Chapter 8 Centennial Purple Ginseng
As soon as Xiao Yang heard that there was a play, he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and said, "I heard someone near the county government that those people should be officials in the county."
They also said that people here have money now, and many people have built houses. Some time ago, I saw a lot of new houses near the county seat. ”
Xiao Yang's mother, Lin Lan, also said when she heard this: "What Yang Yang said makes sense, aren't there several families in our town who are all building buildings? I heard that the wages for those bricklayers are not low, and Hu Erwa of the Hu family in the town has been building houses for people everywhere in the past two years, but she has made a lot of money, and I heard that their family's savings have exceeded 10,000 yuan. ”
Xiao Yang knew who his mother was talking about, he was a bricklayer in the town, his name was Hu Degui, and he was the second oldest in the family, so everyone in the town called him Hu Erwa. Xiao Yang also knew that in his previous life, Hu Erwa later started a construction company and made some money.
It was probably this winter that Hu Degui pulled a few people with good connections to start an engineering team. Speaking of which, in his previous life, this Hu Erwa also asked Xiao Weiguo to work together, but Xiao Weiguo didn't want to work for him, so he didn't agree.
After all, Hu Degui is much younger than him, and when he was young, he was beaten by his father for stealing chickens and dogs.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yangyou followed and said, "Dad, I think it's good, the book says well, I can't help the child can't catch the wolf, and I have to make money as soon as possible." ”
"You stinky boy, it's time to teach you a lesson. The father reached out and patted Xiao Yang's head and scolded with a smile.
"I think Yang Yang is right, this money-making thing can be done by others. You don't get picked up by someone else before it's too late. As for the cost, let's discuss it with someone in the next few days. There's always a way to think of it. ”
Xiao Yang's mother saw that Xiao Weiguo didn't speak, so she spoke. In fact, she also wants her husband to make some career and improve the conditions of the family, and she really thinks this is feasible, so she is positive.
Xiao Yang's mother married his father at the age of 19. When he got married, the Xiao family could be said to be poor, and this courtyard was still built with the dowry of Xiao Yang's mother Lin Lan plus the borrowed money. The arrears for repairing the house have been gradually paid off in the past two years.
At that time, if it weren't for the relief that his mother's family had been giving from time to time, Xiao Yang's family would not have been able to survive. The poor family usually goes back to their parents' house, and the neighbors in their mother's house have no face.
There are always people who say something lukewarm and cool. However, my grandmother's family had no complaints, and they were very good to Xiao Yang's family. Of course, Lin Lan wouldn't say it, but she always thought that this family could be better.
Xiao Yang saw that when he said this, he would accept it when he saw it, and money was a heavy topic for the Xiao family. Xiao Yang hurriedly diverted the topic and said, "Mom, I want to go to the back mountain tomorrow to worship my grandfather and grandmother, and then go back to school." ”
"Why do you suddenly want to worship your grandfather and grandmother?" Xiao Weiguo interjected.
Xiao Yang knew that there was such a question, but fortunately, he had already thought of a countermeasure in the afternoon.;" I dreamed last night that my grandfather was too grandma, and my grandmother asked me to comb her hair and said to give me money. Xiao Yang said with a serious face.
Xiao Yang's parents looked at Xiao Yang with a solemn face, and his mother Lin Lan asked with concern, "Really Yangyang, do you remember what else they said?" Looking at his mother's concerned expression, Xiao Yang was very moved, and his father Xiao Weiguo also looked at him with a serious face.
"It's true, just let me wash his hair and give me a lot of money. Then I woke up from freezing. I remember it very clearly when I woke up in the morning, I just remembered. Xiao Yang also said with a serious face.
"The old lady and grandfather's grave haven't been weeded for a long time, right?" said to her mother, Lin Lan, to Xiao Weiguo. Xiao Weiguo nodded thoughtfully.
You go get me some money, I'll go buy some paper money on the street, and tomorrow morning I will go to the back mountain with Yangyang, and Xiao Weiguo said to his wife after being silent for a while.
Xiao's father took the money and went out. Xiao Yang thought that it was okay to help his mother put away the bowl, read the book for a while, went to bed, lay on the bed and consciously entered the small space to look at the Tie Yi and them.
When Xiao Yang entered, Tie Yi and they were practicing flying in the square, and they had enough mana. Xiao Yang had been out for a long time, and eight or nine days had passed in the small space, and they had already finished cultivating the fourth layer of Qi cultivation.
Monks who have cultivated to the fourth level of Qi cultivation can fly in the sky, and it is not surprising that there are small samples in the messages left by these old Taoist priests. They had already finished reading the book that Xiao Yang brought in.
The monk's memory is truly unforgettable, and Xiao Yang can do it himself. Seeing this, Xiao Yang gave them the cultivation exercises from the fourth to the eighth layer.
It would be impossible to cultivate from the fourth layer to the eighth layer for decades, and they would not stay in a small space all the time in the future. So that's totally enough.
After doing this, Xiao Yang took out all the books, and quietly ran to his sister's room, his sister Xiao Shan went to college in the provincial capital, and Xiao Yang, who was usually empty in this room, was not afraid of being discovered.
put all the books in her room into a small space for them to read, Xiao Yang's sister's books are more than twice as many as Xiao Yang's. There are both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. Xiao Yang didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, so he took it all in and then went back to sleep.
The next morning, before dawn, Xiao Yang was called up by his father and prepared to go up the mountain. Xiao Weiguo's firewood knife was carrying a shotgun, and Xiao Yang was following behind with a paper money and incense watch.
