It's a pleasure to sleep until dawn. Ying Xiang stood up with a carp, only to feel refreshed, all the discomfort of last night was gone, and his body was full of vitality again.

The plan of the day lies in the morning, it is a pity not to exercise the muscles and bones in such a good morning, Yingxiang started a set of boxing techniques on the shore of Yinyue Lake.

Today's Eagle Xiang spirit is exceptionally good, every punch is clean and powerful, and the boxing posture is standard and vigorous. After a fist and foot exercise, Yingxiang's muscles and bones stretched, and he only felt that there was no place in his body that was not full of strength.

The bell of the canteen had already rang, the smoke was wafting up, and Ying Xiang's stomach was rumbling unconsciously. When Ying Xiang came to the dining hall, the dining hall was already very lively, and many people arrived.

Ying Xiang brought the plates and bowls to get breakfast, and there were many people waiting for the cakes to come out of the pot at Fang Gu, and there was a long queue, so Ying Xiang had to take the bowl first to make soup porridge.

Ying Xiang took the porridge and was about to find a seat to sit down, when he suddenly felt a tap on the shoulder. Ying Xiang turned his head and found that it was Liang Xiaomei.

Today, Liang Xiaomei wore a lake-green long skirt, combed a simple ponytail, tied it up with a bright yellow belt, and her body was full of youthful vitality. When Liang Xiaomei smiled, the small dimple on the left side of her face loomed, which was very lively and cute.

Liang Xiaomei pointed to a corner with her hand and said, "Don't look for it, there is a vacancy over there." ”

Ying Xiang saw that there was indeed a vacant seat on the table in the corner, thanked him, and invited Liang Xiaomei to have breakfast together.

"Next time, I've already eaten it. Liang Xiaomei smiled and politely refused Yingxiang's invitation, so she didn't want to dine with this guy, otherwise maybe others would think she was very good at eating.

Sure enough, for breakfast, Yingxiang ate forty more cakes, which attracted many people's amazement, and after breakfast, Yingxiang came to Baicao House

Liang Xiaomei carried a medicine basket on her back, pinned a strange-shaped shovel to her belt, and smiled with a hoe in her hand to beckon Yingxiang to come over.

"Let's go, let's go with grandpa to collect medicine today. Liang Xiaomei said.

"Oh. Ying Xiang took the medicine basket and followed Liang Xiaomei's example to tie the rope firmly around his shoulders and waist, only in this way would the medicine basket be fixed so that the medicine basket would not shake on his back.

However, instead of a hoe or shovel, Ying Xiang was given a scythe for chopping wood, and Ying Xiang pinned the sickle to his waist and looked like a woodcutter.

The excavation of medicinal materials has high requirements, and some medicinal materials even need to dig out all the roots completely, which is naturally a careful technical work.

For Yingxiang, a novice, Liang Xiaomei naturally didn't worry about letting him dig medicinal materials, and gave him a sickle in order to cut off the vines and thorns near the medicinal materials and create a good condition for himself to dig medicine.

The second elder of the green valley Taniguchi carried a medicine basket on his back, a medicine box on his waist, and a mountaineering crutch in his hand to join Ying Xiang and Xiaomei.

"Grandpa, let's go. Liang Xiaomei reached out and grabbed the second elder's arm, and said in a crisp voice.

"You, you're grinding, and you don't even look at when. The second elder blew his beard and glared, he had been waiting for almost half an hour.

Liang Xiaomei stuck out her tongue, glanced at Ying Xiang and said, "It's not all him, he's stupid, he can't even carry the medicine basket well, and I've been rubbing it for a long time, otherwise I would have come a long time ago." ”

How can I open my eyes and talk nonsense, I obviously learned to carry the medicine basket all of a sudden. Who saw a butterfly when he was coming down the mountain, and he had to chase after it and delayed the time, how could he frame me? Ying Xiang thought indignantly in his heart, but when he saw Liang Xiaomei's eyes secretly glaring at him, he didn't say anything.

