Wei Ling handed the kettle that was warm by the fire to the old man, "Just now you said that you can't cut firewood on a snowy day because of this?"

"Oh thanks, I'm not thirsty. ”

The old man handed the kettle to others, and then said, "You are right, this is indeed the reason why we dare not go into the mountains to cut wood on a snowy day. ”

"What does this youkai look like, what kind of youkai is it?"

"Actually, we haven't seen it before, but there has always been a legend about it in our village, and it's called Snow Maiden ......"

Legend has it that the Snow Maiden lives in the deep mountains of Qinghua. She is almost human-like, with a stunningly beautiful appearance. Whenever the first snow falls in winter, the Snow Maiden appears. When the Snow Maiden meets a man who has entered the snowy mountain, she will attract him to a place where no one is and kiss him.

The old man had a low voice and told the story mysteriously and strangely.

"Kissing?huh, and such a good thing?"

I originally wanted to make a joke to ease the tense atmosphere of the scene, but who knew that no one could laugh, and they all looked at it seriously. Once I knew that I had hit a cold nail, I had to 'hehe' to embarrass myself.

"Don't think that's a good thing. The Snow Maiden's kiss will kill people! When the Snow Maiden kisses a man, she will completely freeze it and take his soul to eat. ”

"You're saying Snow Maiden is a youkai that eats people's souls?"

The old man nodded and answered Wei Ling's question.

At this point in the story, the snowstorm suddenly stopped as if it was being commanded.

Everyone got up and moved their long-curled bodies. The snow fell suddenly, stopped suddenly.

The old man was worried that there was still a possibility of wanting to go down, so he asked Yi Chao and Wei Ling to go down the mountain with them, "Two well-wishers, thank you very much for your willingness to help us this time, if you don't dislike it, please come down the mountain with us and come to our village, so that we can entertain you well." ”

Once he saw the old man's intentions, he knew that the old man was worried that it would be dangerous for them to run into the mountain at this time, but he and Wei Ling had a reason to go into the mountain, so they had to refuse the old man's kindness.

Seeing that he insisted on entering the mountain, the old man had no choice but to break his words, "Oh, young man, listen to my old man, you won't suffer." This Snow Maiden is not something you can encounter, you will die. ”

"Uncle, I'll tell you the truth. We are not ordinary people, we are yin and yang officials. ”

The old man didn't care what their identities were, out of the concern of the elders for the younger generations, he still persuaded him with good words: "I know that you yin and yang officials are all masters, but I still need to warn you, don't go into the mountain at this moment." ”

"Oh, uncle, we thank you for thinking so much about our safety, but we have a reason to go. ”

The eyes of Yi Chao and Wei Ling were very firm, and the old man also understood their persistence, and he couldn't persuade them to say anything, "Okay young man, no matter what you are going into the mountain for, but remember, safety first." If you meet the Snow Maiden, close your eyes and cover your ears, so that the Snow Maiden may not be able to hurt you. However, this method is just a legend, and I don't know if it works......"

"Okay, uncle, don't worry about the two of us, while the snow stops, you can go down the mountain quickly. ”

The woodcutters packed up and prepared to drive down the mountain.

When the old man was leaving, he wanted to persuade him for the last time, but as soon as the words came to his mouth, he changed his words again, "If you go down the mountain, come to our village as a guest, our village is at the foot of the mountain three miles to the east." ”

"Okay, we'll be a guest at your place when we're done. ”

After bidding farewell to the woodcutters, he and Wei Ling extinguished the fire with snow and prepared to hit the road.

Wei Ling walked a few steps away and tested the depth of the snow, "The snow on this ground is below your knees, and you can't enter the mountain on horseback, so let's walk." ”

"It seems that this is the only way, so let's put the horses here, and come back to fetch them when we go out of the mountain. ”

In this way, the two had no choice but to hike into the mountain.

In other words, the snow was so thick that it was difficult for people to walk hard, and once they were still wearing heavy black bear skins, the two of them walked for a long time before they walked out of the road for half a mile.

Yiyi: "You said that we have been walking for so long, not to mention that it is dark, even tomorrow we will not be able to go far, this, how can we catch the fox? I see, or we will go back?"

Wei Ling: "Although your 'retreat' has touched our hearts a little, after all, we have to exchange fox skin for the elixir of light cure." ”

These two people are really funny, they just kept saying that they were friends and brothers, and they were about to give up at this moment.

In fact, it's not that they don't think the road is too difficult, nor are they afraid of any snow girls, but they are worried that they don't have enough time, because their vacation is only one day.

They said they were going back, but their bodies continued to move forward as always.

Every time they take a step, the two of them have to pull their feet up and down with their bodies, and then insert them, repeating this action.

