This kind of voice that sounded like an adult man suddenly came out of the mouth of such a cute child, which really made Hou Bin and the others tremble. It's scary, but it's uncomfortable to hear. Hou Bin wanted to ask the old man why this kid spoke in such a voice, but he was afraid of poking someone's wound, so he swallowed back when the words came to his mouth.

Hou Bin and the two just smiled at the two children, and at this time, the old man came to Hou Bin and sat down next to the two with a kerosene lamp. Through the faint light, Hou Bin and the others saw that the old man's beard was very thick and crooked. Hou Bin was very puzzled, these two children ran into the mountains in the middle of the night, the old man looked so weird, and before Hou Bin could think about it, the old man began to chat with them.

The old man asked, "It's so late this day, why are you still running into the mountains?" ”

Hou Bin thought about it, although he looked at the old man's strange appearance, he didn't look like a villain, so he told the old man the truth, "We are running ghosts, this time we came to Wild Child Ridge to find a thing called Nightmare Crying, I heard that there is a cave in Wild Child Ridge, and there is this thing in that cave." ”

"What? Are you looking for a nightmare to cry? It was very ferocious and poisonous, and if it was bitten, it would be troublesome. The old man had a surprised look on his face.

There is a saying that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and this sentence could not be more appropriate to describe Hou Bin. Don't look at the old man's reaction so much, Hou Bin said with a nonchalant face: "It's okay, my second uncle is called the ghost Hou Ye, who specializes in this business, as long as he is there, this is absolutely no problem." When Hou Bin said this, he suddenly thought of something, and then asked: "Uncle, listen to what you mean, you should know a lot about Nightmare Crying, and you are a local, so you must know where the cave of Nightmare Crying is, right?" ”

"Of course you know, just go over this ridge." The old man pointed in the direction of the west as he spoke, "I just don't want you to go, that nightmare crying is even worse than the tiger in the mountains." ”

The two chatted for a while, and seeing that the time was almost up, Hou Bin proposed that they had been out for most of the day, and it was time to go back. I don't want to, but at this time, the old man suddenly said with an embarrassed face: "Actually, I am looking for two of you today, the old man, I have something to ask for." ”

When Hou Bin heard the old man say this, he felt very strange, obviously we took the initiative to send the child, but we happened to run into him, how could he say that he found it?

The old man sighed and continued, "I think the two of you also noticed just now that my grandson's voice was a little abnormal. In fact, my granddaughter is the same, so they usually don't dare to talk when they see people, for fear of scaring others. ”

"Oh? What's going on? Could it be that he has some strange disease? Hou Bin hurriedly asked.

"Well, I'm afraid you won't believe it." Speaking of this, the old man's eyes turned a little red, he paused for a moment, and continued: "My grandson and granddaughter look very cute, but they have a strange disease, and they are now eighteen years old, but they still look like children. ”

Hou Bin asked with a look of surprise, "What?" Are you eighteen years old? Do you mean that these two children haven't grown up all these years? After that, Hou Bin looked at the two children standing next to him, and couldn't believe that these two children were eighteen years old. At this time, the faces of the two children did not have the smiles they had just now.

"yes." The old man said this, and couldn't help but shed tears.

Hou Bin looked at the two children, and then at the old man, he didn't feel a good feeling, and hurriedly asked, "Is there any way to heal them?" ”

The old man wiped his tears and said, "There is a way, but it takes a century-old wild ginseng tree to cure the diseases of the two children." The old man said, staring at Hou Bin with his eyes, and seemed to care about Hou Bin's reaction after hearing it.

Although Hou Bin doesn't know anything about ginseng, he also knows that not to mention a century-old ginseng, even ordinary wild ginseng is not so easy to see. Hou Bin also looked at the old man with a helpless expression and said, "I'm afraid the two of us really can't help, this hundred-year-old wild ginseng can't be found casually." And we're not ginseng pickers, it's said that there are a lot of people who want to pick that thing, we just have this heart that wants to help you, I'm afraid we don't have this ability. ”

Unexpectedly, the sad face on the old man's face just now disappeared all of a sudden, and he said with a smile: "It's not difficult to find, we have it in the back mountain." "When the old man said about the back mountain, he was referring to the north side of the village.

Hou Bin asked with a puzzled face: "You said that there are 100-year-old wild ginseng in this Beishan?" ”

"Yes, if it weren't for my old dizziness, I would have gone a long time ago. I happened to meet two of you today, and I hope you two will definitely help me with this. With that, the old man stood up.

Hou Bin thought to himself, I don't even recognize what this ginseng looks like, plus in the middle of the night, looking for ginseng in this deep mountain and old forest, this is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Thinking of this, Hou Bin politely refused. But the old man insisted again and again, and asked the two of them to accompany him to Beishan to look for ginseng, and as he spoke, he shed tears again. Hou Bin and the others also looked at the old man pitifully, even if they couldn't find ginseng, they could accompany the old man to go on a trip, at least it could be regarded as a comfort to the old man. Thinking of this, Hou Bin and the others agreed to the old man's request.

