When passing through Lingcun, there were some scattered tourists on the road, and they all looked at me and Ba Qing curiously.
Fortunately, I changed into hiking clothes, otherwise, wearing a Tang suit would definitely attract more people’s attention.
The whole village is not big, and it only takes more than ten minutes to get out of the village by riding a horse.
We did not take the normal route to the scenic spots, but took a circuitous path on the mountain road outside the village.
The Dongwu Mountains have many mountains and dense forests, cool summers and cold winters, and the soil quality is also conventional yellow soil.
The path just out of the village was quite hard, and there were many plantains, lantern flowers and other herbs growing on the ground.
When Ba Qing took me around the foot of a mountain and officially entered the mountain, the ground became moist.
After the horse's hoof steps on it, it will leave a shallow pit.
It's so humid here that the air is filled with water vapor, and there's also a faint fragrance of grass leaves.
Ba Qing told me that if we keep walking in this direction to the foot of the mountain, we will enter the rift valley in an hour.
The place I want to go to can theoretically be walked from the bottom of the rift valley, but the waterway is more dangerous and may pass through caves, dense forests, and even encounter pythons, so we have to take the mountain road until we are almost there After that, we go down the mountain and enter the rift valley where we want to go.
I nodded, but Ba Qing and I made a request, that is, we should bypass Liu Ke's place and not meet Liu Ke.
Ba Qing was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head and said, "The location you arranged for him to go is just opposite the rift valley. We are on the other side, so we can't touch him."
Ba Qing's words reassured me a lot.
The two of us continued on our way on our pony.
After about an hour, the view broadened. Behind the hill was a majestic and huge mountain. A crack opened between the mountains!
This is the entrance to the Rift Valley!
Since we were walking on a remote mountain road, although we could see the entrance to the rift valley, we couldn't get through it.
Because there is a river outside the rift valley, just separated from this small mountain road, and the river water directly enters the rift valley.
I also noticed that there was more than one river.
Our small mountain road enters from the right side of the mountain. On the left side, there is a larger river flowing along the edge of the mountain.
If my judgment is correct, that river is a tributary of the Tianqian River, which is equivalent to a small dry dragon extending from the water dragon vein.
At this time we were able to see some facilities at tourist attractions, and tour guides took tourists into the Rift Valley.
Ba Qing helped me explain a few words and then continued to lead me forward.
After we entered the mountain from the left, it was no longer a flat road, but a steep mountain road. It was surrounded by dense forests and the light was not very good.
And we can't see the rift valley at all, because we are on the mountainside on the left, and the entire rift valley is blocked by the mountain.
At this time, even the map is not easy to use, because you are on the mountain road and do not know exactly where you are. You must have an experienced herb collector to judge the distance.
It took at least two or three hours of walking from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside before descending from the mountainside.
The second mountain that is closely connected to the mountain is much shorter. After we went up the mountain, we walked on the inside of the second mountain. We could just see the existence of the rift valley, and the sun could shine in directly. The sun was dazzling and bright.
The huge ravine is sandwiched by overlapping mountains on both sides, and at the bottom is a rushing river!
The river bed at the bottom of the valley meanders along the direction of the rift valley. After a section of the river, some ground will be exposed, covered with tall trees and vines.
Looking down from a high place, if it fell down, there would probably be no bones left.
And under the rapid river itself, there are countless rocks, which is even more dangerous!
No wonder the herb collectors refuse to take the water route. The mountain route can depend on skill, but the water route can only depend on the toughness of life.
The sun was getting more and more dazzling now, and it was already approaching noon.
Ba Qing wiped the sweat from his forehead, called to the horse, and then said: "Mr. Luo, take a rest and eat something. Let's continue our journey."
In fact, I didn’t feel tired at all, but we all used ponies to travel. The mountain road was so steep that the horses’ legs couldn’t stand it any further.
I nodded and said yes.
At this moment we happened to be walking on the mountainside, and Ba Qing took me around into a forest.
After walking for another ten minutes, we arrived at a slightly flat mountainous area, where a bamboo forest grew. Next to the bamboo forest, we actually saw a crudely built tree house!
Ba Qing got off his horse and hurriedly got into the tree house first. When he came out again, he had a smile on his face and called me to come down too.
Ba Qing explained to me that their herb collectors would build such temporary footholds at various suitable locations on the mountain, which could have firewood, stoves, and hammocks for resting or sheltering from the rain in the mountains.
I nodded, listened, and followed Ba Qing into the house.
The house is not big, about ten square meters at most, with three hammocks on three sides, a stove in the middle, and some firewood piled up.
Apart from that, there is nothing else. It is really just a resting hut.
Ba Qing conveniently put down his hiking bag and told me to rest first. He would go out to get some water and dig bamboo shoots and come back. We would get some food and wait until the sun was no longer so poisonous before we started on our way.
The mountains and forests exposed to the sun were really hot and stuffy, and I didn’t raise any objections. It was all up to Ba Qing’s arrangement.
Lying casually on a hammock and relaxing my body immediately made me feel relieved.
Looking up, my expression changed slightly.
Although this wooden house is narrow, it is not short. The whole house must be at least three or four meters high.
Above my head, there was a bunch of yellowish-brown, furry things hanging...
If you look carefully, aren't they all monkey corpses? !
I moved the hammock, and the hanging bodies were swaying slightly...
And they were all hanging upside down, with their eyes closed and their lips pursed. This didn’t scare me, but this scene was too weird.
Ba Qing never told me that herbal collectors have the habit of killing monkeys.
I stopped lying on the hammock, got up and went to the other side, staring at the monkey corpses with slightly squinted eyes.
One more thing is worse than one less thing. I plan to go on the road with Ba Qing once he comes back and avoid this place immediately. I don't want to cause other troubles, and I don't want to run into other herb collectors.
But just at this moment, a frightened roar came from outside the tree house.
Isn't this voice coming from Ba Qing? !
My complexion also changed, and I immediately ran out.
I was very fast. As I ran out of the house, I directly pulled out the mourning stick from the groove on the side of the copper box!
The sound came from the bamboo forest, and I ran into the bamboo forest in a few steps.
At a glance, I saw Ba Qing’s back.
