Early the next morning, a young man yawned and lifted the curtain of the door, and came out of the back hall sleepily. When he saw the two figures in front of him, he was startled. The slightly squinted eyes opened instantly, and after seeing the dress of the visitor, the eyes opened even more, as if they were surprised.

When people came to see it, it was a man and a woman. The man was wearing a long cyan coat, the fabric was very good, the hem of the clothes was embroidered with a piece of green bamboo, and the long hair was tied behind his head by a hairband, revealing a delicate and beautiful face, which looked very feminine, but the eyes were as cold and alienated as ice and snow, which made people unbearable to blaspheme.

On the other hand, the girl beside him was wearing a set of extremely civilian clothes, the tender yellow color was like the rising sun, and the girl's face was bright and lovely, and her forehead had a faint gold notch, which made her whole person look slightly different from those girls of the same age on the street. Her long jet-black hair, tied in two bundles with a tender yellow ribbon, hung down from the back of her head to her chest, moving with the rhythm of her chest. With bright eyes and bright teeth, she looks lively and smart, like a little girl next door, which makes people feel pity when they see it.

"Hey, your jaw is going to drop, hold on to it. A slightly joking crisp laugh sounded, and the guy immediately came back to his senses, scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I didn't expect the two of you to come so on time, wait... Wait, I'll call the master out." ”

These two are the same people who finished shopping in the market yesterday afternoon.

Nian Nian spun around in place and smiled, "Haha, didn't you recognize it, is it pretty?" she asked the guy proudly.

The young man's face turned red, and then he hurriedly lifted the curtain and went to the back hall, leaving Nian Nian to muttered to himself with a blank face: "Strange, why did you run away." Isn't it pretty?"

After a while, the old man walked out of the back hall, and was also surprised when he saw Nian Nian and Zhu Mei, of course, he may have been amazed, but he greeted the two without a trace, "Two girls, Steward Wang must have taken people out of the city at this time, let's go too." ”

After the young man helped the old man into the carriage, he watched with envy on his face as the carriage drove out of the city.

Outside the city, they saw the king's steward who had been waiting there for a long time. He wore a low-key gray cloth shirt today, with seven or eight small servants behind him, and Steward Wang nodded at the old man without a trace, and greeted the two of them with a smile.

"Two girls, presumably that wood lingzhi is extremely difficult to pick and difficult to preserve, so I brought them here to fight some things. After all, this spiritual creature is related to my brother's life, and the two girls must not refuse. ”

Nian Nian shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything, Zhu Mei nodded slightly. Steward Wang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Soon we arrived at the barren mountains on the outskirts of the city, and it was still the same here, and there were no people.

Nian Nian and Zhu Mei led the way in front, there were some rare plants and medicinal materials on both sides from time to time, and Nian Nian occasionally stopped to point, the old man had a fine light in his eyes, and carefully dug out the herb and held it in his arms, Nian Nian could only roll his eyes weakly when he saw this.

And this also strengthened the feeling in the old man's heart, this girl must be a little weird, and she must definitely find what she wants from her!

The group walked for more than an hour, and it seemed that the distance had entered the depths of the whole mountain, and everyone was a little out of breath.

"Two, two girls, I don't know when this way of walking will come to an end?" Steward Wang took the lead and couldn't support it, and asked while holding on to a tree. He is the chief housekeeper of the Hou Mansion, and he is used to being pampered on weekdays, so if he wants to find something, he can tell his subordinates, and when he needs to run to this mountain in person. If it weren't for the old man who said that there was a big treasure here, he wouldn't have come to suffer this sin, so he glanced at the old man next to him who was also very tired.

Year after year, I turned around in a circle, and the corners of the tender yellow skirt floated through the forest, like a light butterfly. "That's how I remember, why don't you go here? There must be several big trees here. A look of doubt appeared on Nian Nian's pretty face.

"I guess I got lost, after all, we found it by mistake last time, since this wood lingzhi is so precious, it must be very lucky to meet it, it seems that our luck this time is not very good." Zhu Mei smiled bitterly.

The old man's gloomy eyes flashed with murderous intent at this time.

"Ah, wait!" Nian Nian suddenly jumped over, she closed her eyes, tilted her head, frowned, sniffed around with her delicate little nose, and then stretched out her hand and pointed in a direction: "Over there, it should be very close." ”

"So what are you waiting for? Let's go. When Steward Wang heard this, he immediately came to his senses.

