Volume 2: Liuyun Mountain Chapter 32: The Wind Rises (4)
Lu Yi and the four of them brought their weapons, each of them carried a bundle of ropes, carried a mountain knife at their waists, brought enough dry food and cooking utensils, and went out of Liuyun Town from the north of the town and went straight to the mountains.
Dozens of miles of mountain roads, speaking of a snap of a finger, but it also takes at least a day and a half, there is a good saying, looking at the mountain to run a dead horse, the real mountain people know how difficult it is to travel to the mountains, so they must stay overnight in the mountains.
It was still early, the autumn dew was heavy, and the four of them were already soaked after not walking for a while.
Li Muran grimaced and complained: "The mountains in this ghost place are really torturous!"
Mountains and mountains are also different, Yanxia Mountain has many big trees and shrubs, the relative view between the mountains is transparent, easy to pass, and Liuyun Mountain due to the different geographical location, the climate is more humid, the vines in the forest are entangled, the thorns are rampant, the eyes are lush and green, and every step forward needs to be cut through thorns.
Yun Chen smiled: "I regret it! let you stay in the villa to learn the swordsmanship, you have to come over and join in the fun!"
"Isn't this prince here to experience the suffering of the people more!"
"How can you talk about the prince every day like this!"
Lu Yi, who walked in the front, carefully removed a piece of horn thorn from his arm, and quipped: "I don't realize the pain, but the pain is really everywhere!"
Li Muran looked at the trouser legs that were hanging in wisps, and nodded thoughtfully.
The horn thorn is a vine, the longest spines can reach up to two inches, and they are so sharp that they can leave a long trail of blood on the body if you are not careful.
Lu Yi pulled out the mountain opening knife, began to clean up the thorns in front of him, and said with a smile: "Don't stand and be lazy, do it." ”
Several people began to wave their swords and slowly pushed forward, cutting a path through the thorns and bushes.
When they arrived at noon, several people finally walked to the first small river marked on the map hungry.
The water of the small river was murmuring, knee-deep, and the water was crystal clear, and the four of them leaned down and were swallowed by a whale.
"Cool!"
Li Muran lay on a gray and white boulder in a large font, and stretched his waist contentedly.
"I'm going to sleep well for a while!
Lu Yi washed his face with water, thinking that it was good that Yu'er's little girl didn't come with her, otherwise she would have wrinkled her little face and looked bitter at this time.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile and looked at the three people who were sitting on the ground: "Brother Yunyuan, you go and help collect some firewood, I'll go to the front to see if I can get some food back!"
Yun Yuan's eyes lit up, he always listened to Duanmu Yu talking about the unparalleled delicacy of fried stream fish in the villa, and his ears were about to grind out cocoons, and he had never tasted it, which was quite a pity.
"Catch the brook fish?"
Yun Chen also got up from the stone when he heard this, Lu Yi's cooking skills were very convincing after tasting them at Yun Dalong's house last time.
Lu Yi smiled and said: "I'll see if it's good or not, the water quality of this river is excellent, there should be a lot of stream fish, and the stream fish in this season are already fat." ”
Li Muran turned over and took out the dry food he was carrying, and pursed his lips disdainfully: "Isn't it just a few stream fish, which you said is so fantastic! This prince has not eaten any good things? Now it's better to eat some jerky!"
Yun Chen smiled and handed over his share of dry food: "Eat, eat, eat, eat more, don't regret it for a while!"
Li Muran took it unceremoniously, and said with a roll of his eyes: "Let's see who regrets it for a while! Who regrets who is a little!"
Lu Yi smiled and shook his head, leaving Yun Yuan to collect dead branches, build a stove, and take Yun Chen down the stream.
The river water is from the high mountains downstream, the lower the water temperature is, the more suitable for the growth of fish, the main reason is that the water temperature is too low will not have the food of the stream fish, and the fish will not be kept naturally.
The riverbed is wide, and both sides are full of rocks, and the traces of flash floods can be seen everywhere.
The two of them walked out not far and saw a big pool, the water of the pool was turquoise and deep.
Yun Chen threw a stone down, startled a group of swimming fish at the bottom of the water, and laughed: "Sure enough, there are fish, and it looks like there are quite a few, you can feast on them today!"
Lu Yi smiled and said: "It's easy to say, you have to think of a way to catch the fish!"
Yun Chen was stunned for a moment, thinking that this is indeed the case, the weather is already a little cool, not suitable for going into the water, even if you can go down, you may not be able to catch it, but seeing Lu Yi's confident appearance, he rubbed his hands: "Look at you like that, you know that you have a way, don't hide it, hurry up and get the fish up, we can hurry after eating." ”
On the way here, I saw a lot of wild kudzu vines, and I remembered a method that has been passed down in the fishing village for a long time, but whether it is effective or not, I will know if I try it.
According to Lu Yi's instructions, the two of them pulled and dug together, and after a while, they found more than a dozen bitter arrows about the thickness of the bowl.
Yun Chen frowned and asked, "Can this thing work?"
"I only found out after trying, and it is the first time I have used this method to fish, I hope it will work!"
When I came to the entrance of the pool, Lu Yi used a stone to crush the bitter arrowroot, and the milky white juice washed by the spring water continued to flow downstream.
Yun Chen looked at the gourd painting scoop, more than ten bitter arrows were knocked out in a short time, and the water in the pool gradually became turbid, but there was no trace of the fish.
"Well, you don't seem to have a good idea. ”
"Don't worry, where is it so fast? There is a natural toxin in kudzu, which is rumored to be able to paralyze fish. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw several small fish more than an inch long whirling on the surface of the water.
"Really?!"
Yun Chen was overjoyed.
After a while, there were gradually many palm-length stream fish gradually floating.
