Chapter 104: Collecting Herbs
"That's natural, but it doesn't belong to Zuo Shi alone. It was built in conjunction with others. Those villages are both their retreat and their foundation.
Otherwise, if a martial artist like Master Zuo had no retreat and no foundation, how could they survive in this chaotic world? They would have been forced to take sides, join a certain force, and get involved in the fight between them. "Zheng Xinghan replied.
"If the world really falls into chaos, we will not be able to stay out of trouble with only the retreat and foundation of the village." Qin Ziling said after hearing this, and did not ask where Master Zuo's village was located.
Since Zheng Xinghan didn't say anything, it was naturally not the time to let him know.
"What's there to be afraid of? As long as Master Zuo withdraws to the village and doesn't open a school to teach students and do business in the city, no matter how chaotic it is outside, what can it do to him?" Mu Xuan retorted.
In addition to opening a martial arts school, Zuo Le also owns some commercial businesses in Fangqiao City.
Qin Ziling smiled when he heard this and did not refute.
If a large army really came, even a tall city could be conquered, so what would a mere village be? Now the five great families in the inner city were still fighting each other. If there really came a day when only one family was truly in power in Fangqiao City, I'm afraid the village outside the city would become a force of its own and be outside their control.
Gaitong County is about two hundred miles away from Fangqiao City.
Originally, the three men were martial artists, and it would only take two days for them to walk two hundred miles. However, because they had to avoid some bandits and gangs, they often had to take small paths and cross mountains and ridges. It took them four days to walk the two-day journey and finally they arrived at a mountain range with dangerous peaks and shrouded in clouds and mist, which was twenty miles outside Gaitong County.
During these four days, the three men traveled during the day and camped in the wild or in an abandoned village or temple at night.
At night, the three of them took turns to keep watch, even though Mu Xuan was a woman.
During the period, although the three had tried their best to avoid the territories of some bandits and gangs, they still encountered some bandits who blocked their way and robbed them.
However, these bandits were a motley crowd, and their numbers were not large. The three of them just rushed in and beat them to a pulp. They also robbed the bandits and made dozens of taels of silver for nothing.
"From a distance, this mountain looks like a mountain with strange peaks and clouds and mists. The scenery is very beautiful. In fact, the clouds and mists are mixed with a lot of miasma. If people inhale too much, they will be poisoned. The most dangerous thing is that there are many poisonous snakes and insects living in this mountain, which makes people hard to guard against. Therefore, the locals call it the ghost-seeing mountain, and almost no one is willing to set foot on this mountain.
Master Zuo accidentally entered this mountain and found a cliff with snow lotus grass growing on it. He secretly remembered that every year when the snow lotus grass picking season comes, he would send me and Mu Xuan to pick it. Very few people know about this place now. Master Zuo trusts you very much, so he sent you to participate. "Standing at the foot of the mountain, Zheng Xinghan pointed to the dangerous peaks in front of him that were piercing the sky and shrouded in clouds and mist.
"Brother, don't worry, I won't let Master Zuo down." Qin Ziling said calmly.
Zheng Xinghan nodded, then took out some medicine powder and pills, distributed them to the two and said, "Put the pills in your mouth to prevent poisoning from miasma, and sprinkle some medicine powder on your body, especially your feet, to repel poisonous insects and snakes."
"Thank you, senior brother." Qin Ziling took the pill and put it in his mouth, then carefully sprinkled the powder on his body.
In fact, Qin Ziling has basically lived in the mountains for the past six months. In terms of outdoor experience, he has much more experience than Zheng Xinghan. He also carries with him a lot of medicine powders and pills to protect against poisonous insects and poisonous gases, and they are all homemade by him.
In another world, the inconvenience of movement in the following years gave him an opportunity to calm down and read widely and enrich his knowledge, so he covered a lot of knowledge. In addition, in this world, he integrated some residual soul consciousness of the old devil Li Mo.
Combining the two, Qin Ziling figured out a lot of medicinal powders and pills. Some of them were used to prevent insects and snakes when living outdoors in the mountains, and some were poisons mixed with various poisons including corpse poison. These were hidden in the corpse-raising ring by him for emergency use.
Everything was ready, and the three of them entered the mountains.
After entering the mountains, Qin Ziling still behaved normally on the surface, but he was secretly on high alert.
Half a day later, the three of them arrived at a cliff safely.
The cliff is very steep, with not much slope. Water is seeping out everywhere, and there is moss where the water flows. It looks very slippery, and it is absolutely .
In some cracks in the rocks, there are some green stems and leaves growing towards the wind, with white flowers with three petals, and in the middle there is a fruit the size of a coin, shaped like a lotus pod.
"Those with white flowers are the Qinghan Snow Lotus Grass! Ziling, you and Mu Xuan stay down there, I'm going to climb up and pick them now." Zheng Xinghan said, pointing to the white flowers growing over a hundred meters high.
"Senior brother, let me do it. I'm good at this." Qin Ziling said.
Zheng Xinghan and Mu Xuan didn't know, but Qin Ziling knew it very well. He was much stronger than them, and he had recently practiced the Dragon Swimming Body Skill, so the danger of climbing the cliff for him was definitely much lower than that of Zheng Xinghan.
After saying that, Qin Ziling took out a very sharp mountaineering pick from the basket behind him without waiting for Zheng Xinghan to answer, and with a running start, he rushed to the cliff.
When they reached a certain height, the cliff became very steep and there were not many places to step on for leverage. Qin Ziling used a climbing pick to climb up skillfully and easily.
At first, Zheng Xinghan was a little worried when he saw Qin Ziling suddenly rush forward, but when he saw his movements were easy and skillful, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"This Qin Ziling!" Zheng Xinghan shook his head.
"Senior Brother, when we set out I said that he was a coward and not like a man. Was that a bit too much?" Mu Xuan looked up at Qin Ziling's figure which was getting smaller and smaller, which made people feel creepy. She couldn't help but blame herself.
"What do you think? Would a cowardly and courageous man compete with me to do such a dangerous thing?" Zheng Xinghan asked back.
"No!" Mu Xuan shook her head and replied.
Then the two of them fell silent, looking up at Qin Ziling with nervous expressions as his figure became smaller and smaller.
After Qin Ziling filled a basket with Qinghan Snow Lotus Grass, he went down the cliff.
Zheng Xinghan was worried about Qin Ziling's physical strength, so he would not let him climb up and pick the herbs from the second medicine basket no matter what.
Qin Ziling couldn't persuade Zheng Xinghan, and he didn't want to reveal his true strength, so he had to go with him.
Fortunately, a large part of the Four Prime Minister's wings have been repaired now. If anything unexpected happens, he will still have time to release the Four Prime Ministers to rescue them.
Two people shared a medicine basket, and they filled two baskets full. Most of the Qinghan Snow Lotus Grass, which was relatively easy to pick on the cliff, had been picked. It would be too dangerous to go any further up.
"These are enough for one year! The ones on top are kept for seeds. When the seeds mature, they will float down to lower places, and we can pick them again next year.
It's strange that this Qinghan Snow Lotus Grass only grows in the cracks of the cliff, and only here, not anywhere else. We transplanted it before, but it didn't grow well, and even if it managed to grow, it didn't have this medicinal effect. "Climbing down the cliff, Zheng Xinghan said while wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"This is normal. The growth of any plant is related to many factors such as sunlight, temperature, water, soil, etc. Since this Qinghan Snow Lotus Grass is so precious and rare, it must have very high requirements in this aspect. If we can't meet them, it will naturally be difficult to cultivate it successfully." Qin Ziling blurted out.