"But ・・・・・ strange, there seem to be people over there, and there are quite a few people. ”

"Someone?, how can there be anyone else in the barren mountains and mountains here?" Steward Wang and the old man glanced at each other, "Anyway, let's hurry over and withdraw the wood lingzhi after picking it, even if they also have the idea of beating the wood lingzhi, but this is the imperial capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, can they still steal it." ”

Everyone nodded, and they all followed Nian Nian to the depths of the dense forest.

On the other side of the forest, another group of men and horses were slowly approaching.

About seven or eight people surrounded a woman in red on horseback. The man leading the horse asked hesitantly, "Princess, do we still have to go forward?"

The woman on the horse whipped lightly, and there was a whistling sound in the air, and she glared at the man, "I said Lao Hao, why are you still so unremembered, how can I teach you when you go out, there is no princess now, you have to call me Miss!"

"Yes, princess. Oh no, miss, Lao Hao knows. The man laughed.

"Anyway, we're all lost, so let's go back the way we came? Wouldn't that make some people laugh off their big teeth? I don't want to be so embarrassed, let's just move forward, we will always go out." The woman in red said in a brisk tone and indifferent orders, but several people around her suddenly turned into bitter gourd faces.

Lao Hao shook his head helplessly and led the horse into the dense forest.

There is a little fog rising in the forest, the vision is not very clear, coupled with the dense woods, the silence all around, it is inevitable that people feel uncomfortable, but they still walk in the front without saying a word, and the people behind do not squeak.

I don't know how long they walked, but the front of them gradually became clearer, and on the grass, there were several large trees rising from the ground, each with a torso as thick as a person hugging each other, but the surface of these trees was brown, and there was no strange moss pattern that covered the whole tree when they last came.

Zhu Mei was obviously extremely strange, stroking the trunk of the tree with one hand, and asked Nian Nian, "Is this here?"

"This is it, but now that I feel like it, there's nothing left. "Every year, when I look up, a withered yellow leaf falls right overhead. She caught the light dry leaf with both hands, and said in surprise: "Huh, why do the leaves here wither so quickly!"

As soon as everyone looked up, they found that the leaves in this forest, especially on these big trees, had turned yellow, and some branches had even turned pale. Looking around year after year, the grass was withered, the leaves were scattered, and there was still a slight resemblance to the lush and flourishing they had seen yesterday?

But how can this place decay so quickly? Although it is autumn, yesterday it was still flourishing and the grass was green, but today is not too fast?

Looking up at the trees every year, the shade formed by the trunks of those big trees stretching out of each other is like a broken bamboo mat at this moment, and Nian Nian has built a small shed on the eyebrow bone with one hand to block the leakage of sunlight.

"Huh, her crisp voice dragged on a long end, sister, look there. ”

At the top of the tallest tree, the upwardmost branch is surrounded, and the leaves around it are green and green, as if they are new, and they are not yellow. All the leaves curled slightly, like a pilgrimage, clustered around the small, tender green seedling in the center, as if to hold it to the sun.

The old man suddenly screamed, and everyone turned to look at him, but seeing that his cloudy old eyes were infinitely wide at this moment, he stared at the top of the treetop without blinking, and shouted: "King Mu Lingzhi, that's King Mu Lingzhi! It grows on the top of the treetops, haha, it's mine!"

When the housekeeper heard this, he was also overjoyed: "Tell me what to do, how to get that thing down!"

The old man was a little sober at the moment, and he laughed strangely: "There is no way, see down this tree and bring the whole tree back!"

Steward Wang was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand, and seven or eight people surrounded him, and they were busy.

Nian Nian suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in her heart at this moment, she hated the joy and excitement on the faces of Steward Wang and the old man at this moment, and she now did not want the King of Mu Lingzhi to be taken back by these two people from the bottom of her heart.

Nian Nian looked up, she suddenly felt that the young seedling standing upright at the top of the tree moved slightly, like a little person who had just woken up, it waved its palm-like leaves, beckoned to her, and then, a burst of green light appeared, and the complicated patterns climbed down from the top branches, all the way to the entire tree, and finally wrapped the whole tree under its furry appearance, and everyone who touched those mossy little people, at this moment there was a painful expression on their faces, and then their heads tilted and fell to the ground.

Everything was only in a moment, and after coming back to his senses, he looked at the top of the tree, where there were any young seedlings, where there were any little people, and there were only some leaves on the top of the tree that were withering at a speed visible to the naked eye. Nian Nian suddenly understood that her initial feeling was not wrong.

This Wood Lingzhi King, like her, has spiritual sense!