Chapter 1: The Wonder of Ginseng
When I was a child, I had a serious illness, the doctor was gone, let me carry it home and wait for death, grandpa smoked two bags of stuffy cigarettes, left a sentence: dead horses as live horse doctors, and then brought a few days of dry food, carrying a stick up the mountain, three days later, grandpa came back in rags, wrapped a white and fat ginseng in a red cloth, let me eat it, see if I can save my life.
I took a bite, suddenly the blood rushed up, nosebleeds, dare not eat again, grandma said in a hurry, eat a little every day, tied ginseng with a red rope, soaked in the wine jar, strange to say, after gnawing ginseng, my whole person has become a lot of spirit, can eat, can walk on the ground, to sleep at night, I dreamed of a little girl, tied with a red rope around her waist, crying and wiping tears begging me not to eat her, I said I am not a goblin, why eat you?
She said you're not a goblin, but I am, and if you eat me, I'll die! The little girl said, as long as you sleep with ginseng every night, I will use ginseng blood to help you heal, you don't have to eat me, but the time will be longer, as little as half a year, as much as nine months, your illness can be cured.
When I woke up in the morning, I told my grandmother about this dream, and my grandmother was puzzled and took the ginseng out of the wine jar, and I saw that the red rope on the ginseng was the rope tied around the waist of the little girl I dreamed last night, and there were seven small bells on it.
Grandma believed my nonsense, and bowed to people three times, but did not let me continue to gnaw, and went to stuff the wine jar, and that night, I dreamed of the little girl again, she blushed and said, I am almost drunk and confused, can you take me out of the wine jar? I was awakened by fright, opened the wine jar, took out the ginseng, wiped it clean, and put it in the bed, but I never dreamed of the little girl again.
I woke up in the morning, my body felt super good, my grandparents also felt amazing, so I didn't put the ginseng in the wine jar again, but in the evening, my state was not good, I was tired, I was angry, my grandmother quickly stuffed me into the quilt, but my arm was no longer energetic, I couldn't hold the ginseng, my grandmother tied the ginseng in my arms, I fell asleep in a daze, and I dreamed of the little girl again, sticking to my arms, the two of them face to face, I was a little embarrassed, she said it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, Let's sleep!
When I woke up on the morning of the fourth day, I was rejuvenated and even wanted to go to school! My grandmother let me go, but only let me go to school for half a day, and in the evening, my condition worsened again, so I quickly hugged ginseng to sleep, and so on, and the condition was indeed suppressed.
It's not important, the important thing is that every night, I can dream of that little girl, come and go, I am also familiar with her, the long night is long, we are tied together, idle and nothing to do, the little girl said, she has been practicing in Changbai Mountain for more than a thousand years, and when she was about to practice human form, she was yin by a mink (a small animal) next door who also cultivated, and it was the sable that guided the grandfather to climb the cliff that no one had ever climbed before, and dug it out.
I said, is that why you can't cultivate anymore?
The little girl said no, as long as you don't eat me, when you get better, just bury me back, I said for sure, my grandfather is so kind, you saved my life, I will definitely repay you after I am done, the little girl is very happy, anyway, she has been practicing for more than a thousand years, and it is not bad for a year and a half, she also said that there are actually many cultivation spirits in Changbai Mountain, and they will go down the mountain and integrate into human society after becoming a spirit, for them, cultivating as an adult is the same as cultivating into an immortal, even if they are working as a waiter in a restaurant, I will also feel very satisfied.
After that, chatting with her every night in the "dream" became my compulsory course, she said that she wanted to understand human society in advance, and asked me to teach her knowledge, I was only in the fifth grade of primary school, and I didn't know anything, so I could only give her a simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, arithmetic, and literacy or something, the little girl was very smart, as soon as she learned, in order to teach her, I studied hard during the day, and even began to dabble in junior high school courses, and my grades were skyrocketing.
But one night, something embarrassing happened, before going to bed, my grandmother lost a chicken, anxious to look for it, when I helped me tie ginseng, I was careless to tie the ginseng upside down, but in the "dream", the little girl turned her back to me, I clearly saw her back shoulder blades, there is a large tooth mark, it should be left when I first gnawed ginseng.
