Chapter 39: Entering the Deep Mountains
Being young is good. Apart from anything else, the quality of sleep is really the envy of the elderly.
Lin Shu slept until dawn again, had breakfast, brought some steamed buns specially made by Liu Xiaoe last night, and went out with a basket on his back.
After leaving the village, I took out the newly purchased 28-meter bar from the system storage space, pushed it and pedaled a few times quickly, and then rode on it.
Xiaohe Production Team is under the jurisdiction of Shanyin Township. There are more than 20 miles of mountain roads from Xiaohe Production Team to the township, all of which are primitive dirt roads.
Because there was no car passing for ten and a half days, there was no dust on sunny days, but it was still muddy on rainy days.
Lin Shu only carried more than 20 kilograms of Smilax cocos and Codonopsis pilosula on his back, and had no intention of going to the county seat. He told his family that going to the county seat to exchange money was just an excuse.
The twenty-odd miles were mostly mountain roads. After riding the bicycle for more than ten miles, Lin Shu stopped.
Surrounded by mountains and forests, the woods on both sides of the road are very dense. Shan Dujuan's screams echo from time to time in the mountains and forests.
Lin Shu took the 28 big bars into the system, sold the medicinal materials in the basket to the system, and then got into the woods on the roadside.
The reason why she came to this place in the woods was because there was no village or shop in front of her, which was perfect for her to dig for herbs in silence.
As soon as I entered the forest, I found a lot of cucumbers growing on the ground.
[System, is this cucumber fragrance a medicinal herb? 】
【Back to the host, this is Burnet Burnet. It is called Cucumber Fragrance in some places because of its scent of cucumber. It often grows in wilderness mountains, forests and fields. Burnet Burnet is a perennial herb of the Rosaceae family, with odd-pinnate compound leaves. , the leaves are opposite, and the whole plant is oval and can be used as medicine. It is best to collect it in spring and autumn. The value is 0.2 yuan per plant. 】
Lin Shu raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, [Oh, you priced this herb by the plant again, and the price per plant is not low. 】
[If you have burnet bark at home, you won’t be afraid of the skin peeling off. If you have burnt burnet charcoal at home, you won’t be afraid of the skin burning. This shows the value of Diyu. The host should not worry about how to acquire the system, just dig it up quickly. 】
Lin Shu took off the backpack from his back, picked up the medicine hoe and started digging. Fortunately, the roots of Burnet Burnet were not very deep and could be dug out of the soil in a few strokes.
While digging, he walked into the forest. He didn't know how long he had been digging. When he saw that the basket was almost full, Lin Shu found a stone to sit down and rest.
She took out the kettle and drank some water, [System, how much can this basket be sold for? 】
【A total of 103 strains, worth 20.6 yuan, may I ask if the host is for sale? 】
[Yeah, for sale. 】
As she finished speaking, the system balance became 492.6 yuan.
Lin Shu looked at the empty basket and carefully looked at the surrounding plants while drinking water.
A relatively familiar plant appeared not far from her left hand, [System, there are several Polygonatum plants there. 】
[Host, that is Polygonatum odoratum, not Polygonatum odoratum. 】
Lin Shu was shocked, [Is it Yuzhu? I obviously look like Huang Jing. 】
Lin Shu stood up and patted his butt, walked towards a few plants, and looked at them carefully, [Not to mention, it’s really a little different. Is this Polygonatum odorifera a medicinal herb? 】
[Back to the host, Polygonatum odorifera, whose ancient name is Wei Rui, is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is recorded in many ancient medical books. It is regarded as a relatively high-value medicinal herb. The rhizome collected after autumn has higher medicinal value. 】
Lin Shu stopped as he prepared to hoe. It is more valuable for medicine after autumn, but other seasons are not suitable for mining.
[Host, there is a piece of Polygala three meters ahead, which can be harvested. 】
【Polygala? 】
Lin Shu took a few steps forward and found a patch of polygala. He dug up a handful, about twenty trees.
[It’s hard to get into the mountains, can we dig something valuable? Polygala root costs 5 cents a piece, how much do I have to dig to get one dollar? 】
Lin Shu sold this handful of Polygala to the system and continued walking into the mountains. As a result, he found a lot of aeruginosa on a shady hillside.
[Host, found aeruginosa, worth 3 yuan per pound. 】
3 yuan per catty, not bad, it’s faster than digging for herbs.
In a silent mountain forest, alone without anyone to accompany you, sometimes a sudden sound can be really scary.
Since Lin Shu entered the deep mountains, he would startle pheasants from time to time and fly up, and the flapping sound was loud.
It can be seen that the pheasant was very frightened by her, and she was also very frightened by the pheasant.
“Xu Ming, did you hear the sound?”
"I heard it, someone down here in Shanwowo is cutting down trees or digging soil."
There are echoes in the mountains. Sometimes the sounds in Shanwowo can be heard clearly even standing on the mountainside.
“In this remote mountain with no village in front and no store behind, who else is coming besides us?”
Xu Ming and the others were standing on the mountainside but they didn’t find any village nearby.
