[Xianjian + Ancient Sword Colleague] Being a master is also a kind of practice

The morning mist wetted the window paper, and after a while it was dried by the rising sun. The sun was just right, shining brightly inside the house.Shen Bailing turned over on the bed, the creaking sound finally woke him up.As soon as he opened his eyes, the brand new purse was still clutched in the palm of his hand, and Shen Bailing first smiled in a daze.

It was not until he sat up that he realized that it was a bit late. He hurriedly put the purse back around his neck, and stuffed it into the skirt of his clothes with great care. After feeling it, he felt that it could not be seen from the outside, so he put on his coat and walked towards the kitchen. .The inner room was still quiet, presumably Shen Danqing was sleeping soundly, the summer was long and very sultry, although she could feel better in the mountains, she always lay on the bed, so she had to sleep with her head depressed, Shen Bailing didn't dare to go in besides taking medicine. quarrel with her.

After finally boiling the medicinal juice and putting it in a porcelain bowl, Shen Bailing blew it while walking towards the inner room, and when he lifted the door curtain, he called: "Aniang, drink the medicine."

The room was silent.

Shen Bailing took a closer look, but his hands trembled, and most of the hot medicinal juice spilled on his fingers, which immediately turned red.But Shen Bailing had no time to take care of it, he just stared dumbfounded at the flat bed in front of him, but saw that the quilts had been folded neatly, but the small room was empty.

Shen Danqing unexpectedly disappeared again.

At that moment, Shen Bailing hurried out of the house. Originally, he was supposed to go up the mountain with a basket on his back at this time, but collecting medicine was a minor matter, and his mother's loss was a serious matter. Besides, Shen Danqing had been coughing continuously for the past few days, and his hemoptysis was better, but He hasn't healed yet, and when he thought about it, he became even more anxious.

"Brother Shen, are you here to catch crickets too?"

A tender voice sounded from behind, Shen Bailing was distracted from his thoughts, and found that he had unknowingly walked into a small patch of weeds at the entrance of the village.There was a little child squatting in the grass next door, thin and thin, showing a sense of wit, it was the little monkey from the Yun family who lived next door.

Little Monkey Yun was also carrying a grass cage that was not round or square, and there were a few listless chirping sounds from inside it from time to time, obviously it was a cricket he had caught.Seeing Shen Bailing's anxious face, he asked again: "Brother Shen, did you come here to catch crickets?"

"No, I'm here to find my mother." Shen Bailing frowned and replied.

Yun Xiaohou sneered: "Could it be that your mother also hides under the grass roots or in the crevices of rocks?"

Shen Bailing was taken aback, then shook her head and said: "Nonsense! My mother has gone somewhere, she is not in good health, I'm afraid something will happen to her..."

"That fierce aunt is in good health, she will pretend to be sick, and even steal things from others." Yun Xiaohou said with his mouth curled up, carrying the grass cage and going elsewhere.

Shen Bailing hurriedly pulled him back: "You said my aunt pretended to be sick and robbed things? It's ridiculous!" His words were full of disbelief. He saw his mother being injured by those human Taoist priests, and Shen Danqing coughed up blood. It is also common, and it is impossible to talk about robbing things. He just thinks that the little monkey is very angry because he listened to the nonsense of those people in the village.

Unexpectedly, little monkey Yun rolled his eyes and struggled to say: "I'm not lying! I saw it with my own eyes. The day you first came, that fierce aunt came to my room, like a thief in the middle of the night. , She thought my mother and I were asleep, but I was awake at that time, she just took my green stone!" Thinking of this episode, he suddenly puffed up his cheeks, looking angry.

"What about green stones and red stones? My aunt has no interest in the human race... in you villagers. She has been lying in the house for so many days and hasn't even left the house!" Shen Bailing couldn't help but growl.

Yun Xiaohouzi said angrily: "I knew you didn't believe me, and my mother wouldn't listen! She didn't teach me to tell you. But that stone was left to me by my father, he dug it from the mountain Baby, it still shines at night, and your mother snatched it away because she saw it was beautiful!" Then she remembered something, and said, "You said your mother never went out, but I saw her wandering around the entrance of the village last night. It's getting late, I think she must have come out for a stroll while you couldn't hold back when you fell asleep."

"It's even more nonsense. How could you see what she was doing when she went out at night?" Shen Bailing frowned and squinted at the little monkey, eyes full of suspicion.

Little Monkey Yun shook the grass cage and shouted: "It's not nonsense, Marshal Aconitum also saw it! My red-spotted general was killed by Wang Zhangshou's stinky grasshopper. I had planned to come here to catch a new one a long time ago." Fight him again, the whole village has a lot of crickets. Last night I slipped out while my mother was asleep, and squatted in the grass to search for a long time. As soon as I pressed it, at that moment, I looked up and saw an aunt in red coming out of the village. She walked so fast that she arrived at the entrance of the village in a short while. Those aunts in the village are not strong like the village head The big cow in my family is as fat as the old pig in Axiang's family. Although my mother is neither strong nor fat, she was sleeping deeply when I slipped out of the house... Who would it be if it wasn't your mother? What's more I could see clearly through the slits in her eyes when she snatched my precious stone. Her face was as white as a ghost, her chin was as sharp as an awl, her eyebrows and eyes were similar to yours, but her eyes seemed to be able to fly out knives and stab people to death. Aunt?"

