Chapter Forty-Eight: Staying in the Dark
"The main peak of this Cen Wang Lao Mountain is more than 2,000 meters above sea level, and the dendrobium grows at an altitude of more than 1,500 meters, and they all grow on steep rocks or cliffs. As he spoke, he walked into the village.
"Huh? It's taller than Tarzan! Chuniel was surprised and said, "It won't take two days to climb up." ”
"Almost, besides, we have to go up from the back mountain, there is no way at all, two days is fast, plus the time to go down the mountain, it will take four or five days to go back and forth, but there may not be a single dendrobium in these four or five days, you must be prepared."
Lai Shatuo stopped as he spoke, turned his head and said, "By the way, you don't need to go up to the mountains to pick it, just find a place to live in the nearby village." ”
"Shall we go find a place to live now?"
"No, you'll have to find a few local guides and workers who often collect medicine." So saying, he walked over to a group of chattering people in the stockade.
Lai Shatuo communicated with them in Hakka, and then the people pointed to him, and he nodded, and led us on, and the people gave us strange glances and were still whispering.
Lai Shatuo came to a house, went in and talked with the owner inside, the atmosphere was good at first, and then the owner's expression became more nervous, shaking his head frequently, although we don't understand Hakka, but the action still knows, he doesn't want to do this job, probably not because of money, but because it's too dangerous.
In this way, Lai Shatuo found many more people, but they were all rejected, and Shanzi and Chunnier looked a little depressed when they saw this.
I patted Shanzi on the shoulder, forced a smile to comfort him, and said: "Shanzi, it's okay, there is a saying that good things are more grinding, I don't believe it, such a big village, there are not many brave men!" ”
Shanzi nodded, but didn't say anything.
Chun Nier put her mouth to my ear and whispered: "Do you say that Lai Shatuo gives people less money, and we can't understand Hakka, he wants to make a big pen in the middle." ”
I raised my hand and touched Chun Nier's head, "Silly girl, if he wanted to make more money in the middle, he would have opened his mouth to our lion when he first negotiated the price, and he still has to wait until now to make it so difficult for himself, you see that his legs running in this village are about to break." ”
Chun Nier nodded, turned her face to Shanzi and said, "There are Ding Jia and me, don't worry, let's do everything we can to find Dendrobium, it's a big deal to give them more money, I don't believe that anyone can still get along with money." ”
Shanzi nodded again, still not speaking.
I saw the way he looked, and knew he was uncomfortable, so I gently pulled Chuniel and motioned for her to stop talking.
The sky gradually darkened, and the four of us had to find a family in the village to live in.
The man was not bad, not only did he leave us overnight, but he also let us have dinner with his family.
When he learned of our intentions, he told us with great interest that he used to be a carpenter, but because his daughter was sick, he changed his career to become a medicine picker, not only to earn more money, but also to find time to pick some herbs for her daughter's treatment.
"I have seen this dendrobium before, there is a cliff near the Phoenix Cave in the back mountain, and the temperature and humidity of that place are very suitable for the growth of dendrobium."
When Lai Shatuo heard this, he quickly picked up the phone and asked him if he would like to help mine some dendrobium, the price is not a problem.
But the man smiled and shook his head, "Wild Dendrobium grows very slowly, not only is it scarce, but it is also difficult to find it in normal times, and even if it is found, it is not easy to pick." ”
He took a sip of wine and gently put the cup on the table, "If you want to go to the cliff of the back mountain, you must pass through the Phoenix Cave, but the Phoenix Cave is very evil, and there are often people who die there without knowing it." ”
"Huh?" When Shanzi heard this, he suddenly became nervous, "How many lives do you have to take if you can't get it?" ”
"It's hard to say, but I heard the old man in the village say that the people who died near the Phoenix Cave were all golden, and it is not very clear why this is."
My heart chuckled, and some sweat oozed from my forehead, according to the year of birth, I am the golden life in the sea!
If someone is willing to pick dendrobium, I must follow, because it is the life-saving straw of Shanzi, and I will never be careless, but if it is really as the man said, then it will be really bad luck.
"What's wrong?" Chuniel looked at me gently, "Uncomfortable? ”
"Oh, no, no, I'm thinking that dendrobium grows on a cliff, and I don't know how to pick it, hehe." I prevaricated, but Chuniel still looked at me, pursed her lips and said nothing.
"We all have special tools for picking herbs, and we all make them ourselves, which is very safe." The man explained it to me.
Just as we were talking, the man's daughter suddenly screamed "ah", and the whole person slipped from the table to the ground, convulsed, foaming at the mouth, rolled his eyes up, and kept scratching with his two hands.
"What's wrong! Lift her up! Shanzi was close, and he hugged the girl as soon as he went over.
"Don't touch her!" Raishada shouted, "She's sick! ”
The man became extremely nervous, and kept shouting the girl's name in his mouth, and he stepped forward to grab the girl's arm, but was torn open by Raishata.
I saw Lai Shatuo hurry over, pinched the girl's middle with his right hand, and pressed her leg hard with his left hand, "Take off her shoes!" Fast! ”
Shanzi hurriedly took off the girl's shoes, and after Lai Shatuo finished pinching the middle of the person, he pressed the acupuncture points the soles of the girl's feet, making the master's family dumbfounded.
Lai Shatuo turned her whole body over again, picked up the two chopsticks that had fallen to the ground, aimed them at the underside of the girl's shoulder blades, and poked them vigorously a few times.
After a while, the girl stopped twitching, her breathing became normal, and she slowly woke up, but her face was still very ugly.
Raisa took out a small bottle from his bag, poured out two pills from it, fed it to the girl, and then handed the bottle to the man, "If she gets sick again, give her this, one pill at a time." ”
The man was stunned and nodded blankly, and Lai Shatuo quickly wrote some words on the paper with a pen, and then gave it to the man, and then gave him another advice, and the man was immediately happy, and thanked him again and again.
After the meal, Chunnier fell asleep first, and Shanzi and I sat in the yard smoking and chatting.
"I don't know how the old buttocks and the obscene Zhao are doing now, have they gone to find the well."
"They're all outlaws who value their money, and they must have gone to find the well." After Shanzi finished speaking, he squinted at me, "Are you still thinking about that Linda?" ”
"Don't talk nonsense, I want her to do it!"
"Why, you're afraid that the one in the house will hear it? Look at how scared you are, you will be a strict wife in the future! He smirked smirked.
But he seemed to suddenly think of something, and he suppressed his smile in an instant, "I'll tell you, I don't think Linda's little girl is so simple, you'd better stay away from her." ”