Adventure Code

Chapter 391 Skinned Deer (3)

"...It says on it that in the alchemy list of ancient alchemists, Bone Grass is one of the medicinal materials for refining the elixir of immortality." I looked at the scrawled handwriting with difficulty, my face remained calm, but my heart was already running wildly More than ten thousand grass mud horses.

Isn't this Bone Grass the target we are looking for this time?
Unexpectedly, it was discovered by a Taoist priest decades ago.

Wait, is there really roe deer essence in this place?
In fact, before that, I have seen the magic of Longusculus, so I am more concerned about the deer peeling than the Taoist's records about Longusculus.

According to folklore and records in notes, the musk sac in the deer's body emits an aura that reduces people's ability to judge and distinguish, and even causes hallucinations.

The roe deer uses musk sachets to pick off human skin, and also uses musk sachets to confuse women.

The red boy I saw before... Could it be that the deer approved the child's skin?This guess made my scalp tingle for a while, and then I thought of the red boy, leading me all the way into the darkness, which happened to coincide with some folk legends.

There are women in our team, could it be that Zhang Zijing fell in love with Suo Suo or Fu Xueli, so he planned to lure me to a place where no one was around, and take my human skin?As soon as I told everyone my thoughts, Anba nodded immediately, with a determined expression: "Absolutely! Let's retreat quickly, the roe must be nearby!"

Scimitar didn't reply, still silently flipping through the book in his hand, the content behind this is even more interesting.

Since Qingfeng is a Taoist priest, he has read records of Bone Grass in some ancient alchemy books, so he knows that although the plant Bulbus withers once every ten years, once in a short time, in fact, it is just a kind of After dormancy, it will regenerate after ten years, but the rhizome of Sclerossus longus only needs to be removed and found in a suitable place, and there is a possibility of survival.

Therefore, Taoist Qingfeng collected a section of the rhizome of Bulbularia, and after the end of the Cultural Revolution, he became a monk again, and the Deer Temple was abandoned.

Taoist Qingfeng did not write where he went, but I noticed a detail, that is, in this temple chronicle, Qingfeng mentioned his lay name, his surname was Xu, because his health was poor when he was a child, his parents wanted to let him live. Just a little bit, so I called him Xu Xian, which means Xu to the gods, so I sent him out of the family.

When I first saw the name Xu Xian, I still thought it was funny, because it naturally reminded me of "Legend of the White Snake", but after I followed the machete through the temple records, I couldn't laugh anymore.

Xu Xian.

Surname Xu.

Take away the rhizomes of the bone grass.

As for my hometown, the village where Granny Wu still lives, the Xu family is the common surname in it, and the bone cat cave is not far from my hometown village, and there are obvious traces of man-made inside the cave.

Could it be... Taoist Qingfeng didn't return to vulgarity, he went to Fangruo County, planted bone grass, and spread the leaves?Apart from this possibility, I really can't think of why there is such a coincidence.

If it is true, then maybe this Xu Xian, Taoist Qingfeng, or my ancestor?

I couldn't help wiping my face, probably because my expression was too weird, Machete noticed something was wrong, he turned his head, his gray pupils stared at me unblinkingly, and said slowly: "What's wrong?"

can i be honest

Of course not.

So I said: "I just feel that the writing is too bizarre. Isn't the bone-grass recorded on it the same plant as the one we were looking for? It says that the bone-grass grows beside Luoyue Lake...Anba, you Do you know there is a place called Luoyue Lake?"

Anba hissed, and said: "There are many lakes in this place, and I know of five big lakes, but they are all wild lakes, and no one has given them names. This Luoyue Lake is probably Qingfeng Taoist himself. Come on, I don't know."

Scimitar put away the temple records and said, "It's okay, at least it gave us some clues, and we'll look for them along the lake." Without getting anything else, Scimitar signaled everyone to return, and my mind is full of clues right now. As for Xu Xian's matter, this possibility makes me feel unbelievable, and at the same time, I feel weird in my heart.

There is an old saying that no book is complete without coincidences. For those who write stories, there are always many coincidences in the book, otherwise they will not be broken.

But my life is neither a book nor a novel. How could such a coincidence happen in my life?If it's a coincidence, wouldn't it be a bit scary to be a coincidence?Doesn't it seem like fate?
Is there really such a thing as fate?What is fate going to do with me?
No.

I shook my head and took a deep breath.

It can't be a coincidence, and I don't believe in coincidences.

Old lady Wu, Mao'er Cave, Bone Grass, this mission, Qingfeng Taoist's temple records, all of this can't be a coincidence!I must have overlooked something, there must be something driving all this...

I decided that after going back this time, I would first contact the elders of the family to see if I could find records such as genealogy. Perhaps from the genealogy, I could verify the possibility of my guess.

However, in my impression, I have never heard of a family tree at home, and the possibility of finding it is relatively small.

In ancient times, people would wear genealogy and genealogy, but that was usually done by wealthy families, so until now, a person with a genealogy, no matter how poor he is now, at least proves that the ancestors are still doing well. Because if the genealogy can be passed down, it means that the family is flourishing.

In ancient times, the average life expectancy of people was low, and the poorer they were, they lived in a tired and dirty living environment for a long time, and they were very easy to get sick. In addition to the chaos and wars in ancient times, and the polygamy system was implemented, it was good to mix. Yes, if you marry a wife and take concubines, you can have several concubines; a man who doesn't mix well can't marry a wife at all.

So in the past, it was difficult for ordinary poor families to pass it down from generation to generation. Maybe it was passed on to the next generation, and the child died of illness because of the bad living environment. There are also daughter-in-laws who are directly extinct, or the descendants simply serve in the military and die on the battlefield.

You know, in ancient times, the soldiers were all poor people.

Because of this, as long as there are more than ten or twenty generations of family trees, even if the ancestors are not wealthy, they must be a well-off family.

Although I was born late and never stayed in the village, I went there a few times when I was a child, when there were still people in the village. Our place was really poor, and few old people in the village could read and write, so I used to go there. Counting up, it is estimated that my ancestors were not very good, so naturally there will be no genealogy or the like.

I haven't thought about this problem before, but now that I think about it carefully, I suddenly discovered a problem that I had ignored for many years.

When I thought of this question, my steps subconsciously stopped.

(End of this chapter)