Cultivation of Immortals Begins with Drilling Wood To Make Fire

  Chapter 369 [The place where the peach blossoms have not yet bloomed]

  Fang Chang cupped his hands in thanks, and then left from this small roadside shop.

  The coldest time has not yet come, and the temperature is still getting lower every day. Although the south will not be frozen when the north is icy and snowy, there is still dew on the grass tips by the roadside, which is white.

  There are not many pedestrians on the road, but the number of business travelers is not bad.

  Maybe because Zhou Jin has just returned to Taiping and is still recovering slowly.

  Big banyan trees and acacia trees grow freely beside the road, with various shapes, but generally, they are still distributed on both sides of this official road. Another small river originating from the mountain ahead passed by, touched the official road for a while, and turned to the northeast again. I don't know whether it will merge into a big river or go all the way to the sea.

   After walking for a while, as the shopkeeper said before, the official road began to turn to the west.

   Looking further south, there are still fields and fields.

   There are many small villages scattered in the distance, and the water in the fields is rippling, but at the end, the foot of the mountain can be vaguely seen through the fog. It is very desolate, and there seems to be no trace of human habitation.

  Fang Chang turned around and got off the official road. He was going to walk through the wild land from here, passing through the Bayun Mountain in front and heading south. He didn't look for a path, but just walked along the field ridge, which was very solid after being repaired by the farmers.

  In the eyes of passers-by on the official road, this person walking in the field is just a little white in the picturesque scenery.

  ………

   Did not stay in the village again.

  Fang Chang's feet only took half an hour to walk across the field and reach the edge.

  There are rocks everywhere, weeds are overgrown, moss marks are everywhere, and it is clearly separated from the paddy fields next to it.

   I don’t know how much effort it took for people to advance here from a distance—taking out the fields from the rocky beach, but it is a long and exhausting job that requires hard work, far more tiring than opening up wasteland on the plain. That is to say, this kind of phenomenon will only appear here where there are many people and little land.

  There are many stones that seem to be pulled out from the fields on the edge of the rocky beach. The walls of the village Fang Chang passed by just now are also made of this material. Going further in, there are few people, not even small roads. However, I met a few children herding sheep inside, and the grass in the rocky beach is not bad.

  The terrain gradually uplifted, and began to experience large ups and downs, which became more and more uneven.

  A barbaric scene in the mountains, all kinds of plants grow by their own abilities, divide the territory, and occupy water and sunlight. As a result, it tends to grow into one piece, and generally crowd out other types of vegetation. It's winter, and although the hillsides are still green, they're a bit bleak.

   "Well, what a big peach tree."

  Fang Chang climbed over a rugged hill covered with low bushes and sharp rocks. Looking forward, he saw a slightly wide valley in front of him, with a river flowing out of the middle. The banks on both sides of the river are covered with peach trees.

  In this season, the peach leaves are sparse on the branches of the peach tree, but as long as the temperature is right, it will definitely be covered with pink peach blossoms. At that time, the slightly dry grass under the peach trees will also become emerald green, which will make the peach blossoms more vivid, and the river flowing through the peach forest will probably become sweeter.

"Good place."

  He praised, jumped down from the top of the mountain lightly, and reached the flat ground after a few ups and downs.

  The river bank is very solid, the water surface is clear and clear, and you can see the soft moss on the bottom of the water, as well as the fish and shrimp shuttling back and forth inside. At this time, there are no peach petals floating across the water, only some dead branches, broken leaves and broken grass branches, slowly rippling with the water waves in the breeze, slowly and quietly drifting away into the distance.

   Then Fang Chang saw a living creature.

   There is a little fox with fiery red fur, lying on a soft meadow, with its belly facing the sun, squinting its eyes and motionless, enjoying the sunshine. Its four legs are black, the fur on its belly is snow white, and there is also a pinch of white hair on the tip of its tail.

  However, in Fang Chang's eyes, the evil spirit around this little fox has already exposed its identity. Fang Chang walked over, and the little fox saw a man in white approaching, and rolled up from the meadow with a grunt, watching the man vigilantly.

  Fang Chang smiled and said:

   "There are monsters."

"ah!"

  What Fang Chang didn't expect was that the fiery red little fox in front of him suddenly lost color when he heard what he said. It screamed in horror, jumped up from the ground, and wanted to find a way to escape, and at the same time muttered:

   "Monsters?! There are monsters! Where are monsters! It's so scary, I have to run away!"

  Fang Chang suddenly became surprised:

   "Aren't you a monster? Why are you still afraid of monsters?"

"I'm a monster?" The little fox calmed down a little bit, with disbelief on his face: "Guests, don't joke, I'm just an ordinary little fox, how could I be a monster? In the story Auntie told before going to bed, those monsters Everyone has fangs and sharp teeth, eating foxes and people without blinking an eye."

   "Oh." Fang Chang looked at the fox.

Seeing that the surroundings were safe, the little fox lay down on the meadow again, put his whole chin on the ground, and said, "You scared me to death just now, but if there really are monsters, the two of us will definitely not be able to beat them. You have a sword on your back." Right? If it's sharp enough, give it a try—a good weapon can often turn the tide in stories."

  This fox is not very old, but it reminds Fang Chang of Hu Yun from Yun Zhongshan.

   I don’t know how the little guy is doing in school now, I hope he is safe, and don’t make up "epic and tragic love stories" with his female classmates.

  He turned to the little fox in front and said with a smile:

   "Turn the tide, well, this word is very elegant, I can't tell, you are very educated."

"of course!"

  The little fox instantly raised his head from the meadow and said:

   "Grandpa Huang in the village always said, I am the smartest among the children in this wave, and I am the best learner, and I am always the first in the exam. By the way, the guest looks like a human being. Where are you from?"

   Fang Chang nodded and said:

   "It's a good thing to love learning. I'm from the middle of the country. I was about to go south and I happened to pass by here. You just said you came from a village? Is it nearby?"

"Well, it's nearby." The little fox put his chin on the meadow again and said, "If you want to go in, just wait for me for a while, and then come with me. Outsiders can't find the way in, and they can't find it." There is no way to get out, and it is useless to even write it down."

"good."

  Fang Chang also sat down beside him, then took out a roast chicken from the package, and shared it with the little fox.

  The fox was full of oil and exclaimed:

"It turns out that the food outside is so delicious. The chickens raised in the village have always been stewed and eaten with some salt and wild vegetables. I really don't know that this chicken is still made in this way. I don't know what is put in it? I will practice in the future." If you are successful, you must go out to the mountains and eat a few meals of this chicken."

   Thank you Super Screw for your reward.

  (end of this chapter)