Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, the group packed up and followed Brother Tang into the dense forest in front of them.
The dense forest was shrouded in fog. In winter, the towering trees in the forest still looked green, with their branches spread out, blocking out the sunlight so tightly that even though it was early morning, the forest was still dim, making it difficult for people walking through to distinguish between day and night.
The eldest boss had only been walking in the dense forest for a while when he began to sweat. He shouted to Gu Xinglang, "Prince consort, should we light a torch to illuminate the area?"
Gu Xinglang had already dismounted and was leading the horse through the forest. When he heard the boss shouting, he asked Brother Tang who was walking in front of him, "Can I light a torch?"
Brother Tang said, "Prince Consort, the forest is too foggy right now, and lighting a torch is useless."
Gu Xinglang waved at the boss.
The eldest boss stopped, opened his water bag and drank a mouthful of water, then cursed: "What a rotten place this is!"
"It's weird," the second in command said, "In this big forest, there's no bird singing."
After hearing what the second in command said, everyone realized that, yes, in such a large and dense forest, they didn’t even hear a bird singing. Are there no birds in this forest?
"There's a bird," Yu Xiao said, and jumped onto a big tree not far away. After a while, she came down with a bird's nest in her hand, with a dozen bird eggs in it.
The head of the family looked at the bird eggs, then at the princess, and could not pretend to be respectful. He could only say, "The princess is wise. She still remembers to take out the bird eggs at this time."
Yu Xiao: "Pack it up and take it with you. We'll cook it tonight."
"Okay," the boss put the bird eggs in a cloth bag.
Yu Xiao: "These are not enough. I'll get some more later."
The boss said, "Okay, whatever you want." If the prince consort had no objection, then he certainly had no objection either.
Brother Tang listened to the conversation behind him, his eyes, mouth, and hands twitched. Are these people here to save people? !
There was no sunshine above and the ground was muddy underfoot. Except for Her Royal Highness the Princess who was busy collecting bird eggs and looked in a good mood, everyone was in a heavy mood. The road was already so difficult to walk on before they even entered the swamp. How much more difficult would the road be as they went further in?
The group walked through the dense forest for a whole day but still hadn't gotten out of it.
After nightfall, Brother Tang found a clearing in the forest as the campsite for everyone tonight.
Several former pirates set up a big pot and threw the horse meat into the water to cook. When people saw the horse meat, they felt even more depressed. How long would they have to eat it?
However, after the bird eggs are roasted, rubbed with salt and sprinkled with pepper, the taste immediately heals many people. Compared with horse meat, roasted bird eggs are simply delicious!
Brother Tang ate ten bird eggs in a row that night, and then in a good mood, he went ahead to explore the way alone.
Yu Xiaoxiao looked up at the tree above her head, leaned against Gu Xinglang, and said, "In two days, we will be able to see Big Brother. Xiao Gu, the seedling land is not this dense forest, right?"
Gu Xinglang shook his head and said, "I don't know. This is my first time here too."
"This place is nice," Yu Xiao.
Gu Xinglang looked incredulous and asked, "Is this a good place?"
Yu Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "The greenery here is very good." Want to see such a forest in the end times? It's just a foolish dream.
Gu Xinglang asked: "What is greening?"
Yu Xiao: "There are a lot of trees and a lot of flowers, which means the environment is very good."
A place that is not dirty has good greenery. Gu Xinglang added a comment to the greenery in his heart (==)
Yu Xiaoxiao sniffed and smelled a fragrance, neither horse meat nor bird eggs. "Xiao Gu?" Her Royal Highness the Princess immediately sat up straight and pulled Gu Xinglang's sleeve.
Gu Xinglang dug out a long piece of mud from the fire, knocked off the burnt mud, and a cooked big snake appeared in front of Yu Xiaoxiao.
"Ah!" Yu Xiaoxiao screamed.
Gu Xinglang said: "Eat it, be careful it's hot."
Yu Xiaoxiao buried her head in eating the roasted snake. The snake meat was so delicious that after one bite, Her Royal Highness the Princess couldn't stop eating.
Gu Xinglang was very stingy. He only made this one and gave it only to his wife. No one else could eat it.
Jiang Zhuojun baked some steamed buns and brought them to Yu Xiaoxiao. Seeing Yu Xiaoxiao eating roasted snake meat, General Jiang walked away silently.
After Yu Xiaoxiao finished eating the snake meat and everyone took a nap around the campfire, Brother Tang came back covered in mud.
After putting his outer robe on the sleeping Yu Xiaoxiao, Gu Xinglang stood up and motioned Brother Tang to follow him.
Xiao Wei ran to another campfire, called Jiang Zhuojun up, and whispered, "General Xiao Jiang, Brother Tang is back, and he doesn't look well."
Jiang Zhuojun was sleeping with his clothes on. When he heard Xiao Wei say that something might have happened to Brother Tang, he quickly stood up from the ground.
Xiao Wei walked in front and led the way, saying, "General, follow me."
When Jiang Zhuojun walked into the woods next to the clearing, Brother Tang had already finished talking to Gu Xinglang and was standing with his head lowered, looking as if he was apologizing.
Jiang Zhuojun walked forward, glanced at Brother Tang, and asked, "What's going on? Don't tell me you took the wrong road."
Brother Tang hurriedly said, "General, it's not that I led you the wrong way. It's that the slaves from Chiyan Village moved their village. Chiyan Village must not have been here three years ago."
Gu Xinglang whispered, "It's not surprising that those barbarian slaves moved away in three years."
Jiang Zhuojun asked Brother Tang: "Then we must go to Chiyan Village?"
Brother Tang stammered, "I didn't look for it. I didn't find any other way."
Gu Xinglang said: "Is there no other way?"
Brother Tang said, "Let's turn around and go back. Maybe we can find another way out of the forest."
Not to mention Gu Xinglang, even Jiang Zhuojun had a gloomy face. They were in a hurry to save people, so how could they have time to go back?
"Will the barbarians let us go?" Gu Xinglang asked Brother Tang.
Brother Tang said: "Some villages charge a little money to pass through."
Jiang Zhuojun said: "Do you want to pay for your passage?"
Gu Xinglang turned his head to look at the bonfires in the open space and whispered, "Give it a try, but try not to do anything."
Jiang Zhuojun nodded. This was the only way now.
Brother Tang was listening with a nervous heart. Try not to fight? Then he would fight? He had only been in the Miao land for a day and a night, and this prince consort was ready to fight with the barbarian slaves?
"Prince Consort," Brother Tang said to Gu Xinglang, "The barbarians in the Miao area are all barbaric and uncivilized people. It is hard to predict who will win if we fight them."
"Oh," Gu Xinglang said to Brother Tang and walked towards the open space.
Brother Tang looked at Jiang Zhuojun blankly. What does this "oh" mean? I know, I'll think about it, or I know, but I still have to do it?
Jiang Zhuojun reached out and patted the tree beside him, whispering, "Didn't you just enter the nursery last year?"
Brother Tang said, "General, I went to the south last year and didn't come here."
"Damn it," Jiang Zhuojun cursed softly and walked towards the open space.
Brother Tang was in disarray in the wind. Was it his fault?
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