Chapter 108 [Ginseng Carriage]
Blue flames burned slowly in the two candles, little bits of white smoke floated into the air, and drops of wax slid down the candles.
Zhang Hao stood under the shade of a tree, among the weeds, with everything prepared in advance placed beside him.
At this time, he could feel both the heat from the east and the chill from the west.
The east, where the sun rises, means that the Yang Qi has begun to rise, is at its peak, and is at its peak.
The west, where the sun sets, means that the Yin Qi is rising, flourishing, and at its peak.
Zhang Hao just stood quietly, waiting. Now that there is a yin and yang candle, all the preliminary preparations are over.
Next, he only needs to wait quietly for the "Wandering Ginseng" to come from the east or the west. When the time comes, he will be able to use the things prepared in advance to catch the "Wandering Ginseng".
According to common sense, as long as the layout of Baicun soil is in place and the atmosphere here is added, "Zoushan ginseng" will definitely be attracted and follow the aura of Baicun soil.
"Xiao Bai, don't make any noise from now on, do you hear me?" Zhang Hao looked at Xiao Bai and whispered.
Xiaobai tilted his head, but this time he didn't make a sound, he just opened his mouth, as if to say: I understand.
Seeing this, Zhang Hao smiled and did not speak. This call mountain dog is really smart.
The reason why Xiaobai is not allowed to speak is to prevent him from disturbing "Zoushan Shen". After all, "Zoushan Shen" has a strong survival instinct and is timid by nature. If there is any movement nearby, he can hear it and run away.
He used Baicun soil and the Yin-Yang candle to temporarily block the spirituality and intelligence of "Zoushan ginseng", allowing "Zoushan ginseng" to temporarily ignore himself and the existence of Xiaobai, the [Mountain Calling Dog], thus Fall into a trap set in advance.
So, try not to make any noise at this time.
The reason why the three generations of the Liang family were pushed three meters away was because they had a stronger aura that did not belong to the mountains. This aura was more likely to disturb the "walking mountain ginseng" than the sound. In order to avoid accidents, Zhang Hao It had to be done.
He raised his head, looked to the west on the left, then turned his head, looked to the east on the right, and waited quietly.
Xiaobai also followed his example and looked east and west respectively.
The waiting time is always long and boring, especially when you can't do anything or make any sound. You can only hear the sounds of the woods and listen to the unique performance, and you have to be as calm as still water. Just wait.
Seeing the Yin-Yang candle burning little by little, Zhang Hao suppressed his inner anxiety and remained as calm as possible.
Once the yin and yang candle is burned out, if the "Wandering Ginseng" hasn't come by then, everything will be over. This arrest of "Wandering Ginseng" will be considered a complete failure.
Therefore, the opportunity is only before the candlestick is burned out.
Gulu.
He controlled the sound of his swallowing as much as possible and listened carefully, not wanting to miss any sounds.
Time passes little by little, just like the Yin and Yang candles burn little by little.
At this time.
Sitting at Zhang Hao's feet, the very obedient Xiao Bai suddenly stood up, looked towards the east, wagging his tail, his immature dog face became a little nervous, and his pair of bright black eyes were even more intense. He was alert, as if he had discovered something.
Zhang Hao immediately noticed Xiao Bai's change. He immediately turned around and saw that there was nothing on the road. He looked up into the depths of the dense forest and did not hear any movement.
But he didn't let down his guard, nor did he really relax. Instead, he was always tense.
Xiaobai could never make a mistake. Its hearing was stronger than his own with enhanced five senses. This meant that the sounds that Xiaobai could hear might not be heard by him, or it might take a while before he could hear them.
Therefore, Zhang Hao did not act rashly, his mood became calmer, and he even controlled his breathing very slowly.
Swish, swish...
Swish, swish...
After waiting for a while, Zhang Hao's pupils shrank and the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitched.
He heard it, heard the sound like something being dragged on the dirt road, and recalled the traces that he had followed all the way here, and he made a judgment almost instantly.
This is most likely because "Zoushan Ginseng" was attracted, and Xiaobai heard it right!
He gently picked up the village ashes on the side and held a handful in his hand, ready to scatter them at any time.
