The sky was just dawning.

Qu Yong had already tiptoed up, and after he washed two buckets of well water in his big pants, he was in good spirits, put on his torn clothes, went back to the house to get rice cakes, inserted a firewood knife, and walked out of the yard with the medicine basket on his back.

At this hour, the rooster did not crow, the whole village was quiet, only the chimney of the third mother-in-law's house was already smoking, Qu Yong saw the sixtie-year-old third woman hunched over the back of the rice washing rice from a distance, she stiffened her neck and coughed loudly, only a mouthful of thick phlegm came up in the middle of the sound, and "phew" spit out.

"Three women!" Qu Yong shouted.

The third woman's eyes narrowed, and when she saw that it was Qu Yong, her wrinkled face bloomed, and she said with a smile: "Yong, you came back yesterday?" ”

"Last night's minibus."

"Ah, go up the mountain as soon as you get back? To Ebony Mountain? Seeing Qu Yong's dress on the mountain, and carrying a medicine basket, the third woman must have gone to Ebony Mountain to dig medicine.

"yes!"

"Okay...... the third woman waved her hand and said, "Then you go, when you come back, see if there are any wild goods on your Uncle Minxi's power grid?" ”

Qu Yong agreed: "Okay, I'll bring it back if you have it." "Uncle Minxi is the second son of the third mother-in-law, he spent a lot of money to buy a transformer the year before last, and set up a high-voltage power grid of several hundred meters in the back mountain to hunt wild beasts.

"This kid is well-behaved and smart, if it weren't for his family's drag, hey...... It must be a son who moves the world! Qu Yong has already gone away, and the third woman is still talking to herself, talking about Qu Yong's family, as if she is talking to herself, more like she is talking to this world.

Qu Yong's home is in a small mountain village called Lingzhangkeng in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, which is just the upper reaches of the Qiantang River, connecting Fujian in the south, Shangrao in Jiangxi in the west, Huangshan in Anhui in the north, and Jinhua, Lishui and Hangzhou in the east of the province.

Because it is located at the junction of the four provinces, the mountain village is dangerous, and it has always been a bandit ant gathering bee tun, as many as a cow's hair, just in modern times, the famous military giant "Sanmao and one Dai" was born in this place.

Qu Yong grew up listening to the old man tell the legendary stories of these predecessors, and as soon as he was born, the ninth master who would tell fortunes and names in the village col calculated for him, saying: "This child is a snake born from time to time, rainy in the morning, sunny in the afternoon, no article in his life, born early and Dai Boss a life, late born a Jiazi, it's hard to say......" Qu Yong's father asked Jiu Ye again, Jiu Ye always waved his hand and didn't say anything.

Although the ninth master said that Qu Yong did not bring articles in his life, he took the first place in the exam when he studied, and he got on the score line of Zhejiang University with a high score of 630, and on the day the news came, the village committee set off a string of firecrackers, and the secretary Uncle Minsen held a meeting to decide to reward Qu Yong with 5,000 yuan.

But the next day, Qu Yong told his mother with red eyes that he would stop reading and go to Yiwu to work, his mother slapped him on the spot, hugged this sensible son again, and cried, also because the family really had no money for him to study.

When he was fifteen years old, his father found out that he had "butterfly spots", for this disease, their family's savings had already been spent, relatives and friends could borrow three times, and now they have to pay more than 300 medicine fees every month, Qu Yong's mother has boiled white hair for this family, to this point, where does Qu Yong dare to think about studying.

Later, Ah Hui, the grandson of the third mother-in-law, came up with an idea to go to the local medical school in Quzhou, and he could apply for a national student loan for poor students with Qu Yong's high scores, so that he could go to university.

The people in the village are very sorry, and finally a key college student came out, who knows that he still can't fly out of this ravine, everyone says that the ninth master is accurate in fortune telling, Qu Yong, this child does not have an article in his life, there is no such blessing, hearing these gossips, the ninth master always touches his crutch, hehe says words that no one understands, "A son moves the world!" ”

This is all in the past, now Qu Yong has been studying in college for a year, went home yesterday summer vacation, and went up the mountain to dig medicine overnight, all saying that Quzhou is Tibet in Zhejiang Province, which means that this place is poor, and half of it means that it produces fritillary in the eight flavors of Zhejiang.

In recent years, the price of traditional Chinese medicine has risen gradually, the wild ones have been dug up, and the hospitals are all artificially planted in Ningbo.

After the third mother-in-law's house, and then through the yards of several families, Qu Yong has gradually left the village, at this time, the rooster in the village only crowed for the first time, he has to turn over the two mountains in front of him, will go to the ebony mountain, to there, the herbs are gradually more, he turned over the two mountains in one breath, at the foot of the ebony mountain with the bamboo pieces to build the mountain spring, and ate a few pieces of rice cakes brought out, this cake can boil the stomach, the most suitable to take up the mountain.

After he finished eating, he washed his face, went up the mountain, and found that there were not many herbs to dig here, it seems that over the years, Qu Yong's mother has almost hollowed out several mountains in the vicinity, thinking of this layer, his nose is sour, as if he can see that in these deep mountains and old forests, his mother is hunched over, looking for each herb, and try to bring it back for money to support the family.

