Life in a small village with quiet mountains and quiet waters

Chapter 89 Strange Things
The old man woke up and sat up quickly.

"Let's go, change your clothes at home, or you'll be in trouble if you catch a cold." Seeing that Tao Yisheng was soaked, Liu Fulin asked him to go to his house to change the wet clothes.

Tao Yisheng smiled and waved his hands, and continued to rest with his hands on his knees: "No, I'll be fine in a while, I'll take a rest first."

Guo Xiangping asked curiously at this moment: "How did you fall into the river?"

Tao Yisheng smiled and replied: "I went into the mountain to collect herbs, and I found a rock ginseng plant on the cliff. I was halfway up and heard someone singing, and I was a little fascinated by it. The rock was a little loose, and when I found it, it would be too late, so I just fell into the river. To be honest, when I fell, I thought that this time was bad luck, and the water was so fast that it was singing Seeing me fall, it is impossible to rescue me up..."

Uh!
Gu Siwei was a little embarrassed.

The people around were all looking at Gu Siwei at this time, Tao Yisheng said so, who doesn't know that this song was sung by Gu Siwei?Isn't that not enough brains?

"What song made people come down from the cliff?" Guo Xiangping said with a big laugh.

Since there is nothing wrong with people, this matter can naturally be discussed.

Gu Siwei continued to be embarrassed, and was thinking of saying something. Tao Yisheng opened his mouth and said: "It's not the young man's fault, but my own problem. If it never happened before, now that I'm old, I don't have enough energy Yes, in addition to the fact that going to the mountain has been smooth for so many years, I felt a little slack in my heart, and then something happened, it can be regarded as a warning to myself."

After hearing this, Gu Siwei said, "I really didn't expect that there would be people in that place. I thought no one would go to the old forest so far away."

"It's none of your business. The older the forest, the better the medicinal materials, and the fewer people go there. The more dangerous the place, the more natural and earthly treasures come out. If you want to go out in ordinary places, they will be picked up before anyone shows up." How can we wait until the medicine has the best effect?" Tao Yisheng said with a smile.

Liu Fulin asked at this time: "You said you saw a rock ginseng?"

Gu Siwei had never heard of rock ginseng. Now that Liu Fulin asked, he was naturally interested. Something with the word ginseng in it must have some background, let alone Tao Yisheng's age. It would be strange if he climbed up the cliff to find something on purpose.

"Well, rock ginseng, it's growing well, I put it in my basket... Hey, my basket may have been thrown in the river, forget it, it's not a pity to save my life and lose other belongings." Tao Yisheng I looked around here and didn't find my basket, I thought it had fallen into the river.

Gu Siwei directly took out the basket placed behind Yang Chuanwu and Guo Xiangping, and put it in front of Tao Yisheng.

When Tao Yisheng saw the basket, the expression on his face instantly seemed to come alive, his eyes gleamed, he hurriedly reached out and hugged the basket into the cup, then looked left and right as if he could see the flowers .

"I said old Taoist, what kind of treasure is in your basket?" Guo Xiangping was quite curious, and squatted down to look at the basket.

Tao Yisheng said: "It's herbal medicine. I thought I was busy on this trip to the mountains, but I didn't expect the medicine to still be there."

As he spoke, he began to struggle, and after he settled down, he gave Gu Siwei a hand, and still bowed to the end, his whole body almost bent 180 degrees.

Gu Siwei immediately helped the old man up, and at the same time moved away from the place in front of the old man. Liu Fulin, who was standing next to Gu Siwei, also moved his position and did not accept the old man's gift.

"No, no, why are you being polite?" Gu Siwei said repeatedly.

"The young man is very strong."

Tao Yisheng didn't say anything here, and he praised Gu Siwei's strength all the way.

"Hehe, it's just brute force, it's not worth mentioning."

Gu Siwei was polite, but he was also surprised by the old man's strength. Really, it's hard to imagine that such an old man would have the same hand strength as a strong guy.

Tao Yisheng opened his back basket, dug in, and took out a cloth bag, which was soaked through.

It must be soaked, it's too strange not to be soaked again after falling into the river.

Gu Siwei stretched his head curiously to watch Tao Yisheng untie the cloth bag, which was wrapped in almost four layers. After waiting to open it, Gu Siwei was deeply disappointed.

Because the innermost part of the cloth bag is wrapped with a black thing, which looks very disgusting. The Ma Lai Lai is not smooth at all, and there are some brown tendon-like things on it.

Look, do you think it looks like a piece of shit when you grow up like this?If it doesn't look like it, it must have never seen shit.

"What kind of rock ginseng is this?"

Gu Siwei felt that this thing was not advanced at all, it would be more appropriate to call it a poop.

The expression on Liu Fulin's face at the moment was very serious, he nodded and said: "It's really rock ginseng, I haven't seen this thing for many years, and it can grow so big, if it's in the previous provincial capital, I have to change it Big pavement".

"One room? Half the size of this thing used to cost several thousand taels of silver. At that time, a yard in the capital city was only a few hundred taels. This thing was enough for an ordinary family to live a good life," Guo Xiangping said.

Gu Siwei was a little confused when he heard this. He didn’t know that this thing was worth money. You told Lao Gu that ginseng was valuable, and he could understand it. Really, the price of a plant of old ginseng, even after decades, is sky-high , After all, there are several million.

But if you told him that the poop in front of him was worth so much money, he wouldn't believe it, because he hadn't heard anything called rock ginseng. Can this thing be compared with ginseng?

Tao Yisheng saw Gu Siwei's face at this time, how old the old man was, he knew what Gu Siwei was thinking at a glance.

It would be fine if it was someone else, and he wouldn't explain anything to others, but Gu Siwei was different, and he was the one who saved his life anyway, so Tao Yisheng opened his mouth to explain to Gu Siwei.