When I walked to the intersection behind the house, I saw my grandfather Xiao Wenqing also holding this firewood knife and waiting there with a shotgun on his back. Seeing them coming, Grandpa's eyes suddenly stopped when he looked at Xiao Yang, and he walked over directly and took Xiao Yang's hand to get his pulse.
Xiao Yang's heart tightened, and he hurriedly said, "No, I haven't eaten at home for the past few days." "Xiao Yang, this can be regarded as deliberately misleading.
Xiao Weiguo also hurriedly said that Xiao Yang had not gone out at home in the past few days, and it was impossible to eat anything. Grandpa groaned for a while and didn't ask any more questions. The three of them walked up the hill.
Xiao Weiguo walked in front, and used branches to drop the dew as he walked, but fortunately, there were often hunters entering the mountain on this road, and the branches were stabbed, and those were cleaned up, and it was not easy to walk.
Xiao Yang walked behind with his grandfather, and his grandfather talked while walking, your father told me last night, you will give you a dream when you are sick, and it doesn't matter if you send money. Speaking of which, I haven't given it to your grandfather for a long time, so let's take a look at them when they go to the grave. Xiao Yang talked to his grandfather without a match.
It took me more than 3 hours to get to my destination. In his previous life, Xiao Yang also asked his father why his grandfather's grave was buried so far away, and his father said that it was impossible to occupy cultivated land in that era, and it was said that this place was the land of hidden dragons.
Ancestors are buried here, and real dragons can come out of their backs. Xiao Yang scoffed at this statement, but felt that it was more practical not to occupy arable land.
The three grandfathers and grandsons repaired the weeds around and on the two tombs, burned the paper money and incense watches they brought, and Xiao Yang also knelt down and kowtowed three times. It was almost nine o'clock when all this was done, and the sun was already out.
A few people began to walk back, and fog began to rise on the mountain, and today's fog was exceptionally large, and the visibility was less than ten meters. Xiao Yang secretly rejoiced in his heart, which made it more convenient for him to act on his own.
Xiao Yang knew that there was a big boulder not far ahead, about ten meters high, the size of several houses. There were some weeds growing on the boulder, a pine tree, and some unknown wildflowers.
On one side of the road is a smooth rock wall that cannot be climbed, and on the other side is a cliff on the side of a mountain stream. However, Xiao Yang knew how to go up, in his previous life, during the winter vacation of his sophomore year of high school, Xiao Yang and a few friends went up the mountain to chop wood.
Bored around the boulder, I found a man-wide crack near the cliff, and I could barely climb up.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yang moved his mind and released Tie Yi in the most marginal position he could control. Let him take the three hundred-year-old spirit ginseng selected in advance and let him fly over to "plant it".
This is also the method that Xiao Yang thought of yesterday. After doing this, Tie Yi flew back quietly and was taken into a small space by Xiao Yang.
It's just that the moment he released Tie Yi, his grandfather looked at Tie Yi's position with a little confusion, but fortunately, he couldn't see anything when the fog was big.
When he walked under the boulder and looked up to see the spirit ginseng on the top of the stone, Xiao Yang pretended to be surprised and shouted, "Grandpa, what is that?", Xiao Yang believed that grandpa must know.
This also saved Xiao Yang a lot of trouble, after all, he was still thinking about how to let his father know today that it was a priceless "ginseng". At this time, having a grandfather also helped Xiao Yang a lot.
Xiao Wenqing heard him shout, stopped, and looked at the spirit ginseng of his fingers, his eyes lit up. Hurriedly shouted, "Come over quickly, good luck." That's ginseng, and it's at least about a hundred years old. Grandpa said excitedly.
Xiao Weiguo had already walked under the boulder, and hurriedly ran back and looked up. His face was also full of excitement, he knew that wild ginseng was very expensive, at least hundreds of thousands.
"I'll go back and get the ladder, and you'll wait here. Xiao's father was about to step down the mountain without saying a word, Xiao Yang hurriedly called, "Dad, I know how to go up." Father Xiao stopped when he heard this and said, "This boulder is more than ten meters high, I haven't heard anyone say that anyone has ever gone up to it, why don't you go up." ”
Xiao Yang didn't say much, and said directly, you come with me and walk to the side of the cliff. After more than ten minutes, Xiao Yang took his grandfather and father around to the crack that could be climbed by virtue of the location in his memory.
Pointing to the gale, he said, "I came here the year before last when I was chopping wood, and this place can be climbed. At that time, I was halfway up and didn't dare to climb, so I didn't go up. Father Xiao looked at this crack and said, "You are waiting here, I will go up."
In fact, Xiao Yang wanted to go up by himself, but in order not to expose it, he could only ask his father to be careful. Xiao Weiguo's perennial hunting skills in the mountains are not bad, and it is naturally not difficult to climb up along the cracks.
Grandpa also told his father not to dig up the ginseng. waited with Xiao Yang below.
After about ten minutes, Xiao Weiguo came down from above. He wrapped his coat around three spiritual ginseng plants and came down. Grandpa hurriedly took the spirit ginseng and looked at it. I also pinched a leaf, put it in my mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it directly.
Only then did he speak, "This is a pure wild hydrangea ginseng, and it is more than 100 years old. It's the first time I've seen it at such an age.
No wonder Mrs. Yangyang gave him a dream and returned the money. This thing has a price outside and can't be bought at all. After speaking, Grandpa said, "Don't say anything about it when you go back, you will be guilty." ”
Xiao Yang nodded hurriedly with his father. Grandpa hugged the three of them and walked down the mountain, and Xiao Yang's heart was also relaxed. This first step is finally complete.