In the early morning of the next day, Xu Zhi, Xue Atan and He Mengjiao had an early meal and waited for Aunt Xue to sleep first. Xu Zhi and Xue Atan each carried a bamboo basket, He Mengjiao held a sharp sickle in his hand, and the three of them decided to go to the Colorful Butterfly Valley of Xianshan Mountain to pick up some Tianqi, Codonopsis, and safflower back for medicine.

This clam mountain is a mysterious strange mountain in the locality, the mystery lies in the fact that this mountain is full of clouds and mist all year round, the stream in the mountain is murmuring, the forest path is intricate, it is easy to get lost, especially the coniferous forest behind the mountain, the sun is not seen all the year round, the shade is deep, few people set foot on it; this magic is that there are many strange flowers and plants in the mountain, rare birds and beasts of prey, the people in the mountain rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, often go to the mountain in groups to hunt some hares, pheasants, When the roe deer and other wild meat come back, they go to the market to exchange some daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, and salt, and if there are no local taxes and miscellaneous taxes, they can live comfortably.

Xue Atan led Xu Zhi and He Mengjiao to wind along the mountain road. The three of them climbed upwards while looking around, only to see that the higher the mountain, the denser the forest, the deeper the grass, the depths of the forest are impermeable, there is no sunlight all year round, the branches and the grass hide a bird of prey monsters, staring at the green eyes, from time to time to make a strange cry of "grunt", which makes people creepy.

Xue Atan walked in the front, and kept warning Xu and He not to leave him half a step along the way, poisonous snakes and beasts were everywhere on this mountain, which made people unguardable. If the three of them are separated, it will be difficult to get out of this mountain under the fog, and they can only be trapped in the mountain alive.

As soon as Xue Atan finished speaking, he saw that there were a few bamboos blocking the way in front of him, so he lowered his head sharply to avoid a bamboo leaf, but this subtle action had already alarmed a bamboo leaf green snake entrenched on the bamboo leaf. The little snake was green all over, spitting red letters, looking at it from a distance, it looked like a bamboo leaf, and it suddenly floated towards He Mengjiao's head and neck.

Xu Zhi saw the little snake coiled up, gliding and jumping in the air, and shouted: "Miss He, be careful!"

He Mengjiao hurriedly turned her head, waved the sickle in her hand, split the little snake into two parts in the air, glanced at Xu Zhi, and scolded: "The surname is Xu, you don't need to be reminded by pretending, this girl's eyes are not blind, what is there to be afraid of a little snake?"

Xu Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Xue, you are commenting, I kindly reminded her that not only did she not appreciate it, but also added such evil words, which is really unreasonable!"

He Mengjiao sneered: "It's really funny! What's wrong with the bad words? Can't you make this girl smile at the enemy?"

Xu Zhi saw that He Mengjiao was as cold as frost to him, shook his head, and slapped a dense cypress tree beside him with his hand, shaking the branches and leaves for a while.

Xue Atan was about to make a sound to stop it, but it was too late, and with a loud bang, a huge guy rushed down from the top of the tree and swooped down on Xu Zhi's back.

Xue Atan and He Mengjiao exclaimed at the same time, the black thing was as fast as lightning, and they were not frightened by the screams, but stretched out their claws in the air and slammed them along the weird arc. Before Xue and He could finish speaking, the monster flew to a distance of less than a foot from Xu Zhi's neck.

Xu Zhi saw that it was too late to dodge with his head down, he hurriedly squatted down with his legs, leaned his upper half back, fell to the ground, raised his left foot, and made a move to "hang the golden hook upside down", kicking the black thing.

Xu Zhi was in a hurry, hit the monster with all his strength, only to feel that his legs were kicked on the soft cotton, and it was not lethal to the monster, the thing just grunted, gathered his body, and collided with the soles of Xu Zhi's feet with four sharp claws, and with Xu Zhi's leg strength, he jumped high in the air, slid an arc, adjusted his posture, flew to another big tree, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Xu Zhi had never seen such a ghostly creature hidden in the mountains, although there was no danger, but he still had palpitations, and the look of surprise on his face could not calm down for a long time.