Good men don't fight with women, so I don't care about a little girl. Ying Xiang secretly thought to himself, in fact, he was also scared by Liang Xiaomei. Liang Xiaomei was eccentric, she had secretly sprinkled itching powder on him, Yingxiang was itchy and jumped up and down, jumped into Yinyue Lake and washed for several hours, and still felt itchy the next day.

After a few days, the two got along well, and Liang Xiaomei didn't fix him anymore. In fact, Liang Xiaomei is a good girl who is serious and studious most of the time, but occasionally she is very fatal, and dozens of disciples under the second elder are afraid of her in private.

The second elder said: "Okay, Yingxiang won't you can't help him, if you help him, how can you delay time." ”

Liang Xiaomei lowered her head and whispered: "I helped, he was stupid." ”

The second elder said to Liang Xiaomei: "It's normal that Yingxiang won't tie the medicine basket for the first time, okay, let's go into the mountain quickly if it's not early." ”

"Second grandfather......" Ying Xiang said.

"What's wrong, Xiao Xiang?" the second elder turned around and looked at Ying Xiang with a smile.

"Second grandfather, wouldn't it be inconvenient for you to take medicine with me, after all, I can't fly, and my speed is very slow. Eagle Xiang said.

"Stinky boy, are you trying to be lazy?" the second elder slapped Ying Xiang's head.

The second elder then explained: "When we go to collect herbs, we naturally look for herbs in the depths of the mountains step by step, some herbs grow in the cracks of the stones, and some are mixed with ordinary grass, and we can only find them by looking carefully. When you fly high in the air, you can only see tall trees, and the leaves block your vision, and you can't find anything!"

Liang Xiaomei complained: "Yes, every time I finish collecting medicine, my feet are about to break from exhaustion, but my grandfather won't let me fly." ”

Along the way, the three of them walked together, and the three of them went out of the verdant valley and gradually entered the deep mountains along the rugged mountain road.

"Prunella, prunella!" Eagle Xiang excitedly pointed to a weedy path in the corner of a hillside not far away.

Who knew that the second elder didn't seem to see it and walked straight forward, Liang Xiaomei followed behind the second elder and lowered her head and laughed.

Ying Xiang hurriedly grabbed the corner of Liang Xiaomei's clothes and pointed not far away, "What do you think is that?"

"Prunella, I taught you. Liang Xiaomei's small dimples on her cheeks loomed, and she said lightly.

Ying Xiang asked puzzledly, "Then why don't we go to pick?"

Liang Xiaomei said disdainfully: "My grandfather and I personally came out to collect medicine and pick this, the level is too low, let's leave it to the apprentices to pick it." ”

The second elder said to Ying Xiang: "After learning these days, you can recognize Prunella grass, Xiao Xiang, you are quite good." We often have a fixed place to pick these common herbs every year, and each time we also leave some seeds for preparation for the next year's picking. What you see is one of the dozen or so areas that are harvested regularly every year. ”

Liang Xiaomei patted Yingxiang's shoulder and pointed to the majestic mountain in the distance: "Our goal is there, there are many old medicines in the deep mountains, now is a good season, if you are lucky, you can collect a lot." ”

On the way to the deep mountains, several old medicine plants were also found, and one of them actually grew under a big rock, and I don't know what method the second elder used to find out.

The boulder weighs nearly 1,000 catties, and Yingxiang carefully moves the stone, but it is not effortless. Compared with the usual morning exercise, it was naturally much easier, Liang Xiaomei's eyes were shining, and she shouted exaggeratedly, "Awesome!".

"It's a powder-leaved vine!Tsk, the branches and leaves are thick, at least more than seventy years!" Liang Xiaomei carefully looked at the old medicine.

Hidden by the original boulders, a red vine quietly stretched its branches and leaves, the leaves and stems were pale pink, and the leaves were goose-paw-shaped, so transparent that even every line on it was clearly visible. Yingxiang had never seen this kind of plant, and he kept looking at it curiously, only thinking that this plant was very cute and pink.

