In the southwest of China, the border between southern Yunnan Province and Myanmar is in the middle of a vast mountain.

A boy who looked to be only about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a rope tied around his waist, was moving little by little on the steep cliff, aiming at an unknown herb not far from him.

Some people may ask curiously: Since you took such a great risk to collect medicine, how could you not even know what kind of medicine it was?

In fact, the teenager did not recognize the name of the herb. The young man who collected the medicine was named Lotte, and although he looked only fourteen or fifteen years old, he was actually almost seventeen this year. It's only because of chronic malnutrition that he looks so weak.

Lotte was born in an ordinary family in a county town in Jianghuai Province, although he is not very old, his experience over the years has been much more bumpy than that of ordinary people.

When Lotte was six years old, his parents divorced, his mother went directly to the south, and his father soon married a newcomer.

And his father is often away from home for more than half a year because of work, so he can't take care of him at all, not to mention that because his wife ran away, Lotte's father also hates his son, and even if he is at home, he doesn't have a good look at him.

In desperation, Lotte had no choice but to live with his grandparents in the countryside, and he also went to elementary school in his hometown. It's just that God seems to be deliberately going against him, and when he was eight years old, his grandfather was in a car accident on the way back from the market and unfortunately passed away. When she was nine years old, her grandmother suddenly suffered a stroke and left half a month later, leaving Xiao Lotte alone to face the empty old house every day.

Lotte's stepmother finally showed up, but she brought someone to see the house. It turned out that Lotte's grandparents were gone, and the house in the countryside became fat in the eyes of the stepmother.

The money from the sale of the house was taken away by the stepmother, and Lotte was naturally taken back to the city to live by the hypocritical woman, but although Lotte was not yet ten years old, his memory was not bad.

Lotte clearly knows that if he returns to that home in the city, he will definitely not have a good life. So, on the way, Lotte found an excuse to urinate, and ran away in a barren forest, and then seemed to vaguely hear the woman shouting about herself, but how could Lotte turn back?

Since then, Lotte began his wandering life, after wandering alone for more than half a year, Lotte was controlled by a beggar gang in a city completely unfamiliar to him, and every day he had to carry a schoolbag to kneel in a crowded place, and put a piece of paper full of children in front of him, which was nothing more than an extremely miserable life experience made up, asking well-wishers to help fund Yunyun.

In the beginning, Lotte could still ask for a lot of money every day, and the treatment in the gang was okay. Later, I don't know if people have become more shrewd, or if people's hearts have become evil, anyway, Lotte's daily income is getting lower and lower.

As a result, Lotte's treatment in the gang became worse and worse, and he had to be beaten almost every day. One night, Lotte got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself. Because the place where they live is a building house next to a train track, and there is no special toilet, so it is convenient to run far away in the open air.

Usually they are watched every night when they sleep, and when it is convenient, there are also people staring from afar, for fear that they will run away. It's strange that Lotte didn't see anyone when he got up tonight, maybe it's because no one ran for a long time, and the vigilance of the controllers in the gang has relaxed, right?

In fact, if there are no special circumstances, these children really can't run, where can they run alone? For them, it may be better to have a fixed place to sleep here, and eat and drink every day, even though they eat and drink something that normal people can't swallow.

Lotte came back to sleep in a daze after relieving himself, passing by the room where the boss slept, and suddenly heard several leaders of the gang discussing something, as if mentioning his name.

Lotte suddenly fell asleep and cautiously leaned closer, wanting to eavesdrop on what they were talking about? I was still muttering in my heart: No wonder no one was staring tonight, it turned out to be discussing things here.

Lotte listened, cold sweat flowed down, it turned out that the boss saw that his income was getting worse and worse recently, so he thought about how to make more money, and a younger brother under his command came up with a vicious idea: get a child, put it on the railroad tracks, let the train roll over the legs, and then get it to the street to beg, to ensure that people rush to pay for it!

The boss of such a vicious scheme was overjoyed, and no one else objected. Then several people discussed who to get to roll the train, and Zuihou decided to let Lotte go! Because Lotte is already twelve, he may not be able to control it after a while, and he will run off his two legs, and he won't be able to run away if he wants to! In addition, there is another reason, if you make it too small, you are afraid that you can't stand it, and you won't play it if you die directly.

Lotte heard the boss's conspiracy, where did he dare to go back to sleep? Although he is not a big man, his scheming is not bad.

Lotte lay motionless outside the boss's house, he was waiting, and he could not leave until the train came, because the train would drown out his voice.

Lotte knows that he must not let the boss find out at this time, and he has not decided to do it one day, but if he lets them know that he heard their jihua now, he is afraid that his two legs will not be able to be saved tonight!

Finally, a train came, but Lotte still didn't dare to be careless, and left the boss's house lightly, and when it was far away, he rushed along the train track.

