Chapter 0001: Wild Mountain Ginseng
It's good to be alive! To live, there is hope!
Li Yunlong dragged his tired body and slowly stood up from the shade of the tree.
"This body, hey! Recently, the duration of the seizure has been getting longer and longer, and the pain during the seizure has become more and more intense, and I don't know when it will end! Li Yunlong sighed, walked out of the shade, and came into the sun.
The sun was just at the beginning of the day, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun swayed down and shone on Li Yunlong, who was dressed in white, making Li Yunlong, who was already thin and exhausted, look even paler, and the whole person showed a kind of sickness.
Li Yunlong took a deep breath and raised his eyes to look at the sky, the sky was still so blue, the breeze was blowing, and all kinds of flowers and trees in the entire deep mountains were dancing in the wind, showing their sassy dancing posture and exuding vigorous vitality.
"Perhaps, in a few years, this world will no longer belong to me! Maybe it won't take many years for me to turn into a handful of loess! Ay! Thinking of the strange disease that had tormented him for nearly nine years, Li Yunlong sighed lightly.
Li Yunlong's strange illness has been around for a long time, since he was ten years old, every day at noon, when the scorching sun was on his head, his whole body was like a furnace, the meridians, flesh and blood, bones, every inch of the body would become extremely hot, as if the whole person was being roasted alive, that feeling was indescribable, and it was even more unbearable to pass.
Li Yunlong is seventeen and a half years old, and that kind of pain has been with him for eight and a half years, and as he grows older day by day, the unbearable torture that occurs once a day is getting longer and longer, and he doesn't know when it will end, perhaps, he really has to wait until the day when his life ends!
"I have more than a month to take the college entrance examination, no matter what, as long as I am alive for one day, I will do everything I can to fulfill my mother's wish and be admitted to BGI!" Li Yunlong clenched his fists and said categorically.
Li Yunlong is now in his third year of high school in Huaxia Guoyu City No. 1 Middle School, and he will usher in the college entrance examination in more than a month. Although his goal is very high, the ideal is plump, but the reality is skinny, and he wants to realize his ideal, but the hope is extremely slim.
Li Yunlong's grades in school can only be regarded as average, and in the first mock exam of the city's senior high school organized by Yudu at the end of last semester, his score was only 560 points, which was only a dozen points higher than the key undergraduate score line. And in that exam, Li Yunlong's performance was normal, that is to say, his current strength is also on the key line. Play normally, you can get on the point, but once you miss, you can't get on the key line.
As one of the two best universities in China, Huaxia University enrolls only 50 or 60 students in Yudu every year, and the admission score is above 670 points. In other words, if you can't enter the top 100 in Chongqing, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to be admitted to BGI.
Li Yunlong's bad grades are not because he is stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart; It's not because he doesn't work, but because of the strange illness that has tormented him for more than eight years. The strange illness not only caused him to endure a period of pain every day, but also caused him to be frail and sickly. Because I have to suffer from illness every day, I can't use all my energy to study.
Thinking of the huge gap between himself and BGI's score line, Li Yunlong couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Don't think about BGI now, the top priority is to find wild ginseng as soon as possible." ”
The purpose of Li Yunlong's visit to Nanwu Mountain this time was to find the legendary wild ginseng.
Originally, when the college entrance examination was only more than a month away, Li Yunlong was supposed to stay in school to prepare for the upcoming second mock exam and make the final sprint for the college entrance examination in more than a month, but he had to leave school at this time, because his dependent mother Zhu Fengying was sick. As a child in a single-parent home, Li Yunlong must go home to take care of his mother.
Originally, Zhu Fengying didn't plan to tell Li Yunlong about her illness, but the neighbor saw that Zhu Fengying was seriously ill, so he called Li Yunlong in private. After Li Yunlong learned of the situation, he asked the head teacher for leave and returned to his hometown Qianzhou District.
Zhu Fengying's illness can be regarded as an old problem, it is the root of the disease that fell when she gave birth to Li Yunlong, and it has not been cured over the years. Recently, she overworked for the huge amount of money Li Yunlong needed to go to college, which led to a recurrence of her illness and finally fell ill.
After returning to his hometown in Qianzhou District, while taking care of his mother, Li Yunlong overheard news that there was wild ginseng in Nanwu Mountain, which was a good medicine for his mother's old disease.
A 50-kilometer drive east from the city of Qianzhou, there is a pristine lush green space, a high-altitude piece of maternal land that has mysteriously attracted the attention of the world for thousands of years. This mysterious place is called Nanwu Mountain.
Climb high and look at Nanwu Mountain, one after another, confused, layers of mountains and green, just like a mystery. Because of the traffic there is closed and inaccessible, it has always been called a girl raised in the depths of the boudoir, and is regarded as a mysterious journey by tourists from near and far.
