Life in a quiet village in Xianshan

The old man woke up and quickly sat up.

"Let's go home and change your clothes, otherwise you'll be in trouble if you catch a cold." Seeing that Tao Yisheng was soaked to the skin, Liu Fulin asked him to go to his house and change out of his wet clothes.

Tao Yisheng smiled and waved his hands after hearing this, and continued to rest with his hands on his knees: "No, it will be fine after a while, I will take a rest first."

Guo Xiangping asked curiously at this time: "How did you fall into the river?"

Tao Yisheng smiled and replied: "I went into the mountain to collect herbs and found a rock ginseng on the cliff. I was halfway up when I heard someone singing. I was a little fascinated by it and didn't notice the rock ginseng I was holding next to me. The rock was a little loose, and when I found it, it was too late, and I just fell into the river. To be honest, when I fell in, I thought I was in danger this time. The current was so fast that I was singing. Even if you see me falling, you won’t be able to save me..."

Well!

Gu Siwei was a little embarrassed.

Everyone around was looking at Gu Siwei at this time. After Tao Yisheng said this, who didn't know that this song was sung by Gu Siwei? Isn’t that because I don’t have enough brains?

"What song made people fall off the cliff?" Guo Xiangping said with a laugh.

Since people have nothing to do, this matter can naturally be discussed.

Gu Siwei continued to be embarrassed, and when he was thinking about what to say, Tao Yisheng opened his mouth and said: "It's not the young man's fault, it's my own problem. I would never have been like this before. Now that I'm older, I don't have enough energy. "Yong, in addition to the fact that hiking into the mountains has always been smooth for so many years, I felt a little slack in my heart, and then something happened. It was a warning to myself."

Gu Siwei listened and said: "I really didn't expect that there would be people in that place. I thought no one would go to the old forest so far away."

"It's none of your business. The older the forest, the more good medicinal materials are produced. Fewer people go there. The more dangerous places are, the more natural and precious materials are found. If they are found in ordinary places, they are harvested before anyone shows up. "How can you wait until the time when the medicine is most effective?" Tao Yisheng said with a smile.

Liu Fulin asked at this time: "You said you saw a rock ginseng?"

Gu Siwei had never heard of rock ginseng. Now that Liu Fulin asked about it, he naturally became interested. If something has the word "ginseng" on it, it must have some background, not to mention Tao Yisheng is so old. It would be weird if he climbed up the cliff to find something.

"Well, the rock ginseng is growing well. I'll put it in my basket... Hey, where's my basket? It might have been thrown into the river. Forget it, it's not a pity to lose other things except your life." Tao Yisheng I looked around and didn't find my basket, so I thought it had fallen into the river.

Gu Siwei directly picked up the basket placed behind Yang Chuanwu and Guo Xiangping and placed it in front of Tao Yisheng.

When Tao Yisheng saw the basket, the expression on his face instantly seemed to come to life, his eyes were shining, he hurriedly reached out to hold the basket in the cup, and then looked left and right as if he could see the flowers. .

"Old Taoist, what treasures are in your basket?" Guo Xiangping was curious and squatted down to look at the basket.

Tao Yisheng said: "It's just the herbal medicine. I thought I was busy on my trip to Shanbai, but I didn't expect the medicine was still there."

After saying that, he started to struggle, and after he calmed down, he gave Gu Siwei a hand, and he pressed it to the end, and his whole body almost bent to 180 degrees.

Gu Siwei immediately helped the old man up and moved out of the way in front of the old man. Liu Fulin, who was standing next to Gu Siwei, also moved his position without receiving the old man's courtesy.

"No, no, why are you so polite?" Gu Siwei said repeatedly.

"Young man is so strong."

Tao Yisheng said nothing and praised Gu Siwei's strength as soon as he got up.

"Haha, it's just brute strength, not worth mentioning."

Gu Siwei was polite, but he was also surprised by the old man's strength. Really, it was hard to imagine that such an old man could have the strength of a strong young man.

