Yu Qing tilted his head and said, "We'll wait until we're done. Let's take care of today's tasks first."
"Don't talk about today, I'll take care of everything for the next few days first." Nanzhu looked confident and jumped into the hole in the mountain wall.
They dug the entrance of the cave one foot above the ground, and built it into a terrace.
The sound of excavation soon came from the cave again. Yu Qing ignored it for the time being. He first climbed up the mountain by flying over the rock wall, and then reached the top of the basin to observe the surrounding terrain.
When he came back from wandering for a while, he happened to see smoke coming out of the newly dug hole. He quickly ran to take a look and saw that the smoke was getting bigger and bigger, and it was like a thick smoke billowing out.
Nanzhu and Mu Aotie both raised their heads outside the cave and looked at the smoking cave entrance.
Yu Qing didn’t need to guess to know that it was Nanzhu who had done something bad. He walked over and asked, “What are you doing?”
Nanzhu had some free time and said, "It's okay. You'll know when you get back."
Seeing that he was still trying to pass things off, Yu Qing had no choice but to wait patiently, but the answer didn't come, and instead Xu Juening came.
Xu Juening also came over and asked, "What are you doing? I can see smoke coming out of your place from the top of the mountain over there."
Nanzhu continued: "It's a little damp in the cave. Let's get some firewood in and burn the moisture."
Xu Juening was speechless.
When the thick smoke passed and the fire in the cave was completely extinguished, Nanzhu ran in to clean it again. Xu Juening even ran in to take a look and found that the cave was smoked black and Nanzhu was scraping the black on the walls.
Not seeing anything special, Xu Juening chatted for a few words and then left.
In the evening, Nanzhu stood at the entrance of the cave and said hello. Yu Qing and Mu Aotie entered the cave and took a look. They found that there was another small hole at the end of the cave, and there were probably hundreds of peaches piled inside.
“Eat quickly, everyone takes turns to eat and stand guard. I’m full, I’ll go and keep an eye on you.” Nanzhu smiled and turned around to go to the entrance of the cave.
Yu Qing and Mu Aoti looked at each other speechlessly, and they probably understood what was going on.
Ignore the other things for now, they just came here for the fairy peaches, there is nothing to be polite about, so the two of them pulled the peaches out of the hole and gnawed them first.
They couldn’t eat much, so each person was full after eating two.
Yu Qing turned around and called Nanzhu to come in. Nanzhu immediately moved the stone he had prepared to use as an indoor table back to the small hole to block it.
"Okay, don't use such complicated methods in the future. It not only recruits people, but also makes you tired. Old Seven, don't use your method of practicing sword practice and cutting down trees. Don't stay for a year and destroy the peach branches here.
It’s all chopped down. Well, from now on, we’ll pick peaches when it’s dark at night. One person will pick the peaches, and the other two will let the air around. They can take turns. Don’t catch a tree. If you remember this, there won’t be much of a problem.”
Yu Qing gave some explanations and gave him a simple and direct method. He handed the peach core to the big head on his shoulder. He knew that this guy was delicious and hard, so he gave it a try.
If I have the chance, I really want to try more and see if I can still try out Datou and whether he can eat something else. The lack of variety of food is indeed a problem. I was locked up some time ago and it showed when I was starving there.
Already.
Eating spiritual rice and bones was also discovered by accident at the beginning. It is definitely not something that Datou was born to eat.
How to put it this way, after knowing that Datou went to move the reinforcements and rescued them, I think he became more concerned about Datou's basic life.
Click, the big head tried to take a bite, then "cryed" and vomited some sparks, which was regarded as vomiting, indicating that he did not want to eat.
“Hey, please don’t spit fire randomly, there’s only half a piece of clothing left.”
The clothes on his shoulders were smoking. Yu Qing sighed and stretched out his hand to swat it out, leaving a few burnt-through black spots.
He used his kung fu to squeeze the peach pit again. The hard peach pit cracked and the peach kernel inside was peeled off. Then he threw it into his mouth and chewed it.
The big head tilted his head and looked at him.
“It tastes pretty good. Hey, the spiritual energy in these peach kernels is more intense.”
Yu Qing made an unexpected sound, then he crushed a peach core and peeled out the peach kernels and placed them on the stone table. He also grabbed the big head on his shoulder and placed it next to the peach kernels.
The big head took a bite, cried again, vomited the sparkling seeds, but still refused to eat.
Yu Qing picked it up and ate it himself. He found a handful of spiritual rice and put it on the stone table. Then he began to enjoy it.
Nanzhu and Mu Aotie learned to peel the peach kernels and tasted them, and found that they were indeed not bad...
A few days later, in the early morning, Yu Qing and Nan Zhu were sitting on the terrace drinking tea. In fact, it was not tea, but boiled water.
After learning that drinking the water used to ward off evil spirits, the three brothers and sisters drank it once a day. After all, they lived in a ghost place full of evil spirits.
Under the morning sun, the peach orchard in front of you is lush and green, with pink peaches dotted among it, which is pleasing to the eye and has the fragrance of peach.
In the cave, there was suddenly a muffled sound of bones exploding. Yu Qing looked back, stood up, and walked into the cave.
Mu Aotie, who was sitting cross-legged and meditating in the cave, exhaled a long breath, with an uncontrollable joy on his face, and then slowly stood up.
Yu Qing looked at him and asked, "A breakthrough?"
Mu Aotie slowly clenched his fists, looked at them left and right, and said hummingly: "Yes, we finally made a breakthrough."
"Good thing." Yu Qing chuckled and slowly drank the water from the stone cup. He felt extremely happy, even happier than his own breakthrough.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that all the risks were worth it.
