Chapter 41: Gathering Herbs

Hua Tao walked into the backyard, a long strip of Ganoderma lucidum orchard extended into the mountain, around the hillside layer by layer, a rough look, at least ten acres. The backyard of Che Ruyun's house is like the entrance to the garden, with a 100-meter-long fence built on both sides, which has been built into the hillside. The garden is full of blood red, and there are a little dark purple in the red, one by one, one by one, gently trembling in the white mist. Walking in the garden, smelling the intoxicating fragrance of sesame, it is refreshing.

Hua Xueying walked in front alone, Hua Tao carried a bamboo basket on her back, chatting with Che Ruyun who sent her out of the door as she walked.

"Sister Ru Yun, did Dong Xiao buy your blood lingzhi last time?"

"Well, thanks to you, one of the three Ganoderma lucidums here was ordered by him. Otherwise, my sister would have to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. โ€

Hua Tao smiled: "That old man didn't press your price?" โ€

"What do you say? The old man wanted to suppress my sister's person, but my sister didn't give it, and in the end, although I agreed to buy my Ganoderma lucidum, the price was too much. Alas, it is said that it is difficult to be a woman, but it is even more difficult to be a beautiful woman who abides by the bottom line. Brother, protect your senior sister, she is also a difficult woman. Che Ruyun sighed.

Hua Tao touched his nose and glanced at the beautiful and intoxicating figure in front of him: "She is really difficult, but now that I have me, I won't let people hurt her again." Sister, you have to hold on, no matter how difficult it is, you can't lose your bottom line. Brother Lu is a sincere person, and it is worth waiting for you for a lifetime. โ€

"Ouch, my sister hasn't taught you yet, but you have taught me a lesson!" Che Ruyun tilted her head and smiled sweetly.

"Hehe, what you want to teach me is how to turn Brother Rough into Brother Delicate, there are some knowledge I don't understand." Hua Tao said with a little obscenity.

"Giggles! Okay, I'll teach you when I come back at night, and our sister and brother will definitely be able to settle the goddess sister in front. Che Ruyun patted Hua Tao's shoulder and laughed.

Almost to the edge of the hillside, Hua Tao stopped: "Sister Ruyun, let's discuss, borrow a few blood lingzhi, I estimate that you can use it in the mountain." โ€

Che Ruyun was stunned, immediately bent down, quickly dug out three blood Ganoderma lucidum, and handed them to Hua Tao: "Take it, remember to come back, go to your Brother Lu and say, he has counted every Ganoderma lucidum here, if it is less, he will be in a hurry." โ€

Hua Tao opened the lid of the bamboo basket and asked Che Ruyun to throw the blood lingzhi into the bamboo basket, and without saying a word, he got into the bamboo forest path on the hillside and chased after Hua Xueying quickly.

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The bamboo forest is dense, and the bamboo leaves fill the ground, submerging the trail with only a faint footprint winding upward. The white mist in the forest is flying, and it is almost difficult to distinguish more than ten meters away. However, Hua Tao's eyesight is excellent, and the cold glow from his eyes can be clearly identified from fifty meters away through the layers of mist. In addition, the ears are extremely intelligent, and the hearing and position are distinguished, and the range of almost 100 meters is also within the control.

After he said goodbye to Che Ruyun, he walked up quickly, and in less than a hundred breaths, he caught up with Hua Xueying in front. Hua Xueying held a withered bamboo pole in her hand, tapping as she walked, her steps were steady, not slow, her eyes scanned around from time to time, as if she was looking for something.

"What are you talking about? Eyebrows, aren't you afraid that Brother Lu will be jealous? Hua Xueying knew that Hua Tao was coming, and asked softly.

"Brother Lu won't have a small belly like you, it's a little sour in someone's mouth, right?"

"You, get out of here!" Hua Xueying turned around and pointed at Hua Tao's big face with a bamboo pole.

Hua Tao smiled, pushed aside the bamboo pole, jumped a few times, and shook it in front of the beautiful sister. Although he was carrying a bamboo basket, his movements were also very vigorous.

Hua Xueying pouted: "Sรจ!" Isn't it amazing to grow up in the mountains? You have the ability to help me catch a few blood bamboos. โ€

"I'm stupid, why do you mess with it in five steps?" Hua Tao sneered, although he could cure all kinds of poisons, he didn't plan to provoke this kind of poisonous insect that sealed his throat with blood. Blood Bamboo Qing contains a blood character, not only because of the red scales on the body, but also because it is said that he loves to eat blood Ganoderma lucidum, has a very high spiritual intelligence, and is as cunning as a wolf.

"Because I'm going to catch it." Hua Xueying said in a low voice.

"Really? Is it your medicine? Hua Tao heard Hua Xueying's meaning.

