psychochemist

Chapter 198
For the search for ghosts and gods, I am afraid it is more difficult than imagined...

Simple? ! ! !

"Wow! Is this the one?" Guo Na discovered it first again.

Yu Fan and Chen Xingyang hurried over to see a berry-like flower with five leaves underneath.this!Is it the legendary ghosts and gods who cover the grass? !
Chen Xingyang bent down cautiously and said, "It should be right, this is it, exactly the same as the description."

Yu Fan could see God beside him.

"Oh! There are also here!" Guo Na found another plant, which was very close to the one just now.

Yu Fan looked around and observed the ground carefully. There were not a lot of ghosts and gods covering the ground!Every three to five is one plant.

Chen Xingyang was overjoyed and said: "Hahaha, I am rich, I am rich, so many ghosts and gods cover grass, it is worth money."

Guo Na said calmly: "Brother Chen, don't get rich or not. Don't forget the purpose of our coming here. Let's see what this mysterious ghost and god Gaicao is."

Chen Frameyang nodded, and carefully dug down the soil along the stalks. The roots of this kind of grass are quite big, um, it should be said to be very big.

Abandoning the soil, Chen Xingyang stripped the complete ghosts and gods from the ground.

This is……

The more Chen Xingyang looked at it, the more familiar it became: "Speaking of this thing, why does it feel a little familiar, a bit like..."

"Ginseng?" Guo Na added.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Chen Xingyang was awakened at once.

"Hey, no," Chen Xingyang suddenly felt that something was wrong, and said, "Isn't this just ginseng? Why is it called ghosts and gods and grass? Isn't that Mr. Tian Kun a Chinese medicine doctor? He just said that ginseng is not enough, why bother Do you want to sell it?"

Yu Fan frowned, he had vaguely noticed something just now, but now, his worry seemed to really appear.

Chen Xingyang: "Old Yu, what do you think of what you are talking about?"

Yu Fan: "Actually, what you said just now made me suddenly have a hypothesis. I didn't expect it to be true."

Chen frame Yang quickly asked: "What? What assumption?"

Yu Fan: "Just now you said 'Isn't it a matter of course that a divine grass is bred here?' (Chapter 197 Foreshadowing)."

Chen Frameyang: "Ah? Yes, what's wrong?"

Yu Fan: "You said 'God Grass', but out of the four characters for ghosts and gods, the word 'God Grass' is extracted, leaving 'ghost cover'."

Chen Frameyang still didn't understand: "Well, yes, then?"

Yu Fan said solemnly: "This name has a mystery! Shencao and Guigai are both nicknames for ginseng!"

Chen Xiangyang suddenly realized: "Ah? I feel that we have been tricked? From the very beginning, Tian Kun knew that this is ginseng, and gave us such a name, playing with words, pretending to be mysterious. The problem is this name If you look carefully, you can see the mystery of the other name of ginseng, why didn't we find it?"

Yu Fan: "Semantic saturation."

Chen Frameyang: "What does this mean?"

Yu Fan: "This is a common psychological phenomenon. After looking at a Chinese character or a word for a long time, there will be doubts about the character or even a phenomenon of not recognizing it. We call this phenomenon 'Gestalt collapse', The academic term is 'Semantic saturation'."

Yu Fan's official translator, little fairy Guo Na, went online: "In other words, the more we focus on a word, the less we recognize it. Reduce our attention to read these words, and instead read these words that we can understand Meaning.” (Just like this sentence, the words inside are messed up, but you lower your attention to read easily, but it doesn’t affect your understanding of the meaning at all)

Chen Xiangyang understood, and said indignantly: "Damn, this old Tian Kun dared to plot against us, making us risk our lives to find these ordinary ginseng? What's his intention?"

Yu Fan: "However, these ginsengs are indeed unusual. Their medicinal value is very high and they are very rare. Ginseng belongs to the Araliaceae family of Umbelliferae. Ginseng is a perennial herb that likes shade. If the temperature is higher than 32 degrees, the leaves will burn, and the canopy density is 0.7-0.8. It usually blooms in 3 years and bears fruit in 5-6 years. The flowering period is May-June, and the fruit period is June-September."

Yu Fan pointed to the ginseng in Chen Xingyang's hand, and said: "The six-year-old has five whorled compound leaves on the top of the stem, called 'five leaves'. The ginseng here are all high-grade ginseng that bear fruit for many years, and they are indeed rare."

Chen Xingyang was taken aback, and he said frantically, "What the hell does this old man want? Let us come and collect medicine for him?"

Yu Fan said calmly, "I'm afraid it's not as simple as helping him grab the medicine. Have you forgotten why we came to find this ghost and god to cover the grass?"

Chen Xingyang: "Remember, it's because the combination of tall and short people also came to find this, so I'm going to follow their clues to see if there are any new discoveries."

Yu Fan: "Then who told us that the short man also came to find ghosts and gods to cover grass?"

what! ! !Chen Jiayang woke up like a dream, tremblingly said: "Yes...it was Tian Kun who told us!" (Chapter 159 Foreshadowing)
Yu Fan adjusted his glasses and nodded.

Chen Xingyang went on to say: "He knew about the existence of the short guy in the windbreaker?! Could it be that the old thief Tian Kun was with the short guy? He knew about the short guy's existence from the very beginning. He sent us here on purpose. He came from deep in the mountains, his purpose is the same as that of the short man? To harm us?" The more he thought about it, the more terrifying he became.

This adventure seems to have been a well-designed scam from the very beginning, waiting for the three people to fall into the trap step by step.

Guo Na still had some doubts, and asked: "Then why did Tian Kun lead us here? The story about him picking medicine for Bai Xiaoxue in the mountains seems to be true. This one has the word 'ghost' written on it Stones do exist, if he really wanted to kill us, why did he lead us to the place where he was looking for medicine? Could it be that this is the most dangerous place. Ah! What is going on here. " Said Arriving here, Guo Na shuddered.

Yu Fan said: "Just like you, I still have some doubts in my heart. But I have to go back and find this Tian Kun to confirm it. The most important thing we have to do now is to go back safely. Get out of here quickly!"

……

On the hilltop of Ziwu Village far away, the old village head and Tian Kun are still talking.

The old village head asked Tian Kun: "Uncle Tian, ​​when you went to gather medicine, you said you escaped death. Did you encounter any danger when you went there? Are there wild animals? Or is the terrain dangerous?"

Tian Kun was expressionless, with a hint of cunning and ghost in his eyes, and said in an old voice: "Near death, it's not that you encountered any danger when you went. It's the way back. It's really—too difficult !"

　Sometimes the hardest decisions we make end up being the most beautiful things we ever do - LDH
　　
　
(End of this chapter)