Lotte is running in the direction of the train station, where they live is only one or two kilometers away from the station, Lotte arrived at the train station, no matter where the car goes, go directly to the tail of the car, as the train starts, Lotte breathes a sigh of relief, and can finally leave!

Looking at the rapidly reversing telephone pole, Lotte burst into tears. In the two years of the beggar gang, although life is not good, there are still a few friends, tonight I heard the boss's secret and escaped from life! But what about those friends who stayed? I don't know who will be brought to the train? Is it a puppy without front teeth? Or dirty, pigtailed flowers?

Thinking of Xiaohua crying sweetly to her brother Lotte, Lotte's heart hurts like a knife! He suddenly felt so regretful, so guilty! I should have found a way to rescue my friends, I shouldn't have run away like this!

It's a pity that Lotte doesn't know how to save his little friend and call the police? How can it be? Those policemen (maybe it's just the chengguan, they all wear uniforms, how can Xiao Lotte tell who and whom) every time they see him setting up a stall there and asking for money, they will viciously drive him away!

In Lotte's knowledge, there may be many well-wishers who are willing to help them, but the question is, how do you find them?

In the end, Lotte left the city with endless grief in the clanging of the train, leaving those friends who were more miserable than himself, and in tears and thoughts, he was pulled by the train to the border town of China: the capital of southern Yunnan Province, Spring City.

When Lotte was taken by train to Spring City, he was already hungry and unconscious. Fortunately, it was discovered by the station staff in time, and after confirming that Lotte was a homeless blind stream, the station sent Lotte to a shelter.

Lotte managed to save his life in the shelter, but the staff never treated these people as human beings. Because Lotte is young and thin, he hasn't been beaten a lot.

It stands to reason that blind people like Lotte should be sent back to their hometown, but Lotte can't provide a home address, so he has to stay in the shelter first.

Fortunately, Lotte's life in the shelter was not long, and half a month later, a man with eyes and a very Sven look came to the shelter. After taking a turn inside, the Sven people took Lotte out of the shelter.

After leaving the shelter, Lotte learned that the man who took him away was named Wang Hao, who was the person in charge of the medicinal material base of Cirentang Pharmaceutical, the largest Chinese medicine group in China, in southern Yunnan. Of course, these are all Wang Hao's own words, where does Lotte know what Cirentang is?

Wang Hao took Lotte away to find a way for him to live, that is, to go to the medicinal material base of Cirentang, and go into the mountains to collect medicine in the deep mountains and old forests at the junction of southern Yunnan and Myanmar.

There is a very high demand for wild medicinal herbs in Ci Ren Tang, which requires a large number of people to dig by hand. And many precious wild medicinal herbs grow on the cliffs, so the thin teenager is the best candidate for collecting medicine.

Lotte was brought to the medicinal base by Wang Hao, and after the first few days of simple training, Lotte began his career as a medicine child.

There are many teenagers like Lotte here, and everyone will have an album in their hands, with a large number of pictures printed on it, and the medicine boys can just collect them when they collect medicines, as for the names of medicinal materials, the effects of the medicines, and there is nothing at all. Even if there is, it's useless, a medicine boy like Lotte can't recognize a few words at all!

In a blink of an eye, Lotte has been a medicine boy for almost five years, and in the days of being a medicine boy, Tzu Ren Tang was in charge of food and housing, but there was no salary. According to Wang Hao's original promise: every medicine boy can leave as long as he works until he is eighteen years old, and when he leaves, he will pay you a handful of wages for the past few years.

In the past few years, Lotte has sent away several big brothers and sisters, and Lotte sometimes wonders how much they can get paid, and what kind of life they will choose after they go out? As he grows up day by day, Lotte is full of longing for his future life, and often fantasizes about what he will be like in the future.

At this moment, Lotte is hanging on a cliff, Lotte grabbed the rope with one hand, buckled the other hand on the stone wall, and moved towards his goal little by little. It was a medicinal herb that Lotte couldn't name, and it was on the first three pages of Lotte's album.

The album in Rakuten's hand is ranked according to the degree of cherishment of medicinal herbs, and if you can pick the top 10 medicinal herbs, you can go back in the evening and enjoy an additional meal. If you pick the top five medicinal herbs, you can also rest for another day!

Lotte came to this mountain for the first time today, and found a top three medicinal herbs, which made Lotte really happy, and hurriedly tied the rope to the big tree on the top of the mountain, and went down the cliff along the rope.

It's just that Lotte didn't notice that where his rope passed, there was a stone with a very thin protrusion, like a knife blade. Lotte's rope was tightly pressed against the blade, moving back and forth, and the rope was gradually cut, but unfortunately Lotte didn't know anything about it!

Just when Lotte had just moved to the side of the herb and was about to reach out to pick it, the rope that was only connected to a little bit was finally overwhelmed and broke with a bang!

Lotte only had time to let out a scream before he quickly plunged into the mist-shrouded valley and disappeared.