It is already a hot summer day outside, but there is no heat at all inside the cave. On the contrary, it is very cold.《》()
Those water rats had disappeared without a trace in an instant, which made the cave look clean.
After walking a dozen steps further along the flat land, Lin Xi saw that the ground was covered with chisel marks. He immediately understood that this flat land was not naturally formed, but was instead chiselled for the convenience of quarrying.
After walking a few steps further, Lin Xi suddenly felt cheerful. She suddenly saw clearly that she seemed to have entered an empty hall, with countless rocks piled in the middle. Some of them had been cut into long strips of square stones, and some were completely made of stone.
Irregular boulders.
There were piles of logs piled in many corners of the large hole. The surface was smooth and not yet decayed. Lin Xi knew that these should be the rolling logs used to transport stones at that time.
Not far away on the left hand side, he saw several artificially carved stone chambers.
Lin Xi walked into these stone chambers first. He immediately saw that these stone chambers were in a mess, but there were also broken stoves. It was obvious that the quarrymen at that time lived and ate here many times.
Just when he looked into the second stone room, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up again.
A clay pot.
Next to the abandoned stove, there was an ordinary black clay pot with a broken mouth. The pot and the inside of the pot were covered with dust, but except for the missing mouth, it was intact.
"This should be considered a cultural relic... If in that world, it could be used to cook and eat as before, it would be a bit of a luxury."
Lin Xi chuckled to himself. He was almost certain that since the quarrymen at that time were cooking and eating directly here, there should be no problem with lighting a fire for ventilation. According to what he had done in Qingluan
What I learned in the academy is that as long as this kind of cave is more than tens of meters high and there is no straight up and down ventilation holes, the smoke from the fire will be condensed and filtered through the gaps in the mountain. Especially this quarrying cave is in
At the bottom of the mountain, even if there is a straight up and down passage, at a height of two to three hundred meters, it is almost impossible for the smoke from a small burning fire to penetrate outside the mountain and be noticed.
But if there are other entrances to this quarry, eating and drinking here, and someone comes in easily, then it will be a real joy.
So although Lin Xi really didn't want to take another step at this moment, she still tried hard to restrain her thoughts of immediately moving the three silver-headed dragons here to fill her stomach first, and continued walking towards the inside of the quarry.
Not far from the inside, there was another big hole with no way out. The ground was full of dirt, with some lichens and other things growing on it. This big hole was higher. When Lin Xi looked up, he saw many cracks in the rocks and many vine-like trees.
The roots hung down for a long time, and some even touched the bottom of the cave.
Seeing that this quarrying cave was just two connected large caves with a depth of less than a hundred meters, Lin Xi immediately felt completely relieved.
As long as he couldn't be found, he wasn't in a hurry at all. As long as his injuries were slightly better, even if the three silver dragons had finished eating, he could find a way to catch water rats and fish, and he could stay in this quarry cave for as long as he wanted.
But the tens of thousands of soldiers and practitioners mobilized by Donglin Province cannot wait forever.
In this kind of game, as long as one party no longer needs to worry, it is already in an invincible position.
Among some stone ears and lichens, there are also types that are very beneficial to practitioners, and even if they are just ordinary edible lichens, they are considered vegetables for Lin Xi in this quarry cave, otherwise the meat of Yin Po Dragon is the best.
If you eat it without any other adjustments to the taste, it will feel very boring.
Cultivation itself is a boring thing, but the practitioner himself can evolve it into many interesting things. This is also true for many things in this world.
When Lin Xi was convinced that her physical strength was still fine and insisted on walking towards a place where lichens grew densely, she saw that the large cave inside did not have any traces of quarrying. It should be that there were many cracks between the rocks in the large cave, mixed with soil.
, not very tight, and it is easy to collapse when quarrying, so we quarried outside the cave where there are solid rocks.
Seeing that the ground was covered with ordinary stone lichen, because only the five fingers of her left hand could move slightly, Lin Xi scraped it with her feet, trying to gather a thick layer of lichen into a pile first, and then
Come down and try to wrap it up and take it out.
Just when he had scraped off a pile weighing about two or three kilograms, some plants growing on the roots of some old vines growing from the top of the cave in front of him felt very familiar to him.
The things taught in Qingluan Academy’s outdoor survival course are extremely complicated. In particular, various caves themselves are a good source of food for practitioners in the wild. A lot of knowledge about various caves is taught, so Lin Xi knows that those are
Parasitic plants.
After taking a few steps forward, Lin Xi could see clearly in the darkness.
These are plants as thin as a little finger, less than a foot long, with some white down growing on a straight red stem, making it look like a pig tail at first glance.
"Red mochi!"
Suddenly, Lin Xi thought of what it was, and was stunned for a moment.
There was silence in the cave for a while.
A little faint green light came out of the earth hole under the cave wall.
When these fat water rats saw Lin Xi standing in the big hole, they cowered and did not dare to move.
