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Chapter 55
Niutoushan.

Fifty miles outside Qingjiang City, it is the only mountain range within hundreds of miles.

Qingjiang City is also a city of abundant grain. The plains in its territory are extremely vast, with countless fertile fields and well-developed river systems.But only this Niutou Mountain was born very abruptly, standing alone outside Qingjiang City.

When the weather is fine, standing on the city wall, you can see a little shadow of Niutou Mountain from a distance.

The mountains are long and endless.

There are several peaks in Niutou Mountain, the highest one of which is called Niutou Peak by the nearby villagers. Under the Niutou Peak, there is a small mountain village where hundreds of people live.The villagers in the village depend on the prey in the mountains all day long, and occasionally they can pick up some medicinal herbs and take them to the city to buy, which is not bad.

Outside Qingniu Village, on an uneven path, a bullock cart came from a distance.

On the ox cart, an old man in coir raincoat held the ox rope in his hand, and drove the big yellow cattle in front of the cart unhurriedly.The ox cart was very slow, and it was rattling on the potholed path. From time to time, there was the sound of wine jars colliding, as if they were pulling a lot of goods.

Not long after, the ox cart came to the front of the village, and the gray-haired old man let out a cry, and stopped the ox cart by reining in the rope.

The old man got off the cart to lead the ox, first tied it to the tree at the entrance of the village, then walked to the cart, and shouted at the cart full of straw:
"Little girl, my village is here, Ning come down quickly."

As the old man yelled, the top of the high pile of straw on the wooden cart squirmed for a while, and strands of straw fell down.

Soon, a white lotus root arm protruded first, followed by a white head, and a whole human figure appeared on the straw pile.The man looked young, wearing a jet-black dress, which contrasted sharply with her snow-white hair.

While pulling the straw mixed in her hair, the girl spat out the straw scum from her mouth. She looked around on the roof of the car, and saw the beautiful mountains and rivers, the willows and flowers, and the smoke in the village, just like a farm scene.

But the small mountain village in front of me looks very small in comparison with the mountains in the distance. The mountain village is as insignificant as a grain of rice under the majestic mountain.

The girl seemed to have never seen such a majestic mountain before, her face showed surprise, she turned over and fell lightly to the ground, first straightened the wrinkles on the clothes, and then asked the old man very curiously:
"Old man, is this Niutoushan?"

"This is Niutou Mountain. There are no other mountains in this area for several miles. Girl, I would rather go to this mountain to spread food. There are many wild animals in the mountain than go there."

This old man is seven or eighty years old, with gray hair and beard, and he speaks with an accent.

And this woman in black is Huaying who just came out of Qingjiang City. She happened to meet this old man driving a car on the way to Niutoushan.

At that time, the old man had just dumped a truckload of goods from another town and was about to go back to the village. When he saw Huaying was driving to Niutoushan alone at a young age, he called her into the truck and said he would take her all the way.

Huaying was also unambiguous, although the speed of the ox cart was very slow and far behind her own feet, but with the kindness of the old man, she chose to ride on it.

When she was on the road, she lay down in the straw and fell asleep in a daze. When she woke up, she found that she had arrived at Niutoushan.

This mountain is tall, compared with it, Qingya Mountain is just a small hill, the two are not enough to be compared.

If you want to use the few inks in Huaying's belly to describe this mountain, it is that there are many mountains and mountains, one thousand mountains and one blue, towering into the clouds, and solitary peaks protruding, oh
No matter how much she can describe, she can't help it. After all, she has just been out of illiteracy for a few years, and it takes time to accumulate talents.

The old man was very kind, and Huaying was very grateful for that, but she must have come here to enter the mountains, so I can only thank the old man for his kindness for the time being.

"Old man, is this the only way to enter the mountain? Or is it possible to enter the mountain from other places?" Huaying pointed to a small road leading to the mountain behind Qingniu Village.

The old man saw that Huaying insisted on entering the mountain, but he didn't try to persuade him any more, he said truthfully, "This is the road, other roads are usually not used by people, this road is safer."

"Since that's the case, I would like to thank the old man for taking the car. The younger generation will enter the mountain here. If there is a chance, see you later."

After finishing speaking, Huaying bowed slightly towards the old man, and after saluting farewell, she raised her sword and chose the mountain road to leave.

After she walked away, he stayed where she was, watching her back gradually go away with a pair of cloudy eyes, the old man bowed his waist and let out a long sigh.

"It's a pity, what a beautiful girl, if you can't live well, you have to go to die. In that mountain, can Ning, a little girl, be able to go, and the old cat will tear Ning up, alas."

The mountains are far away, and the wilderness is looking for seclusion.

With only one sword, Hua Ying went recklessly into the forest.

There is a gentle breeze in the mountains, the trees cover the sun and the sky, and there are occasional winds and grasses, but you still move forward firmly.

In February, flowers bloom and grass grows, and this year's spring comes very early.

Huaying observed all the way, and she traveled several miles in just one stick of incense. When she looked back, Qingniu Village was nowhere to be seen.

"This mountain is huge and difficult to trace. I wonder if we can find the cliff that the old farmer mentioned that day."

When I came to Niutou Mountain today, Huaying actually had only one purpose, and that was to come for the star grass.

The importance of Star Grass, in the past few months, she has already explored through several rounds of experiments. Its medicinal power is far greater than all the herbs she has taken before, and it has no toxicity. If it is used as an auxiliary medicine for cultivation, it can be said to be extremely suitable.

However, what is imminent is that the land in the jade pendant space has lost all its fertility in the past few days.

The star grass needs a lot of land to grow, and it took less than a month to drain the land. Now Huaying's half acre of land is almost like a piece of barren land, and nothing can grow anymore.

She also had to pull out the few remaining star grasses and store them.

Before finding a way to regain the fertility of the land, Huaying can only pin her hopes on finding a large number of star grasses in the wild to maintain her own cultivation speed.

Of course, the premise is that the wild star grass also has medicinal properties.

If you want to find the cliffs, Hua Ying must go to a higher place, but Niutou Mountain has many peaks, and there are countless cliffs. If you want to search one by one, I am afraid that you will not be able to find it in several months.

"People in the village should not go to the deep mountains to collect medicines. It seems that they have to look for them on the outskirts of the mountains."

With this in mind, Huaying was not in a hurry to go to the mountain. Seeing that there were many towering trees around her, she jumped up lightly and landed on the branch of one of the trees, and then jumped up and down two or three times. To the top of the canopy.

Standing on the top of the tree, the field of vision widened a lot. Huaying raised her eyes to look around, and secretly remembered the positions of several cliffs, then floated down and searched for the way.

(End of this chapter)