Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 3 0003 [Quickly slide and shovel it! 】

Although it's spring, the nighttime temperature in the mountains is still low, and it's really hard not to wear a down jacket.

I didn't sleep well that night, and the father and son took turns keeping vigil, mainly because they were afraid of being attacked by ferocious beasts.

In the early morning of the next day, they ate a few more bags of snacks, and the two continued on their way down the mountain.

Around noon, the cliff in front of me became more relaxed and turned into a hillside of less than 60 degrees.The vegetation on the hillside was still dense, and various thorns and vines blocked the way, which had to be split bit by bit. The sweater on Ju Ming's body was scratched with many holes.

Zhu Guoxiang was similar. He left his down jacket in the car, and he was wearing a woolen sweater, which was now dirty and torn.

While walking, Zhu Guoxiang suddenly squatted down and dug the ground with the dead branches he picked up.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Ming asked standing beside him.

Zhu Guoxiang pointed to the plants in front of him: "Wild Polygonatum is not only a traditional Chinese medicine, but also a disaster relief food. Previously, the cliff was too steep and it was inconvenient to dig, but now we have to collect food. The snacks in the backpack are not enough for us to eat."

Ju Ming felt that it made sense, so he drew out his sword to help dig Huang Jing.

Food is running low and must be replenished along the way.

If he traveled alone, he probably wouldn't be able to get out of the mountains. He would either starve to death due to lack of food, or be poisoned to death by eating wild vegetables.

Putting the dug out sealwort into the backpack, and walking back for more than ten steps, Zhu Ming pointed to a weed: "Is this edible? I remember when I was very young, my aunt cut this kind of grass to feed the rabbits."

Zhu Guoxiang immediately popularized science and said: "Chicory can be eaten, and it can clear away heat and detoxify. But it is best to blanch it before eating, otherwise the taste will be very bitter."

"It's fine if you can eat it, and you can bear it if it's bitter." Zhu Ming swung his sword to cut wild vegetables.

While collecting food, the father and son marched through thorns and thorns.

Suddenly, Zhu Guoxiang shouted in a low voice: "Don't move!"

"What's wrong?" Zhu Ming asked puzzled.

Zhu Guoxiang pushed aside the weeds in front of his knees, revealing a large lump of feces.He got down on the ground and smelled it, then observed it carefully: "There are fierce beasts around here."

Ju Ming also squatted down to study the feces: "It looks like it's the shit of a large animal."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The feces of carnivores are even more smelly, and you can see that there are still incompletely digested bones in this pile of feces. I am afraid that this pile of feces was pulled by either wolves or tigers. And the beast is not far away. The water in this shit hasn't completely dried up yet."

The father and son became vigilant, held their weapons tightly and moved forward cautiously, trying to avoid the animal path left by the beast.

Zhu Ming cut off a branch with his sword, and cut off the branches and leaves to make a walking stick for his father.It is convenient to go down the mountain with a cane, and it can also be used as a weapon when encountering a beast.

Continue to walk down the mountain, and before you know it, it is almost evening, and the dense vegetation makes the sky look darker.

"there's noise!"

Not only did Ju Ming revert back to his youth, his physical strength and eyesight improved a lot, and his hearing became even sharper.

Zhu Guoxiang listened carefully: "No."

Zhu Ming said, "It's right in front. There was movement just now, but now there's no sound. It's probably an ambush for us."

The father and son stopped moving and stood quietly in place.

After a stalemate for at least half an hour, the guy hiding in the dark finally couldn't help but show up.

"throat!"

A deep and resonant roar came from the bushes ahead.

Zhu Ming swallowed, and turned to look at his father: "It seems to be a tiger, I heard it in the zoo."

"Go back?" Zhu Guoxiang turned pale with fright.

It's too late to back off.

This is a Qinling tiger, which belongs to the branch of the South China tiger. It is more than two meters long.It will come out for a walk in the morning and evening, which is equivalent to patrolling the territory, and the main hunting time is at night.

The huge tiger walked out completely, opened its bloody mouth, and roared at the two humans: "Sigh... roar!"

Ju Ming held the sword in his hand, his legs felt weak for no reason.

Zhu Guoxiang's hands were also shaking, and he was holding a cane to confront the tiger. His throat was so dry that he could no longer speak.

No matter how loudly the keyboard is played, no matter how loud the bragging is, if you really meet the king of beasts, you will have to resign yourself to fate.

Suddenly reminded of the allusion of "The donkey is poor", Zhu Ming reluctantly mustered up the courage, and fiercely towards the tiger... imitating the donkey bray: "Ang~Ang~Ang~"

Zhu Guoxiang also stomped his feet and shouted: "Ha! Ha! Ha!"

This Qinling tiger may have encountered humans for the first time, and it didn't know their details, so it took half a step back cautiously.

Zhu Ming slashed at the nearby tree branch with his sword, and the small tree branch snapped off in response, showing his attack power.

The tiger was startled, jumped forward obliquely, and continued to observe the humans sideways, with a hint of curiosity in its eyes.

