Xue Langjing cautiously walked towards the man lying on the ground, and called him for a feed, but the man remained motionless on his stomach and did not give a response.

After turning the person over, a finger poked between his nose.

Yes, I was completely out of breath, and after testing the pulse on my neck, it seemed that I was already dead.

Looking at the front of him again, a hole was poked in the abdomen, and the blood was already cold to the touch.

In order to confirm the man's identity, she carefully untied his bulging baggage, and opened it to see that it was full of books, or unbound paper drafts, except for a set of pen, ink, paper, and inkstones.

This person is not from the village, and he doesn't look like an ordinary peasant dressed like he is dressed, so how could he die on this mountain with so many books?

The wound was carefully examined, and it must have been pierced by the saber teeth of the wild boar

Anyway, why is she so close to wild boars every day!

Judging from the posture of this person lying on his stomach before, it is estimated that he escaped from the mountain, and then looked behind, sure enough, there were blood stains along the road, and the thick book in front of him was probably held in his arms before, and he threw the book out when he fell.

I flipped through a few drafts and found that there was a sketch of some kind she didn't recognize, with text on the side. She read it roughly, and although she couldn't read all the words, she could tell that she was introducing this grass.

I picked up the huge book and flipped through a few pages, all of which were about the plants.

Close the book, wipe the blood stains on the cover, and you can see the title of the book, which she recognizes, called Zheng's Compendium of Herbs.

Zheng?

It's Zheng's and it's all related to plants, what does this person have to do with Zheng's firm! It is estimated that the Zheng clan did not run away.

After thinking about it, Xue Langjing wrapped the book in his own cloth bag, carefully put it in the back basket, and packed the bag that he had opened and put it in the back basket.

Then he said to himself to the corpse, "Meeting is fate, since I have seen it, then do a good deed and help you enter the soil for peace, the province will have to be eaten by wild beasts after death, especially you may also be a member of the Zheng family's firm, that is the descendant of Lord Zheng Wen, I should help you even more." As for these books, they should be regarded as a reward for me, anyway, if you meet someone else, this book will also be taken away, and if there is a chance in the future, I can also help you return to the Zheng family. ”

"In that case, I have to pay it back anyway, and these are not rewards, and it just so happens that I am in dire need of silver, so I will take something else as a reward, okay?"

"Hey, if you don't speak, I'll take your consent, and when I get paid, I'll help you settle down, and none of us will suffer."

After a period of self-questioning and self-answering, Xue Langjing began to search her body.

Of course, she couldn't be disrespectful to the corpse, she just found a few places where she might hide money, and she was more careful to not dare to desecrate the corpse too much.

After searching for a long time, I found six taels of silver.

Didn't the villain book say that these rich people could take out dozens of hundreds of taels at every turn, and they didn't put silver on their bodies and put silver tickets?

Why is this man so poor? It's so angry!

Hey, forget it, six taels is six taels.

After that, Xue Langjing went to the top to lead the sheep down, tied it to another tree, and went to find an easy place to dig the soil and began to dig a pit.

Fortunately, because she had to dig herbs, she always carried a small hoe, and with the assistance of a machete, it was easy to dig, if she dug with her bare hands, she would not only be tired to death, but it was estimated that she would have to dig until the middle of the night.

Let her dig a pit in the mountains in the middle of the night to bury the body.

Hey, it's scary to think about!

After burying the man, she went to find a long log, split it, chose the larger half, and used a machete to cut the uneven section as flat as possible, took out the brush in the baggage, and wrote a simple tombstone for him, because she did not know his name, so she had to write it as 'the tomb of the descendants of the Zheng family'.

After writing, he smiled at the cemetery, "Fortunately, you met me a few days later, if I hadn't written properly earlier, I don't know how ugly your tombstone is." For the sake of me writing you a beautiful tombstone, forgive me for taking your six taels of silver, and when I use this money to buy a good bow, I can avenge you! Then again, I don't think I can buy a good bow for six taels of silver, and if I want to avenge you, I have to add a lot of silver myself, and I still lose it. ”

After inserting the tombstone, it was already dark, and Xue Langjing folded his hands in front of his tomb and bowed a few times before leaving.

When I got home, I had already had dinner at home.

Seeing her come back, Grandma Xue asked the eldest sister to warm up the vegetables and meat left for her, as well as the nest, and let her eat.

When asked why she came back so late, she only said that the sheep was disobedient and couldn't pull it back, plus she had been hunting for a long time today, which delayed the time.

Grandma Xue watched her eat, and at the same time chanted beside her, asking her not to come back so late in the future, the mountain is dangerous at night, and the family will be worried.

I have already lost a grandson, and the only granddaughter who can bring hope to the family cannot be lost again.

If it is gone, how will their old Xue family's life be lived, can she not worry.

Xue Langjing ate the food in her mouth and responded vaguely, not caring if she was really worried about her safety, only thinking about the book in the back basket that she had hidden in the room.

This is a book related to her idol, and it is the closest she has ever been to her idol, and she can't wait to read it, and she is absent-minded even to eat.

After eating in a hurry, Xue Langjing dealt with Xue Grandma, who was still nagging, and went into the study.

After studying for a long time, she finally made a general idea based on the information provided by the book based on her limited writing level, this person is indeed a descendant of the imperial merchant Zheng family, and the thickest and heaviest book is in a nutshell compiled by the Zheng family to introduce almost all the plant information that has been discovered in the Chu State.

There are also several books on the plants in this book that are categorized according to their edibles, medicinal properties, and other uses.

And the great-grandmother of this descendant had been determined to compile a more complete outline, from the youth of the country left home to travel to the countries of Fanbang, to contribute to the expansion of the content of this book, to him is already the fourth generation, more than his mother and grandmother, he yearns more in his heart that he has never set foot in the mouth of the great-grandmother and their mouths to hear about the mother country, after they have left, he returned to the state of Chu to continue to inherit their legacy.

It's a good thing!

If she has the opportunity to contact the Zheng clan in the future, she must return these things to them, which is the crystallization of the four generations of her idol's descendants.

But before paying it back, let's let her borrow it first, and it will be regarded as the errand fee for their Zheng family.

Well, I didn't expect her to be such an upright person, and she was proud of herself.

There should be applause here, papapapapa!

Unexpectedly, when flipping through these books, the sharp-eyed Xue Langjing also found an unexpected surprise.

At the bottom of each page, the number of pages should be marked not with words, but with some strange symbols, such as the first page is not written with one, but with the symbol of a stick, and the second page is shaped like a duckling, so that the page is turned page by page, and on the tenth page, it becomes two symbols, and the stick is still there, and a circle is added. From page 11 onwards, except for the stick, the order is the same as before, from one to nine, and on the next ten pages, the stick in front becomes a duckling.

After flipping through it for a while, after repeated comparisons, she finally figured out its rules, which turned out to be a special symbol to replace numbers.

Take a look at the thickest book, and sure enough, when you turn to a thousand pages, you only need to use four simple symbols.

In this way, isn't the number of tens of thousands, 100,000 or even millions just a few more symbols added to the end?

As long as you master these ten symbols to replace the words that express numbers, you don't know how convenient it is to record or calculate.

Sure enough, Lord Zheng Wen, whom she admires, is so omnipotent.

As for whether it is possible that she did not create it.

That's absolutely impossible, it was created by Master Zheng Wen, this is a book that she began compiling, and she is an orphan girl, the last generation was a complete peasant, and later literacy was also self-taught, who else but her? Who else!

Author: Papapapapapapa