Li Xiao laughed breathlessly, panted slightly, and said, "Cousin, you are so powerful, you can open the river with your mouth." ”

I smiled and said, "Learn from each other." ”

and Zhang Ke and the three girls walked out of the school while talking and laughing, and the mighty team wearing camouflage uniforms attracted the attention of many pedestrians on the street.

Half an hour later, we walked to the foot of the mountain, and heard a few classmates next to us point to the distance and say, "That's the zenith." ”

I looked in the direction of his finger, and the smoke and smoke of the peaks in the distance were confused, and I could vaguely see one of the peaks standing out from the crowd, much higher than all his peaks, presumably reaching the zenith. Good guy, I don't know how many mountains I have to climb to get there.

The scenery along the way is indeed very good, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the air is fresh, many strange flowers and trees and small animals have never been seen in the city, I grew up eating herbs since I was a child, but I know some. There are a lot more herbs on this mountain than in the fields on the outskirts of the city, and I have been going to the fields with my mother to pick herbs since I was a child, and I basically know what the names of the plants in that place are and what they are used for. But I can only recognize a small part of the mountain, many of which are relatively few in the field, difficult to pick, for those who know, the mountain is full of treasures!

Although I don't need to eat herbs at any time, I still have a strong interest in it, and the traditional Chinese medicine in our country is wonderful and mysterious, but some inconspicuous grass leaves and roots, stems and skins have so many uses, which is really amazing. Although Western medicine works quickly, the side effects are also relatively large, and there will be some harm to the body.

On the way, I picked some herbs while walking, and from time to time I got into the grass on the side of the road and pulled out one or two grasses, and several of them looked at me strangely with wide eyes, and when I stuffed a bright red oval fruit into my mouth, Li Xiao finally couldn't help but say: "Cousin, can you eat that?" ”

Zhang Wen also asked worriedly: "It won't be toxic, right?" ”

I smiled and said, "It's okay, this is called Dripwood Fruit, it can be detoxified by fire, it tastes good, sweet and sour, hey, little pepper, you see how many youth beans you have on your face, do you want to try it?" This one works. After saying that, I handed a few over.

Wu Lili said fiercely: "I want you to take care of it!" But after all, she is a girl, and she still cares a lot about her appearance, although her mouth is hard, she still takes it, picks a few particularly red ones and eats them suspiciously, and her brows are furrowed after eating.

I threw a few to others, Zhang Wen looked at Wu Lili with a puzzled expression and asked, "Lili, how is it?" ”

Wu Lili was so sour that her teeth were soft, and it took a while to come back to her senses, and she scolded angrily: "What tastes good, it's just sour, this kid lied to me." ”

I smiled and said: "Dripping fruit has a strange characteristic, generally the fruit is the redder and more ripe the sweeter, but the dripping fruit is the opposite, the more ripe it is, the more acidic substances precipitate, you eat several of the most ripe in a row, of course, you can't stand it, just eat those that are slightly red, this thing can also be appetizing, if you have a bad appetite, eat a few must be right." It's just that it's a wild fruit, and few people know about its use, and few people go up to the mountains to pick it. ”

Wu Lili was still puzzled: "Why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

"I was just about to say, you just eat it, what can I do? Hey! Also, the more sour the dropping wood fruit is, the better the medicinal power, which is better than drinking several cups of bitter herbal tea. ”

Li Xiao's eyes looked at me, and his eyes slowly revealed admiration that could not be concealed: "Cousin, how do you know so much?" ”

I said lightly: "When I was a child, I was frail and sickly, and I had to take medicine all day long, my grandfather was a Chinese medicine doctor, and my mother also knew a little bit of medical skills. ”

Wu Lili suddenly interjected: "Yes, he was very thin when he was in junior high school, and I don't know how he became so fast later." It's a monster with a genetic mutation! As soon as she said that, she couldn't help but believe a little more about the effect of the dripping wood fruit in my mouth, and stuffed the rest of her hand into her mouth one after another, but this time it was not too sour.

Everyone else knows that I was really different from me in junior high school, and even when Li Xiao first saw me, it was far from what I am now, but I knew that it was not because of the drugs that changed me, but only after the car accident. But I won't break it, just take it as such, so as not to bother to explain.

At the beginning of the road, we talked and laughed, I picked a few wild fruits from time to time, and they also gained a lot of knowledge from them, I will give them a lot of knowledge about the herbs and wild fruits I know, Zhang Ke is not interested in this, but the three girls are different, for example, some medicines can beautify and nourish the skin, which they pay special attention to, even Wu Lili is no exception. Li Xiao is the most curious and bold, whatever I say, she has to go close to take a closer look and even touch a few handfuls.

The mountain spring is cold and clear, slowly flowing down along a small slit, and when it is hot, you can take a handful of mountain springs and wash them, which is cool to the bottom of your heart, and it is really comfortable.

However, the mountain road is really not easy to walk, and there is a folk saying: it is better to walk three miles on the flat land than one mile on the mountain road. That is to say, the mountain road of one mile is even more difficult to walk than the ordinary road of the three highways. At the beginning, the mountain road was a little easier to walk, but later it became steeper and steeper, and the road became smaller and smaller, and I don't know how long I walked, but there was already smoke in front of me, and the road to the zenith was almost all uphill, and there were very few downhills.

The mountain road is not easy to calculate, so when you reach 11 o'clock, ask a mountain dweller and know that it is only about two-thirds of the way. And the back will be more and more difficult to walk, Li Xiao and Zhang Wen frowned when they heard it. If it weren't for the hardships I was used to during military training, I don't know if I could endure it.

After lunch, rest for a while and continue on the road, the road is getting smaller and smaller, there are more and more strange and rare animals and plants, there are no people around us, these girls walk slowly, and I walk while looking at those herbs that are not easy to see, it took a lot of time, everyone else ran to the front, we probably fell behind.

Suddenly, Li Xiao pointed to a Helian tree on the side of the road with branches and leaves as low as only a person's height and said, "The fruits of this tree are really strange, they are all green." Hey, this one is very green, but it's beautiful. She said one of the fruits, which was as green as jade and rolled into a ball, and reached out to pick it.

I was shocked when I saw it, and I hurriedly shouted, "Don't go near that thing!" ”

Li Xiao was also taken aback, and just when she wanted to ask me the reason, the ball-shaped object suddenly stretched out a small triangular head, and bit the back of her hand like lightning, and then her body stretched out, with four small feet, and with a tail, she got into the bushes with a brush, and quickly crawled away. It wasn't a fruit, but a chameleon-like animal with a protective color. It's just that it's so similar to the fruit of the Helian tree that it's hard to tell it.