Tao Yisheng opened his backpack, dug inside, and took out a cloth bag, which was already soaked.

It must have been wet. It would have been weird if it hadn't been wet since it had fallen into the river.

Gu Siwei stretched out his head curiously and watched as Tao Yisheng unwrapped the cloth bag, covering almost four layers layer by layer. After waiting to open it, Gu Siwei was immediately deeply disappointed.

Because the innermost part of the cloth bag was wrapped with a black thing. It looked very disgusting. It looked a bit like something, like a black poop. It was almost a palm long and as thick as two fingers. The black skin was numb. The meat is not smooth at all, and there are some brown tendons on it.

Look at it, do you think it looks like a piece of shit when it looks like this? If it doesn't look like it, you must have never seen shit.

"What kind of rock ginseng is this?"

Gu Siwei felt that this thing was not advanced at all, and it would be more appropriate to call it a piece of shit.

The expression on Liu Fulin's face was very solemn at this moment. He nodded and said: "It's really rock ginseng. I haven't seen this thing in many years. It can still grow so big. If it were left in the provincial capital before, it would have to be moved to another room." Big shop.”

"One room? This thing half the size used to cost several thousand taels of silver. At that time, a courtyard in the capital city only cost a few hundred taels. This thing is enough for an ordinary family to live a good life," Guo Xiangping said.

Gu Siwei was a little confused when he heard this. He didn't know how valuable this thing was. You told Lao Gu that ginseng was valuable. He could understand. Really, the price of a ginseng that is many years old will be sky-high even after decades. , there are always millions.

But if you tell him that the shit in front of you is worth so much money, he won't believe it because he hasn't heard anything called rock ginseng. Can this thing be compared with ginseng?

Tao Yisheng saw Gu Siwei's face at this time. How old the old man was, he could tell at a glance what Gu Siwei was thinking.

If it were anyone else, it would be fine. He wouldn't explain anything to others, but Gu Siwei was different. No matter what, he was the one who saved his life, so Tao Yisheng opened his mouth to explain to Gu Siwei.

"This thing can cure many diseases, especially miasma. This thing originally grew in the deep mountains and old forests, in places full of smog and miasma. As the old saying goes, there must be an antidote within three feet of a poisonous miasma." That's the truth.

And you only need to eat this food once, which is about the size of a finger, to ensure that you will no longer be invaded by miasma in the next three or two months," Tao Yisheng said.

"Oh, that's nothing."

What does Gu Siwei think this is? Isn't it just a medicine for treating diarrhea? Maybe these people lived a little too early and have never heard of artemisinin, but we here have won awards based on it.

"It's not just this," Guo Xiangping said: "This thing also has the effect of prolonging life. The medicine prepared is said to be able to build muscle and restore bones."

"oh!"

Gu Siwei nodded and listened with a smile.

But he really didn’t take it seriously. What about regenerating muscle and restoring bones? He might have believed it at the time when he was a fan of the four-dimensional martial arts novels, but now, even if he were to use space again, he didn’t believe that the black lump in front of him could have such magical effects. .

Sometimes medicine sellers always exaggerate the efficacy of medicines. This is no different at all times and in all countries. Gu Siwei has always maintained a conservative attitude.

Tao Yisheng laughed and said: "Regenerating muscles and restoring bones is just a rumor. In fact, the most important thing is that this thing is an excellent spice. If it is used to stew meat, it will taste great, especially stewed pork, beef and mutton." , can freshen the tongue."

As soon as he heard the aroma of the stewed meat, Gu Siwei immediately became energetic and blurted out: "Seriously?"

"Seriously!" Tao Yisheng nodded and smiled: "But you don't just put it in. Although this thing is a cure-all, if you eat it if you are not sick, it is poisonous, and the toxicity is quite strong, although it may not lead to death. But there’s no problem at all in letting you lie down for ten and a half days.”

