"Oh. ”

Wu Xia nodded hurriedly and stopped talking. Closely followed behind Old Man Zhang.

Zheng Qilin found that Old Man Zhang did not take the main road, but walked in the grass, holding a firewood knife all the way through thorns and thorns.

"Herbs are generally in places where few people walk. ”

Old man Zhang said.

"There are many mountains in Kunlun. Danxia Mountain, Mang Mountain, and even Qilian Mountain are also connected, and there are many Chinese herbs in the mountains. For more than 50 years, I have visited all the mountains in the vicinity and can identify countless Chinese herbs. For the old man, the Chinese herbs all over the mountains are treasures, and I can't pick them all year round......"

Old man Zhang looked around, his eyes flashing.

"Master, it's okay, we'll pick it slowly with you. ”

Alain on the side said.

"What can you two do? There are many wild beasts and poisonous snakes in the deep mountains and old forests of these two places, and the medicine pickers must train their vigorous skills and wild survival ability from an early age, find water sources, wild fruits, recognize the way, and make fires, these are all basic skills. If you are bitten by a venomous snake, you should also use herbal medicine to detoxify it in time. You two still can't distinguish the antidotes such as half a lotus, a big-leaf seven-star sword, and a white-flowered snake tongue grass, how to collect the medicine?"

The old man glanced blankly at his two apprentices.

Zheng Qilin and Wu Xia smiled.

"You two don't know anything, and sometimes in order to find a herb, you have to stay in the mountains for two or three days, and sleep in the mountains to make a fire. It is even more common to encounter wild boars and snakes in the process of collecting medicine, and they will also fall and fall, which can be injured at least and broken by broken bones. More than 0 years ago, while collecting herbs on the rock wall of Huguan, I accidentally rolled down the mountain and almost died. Therefore, to collect precious medicinal materials on the cliffs, it is usually necessary for two people to go together. If there is no rock that can be fixed on the top of the mountain, let one person sit on the top of the mountain, tie the rope around the waist, hold the rock wall on the mountain, and tie the other end to the herb picker, and slowly lower the rope. Herb pickers move slowly across the rock wall, looking for medicinal herbs. It's called swinging. The risk can be high, and some cliffs have soft soil, so in addition to worrying about falling off the cliffs, you also have to prevent rocks from rolling off the top of the mountain. If you're not careful, you'll have an accident......"

The old man sighed.

"Then you're not afraid?"

Wu Xia couldn't help but ask.

"When I first started learning to collect medicine, I stood on the top of a cliff several hundred meters high, and my legs trembled a little, but I got used to it after a lot of experience. When he was young, he was like a monkey, a cliff 100 meters high, and he was not afraid to climb down. Walking 100 miles a day is not a problem. Now that he's older, he doesn't take that risk anymore......"

As soon as the old man finished answering, he saw a medicinal herb not far away, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly rushed to him, digging carefully as if he had found a treasure.

"Uncle, you are not young, it's time to give these jobs to the juniors. ”

Wu Xia glanced at Alan and Ah Feng and said.

"I want to too...... I want to pass on the skills of picking mountain herbs, my old man Zhang is very famous in Gaotian Town, and the villagers usually have a headache and brain fever will come to me, and the old man is now the only full-time medicine picker in the town. Because it is a Chinese herbal medicine, it is less toxic. Often, patients who cannot be treated by others are sent over. However, the old man, I am 70 years old, and it is becoming more and more difficult to go up the mountain, and no one has mastered my own craft. The mountain herbal medicine technique relies on hard work, and it is necessary to sit on a cold bench and grope in the mountains for three or five years. Every day in the deep mountains and old forests, sometimes they have to sleep in the mountains, where do young people nowadays suffer this kind of suffering. I hope that more people will come to the old man to learn from me, and the old man is also happy to pass on the skills and remedies of mountain herb picking. Some time ago, the old man also declared the intangible cultural heritage to the city, hoping that this traditional culture will be carried forward......"

Once the old man said that it was opened, it was like a faucet that opened the floodgates, and it couldn't be stopped at all.

At this moment, a light rain suddenly began to fall in the sky.

Zheng Qilin asked Old Man Zhang if he needed to find a place to rest from the rain, Old Man Zhang shook his head and said no.

Several people walked in the weeds in the rain for two hours, and Old Man Zhang did not breathe, still lying in the grass, picking herbs. Some of the roots are buried deeply, so he uses a small shovel to dig up the soil from the roots and dig them out slowly. At 12 o'clock at noon, on a rock wall more than ten meters high, Old Man Zhang climbed up like an ape, exclaiming, "Look", his tone was full of surprise. It is a small grass about 10 centimeters tall, with light purple flowers spiraling up the stem, like a small dragon.

"This kind of grass is called Panlong ginseng, and it only exists around this time, and I can't find two or three plants in a day. It is more precious than Cordyceps, and one or two can be sold for hundreds of yuan. It can treat gout, diabetes, and high blood sugar. It smells like human urine, but the water that comes out is very fragrant. ”

Old man Zhang waved his hands and said a long paragraph in one breath.

"Qi Lin, I saw just now that he didn't step on the stone, but it still didn't look like he stepped on the air, like ...... He...... It's not ......"

A few surprises flashed in Wu Xia's eyes.

"Shhh ”

Zheng Qilin lightly pressed Wu Xia's mouth.

Soon, the old man came down to collect the medicine, and he was very happy.

A few people then went into the mountain, during which they encountered a few herbs, Alan dug up a medicinal seedling, and the old man Zhang lamented regret and asked him to pick up the broken seedling.

"Medicinal materials are the painstaking efforts of the people who collect them, and they can't be wasted. ”

Old man Zhang said as he showed Alan and Ah Feng how to use a good medicine shovel.

"The shovel should stick to the ground and be skillful. Skilled medicine pickers, a shovel will come out of a tree, and a hundred catties of medicinal materials can be collected in a day. ”

It wasn't until they walked into a valley where Zheng Qilin entered the mountain yesterday that they began to eat lunch and rest.

For lunch, I ate steamed buns and drank mountain spring water. Zheng Qilin waved his hand, and some fresh cucumbers and tomatoes appeared as their supplements.

"Don't eat yet, wait a minute. ”

Old man Zhang broke some steamed buns and threw them on the ground, and there were words in his mouth:

"The Lord of Medicine, the Lord of the Mountain ...... bless"

After the old man finished talking, everyone began to eat, and after eating and resting for half an hour, the group continued to walk deep into the mountains.

"What can be picked on the flat ground are ordinary herbs, cherish a little to climb the cliffs, the more precious and rare herbs often grow in inaccessible places, such as seven leaves and a branch of flowers, He Shou Wu. As for the one you want...... More remote!"

The old man hesitated and said.

"Uncle Zhang, are you sure that there is the Jialan grass that Qi Lin wants in this mountain?"

Wu Xia couldn't help but ask.

"It's a matter of luck, if you two don't think you can't, you can leave. ”

The old man glanced at Wu Xia and said a little angrily.

At this time, suddenly, a "roar" came.