In the early morning of the next day, the sky had just turned white and had not yet brightened up. In the hazy mist, Su Chen and Yang Ling'er left the Dingbo Gate of Beicheng and went up the mountain to collect herbs carrying 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 Garlic Mountain, Xiang Mountain, Beigu Mountain, and Jiao Mountain. They are continuous from west to east and form a natural barrier for the river.

The Garlic Mountain in the northwest is named because of its abundant garlic.

However, the locals also call it Suan Mountain because during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao led his army southward and the situation in Soochow was critical. Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang made a plan to burn Red Cliff here to resist Cao Cao's army and use it to calculate too much.

It is also called a mountain.

In addition to the famous Three Kingdoms Chibi Battle taking place in this area, "Zizhi Tongjian" records: In the fifth year of Long'an in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sun En was about to arrive at Dantu.

Attack and defeat." This also happened here.

The green mountains are lush and green, it is mid-March again, the mountains and plains are full of lush vegetation, the air is fresh, the fog has dispersed, and the morning dew sparkles in the sunshine.

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

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

Yang Ling'er was very smart. She had learned some Tangtou songs when she was a child. Under Su Chen's description, she was able to quickly pick up the herbs and identify the herbs growing in the grass on the ground, and help them pick the herbs together.

The main root of Panax notoginseng is conical or cylindrical, with a gray-brown or gray-yellow surface, with intermittent longitudinal wrinkles and root marks. There are stem marks at the top and tumor-like protrusions around it; the smell is slight, and the taste is bitter but not sweet.

Difficult to identify.

This medicinal herb is mainly found in Yunnan and Guangxi. It is abundant and can be found everywhere in the mountains. However, it is not extinct in the Jiangnan area. After a whole morning of walking around and patiently searching, I still found a few plants.

Yang Ling'er saw him digging out the soil carefully, not wanting to hurt the roots, and curiously asked: "Brother Su Chen, is this the Panax notoginseng you want to find?"

Su Chen smiled and said: "Yes, apart from the medicine I used to prepare blood circulation and blood stasis this time, the most important thing is to transplant a few trees back and plant some in the backyard of my home so that we can mass-produce them in a small area.

, this kind of medicine is definitely top-grade when used to make sore medicine or hemostatic medicine.”

This thing can not only cure diseases and save people, but it is also a way to get rich. In the future, Su Ji's golden sore medicine can be sold not only to martial arts people, but also to the military. It will be a huge profit!

Now Su Chen is afraid of poverty. No matter what he does, the first thing that comes to his mind is money! Money! Money!

By noon, both of them were very hungry.

"Here's the raw chicken I bought before leaving the city. Take it out and make it a beggar's chicken!" Su Chen smiled slightly. Before leaving the city, he passed by the butcher's shop on the street and saw someone killing chickens for sale, so he bought one.

, the internal organs were all cleaned and emptied on site, but they had not been boiled in boiling water and the fur had not been pulled out.

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

"No need for a pot, just a fire."

Su Chen was fascinated by the martial arts people in martial arts novels, who ate and slept in the open air and worked as beggars in the wild, so he tried to imitate them today.

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

Yang Ling'er sat aside and watched Su Chen doing the begging with a smile.

After roasting for half an hour, a sweet aroma came out of the mud. After the wet mud dried, Su Chen peeled off the outer layer of dry mud, and the chicken feathers fell with the mud, revealing the white and tender chicken inside, which smelled greasy.

The strong fragrance spreads immediately.

"Wow, it looks delicious at first glance!" Ling'er's mouth was drooling.

Su Chen smiled slightly and looked at little sister Luoli's adoring expression, still feeling very accomplished.

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

He was about to tear the beggar's chicken apart when a deep voice suddenly came from behind him: "Tear the chicken into three parts and give me the butt."

Su Chen and Yang Ling'er turned around in shock, not expecting someone to come behind them.

At this time, I looked back and saw an old beggar approaching sixty years old walking from the woods behind me.

This person has a pig-kidney face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. His hair is half black and half white. It is not combed and is scattered on both sides. He is wearing a long linen dress and is holding a wooden root of unknown material in his hand.

There were actually several gourds and wine bottles tied to the cloth belt.

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

Why does it feel so familiar!

Su Chen looked at the old beggar with a salivating look on his face, who had strode up to him, and sat down in front of him politely, speechless for a while.

Is this Uncle Benshan’s version of Hong Qigong?

"Brother, what are you doing standing there in such a daze? Hurry up and tear up the chicken!" the old beggar said, swallowing his saliva again and again.

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

Although the appearance and temperament are not very similar, the face also looks like a trafficker with a sense of humor!

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

Su Chen tore up half of the chicken, including the chicken butt, and handed it to the old beggar, saying politely: "Senior, please use it!"

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

"Brother, do you know my old beggar?"

Su Chen looked at the old beggar's hands. All ten fingers were present, and none of them were missing. He was not the prototype of the nine-fingered divine beggar, and was slightly disappointed!

"No, I don't know him!" Su Chen shook his head and said: "But I saw that my senior has strange bones and extraordinary talents. I thought he must be an extraordinary person. At the first sight, I admired him..."

Su Chen kept thinking of words of praise, and lines from Mr. Zhou's movies could not help but appear in his mind.

The old beggar glanced at Su Chen and thought: This is a member of the same industry. Isn't this a rhetoric he often says? How could he learn it?

Could it be that...he had been deceived by himself for selling secret books?

The old beggar smiled slightly: "A good man doesn't talk about his bravery in the past, let alone those old things. Come, let's eat chicken together!"

"Let's eat chicken together, good luck!" Su Chen smiled, and was also thinking about how to find out whether this old beggar was a member of the martial arts world.

If a legendary figure like Senior Hong had taught him the "Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms", he would have been able to survive in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

But if, after the old beggar finished eating, he took out a copy of "Tathagata Palm" and gave it to himself, would he accept it or not?

Su Chen was in a complicated mood, and he and Ling'er ate half of the chicken.

The old beggar ate very quickly and wolfed it down like a beggar who hadn't eaten in several days. The aura he had just appeared on the scene immediately disappeared.
Chapter completed!