"Don't worry about others, do you still want to hunt?" Xu Ming glanced at a turtle dove in his hand. This was what they had gained from wandering in the mountains for a long time today.
"Go on, the group of people at the top of the mountain are trying to pull the wires and we can't go down the mountain until it gets dark. Instead of waiting stupidly, we might as well continue walking around." After that, Gu Jiu continued walking along the mountainside.
Not to mention, there are many rabbits and pheasants in the mountains, but the tools he brought today are not strong enough. The slingshot can only hit turtle doves at best.
"Next time, remember to bring a bird gun into the mountains."
Xu Ming frowned: "Bird gun is very dangerous. When shooting, you have to prevent the chamber from exploding. When hunting, you worry about hurting innocent people. That thing It’s really unsafe.”
The shotgun is a shotgun. If there is someone in the forest, if the shot is fired, it will be troublesome if the shotgun hits an innocent person.
Gu Jiu glanced at Xu Ming in surprise, "You are right to worry. It's just that we've been wandering around the mountains for a long time, and we haven't met a single person, let alone a human being or a ghost."
"Don't talk about it in the middle of the night. Ghosts, don’t talk about ghosts in the mountains, it’s the same thing.”
Xu Ming felt like there was a cold wind all over his body, especially the back of his neck.
Seeing Gu Jiu walking away, he hurriedly followed him, "Hey, where are you going? There are people or ghosts in the mountain den below. Why are you joining in the fun?"
" Where did the ghost come from?" Gu Jiu avoided the thorns and walked down.
The two of them walked down the mountain and disturbed the pheasants hiding in the forest, and the sound of flapping was heard.
"Gu Jiu, your speed is not good enough. The pheasants are flying. If you shoot at them again, can you hit the pheasants?"
"Oh, please react faster."
< br>"Look, it flew away again!"
"Shut up!" Gu Jiu turned back and glared at him, "You can't be quiet!"
Gu Jiu snorted coldly, turned around and walked towards the place where the pheasant had just flown. He found a chicken nest in the thorn bushes with several pheasant eggs in it.
“Go and pick up the egg.”
“Are there eggs?” Xu Ming avoided the thorns and walked over. When he lowered his head, he saw that there were indeed a few eggs among the thorns.
At this moment, he was not afraid of being stung by thorns. He stepped on the thorns with his feet and carefully picked out a few eggs.
“Eight wild eggs, not bad!” Xu Ming happily showed off the eggs wrapped in his clothes in front of Gu Jiu, as if offering a treasure.
Gu Jiu gave him a blank look for this childish behavior.
"Hey, Gu Jiu, you look like there's a lesbian down there." Xu Ming found a woman's figure in the nest, waving a hoe and digging something.
Gu Jiu jumped down a slope and approached the lesbian.
"Hey, what are you digging here?" Lin Shu, who was concentrating on digging, suddenly heard a man's voice and was startled.
When she found out it was Gu Jiu, her rapidly beating heart relaxed a little. She held her chest and took a deep breath: "Scaring people can scare people to death. Do you make no sound when you walk?"
"It's you!"
Lin Shu raised his head from the pit, and Gu Jiu also recognized Lin Shu, the girl with a bulging chest that he rescued from the river.
Xu Ming caught up from behind, "Cousin Lin Shu, it turns out."
Lin Shu saw Xu Ming and smiled at him: "Brother Xu, how do you get into the mountain? ”
"Haha, we are bored in the city, so we went into the mountains for a walk."
Gu Jiu walked to the pit and looked at the pit she dug. There was nothing but soil. "Are you there?" What are you digging for?”
This is where Xu Ming was confused, “Yes, Cousin Lin Shu” , are you digging?"
Lin Shu wiped his sweat and nodded with a smile: "Yes, I am exhausted from digging for so long. Brother Xu, come down and help me dig."
Xu Ming noticed the sweat on Lin Shu's forehead and jumped down into the pit happily: "Okay!"
Lin Shu handed him the hoe, crawled out of the pit, sat down and drank a few sips of water.
"What are you digging for?" Gu Jiu asked for the third time, seemingly unwilling to give up until he got an answer.
Lin Shu tightened the lid of the kettle, pointed at the finger-long black and gray plants on the ground and asked, "Do you know what this is?"
Gu Jiu carefully looked at the growth on the ground. What came out was a finger-long stick, black, something like Fungus, "What kind of fungus is this? What does this have to do with your digging?"
Xu Ming stopped digging. He crawled on the edge of the pit and found that he couldn't recognize what this thing was. "Lin Cousin Shu, this must be a poisonous fungus.”
Seeing them all staring at him, Lin Shu smiled mysteriously: "Have you heard of Wuling Ginseng?"
"Wulin Ginseng?" Xu Ming shook his head, not knowing how serious it was.
Lin Shu looked at Gu Jiu again.
Gu Jiu was stared at by the girl's big, watery eyes and coughed lightly: "Ahem, I've heard of it, but I've never seen the real thing."
"What is Wulingshen? "Xu Ming asked.
