Chapter 293 The son’s fortune-telling
Is he a medicine gatherer?
Chen Ling couldn't help but glance at it a few more times.
He had only heard of this form of medicinal collection from others, and had never seen it before.
He and his father-in-law went into the mountains to collect herbs before. Compared with the kind of herbs they saw now, it was undoubtedly a small effort.
The mountains and cliffs are not of the same magnitude.
"It's amazing. There are really a group of people with unique skills in collecting herbs on such a high mountain."
After all, Chen Ling was not able to see the thick fog again through the mountain fog. The figure behind the fog could only sigh with emotion.
Rare herbs are not difficult to find on a cliff of this height. Surrounded by clouds and mist all year round, the cliff is very smooth. Once you step on a loose rock, you may fall to the bottom of the valley at any time and die.
The courage to risk one's life by moving around on such cliffs and collecting herbs is enough to make one admire him.
"This is not surprising. There are many drug dealers near Yaowang Temple. The prices are fairer than elsewhere and they have a good reputation. Many villages and drug farmers living directly in the mountains sell to them."
Gao Xiulan also looked at it. Outside the car window, he said: "In this way, you can make a fortune every autumn to winter. However, you can't make a lot of money in this industry. You have your head tied to your belt, and your life is in danger every year." . ”
Wang Cunye used to collect herbs like this when he was young. Naturally, the old lady knew the dangers here better than anyone else, and she was used to it.
These ordinary words made Chen Ling and his wife feel trembling. Thinking of Wang Cunye's broken leg, they could already imagine the degree of danger involved.
The carriage was silent for a while.
As the car drove uphill, the view became higher, and a valley could be seen. There was steaming mist and dense vegetation at the bottom of the valley. There were faint waves of flowing water below, but it was the turbulent river just now.
This is indeed a good view.
It makes people really want to put on a pair of wings and fly to the high mountains and cliffs and fly to the deep valleys to play.
Seeing that Chen Ling was happy, the mother-in-law said, "If you like coming, you can come again next year. When Ruirui is older, you and your family can come by yourself."
Wang Susu was happy after hearing this. Turned his head: "Okay, next year we will come to pick you and dad up, and our family will come together by boat from Fenglei Town."
But Chen Ling shook his head and said with a smile: "Why don't we take a boat? If we don't take a boat, we will also buy a car next year. It will be convenient to go wherever we want."
"Bah, bragging."
When Wang Susu heard this, she glared at him and said to her son in her arms: "Ruirui, look at your father, he knows how to talk big words, just like a landlord and a wealthy man."
It's not surprising that Wang Susu doesn't believe it. , It’s not easy to buy a car nowadays, the cheapest one costs about 200,000 yuan, let alone a good one.
Although my family can make money quickly, they are not rich enough to drive a car.
Wang Susu said a few words to her son, but the little guy ignored her at all. He only stared at the scenery moving backward outside the car window. His black grape-like eyes were big and bright. He looked at the scenery along the way and his mouth was full of tears. He couldn't help but raised his head, looking very happy.
She was immediately frustrated.
"Okay, Yaowang Temple has arrived, let's drive into the village."
Gao Xiulan shouted, Yaowang Temple in front has arrived, and there are more people on the road than before.
“Oh, it turns out you have to enter from here to go to Yaowang Temple.”
Only then did Chen Ling realize that if he wanted to go to Yaowang Temple on the mountain, he had to pass through two small villages.
The first is Xuanyangyu in Baiheling, and the second is Halongkou Village.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people come to Yaowang Temple to offer incense.
There are people who ride bicycles and people who walk. Most people come here on foot, or even walk over the mountains instead of taking the main road.
They are all herb farmers, herb collectors, or drug dealers, or their family members who open drug stores. Drug dealers and drug store owners pray for a prosperous business, while herb collectors and drug farmers pray to the King of Medicine to bless their families when collecting herbs. life safety.
The simple mountain people rarely see cars. When Chen Ling drove into the village, they watched for a while.
Chen Ling had no choice but to park the car at the village committee here, spent some money and asked the village party secretary to take care of it, and then took his family up the mountain.
Yaowang Temple is on the mountain west of Halongkou.
Cross the river and climb up the mountain. When you reach the mountainside, you will see a smooth platform on the gentle place. This is the medicine drying platform.
The medicine drying platform here is a platform built in a day.
It is a flat piece of rock, unblocked by other mountains, and the sunshine period is extremely long. The locals say that "the sun is shining all the time at sunrise and at the end of the day."
It is said that Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, dried 100,000 kilograms of medicine here and transported it to Chang'an via the ancient Qin-Chu Road by mules and horses, curing thousands of patients.
The Yaowang Village where my father-in-law lives, and the medicine drying platform in front of the village, also come from this place. It is from here that people burn incense and pay homage to the Medicine King and "invite" him back.
There are many related ruins near Yaowang Temple, all related to Sun Simiao, King of Medicine.
The most famous one is naturally Yaowang Temple. It is said to be a temple, but in fact it is more accurately called Yaowang Temple.
It’s just that this temple is large and ancient, with a history of thousands of years. The locals have called it Yaowang Temple over time, but it has nothing to do with Buddhism.
While lingering on the medicine drying table for a moment, Chen Ling felt that this thing was very similar to the white jade-colored boulders he saw in the river valley when he was collecting dendrobium in the mountains.
Continue to move forward and rush to the top of the mountain. Yaowang Temple is on the top of the mountain.
