daughter in power

Chapter 185 Goose Mountain
A large group of people inquiring in the jungle is actually not very interesting.

The crowd couldn't stand her persuasion any longer, and they changed their course one after another to inquire about news in neighboring provinces.

What she said was not unreasonable.

Going forward, she only took Qin Cai to go deeper into the border.

Along the way, I encountered many cottages, passed through many villages and towns, walked through many mountains, and waded through many rivers.

Qin Cai chopped the thorns along the way with a machete in his hand, and asked, "Did Madam really learn jungle life from Wuchang Jiang?"

She raised her eyebrows: "No."

Qin Cai was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "My lord...will be in front."

Who knows?

Just go all the way, and stay overnight when you encounter villages and towns.

Many villages and towns do not use silver at all, but barter.

They hunted along the way, looked for precious medicinal materials, and exchanged them with others.

It's not too bad.

It's just that there are too many snakes, insects, rats and ants, and I finally saved my life with the medicine powder exchanged from the locals.

On this day, the two of them went to a village and saw that the village was vast, with a radius of no less than two miles, so they decided to go into the village to find out some news.

When he arrived at the gate of the village, he only said that he was a herb collector, which did not arouse suspicion.

The villagers accepted them and let them in.

He even brought the two of them into their own bamboo building to rest.

It was still early in the morning, looking outside the stockade, there was a rolling river, and I didn't know where it would lead.

The river water is clear and emerald green, shining with waves of light.

On the other side of the wide waters, there are rolling green hills, I don't know how many thousands of miles away.

Qiqi and Qin Cai have traveled the border for so long, and they are basically familiar with the local dialect, so they can probably understand it.

The two gave some rice noodles and silver to the head of the family, and lived in peace.

Dinner was a tuber like a sweet potato, tasteless.

It's not tasty to be honest.

But this kind of food is the best staple food for this family. If it weren't for the fact that they were guests from afar and paid for the meal, they probably wouldn't be able to eat such good food.

Qiqi ate silently.

The owner of the house chatted lightly with Qin Cai.

The other members sat silently by the fire without speaking.

While talking, the owner of the house suddenly laughed and said good things with a beaming smile.

The general idea is that for more than a year, there are quite a lot of foreigners who come to him to stay overnight.

They all collect herbs from the mountains.

However, many people were bitten by snakes and insects, and they didn't even know the herbal medicine to cure snake venom, so they didn't look like people who gathered medicine.

However, people gave him money, rice noodles and so on, and he was ashamed to expose them.

But they are unwilling to let these people with suspicious identities stay for too long, and they will always drive them away at dawn.

He saw that Qiqi and Qin Cai were very calm, and the herbs they carried with them were of the highest quality, and they seemed to be real herbal pickers at first sight.

He also knows some herbs and admires those who can gather and sell them.

I hope that Qiqi and Qin Cai will pass by here often and live here often.

This is a kind word to bring the relationship closer.

There is a bit of falsehood and a bit of truth.

Qiqi heard something else.

She asked: "For more than a year, have many people come here to collect medicine?"

The owner said: "Yes, wow, they are all from Ke'eshan."

He pointed at the dark mountains outside the window seriously: "That's the other side, they've all walked here..."

She raised her head and looked at the mountain that looked like a giant goose, her eyes flickering.

After a long time, he said seemingly unintentionally: "Then there are really so many top-quality herbs on Goose Mountain, attracting so many herbal pickers?"

The owner shook his head in disbelief: "My ancestors have lived here for generations, and they know where there are herbs and where there are pythons. There are many poisonous snakes and beasts on Goose Mountain, and there will never be good herbs. Good herbs are all spiritual, it is impossible Who grew up in that kind of place!"

He came to a conclusion.

She nodded.

So what exactly is Goose Hill?

What is it that has attracted so many people for more than a year?

She nodded and lowered her head to eat the food in her hand.

Qin Cai said: "These people gathered herbs from Eshan, will they return from you?"

This question is on point.

The owner shook his head, then nodded again: "Several groups of people came, sometimes a dozen or twenty, sometimes three or five, and rarely returned from here. They all disappeared after conquering Goose Mountain."