"Well, to be specific, it's the gall of the blood bamboo. In this bamboo forest, we have to collect two things, Blood Bamboo Gall and Cloud Dew, plus Zhifeng Snow, which is the most unique medicinal material for refining the Great Pill Pill. The blood bamboo gallbladder must be more than three feet of blood bamboo green gallbladder, and the older the better. But the older it is, the more toxic it is, and the more powerful it is. My father used to cut about five feet of blood bamboo green, and I once grabbed four feet with my own hands. โ€

Hua Tao listened carefully, and was also thinking about the problem, and said, "Senior sister, in addition to being fast and poisonous, is there anything special about this snake?" โ€

"Yes, the blood bamboo is usually not out of the hole until after six o'clock at night, and the whole body is covered with blood-red scales, and it will make a salsa sound when lying on the bamboo leaves. The snake's head has a little cyan the size of a grain of rice on it, which is the only weak point on its body, and it is also the best place to catch it. The longer the individual, the smaller the green spots, it is said that the nine-foot blood bamboo green has no green spots, called the blood bamboo king, and if you encounter it, you will die. After Hua Xueying finished speaking, she reached out and took out two three-foot-long silver needles from the bamboo basket, took one, and poked Hua Tao's buttocks.

"Ouch, senior sister, you bite!" Hua Tao exclaimed exaggeratedly.

"Giggles! If something bites you, you'll be miserable. Take it, this silver needle is used to poke the green dots of the blood bamboo green, as long as it is poked, it can't move, it is very effective. It's only three o'clock in the afternoon, and there is usually no blood bamboo, but just in case, you still hold it. Hua Xueying smiled sweetly.

Hua Tao took the silver needle and waved it forward.

In the afternoon, the bamboo sea is quiet and gloomy, and the sunlight shines through the gaps in the dense bamboo leaves. Hua Xueying climbed out of the trail from time to time, brushed aside the thick bamboo leaves, and picked out strange-shaped plants and rhizomes under the bamboo leaves.

Dragon sprout grass, white rhizome, earth mother root, Buddha heart grass......

This opened Hua Tao's eyes, he didn't know that medicinal herbs could grow under the bamboo leaves, and how did the beautiful senior sister know that there were medicinal herbs underneath? Doubts to doubts, he didn't ask, just took the herbs handed by his senior sister and put them into the bamboo basket behind him.

An hour later, his bamboo basket was filled with no less than 100 pieces of various herbs. A thin layer of sweat slowly oozed from Hua Xueying's forehead, and her breath began to become rapid. At this time, the mountain suddenly steepened, showing a small cliff, below the cliff, the bamboo forest is dense; Instead, they became intertwined green shrubs and long flowers of all colors.

"The Broken Bamboo Cliff has arrived." Hua Xueying brushed the beads of sweat from her forehead and turned around with a smile.

"Senior sister, are we going to rest?" Hua Tao asked. He was relieved that he didn't encounter any danger along the way.

Hua Xueying nodded, she sat on the small cliff and patted the half-foot empty stone beside her: "Come and sit!" โ€

Hua Tao smiled innocently: "Is it okay, senior sister?" โ€

"Don't sit down!" Hua Xueying pursed her mouth.

"Oh, then I'll sit down!" Before Hua Tao's words fell, his buttocks moved lightly, and he squeezed beside the beauty.

It's better to say it's sitting, it's better to be close together. The beautiful senior sister's jade face also instantly became delicate, and her eyes did not look at Hua Tao, but fell on the clouds and green bamboo below. Beneath their feet is a steep cliff, and the clouds and mist below the cliff are spectacular. In such a dangerous place, Hua Xueying's face was not only red, but there was no trace of fear, and her feet were swinging regularly.

"Ah Tao, are you afraid?" Hua Xueying asked softly.

"Fortunately, I have sat on a three-thousand-meter cliff, or in the seven-level gale, although this broken bamboo cliff is steep, but the feet are bamboo and clouds, I don't feel very afraid, but a little bit of a cloud."

"Well, my father likes to bring us here, several disciples have more or less sat on the Broken Bamboo Cliff, and Yu Niang and Lin Lao Er made a private decision here for life, which made my father angry half to death. However, although they sat down, they did not know that there was a special medicinal herb here. I have also been here twice, only here can collect cloud dew, cloud dew floats on the top of bamboo leaves, crystal like pearls, one leaf can collect ten beads, is a necessary medicinal material for refining strong pills. โ€

"Yunlu? Where is it? Hua Tao looked around, but there was no dew on the bamboo leaves under his feet.

"Not now, you have to wait until after six o'clock in the evening, preferably seven o'clock, when the Yunlu medicinal power is the strongest, and one bead can refine a strong pill."

"Wait, wait, wait! Senior sister, aren't you going down to the bamboo forest at six o'clock? Hua Tao was slightly surprised, after six o'clock the blood bamboo green haunted, after seven o'clock the clouds and mist were thick, there is a way is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, in case you get lost, it is not a joke.

"Did I say six o'clock? The people who collect medicine are always night and day. Okay, let's go to the peak, these hundreds of meters to the top of the peak are the gathering place of the Mighty Pill auxiliary herbs, I will try my best to pick them, and you are also mentally prepared, this bamboo basket will definitely be full. When you reach the peak, you can return to the mountain after collecting the snow from Zhifeng. Hua Xue Yingyun said lightly.

"Senior sister is really not afraid of snakes and mist?"

"Don't be afraid! For the sake of Dalimaru, for the sake of Dahuatang, die, I also died on the way to climb the mountain. Tao, would you like to accompany me? โ€

"I don't want to!"

"Huh?" Hua Xueying was suddenly stunned, her eyes full of confusion.

"I don't want you to die. Don't worry, with me, you will get down the mountain safely. If you're tired, say it, I'll carry you. โ€

"Poof!"

Hua Xueying burst out laughing, she beat Hua Tao's arm again and again, and there was indescribable sweetness on her face.