Chapter 167: Wild Mountain Ginseng
HELLO~ SANCHA CAME TO UPDATE. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoI'm sorry guys, I've been adjusting to my new job for the past week, and I'm so busy that I can't bother with updates. I finally got the wifi today.,You can upload a novel.,Hurriedly passed a chapter up.。 But Sancha rushed out of this chapter in his busy schedule.,I can only update this chapter today.。 The last few days may have been the rhythm of one chapter a day.,I'll do my best to code words when I'm settled.,I hope to get back to the level of updating two chapters a day as soon as possible.。 In addition, some people commented that the protagonist is a weak chicken, and it is not cool enough to watch, Sancha wants to say, writing Xiaobaiwen is not my pursuit, I am a serious writer! (Spit up yourself for a while)
But, to be honest, the real talent of the protagonist has not yet been developed. Do you remember that after the zombie world survival system reaches level 5, everyone will generate a talent? Xu Xiaobai's talent will definitely be refreshing! So, let's take a look. However, in view of the reader's request, I will greatly advance the time for Xu Xiaobai's talent skills to appear, and it will appear soon, so everyone keeps looking forward to it~~~
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After solving the contradiction with the wolf king, Xu Xiaobai and Lao Yaozi continued on the road, they had gone deep into the deepest part of the Linhai Snow Plain, according to Lao Yaozi, except for the mountain leader who went into the mountains to collect medicine in the summer of previous years and the scientific research team with strong government support, no one else has ever been here. Moreover, these people have a fixed route to enter the old forest, and those like him and Xu Xiaobai are afraid that there is no one else in the carpet search, so many places they go to may be places where humans have set foot for the first time, and every piece of snow may be unexplored virgin land.
Xu Xiaobai didn't care about any of this. He was concerned about two difficulties, one of which was the severe cold climate. As they advanced to the deepest part of the Linhai Snow Field, the temperature began to drop further, and now they were in a position where the maximum temperature during the day was only minus 10 degrees, and at night it reached a terrifying minus 30 degrees. Lao Yaozi had already wrapped all the clothes he had brought with him, and wrapped his thin body into a big zongzi. Xu Xiaobai's terrifying physique was difficult to endure the extreme cold here, so he had to redeem a bunch of cold-proof down jackets from the supermarket system and put them on his body.
The second is the difficulty of walking due to the deep snow. According to Lao Yaozi, no one will hike in the forest sea snow field, because the snow here can reach an average of one foot, and if you take a step, the whole knee down will fall into the snow, and it is quite difficult to pull it out again, so people have to use sleds or tie thin planks to their feet to reduce the pressure on the ground. But because Xu Xiaobai and Lao Yaozi's purpose was not to hurry, but to find the legendary Ambergris King, they had to walk step by step. Every hundred or so steps I take, I will be tired and out of breath. As the dimensions get higher, the daytime hours are getting shorter and the nighttime hours are getting longer, and the two of them can only walk out ten kilometers a day at most, and this is still under the condition that everything is fine. Such a slow pace of advancement made Xu Xiaobai very distressed, but there was no other way.
Despite the harsh climate, the speed at which the old youth recovered was breathtaking. It is really worthy of being the offspring of the wolf, those terrible wounds on Lao Qing's body actually healed in a few days, plus Xu Xiaobai felt sorry for it, so he specially cut a down cotton coat for it and wrapped it around his body to keep out the cold, and exchanged enough raw meat from the supermarket system every day to keep Lao Qing strong. He even quietly put protein powder in the water that Lao Qing drank to help it replenish nutrition.
Dogs are the animals that know gratitude the most. Originally, Lao Qing was instructed by the head of the forest farm to accompany the two into the mountain, and subconsciously regarded Lao Yaozi as its first owner. But Xu Xiaobai was so dedicated to Lao Qing, and gradually his relationship with Xu Xiaobai became enthusiastic, and he obeyed Xu Xiaobai's orders, but he became unfamiliar with Lao Yaozi's instructions. Lao Yaozi couldn't help but scold: "If you have milk, you are a mother, and it is the same truth when you put it on a beast!" Xu Xiaobai was happy to see him deflated, just laughing, too lazy to take care of him.
