Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 22

In the early morning of the next day, the sky was just white with fish belly, but it was not yet bright. In the hazy fog, Su Chen and Yang Linger went out of Dingbomen in Beicheng and went up the mountain to collect herbs with bamboo baskets on their backs.

There are several continuous mountains in the north of Runzhou, which separate the Yangtze River from the ancient city of Runzhou. They are Suanshan Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain, Beigu Mountain, and Jiaoshan Mountain. They run from west to east, and they are continuous and become natural screens for rivers.

The Suan Mountain in the northwest is so named because it is rich in garlic.

However, the locals also call it Suanshan, because during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao led his army to the south, and the situation in Eastern Wu was critical. Also numbered as a mountain.

In addition to the famous Battle of Chibi of the Three Kingdoms that took place in this area, "Zizhi Tongjian" records: In the fifth year of Long'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sun En was near Dantu in Fuhai, "Enshuai was clamoring to climb Suan Mountain. Run and strike, and break it." It also happened here.

The green hills are lush and green, and it is mid-March again. The mountains and plains are full of lush vegetation, the air is fresh, the fog has dissipated, and the morning dew glitters in the sun.

Since there was no indiscriminate cutting in ancient times, wild vegetation is well protected, and herbs can be seen everywhere.

In addition to looking for traces of Panax notoginseng, Su Chen also picked other Chinese herbal medicines when he saw them.

Yang Linger is smart and intelligent. She has learned some soup songs when she was a child. Under Su Chen's description, she can quickly get started, identify the herbs growing in the grass on the ground, and help collect the herbs together.

The main root of Panax notoginseng is conical or cylindrical, the surface is gray-brown or gray-yellow, and there are intermittent longitudinal wrinkles and root marks.There are stem scars at the top, and there are tumor-like protrusions around;

This medicinal herb is mainly found in Yunnan and Guangxi. It is abundant in production and can be found everywhere in the mountains, but in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not extinct.

Yang Linger saw that he was carefully digging out the ground, and couldn't bear to hurt the roots, so she asked curiously, "Brother Su Chen, is this the Panax notoginseng you want to find?"

Su Chen smiled and said, "Yes, in addition to the medicine I used this time to adjust blood circulation and remove blood stasis, the most important thing is to transplant a few trees back and plant some in the backyard of the family, so that mass production can be carried out in a small area. , This medicine, used to make gold sore medicine or hemostatic medicine, is absolutely top grade."

This thing can not only cure diseases and save people, but also a way to get rich. In the future, Su Ji Jinshuang medicine can be sold not only to martial arts people, but also to the military, which is huge profit!

Now Su Chen is poor and afraid, what to do, the first thing that comes to mind in his mind is money!money!money!

By noon, both of them were groaning with hunger.

"Where's the raw chicken you bought before leaving the city, take it out and be a beggar!" Su Chen smiled slightly. Before leaving the city, he passed the butcher's forest street and saw someone killing chickens and selling meat, so he bought one. , the internal organs have been cleaned and emptied on the spot, but they have not been boiled and scalded, and the fur has not been pulled out.

"Brother Su Chen, we didn't bring a pot!"

"You don't need a pot, beggar chicken, just have a fire."

Su Chen yearned for the martial arts people in the martial arts novels, who lived in the open air, and did beggar chickens in the wild.

The two came to a stream, Su Chen first wrapped the chicken with water and a lump of mud, then used a fire to make a fire and roasted it.

Yang Linger sat aside, smiling and watching Su Chen cooking beggars.

After baking for half an hour, bursts of sweet fragrance emerged from the mud wrap. After the wet mud was dry, Su Chen peeled off the outer layer of dry mud, and the chicken feathers fell with the mud, revealing the tender and white chicken inside, a greasy smell. The strong fragrance spreads out immediately.

"Wow, it looks delicious!" Linger's mouth was full of saliva.

Su Chen smiled slightly, looking at Little Loli's little sister's adoring expression, she still felt a sense of accomplishment.

This attempt was very successful, and Su Chen was quite satisfied with his beginner skills.

He was about to tear the beggar chicken apart when someone suddenly heard a deep voice behind him: "Tear the chicken into three pieces, and give me the buttocks."

Su Chen and Yang Linger turned around in surprise, but they didn't expect someone to come behind them.

Looking back at this time, I saw an old beggar who was nearly 60 years old coming from the direction of the woods behind him.

This person has a pig-kidney face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, hair that is half black and half white, not combed, all scattered on both sides, wearing a long linen coat, holding a wooden root of unknown material in his hand. There were several gourds and wine bottles tied to the cloth belt.

This scene made Su Chen, who had been fond of Mr. Jin's martial arts novels since he was a child, truly stunned!

What a feeling of deja vu!

Su Chen looked at the greedy old beggar, and he had already strode up to him, sitting in front of him politely, speechless for a while.

Is this Uncle Benshan's version of Hong Qigong?

"This little brother, what are you doing, hurry up and tear the chicken!" The old beggar said, swallowing again and again.

"Good! Good..." Su Chen came back to his senses and thought to himself: Could it be that by chance today, he met a martial arts figure like Hong Qigong?

Although the appearance and temperament are not very similar, the face also has a sense of humor, like a kidnapper!

But this scene, in his mind, still gave him a sense of expectation.

Su Chen tore off more than half of the chicken, and handed it to the old beggar with the chicken butt attached, and said politely, "Senior, please use it!"

"Senior?" The old beggar had a greedy face and no temperament, but seeing the young man respect him so much, he was stunned.

"Little brother, do you know my old beggar?"

Su Chen looked at the old beggar's hands, all ten fingers were there, none of them were missing, it was not the prototype of the nine-fingered god beggar, and he was a little disappointed!

"No, I don't know!" Su Chen shook his head, and added, "But I saw that senior's skeletons are unique and talented, and I thought that he must be an extraordinary person. At first sight, I admired him..."

Su Chen kept thinking about the words of praise, and the lines from Mr. Zhou's movie appeared in his mind involuntarily.

The old beggar glanced at Su Chen and thought to himself, "This is a fellow in the same industry. Isn't this set of rhetoric what I often say, how did he learn it?"

Could it be... he was once fooled by himself selling secrets?

The old beggar smiled slightly: "The hero doesn't mention the courage of the past, let alone those old things, come, let's eat chicken together!"

"Eat chicken together, great luck!" Su Chen smiled, and was also considering how to try to find out if this old beggar was from the martial arts?

If he really was a legendary figure like Senior Hong, and taught himself a set of "Eighteen Palms for Subduing the Dragon", he would be able to walk sideways in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

But if, after the old beggar eats it, he takes out a copy of "Tathagata's Palm" for himself, should he accept it or not?

Su Chen was in a complicated mood, and he and Linger ate the remaining half of the chicken.

That old beggar ate quickly and devoured it, like a beggar who hadn't eaten for a few days, and the temperament that had just appeared on the stage disappeared immediately.

"Am I guessing wrong?" Su Chen's heart became more and more uncertain.

(End of this chapter)