In this way, Qiqi becomes more and more suspicious of Eshan.

She and Qin Cai looked at each other, and it was easy to see the same meaning as her from the latter's eyes.

She didn't ask any more questions, and ate in a muffled voice.

That night, they slept in the small attic.

Because they pretended to be brothers and sisters, they didn't arouse others' suspicion.

Before dawn, they got up and hurried out.

The hospitable host was waiting at the door, looking like a prophet: "I knew you were going to leave. Those who came to collect herbs would leave early in the morning. Come, bring you some snake medicine. On Goose Mountain , there is a kind of silver-grey python, which is extremely poisonous, and it will kill people if it bites."

Holding a pack of medicinal powder in his hand, he handed it to Qiqi: "I don't even give snake medicine to those fake herb pickers. You are a good person, so I will give it to you. I lived to be 58 years old, although I haven't seen a lot of outsiders. People, but when I look at you, I know that you are not a bad person."

She really didn't know that this cottage farmer would still meet each other.

However, it was still touching to hear.

She took the snake medicine and kept it carefully, then took out the silver from her body and handed it over.

The owner waved his hand and declined: "Our family will never be able to get out of this impoverished place in this lifetime, and we won't need a lot of money."

Qiqi looked at him and saw that his complexion was dark, his face was full of grooves, and he was weak from the vicissitudes of life.

It really doesn't look like an 58-year-old man.

It looks like a 70-year-old man.

She smiled slightly: "Thank you, old man."

As the masters of the farewell house, the two went straight to Eshan without inquiring about the news.

Her intuition told her that Eshan must be hiding some secret.

Perhaps, it is about King Xiaoyang.

She gave Qin Cai half of the snake medicine for money and silver gray pythons, and said seriously: "Saving your life is the most important thing."

That old man should not harm anyone.

The two walked quickly this time.

When I got to the edge of the big river, I was dumbfounded.

With such a wide boundary, it is difficult to fly over it even with wings.

Unless there is a bridge, or a boat.

Looking up and looking around, there are no boats or pedestrians.

Such a natural danger is insurmountable.

Qiqi frowned: "How did those people get to Goose Mountain?"

These people came and went, at least they reached the boundary of Eshan.

Could they still be stopped by Da Jiang?

Unwilling to give up, she led Qin Cai to run along the river, trying to find a way.

After searching for a day, I couldn't find it.

The two were hungry and tired, so they had to choose a secluded place to make a fire and cook.

Although the frontier is not cold in winter, it is still cold at night.

There are pebbles by the river, which are clean and smooth. If wild animals attack them, they can be seen from a long distance.

In this way, when night fell, the two of them leaned against the bonfire and slept nearby.

Sleeping until midnight, I heard faint rustling sounds.

Qiqi opened her eyes, but her eyes were as cold as ice.

It turned out that at some point, a large boa constrictor as thick as a bucket swam close to the bonfire, looking straight at them.

The moonlight was not clear, but fortunately there were still some flames in the bonfire.

The boa constrictor may have been exposed to such a situation for the first time, and did not dare to approach it.

With the light of the fire, Qiqi can see its complete appearance clearly.

This is a large python seven or eight meters long, covered in silver-gray, with bursts of cold light.There are golden copper coin-shaped patterns all over the body, which looks a bit strangely beautiful.

Alternating gold and silver, like gold strands specially made in the palace.

It's a bit gorgeous.

She froze for a moment, staring at the python's mung bean eyes, and suddenly had an idea.

Before leaving, the old man gave her a pack of snake medicine, which was specially used to treat this kind of python, but she didn't know if it would work or not.

If she missed a hit, she might be strangled by this huge guy.

But if one strike succeeds, the danger will be avoided immediately.

The boa constrictor's body is oily and smooth, and this skin is really a rare and good item.

She was thinking wildly, but unexpectedly, in the night, there were many money and silver gray pythons swimming over.

There are big and small ones, but the one that has been staring at her is the biggest.

Possibly the king of pythons.