The two of them and a dog continued to move forward, and on this day they arrived at an open snow field, where there were rare trees to cover it, Xu Xiaobai looked at the low slanting sun overhead, and couldn't help but sigh with satisfaction: "I have never felt that sunlight is such a luxury thing!" ”
They walked in the old woods, and the sun was often covered by trees that shaded the sky, and it was rare to get sunlight. Lao Yaozi thought so, and was about to reply, when he suddenly saw something in the snow in the distance, stopped Xu Xiaobai's words, and said in a low voice: "Don't speak." ”
Xu Xiaobai's heart tightened, knowing that Lao Yaozi must have discovered something, so he hurriedly closed his voice, his eyes followed Lao Yaozi's fingers to look forward, and saw that in the snow more than ten meters away, a little dazzling red was very conspicuous in the white snow.
"What's that?" Xu Xiaobai asked him softly.
"Mallet!" Lao Yaozi responded softly, but he didn't look in Xu Xiaobai's direction, stared intently ahead, and lightly began to touch in that direction.
The mallet is naturally not the mallet that scolds people in the Northeast dialect. Because the shape of ginseng looks like a small mallet, and the word ginseng must not be mentioned in the mountains, otherwise the ginseng that has become a sperm will run away when it hears it, and some people who release the mountain will call the ginseng a mallet.
After exploring in the old forest for a month, sleeping in the open air, and finally seeing the shadow of ginseng, Xu Xiaobai couldn't help but get excited, and said in his heart, is it pitiful, did he find the ambergris ginseng king he was looking for so smoothly? He still remembered what Hao Datong said to himself, sincerity, gold and stone are open, could it be that Hao Datong, an old man, has lived for more than a thousand years, has already spied on the way of heaven, and can predict the future, the eight words he said to himself should be today?
Lin Xing...... You're saved......
Although he was very excited in his heart, Xu Xiaobai knew that he must not be distracted at this moment. According to legend in the Northeast, ginseng can become essence, and if someone wants to pick ginseng, it will find a way to escape. Although this makes no sense from a scientific point of view, ginseng is just a relatively rare plant. But Xu Xiaobai believes that there must be some truth in these sayings that have been circulated for thousands of years. So looking at the cautious posture of the old Yaozi, Xu Xiaobai couldn't help but relax his steps and slowly followed him forward.
"I'm from the left, you're from the right, we'll outflank you." Lao Yaozi explained, Xu Xiaobai agreed softly, and the two of them separated from the left and right sides and walked forward. After taking a few steps, seeing that the red was getting closer and closer, Lao Yaozi actually ignored the cold, leaned over and lay on the ground, and crawled forward gently on all fours. Although he felt that this posture was too weird, Xu Xiaobai still had the same example, and he also leaned on the ground and crawled forward, but his body was much better than the old medicine, and the coordination of the muscles of the whole body was not comparable to the old medicine, and he climbed much smoother than the old medicine.
In a few breaths, the two of them have arrived in front of the red, Xu Xiaobai finally saw clearly what this red was, it turned out that this was a string of red beans, he knew that after the ginseng grows, red beads often grow on the top, which is the fruit of ginseng, people usually eat the root of ginseng, because most of the nutritional value is hidden in the roots, but the fruit of this ginseng is also a rare good.
The old medicine had already taken out the red rope from his pocket and gently tied the red rope to the stem of the ginseng with extremely stable hands, for fear that it would run away. Xu Xiaobai opened his hands to protect his surroundings, in case this ginseng could really run, as long as the speed was not as fast as the cheetah, he was confident that he would hold the ginseng at the first time.
Nothing happened, the red rope was firmly tied to the stem of the ginseng, and the old medicine breathed a sigh of relief, so it is said that as long as the red rope is tied, the ginseng will not be able to run away no matter what.