He Mengjiao saw that Xu Zhi was frightened, and she was also interested in the mysterious creature just now, and asked, "Brother Xue, what kind of monster was it just now, moving so fast, it disappeared from us in the blink of an eye?"

Xue Atan smiled bitterly: "I can't tell, it may be a wild cat or a sable on the mountain or something." A few years ago, a child really couldn't stand the scorching heat at home, and as soon as he opened the door to cool off for a while, he was dragged away by an inexplicable thing, and the whole village took torches to look for them overnight, but they couldn't even find the child's bones. Later, it was rumored in the village that there were evil ghosts in the back mountains who ate children's brains, do you think it is terrible?"

After Xue Atan finished speaking, he deliberately made many frightening expressions, and a strange cry came out of his mouth, which scared He Mengjiao beside him a lot. Xu Zhi saw that the two of them were young and fun, and he also laughed a few times.

The three of them walked up for a while, and saw that the woods in front of them were not as dense as before, and when they looked up, they could vaguely see the blue sky, and the dappled sunlight was scattering down dots, and the hearts of the three of them finally relaxed. The three of them found a relatively flat grass, and when they saw that there was no danger around, they drank some water and rested for a while.

Xue Atan said to Xu and He: "Over this mountaintop, the sunny valley bottom on the left side of the mountain is the Caidie Valley we are going to!"

Xu Zhi saw that the Colorful Butterfly Valley was not far from the bottom of the mountain, and at a glance, he could vaguely see the green fruit trees, Xu Zhi turned around again, and saw that there was also a deep valley behind the mountain, and hurriedly asked Xue Atan: "Brother Xue, there is also a canyon behind here, black and pressing, I can't see clearly, what is the place?"

Xue Atan hurriedly said: "This is a forbidden place here, the people in our village have never been to that place, according to the elders, it is full of evil spirits, it is a place where some outlaws and refugees gather, they have no contact with the outside world, they do not eat food, they eat raw meat like wild beasts, and even people eat people!

At this time, He Mengjiao sighed, Xu Zhi and Xue Atan hurriedly turned around and hurriedly asked her what happened. He Mengjiao sighed: "There are so many treasures in this mountain!", after speaking, she pointed to a vine plant and said: "You see, this is honeysuckle, which only blooms yellow and white flowers, which has the effect of clearing the lungs and relieving cough, let's pick some flowers back." ”

Xu Zhi and Xue Atan just agreed to pick honeysuckle, He Mengjiao was attracted by the bright fruits of a few raspberries on the left, she picked one, sniffed it with her nose, and praised: "This can also be used in medicine." ”

"This is also a baby!", He Mengjiao suddenly screamed again, pointing to a plant with a cone-shaped tidbits and goose egg leaves next to him and said: "This is the miraculous elixir He Shou Wu introduced in the medical book, this He Shou Wu is divided into male and female, the female blooms yellow and white flowers, and the male blooms red and yellow, it has the effect of calming the nerves, invigorating the blood, and detoxifying. ”

Xue Atan said disdainfully: "This thing can have such a big magic? We have a lot of them in this mountain, if there is a famine, we will rely on eating it to survive, if no one is rare in ordinary times!", after speaking, he pulled up a huge He Shou Wu and threw it down the valley.

He Mengjiao listened to Xue Atan's words, and was a little angry, and just wanted to scold him. Xu Zhi saw that He Mengjiao was a little angry, and hurriedly persuaded: "Brother Xue is a solid eye, you mountain people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, although no one knows these treasures, but you have grown up eating it since childhood." According to my inference, this is indeed a treasure, otherwise how could our Brother Xue grow so strong!", after speaking, he laughed loudly.

He Mengjiao saw Xue Atan's blank face, and she didn't know how to answer, and she couldn't help laughing.

Xue Atan saw He Mengjiao laughing, and also laughed a few times.

