Lu Jing walked around outside the valley, but found no roads, not even a trail. Wherever he looked, he saw moss and nettles everywhere, almost covering the entire valley. Every stone.
If it weren't for the occasional falling leaves overhead, this place would be so quiet that it would be like a world in a painting.
Lu Jing thought the scenery here was good at first, but when he thought about living here all year round, he felt it was a little too lonely and deserted.
Fortunately, after walking a short distance, Lu Jing gradually saw some footprints in the valley.
It's just that the size and shape clearly don't belong to humans, but more like what some animal left behind.
The front end is slightly pointed and divided into two halves. In addition, the nearby grass also has signs of being eaten.
Lu Jing thought of the wild boar Abao next to Hanshanke that the young marquis mentioned before.
If nothing else, these hoof prints should be left by it.
Lu Jing followed the hoof prints and soon... came to a mud pit.
Well, it can be seen that Po likes this mud pit very much. He will come here to roll around a few times and enjoy the happiness brought by the mud bath.
Lu Jing stepped lightly and easily jumped over the mud pit and landed on a large rock.
As soon as his toes stepped on the stone, he noticed something. Then he lowered his head and saw a pair of small scarlet eyes.
The owner of those eyes was obviously very unhappy about the uninvited guest intruding into his exclusive luxury bathroom.
Not only had he stood up from the ground, he also showed his fangs and dug his hind hooves into the ground, looking like he was about to charge.
…………
The man was awakened by an annoying buzzing sound, and then felt something fall on his nose.
He opened his eyes and found that it was a flower mosquito.
The flower mosquito just stopped on the tip of his nose, folded its wings, and then planned to pierce its mouthparts into his skin and have a feast.
But the next moment, the thing it was using to cook food was suddenly pinched by two fingers.
The man put his fingers back in front of his eyes, looked at the struggling flower mosquito, and murmured, "Mosquitoes and flies suck blood. This is the principle of heaven and earth, so I don't blame you, but..."
He paused and then continued, "It is the natural order of heaven and earth for people to sleep. It's okay for you to just suck blood. Why are you disturbing my dreams?"
After saying that, he released his fingers. The escaped flower mosquito immediately flapped its wings and wanted to fly high, but the next moment, it was caught between two palms.
The man shook his hand, looked up at the sky through the gaps in the leaves, and found that the sun was already three in the sky.
So he lifted up the straw mat and jumped down from the camphor tree where he was living.
After landing, he stretched out and walked towards the vegetable garden on the right, wanting to dig two lettuces from the vegetable garden for breakfast, er, or lunch.
As he walked, he called Abao's name, but no one responded.
"Where did you go again? I asked you to help me take a good look at the snake-print wisteria, but you started to be lazy when you couldn't see it."
The man complained unhappily, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't beat the wild boar.
But what he didn't expect was that he misunderstood A Bao this time. After walking a few steps, he actually saw A Bao's strong figure again.
The latter was squatting under a small tree, looking up and staring at the treetops.
The man followed its gaze and looked upward, only to realize that there was another person standing above it.
The man was shocked when he saw this, "How did you provoke it?!"
"I didn't mess with it." The man in the tree said.
The man shook his head, "Then you must have accidentally intruded into its territory. Oh, it's that quagmire... It values that place very much. Last time I wanted to borrow that place to grow some herbs, it didn't agree. Now I'm in trouble. It’s very vindictive.”
"That's because you didn't have a good conversation with it at all." Lu Jing said. As he spoke, he threw the bunch of red fruits he had just picked off the tree.
When Abao under the tree saw this, he immediately opened his mouth in cooperation, eagerly caught the bunch of red fruits, and swallowed them wholeheartedly like a jujube.
Then he raised his head and continued to look at the scenery expectantly.
It wasn't until Lu Jing dropped two more bunches of red fruits one after another, both of which were swallowed by it, that Abao closed his mouth with satisfaction.
Then Lu Jing also jumped down from the tree and patted Abao's belly.
The man was completely dumbfounded. After a moment, he said blankly, "Is this...your pig?"
"Isn't this your pig?" Lu Jing also fainted.
"It's not that... it already lived in this valley before I came here." The man thought for a while and said, "We are actually neighbors. It used to come to my place to beg for food, and would also help me collect and deliver food from the outside world. Order something, so we gradually get to know each other.”
"Is that so?"
"Speaking of which, I have never seen anyone so close to it before, especially its belly. I have never patted it." When the man said this, he thought of something else and said with great interest.
"By the way, what fruit did you feed it just now? I have been in the valley for a long time and have studied the red fruits on the tree. I found that they are poisonous and cannot be used as medicine, so I just left them alone. , and besides, a lot of these fruits fall to the ground every year, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen Po eat them.”
"I don't know either," Lu Jing said, "I just learned some animal control skills from Senior Ye, and happened to find that he was interested in these fruits, so I picked them and gave them to him."
"Is it related to the maturity period?" The man frowned, showing a thoughtful look.
Lu Jing did not disturb him, and it took a full incense for the man to come back to his senses and said, "Funny."
"No, the senior's love and obsession with alchemy and pharmacology, the junior also admires it very much."
After Lu Jing finished speaking, he noticed that the man looked at him a little strangely, but the latter did not go into depth on this issue and just asked, "Are you..."
"Lu Jing, a student from this academy."
"Oh." Although the man nodded, Lu Jing could feel that his mind was not on this. To be honest, the question just now was just a courtesy. In fact, he didn't care at all about who Lu Jing was or where he came from.
At the moment, all the man could think about was going to the vegetable garden to get some lettuce to eat.
Lu Jing saw that he was absent-minded, so he stopped talking nonsense and went straight to the topic, "Senior, I came here today to ask you for a favor."
"What's the favor?" The man was a little surprised, and then said, "Who told you that I can help you? I don't know anything about martial arts, music, poetry, or articles, and I can't even win a fight. "
As he spoke, the man pointed at Abao, "I didn't tell the truth just now. Our relationship is not that of neighbors at all, but that of a bandit and a fat pig. And I am the fat pig, and he was eaten to death by this bandit." of."
"But you know how to make elixirs," Lu Jing said.
"Alchemy... Oh, this is what I have been doing." The man nodded, "But I can only practice one kind of elixir."
