That night, Xu Qing had a dream.
This is the first time in more than six years that he has lived in such a luxurious house, and it is also the first time he has not felt the cold outside, and it is also a rare dream night.
In the dream, the world is not cruel, there are no remnants of gods in the sky, his parents are by his side, and he even has an older brother.
And he went to school with a group of playmates carefree, returned to his warm home after school, had a hot dinner with his relatives, and fell asleep beautifully.
It's just the appearance of relatives in the dream, a bit of a mold.
He really wanted to see clearly, but there was always a fog shrouded in fog until the morning came, and Xu Qing, who was lying on the bed, opened his eyes.
He looked at the roof, eased up for a moment, as if he had completely woken up from his dream, and looked around silently......
In the gray-black brick room, there were not only tables, chairs and beds, but also a washroom, and the floor was filled with residual heat, which was the remnants of the heat of the stove last night.
On the ground, there is a futon made of straw mats, and there is an empty bookshelf next to it.
It seems simple, but in Xu Qing's heart, this is already very luxurious.
Xu Qing took a deep breath, walked to the bathroom, carefully stretched out his hand and put it in the water, watching his dirty hands slowly dissolve their color, and he quickly lifted them.
After staring down for a moment, rubbing it on his body, and getting it dirty again, he looked up at himself in the mirror.
A wide leather jacket, black but messy hair, a small face full of dirt, and those clear eyes.
Just watching, as Xu Qing turned to look at the window, the clarity in his eyes was replaced by indifference.
The sky and earth outside the window, the wind and snow have stopped, the early sun has risen, the sun is shining, and the last snow of this winter has slowly disappeared from the ground.
On the trees in the distance, as the snow traces melted, a touch of green buds bloomed, as if telling everyone that spring is ...... The real arrival has come.
Xu Qing walked out of the room and habitually glanced at the Lei team's house, while there were more than ten wild dogs in the yard, not raising their heads, but just sweeping their tails on the ground, which was a greeting.
"Something should be done." Xu Qing muttered in his heart, with a hint of firmness in his eyes.
So he pushed open the courtyard door and walked out, the goal was very clear, it was the tent where the convoy doctor was.
In the early morning, there were not many scavengers in the camp.
As Xu Qing approached the convoy, the guards there also swept their eyes over him, and Xu Qing gradually heard the faint sound of reading in the doctor's tent.
After hesitating for a moment, Xu Qing stood silently outside the tent, waiting quietly.
The surrounding convoy guards looked at him with scrutiny, and after some observation, most of them were retracted, but there were still a few of them, still paying attention to him.
Xu Qing didn't care about this, because as the sound of reading in the tent came out, he slowly became a little more attentive, and at the same time, he also found that the tent was not just a simple reading sound, but also included an assessment.
"Golden button grass, also known as clover beads, loose cold grass, is a whole herb of the sedge family single-eared water centipede, a perennial herb, growing in hillside forests and humid places in the wilderness, distributed in the southern part of Nanhuang Lingyou and Guangling Prefectures, Gongke can promote lung cough, clear heat and detoxify, dissipate stasis and reduce swelling, and has a miraculous effect on poisonous snake bites and bruises, with ......"
The girl's voice was originally full of confidence, but as she spoke, she became a little hesitant.
"What are you working with?" Inside the tent, Master Bai's majestic words seemed to be severe.
"Combined with rhinoceros sparks into medicine refining, using yang to transform yin, it can form a drop of poison avoidance full liquid, which is one of the basic materials of Dahua Dan." The girl seemed a little scared, her speech speed was much faster, and she breathed a sigh of relief after speaking.
Xu Qing was outside the tent, listening to this, becoming more and more serious.
"White back root, also known as...... Uh, it is the root of the Euphorbiaceae plant catalpa, slightly astringent and slightly bitter, origin...... The ...... of the Five Organs" followed by the young man, who hesitated as he spoke, and paused directly behind him, obviously forgot.
In the tent, the boy sitting with the girl was full of nervousness and anxious at the moment, but he couldn't remember it and looked at the girl for help.
The girl next to him obviously knew how to answer, but she didn't remind him, so the boy could only cry and lose his face in the end.
And Master Bai in front of them looked back outside the tent at this moment, and the guards on the side immediately looked at him for instructions.
Master Bai thought for a while, shook his head slightly, and then snorted coldly at the young man who was stumbling.
"Silently write the Grass and Tree Sutra ten times tonight!"
The young man really wanted to cry this time, but he didn't dare to refute, so he could only hang his head and wail silently.
After assessing the two apprentices, Master Bai calmly spoke and began to talk about today's lesson, his voice was a little louder and clearer than before.
The young man didn't pay attention, but the girl was careful, a little confused, her eyes blinked, she glanced outside the tent, and followed her gaze, and could see the thin figure that appeared on the tent under the sunlight.
Xu Qing outside the tent listened more carefully, every word and every sentence that Master Bai said, he kept it all in his heart, for fear of forgetting the slightest, because knowledge was extremely precious and longed for for him.