Gu Siwei really wanted to ask how to do it, but after thinking about it for a while, he gave up, because what he heard most when he got here was the secret recipe that was not spread to others.

Seeing Gu Siwei's lack of interest, Tao Yisheng continued to check the other things in his basket.

There was a lot of grass in the basket, and Gu Siwei had never seen most of it. Even if he had seen him, he didn't know his name.

Tao Yisheng took out all the grass and spread it directly beside him, on the wood of the dock, and let it dry in the sun.

"Let's go home, what are you doing here?" Guo Xiangping said when he saw Tao Yisheng spreading out all the herbs.

Tao Yisheng did not refuse at this time, stood up and followed everyone towards the valley.

Gu Siwei was not interested in following them into the valley, so he said: "Then you go, I'm going back, and I'm going to catch some wild boars and so on, so that our family can plant rice tomorrow."

"Planting rice tomorrow?"

Liu Fulin stopped, turned around and asked Gu Siwei: "That's fast enough. It's only been a few days. Your family has planted rice and the seedlings have grown?"

"Everything has been distributed. If you have something to do, you don't have to go. I'm just joking over there." Gu Siwei thought that Liu Fulin would have something to do tomorrow, so he said this.

Liu Fulin waved his hand and said, "What's the matter? Our house is almost ready. Even if it's weeding or something, we don't care if it's just a day or two. We'll be there tomorrow."

"Let's see what you can do. If Siwei doesn't come to pick you up, can you go upstream? Don't worry, if you don't plant the rice by then, you will have to plant it first, and you will have to be cared for by others," Guo Xiangping said with a laugh.

"This is a trivial matter." Liu Fulin couldn't help but become happy after hearing this.

"That's it, I'll pick you up tomorrow morning," Gu Siwei said.

Liu Fulin said: "We should go early and try to get there at dawn so that everyone can work hard while it's cool."

Gu Siwei nodded and then jumped onto the raft.

Just as he was about to leave, he heard Tao Yisheng say: "Are you looking for wild boars? I know a place with a lot of wild boars. It's just to the southwest of where I collect herbs. There is a deep forest there with a lot of wild boars, and there are also There are a lot of yellow goats. If you go further, you will see two erected Naituo Mountains. You can go between the mountains and it will be easy as long as you find the mountains."

The wild boar Gu Siwei didn't care, but the wild goat Gu Siwei was extremely interested, and he happily thanked him.

Under the watch of everyone, Gu Siwei slid towards the middle of the river on his raft. When he reached the center, the squares and grass flowers connected, and the raft sailed all the way upstream.

Others were not surprised, but Tao Yisheng looked surprised: "How can you make the raft run so fast in the water?!"

"There are two big fish pushing under the raft, one of which weighs almost four to five hundred kilograms. Pushing a raft is nothing." Yang Chuanwu said: "This Gu Siwei is a strange person."

"Strange person?" Tao Yisheng paused.

"Yes, he is a strange person like you, with great abilities. Without him last winter, our village would have been sad!" Guo Xiangping said with a chuckle at Tao Yisheng.

Tao Yisheng had a bitter look on his face when he heard this: "What kind of strange person am I? If a strange person can be kicked out of the temple, he will not be able to return to his home, alas!"

"By the way, why did you dig up the herbs?" Liu Fulin asked.

Tao Yisheng said: "I have no choice but to get some good things so that I can keep the things in my house, otherwise those things will be smashed away."

Everyone walked into the valley together. After hearing what Tao Yisheng said, everyone was very sad, because this temple used to be quite famous nearby, and people from some provincial towns would come here to kowtow to seek a future. In the past, Tao Yisheng Sheng's master is an extremely famous fortune teller.

Now, who would have imagined that a Taoist temple that had flourished for almost two to three hundred years would just disappear.

But everyone also understands that this is a matter of twisting the arm but not the thigh. There are many things you don’t want to think about. How can ordinary people carry the wheel of history?