Chapter Eighty-Three: Millennial Ginseng

Shennongjia, northern Hubei Province, has long been developed into a scenic spot, and a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists come to visit and sightsee every day. The scenic area is divided into many areas, and visitors only need to buy tickets to go in for sightseeing.

Most of the tourists are in the developed area, but there are also some people who go deep into the primeval deep forest of Shennongjia, such as those who are travelers, those who are adventure lovers, and medicine farmers.

"Walk slowly here, watch your step!" A middle-aged man dressed as a dark-skinned man reminded the young man following behind him.

"Little brother, big brother, I really admire you!"

"Oh? I don't know what the younger brother can admire the eldest brother? ”

"Big brother, I have seen a lot of outsiders come to Shennongjia, they are the same as the little brother did not buy tickets to enter the scenic spot, are in our village to find a guide from the path into the primeval forest, but they are different from the little brother, everyone is a big bag with enough equipment, and they did not walk a few kilometers to call tired, many people also returned directly. But what about you, little brother, you are carrying a small backpack, and I have walked twenty or thirty miles of mountain roads with my eldest brother in a row, and I haven't seen any fatigue. The mountain people said admiringly, "Little brother, let's stop and rest for a while, this is the first time that I have walked twenty or thirty miles in a row without stopping!" ”

"Little brother, I also grew up in the mountains, and I have been running all over the mountains since I was a child, and these twenty or thirty miles are commonplace for me. Just listen to Big Brother, let's rest for a while. Come, big brother eat something and drink some water. As he spoke, the young man found a stone and put down his backpack, took out two bottles of water and dried fish from his bag and handed them to the mountain people.

This young man is Mu Wenbin, he is the same as those travelers, he went to Shennongjia, went into the scenic spot and came out after a circle, because the scenic spot is to develop the surrounding area of Shennongjia, and it is not so easy to enter the depths of Shennongjia, and the road to the depths is blocked, and there are special guards.

However, he has heard from tourists that some travelers often find a guide in some nearby villages and let the guide take them from the trail into the mountains. So Mu Wenbin also went to the village to ask for a guide, it was really easy to find, and before he entered the village, he saw a lot of men, women and children in Nala, but those people didn't care about him anymore when they looked at Mu Wenbin.

Mu Wenbin had no choice but to grab a person and say that he wanted to go into the mountain and find a guide. Hearing that he wanted to find a guide, those people surrounded him again, and rushed to recommend himself.

The person who was pulled was also a guide, and immediately pulled Mu Wenbin aside, and the others saw that Mu Wenbin was pulled away, so they scolded and dispersed.

"It's really cheap old ginger, this one is not the material to enter the mountain at a glance, eighty percent walked two steps and came back, old ginger picked up money again this time."

"Okay, okay, there are many young people who come, and some of them are fat sheep."

The person Mu Wenbin pulled was the current mountain people's eldest brother, and at first he looked at Mu Wenbin's outfit and luggage, guessing that he was the same as those people in the city, he had to go back after walking two or three miles, and received him a deposit of five hundred, and led Mu Wenbin into the mountain without luggage.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that he was tired of walking, Mu Wenbin was still with no one, and he didn't prepare anything to eat and drink, and he felt that the 1,000 yuan guide fee he talked to Mu Wenbin before entering the mountain was too little. I was hungry after walking for a long time, so I took the dried fish and ate it, it tasted really good, I had never eaten such a delicious thing.

"Big brother, you said that many people have been going into the deep mountains and primeval forests recently?" Mu Wenbin asked while eating.

"That's right, Shennongjia has often had travelers go in, all of them enter the mountains from our village, slowly, many people in our village don't go into the mountains to collect medicine, professional guides, especially in the last ten days, a lot of people have come at once, hundreds of people can come every day, but they are all in teams, and they are still the first to be a person like the little brother.

Because of the large number of people, the guide fee has also risen, and it used to be a guide for three or five hundred a day, but now it starts at two thousand yuan. Big brother, I have been collecting medicine in the mountains for a living since I was a child, and I haven't had time to collect medicine for the last ten days, so I have been a guide. Those people in the city are very generous, and they have earned more money as a guide for more than ten days than I have collected medicine for two years.

When the little brother first arrived, no one paid attention to you, that was because you didn't look like you were going into the mountain, and then so many people rushed to pick it up, that was to hear you say that you want to go into the mountain, and you look like you have to go back at most three or five miles, and we met not a hundred or eighty people who came out of the mountain three or five miles. ”

Hearing this, Mu Wenbin certainly understood, the eldest brother of the mountain people felt that the price was low before entering the mountain, and said with a light smile: "Don't worry, big brother, this trip will not let you suffer." ”

Mu Wenbin is also born in the mountains, and he has a sense of intimacy with the mountain people themselves, and when the eldest brother of the mountain people asked him for 2,000 at the beginning, he felt that the mountain people are no longer simple, but he did not bargain, and directly paid a deposit of 500. Now I hear this and I understand why there are so many now.

"Little brother, you misunderstood, I didn't mean that, big brother, I spit on a pit, saying two thousand is two thousand, don't say two thousand before, one thousand is more." When Brother Jiang, the mountain people, heard Mu Wenbin's words, he quickly explained.

Mu Wenbin didn't say anything after listening, took a sip of water and asked, "Big brother, do you know why so many people suddenly enter the mountain these days?" ”

"If you ask why, if you want me to say that the people in the city now have money and no land to spend, they want to go into the mountains to collect medicine like we collect medicine." Brother Jiang explained.

"Herbs? Also, the legend of Shennongjia is the place where Shennong's family tastes herbs, and herbs are abundant here. It's just that I don't understand, why do they have to go into the mountains to collect medicine, I have never heard that people in the city are interested in collecting medicine. Mu Wenbin asked puzzled.

"In the past, people from the city who came here were tourists or wanted to go into Shennongjia to explore to find wild people, but two months ago, there was a sudden news that a team of travelers went into the mountains and stumbled upon a thousand-year-old ginseng plant." Brother Jiang explained.

"What? Millennial ginseng? Hearing this, even Mu Wenbin was taken aback, if he had eaten a thousand-year-old ginseng, then Xiuwei would not have a triple jump.

"Hey! What kind of thousand-year-old ginseng, it's all a rumor! Not to mention thousand-year-old ginseng, now even hundred-year-old ginseng is available but not sought. However, after the news spread, a large number of mountain people still went into the mountains to collect medicine, and my brother and I were no exception, but the nearby mountains were searched several times, and I didn't even find ginseng for five years. Some people did not give up and ventured into no man's land, and then not only did they not find the medicine, but also took a few lives, and we were considered dead, and no one took any more risks. ”

"I mean, maybe those travelers deliberately spread the rumors. This is also a bit hateful, it has hurt so many people! ”

"Who's to say it isn't!"