The Pastoral Medicinal Fragrance of the Imperial Concubine

Chapter 14
Leng Ping shook her head, "Take care of your mother, Shitou and Hua'er, I can handle it myself, no problem!"

Hao Dan could only nod, but his face was still full of worry.

Leng Ping carried Hao Dan's basket of firewood from the yard on weekdays, took a sickle, weighed it, and went out without hesitation before it was dark...

Taiping Mountain can be regarded as a relatively large mountain in this area. Walking along a small road where villagers pick wild vegetables, you will see a large hill with jagged rocks.

At the foot of the mountain, Leng Ping ate the piece of meat that she brought to fill her stomach. She spat out and rubbed it in the palm of her hand. In the gap, slowly climb up.

Generally those herbs grow on steep mountains, this is her experience!

Silently thinking about the herbs that Hao Shi needed, Leng Ping looked around while climbing, and finally, she found a yellow-green leaf stem, which was the kudzu root that could cure typhoid and rheumatism. She was overjoyed and quickly climbed up. Carefully inserted the sickle into the bottom of the kudzu root, and finally pulled out the lower rhizome.

Looking at the rhizomes like small sweet potatoes, Leng Ping finally saw hope. There are really herbs in this mountain. Great, Hao's life is saved!
With faith in her heart, Leng Ping felt her whole body full of strength, and soon she found a few more herbs that she needed, and when she was about to continue climbing, she raised her eyes and saw a rare Atractylodes macrocephala, Leng Ping Ping got up and was about to go forward, but she didn't expect her feet to slip, her body tilted, and she slid all of a sudden.

"Be careful!" A hand stretched out from nowhere and grabbed Leng Ping's hand. Leng Ping quickly raised her head, and saw a handsome face on the cliff. She was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with inverted facial features. Nothing special, but the eyes are extraordinarily sharp.

"Grab my hand!" the child (in Leng Ping's eyes, Shiliu Qi is indeed a child, but she has forgotten that she is only 13 years old now!) said in a low voice, and quickly stretched out another hand Holding Leng Ping tightly with his hands, it took a lot of effort to pull her up.

"Don't look at you being so thin, I didn't expect you to be so heavy!" The child wiped his sweat and sat on the ground panting. There was also a basket beside him, which contained some medicines, including Leng Ping who needed Yun. Ling.

"Where did you find this Yunling? I thought you couldn't find it!" Although Yunling is not the main medicine, but because it is compatible with various medicines, it can play its role regardless of cold, warm, wind, and damp diseases. It has unique effects and is one of the indispensable side medicines. Without Yunling, the whole medicine will appear a little more vigorous.

The child looked strangely at Leng Ping who was holding Yunling fondly, raised his eyebrows strangely, and asked, "You also know medicine?"

"Only you understand?" Seeing that the child looked down on her, Leng Ping raised her eyebrows, took Yun Ling and looked at it carefully. The skin of Yun Ling was dark brown, and the inside was pink. It was big and round, and looked very good quality.

The child looked at her again and asked, "Which village are you from? Why haven't I seen you?"

It was only then that Leng Ping realized that although she had traveled here for a few days, because she was hunted down by her uncle's family and caught up with Hao's family and caught the plague, Leng Ping really didn't adapt well to being the original owner. She paused, Said: "I am from Taiping Village. My name is Leng Ping. Someone in my family is sick and needs some herbs... Which village are you from?"

While Leng Ping was talking, her eyes kept wandering in the other party's basket. Seeing that it was getting dark now, she didn't want to be the food of the beasts in the deep mountains and old forests. Seeing that this child has a lot of medicinal materials in the basket, if To be able to climb up the relationship, I need some to come over...

Although the child is not very old, he has a rare maturity. He asked in a low voice: "Does your family members have fever, cough, and coma? If so, it's a plague. You should send him to the hospital." Go to Willow Village, I'm in Willow Village!"

Leng Ping suddenly remembered the wandering doctor that Hao Dan had mentioned. Since the plague broke out in Liushu Village, all the doctors were reluctant to come, so only one wandering doctor surnamed Liu stayed. Could it be the child in front of him? ?

"You are Liu Langzhong?" Leng Ping saw hope again, and asked quickly.

The child stood up, don't look young, he is not short, slender and thin, wearing a silver-gray robe, with a bamboo hairpin on his head, arched his hands towards Leng Ping and said: "Xiao Ke It's Liu Yingfeng!"

"Great, since you are a doctor, you should be a healer to your parents. You can give these herbs to me first. When my family is well, I will go to the mountains to pick them and return them to you!" Leng Ping said without saying a word, jumped When he got up, he rushed to Liu Yingfeng's basket, put all the herbs in his basket into the basket on his back, then turned around and ran, shouting to Liu Yingfeng while running: "I will really pay you back, Really pay!"

Liu Yingfeng had never met such a person who would grab the medicine as soon as he saw it. When he realized it, Leng Ping had already run away, and from a distance, he could only see a thin figure from the back.

"Taiping Village? Leng Ping? Could it be her?" Liu Yingfeng was startled, and slowly recalled Leng Ping's name, the expression on his face suddenly became solemn.

Seeing that Liu Yingfeng did not catch up, Leng Ping breathed a sigh of relief, found a stone to sit down, carefully looked at the herbs in the basket, and after confirming that there were enough, Leng Ping took advantage of the last ray of light to go down the mountain.

When I got back to Hao’s house, I saw Shi Shi and Hua’er sitting on the threshold and looking out eagerly. A little faint yellow candlelight leaked from the small thatched cottage. In the candlelight, Hao Dan seemed to be lighting a fire, and there was smoke coming It came out from the house.

"Shitou, Hua'er, I'm back!" Leng Ping yelled, and Shitou and Hua'er ran towards her, holding her leg and crying.

"What's the matter? But your mother is not well?" Leng Ping was startled and asked quickly.

"Sister, the old hag took away all the food from our family, and the old hag even beat my brother!" Shitou sniffled his nose, choked up, his crying face was like a little cat's, he raised his head and looked eagerly. Looking at Leng Ping.

"Which old witch?" Leng Ping frowned, and hurriedly dragged the two children into the house, and saw Hao Dan was sitting in front of the stove with her head down, burning a fire, and a big handprint was faintly seen on her forehead. I didn't dare to raise my head when I came back, and the basket that I put food on was on the ground, but now there is nothing in it.

"Hao Dan, where's our food?" Leng Ping put down the medicine basket and asked.

There were still some messy food in the basket before, four sweet potato roots, a handful of red beans, two heads of garlic, and a small bag of cornmeal. That was all the food for the family, but now there is nothing left, and they cannot enter the village. How are you going to live the next day?
Only then did Hao Dan turn around, and Leng Ping realized that the face was not just a simple handprint, Hao Dan's forehead was full of bloody holes.

(End of this chapter)