In this way, time passed slowly, and Master Bai's lecture on this day was more than before, almost twice as long, until the sun rose at three poles, and there were scavengers outside the tent waiting to see a doctor, Master Bai finished his lecture, and a hoarse voice came out.
"Boy outside, come in."
Xu Qing was excited, waking up from the unfinished thought, he took a deep breath, carefully opened the tent door with a guilty conscience, and stood silently aside after walking in, a little cramped.
Originally, he wouldn't do this, but he came today for consultation and eavesdropped outside for a long time.
As if seeing the young man's nervousness, Master Bai's voice slowed down and he spoke calmly.
"What's the matter?"
As his words came out, the girl on the side looked at Xu Qing curiously.
She had a bit of an impression of the child in front of her, remembering that a few days ago, the other party had come to see a doctor with an old man on his back.
"I have seen Master Bai." Xu Qing lowered his head, imitating the appearance of the Thunder Team before, and bowed deeply to Master Bai.
Then hesitated, he said that he wanted to consult about the Destiny Flower.
After saying that, Xu Qing took out five white pills from his leather bag and placed them in front of Master Bai.
The consultation fee is normally one white pill, but Xu Qing felt that after hearing the other party's lecture, one white pill was not enough, even if it was five, it was a little less.
So he took out ten more spirit coins and put them together with the white pill.
After doing this, he settled down in his heart.
Master Bai glanced at Xu Qing deeply, and slowly spoke to the girl beside him.
"Tingyu, you answer."
The girl's body was straight, her expression was serious, and she spoke in a crisp voice.
"Destiny Flower, also known as Life-Continuing Flame, Divine Grass, is a heterogeneous variation of the divine plant Fumu, this mutation has been recorded as seventy-three species, but only the first one can be used as medicine, it can grow in any area of the forbidden area, there is no regularity, and the number is rare."
"Gong can be regenerated by severed limbs, rekindled by hung, except for the wounds of the soul, it can be treated in all departments." Saying that, the girl quickly picked up the book on the side again, turned a few pages, and revealed a page with a picture drawn on it.
"This is what it looks like."
The picture depicted was a flower and plant that looked nothing unusual, except that the jagged edges of the grass blades were somewhat obvious, and there was a strange symbol formed by a silk thread in the middle.
Xu Qing looked at it carefully, and after taking it to heart, he bowed deeply to Master Bai and the girl, turned around and was about to leave.
Before leaving, Master Bai's calm voice came from behind him.
"This grass is hard to come by, and it is often accompanied by powerful beasts, so you can do it yourself."
Xu Qing bowed again when he heard this, and after leaving the tent, he galloped around the camp.
After returning to his residence as quickly as possible, he immediately took out a bamboo piece from his leather bag and carved the destiny flower and totem described by the girl on it with an iron skewer.
Then he thought about it, and then carved out everything he heard today.
In the end, he looked at the bamboo slices densely packed with countless small characters, and felt very satisfied, and carefully put them away like a treasure.
"If only I could still listen to it." Xu Qing murmured and began to think about how to continue listening, and after a while, he put away his mind and began to practice.
That night, Xu Qing waited for the Lei team to return from going out and told the other party that he was going to the restricted area.
But in the end, he nodded and told Xu Qing about his experience.
Just like the old man in the family watching his children go out, Team Lei said in great detail.
Until it was almost over, after Xu Qing wrote it all down, Team Lei gave him another leather bag containing various medicinal powders left by Luan Ya.
After understanding the specific role, Xu Qing left the camp at the moment of arrival in the early morning, galloping in the wilderness, and soon arrived outside the restricted area.
The moment he stepped into the boundary, the warmth of the sunlight outside was isolated, and the feeling of coldness penetrated his whole body, Xu Qing's eyes narrowed, with vigilance, his body turned into a trace, and he went straight to the jungle.
After a few ups and downs, it disappeared without a trace.
The second time he stepped into the jungle of the forbidden area, Xu Qing's familiarity with this place was different from the beginning.
But the more this happened, the more cautious he became, while jumping forward, he also paid attention to the flowers and plants around him, and soon arrived at the place where the silt was located, learning from Luan Ya's past actions to concoct the same method, scooping up the silt and smearing it on his body, and continued to move forward.
Time passed, and soon the whole day passed.
This time Xu Qing did not encounter fog, as for the powerful strange beasts, they were all in Xu Qing's caution, and he avoided them as much as possible.
On the way, he also paid attention to flowers and plants, looking for destiny flowers.
At this moment, when he arrived at the place where he encountered the black-scaled wolf, he looked around and could barely see the arrangement at that time, but the wolf corpses all over the ground were now mostly turned into rotten bones.
After carefully observing the decay on these corpses and finding that there were no signs of biting, but natural decay, Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
This shows that there is a high probability that no strange beasts will arrive here.
So he found an area nearby, planning to spend the night and continue after dawn.
Soon as night fell, the jungle was pitch black, Xu Qing hid in a crevice in the trees, looking in the direction of Horse Chestnut Canyon, and further away in that direction, was the temple group.
He entered the restricted area this time, in addition to looking for the Destiny Flower, he also had an idea, that is, to find a scar stone for the little girl.
"Go take a look." Xu Qing murmured.