He Mengjiao finished picking all kinds of medicinal herbs, and sighed again, Xu Zhi and Xue Atan turned to look at her again, only to see her curiously pointing to the grass not far away, there was a white thing moving.

As soon as the three of them approached, a hare sprang out of the grass, and when the hare saw the man, he ran away, but he did not know which direction to flee in a moment, but went around in a circle and circled in the same place.

Xue Atan said with a smile: "Our luck is so good today, catch this hare, and we will have meat to eat when we go home!", Xu Zhi and He Mengjiao also applauded.

At this time, He Mengjiao smiled and said to Xu Zhi: "Xu Daxia, I heard that you are strong in martial arts, this girl is going to compete with you today to see who catches that rabbit first?"

Xu Zhi saw that He Mengjiao took the initiative to talk to him for the first time, and knew that she had temporarily let go of the hatred in her heart, so he was very happy, and said in a refreshing voice: "Okay, Miss He, then what do you say?"

He Mengjiao covered her mouth with her left hand, shhhh If the two of us still follow the rules of the rivers and lakes, the daylily is cold, this rabbit has already run away, what rabbit meat do we eat?"

Xu Zhi agreed: "Okay!", it was a move Dapeng spread his wings, jumped towards the hare, said that it was too late, that it was fast, He Mengjiao saw that the hare was not far from his side, threw out the sickle in his hand, cut the hare's hind legs, and firmly nailed it to a big tree, and then also jumped and jumped to the side of the rabbit, she and Xu Zhi landed almost at the same time, He Mengjiao hurriedly stopped Xu Zhi with her left hand, and took the hare hanging on the tree with her right hand.

Xu Zhi saw that He Mengjiao was the first to take the lead, caught the hare first, and then stopped and bowed his head to admit defeat. He Mengjiao saw that Xu Zhi was very bold, and her words counted, and she secretly thought: Did I blame him? My eldest brother was indeed not killed by him?

Just as the three of them were still immersed in how to dispose of the hare, whether to eat it braised or simmered in soup. Xue Atan suddenly pointed ahead and said softly, "Brother Xu, Miss He, come and see, there is a snow clam on the tree over there!"

He Mengjiao looked in the direction of Xue Atan's finger, and saw a snow-white toad squatting on the branch in front of her, opening her two big fiery eyes, her cheeks bulging, and making a croaking sound.

He Mengjiao knew that this snow clam was a very precious medicinal material, extremely rare in the world, she was just about to step forward to grab it, but Xu Zhi grabbed her from behind, she was just about to glare at Xu Zhi, and suddenly found that behind the snow clam, there was also a slender pit viper, the snake was coiled in a ball, not moving at all, as if waiting for the opportunity, suddenly it raised its head, spread its body, and swallowed the whole snow clam into its belly.

He Mengjiao was very annoyed, she saw that she could catch the snow clam, but the pit viper took the lead, just as she shook her head, suddenly a white ape jumped out of the woods, the white ape jumped in front of the pit viper, his eyes were round, and he stared at the pit viper motionlessly, the snake raised its head, opened its mouth, showed its slender fangs, and probed forward aggressively.

The white ape stretched out its claws and kept teasing the pit viper, so that it kept raising its head and attacking left and right, until the snake was exhausted, and the white ape rushed up, firmly strangled the snake's head and neck with its claws, so that it could not move, and then broke the snake's backbone, bit off the snake's head, and began to devour.

Just as the white ape was eating snake meat alone, several gorillas suddenly jumped down from other trees. These orangutans are extremely tall and have very thick limbs, compared to the white apes, which are much thinner. Several gorillas surrounded the white ape in the center of the bushes and let out a grinning call.

The white ape knew that it was impossible to escape, so he had to keep climbing up the branches, and several orangutans followed closely along the trunk, and when he was about to climb to the top of the tree, the white ape had no way back.

The white ape broke off a thin branch and held it in his hand as a weapon, and a chimpanzee tried to attack the white ape from behind, and the orangutan stretched out its thick arms to crush the white ape's skull. The white ape, though old, was very dexterous, and instead of retreating, he jumped on top of the orangutan's head, put his legs around the orangutan's neck, and thrust the thin branch it held in its paws into the orangutan's eyes.

