After leaving the village and traveling north along the Lishui River for more than ten miles, the night gradually became thicker.

When it comes to the month of Layue, even if Chu is in the south, the temperature in the wilderness is also outrageously low, perhaps it is close to Lishui, and the places along the way are shrouded in cold water mist, and the dry grass and gravel are flying in the wind, and there is no trace of people around, and there is a strange atmosphere everywhere. Although the robes had been wrapped in advance to keep out the cold, there were still many people who gradually broke out in cold sweat behind their foreheads.

After inquiring about Zou Laohan, he learned that there were five miles to arrive, Li Yuan immediately ordered everyone to speed up, and inadvertently glanced at Wang Jingguo, who was riding forward with him. The whole body was also tightly wrapped, and from the only little face that the young man revealed, he did not see any look of fear, and he kept frowning and concentrating on the road, but his eyes were bright, revealing a kind of excitement about the unknown,

Li Yuan smiled slightly, this child seems to have grown a lot in the past year, not to mention anything else, from the heavy breathing of everyone in the team at this time, you can feel the bitter cold, but Wang Jingguo didn't even have a word of complaint, and his personality became more and more calm and steady.

It was already the ninth day of December, and the new moon was shining at night, not bright enough, but enough to discern the direction. Li Yuan and his entourage walked the last five miles in one go, and under the guidance of Zou Laohan, they followed the calm and undersurging Li Shui to the turning point, and after going a little eastward over a small hill, they finally saw the silent forbidden land full of wild grass.

As if the water turned a strange angle here, this forbidden land also presents a strange triangular shape from a distance, and the triangle area is wrapped in dense forests, only there is no tree in the area, all are wild grass, the whole area does not see the trace of a living creature, but in the side of more than a dozen conspicuous wells, you can see the white bones left by the animals, the huge hollow skull lying on the ground, I don't know how many years have been dead.

The tomb, which is rumored to be buried with the souls of two thousand Chu soldiers, also stands coldly in the center of the forbidden land, under the moonlight, the surrounding miles of land seem to be wrapped in a layer of white mist, and the faint moonlight is slowly refracted on the tall wordless stone tablet, because there is no forest to cover it, it is condescending without taboos, and it shines with a dazzling cold light from time to time around, like a ruthless eye that has crossed the time, and is coldly mocking the people who have stepped into this forbidden land.

"Governor, it's finally here." Old Man Zou breathed a sigh of relief and said.

Li Yuan nodded, waved to everyone, and said, "Wait until you find a place to set up camp, eat something and drink some water first, and then let's go and have a good look."

After temporarily setting up camp at the edge of the forbidden land, Li Yuan stood quietly in front of his tent, looked up at the crescent moon looming in the sky, and couldn't help but murmur in a low voice: "I don't know what my mother is doing, are Emperor E, Jing Yao, and Qingying thinking about me, and are Jiang Sheng and Erhu doing well...... Alas, it would be nice to have a mobile phone these days, even if you are far away, you can hear each other's voices at any time, and even if you are far away, you are not afraid of your family's worries......

Zou Laohan was holding a large handful of firewood at this time and was about to start a fire, and saw Li Yuan standing in front of the tent to see the moon standing, and wanted to come up to talk, but he heard these incomprehensible words in Li Yuan's mouth with his own ears.

The corners of Wang Jingguo's mouth on the side couldn't help but overflow with a smile, he was used to his brother-in-law's nonsense. I still remember that last time Sister A officially entered the door, Li Yuan told himself when she was drunk that there is a kind of box in the world, in which villains can sing, dance and act, and people are outside the box, as if they are there.

Not only Wang Jingguo, but all the family members almost laughed when they heard Li Yuan's nonsense on weekdays, but now in this weird desolate forbidden land, Zou Laohan was still a little creepy.

"Well, Grand Duke, what did you just say? Sounds like the legendary Thousand Miles of Sound Transmission Technique?"

Li Yuan came back to his senses, smiled and gestured, "Hehe, it's not a thousand miles of transmission, it's a mobile phone. How can I say it, a square box of this size......

Wang Jingguo saw that Li Yuan was serious

Come, holding back a smile, turn around and tidy up the tent.

"Hands, chickens? This kind of chicken villain has never heard of it, but domestic birds? Can I eat it? What the Metropolitan Governor said, the old man and I have been farming for three generations, how can I never hear of it in my life. A square box of this size can transmit sound for thousands of miles, is it a fairy in the sky?" Old man Zou swallowed his saliva.

"Uncle Zou, the Metropolitan Governor is just joking, he told me last time, what kind of ball will a breeder play...... Don't ask any more or you'll go crazy." Wang Jingguo couldn't help but laugh.

Li Yuan glanced at the young man, continued to look at the crescent moon in the sky, and there was a lonely bird passing by, and sighed to himself: "There is another thing, called an airplane, which can be used by hundreds of people to fly hundreds of miles or even thousands of miles in a single day. Alas, if only there were planes, we wouldn't have to travel long distances anywhere, and we wouldn't have to travel an hour from Langzhou to Lizhou."

