Jiang Lian felt that this injury on his hand was not necessary. Moreover, no matter whether he climbed up or down, he would still have to use it. It would be inconvenient to wrap it in a bear's paw.

He handed over.

Taking advantage of Meng Qianzi's bandage to Jiang Lian, the sage quickly told him about the section on which he had discovered Duan Wenxi's book, and finally handed the wine gourd to Meng Qianzi.

Meng Qianzi didn't care about the wine gourd. She held it in her hand and shook it back to him: "Since you discovered it, it's what the grandmother invited you to drink, so keep it."

However, she had been looking at those lines for a long time. She had never seen this Grandma Duan, but she had heard Gao Jinghong talk about Duan Wenxi since she was a child. She yearned for her knowledge, character, courage and free and easy manner.

Jiang Lian whispered: "What a cool mother-in-law."

Although these words are praised by Duan Wenxi, they are even more praising themselves. They feel that there are great people in the family and the whole family is full of success.

She corrected Jiang Lian: "My Grandma Duan should have been in her thirties when she got off this cliff. She was not yet a mother-in-law at that time."

I couldn't help it for a moment and briefly explained Duan Wenxi's life, how to study abroad in 1925, how to suffer heavy pain from emotions, and travel around the world for three years without returning.

"After my grandmother returned to China, she still traveled around. Maybe she wanted to use the scenery in other places to send her back to her. In addition, she was particularly interested in all kinds of mysterious things, so she took the opportunity to search one by one..."

The charlatan's head was buzzing, and his hands were trembling with excitement: "A strange thing?"

Meng Qianzi glanced at him: "Yes, and Grandma Duan is an academic school. She never follows the crowd and insists on seeing it as the truth. She usually conducts on-site investigations and takes risks in person. She always tries to use the theories she has learned to explain those incredible things."

"She has the habit of writing diaries. She always brings a camera with her, goes deep into remote secret places that ordinary people cannot reach, photographed the head stakes of the head hunter tribe in the mountains in Yunnan, and also photographed the Ge family who claimed to be the descendants of Houyi and was good at using red bows and white arrows... they are all very precious information."

The charlatan stuttered with his lips: "I... I am too..."

He always thought that his "travel" was unprecedented and unique, and was destined to travel alone in the world. Why did anyone do this more than 80 years ago? He is still a highly educated woman...

He didn't even dare to go abroad. He hadn't even been abroad yet!

Meng Qianzi said: "I know, you now understand why my seventh mother Xian Qionghua listened to your experience. Not only did she not make things difficult for you, but she also asked me to try my best to make things convenient for you."

It is nothing more than touching the scene and distinguishing the heart of remembering the ancestors of the family to facilitate the later generations.

The charlatan kept nodding, and he tightly grabbed the wine gourd: "Then, that lady Duan is also alone, are you looking for it everywhere?"

Meng Qianzi replied: "How is that possible? In that era, transportation was inconvenient. My grandmother Duan was also a lady from a wealthy family. Is there so much luggage that she can carry it on her shoulders alone?"

When Duan Wenxi traveled, he was used to hiring a strong porter, finding a guide who was familiar with local language, and then bringing an assistant.

Back then, mountain ghosts were not popular like Meng Qianzi, and they had a long-term special assistant. Duan Wenxi usually hired male students who knew the words and figured out the direction of folk customs. First, the teacher was famous and used the "folk customs" as the reason to facilitate hiring people and act conveniently; second, when she visited strange stories, someone needed to write a pen next to her, and men were relatively more able to afford the pain of crossing mountains and ridges. When they needed to do physical work, they could also serve as labor.

It’s just that good assistants are hard to find, and few people can withstand her big switch, so they cannot be fixed and can only be hired temporarily. Moreover, it often causes some trouble. Duan Wenxi sometimes complains, saying that it is not as convenient as doing things alone.

The charlatan said, "How could he cause trouble for her?"

Meng Qianzi said: "You think, the male students who accept this kind of employment are usually not very old and full of energy. They are attracted by the foreign style and are easily attracted to local girls. Those ethnic minority girls are naturally passionate and unrestrained..."

Anyway, love between men and women has always been so unaware of the love. It can never stop men from falling in love with each other for thousands of years. But this kind of encounter is good, often turns into chaos and abandonment: in that era, male students who meet her requirements, who can read and read, and study unpopular subjects such as folk customs, have a good family background, how could they really marry a wizard who has never come out of the mountains in their entire lives and have never known their own words?