Lu Yi picked a few banana leaves from the forest, and said with a smile: "Go out of the water to catch fish, the time of kudzu paralysis is not long, and these fish will recover after a while!"
The stream fish went down the river, and it didn't take much effort for the two of them to pick and pick up a lot, at least five or six catties, filled with four banana leaves.
The brook fish is slowly fried over low heat, exuding an attractive aroma, and some condiments can be found everywhere in the mountains and forests, as long as you can recognize, it is really inexhaustible.
I have to say that watching Lu Yi cook is a pleasure, although the Yunchen brothers have not been squeamish since childhood, they can't be so skilled as Lu Yi.
Li Muran sniffled when he smelled the fragrance of fried fish, turned over, and leaned over with a straight face.
Yun Chen quipped, "Don't you only eat jerky, why don't you sleep?"
Li Muran thought about it embarrassedly, grabbed a pair of chopsticks and picked up a fish: "This prince will taste it!"
"Little?"
"Who is the little called?"
Lu Yi said helplessly: "You have eaten half of the pot this time!"
"Well, it tastes good! I'll leave this kind of cooking to Lu Yi in the future!"
“......”
The rest of the two, who were busy stuffing fish into their mouths, hurriedly raised their hands in approval!
The four of them giggled and laughed, and in the end, there was not even soup left.
After resting contentedly for a while, the four of them continued to burrow into the dense forest and open the way.
The sun is slanting in the west, and the four of them pass through a mountainside, and their eyes suddenly open up, and under their feet is a cliff that is four or five feet high.
Across the feet of a few people is a big river, the river is turbulent, the water surface is three or four zhang wide, with the ability of the four people of course can easily jump over, but this time what needs to be considered is how to smoothly smuggle the materials back to the iron pass.
The two Yunchen brothers didn't come up with any way after watching it for a long time, and they all looked at Lu Yi.
Lu Yi shrugged his shoulders and said: "This time I really didn't come up with a way, I really can't do it, let's go over and explore the way first, and I don't know how many useful things are stored in the Iron Pass." ”
Li Muran hugged his shoulders and said coldly: "Don't look at me, it's your business to use your brain." ”
"Then let's go first! It's not early, go over and rest for a while, wait until it's dark and it's just night to probe the iron pass!"
Lu saw a large stone protruding from the water in the middle of the river, stepped out with both feet, lifted his breath again in mid-air, put his toes on the stone a little, and turned over and landed steadily on the opposite bank.
Yun Yuan applauded: "What a light skill!"
Li Muran pursed his lips, took two steps back and accelerated forward, his body was like a dexterous goose, rising from the ground, without using the stone that Lu Yi had stepped on, when he came to the opposite bank, he saw that he was still more than a foot away, and his toes stepped on the water surface and reached the opposite shore steadily.
Lu Yi rolled his eyes and said, "In the big autumn, are your shoes wet and cold?"
Yun Chen, who was in mid-air, heard this, laughed, and was so relieved that he almost fell into the water, but fortunately, Lu Yiyan quickly dragged him over.
Li Muran said suddenly: "I just saw that this river has turned a corner along the foot of the mountain, you can tie some bamboo rafts here and go downstream, we just need to arrange someone to pick up on the other side of the mountain, don't we even need to climb the opposite mountain beam." ”
When the three of them heard this, they looked at each other, it can indeed be so, such a simple truth has just begun, and no one has thought of it.
"It's a way!"
"This prince is just generally unwilling to use his brain!"
"Little!"
"Are you two finished?"
"It's not over. ”
“......”
Passing through a dense forest, the trees gradually became thin, and Lu jumped on a big tree, and carefully looked at the road ahead, which was already very close to the iron pass.
"Stay here by the river and rest, and if you get any closer, the fire will be spotted by the guards. ”
The remaining three have no opinion.
The autumn night sky was high and bright, and the four young men went down to the river to take a good bath, and then sat around the campfire, simply filled their stomachs, and lay side by side on the grass to watch the stars.
Li Muran suddenly felt that he was very down-to-earth, looked at the three people around him, and felt the warmth brought by his partners for the first time, so he sighed with satisfaction.
Lu Yi was holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth, his thoughts flew away, and when he heard a sigh, he smiled and asked, "What do you think?"
The two Yunchen brothers also turned their heads to look at Li Muran curiously.
Li Muran put his hands on his sleeves and said, "This prince is thinking about what to eat tomorrow." ”
"Get out of here, you little. ”
Yun Yuan suddenly asked, "Lu Yi, what are your plans in the future?" I know that you can't stay in Liuyun Mountain all the time. ”
Lu Yi thought about it, smiled and said, "After sending Aunt Yingyue back to Lujia Village, I will continue to travel." ”
Yun Chen suddenly asked with a worried face, "Are you really planning to marry the Sect Master of the Sloping Moon Sect?"
Lu Yi was stunned, I didn't know how to answer, after getting along for a few months, I actually liked Duanmu Lengyue very much, but for some reason she always gave him a faint unsteady, far from getting along with Yu'er's little girl, and this feeling didn't come from nowhere, and I don't know what it was.
Yun Yuan sighed and said: "Luoyang City is broken, what will happen to the general trend of the world, many things may not be known until then." ”
This is a very heavy topic, and the four of them are silent after hearing it, the general trend is the general trend, and no one knows where the future will be pushed.
Li Muran interjected: "Lu Yi, can I go to Lujia Village in the future?"
Lu Yi smiled and said: "Why not? You can all go here! I will take you to the sea, and you are still a prince, this is a rare thing!"
The firelight jumped, and the night wind could not take away the sorrow on the faces of several young people.
Lu Yi opened his eyes, felt the true air rotation all over his body, and said with a radiant expression: "The hour is almost up, let's go!"
The four of them looked at each other and smiled, and went straight to the iron pass.