River Tuluo Xian

Chapter 321
Gutong County is just a small county with a population of only five hundred.

Hearing this number, Jiangling was also very surprised that there are only so few people in a county.

The old man said that there were many people in the past, but the plague a few years ago killed a lot of people and left a lot of people, so there are only a few people left.

Now there are only two or three wealthy households in this city, and the old man works as a long-term worker in one of them.

Bumping all the way to the city, I saw that the street was deserted, and I hardly saw anyone.

During the day, everyone is working, mostly leaving early and returning late.Unlike those prosperous big cities, the street market is bustling with people.

When the old horse pulling the cart couldn't move, the old man also asked Jiang Ling to help push it.

Jiang Ling thought it would be convenient for him to ride, so he didn't refuse, and helped him push uphill.

When they reached the back door of Cheng's mansion, the old man knocked on the door and yelled, and soon the courtyard door opened, and two or three young people came out.

They are all the sons of the old man, and they are the current people in Cheng's mansion.

"Why is it so late today? I almost ran out of firewood, and missed the great master's good deed."

When the young man saw his father, he did not offer condolences, but instead blamed the old man for coming back too late.

The old man was not angry either, and only talked about being bitten by a snake.

Seeing that he could walk and jump, the young man didn't take this matter to heart, he just told him to quickly move the firewood into the yard.

The old man nodded in response, and led the carriage to the door.

Seeing this strange "father's kindness and son's filial piety", Jiang Ling just sighed in his heart, before taking further care, he was about to leave.

The old man thanked him for his help.

Jiang Ling still responded politely.

But when he turned around, the old man hesitated for a while, and said again: "Little Lang, since you are leaving, should the old man's ginseng essence be returned to the old man?"

"Huh?" Jiang Ling thought he had heard it wrong, and asked with a light smile, "Old man, what did you say?"

The old man cleared his throat, and said again: "The old man's ginseng essence, Mr. Xiao Lang should return it to the old man first."

When his three sons heard "Ginseng Essence" at the door, they quickly regained their spirits and came over one by one: "What ginseng essence?"

The old man said: "Just now I was collecting firewood on the mountain, and I came across a ginseng essence by chance. After I picked it, I didn't expect that there was a poisonous snake next to the ginseng essence, so it bit me. It was this little man. , helped me, and saved my life. My ginseng essence is now on Xiao Langjun."

When the three sons heard about this matter, they all looked at Jiang Ling and asked him to hand over the ginseng essence.

Jiang Ling laughed angrily at the old man's words: "Old man, are you sure you dug up the ginseng essence? And put it on me?"

When the old man was bitten by a poisonous snake, he still had some sanity. When Jiang Ling applied medicine to him and fed him medicine, he saw Jiang Ling take out ginseng roots from a cloth bag. When taking the medicine, he tasted it himself, it definitely tasted like ginseng.

With just a little root hair, he could survive the snake venom of the five-paced snake and be safe, so he boldly guessed that maybe what was hidden in this young man was either the ten thousand-year-old ginseng king or the thousand-year-old ginseng essence.

No matter how bad it was, it was definitely a priceless ginseng.

And from the accent, the young man was obviously a foreigner.

With such a treasure in your body, since you have encountered it, how can you miss it?
"Xiao Langjun, although you helped the old man, the old man asked you to bring the ginseng essence. Now that the old man gets home, he should return it to me."

The old man had a simple face, and his three sons surrounded him directly. Among them, the eldest moved his hands and feet, pushing and saying: "Bring it, the old man's things, what do you mean by hiding them on your body?"

The second child even threatened directly: "Be honest with me, take out the ginseng, and don't let me do it."

Spreading his hands together, Jiang Ling finally understood why the old man and his son had such a "father's kindness and son's filial piety".

If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will naturally be crooked.

"Ginseng essence, I don't have it on me."

"Xiao Langjun, don't you have a black conscience. How can you open your eyes and talk nonsense when it's on you?"

The old man came over in person, reached into Jiangling's sleeve, and touched the Qiankun bag.

Jiang Ling: "If you say it's not there, it's not there. If you don't believe me, you can go and see for yourself."

The old man pulled out the Qiankun bag, only to feel that it was light and light, and the bag was also flat, and when he opened it, the inside was also empty.I was puzzled for a while.

Seeing that the old man was not found, the three sons searched Jiang Ling's body together.Also did not find some ginseng.

The old man was very displeased, and immediately changed his face and cursed: "Where did you hide the ginseng?"

The three sons questioned: "Old man, is there really ginseng?"

The old man: "Can I still tell lies? The wound on my leg was bitten by a five-step snake. How could I survive without precious ginseng?"

The three sons didn't care about his injuries, only hearing that he was so sure, they immediately vented their anger on Jiang Ling: "Where did you hide the ginseng? If you don't tell us today, then you can never leave.

The old man didn't see anything in the Qiankun bag, just regarded it as a rag bag, and threw it on the ground: "Little Lang, don't you want to blacken the old man's things. If you don't hand over the ginseng today, the three sons of the old man will get angry." Come on, the old man is afraid that he won't be able to stop them."

Jiang Ling nodded, and finally believed in one sentence - troublesome people come out of poor mountains and rivers.

The poorer the place, the less such things as simplicity will exist.

'It seems that good intentions should not be abused. '

He picked up the Qiankun bag, patted the dust on the bag, "You want ginseng, right? Isn't ginseng in your car?"

As soon as he pointed it out, a snow-white ginseng the size of a pillow appeared inexplicably on the carriage.

When the three sons saw this, their eyes glowed green, and they were overjoyed. They all left Jiangling and surrounded the carriage: "My God, ginseng, it's really ginseng, such a big ginseng."

The old man also leaned over and said excitedly, "It's this ginseng, which I dug up on the mountain by chance."

The four father and son held the ginseng for a while,
Not long after, the four of them suddenly screamed in pain.The ginseng, which was originally the size of a pillow, turned into a five-step snake after fighting over it.All four of them, father and son, took a bite.

"Snake, it's a snake..."

"I was bitten……"

"I was bitten too..."

The three sons were frightened and hurriedly threw the poisonous snake away.

The thick five-step snake was thrown from their hands, but it just landed on the old man's neck and entangled the old man.

The old man was so frightened that his tears rolled, his legs trembled, and he rolled on the ground. He asked his three sons for help, but the three sons retreated like ghosts and gods.

The old man was so strangled that his face turned purple, and the toxin spread throughout his body. He stretched out his twitching hands and asked Jiang Ling for help.

Jiang Ling made two hahas, but didn't respond.

After a while, the old man's limbs trembled, and white foam came out of his mouth.

Seeing this, the three sons immediately yelled that they would not let Jiang Ling leave, that they would pay him money, or report to the officials.

But they were also bitten by poisonous snakes, and they fell down one after another after only walking a few steps, their faces turning purple and their breathing difficult.

That five-step snake was transformed by Jiangling's dead spirit energy from Earth Store, and it contains Earth Store Death Energy, so it's naturally far from the venom of ordinary snakes.

Seeing that the four of them, father and son, had poisoned one after another, and the whole family was neat and orderly, Jiang Ling nodded, feeling in his heart that maybe this is what it should be like.

(End of this chapter)