Nanwu Mountain is a treasure trove of extremely primitive plants, which have been passed down from generation to generation in this completely isolated natural environment. Among these plants, many are precious Chinese herbal medicines, including wild ginseng.
In the middle of April, the temperature has risen in Nanwu Mountain, all things breed, the mountain flowers are splendid, and it is beautiful. Li Yunlong stepped into Nanwu Mountain at such a time.
When the time was close to two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Yunlong came to the halfway point of Nanwu Peak, the main peak of Nanwu Mountain, with an altitude of more than 1,500 meters. The mountains are high and densely forested, and it is the most likely place for wild ginseng to grow.
However, after repeated searches, Li Yunlong still did not find any trace of the existence of wild ginseng.
Looking at the sun, which was already in the west, Li Yunlong knew that if he didn't leave, he would miss the minibus back to the city.
Sighing helplessly, Li Yunlong was ready to embark on the way back.
Maybe it was because he didn't give up, or maybe because he had a sense in the dark, before leaving, Li Yunlong set his eyes on a cliff not far from him.
The cliff was about two hundred meters away from Li Yunlong, the cliff was high and steep, according to Li Yunlong's visual inspection, the height of the towering cliff exceeded three hundred meters.
On the steep cliff, there is a touch of greenery, which is some small platform on the cliff, and some plants grow on it.
However, when Li Yunlong's gaze swept over one of the small platforms, a deep joy appeared in his eyes. In the sunlight, a green plant about 70 centimeters tall stands out.
Before coming to Nanwu Mountain, Li Yunlong specifically checked the appearance of the wild ginseng plant on the Internet, at this time, how could he not recognize that the green plant was the wild ginseng he had been looking for? !
Of course, Li Yunlong, who had made a discovery, would not leave there, he quickly came to the top of the cliff, took out the rope he carried in his bag, and fixed it to a tree.
After a lot of effort, Li Yunlong finally arrived at the small platform where wild ginseng grew.
The area of this small platform is not small, there are about ten square meters in total, but the area covered by soil is not large, only two or three square meters.
Moreover, Li Yunlong also found a cave near the cliff, this cave is not big, only about one meter in diameter, but it is black and dark, I don't know how deep.
Li Yunlong didn't care about these anymore, he took out the small hoe he had prepared and began to dig wild ginseng.
The soil was very soft, and Li Yunlong easily cut off the soil, revealing the appearance of wild ginseng.
It's just that when the wild ginseng appeared in Li Yunlong's gaze, he was stunned. This wild ginseng is so big! It was the thickness of a baby's arm and more than a foot long. Li Yunlong estimated that its weight was definitely more than three catties. Compared with the wild ginseng he dug up, the so-called "ginseng king" reported on the Internet and in newspapers is simply weak.
What shocked Li Yunlong the most was the shape of this wild ginseng, its main body looked like a child, and people couldn't help but like it at first glance.
At this moment, Li Yunlong was very happy in his heart. According to his estimates, this wild ginseng must be more than 1,000 years old, and it is definitely a great tonic. If my mother takes this wild ginseng, she will not only be able to make up for her loss of vitality over the years, but also be able to strengthen her fitness and prolong her life.
Just when Li Yunlong was admiring the wild ginseng in his hand with a look of surprise, there was a sudden thunderous sound in the cave in front of him, the sound was getting closer and closer, Li Yunlong involuntarily looked up at the cave, but the situation in his eyes made him completely stunned.
I saw that in the cave, the python head of a huge cyan python about two feet thick poked out, and at this time, the giant python was opening its bloody mouth and rushing towards Li Yunlong!
Under the attack of the giant python, Li Yunlong subconsciously dodged backwards, but he immediately felt the emptiness under his feet, and then remembered that the place where he was standing at this time was a small earthen platform on a cliff hundreds of meters high. When he retreated, he naturally withdrew from the cliff.
Although he had come back to his senses, it was too late, his body had lost its balance, and his body fell involuntarily to the bottom of the cliff under the action of gravity.
Li Yunlong didn't shout in a panic, he knew it was completely useless. He only had bitterness in his heart, and he never thought that after he found a cure for his mother's illness, he encountered such a situation before he could take it home.
At the same time, Li Yunlong still had a sense of relief in his heart. I have been tormented by that unknown strange disease for almost nine years, and from this day on, I am finally free. Li Yunlong's only regret is that he didn't take the wild ginseng home, and he is a little worried that his mother, who is dependent on each other, will definitely be very sad after learning the news of his death.
A few seconds later, a violent impact sensation entered Li Yunlong's sensory nerves, and he had already lost consciousness before he could feel the pain of the impact.