When the stallion yelled at who was outside the door, I had rushed over to open the door like lightning, but I didn't see the slightest figure, the whole corridor was empty, I asked the stallion to stay in the room, and immediately went to the security room to find the surveillance video to see, but the system happened to be overhauled, and it would not be restored until noon the next day, so I had to go back to the room.

"Stallion, are you sure there's someone outside the door just now?" I asked.

"I'm 100% sure there's someone! There was a very peculiar smell, which was not there at first, but suddenly appeared outside the door in the middle of our chat, and the smell became even bigger when you opened the door, and then slowly dissipated. The stallion affirmed.

"Is it smelly or fragrant? Is it male or female? "There's a stallion here, safer than the best police dog in the world!

"I don't know, this smell is very special, it's not fragrant or smelly, as for whether it's a man or a woman, the ghost uncle knows, and it's not allowed to judge men and women according to the smell, and now it's not that there are no sissies who like to apply perfume to their bodies!" Stallion Trail.

"Made, is it the Dark Shark or the Hu family again?" I had a headache.

"Probably not, according to their urine, it will dry directly." The stallion analyzed as he played with his teacup.

"Forget it, it's late at night, let's rest and recuperate, and we'll be busy next." I took out two bottles of mineral water from the locker and stood upside down at the bottom of the door of my room, and then I removed the bell from the cordon I had purchased this time and placed it on top.

"Yes, Ouyang, he is also an old driver at a young age!" The stallion sighed.

"Well, it's okay, sleep in peace!" It was already one o'clock in the morning, and I was wrapped in a quilt and fell asleep.

There was nothing to do all night, until I was woken up by the phone ringing, and when I saw that the time was already ten o'clock in the morning, it was the front desk who called to ask Ma Guoqing to receive the express, and I knew that it was the "taste letter" sent by the old man Ma to the stallion.

"I'm dizzy, this old man, why do you want to write my real name, the courier company can write a name casually, as long as you can find someone, alas! Luckily, Lian Rui is not there. The stallion complained.

"Come on, they all say that the eldest husband can't change his name or sit or change his surname, big stallion, it's not right for you to do this." I despise him.

"Damn, I don't like the name, did they ask for my opinion? Luckily, my dad gave me the nickname Dumas before he disappeared, so it's much more foreign! "The stallion said it liked it.

"Of course, the name stallion is better, refreshing and refreshing, okay, go downstairs, have breakfast, and get the courier!" I was going to tease it again, but then I thought it was the nickname that the stallion's father gave him before he disappeared, so forget it.

After breakfast in the hotel restaurant, I went to the front desk to pick up the courier, I looked at the jar containing the "taste letter" and said, "Now everything is ready, don't be afraid of the maze of Xuantianji again!" ”

"Forget it, the maze doesn't matter, but if there are zongzi and zongzi pets in it, it will be too discordant." The stallion said, patting the jar.

"Jingle !!" My mobile phone rang, and I saw that it was Lao Huangtou, the herb picker I met last night, and immediately connected the phone.

"Hey! Uncle Huang, are you ready to go? ”

"Oh, Mo Leng is polite, call me Lao Huang Tou Dou, by the way, meet in Wufu Village at the foot of Momo Mountain at two o'clock in the afternoon! Be punctual, set out beyond the time, the mountain gods will blame us, and we will be punished and comfortable! ”

“OK！ Arrive at 2 p.m. sharp! I hung up, "Stallion, pack up, and get ready to go!" "Okay, it's time for Master Ma to show his skills again!"

Momo high mountains, deep valleys. Ye Ye Zizhi can cure hunger. Tang Yu Shiyuan, where will I go. The horses are high, and they are very worried. The rich are afraid of people, and the poor are wanton.

This is the sentence of the ancients to describe Momo Mountain, which means: such a big mountain and river, and the rivers and mountain roads in the deep valley are intertwined. It's a beautiful purple reishi mushroom, which can be used as food for me temporarily. The songs of the past are far from the present, and where will I go? Sitting under the ornate carriage, my worries were still great. When you are rich, you are afraid to meet people, but when you are poor, you have great ambitions.

Momo Mountain is not smaller than Funnel Mountain, or even larger, the mountain is also full of all kinds of rare medicinal materials, inhabited by many rare birds and beasts, the mountain people rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and feed the mountain people who have lived by collecting medicine and hunting for generations after generations.

Originally, there was no village at the foot of Momo Mountain, but the people who went into the mountain to collect medicine and hunt liked to rest at the foot of the mountain in a flat terrain next to the stream, which gradually attracted many traders to set up stalls to provide food and drink for the mountain people who entered and exited the mountain.

Momo Mountain is deep in the mountains of Youxian County, a round trip will be delayed for a whole day, sometimes the herb pickers have to collect medicine in the mountains for a week or even a month, so later there was also an inn, for the mountain people who need to collect medicine in the mountains for a long time to provide accommodation and storage of medicinal materials.

