Volume 1 Qingxuan Youdao 20. A Difficult Road Ahead (continued)

The path down the mountain was opened by General Gao before.

It's not the path that is accurate, it's just that the thorns are cut off, and after a little clearing, barely allowing one person to walk through.

Most of the thorns that have been cut have dried up, and a few are very new. There are many trees next to the thorns, and the bark of some trees has been eaten by something, and many places are incomplete.

On the way down the mountain, it had not been half an hour before General Gao, who was walking in front, suddenly fell to the ground.

Sima Wenzhi was a little panicked at first, he didn't know what happened to General Gao, so he could only force himself to calm down. This place is far away from the mountain gate, and there is no one else around, so General Gao can only be rescued by him.

There are also records of the art of Qihuang in the two scriptures, and Sima Wenzhi did not study it on weekdays, so it was too late to look at it at this time. At the moment, he can only pinch General Gao's people, hoping to use it effectively.

Fortunately, it was still effective in pinching people, and he woke up after a while.

After General Gao woke up, his expression was a little sluggish, which was far from when he was scolding in front of the door. Sima was puzzled and asked him why.

At first, he didn't want to say it, and the few words he uttered were not convincing. After many inquiring to no avail, Sima asked him to tell the truth as the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom.

Before Jiankang fled, Sima Wenzhi was designated as the person who inherited the throne of the Jin State. For a long time, in the eyes of General Gao, the relationship between him and the person in front of him was that of a king and a courtier. The king's subordinates, the king's order and the courtiers had to obey, and General Gao then told the truth.

Although he had expected that he would have to go through hardships to find the Qingxuan Mountain Gate. But at this time, it was up to him to tell it himself, and Sima asked him to know that he was still underestimating.

After Sima Wenzhi left with Xuanyun and the others, Xuanfeng turned back once, and after killing the second monster, he didn't know what considerations left General Gao with guidance to find the gate of Qingxuan Mountain. He didn't stay too long after seeing it, and after confirming that his injuries were okay, he immediately walked up the mountain.

The road up the mountain is very difficult, and there are still open spaces and paths at the beginning, and the further you go, the less open space there are, and the more thorns there are. After a day of walking, the road ahead was already full of thorns and weeds.

In desperation, he could only draw his saber and cut down the thorns to open the way.

Although Xuanfeng left a guide, the things marked in the guide are difficult to find in the forest.

Some of them are due to the change of seasons, and the description does not match. Some of them are long-lasting, and the things that mark them change a lot. Overcoming obstacles all the way, and having to follow the map all the way, General Gao is going up with great difficulty. There have even been many times when I have taken the wrong path and wasted my time in vain.

Before going up the mountain, General Gao took all the dry food from the car, and he was the only one left at that time, and it was useless to stay in the mountain.

Walking in the mountains is very laborious, and General Gao is moving forward on the road, which consumes even more. Even if he deliberately saved food, he still ran out of food rations when he traveled for more than ten days. Going further up, he began to dig edible grass roots to satisfy his hunger. Later, when the grass roots were not enough to satisfy their hunger, they began to gnaw at the bark of the tree.

Fortunately, after a few more days of walking, he found the place marked in the guide. After several confirmations, he stayed in front of the mountain gate and waited, hoping that when someone came out, he would be able to inquire about Sima Qianzhi's news.

After waiting for a long time and no one came out, General Gao begged. When a plea goes unanswered, it turns into a curse.

After that, there is no need to say anything more, Sima Wenzhi has already guessed the approximate situation. After the disciples of Qingxuanshan drove General Gao to the bottom of the mountain, he did not give up, and found a good way up the mountain to walk again.

In the winter in Yizhou, the grass and trees either die or stop growing. Now that there is a road, General Gao does not need to chop thorns when he goes up the mountain for the second time. Sima Wenzhi saw the new fracture on the thorns, most likely because General Gao was extremely hungry at that time, and it was difficult to maintain his figure, and he had no intention of splitting it when he staggered forward.

Shouting in front of the mountain is the end of the strong crossbow. The wish was fulfilled, the crossbow had landed, and his heart was vented, and he could no longer support it, so he fainted and fell to the ground.

General Gao fainted due to hunger, and the top priority was to replenish his strength. Ling Shuang prepared dry food for the two of them, which was in the burden on his body. Sima Wenzhi took off his burden, took out dry food, and wanted to feed it to General Gao.

General Gao was weak, but still struggling to accept it. Sima asked helplessly, and moved out of his status as a prince to force him to eat it.

Born into a down-and-out royal family, Sima Wenzhi was sensible early, he was not an arrogant and unreasonable gentleman, so he was unwilling to force others to submit in his status.

But this is an extraordinary time, and if you don't eat, General Gao's life is in danger. Human life is at stake, saving lives is important, and the rest are inconsequential stubs.

General Gao no longer refused to accept it, but still insisted on not letting Sima Wenzhi feed him.

Fortunately, it was true that I fainted only when I was hungry. As the dry food entered his stomach, his face and expression began to improve.

Worried that General Gao would not be able to eat enough, Sima Wenzhi kept handing him dry food. If General Gao did not take it, he would glare angrily and not speak.

Silent deterrence was the most effective, and seeing Sima Wenzhi's eyes, General Gao accepted all the food he handed him until he couldn't swallow it. Later, because he was thirsty, he drank most of the water in the package.

Ling Shuang did not prepare much drinking water, which took up both space and weight.

Fortunately, there is still a lot of snow in the mountains at this time, so hold a handful in your mouth, and after more than ten breaths, it will become water. It's troublesome, but it's thirst-quenching.

After drinking the water, General Gao's condition became better and better. But this was still not the time to hurry, and the two decided to rest for a while.

While resting, Sima Wenzhi began to pack his package. When he saw that the water bag was empty, he took a lot of clean snow and sent it into the water bag little by little. There is no guarantee that there will be snow everywhere in the mountains, so it may be of great use later if you prepare for it.

From waking up General Gao, to getting dry food for him, to packing packages and preparing drinking water, Sima Wenzhi is doing these things himself.

General Gao was still weak and unable to do these things was one of the reasons. Another reason is that he reported the idea of trying his best to make amends. No matter how much he was moved, it was not as good as the actual return, and Sima asked him more about what he could do for General Gao.

When I was about to drink water, there was movement next to me, and something unusual happened. General Gao, whose situation was getting better, was holding his stomach with his hands at this time, humming in his mouth, and there was a painful look on his face.

A wise man thinks a thousand times, but also makes a mistake.

Although Sima Wenzhi's mind is different from that of people of the same age, he is still young after all, and he has never experienced many things.

Before, he ordered General Gao to eat too much dry food and fed him a lot of water. People who have been hungry for a long time are most likely to have accidents after gluttony, and at this time, with the sound of humming and moaning, General Gao's belly became bigger.