Guo Jianjun drove to the foot of Mount Tailuo, spread out the map on the ground and said, "Miss Li, which direction should we go?" ”

Li Xiruo pointed to the south, when the Taoist priest had told her the location of the Vermilion Bird before he died, and it must have been in the south.

Guo Jianjun looked at the map, put away the drawings and said: "There is no mark on this direction, I found that there is a village at the foot of the mountain here, why don't we go and ask about the situation first." ”

The terrain of Mount Tailuo is complex and remote, they are just a few outsiders, and it is useless to rely on maps alone.

Several people drove the car to the outside of the village entrance, the children in the village all came out to circle around the car, they are here in the poor and remote area, mostly ethnic minorities, there is no scenery to be collected, there are no capable cadres, tourism can not be done, farmhouse is also difficult to do, plus the labor force in the village are out to work, so there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people around their own acres and three points of land to grow grain, relying on these things to feed and wear.

Li Ruoxi got out of the car, and several old people kept staring at them, obviously they were wearing cargo pants, big boots, and several large black backpacks, which made them not look like ordinary tourists.

A middle-aged woman took her daughter in front of her and asked Li Ruoxi, "Sister, what are you doing here?" ”

Li Xiruo looked at the surrounding environment and said with a smile: "We are tourists who want to enter the mountain, and we want to ask if there is a guide in the village?" ”

The woman's face turned pale, and she said to Li Xiruo: "Sister, there are a lot of poisonous snakes in this mountain, and you are afraid that you will be more than lucky." ”

"We don't have an antidote to poisonous snakes, you don't scare the guests away here, let's go."

A lame man walked in with a cane made of tree trunks, he looked Li Xiruo and the three of them up and down, and saw that Li Xiruo in the middle was beautiful, and the two behind him were imposing, and they were clean after a long journey, and they were rich at a glance, he took a puff of dry tobacco and pointed at Li Xiruo and said: "How many people are going to see some antidote to snakes specially made in our Fengjia Village." ”

The woman hesitated for a moment and whispered to the lame man: "Don't it, it's so dangerous on that mountain, your herbs are all used to deceive people, in case they go in......"

The lame man glared at her and whispered a threat: "You say another word to Lao Tzu, and see if Lao Tzu will kill you." ”

The woman hugged the child silently, and Li Xiruo, who had a full view, smiled and said, "Take us to see it first." ”

The man smiled flatteringly and invited the three into a hut, which was a floor-to-ceiling thatched hut, which maintained their national character, but the crumbling house also showed their poverty.

The lame man reported to his family: "My name is Feng Yumin, and I am my daughter-in-law just now, she is not very good at brain, what she said, don't worry." ”

Li Xiruo glanced at the herbs, and instead of rushing to buy them, he asked, "Is there a large population flow in your Fengjia Village?" ”

Feng Yumin shook his head: "Look at our small village, there is nothing, and we can't attract tourists, the young ones have gone out to work, and I am the only one with a lame leg who has no choice but to sell some herbs here to make ends meet." ”

"Have you seen anyone other than us in the past two days?"

If that person knew the place, he should have come to Fengjia Village as soon as possible.

Feng Yumin thought about it, rolled his eyes and said: "Who can't think of ...... in our broken place", looking at Zhang Jianguo and glaring at him, he hurriedly changed his words: "Of course it's not about you, you just have something big to do." ”

Guo Jianjun said in a deep voice on the side: "Let's talk about the basic situation on the mountain first." ”

Only by understanding the basic conditions on the mountain can they have a minimum mental preparation.

Feng Yumin said that there were not so many poisonous snakes on the mountain in the first place, after all, the ancestors have lived on the mountain for generations, and if there are snakes, they have to make way for the foundation laid by the ancestors for so many years.

But since the four olds were broken and a snake Niangniang's temple on the mountain, there were more poisonous snakes on the mountain, and at the beginning, the snake catching team was also allowed to go up the mountain to catch some snakes, trying to change the mountain and afforestation, and develop the economy of Tailuo Mountain, but every time the snake catching team went up, it was like stabbing the snake's nest, and there were more and more snakes.

And many of them are also poisonous snakes, after a few people died on the top, no one dared to go up again, and the top couldn't care about it, just waiting for the mountain to go down so barrenly, and the residents on the mountain could not bear the infestation of poisonous snakes, so they could only move down the mountain to live.

It's just that a few scattered broken households still want to suffer from the inheritance of their ancestors, and they insist on refusing to go down the mountain, and go to a place where there are fewer snakes in the mountain to survive, but the people below the mountain haven't seen them for a long time, and they don't know whether they are dead or alive.

Li Xiruo understood in his heart after hearing this, it was not the temple that beat the snake Niangniang who suffered retribution, it should be the gradual appearance of the cloud grass, which caused the abnormal movement of the snakes in the mountains, and began to attack humans in groups, wanting to guard the cloud grass.

