Once you're in the city, the problem becomes even more of a headache.The road is clearly marked on the map, but when you touch it, you find that it has been blocked by factories or a lake, and it has become a spacious road and a new type of house.Compared with the normal city tourism map, more than half of the place names and coordinates do not match.Ming Xia felt that he had been refined by this stack of maps, and according to such a map like a book of heaven, could he really touch Qingqiu Mountain?
Ming Xia sat down on a wooden chair on the side of the road, physically and mentally exhausted.Next to him was an ordinary pet box, and Qingqiu was wrapped in a small quilt and sleeping in a warm baby nest inside.Looking through the small window of the kennel, you can only see a slightly raised quilt.Alas, if only someone had carried him.Mingxia was depressed for a while and started looking at the map again.He remembered Nanjiang's metaphor about layers again.He thought that perhaps what he was looking for was not a place in the real world, but another world that seemed to be layered on top of the real world.He first identified areas where the two worlds overlapped.Only in this way can Ming Xia enter another mysterious world and find Qingqiu Mountain, which will not appear on the city's tourist map at all.Ming Xia carried a pet box around Chaohu Lake for three days, rented a car and continued south.His route was through Chaohu Wetland Park, to Yefu Mountain, and then to Anqing.These are all areas where the two maps overlap.Mingxia parked the car on the side of the mountain road and took out the map to look at it, but found that no matter how you look at it, it can't be compared.On the city tourism map, this should be a theme park, covering a wide area, and the game facilities are relatively high-end.On Hu Lao's map, it is supposed to be a lake, inhabited by all kinds of birds that fly from the north to winter.Now neither side is right.His car is now parked on a deserted mountain road, with no village in front of him and no shop in the back.On both sides of the mountain road is wasteland, and there is no sign of cultivation.Ming Xia scolded a foul word in his heart, this strange situation really happened?!
Mingxia got out of the car and found that the mountains were already foggy, and the mountain road and the shadowy city in the distance were no longer visible.If the map does not match, the accommodation location marked on the map will naturally lose its reference value.Ming Xia didn't know for a moment whether to continue moving forward or to go back the way he came.Just as he was hesitating, he heard a movement in the car behind him, he turned around and saw that Qingqiu had come out of the pet box at some point, and was stepping on the top of the pet box, trying to climb up the steering wheel.Ming Xia hurriedly opened the car door and scooped it into his arms, his fluffy and warm little body made his anxious mood improve a lot, woke up?
Hungry or not?
Qingqiu's eyes widened and he looked left and right, then left and right, and then screamed, ahhhhhMing Xia, Ming Xia is stupid.Qingqiu Mountain!
It's Mt.
Qingqiu!
Qingqiu is going crazy, his tail is flicked like a wild dog that has found meat and bones, and his breath is uneven, oh my God, my home, I really go home, woo woo Mingxia hugged Qingqiu and patted it, and his heart was at a loss.He actually touched Qingqiu Mountain in a daze?!
Go from this side.Qingqiu lay on his chest, like a child who had just learned to walk but was too lazy to walk, sticking to the adults and spoiled children arching to the side, this way, this side, there is a rabbit hole further forward, from there up the mountain, ah, ah, I really can't imagine that next summer, here is really not the same!
Qingqiu said, tears about to flow.Mingxia was infected by its emotions, and a heart was pounding.He looked around, there was a bit of a desolate mountain winter scene, the grass and trees were dry, and the mountains were not very majestic, how could this become a demon mountain inhabited by the demon clan?
Mingxia had a dream-like sense of unreality, and even wondered if Qingqiu would be too excited to recognize the wrong place.According to Qingqiu, if you go any further, you will have to go up the mountain, and the car will definitely not be able to drive up.Mingxia put useful things in his backpack, locked the car, and walked up the mountain with Qingqiu in his arms.The grass was forested, and there was silence all around.Ming Xia soon saw the rabbit hole that Qingqiu said, and from here he began to go up the mountain.Ming Xia looked at the hole that was half covered by wild grass, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.The rabbits on Qingqiu Mountain live in such simple soil holes, and his little Qingqiu will not also live in primitive and simple fox holes, right?
Be careful.Qingqiu reminded him that his voice was a few degrees higher than usual, and there was a kind of excitement that was eager to try.Ming Xia didn't react to what he had to be careful about, and the next second he felt that something was attached to his whole body, which seemed to be a thin and soft film.Ming Xia reached out and touched it, and an invisible membrane did open in the air.Keep moving!