Slowly, this piece of land at the foot of Momo Mountain formed a village, and people gave it an auspicious name - Wufu Village, in order to have the mountain god to protect the peace and have a good harvest when entering the mountain to collect medicine.

I followed the navigation for more than two hours to Wufu Village, after hundreds of years of changes, Wufu Village is already a relatively modern village, now hunting is prohibited, only the herb pickers can still go into the mountains to collect medicine when the mountain closure and afforestation control is lifted every year.

After so many years of excavation, the precious medicinal materials in Momo Mountain have gradually decreased, and most of the herb pickers have long been developed after the accumulation of their ancestors, and have changed their careers to do other businesses, some continue to live in Youxian County, and some have moved to other places for development.

In the current Momo Mountain, there are only a few herb pickers like Lao Huangtou who are still sticking to it, and most of the herb pickers are no longer in the mountain, so in addition to an inn and a small restaurant in Wufu Village, the other households are dealers who come to collect medicinal materials regularly every year, and the rest are ordinary households, and some terraces are cultivated at the foot of the mountain to make a living from farming, and some breeding in the river to make money.

I found an open space to park the car, and the stallion picked up some of the things we thought we were using in my backpack and looked at the time, 1:40 p.m. "Beep!" A small loaf drove over, and the old yellow-headed father and son came.

"Little Brother Ouyang, Little Brother Ma, you came early!" Uncle Huang's father and son were dressed differently from last night, it was a common attire for medicine pickers in the deep mountains, a shabby schoolbag, a sharp sickle, the schoolbag was filled with dry food when it went up, and when it came back, it was filled with yam herbs, the sickle can be used to chop wood and make a fire, and of course it can also open up a road.

"Hehe, haven't you seen it? In the past, we carried bamboo baskets and wore straw children with iron nails - shoes. Now the conditions are better, the schoolbag is more convenient, and the canvas child (shoes) is more protective of the feet. The old yellow man saw that we were looking at them curiously, and he was very satisfied with our early arrival, and said with a smile.

He is right, their lives change, but what does not change is their dependence on the mountains.

Bluestone leads the way, the medicinal fragrance is the guide, Brother Huang told us that there is an old-fashioned cottage in Wufu Village, the owner of the house is a generation of medicinal materials for a living by selling medicinal materials, the house is placed with a variety of Chinese medicinal materials, the common ones are licorice, astragalus, heavy building, rare Ganoderma lucidum, rhinoceros horn, trace the oldest medicinal materials of the era, there is a very rare "full mountain fragrance", it is reported that from the first generation of their family began to purchase and store, it has been more than 100 years, the price of this medicinal material dealer is very fair, Therefore, every time the Huang father and son collected the medicinal materials were sold to him.

Then Uncle Huang said to us solemnly: "This time we are going to cut the cave, I found it when I was picking a medicine called 'Manshan Xiang', not only a little far, but also to climb the cliff, if you are unlucky, you may encounter some fierce beasts and the like on the road, you think about it carefully, if there is an accident, my old man will not take care of it!" ”

"Old Yellow Head, you can put 10,000 hearts, we have all practiced!" I said.

"That's what you want, since everyone is here, hurry up, baby, bring the incense!" Uncle Huang commanded.

Brother Huang took out three sticks of incense and a roast chicken from his schoolbag and gave them to Lao Huangtou, he took them and began to arrange them.

When Brother Huang saw me and the stallion watching his father arrange with great interest, he explained to us: "This is the rule of the medicine picker, the medicine picker should 'worship the ancestors' before going up the mountain, and silently recite the names of Shennong and Hua Tuo in his heart; After the "ancestor worship", you should also "ask the mountain god" to inform yourself of your name, address, and purpose of the trip. The former is a reverence for the ancestors of the industry; The latter item is to hope that the mountain god will bless him with safety. In ancient times, medicine pickers believed that after consulting the mountain gods, some 'spiritual herbs' were easier to see, and individuals could avoid wild beasts. ”

"Hehe, I know this, don't look at the herb picker is very ordinary, but this is a very profound industry, 'Shennong tastes a hundred herbs, there is medicine', three hundred and sixty lines, picking herbs occupies a place, "Years of Guangji" has recorded: 'May 5, competing to pick miscellaneous medicines, can cure all diseases'. This 'competitive collection', that is, every household will 'hang wormwood on the door' during the Dragon Boat Festival, and some elderly people will use herbs to boil water to bathe their children. The custom has been passed down to this day. I said like a treasure.

"Oh, Brother Ouyang, you know a lot about the medicine collection industry, you can't see it!" Brother Huang exclaimed.

"Brother Huang said with a smile, no matter how well you know, you can't compare to you." That's all I know, and that's all I know.

"Okay, you guys also come to worship a plate, and then hurry up and go into the mountain!" The old yellow head beckoned us over.

The stallion and I also followed Brother Huang's actions and worshiped the mountain god, recited the name of the ancestor of the medicine collection, and prayed for them to bless us with a safe and smooth trip.

After the worship, let's go into the mountain!