Feng Yumin saw a few words that made Li Xiruo and the others silent, for fear that what he said seriously frightened them, so he hurriedly took out his own herbs and said: "You don't have to worry, my ancestors are barefoot doctors, and I have already developed those anti-snake medicines, and they are not expensive, so I can give them all to you, so that you will have no worries when you go up the mountain." ”

Zhang Jianguo stood up and counted the bottles and cans and asked, "How many of these are in total?" ”

Feng Yumin smiled secretly, thinking that he had made a big customer, and said: "If you want them all, I can give you a discount, after all, there are many kinds of poisonous snakes on this mountain, so be prepared for more." ”

Guo Jianjun looked at his dilapidated earthen pots and said, "Just you are worth three thousand?" Is there no police in your Fengjia Village? ”

Feng Yumin saw that Guo Jianjun was difficult to bite, turned to Li Xiruo and said: "Miss, you are sensible at first glance, you think you go up the mountain and you don't know what snakes you will meet, isn't this for the sake of your safety?" What's more, if the young lady has such delicate skin, if she is bitten by a snake, it will not look good with a scar. ”

Li Xiruo squinted at him, sat on a chair and pointed to the medicine jar on his desk and said, "Your family has practiced medicine for generations, and you made this medicine yourself?" ”

In order to make his medicine more marketable, Feng Yumin opened his mouth and said: "The prescription is ancestral, and it is more sophisticated from generation to generation. ”

Li Xiruo raised her eyebrows: "Then why didn't this ancestral prescription cure your bitten leg?" ”

Guo Jianjun and Zhang Jianguo's eyes were fixed on Feng Yumin's amputated leg, and Feng Yumin stepped back on crutches, trying to cover his empty trouser legs.

He said angrily: "I was hit by a car a few years ago. ”

Li Xiruo smiled: "A lie, ten yuan, if you have been practicing medicine here for generations, it is impossible for the official words to be so good, the young and strong men in the village have all gone to work, you must be one of them, but the luck is not good, and you were bitten by a poisonous snake when you came back this time, right?" ”

Feng Yumin's face tightened, and he looked at Li Xiruo in disbelief: "How do you know?" ”

When they first came to the entrance of the village, they had been keeping an eye on them, worried that they would miss the three fat sheep, so that they could ensure that no one had communicated with them except for his daughter-in-law, and his leg was taboo for him, and his daughter-in-law would not take the initiative to mention it to outsiders.

Zhang Jianguo smiled when he saw it, stepped forward and hugged his arms and said: "Brother didn't expect it, my eldest sister has the ability to read people's acquaintances, if you lie, no matter how many little ninety-nine you have, she will give you a clear door, so don't think about finding other excuses." ”

Li Xiruo stood up and looked at Feng Yumin and said: "I'm not interested in your legs, I took a look when I came, the hotels and shops along the road have the three snake wine you provide, and the words Fengjia Village are specially marked, cobras and belly snakes are highly poisonous, even if there is no antidote in your village, at least there are protective tools to make these, we just want to ask where these can be bought in a villager's house." ”

After the above incident, Feng Yumin didn't dare to lie to them, so he could only sit down tremblingly and said: "That wine does have the words Fengjia Village on it, but to be precise, it should be called Fengjia Bar, which is the recipe of the Three Snakes Wine that the four brothers of the Feng family in the west of the village learned outside."

We have a lot of poisonous snakes here, and they began to produce and sell themselves, they are rich, but if they can pull everyone to do it together, maybe the rich is our whole village, my leg is not because I want to go up the mountain to catch a few snakes to try, but I was bitten by a poisonous snake, and the toxin spread before amputating the limb, but do you know why? ”

Seeing that Feng Yumin's face became vicious, Zhang Jianguo touched his head and said, "Didn't you just say that you were bitten by a snake?" Why do you still ask us rhetorically? ”

"If it weren't for the four Feng brothers who refused to borrow my tools to go up the mountain to catch snakes, would I have been bitten?"

He still holds a grudge, he has no protection, snake repellent, at that time the project contractor did outside and did not give money, seeing that the project money has not yet passed the year, he can only think of other thoughts to make money, there is nothing in this village, the only thing is only those few poisonous snakes, and it is not to blame that he put his mind on it.

He raised his head and looked at Li Xiruo and the three of them: "Do you think that he will give you a good face if you go?" Those guys only recognize money, and the price is only high, not low. ”

But after he finished speaking, he smiled again: "But you have money, you are not afraid." ”

Zhang Jianguo and Guo Jianjun glanced at each other, they understood helplessly without money, but this does not mean that they can do these things to make money, in case someone really believes his words, thinking that his herbs can drive snakes, but he was bitten to death in the mountains, which is a matter of human life.

Li Xiruo saw that he finished asking, turned around and walked out, but Zhang Jianguo said to him: "Brother, don't do these things, you are going to be arrested by the police to sell fake drugs to you in the bureau, what should you do with your wife and children?" ”

Feng Yumin didn't answer, just lowered his head, and didn't know if he heard Zhang Jianguo's words, Zhang Jianguo was impatient to see Guo Jianjun waiting outside, so he had to hurry out.