Chapter 217 Treasure Hunt
It was already past eleven o'clock in the evening when Leyun arrived at Mount Wutai.
Changshou Village belongs to H North Province, and Wutai Mountain is the most famous scenic spot in S Province. The two places belong to different provinces. It normally takes more than four and a half minutes to take a shortcut from Changshou Village to Wutai Mountain and take the county road.
Taihang in autumn is a good season for traveling and mountaineering. People from all over the country rush to Taihang to travel in large numbers. During the day, there are long lines of cars and tourists both at the scenic spots and on every road leading to them.
Knowing that there are many tourists during the day, the traffic will inevitably be congested, so Le Yun chose to set off in the evening. However, even if she was traveling at night, there was still an endless stream of self-driving cars and tour buses on the road. The speed should not be too fast, and it took more than five minutes to reach the destination. .
Wutai Mountain belongs to the Northern Taihang Mountains. It is composed of a series of mountains and peaks. It is more than 500 miles wide and has five highest peaks. The mountains are majestic and continuous. There are no trees on the top of the mountain and it is shaped like a platform of earth, so it is known as Mount Wutai.
The entire area of Wutai Mountain spans many counties. If you only say that you are going to Mount Wutai without specifying the exact place, then it is generally understood that you are going to Taihuai Town, the Buddhist cultural activity center of Mount Wutai.
At around 11 o'clock at night, even the tourist resort of Taihuai Town lost its hustle and bustle during the day and gradually became quiet, with only some lights visible in the distance.
Leyun's car did not stop in the town and went straight to the Nantai of Mount Wutai, which is more than ten kilometers south of the town. Nantai is unique among the five mountains and has the richest medicinal plants in the area.
The taxi drove in the dark to the foot of Nantai Mountain. Master Gao looked at the young guest who was about to get off the car, feeling helpless and worried: "Little girl, do you have to climb the mountain in the middle of the night?"
As a taxi driver, he is used to seeing many customers, many of them persistent, and many of them behaving strangely. But this little customer refreshed his understanding.
"Yeah, yeah, the person following me is so energetic, I'll take him to climb the mountain and enjoy the night view." Le Yun turned over the small backpack in front of her, counting the red notes, and curling her lips happily.
"What if he is a bad guy?" Master Gao was particularly worried. The car behind them followed them all the way from Changshou Village. He was really afraid that he was a bad guy.
During the National Day, there were many vehicles coming and going. He originally thought that the vehicle behind him was going in the same direction as him. It happened to be on the same road. The young guest said that it was following her, so he paid attention. Sure enough, he found that the vehicle was different from the other vehicles. He may be ahead or behind, but one of them always follows his car, never too far or too close, keeping a distance without losing track.
"I'm not a bad person, I was asked to protect me by someone else. I came to the mountains to look for medicine this time. The patient's family was afraid that I would not be safe alone, so they asked someone to protect me along the way. I don't like people following me, so they had to follow quietly."< br>
"Then be careful. If anything goes wrong, call me and I'll call the police for you." Master Gao didn't want to interfere in the guest's decision and told her to be careful.
To be honest, his daughter is younger than the little guest. If the girl travels alone, he will definitely be worried.
Le Yun counted fifteen red tickets to the driver, opened the door and got out of the car with a smile, turned around and picked up her bulging backpack: "Uncle, I probably won't go down the mountain until at least the 8th and the 9th, you don't have to Urgent, just drive the car as fast as you want.”
She was not going to take the train back to Beijing because she would have to bring some medicinal materials, medicinal soups refined into juice, and collected plant resins, which might be detained during the security check.
In order to reduce the trouble, she decided to hire a taxi to go back. It was too troublesome to find a driver temporarily, so she made a deal with the taxi driver. He would take her to Wutai Mountain and wait for her to return to Beijing, but she would still rent his car. The toll from Han City to Wutai Mountain would be covered by Of course, the travel expenses from Wutai to the capital are also a penny.
Taxi drivers have to pay company employees money every month, and the average monthly salary is about three to four thousand. If you rent a taxi, you will earn more than your monthly salary. Drivers generally won't refuse such a good business.
"Okay." Master Gao happily put away the fare and watched the young passenger slowly move more than ten meters up the mountain with a flashlight, then reverse the car and turn around to return.
He drove dozens of meters away, passed by the taxi following him, and followed Master Gao's taxi to the mountaineering intersection. The taxi customer was a middle-aged man in his forties, with the most ordinary Chinese character face. , that appearance is the kind that can’t be picked out in a crowd.
He was carrying a large hiking backpack that was only one meter high and a tent sleeping bag. Because the night was very cold, he wore long-sleeved sportswear. After paying, he turned on a flashlight and climbed up the mountain along the hiking trail.