Why is there another kind of "chicken" that is unheard of? At this time, Zou Laohan's face turned completely pale, and he hurriedly pulled Wang Jingguo and said, "Little brother, won't the Metropolitan Governor be poisonous? It is said that in the place of yin and evil, it is easy to get involved with yin poison after being exposed to wind evil, and if you don't treat it in time after the brain, people will become crazy and stupid, no, let's quit this place, the governor must have a good one, and I can't afford this responsibility!"

Wang Jingguo couldn't help laughing, waved his hand and said, "Uncle Zou, don't worry, most of my family governors have the blessing of heaven, it will be fine in a while, you can go back to the tent and eat something with peace of mind."

Seeing that Zou Laohan rubbed his hands together and left with a worried face, Wang Jingguo looked at Li Yuan and laughed in a low voice: "Brother-in-law, these strange ideas of yours, I and several sisters just listen to them on weekdays, isn't this Uncle Zou going crazy when he hears it?" I've got the water ready, so you might as well wipe your face first, eat something and drink some water, close your eyes and rest, so that you don't get listless for a while......."

"Little hairy boy, what do you know?" Seeing Wang Jingguo handing over the water-soaked cloth towel with a smile, Li Yuan impatiently wiped his face with the wet and cold cloth towel, then turned around and went into the tent to rest cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Half an hour later, Li Yuan, who had recovered some physical strength, followed Zou Laohan from the camp to the salt wells in the forbidden land under the protection of a group of guards. The wild grass under his feet seemed to be affected by the mist of the nearby river, and was as wet as a mirror, and when a person stepped on it, it was a little slippery, and it seemed to be stepping on the snow, occasionally making a creaking sound, and sewage seeping out of the grass.

Choosing the nearest salt well, Li Yuan stopped, cautiously stretched his neck to probe into the well, only to see that it was pitch black, and emitted an indescribable sour smell, and threw some stones into it, and after careful identification, there were obviously a few muffled sounds, which showed that this salt well was actually unfathomable.

This also confirms another reason for the failure of Mahivan that year, the insufficient depth of salt well excavation.

Then Li Yuan pulled out the sword at his waist neatly, stretched into the well and scraped vigorously on the stone wall, until there was a crisp sound of the hard shell peeling off, and at this time he decisively withdrew the sword, and by the light of the torches held high by the guards around him, everyone saw that the soil stained on the blade of the sword of the Metropolitan Governor actually carried a little yellowish crystalline salt grains.

Seeing that Li Yuan was about to touch it, Zou Laohan hurriedly reminded: "Governor, don't touch these! This is poisonous salt, in the past, those Chu soldiers ate this thing and their stomachs rotted and died, be careful!"

Gently raising his saber, Li Yuan raised his head and looked at these pale yellow salt grains carefully, knowing that this must not be pure table salt, it must be mixed with other impurities, and the amount is not small.

Following Zou Laohan's persuasion, Li Yuan did not touch it with his hands, but he immediately ordered the guards to continue digging down the salt well in front of him, Lin Sichang and several generals were stunned, but they still hurriedly surrendered their hands to obey the order. In front of the governor, the military orders were like a mountain, and even if the guards were reluctant to enter this gloomy well, they had to cover their mouths and noses with their scalps, and then tie hemp ropes around their waists to enter.

As Li Yuan expected, as Zou Ping led several guards to fall into the bottom of the well first, the torch was raised high but not extinguished, which is enough to prove that the salt well is not deep, and it has not reached the depth of lack of oxygen, but because it has been abandoned for a long time, the soil and stone in the well are hard and abnormal, and it is very laborious to dig up.

I don't know how long I dug it, and after everyone took turns to take over the force, it was finally again

After digging a few feet down, I immediately noticed that the color seemed to be different by the light of the fire. Beneath the pale yellow surface of the earth, the color of the particles precipitated from the bottom of the well and the surrounding stone walls has turned to a less pure white, which looks the same as the coarse salt eaten on a daily basis.

In the excited shouts of the soldiers, Lin Sichang personally took a small cloth bag from Zou Ping from the well, Li Yuan gently spread the cloth bag in the palm of his hand to check it carefully, Wang Jingguo and Zou Laohan also came up to check. But seeing that these particles were transparent in the firelight, they seemed to be a little yellow, but they were much lighter than those stained on Li Yuan's sword blade.

"This!" Zou Laohan was surprised: "The one below is indeed different, the one above must be the same as poisonous salt, but the one below doesn't know if it is poisonous."

Li Yuan nodded and said, "Just give it a try."

Zou Laohan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Try? Governor, don't forget the lesson of the Chu army back then, this can't be eaten indiscriminately, if it is poisonous, wouldn't it be in vain?"

Wang Jingguo also swallowed his saliva, looked at the frightened Lin Sichang and the others around him, and said in a low voice, "Brother-in-law, do you want to give an order for people to eat?"

Li Yuan glared at the young man helplessly, and said calmly, "Will the governor of Pontus joke with the lives of his own soldiers? Go, choose any animal and feed some, and if it dies, it will be poisoned salt."