Traveling through ancient times

The mountain road after the rain was muddy and slippery, and the bumpy road made it difficult to move forward. Everyone walked on this rugged road, and every step became cautious, for fear of slipping down the mountain by accident!

The ground was covered with wet, tall weeds, and overhead were water droplets from wet leaves after the rain, which kept dripping down. There was no way to avoid them, and the clothes were soaked and stuck to the body. Everyone was moving forward in agony!

After walking for two hours, they had only walked less than ten miles. A woman in the crowd said in a hoarse voice, "Oh no! Tiedan has a fever! It's very high! His father, please find medicine quickly!"

The crowd stopped and the men hurried to look for some branches under the big trees that were not soaked. Gu Dalian was stunned for a moment, then walked silently to the front with a few dry and thick branches in her arms. These were the ones she had collected last night when she felt it was going to rain and put in the space nearby!

A woman took out dry grass and leaves from the hole in the tree, and soon everyone gathered a pile of dead branches! Working together, the fire started, and then piled up dead branches to ignite them. Finally, they put the thick branches that Gu Dalian brought on top, and everyone cleaned up the place again, and soon they started several more fires!

Someone was boiling water, and a woman was looking for herbs in a basket. The herbs, such as fangfeng, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, licorice and mint, were not complete, so they boiled them first. Everyone had caught a cold, so just in case, they boiled more. Everyone was thirsty and had a bowl of soup!

They took off their wet clothes, sat by the fire to ward off the cold. Gu Dalian pursed her lips, her consciousness entered the space, she tore open four packets of cold and heat-clearing granules, pulled her sister and signaled her second brother and Luo Feimo to step out. Each of them drank half a bowl of hot medicine, which was bitter but sweet. After drinking it, they felt a little warm!

When they stopped, they found that six or seven children had fever, including Gu Bufan, Gu Shaoqi, Damei and Xiaomei from the old Gu family!

The Ma family has three children, and the one with the worst fever is the one at the beginning! He is about five years old, with his eyes closed, his face red, coughing from time to time, and shivering from the cold! The child's mother wrapped him in a thin blanket, and the child's father brought a bowl of medicine and slowly fed him. The child was also very sensible, although a little confused, he would stretch his neck to drink the medicine mouthful by mouthful when the bowl was near his mouth!

In fact, Gu Dalian had already discovered that this team should be composed of two big families. Led by old man Ma, everyone stood straight, mostly young and strong men, and the women were mostly dressed in their eighteens, nineteens and twentys. Although they were dressed in tattered clothes, the aura of warriors could not be completely restrained!

The other family should be the six or seven children and their parents and relatives. They were very quiet and honest along the way. They didn't make any trouble and didn't talk to anyone casually. They followed everyone else as they walked, and stopped when everyone else stopped!

This old man surnamed Ma is really mysterious! But this has nothing to do with Gu Dalian and the others. As long as it doesn't affect us, we can still take a detour even if the sky falls!

In the mountains in the afternoon, although the sunlight was blinding, the people who had experienced a storm still did not feel very warm. They took advantage of the situation to eat and rest. The muddy road was originally difficult to walk on, and now that so many people were sick, they could only rest where they were and keep the fire burning brightly!

Now everyone has to rest for a few days anyway, there is no cave to stay in this area! Gu Wenzhi and his sister led Luo Feimo's group, and Ma Mingli led the two tribesmen to explore the way ahead in two groups!

Yingdang Mountain is the general name for the mountains and forests that stretch for hundreds of miles. There are dozens of mountains of different sizes, but the conditions of the mountains are different!

Some mountains are steep and covered with thorns, with few wild animals, but full of snake dens; some mountains are full of gravel, overgrown with weeds, and tall trees that shade the sun; and some mountains have strange trees with tangled roots and monkeys everywhere. If you are not careful, you will be stolen by monkeys. Everyone is completely looking around and walking in fear! Now I have only walked less than one-third of the way. The hardships are so painful that I can't stop crying!

Ma Mingli led Ma Sanshan and Ma Nanfeng all the way to the southeast. The mountain was not too far away. If they walked normally, it would only be about five miles away! After walking for about a few hundred meters, a tree that they had never seen before suddenly appeared in front of them!

The tree is covered with tumor-like nodules, and the branches are drooping down to the ground. The branches are lush and look like a person's thick hair, slanting in all directions, and the trees are leaning against each other. At first glance, the tree seems to have no boundaries. If you look at it a few more times, it seems to be able to drag people in. It's quite weird!

After passing this forest, you can reach the foot of the mountain!

Ma Nanfeng raised his bow and shot an arrow inside. Just as the arrow approached the branch, the nearby branches strangely bent at the same time, forming a hole. The arrow went into the hole, and the bent branches returned to their original state, as if these trees had thoughts!

