Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 112: Meet Again, Zhao Shanhe
Early in the morning, Tang Zheng had just gotten up when he saw Tang Xiaotang and Tang Zixie, each wearing a leather hunting suit, standing at his door.
Of course, Tang Xuan, Azhi and others who couldn't go at the same time watched Tang Zheng and the other two leave with resentful looks on their faces.
A group of three people walked through the morning mist and arrived at the river mouth into the mountain.
At a glance, I saw Xu Qingyan, wearing a green robe, holding a jar of wine, hugging a sword, leaning against a big tree with his eyes closed, not far away. It seemed that he had been waiting for a long time.
"Good morning." Tang Zheng breathed in the fresh mountain air and greeted Xu Qingyan with a smile.
"Good morning." Xu Qingyan responded briefly and followed them with the jar of wine.
Tang Zixie gave Tang Xiaotang a questioning look.
But Tang Xiaotang herself couldn't figure out what was going on, so of course she could only shake her head.
Jinshanhekou is the only way to get to Wuqing Mountain from Wulong Town.
If you walk along the road, you will reach the Zhaixing Sect all the way up. If you don't walk along the road, you will reach the vast forest hunting area of Wuqing Mountain.
Wuqing Mountain is rich in medicinal herbs and has a wide variety of wild animals. I wonder how many people who make a living in Wulong Town are supported by it.
Just across the bridge at the entrance to the mountain river is a row of small wooden houses.
As soon as Tang Xiaotang and the others arrived, a big man with a full beard came out of the cabin in two or three steps and said, "Hey, isn't this Tangniu and Zixie?"
"Uncle Dali!" Tang Xiaotang and Tang Zixie smiled as soon as they saw the big man coming out to greet them.
The two men introduced themselves to Tang Zheng. Zhang Dali was a hunter who lived at the foot of the mountain. He had always been on good terms with Tangjiabao. There were several villages nearby that depended on the land of Tangjiabao for their survival. They had always been protected by him and his brothers. They had helped the villages drive away wild beasts several times.
Tang Zheng looked at Zhang Dali's straightforward face and nodded lightly, while Xu Qingyan simply did not react at all.
"Are you going to the Zhaixing Sect?" Zhang Dali asked, "How about you rest here for a while before setting off? My place is not as good as Tangjiabao, and there are not many good things here, but at least there is enough food and drink!"
"No, we are going up the mountain to look for six-eared white deer." Tang Xiaotang declined Zhang Dali's kindness with a smile, "We won't bother you any more here."
"Six-eared white deer?" Zhang Dali looked up at the mountains.
"Uncle Dali, do you know where I can find it ?" Tang Zixie asked.
"That... I'm not very clear." Zhang Dali shook his head, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "Since you still have to hurry on, I'll wait for you to come down the mountain and sit with me. If you need anything, you can come down and talk to me at any time."
"Okay." Tang Xiaotang responded with a smile.
After the four people went up the mountain, they did not walk along the main road, but quickly deviated from the main road and entered the forest.
After a little more in-depth discussion, Tang Zhengcai asked, "Is Zhang Dali familiar to you guys?"
Tang Xiaotang shook her head: "We often buy furs from him, so we have dealt with him several times."
"We've only met a few times? He's quite enthusiastic..." Tang Zheng looked meaningfully in the direction of the mountain and smiled.
"Well, Uncle Dali is a kind-hearted person." Tang Xiaotang said with a smile.
Tang Zheng just said "hmm" and said nothing more.
The mountain road became increasingly difficult to walk on, but the sunlight shining through the gaps in the woods was very beautiful.
Tang Xiaotang and Tang Zixie both practiced martial arts for many years, so although they were a little tired, they were not at all unable to hold on. But when they looked back at Xu Qingyan, he didn't seem tired at all.
"As expected of a three-star warrior." Tang Xiaotang stuck out her tongue at Tang Zixie.
"Look at the teacher..." Tang Zixie reminded Tang Xiaotang in a low voice that their teacher was also calm and collected.
Tang Zheng often stopped, inserted the sword into the scabbard, put it in his mouth without the sheath, and climbed directly to the top of the tree to see the road. From time to time, he would stop to look at the nearby branches, or turn over the soil on the ground.
Tang Xiaotang asked subconsciously: "Are you looking for traces of six-eared white deer? Are there any traces of their hooves?"
"..." Tang Zheng looked at Tang Xiaotang deeply, "I don't even know what a six-eared white deer's face looks like, how can I know what its hooves look like?"
Xu Qingyan held the sword, raised his head and glanced at Tang Zheng in surprise.
They have been walking for a long time, if they are not looking for the six-eared white deer, then what are they looking for?
