Qingchuan History

Chapter 244

Pengxi Mountain is one of the rolling mountains in the northern part of the country.If it hadn't been for a cliff in that mountain that started ringing bells many years ago, no one would have separated this mountain from other mountainous areas where the front, back, left, and right sides could not be clearly distinguished.

But even so, apart from finding that cliff, no one is sure where the Pengxi mountain boundary begins.Those dense forests are layered on top of each other, one after another, no matter which direction you go in from southeast to northwest, walk in the direction that you think is Pengxi Mountain, pass through the forests, and walk through the mountains that can only be explored with your feet——

Let's call it a road.There is a high probability that you will not be able to reach Pengxi Mountain.It may have been bypassed, or passed, but it just couldn't go up the mountain.

For decades, the only way for people to get close to that mountain was to enter from the southwest side of the entire mountain range and go up the river until they saw Wuyi Cliff——

Ring the bell if you have something to do, and leave if you have nothing to do.Trying to sneak in from the forest around Wuyi Cliff is also a dead end——

There have been tens of thousands of people who have tried and made mistakes over the past few decades. Of course, they all tried, and finally proved to be wrong.The result is still going around the maze and walking a long way out of the mountain.

Some people say that this is due to the terrain of the mountain.Some people also said that Lord Ji Ji used the art of war or some strange skills to set up the formation.

There are many rumors, but there is still a lot of fog.

Ruan Xueyin entered the mountain alone at noon on the fifth day.The carriage was arranged by her to go to a nearby town to rest.Naturally, they were all from the palace, and they were Gu Xinglang's confidantes. They wanted to get the king's order, and everyone from the coachman to the entourage refused to leave here. They must tell her a time for the return trip, so that they can come here in advance and wait.

So it was agreed that two days later, they would meet here and now to return to Jidu.I don't know if those hidden guards heard it.And Ruan Xueyin was beating drums in her heart, not sure if two days would be enough——

According to the ten-day agreement with Gu Xinglang, she can only stay for two days at most.If he doesn't come back for ten days, that guy is afraid that he will mobilize people to pick him up.

——She has become more and more confused about his way.But this kind of thing, even if it is absurd, she firmly believes that he can do it like this person does what he says and never lets go.

She didn't walk along the river.It seemed that he just casually drilled into the woods and started to climb up the stairs.

There are no stairs either, the so-called picking up the steps is just the way she stepped on.But it went very smoothly and skyrocketed.It was early winter, and the deep mountains in the southern country were still lush, deep green, and the cuckoo singing was heard in the silence.Ruan Xueyin didn't feel like she had walked for a long time.The sunlight hit the bamboo joints, and soon the eyes were full of bamboo joints.

See the bamboo sea and enter the Pengxi mountain boundary.

There was a rustle.Like mountains and seas like giant tides.All the year round, on a single day, the bamboo forest of Pengxi Mountain will always ring so suddenly and deafeningly.No matter east wind, west wind, morning wind or evening wind.

She walked through the bamboo forest wrapped in strong fragrance of branches and leaves, came to the front of the stone steps, and began to really climb up the steps.

step ladder.

The black stone is paved and extremely steep, steep and narrow, narrow and straight up like going to the clouds.On both sides of the stone steps are still green bamboos and black pine trees, and there are some unnamed plants with different heights and shapes, all of which are rippling with deep blue in early winter.

The house is also quiet.Below the top of the mountain, at the end of the cloud ladder, although it is not at the top, it is really high.

It's just that after leaving for more than half a year, the air here seems to be different.Maybe it's just a different mindset.

She pushed open the door of the south-facing house on the east side.This hall is very large, it used to be used by them to study in class, and there were still three book tables with cushions on the floor.For some reason, she felt that the room was larger than she remembered, and it was also empty. The bamboo cabinets rustled softly in the occasional mountain wind.

The window was left open.

She stepped in, trying to close the window smaller, as in the past, when she heard a familiar voice behind her:
"Little Snow."

She turned around to look, the man was dressed in green, with no decorations on his sideburns and earlobes, very simple and clear, like ice on the edge of a snowy cliff.

"teacher."

"You're back." It's not unexpected at all, it seems to be a matter of course.

"Ah."

"I'm going to the medicine garden. Let's go."

For a whole afternoon, the master and apprentice worked in the medicine garden.No one opened their mouths to ask questions, until the sun set low, and the deep golden sunlight fell on the incense tree in the west of the medicine garden.

