Chapter 30: Doctor Wan
Cui Jiuan and Cui Ranxin stayed in the Jinsha Inn for five days, and no matter how patient people were, they couldn't afford to wait for a long time.
Doctor Wan is quite familiar with this primeval deep forest, he often comes to collect medicines, and many medicine farmers here will also go into the mountains to collect medicines, but everyone does not dare to go too deep, because there can only be no return, and Doctor Du, who lives in the deep Hundred Medicine Valley, can come and go freely.
"Little Brother Cui, your sister's throat can only be cured by Dr. Du, although he is already in his prime, but his eyes and hands are fast, only his pair of skillful hands can cut off the flesh in your sister's throat, so what I can do is to take you to try your luck and see if you can find your way to the Valley of Hundred Medicines, but we must not force it, you know? It's the life that counts. On the way to the deep forest, Dr. Wan kept reminding him carefully.
"We'll all listen to Dr. Wan when we fall." Cui Jiu'an responded cooperatively.
"But if you listen to me, the best way is to wait, then Doctor Du has not been out of the mountain for three months, and he will definitely come out in a month, you young people are impatient, but some things are not in a hurry." Dr. Wan is in his early fifties, his hair and beard have turned gray, but fortunately, his body is hard-boned, but at this age, he is a little verbose, and he keeps talking along the way.
Coming to the entrance of the forest, Dr. Wan gave Cui Jiuan and Cui Ranxin two half-arm-long bamboo poles.
Cui Ran looked at Dr. Wan puzzled, and Dr. Wan explained: "If you can't speak when you go into the mountain to collect medicine, it will alarm those little things with spirituality.
Cui Ran nodded understandingly, held the bamboo in his hand, and carefully observed that there was a row of small holes on it.
"These holes are meant to allow the sound of the bamboo to travel farther." Cui Jiuan whispered for Cui Ran's heart, and the doctor in front of him nodded in approval when he heard this, although he had only been in contact with it a few times, he thought that Cui Jiuan was really a good seedling to study medicine, but it was a pity that these two people came from a famous family at a glance, how could they learn this doomed to boring and difficult to understand pharmacology. The more Dr. Wan thought about it, the more he felt a pity, he had the same regret as Doctor Du, and he had never met a talented bowl bearer.
The majestic and steep mountain is covered by towering ancient trees, covering the sky and the sun and it is difficult to see the daylight, the mottled light and shadow give people a rare dense forest revealing a bit of mystery and depth, due to the scarcity of medicine pickers, there is no road in the forest, even if the grass branches and leaves that have been trampled, the second day comes to rejuvenate under the moisture of rain and dew.
Dr. Wan shuttled through the dense forest, breaking the branches at will, so that he could better distinguish the direction and not easy to get lost, all the way into the forest, it was already quiet and windless in the forest in early summer, making people's chest tight, Dr. Wan handed the two of them a reddish-brown pill, and continued to move forward, suddenly heard the sound of rustling from the grass not far away, a snake tail exposed the grass, Dr. Wan took out the medicine jar and opened it and poured it around the three of them, sure enough, the sound gradually moved away.
After the danger passed, Dr. Wan ran towards the position just now with a happy face, lying in the grass to look for it, and then pointed out to the two behind him to take a closer look.
Cui Jiuan recognized at a glance that it was a ginseng and it had been hundreds of years old, but Dr. Wan did not start digging, but left a mark on the big tree next to the ginseng, he smiled and stroked his beard and led Cui Jiuan and Cui Ranxin to continue to go deeper into the dense forest.
In fact, Dr. Wan went to the Valley of Hundred Medicines several times when he was young, and he lied to the outside world that he didn't know because he was afraid of being used by people with intentions, because there were many people looking for Doctor Du and coveting the Valley of Hundred Medicines, and he didn't want to get into trouble.
Dr. Wan has never been a sensational, so he doesn't need the blessing of those identities, he just wants to guard this forest, practice medicine in Panyang Town to save people, and hope that his grandchildren will become adults as soon as possible.
