Su Yizhao couldn't laugh or cry. No matter how fast this ox-cart was, could it be faster than a horse-drawn carriage? The cowhide would be broken, right?
Unexpectedly, just when Su Yizhao was about to make fun of him, the ox cart started to go really fast.
Looking up from the lush mountain forest, the continuous tree crowns are like giant green umbrellas covering the rolling mountains.
Only sporadic sunlight can tenaciously pass through the thick carpet of green velvet, forming dots of light on the branches, leaves and land.
Su Yizhao tightened his backpack, picked up a branch he picked up on the way, knocked on the dense grass beside him, and moved forward with difficulty.
"I said! If you don't take a good road, you have to take this corner!"
Xiangsi squatted on Su Yizhao's shoulder, one paw firmly grasped Su Yizhao's collar, fearing that he would be thrown off.
"We are going to the inner circle. There is no way out. Of course we can only find a way out on our own."
Su Yizhao wiped the sweat on his head with his sleeves, and his breathing became somewhat rapid.
She had been walking for half an hour since going up the mountain, so she thought this place should be considered the inner circle.
"Go ahead and inquire about the rats in the mountains." Su Yizhao grabbed Xiangsi and took it off his shoulder.
Who would have thought that Xiangsi was holding on to Su Yizhao's collar tightly but would not let go.
"Aren't you afraid of me getting lost in this deep mountain and old forest? I don't know the rats here, I, I, I won't go!"
Hearing the hesitation in Xiangsi's tone, Su Yizhao suddenly laughed, "I didn't expect you to be afraid sometimes."
After saying this, she no longer forced herself. There were many animals in the mountains, and there were many natural enemies of rats. It was reasonable to be afraid of lovesickness.
"What are you looking for?" Xiangsi did not refute Su Yizhao's words this time, but asked curiously.
Su Yizhao took a deep breath, picked up the water bag in his backpack and took a sip.
"Of course we are looking for treasures. These little animals ran away when they saw me before I had time to ask."
Su Yizhao was a little discouraged. After walking on the mountain road for so long, the little animals ran very fast when they saw her.
One person and one mouse were talking when suddenly there was a rustling sound in front of them.
Su Yizhao's hair stood up immediately. She looked around warily and quickly took out a small yellow paper bag from her arms.
When she opened the paper bag and was about to drop it, the animal she was most afraid of suddenly appeared in front of her, a snake.
Staring at her with cold eyes, his five-foot-long body stretched out, his head held high and his contemptuous eyes, Su Yizhao felt like he was nailed to the spot, unable to move.
Xiangsi was also a little scared. It always felt that the snake was not looking at Su Yizhao, but staring at it. It was the prey being targeted.
"Let's run quickly and avoid it first." Xiangsi was very panicked at this moment. It jumped from Su Yizhao's shoulder to the top of his head and couldn't help but urge.
"No! My legs are weak!" Su Yizhao's voice was a little trembling. There was nothing she could do, she was just afraid of snakes.
In this way, one person, one snake and one rat were fighting for a long time, but no one moved.
"Hey! Do you want to eat meat?"
Su Yizhao saw the snake staring at her for a long time without moving. She took another look at the snake's slender body and felt that the snake might not be able to swallow her.
"Isn't there some meat in your basket? Share it! Why do I feel like it's going to eat me?" Xiangsi finally calmed down when the snake didn't move.
Su Yizhao suddenly remembered that he had the ability to communicate with animals, didn't he? He might as well try to communicate.
"Then what? Brother Snake, are you hungry? I have meat here!"
Su Yizhao slowly put down his backpack as he spoke, and then pulled out a piece of meat wrapped in oil paper.
Before she came, she bought three kilograms and asked the butcher to divide it into several pieces, just in case.
Su Yizhao stared at the snake closely, but found that its originally stretched body began to coil up, as if it was waiting for her filial piety.
Holding the backpack in front of his chest, Su Yizhao quickly pulled out the dagger from the side of his boots.
I still don’t know what this snake means, but I still have to be prepared.
"What about you? I cut it into small pieces for you?" Su Yizhao wondered why the snake didn't respond to her question? Could it be that he didn't understand what she said?
But according to the rules that Su Yizhao found before, intelligent animals should be able to communicate. Isn't the snake not intelligent?
"You know the truth!"
Suddenly, a childish voice came to her ears, and Su Yizhao understood that it was not a person talking to her, but the snake in front of her.
Darling! With such a big body, you are still a child?
But since she can communicate, it means that her affairs today are settled.
At that moment, Su Yizhao was no longer afraid, but placed the meat on the oil paper and began to cut it into small pieces with a dagger.
While Su Yizhao was cutting the pork, the snake had already slowly swam over.
Xiangsi felt that the other person's unstoppable gaze on her had disappeared, but at the moment, she only dared to stay on Su Yizhao's body.
"Is this enough for you?" Su Yizhao still had meat in the basket on her back, but she still had to deal with the next animals.
The snake didn't respond, so it stepped forward, took a piece of meat into its mouth, and swallowed it. The next step was to gobble it up, and the snake swallowed the nearly one kilogram piece of meat in just a few strokes.
It licked its tongue after eating, "What kind of meat is this? It's so delicious!"
Su Yizhao looked at the other person's triangular head and knew that the snake was poisonous, so he did not dare to get too close to it.
"Pork!" Su Yizhao suddenly thought of an idea.
"It's so delicious. Do you have any more?" The snake was still unsatisfied with the clean meat.
Xiangsi looked at the snake that had swallowed almost a kilogram of pork, and was so frightened that she couldn't help but feel like there wasn't enough meat to fit between her teeth.
"There is still a small piece, but you have to help me!" Su Yizhao said and took out another pack of smaller pieces, placed it in front of the snake and said seductively.
Pushing away the vines in the bushes in front of him, Su Yizhao had already used the dagger in his hand as a sickle.
The messed up hair was tied back with a colorful ribbon. Su Yizhao couldn't care less about the bun at the moment.
"Brother Snake! It's not an option for us to search aimlessly like this! I say, you have to find me someone with better eyesight, who might know where the herbs are!"
Su Yizhao sighed helplessly. This snake brother has bad eyesight. How could he know where the herbs are?
The snake swimming freely in the grass in front thought for a moment after hearing this, and then said: "I know who knows the herbs here best, anyway, just follow me. It runs around in the mountains every day, you show it your drawings
, it must know."
This snake is quite innocent. Su Yizhao doesn't think it has any malicious intent, but its parents may not be easy to talk to!
If this father and mother came to find her, how could they be polite to her looking at such a moving piece of flesh?
"Didn't you say it was running around in the mountains? Then where should we find it?"
Su Yizhao tightened the straps on her sleeves. If she passed through the bushes again, she would be almost naked.
"I can sense it's nearby." The snake said, suddenly stopping its squirming body, "Here it is! It's right there."
Su Yizhao quickly chopped off the bushes in front of him with a dagger and walked out from behind a big tree.
But when she saw the animal in front of her, her eyes suddenly widened and her eyes trembled.