Once he didn't stand firm, his body was about to fall backwards, but fortunately, the old waist could exert his strength, and when he threw his body and fell in front again, Wei Ling immediately grabbed him on the side for a while, so that he could stand firmly.

At this moment, he was so tired that he was out of breath, and he wanted to hold on to the ice pile next to him to rest first, but he didn't expect that the ice pile was also unstable, and the people and the ice pile fell together.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, it's all to blame on this ice pile, I almost fell to death......"

What kind of ice pile is this, this pile of things that fell next to him is a man!

"How can there be a person here, no, he is not the only one, there are several ...... between this and this"

They also noticed that around the place, there were several other men like this who were frozen and naked.

When I think about it, when I just fell, it seems that I had a mouth-to-mouth relationship with this person. When I think of this, I feel nauseous and retching.

Wei Ling looked at the ground around him and judged that these people should be Hu people.

"How do you know they're Hu?"

"Look at them, they're all shirtless, look at them again. Wei Ling pointed to a mass on the ground.

Once I opened the mess, I recognized that these were the clothes that the Hu people usually wore.

"From this point of view, the clothes of these Hu people should be theirs. Speaking of the Hu people, are they the ones we met in the city before?"

Wei Ling wiped the snow chips that could be erased from these icemen, trying to see their faces clearly, "No, none of them are. ”

The two of them moved together all the icemen they could find in the four weeks, and there were five of them in all, and all of them were shirtless men.

"No wonder you don't wear clothes on this snowy day, so it's no wonder you're frozen like this. ”

"No, don't you think it's weird?"

They have big eyes to small eyes, and suddenly they have a sense of urgency.

"Wei Ling, guess what I came up with?"

"Well, you've got what we thought of. ”

"Are they dead?"

"It looks like he's dead. Wei Ling leaned his head close to Hu Ren's body, "No, he's still alive, he still has a heartbeat." ”

Yi Chao and Wei Ling listened to the heartbeats of these five people one by one, and found that they were still alive.

The Hu people were frozen in a standing position, and their faces did not look like they should be when they were in danger. This is the passage into the mountain, and it is impossible to tell if they are going out or about to enter the mountain.

"How could they be frozen in such a place of the?"

"I don't know. However, it seems that the Snow Maiden only froze them and did not take their lives. ”

"Since they are not dead, we can't die without help, so let's move them back to camp before we make plans. ”

Once he looked back at the footsteps when he came up from the ground, and then looked at the end of the loop, he shook his head helplessly.

Wei Ling patted Yichao's shoulder, asking Yichao to show some heroism.

He raised five fingers and shook them in front of Wei Ling's eyes, then pursed his lips and pointed at those people, "This, there are five of them!"

"Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, you two, me three, hurry up. ”

These frozen Hu people all look strong and healthy, although their bodies are frozen and they can't feel many strong muscles, but how to say that they are also adults, no matter how strong they are with Wei Ling, they can't move several people at once in the snow, so they have to move back and forth one by one.

When it comes to moving, it's better to drag them forward. He and Wei Ling took off a piece of the belt on their bodies, tied their own waist at one end, and tied Hu Ren's feet at the other, dragging them like an old ox plowing the ground.

The physical strength of the two is very different, and when they moved back to the first person, they had already staggered with Wei Ling.

Once he had to set off from the same place alone, he could get lost when he went over this section of the road again. Once I walked farther and farther, I walked for a long time before I realized that I had made a mistake.

"Isn't it, is it wrong...... Wei Ling, where are you?"

The so-called misfortune is not a one-way street, and once not only got lost, but also got his right foot trapped in the snow.

No matter how hard you try, you can't pull it out. Suddenly, as soon as I had an idea, since I couldn't pull it out, I could always dig it out.

So, as soon as he fell down, he dug up on the snow.

Wow——!

As soon as I felt it in the buttocks, a tingling pain came suddenly. With this scream, the snow layer on the top of the mountain was about to be shattered.

He reached for his ass and felt something like a wooden branch stuck in his ass. Pulled this thing out of his ass.

It's an arrow!

"I shot you. ”

The voice came from behind him, and he was about to look back to see what was going on.

But at the moment of turning his head, a lightning-like stick shadow swept towards Yichao's face.

Whew——!

"Hey, how is it a person?"

Fortunately, the man stopped the "car" in time and withdrew ninety percent of his strength at the last moment, even so, the wooden stick in her hand still hit Once's face firmly.

Once the nosebleed from being beaten with a wooden stick, he didn't care about scolding, only screaming that it hurts.

Attacking him behind him was a bearded girl. But even if this girl has realized that she was injured by mistake, she does not show the slightest concern for the injury.