Gu Jiu glanced at Lin Shu and explained: "Wulingshen is also called Lei Zhenzi, Chicken Cong Dan, and Di Tan Stick. It is a fungus that grows underground. It has the effects of calming the nerves, stopping bleeding, and lowering blood pressure."< br>
Xu Ming: "With a name with the character "parameter", it should be very Is it expensive?"
Gu Jiu nodded and looked at Lin Shu: "Do you know the medicinal materials?"
Lin Shu did not deny, "I know a few roughly."
No need to ask anything else, everyone can guess it.
Xu Ming continued to dig. When he was tired, Lin Shu went to dig alone. Finally, he found the termite nest. Of course, there were no termites in it.
“It’s dug!”
Lin Shu crawled into the pit excitedly, carefully pulling up the soil in the nest, and soon found several black balls hanging inside.
“Is this the black ginseng?” Xu Ming jumped down from the pit, picked up the black ginseng on the ground and observed it.
It’s just a black egg. It doesn’t look good, and I can’t tell it has anything to do with ginseng.
Lin Shu hollowed out the entire termite nest and took out more than a dozen black eggs.
"Cousin Lin Shu, how much is a kilogram of black ginseng worth?" Xu Ming asked. He had never been exposed to medicinal herbs. Today was the first time he witnessed the digging of black ginseng, and he was full of curiosity.
Lin Shu shook his head: "This is my first time digging this thing, so I don't know the price yet."
Carefully put a dozen eggs into the basket, Lin Shu clapped his hands. of soil, crawling out of the pit.
Finding a creek to wash her hands, she asked the two people following her, "It's almost noon, won't you go back for lunch?"
"Cousin Lin Shu, aren't you going home?" Xu Mingxiao asked.
"It's not easy to go into the mountains. I have to go back in the afternoon."
"Then we won't go back either." Xu Ming took out a few steamed buns from the green bag he was carrying. He handed it to Lin Shu: "If you don't mind, eat one to satisfy your stomach."
"Thank you, you can eat it. I brought the steamed buns myself." Lin Shu took out two steamed buns from his bag.
Xu Ming snorted, "If I'm lucky enough to catch a pheasant today, we can cook the pheasant with cousin Lin Shu."
Lin Shu had long noticed the turtle dove in their hands, "The turtle dove is not bad, you can make a cup of turtle dove soup with this one when you go back."
Gu Jiu pointed the tied turtle dove towards Xu Ming kicked around, as if he didn't want to admit that he had been busy all morning and only managed to hit one turtle dove.
Lin Shu raised the corner of his mouth slightly, rummaged through the basket and pulled out a Codonopsis pilosula, "Now, this Codonopsis pilosula is for you to stew turtle doves. Thank you for your help just now."
Gu Jiu took the Codonopsis pilosula and looked at it carefully, "Is this Codonopsis pilosula?"
"Yes, native Codonopsis pilosula, purely wild, good for stew."
"Cousin Lin Shu is really good, she knows so many medicinal materials." Xu Ming gave her a thumbs up.
It’s just, “It must be tiring to go into the mountains to dig herbs every day, right? It’s dangerous for a girl like you to go into the mountains, so you haven’t thought about doing anything else?”
Lin Shu laughed at himself: "Working in the production team every day? It would be even more tiring if you work."
Xu Ming touched his nose Son, "Working in the production team is tiring, so my cousin never thought of going to the city to find a job? Temporary work is safer than working here in the mountains."
Lin Shu did not answer his question, but asked instead Said: "Brother Xu works at the power supply station, where does Comrade Gu work?"
A smile appeared at the corner of Gu Jiu's mouth, "I am a street kid with no job."
"Your answer is quite surprising." Lin Shu raised his eyebrows and joked: "You are just as unprofessional as me. "
Gu Jiu couldn't help laughing: "Haha." Interesting.
Xu Ming also laughed and said, "Cousin Lin Shu, what you said is wrong. He has a job and is willing to work on the street instead of going to work. Although you don't work in the production team, you are still working in the mountains and forests. Li is also working hard. Digging herbs is not considered unprofessional."
Lin Shu looked at Gu Jiu and said, "Oh, this is the first time I heard that I don't want to go to work. You really opened my eyes. ”
Gu Jiu smiled enough and waved his hand carelessly, "I just don't like restrictions. I find life between three o'clock and one line every day boring."
Xu Ming looked at Lin Shu, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. , "Cousin Lin Shu, why don't you let him sell his job to you and you take over his job?"
With the best of both worlds, Lin Shu doesn't have to go into the mountains and forests every day to dig for medicinal herbs and take risks.
Lin Shu pointed to himself in disbelief, "You want me to buy his job?"
"Yes!"
"Not to mention that I don't have so much money to buy his job, even if I have money, I don't plan to buy it."
"Why? You have a job, you don't have to farm in the future, you can marry someone from the city "Xu Ming couldn't understand that there are still people who don't want to work. Isn't it everyone's dream to have an iron job?
Except of course the person next to me.
Lin Shu had a smile on his lips, "It's not very free to work, and when I get married, I won't marry anyone who can't support a wife."
Xu Ming almost choked on his own saliva. To, "Ahem, I didn't expect you to be a weirdo, so your husband will be under a lot of pressure from now on."
(End of this chapter)