Chapter 54: Woe to the Dragon Muscle Grass (II)
It turns out that the small grass, the full name is "Dragon Muscle Grass", there is a dragon swimming in it, there are leaves without stems, five long leaves, extremely tough, the knife cuts constantly, the sword does not hurt, comparable to the tendon of the dragon. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
However, the name "Dragon Muscle Grass" was not named by Chai Laoshi himself, it has been circulated for a long time, but not many people know it.
Chai Laoshi originally lived in Chaijiagou, Zixia Mountain, Chaijiagou was a small family in Zixia Mountain a long time ago, relying on hunting and medicine to make a living, this village of more than 80 families, basically all of them are surnamed Chai.
According to Chai's honest statement, the Chai family is also an ancient family, and the reason why the Chai family is willing to live in the ravine for a long time and is unwilling to move into the city involves a secret.
It turns out that there is an ancestral land in Zixia Mountain in the Chai family, this ancestral land is very miraculous, originally this ancestral land has fertile soil, and it is a rare piece of fertile land. Later, I don't know when it began, the soil of the ancestral land of the Chai family began to change, the soil became harder and harder, although the people changed the soil for irrigation many times, but still could not prevent the hardening of the truth, the crops in this land became more and more difficult to survive, and the fertile land slowly became wasteland.
Later, by chance, a member of the Chai family found that the soil of the ancestral land has not continued to change, although other crops still cannot grow on it, but a kind of green grass grows on the ancestral land, this grass is very tough, but the number of grasses is not much, only a dozen trees.
Not only that, these grasses also have a very long growth cycle, only mature once every five years, no seeds and no fruits, after maturity the grass automatically falls off from the ground, but before falling off the grass is constantly cut, not burned to death.
The Chai family originally didn't know that this was a herb, but they thought it was very peculiar, so they collected these fallen grasses and looked around for someone to identify, but the surrounding cities were too small and the population was not large, so no one knew about it.
Later, a trip to Fangdao people heard about this, traveled to Chaijiagou, after careful study and research, told the head of the Chai family that this is a very precious medicinal material, called "dragon tendon grass", in thousands of years is a common medicinal material, but in the last thousand years has been very rare, the value is very high.
The Taoist bought all the "dragon tendon grass" that had been stored in the previous clan, and made an agreement with the patriarch of the Chai clan, and he did not send someone to buy it every five years, and the Chai family was naturally very happy. From then on, whenever the 'Dragon Muscle Grass' was about to ripen, the Daoist would always send someone to buy it, and the reward was extremely rich.
Since then, "dragon tendon grass" has become a very large income of the Chai family, according to the records of the Chai family, the Taoist mana is boundless, will call the wind and rain, scatter beans into soldiers, the clan warns the clansmen 'dragon tendon grass' can only be sold to the people sent by the Taoist, and the Chai family is not allowed to sell privately.
The Chai family has lived in Chai Jiagou for generations, and they are reluctant to relocate, saying that it is to protect the ancestral land, but in fact, it is mainly for the income of this 'dragon muscle grass', which is a very stable income obtained without work, and no one wants to lose it easily.
The wheel of history is constantly turning, the world is constantly changing, in recent decades, suddenly an accident happened, for some reason, the Taoist never sent someone to buy the "dragon tendon grass", although the number of "dragon tendon grass" produced in the ancestral land is very small, but it has been saved a lot over the decades.
If the Daoist does not send people to buy it, then these mature dragon tendon grasses will have to be placed for a long time again. Although the dragon tendon grass is miraculous, but after all, it is only a herb, and it will wither, and as it is placed for longer and longer, it will gradually dry up and lose its value, but the "dragon tendon grass" withered more slowly.
Such a large sum of money is so watched the loss, the elders of the Chai family are very heartbroken, for this reason many times held family meetings, but the ancestors have a testament, after all, there is a conservative, insist on abiding by the ancestors' testament, can not be sold privately, causing trouble; of course, there are also radical, thinking that since the Taoist people have not sent people, they may have already fallen, and the Chai clan has no need to stick to the ancestral teachings, but in the end it is noisy and the end can never be settled.