When the sun sets, Xu Hui can't shine into the dense forest, so their pace has also accelerated, Dr. Wan no longer collects herbs but goes straight to the destination, originally he was not sure that he could find the Valley of Hundred Medicines, after all, he hadn't been there for decades, but the ginseng just now made him firm in the direction, I remember the last time he went he was still under the leadership of his father, and his father found the ginseng in that position, but they rushed into the valley and didn't have time to dig, digging a ginseng was very time-consuming, In particular, the roots of ginseng that are hundreds of years old are intertwined with the roots of the tree and cannot be dug up in a few hours, and after that miss, my father has never entered this old forest again, this time he made a good mark and waited until the ginseng bears red fruits in autumn to dig again.
Although it was still dark ahead, there was a faint sound of gurgling water, and Dr. Wan exclaimed excitedly: "It's over there." ”
Looking for the sound of the water and continuing to move forward, Cui Jiuan has been holding the girl's hand tightly, not daring to relax at all, suddenly the dense woods are disconnected, and the front suddenly opens up, and the figure of only grass and trees for dozens of miles is no longer a jungle with intertwined branches, and there is a sheep intestine path that extends straight into the valley.
"Our luck today is really good, and we will see Doctor Du and his old man to serve those two pots of good wine first, you know?" Doctor Wan's eyes fell on the two jars of fine wine in Cui Jiu'an's left hand, and he didn't know how this kid knew what Master Zu liked, but for the sake of these two jars of century-old wine, Master Zu should be willing to give it a try.
The three of them were blocked by a bend of spring water along the pebble path, Dr. Wan took off his shoes and socks and waded through the water, Cui Jiuan and Cui Ranxin did the same, the mountain spring was mild and not cold, the mountain stones were washed by the spring water and were exceptionally clean and without dirt, after the mountain stream, the three of them put on shoes and socks and still walked along the pebble road, the sky was completely dark, the valley under the moonlight was empty and quiet, and countless unknown herbs spread endlessly, and Dr. Wan was once again impressed by the old man who lived alone in the valley.
"How many stone houses should be in front of you? Why don't you see the lights on? Dr. Wan said the question in his heart.
Won't something happen to Master Zu? After all, Dr. Wan was old and had walked the mountain road for a day, and now he was anxious and tripped over the stones under his feet and almost fell, but fortunately, Cui Jiu'an, who was walking behind him, helped him.
"Doctor Wan, there's a pile of rocks there, let's go there and sit and rest." Cui Jiuan handed two pots of wine to Cui Ranxin, helped Dr. Wan to the stones, and was just about to sit down when he heard a loud voice in the dark.
"Can't sit - watch out for my scorpion smashing your ass."
Cui Jiuan kicked over the stones, and sure enough, something crawled inside.
"Master Zu, why are you blinded by the dark light?" Dr. Wan looked around, but there was no one in sight.
Cui Jiuan and Cui Ranxin looked at each other when they heard Dr. Wan's address to Doctor Du.
"Xiao Wanzi, did you bring candles here? And to eat? Better have another pot of good wine! The voice was full of energy, and it didn't look like a seventy-year-old man at all.
"Master Zu has food and good wine, but he doesn't bring candles, where are you?"
Hearing the word good wine, a scalper walked out of the back of the stone house, and an old man sat on the top of the scalper, saying that it was an old man, but the black-haired handsome face looked more than ten years younger than Dr. Wan, Cui Jiuan thought that he was mistaken by Cangshi's "old immortal" and thought that Doctor Du should be seventy or eighty years old, but now he told him that the middle-aged man on the back of the ox was Doctor Du, and he was also a little suspicious, and he was also surprised by Cui Ranxin, who was carrying wine, even if it was not a fairy wind bone, he should be well-dressed, but the middle-aged man in front of him was too shabby in a shabby green shirt.