Chapter 331: A Doomed Encounter
In the cold winter of Layue, Hangzhou, dozens of miles north of the city, in the mountains, more than a dozen figures carrying backpacks are searching in the mountains, all of them are men, dressed as ordinary civilians, the older ones look like they are thirty or forty years old, and the younger ones look only in their twenties, among which a young man is the most eye-catching.
The young man did not look the youngest, but he was white and clean, and his whole body revealed a weak scholarly temperament, while most of the other people around him, whether older or younger, were dark-skinned, hungry and yellow-faced, and his living body was a little rickety, and he looked obviously some weather-beaten civilians.
Under such an obvious gap, it is easy to notice the white and pure youth, and in the group, it seems that this white and pure youth is also the leader, more than a dozen people are scattered around the white pure youth as if they are searching for something, but they are not too far away from each other, suddenly, about a moment later, a man in his thirties on the left with a bucktooth in his mouth pulled out a green and slender grass about half a foot long from the ground, and hurriedly shouted to the white young man: " Xu Xian, Xu Xian, look at it, is this the green black grass you said. β
The young man with a white appearance and a weak temperament immediately turned his head when he heard this, looked at the green grass raised about half a foot high in the man's hand, nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, this is the green black grass, which is one of the more precious herbs in the healing herbs, and the medicinal herb in your hand is good in terms of color and growth, and when you go back, you should be able to sell it at a good price when you get it to the pharmacy, if nothing else, you can still buy it for a consistent price." After speaking, a hint of envy flashed in Xu Xian's eyes.
He has lived with his sister and brother-in-law since he was a child, although his brother-in-law is also a fast catcher, but in fact, the family's economic conditions are not rich, and he can only maintain the family.
There was some envy in his heart, but Xu Xian was also an upright person, so he didn't have any greed, he just glanced at it with envy, and then threw himself into the search again, and the man who picked the green black grass showed a look of surprise on his face, and carefully put the green black grass into the back basket behind him like a treasure, and the other people next to him also looked at the man with envy on their faces or eyes, and then they all threw themselves into the search, one by one they seemed to be more active and hardworking, as if they had received the stimulation of the man who picked the green black grassγ
Xu Xian was a medical apprentice in a Chinese medicine shop in Hangzhou, knew medical knowledge, and also knew the price value of some medicinal materials, so he thought of a way to make money by picking herbs and selling them to the pharmacy, while the other people around him were companions who also came after hearing that Xu Xian wanted to go to the mountains to pick herbs to buy money.
After all, it is not easy to make money, especially for the ordinary people living at the bottom of the society, even more so, every day for firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar worry, if you can have an extra way to earn more money to subsidize the family, who would not want to earn more.
Led by Xu Xian, more than a dozen people scattered on the hillside, searching for herbs separately, occasionally talking in twos and threes, but most of them were other people asking Xu Xian about medicinal materials, in addition, there were not many other conversations, the mountains outside Hangzhou City stretched, it was difficult to calculate how many mountains, and how big the mountains were, and at this moment the mountain where Xu Xian and others were located was an unknown mountain outside Hangzhou.
At the foot of the mountain, the water of the Wei River is clear and quiet, like a green ribbon, stretching between the mountains and ravines.
"Sister, you see, these people again. At the same time, on the top of the mountain where Xu Xian and others were collecting medicine, the two women stood quietly on the canopy of the mountain and looked at Xu Xian and others halfway down the mountain, both women had beautiful faces, one of them was dressed in green clothes, beautiful and cold, and the other woman was dressed in white, which looked dignified and holy, it was Xiaoqing and Bai Suzhen, looking at Xu Xian and others who were collecting medicine below, Xiaoqing frowned slightly, revealing a trace of displeasure: "These people come to collect medicine every day, and the whole mountain will be emptied by them." β
"Well, these people are also poor families, forced to make a living, let them be. β
Bai Suzhen smiled slightly, and looked at Xu Xian and the others who were picking medicine below, and said lightly, Xiaoqing pouted the corners of her mouth when she heard this, although there were still some people who were unhappy with the people who were picking medicine below, but she didn't say anything more, since she was defeated by Bai Suzhen that day and recognized Bai Suzhen's sister, after getting along for a period of time, her mentality has slowly changed.
At first, she was very unconvinced by Bai Suzhen, but now, this thought has slowly dissipated, but she slowly began to accept Bai Suzhen's sister in her heart.
"Sister, what are you looking at?" Suddenly, Xiaoqing found that Bai Suzhen beside her seemed to be a little distracted, her eyes looked in the direction of the people who were collecting medicine under the mountainside, and she didn't come back to her senses until she was stunned for a while, Bai Suzhen didn't seem to come back to her senses, looked at Xiaoqing and said, "Ah, what's wrong?"
Xiaoqinghu glanced at Bai Suzhen suspiciously, and then looked in the direction of Bai Suzhen's previous gaze, and happened to see the only eye-catching young man in the group of medicine pickers, with a white appearance and a weak temperament.
"Sister, what were you looking at this person just now?" Xiaoqing turned her head and looked at Bai Suzhen suspiciously.
Bai Suzhen did not answer Xiaoqing for the first time, but continued to stay on Xu Xian, in fact, it was not the first time that she noticed Xu Xian, from the first time she found that Xu Xian came to this mountain to collect medicine, she noticed Xu Xian, the indescribable feeling, it was very wonderful, for some reason, from the moment she saw Xu Xian for the first time, she couldn't help but have an inexplicable feeling in her heart.
It seems that this person has known him for a long time.
"Xu Xian, Xu Xian, you are careful...."On the mountainside, seeing Xu Xian thinking about climbing the cliff, the companions of the companions couldn't help but worry, and a companion couldn't help but kindly remind: "Don't worry, I'm fine...."
Xu Xian replied, but the movement did not stop, and continued to climb towards the upper left of the cliff, and more than twenty meters above the left of it, a medicinal herb with a green body and a thumb size of more than half a foot tall grew quietly, and on the top of the herb, there was a pure white thumb-sized flower.
"Xu Xian!" Xiao Qing on the top of the mountain heard the figure below, but his heart was suddenly shocked, and in an instant, memories came like a tide, and what Meng Changsheng said at the beginning instantly filled his mind: "Xu Xian, sister, is it true that what he said..."
For Meng Changsheng, Xiaoqing has always been a very complicated mood, thinking of the memory of being beaten when she first met, she was extremely angry, but when she said hate, she found that she couldn't hate it at all, but when she said thank you, she didn't have this emotion.
A very complicated emotion, but the only thing that can be determined is that this dream is immortal, and I am afraid that I will remember it for a lifetime, the first person who beat me and saved myself.
Thinking of what Meng Changsheng said at the beginning, and seeing Bai Suzhen beside him looking at Xu Xian's obviously unusual gaze, he couldn't help but make Xiaoqing feel a little more convinced: "No, if what that bastard said is really true, this Xu Xian will bring disaster to my sister, and I must not let her survive." As soon as he thought of this, Xiao Qing's gaze at Xu Xian flashed with murderous intent.