Shen Bailing was annoyed and funny when he heard this, the little monkey didn't hold back his mouth, and what he said was also very unpleasant.What face is white like a ghost, and chin is like a cone. His mother is indeed a little pale due to illness, and her chin is indeed slightly pointed. It's just that she has changed from a beauty to an ugly monster with such embellishments. Can he not make him laugh at the same time? what?However, he secretly believed in the statement that the eyes were like knives.

But when Little Monkey Yun said that, it seemed that he had really seen it.Shen Bailing thought about it for a second, and said in a good voice: "All right, all right. Then tell me, where did my aunt go?"

Yun Xiaohou frowned and thought for a while, then said: "She left the village entrance and headed straight for the mountain road without stopping much, I'm afraid she's going to Ziyunjia—"

"What are you doing up the mountain, Aunt?" Shen Bailing blurted out.

Little Monkey Yun showed two big white eyes again: "How do I know? Maybe it's because Aunt Fierce hasn't wandered around the village enough, so she wants to go up the mountain. Anyway, she is so fierce, I think the tigers in the mountains will have to take a detour when they see her." ..."

Shen Bailing didn't have time to listen to what he was going to arrange next. Since he understood that Auntie had gone up the mountain, and there was only one road from Taiping Village to Ziyunjia, he went up the mountain without hesitation. run.

He ran all the way, thinking all the way: it turns out that my mother can walk on the ground, and her injury is already healed... But why didn't she tell me, and sneaked up the mountain again?If she hates staying in Taiping Village, just tell me, and I will naturally hide with her in Huangshan Mountain, but the mountain is full of leopards and tigers, but there are no such fun children as little monkeys...

Thinking of Little Monkey Yun, he suddenly realized: That’s right, Little Monkey said that Auntie had robbed him of his Laoshizi stones. He always made trouble for me when he first came to the strange way. Go... But what does A Niang want the little monkey's stone for?

After much deliberation, I can't figure it out, but before I know it, I have reached the halfway up the mountain.The hillside here is slightly gentle, and the tea forest that Shen Bailing discovered earlier is not far away.He stopped and wandered on the mountainside for a long time, but he still couldn't find the whereabouts of his mother.

At this moment when the anxiety resurfaced, a gust of fresh breeze wafted in with wisps of light fragrance. Shen Bailing walked in this mountain every day, and he could recognize the smell of wild flowers nearby.He thought: If A Niang is also like this wild flower, leaving some scent behind, I can smell it all the way to find it... By the way, there is a method that can be used!

When he thought of this, his eyes suddenly brightened, and he hurriedly took out the small pouch that he usually held the broken incense pieces from his bosom.Shen Bailing turned the pouch upside down and poured it into his palm, then picked out a small pill of carmine-colored incense beads from the broken incense, hurriedly lit it with a flint, and even threw the remaining vanilla leaves in the small pouch into the fire together Burned.But for a moment, I saw a crimson smoke curling up from the fire. The mist was hazy, curling and flowing on the fire, and slowly stretched out a thin line, swinging in the wind like a spider's silk. go.

That line of mist is like a red filament, swaying and gradually stretching, floating towards the slope of Ziyunjia.Shen Bailing watched for a long time, and said happily: "It really works!" He hurriedly followed the red silk to climb to a higher place.

It turns out that this fragrant pill is quite mysterious. It has a name called Xunji, and it is made to find missing people.Shen Danqing learned the art of making incense when he was young, and he heard about the magical effect of this incense pill, and made some of it.When she taught Shen Bailing the technique of making incense, she also gave him the method of making incense and the pill she left behind, but she did not expect it to be effective today.

The trace-seeking incense is lit together with the things that have the breath of the person you want to find, and the smoke will float along the way to the place where the breath is.Shen Bailing came in a hurry and didn't bring his mother's personal handkerchief. Thinking that his mother had been using the fragrant medicine he made, he threw all the herbs in.Sure enough, the smoke pointed out the direction Shen Danqing was going.

The red smoke in the air was thin and misty, leading Shen Bailing all the way over Ziyunjia, to Qingluan Peak, another mountain behind.

The scenery on Qingluan Peak is very beautiful, even better than Ziyunjia.The trees are shady everywhere, the birds are singing and the cicadas are singing, and there is vitality everywhere.However, all high mountains and peaks always have a feeling of "too high to be too cold", but this Qingluan peak is as warm as spring and full of business. With the size of Huangshan Mountain, I am afraid that there is no second one.

Shen Bailing just took a rough look around, and already felt that this place is really a rare and good place.In particular, the three old pine trees with extremely green and thick roots on the top of the peak look very simple. Although they are not as good as the old oak mulberry tree in Bailingzhou, they are also very suitable for climbing.It's just that he still remembered his mother in his heart, so he only glanced at it reluctantly, and then ran to the other side of the peak after the red smoke.

The wisp of red smoke had been floating for a long time, and it was already in a state of being unbroken. It swayed and flew over a rushing stream, and then gradually dissipated.The stream was rushing, turned out from behind a big rock, and poured straight down the cliff in a mighty way. Bai Lian seemed to hang in the air, forming a silvery white waterfall.

Shen Bailing stepped on the rocks and jumped to the opposite bank a few times.Since the red smoke had disappeared with the wind, he had no choice but to search around by himself. Fortunately, the peak was not big, and after a while he found traces of trampling in the green grass of a small forest.It's just that Fang was a little happy, and then he was shocked. It turned out that not too far along the grass, there were many spots on the dirt, pattering dark red, and it smelled like a bloody smell.