Fengqi crabapple

Chapter 115: Exploring Qingmu Cliff
Xie Ruitang dismounted and said, "Find a place to stay first. Let's look around tonight."

An Qing nodded, lost her horse, and disappeared after a few steps.Anqing's qinggong is good, among all the people, only Chuyi and Yan Shishi can compete with him.Yan Shiyi walked around and found a stone wall hidden by deep grass. He led the horses over and tied them to the tree trunks.

Haitang took out a packet of light yellow medicinal powder from the medicine bag and sprinkled it around the horse.Yan Shiyi immediately smelled a pungent smell. This time he was smarter and asked, "Wolf-proof?" Haitang nodded.

"Keep some of it," Yan Shiyi said hurriedly: "The place where we sleep will be sparse later."

Xie Ruitang glared at him sideways: Who are you and "us"?
After a while, An Qing came back. He pointed to a small cave halfway up the mountain.Xie Ruitang nodded, put his arm around Haitang's waist, and quickly climbed up with strength.When Yan Shiyi and An Qing came up, they each held an armful of hay.

Haitang didn't light up when she saw them, because she was afraid of being discovered.She took out a paper package from the bag, opened it and handed it to Xie Ruitan.

Xie Ruitang laughed when he saw it: "It's been a long time since I had it. When I was running through the border, the most delicious dry food was beef jerky."

An Qing also took out the pie crust he had prepared. When he saw the beef jerky, he stuffed all the pie crust to Yan Shiyi and took a piece of beef jerky to chew.

Yan Shiyi looked at the dry biscuit crust in his hand and then at the beef jerky. He didn't want to do it anymore. He simply stuffed all the biscuit crust into Xie Ruitang's hand and snatched the package of beef jerky.

Haitang looked at them like children and couldn't help but laugh: "When my master and I go into the mountains to collect herbs, sometimes we don't know when we will be back. We will also take bigu pills. If we take a few pills every day, we will not be hungry." However, it feels very bland and tasteless in my mouth.”

"Now I know why Xie Ruitang brought you here!" Yan Shiyi was very satisfied with the piece of beef jerky in his hand.

Xie Ruitang handed the water bag to Haitang, turned around and said, "An Qing, go and see if there is any fire or entrance around." An Qing responded and went out.

The three people sat side by side at the entrance of the cave. The north wind howled in the mountain forest, as if the darkness was full of eager beasts.In the dim light, Xie Ruitang hugged Haitang and wrapped her with his cloak.

After sitting in silence for a while, there was a rustling of grass outside the cave, and An Qing came back.He made a gesture, and Xie Ruitang and Yan Shiyi looked down at the same time. "The entrance is in the valley below!" An Qing whispered.

The four of them quietly went down the mountain and arrived at the edge of the valley.Yan Shiyi took out three hemp ropes and tied them to the big tree nearby. He also dragged hay branches to cover the exposed parts on the ground.He asked in a low voice: "Is she going to do it too?"

"Down!"

"No."

Xie Ruitang was stunned for a moment: "I promised you to watch from a distance. It's too dangerous to go down. You can find a dark place to hide up there and wait for us to come back."

"Ruitang, look!" Haitang pointed down the cliff: "There is miasma under the cliff. It looks like the miasma has a color, which I think is a bit strange. Just let me go down with you and have a look!" Sure enough, under the moonlight, the miasma is glowing. Reflects a slight red color.

Xie Ruitang had no choice but to nod. To be honest, he didn't feel at ease leaving Haitang alone on the cliff. He might as well take her with him.He took out a cloth towel and tied it on Haitang and himself.Holding Haitang's waist tightly with one hand and holding an iron hook with the other, Haitang also held Xie Ruitang tightly, and the two slowly descended along the rope.

Yan Shiyi and An Qing also jumped down quickly. They were agile and fast, and fell in front of Xie Ruitan and the others in the blink of an eye.Unexpectedly, before the end, Haitang felt something was wrong. She anxiously said in Xie Ruitang's ear: "It's wasp miasma! Let them come up quickly!" Xie Ruitang motioned to Haitang to reach out and pull their rope three times.

As soon as they finished pulling the rope, they heard several clanking sounds of metal and a muffled groan. Then one of the ropes came loose, and one of the two of them fell!Xie Ruitang stopped himself in mid-air, and Haitang also grabbed the rope, leaving Xie Ruitang free to deal with it.

After waiting for a while and seeing the rhythmic vibration of the other rope, Xie Ruitang pulled out the dagger, ready to cut the rope at any time.I just heard the person coming from below whisper: "It's me!" Fortunately, the person coming was An Qing.

Xie Ruitang put the dagger in Haitang's hand, picked up Haitang and climbed up. After a while, the two of them climbed to the top of the valley and to the ground.After waiting for a while, An Qing carried the unconscious Yan Shiyi to the ground.An Qing gasped and whispered: "Let's talk after we enter the cave!"

Xie Ruitang and Haitang retracted their ropes and followed An Qing up to the cave halfway up the mountain.

"Master Shiyi helped me block the hidden weapon!" An Qing put Yan Shiyi on the hay and said with some frustration.

Haitang quickly took out the luminous pearl, went over to check Yan Shiyi, and found that he had a black cast iron nail on his left chest.She quickly took out the silver needle, sealed her heart veins, and then pulled out the iron nail with force.I saw a stream of black blood spurting out.

She took out two detoxification pills and stuffed them into Yan Shisan's mouth, then slightly opened the wound with a dagger, and slowly picked off the black meat around the wound.Yan Shiyi woke up from the pain. He frowned and groaned, and big beads of sweat appeared on his head and face.

Eleven opened his eyes and saw Xie Ruitang, and quickly grabbed his arm and said urgently: "Don't go down, there is a mechanism below!" Xie Ruitang patted the back of his hand and comforted him: "It's okay, we are all in the cave. inside."

Haitang finished scraping the rotten flesh, took out a bottle of white powder and sprinkled it on the wound, then applied a piece of dark green ointment, and finally wrapped the wound with a cloth strip.After bandaging Yan Shiyi, she took out a few detoxifying pills, gave one to each person, and ate them.

"The wasp miasma just now contains bee venom, which is more poisonous than ordinary miasma. It is caused by the decomposition of wasp corpses. After you go down, you have already been slightly poisoned and your reaction is not sensitive enough. Then you encounter the poison-quenching mechanism. , that’s two deaths.”

Yan Shishi smiled at Haitang and whispered, "Now I really know why he brought you here."

"You don't know anything. Why don't you shut up and rest!" In the dim light, Xie Ruitan glared at him.

Haitang looked at Yan Shiyi and praised with a smile: "You are also very brave! We were in a hurry today and forgot to bring the hemp boiling powder with us. The light was so dark. I picked your flesh alive and you didn't even scream."

Xie Ruitang said: "You guys can compliment each other when you go back! The valley is heavily guarded, and the entrance is probably down there. Let's go back and be ready to come back again. Now, Shiyi, can you ride a horse?"

Yan Shiyi snorted in response to him.

Xie Ruitang said to An Qing: "Help him, we will leave overnight."

The four of them went down the mountain in search of their horses, and quickly left Qingmu Cliff.

(End of this chapter)