The chimpanzee let out a sharp scream, covering its bleeding eye with its left paw, and shaking the branches with its right paw in an attempt to knock the white ape off the top of its head. The chimpanzee's screams attracted the help of their companions, and several orangutans shook the branches and shook the white ape and the injured chimpanzee off the tree.

Although the white ape landed safely with its nimble arms and body, it was surrounded by several chimpanzees that had been waiting under the tree for a long time, and those chimpanzees had apparently not eaten for several days, opened their bloody mouths, kept their saliva, and pounced on the white ape from all sides.

The white ape remained standstill and seemed to be frightened by the chimpanzee. When a leading chimpanzee stretched out its claws to grab it, it stabbed the chimpanzee's palm with a branch with its backhand, and the chimpanzee howled, quickly let go of its claws, and took a few steps back. Several chimpanzees were also frightened by the leader's retreat.

The white ape actually took the initiative to attack the orangutan whose eyes were injured, the blind orangutan saw that the white ape was surrounding him, so he had to step forward and fight desperately, the white ape poked the right heel of the orangutan with a thin branch again, although the orangutan relied on himself to be stronger than the white ape, and refused to admit defeat several times, but after fighting with the white ape several times, he fell behind, so he had to let out a long roar and implore all the orangutans to come forward and besiege.

Xu Zhi was very worried that the white ape was outnumbered, and shouted loudly, trying to scare off the group of chimpanzees. Xue Atan and He Mengjiao were also very sympathetic to the white ape's situation, and they picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at the chimpanzee with all their might. The blind chimpanzee that rushed to the front was obviously frightened by Xu Zhi and the others, and took a few steps back.

The white ape took advantage of the chimpanzee's retreat, it suddenly jumped upward, stretched out its claws, hooked a branch, jumped over the heads of a group of orangutans, and once again hid in the foliage, disappearing without a trace. When several orangutans saw the white ape fleeing, they had no choice but to leave in a huff.

Xu Zhi, Xue Atan, and He Mengjiao watched it with relish, and they were all attracted by the white ape's wit and superb fighting skills, and they all let out a long sigh when they saw that the white ape had successfully escaped. The three of them were all taken aback when they suddenly saw a tiger with markings flashing from the woods not far away.

He Mengjiao shouted: "No, we just caught a hare and sent away a group of orangutans, which attracted a tiger, it seems that we are going to eat tiger meat again today!"

Xue Atan said: "Strange! We haven't seen a tiger here for many years, and even large beasts like leopards are rarely seen, why did we encounter them today?"

At this time, several fierce tigers also appeared in the surrounding bushes, surrounding the three of them. He Mengjiao's eyes were closed, and she said in a trembling voice: "What day is today, are we all going to die on this clam mountain!"

Xue Atan also said anxiously: "Brother Xu, so many tigers are besieging us, what should we do?"

Xu Zhi was also shocked in his heart, and said without thinking: "Brother Xue, Miss He, let's go up the tree first and then find a way!", and after speaking, he jumped on the branch of a big tree. Xue and He also jumped up the tree.

Xu Zhi thought about it carefully: As the saying goes, tigers are invincible to wolves, tigers have always liked to be alone, and it is impossible for them to appear in groups in broad daylight. He looked closely at the tigers under the trees, and they were not at all so agile or deafening tiger roars, so he concluded that they were fake, and that they were dressed in tiger skins.

Xu Zhi shouted, flew over the branches, and rode straight on the back of a tiger, holding the tiger's head firmly with both hands, and asked: "Who are you, and what is the purpose of pretending to be a tiger on this mountain?"

At this time, someone on the top of the tree shouted: "Good eyesight, Brother Xu has been absent for a long time!", and then jumped to Xu Zhi, and whistled again, more than a dozen people jumped down from the trees around, all holding blades in their hands, and the fake tigers also stood up one after another, and the tiger skins were all dressed in the same color.