Every time he was in danger of his life before, he would wonder if he had made a mistake in taking his two senior brothers out on an adventure.
Now that he has seen the tangible results, he feels that he, the leader, has done nothing wrong and has finally rapidly improved the cultivation level of the entire sect.
Lele alone is not as good as Lele of everyone. He turned around and shouted: "Lao Qi, Lao Jiu has broken through. Lao Qi..."
The two people in the cave found Nanzhu sitting on the terrace outside in a daze. They couldn't help but look at each other, and then walked over together.
When he arrived at Nanzhu, he discovered that Nanzhu was looking at a peach tree on the side of the cave entrance in a daze.
The smaller peach tree is only about two feet high. The crown of the tree just exceeds the opening of the cave here. It grows close to the foot of the mountain. It is a little deformed and not strong. According to the growth of all the peach trees in the peach garden, it can be seen that this should be
It's a peach that fell to the ground and took root and sprouted.
The two of them didn’t see anything worthy of being stunned in this peach tree. Yu Qing pushed Nan Zhu’s shoulder down, “What’s wrong?”
Nanzhu slowly stood up and whispered, "Look carefully at the differences between the leaves of this peach tree and other peach trees."
Yu Qing and Mu Aotie immediately stared and observed carefully.
After looking at it for a while, Yu Qing asked Mu Aotie next to him, "Do you see any difference?"
Mu Aotie shook his head.
Nanzhu spoke again, "Look at the leaves that are illuminated by the sun, and compare them with the leaves of other trees that are illuminated by the sunlight."
After receiving this reminder, the two took a closer look and quickly discovered the difference.
When the leaves of other peach trees are exposed to sunlight, the meridians inside the leaves are obviously black. This is normal because they have been infected by evil spirits.
What is abnormal is the deformed peach tree next to the cave. Under the sunlight, the meridians in the leaves are obviously similar to the leaves of outside plants, and it seems that they have not been infected by evil spirits.
Yu Qing walked to the edge of the hole, stretched out his hand and reached for a branch. It took some effort to twist the tough branch, and picked a peach together. He turned back and picked a leaf and tore it open to see the fracture. He found that inside
As expected, there were no signs of evil contamination.
He directly pinched the fairy peach open again. The juice was dripping. The pulp inside was tender, moist, and crystal clear. The meridians in the pulp were clean, and there was no sign of being infected by evil spirits. There was a strong smell.
The peach fragrance is tangy.
I looked at the twisted cross section of the peach branch again and found no signs of being infected by evil spirits.
The three of them looked at each other in confusion. Yu Qing then threw away the peach he had squeezed in his hand, or rather smashed it to the ground with force, leaving nothing behind.
There is nothing we can do. What if someone sees it?
Anyone can pick it up and play with it openly, but they can't leave it behind.
After staring at the peach tree and thinking for a while, Yu Qing said to himself: "How could this happen? Why is this peach tree not affected by evil spirits? Could it be that there is some treasure buried under this tree?"
Nanzhu said: "I think so too. There should be something under the tree to restrain evil spirits. It's just that it's hard to dig and easy to be discovered."
Mu Aotie suddenly said, "I'm overthinking it. There's no treasure under the tree."
Yu Qing and Nan Zhu both looked at him. Nan Zhu was surprised, "Why do you see him?"
Mu Aotie said calmly: "In the past few days, I have been pouring the first batch of water here, and it happened to be poured under the tree."
They have a habit of boiling water with big heads. They think the big heads are dirty and crawl around and fly around, so they have to boil the water first, rinse it, and wash it. No one drinks the water, so it is thrown away.
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…”
Lao Qi and Lao Fifteen were both speechless because they instantly understood what Lao Jiu meant.
Nanzhu murmured in a low voice, "Is it so strong enough? If a person drinks it, it can ward off evil spirits. Can the root of the tree absorb it and ward off evil spirits for the whole tree?"
Mu Aotie reminded, "It should be just enough to restrain the evil spirit. You have also seen how Yunxi's evil body collapsed."
Yu and Nan immediately imagined the scene of the radiation spread and collapse of Yunxi's evil body. They had to admit that Datou was the real nemesis of the evil body, and even Yunxi was afraid of it.
Nanzhu whispered again: "I want to confirm whether it is really simple. Just find another tree and try it."
Yu Qing crossed his arms in front of his chest, touched his mustache, squinted his eyes and muttered, "If it's really possible... that is to say, as long as the peach trees are planted, we can even if we can't enter Xiaoyunjian in the future.
Grow fairy peaches outside and sell them..."
Nanzhu shook his head, "How to do this? Let's not talk about whether they will give it to us or not. This peach tree is more than ten feet tall, and the branches are about the same width. It would be difficult for just a few of us to get one out."
Yu Qing: "Aren't there still small ones? The big ones can't be taken out, so we can get more small ones out... I just don't know how many years it takes for these fairy peaches to ripen."
Seeing the virtue in this guy's eyes, Nan Zhu and Mu Aoti looked at each other speechless. They both knew that Lao Fifteen's idea was unrealistic. Let alone getting to know each other in a few years, first of all, people might not give it to you, even if you get him out.
, transportation on the way, and finding a place to plant are all problems. Who knows how to plant this stuff?
It would be trouble if fairy peaches really grow, and they may not end up in your stomach.
There is a saying that goes like this: A common man is not guilty of carrying a jade in his possession.
Yu Qing suddenly exclaimed again, "No, we are a bit short-sighted. Even if the evil influence of the peach tree cannot be resolved, we can eat it ourselves after planting it."
Nan, Mu and the others finally figured out that Lao Fifteen might have really had the crooked idea of taking out the peach tree. He was only thinking about peaches before, but now he actually wants to uproot the tree.