And why was this old medicine farmer successful? It's a bit of a coincidence.

This old medicine farmer is very thin, I don't know why, since the age of seven or eight, he likes to climb high, at first he climbed trees, more than ten meters high trees, he also dared to climb up slowly, and later, as he grew up, he began to climb the cliff, and climbed higher and higher.

Because his parents died early, he was brought up by his uncle, who was lazy and very gambling, and usually didn't bother to care about him. The people in the village saw that this child was so "monkey-like", and they all said that he was born by a monkey, otherwise why did he like to climb high places so much? Everyone felt that if this continued, the child would fall to his death sooner or later.

Strange to say, when people stand on a high place and look down, they are generally afraid, that is, people often say "fear of heights", but the old medicine farmer does not have this problem at all, no matter how high he stands, he has never felt afraid, not only is he not afraid, but he also feels very excited. But such an endowment is too useful for collecting medicines.

Because the more precious herbs are, they often grow on cliffs, or dangerous places that are difficult for ordinary people to reach, and the precious herbs that others can't pick are nothing to the old medicine farmers.

Slowly, the old medicine farmer became a well-known master of medicine picking, many high-quality herbs, only the old medicine farmer can pick them, so his income is quite good, and later he married a daughter-in-law, had children, and compared with most people, the small life is quite prosperous.

But the old medicine farmer has a bad habit - gambling like his life, just like his uncle, this may be genetic.

One summer, it rained heavily for seven or eight days in a row, and the old medicine farmer could not go into the mountains to collect medicine, and his hands were itchy when he was idle, so he gambled with several local rich people, but he didn't expect that his luck was not good, and he lost even the gamble.

In the end, there was no way, and the old medicine farmer begged these rich men to give him a few days of leniency, and if he really couldn't get together the money, he would use his wife and house to cash out his gambling debts.

After coming back, the old medicine farmer pondered for a long time, and finally came up with a way to pay off his gambling debts - to dig Ganoderma lucidum on that cliff.

He had never had such a thought before. Although he was never afraid of the dangers of a cliff, that cliff was extraordinary, not only in terms of terrain, but also in other dangers.

People in the vicinity of the cliff all know that the cliff is a "haunted" place, except for a person in the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who successfully dug up Ganoderma lucidum from there, none of the other people who went to dig medicine on the cliff wall could come back alive.

When the old medicine farmer was a child, he knew that there were three medicine farmers in the village, and they died like this. Therefore, he, like everyone else, was very afraid of that cliff, and usually when it was dark, he didn't even dare to pass near the cliff, let alone go to the cliff to dig for Ganoderma lucidum.

But this time there is really no way out, if the wife and house are gone, then I am really separated from my wife, what is the point of living?

So he was ruthless, gritted his teeth, and decided to risk his life and try his luck on that cliff.

Although the old medicine farmer is a gambler and dares to climb to a dangerous place that ordinary people are afraid of, he is not reckless in nature, he is a very scheming person, and before going to that cliff, he deliberately went to Wang Xiucai's house.

Wang Xiucai is a teaching gentleman, erudite, very smart, very young in the examination of the former Qing Dynasty Xiucai, after the end of the Qing Dynasty, the establishment of the Republic of China, he failed to continue to take the road of the imperial examination, the locals say that he is a champion material, but born at the wrong time, can only be a private school Mr.

However, Wang Xiucai is a warm-hearted person, not only knowledgeable, but also well-informed, many people like to ask him for help when they encounter difficulties, and find solutions.

The old medicine farmer usually has a good relationship with Wang Xiucai, and he feels that this Wang Xiucai is indeed worthy of his reputation, and he cannot compare his views on many things.

For this life-and-death operation, of course, the old medicine farmer wanted to discuss with Wang Xiucai to see if Wang Xiucai could help him think of a way to make him more confident in this operation.

When the old medicine farmer saw Wang Xiucai and told him about his plan, Wang Xiucai suddenly frowned, and he didn't say a word for a long time, which made the old medicine farmer feel even more bottomless.

After a long while, Wang Xiucai suddenly asked the old medicine farmer: "Do you really want to do this?" Have you figured it out? As a friend for many years, I must remind you that if you really want to go to the cliff to pick Lingzhi, ninety percent of you will die, and it will be difficult to come back alive. ”

When the old medicine farmer heard Wang Xiucai say this, he first let out a long sigh, and then nodded firmly. What could he do if he didn't?

Wang Xiucai saw that the old medicine farmer had made up his mind, so he shook his head helplessly, then stood up, walked over and opened the door, looked outside, and after making sure that there was no one outside, he closed the door again, quietly retreated and sat down, and said to the old medicine farmer in a low voice and mysteriously: "Have you heard of Yongzheng Ye, the person who dug Ganoderma lucidum from the cliff?" ”

Wang Xiucai's series of strange reactions made the old medicine farmer a little confused, and he didn't know why Wang Xiucai suddenly became so nervous.

