In the evening, a large area of fiery red clouds was reflected on the official road of Pingguan.

The reason why this place is called Pingguan is because if you go further, the road is uneven, and there are rugged mountain roads for hundreds of miles behind, and you will camp here tonight to rest, and you will enter the mountain tomorrow.

Xie Hanci didn't make a fire for a long time, she carried the food box to Jing Yu's carriage with the soot on her face, she opened the food box and took out the half-old white porcelain plate.

"See, this first dish is called Stuffed Qiongye."

Jing Yu looked at the roasted steamed bun slices in front of him, unable to believe his eyes, "This is ...... What? ”

Xie Hanci said seriously: "In the previous dynasty's "Steaming Cake", Yun Yuanying monk He was short, and the clear pine was light. Cut into qiong leaves, chew to make the sound of snowflakes. This steamed cake refers to steamed buns, according to the book, I also deliberately found overnight steamed buns to bake, you eat them while they are hot, see if you can chew the sound of snowflakes. ”

Jing Yu half-believingly took a bite of the overnight roasted steamed bread slices, and her mouth made a "click" sound, "There is a sound when you chew it, but it is not like the sound of snowflakes, it is a bit like the sound of snow on the ground being trampled on the soles of your feet." ”

"Snow is also snow, that's the sound, you eat two more bites." Xie Hanci took another slice and put it in his bowl, Jing Yu coughed, pretended to be choked, put down the chopsticks and said, "Xiao Xie, I seem to be choking, I'll eat it later." ”

Xie Hanci hurriedly clapped his hands and took out a large porcelain bowl, "I thought that I would choke if I ate alone, so I prepared this second dish, Curling Zhen!" ”

Jing Yu looked at the turbid water in front of him, and smelled of rotten vegetable leaves, and he didn't dare to swallow it.

Seeing this, Xie Hanci hurriedly explained: "I have consulted Emperor Taizong with Yashi, what kind of food is the most precious? Yashi replied that the most precious thing that suits his own taste is that the contemptible people think that the marinade is delicious. This gentleman was the famous curling gentleman in later generations, so the name of the dish was curling Zhen. ”

Jing Yu glanced at the big bowl of "swill" in front of him again, and asked, "So, this is pickle?" ”

Xie Hanci shook his head: "This is not true, I also added a little Shu characteristics, which is the water in the kimchi jar, which has more time to precipitate than the pickle juice." ”

"Hmm-" Jing Yu retched twice, just about to refuse. Looking at Xie Han's earnest eyes, he thought that he would have to eat such a meal for more than a month, and was ready to grit his teeth and pour this bowl of "curling treasures".

"Kill! - Kill! Kill! ——”

At this moment, there were bursts of charging shouts in the distance, and the sound of killing shook the sky for a while.

Jing Yu picked up the saber on the table and looked at Xie Hanci, "If I come back alive, can you fulfill my wish?" Xie Hanci also pulled out the dagger on his waist and asked, "What wish?" ”

"Stop cooking, I have a bad stomach."

Xie Hanci: "......"

The two of them rushed out of the carriage and stood on the open flat ground, and as the night gradually fell, there were several bright stars in the northern sky, appearing and disappearing in the clouds.

There was a calm in front of him, and the shouts just now disappeared the moment he rushed out of the carriage, and only the crackling and burning bonfires and panting horses remained on the silent official road.

Xie Hanci grabbed a soldier who was sitting around the bonfire and asked, "Did you hear anything just now?" ”

The soldier picked up the leather bag and took a sip, his eyes a little disdainful.

"Looking at your fine skin and tender meat, you shouldn't have entered the mountains with the army, right? A few apes are passing by, look at your melon cowardice. “

Xie Hanci shook his head and said, "I've heard the sound of an ape, but it's not like this. ”

Another soldier, who was roasting unknown game on a campfire with a twig, snorted softly in a nasal voice at the words of Xie Hanci.

"Hey, you're talking about the kind of monkey guy in the city, who will turn two heels for you if you give you an apple, and will make a fool of you, right?"

Before he could finish speaking, the soldiers who were sitting around the fire began to laugh.

Xie Hanci had no choice but to fold his arms and return to the carriage, and spread his hands helplessly at Jingyu, "Whether you believe it or not, it's really not the cry of an ape." ”

Jing Yu nodded and said, "I believe it!" I've seen so many monkey shows in the palace, but I've never seen a monkey shout kill, kill, kill. ”

Xie Hanci rubbed his temples, and suddenly understood why those soldiers were full of disdain and ridicule in their words.

A gust of wind blew, the leaves rustled, and the vines on the stone wall were tossed into the air, and in an instant they stiffened and then fluttered, and were crumpled into a green mess.

The fine gravel and sand dust were swept up by the wind and hit the person's face, Xie Hanci just wanted to pull down the hat on her head, but before she could stretch out her hand, the hat was swept away by the wind and rolled into the darkness in front of her.

Xie Hanci trotted to pick it up, but the hat rolled farther and farther, and finally stopped under a dead banyan tree, she just wanted to walk over to pick up the hat, but saw several white bones, they had been weathered, and it was difficult to identify what kind of animal they belonged to.

She took two steps closer and recognized only the skeleton of a horse, its jagged white bones filled with swords, rusted and the horse's head still neighing at the sky.

"Kill, ahhhhh Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Not again!

The mountain wind swept the pine waves, and above Xie Hanci's head was a gloomy and green ocean.

The sound of the battle just now resounded again in the deep and dark valley, and the fine wind came from all directions, mixed with terrifying shouts and sharp screams, as if there were Yin soldiers and undead cruising outside in this deep mountain.

