Ling'er almost raised her heart to her throat, closed her eyes, and crawled across the wooden bridge with her whole body stiff! After crossing the wooden bridge, Yuan Baole said: "Hey, little stone, take a look, the bridge has been crossed!" Not afraid at all, right? ”

Ling'er opened her eyes, and sure enough, she had already arrived on the ground, and her heart also fell to the ground, tsk, this kind of bridge is still less good in the future, and it will reduce her life once!

"Come on, get up, I'll take you to see my grandfather!" Yuan Bao pulled Ling'er up the trestle, fortunately the trestle is not high, and it looks quite strong, she is finally not as afraid as before, walk a little longer, the trembling feeling is really good!

Watching the villagers shuttling happily, and there was little green smoke on the roofs of each house, Ling'er said: "Brother Yuanbao, are you okay cooking in this tree house?" ”

"Treehouse?" Yuan Bao thought for a while: "Huh! That's a good name, so I'll go back and tell my grandfather that I'll just change the name of our village to Treehouse Village! Cooking is cooking, what will happen? ”

"I said there was wood everywhere here, in case... What should I do if it catches fire? ”

"On fire? How so? When cooking, someone watches the fire! ”

Ling'er laughed dryly, and then asked: "Brother Yuanbao, there are so many places under the mountain, it is stable and convenient, and there are no wild beasts, why don't you move down the mountain?" ”

Yuan Bao didn't think about it, and said directly: "My grandfather said that the people under the mountain are sinister, more terrible than the jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, and we people will go down the mountain, and we will be deceived by those bad people in two days without food or clothing and starve to death on the streets, it is better to stay in the mountains and be comfortable!"

Hey, by the way, Xiaoshi, I heard my uncles say that the people under the mountain have to pay rent for farming, and they also have to pay grain to the government, and they can't keep half of the grain they harvest every year, is it true? ”

"This ...... If it is rented from the landlord's family, you have to pay rent, if it is your own family, you don't need to use it, you just need to pay taxes to the government! As for how much can be left, it depends on whether the year is good or not, and whether the tax is heavy! Brother Yuanbao, don't you have to pay taxes to the government in your village? ”

"We? If we don't farm, why should we pay taxes? However, a few years ago, there were indeed a few bad guys who ran to our village with knives to ask for money, and they also injured a few of us, and then we beat them away! ”

"Really? You're not afraid that they'll find more people? ”

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, ordinary people in our place can't find it, as long as they make a maze outside, they won't be able to get in for the rest of their lives!"

"Maze?"

Yuan Bao paused, stuck out his tongue, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, nothing, little stone, you see, that's my home!" ”

The ingots refer to a large wooden house located at the highest point of the entire village, which looks stronger and taller than other houses, and should be the best house in the village, right? Ling'er thought for a while and said, "Brother Yuanbao, could it be that your grandfather is the village chief?" ”

"Hee-hee, yes! How do you know? ”

Ling'er smiled, "Brother Yuanbao is different from others at first glance, and your grandfather must be different from ordinary people!" ”

Yuan Bao was happy, patted Ling'er on the shoulder and said, "Little stone, I'll see my grandfather later, I'll take you around the village, there are a lot of fun places in the village!" ”

When the two came to the village chief's wooden house, Yuan Bao jumped in a few times and shouted, "Grandpa, I brought the little stone!" ”

A middle-aged man walked out, saw Ling'er paused, and said with a smile: "You are the little stone, right?" ”

Ling'er was a little surprised, in her impression, the village chiefs of all villages in this era were all old men with white beards, high morality, and wrinkled faces, and this village chief ......

Look at his black hair and shiny, his chin is cleanly shaved, and his red face is only a little wrinkled at the corners of his eyes when he smiles, if he dresses up well, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is only thirty, but I didn't expect that it was the grandfather of a teenager and the village chief!

Yuan Bao saw that Ling'er didn't react for a long time, and pulled her and said, "Little stone, this is my grandfather!" ”

Ling'er reacted and hurriedly saluted: "Hello village chief and grandfather!" ”

The old man laughed: "Little Stone, I heard that you met a hero who killed a tiger, and he also gave you a tiger skin?" ”

"Yes! The tiger skin is here, please see the village chief! Ling'er untied the burden and spread it out to him.

The village chief looked at it for a moment, then nodded, "Well, it's indeed the fur of that animal!" Great, our village can finally be at peace! ”

Several people stood at the door for a while, and the village chief brought Ling'er into the house, and the space inside was much larger than expected, no, this was not a room, it was more like a hall. The wooden house seen from the outside is only a part of this hall, but most of its space has been carved out of the mountain wall. Ling'er looked around strangely while walking, and Yuan Bao said proudly: "Hehe, Xiaoshi, my house is good, right?" ”

Ling'er nodded: "Yes, I didn't expect the house to be so big!" Brother Yuanbao, are the other houses in the village like this? ”

"How? Oh! You say you want to dig a house into the mountains? ”

"yes, it's going to take a long time to dig such a big house, right?"

"Of course, if nothing else, our stone house is only chiseled by our ancestors for three hundred years, right, grandpa?"

Village Chief Liang smiled and didn't say anything, a few people passed through the two corridors along the mountain wall, stopped in front of a big wooden door, and Yuan Bao said: "Grandpa, what are we doing in the warehouse?" ”

Village Chief Liang took out the key to open the wooden door, inside is a big cave, the sunlight is projected from the ventilation hole on the top of the cave, illuminating the inside, the hole is a row of tall wooden shelves, some are made into the shape of boxes, some are directly the appearance of shelves, and all kinds of herbs are placed on it.

