On the fifth day after the three of them left Wuxian Town, they came to the bottom of a snowy mountain.

"Are we going around this mountain, or are we going to climb over this mountain?" said the three of them sitting in a tea house at the foot of the snowy mountain.

"What are those white ones on the top of the mountain? Ling Kong put his hand in front of his forehead, looking up at the snow-covered mountain top, he had never seen snow in the sky and was curious.

"Hehe, the three of them are outsiders. An old man came with a teapot to make tea for them.

Qin Xiaowan was born with a sense of disgust for people who inquired about her origins, intentionally or unintentionally, and was about to have a seizure, Long Xin Ziyun held her down and looked at the old man with a smile, "Yes, we passed by here, I don't know what the name of the mountain in front of us is?"

"It's called Panshan. Ling Kong rushed to answer, which made Long Xin Ziyun slightly surprised, she knew the name of this mountain, she deliberately asked the old man, just to get other news as a foreshadowing, but Ling Kong's rush to answer buried a question in Long Xin Ziyun's heart - how did he know?

"Yes, this mountain is out of the mountain, within a radius of 100 miles, only this out of the top of the mountain, snow all year round, want to see the snow, want to see the snow, really can only come to our out of the mountain. When it came to the snow on the top of the mountain, the old man of the teahouse suddenly looked flying, and his face was full of pride.

"It is said that the two kinds of water, snowmelt water and mountain spring water, are very wonderful for making tea, old man, I am afraid that the tea water in your tea house contains both kinds of water at the same time. Long Xin Ziyun sent the old man's teacup full of tea to his mouth, first sniffed it gently, and then took a small sip, his eyes were slightly closed, holding the teacup in both hands, quietly feeling the fragrance of tea and the sweetness of the tea soup.

Decades ago, when the old man chose to open this tea house at the foot of the mountain, he really took a fancy to the snow-melting mountain spring formed by the melting of the ice and snow on the top of the mountain here. The snow melts into the mountains, and after a few years, it passes through the rocky mountains, All kinds of vegetation on the mountain, from the mountain rock fault trickle to gather into a mountain spring, this kind of water not only needs time to produce, but also inseparable from the special mountain structure of the mountain, the old man spent a lot of effort, to find such a place, is to share the best tea with others, but the vast majority of passers-by just use tea as a tool to quench their thirst, occasionally meet a few praise of the old man to make the tea delicious, but it is also like a cow and horse, a sip of tea to drink out, which makes the old man gradually lost the earliest direction, the tea is not in the future, the pursuit of tea, only stay on the mountain spring water that can quench the thirst of passers-by, used to make tea, and gradually replaced it with the stream at the foot of the mountain.

As soon as the tea was in the mouth, Long Xin Ziyun tasted that this water was not a snow-melting mountain spring, but when she was out of the house, it was always better to pat people on the back than to tell the truth, Long Xin Ziyun, as a businessman, knew the truth, this tea was only a little better than ordinary tea, but she could praise it ten points, and her praise was by no means as simple as saying one or two words of compliment, but using a few subtle actions to express such a point of view to the old man - this tea is delicious.

Hearing Long Xin Ziyun's words and deeds made the old man very useful, and his face showed a proud look, even if he didn't use the snowmelt mountain spring, but the ordinary stream water in the mountain, the tea brewed was far better than the tea made by other waters.

"This water can only be collected by going up the mountain, it must be very troublesome to collect, right?" Long Xin Ziyun looked at the old man with a smile.

When the old man heard what Long Xin Ziyun said, he was slightly stunned, and then laughed, and frankly admitted that the water used in this pot of tea was not a snow-melting mountain spring, but just an ordinary stream in this mountain.

"So, if it is the snowmelt mountain spring on the mountain, then this tea soup will be sweeter?"

Hearing this, the old man nodded.

"I'd love to try it if I have the chance in the future. Long Xin Ziyun nodded politely to the old man.

"Why wait until the future?" asked the volley.

"Now there is something more important to do than drinking tea. Long Xin Ziyun looked at the volley, still smiling.

"You're in a hurry?"

Long Xin Ziyun nodded and answered the question raised by Ling Kong.

When the old man heard the conversation between the two, he couldn't help but say, the three of you have to hurry, if it is not a particularly urgent matter, I advise you to go around the mountain, it will only delay you for a few more days.

"This mountain is dangerous?" asked Ling Kong, Qin Xiaowan, and Long Xin Ziyun at the same time.

"Chupan Mountain is a snow-capped mountain, the mountain road is steep, there are often avalanches, listen to this little brother, he has never even seen snow, when you face avalanches, it will be very dangerous. The old man hunched his waist and looked at the snow on the top of the mountain, and felt a feeling.

Qin Xiaowan didn't know anything about the avalanche, neither did Long Xin Ziyun, and he didn't even know what the snow was, but after hearing the old man's advice and suggestions, Long Xin Ziyun and Qin Xiaowan discussed for a while, and were still ready to go around the mountain.

"If you go around the mountain, can you collect the snowmelt mountain spring?" Ling Kong suddenly asked such a question.

"Naturally, you can't collect it. Before, when the old man saw the volley drinking tea, he poured the tea into his stomach like an ordinary person in a hurry, and in the face of the volley's sudden question, it was a little unexpected for the old man. "This kid is actually interested in the Melting Snow Spring, I really can't see it. ”

"Then let's go up the mountain. Ling Kong pointed to Panshan, and looked at Long Xin Ziyun and Qin Xiaowan with a smile.

The two daughters are both very intelligent, and when they heard the words of the volley, they also understood the meaning. After understanding that this matter had little to do with her, Qin Xiaowan didn't speak, just quietly looked at the volley.

"Even if we go up the mountain to collect the snowmelt spring, it is impossible to come back and ask the old gentleman to make tea again. Long Xin Ziyun understood that the volley was because she wanted to drink the tea brewed by the snowmelt mountain spring, and wanted to go up the mountain to get it, but it would be delayed for a long time.

"Why is it impossible?" Ling Kong tilted his head, for Ling Kong, going to the Seven Peerless Mountains was just a result of interest, at most there was no more fighting spirit that was unwilling to lose to Xin Yu, for him, Qin Xiaowan's family feud and Long Xin Ziyun's family interests had nothing to do with him, compared to the distant Seven Peerless Mountains, Ling Kong paid more attention to everything that happened around him, he didn't understand Qin Xiaowan and Long Xin Ziyun, just as Qin Xiaowan and Long Xin Ziyun didn't understand Ling Kong.

"Because we ......" Long Xin Ziyun was about to blurt out the words that were deeply swallowed back by her, she straightened the long hair hanging down her ears, sorted out her mood, and said word by word again: "Because we still have a long way to go." ”

"It doesn't matter, you wait for me here, I'll come back when I'm picked. Ling Kong asked the old man where the Melting Snow Mountain Spring was, and did not give Long Xin Ziyun a chance to dissuade him, so he turned around and ran towards the mountain.

Qin Xiaowan saw that the volley was about to disappear from their field of vision, and briefly explained to Long Xin Ziyun that she was not worried about volleying the mountain alone, and was also ready to go up the mountain with the volley.

Seeing this, Long Xin Ziyun had to smile helplessly, "It seems that walking with the volley, or not saying anything along the way is the most time-saving way." After speaking, he placed the carriage properly, and together with Qin Xiaowan, he went in the direction of the volley.

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"Can you not hit me in the head next time, what if I hit me stupidly. Volley touched the back of his head that was hit hard by Qin Xiaowan's control stone, and innocently let out a faint voice of protest.

"Whoever told you to run away without finishing speaking, what's even more annoying is that you're still running so fast, shouting that you don't agree, don't throw you with stones, how can Sister Long and I catch up with you. Qin Xiaowan put her hands on her waist and pointed at the volley to educate him.

"I didn't want to go back quickly, the old man who sold tea said that the mountain was dangerous, who would have thought that you would follow. Ling Kong looked at Qin Xiaowan and explained innocently.

"Still quibbling, didn't you hear us shouting you!" Qin Xiaowan finished speaking, and controlled several stones to smash into the air.

The volley, who knew that he was wrong, did not defend or dodge, but just covered his head and shouted, "Don't smash, don't smash, next time I don't do this, won't you, you're going to smash me stupidly, who will pull the car for you." ”

Long Xin Ziyun looked at the noisy two, and suddenly thought of a question that had to be asked, so that she had to interrupt the "flirting" of the two.

"Ling Kong, when I asked the old man who sold tea what kind of mountain this is, how did you know that this is out of Pan Mountain?" Long Xin Ziyun was very sensitive to some details, and she had always had doubts about Ling Kong's knowledge of the name of this mountain, until no outsiders were present, she immediately raised this question.

"There are annotations on the map. "Ling Kong had seen the name of Chupanshan on the map of the sheepskin roll, because these three words are very simple, the word out of the hunting, the plate word for the plate with meat, and the mountain word of Songtan Mountain, just three words Ling Kong knows, plus this is the first mountain on the way to the Seven Peerless Mountains marked on the map, and Ling Kong also remembered this name.

"Map?!" Long Xin Ziyun heard the word map, her voice suddenly increased a few points, Long Xin Ziyun clearly knew the importance of the map, Xianfeng ticket numbers are all over the country, they need maps, so they have drawn maps, when they draw maps, they have spent unimaginable huge amounts of financial, manpower and material resources for ordinary people, and what they got is just a very imperfect map, after hearing the word map casually said by volley, Long Xin Ziyun immediately shouted in disbelief.

"Ah, the map. Ling Kong didn't care about Long Xin Ziyun's sudden gaffe, and took out the sheepskin map detailing how to get to the Seven Peerless Mountains from his arms.

After Long Xin Ziyun saw the map that the volley took out, she almost snatched it out of the volley's hand by grabbing it.

Ling Kong and Qin Xiaowan saw that Long Xin Ziyun, who usually kept this smile at all times, was so out of shape, and the two looked at each other in astonishment, and both shrugged their shoulders.

Long Xin Ziyun spread out the parchment scroll, looking at the place names recorded on the parchment scroll, which were almost the same as what she knew, but there were many places that she had never heard of, just as she was carefully memorizing the place names and places recorded on the map, she found that the parchment scroll was incomplete.

"This is the only map?" Long Xin Ziyun came to Ling Kong with a parchment roll.

"Hmm. Volley nodded.

"How did you get it?" After learning the fact that the map was incomplete, Long Xin Ziyun's mood calmed down a little.

"The old man who loves to tell stories at the entrance of the village gave it to me. Ling Kong didn't think much about it, and answered Long Xin Ziyun directly.

The place where the volley grows is about a few months away from here, and now I will definitely not be able to catch up with the annual entrance exam of the Seven Peerless Mountains, so I will only make plans after getting the Seven Peerless Mountains. Long Xin Ziyun listened to what Ling Kong said, and her heart had already begun to calculate quickly.

"But the old man said that he only had one scroll left of this map, otherwise he would have given me all of it. The volley added a sentence, instantly breaking everything that Long Xin Ziyun had planned in her heart.

"Hey. After listening to Ling Kong's words, Long Xin Ziyun sighed, through this period of contact with Ling Kong, Long Xin Ziyun thought that she had a very clear grasp of Ling Kong's character, at least, Ling Kong had never told a lie. After hearing what Ling Kong said again, Long Xin Ziyun also believed everything he said, and in desperation, Long Xin Ziyun had to flip through the parchment roll, but found that there were words written on the back of the parchment roll.

"What is this?" Long Xin Ziyun found the words written on the back of the parchment scroll, each of these words was released separately Long Xin Ziyun knew it, but together, Long Xin Ziyun didn't know what these words meant at all.

"That's a kind of mastery, it's called non-aggression. Hearing Long Xin Ziyun's question, Ling Kong answered very casually, but Long Xin Ziyun's reaction after hearing the word "non-invasion" far exceeded his expectations.

"Non-aggression...... "Long Xin Ziyun repeated the word "non-invasion" twice, and suddenly rushed into the air like crazy, grabbed the volley's arm tightly with both hands, stared at the volley with an unbelievable look, and asked word by word: "Are you sure? Are you sure that what is recorded above is non-aggression?"