About twenty miles away from Liangzhou City, at the junction of the three kingdoms of Great Qin, Xiliang and Heisha, there is a mountain shrouded in dense fog all year round.

Apart from the dense fog, the surface of this mountain looks no different from other mountains, and it looks even smaller than the nearby peaks, which is the 'ghost mountain' that the surrounding villagers talk about.

In fact, in the early years, it was not called this name, but called Yanxia Mountain. The mountains are full of exotic flowers and plants, as well as a variety of precious Chinese herbs, so to speak, you can think of everything you want. For a long time, this treasure mountain was the best choice for nearby villagers to collect medicine. And these good things in the mountains seem to be inexhaustible, no matter how you pick them, it seems that there will always be so many. This made it more and more famous, attracting many foreign businessmen to flock to it.

Originally, some of them were very quiet, and the life of the villagers was getting better and better. Until one day, a mountain man who went into the mountains to collect medicine got lost and returned home for three days and three nights. When I got home, I found that the house had completely changed, leaving only a few moldy beams and a tomb next to it. The villagers seemed astonished to see him, and after some inquiry, they learned that shortly after his disappearance, his wife had abandoned his blind mother and remarried. The poor old lady who lost her son died soon after because of excessive grief, and it was the villagers who pooled the money to bury her hastily. In the gossip of the villagers, he realized that three full years had passed.

The mountain people, who were carried away by hatred, found out about the family where their wives had remarried, killed their wives and the man, turned around and entered Yanxia Mountain again, and never came out again.

Since then, when some mountain people go into the mountains to dig for medicinal herbs, they have begun to encounter various conditions, and at most they can only spin around at the foot of the mountain, and they cannot climb up.

After that, miasma began to appear in the mountains......

Yun Xiu stood in front of the foggy mountain, squinting at the strange and unpredictable mountain peak in front of him.

He didn't know how credible the legend was, but the danger was obvious, and he could even smell something unusual about it. The erratic miasma in the mouths of the villagers alone is difficult to deal with, let alone the other unknown dangers hidden in it.

He took out a porcelain bottle and poured out two antidote pills and took them, then took out a special silk cloth, carefully put it on his mouth and nose, looked at the unfathomable fog and took a deep breath, and then strode in.

The moment his figure disappeared into the dense fog, a young man happened to walk out of the nearby mountains and forests, and when he saw Yun Xiu's back, he said strangely: "This person's back is so familiar, it seems that I have seen it somewhere." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly exclaimed, "Ah, it's not good, he entered the ghost mountain." No, we have to go back and find someone to help. After saying that, he turned his head and went back into the woods, and he looked like he was being chased by some beast in a hurry.

As soon as he stepped into the thick fog, he felt a dizziness in his head and a feeling of boredom welling up in his chest. Fortunately, his superb internal skills and the fact that he had taken the pill in advance forced his luck to suppress that feeling.

Looking up at his surroundings, he couldn't help but sigh softly.

It turned out to be a grassy valley, covered with unknown flowers, many colorful butterflies shuttling in between, and the melodious song of birds could be heard from time to time. He liked this valley almost as soon as he saw it, not for anything else, because this valley was very similar to the silent valley where he lived with his mentor Baili Xi. After being away from the Silent Valley for so long, it is inevitable that there will be a sense of closeness when I see similar places again.

His eyes involuntarily looked towards the east side of the valley, and sure enough, there was a delicate bamboo building hidden among the flowers and trees, and curling smoke rose from the top of the bamboo building, and it seemed that there were people living there.

Looking at the place in front of him that was almost exactly the same as the Silent Valley, Yun Xiu was amazed, and after looking around, he couldn't help but say to himself: "Could it be that Uncle Shi lives in a bamboo building?" Except for others, he really couldn't think of anyone else who would build a bamboo building in such a place.

The thought of seeing Uncle Shi soon, his whole body was excited, and his heart was full of joy that Miss Tang was about to be saved. His steps became more and more brisk, and soon he crossed the valley, stood outside the delicate bamboo building, looked at the equally familiar fence wall, and couldn't help but call out loudly: "Excuse me, is anyone at home?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a window on the second floor opened, and a little head with pigtails stretched out, and when he saw him, he wondered, "Who are you? Why are you shouting outside my door?"

"Not Uncle Shi?"

Yun Xiu was stunned for a moment, but then it occurred to him that he must not be an ordinary person who can live here, maybe some strange person, so he then shouted: "I am a mountain man who went into the mountains to collect medicine, and I accidentally got lost and wanted to ask for a bowl of water to drink." ”

The child retracted his head when he heard this, and did not poke his head out again for a long time. Just when Yunxiu was waiting a little impatiently, and was about to push open the fence and walk in, the bamboo door facing the courtyard gate opened, and a beautiful woman in a jinghai cloth skirt walked out and smiled at Yunxiu: "I heard Xiao'er say that you are lost, if you don't dislike it, please come in and have a cup of tea and rest, and when the meeting comes, the grandson will come back, and let him take you out when the time comes." The child's head poked out from behind him, and he looked at Yunxiu with curiosity in his eyes.

Seeing that it was a woman who came out, Yun Xiu was a little hesitant, but when she heard her words, she thought about it and said, "It's okay!

The woman smiled and said, "There's nothing to disturb or not to bother, no one has a problem when they go out." Childe, please come in!"

Yunxiu pushed open the fence door and walked in, and followed the woman into the bamboo building.

The furnishings in the house are very simple, only a few simple bamboo furniture, but it is very clean. The only thing that struck him was that the floor inside the house seemed to be uneven, and there was a large tendril-like object in the corner. The child was sitting on the tendril, playing with a little puppet.

Although everything seemed to be ordinary here, beautiful valleys, ordinary courtyards, virtuous ladies, and innocent children, he always felt that something was wrong, but he could not tell.

However, Yun Xiuyi was bold, and he didn't intend to back down, so he took the teacup handed over by the woman and put it on the table, and asked, "Thank you!

The woman looked back and smiled, "My grandson's surname is Long." ”

Yun Xiu arched his hand and said, "It turned out to be Mrs. Long! Sorry to bother you. ”

The woman smiled and said, "I still have to cook, Yun Gongzi, please take care of yourself." ”

Yun Xiu hurriedly said: "You are busy, I will sit for a while and leave." After saying that, he sat down and watched the child play with the puppet while drinking tea.

The children played very seriously, constantly dismantling the limbs of the puppeteers, and then putting them back one by one, and so on, and so on, and had a lot of fun.

Yun Xiu looked at it and couldn't help but ask, "Did you make this puppet yourself?

"Make another one if it's broken. The child replied without raising his head, and then snapped off the puppet's head.

Yun Xiu's heart suddenly changed, and she couldn't help but reach out and touch her head, but fortunately, she was all there. Although the child was just playing with a puppet, he felt a little flustered for no reason, and he couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so he simply stood up and walked to the window to enjoy the scenery.

The child 'Titicaca' dismantled all the heads and limbs of the puppeteer, leaving only a bare body, and suddenly looked up at Yun Xiu's back, with a strange smile on the corner of his mouth.