When the old man saw that Hou Bin had agreed to help, he immediately closed his mouth happily, and took the two of them to Beishan in the middle of the night. The two of them walked on the road in the village and looked left and right, and it was very strange that there was suddenly an extra village in the mountain, but every house in this village was lit up, but there was no one in sight, which made the two people puzzled. But at the moment, the two of them have no time to study this issue.

Besides, the old man looked at the crutch in his hand, but the crutch was like an ornament. The old man walked very vigorously in front of the two, not at all like an old man of seventy or eighty years old, and even Hou Bin, two young people in their twenties, occasionally had to trot two steps behind, otherwise they would be left behind. The three of them arrived at the mountain in a short time.

Hou Bin originally thought that he would not sleep this night, so he would accompany the old man to wander around the mountains. But when the old man arrived on the mountain, it didn't seem like he was looking for something at all, as if he knew where the thing he was looking for was, and he took Hou Bin and the two of them for about twenty minutes, and stopped when they reached a place. At this time, the old man was still breathing steadily, and he couldn't see that he was a little tired, but Hou Bin and the monkey were already tired and sweating profusely.

Hou Bin wiped his sweat and thought to himself, this old man is here to look for something, this is here to walk the two of us, Hou Bin gasped and said, "I said uncle, you are really fast enough." Let me tell you, if we continue to look like this, we won't find anything tomorrow morning. ”

No, the old man pointed to a small open space in front of him with a smile on his face and said, "No need to find it tomorrow morning." ”

"What? Got it? Hou Bin had an expression of disbelief, because it was too late to see his surroundings clearly. Hou Bin also wanted to save some electricity, but the flashlight was never turned on. As soon as Hou Bin heard that he had found it, he hurriedly turned on the flashlight and shone it in the direction pointed by the old man. I found that there seemed to be some kind of formation in that small area. Eight oval stones are arranged in a circular stone formation, which is strange to say, because there are no other weeds in and around this stone formation. Only in the middle of the Stonehenge grew something about half a meter tall, with leaves shaped a bit like poplar leaves, but a little more slender than poplar leaves, with a cluster of red bean-like things growing at the top. Speaking of this stone formation, there is a red thread pressed under each stone, and the other end of the eight red threads is tied to this grass. There is also a red rope that runs under each stone separately, eventually forming a circle.

Hou Bin and the others looked confused, and pointed to the suspected ginseng tree in the middle of the stone formation and asked the old man: "Could it be that the one in the middle tied by a red rope is the hundred-year-old ginseng you said?" ”

The old man nodded again and again and said, "That's right, this is a hundred-year-old wild ginseng, and it will definitely cure my grandson and granddaughter's illness." ”

Hou Bin and the two looked at each other individually, very excited. One is because if you find a century-old ginseng, you can cure the diseases of two children, and the other is because you can see a century-old ginseng in this life, which can be regarded as a rise in knowledge. The two of them circled around the stone formation twice, and suddenly Hou Bin pointed to the stone formation and asked, "Uncle, is this ...... Who set up this stone formation? Why do you want to tie this ginseng? ”

Hou Bin asked, but the old man seemed a little at a loss, hesitated for a long time, and said with an uncomfortable face: "But, it may be, which ginseng picker got it." ”

Hou Bin nodded and admired the hundred-year-old wild ginseng next to the stone formation, at this time, the old man was a little anxious, "Don't patronize the two of you, let's do it." ”

As soon as Hou Bin heard that he was going to dig ginseng, he found that these three people didn't bring anything with them when they went up the mountain, so Hou Bin said: "Uncle, we were in a hurry just now, and we didn't even bring a shovel, how can we dig this?" ”

Unexpectedly, the old man said unhurriedly: "You don't need a shovel, you haven't dug ginseng at first glance." You can remove all the stones around you first, and then untie the red rope from the ginseng. ”

Hou Bin looked at the old man suspiciously, thinking to himself, although this ginseng is very magical, it doesn't mean that if you untie this rope, you will jump out by yourself. Although I thought so in my heart, since the old man said so, let's move the stone away first.

The size of this stone is not very big, Hou Bin took a flashlight, the monkey stepped forward to remove a stone, and found that there was a wooden stick nailed into the soil under the stone, and the red rope was tied to this wooden stick. The two men looked at each other, and the monkey continued to move the other stones, and after a while the stones were finished, and all that was left was the red rope.

The red rope was tied very strongly on the stick, and the monkey pulled the red rope hard, and the stick was pulled out. The monkey muttered as he pulled out the stick, "What kind of trick is this, when I see that the ginseng is not picked, but tied up, what kind of fame is this." After a while, the stick was pulled out, and it was left tied to the end of the ginseng.

Hou Bin and the two walked over, carefully untied the red rope, and saw that the place where the red rope was tied was strangled with a deep mark, it seemed that the rope had been tied for a while. At this time, the two of them turned around and asked the old man, "The stone has been moved, and the rope has been untied, what should I do next?" ”

I didn't want the old man to suddenly point to the back of Hou Bin and the two and said, "Huh? Why is ginseng gone? ”