chen's two brothers, and saluted nine times.

Seeing all this, Ning Chen hurriedly shouted, "Senior, you don't have to be like this. ”

"Ning boy, there is no need to shirk, you have helped us so much this time, we only gave you a few useless Huoyunzhi, I really can't help it. I can only do my best with this. The old rooster said, "If you want to refuse, just choose two of our old things and bring them back." ”

Ning Chen and the others couldn't, so they could only accept all this. Then Ning Hui whispered in Ning Chen's ear: "Brother Ning, what did you do to make this group of chickens excited like this." ”

Ning Chen swallowed his saliva and replied in the same voice, "I'll talk to you when I go back." ”

"Senior, I already know your intentions, I hope that in the future, our Ning family can still survive here with your Yunjin chicken. Ning Chen could only comfort him like this at the moment.

The old rooster raised his head and said to Ning Chen, "Yes, it will." The little old man is no longer hypocritical. Squinted his eyes and looked at the sky, the sun had come out at this moment, and the sky had begun to turn from dark to bright, "Ning boy, it's not too early, it's time for our Yunjin pheasants to return to the nest, I can't send you another one here, I can only say the last sentence, go all the way." Then the old rooster started to cry out loudly, "Oooo The bright and high-pitched cry even shook off the snow on the nearby moon pine, and then I saw the Yunjin chickens running regularly, and the little pheasant that was not bigger than a palm ran out with the mother first, Ning Chen even saw that there were two that ran too quickly and didn't catch them for a while, bumped into each other, and were picked up by their respective mothers, and ran, and then the half-sized Yunjin chicken, and finally the old rooster, these old Yunjin chickens, after the old rooster ran to a big tree, before leaving, he turned back to Ning Chen and the two and said loudly: "Take care!" Then he also burrowed into the woods and disappeared.

The empty snow, the silent woods, the gradually brightening sky, everything from yesterday was like a dream, which made Ning Chen and the others feel unreal. In the end, Ning Hui looked at the wooden box and the empty cage in Ning Chen's hand, and said to Ning Chen: "Brother Ning, we have found Lingzhi, are you going back?" ”

"Yes, if you find Lingzhi, it's time to go back. ”

There is a saying since ancient times: it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, it is really suitable to use it in Tingshan, when they come, the two of them hold back a force, in order to be able to rush to the vicinity of the main peak as soon as possible, walk the rugged and difficult mountain road, can still bear it, but now the turn has reached the goal, and the road when you want to come again. Finally followed the path opened up to the foot of the main peak, walked through a mountain road, and was blocked by the high mountains in front of him, Ning Hui looked at the high rock stream, and there was an awe-inspiring and inviolable sense of sublime under the morning sun. At this moment, at the foot of the three beams, Ning Hui looked at the towering mountains and said with difficulty: "Brother Ning, did we really come from here when we came?"

Ning Chen looked at the dumbfounded Ning Hui, and rubbed his cheek with his finger helplessly, knowing that Ning Hui had come to the present with a sense of freshness and a breath of breath held back earlier, it was very rare after all, Ning Hui had never entered these deep mountains, and at this time, that breath was gone, and the road when he came again was afraid that it would be extremely difficult. I had to comfort: "Ah Hui, I still know that there is a way back to the village, it is easier to walk, but I have to make more detours, I am afraid that I will not be able to return to the village before noon, you can choose, whether it is a shortcut that is difficult to take or a long road that is easy to walk." ”

"Okay, Brother Ning, I'd rather take a detour than go through this damn forest. Ning Hui didn't want to kill Ning Hui and didn't want to walk the ghost road of opening the road in the mountains and building bridges in the water, after the two determined the route of the return, they used to start the road again, Ning Chen in order to take care of Ning Hui's speed, couldn't help but slow down, the snow slowly began to fall again, although it was not big, it always affected the hurry, about the hour, the two of them crossed the three beams, came to a small stream, Ning Chen's sharp eyes saw two snow rabbits looking for food in the snow, and greeted Ning Hui softly, the two carefully touched thirty steps away against the direction of the wind, Ning Chen handed over the wooden box to Ning Hui, took the arrow and bent the bow, with the sound of two breaking winds, the two rabbits were fixed on the ground with arrows almost at the same time。 Ning Hui, who was holding his breath, exclaimed at this time: "Brother Ning, your bow and arrow are amazing!"

Then he hurried to the front, ready to pick up the prey, only to find that most of the two arrows were submerged in the snow rabbit's body, and the tail rod of less than a fist was exposed, but he found that he couldn't pull it out, and his face was red, and he was just about to put the wooden box down, and the two hands worked together, when he saw Ning Chen walking to the side, "I'll do it." ”

Ning Chen put his hand on the end of the arrow, and also found that it was very tight, so the dark luck guidance technique came to his hand, and finally pulled it out in one force, and Ning Hui next to him saw all this with a dark expression: "Brother Ning, am I too useless." ”

When Ning Chen saw it, he just tapped a fist on Ning Hui's chest, "Don't think about it, if it weren't for you kid, I wouldn't be able to catch Miss Xiaoyun, and I wouldn't be able to attract Feng seniors, so I wouldn't be able to get these Lingzhi, after all, if you enter the mountain for the first time, if you really don't want to go, next time you will give Brother Ning two more family goods, and give your niece two dowries." ”

"Hmm. Ning Hui, who had untied the knot in his heart, couldn't help but speak: "Brother Ning, if you don't do it, I'll suffer a loss, and your daughter will be worthy of my son." ”

"you, it's that kid from your house, and he still wants to take my daughter. Ning Chen scolded with a smile.

