Chapter 69 A magical temple, a Chinese herb

The poem says: First say the ditch and then say the temple, the king of medicine comes down to guide,

A Chinese medicine has many wonderful prescriptions, and Lang Zhong has been collecting medicines since then.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Deren invited his mother, Mrs. Liu, and happened to meet the old housekeeper Niu He, and the two came to the backyard together

The old housekeeper took the letter, and quickly thought of a way, found someone to hurry up, sent a letter to a high-ranking official of Bian Liangcheng, and took 100,000 taels of silver from the shop in Bianliang, Tokyo, and sent it to the high-ranking official, asking him to refer to the mansion of Jiujiang, and take care of the porcelain field of the Wang family.

At the same time, the old housekeeper asked Mr. Hou, a private school teacher, to discuss with him about letting his son go to the city to be a bookkeeper, and Mr. Hou agreed, and Hou Gongzi was transferred to the grain shop in the city and continued to be his bookkeeper. Hello hello hello

found a man and sold Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Qian at the same time. and let Yazi buy two mothers-in-law again.

At this time, Mrs. Wang's illness had been completely cured, and the person who proposed to Xiaofang also came to the house, and Mrs. Wang made the decision and married Xiaofang.

All these things were carried out unconsciously, and everyone was happy, and since then, the east and west courtyards have been calm for a while.

Li Deren returned to the clinic of the old doctor, dealt with some patients with incurable diseases, and soon, the clinic was quiet, at this time it was the time when the spring flowers were blooming, the old fairy Li Ming took his apprentice Li Deren to go up the mountain to collect medicine together, along the way the two talked and laughed, came to the stinky ditch, in the Yaowang Temple, Li Ming told Li Deren that he met the medicine king here, got a fairy book, from a medicine picker, to a generation of famous doctors.

Speaking of the stinky water ditch, it is the northernmost ditch in Niuquan Village. It extends from the Qingqing River to the northwest and is more than 20 miles long. This ditch is long and deep, and on the mountains on both sides of the ditch, in addition to the toon trees, there are jujube trees. A small stream at the bottom of the ditch flows through, and both sides of the creek are full of stinky trees, so this ditch is called the stinky water ditch. Not because it smells, but because of the stinky tree. The ditch is deep and the mountain is high, which is the characteristic of this ditch. Because the ditch is deep and the mountains are high, the vertical distribution of plants is very regular. The bottom of the stinky ditch is dominated by deciduous trees, such as toon, toon, jujube, poplar, elm and willow. The sunny slope is mainly sour jujube and large jujube trees, and the shady slope is mainly stinky toon, toon, and poplar trees. Above the mountainside, there are various plants of the shell family, cork oak, Liaodong oak, Mongolian oak and dendrobium tree. The summit is dominated by white birch and red birch trees. This is a typical vertical distribution of deciduous trees in North China. There are many types of shrubs, mainly bush clover, wattle and caragana, and the small shrub is mainly meadowsweet, which has many types and grows in the crevices of the rocks, so the locals call it stone jumper, as well as bellflower, dry branch plum, rose, and rose. Flowering, there are countless herbaceous plants, including nasturtium, shandandan flowers, yellow flowers, and large-flowered delphinium. Red goat grass, white goat grass, sheep's beard grass, moss grass and all kinds of weeds. Yuanzhi, Bupleurum, Banxia, Potting and Bowling, Pulsatilla, Clematis, Iris, Shoot Dry, Skullcap and other precious Chinese herbs are all over the mountain. Pythons, grass snakes, and all kinds of venomous snakes often move through the meadows. Scorpions, centipedes, lizards, pangolins and other poisonous insects are also diverse. Small wild animals, pheasants, juveniles, hares, squirrels jump up and down in the forest. Large wild animals such as foxes, badgers, antelopes, goats, roe deer, and wild boars are also often found in the forest.

The people who go to the stinky ditch are mainly hunters and herb pickers.

There are two temples in the stinky water ditch, one is the mountain temple and the other is the stone medicine king temple. The hunters mainly gathered in the mountain temple to rest. The herb pickers mainly gather in the Yaowang Temple to rest. They are very close to each other and have a lot of communication with each other. There are also people who are medicine pickers even if they are hunters. When they see wild animals, they become hunters, and they are usually medicine pickers. Whether it is a hunter or a herb picker, they are active in the area of the stinky ditch all year round. He is familiar with the situation in the mountains, knows where there are poisonous snakes and termites, and takes corresponding protective measures. These people are passed down from generation to generation, word of mouth, and the experience accumulated over several generations protects them from surviving in the stinky ditch. They are well-trained, physically strong, and agile, shuttling through the small paths of sheep intestines, and walking on the high mountains as if they were walking on flat ground. They are also very capable, and their greatest ability is to discern the direction and calculate the hour. Whether it's in a dense forest or even a cloudy day, they can find the right direction, accurately grasp the time, and the time they determine is even more accurate.

Li Ming's family has been a medicine collector in the stinky ditch for generations. He's been collecting medicine here for a few years now. He is best at catching snakes. Whether it's a reckless snake, a grass snake, or all kinds of poisonous snakes, he can easily catch them. These poisonous snakes are as soft as noodles when they see him. Although they are highly poisonous, they are rare and precious medicinal materials. His most profitable thing is not to catch snakes, but to catch toads, toads have a team of tumors, whenever people come across him, they will secrete poisonous juice, collect them, is the most precious medicinal material, borneol.

Exactly: there are many exotic flowers and fruits in the mountains, and flowers and snakes and toads shuttle frequently,

Ordinary people come to pick flowers and fruits, and Lang Zhong picks medicine to catch flower snakes.

What adventures does Li Ming have? I'll talk about it next time