Lei Zhenren and I could see it clearly, as soon as the box was opened, there was an elderly man curled up inside, with a red rope tied to his body, nested in the box, looking at us innocently.

"What the fuck is this red goods?" Lei Zhenren looked at the old man and was confused for a while: "What can you do when you send this to Luban's house?" ”

The old man in the box looked a little wilted, didn't say anything, curled up inside to look at me and Lei Zhenren. After staring at each other for a long time, Lei Zhenren brought him out. The old man was hunched over, looking listless, and paused on the spot, drooping his head. The two of us became more and more curious, and after looking at him for a long time, we couldn't recognize who he was. But vaguely, I felt that there was a faint medicinal fragrance on him.

"Who are you? How did you get caught in the box? Lei Zhenren's mouth couldn't stay idle, and he held it for a while before asking.

"Let me go." The old man raised his head and said to us, "Let me go." ”

Gradually, I noticed that the red rope on his body was actually very thin, and it could be broken with a little force, but the old man was tied by this very thin red rope and was listless. He looked very pitiful, and people couldn't help but want to help him, but he had suffered a lot of losses before, and he no longer dared to trust people casually. Lei Zhenren and I suddenly felt that we had made a mistake, thinking that we could grab this red item and talk to the people of Yaowang Temple about the conditions, who knew that things would be like this.

But on second thought, the people of Yaowang Temple would do something for no reason?

"Tell us honestly, who are you, why do the people of Yaowang Temple want to arrest you?" Lei Zhenren sniffled and asked Lao Fuba.

"I don't know." Lao Fuba rolled his eyes in a daze: "I was arrested in a daze." ”

To my ears, Lao Fuba must be telling a perfunctory lie, but Lei Zhenren seemed to be very patient at this time, squatting on the ground and chatting with Lao Fuba for a long time, pondering while chatting. Lao Fuba seems to be lying, but after watching it for a long time, he seems to be heartless, and he will say whatever Lei Zhenren asks.

After chatting for a while, Lei Zhenren coughed and pulled me aside, mung bean's eyes flashed with excitement, and he whispered: "This old man may have some origins." ”

"Where did it come from?"

"I'm just guessing, I'm not sure yet, I'll find out when I ask." Lei Zhenren turned around, with a smile on his face as if he had drunk honey, walked back to Lao Fuba's side, and said, "Ask something, live alone, do you know?" ”

", I grew up in a lone nest, can I not know."

"There's a kind of solitary life, purple, have you ever seen it?"

"Ouch, you know Zi Duhuo, your baby is not simple." As soon as Lao Fuba said this, he was energetic, shaking his spirit, and spitting stars flew around: "Next to Zi Duhuo, there must be Chi Lianzi, looking for Zi Duhuo, followed by Chi Lian Zi who is more than three feet long, it swims back to the nest at night, and it is found within a radius of nearly three zhang Zhou, and it is right to keep it." ”

"What about you?" Lei Zhenren said slowly: "What are you?" ”

Lao Fuba was talking vigorously, but was interrupted by Lei Zhenren, as if he also noticed something from his expression, he immediately closed his mouth, and looked at Lei Zhenren in confusion with two eyes.

"I am a foreigner, and my hometown is in Chishuigouzi, Lianhua Township"

"Come on." Lei Zhenren smiled and said word by word: "You are an old mountain ginseng." ”

The old man was speechless all of a sudden, and wanted to say something, but he may not be good at lying by nature, and he stammered tremblingly for a long time, without saying a word, and subconsciously retreated, with horror in his eyes. Now look at Lao Fuba and reflect on his accent, and I immediately realize something.

There is no kind of primeval old forest that stretches for thousands of miles in the Central Plains, but from here to the northeast, all the way to the Liaoji region, especially the large and small Xing'an Mountains, the line of Changbai Mountain, the old forest is dense. People who hunt, collect medicine, pan for gold, and dig ginseng in the old forest are collectively referred to as herding mountains. There are many strange things in the deep mountains and old forests, and every line of people in the mountains has its own traditions and customs. For example, ginseng pickers usually walk through the old forests to look for mountain ginseng, and the quality of mountain ginseng is generally distinguished by the age, weight, and value of its growth by the leaves. As the saying goes, seven taels are ginseng, eight taels are treasures, when you meet ordinary mountain ginseng, you can directly dig out slowly with deer bones, if you meet the old ginseng that really grows for more than a thousand years, you have to be careful. Legend has it that the old ginseng has become a refinement, and if you dig it with a shovel here, you will run away without a trace in a blink of an eye, and you can't catch up with it, and the speed is extremely fast. Therefore, the kind of thousand-year-old mountain ginseng needs to be tied with a red head rope first, and the mountain ginseng is tied by the red rope, and there is no way to escape to the ground, so you can dig it out and take it away in one go.

