Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 76
Seeing Tashi walk away, we followed Kumbu. Tashi's appearance didn't seem to have any effect on him.

"It's getting dark, there should be an open space through the forest ahead, and camp there at night." Lao Yan looked at the map and pointed to the denser forest ahead.

Because we have wasted a lot of time at the tomb, we are all in a hurry to leave now!If you can't find an open space before dark, you can't camp in the dense forest. Even if you sleep on a tree, you will inevitably be infested by snakes and rats. It is really unsafe.

But the road in the forest is not easy to walk. Even if we have quickened our pace, we only walked two miles in half an hour.

The light gradually dimmed, and Lao Yan was a little anxious, waving his hands and said: "Hurry up, you must get out of this forest before it is completely dark."

Snapped!
Just as I was about to respond to his words, I felt that the mosquito was staring at my arm, but I was stunned when I hit it, and saw that the mosquito corpse on my arm was at least half the length of my index finger...

But within a second, the place where the mosquito bit me was swollen, it was painful and itchy, I couldn't help scratching it, and there were faint blood spots.

"What's the matter?" Seeing me stunned, Yazai came over to take a look, and then his face changed slightly: "Hurry up, there are mosquitoes!"

After hearing his words, everyone's footsteps became faster. I don't know why, and wanted to ask clearly, but Yazai grabbed me and said in a hurry: "If you don't want to be sucked dry, just slip away."

I didn't ask any more, because I had already heard the buzzing sound, and when I looked back, I saw dense swarms of mosquitoes chasing from behind, each one as big as the one I just hit.

Kumbu was walking behind us. With him, these mosquitoes were not fast, and they didn't seem to dare to come forward.But after a long time, some of them flew directly towards us over Kumbu.

Yazai slapped him on the face, screaming in pain.

"Smear it all on!" Kumbu dug out a pile of mud from nowhere, and stuffed it in our hands without any explanation. We big men didn't care, but Miss Qiu was a little disgusted, after all, the mud still exuded a faint smell. taste.

Yazai wiped the mud on his face quickly, and said: "I said, sister Qiu, even if you put mud on you, you are beautiful, so don't worry about it, you will be bitten by this mosquito soon, and you will be swollen." It’s not pretty when you look up.”

Miss Qiu glared at him, seeing that the mosquitoes were about to break through the kombu and envelop us, she stopped being pretentious and directly wiped her face and neck tightly.

Immediately, among the five of us, only Kumbu still had a sickly face, looking unusually abrupt.

"Go quickly, you must leave here before the mud dries up." Lao Yan was still in a hurry, hurrying ahead.

We were finally surrounded. Mosquitoes that covered the sky and the sun surrounded us from all directions, leaving no gaps for us. Even though they didn't dare to get close to Konbu, they were not polite to us. I hit the trick.

The mosquitoes were either big or small, and they didn't know how to deal with them. The boy said bitterly, "If I knew it, I would have brought a bottle of insecticide and sprayed them all over the face."

Lao Yan told him not to talk such nonsense, and to hurry out of the woods.

Just when we were all helpless, Ms. Qiu quickly took out a handful of thin silver needles from her bag, and pinned the mosquito approaching her in mid-air with a swipe. I was dumbfounded.

What exactly is in her bag? Why are the weapons different each time?
"Would you like my sister to help you too?" Ms. Qiu, probably seeing me staring at her, gave me a wink as she flew out the silver needle.

I shook my head helplessly. Although the silver needle is powerful, it can't hold back the mosquitoes. It's good that she can keep herself, and she can't spare her hand to help me.

"Don't worry about it, hold your head and run!" Lao Yan roared, not caring about the mosquitoes jumping straight at him, holding his head and running quickly in the woods.

I saw that the mosquitoes were inexhaustible, so I imitated him and ran with my hands on my head.

Mosquitoes bite once or twice from time to time, which is painful and itchy, but we have no choice but to get out of the forest as soon as possible.

Fortunately, we were not too far away from Linzikou, and we reached the edge after running for more than five minutes.

"There is water ahead, hurry up, jump into it." Lao Yan yelled in front, and with a splash, he got in first.

The sound of falling into the water sounded several times in succession. Except for Kumbu, all of us buried ourselves in the water, and dared not stand up except for the occasional breath.Because before the boy thought that he would be fine once he fell into the water, he showed his face foolishly, and was stung several times in an instant.

"It's ok." Kumbu shouted, and we carefully showed our faces, and we were relieved when we saw that the mosquitoes had disappeared.

Miss Qiu climbed ashore, squeezed the water off her body, and said with a vicious expression, "I'm going to blow them up."

As she said she was about to take something out of the bag, Lao Yan hurriedly stopped her: "Forget it, if you blow us up this time, it will be for nothing this time."

Miss Qiu snorted coldly, but she was not impulsive after all.

Seeing that it was getting late, and there happened to be a water source here, we pitched a tent by relying on the water, then changed our wet clothes, lit a fire and roasted slowly, only then did we feel more comfortable.

It's just that the mosquito bites are extremely itchy, and Kumbu told him not to scratch, so we can only carry it, so we had to chat to divert our attention.

"Since there is a bronze standing statue here, it means that Cancong's tomb should not be far from here." Old Yan smoked a cigarette: "The strange thing is that there is no hinterland of the mountain here, so why do archaeologists have been looking at it for a long time?" Can't find it?"

I also find it strange that over the years, things about the ancient Shu Kingdom are not uncommon, such as the Sanxingdui ruins and the capitals of the ancient Shu Kingdom have been gradually excavated, but the Cancong Tomb seems to have never existed Generally, there has been no trace.

Miss Qiu took a sip of her wine and sighed, "Who can say for sure, some tombs are clearly at your feet, but they haven't been found for thousands of years."

"You're right." Lao Yan smiled, put the dry food on the fire and roasted it, then broke it up and distributed it to everyone: "Have a rest here for the night, and take a look around here tomorrow."

"It should not be near here." Yazai took a mouthful of dry food and said vaguely, "Before I came out, Master told me that to find Cancong's tomb, I have to read a poem."

I hurriedly asked him what poems?
I'm blind to this area, and I haven't read any books, so when it comes to this, I'm confused.

"The Road to Shu is Difficult" by Li Bai, the most famous poet of the Tang Dynasty." Yazai finally swallowed the mouthful of dry food in his mouth: "Cancong and yufu, how at a loss was the founding of the country, the silkworms and yufu in these two sentences Yufu is the lord of the ancient Shu kingdom, and my master feels that this poem must be related to the ancient Shu kingdom and even the tomb of Cancong."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Yan slapped him on the back of the head: "Why didn't you say it earlier, kid?"

"Hey, I haven't thought about it all the time." He was a little embarrassed, huddled aside and ate dry food, not daring to touch Lao Yan's mold.After all, we have already entered the mountain. If something goes wrong and we want to go out, it doesn't mean that we can just turn around.

After a while, Lao Yan wrote "The Difficult Road to Shu" and studied it slowly.

"Speaking of which, this poem is indeed written about the ancient Shu Kingdom." Lao Yan smacked his lips a few times: "It's just that according to the above statement, we're afraid it's a little difficult for us to handle things."

"How to say?" I leaned over, but I couldn't read all the words on it, so I could only vaguely guess the meaning.

Lao Yan pointed to a sentence and read: "Xidang Taibai has a bird path that can cross the Emei peak. Judging from this sentence, we may have to go around to Taibai Mountain to find this so-called bird path..."

(End of this chapter)