Chapter 32: Into the Mountain Again
After breakfast, Zhao Laixi and his wife were ready to return to Huiyun Village. According to Xiao Ding's instructions, in addition to bedding and clothes, the little couple also brought some rice, flour, meat and some daily necessities back. Tian Dabao and Li did not object, but Li persuaded Zhao Laixi to take more. After all, it is their daughter and son-in-law, and they have treated Zhao Laixi as their own son in recent years.
Xiao Ding saw that there were a lot of things, so he asked Zhao Laixi to take the donkey out and use the donkey to carry these things back. You can also ride a donkey to the town later, saving time and effort. At the same time, he reminded Zhao Laixi not to forget to buy rice wine.
After Zhao Laixi agreed, he led the donkey out of the courtyard gate of the Tian family.
Xiao Ding was about to ask Erniu to help decoct Tang Yunzhi again, but saw that Erniu had already walked over from the backyard with a medicine bowl. It turned out that when Xiaoya Xiao'e was making breakfast, Erniu had already begun to decoct the medicine.
The medicine prescribed by Wu Langzhong last night was not only for internal use, but also for external use. It's just that for the time being, there is no rice wine to mix with external powder, so you can only drink it internally.
Xiaoding didn't pay attention to how Erniu and Xiao'e served Tang Yunzhi to take medicine and how to chat with her. Not far from the thatched hut in the courtyard, he cleared out a small piece of open space, and then began to dig a pit and bury wooden poles......
Tian Xiaofu heard that his brother said that he wanted to build a grass hut for Sister Tang as a temporary residence, so he also came over to help. He held on to the wooden pole, and Xiao Ding filled the soil, and the speed was also very fast.
It was almost noon and the hut was erected. In fact, it is very simple, that is, bury a few wooden poles, set up a shelf, surrounded by a straw curtain, and the top is also covered with a straw mat. It just so happened that a lot of ready-made straw mats were removed from the bed in the thatched hut before, and Xiao Ding saved a lot of effort.
In the grass shed, Xiao Ding also built a low bed with a wooden pole. Because there were no wooden boards, Xiao Ding deliberately went to the forest in the west of the village to cut a lot of thinner wooden poles and came back, put them side by side on several adobes, tied them with strings, spread straw and straw mats on them, and then moved the futon covered by Tang Yunzhi to lay it out, and then carried Tang Yunzhi to the bed.
In a grass hut, it can be protected from direct sunlight.
Tang Yunzhi lay in the donkey cart all morning, and she was already dizzy from the sun and was about to fall asleep. Although the donkey cart also has a canopy, the sun seems to be deliberately avoiding the canopy, and prefers to shine in from the side.
At noon, Erniu and Xiao'e made noodles, chopped the remaining meat into stuffing, and wrapped meat buns. Now Coke spoiled Xiaozhu'er, she likes to eat meat buns the most.
Originally, the people in the village were used to eating two meals, one in the morning and one in the evening, but there was no one at noon. But Xiao Ding said that he was tired from work and wanted to eat. He also said that there is no shortage of food at home now, and after eating these rice noodles now, he can still make money to buy them again, and he will eat three meals a day in the future.
Tian Dabao couldn't work by himself, so he didn't say anything. Li has always followed Xiao Ding's wishes, and always thinks that he may be able to cure his son's stupid illness one day, so as long as Xiao Ding's request is not too out of line, she will not object. Not to mention a few children, who can't get enough to eat.
What Xiao Ding thinks is that all the family members are as thin as hemp sticks, and they must eat well to take care of their bodies.
After lunch, Xiao Ding asked Erniu and Xiao'e to take care of Tang Yunzhi, and he planned to go to Luoxia Mountain again to see if there were any better bone wound medicinal materials in the mountain, and by the way, he would hunt some prey.
Now that the family's money is gone, the only way he can think of to make money quickly is to hunt some prey and take it to the county seat to sell. Didn't Han Luer, the daughter of the shopkeeper of Xiangmanlou, say that even if there is prey, as long as she works hard, it is not difficult to exchange the prey for some money.
However, Xiao Ding just wanted to go into the mountains this time to hunt some pheasants and hares. Wolf, forget it, I almost took my life last time.
When Li heard that Xiao Ding was going into the mountain again, she tried her best to stop it, and she was worried that Xiao Ding would be in danger again. Xiao Ding had to make promises again and again, so that Li nodded and repeatedly told him not to go to the depths of the mountain.
