Chapter 267: Millennial Ginseng
"Then I can only wait for Xiao Zi to wake up, and help the stone take a look, if the big brother is here, maybe I can help think of a way now, but, alas, I hope Xiao Zi wakes up soon, and I hope that the stone can survive by that time."
"Definitely," said Frost, "I don't want anything to happen to the stone." ”
In the next few days, Luoyang City was busy, the officials were busy dealing with the government accumulated in these days, the soldiers were busy repairing the city walls damaged by the war, and the people were busy burying their deceased relatives.
Nan Xun was also busy, busy helping Ziling find a thousand-year-old ginseng, before the general's mansion came back that day, Mr. Song talked about Ziling's situation, and told Nan Xun that if he could find this thousand-year-old ginseng, Ziling should wake up faster.
But Nan Xun didn't buy medicinal herbs, there were a lot of treasures in the store, but the thousand-year-old ginseng was not something she could have in the store, she had to go to the medicinal herb store to take a look, but Mr. Song couldn't find anything, and she wasn't sure she could find it.
It was inconvenient for Song Lao to come out in the General's Mansion, so he asked Nan Xun for this matter.
Nan Xun went out early and began to inquire one by one, and almost all the pharmacies in Luoyang were run by Nan Xun, but they still did not find the thousand-year-old ginseng that Mr. Song said, and many shop owners clearly told Nan Xun that it is not uncommon to see ginseng for a hundred years in this world, but they have never seen it for thousands of years.
Among these people, there are many people who are about the same age as Mr. Song, who have been operating medicinal herb shops for decades, and they have never seen any thousand-year-old ginseng, let alone sold it to Nan Xun, and there is also a boss among them, who told Nan Xun that it is absolutely impossible to find a thousand-year-old ginseng.
Because, all the ginseng that is thousands of years old has become refined, and mortals can't see it at all, let alone catch it. And to catch this thousand-year-old ginseng, you have to be careful, lest you steal chickens and rice. Because although ginseng that has become a sperm will not take the initiative to harm people, if you want to provoke them, they will not show mercy.
Many people think that they have good skills, and go to the deep mountains and old forests in a vain attempt to catch one or two thousand-year-old ginseng. As a result, most of them went and never returned, and even if a few came back, they were all scarred and kept silent about what happened.
Among them was the cousin of the pharmacy owner who told Nan Xun about this, and the boss took advantage of a drink to get his cousin drunk and asked him what happened in the old forest at that time.
His cousin then went on to get drunk, and stumbled about their affairs in the woods.
They went in four people, one of them a fat old man and a thin old man. The other is a very shrewd young man who is about the same age as his cousin.
Among them, the thin old man saw thousand-year-old ginseng when he inadvertently collected medicine in this old forest, and he didn't care about it at the time, but he thought that he had been in the forest for a long time, so he hallucinated, and then returned home, and after thinking carefully for more than half a month, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was not so simple.
Thinking of the various legends of thousand-year-old ginseng before, I felt that I must have encountered it this time, so I contacted a few people to plan to go to the forest to break through. Let's see if you can have any good luck and catch this thousand-year-old ginseng, if you catch these people, you will suddenly soar, not to mention that this ginseng is worth 18 million. The four of them can't spend enough money in a few lifetimes.
The four of them got together and decided on the spot to take a risk.
Then they prepared red thread silk, as well as incense paper charms, all of which were invited from the Taoist temple. I thought it should come in handy, and then I set off to come in before the thin old man met the ginseng forest.
Ginseng is a thousand years old, and it is very careful, and generally does not stay in one place for a long time.
They went to the place where the thin old man saw ginseng before, and found no trace of ginseng, so this made the thin old man conclude that there must be a thousand years of ginseng in this forest.
Everyone else was also very excited, and they all began to imagine catching ginseng and selling it to live a life of fine clothes and food, only the thin old man was more cautious, and warned everyone to be careful, and not to talk nonsense, so as not to be heard by ginseng, and run away without a trace.
They agreed that if they came across ginseng, the thin old man would say let's take a break, saying that the ginseng was right in front of them, and they would stand apart and be ready to do it at any time.
If you haven't encountered it, you can't say ginseng or something, don't talk about ginseng, these two words are allowed to mention, of course, these are all things that the thin old man heard, about the things to pay attention to ginseng, whether it is true or not, in short, it is always good to pay attention to it, so as not to get the time, if you don't pay attention all of a sudden, the opportunity for a few people to soar is just slipping away.
The three of them walked around in the forest for several days, but they never met, which made the thin old man a little puzzled, could it be that he really thought wrong.
It was at this time that they saw a family in the woods.
They were about to finish all the dry food and water they had brought with them, so the four of them planned to take a rest and see if they could ask for something to eat and drink.
The fat old man was more kind, so he took the lead, and a few people walked to the front of the house.
The fat old man shouted: "Someone doesn't, I'm waiting to pass by here, I want to beg for saliva to drink, someone doesn't!?" ”
After shouting a few times, a child came out of the hut, only seven or eight years old, looked at them and said, "My father is not at home, do you want to drink water, there is a water tank in the yard, you can drink it later." ”
The fat old man said: "Haha, the child is really sensible, do you still have steamed buns and flatbreads at home, we can use the money to buy some with you." ”
"Yes, wait a minute." As he spoke, the child turned around and staggered out a basket of food from the house, and put the flatbread and steamed buns that the fat old man wanted in the basket.