"What a weirdo. He came here to climb the mountain in the middle of the night." Brother Di turned the car around, muttered, and returned to town leisurely.
The middle-aged man adjusted the light of his flashlight very weakly, which could only illuminate the path under his feet. He followed the light in front of him from a distance, and the light heading up the mountain was vaguely visible. After a while, it suddenly disappeared.
Yes, it disappeared. At first he thought it was turning or being blocked, but it still didn't appear after more than ten minutes.
The middle-aged man speeded up and hurriedly rushed to the place where the visual light disappeared to check. The road section there was high and no matter whether he climbed up or down, as long as there was a light source, he would be able to see it. At the same time, there was a sparse forest next to the road section. .
He checked the traces along the edge of the woods. There were probably many tourists who had gone in and out of the woods, and there were more than a dozen tread marks.
And because it was not yet past midnight, the dew had not yet set, and there was no particularly obvious reference point. It was impossible to tell at a glance whether it was a new stampede or a trace trampled during the day, so he could not tell whether the person had gone into the woods to hide. , or went forward in the dark.
After standing there for a long time, the middle-aged man slowly climbed forward again with his luggage on his back. When he reached almost halfway up the mountain, he still couldn't see the light source. He knew that he had lost someone again, so he found a flat place to sleep in the open.
It was extremely cold on the mountain at night. The middle-aged man had a sleeping bag and slept in the wild for a night. As soon as it got dark, he packed up his tent and sleeping bag, ate compressed biscuits to satisfy his hunger, and climbed up the mountain again, watching with a telescope while climbing.
Le Yun did go into the woods. She originally wanted to climb forward and have a "friendly" chat about life with someone who was also very interested in climbing mountains in the middle of the night. When she walked to the section with woods, she smelled With a faint fragrance, he didn't care whether the person was a friend or an enemy. He happily got into the woods, climbed back into space and waited for dawn.
Sneak back to your own private territory, take care of the medicinal field crops, sleep beautifully, get up before dawn to meditate, wash your face and eat, wait until dawn breaks in the east, happily put on water shoes and waterproof jackets and pants, and step out of the space. Identifying the direction of the scent, he ran towards the depths of the woods like a joy.
In the early morning, there was still mist and heavy dew on the mountain peaks. The woods were damp and cold, and the light was extremely dark.
With a pair of sparkling beautiful almond eyes, Le Yun didn't care about the thick dew or the dim light. She happily jumped up and down in the woods, digging for medicinal materials while looking for the source of the fragrance. After searching for a long time, she finally found the source of the fragrance - a clump. mushroom.
Mushrooms are the unique game of Nantai Peak of Wutai Mountain - silver plate mushroom. Like matsutake, it has medicinal and nutritional value and is also one of the health treasure mushrooms.
Its fragrance is mellow and fragrant. The farther away from the growing point, the stronger the fragrance. Because of its high nutritional value and delicious taste, it was once a royal tribute of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The silver plate mushroom is milky white from the root to the crown, with fat and solid flesh. It grows in deep mountains and old forests or grass with fertile soil.
The growth pattern has certain rules, and it is difficult to find even in the peak growing season. Its best picking period is from the beginning of autumn to the white dew. October of the New Year is already the end of autumn, which is well past the peak growing season, and it is rare to see it in the mountains.
The production of silver plate mushrooms is rare, and the supply exceeds supply in the production areas. Leyun's nose is sharper than a dog's nose. When she smells the fragrance, she immediately gives up the opportunity to chat with someone and talk about life, and decides to look for something that smells fragrant first. Who is that person? Just let him continue messing around.
There were not many mushrooms, about a dozen or so, emerging from under the dead leaves of the grass in the woods. Some had open umbrellas, and a few had just emerged from the ground, holding small heads stained with dew.
The place is at least seven or eight miles away in a straight line from the mountaineering road. It is actually over half of the mountain and is far away from the road.
If it weren't for her sharp nose, Le Yun wouldn't have been able to find it. At this moment, seeing the result that she had spent all morning to find, she felt very happy. She chopped down a small wooden stick and slowly pushed away the dead grass and leaves. , lest you accidentally trample the mushrooms hidden in the grass when you walk over.
I ran to the place where the mushrooms were growing, picked them and put them in a small plastic round basket and threw them back into space. I took out the flower pots and hoe to dig out the soil, collected seven or eight pots of soil, and then collected all the soil within a certain range nearby. After searching again, I only found seven or eight scattered mushrooms.
I could no longer search for silver plate mushrooms, so I quickly returned to space and planted a few unopened small mushrooms in the corner of the medicine field. I poured some well water into a few flower pots and then took care of the space crops. Harvest the fruits, vegetables and herbs that need to be harvested.
