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The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival.

Because the ancient "Book of Changes" defined "six" as a negative number and "nine" as a positive number, on September [-]th, the sun and the moon are yang, and the two nines are the same, so it is called Chongyang, also known as Chongjiu.The ancients believed that it was an auspicious day worth celebrating, and they have celebrated this festival since a long time ago.

The folks have a custom of climbing high on this day, so the Double Ninth Festival is also called the "Climbing Festival".There are also sayings such as Chongjiu Festival, Cornus officinalis, and Chrysanthemum Festival.Since the homonym of "Nine Nine" on the ninth day of September is "Jiujiu", which means long-term, ancestor worship and elderly activities are often carried out on this day.

In the traditional Double Ninth Festival, there are also sayings of eating Double Ninth Cake, enjoying chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine.But there is not so much attention in the village. One is that there are no good ingredients to make Double Ninth Cake.The other is that there is no leisure and elegance to enjoy chrysanthemums and drink.Most of them are big and rough, basically they just wear some dogwood and it's over. At most, some women who love beauty put wild chrysanthemums on their heads on this day.If you do this in normal times, it is inevitable that some people will say that you are showing off, but today no one talks about it, because this is a custom and good wishes.

Zhang Taiping's house is full of everything now, especially with all kinds of rice and honey, there is no cake that can't be made, but it has never been made in previous years, and there is no preparation for this year.

The wild chrysanthemums I picked were just to put a few flowers on the heads of the little girls. The adults didn't do this, and I felt that it was embarrassing to put flowers on their heads.

Zhang Taiping left the house, the sky was as blue as washing, and today is another fine autumn day.

There has been a saying since ancient times that the Chongyang Festival on September [-]th is the day with the most yang energy in the world of the year, and all the haze and filth should be avoided.

Regardless of whether there is any basis for this statement, Zhang Taiping is planning to go into the mountains today to explore that mysterious valley, and he always feels that there are good things in the depths of that valley.

Zhang Taiping was about to turn around and enter the room to tell Cai Yazhi when Yaya and Fan Ming walked over from the pond.

Both of them had a dogwood branch and leaf on their arm, and a wild chrysanthemum on their head, the golden one on Yaya's head, but the purple one on Fan Ming's head.There are two flowers on Wukong's head next to him, one yellow and one purple, but he doesn't feel the beauty, but the silly breath blows towards his face.

The three of them were busy talking about the kiwi fruit that Zhang Taiping brought out from the space last night.

"Dad, did you buy this kiwi fruit?" Yaya asked.

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Well, I bought it in the town when I came back yesterday."

"Then why didn't you see me last night?"

"Did you eat last night, you can't eat too much at night, or you will become a little chubby girl." Zhang Taiping said with a smile.

Fan Ming threw the kiwi fruit peel in his hand to the little hen looking for food on the ground, licked his lips and said, "Brother, you said you want to fry melon seeds and pine nuts, when will you fry them? You must have forgotten it, right?"

Zhang Taiping really forgot about this matter, and said with a smile: "How can I forget, aren't I very busy these days, I will start frying after I come back tomorrow."

Fan Ming rolled her eyes and said, "What are you going to do today, brother? How about taking me?"

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "I'm going to go to the mountain today. I have an important thing to do when I go to the mountain this time, so I can't take you with me."

"What's the matter?" Fan Ming asked unwillingly.

Zhang Taiping shook his head and did not speak.

After entering the house, Zhang Taiping didn't tell Cai Yazhi the truth, mainly because he was afraid that she would find out and worry.

"I'm going to go to the mountains today." Zhang Taiping said to Cai Yazhi who was making breakfast.

"Into the mountains? Why did you suddenly go into the mountains?" Cai Yazhi asked with a slight frown.

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "You still reminded me that today is the Double Ninth Festival. When I entered the mountain, there were a few precious herbs that were about to mature. It was probably at this time that I went to the mountain to pick them."

Although Zhang Taiping said it easily, relying on a woman's naturally keen intuition, she still felt something was wrong, so she asked, "Is there any danger?"

Zhang Taiping said comfortingly: "Why is there any danger? You said with my current skill, even a tiger can't do anything to catch me?"

