Thousands of miles of clear sky, thousands of peaks in full bloom.
When Luo Xuan woke up, he saw that the cliff opposite had been smeared with gold and red by the rising sun, which was very dazzling.
It's good weather again.
When the sleepy-eyed Luo Xuan focused his eyes, he saw that Du Juan had already gotten up and was sitting next to his head, looking at him with a smile.
"morning."
A smile appeared on Luo Xuan's face, and he reluctantly said hello to Du Juan, who was close at hand.
Du Juan also smiled, and then handed Xuan Xuan a bamboo tube and a willow branch, "Here, take these to rinse your mouth. We will eat in a while."
Not long after.
Luo Xuan and Du Juan finished their meal, packed up their things, and continued on their way.
This time Du Juan was on her way, and in the morning she specifically chose a place on the hillside with the wind out of the way and facing the sun.
Then she specially told Luo Xuan: You must pay more attention to the rocks on both sides, especially the black and bare rocks, and you must always pay attention to all the noises in that place.
Luo Xuan didn't wait to ask her why.
Du Juan took the initiative to explain: Big boa constrictors like to bask in the sun in the morning. And the black rocks are the boa constrictors' favorite place to sit.
Luo Xuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I don't want to catch a python."
Dujuan snorted coldly, "A manly man who keeps his word and spits like nails. As soon as you arrived at my house, you said you were going into the mountains to catch pythons."
My father has prepared the cowhide rope, realgar, and so on for you. Now you say you don’t want to catch him? It’s useless. Just follow me honestly.”
With that said, Dujuan turned around and walked into the mountains.
In the deep mountains and old forests that are originally inaccessible, the closer you get to Xiaolaojun Mountain, the place where bandits were originally entrenched, the more no one dares to set foot there.
The deeper the two people walked, the denser the woods there became and the more entangled the vines became.
After walking for a long time, the two of them didn't encounter a python along the way, but they reached the foot of the notorious Xiao Laojun bandit's lair.
Looking at the pointed peak.
Luo Xuan and Du Juan said in unison: "How about we go up and have a look?"
Du Juan wanted to see the bandits' lair, because her grandfather had spent most of his life there.
She was just a little curious about the life of her ancestors.
Luo Xuan wanted to take a look at this mysterious bandit den in the past. What did it look like?
Moreover, the bandit's den has been abandoned for many years. There should be a lot of wild animals and wild animals near the den, right?
Luo Xuan also wanted to try it and see if he could pick up some valuable mountain goods.
The two people rested for a while at the foot of the mountain, and then climbed up to the top of the mountain with difficulty.
The terrain of Xiaolaojun is dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
There is only one way up the mountain, which is a narrow passage carved out by manpower according to the direction of the stone cliff on the cliff wall. It is extremely difficult to walk.
It's such a difficult and winding rock-cracked path, and every once in a while, there are defensive measures built with stones.
Faced with such a dangerous bandit lair.
No wonder our heroic troops besieged Xiaolaojun Mountain for three months when they first attacked the bandit den of Xiaolaojun. They attacked several times but failed to achieve much results.
In the end, fierce internal strife broke out among the bandits, and Xiao Laojun was liberated in one fell swoop.
Luo Xuan and Du Juan climbed hand and foot between the cliffs for more than an hour, and finally reached the bandit's lair.
The two of them reached the top of the mountain and took a look: It turned out that at the foot of the mountain, Xiaolaojun Mountain, which looked like a pillar holding up the sky, was actually a small piece of flat land dozens of feet below the top of the mountain.
And under the slope between the plains and the top of the mountain are the caves where the bandits are entrenched.
The cave is very large and very high.
Entering the cave, Luo Xuan and Du Juan felt more and more that this seemingly inconspicuous cave was actually quite large.
I saw a big hole inside a small hole, and there were branches inside the small holes.
It has twists and turns, twists and turns, like a wasp's hive, and its structure is extremely complex.
Not only that, there is actually a large pool under the cliff behind the main cave, with many streams of seeping water slowly flowing into the pool from the cracks in the rocks.
Luo Xuan and Du Juan were both curious about this bandit's lair.
So, the two of them picked up two discarded pine sticks on the ground and made simple torches, then entered the small cave to check one by one.
but.
When these small bifurcated caves were liberated, they had been searched repeatedly by soldiers countless times.
So now inside the cave, except for the messy gravel, broken wooden boards, and some straw for beds and other debris, there is not a single valuable thing.
Not even a broken iron pot was left!
After seeing a few branching small caves, the cuckoo lost interest in this place.
I just heard her say to Luo Xuan: "Aren't you tired? I'm almost hungry. If you still want to take a look, then you can go and look around alone. I'll make a fire to cook first."
Luo Xuan was also tired and hungry at this time. When he was about to walk out of the small cave with Du Juan...
Sudden!
Luo Xuan felt his head tremble slightly.
At this time, there was a strange feeling in the space!
Luo Xuan couldn't help but think: Could it be...that there is jade nearby?
When Luo Xuan stopped and was stunned, Du Juan turned to ask: "Luo Xuan, are you leaving? I have to go out to cook."
Luo Xuan replied: "Then you go out first, I want to see it again."
Du Juan didn't say anything after hearing this. He turned around and walked out of the small cave with a torch, and went to the big cave outside to light a fire and make lunch.
In this small cave.
In a slightly wider area, there are several houses built with stones.
It's not surprising that there is a house in the bifurcated hole.
In the other small caves that Luo Xuan and Du Juan had already explored, there were also some houses made of stones scattered around.
It's just that those houses are very simple, but these stone houses are much more regular.
It looks like.
It is estimated that these houses were where the bandit leaders lived in those days.
Luo Xuan held a torch and walked into one of the stone houses.
I saw that the house was in a mess, with scraps of wood from the smashed wooden bed, rags, and straw stalks all over the floor.
It’s so hard to put your foot down.
The residence of this kind of bandit leader must have been the focus of searches by the soldiers back then.
Luo Xuan used a wooden stick in the house to rummage around on the ground for a while, but could not find any valuable items.
After leaving this room, Luo Xuan ducked and entered the small stone room next door.
At this moment.
Luo Xuan felt that the strange feeling in the space in his mind was a little stronger than it was in the room next door.
Putting the torch in his hand into the crack of the stone, Luo Xuan leaned down on the ground and picked up a few bamboo poles used to cushion the bed, and then smashed them into pieces.
A few simple torches illuminated the room brightly.
The room is very messy.
Fortunately, there is an inexplicable connection between the space in my mind and jade.
So Luo Xuan first walked around the room, carefully feeling the abnormal reactions in that space in his mind as he walked.
When Luo Xuan walked to the edge of a stone wall, the reaction in the space became even larger.
It's just that this abnormal reaction is a bit ethereal, making it impossible for me to accurately determine the specific location of the jade for a while.
Pulling a torch, Luo Xuan began to examine the wall carefully.
When he looked at the stone gaps in the stone wall one by one, Luo Xuan finally saw something abnormal!
At this time, the feeling in the space in my mind was the strongest.