He went all the way to the south to dig medicine and go up the mountain, crossed a long mountain stream, and finally climbed over Suze Mountain in Fujian, this mountain is extremely high, to here, there are very few traces of human traces, ordinary rural people chopping wood, digging medicine, hunting will not go to this far, because to go here a day a round trip time is almost not enough.

As the sun gradually went west, he had already walked far away, and when Qu Yong looked up again, he found that the sun had set westward, and it seemed that if he stepped up his pace and walked back, it would be midnight when he got home.

"Hey... Is that all there is to it for a day? He reluctantly took the medicine basket, which was only half a basket, and he could imagine how hard his mother worked on weekdays.

Qu Yong was tired and thirsty, and when he lay down to drink spring water, he suddenly heard a "cooing" in his ears, which was definitely not a hungry noise, but a wild product.

"Is it a rabbit?"

Qu Yong felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, catch a rabbit and go back, this trip is definitely worth it, pork Li, how can a hare be sold for fifty yuan, but the hare runs faster than a soil dog on the mountain, and he is afraid that he will not even be able to catch rabbit hair with a firewood knife.

He squinted his eyes silently, and saw a blue-yellow fur animal that looked like a rabbit smaller than a rabbit, with a pattern like a leopard, squatting at the mouth of a cave covered by ancient vines not far away, staring at Qu Yong with red eyes.

"What is this? Miscellaneous gray rabbit? Qu Yong had never seen a rabbit like this, but he saw it clearly, the rabbit's eyes were dull, there was no spirituality, it was probably eaten by other people's crops sprinkled with pesticides in the fields, "This kind of rabbit, after going back, let the blood out, raise it in the water for a few days, the meat can still be eaten." ”

Qu Yong thought so, his body had slowly slid over like a snake, if this was an ordinary rabbit, he would have run away without a trace a long time ago, but until Qu Yong got to it more than three meters away, it still didn't move like the mud Buddha in the temple.

"Rabbit, rabbit! You can't help me. Qu Yong pounced on a rabbit like a lion, pounced on it, and grabbed its body tightly, but somehow, he felt that his hand slipped, and the rabbit arrow that had eaten the pesticide also ran away.

"Huh? How could I not grasp it? ”

Qu Yong didn't expect that the boiled duck could fly, the rabbit ran into the cave not far away or squatting, just staring at him, the young man's blood under the chase without thinking about it, the rabbit "cooed" a call, flying a kite seemed to be still and moving, every time Qu Yong wanted to catch it, its body was able to easily twist and escape from the palm, so it chased to the deepest part of the cave, turned a corner, only to find that under the mountain wall behind, there was a secret way out for only one body.

Qu Yong took off the back basket, set aside the ancient vines, drilled through the way out, the front of him was open, there was a mountain road paved with bluestone slabs in front of him, Qu Yong went up step by step, the mountain stream flowed up and down endlessly, the gusts of mountain wind made a rustling sound through the woods, the sound of wind, rain, and flowing water were mixed, as if it was the sound of nature.

The rabbit was still ahead, but at this time he was already stunned by the scene in front of him, only to see a paradise in front of him, the faint sunset imprinted on the green grass and flowers, it was simply a spring scene.

There is a waterfall on the cliff, rushing out of a hot spring pool, the rabbit is squatting next to the pool at the moment staring at Qu Yong, Qu Yong raised his eyes to see, among the green trees and red flowers, a Taoist temple stands on the cliff.

Here, the mountains are secluded, the water is secluded, and the view is secluded, which is simply verdant without dripping, and wants to move without moving. The Taoist temple is lonely and hanging from the cliff, hidden between the branches and leaves, there is a gentleman and different, the taste of the outstanding group, and extraordinarily deep, just looking at it makes people feel that the owner of this Taoist temple is extremely extraordinary.

"What is this place?" Qu Yong grew up in the mountains, and he had never heard from the people in the village that there was a Taoist temple in Suze Mountain.

"Coo...... the rabbit barked again, as if mocking Qu Yong.

"Look how I catch you and go back to make soup ......" Qu Yong was about to lie on the rabbit's body this time, and suddenly, the rabbit stood up with the strength of his hind feet, and his front foot flicked Qu Yong's arm, and his body had already jumped in front of him and patted his head.

Qu Yong was startled, he had only heard that rabbits bite when they were in a hurry, but he didn't expect to stand up and pat his head, "This rabbit has become a sperm?" ”

"Haha, if you catch it like this, you won't be able to catch a beaver in your life!"

When Qu Yong was surprised, suddenly there was an old Taoist priest in sloppy clothes standing by the spring pool, his birthday star male head, with an ebony hairpin, his eyebrows were long to droop, his melon seeds were on his face, his ears were big and long, and he was looking at Qu Yong with a smile on his face.

"Good way." Qu Yong looked at the appearance of this old Taoist, he should be the Taoist priest in the Taoist temple on the flying cliff, but he didn't know how he came down, and he didn't find it at all.

"Good, good!" Lao Dao smiled: "Do you want to catch this beaver?" ”

Qu Yongqi said: "It turns out that this is not a rabbit, it is called a beaver?" Every time I grabbed it, it was broken free by a strange force. ”

"Strange power?" Lao Dao shook his hand and said: "This is the transformation of yin and yang, the opportunity of movement and stillness, it is superior martial arts, how can it be said to be a strange force?" He paused, and then said, "It just converts the force you use to grab it back and pushes it back into your hand, so the more force you have, the more strange the force it pushes back!" ”