Although Cai Yazhi had never practiced kung fu and didn't know much about Zhang Taiping's skills, she had seen his unparalleled strength and had personally seen him beat the blind man away.I thought nothing would happen if I met any animals in the mountains.I feel relieved in my heart.

"Then you take the three big dogs with you."

Zhang Taiping thought about it, and the three big dogs would not be of much help, so he said: "Basically, the big dogs are not needed, just a grimace is enough, let the lion and Ah Huang stay at home."

"Then let's go after eating, it will be fine soon."

Zhang Taiping shook his head: "No, go early and return early. If you go early, you may come back tonight, if you are late, you will have to spend the night in the mountains."

All the things you need are in the space, and after talking about it, you walk outside.After thinking for a while, he gestured towards the roof twice to bring Xiaojin and Xiaofeng up, they can check the situation in the sky.

When Wukong saw Zhang Taiping preparing Jinshan, he also followed.But this time the situation was different, it was because of Zhang Taiping's scolding.In the past, he would call it every time he entered, but this time he was scolded, which made Wukong quite aggrieved.

Zhang Taiping only showed a grimace, and his speed in the mountain was very fast, and he had been there once, this time he had a clear purpose and avoided a lot of detours, and he reached the edge of the valley near noon.

Today is the Double Ninth Festival, and it happens to be twelve o'clock when the yang energy of the day is the heaviest. Sure enough, the scene of the fog shrouded in that night did not reappear. Most of the conditions in the valley can be seen, only the bottom is still shrouded in a puff of smoke.

Zhang Taiping's visit today is not insignificant. He wanted to find precious Chinese herbal medicines in the valley, but his main purpose was to get the big snake into the space.

This wish seems a bit difficult, but Zhang Taiping is not without support.The main reason is that I have the existence of space, first of all, I am already in an invincible position, and the other is that when I left last time, I found that the big snake had already had some spirituality, and could feel the benefits of the space spring water, and the last time it was good for me. The attack power is not very strong, especially at the end of the day, even let yourself be calm.

So now planning to use space spring water as bait, maybe it will be successful.

Compared to the big guy at the bottom, the grimacing can only be a little guy, not only can't help much, but it may irritate the big guy, so Zhang Taiping plans to go down alone.

He said a few words to Grimace, and then pointed to the woods next to him. After being together for so long, Grimace was able to understand the most basic commands, so he got into the woods upon hearing this.

If you don't meet a big guy like the one underground in the valley, there are no animals in the forest that can hurt a grimace, so Zhang Taiping doesn't have anything to worry about letting him stay up there alone.

Seeing that Zhang Taiping was going down to the bottom of the valley, the two big eagles shrank their wings and prepared to dive down, but Zhang Taiping waved their hands and drove them up. Come on, besides, although the two of them have a fatal blow to other snakes, they have little effect on the big guy below, so there is no need to follow.

The valley is shrouded in thick fog all the year round, not to mention people, even other animals rarely enter it, so there is no way down at all.Zhang Taiping had no choice but to open the way while walking with a shovel.

The more you go down, the more cloudy you feel. When you reach the bottom of the valley, even if the sun is shining outside, you still feel cold here.

Although Zhang Taiping wasn't afraid of the cold, he kept his mind on this weird environment, and watched his surroundings vigilantly while moving forward.

As one goes deeper into the valley, the colder atmosphere becomes heavier, and if one looks up at the sky, one will find that the bright sunlight looks a little blurred from here, and the light also dims.Zhang Taiping knew it was the effect of the mist at the bottom of the valley, so he didn't make any fuss.

Although it is cloudy and cold here in summer, it is not so severe, but when autumn comes again, it is true that it is still so cloudy and cold on the day of Double Ninth Festival when the yang energy is at its peak. I don’t know what’s going on here after today’s night Such a scene.

When Zhang Taiping cautiously came to the place where he met the big snake last time, the sun above his head was only a hazy halo.Although the surrounding fog is not very effective in isolating eyesight, the atmosphere created makes people feel as if they have come to another world, so far away from the sun.