Tang Zheng looked at the three of them and immediately realized that they had no experience at all: "In such a large forest, the first thing you do after entering it can't be to look for deer, right?"
All three of them had an expression of "Why not?"
Tang Zheng felt that there was no way to communicate at all: "How do you think we should search? One person responsible for an area, split up and search in a dragnet? Each person should search for ten days or half a month and then come back to meet up?"
Although none of the three shook their heads, it did sound unreliable...
"Let's not talk about whether we can find it this way. With such a large forest, do you know where there are beasts' nests, which are the swamps to avoid, and which areas have negative status on the map... cough, I mean miasma, poisonous fog, dangerous bee swarms, etc." Tang Zheng shook his hand and continued, "When hunting, the most fearful thing is haste. No matter what the purpose of entering the forest is, the first step must be the same - safety."
"Yeah." Tang Xiaotang and Tang Zixie nodded quickly.
"Then, what are you looking for?" Xu Qingyan nodded thoughtfully and asked Tang Zhengdao.
"Looking for someone! Look... the traces left by the old hunter!" Tang Zheng casually broke off a branch that had been cut off at the end by a knife and pointed forward, "This way!"
When he first entered Wuqing Mountain, he didn't have a small map to use. Tang Zheng was not a god, so how could he know which road was safe?
Of course, only the road walked by other hunters who are more familiar with this forest is a safe road!
Tang Xiaotang and Tang Zixie followed Tang Zheng very seriously and learned how to identify the cuts on the branches and the direction of the previous people's walking, how to observe the remains of the campfire, the marks of the tent on the bark, and other details...
Xu Qingyan was left behind alone, always alert to the surrounding environment.
After walking for about another half an hour, as expected, we heard bursts of conversation not far ahead!
Someone!
Tang Xiaotang was about to step forward to ask for directions, but Tang Zheng immediately stretched out his hand to stop Tang Xiaotang and the others.
"The rules of the game are that if you go up without saying anything, you are assumed to be going to steal the monsters, and the opponent can just turn on the red and kill them. The rules in the jungle should be similar." As he said that, Tang Zheng took two steps back and raised his voice to ask, "Come here, Tang Zheng from Tangjiabao, who is ahead? Is he an enemy or a friend?"
This is not Wulong Town, nor is it the place where Tangjiabao has absolute power.
If it is someone close to Tangjiabao, you can ask for directions, but if it is an enemy, the two sides will automatically separate.
When they heard Tang Zheng's voice, the conversation on the other end stopped.
Xu Qingyan sneered: "Have you ever hunted before?"
"That's right! I have ten years of hunting experience, I'm a strong assassin, I can fight, I can carry, I can lure monsters, all the sponsors, please give me a team at a good price and good quality..." What Tang Zheng blurted out was a piece of information about seeking a team in his previous life when he was brushing the world.
"Haha." Xu Qingyan said to himself silently in his heart: "I don't understand. But this is just a joke, hiding the origin... Be careful!"
Tang Zheng didn't even look at him again, but stared quietly ahead.
Whether to continue moving forward or take another route depends on the other party's answer!
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In the dense forest not far away, a group of sturdy and capable men, all grasped their weapons tightly, with stars rising, ready to fight at any time.
There are really no rules in the jungle, but if someone comes up to you without saying hello, he is most likely an enemy rather than a friend, and any hunter's reaction will be to kill him without mercy!
However, after hearing Tang Zheng's voice, the originally tense atmosphere suddenly relaxed a little.
"Tang Zheng? Tang Zheng!" One of the shorter men's eyes suddenly lit up, "Brother Zhao! Isn't he... the medullary pill..."
"Yeah." The leading man from the Zhao family nodded.
On that day, he came back from hunting a python, but the python skin was stolen by the Yinlan Villa. Most of his brothers were injured, and he was seriously injured and his life was in danger.
If Tang Zheng had not happened to be a purchasing agent at Jubao Pavilion, and he had obtained the life-saving medullary pill from the Jubao Pavilion, the consequences would have been disastrous.
Not only will his brothers face many difficulties in the future, but his beautiful wife, who is from the Yaoshan tribe, will be unable to protect herself!
"Put away your weapons and go take a look." Without saying a word, the Zhao man directly carried a large axe behind his back, with no expression on his rock-hard face.
Tang Xiaotang and the others felt a little nervous when they saw that there was movement on the other side as soon as Tang Zheng announced his name, and there seemed to be quite a lot of people.
However, when the other party approached them, he immediately reported his name: "West Street in Wulong Town, the second son of the Zhao family, Zhao Shanhe!"
Zhao Shanhe was a tall and strong man with a stern face. He stood with his hands clasped and his back straight.
