Meishan, with its continuous peaks and ups and downs, crosses Anhua County, Changsha Prefecture and Xinhua County, Baoqing Prefecture, and turns like a coiling dragon straight to the southwest.
In a valley in the Anhua section, a young lady was lying on the back of a maid, with two or three small bumps on her face, her eyes half-open and half-closed, her head was groggy, and her body was swaying.
If the maid who was carrying her had not been careful and carefully protected her, she would have fallen down long ago.
This young lady is Luo Xiangzhu, and the maid is naturally Ye Wumian, a man disguised as a woman.
That day, the two of them escaped from Luo Mansion, threw themselves into Meishan, and headed all the way to Changsha City. It has been four days, but they still have not been able to get out of Meishan.
Meishan is difficult to travel, with high mountains and dense forests. There are many poisonous insects, mosquitoes and flies, and tigers and leopards occasionally appear. It is naturally very difficult to start the journey.
Ye Wumian was trapped in the world when he was young. He has experience in living in the wild, so he can adapt reasonably well. Luo Xiangzhu was pampered and rarely went out. Now that he has arrived in Meishan for the first time, he feels uncomfortable in every way.
Not to mention a few mosquito bites on my face, and because I was not used to eating, I had eaten very little in the past two days, and I didn't have much strength left in my body.
Not being used to eating is sometimes a really difficult problem to solve.
Ye Wumian originally thought that Luo Xiangzhu just couldn't get used to the big cakes he brought. The young lady is from the south, so it is normal for her not to be used to the food of the northerners.
There are a lot of rabbits, musk deer, and even pheasants and wild boars in this plum mountain. Just grab any one and bake it. The taste is better than the big cake. The lady will definitely be used to eating it.
Moreover, there was actually a box of precious salt in Yimo's arms and a jar of pepper in his sleeve. There is a copper hairpin on the head and two garlic bulbs stuck in the bun.
With such a complete set of ingredients, are you worried that you won’t be able to make something good so that the lady can get used to it?
It was also because he had not been in the world for a long time that Ye Wumian was overconfident and underestimated the difficulty of this series of events.
He spent a lot of energy on catching wild animals.
The creatures in the mountains, even a little rabbit, are not easy to feed you, even though it seems to be clumsy and motionless. The next second, it disappeared in a flash.
There are big trees with deep leaves and dense clumps of black grass. There is no place in this mountain that is inconvenient to hide. If you don't catch the prey within three breaths, then don't even think about it. No matter how high your martial arts is, it will be useless.
After struggling all morning, Ye Wumian finally caught an old rabbit with his bare hands.
This old rabbit may have lost his sight. In the process of escaping, he mistook a dark stone next to the tree for a tree hole. He stupidly jumped into it and knocked him unconscious on the spot, giving Ye Wumian an advantage.
It's almost like experiencing the joy of waiting for something to happen.
Ye Wumian gave a rare smile, straightened out her skirt that was torn by thorns and branches, let out a sigh of relief, found an open space, took out a fire stick and lit a fire.
Luo Xiangzhu, who was sitting on a stone and chewing dry biscuits, happened to look over.
As the two looked at each other, the way she struggled to swallow made Ye Wumian's heart tremble, as if her own throat was hurt by the biscuits.
"Miss, if you can't eat it, don't eat it. I'll eat rabbit meat later. It's delicious."
Although the old rabbit is old, the meat quality is obviously good to the naked eye. Under the roasting flames, the aroma of oil rose, and Ye Wumian swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Hungry, so hungry.
Ye Wumian controls the heat, sprinkles salt and pepper at the right time, and the oil instantly becomes more joyful.
After baking it for a while, he estimated that it was almost done. Well, it really was! The two most plump rabbit legs are smooth and slippery and can be removed as soon as they are torn off. They are wrapped in golden oil, which makes people want to go crazy.
Ye Wumian's eyes were smiling like a crescent moon, and she felt that the fierce pursuit this morning was worth it!
Although the ingredients for this outdoor barbecue are rough, its pure naturalness is the most attractive to the stomach.