That night, the little girl didn't talk to me much, because usually when we were face to face, we both bent our knees, only our knees were together, but tonight was different, grandma did the opposite, and we were completely together.
That night for the first time in my life, I had some strange feeling...... After getting up in the morning, my grandfather came to relieve ginseng, and saw that I was wetting the bed, and even got ginseng, grandpa didn't blame me, but smiled and said that I had grown up.
At night, before going to bed, I don't forget to tell my grandmother, don't tie the ginseng head-on, you can't sleep like that, you tie it upside down.
The little girl didn't talk to me in the "dream", just silently endured, I was intoxicated by the wonderful night and couldn't extricate myself, but after a few days, I found that my spirit during the day was seriously insufficient, and my body was not as good as day by day, and finally, one morning, my grandmother found out my secret, and knew what I had done at night, and no longer gave me negative ginseng.
It's night again, when I dreamed of the little girl face to face again, she closed her eyes, kept a straight face, didn't talk to me, and after nearly half a month of cold war, finally, one night she opened her eyes and said to me: Brother, can you tell grandma, tomorrow night...... Well...... Will you turn me around tomorrow night?
After that, every once in a while, I begged my grandmother to bundle ginseng in reverse, and clearly told my grandmother that it meant ginseng, not what I wanted!
Grandma is like a god to that piece of ginseng, so I have to do it, everything has a degree, and the standard for measuring this degree is my health condition, and the role in controlling this degree is completely ginseng.
In a blink of an eye, the spring flowers are blooming, and it has been eight months since the ginseng arrived at my house, and my grandfather took me to the hospital for an examination, and the doctor who treated me at that time was startled, saying that your little cub is still alive? After a set of examinations, my illness was completely cured (blood disease), and the indicators were not only normal, but even some "the higher the better" indicators, which even athletes could not reach.
That night, I told the little girl the result, she was also very happy, said that I could finally go back to the mountain, I was a little disappointed, reluctant to leave her, she comforted me and said: Don't worry, brother, we will meet by fate! If you want to find me in the future, take this red rope to Lao Yuling.
Early the next morning, I was surprised to find that the ginseng was gone, only the red rope with seven copper bells was left on the bed, I quickly called my grandparents to come over, and my grandfather said: You are cured, the ginseng is gone, it's good, I'm worried, I'm afraid I can't find the place where I dug it out, it can run back by itself, indicating that it still remembers its home.
It should be the "Old Eagle Ridge" that Miss Ginseng told me in her dream, and to be honest, I don't know what the hell it is.
Since then, my life has returned to normal, as the girls around me gradually increased, for the ginseng lady in the dream, I gradually forgot about it, until I was 16 years old in the spring, as an orphan, I was inexplicably found by the "biological parents", to my relief, my family seems to be quite rich, "parents" will a handful of and urine to feed me to grow up "grandparents" to the city, arranged a mansion, and left them a large amount of money as a thanks, although grandparents are reluctant to me, But after all, blood is thicker than water, so I let my parents take me away.
I followed my parents to the big city Tieling, it turned out that I also have a "biological sister", two years older than me, very good-looking, the name is also good-looking, called Jin Biguio, but this sister is in poor health, the same as I was back then, it is also a blood disease, "mother" bluntly said to me: "Your sister is sick, you need long-term exchange of blood, you have to draw a little blood from your body every week for your sister, in order to give her life, she is your own sister with your own mother, you must be willing, right?" ”
Actually, I was a little worried, afraid that I would be squeezed dry, but because of this family affection that seemed to be given to me by God, I still agreed.
I was arranged to live next door to my sister, every Sunday night, I lay in the basement of the family's big villa, and a group of "professionals" wearing big masks and white coats drew my blood and delivered it to my sister lying on the bed next door.
At first, it was once a week, and I could still bear it, but later, my "sister's" condition deteriorated, and the frequency of exchange blood became faster, from every five days, to every three days, and later, it developed to the point that I had to draw blood every night, and I had almost no time to "return blood", lying in bed all day, letting them fiddle, and completely becoming a "tool man" to maintain the life of "sister"......