Ying Xiang gently reached out and touched the pink leaves, this plant has slender branches and leaves, and the main stem is less than the thickness of the little finger, which is actually seventy years old, which is really surprising.

The second elder stroked his snow-white beard and said: "This is a powder-leaved vine, which has a miraculous effect on stopping bleeding and treating external injuries, for example, if there is a wound on the body, you only need to pick a leaf and cover the wound, and the wound can heal as before in an hour." However, it is really a waste to treat injuries directly with leaves, we generally make medicine powder, and as long as a little is mixed with ordinary injury medicine, the effect can be doubled. ”

The second elder instructed: "Xiaomei dig out the whole plant, don't damage the root veins, let's go back and transplant it into the medicine field." ”

Liang Xiaomei took out the medicine shovel and carefully loosened the soil around the powder-leaved vine, and then gently brushed away the soil with her hands to reveal a pink rhizome as thin as cow's hair. After carefully estimating the depth and range of the rhizome, Liang Xiaomei shoveled down deeply, and then dug out the entire powder-leaved vine.

Liang Xiaomei held the pink leaf vine and looked very carefully, and there were fine beads of sweat on the tip of her nose. Liang Xiaomei wiped her face with her sleeve casually, and said to the second elder with a smile: "Grandpa, look at how beautiful this pink-leaf vine is." ”

The second elder smiled slightly and said, "Let's go, it seems that you have good luck today, and there may be good gains in the future." ”

Liang Xiaomei complained to Ying Xiang: "Not every time there is such good luck, today should be the blessing of the Eagle Emperor." I remember one time in the early summer of last year, when I went into the mountains with my grandfather, the sky was cloudless when I went out, but suddenly dark clouds piled up, and then there was lightning and thunder, and it rained heavily. My grandfather and I used our wings to keep out the rain, and we searched in the mountains all day, but we couldn't even find a decent herb, let alone an old medicine. Not only did I not find any herbs, but my shoes and trousers were stained with a lot of mud, which was really unlucky. ”

Yingxiang originally thought that the job of collecting medicine was quite easy, but after listening to Liang Xiaomei, he realized that it was not easy. However, she looks like such a weak girl can actually endure this hardship, and every time she follows the second elder to collect medicine, Yingxiang admires Liang Xiaomei very much.

Crossing a mountain is preceded by a rolling mountain range, and there are two mountain paths presented in front of you, and you need to make a choice.

The second elder said to Ying Xiang, "Which way do you think we should go?"

Ying Xiang was stunned for a moment, and secretly said I don't know the way, why come and ask me? But seeing that the second elder looked serious and didn't seem to be joking, he pointed at it casually.

The second elder stroked his beard and squinted his eyes and said, "Okay, just take the road to the east." ”

"Grandpa!" Liang Xiaomei pouted.

The second elder said, "What's the matter, Xiaomei?"

Liang Xiaomei pouted and said, "You asked if Yingxiang was useful, and he didn't know the way." The last time we were on the east side of the road, it took us all day to find a poor old medicine, and this time I think it's time to go west. ”

The second elder shook his head and said, "Medicinal herbs are gifts from nature, and whether or not you can harvest them mostly depends on luck. It is not easy to collect herbs, and some herbs have to wait until a specific season to have external changes, otherwise you may not know them even if they grow in front of you. Like the pink-leaved vine just now, it only emits a faint fragrance every year when new leaves grow, and if it weren't for the fragrance to guide me, how could I find it.

We've passed by that big rock at least a dozen times before, but we haven't found it yet. Last time we didn't get anything in the east, but today Eagle Soar brought us good luck, so I asked Eagle Soar to show the way. ”

Liang Xiaomei still pouted: "How do you know that it is the good luck brought by Yingxiang, maybe it is due to the good luck that came down from the genius of the clansman a few days ago, grandpa." ”

The second elder said, "Okay, don't argue anymore, the sooner we finish collecting the medicine, we can go back to rest early." ”