What is the mountain girl doing? She is digging herbs. It is said that there is a plant similar to Cordyceps on Guangwu Mountain. This medicine has magical therapeutic effects on treating kidney deficiency, but it is hidden in the weeds on the hillside like Cordyceps and is not easy to be discovered. The rarer the medicinal materials are, the higher the price. Therefore, people from nearby mountain villages often come out to find this grassroots called "Dragon Teeth Grass". If you can find more than ten plants every day, you can sell them for 200 to 300 yuan.

However, it is impossible to find so many every day. On average, it is good to find seventy or eighty plants in a month, and it can produce about 2,000 yuan in harvest. For the mountain village, the income of 2,000 yuan is quite considerable, which can greatly improve living conditions. Children in the mountains are early, and the mountain girl followed her father to collect dragon teeth grass at the age of twelve, and went out to work at the age of 15.

The mountain girl is Miao Fengyi. She is only nineteen years old this year, but she is mature and steady, and looks as big as twenty-five or twenty-six. She is kind and friendly, and Shen Bing quickly became familiar with her and helped find the roots of dragon teeth nearby. The two of them were lying in the dry grass, looking cautious, as interesting as catching crickets.

The two of them looked for dragon teeth grass. I sat on the hillside and got Miao Fengyi's permission to look at the results in her bag. The two grass roots I just dug up today.

The grass roots are slightly curved, with some whiskers, golden yellow, and the tentacles are cold and harsh. The second uncle of him, is this dragon tooth root? Who has seen it? Besides, this kind of thing is so cold, it should be the most yin and cold thing. How can it be used to treat kidney deficiency? Kidney deficiency generally comes from yang deficiency, and replenishing yang is the root. If you replenish such yin and cold things, then won’t you replenish death?

After Miao Fengyi dug two more grass roots, she told us that she had been searched here and there was no dragon tooth grass to dig. She originally wanted to go to the east hillside to take a look, but in order to lead the way, she finished work and went back. She hung her hoe on her waist and stepped down the mountain.

On the way, Miao Fengyi introduced the customs of the mountain village here to us. It turned out that she was a Miao girl. The Shiyuan Village where she lives was on the slope of Guiming Hill, which was an authentic Miao village. Shen Bing and I knew the customs of the Miao villages very well. Miao Fengyi was surprised to see that we were familiar with the customs of the Miao people. Shen Bing smiled and told her that she had been to Xiangxi, and Miao Fengyi had a longing in her eyes.

I asked about how many mountain villages there are near Guiming Mountain. Miao Fengyi said that there is only one Shiyuan Village, which is a very ancient village. It was a long time ago when migrated from western Hunan. So, the jade refiner lived in Shiyuan Village, and the magical jade refining technique was also passed from western Hunan. I also asked tentatively, what strange stories or strange people in the village?

Miao Fengyi shook her head. The people in the village are simple and kind, and live a peaceful life. To be strange, only the grass roots in the village always come back for a few days after going out, and sometimes there are no people in ten days or half a month.

"Isn't there anyone who tricks into jade or something?" Shen Bing couldn't help but get to the point.

"No, the village is very poor, how can I get money to make money?"

Miao Fengyi's answer made us feel cold. We looked at each other and thought to ourselves that Ruan Hongyu, the dead woman, wasn't lying to us? But then I thought, the jade refiner should be a strange person hidden among the people, doing things in a low-key manner, and it is normal for the people in the village to not know that.

I asked Miao Fengyi: "Does outsiders come often?"

We seemed to have too many problems, which made Miao Fengyi's face look a little alert. She shook her head and nodded and said, "Guiming Mountain is very remote, and the name is terrible, so few people come. However, there is a city man who comes a few times a year to find Gu Qinglin from the village to drink." Speaking of this person's appearance, we rekindled hope in our hearts. This person is Ma Mingshi, the owner of the antique shop.

We asked Gu Qinglin about the situation again. Although Miao Fengyi had doubts in her expression, she still patiently introduced it to us. Gu Qinglin was born a cripple, deaf and mute, but the wife she married was very beautiful and was a city man. She gave birth to a son for her husband. When she was unlucky, the child was born with disabilities in legs and feet, and was like his father. The couple opened a small shop in the village. Every time the city boss came over, he would help him deliver goods, saving him from being unscrupulous and then go out to purchase goods.

After listening to what Miao Fengyi said, I was sure that Gu Qinglin was a descendant of jade refining. Although my buddies don’t understand this kind of magic, it is a kind of witchcraft, and it will be a kind of witchcraft, and the consequences of five disadvantages and three defects will occur. What are the five disadvantages and three defects? The so-called five disadvantages are "widowed, widowed, orphan, alone, and disabled", and the three disadvantages are "money, life, and power". Like the descendant of the Cao family in Duanlong Village, who broke the dragon vein himself in order to get rid of the misfortune of the five disadvantages and three defects.

But if the Gu family does not have the ability to change their own destiny, they will suffer from five disadvantages and three disadvantages. They will be destined to be disabled and will harm their descendants. The child born is a cripple.

After the matter of Jade Refiner was settled, we stopped asking so many questions, and told some jokes with Miao Fengyi. This girl was so funny that she leaned back and forth with a bright smile.

When it was dark, it was drizzling in the sky. Miao Fengyi took us to the left to a half slope and into a cave. She had been struggling in this mountain for seven or eight years, and she was familiar with the roads and holes. After entering, we just found the flashlight, and then heard a "click" sound in front of us, and a ball of fire lighted up. Miao Fengyi drew a match and lit a half candle on a big stone.

She told us that this cave was a place for those who dig dragon teeth grass to shelter from the wind and rain, so the predecessors would leave matches and candles for future generations to use. The cave was not very deep, but it was cleaned up. There was a pile of burning ashes in the middle and a pile of unburned dry firewood next to it.

Miao Fengyi lit the firewood, took out the lunch box and set it on the fire to cook rice, and took out the bacon and distributed it to the two of us. Shen Bing also took out bread, beef, sausage and other things for her to eat. We gathered around the campfire to finish the dinner.

Just when we each laid straws and were about to sleep, the firewood burning in the hole suddenly went out strangely. This was not the fire that was just burned, and it was extinguished as soon as the wind blew. Besides, this hole was a dead hole, and it was not ventilated, and the wind could not blow in. How could the firewood go out for no reason?

Shen Bing immediately grabbed my hand in the dark. She is weak now and is very brave when she is not angry. I pinched her little hand with her backhand and signaled not to worry. While looking for a flashlight in her bag, she asked Miao Fengyi: "Big girl, why has the fire gone out?"

Miao Fengyi was silent, which made me start to wonder. I turned around and looked in the dark hole, thinking that I didn’t notice anything unusual. Could it be that this little girl, like Brother Niu’s three beasts, wouldn’t she rob us?
Chapter completed!