This is a small mountain village in the south-central part of the Sara Mountains, below the peaks. The mountain village is remote and poor, and most of the people in the village go to the mountains to chop firewood and hunt for a living, which belongs to the lifestyle of "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains".

The population of the village is small, and the relationship between them is very harmonious. Although it is far away from the city and the life is not rich, the people of a village live a carefree and happy life.

In the twilight, in the courtyard of a house, a teenager was collecting firewood in the yard. It was the result of a hard day's work by his father, and although it was not a full harvest, it was not easy to carry it down from the mountain. In the room, the boy's father sat on the bed resting, while his mother kept talking.

At this time, a young man came from outside the courtyard, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he said to the young man who was collecting firewood: "Yu Feng, have you heard? The grandmother next door is sick and is still bedridden." ”

The boy who called Yu Feng stopped what he was doing and looked at the boy who had just walked in. This person is no stranger, it is Xing Xuan, his playmate from childhood to adulthood. The grandmother mentioned in Xing Xuan's mouth is a neighbor nearby, a kind and kind old man, when the friends play together on weekdays, the grandmother often watches the children on the side, and often takes care of the children and cooks food for them.

But the old man had no family, and his son fell down the mountain in an accident while hunting, and he has been alone ever since. Now that he is sick again, the old man must be in great pain.

Yu Feng asked Xing Xuan, "Grandma is sick, why did he fall ill when he was so good to us on weekdays?" ”

Xing Xuan replied: "I don't know. After the people in the village found out, they asked the doctor to go and treat her, let's go over and have a look, grandma is very good to us on weekdays, let's also go over to take care of her. ”

After hearing this, Yu Feng agreed, threw down the firewood in his hand, and went back to the house to say to his parents. Yu Feng's parents are honest and responsible people, and when they heard that the old man next door was sick, they were also very concerned, so they agreed and let Yu Feng go over to take a look.

Yu Feng and Xing Xuan trotted out of the door, playing all the way, and when they arrived at the door of the next door, they stopped playing and walked in slowly and gently.

In the middle of the house, three or four young men stood in the middle of the humble house, while the only doctor in the village sat by the bedside with his apprentice, diagnosing the old man.

Yu Feng and the others did not speak after entering the house, standing behind everyone, waiting for the results of the diagnosis. After a while, the doctor finished the diagnosis, and his face was a little ugly, and it seemed that the results were not very optimistic. He said to everyone: "The old lady's illness is not an incurable disease, but it seems to have accumulated over a long period of time, and it has dragged on for too long, and it is not easy to treat." ”

The old man is very good to the villagers on weekdays, and he has a difficult life, but he does not trouble everyone. Now that the old man is sick, we can't just let it go. Since the doctor said that it is not easy to treat, there must be a way to cure it. ”

The doctor replied: "There is a way, I have a prescription here, and it can be cured with a little time by applying medicine according to this prescription." It's just that the medicinal materials recorded in this recipe are some precious, and I don't have them here. ”

"Doctor, what kind of herb is it? ”

The doctor thought for a moment and said, "Yingtang, I don't know if you have heard of it. Seeing that everyone shook their heads and was silent, the doctor continued: "Infant Tang likes cold, born in the high mountains, do not hide from everyone, the main production area of Infant Tang is in this Sara Mountains, but its growth altitude is higher, and it is definitely not the height where we go up the mountain to log and hunt." ”

As he spoke, the doctor took out a piece of paper and drew the shape of the baby begonia on it. Its leaves resemble the palm of the hand, its fruit is slightly like a grape, and more than a dozen small round fruits are clustered together and born on a branch. "The fruit is ripe when it is dark red, otherwise it will have no healing effect. I don't know if you have ever seen this plant on weekdays when you go up the mountain. The doctor showed the hand-drawn sketches to the crowd.

The people in the house stepped forward to look at the shape of the baby tang drawn by the doctor, and Yu Feng also squeezed in, glanced at the sketch drawn by the doctor, and secretly remembered its appearance in his heart. At this point, everyone replied that they had never seen the plant.

Subsequently, the doctor explained: "We go up the mountain to hunt and log on weekdays, for the sake of safety and convenience, the height of the mountain is no more than four or five hundred meters, and the growth environment of the baby tang must be at least one kilometer above." As for the baby begonias in some large pharmacies, they are also picked by special people on the mountain and then sent to major pharmacies, which is almost impossible for ordinary people to pick. ”

When everyone heard this, their faces were full of disappointment. Although everyone intended to treat the seriously ill old man, they did not dare to go up the mountain to find the wild baby tang. As for buying, let alone buying, let's not talk about whether everyone has the money to buy it, but the journey back and forth to Dacheng to find the baby tang is too long, and I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with the treatment of the elderly.

Everyone didn't have a good idea for a while, so they shook their heads helplessly and dispersed. Yu Feng secretly made up his mind that he would go up the mountain to find a cure for his grandmother.

After returning home, Yu Feng didn't say anything to his parents, just explained his grandmother's condition to them, and then continued to work.

The next day, Yu Feng woke up early before dawn. He first ate some leftovers from yesterday, took some dry food with him, took out a water bag and filled it with some water, quietly took his father's bow and a sickle from the house, and walked out of the house and walked alone on the road up the mountain before everyone woke up. He planned to spend a day going up to the top of the mountain to search for the baby tang that the doctor said, and strive to rush back before dark.

