"Snow Mountain, Snow Mountain, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain!"

"Whether the Canglan River goes or not, there are only two people left!"

"Laojun Mountain Scenic Area, thirty yuan a piece!"

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Outside the station, the road is bustling with people, and vans, trampoos, and even human-powered tricycles are parked everywhere.

Unlike developed cities such as Gusu and Huhai, although western Yunnan has developed vigorously in recent years, it is still far inferior to large cities in terms of infrastructure.

Whether it is the city plan or the roads, they are not so spacious, and in addition to the mountainous area, vans and tripods are more suitable for survival in this geographical environment than taxis.

"Handsome guy, do you want to stay, Gumiao Village, take you to enjoy the exotic customs!" An aunt in her fifties mysteriously came over.

Seeing that Ye Jun didn't pay attention, he hurriedly turned to another young man.

"Don't worry, it's safe!" The aunt seemed to know what the other party was worried about.

After a few moments, the young man followed, a little nervously and excitedly.

Ye Jun walked across the road and found a van parked under a tree, the van looked a little old, but it was very clean. Next to the car, a middle-aged man with dark skin and a hint of plateau red was squatting on the ground smoking a homemade cigarette.

Yunnan is a major tobacco province, and many families here grow their own tobacco and smoke their own cigarettes.

"Guest, do you want to take the car?" The middle-aged man asked in Mandarin, not very proficient, his expression a little cramped, and his eyes were a little expectant.

"How much does it cost to charter your car a day?" Ye Jun asked.

"Five hundred!" The middle-aged man thought about how much money he could earn a day, quoted a very real price, paused and said: "If you run far and can't come back, you have to eat for me!" ”

"I'll give you a thousand, and you will be my guide by the way!" When Ye Jun came to western Yunnan, he wanted to go deep into the mountains to find the tomb, so he inevitably had a car and a guide who was familiar with the local situation.

"Yes, how many days are you going to play? I called my mother-in-law to talk about it. ”

"At least ten days!" Ye Jun didn't know the location of the tomb, and the corpse puppet in Qiu Litian's hand was only bought from a tomb robber, but the transaction location was in this city, and it was estimated that the tomb was also in the surrounding mountains, so the next step was to look for it slowly.

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up slightly. Usually he squats here, and if he is lucky, he has five or six hundred a day, and if he is unlucky, he only has about two hundred yuan. Although the chartered bus is on call, it is tiring, but the drought and flood guarantee the harvest, and he will be able to work for ten days for a month.

Getting in the car, Ye Jun said: "Go to the ghost market first!" ”

Seeing that the other party was at a loss, Ye Jun said a little helplessly: "Medicinal herb trading market!" According to common sense, taxi drivers don't say omniscient, but they can definitely be regarded as knowledgeable and geographical, especially in the local area, there is absolutely nothing they don't know.

Ye Jun found a local driver as a guide, and there was also a reason to inquire about the news.

After chatting for a while, Ye Jun understood.

The driver's name is Angen Benya, and Benya is a very old surname. However, the household registration staff was troublesome, so they registered it with the surname An. The family is a small village called Guziwo, which is dozens of kilometers away, and it is an ethnic minority called the Pumi people.

Not long after Angen just ran the car, this car was originally his brother-in-law's, and the brother-in-law ran for more than ten years, disgusted with the old car, so he transferred it to him, and took him to solicit customers, and the income was much stronger than before, otherwise it would not be easy to support two college students.

Speaking of the child, An Gen's face couldn't help but show a proud smile, and the words became more, no longer Ye Jun's questions and answers.

Ye Jun also gradually learned about the situation of this place, and asked if there had been a big official in the ancient times of this place, or what legends had been left behind.

It really made him inquire about a few situations, and I can't be sure if it's useful, so I'll write it down for the time being.

The geographical environment of Yunnan is complex, often a place has a variety of climates such as tropical temperate zone at the same time, and even a mountain, the foot of the mountain is a tropical rainforest, the halfway of the mountain is a temperate forest, and the top of the mountain is a snow-capped mountain are very common.

