The castle was built in the barren mountains, except for a few feet around the castle where the ground can still be exposed, and further away there are wild grass taller than a person, interspersed with a few tall old trees that will never wither, and crows circle around on the trees. Chi, from time to time let out a shrill cry.

After Shao Zongyan identified the direction, he rushed into the grass without hesitation.The wild grass here is very hard, if you push it hard with your hands, it will bounce back quickly, and the grass blades are long and sharp, if you accidentally scratch your body, it will draw a bloody cut like a small knife.

His own skin was covered with a layer of protective qi, and he was not afraid of these small grass leaves, but the master's calf exposed to the outside was cut several times, dripping with blood, and asked quickly: "Does Tanyue have any wound medicine in his hand? These vampires are particularly good at distinguishing the smell of blood, and the poor monk is afraid that the smell of blood from the wound will attract them."

Shao Zongyan hurriedly took out a quilt from his bag and spread it on the felled grass, then threw Master on it, debrided the wound with the cotton swab and iodophor that came with the life-saving kit, and finally wrapped it with layers of gauze.When doing these things, he struck quickly and ruthlessly, just pursuing speed, for fear that those vampires would wake up from the drug's effect; the master was quite patient, and let him clean the wound and bandage it tightly without a word.

But when he was finally about to be wrapped in a thin space blanket, Master Shi Nian couldn't help but said again: "The Taoist priest might as well borrow a pair of shoes from the poor monk, and those who are used to walking on mountain roads, walking by themselves won't drag you down." leg."

"I have wronged Master." In such a tall and dense grass, it is easy to get hurt if you don't wear proper clothes, but now there is no time to dress him well, everything must be practical.Shao Zongyan took a look at his figure, took out jeans and a pullover for him to put on by himself, then squatted down to change his cotton socks and leather boots for him, put away the rest of the things, and mowed the grass in front of him with a knife.

Shi Nian was able to catch up with him, even if he fell behind by a few steps occasionally, he could still catch up by gritting his teeth, which was faster than him carrying someone on his shoulders.The two stumbled from the late night when they didn't know the direction to the early morning when the morning light was twilight, and only then did they walk out of the grass covered in dew and sporadic wounds.

Beyond the grass is a steep and steep hillside. The slope is full of thick and green broad-leaved trees, and the roots and grass stems are intertwined under the feet. There are many wild grasses and flowers, and there are unknown mushrooms. It looks like the weather in late spring and early summer.

At this time, the whole land has not yet awakened with the morning light, and there are clear dewdrops on the leaves. When walking through the forest, you will encounter meat insects hanging from silk threads from time to time, but some small rodents come out early to look for food.A few steps into the woods will startle the sleeping snakes, insects, rats and ants, making small screams and rustling footsteps, and gradually disappearing with the human invasion.

When everything is silent, the only thing that is clear is the sound of rushing water not far away.

Shao Zongyan was refreshed, turned around to support Shi Nian, who was also flushed and breathing heavily, and swept the road in front of him with a knife, scaring away the snakes, insects, rats and mosquitoes lying on his feet, while comforting the master: "We will reach the water source soon. We can rest there for a while."

Fortunately, the source of water was not far away. After crossing the forest for a short time, they found the small river that turned down from the adjacent hill.The water in the river is not deep, and the water surface is only two or three meters wide, but the current is very fast, swirling around where there are big rocks, rolling the green leaves or branches that have fallen from the head, and rushing downstream.

Seeing the river, Shao Zongyan was not in a hurry to rest, but turned his head and smiled at Master Shi Nian: "Let's walk along the river for a while, and rest when we reach the lower reaches."

He smiled very subtly, his eyes were slightly squinted, his plump silkworms were lying across his eyes, his lips were curved into a rhomboid shape, showing a rare innocence.Shi Nian couldn't help but also smiled back at him, it was as clear as melting snow on a high mountain, and it immediately set off Shao Daochang, who had finally become pure once, into a demon way.

Fortunately, Shao Zongyan had resigned himself to his appearance a long time ago, and he had no more pure thoughts than monks. After dazzled Shi Nian's eyes with a smile, he took a step forward and grabbed his trouser waist and carried it on his shoulder, and took out a clothes hanger as a Crutches, without saying a word, stepped heavily into the river.