As the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to draft the water, and one side of the water and soil supports the other side. The land of Bashu is steep and mountainous, and as the people of Bashu, relying on the mountains to eat has remained unchanged since ancient times. During this time, it is also the season for Momo Mountain to go into the mountains to collect medicines, and from time to time you can see other herb pickers walking together on the road, nodding and saying hello to each other, and then going their separate ways.

"We herb pickers have their own territory in the mountains, this is a rule passed down from generation to generation, if you dare to run and cut another place to dig things without saying hello, you will be cut off if you are caught!" Brother Huang told us the rules of medicine pickers as he walked.

"Oh yes, I'm in my hometown in Lingnan, and I've heard the medicine pickers say that one of the rules for the medicine pickers to go into the mountains to collect medicine is 'picking herbs and keeping seeds', which means that no matter how valuable the medicinal materials are, they can't all be dug up, and they must leave resources for future generations." The stallion finally searched for this information from the mind that only had the lotus stamen.

"Right! Brother Ma is also right, because each medicine picker has his own territory, you must not pick all the medicine seedlings and sprinkle them, like some more precious medicines, such as 'Manshan Xiang' in the same place, you are not allowed to pick them again within five years. The old yellow head said.

"Every industry is really not to be underestimated, broad and profound." I sighed.

As we talked, we came to a valley covered in greenery.

"Be careful, don't you see that the road here is smooth and easy to walk, there are no big trees blocking the road, it looks like a beautiful valley, and there are weeds of people everywhere!" Seeing us looking around leisurely without vigilance, Brother Huang reminded.

"What is a flax?" The stallion asked curiously.

"I know, don't let that thing touch your skin! Horn nettle, that is, nettle, is a cheap medicinal material, but the stinging on the stems and leaves is toxic, once people or animals encounter it, it is as painful as a bee sting, its toxicity makes the skin immediately after contact will cause such as itching, severe burns, redness and swelling, etc., light touch, uncomfortable after a few minutes can disappear on its own; In severe cases, the affected area should be heated against an open flame and stretched, or the affected area can be washed with warm boiled water, which can relieve the pain after about half an hour. When I was a child, I was playing in the mountains of my hometown, and I was caught and begged for it! "I've been pitted by this thing, and I remember it vividly.

"Damn, you have to be careful!" The stallion put on his gloves and took out the sapper shovel and took the initiative to clear the way.

The road narrows, and the mountain stream bubbles under the cliffs. As we continued deeper into the Momo Mountains, the trail was gone, and the ground was slippery with fallen leaves and weeds.

The stallion and I tripped over the vines one after another and fell several times, and the Huang father and son, who were walking in front, kept pushing away the branches and miscanthus with a firewood knife, and always beware of the rebounding branches hurting their eyes. Finally, I walked on a small road again, and the road surface turned into a stone pit again, and if I was not careful, I would fall on my feet.

After the small valley, we came to a stream to stop and rest, the stream shone like satin, Huang father and son held the water and drank it directly, Uncle Huang said: "The unpolluted mountain spring and yam are the best things that the mountain god gave us." ”

Brother Huang said: "Collecting medicine is very hard, but also very dangerous, there is a plate of me and the old man in a place to collect medicine, three sides are stone walls, we can only like monkeys like three children to hang down the tree vine vine, when there is no vine vine, just lie on the stone high head to move a little bit, from the ground when there are more than ten meters, we are jumping on the bamboo swing down." If you are not careful, you will fall into pieces, or you will encounter wild boars and snakes, and you will fall under the cliff and cut your head if you don't step on it, or you will be injured by a collapse, and sometimes you have to wait for a long time to see the growth of medicinal herbs. I once came in with the old man to collect medicine, and I didn't go down the mountain for more than a month, and my mother thought that we died in the mountains and called the police. ”

"By the way, the old king next door went into the mountains to collect medicine the year before last, just to pick a superb 'Manshan incense' on the cliff, saying that it was enough for his daughter to go to college, but he fell and fell to his death, leaving orphans and widows, and he was very evil!" The old yellow head sighed.

Hearing this, I thought to myself, don't look at the medicine pickers who make a lot of money every year, but they are taking their lives to collect medicine.

After talking for a while, we continued on our way, because it had rained for several days, and the fog in Momo Mountain was rising, and there was really a feeling of "the clouds are deep and I don't know where to go, only in this mountain".

We have walked for four hours, and we have entered the middle of Momo Mountain, which is considered a deep mountain, and the medicinal herbs that can be encountered on the road have become more and more.

The Huang father and son were accustomed to climbing the mountain, and they did not show fatigue at all, and they kept introducing me and the stallion all the way: "This is 'Jin Guolan', which can clear fire and detoxify, and also treat snake wound......s;

Just when the stallion and I were tired and tired, and it was getting dark, a half-hill appeared in front of us, and on the hillside we saw a steep cliff, and we saw some white substance in the cracks of the stones. "It's full of incense!" Uncle Huang said, "The cave with the golden bottle is at the top of the mountain!" ”