This also brings about the diversity of species.

The local wild medicinal materials are very abundant, and they are very famous throughout the country, and many merchants from all over the country will come to buy wild medicinal materials.

"Boss, what herbs do you want? Gastrodia, Ganoderma lucidum, Dendrobium, Yunnan Chonglou, Lamp Flower, Yunnan Stone Gallbladder have everything, I am very familiar with it! ”

Angen's words gradually increased, and he talked about the past, and said with a smile: "This market has been in this market for decades, and when we were children, we all relied on digging herbs in the mountains, walking dozens of miles here to exchange money for school, buy cloth, and buy meat. Digging herbs in the mountains, it would be good to earn more than a dozen yuan a day, but he was very poor. And it's also easy to encounter wild beasts. Now that I have started to travel, my life has become better. Otherwise, he would not be able to afford two college students, and he would have let his children drop out of school and work like others. ”

This middle-aged man never leaves the child, and it can be seen that this is something he is rarely proud of.

The medicinal herb market is not far away, and in this small county, it is only a matter of ten minutes by car.

From afar, Ye Jun smelled a strong smell of Chinese medicine.

All kinds of herbs, there is the fragrance of fresh grass, the dry fragrance of drying, and the rotten smell of rotten wood Ganoderma lucidum, fragrant, smelly, sweet and bitter tastes are mixed together, and ordinary people are really unaccustomed to smelling it.

At a glance, there are not many people in sight of the huge market, and it is hard to believe that this is a trading market if it were not for the rows of shops and the medicinal herbs displayed at the door.

"Usually there are not many people who come, but in half a month it will be the medicinal herb fair, and there will be many people at that time!" Angen explained.

Ye Jun doesn't care, he didn't come for this.

According to Qiu Litian, the ghost market only opens at night.

I got out of the car and wandered around.

I have to say that the various medicinal materials here are indeed complicated, and most of them are wild, and it is indeed not easy to develop pollution everywhere in today's society.

However, these medicinal materials, which are rare in the eyes of ordinary people, are not in Ye Jun's eyes at all.

At a glance, in these stalls, the piles of medicinal herbs, what attributes, what year, were clear.

They are all ordinary medicinal materials, and they have not absorbed the aura of heaven and earth, even if it is ginseng, the precious medicinal materials in the eyes of ordinary people such as He Shou Wu cannot be used for alchemy.

The reason why the elixir is an elixir is because it grows up by absorbing aura.

An ordinary grass, if it grows near the spiritual eye and is nourished by the spiritual energy, can transform into an elixir in a few years.

These ordinary medicinal materials, unless they have been grown for decades or even hundreds of years, slowly absorbing the free aura between heaven and earth, can they become elixirs. And ordinary medicinal herbs can't live that long at all, only a few medicinal herbs like ginseng can live that long.

This is also the reason why 100-year-old ginseng is very precious. Although it can't be like the rumors that the flesh and bones of the living and dead are white, but with the aura that has accumulated over time, it is no problem to hang the dying person.

Suddenly, Ye Jun's eyes paused slightly, and he stopped at a stall.

It was a large bundle of medicinal herbs, growing like tree roots, and there was a lot of dirt, and the pile was almost up to the ceiling.

"Boss, how do you sell this medicinal herb?" Ye Jun asked loudly.

In the store, a young man in his thirties, lying on a sleeping chair, shook violently when he heard the sound, and showed a smile: "You want to buy yellow essence?" How much? The fresh goods are planted in 8 pieces, and the dry goods are 120 pounds are wild. 95% off for more than 10,000 catties. ”

Immediately it will be the medicinal materials trading conference, the store is piled up with more than half a year of goods, at this time are all buyers, as the so-called half a year does not open, open for half a year.

Obviously, this boss regarded Ye Jun as a buyer.

"I just want this one!"

Ye Jun casually pulled a withered rhizome from the pile of medicinal herbs. Crumpled. It's a little black, like an old tree root.