In the following years, the Chai family was unable to make ends meet for many years, and the financial situation of the Chai family deteriorated
However, the sale of 'dragon tendon grass' is not as simple as the Chai family imagined, the number of 'dragon tendon grass' is scarce, and there are not many people who know it, and there is no way to add the Chai family, the Chai family has just started to sell "dragon tendon grass" in Anping City, and it is very miserable that not even a single one has been sold for several months.
Later, in order to sell the 'Dragon Muscle Grass' as soon as possible, the family decided to send someone to Fengyang City to sell, Fengyang City, as the county capital of Tianfu County, is far from being comparable to Anping City, it is very prosperous and lively, and there are many more people who know the goods.
After all, the Chai family is a small family in the ravine, after arriving in Fengyang City, just like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, not to mention selling the 'Dragon Muscle Grass', in the end how to be deceived did not figure it out, and in the end not only did not get a penny back, but instead led the person who said that he bought the 'Dragon Muscle Grass' to Chaijiagou.
It is easy to please God, and it is difficult to send God, and after the Chai family found out that they had "lured the wolf into the house", it was too late to regret it.
Not only was the 'dragon tendon grass' in the clan looted, but even the ancestral land was dug three feet into the ground by the thieves of Fengyang City, except for those who went out and did not return, the men and the elderly were all killed, and the women and children were all plundered.
Fortunately in the misfortune, on the day of the massacre, Chai Laoshi's family was in other provinces, so they were spared. After Chai Laoshi's family returned to the family, they found out that the tragedy had happened, but it had already happened, and grief was to no avail.
Later, Chai Laoshi's father gathered the remnants of the Chai family and rebuilt the Chai family, but the originally huge family now has only more than ten people left. More than ten days later, a clansman who survived escaped back, and Chai's honest father finally understood the truth.
It turned out that the gang of thieves in Fengyang City did not come for the "Dragon Muscle Grass", they just thought that the "Dragon Muscle Grass" was so strange that there must be treasures under the ancestral land, so they slaughtered the Chai clan and carried out a destructive excavation of the ancestral land, but unfortunately they did not dig up any treasures. Only a few rotten twigs were found in the dirt, and the thieves, of course, did not consider them treasures, and finally returned disappointed.
The thieves don't know these rotten tree roots, but Chai's honest father has heard the old people say, the Taoist once said that the ancestral land of the Chai family is the place where the dragon veins gather, the ancestral land is the meat, and there are tendons in the meat, all of which are transformed by the dragon veins. Chai's father was also skeptical about this, but he still collected all the rotten twig-like things that the thieves discarded.
Occasionally, when it rains, Chai's father finds that these fence branches are really like muscles, slowly wriggling, and are about to fly, and Chai's father believes that these rotten branches may really be like the Taoist said, are the tendons of the dragon, that is, the so-called "dragon tendons".
About five years later, when Chai's father went up the mountain to hunt, he was killed by a fierce beast in the mountain, Chai's father died, Chaijiagou was like going to the main backbone at that time, and since then the gang has completely dispersed, the clansmen have gone their own way, Chai Laoshi and his mother have no choice but to move out of Chaijiagou, and now live in Xiajiazhuang.
Chai Laoshi's family is also unfavorable, last month Chai Laoshi's mother had a strange disease, which could not be cured for a long time, and the family was already short of money, and now the days are even more sad, in order to treat his mother and for his livelihood, Chai Laoshi brought everything that can be used to exchange money at home to the Xiajiazhuang market. But Chai honestly remembered what his father said, and didn't want to mention the "dragon tendon" to others, and just wanted to sell these things, and didn't want to explain too much, just for fear of causing unnecessary trouble.
As the saying goes: the father is watching his will, the father is not looking at his deeds, Chai Honest after his father's death, did not disobey his father's entrustment, and sold the things in the sale, only this time for the mother's treatment, he had to take out the only valuable things left in the family to sell, and its quality is also commendable.
After Mo Suifeng heard these words, a thought flashed quickly in his heart, but when he thought about it quietly, he found that he couldn't catch it, something was wrong, something was wrong, something was wrong with him, what was it........