As soon as the rabbit leg was handed to Luo Xiangzhu, the big cake in her hand fell onto her lap, and she immediately replaced the general who was smacking her teeth. That's right, it's this rabbit leg.
She ate happily, and after being hungry for two or three days, she quickly conquered the rabbit leg while maintaining a basic eating attitude. Not a drop of the oil stains remaining in the corners of her mouth was wasted under the curl of her tongue.
Delong looked at Shu, and she looked longingly at the remains of the rabbit.
"Rabbit is so cute... Of course, of course, I'll give it all to you."
Ye Wumian smiled softly, tore off another rabbit leg and sent it over. He turned around inadvertently and licked the oil on his hand.
How much good oil can be wasted? Dip it in garlic, and it also tastes like hair, and goes into your stomach together.
Since Luo Xiangzhu ate so much, it stands to reason that he was used to eating this mountain food, so Ye Wumian breathed a sigh of relief.
While she was eating the rabbit, Ye Wumian used her inner strength to break a green bamboo and polish it with stones into the shape of a bamboo sword.
In this way, when I go hunting tomorrow, I won't have to do it with my bare hands. I will finally have tools.
The hilt of the sword is wrapped in rags, which is the piece of cloth from Sleepless Night. His skirt had been torn in several places, so he tore off the tatters and reused them.
By handling it this way, at least it won't hurt your hands, and you can easily use several sets of swordsmanship.
Not long after he made the bamboo sword, he heard a sound of nausea and vomiting.
It’s Luo Xiangzhu! At some point, she squatted on the ground and vomited. Half of the rabbit legs were left uneaten and rolled to the ground, stained with a lot of soil and grass.
"You, don't come here!"
Mixed with the sound of vomiting, Luo Xiangzhu said weakly.
She turned her head away, not wanting Ye Wumian to look at her ugly appearance.
Of course, it was impossible for the sleepless night to go away. He smiled bitterly and shook his head. Looking at the rabbit meat that was spat out not long after he ate it, he knew that he was being hasty and optimistic.
"My lady's stomach has been refined in the Luo Family Courtyard. Even if the wild food in the mountains tastes passable, I'm afraid she won't be able to get used to it. People who have been hungry for a long time will easily feel nauseated if they are exposed to meat and fish."
Looking at Luo Xiangzhu who was vomiting all over her back, I was worried about her diet in the next few days.
. . .
Beside a clear water, Ye Wumian took care of her and cleaned her up, and picked a few wild raspberries for her.
It is now the Mid-Autumn Festival, the season when raspberries are ripe, and there are patches of raspberries growing in the Meishan Mountains.
"Miss is really a blessed person. She can't eat meat, but she still has raspberries to satisfy her hunger. If God doesn't stop her, she will be blessed in the future." Ye Wumian thought like this.
After eating two raspberries, some scarlet juice overflowed from the corners of Luo Xiangzhu's mouth, and her pale face finally regained some rosiness.
"Miss, you said that day that you wanted to go with me to investigate the cause of my master's death. Now you can see that it is so difficult for us just to go to Changsha City, not to mention the long road ahead..."
Ye Wumian is not a talkative person, but recalling Luo Xiangzhu's stubbornness two days ago, he still couldn't help but say.
Luo Xiangzhu held a raspberry in his mouth, his jaws squirmed slightly, and then said: "I don't care. When we arrive in Changsha City and convey the bad news to grandma, we will set off immediately... Then you have to teach me martial arts. I've polished my body, and my journey won't be so strenuous. I, I, I won't drag you down!"
When she spoke later, her voice became louder and her eyes became more serious, as if she was trying her best to prove something.
The two fell into silence for a while. Ye Wumian was waiting to say more when he heard a horse neighing from the woods in the distance.
"唳——"
The horse's neighing was mixed with sadness and fear. It was not the sound that a normal horse should make. It was obviously a dangerous situation.
Ye Wumian quickly glanced around, alarm bells blaring in his head.
He could hear something running fast about a hundred steps away, coming towards here. With the strength of that object's legs, it would arrive in a moment. If he didn't escape quickly, he might be knocked away.