Lin Xi moved.
He raised his left hand with great effort and pulled out a red plant.
Because of the swelling and pain in his left arm, his movements were very stiff and difficult, and he looked a little ridiculous.
But all the fat water rats that came out of their holes made a loud splash, turned around and ran away in a hurry.
Lin Xi, who was sitting outside, was not scary in their eyes, but those silver dragons were extremely terrifying in their eyes. However, when those silver dragons appeared, Lin Xi walked away fine.
Coming in, in their little heads, Lin Xi suddenly became extremely terrifying.
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"There is no secret book, but there are still some good things after all. After all, it is a quarry left by our predecessors."
Lin Xi looked at the "little pig tail" lying obediently in the palm of her hand, smiling with satisfaction and feeling a little emotional.
Red sesame seeds are generally used to stew chicken. It tastes very delicious... and it also has the effect of prolonging life... and it is also a great tonic for practitioners...
He just finally thought of what this thing was, and he immediately remembered the relevant records of this thing.
This kind of thing itself should grow in the forest. If it grows in the soil, it can grow taller and stronger. However, it has no medicinal effect. It can only be parasitic on some old roots and grow in this dark and lightless environment.
Inside, some nutrients that are particularly beneficial to the human body will be uniquely grown.
This kind of thing is naturally fond of soil and likes to be self-reliant, so it grows in the soil of the forest and never takes root in the roots of nearby trees. It can only be transplanted on the roots of this kind of tree. It has no access to the soil and needs to absorb nutrients.
When the time comes, it will helplessly take root in the roots of other trees.
Therefore, the red sesame seeds here should have been planted by the Taoists of Baiyun Temple back then. Lin Xi saw that there were many thick scars on some old roots here. The red sesame seeds planted here at that time
...I heard that those idle Taoists who didn't know how to practice but only knew how to keep healthy lived a long time, so they must have often used this kind of stuff to stew chicken back then... It is said that there should have been a lot of food in the mountains and forests on Sanmao Peak back then.
The few red sesame seeds were plundered by these idle Taoists who did not need to chant sutras and chants, and transplanted them into this place.
Later, those idle Taoists who often used this stuff to stew chicken must have disappeared, so no one knew what stone the Baiyun Temple and Longguang Pagoda in the mountain were built from, so the remaining twenty or so plants were
We waited until we arrived at Lin Xi, who originally just wanted to pick some lichens.
Because no one would grab these things to stew chicken, because the fresh ones would be better, and eating too much would cause overheating and nosebleeds, so Lin Xi just picked two plants, rolled up a small bag of lichen and walked out of the cave.
When she very carefully carried the only intact large clay pot with a missing mouth under her arm and started cleaning the old clay pot, which was at least several hundred years old, Lin Xi thought of Xue Chengtao and what Xue Chengtao said to her on the top of the mountain.
After saying thank you, he shook his head again and said in his heart to this unrelenting opponent: "I would like to thank you instead... Without you, how would I know that the Taoist priests from Baiyun Temple often used red sesame seeds to stew chicken?
If it weren't for you, how would I taste the Yinjiang stewed with red sesame seeds? What does pig taste like?"
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The washed clay pot filled with clear mountain stream water was brought back to the stone chamber inside by Lin Xi.
A very prosperous fire was quickly lit.
The clay pot was put up by Lin Xi. On a clean wooden board next to it, there was a pile of thick skins cut from the three-headed silver dragon. The skin of this large fish was silvery white and translucent, and was very soft and elastic.
If Lin Xi was asked to describe him in two words, given his personality, he would definitely say "very Q".
After the water boiled, Lin Xi threw two red sesame seeds and several large pieces of fish skin into a clay pot, then cut off a large piece of fish meat and roasted it on the fire.
Then Lin Xi began to work hard to make a small splint with her still mobile left hand, and then used her hand and mouth to fix the fractured right wrist.
After completing this step, the aroma of meat has filled the stone room used by quarrymen hundreds of years ago.
Lin Xi frowned and used a knife to cut off a piece of fish that had been cooked on the surface of the fire. Regardless of how hot it was, she started to eat it in big mouthfuls.
The wound on his left chest has stopped bleeding again, and there is no need to worry about the other stab wounds and scratches on his back and body. The only thing that needs attention is the injury to his hands.
Although he could move his left hand, his arm bones were fractured several times by Xue Wantao's heavy blows. Every time he moved, he had to endure tremendous pain.
This kind of pain tolerance was brought about by Xue Chengtao, just like the red sesame seed stewed with silver Polong at the moment, and Lin Xi knew that it was of great benefit to her own practice.
However, he must kill Xue Chengtao.
Not only because Xue Chengtao was the one who wanted to kill him, but also because after he chopped off the five fingers of his left hand, Xue Chengtao's temperament became a little abnormal and he seemed to lose a lot of humanity. Lin Xi could be sure that when he went out, Xue Chengtao knew that he was not dead.