As the younger generation chooses to work outside the home, the number of villages nestled in the deep mountains and old forests is decreasing, and this situation is more obvious in the more remote places.

When Li Dong shuttled through the remote mountainous areas, he could often see empty houses, weeds growing around, dilapidated walls, and rusty locks, and it was not difficult to tell that no one had lived in them for a long time.

There are also some villages that are facing the possibility of disappearing, Li Dong has seen many villages, as small as a dozen households, reaching dozens or hundreds of households, but he can't see a single young adult, most of them are over sixty or seventy years old, and not even a single child can be seen.

When asked, the answer was almost the same, everyone who had the ability to work had already gone out to work, and some families had left, looking at the many houses in the village, in fact, many of them were empty.

This has also led to an agreement between many village elders to come out every morning to get together in the sun, not for health or to pass the time, but to let each other know that they are still alive and avoid the tragedy of being dead for a long time and not being discovered.

Li Dong stood on the top of the mountain, it had been a whole night since he left the Monkey King, he had climbed more than a dozen mountains, and a village appeared under the mountain in front of him, there were probably dozens of families, which was relatively large in the mountains, and he didn't know if it was another old man's village.

Li Dong had just walked halfway up the mountain, and suddenly several people appeared from the surrounding bushes, and they quickly gathered around Li Dong, with various tools in their hands, including shovels, flat poles, and hoes, all of them were menacing, and when they looked at Li Dong, their eyes were full of hostility.

In fact, Li Dong had already found out, and he saw that these people didn't look like they were hunting, so he deliberately walked in the middle of this group of people to see what they wanted to do.

What made Li Dong relieved was that although he didn't see any young people, most of the people in front of him were forty or fifty years old and had strong labor ability, and it seemed that the village under the mountain should not be an old people's village.

"Stop. ”

"Isn't it possible to come to our village to dig Ganoderma lucidum again?"

"I haven't seen this person, it doesn't seem to be from Shannan. ”

A swarthy man standing in front of Li Dong, carrying a four- or five-foot-long bamboo pole in his hand, frowned and asked Li Dong, "Who are you?

"I'm a doctor, and I was sent down to various villages to do health check-ups and give free treatment and medicine to the injured and sick. Li Dong replied, he pointed to the medical box on his shoulder, and took out a white coat from it and put it on his body, "It's too hot, I don't have clothes, what are you doing here?"

As soon as they heard that it was a doctor, and they were here to see a doctor and deliver medicine to the people in the village, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief and put down the guy they were holding.

"I'm sorry, doctor, for scaring you. The swarthy man said embarrassedly to Li Dong.

"I just heard you talk about stealing Ganoderma lucidum? Who is it? Do you want me to open the medicine box and show it to you?" asked Li Dong.

"No, no!" the man shook his head again and again, like a rattle, "We believe you." "It's white and clean, and there are no tools on it, and no one believes that they came to steal Ganoderma lucidum.

A thin and thin man walked out and said to Li Dong, "Doctor, we are talking about the people on the south side of the mountain, that is, there is a village on the south side of the mountain opposite, and we always go to the mountains around our village to dig Ganoderma lucidum, and the people in our village all point to those Lingzhi to eat......

"Old bamboo pole, what are you telling the doctor about this, quickly, quickly take the doctor back to the village, just to treat the injury on Lao Liu'er's foot, and we will continue to ambush in the mountain." The black man seemed to be the leader of these people, and when he heard his arrangement, the people around him immediately hid again, and the thin man walked in front of Li Dong and led the way for Li Dong.

The thin man brought Li Dong to a house at the foot of the mountain.

"Brother Liu!" the thin man shouted loudly when he entered the house, and before he saw anyone, "I brought a doctor to treat your feet, you have to invite me to drink." ”

Li Dong followed into the back room, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw a man in his fifties sitting on the bed, one of the other party's feet was on a thick sponge, and he didn't know what to wipe on his feet, black, black, green, and green.

"Doctor, I haven't seen a doctor for many years, old bamboo pole, are you here to trick me into drinking?" the person sitting on the bed said with a smile, and when he saw Li Dong in a white coat, he was stunned for a moment, "Huh?

"I took pictures above to do health check-ups for various villages, and gave free medicine to everyone. Li Dong introduced himself.

Old Liu Tou suddenly realized, but the old bamboo pole on the side showed a bitter gourd face, and said to Li Dong, "Doctor, why are you talking so quickly, why don't you wait for Lao Liu Tou to take out the wine." ”

"Go to the side. Old Liu Tou'er said angrily, and then quickly pointed to a chair in the room, and said to Li Dong enthusiastically, "Doctor, please sit down, look at my foot, can it still be cured?"

"You can cure it with wine, but you can't cure it without it, right, doctor?" said the old bamboo pole with a grin.

"Get out!" Old Man Liu scolded.

Li Dong walked to the side of the bed and looked at the other party's feet, the layer covered on the surface of the feet was herbs, and some grass leaves that had not been thoroughly smashed could be judged to be some herbs for treating trauma, and there were many of them on the nearby mountains.

"Uncle, how did you get injured on this foot?" Li Dong took out a knife from the medicine box and gently scraped off this layer of herbs to check the injured area.

"Don't mention it. Old Liu Tou'er sighed and said dejectedly, "People are unlucky enough to even drink cold water and be smashed by a pickaxe that flies over." ”

"What?" Li Dong was stunned, suspecting that he had misheard, "Where did the pickaxe fly from?"

"Doctor, that's right. The old bamboo pole explained on the side, " Because the people in Shannan often go to the mountains near our village to dig Ganoderma lucidum, so some days ago, our village sent a few representatives to negotiate in Shannan, Brother Liu is one of them, the negotiation process will not be detailed, anyway, the talks collapsed, the people in Shannan took tools to chase them, and the result did not know which person's pickaxe was loose, and when he waved it, the part above the pickaxe flew out directly, and it happened to smash on the feet of Lao Liu'er, although it was not a pointed place, but such a big fast iron, who could not stand it, a few old buddies carried him all the way back from Shannan, no, it was raised for five or six days, and it was still not good。 ”

"Alas, shame. The old man shook his head, lowered his head shamefully, and looked like a face-saving person.

"Brother Liu, don't worry, we will definitely help you out of this tone, and we will definitely help you avenge this revenge. The old bamboo pole patted his chest and said.

Li Dong smiled bitterly after hearing this, he had just finished dealing with the matter of people and monkeys fighting for food, and this time he encountered the matter of people fighting for Ganoderma lucidum, what about it this time?

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