The people of Yaowang Temple purchase and collect medicinal materials all the year round, the experience is very rich, the area of Changbai Mountain in the Great Xing'an Mountains is a natural large medicine storehouse, the weather is cold there, the growth of medicinal materials is slow, from germination to maturity, often dozens of hundreds of years, or even longer, often there are Yaowang unearthed. There was a faint medicinal aura on Lao Fuba's body, coupled with various circumstances, Lei Zhenren immediately made a judgment. And Lao Fuba is not good at lying, and when he hesitates, it is actually equivalent to admitting Lei Zhenren's guess.

"Seven taels of ginseng, eight taels of treasures, after a catty, it is priceless." Lei Zhenren squeezed his eyebrows at me and said, "This old man has been at least more than a thousand years old, and this time it can be regarded as a hair!" ”

Lao Fuba vaguely heard Lei Zhenren's words, his hands were wrapped in his sleeves, and he squatted on the ground pitifully, looking helpless and pleading. He was very uncomfortable being tied with a red-headed rope, and he couldn't move a step, like a piece of meat that was still on the board, and how to cut it depended on the cook's meaning. Lei Zhenren's eyebrows fluttered, that kind of old ginseng was already a miracle medicine, Lei Zhenren drooled at the corner of his mouth while talking, and it seemed that he would grab the old man's mouth and bite it at any time.

"Forget it." I thought about it, shook my head, and ignored Lei Zhenren's words, such old ginseng is rarely seen in the mainland, except for running fast, there is no other ability, and it will not harm people. Even if you keep this old mountain ginseng as your own, it is not very useful. Thinking about it, I'm about to untie the red rope from Lao Fuba's body.

"Don't move!" Lei Zhenren hurriedly stopped me and said, "Untie the rope, we won't be able to catch up with him." ”

I didn't listen, I just felt pitiful. Listening to the dispute between the two of us, Lao Fuba was about to cry, and said, "I'll help you find Zi Duhu, if you want me to do anything, don't send me to the pharmacy."

In this way, Lei Zhenren couldn't say anything, the people who robbed the Medicine King Temple originally meant to live in exchange for Zi Duhu. Lao Fuba looked too pitiful, and I was in a stalemate with Lei Zhenren for a while, and then he waved his hand helplessly. I untied the red head rope on Lao Fuba's body, and Lao Fuba was suddenly free, his body straightened up, and he ran back and forth in place a few times, dazzling quickly. Lei Zhenren followed Lao Fuba closely, probably afraid that he would run away.

"Don't worry, we are all honest people, we don't want to fool people." Lao Fuba scattered a circle of joy, slowed down his pace, and his spirit improved a lot: "I'll go find Zi Duhuo for you, Chi Lianzi won't bite me when he sees me, and the relationship is good." ”

Lao Fuba is like an old child, it is estimated that he has grown up in the old forest since he was a child, he has not been in contact with the hearts of the outside world, he is carefree, and he is very happy when he is released. The three of us buried the box on the spot and moved it to another place, Lei Zhenren looked a little depressed, as if the fat meat in his mouth had grown wings and flew away, he took out the wine jug and drank the wine, and the old man begged him for wine with confused eyes.

"Give and give! It's all for you! Lei Zhenren directly stuffed the wine jug to Lao Fuba, turned around and sulked.

Lao Fuba was not polite, grabbed the wine pot and poured a few sips, an old face suddenly turned red, and sang in his voice: "My family is in the northeast, on Changbai Mountain"

After making a fuss in the middle of the night, Lao Fuba's wine also woke up, put his hands in his sleeves, and said: "Your Gada is all sandy land, don't live alone, I have to run a little farther, pass the last moon and put the land, and then come here to meet, I don't cheat people, if it doesn't work, I'll give you an explanation." ”

"I can trust you." The more I look at Lao Fuba, the more interesting it is, full of childlike nature, and there is no scheming.

"Then I'm gone." Lao Fuba returned the wine jug to Lei Zhenren, just turned around and walked a few steps, turned back again, shook his head and thought about it, and said: "I'm always unhappy in my heart, Zi Duhuo hasn't been found yet, and I always owe you something." ”

As he spoke, Lao Fuba rolled up his trouser legs, pulled off a few leg hairs hard, and grinned in pain. I didn't know what he was going to do, he pinched the leg hair that he had pulled off and patted Lei Zhenren and me on the leg and stomach, and immediately sighed and felt relieved. He waved to us while turning around: "If you go south and north, you have to run if you can't beat it, I'm used to being chased, and I'm used to running, don't say anything, see you in a month."

The old man walked fast, and disappeared in an instant. I always felt a little itchy feeling on my legs, and when I opened my trousers, I saw that there seemed to be a few more whitish ginseng whiskers on my calves, and my legs were hot and hot.

"Even if he didn't let him go in vain, this old ginseng knows how to repay his kindness." Lei Zhenren didn't stretch his brows until this time, looking at a few whiskers on his legs: "Anyway, since I followed you and the big fat man, I haven't been picked up by many people, and now I have a bottom." ”

Lao Fuba is far away, even if he doesn't break his promise, it will be a month before they meet again. I was quiet in my heart, but I thought of what I had heard from the people of Yaowang Temple before. Xiao Jiuhong, is she going to marry the grandson of the Lu family?