Chapter 18 Four-leaf safflower
The next morning, before dawn, everyone woke up one after another. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The crowd patted the snow on their bodies and continued on their way.
Along the way, although there were some warnings, they were all dealt with without danger. On this day, everyone was walking in a valley, Li Changqing suddenly felt a slight vibration under his feet, he glanced at Wang Wu, and saw that his expression also changed slightly.
Wang Wu listened attentively, and said for a while: "There seems to be a large army not far away, but the direction is not here. The target is too big in the snow, so get hidden. "The tremor seems to be getting bigger and bigger, if the army finds out, where is there still life? At this time, most of the people have already felt it, and they can't help but feel a little confused.
The young man hurriedly said: "Uncle Zhang, what should we do?" The big man surnamed Zhang looked around, and suddenly said: "Hold your breath, find a remote place, hide in the snow, they will definitely not be able to find it!" Everyone was fighting for this idea, and after a while, there was no one here.
Not far away, a large Mongol army slowly marched by, wriggling through the white valley like a gray dragon. The steps of tens of millions of people, stepping on the snow, accompanied by the sound of "click", from far and near. They did not go down the valley, but went around the valley and headed southwest. The army was separated from them by a valley, far away, and in the snow, everywhere there was a white expanse, and it was impossible to see it, so that they were not found. Listening to the footsteps that gradually faded away, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When they seemed to be far away, the group carefully poked their heads out, packed their bags, and got back on the road.
The army numbered tens of thousands, but a small half of it was cavalry. Among them, two middle-aged officers in iron armor rode their horses and whips, and lined up at the forefront. The man on the left, with a look of resentment on his face, swung his whip fiercely, leaving a deep mark on the ground. Speaking in Mongolian, he said to the man beside him: "I really don't understand, what the general thinks, isn't he happy to be the king of the mountain here, why do you have to run to listen to the dispatch of the king?"
Another said: "Although the words are good, but you still don't understand the current situation?"
The man nodded and said, "I understand, but they are their sweat, and we don't fight with them, so is he going to come and destroy us?"
The person on the right frowned and said, "Confused! The current situation is complicated, although that person has some advantages, but it is not easy to sweat." The two of them are united in their hearts, and they are all about contacting other tribes to attack those who oppose them, so where is the neutrality?" he added: "At present, there are many tribes, and they attack each other, and in the end it still depends on whose fist is bigger. The more time passes, the more obvious their advantage becomes, and isn't it more advantageous to make a decision earlier than later?"
When the man heard this, although his face was still full of anger, he also eased a lot. He said: "Yes, although each of our warriors can defeat ten with one, but his men are dozens of times that of us, but we are invincible, that is, in this Mongolia, it is difficult to find someone who can fight against them." ”
He said: "But there are not many of us, if he wants our sons to go to the front line to fight, we will also let the warriors under our command die in vain?"
The other sneered: "He wants us to fight, so we can't fight rashly at all costs?" He said: "I'm afraid the general has already calculated, so he wants to warn us to act when the opportunity arises, and everything must be done with the life of our son." ”
The man wondered, "What do you mean by that?" and he said, "What I hate most is the treacherous tricks of these Southern Dynasty people. How can these conspiracies and tricks come from the joy of fighting in the open and bright on the battlefield?"
The person on the right said: "That's why you are destined not to be a big official." He smiled and said, "If it's not a dangerous thing, it's okay to do it." ”
In this vast snowy land, everyone stayed overnight, and before they knew it, they were not far from the Changbai Mountain. But they were all divided into their own hearts. Li Changqing refused the invitation of Wang Wu, and went alone towards the Changbai Mountain Range.
Changbai Mountain once belonged to Liao, and Jin destroyed Liao, which was attributed to the Jin Dynasty. After Genghis Khan destroyed Jin, it was placed under the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Province. Due to the Liao, Jin and other flourishing here, the Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolia and other ethnic groups in its vicinity are mixed, but there are not many Han people.
On this day, deep in the mountains, a man in Tsing Yi walked slowly through the snow. The ice and snow here are very thick, and the ravines are vertical and horizontal, steep and abnormal, and extremely slippery, even if the person with high martial arts comes, he also has to spend a lot of time and feet, but he is as leisurely as walking on the ground, it is Li Changqing.
In his previous life, he had been here in search of elixir. Although this place has been separated by hundreds of years, the landscape has not changed much, and he is quite familiar with it. In his right hand, he held a medicine shovel, but nothing else. He remembered the old farmer's surprised look when he borrowed the medicine shovel from the old farmer at the bottom of the mountain, and he felt a little funny in his heart.
The snow here is very thick, and it is really not the time to collect medicine. At this time, all kinds of plants have been deeply covered with ice and snow, and it is extremely difficult to find them. He is a cultivator, and he has a special sense of heaven and earth spirits, but he doesn't feel too embarrassed about it.