Ma Nanfeng didn't believe it, so he raised his bow and shot an arrow at another place. The second arrow hit the target in exactly the same way as the first one. The three people looked at each other in shock!

After discussing for a while, they decided to move closer. Each of the three men picked up a fist-sized stone, exerted 10% of their internal strength, and threw it in three directions. The woods shook and a "woooo" sound was heard, which sounded like a warning from an angry tree spirit!

As for Gu Wenzhi's side, there were rugged rocks, uneven trees, singing birds and blooming flowers everywhere, but inexplicably, there were no animals to be seen!

The Gu Dalian sisters picked mushrooms, fungus, and all kinds of wild vegetables along the way. They even picked a few Ganoderma lucidum the size of a child's palm from an old tree, and dug out a 40-50 year old ginseng from under the roots of an old tree with tangled roots. These things they could get out will be used in the future besides the mountains!

They walked and stopped, and were about to get close to the big mountain in front. The trees were becoming more and more dense, and the mountain wind blew suddenly. Suddenly, they heard a low "woooo" sound. The four of them pricked up their ears to listen, and each found a shelter and became alert!

After a while, I heard a swish swish swish sound, and not far away was a white tiger! It walked forward steadily step by step, each foot stepped on the point of the previous foot, with firm and powerful steps. The majestic walking posture and proud demeanor indicated that it was the king of this land!

Gu Dalian leaned forward to take a look. This white tiger was really beautiful! It was three meters long and almost as tall as herself. It had strong muscles and was covered with thick and soft white fur. Its broad head had a strong jaw. Its mouth was open, and its sharp fangs shone white in the sunlight! It had a pair of triangular ears and a brown stripe above its nose!

Gu Dalian's eyes sparkled. If this were his mount, it would be so majestic! The white tiger seemed to sense something, trembled all over, raised its head slightly towards Gu Dalian, and let out a roar that shook the earth!

It stepped out and pounced on Gu Dalian swiftly, revealing its strong claws. It was so fast that it was hard for people to react! Gu Dalian jumped to avoid the tiger's claws. The white tiger turned around quickly and pounced again. Its sharp claws grabbed Gu Dalian's face. Gu Dalian shook his hands, holding the crossbow in one hand, and shot two arrows at the white tiger's front legs. It was fast, accurate, and fierce!

He saw the three people trying to come forward to help, and hurriedly said, "Stand back!" Everyone understood that Gu Dalian wanted to test his kung fu! They retreated tacitly! In fact, Gu Dalian also had his own little idea, to subdue this white tiger and use it for himself!

Luo Feimo hid behind a tree, staring silently, waiting to rush to help as soon as Gu Dalian fell!

The woman rushed towards the white tiger with a heroic look, like a flash of lightning. Her petite figure formed a sharp contrast with the huge body of the white tiger. The woman's eyes were as sharp as arrows, and her back was straight! In an instant, she grabbed a tuft of hair on the white tiger's neck, and her small fist was like an iron fist, smashing the white tiger's big head crazily!

The white tiger felt pain, and its roar shook the forest, and rocks fell down with a crackling sound! The white tiger was like crazy, jumping around, swaying left and right. No matter how it shook, Gu Dalian sat steadily on the white tiger, grabbing its fur with one hand and hitting it with the other, making the white tiger feel pain and tired. Panting, it finally lay on a rock!

Gu Dalian was still riding on the white tiger, and asked loudly: "Do you accept it or not?" The white tiger was filled with grief and indignation: "I am the great king of the mountain, but I was beaten to the ground by a small human. I, the tiger king, do not accept it!"

It was a pity that this little human would not let it go and insisted on making it respond. If it didn't obey, it would be beaten to death! Tiger's eyes shed tears, it was too aggrieved! Gu Dalian wanted to beat him again, but saw Tiger's eyes blinking repeatedly. Gu Dalian inexplicably heard the tiger's inner voice: "Don't beat me, I obey!"

Gu Dalian laughed. It was said that tigers were also quite cunning. It seemed that there was a contract beast in the book I read before. I wondered how the contract was made? Just as she was about to call "Xiao Zhuo'er", she heard Xiao Zhuo'er's voice: "Drop a drop of blood from your fingertip onto the tiger's head, and let the white tiger voluntarily sign the contract!"

He put his hand to his mouth, bit the hole with his teeth, squeezed a drop of liquid on the tiger's head, and said, "Submit to me, or you will die!" The white tiger was filled with despair. Are humans so cunning? Contract and death, or contract!

He closed his eyes and responded: "Baihu is willing to submit to my master!" A thin golden thread shot from Gu Dalian directly to Baihu. In an instant, everything that Baihu was thinking was transmitted to Gu Dalian's mind!