At noon, the Wang family gave her a basket of beans and chili peppers, and dinner was sweet potato porridge and a pot of fried beans with chili peppers.

After dinner, Yunxi tried to talk to Qin Jianguo about Chen Yuxiang, but he diverted the topic at the beginning, Yunxi pondered that he either really didn't have any thoughts about Chen Yuxiang, or he felt that he had injured his leg and didn't want to delay the girl.

In this case, she still thought about healing his leg first.

After breakfast the next day, Yunxi found a small back basket from home, and then found a long-handled woodcutter to put into the back basket, and was seen by Qin Jianguo before leaving, he immediately asked, "What are you doing with a woodcutter?" ”

Yunxi's eyes flashed, and he replied: "I'll go to the foot of the mountain in the north to find herbs, and the woodcutter can defend myself." ”

Qin Jianguo's brows condensed: "If it is necessary to collect medicine for my injured leg, I will go to the town health center tomorrow to get anti-inflammatory medicine." ”

Yunxi said with a smile: "The herbs for your injured legs to reduce swelling are available on this hillside, so you don't need to go to the mountains in the north." I went there to collect some valuable herbs and sell them at the yard. ”

Qin Jianguo was silent for a while when he heard this, and then reminded: "It's okay at the foot of the mountain, but don't go into the deep mountains, there are many wild beasts in the mountains." ”

Yunxi smiled and nodded: "I know." ”

With the pigweed sent by the Chen family yesterday, Laidi alone can take care of the more than 20 pigs, and she can rest assured that she can go to the mountains to try her luck.

As for the foot of the mountain...... She was so busy that she might not be able to earn enough money to buy silver needles for a year, which was three hundred yuan.

Crossing the river through the village, Yunxi walked for about an hour to reach the foot of the mountains to the north.

swept the foot of the mountain, and sure enough, there was no harvest, and Yunxi went up the mountain without hesitation.

There is a lot of rain in the mountains in spring and summer, and a dark cloud will rain heavily, but on the other side of the mountain, it may still be a sunny day, causing a strange scene of rain in the east and sunny in the west.

As soon as she entered the mountain, Yunxi caught up with such a rain, she hid under a tall pine tree, until the dark clouds drifted away before coming out, the water vapor was full, the grass and trees were hanging with water droplets, the sun shone brightly, the dazzling light, the colorful rainbow, made people fall into a fairyland.

Yunxi was drunk for a while, and finally remembered the purpose of his trip, looking for precious herbs.

On the price list of herbs at the purchasing station, she remembered that the two most expensive herbs were Dendrobium officinale and Ganoderma lucidum, which means that these two herbs must be found in the local mountains.

Ganoderma lucidum has been known as "fairy grass" since ancient times, and Dendrobium officinale is not far behind, but these two flavors are in the deep mountains above thousands of meters above sea level, and the road to find medicine is obviously not easy.

She took out a woodcutter from the back basket, walked along the mountain road stepped by the predecessors, and from time to time slapped the surrounding grass with a woodcutter, startling away the snakes and insects in the meantime, and also startled the squirrels hiding in the trees to flee with pine nuts, and the birds fluttered and flew up, making a chirp, which was very pleasant.

It's just that it has just rained, the mountain road under her feet is muddy, Yunxi is wearing old cloth shoes and slipping from time to time, every time she arrives, she will grab the vines on the side to stabilize her body.

The mountain climbed higher and higher, the forest became deeper and deeper, the lush grass and trees covered the mountain road that had been stepped on in previous years, and the fine sunlight that penetrated through the gaps in the leaves did not shine on the body too hot, Yunxi estimated that it was about the same height, and began to look for medicinal herbs on both sides.

At this time, it is May, which is the season of growth of Dendrobium officinale, the leaves are long and narrow, and the green; The stem is erect, cylindrical, with abundant juice hidden inside, about 2-3 mm thick and about ten cm long; This season also coincides with the flowering season, with yellow-green sepals and petals.

However, this season is also the time when the wildflowers bloom in the mountains, and the flowers of Dendrobium officinale are very inconspicuous.

Yunxi bent over, brushing aside the vines and wild flowers, and slowly searched the rocks and the roots of the trees.

The sun rose to mid-heaven and slowly slid towards the west, Yunxi's body was covered with grass clippings, and the back of his hand was scratched by thorns, but he still didn't find half a dendrobium.

As for Ganoderma lucidum, there is no shadow.

She rubbed her sore lower back, looked up at the sun, hesitated whether to climb up for a while, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a rock in the south, and her scalp instantly tingled.

For lying on the rock was an animal with an ancient coin-shaped black ring on its fur, and as if sensing her gaze, it opened its eyes, and its pupils glowed in the sun.

At this moment, Yunxi's pupils constricted, and he subconsciously wanted to turn around and run, but he stopped again, because once he turned around and ran away, his back would be exposed, and he would not be spared, after all, people could not run past leopards.

Her heart was beating violently, Yunxi's hands and feet were cold, she was trying her best to think about how to escape, but her brain was a mess, and she couldn't think of a way, she only vaguely remembered that she couldn't panic, she couldn't escape, she couldn't bow her head, and she couldn't take an offensive posture.

Sweat flowed down her forehead and into her eyes, but she didn't dare to wipe it, she didn't dare to blink, for fear that in the blink of an eye, the leopard would pounce.

His eyes were staring straight at the leopard, and sweat ran down his chin and smashed on his feet.

The sound of water droplets was like a signal, the leopard suddenly opened its mouth, Yunxi's heart rose to his throat, and he clenched the woodcutter in his hand, but the leopard closed its mouth at this time, and it yawned.

Then she got up and slowly climbed down the rock, towards the grass opposite hers.

Hearing the sound of the rope, it grew farther and farther away, until it could no longer be heard, and the cloud stream swooped to the rock, and a cluster of yellow-green flowers bloomed on the side of the rock.

That's Dendrobium!

The dendrobium that can't be found everywhere actually grows on the side of the rock where the leopard rests, and Yunxi doesn't know why he can still remember to collect medicine at a critical moment.

But the medicinal herbs were in front, even if she was scared to death, she still rushed over and pulled it out, her hands were shaking, but she pulled it out firmly, the soil was not shaking, she threw it into the back basket, and then, she pulled her legs and ran!

She kept running, running down the hill, I don't know how many times she slipped or how many times she scratched the back of her hand, the wind blew past her ears, and the branches of the trees crossed her cheeks, and she didn't care about it, she just ran down with all her strength, and met a person on the mountain road ahead.

It was an old farmer who went up the mountain to chop firewood, and when he saw her rushing down, he immediately avoided her, and called out to her: "Girl, what are you running?" But what did you run into on it? ”

She hurriedly held on to the pine tree on the side, gasping for breath, seeing the old farmer looking at her back basket with a curious face, she immediately replied: "I didn't touch anything, I just saw that the sun was about to set, I want to rush home, if I go back late, my father and mother will whip me with a stick." ”

The old farmer didn't know whether to believe her words or not, but nodded at her: "The girl shouldn't go up the mountain alone, you go home quickly, don't let the family worry." ”

Yunxi thanked the old farmer for his reminder, passed by the old farmer sideways, and when he couldn't see the old farmer's figure, he immediately jumped into the pine forest next to the road, picked up a piece of mushroom and threw it into the back basket, and tightly covered the dendrobium at the bottom of the basket.