The boss's enthusiasm faded in an instant, looked at the big sun outside, and lay back directly, without the intention of going out, but said lazily: "Then you should go to the pharmacy, where it is all concocted!" ”

At this time, An Gen stepped forward and said in the local dialect: "We bought it home to stew old hen soup, we can't ask for clinker!" ”

Seeing that it was a local, the boss relented, and glanced at the medicinal materials in Ye Jun's hand, which was estimated to be more than a foot long, black and swarthy like a shriveled wooden stick, and Huang Jing was one foot long for ten years, and he didn't remember that he had received this kind of old goods. However, no matter how old Huang Jing is, it is also an ordinary medicinal material, and it cannot be sold at a high price, unless Huang Jing Wang is dug up. A few years ago, someone dug up a yellow essence king weighing more than 50 catties, more than 1.2 meters, and after speculation, it was sold at a sky-high price of more than 100,000 yuan.

"If you want it, take it for five hundred dollars. It's all locals, and they don't make your money! ”

This yellow essence weighs two catties and is ten years of medicinal materials, and the price is not high. It is estimated that the boss is also looking at the face of Angen, a local.

Ye Jun bowed slightly, paid very simply, and asked, "Boss, can you tell me, where did you dig this yellow essence?" ”

"Where do I know this? They were all dug up and sent by countrymen in the mountains. However, those who come to me to sell yellow essence are basically the three places of Guaqua Mountain, Yuwo Village, and Yangjiawei, and there are also those in other places, but they rarely come to me. ”

The boss said lazily: "You shouldn't dig it yourself, right?" Although the raw stewed old hen is very replenished, it is too much to eat. If you want me to say, you should go to the pharmacy and buy some cooked goods, and you usually have nothing to drink with bubble wine, I think you are a little weak, how can a strong man have you so white? ”

Ye Jun was speechless, but he finally got the information he wanted, thanked him and left.

Angen followed him, looking puzzled. This thing is everywhere in the mountains, and he used it to feed pigs when he was a child, and only later did he know that it could be sold for money. It's worth a few bucks. 500 yuan, he can't earn a day's driving.

He naturally didn't know that Ye Jun could sense that there was an extremely faint aura in this yellow essence.

Because it was not well preserved, this trace of aura was about to dissipate.

Can ten years of yellow essence have aura?

If it grows near a spiritual eye like the Taihu Lake Water Eye, it is not impossible to be nourished by the aura.

But the odds are slim to none.

If it really grows near the spiritual eye, it will definitely not be just like this, and the other medicinal materials in the vicinity will also have obvious changes, and they can't hide the eyes of the herb pickers at all.

Unless, this polygonatum is not the taproot, but a branch of an older polygonatum root.

Polygonatum grows underground, like a lotus root, and its stems and leaves are exposed to the ground and sprouts.

The herb picker dug up a huge yellow essence, and under the joy of it, it was not impossible to ignore the taproot deeper underground.

If this taproot can be found, it may be a semi-elixir similar to a century-old ginseng.

"Do you know the three places that the boss just mentioned?" Ye Jun asked.

An Gen said without thinking about it: "Yuwo Village is separated from our Guzizhai by a river, at most five or six miles. Yangjiatan is also from one of my townships, and Quaqua Mountain is in another township, forty or fifty miles. ”

Ye Jun bowed slightly: "I'll take a look in a few days." ”

The top priority is to inquire about the tomb first.

At this time, it was still a long time before dark, Ye Jun walked around the market, but he didn't find a second medicinal herb with aura, so he asked An Gen to go home first and prepare what he was going to enter the mountain in the next few days.

"You can take this yellow essence to stew in soup!" Ye Jun wants news, and he doesn't like this thing himself.

When An Gen heard this, he waved his hand again and again, and said, "It's very expensive, I can't ask for a day's car money!" He was worried that Ye Jun would turn around and deduct his car money.

Helpless, as long as Ye Jun held it in his hand, it was like carrying a wooden stick.