Chapter 21: The Snake Appears
The two tracking masters of the Zhao family had already followed Qian Chuan and the others not long after they entered the mountain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Tracking in the mountains and forests is not an easy task, in order not to be discovered by Qian Chuan, they can only try to minimize the movement caused by themselves.
Even if the stalker pretended to be a medicine picker, they didn't dare to blatantly follow behind the two, because the lark was a real medicine picker, and the stalker's clumsy appearance was easy to be seen through by the other party.
Therefore, they can only use the cover of trees on both sides of the path, and the snakes and insects that can be seen everywhere in the mountains and forests make the stalkers suffer.
Since they were temporarily assigned by Zhao Wuyan to enter the mountain, they didn't have time to prepare deworming drugs when time was urgent.
Compared to the well-prepared pharmacy shopkeeper, the preparation of the two stalkers before entering the mountain was really far behind.
As a frequent visitor to the mountains, Skylark naturally has a standing herb for self-defense, and she is very interested in Qian Chuan's carefully smoked robe.
The strong smell of medicine emitted by the outer robe made the insects and ants disappear in the area around Qianchuan for several feet, but this did not deter the girl who had long been accustomed to the smell of medicinal herbs, and the larks were asking Qianchuan for advice on how to smoke this kind of clothing along the way.
In the eyes of the lark, in addition to the pungent smell, this kind of robe is really a very practical thing for the medicine picker.
Compared with the insect repellent carried by the herb picker, it is obvious that the convenience of clothing and the comprehensiveness of protection are higher.
Before entering the small valley, she couldn't stand the repeated entanglement of the larks, and Qian Chuan promised to teach her the craft of smoking clothes after leaving the mountain.
After lark mischievously woke up the promiscuous pharmacy shopkeeper, Qian Chuan borrowed lark's medicine hoe, carefully dug out the robbery grass, and packed it in a wooden box that had been prepared.
Although the lark was curious about why Qian Chuan only took one swift grass, he was disdainful of the other swift plants next to him.
But she still has the mentality of not letting go of anything that can be exchanged for talisman money, and naturally a few other swift plants have become her harvest.
The afternoon sun was blazing and the small valley with only a few sparse trees could not provide shade for the two.
At the edge of the valley, they found a slightly recessed mountain wall, where a pine tree growing on the cliff cast a shadow.
When the two of them were nibbling on the cold water in the water bladder and nibbling on the bread they brought, the two Zhao family guards who followed had already arrived outside the valley, and they did not enter the uncovered valley, but just guarded outside the valley mouth.
The two guards saw their target crouching under a boulder from a distance, but neither of them could see what the target was doing due to the distance.
Then it was lunch time for Qian Chuan and Skylark, but the poor two guards could only hide in the hidden place of Taniguchi and stare at the target.
The two who didn't dare to let the target out of sight could only chew the jerky while driving away all kinds of mosquitoes attracted by the sweat and the smell of the jerky on their bodies.
The mountain wall under the shade of the trees is not exposed to direct sunlight, and you can still feel a chill when you lean on, and it is a good place to rest in the afternoon during this hot summer.
Qian Chuan's purpose of entering the mountain has been achieved, and after returning to Caoxu Town, he can start to deal with the robbing grass.
As soon as he thought of this, Qian Chuan, who had lived a peaceful life in Caoxu Town for more than ten years, couldn't help but recall the past.
I think I was also a suave generation of heroes at the beginning, but a loose inheritance made his life completely change.
He was chased and killed for several years, and finally came to this small grass market town.
The injuries he suffered on the way to be chased and killed linger to this day, so that Qian Chuan could only hide in this town incognito, becoming an inconspicuous pharmacy owner.
And if it weren't for the baby I occasionally took in back then, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to stay long in this grass market town.
The lark leaning against the mountain wall was already snoring, and the rays of light from the pine branches overhead fell on the girl's face, making Qian Chuan, who was over half a hundred years old, begin to recall the girl who was obsessed with him back then.
