Xu Mu's expression could not be seen under the night cover, but he just whispered: "I just got enough sleep in the afternoon, and there are gravels rolling down here from time to time. Let's each sleep for half the night. I also want to take some time to practice my skills. You go to sleep first!"
After saying that, he sat down cross-legged on the hillside above the tent and began to practice his energy.
He Qizhou sat down next to her and said, "I can't sleep either. Let's chat for a while. Xu Mu, tell me about your birthday. I never know who is older, you or me.
I haven't slept well at noon for the past two days!"
"Pull you down! You snored as soon as you got in, and you have the nerve to say that!"
"If I'm to blame, the smell on your body is so pleasant that I fell asleep without even realizing it."
"You are tired from traveling all day. You are still carrying hundreds of kilograms of stuff. Go to sleep. You won't be able to rest at noon tomorrow." Xu Mu said softly.
"Then tell me your birthday first, and then I'll go to bed." He Qizhou said.
"You say it first," Xu Mu said.
"Okay, you can definitely remember that my birthday is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and you blocked my slap that day. It happened to be my birthday..." He Qizhou said.
"I'm half a month younger than you." Xu Mu's voice was a little lower.
"Sister Xu Mu, if only you could always be so gentle..." He Qizhou said with a happy smile. In the end, he was older and no longer had to call Brother Xu Mu against his will.
"Go down and sleep, I won't be able to practice!" Xu Mu showed his fierce look and kicked He Qizhou in the butt.
He Qizhou followed one after another and rolled the gravel to the edge of the tent. He laughed and said: "Remember to call me within two hours, otherwise I won't sleep if you don't sleep. If you sleep, I will sleep with you!"
"I won't mess with you anymore. Go to sleep now. It changes every two hours!" Xu Mu was talking. Several pieces of gravel quickly rolled down from above due to the vibration below. Xu Mu didn't even look back and slammed the stones.
All the blocks flew to both sides, and then continued his breath luck.
It was dawn, and Xu Mu didn't even sleep for two hours, so he asked He Qizhou to pack his things and set off quickly. The two of them continued to walk through the strange rocks until noon. He Qizhou didn't know how many marks he made.
Unable to get out of this series of hills, I was secretly counting my steps. I lifted up the hatchet with half of its head worn off and wanted to mark the nearby stone cliff. Suddenly I found the stone cliff.
Looks a bit familiar.
Looking again, there is actually a mark on it. It was the mark I made in the early morning. It turned out that I walked for a long time and returned to the same place! Looking at Dahuang again, he also changed his original confident look. From time to time, he shook his head and flicked his tail, and let out a heavy snort.
, obviously also realized that he was lost!
"What should I do?" Xu Mu looked at He Qizhou, his mood extremely solemn.
He Qizhou had no choice but to approach Dahuang, put his arms around its neck and said, "Uncle, it's up to you. Don't panic. If you find the right one, go back to your hometown and we can go back!"
"Can it understand?" Xu Mu was a little dumbfounded.
He Qizhou said: "If you don't understand, just understand. Give it a little more time. If it can't go out by night, we will go to the highest place, and Dahuang will have to resign himself to fate."
"Okay, you can throw away everything in the tent to save some energy and water." Xu Mu said.
Although He Qizhou was a little reluctant to leave, he still threw away the tent blanket and secretly prayed for Dahuang in his heart: Dahuang, Dahuang, if it was just the two of us, I would definitely not leave you alone, but now that Xu Mu is here, I can no longer
The water was wasted on you, you'd better show off your power quickly.
The men and horses took a short rest and set off again. This time Dahuang walked very slowly. He saw the marks he had made many times along the way. After walking for more than an hour, he came to the foot of the cliff again.
When He Qizhou saw it, he wanted to die. Unexpectedly, Dahuang started to wander in front of a pile of rocks in front of the cliff. The pile of rocks was more than a foot high and consisted of gravels the size of fist stones.
, it should have rolled down the cliff after a landslide.
After Dahuang walked back and forth several times, he finally stopped in front of the pile of rocks and used his front hooves to pick up the stones. He Qizhou's heart skipped a beat as he jumped straight up to the pile of rocks. There were two giant rocks behind the pile of rocks that seemed to be...
There is a gap three feet wide, like a stone path, but there is a tall mountain on the ground dozens of feet in front of it, so there seems to be no passage.
He Qizhou was not too determined to give up. He walked along the stone gap to the end, only to find that there was a ravine several feet wide and dozens of feet deep between the end of the stone gap and the tall mountain. The road formed by the stone gap turned around.
It is still possible to pass to the left, but the naturally formed "road" is close to the side of the cliff, most of which are only a few feet wide, and the ground is densely covered with rocks. The right side of the road is the deep ravine just seen.
"How's it going?" Xu Mu also jumped onto the pile of rocks and asked loudly to He Qizhou, who had walked dozens of feet away.
"It's possible to pass behind the boulder, maybe it's here, but it's extremely dangerous. I wonder if Dahuang can pass?" He Qizhou responded while flying back.
"I can only be a doctor. Let's flatten this pile of rocks first." Xu Mu said. The two of them worked together and quickly flattened the pile of rocks more than one foot high by several feet. Dahuang couldn't wait.
