Chapter 27 Picking Mountain Ginseng
"Okay, Dad, you can arrange everything, and I'll work hard to make money! I will definitely pick more mushrooms and wild vegetables these days, rest assured, we will be able to live in a big house! ”
"Good! Okay, my Tao'er is getting more and more capable! Little Tao said with a smile.
Xiao Tao Niang smiled at the corner of her mouth, and ironed in her heart, and her mouth was unforgiving, "Hmph!" I love to toss around! ”
Xiao Tao was not annoyed, and quickly fried some mushrooms, wild vegetables, and wowotou, and it was okay in one night.
The next morning, Xiao Tao went up the mountain full of anticipation, although it was only six o'clock, and almost everyone in the village would get up to work in the fields or go to the town to do small business.
Xiao Tao thought about what Situ Ran would toss the cave into.
On the hillside, Xiao Tao picked wild vegetables, looked at the wild flowers in a place, and occasionally scurried by, the mood was very happy, approached the cave, and sure enough, there were a lot of things in it, tables and chairs, pots and pans were placed on the ground.
Xiao Tao smiled and shook his head: "Rich, willful!" Presumably they all sneaked it out at night! No way! Later, Situ Ran came over, and he had to let them decorate according to their own style. ”
Seeing that no one was there, Xiao Tao decided to go collect the medicine first, and come back to him later.
Xiao Tao decided to walk to the left today, although there is a dead man's pool, but he vaguely remembers that he can go around.
Xiao Tao walked along the root of the mountain, while picking herbs and mushrooms, the terrain on both sides is almost the same, are uneven, dense woods, Xiao Tao holds a stick in his hand, knocking and beating, to prevent snakes.
After about ten minutes, I arrived at the Dead Man's Pond, and the water of the pond was set against the background of the surrounding green trees, and the blue waves were not rippling. Wild grass grows all around, and there are also protruding stones.
The pond is next to the mountain, and it should be the water that flows out of the mountain, but it has always been like that, no more, no less.
There are no small animals around, and not even small birds fly here. Inexplicably, it makes people's hearts tremble, and their backs are cold.
Xiao Tao walked around the Dead Man's Pond and walked forward, and suddenly saw that there was a plant on the edge of the pond that looked like ginseng.
"What a long time!"
Xiao Tao looked at the ginseng growing on the stone wall by the pool, and the pool water was right below.
Xiao Tao walked over to see the terrain, it is not difficult to go down, the slope is not steep, not high, the key is that the bottom is the Dead Man's Pool, a stumbling down, the bones do not exist!
But now Xiao Tao is sure that it is a ginseng!
What to do? Dig or not? Think about the silver, think about the big house, the small pottery, the heart is horizontal, people die for money, birds die for food, don't go into the tiger's den to get the tiger, and decide to be a person who regards wealth as life!
Grasping the weeds, carefully went downhill, when he was about to the bottom, he moved a stone and put it on the edge of the water under the pond under the ginseng, fortunately it did not sink, Xiao Tao tried to step on it, fortunately, it was very stable, it seems that the water on the side is not deep.
After Xiao Tao stepped on it steadily, he shouted "Mallet!" "Untie a piece of red head rope from your head and tie it to the branches and leaves of the ginseng.
Then I dug out little by little with my hands, for fear of breaking a beard, and after about half an hour, a whole ginseng was exposed, the thickness of two fingers.
Xiao Tao wiped his sweat and smiled, a good ginseng, but the years are not too long.
Xiao Tao carefully took it out and wrapped it in a handkerchief, and then he felt that his feet were sliding down a little.
"Not good! The rocks are going to slide down! Xiao Tao hurriedly put away the ginseng, climbed up the slope with the weeds, and then saw that the stone was gone.
Xiao Tao's back was cold, and he was sweating, and he was a little scared at this time.
"It turns out that when people are poor, they can really ask for wealth and not die!"
Xiao Tao wiped his sweat, touched the ginseng in his arms, and smiled, "Fortunately, there is no danger!" It's really rich and dangerous! Walk! Go back to the cave mansion and let that handsome guy Situ Ran have some more blood to compensate for my frightened little heart! ”
Xiao Tao got up and hid the ginseng under the mushroom, the clothes he was wearing now were thin, and it was too abrupt to put in his arms.
I went back to the cave in a happy mood, and when I was about to arrive at the cave, I heard Situ Ran's voice, which was cold and majestic, and it was not charming and sultry at all.
"Why can't I find it? This mountain is so big, is it in the mountain? If you look for it again, you have to find it if you dig three feet into the ground! ”
"Huh! I knew he was pretending! ”
Xiao Tao has long understood in his heart that people like him have one thing on his face and one thing on his back, but as long as he doesn't hurt himself, he can be friends and help each other.
When he approached, Situ Ran turned his head to look at Xiao Tao, and his originally cold eyes immediately squinted and turned into peach blossom eyes, and he smiled, "Little Tao girl!" Went to pick medicine early in the morning? ”
Xiao Tao squinted and smiled, "Yes! My family is poor, that is, I pick some mountain goods to earn some money, which is not as good as your rich family! ”
Xiao Tao said and walked over, and looked at the five people wearing ordinary gray cotton clothes behind him, although they were ordinary, they were not ordinary people, their bodies were neat, their eyes were fixed, and they were professionally trained at a glance.
Xiao Tao also continued to play the upper body: "Are they all here to decorate the cave for you?" ”
The corners of Situ Ran's mouth twitched, then he smiled and nodded, "Yes!" ”
Xiao Tao scolded in his heart, pretending! Then let you pretend well,
"Well, can I give some advice, after all, you haven't lived for long, and I'll still live in the future! Besides, the decoration is better, maybe it is comfortable to live in, and your cold will be cured! You see that you are also in this cave, the cold disease is relieved so quickly, right? ”
Situ Ran knew that Xiao Tao was nonsense, but he didn't show it on his face, and nodded very well, "Xiao Tao is free!" ”
Xiao Tao looked at those people, led by a round face, in their twenties, with bright eyes and very clever, and the others were about the same age, all very thoughtful, so he asked
"What's your name? And them? ”
The young man bowed his hand and said, "Little gophers, they are my brothers, hamsters, squirrels, bamboo rats and voles!" ”
Xiao Tao really couldn't hold back the "poof" laugh out loud, a litter of rats, "Who gave you a name, it's really talented!" ”
Several people bowed their heads without expression and did not say much, as if they had become accustomed to others finding their names funny.
Situ Ran smiled indifferently, the third brother's secret guards all used the heavenly stem, and he used the earth branch, twelve branches, and twenty people each.
The gopher is the leader of the rat branch, and this time I only brought a few of them with me, and the others all have their own tasks.
"Little Tao girl, if you have any requirements, just ask, I will try my best to do it!"
Xiao Tao smiled and thought to himself that I would not be polite, pointed to the cave that made the bedroom and said to the gopher, "The top of the cave should be covered with a pure blue cloth, and the four walls are also, and the ground should be covered with carpets, furniture, beds, wardrobes, desks, and others!" It's good to change the doors and windows! ”