The two of them faced each other, just like this.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and there was no time to make a fire. Zhu Ming held a sword in one hand, took out his mobile phone with the other, and quickly turned on the flashlight function of the mobile phone.

The sudden bright light made the tiger more vigilant, retreated a few steps and hid in the grass, lowered its body and was ready to pounce at any time.

Ju Ming's heart was beating wildly with fright, and his palms were covered with sweat.

Zhu Guoxiang also took out his mobile phone, quickly turned on the flashlight, and whispered to his son, "Back slowly, I will block this beast."

"Don't talk nonsense, you can't run away, whoever runs away will lose his momentum." Zhu Ming has never dealt with beasts before, so he can only guess.However, his father's words still moved him a little. At any rate, this old man didn't leave his son behind when he encountered danger and ran away alone.

I don't know how long the confrontation lasted, but the tiger in the grass continued to retreat.

Hearing the rustling noise, Zhu Ming boldly said, "We're going to retreat too."

The father and son retreated cautiously. As soon as they retreated, the tiger suddenly stepped forward from the grass and continued to roar at them. The two were immediately too frightened to move.

After repeating this many times, the tiger finally left and disappeared into the bushes.

It is estimated that there is plenty of food in the mountains, and tigers are usually well fed, so they don't need to take the risk of fighting humans.

After confirming that the thing had gone far away, Zhu Ming felt his legs and feet go weak, and sat down on the ground, muttering: "Damn, what, who dares to say that a sliding shovel can kill a tiger? I crawled along the network cable and hacked to death!" he!"

Zhu Guoxiang bent down and rubbed his calf, his calf was already cramping from fright.

After a while, the two decided to go down the mountain overnight.

They walked in the opposite direction of the tiger. Because they were too nervous and it was difficult to distinguish the way in the dark, they stumbled and rolled down several times on the way.

At dawn, Zhu Ming's cell phone ran out of battery, so he took out his power bank to connect it.

Zhu Guoxiang gasped and said, "Whoa, whoa, I'm not in the tiger's territory after running so far. Wait until dawn, I really can't run anymore."

They were all so exhausted that they didn't care about the beasts, so they lay on the ground to rest.

After finally surviving until the morning sun rose, Zhu Ming found that his sweater was completely torn, with many scratches and bruises all over his body, and even a big bump on his forehead.

Zhu Guoxiang also fell with a bruised nose and a swollen face, and was shivering from the cold. He was eager to pick up dead branches and leaves to make a fire. The low temperature in the mountains would kill people.

They only had two bags of instant noodles left, so they took out one bag, shared the noodles, and swallowed them with mineral water.I don’t care about being full with this little thing, so I took out the sealwort dug along the way, roasted and ate the stems of two plants of sealwort, and sprinkled the instant noodle packets on it for seasoning.Even the oil packets of instant noodles were roasted and melted and spread on Huang Jing.

Finally, I managed to fool my hungry stomach and continue walking down the mountain.

The terrain became more and more gentle, and when we reached the bottom of the valley, it was already noon, and a small river appeared in front of us.

There are still no traces of human activities on both sides of the river, no fertile land, but thorns and weeds.

Zhu Ming asked: "Which way to go? Upstream or downstream?"

"I don't know, my mind is a bit confused, I have to analyze the situation." Zhu Guoxiang said.

Frightened by the tiger, the father and son felt even more dangerous, and began to work together to find a way out.

"If, I mean if," Zhu Ming forced himself to calm down, and analyzed, "Before we crossed, we were in the boundary of Xixiang County, and it was not far from the Hanshui River. If we crossed to the ancient Xixiang County, then the situation in front of us This small river is probably a tributary of the Han River."

Zhu Guoxiang knew nothing about history, so he asked, "Didn't Hanshui belong to the way of business in ancient times?"

"Yes, several dynasties were important business routes," Ju Ming said. "We follow the small river and go downstream, and we will probably reach the Han River. There are merchant ships going there, so we will definitely meet ancient people. They use clichés, ask which dynasty it is, and then take the next step according to the actual situation.”

Zhu Guoxiang breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good to have a way of thinking when doing things, and you can't mess around. Take a break and go downstream to find someone."

Ju Ming sat on a rock and said to himself: "Traveling is not fun, it's too tortured, it's better to sit at home and shoot videos."

Zhu Guoxiang lifted the hem of his clothes, observed the large area of ​​abrasions on his waist, stood up with a cane and said, "I'm going to get some herbs."

"You really understand herbs?" Ju Ming felt amazing.

Zhu Guoxiang was happy to show his ability in front of his son, and said with a smile: "I came from the countryside. If the local dogs in the countryside are injured, they all know that they go to the mountains to find herbs."

This sounds weird, but Zhu Ming thinks carefully, is he calling himself worse than a dog?

(Updated three chapters on the first day, and I was too lazy to update in the afternoon, so I threw them out at once. Today's three chapters are more than 1 words, and tomorrow will be updated twice a day.)
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