As soon as he heard Wang Xiucai ask him, he hurriedly replied: "Of course I know about Lu Dao, who in our area doesn't know about Lu Dao?" ”

Unexpectedly, Wang Xiucai shook his head again and again after hearing it: "Hey, most people only know one and don't know the other, everyone knows that after the person dug up the Ganoderma lucidum, he dedicated it to Yongzhengye, and then he was rewarded heavily, and he also had a reputation, and he didn't have to salute when he saw the local prefect, but since then, there have been a series of strange things in their family." ”

Wang Xiucai said this, stood up again, took out an oiled paper bag from under the bed, and then opened the oiled paper bag layer by layer, and the innermost bread was a book.

Wang Xiucai cautiously opened the book, pointed to the lines on it and said to the old medicine farmer: "Look, this is the genealogy of our clan, the person who picked Ganoderma lucidum from the cliff, called Wang Xingguang, moved to the provincial capital after being rewarded by the imperial court.

Later, he gave birth to eight sons, but the strange thing is that after seven of the sons got married, they were all freaks, and these seven sons, I don't know what strange diseases they had, they all died one after another at a young age, and only the eldest gave birth to a normal son, which became Wang Xingguang's only grandson.

Wang Xingguang was afraid that the incense would be cut off, so when this grandson was just nine years old, he married him an eighteen-year-old daughter-in-law. But when this grandson was fourteen years old, he also contracted a strange illness and died—and this strange disease is said to be the same as that of several of his uncles.

In this way, the last seedling of Wang Xingguang's family also died.

The day after his grandson's death, Wang Xingguang's eldest son also hanged himself. In this way, the men of Wang Xingguang's family all died mysteriously one after another.

Wang Xingguang has gone crazy after this kind of blow, he is sometimes sober, sometimes confused, and often mutters to himself, 'I really shouldn't have gone to that cliff to dig Ganoderma lucidum, I suffered retribution, it was those little ghosts who did it, ** grandma, I want to fight with them, it is they who harm my family like this, and they make me lose my children and grandchildren'.

Moreover, his own body soon died, and before he died, two brothers from our village went to the provincial capital to see him—one of these two races was my ancestor.

Maybe it was because he returned to the light before he died, and Wang Xingguang's mind became very clear. He told the two brothers in detail about his experience on the cliff.

It turned out that when he went to the cliff to collect Ganoderma lucidum, he encountered a lot of mysterious things, and he had never told others about these things before.

Wang Xingguang said that he did not act rashly, and he made a lot of preparations before climbing the cliff.

He first asked the old people in the neighborhood about the legends of the cliff in detail; Not only that, but he also visited the relatives and friends of the victims of the cliff climbing one by one and listened carefully to their stories about the victims.

After these preparations, Wang Xingguang summarized several very important points:

The rumors about the ghosts under that cliff are probably true, because there are many old people in the village who have seen them with their own eyes, especially when the plague is rampant, there will really be 'little ghosts' who will climb up and steal people's corpses, and most of the time when the little ghosts appear are at night.

The village also invited a Taoist priest with high magic power to shoot a 'little ghost' with a bow and arrow, and many villagers had seen the corpse of the 'little ghost' with their own eyes - it was green, with a triangular head, a pair of long ears, and sparse red hair on its body, which looked extremely terrifying, and looked very much like the legendary little ghost.

The villagers were shocked and surprised that they did not expect the 'little ghost' to die. The Taoist priest explained that the bow and arrow shafts he used were made of peach wood and blessed with spells, so he could shoot the 'little ghost' to death.

When the villagers wanted to take a closer look at the corpse of the 'little ghost', the Taoist priest threw the corpse down the cliff. These all show that the legend about the little ghost under the cliff is not groundless, and nine times out of ten it is true.

In addition, Wang Xingguang also found that those who died on the cliff may not have been killed directly by these 'ghosts', but fell into the cliff and died after their ropes were broken.

So who broke the rope? Are they the 'imps', or are there some other monsters? No one knows what to do.

There was once a medicine farmer who also noticed this, so he specially asked a blacksmith to build an iron cable, and wanted to take a risk, but he thought that if he changed the iron cable, it would be broken.

Why is this cliff so dangerous, and why do people keep taking risks?

The reason is very simple - because the herb pickers all know the Tao, judging by the environment in which the herbs grow, there must be a lot of precious herbs on that cliff, and experienced old medicine farmers can even smell the smell of Ganoderma lucidum on the cliff.

'No one does the business that loses money, and someone does the business of killing heads', and if there is huge profit, someone will dare to sacrifice their lives to do it. So, despite the fact that this cliff is so unpredictable, there are still people who are willing to take the risk. ”

When the old medicine farmer heard this, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked Wang Xiucai: "Well, this person is smart, he even thought of replacing the rope with an iron cable, in this way, it will definitely not be broken, the reason why Wang Xingguang was able to succeed is that he also used this method?" Wang Xiucai shook his head, took a sip of water, and then sighed and said: "Alas, it's not as you think, although the man used the iron cable to climb down the cliff, the iron cable still broke, and the person also fell into the cliff and died like the previous cliff climber." ”

After hearing this, the old medicine farmer was stunned, his eyes widened, and he said in surprise: "You can't use iron cables?" So how did Wang Xingguang succeed? ”