Chapter Eighty-Four: The Herb Picker
Chapter 84 At the foot of a mountain ridge not far from the mountain stream, Li Ningguang, Wang Zhen, Du Wenqiang, and Liu Dewang were waiting.
Four people sat down, with four or five prey next to them. These prey are enough for a few people to eat. The sumptuous dinner has arrived!
But several people had to wait for Zhang Guodong to catch up. This makes some people very unhappy! The wolf howls and the bear roar makes people tremble, but after a while, the wolf howl and the bear roar stops.
In the end, everyone doesn't know what the outcome will be over there. And let the four of them go to find out, no one wants to go.
After all, no matter how good a person is, if he encounters a large beast in the mountains, he can only escape. Expecting a bow and arrow to deal with a thick-skinned bear or an agile and ferocious wolf is like sacrificing one's life.
Zhang Guodong? Companion? Good luck to him! For the sake of a brute, he actually ignored the dangerous past. Now, what is the result?
Can you come back? Li Ningguang frowned, a little irritable. Du Wenqiang is the most dissatisfied person with Zhang Guodong, and the dissatisfaction between people is sometimes not through words, but through demeanor, and the quality of this first impression determines the attitude towards this person.
Zhang Guodong vs. Wang Zhen and Du Wenqiang. The eyes of everyone who are regarded as enemies are very uncomfortable, and they naturally don't want to contact them, or even resist, but the two who feel the same sensitivity look at Zhang Guodong's indifferent or disdainful demeanor in their eyes, which naturally deepens the estrangement.
Du Wenqiang sneered: "Boss, I look at us. You don't have to wait for him, do you? When encountering bears and wolves, not to mention him, even Wang Zhen and I can't avoid it, not to mention that we still carry bows and arrows, he is barehanded, is there really anyone in this world who can deal with the double attack of bears and wolves? Wang Zhen also nodded.
Liu Dewang was not sent in this case. The right to speak, a person's life and death is really a bit too big for a small person like him, and he is timid.
"What if it's all right?" Li Ningguang said.
"There is no contingency, unless he stops halfway and the life and movement of man. Who is bigger in the life and death of things? No one can be that stupid! Du Wenqiang said.
With such disrespectful language, Li Ningguang didn't care. Wang Zhen and Du Wenqiang are his absolute henchmen.
Privately, to each other. Casual no less. Who is greater, human life or animal life and death? Liu Dewang said carefully: "Then it must be that the person is alive and the dog is dead. Buy another one, boss, am I right? "Ask Li Ningguang, is it for. flatter, but Li Ningguang will also be annoyed.
He is still counting on Zhang Guodong to make a fortune, a fork will come out of a small matter, and how to explain it after leaving the mountain?
Second, what should he do if he plans to make a fortune?
"Why don't we go over and have a look?" Li Ningguang himself was not sure.
"Boss, you can't be suspected, or else, I'll go and see Liu Dewang? You and Wen Qiang are here, and the call is the number! Wang Zhen said busily.
He was reluctant to go, but he knew the boss's plan well, knew more than Du Wenqiang, and participated in the whole process.
Digging treasure, leaving Zhang Guodong will greatly reduce the effect! Liu Dewang didn't expect such a dangerous thing to befall him.
"Me? Boss, forget about my body, right? Brother Wang is good, and I'm a burden to follow, hehe-" Liu Dewang said hurriedly.
I just followed, I have little qualifications, it's better not to go, he doesn't want to lose his life before he earns the money! Often in and out of the mountains, Liu Dewang naturally knows the horror of wolves and bears, of course, there are few wolves in the mountains, but there are bears.
Luck met a pack of wolves today? The undulating wolf howl could be heard clearly by everyone, and it was definitely not one!
Li Ningguang glared at him and snorted coldly, "Are you going?" Chicken eggs, Lao Tzu has to do things, not be greedy for life and afraid of death, get out - "greedy for life and afraid of death?"
Liu Dewang dodged Li Ningguang's kick, and muttered very aggrieved in his heart: Aren't you also afraid of death? But he didn't dare to say this, otherwise Li Ningguang would not have killed people?
Liu Dewang hurriedly said: "Go, I'll go, boss, I'll go immediately!" Brother Wang, you have to take care of your little brother-" Wang Zhen frowned, took the lead in front, and Liu Dewang immediately followed.
Du Wenqiang was unwilling, just a farmer, and he had to let them serve, but the boss had already decided, and he naturally had to obey.
Hmph, it's been so long, you should have died a long time ago, right? Maybe it's been eaten by wild beasts? On the other side of the ——————, Zhang Guodong felt that his headache had been reduced, and he got up from the ground in embarrassment, and his heart palpitated.
Never do it again! Moving more than 20 pounds of things actually gave him a headache, and if he encountered danger, it would be a big trouble.
Patting off the mud and grass on his body, Zhang Guodong rushed towards the route of Li Ningguang and others, but the speed was not fast, and he hurried slowly.
At the moment, my head still hurts a little, and my face is still a little pale, but it's okay to hurry. After a while, Zhang Guodong walked to a fork, and a ridge divided the mountain stream in half, and he was stunned.
They hadn't come here just now, so naturally they didn't notice that there were two roads ahead. Which way to go? At this moment, the sound of pebbles crashing sounded in the ravine on the left, which made Zhang Guodong nervous.
There are many wild beasts in the ravine, most of them come to drink water, so don't be targeted. At this moment, Zhang Guodong doesn't mention what to hunt, as long as he doesn't encounter dangerous animals.