There is a lot of silt and aquatic plants accumulated at the bottom of the river. People will sink into the slippery silt when they step on it. Every time they pull up their feet, a piece of muddy water will be brought up. The fish and krill in the water are disturbed by humans, and they fight against the water on both sides of the river. Swimming to a clear place, the animals that came to drink water retreated a little far away, staring at them vigilantly.

Because of the fast current and soft silt, the road in the water is not easy to walk. Every time Shao Zongyan takes a step, he must use a clothes fork to enter the bottom of the water to ensure that he will not be directly washed downstream by the water before he dares to step forward.Otherwise, in such a steep and rapid waterway, once you stumble, you will be swept away like sawdust falling into the water.In the future, no matter if you are sucked into deep water by the vortex, or hit a big rock to beat you, you will not be able to control it by yourself.

And Yan Hanjiang was staying in his arms.In case the clothes were loosened in the water, if such a small grass carp was let off by the water roll, where would he get it!

He gritted his teeth, raised his heavy left foot, and continued to move forward.He felt that he had already walked for a long time, but when the sun had completely risen above the horizon and the whole forest was awakened with the sunlight, they had actually just walked more than ten meters downstream.

"It's dawn." Master Shi Nian on his back looked at the sunlight reflected in the muddy water in front of him, and said loudly, "Take a break, Daoist, it's already dawn, vampires can't see the sun, we're safe throughout the day of."

"Really?" Dao Shao was overjoyed, his footsteps became much lighter, he walked to the shore, put down his thoughts, and sat on the rocky beach panting: "I'm really tired, I don't know what's weird about this place, it's better than in the desert." I was still tired that time."

Yan Hanjiang crawled out from his chest, and when he saw that he was not far from the collar, he simply said in a muffled voice, "Maybe this mountain is too high. We were originally at a low latitude of 500 meters. There may be some altitude sickness on this kind of high mountain. Check to see if you still have medicine in your hand, and if you have a reaction, take a pill on top."

He did have medicine in his hand, but the Yunling Pill that he took when performing exercises was too wasteful to eat here.Anyway, it is because the area is too high and uncomfortable, just wait until you go down the mountain.

Master Shi Nian panted and asked: "Who is the Taoist priest talking to? Could it be some immortal from the 'Thousand Mirage Pavilion'?"

Yan Hanjiang flicked his tail and patted his chest muscles for strength, and finally crawled out from his collar, and said calmly, "Tell this master, anyway, I will follow you everywhere in the future. I've been hiding from no one."

The top of his head just protruded from under Shao Zongyan's neck. When Taoist Shao looked down at him like this, his chin just touched the fluffy top of his head, which was slippery and itchy. It felt so good.

Daoist Shao wanted to rub it a little more, but he was afraid that the client would think he was unprofessional.I had no choice but to bear the itch and took out the small robe and stuffed it into the neckline, let him change in his arms, holding the fish tail with his hands outside, and introduced with a smile: "This is Brother Yan Hanjiang, a monk of Yuanying, he once Rescued me in times of crisis many times, he is not only my benefactor, but also my lifelong confidant.”

Shi Nian looked at it in amazement for a while, then chanted the Buddha's name, put his hands together, and bowed to the grass carp spirit.Yan Hanjiang nodded coldly as a salute, patted his tail in his clothes, and asked Shao Zongyan to take him out.

Daoist Shao carefully took him out of his arms and held him in the palm of his hand. He wanted to put him in the fish tank, but Yan Hanjiang thought it was troublesome, so he shook his head and said, "Just carrying me is much lighter than holding the fish tank. If you can't, just tie my belt to the belt hook at the waist, so as not to take up a hand."

Is there a small fish essence tied around the waist as a pendant... No, no, this is abusing grass carp!Shao Zongyan was not willing to part with it, so he took out a large square scarf from his bag, twisted the two sides thinly and tied it around his neck, and pulled it up a little in the middle to naturally form a hammock, just enough for grass carp to lie on it.

It took him a few minutes to take care of Yan Hanjiang, and then he remembered the client who hadn't eaten or drank for half a night and was desperately driving the mountain road, so he quickly poured out the big water tank from his bag and asked him to drink water, comforting him: "The river water is not clean enough to drink. , Now it’s too late to purify, Master first drink some old water, which is used for cooking at home.”

The master is also very thirsty, if he doesn't stop him, he can go down to drink raw water.Immediately thanked, took the water ladle in the tank to scoop up the water and drank it heartily.Shao Zongyan also took a bowl himself, and took a small spoonful of tips for Yan Hanjiang as he drank it.