A few crows hovered over the woods, making a rough hoarse sound, Xie Hanci raised his head, the crows fluttered their wings and landed on the high stone wall, and below were three big red characters - Hundred Sick Caves.

When she walked back to the camp, King Ning was standing in front of the bonfire and talking to Jing Yu about this, Xie Hanci hurriedly wanted to find a tree to hide behind, but King Ning had already noticed her.

The eyes of the two people collided unexpectedly, and there were more than a dozen soldiers in the middle, they looked at each other in silence for a long time, Xie Hanci found that there was no trace of surprise in his eyes, as if he had known it for a long time.

It's like the Divine Decree.

Thinking of this, Xie Hanci couldn't help but evoke a sneer, since she had been discovered, there was no need to hide anymore, she bypassed the bonfire and climbed into the carriage.

After a cup of tea, Jing Yu also returned to the carriage.

"Why did you run away to the mountains by yourself, and if you don't come back, I'll ask Uncle Xiaohuang to find you." Seeing that Xie Hanci didn't speak, he found a clean blanket to cover her legs.

"Still thinking about that voice? Maybe it's the sound of the wind and the cries of some other beasts, don't think about it. ”

Xie Hanci agreed, took out two wild fruits from his arms and handed them to Jing Yu.

"Dinner in the evening, I'm sorry. I hadn't cooked in the mountains, I couldn't find everything, and I didn't make a fire for a long time. I just picked two wild fruits from the tree, and if you don't dislike them, you will satisfy your hunger first. ”

Jing Yu smiled.

"You're because of this, there is dry food on the carriage in the back, and besides, I'm such a big person, can I still be hungry? Still, the fruit looks delicious. One for each of us. So saying, he handed back another fruit. Where did you just go? ”

Xie Hanci took the fruit, raised his hand to open half of the car curtain, looked at the mountains outside the window and said, "Hundred Sick Caves." ”

Jing Yu wiped the wild fruit with a handkerchief, and muttered: "This name sounds terrible, fortunately we are taking the road of Xiushuiling, I wondered at first that there is a valley and why we have to go over the mountain." ”

Xie Hanci didn't have much appetite, and put the fruit aside, "Does the prince know why it's called the Hundred Sick Cave?" ”

Jing Yu took a bite of the wild fruit, and the sweet and sour juice immediately burst in his mouth, "I want to hear it." ”

"A few years ago, there was a gang of bandits from the south in the mountains, entrenched in the mountains, robbing passing merchants and harassing nearby villagers. Wang joined the army and led 5,000 people into the mountains, and the bandits took advantage of the natural danger to make a block, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The two sides fought for three days and three nights, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses were dumped directly in the valley below. “

A gust of mountain wind crept through the gap in the window of the carriage, and the flame of the candle on the low table was blown and swayed from side to side.

Then there was a rumor that the souls of those who had died in battle would not leave, and crawled out of the valley and charged into battle as if they were alive. At this time, a strong wind blows in the valley even during the day, and one moment it is still sunny, and the next moment it is a thunderclap out of thin air. The villagers said that it was a crossing of the Yin soldiers, and reminded unrelated people to avoid it. ”

"But this should be called the Hundred Ghost Cave, why is it called the Hundred Sick Cave?"

Jing Yu gathered the blanket on her body, and suddenly felt a chill on her body. Xie Hanci poured a cup of hot tea, handed it to him, and continued.

In order to appease the souls of the dead, the nearby villagers built a temple in the valley called the Temple of Anning. But after the temple was built, more and more villagers said that they had seen the souls of the dead on the mountain, and they were seriously ill when they returned home. What's even stranger is that these people have all kinds of diseases in life. Some people suddenly start to have ulcerated skin, some people start to vomit blood, some people get cold, and the symptoms vary from one to another. ”

"It is true that the corpses of soldiers are prone to plague outbreaks if they are not properly disposed of after the war, but it is not uncommon for them to have any diseases. Is this temple built incorrectly, did you find a feng shui master to see it when you built the temple? ”

Xie Hanci took a sip of hot tea and shook his head.

"There is no way to verify the old past, and I guess most of them are not. The aunt who cooked, Wang, was originally a villager in the vicinity, and I heard her say that at that time, three wells were drilled in the temple, but no water was produced. ”

Jing Yu suddenly noticed someone outside, put his index finger to his lips, and made a silent gesture to Xie Hanci, he slowly poked his head out of the car window, but all he saw was the dark night.

"It's strange, I saw a figure floating over just now. My heart was pounding, and I felt like something was going to happen. ”

Xie Hanci thought that his son-in-law's mistake had been made again, so he waved his hand and said, "Oh, don't scare yourself." ”

Jing Yu looked serious, "Don't believe it, my intuition has always been very accurate." In the sixth year of Yuanchang, I went to the palace with my mother to ask for peace, when I was only four years old, and the nurse took me to play in the imperial garden. It was too hot, so she wanted to take me to the pavilion by the pool. I said I wouldn't go, just sat on the ground and cried, and guess what they found in the lake later? ”

Without waiting for Xie Hanci to guess, Jing Yu couldn't wait.

"They found a dead man! At that time, it was July, the pool was full of white lotuses, and the body of Concubine Hui was floating in the center of the pool, and the death was strange, and it was definitely not man-made. ”

"What do you mean? What does it mean to be non-artificial? ”

Jing Yu cleared his throat and was about to open his mouth to explain, but was interrupted by a loud rumbling sound, and the rocks rolled down the slope of Xiushuiling, mixed with broken branches, rushing towards them.