Qingqiu waved his little fat paws, commanding Ming Xia with great momentum, go forward, it's okay.Tomorrow summer will continue to move forward.The thin, soft film was attached to his face, slowly tensed, and then with a soft pop, he hugged Qingqiu as if passing through the film of bubbles.The vigorous green came to his face, and Ming Xia's eyes lit up.This is the real Qingqiu Mountain.The peaks were beautiful, rising and falling in a thin mist, and the layers of green stretched from their feet to the point of view.Opposite them is the highest mountain.The beautiful peaks of the mountains are covered with white snow, while the halfway points of the mountain are filled with a light pink and deep red like smoke and mist, like a fairyland.Qingqiu jumped off the ground from Mingxia's arms and ran forward with his big tail flicking, screaming happily as he ran.Mingxia followed behind it, trotting all the way to it.He heard a full sense of happiness in Qingqiu's tender voice.He was infected by it, and his heart was a little sour.In front of them, is there really someone waiting for Qingqiu's return?
The mountain air is fresh, the vegetation is verdant, and you can see the blooming mountain flowers everywhere, just like the spring of March.When one person and one fox were tired of running, they sat on the side of the mountain and rocks to rest, and listened to Qingqiu tell about the interesting things of childhood in his memory.It wasn't until the sun was setting west that they sweated and climbed the fox peak in Qingqiu's mouth.The fox cave is about a third of the way from the peak, surrounded by a large peach blossom forest, and the mountain breeze blows through it.Deep in the peach forest, a row of crooked thatched huts is revealed.Outside the low fence, a group of fat chickens and chicks are leisurely looking for grass seeds to eat on the grass.When I saw a little fox running in from outside the yard, I didn't make a fuss.Qingqiu's saliva is about to flow out, it's so fat.Mingxia found that there was really a vegetable garden outside the grass shed, and there were a few tufts of greens and beans growing crookedly inside.A few apple trees in the corner of the garden are also covered with loofah vines.The vegetable patch is not neatly cleaned up, and it looks very perfunctory.Mingxia wasn't sure if the fox brothers were planting vegetables to eat, or if Qingtan simply wanted to make a teaching model for Qingqiu and popularize the common sense of human life.Not far behind the grass hut is the mountain rock, and Ming Xia saw the entrance to a cave on the rock wall.The entrance to the cave was covered with dense bushes, which blocked most of the round opening.Mingxia felt that the grass shed was more like a game scene, just like the vegetable field, to let Qingqiu understand human life.And this cave is their real home.Qingqiu didn't know where to go, so Mingxia turned around the yard twice and approached the thatched hut curiously.Two grass sheds, the one on the left is the shape of a stove room, two iron pots, and a few bottles and cans on the stove.There was also a water tank and a pile of chopped firewood next to it.In the grass hut on the right there are two simple wooden beds covered with straw mats.There are several low cabinets next to the bed, a bookcase by the window, a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table, and a blue-glazed vial with a blooming peach blossom in it.This is what the room of the cold reader in Mingxia's mind looks like.He stood at the door, as if looking at a dream he had had in a long time, obviously it was the first time he had seen it, but he had a sense of déjà vu.Sure enough, as Qingqiu introduced, there are vegetable fields, rabbit holes, and endless peach blossom forests.Ming Xia's eyes went down the hillside, where there were large green meadows and woods, the river glowed with white light, like a twisted ribbon breaking through this dream-like green, and all kinds of animals came and went by the river, some came to drink water, some came to hunt.Mingxia sat down on the steps outside the hut and stared at the river in the distance.For some reason, even the scenery from afar seems to have a somewhat familiar taste.Summer!
Qingqiu called him in the distance, Mingxia got up, took a few steps out, only to see Qingqiu lying on the rock wall, looking out at the mouth of the round cave, and saw him raise his claws and wave twice.Ming Xia felt that he had fallen into the devil, because even the picture just now, he actually felt familiar.Ming Xia didn't dare to think deeply, he walked a few steps towards the back of the grass hut, and saw Qingqiu rushing down the mountain like a white ball.I found the letter left by my senior brother, Qingqiu jumped into his arms with some eagerness, climbed on his shoulder three times and two times, and said that he wanted to walk around, and if I came back, I would go to Qinling to find Wu Luo.Who is Wu Luo?
Qingqiu patiently gave him popular science, Lingshan Ten Witches, have you heard of it?
In ancient times, there were ten particularly powerful wizards, and legend has it that they once saved the Monkey, which is not a legend, it is true.Qingqiu sighed as he spoke, and he didn't expect that Qiqi was actually a cliff.He was murdered by his own subordinates and the son of Zhongshan God, and was revived by the Ten Witches of Lingshan with immortal medicine, but he was full of resentment and his temperament changed greatly.It is also said that he had fallen into a demon because he had killed too much, and finally lost his mind and was killed by the most powerful demon hunter at the time.Ming Xia thought for a while and said: Don't say it, he looks like that, his face is black all day long, and when he sees anyone, you owe him two hundred taels of silver, which is really consistent with what I imagined.My senior brother said that Wu Luo knew everything I didn't understand, so let me ask Wu Luo.Qingqiu asked him a little eagerly, can we go?
Ming Xia calculated their route in his mind, nodded and said: Go, if there is a chance, I also want to find the whereabouts of my adoptive father's family.Qingqiu was suddenly happy, I had a lot of questions.Say, will I be able to see my brother soon?