He immediately stood up, put the bamboo sword on his waist, shouted "Miss!" in a muffled voice, immediately hugged the Luoxiang bamboos, jumped up on the branches of a camphor tree.
In the past few years, he has been practicing martial arts every day, and has achieved a certain level of internal and external skills. Coupled with the energy gained from desperation, he was able to successfully jump onto the branch two people high from the ground.
Luo Xiangzhu was suddenly picked up by him, and he didn't even have the strength to scream. Just out of natural trust, she held his neck tightly, still chewing the last raspberry in her mouth, and stared at him blankly, speechless for a long time.
In the past five years, although Ye Wumian has been with Luo Xiangzhu day and night, this is the first time he has held her in his arms and been so close to her.
Looking at her beautiful eyes and smelling the smell of sweat on her body, which was a little sour and a little fragrant, his breath was stagnant and he actually blushed.
When the two of them looked at each other like this, they both felt dizzy.
It was the sound of the ground shaking from far to near that woke them up.
Sleepless night looked under the tree.
An old horse with a red beard, foaming at the mouth, ran through the grass more than half a foot deep; a leopard the size of a wolfdog followed close behind, with a fierce look in its eyes, and it was bound to capture it.
The horse's neighing just now must have been caused by this old horse. It was being chased by the leopard, and the situation was critical, so it screamed like this. There were still a few bloodstains on his strong buttocks, and black blood was flowing gurglingly.
Although the leopard has not yet completely succeeded, it has already gained a few claws.
Ye Wumian's eyes narrowed and he thought to himself: This old horse is running away now. When it reaches the water's edge, I'm afraid it won't be able to escape with its wings. Why don't I save its life? With it, let's carry the lady, and it will be easier for us to go on our way.
Sure enough, the old horse ran to the stream that Luo Xiangzhu had just cleaned. He let out a mournful cry, raised his front legs, stopped, and pulled out several feet of soil with his hooves.
The stream was so wide that it couldn't be easily jumped across, and it was even worse to swim across it, so it had to pause and think about countermeasures.
After hesitating for only a moment, the old horse did not choose to jump into the stream. Instead, he turned around and ran downstream along the stream.
"This old horse is quite intelligent. In a short period of time, he chose the most suitable downstream direction." Ye Wumian looked at the back of the old horse and was happy that it was temporarily out of danger.
I was happy for only a moment, but suddenly I saw the old horse leaning forward in a strange posture, and the horse suddenly lost its center of gravity. The horse landed on its face and slid several feet close to its face.
The horse stumbles as mentioned in the play is nothing more than this.
This old horse was originally very stable, but it was strange that there was a broken tree trunk in the grass, lying across the path it was running on.
The old horse was only focused on escaping, so naturally he didn't notice that there was such a hidden obstacle in the grass, so he suffered this misfortune.
This time, he was careless and missed Jingzhou.
The leopard perked up and let out a roar that shook the valley. Lao Ma lay on the ground, his limbs trembling, trying desperately to stand up, but failed.
The leopard was walking like a tiger, but after a certain distance, it jumped into the air, opened its mouth wide, and exposed its canine teeth, which was bound to give the old horse a killing blow.
Ye Wumian was always paying attention. Seeing this, he slowly loosened his hold on Luo Xiangzhu and said, "Miss, stand firm, hold on to the tree trunk, don't fall."
After Luo Xiangzhu witnessed the leopard chasing the horse, he broke out in a cold sweat. He had already woken up from the dazed state just now. His whole body was extremely alert. He quickly hugged the tree trunk as he said, his pretty eyes widened and he said: "I've caught it, but what about you?"
Seeing Luo Xiangzhu looking at him with concern, Ye Wumian felt warm in his heart. He gave her a calm look and said, "I have to save it. This old horse is destined to us."
Seeing that the leopard was about to catch up with the old horse, he had no sleep at night and had no time to say anything.
After confirming that Luo Xiangzhu would not fall from the tree, he raised his inner strength and drew out the bamboo sword from his waist. With a clear whistle, he took three steps and two steps at a time, his clothes were fluttering, and he jumped down from the branch.