Of course, you can't spread it out yet. It's not yet time. When "Zoushan Ginseng" passes by Yin Yang Zhu and comes to the open space, the village ashes in his hands will be spread out, and he will use the village ashes to restrict it. "Take the wild ginseng" escape route.
The ashes in the village are the ashes from the kang bottoms of all the households in the village. After years of accumulation and burning, they are the product of the fire and are collected by all the households in the village. They contaminate the atmosphere of every household in the village and are considered to be the ashes of the entire village. power.
As ginseng belongs to the wood family, what they are most afraid of is naturally the thing with the attribute of fire and the breath of life.
Sprinkle it around the "walking ginseng", and with the assistance of the yin and yang candle, you can 'block the road' so that the walking ginseng cannot walk.
It's like spreading sulfur on the ground to curb poisonous insects.
The purpose of the villagers is to "draw the ground as a prison" and block the road ahead of the mountain ginseng walker, leaving him with nowhere to escape for the time being. Even if he escapes, it will be useless.
After getting ready, Zhang Hao breathed softly, his eyes still staring at the path paved with hundreds of villages of soil in the east.
Swish, swish...
Swish, swish...
As the sound got closer and louder, Zhang Hao saw what seemed to be something, walking out of the depths of the forest and walking onto the path paved with hundreds of villages of soil.
He squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully.
The next second, his eyes suddenly widened, his pupils dilated, and even his mouth couldn't help but open. His facial muscles twitched continuously, showing a look of shock.
And Xiaobai was even more nervous, even his tail stopped wagging, and his bright black eyes were full of vigilance.
Swish, swish...
Swish, swish...
On the originally empty path paved with hundreds of villages of dirt.
A strange scene appeared.
The two ginseng trees in the front, which look like human figures with extremely long roots but are only about 2 to 30 centimeters tall, are carrying something, swaying three times a step, swaying but not losing their balance as they walk on the bumpy Baicun dirt road.
Zhang Hao opened his mouth slightly, his pupils shrank, and he looked at the two ginseng roots in surprise and surprise...
No!
It's four!
Just now, he only saw the two ginsengs in front, but ignored that there were two walking ginsengs in the back. These were four ginsengs... four "walking ginsengs".
Looking up, I saw the four "walking ginseng", divided into four positions, front, back, left and right, together carrying a small wicker chair woven from grass and rattan, all the way forward along the hundred villages of soil.
Four "Wandering Ginseng"... Why are there four "Wandering Ginseng"?
According to the relevant records that Zhang Hao read in ancient books, "Wandering Ginseng" all moves alone, and basically you can only encounter one "Wandering Ginseng".
There is no other reason. The main reason is that "Wandering Ginseng" is not a small animal that can be seen everywhere, nor is it the weeds and wild flowers all over the mountains and plains. The growth environment and growth time of "Wandering Ginseng" are extremely harsh, and you can usually encounter a The root is good. There may not be a second "Wandering Ginseng" root in the entire mountain.
But this time, he actually attracted four of them!
And these four "walking ginseng" are still carrying something...
This, this is a bit wrong.
Moreover, it seemed that he had seen this scene somewhere before...or rather, he had seen the description of this scene somewhere. Is it recorded in the "Illustrated Record of Mountain Walking Travel"...?
At this time, Zhang Hao took a sharp breath, his eyes almost popped out of his head. The words "fuck" were on his lips, and he almost screamed out, but he suppressed it.
He remembered.
Zhang Hao felt that his heart was about to stop, and his expression was extremely weird, even a little distorted.
Because what is coming to us, or what is attracting us, is not the "Wandering Mountain Ginseng", but the "Ginseng Carrying Carriage" which is only recorded in the "Mountain Walking Travel Notes" but is rarely encountered by mountain walkers. ]!
At this moment, he finally recalled why he felt that the traces of "Wandering Ginseng" were a bit strange. He was still thinking about how a "Wandering Ginseng" could leave so many traces, as if it were there One line goes back and forth.
At that time, he almost thought that the "walking wild ginseng" was walking in place.