After finishing the work, Mr. Le Xiao put on a backpack and a small hoe and went out again to look for medicinal materials all over the world.
The reason why I carry a backpack is just in case. If someone sees her on the opposite mountain or on the top of the mountain enjoying the scenery, they will just think that she is a free explorer and not pay too much attention to her.
If a person runs around in the mountains empty-handed, it is too easy to attract suspicion and attention.
Autumn in the mountains comes early, and it changes every day. The autumn mood was not too strong in the days when Le Yun first arrived at Motianling in Hanshi. In just a few days, the forests of Taihang Mountain were dyed with autumn colors, and the autumn mood filled the mountains.
The Taihang Mountains in autumn have the beauty of autumn. There are as many tourists as an ox in the Taihang Mountains, and as many as ants in the Wutai Mountains. The roads up and down the mountains are overcrowded everywhere.
Le Yun didn't have time to look at the scenery, so she secretly shuttled through the woods and mountains, digging for medicinal materials as if she was making a fortune, and tried to stay away from the crowd.
Of course, no matter how hard you try to avoid it, you will inevitably encounter free outdoor people sometimes.
She didn't stay long at the Nantai peak. She wandered around for a day, then abandoned Nantai the next day and headed towards Zhongtai and Dongtai along the Beitai route.
On the fourth day, that is, at noon on October 6, in a mountain range between Beitai and Dongtai Mountains, a gray-headed man climbed up the steep cliffs and vines like a little monkey, and climbed over a rock. Landing in a place that no one has visited for an unknown period of time.
The land is about three-quarters of the total altitude of the mountain, closer to the peak. The mountains and the mountain are covered with trees. There is a small valley just above the steep rock wall, backed by the mountain on three sides. One side is slightly lower, facing another mountain.
The location of the valley is excellent, with trees and grassy slopes. There is also a water hole in one place. The water makes a circuitous path along the lower part of the valley and flows down a cliff. During the dry season, the line of water is not surprising. If there is enough rain in summer, it will definitely become a beautiful waterfall.
"Ah, my aunt is so exhausted!" Le Yun, who had finally climbed over the steep rock wall to arrive, sat down under a tree, took off her gloves, and dusted the grass clippings and moss above her head.
This place was too difficult for his grandfather to find. It was surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and there was only one steep rock wall that could barely be climbed. She spent a lot of energy and went around in a big circle before borrowing the stone wall between the walls. Vines and trees climb up.
The journey was too difficult. Even though she had strange strength and was so light and agile, it still took her nearly half a day. This shows how difficult it is to find this place.
Why do you have to climb up to this valley where birds don’t shit?
The reason is simple, there is something here that attracts her.
After getting rid of the grass clippings, broken branches and other powdery fragments on her head and neck, Leyun put on her gloves again, looked at the trees around her, picked the tallest tree, hugged the tree pole and climbed up in one breath. Go to the top of the tree and have a commanding view.
The small valley is surrounded by mountains. It is located high up and overlooks the cliffs. It is a unique geographical location. If there is fog between the mountains and ridges, it will look like a fairyland on earth.
Le Yun was sitting on the top of the tree and saw a swarm of bees flying in a line from a dozen meters away, flying to the side near the main peak of the mountain, and then got into the green trees with red and yellow leaves, and, Not only were there bees in one direction, there were also bees flying in and out in formation from the other two directions.
In addition to the bees, there is also a medicinal fragrance that hits your nostrils.
She turned on the X-ray of her eyes, scanned around, and easily found a piece of spiritual energy. The spiritual energy there was so thick that it was beyond imagination, making people... well, it made the blood of the birthmark on her arm boil.
She discovered this place on the opposite mountain. She was looking for it in this direction after a medicinal smell and honey peaks. She climbed to the halfway point of the opposite mountain. When she was looking for the source of the medicinal smell, she saw a white light in a small recess of the mountain here. The white light was like a small white cloud hanging over the woods, never dissipating.
Le Yun never dreamed that there would be such a strong aura on an unknown mountaintop among such mountains. She immediately rushed to the place of aura without hesitation. She learned the climbing spirit of apes and finally climbed up the cliff. The valley above.
Reiki Wow Reiki!
There must be a peerless treasure, so it has such a strong aura.
Sitting on the treetop branch, Yue Yun saw the rich spiritual energy cloud, which made her heart beat wildly and her mouth opened to the back of her ears.
How could she be in the mood to observe others? She hugged the tree and slid to the ground, grabbed the hatchet, plunged into the bush, and ran towards the direction of the spirit energy: "Baby Zhenbao, wait for me, here I come!"
(End of chapter)