Just as Qian Chuan was caught in the good memories of the past, a scream came from Taniguchi.
"There are snakes!"
"Ahh The voice quickly became faint, sounding as if he had fainted.
"Help!" the panic and horror in this voice can make people imagine what kind of danger the owner of the voice is facing.
The place where Qian Chuan and Skylark were resting was still some distance away from Taniguchi, so the sound from a distance was a little distorted.
But after a little consideration, Qian Chuan felt that it was better to go over and take a look, after all, almost all of the people who might appear in this mountain forest were the townspeople of Caoxu Town.
Qian Chuan pushed the lark's shoulder, and the sleepy-eyed medicine picking girl looked at Qian Chuan in a daze.
"Someone seems to have an accident over there, let's go over and take a look. ”
The two of them soon arrived at the mouth of the valley, only to see one person holding a short knife and confronting a green snake, while the other had fallen to the ground and was silent.
Judging from the clothes of these two people, although they were both dressed in coarse cloth, they were very similar to the ordinary townspeople in Caoxu Town.
But apparently these two were not the herb pickers in the town, as they did not carry the medicine baskets and hoes necessary for the herb pickers.
And they didn't look like Orions, who didn't carry hunting bows with them, but carried a short knife that was clearly used in hand-to-hand combat.
Qian Chuan was interested in the green snake that confronted the man with a short knife at this time.
"Such a beautiful snake, I've never seen it in the mountains. The words blurted out by the lark made the man with the knife curse in his heart, "Let it bite you, and see if you still say that it is beautiful." ”
I saw that the whole body of this snake was green and clear, and it did look beautiful at a glance, but the snake letter that kept swallowing and the guy who had fallen to the ground reminded others how dangerous it was.
The raised head of the snake kept probing in front of the knife-wielding man, and beads of sweat the size of beans had already appeared on the forehead of the knife-wielding man, who had just seen how the companion who had been bitten had fallen in a short time.
Moreover, the snake's previous attack speed completely broke the knife-wielding man's previous view of snakes, and in the blink of an eye, his companion was bitten by the snake's head hanging from the treetops.
Although he knew that he could hear his cries for help nearby, and rushed over in the shortest time, he only had to monitor the target in the valley.
But when he saw an old man who was over half a hundred years old and a girl who looked extremely weak, he really appeared in front of him, which still made the Zhao family guard overjoyed, at least his chances of escaping were a little bigger.
When the green snake found that two more people appeared in front of him, he first shook the snake's head disdainfully.
At this time, a drop of sweat slid down his forehead and flowed into the eyes of the knife-wielding man, and he couldn't help but blink.
Next, he found that the direction facing the snake's head had become his tracking target, Qian Chuan, the shopkeeper of the Qian family's pharmacy, which made him greatly relieved.
Qian Chuan also noticed that the green snake seemed to have shifted the direction of the attack to his side, but he didn't care about it.
If it was replaced before he got the snatching grass, Qian Chuan would directly kill the snake in front of him without saying a word, and nip the danger in the bud, which was a habit he developed in the process of being hunted down and killed.
Now that he has the snatching grass in his hand, his mentality has naturally changed, as if the cynical young man back then has returned, looking at the little snake in front of him, he doesn't have the idea of rushing to get rid of the other party.
At this time, the lark on the side took out a package of homemade medicinal powder, and when the green snake's attention was focused on Qian Chuan, she suddenly raised her hand and sprinkled the medicinal powder on the snake's head.
The stimulated green snake rushed forward, and actually passed through the "barrier" made of medicinal powder in front of it, and the snake repellent drugs that had been tried and tested in the past would be ineffective, which made the lark shocked.
Because seeing that the green snake had already rushed in front of Qian Chuan, the head of the snake had even approached the chest of the pharmacy shopkeeper, and the lark and the Zhao family guards who saw this scene couldn't help but exclaim.
But what happened next was beyond the expectations of the two, a slender flame appeared out of thin air and wrapped around the snake's head, and spread down along the snake's body, and black scorch marks instantly appeared on the snake's body.