The three drank enough water and rested for a while, Taoist Shao put Yan Hanjiang in a small bowl, piled the firewood into a circular pile with a hole in the middle, and started a rotating fire similar to a gas stove.

It happened to be close to a small river, and the river was clouded by the silt he had brought up as he walked. All the fish in the river swam to the bank to breathe. He didn't have much effort to catch a slippery little fish with his bare hands.It's a pity that the water here is shallow, and there is no way to raise big fish. The big ones are only more than a catty, but they are round and slender, and they look like meat rollers.

I just don’t know if this kind of fish is good for boiled fish, or just roast it directly, and then eat the leftover steamed buns in the bag?

While he was thinking, he quickly cut open the fish, pierced it with a branch and put it on the stove for barbecue.The viscera and fish washing water he took out were poured far away into the woods. When he went to wash his hands by the downstream stream, he saw a few small shrimps outcropping, so he simply took a basket to shine in the water a few times, picked it up to control the water, Sure enough, I saw a bunch of transparent shrimps at the bottom of the basket.

The prawns are not big, so let’s fry them as snacks.

He floated the prawns in the river a few times without any hassle. After returning home, he poured them into a basin, mixed them with salt, and kneaded them back and forth to taste the prawns. Finally, he sprinkled some rice on top, kneaded them well, and sat in the oil pan to cook them quickly. fry.

The fried prawns are cooked very quickly. As soon as they are put into the pan, the aroma will come out with the sound of "Zi La" boiling oil. The shell will turn red after pressing it with an iron spoon and shaking it a few times.He fished it out with a colander and filtered the oil, and was thinking about getting something to fry when he suddenly heard a very low sound of chanting sutras.

By the way... this time the client is a vegetarian again.

Last time the elf could still accept meat, but the Buddhist disciples were not allowed to kill and eat meat. The two of them ate fish and shrimps. We can't let the master gnaw dry steamed buns just for the smell!

He deeply reflected on his indifference to customers, and wanted to cook some vegetarian dishes for the master, but when he rummaged through his backpack, he found that the fresh vegetables he brought at home had been cooked a few days ago when he was waiting to jump into the dragon gate. Find it here.But they don't have the time to go around long distances to find food, so they can only eat whatever they encounter...

No, there is one food that is always in front of his eyes, but he just didn't notice it!

Rows of cattail plants with slender stems and leaves grow by the river, with candle-like flower heads on top. The roots of these things are peeled and fried, but they are crispy and tender, no worse than any other melons and vegetables.

He got up and pulled out a few cattails of cattail grass. The master saw that he was preparing food for himself, so he hurriedly stopped him: "Fellow daoist, just prepare your own. If a monk has a bowl of cold rice, he can wrap his stomach. If he doesn't dare to work, fellow daoist will do it."

Taoist Shao said with a smile: "Master, you don't have to be polite. I'm used to cooking meat and dishes. I forgot that the master has to fast. It's just that the pot here has already fried shrimp. I'm afraid the brush is not clean. The master will not like it."

The master chanted the Buddha's name and said "dare not": "How dare you pick three or four when you are running for your life? I am sorry to trouble fellow Taoists to cook vegetarian food."

He didn't regard himself as a god at all, and used to help the Taoist leader pull weeds.After plucking a small pile, Taoist Shao cut off the upper part, washed and peeled the skin, revealing the crisp and slightly sweet stalk meat at the bottom, cut it into small pieces and put it in the pan for frying.

Because Buddhism does not eat five meats, there is no way to add garlic slices when stir-frying cattail vegetables, so it will not be too delicious just relying on a little oil and salt to enhance the taste.Daoist Shao had no choice but to use monosodium glutamate, a major killer in modern society.

Although monosodium glutamate is not as healthy as natural fresh soup, adding a little can enhance the freshness. Add a spoonful of clear oil in the pot, and the whole dish will be fresh and fragrant.Although no fish is added, it can taste a kind of freshness that cooking alone vegetables will never have.

Shao Daochang threw the steamed buns by the fire to roast again.Baked until the skin is slightly cracked, and the steamed bun skin near the crack becomes brown and crispy, pick it up when it emits the unique aroma of baked pasta, pass one to the master, and slowly peel the skin with one, and break the crispy dough into small pieces for feeding To Yan Hanjiang, watching him gnawing sweetly, I feel as if I am not hungry anymore.

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