They thought it was a free love relationship and that they should be free from being bound by the way. The girl was rushing to live, so she encountered chaos one or two times, such as the clan members chasing to their residence, and when they set off, they were chiseled a boat and smashing a cart and not allowed to leave.

The worst time, a human life happened.

Duan Wenxi only heard about it for a long time afterwards.

I only remember that it was a thin, tall, gentle and innocent male student who went to Miao Village with her to visit the Black Miao Gu King. Duan Wenxi repeatedly reminded him to keep a distance from Miao Girl. He smiled shyly and nodded.

Duan Wenxi thought he had listened. Everything was smooth when he left Miao Village. She paid him his wages and separated in the provincial capital Kunming.

Who knew that he had provoked the black Miao woman and was subjected to the Gu. The Gu of the Miao woman rarely occurs in a short period of time. Generally, he gave his lover a grace period, such as returning to marry within a year, and he would help you get rid of the Gu.

The male student probably had a heartless and unwilling vow, and did not go back to fulfill the promise, and ended up with a broken stomach and dying in great pain.

When the incident reached Duan Wenxi, she sighed and said nothing, but she never used such an assistant again since then.

***

The charlatan really wanted to listen to something about Duan Wenxi, the more the better, but Meng Qianzi had no time to accompany him to recall the past, so she quickly made the decision to continue.

She was originally going to do things. Although she suffered some setbacks, she did not suffer any major damage, so she naturally had to continue.

As for these two...

She let them choose.

"You can stay on this mountain platform and wait for the mountain ghost to come to rescue it. It is difficult for Jinsong to arrange for people to get off the cliff today. Everyone's life is precious. He cannot ignore the overall casualties. If no one "avoids the mountain beast", the risk of hanging the rope and encountering the flying fox is too high - he will ask for help from outside. My fifth mother Qiu Biying is in Hubei, and my seventh mother Xian Qionghua is in Yunnan. These two may be the fastest to come, but it will be tomorrow as soon as possible."

"The advantage is stability, no trouble, just wait for rescue. The disadvantage is that if there are any ferocious birds and beasts, you can deal with them yourself. There is also the giant snake. It recognizes me, but it is hard to say whether it can recognize you."

She grabbed four energy bars from her backpack: "Choose one who stays on this mountain platform, get the food."

No one reached out to take it, Jiang Lian smiled bitterly: "Is your option... meaningful? Look at our appearance, do you look like someone who is not afraid of snakes?"

Meng Qianzi said: "It makes sense. Don't rush to reject this option. Let's talk about it after listening. Everything will be put on the surface, and it's fair."

The second choice is to follow her and continue on.

"Our static rope is just burned out on the upper half, and the lower half is still there. Three of them are fighting together, and it is no problem to get off the cliff. The advantage is safety. Follow me and don't worry about any animal, whether it is a 20-pound rat or a two-ton snake. The disadvantage..."

She paused here and pointed at the darkness that could not be penetrated by her eyes: "There is the secret of our mountain ghost below. According to the rules, outsiders cannot know it, and they cannot take you there unless you enter the mountain ghost."

Entering the Mountain Ghost, does this mean... joining the Mountain Ghost?

The charlatan was overjoyed. Is there anything he didn't want to? How could it be said to be a disadvantage: "I can."

Jiang Lian did not respond, and paused for a while before asking, "What are the conditions?"

From Lao Ga's words, he knew that not only did they not lack money, they would also pay the mountain people. Each branch was spread all over the mountains, with talented people coming out to watch and help each other - in other words, like a top member club, with one card in hand, and enjoying all the benefits.

To give a simple example, just make a simulated portrait of the murder suspect, with expert characters remote guidance, calling professional portrait combination systems and instruments from Sasuke.

Who doesn’t want to join, and how easy it is to join?

He always believed that there was no good thing in this world for no reason, and he had his own bids, not to mention that Meng Qianzi treated it as a "bad thing".

Meng Qianzi thought about it: "Where is a mountain ghost, I like to make friends, especially those who have good skills. We have a saying: If all the powerful people in this world are friends of mountain ghosts, then mountain ghosts will not have powerful opponents."

The charlatan nodded violently, feeling that he and Shan Gui were really in a very consistent way: this is just like Emperor Taizong of Tang’s famous saying “Heroes of the world come into my destiny”, recruiting capable people to rest assured; it is also like recruiting large companies in some high-end industries. Even if they cannot use this person, they are willing to spend a lot of money to support him, because putting this person with their opponents will pose a threat to themselves.