Now think about it, where is one "Wandering Ginseng" left? It's four "Wandering Ginseng" left behind!
In this short moment, Zhang Hao didn't know whether he should be happy or regretful.
The reason is very simple, "Walking Mountain Ginseng" is just a ginseng that can "walk up mountains", and [Ginseng Lifting Carriage] can be said to be the ancestor of "Walking Mountain Ginseng", a proper upgraded version.
[Ginseng Lifting Sedan] is recorded in [Zoushan Travel Notes] as follows: [The four ginsengs are divided into left and right, carrying a cane chair, like a sedan. 】
How can four "Wandering Ginseng" be the same as one "Wandering Ginseng"?
It can be said that the difficulty of catching "Zoushan Ginseng" is not low, and the difficulty of arresting "Ginseng Lidan" is several times more difficult than that of "Zoushan Ginseng".
In the "Illustrated Record of Mountain Walking Travels", many senior mountain walkers reminded that if you encounter the "Ginseng Carriage" without sufficient preparation, just turn around and leave without hesitation.
The reason is too simple. It is because it is difficult to catch. In the "Illustrated Records of Mountain Walking Travels" which records the experiences of walkers of all ages, there are only a handful of times when walkers have successfully caught "Ginseng Lifter".
You must know that this is an entire [Illustrated Record of Mountain Walking Travels], a legacy left by countless generations of mountain walkers, with very few successes. You can imagine how difficult it is to catch it, and it is not ordinary.
Therefore, mountain walkers of all generations will advise the next mountain walker to leave as soon as they encounter one without hesitation. After all, if they are not caught by then, they will be discouraged and depressed. If they can think of someone who can climb up and hammer the wall before they die, It's a certain level, so it's better to turn around and walk away.
However, Zhang Hao also knows one thing, that is, whenever he encounters [Ginseng Carriage], there will also be a mountain treasure, and the mountain treasure is in the rattan chair carried by the ginseng walkers.
Originally I wanted to catch a "Wandering Ginseng", and I only prepared things to catch "Wandering Ginseng", but I didn't expect to encounter [Ginseng Carriage].
But if Zhang Hao were to leave like this, that would be impossible.
What is the reminder from the senior walker, what is difficult to catch, how will you know if you don’t try? If he really leaves like this, he won’t be able to close his eyes even until the day he dies. No, he must catch this [Ginseng Carriage] today. .
At that time, one "Wandering Wild Ginseng" will be sold to Liang Jianzhong, and the other three "Wandering Wild Ginseng" will be stewed to replenish Li Siyu's body, and he will also get a mountain treasure.
The idea was good, but it still had to fall into reality. Zhang Hao held Cun Zhong Hui's hand tightly and loosely, and then Cun Zhong Hui got wet.
Anyway, it's better to give it a try.
……
At the same time, the three generations of the Liang family, as well as two bodyguards, who were hiding behind the big rock, all poked their heads out at this moment, their eyes straight, looking eastward, with horrified expressions on their faces.
"This, this, this..."
"Incredible, is this ginseng or a spirit?"
"What are they carrying?"
The five of them, with five pairs of eyes, all saw a strange scene that they could not forget.
On the path paved with hundreds of villages of dirt, the four roots looked like ginseng, with extremely long roots and rhizomes like limbs, but they also straightened their bodies like people, and together they carried a vine made of vines. chair.
The four ginseng sticks stepped on the uneven dirt road of Baicun, swaying step by step, but the rattan chair they were carrying did not fall. Instead, it was very stable, as if it was tightly stuck to the four ginseng sticks.
At this moment, they all suspected that their eyes were wrong and they were hallucinating.
After all, they had only heard Zhang Hao say that there was such a thing as "walking wild ginseng", but seeing it with their own eyes, and it was a rare ginseng sedan, couldn't help but give goosebumps all over their bodies.
Then, they suddenly saw that the four ginseng roots suddenly stopped and stopped walking forward in front of a small puddle, but paced in place.
The five of them saw that the ginseng root at the front stretched out a "leg" like a human being, dragging its root towards the small puddle, but just when the root touched the water At that moment, the roots retracted as if being electrocuted, and the entire body of the ginseng also trembled.