Village Chief Liang turned around: "Little stone, this is our Liangjia Village's medicine storehouse, although there is no thousand-year-old ginseng, other medicinal herbs are complete, you go in and take a look, take whatever you want, just let us give you a thank you gift!" ”

Ling'er was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, no, my father's herbs are not difficult to find, just go to the mountains and dig them!" ”

"We mountain people have never been the same, and we never owe favors, little stone, you go in and choose! Yuanbao, you go and lead the way, what does Xiaoshi want, you take him to get it! Although Village Chief Liang spoke with a smile, there was a majesty in his tone that he didn't need to refuse! People say it clearly, they don't want to owe favors, so... Then take it!

Ling'er thanked the village chief and followed the ingots into the medicine storehouse. She looked at it as she walked, there were really a variety of medicinal materials in it, and she had never heard of many drug names, but almost all the drug names that appeared on the "Hundred Herbs" were here, even the poisonous insects and Gu worms in the southern Xinjiang of the Western Regions!

Ling'er was surprised when she saw it, some of the things in this may be more valuable than thousand-year-old ginseng, right? It's really a big treasure trove, if you take one or two valuable things, won't your plan to make a fortune be realized immediately?

She stopped in front of a row of rare herb racks, and Yuan Bao stood aside, her expression quite nervous, and she looked back in the direction of the cave entrance from time to time. When Ling'er stretched out her hand to a few cordyceps, Yuanbao looked nervous and wanted to call her, just when she was about to touch the cordyceps, Ling'er suddenly remembered something, she turned around and asked curiously: "Brother Yuanbao, what is this?" Like a bug, oops, you see, it's still moving! ”

Yuan Bao swallowed his saliva and looked at her: "Little... Little stone, this... It's Cordyceps! Not a bug! ”

"Oh? Is this Cordyceps? I've heard old people say that this grass is quite expensive, isn't it? ”

Yuan Bao smiled awkwardly: "Yes, yes, it took generations of people in our village to save these cordyceps!" ”

"Really? It's a shame, if only there were more! Ling'er frowned and muttered.

"Little... Little stone, you want worms... Cordyceps? ”

Ling'er held her chin and hesitated for a long time, blinked and said, "The village chief's grandfather said that I can take whatever I want in this medicine storehouse, Brother Yuanbao, can I take this cordyceps?" ”

Yuan Bao looked at the direction of the cave entrance and stammered, "You... If you want... Take it! ”

"Hehe, Brother Yuanbao, look at you like that! Don't worry, I won't take it, I'm just curious! By the way, what herbs do my father's prescriptions have? Hmm~~~ Rhubarb, licorice, zeeland...... Brother Yuanbao, are you all of these? ”

"Yes, this way, I'll take you!" Yuan Bao hurriedly pulled Ling'er to the other side, but his face was relieved.

Ling'er naturally saw the change of ingots in his eyes, although people said that the things in the medicine warehouse could be taken casually, but if he was too greedy and really swept away those valuable and rare herbs, people would definitely not be happy. If you are alone as a child, it is difficult to say whether you can get out of the village!

So, it's better to pretend that you don't know anything, take some cheap and practical herbs, don't worry about unlimited amounts, go back just for Daddy to use, and you can also use this to have a relationship with the people of Liangjia Village, maybe when there will be a request for others!

Ling'er picked up enough herbs according to the few recipes left by Xu Banxian, broke them into several large bags, and said embarrassedly with a red face at the end: "Brother Yuanbao, that... My dad is sick and has to drink medicine every day, these are on the prescription, my that... Hehe, did you take more? Or... Pick some back? ”

"No, no, there are a lot of this herb, it's everywhere, we usually don't pick it when we see it, and we dig it when it's gone!" Why don't you take all of these, if it's not enough, I'll ask my grandfather, and go to the village to collect it, and there will be a lot of them! ”

"No need, thank you Brother Yuanbao, these are enough for my father for half a year, if you go to the pharmacy, you won't be able to get down without two or three taels of silver, I really want to thank you!"

"Hehe, no thanks, no thanks, little stone, come, I'll help you carry it!" Yuan Bao enthusiastically helped Ling'er carry the burden to the door. They got out of the medicine storehouse, but they didn't see the shadow of the village chief, Xiao Shi shouted twice, and the village chief came out of the stone house next door, he casually glanced at the bags of herbs, and smiled: "Xiao Shi, are these enough?" If you don't have enough, go get it again! ”

"Enough, thank you village chief grandpa, I'm really sorry to let you break the bank!"

"Nothing! Yuanbao, you take Xiaoshi back to the guest room to rest, and take her to the square in the evening, where the big guys will gather to celebrate tonight! ”

"Rallies? Really, grandpa? ”

The village chief nodded with a smile, and Yuan Bao suddenly cheered: "Oh, yes, yes, oh, I haven't had a meeting for a few months since the Chinese New Year, I miss me!" Little Stone, let me tell you, the assembly in our village is fun and lively, everyone dances, sings, plays games, and has a lot of delicious food! Let's go, I'll take you to the guest room first, go this way! ”

Yuan Bao carried two packets of herbs and walked quickly to the front, walking briskly, his face full of joy. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )