"This place is so beautiful that it's unreal." Wen Zhuoyi looked up at the sky, "Look, the sky inside is different from the sky outside."
Hua Jinglan looked along and saw that because it was surrounded by mountains, the sky she could see was extremely small, but it was extremely blue without any clouds.
After a while, Hua Jinglan realized that the temperature around her was even colder than outside. When she came in, she didn't feel like she was going up a mountain. The altitude here should be higher than outside.
Looking back at the house on the waterfall, there were people walking inside, and some women also passed through the path beside the waterfall. They should be her aunt's family that Qiluo mentioned.
"There are only five families living here, and there are a total of 113 young women. According to what they said, Qiluo is the 100th one of the Hundred Flowers Beauties. The thirteen people born after her have no flower pictures on them." Chunyu Yan said: "If these flowers are really tattooed, Master Zhai should know something."
Hua Jinglan narrowed her eyes, "If you ask directly, there will be no answer. Let's go find it ourselves."
As she spoke, she turned around and said, "The trees here are extremely lush. The four of you go separately and follow the mountain road to the top of the mountain, but don't collide with the people here."
"Yes, sir!"
"Chun Yushang and Jin'er stay here, and so do Jiaoyue and Izuyun. Xuanji and Beifeng will protect them. Yu Chiyue is following me." After Hua Jinglan finished dividing the work, Chunyu Yan said, "Master Zhai is here to hand it over. Give it to me, feel free to go."
Hua Jinglan nodded, raised her hand, and everyone dispersed, while she and Yuchi Yue climbed up the mountain from the entrance wall.
"Lan'er, there's so much fog!" Yuchi Yue followed her and looked around excitedly, "The rocks here look weird too!"
They are wind-eroded stones that have become dilapidated, grotesque and numerous.
Hua Jinglan brushed these stones and wiped the powder off her fingers. She was surprised. This was obviously a landform eroded by strong winds. Why did it appear in patches on the mountainside, incompatible with the surrounding lush trees? Could it have happened here before? Strong crustal movement
However, how could the ferocious crustal movement turn this area into a mountain without leaving any traces around it
The deeper you go, the more strange you feel, and the faces of the people here are a bit too young. Could the rejuvenation be related to the terrain here
The more she speculated, the more ridiculous Hua Jinglan felt that her idea was ridiculous. Maybe it was because the women of Loulan Kingdom had good looks, and in any case they could not be related to these strange things.
"Lan'er, come and see!" Yuchi Yue, who was walking in front, suddenly shouted.
Hua Jinglan walked over quickly, "What's wrong?"
"Are these tiger footprints?" Yuchi Yue turned to look at her, "What a big footprint!"
Hua Jinglan was horrified, how could there be a tiger with footprints as big as a bucket? !
"No." She knelt down and looked carefully. The footprints were on the stone. The corners were damaged, but she could still see the whole thing. The length and width were about a foot, and she could vaguely distinguish the marks made by sharp claws on the stone. .
Yuchi Yue looked around and leaned closer to her, "Lan'er, there seems to be something in the woods!"
Hua Jinglan stood up and pulled him behind her, her sharp eyes fixed on the place where the slight sound came from in the forest, but out of the heavy fog, a graceful figure walked out, it was Qiao Lan who had just come out to pick them up!
Qiao Lan glanced at the rocks behind them, and said, "Mrs. Hua, lunch is ready, please come down the mountain!"
Hua Jinglan looked at the smiling woman in front of her, and felt more and more incredible about this valley: What a light step!
When I got down the mountain, I discovered that all the people who had gone out had been found and were sitting at the bamboo table set up on the lawn. The entire lawn was occupied, and more than a hundred beautiful women surrounded them.
"Mrs. Hua, please take a seat." Mr. Zhai came forward. There were four men beside him. These five men should be the five families.
Hua Jinglan walked up to Chun Yuyan and sat down next to her. She looked at the other four men without any trace, and then returned her gaze to the food in front of her.
"In this land of mountains and plains, we have a simple diet. Please don't dislike it, Mr. Hua and Mrs. Hua!" Mr. Zhai said with a smile as if he didn't notice anything strange at the dinner table.
"You're welcome, Master Zhai, please." Chunyu Yan responded.
After the meal, Hua Jinglan was about to say goodbye and go down the mountain, but Master Zhai kindly invited them to stay the night. After refusing several times, Chun Yuyan agreed.
Hua Jinglan was wondering where these hundreds of people lived. After passing the waterfall through Qiaolan, she discovered a small cave on one side. When she walked in, she discovered that it was a scattered stone house. These stone houses seem to have hollowed out the mountain. The stone houses are not small and have windows. When you open the bed, you can see the bamboo houses on the waterfall below. The reason why I didn't notice it just now is that the trees in the mountains are so lush that they cover the windows.
"Please take a rest, both good students." Qiao Lan said and then left.
Hua Jinglan glanced around the stone house, then turned to look down the mountain, and couldn't help but say, "What a strange place."
"Everyone here is very young, except for those four men." Chun Yuyan muttered: "They have premature aging."
"Can a person who can give birth to dozens of daughters avoid premature aging?" Hua Jinglan frowned and said, "But only four of them have premature aging. Mr. Zhai and his wife show no signs of aging at all. This is probably not the case. Yan Youshu can be said in just four words."
Chunyu Yan suddenly smiled and said, "Is there a way to longevity?"
Hua Jinglan also laughed, "The fifth path has lived for almost two hundred years. Isn't that a long life? But I haven't seen anyone like them. There's no trace at all!"
"Indeed." Chunyu Yan touched his chin, "If there was a way to live long in the world, it would probably be coveted by those in power in various countries."
Hua Jinglan thought about the beast's palm print on the mountain. She had seen the Qilin Beast in Tiannv City and could only be surprised if something like this happened again, but the palm print was too big. If it were really a divine beast, its power would be so terrifying!