He climbed up the still somewhat steep pile of rocks, climbed over it with difficulty, and walked happily along the "road" that He Qizhou had just discovered. He neighed twice more loudly, as if to warn that victory was coming.
The stone path beside the cliff is sometimes narrow and sometimes wide, sometimes high and sometimes low. From time to time, fine stones fall from the top. Because the stone path is too narrow, all the stones rolling down from above fall into the deep ravine on the right, making a "clang, clang, clang, clang" sound from time to time.
huge sound.
He Qizhou discovered that there were sporadic long hairs caught on sharp stones on the cliff. He couldn't tell whether they were horses or sheep. There were also dried horse dung under the stones under his feet. The stone path went all the way up, passing through dangerous miles.
After the journey, the mountain began to level off, and the hillside merged with the ravine on the right. Dahuang walked even more briskly, climbing diagonally up the mountain.
"Shouldn't the water be at the bottom of the valley? Will the place Dahuang takes us turn into a deserted beach like the wetland?" Xu Mu still felt mixed feelings in his heart.
"I believe it!" Although He Qizhou said this, he actually thought exactly the same as Xu Mu.
It was approaching sunset, and there was still some daylight in the sky, but the sun was no longer visible from where they were. They were thinking of finding a shelter from the wind to spend the night. Suddenly, they saw Dahuang speeding towards the hills. Regardless of the fatigue from the day's travels, he ran quickly.
He got up, climbed over the mountain in one breath, and then disappeared on the back side of the mountain.
The two people hurriedly spread out and climbed up the ridge in a few seconds. They were stunned by the scene in front of them, and then they hugged each other and screamed and jumped! Xu Mu unconsciously made a female voice, which He Qizhou thought was familiar, but
In their excitement, without even thinking about it, the two of them rushed down the hillside hand in hand.
It was a valley of hundreds of acres, with green grass covering the bottom of the valley. On the opposite hillside was a whole spruce forest. A blue lake reflected the snowy tops of the mountains in the west. The red sun refused to go down the mountain.
Wearing a shabby hat for the snowy mountain...
"This is the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen!" He Qizhou took Xu Mu's hand and rushed down the valley with Dahuang.
"Me too! Yaochi Wonderland is nothing more than this!" Xu Mu also shouted.
"There are campfire embers here..."
“Here is a freshly used earthen stove!”
"fish bones!"
"There's a rope on that cliff!"
"There are a lot of footprints by the lake, including people, horses, and sheep!"
…
The two people who went down to the bottom of the valley kept finding signs that someone had just come. After Dahuang ran around the bottom of the valley, he drank water happily by the lake.
"It seems that they took a different path than us and climbed down from there. It's really difficult for them to find this place. Maybe they are already on the way back." He Qizhou felt a big stone in his heart and felt extremely happy.
Xu Mu said: "It's possible. I heard that the terrain of the Tianshan Mountains is similar to that of the Altai. Li Zhong is a veteran of the Tianshan Mountains. It is estimated that he can lead the way to find this place. Let me ask you, if you were asked to return the same way now, would you be sure to leave the mountain?
"
He Qizhou thought for a moment and said, "It should be fine if we explore for four or five days. After all, we got here in two days."
"Judging from these marks, it is estimated that they left here less than three days ago. In this way, they walked in the mountains for at least four or five days from the time they entered the mountain to the time they found this place. I hope they trapped Tianju to lead the way, otherwise they would really have been there for them.
I'm so sweaty." Xu Mu was still walking hand in hand with He Qizhou by the lake, feeling much more relaxed at this time.
"No, look, these footprints go all the way to the northwest, and few of them go back! They left the camp and walked along the lakeside, and never came back." The more He Qizhou walked west, the more he became confused.
Confirm your own judgment.
"They are chasing horses. This is a good way to kill two birds with one stone! They are not afraid of cutting off the water source, but they also have the hope of lassoing Tianju and letting the horses lead the way!" Xu Mu said happily.
"Then let's rest for the night and chase them tomorrow!" He Qizhou rekindled the hope of roping the horse. Fortunately, he still had the long rope with him, which was originally used to help Xu Mu go up and down the cliff.
"Well. You can have a hot meal today. I'll light the fire and you can help pick up the firewood - don't let me go yet!"
"Okay, I'll go right away!" He Qizhou let go of his hand with some reluctance, and went to chop wood on the opposite mountain as he was told. In a good mood, this old man worked extremely quickly, thinking to himself, he didn't know the group of people who entered the mountain.
Is it Liu Junzhi who took the initiative to take on the task of chopping wood?
"There are ready-made stone pots here. They must have been bought by Li Zhong and the others. I have already washed them. I will treat you to gnocchi later." After He Qizhou came back with a lot of firewood, Xu Mu had already lit a bonfire.
At that time, he was adding firewood to the earthen stove.
"I haven't had a bath for almost half a month. I'm going to take a bath first, and then I'll think of a way to catch two fish. Half of them will be roasted, and the other half will be put in the soup..." He Qizhou said.
"Are you crazy? How cold is the lake water on this high mountain that I haven't touched just now?" Xu Mu asked anxiously.