Just like snakes, there are poisonous snakes in this mountain, and now in March, the temperature is about ten degrees, and some snakes end their hibernation early and come out to feed.
Zhang Guodong knew in a series of documentaries that there is a very cherished snake in the Qinling Mountains, and it is also the most venomous snake in the mountain, called Mangshan Iron Head Snake, a bite, in addition to poison, also makes people bleed from the wound, and the wildlife protection staff have specifically looked for this snake, but there are no footprints of this snake in the place where this snake was found.
At that time, the possible explanation was that after experiencing rare ice and snow weather, the temperature was much lower than in history, and the hibernation time was early, so that a large number of snakes could not hibernate in time and froze to death, and it was possible that they would become extinct.
But anything is possible. Even if there are no such poisonous snakes in most places in the mountains, other poisonous snakes will still exist, such as some vipers, which can kill people if they are not properly disposed of in time after biting.
Zhang Guodong looked at it and was immediately stunned, there was someone in the ravine? In the ravine below, two people, one big and one small, were carrying frames on their backs and holding mountain knives in their hands, walking in the direction of Zhang Guodong, walking like flying.
The other party also seemed to see Zhang Guodong and beckoned to him. There are people in this mountain? Zhang Guodong was surprised.
However, it is a good thing to meet someone, looking at the other party's back basket, it is probably to collect medicine. Zhang Guodong said in his heart, just to ask for directions.
So he went down the ditch and met the young and the old.
"Hello, old man, are you picking medicine?" Zhang Guodong asked with a smile. It's not strange to laugh, an old man in front of him has white hair, but his face is ruddy, and he is seventy?
The young man next to him was sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in coarse linen, but his body was strong, he was very wary of Zhang Guodong, and he held the mountain knife tightly in his hand.
The old man looked at Zhang Guodong in surprise, smiled and said, "Young man, why did you come into the mountain?" Lost? "Hey, he actually knows he's lost?
Zhang Guodong nodded and said with a wry smile: "What you said is that there are two roads, I don't know which one to take?" Where is the old man outside the mountain? It's really dangerous in this mountain, it's not easy to collect medicine! ”
"Isn't it easy, most of the people who go into the mountains are people who collect medicine or hunt, it's normal to get lost, young man, how many people are your companions?" The old man said.
"Four, just left the meeting!" Zhang Guodong was overjoyed and said. Looking at the situation of the old man, it seems that he really met them.
How many people to ask? The old man frowned, and said: "Four, the people I met before are not your companions, there are eleven people there, heading towards the stone cliff, hey, the mountains are not calm now-" Zhang Guodong hurriedly asked the pair, and was surprised, Bai Jiawei They have one less full-time driver, naturally there are nine people, but there are two more local guides in Qingyang, isn't it eleven people?
But how did they know about Stone Cliff? didn't have time to think about it, Zhang Guodong thanked his grandfather and grandson, and said at the end: "Old man, there may be bears in front of you, I think you should return home, right?" The young man next to him said disdainfully: "What are the bears afraid of, I have slaughtered several of them!" Zhang Guodong was surprised.
Only then did I realize that these ancestors and grandchildren were actually from the mountains! But according to Liu Dewang, only in the place of Shiya is there a mountain village, with more than 20 families, and they have lived there for decades.
The boy in front of him is sure to be sixteen or seventeen years old, but slaughtering a bear? Just the two of them? The old man reprimanded his grandson before saying, "It's dangerous in the mountains, but the young man still finds your companion and leaves quickly!" Then the old man and his grandson were about to say goodbye, and Zhang Guodong also nodded, a little regretful.
Most of the people in the mountains, especially the medicine pickers, have good medicinal materials in their hands, the very precious kind, which Zhang Guodong wants very much.
In addition, with mountain people as guides, it is much easier to encounter any situation. The risk is much lower!
"Young man, are the two of them your companions?" The grandfather and grandson were just about to leave, when the old man suddenly said.
Pointing to Wang Zhen and Liu Dewang who came from the distant mountain road above the ravine. Zhang Guodong looked at it, and sure enough, he said in his heart, these people still have a little conscience?
Do you know to come back and take a look? I couldn't help but sneer in my heart. But this sneer was captured by the old man. The old man said lightly: "Young man, let's separate!" ”
"Goodbye!" Zhang Guodong thanked him and took his leave. As soon as Zhang Guodong left, the young man said: "Grandpa, this person is not a good person, he must have come to dig up medicinal materials, and the hundred-year-old silver snake grass I found before must have been dug up by these people!" "Hundred-year-old silver snake grass, growing in the poor mountains and bad waters, snake cave mouth, poisonous snake watered with venom, growing for a hundred years, flowers and fruits are silver, is a very precious snake venom antidote.
This is a legend. But I don't want to find it in the mountains. The old man sighed: "Don't talk nonsense, let's go back-" The young man looked at Zhang Guodong and the three of them with very angry eyes, but he couldn't stand the reprimand of his grandfather, and the two of them returned the way they came.
At this moment, we have reached the edge of the mountain, and some good medicinal materials are generally not found. Just because of the footprints of the mountaineers!
"Boss Zhang, are you okay?" Liu Dewang was surprised when he saw Zhang Guodong just walking with a pale face, but his body was intact.
Wang Zhen looked at Zhang Guodong's expression and said, "Who were those two just now?" Zhang Guodong didn't want to mention the two ancestors and grandchildren, it was obvious that he was very repulsive to outsiders in his words, so he said lightly: "Let's go, see Brother Li, I have an important situation!" "PS: The first change of the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve!
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