"This thing can cure a lot of diseases, especially effective on miasma. This thing originally grew in the deep mountains and old forests, in places full of miasma. As the old saying goes, there must be a solution within three feet of a place full of poisonous miasma. That's the reason.

And you only need to eat this food once, which is the size of your finger, and it can guarantee that you will not be disturbed by miasma in the next three to two months," Tao Yisheng said.

"Oh, that's nothing."

What does Gu Siwei think of this?Isn’t it just a medicine for diarrhea? Maybe these people lived a little too early and haven’t heard of artemisinin, and we won awards for it.

"It's not just this." Guo Xiangping said: "This thing also has the effect of prolonging life. It is said that the medicine can regenerate muscles and restore bones."

"Oh!"

Gu Siwei nodded and listened with a smile.

But I really don't take it seriously in my heart, what's the matter of regenerating muscles and bones? I might believe it when I was a fan of Siwei martial arts novels, but now, even if it's the space, he doesn't believe that the black lump in front of him can have such a magical effect .

Sometimes drug sellers always exaggerate the efficacy of drugs, which is the same in ancient and modern times, and Gu Siwei has always maintained a conservative attitude.

Tao Yisheng laughed and said, "Regenerating muscles and rejuvenating bones is just a rumor. In fact, the most important thing is that this thing is an excellent spice. If it is used to stew meat, it will taste amazing, especially stewed pork, beef and mutton." , can fresh off the tongue."

As soon as he heard that the stew was more fragrant, Gu Siwei immediately came to his head and blurted out, "Really?"

"Really!" Tao Yisheng nodded and smiled, "But you can't just put it on. Although this thing is a cure, if you don't get sick, it's poisonous, and the toxicity is quite strong. Although it doesn't necessarily kill you, But there's nothing wrong with letting you lie down for ten and a half months."

Gu Siwei really wanted to ask how to do it, but after thinking about it for a while, he gave up, because what he heard most here was the secret recipe that was not passed on.

Seeing that Gu Siwei had little interest, Tao Yisheng continued to check other things in his basket.

There is a lot of grass in the basket, and Gu Siwei has never seen most of them, and even if he has, he doesn't know his name.

Tao Yisheng took out all the grass and spread it out beside him, that is, on the wood of the pier, and let it dry in the sun.

"Come on, let's go into the house, what are you doing here?" Guo Xiangping saw Tao Yisheng spread out all the herbs, so he opened his mouth and said.

Tao Yisheng didn't refuse at this time, he stood up and followed everyone into the valley.

Gu Siwei was not interested in following them into the valley again, so he said: "Then you go, I'm going back, I have to catch some wild boars or something, and we will plant rice at our house tomorrow."

"Plant rice tomorrow?"

Liu Fulin stopped, stopped, turned and asked Gu Siwei: "It's fast enough, it's only been a few days, and your family has already planted rice, and the seedlings are ready?"

"It's all done. If you have something to do, you don't have to go. I'm just kidding around." Gu Siwei thought that Liu Fulin would have something to do tomorrow, so he said something.

Liu Fulin waved his hand: "Then what can happen, our house is almost ready, even if it's weeding or something, I don't care if it takes a day or two, and it will arrive tomorrow."

"See if you can, if Siwei doesn't come to pick you up, you can go upstream? Don't plant rice by then, people will plant it first, and they will have to wait for you," Guo Xiangping said with a big smile.

"It's a trivial matter." Liu Fulin couldn't help being happy when he heard it.

"That's it, I'll pick you up tomorrow morning," Gu Siwei said.

Liu Fulin said: "Be early and early, it will be dawn when we get there, and everyone will work hard while it is cool."

Gu Siwei nodded and jumped on the raft.

Just as he was about to leave, he heard Tao Yisheng say, "Are you looking for wild boars? I know a place where there are more wild boars. It's just to the southwest of where I collect herbs. There is a deep forest over there. There are many wild boars in it. There are a lot of yellow goats, if you go a little further, you will see two Naituo Mountains standing upright, just pass between the mountains, as long as you find the mountains, it will be easy.”

Gu Siwei didn't care about the wild boar, but Gu Siwei was very interested in the wild goat, and thanked him happily when he heard this.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Gu Siwei slid towards the middle of the river on a raft. When he got to the middle, cubes and flowers joined him, and the raft drove all the way upstream.

No one else was surprised, but Tao Yisheng was surprised: "How can the raft run so fast in the water?!"

"There are two big fish pushing under the raft, and one of them weighs about four to five hundred catties. What's the point of pushing a raft?" Yang Chuanwu said, "This Gu Siwei is a strange person."

"Strange person?" Tao Yisheng paused.

"That's right, he is a strange person just like you, and he has great abilities. If there was no him last winter, our village would have been very sad!" Guo Xiangping said with a chuckle at Tao Yisheng.

Tao Yisheng made a bitter face when he heard this: "What kind of a strange person am I? If a strange person can be kicked out of the temple, he won't be able to return home, alas!"

"By the way, why did you dig up the herbs?" Liu Fulin asked.

Tao Yisheng said: "I have no choice but to get some good things to keep the things in my view, otherwise those things will be smashed."

Everyone walked into the valley together, and when Tao Yisheng finished speaking, everyone was very sad, because in the past, this temple was quite famous in the vicinity, and people from some provincial capitals would come to knock on it to ask for a future. Sheng's master is an extremely famous fortune teller.

Now, who would have imagined that a Taoist temple that had flourished for almost two or three hundred years would disappear just like that.

But everyone also understands that this is a matter of turning your arms over your thighs. There are so many things you don't think about, how can ordinary people carry the wheel of history.

(End of this chapter)