The thousand-year-old temple has been completely preserved after several repairs. Because it is located in a remote place and is located on the top of a mountain, it has not been damaged in modern times, which is really a blessing.
The Medicine Drying Terrace and Yaowang Temple are one above the other, facing each other from a distance.
It is said that in the past, there was only the medicine drying platform on the mountainside. Sun Simiao collected the herbs and dried them on the medicine drying platform. There was no fixed residence. In the nearby Halongkou Village, there used to be a large iron bell that held the bell in the mouth of the dragon. It often chimed without ringing, and the sound could be heard hundreds of miles away.
When Sun Simiao died, the big bell flew to the top of the mountain by itself.
The locals said that this was the appearance of the Medicine King, so they built a temple here to commemorate this generation of Medicine King.
After arriving at Yaowang Temple on the top of the mountain, Wang Susu, mother and daughter, went to burn incense in the temple dedicated to Yaowang.
Chen Ling held his son and wandered around the yard.
After a while, I wandered from the hospital to the outside. In the open space on the top of the mountain, there were many selling medicine bags, medicine pillows, various herbal medical books, and even Sun Simiao's name claiming that the ancient prescriptions can cure all kinds of diseases. .
Chen Ling took a look and walked to a painting seller. What attracted him was a landscape painting. In the mountain valley in the painting, there was an old man on crutches carrying a medicine basket. The old man had a childlike face and fair hair. The Feng Dao Gu is naturally painted by the King of Medicine, Sun Simiao.
There are two lines of inscriptions on it: "Brush away the white clouds to pick herbs, and borrow the bright moon to refine the elixir."
The painting and calligraphy are both good. Chen Ling was very happy to see the hunter, and asked about the price. So he paid for it and bought the painting. He also looked at the rest of the paintings, but they didn't suit his liking.
"Little brother, I think you are a blessed person with your face. If you buy my painting, I will give you a fortune."
The owner of the painting stall is a thin old man with a goatee and a tall figure. Not high, visually no more than 1.6 meters.
At this time, he said to Chen Ling in a very pretentious tone.
"Give me a hexagram? Don't you want money?"
Chen Ling rolled up the scroll and just said he was leaving. When he heard this, he raised his head and looked at the old man.
"I won't charge you for it. I said I would give it to you."
The old man's face straightened, and he used a short-handled whisk in his hand to knock the calligraphy and painting behind him, "Normally I only sell calligraphy and painting. , I don’t tell people’s fortunes, today I want to see that you look rich and you are a destined person.”
Chen Ling laughed when he heard this. He had heard similar words a lot before and had long since disbelieved them. .
But I had nothing else to do at the moment, so I asked: "How do you do this fortune telling?"
The old man said: "It can be done by reading fortune telling, palmistry, or birth date. You just use I can tell you how many playing cards you want to draw.”
Good guy, this tone is loud enough.
When Chen Ling heard this, he became interested, pulled a stool from his stall, sat on it with his son in his arms, stretched out one hand in front of him, and said, "Then show me your palm. ”
He originally had a casual and playful attitude, but he didn’t take it seriously at all.
But the old man held his hand and frowned for a while, then gave an overview of Chen Ling's family situation.
That is, the situation where his father died, his mother was lost, and he was an only child was exactly the same.
That alone is scary enough.
Chen Ling immediately asked: "Then is my mother still there?"
"She is still there, but she is far away from you. Don't look for her. It will do nothing good if you look for her." His eyes were full of meaning.
I don’t know if this is far away, whether it means far away, or something else.
"Can this be seen from palm reading?" Chen Ling was surprised, a little confused, and asked a very poor question.
Unexpectedly, the old man actually nodded and said: "Yes, palmistry can tell that you are separated from your father and mother..."
"Can you tell anything else? How will my wealth be in the future?" Chen Ling has a magical power. The Sun Moon Cave Sky was willing to believe in some strange people and strange things, so he continued to ask.
“With good fortune, you are destined to be wealthy and can be a high official.”
“What else? Can you see anything else?”
“If you have wealth, you will be a high official.” Quan, you are lucky to attract bees and butterflies.”
"..."
After asking several questions in a row, Chen Ling became more and more disappointed as he asked, thinking that this old man might only look at family matters.
The family situation is very clear, but everything else is a mess.
So I stopped asking myself. I just happened to be taking my child with me to do some fortune-telling for my child.
“Old gentleman, I’m going to tell you how much money the fortune is. Can you do the math for my doll?”
The old man seemed to sense the change in Chen Ling's attitude, and he was not as dignified as before. He quickly turned around and took a drink of water, coughed twice, and said: "A little kid can do the math, just give him his birthday name."
Chen Ling wrote it on the paper and handed it to him.
The old man made a prediction, and his reaction was much greater than when he told Chen Ling. He exclaimed: "This child of yours is incredible. He has Kui Gang in his destiny, and he will fight ghosts and scold the King of Hell. He will definitely be a child in the future. He's a very famous person."
"Huh? What does this mean?"
Chen Ling was confused when he heard this. These fortune tellers couldn't explain it clearly.
"That is to say, when such a child grows up, he has a strong yang energy, is not afraid of heaven and earth, and has to avoid ghosts and gods. In the past, he would have been a general charging into battle."
The old man shook his head. said the head.
"Well, that's right. This is not a good name. Kuigang is in my destiny. It's not a good name to use. If you can change it when you go back, just change it."
(End of this chapter) )