When I entered the forest, the sky was already a little hazy, and the surrounding vision was also broadened. But then the first problem arises, the mountain road is intricate, surrounded by vegetation, and there are forks in the road as you walk, or there is no way to go.

Yu Feng thought to himself, the growth environment of the baby tang is high, if he wanders in the place, I am afraid that he will not be able to find the baby tang for the rest of his life. So he set his sights higher. Whenever there is a fork in the road, take the upward path and strive to climb higher. And whenever he came to a place where there was no way, he took out his sickle, cut through the surrounding vegetation, and advanced to a high place.

Walking to a clearing, Yu Feng felt a little tired, he sat on the ground casually, and put the sickle in his hand aside. It was already dawn at this time, and he sat here and looked down, and a sight that he had never seen before came into his eyes.

The village below the mountain looks as small as a stone at the moment, and the people in the village are like small sesame seeds. Yu Feng had followed his father up the mountain before, but he had never been to such a high place, and this was the first time he had climbed such a high mountain.

In addition to seeing the village, he also saw the scenery in the distance, a piece of green that he had never seen before, and the mountains that could see the earth in the distance, and before he knew it, he was fascinated by it.

At this moment, a low roar suddenly came from around. When Yu Feng heard this, he immediately felt bad, it seemed that there were wild beasts nearby. The sound came from the forest on the left, and Yu Feng picked up the scythe on the ground, stood up, took a few steps back, and hid in the forest behind.

After a while, a tiger-shaped beast came out of the clearing, about three meters long. As if looking for something, it kept looking around. When he saw Yu Feng's side, his nerves couldn't help but tighten, for fear that it would find out. His right hand involuntarily clenched the scythe, and if the beast pounced on him at this moment, he would not hesitate to swing the weapon in his hand to fight it.

Just when Yu Feng was very nervous, the grass in front of him shook, as if something had run by. The beast in the clearing quickly turned its head to look there, and then immediately chased after it.

When Yu Feng saw this, his originally nervous heart slowly calmed down. He didn't dare to move, and stayed here for a while, making sure that there was no movement around him, and then he walked out of the bushes. After that, I didn't dare to stay here longer, so I hurriedly looked for a way to continue up the mountain.

At noon, Yu Feng's parents in the village thought that he had gone out to play, but he should have come back by this time, but he had not returned. When I went out to inquire, I found that no one had seen Yu Feng, and his partners were also at their own house and did not go out. That's when I realized that something was wrong. So I gathered the people in the village and asked everyone to help find it. The women searched outside the village, while the men took their weapons and headed out into the mountains.

At this time, Yu Feng was alone in the mountains, casually ate some dry food he carried, and set out on the journey again.

After a short time of climbing, the terrain became steeper and steeper, and if you didn't pay attention to the progress, you might slip and fall down the mountain. Yu Feng didn't know how high he had climbed, so he kept an eye on the plants around him to see if there was any baby tang he was looking for.

But all the way down, so I came to some ordinary plants, or some unknown plants, and I didn't find what I wanted.

After walking forward for another while, the mountain road was already extremely steep, and Yu Feng had to put away the sickle in his hand, use his hands and feet together, and began to climb up.

Before he knew it, Yu Feng had climbed high again, and he had already climbed on the cliff. As he climbed, he looked around, looking for his target. I inadvertently glanced down, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. It was as if he was hanging in the air, and there was nothing around him except the rock wall in front of him. The things on the ground below were no longer visible, and only the green of the jungle could be seen.

Yu Feng immediately withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes, and forcibly suppressed the fear brought by his fright. After a while, I slowly opened my eyes and looked straight up, but unfortunately I couldn't see how far there was at this angle. Now that it's in mid-air, it's already a little late to want to retreat. Think about such a high place, you should be about to find the baby tang, once you find it, you will slowly climb down.

Thinking of this, Yu Feng slowed down his climbing movements and looked for Ying Tang more carefully.

The people at the bottom of the mountain did not stop searching, but the afternoon passed quickly, and they found nothing.

At this time, Xing Xuan seemed to have thought of something, he told the adults what happened yesterday, and speculated whether Yu Feng had gone up the mountain to find Ying Tang. Yu Feng's parents feel that their children are already stubborn, and it is not impossible to have this kind of thought. So they set their sights on the mountain, went up again, and searched deep into the forest, ready to search it thoroughly.

At this moment, a crisp chirping sound was heard in the distant sky. When everyone heard this, in the southern sky, a huge eagle flew towards it, and there seemed to be a person standing on it......

Before that, Yu Feng, who was climbing on the cliff, was concentrating on finding his target baby tang. At this moment, I suddenly felt a cool breeze behind me, and at the same time, there was a sound. When I looked back, I saw a large bird waving its wings behind me.

Before Yu Feng could think about it, the bird attacked. Yu Feng crawled here and didn't dare to move, and the big bird behind him pounced on him, and he had no power to fight back. Suddenly, a pain came from his right arm, and he turned his head to look, but he was pecked by a bird. Yu Feng instantly felt that his strength was constantly losing, especially his right arm, and he couldn't use his strength.

At this time, the big bird pecked again, Yu Feng endured the pain, and subconsciously dodged, but he stepped on the air, and suddenly the whole person fell down.