The strange water pool was still filled with thick fog, and the fog continued to spread out from it, making it impossible to see the specific situation of the water pool.Everything hasn't changed much from the last time I was here.

Zhang Taiping looked towards the entrance of the cave, there was no light inside, even Zhang Taiping's eyes couldn't see anything, as if this was not a cave but a black hole swallowing light.

He didn't know why the big snake was drawn out last time, but it must have something to do with his own appearance, so he didn't do anything, first he waited quietly on the side of the cave entrance, and tried You can't use yourself as bait to lure that big snake out.

However, almost half an hour passed, and there was still no movement in the cave.

Just when Zhang Taiping was about to take out a chicken and put it in for a try, two eagle crows suddenly came from the sky, Zhang Taiping could hear the voices of Xiaojin and Xiaofeng.What puzzled him was the anxiety and fear contained in these two cries.

So Zhang Taiping was a little puzzled, it was clearly two big eagles warning, explaining what happened, but it should be just anxiety, why is there still an emotion of fear?You must know that the two of them are definitely overlords above the sky, even the big snake in the valley cannot threaten them.

Just when he was puzzled, another more forceful cry came into his ears, although it was not as sharp as Xiaojin and Xiaofeng's, but the voice was full of domineering.And it wasn't uploaded from the sky, the source of the sound was deeper in the valley.

Zhang Taiping's understanding of this valley is limited to the small area where the mouth meets the big snake, and he has never set foot in the larger area inside.

After thinking about it for a while, he made a decision, temporarily put aside the matter of the big snake, and walked deeper into the valley to see what kind of existence there was.

However, before he stepped out, his ears moved, and the slightest voice came in.As soon as Zhang Taiping moved his mind, his whole body disappeared from here.

Just two seconds after he disappeared, the big snake swam out of the cave, stopped for a while at the entrance of the cave where Zhang Taiping was standing, showed a confused expression in a very humane way, and looked around to see if there was nothing there. After discovering it, he twisted his body and swam towards the place where the mighty cry came from.The huge body swimming on the ground didn't make any big noises. If Zhang Taiping hadn't had excellent hearing, he wouldn't have noticed it just now.

Zhang Taiping waited in the space for half an hour, estimated that about 1 minute had passed outside before leaving the space holding a dark red knife.

When I came out to the outside world, I was ready to go in at any time, but when I came out, I scanned all directions and didn't see the big snake, so I landed firmly on the ground, but my mind didn't relax.

After carefully observing the surrounding conditions, it was discovered that the big snake had left the cave and was heading deeper into the valley.

Zhang Taiping's heart moved, and he followed the trail left by the big snake after it swam past. He didn't follow the ground too fast, but moved forward slowly while paying attention to the surrounding situation.Judging from the crowing just now, the big snake is not the only powerful creature in this valley. Who knows if there is anything terrible hiding around here, he can't help but be careless.

Suddenly, Zhang Taiping stopped.

Since it was daytime and it was the Double Ninth Festival, the fog in the valley was not so thick. Although the scene in the distance could not be seen, the situation on the nearby mountain wall could still be seen clearly.

What made Zhang Taiping stop suddenly was not some powerful animal, but a strange plant.

He first looked around carefully, and after making sure that there was no danger around him, he groped towards the strange plant and stopped at a distance of five meters, because he did not forget the last time he picked it. The situation at the time of the Polygonum multiflorum plant.

Last time, next to Polygonum multiflorum, there was a giant poisonous snake guardian, and it was finally pecked to death by Xiaoxi.It is impossible to say that a similar situation exists next to this plant.

Zhang Taiping stood five meters away to observe this strange plant, and did not act rashly.

This plant should look like a flower, the stem looks like a little old man with a bow and a cane, and the flower on the top is a bit surprising, if it is not really growing on a plant Zhang Taiping almost thought it was a grimace.

Isn't the stamens and petals put together just a ferocious grimace that wants to choose someone to eat?

Although Zhang Taiping has never seen such strange words, nor has he seen any records in any books, but he does feel that this flower is unusual.Because there are no plants within a radius of one meter around it, even the rotting leaves on the ground are black.

This is clearly a sign of extreme poison, but not all poisons are harmful. Based on this alone, this flower is worth picking.