Chapter 30: Grandma
Ping|Lake|City, Yuxi Town.
Lin Dong walked out of the bus station, carrying a small bag, he was easily mistaken for a foreigner, and several motorcycle drivers who solicited customers surrounded him, chatting with 'Where to go, I'll send you', full of Yuxi country accent. Lin Dong ignored it and strode forward with his bag. Seeing that there was no play, those enthusiastic motorcycle drivers hurriedly changed their targets, put aside Lin Dong, and asked other passengers, only a middle-aged man who was not very old but obviously looked old and gray, and he was still in hot pursuit, just because he had not officially opened today, he had to earn this fare on Lin Dong for today's gas money.
"Riverbend Elementary School. Lin Dong wanted to take a taxi, but when he saw that there was no one around, he had no choice but to choose this guy who persevered and followed all the way.
"Okay!" When the middle-aged man heard this, he was overjoyed, and quickly threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, and hurriedly stepped on it with his foot.
Quickly drove his motorcycle over.
There was no business for a long time, but he was suffocated, as soon as a business came to the door, the middle-aged man didn't even forget the price and said to Lin Dong, and when Lin Dong sat in the back seat of the car with a small bag, he suddenly remembered, and while driving the car, he said to Lin Dong with a little caution: "Hewan Primary School is five yuan." Afraid that Lin Dong would not agree, he hurriedly added: "The road is so far, and others will walk for six yuan." ”
Lin Dong didn't care, only asked: "Is there any mountain tea or mountain herbs sold in the town?"
The middle-aged man said in a loud voice: "There are new markets in the east of the town and the old markets in the west of the town, which side are you going to?"
After receiving the answer that he was going on both sides, the middle-aged man fell silent, turned left in the car, and drove towards the new market in the east of the town. He actually wanted to raise the fare of one yuan, the east and west sides of the town went around half a circle, the distance was not far, but it was not close, but it was not easy to open at this time, he was afraid that the guests would get off the car angrily, so he had to be silent all the way, thinking about how to speak.
Regarding this change in feelings, Lin Dong smiled: "Give you ten yuan, you take a few more steps, if I buy something that is agreeable, I will add ten yuan to you." ”
When the middle-aged man heard this, he was overjoyed.
An old face immediately shone with joy: "Okay, you sit tight!"
Although this is a small amount of money, it is an effective incentive for people who work hard for two meals and lack of fresh food.
Things in the towns and villages are cheaper than those in the city, and camellia and mountain herbs are as cheap as Chinese cabbage, in the hands of the old man and the old lady who set up a stall selling wild medicinal herbs in the mountains on the street, Lin Dong only used three hundred yuan to buy more than a dozen kinds of medicinal materials needed to refine the Vitality Pill, and it was several large bags. In order to strengthen the effect of this drug purchase, Lin Dong gave each old man a reservation fee of fifty, and specified the purchase of more than a dozen kinds of medicinal materials that are still in short supply.
One by one, they decided to go into the mountain tomorrow, dig up the mountain herbs that this little descendant needed, and take the double price he promised.
"Housheng, don't worry, these medicinal materials you said are available in the mountains, yes, there is everything in the mountains, and the old man promises to dig them up for you. There are camellia too, but you want it fresh, you have to pick it early tomorrow! Don't worry, I asked my granddaughter-in-law to pick it for you, she is skillful, and she has worked in the Dalin Tea Farm before!"
"You leave us a call, and I'll let my baby send it to you directly......"
After Lin Dong cooperated with the politeness, he left a mobile phone number for external contact.
Wave goodbye again.
The middle-aged man who was standing on the side rubbing his hands just now hurriedly came up to help, tied several large bags of mountain herbs in the back seat, and repeatedly told Lin Dong to sit firmly.
Lin Dong took a car around, and almost walked around Yuxi Town, he bought a large number of mountain herbs, and swept away all the new and old markets, and the total was only in his early 2,000s. This should be in the city pharmacy, those high-yield medicinal materials grown in greenhouses do not have the medicinal properties of wild medicinal materials, the value is still dead expensive, these nearly ten bags of medicinal materials, without tens of thousands of yuan is estimated to be unable to take down.