"Haha, that's why I suffered a loss. The two of them farted while hurrying, perhaps lucky, the two of them hit a few pheasants on the way, and in general it can be said that it is a big harvest.

After about an hour, they came to a mountain temple. The small temple made of rammed crumbling loess provides a great place to escape from the snow. The plaque on the door was written in three words that no one recognized, and later people guessed that it was probably a mountain temple, but no one knew how to build a mountain temple in such a remote place, without a little incense.

"Brother Ning, this is, this is the mountain temple from before. Ning Hui looked a little excited, and quickly ran in, looked at the broken statue inside, and said excitedly: "Yes, this is it." ”

"Okay, don't get excited, dare to go find some branches and make a fire, we will fire here, and we will not be able to eat when we go back. If you don't eat some more, I'm afraid you'll have to drink the northwest wind when you go back. ”

Ning Chen made a little joke and unloaded the tools on his body. "Brother Ning, don't put your fate on me, if your sister-in-law doesn't allow you to eat at night, come to my house. Ning Hui retorted unceremoniously.

"you, don't hurry up yet. While the two were arguing, they went out to look for dead branches, just as they had when they were children. When everything was ready, the rabbit that had been smeared with salt was grilled on the fire, and the grease dripped on the firewood, exuding an attractive aroma of meat, which made the two people who had not eaten for a day more and more hungry, and struggled with their empty stomachs, as if they wanted to distract themselves, Ning Hui said casually: "Brother Ning, do you remember the time when we secretly ran out together before? If it wasn't for you and your eldest brother to save me, I almost died, and then we ran here, not wanting the adults to find it, right here, the three of us secretly worshipped." ”

"Remember, why don't you remember, that time it was in this mountain temple, the big heroes in the biography of Mr. Tou's proposal to learn from the story of Mr., in front of the emperor and queen of heaven, we can't prepare three animals, just in front of this mountain god statue, crush the soil into incense, and become brothers. Ning Chen said as he spoke, his voice lowered.

"Brother Ning, it would be nice if the boss was here this time. Ning Hui naturally answered.

"Forget it, as far as his black-faced god is concerned, I'm afraid we won't be allowed to come to this pavilion mountain. Ning Chen said impatiently, "Don't talk about these things." Look, the rabbit is almost ripe, you divide him first. ”

"Brother Ning, where are you going?" Seeing Ning Chen walk out of the small temple, he couldn't help but stand up and shouted. "It's fine. Ning Chen waved his hand, signaling that Ning Hui didn't have to care.

Ning Hui inserted the pincers that passed through the rabbit next to the fire, followed out, and as soon as he walked to the door, he saw Ning Chen who came back, holding a large pile of soil in his hand, walked to the statue of the mountain god, and divided Ning Hui, Ning Hui instantly understood what Ning Chen wanted to do, and knelt in front of the offering table in front of the statue of the mountain god with Ning Chen, Ning Chen surrounded two mounds, Ning Hui surrounded one, and each of them inserted three thin branches on the mound.

"Today, I will take this civil engineering chat to express my respect, the Lord of the Wangshan God forgives the sins, and the Lord of the Wangshan God blesses my Ning family with peace and prosperity. The two said at the same time, and finally looked at each other and laughed. They sat down by the fire again, and the two of them divided the fat rabbit.

When eating, Ning Hui, who was sitting in front of the statue, looked at this, dressed in scale armor, headless, with only one right arm that seemed to be holding something, standing upright on one foot, but the other foot seemed to be stepping on a statue of a stone that had already been polished, and secretly made a wish in his heart: "The mountain god begs you to bless the three of us brothers, always with one heart, work together, and win the difficulty." ”

"Brother Ning, tell me, where did you go later? Ning Hui then seemed to think of something, and asked with some curiosity. "I thought you could resist asking, haha, okay, I'll tell you, the stinky snake that the old-timers talked about first, I don't know, do you remember. Ning Chen said with a serious expression.

Seeing Ning Chen's serious expression, Ning Hui recalled carefully, and then exclaimed, "Remember, remember." Brother Ning, you continued, "Then Ning Chen made up a story about himself fighting for the hot springs for Yunjin Chicken and fighting against Zhang Xu Changsnake, Ning Chen was eloquent, and he told a story that was thrilling and moving, not to mention Ning Hui, even he himself almost fell into it.

"Brother Ning, I still don't understand, doesn't Yunjin Chicken eat on Yuehua, why do you want a hot spring?" Ning Hui wondered. "Although the Yunjin chicken is a bird, it should be oviparous, but as the years grow, the more moonlight absorbed, the more yin qi deposition in the body becomes thicker and heavier, and the body temperature will be lower and lower, only when the body temperature is relatively high when it is young, so after adulthood, it cannot be hatched after the eggs are conceived, so the hens of the old-timer family are about to lay eggs, leave the eggs in the body, until the eggs hatch to the end of birth, will be produced, waiting for the birth of new life. Later, I thought of a way to lay eggs in the land near the hot springs, and hatched them with the help of ground temperature, and these fire Yunzhi grew on the stone walls near the hot springs, and most of the treasures were guarded by spirits, and these fire Yunzhi were guarded by the big python. Ning Chen said.

After listening to it, Ning Hui seemed to be still immersed in this thrilling story, and after a little rest, the two of them embarked on the way home again.