Chapter 415: The Ruins of the Medicine Valley
Li Muyao and Erya let in front of a broken wall, there were no rabbits in the shade of the barren grass, and rats shuttled quickly between them.
The old man stood beside the two of them, but at this time his face was much more ugly than the previous few days, like an old man who was seriously ill, withered with some dead air, and thought that he had suffered a lot of torture in the past few days.
And standing beside him was Qian Yi, Qian Yi's eyes were staring at the old man, he got a lot of news from the old man in the past few days, and at the same time he also knew something about Li Muyao's past, thinking of the grievances suffered by the third lady in the past, Qian Yi wanted to kill the old man, but for the sake of the old man's somewhat useful sake, he could barely survive until now.
Now he hopes that this old man will resist, and let him go! This time he came to the ruins of the Medicine Valley, which was also led by the old man, but out of his unease with the old man, he still kept staring at the old man.
The old man pointed to the front and said, "This is just the entrance to the Medicine Valley!" In the past, the Medicine Valley often made some medicines, and many people came here every day to ask for medicine, but except for people who can come up with good things or some statuses, it is also difficult for ordinary people to ask for medicine or want to enter the Medicine Valley!"
The old man's tone when he spoke was very emotional, as if he could still see the prosperity of that time in this desolation!
Li Muyao nodded, although she didn't have the appearance of these places in her memory, but looking at a large area, it turned out to be just an entrance, and she also wanted to guess how lively the medicine valley was before it was destroyed!
But it's such a lively place, and it's been wiped out like this, not only does no one escape, but even the people who exterminate the Medicine Valley don't know who they are?
It's a pity that because the medicine valley has always been a single lineage, the people are not luxuriant, and there is no such thing as the Heavenly Soul Sect that can check the spiritual root of people, and the few cultivators in the valley are just found and cultivated by the first generation of old valley masters.
And after the death of the first generation of old valley masters, the medicine valley is also going downhill, not only is there almost no heir to the inheritance of cultivation, but even many medicinal scriptures and medicine refining techniques are slowly lost!
Therefore, although the medicine valley still looks very lively, in fact, its own power has long been much worse than before! The most important thing is that the valley master in the medicine valley is only passed on to women!
And the previous old valley master was the mother of the Duchess of the Kingdom, and the Duchess and the second lady had no spiritual roots since they were children, could not practice, and the two were not interested in medicine, so in the end, the two of them went out of the valley, and even one married into the Guogong Mansion, and the other became a female general, and no one objected in the medicine valley!
The second girl opened her mouth, and while listening to the old man's continuation, she said to herself: "The inheritance of this medicine valley is interesting, let my father know this, I'm afraid I have to talk about passing on the title to me! It's a pity that this is an official given by the emperor, let's not count!"
Li Muyao smiled at her, Li Lao Er is really good to this girl, in his opinion, the title is heavier than life, if he can, he will definitely give it to Erya, as for the two sons? Can't they all live well without titles before? In the future, I will give you some land enough for them to live, and then I will marry a daughter-in-law!
The old man continued to walk forward with Li Muyao and the others, pointing to the place in front of him from time to time: "After the mouth of the valley is the outer valley, the area of the outer valley is the largest, but it is the place where some outer disciples live, even before they were destroyed, they could at most have some money or their own refining of ungrade medicine, now!"
There are traces of some houses in front, but they have long since collapsed to the point where they can't be seen, and the occasional exposed part can still see traces of being burned by fire! Even Erya, who has always loved money, is not interested in these things, and he knows that there are no useful things without looking!
"It's big enough! How many people lived here before!"
Hearing Erya's words, the old man replied: "Because the valley masters are all women, and they are all addicted to alchemy, they don't like to contact outsiders, so they beat everyone out and established this outer valley, and the inner valley is heavy, but the place is not very big!"
Li Muyao nodded, this place is endless, and the entire outer valley can't see the edge, no wonder Er Ya said that it is big, but because there are no people and there are wild grasses everywhere, people don't know where his original boundary is!
The old man picked up a piece of barren grass and turned forward, although he couldn't see the road under his feet, but from its flat appearance, he also felt that these should have been streets!
However, Li Muyao was a little puzzled, it has only been a few years, and this place has become so desolate, even the streets are covered with grass, which is a little weird, even if it is deserted, after all, it has been stepped on by people for many years, and it is possible to grow some grass, but it can grow so much, obviously more than the surrounding ruins, it is not normal to be tall!
If it becomes like this, unless someone ploughs it like a cultivated land, it is ploughed repeatedly! When the land becomes very soft, the grass seeds brought by the wind can take root! But who will come here and plough the ground without anything to do?
The main thing is that since the land has been ploughed, why not plant things, and finally be restored to such a flat appearance?
The old man was still saying: "Although the old valley lord did not pass on the position of the valley lord to the two young ladies, the valley lord still felt sorry for the two young ladies, and knew that they didn't like to be with medicine, so he let them go out to practice by themselves, even if they got married, the Guogong Mansion didn't get the two back!"
Although the old man had words in his mouth, he didn't delay when he got to his feet, and continued to walk, only Erya listened disapprovingly, but Li Muyao just smiled and didn't speak.
After walking for a long time, everyone finally found an exit in this seemingly endless outer valley, the reason why this is said to be an exit is because this place is obviously different from other places, this place is no longer so empty, and the cliffs on both sides are like cliffs!
And there is a big hole in the middle of the cliff, and the gravel on the ground and around it, you can see that there should have been something here before, either an arch or a stone archway or something, but now there is nothing!
It's just that the color around the cliff is not the same as other places, and the stones around it show a dark red color, and as the mountain blows, there are occasional whimpering sounds, like a ghost howling!
The old man looked at the front with blank eyes, and said softly: "Both sides of this cliff were originally medicinal fields, and there were medicinal incense everywhere, and the mountain stones were also earthy yellow, but later the medicine valley was destroyed, the medicine fields were destroyed, and the mountain cliffs were dyed red overnight! I heard that when it rains, the cliff will bleed downward!"
Er Ya curiously rubbed her hand lightly on the cliff, raised her hand to observe, and found no bloodstains, she couldn't help but feel a little regretful, but the smile on Li Muyao's face slowly faded!