Xiao Ding carried the iron rod he had snatched from the bandits, the dagger he had bought in the county seat on his waist, carried a basket on his back, and brought a rope, and walked towards the outside of the courtyard.
Tang Yunzhi saw Xiao Ding walking outside, and hurriedly stopped him: "Brother Xiao Ding, where are you going?" ”
Since Xiao Ding helped her connect the leg bone, she has also begun to be polite to Xiao Ding, and she knows that he is a fool, so she no longer cares about what happened before with him.
"I'll go to Luoxia Mountain to see if there are any medicinal materials to treat your leg injury." Xiao Ding said.
"Do you know medicinal herbs?" Tang Yunzhi was taken aback, she didn't expect that this fool would not only use internal force to heal injuries, but also know medicinal materials.
"Well, I can get to know some. I see that the medicines prescribed by Wu Langzhong are all ordinary medicinal materials, and the medicinal power is weak. With his medicine, you don't know how many years it will take for your leg injury to heal. Xiao Ding couldn't figure out why he was able to know a lot of medicinal herbs.
"Then do you know the Tongmai Purple Spirit Flower?" Tang Yunzhi asked.
"Tongmai Purple Spirit Flower?" Don't talk about knowing, just listening, Xiao Ding has never heard of it.
"Well, it's the main medicine for refining the Tongmai Purple Spirit Pill." Tang Yunzhi said.
"What is the Tongmai Purple Spirit Pill?" Xiao Ding asked curiously.
"Legend has it that the Tongmai Purple Elixir is an elixir in the fairy world, and after taking it, it can repair the damaged meridians and dantian, and if it is supplemented by the corresponding anti-poisoning elixir, it can also remove the toxins in the dantian and meridians." Tang Yunzhi explained.
"Oh, that's it, you want to pass through the Purple Spirit Flower?" Xiao Ding asked.
"Well, I left Shuzhong this time and came to Luoxia Mountain just to find the Tongmai Purple Spirit Flower. When my mother was preparing medicine, she was accidentally eroded by a poison that eroded the meridians, and now the poison has been resolved, but the martial arts have been lost, and the meridians are seriously damaged and paralyzed in bed. I saw the recipe and introduction of the Tongmai Purple Spirit Pill in an ancient book, saying that this elixir can heal damaged meridians, and refining this elixir requires the Tongmai Purple Spirit Flower as the main medicine. Tang Yunzhi said.
"Then how do you know that there will be a Purple Spirit Flower in Luoxia Mountain? Do you know what the Tongmai Purple Spirit Flower looks like? Xiao Ding said the question in his heart.
"It's all introduced in the book, there are pictures and introductions in the book, saying that this kind of flower is produced in the area of Luoxia Mountain in Yongzhou, the color is purple, the petals are five, there is a strange fragrance, and the plant height is ......" Tang Yunzhi talked about the form and characteristics of the flower according to the description in the book.
"Okay, I'll go into the mountains and keep an eye on it, if there are similar flowers, I can help you pick them." Xiao Ding said.
"Then thank you Brother Ding!" Tang Yunzhi thanked.
After leaving, it was only a stick of incense, and Xiao Ding came to the foot of Luoxia Mountain.
Luoxia Mountain is tall and majestic, undulating, even on the side of the main peak, there is not only one peak. In addition to the tallest peak, there are six or seven larger and dozens of smaller peaks around it, and these slightly smaller peaks are clustered around the main peak like the stars holding the moon, surrounding the main peak in the middle.
There is more than one way into the mountains, and most of them are stepped on by hunters, woodcutters or villagers who come to dig wild vegetables.
Going up the mountain road, before he knew it, Xiao Ding came to the glade where he killed the wolf last time. He stopped, and saw that the dried blood could still be seen on the rocks. The large area is mostly wolf blood, and the small stones should be all blood on their own bodies. At that time, he was fighting with wolves and rolling on the ground, and he didn't know how many wounds he had on his body that had been cut by stones.
Recalling that night, Xiao Ding was still a little afraid in his heart, if he hadn't killed a wolf in a daze, he would have turned into wolf dung by now.
Then he remembered the corpse that had been eaten by the wolf, and wondered who this unlucky ghost was.
While thinking about it, suddenly there was an item in the stone crevice not far away, shining and shining into Xiao Ding's sight.
What is that?