Now, with only two thousand yuan, Lin Dong had already taken more than half of the medicinal materials needed for the Vitality Pill.
On top of that, mountain herbs have better medicinal properties.
Lin Dong was very satisfied.
This time, the way to come back to the countryside to collect medicine and alchemy is on the right track!
Although the place where I ran was a little farther away, it was troublesome enough to go around in the car, but the effect received was good, and the trouble was worth it.
"Do you want to go back now?" The middle-aged man was also very happy, because Lin Dong promised to give him more money, he didn't dare to think about twenty yuan, but he probably couldn't run away with ten yuan. Earn ten dollars in a circle, it's too easy!
"Let's go back!" Lin Dong saw that he was very active in helping, and he lifted and moved, and the Great Khan also came out, planning to give him a hundred, but he didn't say it.
When he arrived at Hewan Primary School, Lin Dong did not enter the school, but only stopped at an old building on the side of the road.
The middle-aged man said strangely: "Isn't this Teacher Tang's house?"
The teacher Tang in his mouth is Lin Dong's grandmother.
This old house was left by my grandmother, Lin Dong lived in high school to university, especially after being admitted to Dongshan University, although it is not very far, but there are always dozens of kilometers, and it is very troublesome to run around, so I rarely come back. When my grandmother left, he felt even more lonely when he came back, and sometimes he lived in this empty house, and there was no one to talk to, which was extremely depressing. Lin Dong came back this time, in addition to buying camellia and mountain herbs, he also wanted to reminisce about his lost childhood, if he even counted the crossing, he had not come back for 'ten years'.
Moreover, to refine the vitality pill and spirit tea, you also need to find a quiet place to boil the decoction, which is definitely not good in the rented place, who can stand the smell of boiling medicine?
In order to prevent the landlord from coming to warn him, Lin Dong decided to return here and quietly refine.
Riverbend Elementary School has been withdrawn.
The students and teachers have long been merged into the central primary school in Yuxi Town, and the school that my grandmother dedicated her life to is now the iron general.
The gate was rusty, dilapidated and overgrown with weeds......
In order to get closer to the school, the small study building that my grandmother worked so hard to build is now only a lonely building, and the building is empty, and the sound of the former students reading aloud has long disappeared in time and turned into an eternal memory.
Lin Dong sensed it with star power, and his grandmother's breath had completely disappeared, and there was no trace left in this world.
Perhaps, a hard-working gardener like her, who burns herself to illuminate others and dedicates her life unselfishly, has already ascended to heaven and been reincarnated as a happy and carefree celestial under the transformation of her life's good virtue and blessings!
"Grandma, I will take good care of myself!" Lin Dong took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and said silently in his heart: "I am no longer the poor orphan who was confused about fate and overwhelmed by the future, now, I have the ability to control my own destiny." Grandma, please be in the sky, smile, and watch me go all the way!"
The middle-aged man untied the rope.
Remove the large bags full of medicinal herbs.
He didn't need Lin Dong to make a move at all, he directly helped carry it into the house, waited for a slightly clean place to put it away, and asked carefully: "Who are you Teacher Tang?"
"She's my grandmother. Lin Dong saw that he was enthusiastic and explained casually.
"Oh, no wonder I feel very familiar!" The middle-aged man slapped his thigh excitedly: "When I said goodbye to Teacher Tang that year, I saw you, you were still young at that time, and several years have passed in the blink of an eye, you have changed too much, and you have grown a lot taller, I dare not recognize it! I am a student of Teacher Tang, she was our homeroom teacher back then, not only me, but also my wife, daughter and son, our family is all her old students." Oh, don't mention the money, don't mention the money, you are the grandson of Mr. Tang, how can I collect your car money, the family had no money to pay for the tuition back then, it was her old man who forcibly brought me out of the ravine, and used the salary to help me pay for the tuition......"
"That's it, what do you call the uncle?" Lin Dong asked the middle-aged man to sit down.