Chapter 4 High risk has high reward
Rely on the water to eat the water, and rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. Xu Zhao Village is close to the mountain, and the people in the village naturally go up the mountain to find money in their spare time. Digging herbs, picking scorpions, catching centipedes, picking mushrooms...... The periphery of the mountain is tossed back and forth, and it is difficult to find anything valuable.
Xu Dashan did not intend to waste time outside the mountain, but went straight to the depths of the mountain forest with a basket on his back.
After climbing four or five hills in succession, the surrounding woods became dense. Many trees require several people to hug each other, and the canopy is tall and shades the sky.
There are bushes underfoot, and there is no way to find a road.
It is already a deep mountain, inaccessible to people, and is full of wild boars, jackals, poisonous snakes and other wild beasts. One carelessness can cost people their lives. Xu Dashan pulled out the mountain chopper he was carrying, and his face became solemn.
The people in the village usually go up the mountain to dig herbs, and they will not go into the depths of the mountain, even Xu Dashan is no exception.
But now that he has a perspective spell, and he urgently needs to earn money to pay off his debts, he plans to go into the mountains to see if he can dig up some precious herbs.
He took a deep breath, and the vitality in his body poured into his eyes. Looking at the environment in front of me, it suddenly became different. The animal poisonous insects hidden in the dense jungle could not escape his perception at all.
Xu Dashan advanced quickly along the jungle, and when he was blocked by bushes, he drew out his mountain knife and slashed, cutting a path.
Before you know it, it's getting close to noon. Xu Dashan twisted and turned, and walked for more than 20 miles. He suddenly found that after walking such a long mountain road, he did not feel tired at all, and his body was still full of strength.
I didn't expect that the Naqi decision I practiced last night would have such a great effect.
Thinking in his heart, Xu Dashan suddenly stopped and stared intently at two or three meters ahead.
The mountains and forests are quiet, rustling...... It seems to be the sound of the wind blowing the leaves. Other than that, there was no movement at all. But he already had a frightened look on his face, and he didn't dare to stop for a moment, and quickly turned around until he withdrew forty or fifty meters away. Xu Dashan breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat off his forehead.
Through the perspective just now, he could see very clearly that in the jungle less than three meters away from him, there was a group of black gold leeches, densely packed, there were hundreds, all hiding behind the leaves.
The black gold leech is the name of the nearby mountain people, and as for what the scientific name is, Xu Dashan does not know. This leech seems to be unique to Daqingshan, four or five centimeters long, with a sucker on the head and tail, dark in color, and a few gold lines on the surface.
They don't look inconspicuous individually, but they are a big killer in the mountains, they usually hide behind leaves or in the grass, and when a human or animal passes by, they will silently crawl on each other and suck their blood.
Their suckers can burrow into the flesh, and they can't escape from it.
In about ten minutes, a group of black gold leeches can suck the blood in the human body.
A few years ago, a mountain man in a neighboring village went into the mountains to hunt, but he came across a group of leeches in the Black Gold Mountain, and when the family found them, they were gone.
Avoiding the leech group of the Black Gold Mountain, Xu Dashan turned around and moved towards the deep mountains. But after what had just happened, he became more and more cautious, walked another four or five miles, and stopped again, with a wry smile on his face.
What's the matter today? When I went out and forgot to look at the yellow calendar, I first encountered a herd of leeches in the Black Gold Mountain, and then a wild boar.
There is a saying in the nearby mountains called "one pig, two bears and three tigers", which means very simply, the dangerous animals in the mountains are ranked first wild boars, second are bears, and third are tigers.
People who have no experience absolutely do not know how fierce the wild boars in the mountains are, they are different from domestic pigs, they often survive in the mountains and forests, and they will often be coated with mud and pine resin, and over time, they have become a layer of thick armor of three or four centimeters.
It's a bit like body armor, and ordinary shotguns can't penetrate it. And this thing has a pair of fangs more than ten centimeters long, and there are many examples of biting people to death.
Not to mention humans, even ordinary beasts dare not provoke the big boar.
Xu Dashan encountered such a head in front of him, and he was going to turn around and retreat like he did just now.
When the wild boar saw him, he howled and rushed straight over, opening his fangs and about to bite. This big wild boar weighs at least four or five hundred pounds, and it is no different from a small truck when it rushes and collides, and its speed is extremely fast.
It's just that in Xu Dashan's eyes, the speed of the wild boar is not fast, on the contrary, it is very "slow". I could clearly see its trajectory, and the next moment, the body flashed to the side, and the mountain knife slashed down.
Thorn ...... I only heard a dull sound, and I directly cut out a bloody hole about ten centimeters long in the neck of the wild boar, and blood spurted out wildly.
The boar was wounded, let out a terrible scream, then turned around, and just after a few steps, he fell to the ground with his head on his head, and never to live again.
When did I have such a strong effort? Looking at the wild boar in front of him that could no longer die, Xu Dashan felt a little incredible.
It took two or three minutes for him to accept the fact. It should be the reason for last night's cultivation of Naqi. At the moment when he chopped the wild boar just now, he instinctively gathered the vitality in his body in his hand, and sent it out along the chopping knife, only to kill the wild boar in one fell swoop.
Then he became excited again, and sure enough, it is high risk that has a big reward. There are people in the town who buy mountain goods, and this wild boar weighs four or five hundred catties, and can be sold for at least five thousand yuan.
Xu Dashan's heart moved slightly, and he had already collected the wild boar into the magic weapon of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
Just as he was about to leave the place, he stopped and stared at the tall pine trees not far away. These pine trees should be hundreds of years old and the trunk is as thick as a basin.
A few wild grasses under the trunk of the tree were visibly withered, as if they had been scorched by fire...... Thinking of the wild boar grazing nearby just now, Xu Dashan suddenly thought of a possibility.
He forcibly suppressed his excitement, quickly stepped forward, took a shovel from his back basket, and carefully dug in the dead grass.
When a ping-pong ball-sized, swarthy thing was dug out of the ground, Xu Dashan exclaimed excitedly: "Pig arch fungus, it is really pig arch fungus." Damn, it's a big deal!"
Arch porcine, also known as black truffle, is known as the "black diamond" in the culinary world. It is a famous treasure in the mountains and is extremely rare.
This thing is expensive, and someone in the town buys it, more than 500 yuan a catty. It is said that when sold abroad, the price is higher, and the price of fresh truffles is more than $1,000 per kilogram.
It's a pity that this thing only grows twenty or thirty centimeters deep underground, and the number is scarce, making it very difficult to find.
Therefore, people in several nearby villages know that the pig arch fungus is expensive, and they can only sigh, and only a few lucky people will dig some every year.
The area of these barren grasses is very large, and Xu Dashan estimates that at least dozens of catties of pig arch fungi can be dug up.
This is also the reason why he is so excited, with these pig arch fungi, most of the family's loans can be repaid.