Mingxia nodded, I think so.It's not just a word of comfort, but he really has such a premonition.As for whether their journey was too smooth and there were too many questions to consider, Ming Xia temporarily put this small doubt on the back of his mind.Chapter 101 Great Witch, let's listen to what Qing Tan has to say Before setting off from Yaozhou, Ming Xia and Qing Qiu were both adjusted by the technical team, although they did not have the exaggerated effect of the disguise technique, but they were also very different from their usual appearance.At least if you come to find someone with a photo of Ming Xia, you will definitely not be able to find him.Qingqiu was also dyed earthy yellow, and it looked like a pet dog when it was shrunk in a pet kennel.Mingxia took the new ID card issued to him by the technical team, took a long-distance bus to Baoji, and then took a short-line bus from Baoji into the mountain.This route is basically the route that Ming's father and Ming's mother used to enter the mountain back then.When it was almost dark, one person and one fox arrived at the small mountain village that Ming's mother had mentioned.A small mountain village deep in the mountains is a real backer.In recent years, many hunters have no choice but to change their careers, but the living resources in the mountains are limited after all, and many young people have gone outside to beg for a living.Today's Hengcun is no longer the quiet mountain village like the peach blossom paradise in Ming's mother's memory.Mingxia can barely understand some dialects, because the people in Hengcun have received many scientific expedition teams, most of the villagers can also speak a little Mandarin, and there is no big obstacle to communication.He asked the villagers about his adoptive father's family.Probably because the floating population in the village is very small, the people in the village still remember that family.There are even people who remember next summer.In their eyes, Mingxia is a child in a mountain village, but he has grown up and flown away.For example, the old woman of the family closest to my adoptive father's house said: You were very skinny at that time, running around, and once deliberately hid behind my family's stove so that the village could find you.Hey, Da Nian is also a habitual child, and he is not angry.You kicked down my jar, he didn't say to help me up first, but hugged you first to coax Mingxia and the old woman to laugh together.The old woman smiled and sighed, and his two daughters were also angry and took him out early.Their house has been empty for a long time, and it has not been cleaned up, and there is no one to live in, so you can honestly live with me, and go over to see it during the day.The old people are particular, and the houses that have been deserted for a long time cannot be gone after dark.Ming Xia thanked her.He also knew that in this season, although winter had passed, spring had not yet arrived, and it was still very cold in the mountains at night.The old woman is also surnamed Jiang, her wife died early, and a pair of children in the family have settled in other places.Granny Jiang was reluctant to leave Hengcun at first, but now that she is older, she doesn't want to be separated from her little grandchildren, her family's fields have been given to the people in the village, and when the weather is a little warmer, she will also leave the village to live with her children.Thinking of this next summer, it is actually a little sad.From his selfishness, he wanted to see the peach blossom paradise in his parents' memories, with villages, fields, curling smoke, and friendly neighbors, and he could see laughing children as soon as he went out, but after he saw the living conditions of this small mountain village with his own eyes, he saw the old people and left-behind children walking on the country road, and he knew that these people, these people who were still stubbornly staying in the village, would leave sooner or later.They will go back to the crowd and return the land to the mountains.Granny Jiang tidied up the room where her son once lived, burned the kang, and laid a new quilt for him.Life in the mountains is that the sun rises and the sun sets, and Granny Jiang also goes to rest early.Ming Xia was lying in a strange room, with the whispering of the mountain forest breathing at night.Such a sound seems to be there or not, and listening to it in the ears makes the world quieter.It's empty, it's quiet, and it's isolated.Qingqiu nested beside him, also quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.Perhaps the solemn atmosphere of the mountains and forests calmed down their anxious hearts.Ming Xia felt that something was faintly sprouting in the depths of his soul.Closing his eyes, he seemed to see his young self, wearing a rustic little padded jacket, running around the yard of the farmhouse laughing and laughing, and behind him, a tall and stout man chased after him, he bent slightly, his arms outstretched, as if he was always on guard against him to fall.Ming Xia laughed.Half-asleep and half-awake, his smile was simple and bright, like a pampered and happy child.When he left early the next morning, Ming Xia secretly stuffed a few bills under his pillow.He took a package of dry food prepared for him by Granny Jiang and went to Jiang Danian's house first.This is his home when he was young, but unfortunately he doesn't remember anything anymore, just standing here, looking at the dilapidated houses and vegetable patches in the yard, he has an indescribable feeling in his heart.The Jiang family did not lock the door when they moved out, because they knew that they would not come back, so they simply handed over the disposal of the house to the village.However, Jiang's family is in a remote location, and no one in the village wants to move over, so it has been empty.Ming Xia looked around inside and out, and took a lot of photos.He went to the room where he lived when he was young, which is said to be the room where he raised the little fox and the room where the demon pill disappeared.However, Qingqiu walked back and forth a few times, and did not sense any special energy fluctuations.Ming Xia left the Jiang family's compound with Qingqiu in his arms and walked along the narrow path to the mountains.