Before the fat old man could speak, the thin old man stepped forward and said, "We will give you ten taels of silver, how about buying your basket of things!?" ”
The child thought for a while and said, "Ten taels, how much!?" ”
"That's it." As he spoke, the thin old man took out ten taels of silver from his bosom and handed it to the child, "Look, this is the thing, I can buy several baskets of food like yours." ”
The child looked at it and said, "That's it, I'm not rare, I have a lot of it." ”
"You've got a lot of them!?" The thin old man asked, "It's not right for a child to lie, you little kid." How can it be so much money? ”
"Oh, this thing is called money, I thought money was something, isn't it silver stone. The stone bench at my door is made of this kind of silver stone, and this thing is not a rare thing in our mountains, who would be rare. ”
When the child had finished speaking, the boss's cousin turned his head to look at the stone bench beside him. As if it did look like silver, he then climbed down and took a bite, and it was really silver, and said, "Oh my God, you just keep the silver out there!?" ”
"It's all broken stones, what's good." So saying, the child put the basket on the ground and said, "I don't want your money, just take the food." Anyway, my dad and I rarely eat these things. ”
The fat old man smiled and said, "The child is really sensible, then the uncles took away this food, after your father comes back, say thank you to him, and we will come back to repay him in the future." ”
"yes, okay."
The child nodded, and the fat old man went over to pick up the basket, turned to everyone, and said, "Okay, we have everything to eat and drink." You can stay in the mountains for a few more days, well, collect medicine......"
The thin old man rolled his eyes and said, "Let's rest." Kid, let's have something to eat and drink here, it won't bother you, right?! ”
"No, no," said the child with a grin, "you eat and drink."
The thin old man said: "The place we came from is called a town, and it is a lot of people living together, building a lot of houses, gathering together, and it is very lively. ”
"Then you won't fight together, I've seen my dad fighting, it's very powerful, if there are so many of you together, oh, how many people are there in your town, a thousand?"
"Hahaha," said the thin old man, "there are tens of thousands of people in our towns, and there are nearly a million people in the big cities, even like the imperial city, which are millions of people. ”
"Millions?!" The child lowered his head, as if wondering how many of these millions of people were.
The thin old man took the opportunity to glance at a few people, and told everyone that everyone should prepare.
These people are also smart people, from the time the thin old man said to take a break here, they knew that the thousand-year-old ginseng must be here, and they are all there, if it is not this child, then it must be in the thatched hut, and they must be in good spirits.
Many times, the opportunity is often in an instant, and if you miss it, you will miss it forever, and everyone knows that the value of this thousand years of ginseng is immeasurable, so they don't want to give up such an opportunity.
The thin old man asked again, "Child, when will your father come back!?" ”
"I don't know," the child came back to his senses and said, "my dad sometimes goes out for months, sometimes for days, I don't know when he will come back, do you have anything to do with him?!" ”
"No," said the thin old man, "but we have eaten and drunk at your house, and it would be a bit rude to leave without saying hello." ”
"Etiquette?!" The child nodded and said, "My father seems to have taught me these things, saying that after learning etiquette, I can only go out to play when I grow up, otherwise I will be arrested." ”
"Haha, your father is right," the thin old man stood up and said, "Since you don't like money, then I have a jade pendant here, which is a good thing, and you see if you like it or not." ”
As he spoke, the thin old man took out a jade pendant from his arms and handed it over.
After the child saw it, he walked up to the old man who had lost weight, took the jade pendant and looked at it and said: "This jade is a good thing, warm and delicate, my favorite is this, thank you." ”
As he spoke, the child seemed to think of it, and his father had said that he should pay attention to the issue of etiquette, and then he bowed to the thin old man and said, "Thank you, old man!" ”
At this moment, the old man waved his hand and shouted: "Do it!" ”
Then, the thin young man directly took out a foot of red silk, and after unfolding it, it was covered on the child's head, and any fat old man and the boss's cousin took out the red thread and wrapped it around the child a few times, and helped the red silk on the child's body.
The child exclaimed in surprise and said, "What are you doing here, let me go, you bad people, bad people!! ”
The child shouted and struggled again, but this thin red line, but how could he not break free, it was such a thin red line, even if it was a newborn baby, it could be broken, and he couldn't break free from a seven or eight-year-old child.
Seeing that the child struggled more and the red line got closer, the child slowly shrunk.
The thin old man shouted: "Pick him up, don't let him touch the ground, he will run away, quickly pick him up, use red silk to pick him up from the bottom of the bread, don't let him run!" ”
After the thin old man shouted and played, the fat old man picked up the child and dragged him up from the ground, and then, the boss's cousin was quick to wrap a piece of red silk from under the child's feet, so that he could not touch the ground, and then several people saw that the child was shrinking smaller and smaller in the red silk.
The thin old man shouted happily: "It's him, this is the child who has been transformed into a thousand-year-old ginseng, haha, now we have sent it, hahaha!! ”
However, just as he was shouting happily, he suddenly heard a roar, as if some wild beast had appeared, but listening to the sound, it was not around here, but in the hearts of several people, which made the four of them even more frightened, and they gathered around one after another, looking at the situation around them.
They also all know that this thousand-year-old ginseng is not so easy to catch, and it is too unexpected for them to catch it somewhat.
But they stared for a moment, but they didn't notice any wild beasts around.
Could it be that a few people heard it wrong, and it won't, after all, all four of them heard this voice, and it is impossible for even four people to have illusions at the same time.
Just when a few people looked at me and I looked at you, looking at each other, not knowing what would happen, the fat old man suddenly screamed.
At first, the four of them turned their backs to each other, and one of them paid attention to one direction, so they didn't know what happened to the fat old man, and when they hurriedly turned around to look, they found that the fat old man had disappeared (to be continued. )