He followed the mountain, up and down, stopping and stopping all the way, although he occasionally found it, but most of them felt that its medicinal power was insufficient, and he did not start digging. When he saw that he had not gained anything for a long time, he abandoned this place and went forward.
Suddenly, he felt a sense and stopped in front of a cliff. When I looked up, the valley was not deep, and it looked like it was only about six or seven feet. He looked around at the bottom of the cliff and suddenly jumped down. When he reached the bottom of the cliff, he landed smoothly on the cliff with a little bit of strength, leaving a footprint less than a foot deep.
There is not much space at the bottom of this cliff, there are stone walls on all sides, and there is no other way out. Although the surrounding stone walls are not high, they are quite steep and smooth, and there is little to borrow. It is not a person with extremely high light skills, and it is extremely difficult to borrow from this.
It seems that due to the surrounding cliffs, the ice and snow in this valley are not deep, but only a few feet. Although it is winter, you can still faintly see some green. At the bottom of the cliff, a small red flower stood alone. At this time, it is already winter, and it is extremely cold here, but the little flower does not seem to have all these, facing the wind and snow, standing proudly, and growing extremely luxuriantly. The flower had only two leaves, but it was green and verdant. On the two green leaves, there was a small flower, red like fire. Under the red and green cover, the flowers are even more beautiful. Under those two leaves, there are two other protrusions, which are extremely difficult to find without looking closely. The two protrusions were emerald green in color, and they seemed to be young leaves. Although the flower was in this snow and ice, the flower was still budding, as if it was quite fond of this extremely cold and snowy place. Li Changqing looked at the flower and muttered: "I didn't expect that there would be this 'four-leaf safflower' here, but unfortunately the medicinal age is too short to be of great use after all." "Four-leaf safflower is another staple medicine he needs, and it grows in extremely high and cold places. When it matures, it has four leaves, and it is named because its flowers are as red as charcoal. Although this four-leaf safflower grows in the extremely cold place, it is rare to have the medicinal properties of extreme yang, and it needs to be used to add a variety of auxiliary medicines to the extreme yin, and the monarch and ministers can reconcile it to fully exert its medicinal properties.
He shook his head and sighed, "I thought there would be a surprise, but after all, I still need to go to the Tibetan land." He took note of the place, and then he jumped up and went to the top of the cliff, leaving no more regard to it.
On the side of a cliff, Li Changqing stood with his hands in his hands. The cliff is bottomless, and at a glance, you can only see the clouds and mist under it, and you can't see it really. Li Changqing stood by the cliff with a slightly happy face, just because he felt that the biggest gain of his trip was here.
He looked at the medicine shovel in his hand, and his true qi was infused and swung towards the stone wall under his feet. The stone wall was like tofu, and it was consistently entered by the medicine shovel, and it sank into the handle. He tested its sturdiness, then pulled it up and leaped down the cliff. He swung the medicine shovel in his right hand, and kept borrowing strength from the cliff, because although the ground was high, he was not falling fast. He had just fallen more than 20 zhang when he faintly saw a stone platform below. With a slight sense, he looked for the direction and fell towards the stone platform.
This stone platform is not large, and it stretches outward, allowing one person to stand with a little more than enough. On the stone platform, there is a small green grass. The grass was very thin, as if it would break when a gust of wind blew. He carefully dug up the grass, cleared the soil, took out a jade box from his bosom, and slowly put the grass into it. He thought about it for a while, and felt that something was wrong, so he took out another talisman seal, sprayed blood, and stimulated it slightly, and just wrapped the jade box in it. He smiled and said, "I'm not afraid that your vitality will lose this time, right?"
That grass was the purpose of his trip. It is called "ice grass" and grows mostly in extremely cold places. He had seen it here in his previous life, and knew that it was born in a general location, so he could find it so quickly. Unlike other medicinal materials, the medicinal properties of the cold ice grass are lost very quickly, so after picking, they must be quickly put into the medicine when they are still fresh, otherwise when their medicinal properties are lost and exhausted, this good medicinal material will be wasted in vain.
He climbed over a hill and stopped in a place of the sun. He sensed it slightly, and used a medicine shovel to clear the ice and snow, revealing a large open space. Carefully dug it down again.
He picked up the ginseng, cleared the soil from it, put it in his hand, and looked at it carefully. He was slightly happy in his heart, and said: "The year is enough!" He took out a jade box, put the ginseng in it, thought for a moment, and wrapped it in the talisman seal as before. He said to himself: "Although this ginseng doesn't have too many requirements, it's always good to be fresh!"
The purpose of his trip has been achieved, his heart is relaxed, his mood is happy, and he has turned around here, in addition to harvesting two more century-old ginseng plants, he has also found some medicinal materials used to refine other pills, which is indeed an unexpected joy.