She was taken aback.

Cold sweat ran down her spine to her waist.

But she didn't dare to make a sound, and she didn't dare to turn her head, for fear that if she didn't pay attention, the python would attack her.

Qin Cai woke up, turned his back to her, and was dumbfounded to see the groups of money and silver pythons on the cobblestone.

He was bold and said, "Ma'am, what should I do?"

What can she do?
Seeing more and more silver gray pythons gathering money, she flickered her eyes, frowned fiercely, and quickly took out the medicine powder bag in her hand.

However, the boa constrictor moved.

It suddenly jumped towards her.

Faster than lightning.

Go straight to bite her on the head.

The boa constrictor is huge, with its mouth wide open, it is not impossible to swallow a piece of wood, or even a house.

In the blink of an eye, half of Qiqi's body entered the python's mouth.

In a flash, it wants to bite, and she wants to escape.

Once it closed its mouth, there was no way she could pull out half of her body.

The python king started to move, and the other small pythons also attacked.

I didn't expect these things to be fighting together, not fighting alone.

Qin Cai was too busy to take care of himself and was powerless to save Qiqi.

Her gaze was like a torch, staring at the big blood-red mouth of the money silver gray python, and quickly jumped into its mouth.

If you do the opposite, let alone people, even animals will be dazed for a while.

The boa constrictor shook, not knowing what it meant.

It originally planned to tear it up and swallow the delicious food, but who knew that with one mouthful, the prey ran into its mouth by itself.

Qin Cai was shocked: "Ma'am..." Suddenly, a boa constrictor bit his arm.

Qiqi only had time to take a look, when her eyes went dark.

Before the eyes were dark, he finally shouted: "Snake medicine..."

She herself quickly tore open the medicine bag and spilled snake powder.

"Hiss... hiss... hiss..."

In an instant, a scorching smell came from the foul-smelling mouth of the boa constrictor.

It seemed that something was scorched by fierce oil, and it festered in a large area in an instant.

A large piece of snake meat rotted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the boa constrictor no longer cared about eating her.

Wow opened the mouth of the snake.

It wanted to spit her out.

This thing turned out to be refined.

Knowing that he swallowed her, he began to fester and burn, and immediately vomited her out.

Taking advantage of the situation, she rolled over and quickly escaped Zhang Yuan, standing among the snakes.

The boa constrictor on the cobblestones was also struggling.

Many guys who had never been exposed to snake powder fled like a [-]-meter sprint, as if they had seen the biggest natural enemy.

Such a highly poisonous guy, such a big guy, never had a natural enemy in this jungle.

And this snake powder is the natural enemy.

It turned out that Qin Cai also spilled snake powder just like her.

The boa constrictor king rolled over, his body rotting faster and faster, gradually dying.

Even it was dying, and the other boa constrictors beside the campfire suffered countless deaths and injuries.

The power of snake powder is really shocking.

Qiqi touched the cold sweat, her whole body was exhausted, but she cheered up and laughed: "We can cross the river now."

Qin Cai didn't know what she meant.

But she walked up to the python king, pointed at the snake skin and said, "Come and see."

Qin Cai walked over and followed her finger to look at the snakeskin.

When he saw the rotten snake meat just touching the snake skin, he stopped burning.

As if being precisely controlled by something.

The snake skin is oily and bright, never damaged, and the material is excellent.

He knelt down, stretched out his hand imitating Luqi, touched it, and said in surprise: "Sure enough."

Sure enough, it is a good material, which is just right for making floating boats.

With this water-proof boat, you can go to Goose Mountain within a snap of your fingers.

The two of them dared not sleep again, for fear that the money and silver gray python would go and come back again.

Immediately, according to the torch, he began to cut wood and tie up the boat.

Because the bottom and side of the ship are ready-made, the skin of the money and silver gray python is used, and the other parts are fixed firmly, so it is very durable.

Worked until dawn, and the boat was completed.

Qiqi raised her head, looked at the white sky, then looked at the mountains hidden in the clouds, and smiled slightly.

Goose Mountain, here she comes.

(End of this chapter)