"I haven't seen it for more than half a year, but this Fragrance Plant has grown taller again." Ruan Xueyin stopped her work and raised her eyes to look, "It's about to bloom."

The flowering period of the fragrant fruit is at the end of winter, but the Pengxishan plant always blooms earlier, in mid-December every year.

"Soon." Ji Ji also raised her eyes, her eyes were light, "I thought that if anyone came back suddenly one day, it would probably be Ting Ge." She said suddenly, with a rare smile, "It turned out to be you. "

"Why do you think so, teacher?" Ruan Xueyin turned her head, "That girl has been gone for five years and never came back. I just went down the mountain at the beginning of this year."

The face of the teacher seems to have been fixed since five years ago.Set at about 50 years old or so.It still looks like it does today.

If five years ago was 50 years old.So this year it was 55. 20 years ago it was 35.

No one has ever said what age the people in the East Palace Medicine Garden are.But she somehow felt that the age of 35 was a bit too old and not right.

"I always thought that once you go, you won't come back for a long time." For the two of them, Ji Ji never called herself "a teacher", and was always "I".

Ruan Xueyin didn't quite understand this sentence.

"But I went there with the task given by the teacher. Naturally, I went and returned."

"If you join forces with His Majesty Qi Jun today, you will naturally be faster than Qi Jun in the past. But Jizhao Pavilion is not an ordinary place, and no matter how fast you are, it will not be cleared overnight."

"So the teacher has already made preparations for me to stay in Qi Palace for many years."

Ji Ji smiled again, "Are you hungry? It's almost there, let's go back."

Four dishes and one soup.Even the aroma of the food in Pengxi Mountain is different from other places.Jing Tingge was arranged like this when Jing Tingge was there, and then there were only the two of them left, and the amount of food remained unchanged.

Ruan Xueyin ate deliciously.Then he suddenly remembered that Gu Xinglang asked her if the food Ji Ji cooked was delicious.

The taste that is too familiar will become the ultimate taste, and the place that is too familiar will turn into nostalgia.

She answered well then.

"Do you get along well with His Majesty Qi Jun?"

She didn't expect the teacher to ask such a question.And there was a clear smile on the other party's face.For so many years, so many smiles in one day are really rare.

"I have entered the Jizhao Pavilion." She thought for a moment, and decided to answer this question in a different way, "But it didn't work. Not a single door was opened."

The teacher didn't respond.

"There is something strange about the inner wall of Jizhao Pavilion." She looked at the other person's face and continued.

Ji Ji quietly chewed the vegetables, as if she only wanted to listen.

Ruan Xueyin then recounted what she saw in the Jizhao Pavilion that night.

"The relationship between Yaoxing's mountains and rivers and Heluotu seems to be irreversible." The other party still didn't answer, so she could only continue, "Teacher, we asked you in the past, but you never answered. How did these two things come from?" Where did you come from?"

The best way to talk to Ji Ji is to ask directly.Because any temptation to play around will be seen through on the spot and become meaningless.

"You came back from such a long distance, I think you have a lot to ask. And you have to ask face to face, you can't use birds to send messages." Ji Ji put down her chopsticks, very calm, "Come on. Finish the question first, and I'll see what I can do." answer you."

Ruan Xueyin was startled, and then put down her chopsticks.There is not much need for brewing. After nearly five days and nights on the way back, the belly draft has been typed very clearly.She sorted out her thoughts one last time.

"The first question has already been asked. The second question, where were you when the Donggong Yaoyuan case happened? Did you go up the mountain?"

Still very direct.

Ji Ji nodded: "Continue."

"The third one is that there is a mysterious person in the Shangguan family who knows the same medicine as us. We suspect that this mysterious person is the second mistress of the Shangguan family, the mother of Shangguan and Shangguan. The teacher learned about them After being able to kill with four sisters, he also asked me to investigate, so is it possible that Mrs. Wei Xiang is the old friend of the teacher? If so, do you have any relationship with the East Palace Medicine Garden?"

It couldn't be more direct.She paused for a moment, and then added: "Qingchuan Medicine Garden is tens of millions, but Pengxi Mountain Medicine Garden is really special. There are too many kinds of medicinal plants that are rare in the world. Are there any in the former Donggong Medicine Garden?" ?” Even though she had made all the preparations for asking questions, she still felt flustered when she actually asked them face to face.

"Teacher, is Pengxi Mountain Herbal Garden the same as Donggong Herbal Garden?"

(End of this chapter)