Tang Zheng looked the man up and down and asked, "Your name is Zhao Shanhe?"
"That's right." Zhao Shanhe nodded.
"Are you...fully recovered?" Tang Xiaotang also remembered, of course, that the medullary pill bought by this man's wife was the first item sold during their social practice.
"Okay. And my strength has greatly improved, almost reaching three stars." Zhao Shanhe replied.
The Medulla Pill is a very special kind of pill. It is useful for people who are seriously injured and dying. After taking it, only 30% of people can survive, while 70% will die.
However, the 30% who survived will definitely make rapid progress in strength within a short period of time.
"This Wuqing Mountain is full of dangers. Why did Mr. Tang Zheng want to go into the mountain and take risks?" Zhao Shanhe didn't say any more pleasantries and went straight to the point.
"There's something wrong with my life palace, and I urgently need a demon beast's inner elixir." Tang Zheng didn't say too much, but still reported the name of the demon beast, "That demon beast is a six-eared white plum deer!"
"Six-eared White Plum Deer? That's a mid-level two-star monster. Normally, no one would bother them. I've only heard of it, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes."
"Don't you know where they are?" Tang Xiaotang asked a little anxiously.
Zhao Shanhe shook his head, took off a bundle from his body, and without saying a word, spread it out in front of Tang Zheng.
There were quite a few things in Zhao Shanhe's bag, including various animal skins, minerals, and even some medicinal herbs, all of which were presented in front of Tang Zheng and the others.
"If you don't absolutely need the Six-eared White Plum Deer Inner Pill, you can see if there is a substitute and take it yourself." Zhao Shanhe spoke very directly, "It's dangerous on the mountain, you'd better get down as soon as possible."
Tang Zheng was not unaware of Zhao Shanhe's good intentions, but, unfortunately, he really had to have the inner elixir of the Six-eared White Plum Deer.
"Master... Zhang Dali doesn't know either, and Zhao Shanhe doesn't know either..." Tang Xiaotang was very clear about what these two people knew about Wu Qingshan. If even they didn't know, then their hope of finding the deer might be very slim.
Hearing Zhang Dali's name, Zhao Shanhe's thick black eyebrows frowned slightly.
Tang Zheng sighed and briefly told Zhao Shanhe the two consequences that Ban Yilou had told him, namely "star power decline" and "becoming a sissy". Of course, he did not elaborate on the details about the Taiyin star family.
"Then this matter is extremely urgent." Zhao Shanhe frowned even more tightly after hearing this. "No wonder I saw Young Master Tang Zheng, he looks much more fair and handsome than the last time he was at the entrance of Jubao Pavilion!"
Fair and handsome...
When Tang Zheng heard Zhao Shanhe's "praise", he was so sad that he could not even cry.
That's not the style he wants! Absolutely not!
Zhao Shanhe pondered for a moment, then shouted to his brothers behind him, "Has anyone seen a six-eared white plum deer? Even if you have only the slightest clue, please tell me now!"
The six-eared white deer is a mid-level two-star deer and is not their hunting target.
So, the group of men thought about it for a long time, and one of them with a gourd hanging on his waist suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "I was drinking in the town once, and I heard Chen Laosan bragging that he once encountered a six-eared white plum deer near the Bishui Cold Pond."
"Cold pond with clear water?" When Zhao Shanhe mentioned this place, his axe-carved face became even more resolute. "Deep mountains."
"Yes, deep mountains..." The man nodded.
“Is it reliable?”
"It's probably true. He showed us the scar on his thigh. It really looks like he was injured by the molten saliva sprayed by the six-eared white-browed deer!"
Zhao Shanhe also nodded and turned to Tang Zheng: "I've been to the place where the six-eared white plum deer live once. Take your things and follow me."
Tang Xiaotang was so happy that she almost jumped up.
However, she hadn't been happy for long when Zhao Shanhe said, "The Ice Water Pond is very dangerous. There are at least two-star monsters lurking there. There may even be high-level or even peak two-star monsters."
"It doesn't matter." Xu Qingyan, who had been silent in the back, finally spoke the first sentence.
"Okay, then please lead the way!" Tang Zixie thanked Zhao Shanhe.
Just when several people were getting ready to go, a huge roar suddenly came from the jungle and everyone was immediately alert. Except for Tang Zheng, Xu Qingyan and Zhao Shanhe, who just moved slightly, everyone else quickly took out their weapons and the stars rose.
"Awoo--" Following a roar that hurt the eardrums, a giant white-browed tiger several meters long, with sharp teeth and claws, pounced out with a gust of wind.
Look at the target that the beast is staring at, it is none other than Tang Xiaotang, the smallest girl!
