Fifty acres of barren hills

In the afternoon, Li Xiaoduo dragged Xiao Qi to the village committee to ask about contracting the barren mountain.

The village where Li Xiaoduo lives belongs to Lijia Village, which moved from other provinces many years ago due to floods, and most of the people are members of the Li family. Over the years, with the development of the town, many people have moved over one after another. For example, Xiao Qi's family moved over later.

The village committee is in the center of the village, a small flat floor, which can be seen to have been renovated in recent years, and the exterior walls are all freshly painted.

Entering the office, an old man with gray hair was typing on a computer with reading glasses. Seeing Xiao Qi and Xiao Duo coming in, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hey, it's just right, Xiao Qi, you're here, you can help me see why this character is always capitalized, I can't even type."

"Secretary Li, you still need to type by yourself, what about Xiao Zhang?" Xiao Zhang and Xiao He are college students and village officials in the village. Generally, all kinds of typing jobs are done by young people.

"They went to the town for exchange and study. I'm old and my brain is slow, so I'll type out the paperwork in the village. They taught me last time, I can't remember this brain. ”

Xiao Qi helped Secretary Li look at the keyboard, and it turned out that he accidentally pressed the capital lock.

"Look, just press this."

"Oh, I see, alas, slow down, I'll write it down with a pen." After speaking, Secretary Li took out a small notebook of his own and memorized it attentively.

"That's it!" After Secretary Li finished writing, he looked at Xiao Qi and a delicate girl, "You talk about girlfriends!" ”

Xiao Qi's face turned red, "No, this is Xiaoduo, you don't remember." ”

"Xiaoduo?" Secretary Li fell into deep thought.

"The one next door to us, the old Chinese medicine doctor." Shaw reminded.

"Oh, Doctor Li, this is his great-granddaughter Xiaoduo. I heard from them the other day that you had moved back. How is it, are you still used to going back to your hometown? Secretary Li said kindly.

"Habit, thanks to you. I wanted to ask today if the barren mountain behind our house can be contracted? Li Xiaoduo expressed his intentions.

"Barren Mountain, why do you want to contract Barren Mountain, that mountain has a lot of stones, but you can't grow food."

"I want to grow some medicinal herbs." Xiaoduo said.

"I see, ah, you are going to inherit the mantle of your great-grandfather." Secretary Li said with emotion. "Your great-grandfather's medical skills were amazing. Not only in the village, but also in the big people in the town came to see him. It's a pity that there is no one to pass it on. Now you're back, good, good! ”

"It's just that there are a lot of stones and trees in this barren mountain, a total of forty or fifty acres, do you have to contract? There is still some land in the village, do you want to rent it? ”

"No need, just contract the mountain, some medicinal materials need to have a low temperature, and it is better to plant them in the mountains." Xiaoduo said.

In fact, there is another reason, everyone can see it in the ground, it is still too conspicuous, and there are few people in the mountains, so it is convenient to plant some precious medicinal materials.

"Barren mountains are generally 1,000 yuan per acre, 50,000 yuan a year, do you think it's okay?" Secretary Li said.

"Yes. Thank you so much. ”

After signing a ten-year contract, Li Xiaoduo and Xiao Qi walked around the village.

"No one has left this barren mountain for a long time, you have to find some people to open up the wasteland." Xiao Qi didn't understand why Xiaoduo had to cover the barren mountain.

"I'll find someone to come back tomorrow to clear the wasteland, and it's better to build another fence."

Shaw didn't speak, not knowing what he was thinking.

"What's wrong with you, it's always weird today."

"Not much, it's too tired. It would be nice to go back and get some rest. ”

Xiao Duo looked at Xiao Qi as if he hadn't rested well, but as if he was lacking in qi and blood.

"You wait and sit at my house for a while, and I'll make you some medicine to make up for it."

"No, I'll just get some sleep."

"Listen to me, it won't take you long." After speaking, he dragged Xiao Qi towards home.

After returning home, Li Xiaoduo secretly took out a ginseng plant, cut a small half and began to boil.

"It's not much, won't it be too much to make up." Xiao Duo asked about medicine.

"Xiao Qi is a young man, and it should be about the same to eat half a small root."

After a while, the home was filled with the faint fragrance of ginseng.

"What kind of medicine are you boiling!" Xiao Qi didn't know when he came to the back kitchen.

"No, nothing." Li Xiaoduo hurriedly closed the lid.

After boiling, Li Xiaoduo strained out the ginseng and brought out a bowl of clear and shiny medicinal soup.

"Drink fast, drink quickly."

"What is this?" Xiao Qi looked at the medicinal soup in front of him, and there was nothing in it. Isn't it usually jet-black?

"It's just some qi and blood tonics, you just drink it." Xiaoduo urged.

Xiao Qi took the medicine and took a sip, there was no taste, only a faint fragrance.

After drinking, he suddenly felt as if a breath of qi was pouring into his dantian, and his face changed.

"It's a strange feeling."

"What's wrong?" Xiaoduo was inexplicably a little nervous. Is it overdone?

Suddenly, Xiao Qi felt a warm current in the dantian emanating from countless streams, rushing up and down his body. The feeling of exhaustion is swept away.

The warmth rushed to his head, and he felt his eyes light up suddenly.

It's so comfortable, like, like......

Xiao Qi was shocked when he thought of this, wouldn't it be?

He stared at Li Xiaoduo and said solemnly, "What kind of medicine is this?" ”

Li Xiaoduo had never seen Xiao Qi look so serious, and she couldn't help but be a little nervous.

"It's just some... Ginseng. ”

"Ginseng!" No wonder. The last time Xiao Qi felt this way, was it ......

"Thank you for your kindness!" Xiao Qi arched his hand to Xiao Duo and said, "I still have something to do, so I'll go first." ”

After Xiao Qi finished speaking, he strode out of the meteor.

"He's recovering his energy very quickly, it's just weird."

***

In college, Xiao Qi studied tourism management. Originally, he wanted to graduate and become a tour guide or find a job in a hotel.

But one summer vacation, he and his classmates went to climb the mountain, and the road down the mountain was very steep, and his feet slipped and rolled down the hillside.

The classmates were scared to death and hurriedly began to call for help. When rescuers came to search the mountain, they didn't find Xiao Qi.

It had been two days since Xiao Qi appeared, his clothes were ragged and his shoes were rotten. When his classmates saw him, they were shocked.

"Shaw, it's great that you're alive and you're okay. We're all dying. ”

"Yes, the search and rescue dogs have been dispatched, and they haven't found you."

Classmates, you say a word to me.

"I'm fine, I rolled down the hill and fell unconscious, and when I woke up there was a cave next to me, so I hid in the cave and slept all night. The next day, I started walking in the mountains, and then I found a trail and came out. ”

"Xiao Qi, everyone is worried about death, I haven't slept for the past few days." Girlfriend Pei Guo grabbed Xiao Qi's arm with tears in her eyes.

"My phone was out of battery, and there was no signal for calls, so I went around in the mountains for a long time. Makes you worried. ”

Later, after graduation, Xiao Qi, who had the best grades, let go of the offers of big travel agencies and big hotels, and returned to his hometown Ning'an Town, and soon his girlfriend Pei Guo also broke up with him.

He himself never spoke of his adventures in the cave.

***

Shaw returned home, closed the door, sat cross-legged on the bed, and began to exhale.

After a moment, he slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air from the dantian.

His eyes opened, and he said happily.

"The foundation has been laid."