"You two are enough for us to make friends, but friends are just friends. You can invite them to dinner, chat, talk about mountain intestines, and avoid mountain beasts. But when it comes to important secrets, you can't mention them any more - for example, why did I get off this cliff, what kind of secrets are there under the cliff, why did Bai Shuixiao not kill me at first, but now he chases me to kill me."

Jiang Lian's Adam's apple rolled lightly, and he was indeed very curious about these things.

"It would be complicated to become a colleague of the mountain ghost from a good friend, and it involves many procedures. Moreover, even if you become a mountain ghost, you may not be qualified to contact the secret - but, after all, I have a special identity, and the mountain ghost throne, and I can have three places in my hand, also called the triple lotus petal."

The charlatan roughly understood: this is probably like a talent show, and others have to be screened layer by layer and eliminated at a certain level, but Meng Qianzi has three direct train promotion cards in his hand.

Just a little confused...

He couldn't help but ask, "Why is it called the triple lotus petal?"

Meng Qianzi explained his confusion in a few words.

It turns out that the head of the mountain ghost, Shan Guizhai, has always been located at the foot of Huangshan Mountain. The highest peak of Huangshan Mountain is Lotus Peak. From a distance, there are peaks clustered like new lotus blooming. I don’t know which leader of the family looked at the peak and realized that the lone peak of the highest peak was towering and it was inevitable that it would be lonely, and it should be guarded by lotus petals.

So, with the example of a triple lotus petal, people who sit on the throne of the Mountain Ghost can choose three people as their confidants. These three people can be mountain ghosts or not, as long as they are selected.

One of Meng Qianzi's three lotus petals has been given to Meng Jinsong, and now there are exactly two left.

Jiang Lian smiled and said, "After wandering around for so long, you still haven't said what are the conditions."

Meng Qianzi said: "The conditions are actually simple, they are similar to the ancient dead soldiers. They obey your orders unconditionally and die for you when necessary."

Jiang Lian let out a long sigh.

No wonder she had previously emphasized "Let's talk after listening". None of the two options she gave was easy to choose.

The charlatan was also shocked: "Miss Meng...Miss Meng, everyone has known each other for a while, and they are going to die all of a sudden..."

Meng Qianzi reminded him: "You can refuse, it depends on your personal wishes."

The charlatan stopped talking, and then he thought it was not unreasonable: he didn't hold you with a knife, and he was willing to do something. Besides, there were only two places left. He gave you such a precious thing, and he didn't want your money or your talents. What else could he do? The ancients' concept was of course rewarded with fate.

If you obey her orders unconditionally, you have to die for her. Forget it... It was popular in ancient times that this kind of person has no self and devotes itself to her loyalty. Modern people pursue freedom. It seems that he has no chance with a mountain ghost.

Jiang Lian suddenly said, "Actually, there is another option. You are anxious to get off the cliff, so you didn't expect it."

Meng Qianzi was stunned.

"You give us a quota, but you don't want to give it. You regard it as a 'bad', which means you don't agree with this operation. Besides, even if you regard this quota as a reward, I just saved you and it's reasonable to get a quota, but as for the charlatan, he did almost nothing, why should you get a quota?"

The charlatan opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he felt that Jiang Lian's words were reasonable and could not refute them.

"The reason for giving is that the situation is forced to go deeper and to ensure our safety - you only consider two situations, take us down and not, but there is actually a third one."

"You can choose to stay on the mountain platform with us waiting for rescue. The advantage is that you don't have to give your place, and we won't encounter danger. The disadvantage is that what you have to do at hand must be put on hold, at least spend a day and a night here."

Meng Qianzi didn't say anything for a long time.

She did forget that there was a third option, because in her heart, she just wanted to see the courage of the mountain as soon as possible and figure out the mystery of the past few days as soon as possible. She never thought about stopping or waiting, and waiting for a day and night for as long as she could.

With her temperament, she could do it but she had to stop it. It was like being roasted on a low heat.

Do you want to wait?

Jiang Lian's back, which was grinded with blood, suddenly passed by her eyes, and the cliff that was invisible that was too far away and was rubbed with blood.

"Then... wait."

***

It is difficult to wait for such things, not to mention that in such a dark and remote mountain platform, it is infinitely lifted every second. You feel that you are exhausted physically and mentally. When you see the time, you have not arrived for a quarter of an hour.
To be continued...