Then, the ginseng stopped trying, and instead circled back and forth with the other three ginsengs, as if there was a huge insurmountable ravine in front of it, or a rushing river in front of it. If you try to move forward, you will be washed away. generally.
"What happened to them?"
The five people suddenly became confused. At this moment, out of the corner of their eyes, they saw Zhang Hao find a wooden board from somewhere. Then, they saw Zhang Hao holding the wooden board in his hand and throwing it towards the four ginseng sticks.
After the wooden board flew close to the ground for a while, it landed steadily on the small puddle and built a "bridge".
The five people couldn't help but feel a little surprised and a little puzzled.
Then, they saw that the four ginseng roots that were originally stopped had bridged over the small puddle, and then they lifted up the roots that looked like human legs again, stepped on the wooden board, and continued to take a step forward. After three shakes, he opened his "legs" unsteadily, dragging his roots, and continued walking forward along the dirt road of Hundred Villages in front of him.
Ginseng carried the sedan across the river.
……
Zhang Hao couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the four "walking ginseng" stepping on the wooden board and successfully crossing the "river".
[Ginseng Carriage] You can't get through water.
However, Zhang Hao threw a wooden board over to act as a bridge, which could be regarded as helping [Ginseng Carriage] solve a big problem.
As the four "Walking Ginsengs" in [Ginseng Carriage] get closer to the position of the Yin Yang candle, the movements of the four "Walking Ginsengs" become slower, and their long beards are dragged on the ground.
Zhang Hao felt the rapid beating of his heart, the tension and anxiety deep in his heart, as well as the anticipation and excitement for what was about to happen next.
Xiaobai also felt his master's emotions, and his tail swayed slightly again, as if he was ready to rush out at any time.
In this way, one person and one dog watched helplessly as the [Ginseng Carriage] arrived in front of the Yin Yang Candle that had burned one-third. The movements of the four "Ginseng Candles" were getting slower and slower, as if each time they lifted one It takes several seconds to move forward.
Zhang Hao still didn't act rashly. He was still waiting for a suitable time to come. If he caught the "Wandering Ginseng", he could already throw out the village ashes in his hands and lay a trap in advance to restrict the "Wandering Ginseng". , but this is [Ginseng Carriage], the ancestor of "Zoushan Ginseng", so naturally we need to wait for a more suitable time.
As long as there are four "walking ginsengs" in [Ginseng Carriage], he can take action when the last two "walking ginsengs" at the back are about to cross the yin and yang candle.
Because at this time, of the four "walking ginseng" in [Ginseng Carriage], only the first two "walking ginseng" are in a state of spiritual recovery, while the last two "walking ginseng" are completely spiritual and have been blocked. state.
You must know that [Ginseng Lifting Sedan] requires four "walking ginseng" to cooperate with each other. Even if you want to run, you still need four "walking ginseng" to work together and run together.
This is the weakness of [Ginseng Lifter], and he wants to take advantage of this weakness to capture [Ginseng Lifter].
It's too late, but it's soon.
Just as his thoughts were spinning, Zhang Hao saw that the two "walking ginseng" behind the [Ginseng Carriage] had already lifted up their whiskers and passed by the Yin Yang Candle.
In the next second, Zhang Hao jumped out of the weeds without hesitation. He held the village ash in one hand and the cloth bag with the village ash in the other hand. He walked to the other side in a few steps. In front of a candle, taking advantage of the short period of time when the [Ginseng Carriage] was restricted by the Yin and Yang Candle in spirituality and wisdom, I spread the village ashes in my hand evenly, little by little.
He scattered as he walked, starting from the white candle in the west and scattering in a circle until he reached the red candle that the [Ginseng Carriage] had just passed. Then he circled again and returned to the white candle.
As Zhang Hao scattered the village ashes in his hand, a complete circle was formed without any loopholes, and the [Ginseng Carriage] was in the circle, still a little dull, and his movements were a little slow, as if he was imprisoned. Normal, but it seems to be gradually regaining its movements and breaking the confinement.
This chapter is five thousand words long. There was a missing chapter yesterday, so it’s a make-up chapter. There is another update today.
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