The old medicine picked up the snow, revealing the black earth, the roots showed a little and nodded out, and he sighed lightly: "What a good mallet, it must be not small, it is definitely more than three hundred years old." ”
Xu Xiaobai didn't care about the quality of this ginseng, he hurriedly asked, "Is it the kind we are looking for?" ”
"You can't see it just by looking at it, you have to dig it out." Lao Yaozi took out a small medicine hoe from his baggage and carefully cleaned up the surrounding black soil. Soil opening is the most critical part of the process of extracting ginseng, because the roots of ginseng are very fragile, if accidentally damaged, the appearance of ginseng will be greatly reduced, so experienced mountain leaders will be 12 points careful when doing this process. Lao Yaozi used the small medicine hoe to slowly clean up the black soil around the ginseng little by little, and it took half an hour to finally dig a pit around the ginseng.
He put down the medicine hoe and began to touch it with his hands, for fear that the sharpness of the medicine hoe would hurt the roots. Xu Xiaobai waited patiently, the excitement in his heart became more and more serious, he had already prayed in his heart for the gods who could be called by name, praying that this ginseng must be the ambergris ginseng king he came to find this time.
After another half an hour, the old medicine cleaned up the black soil around the ginseng, and then carefully dug out the ginseng and the black soil attached to it, and carefully checked it, without hurting any roots, he nodded proudly, and was very satisfied with his skills that had been abandoned for many years.
He grabbed a handful of snow and slowly wiped the ginseng with the snow, gradually revealing the true face of the ginseng. This ginseng is about 30 centimeters long, and the thickest part is 5 centimeters thick, and the roots are very large, so it seems that it is indeed an old ginseng. After the old medicine was cleaned up, he sat in the snow, took out half a box of deflated cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and lit it for himself, and threw one to Xu Xiaobai, Xu Xiaobai took it and lit it for himself, and the old medicine took a beautiful puff: "It's really a good thing." ”
Xu Xiaobai couldn't hold it anymore, and took a puff of cigarette cigarette hard: "Don't sell it anymore, are you looking for it?" ”
Lao Yaozi knows Xu Xiaobai's temper, this kid usually looks tepid, as if he is a very patient character, but in fact, there is a volcano in his heart, and the more ruthless he is suppressed, the more terrible it will be when it erupts. He knew that what Xu Xiaobai was obsessed with was the king of ambergris, and if he hung his appetite again, he would not be able to keep this kid really going berserk. So he said softly: "You also know that the thing you are looking for is simply something that exists in legends, and no one dares to say that they have really seen it with their own eyes." Although this one is precious, it ......"
As he spoke, Xu Xiaobai's heart sank, and he already knew the outcome of the matter. Sure enough, I heard the old medicine say: "This is an old ginseng that is about 200 years old, if my market is reliable, this thing can now be sold for hundreds of thousands on the market." "Ginseng has arrived, and the old medicine is no longer taboo to mention the word ginseng.
Hundreds of thousands is a lot of money, but for Xu Xiaobai, these hundreds of thousands are not attractive at all, no matter how expensive it is, it can't save Lin Xing's life.
Seeing his depressed face, Lao Yaozi knew that he was in a bad mood at the moment, so he hurriedly comforted: "There is still time, let's continue to look for it again, and if we can find this mallet, it proves that God still takes care of us." As he spoke, he put the ginseng in his medicine basket.
Xu Xiaobai stretched out his hand to stop him: "The ginseng belongs to me." It turned out that he thought in his heart, although this ginseng could not bring Lin Xing back to life, but after all, it was also a treasure, maybe Lin Xing could boost her immunity after eating it, and maybe it would buy her and him more time.
Old Yaozi frowned and looked at him: "Young man, isn't it okay to be so greedy?" ”
Xu Xiaobai raised his eyes and looked at Lao Yaozi, as if confirming the old guy's true thoughts.
The eyes of the two of them were like substance, sparks in mid-air.
The atmosphere in the room was very delicate, and at this moment, Lao Qing limped up, looking at his two masters in confusion, not knowing what game these two were playing.
Do you want to rob it? Xu Xiaobai calculated the possibility in his heart, what is the chance that he can snatch the ginseng in the hands of the old medicine without damaging the ginseng in the slightest?