Time flies, the sun and the moon fly by, and four years have passed in the blink of an eye.
The mountains in the Blood-Red Abyss are continuous and exposed to wind and rain.
They have long been covered with a thick layer of vegetation, and the spiritual power in the mountains is strong, giving birth to many rare things.
Herbal medicines, cloud deer, badger and other animals travel through the mountains, making this mountain forest a treasure land for hunters and pharmacists.
It's just that people are spreading a story, saying that there is an immortal in the mountains, the sun and the moon shine together, immortality, proficient in spiritual arts, and ever-changing, but it seems that no one has seen such an immortal.
It is the rainy season again, and the raindrops are falling in the mountains and forests, flowing along the green leaves and falling among the grass, nourishing the soil.
On the cliffs between the mountains, a figure can be faintly seen climbing on the rock wall.
Climbing, there was a white-haired old man, carrying a small bamboo basket behind him, with clusters of herbs in it.
The old man's face was slightly rosy.
He used a shovel to carefully stir the root of a medicinal herb repeatedly, for fear of damaging the roots and affecting the medicinal properties of the herb.
Nearly ten meters under the rock wall, a girl of about four or five years old, wearing a blue colored dress, looked up at the old man with her face raised, her big watery eyes flickering as she looked at him, her hands clasped around her mouth, and she whispered softly: "Grandpa, be careful" The old man laughed: "Mengye, don't run around.
Grandpa will come down after picking this ambergris."
"Be careful" The girl murmured, as if she was not satisfied with her grandfather taking such a risk to collect medicine.
In the blink of an eye, an ambergris was pulled out by the old man.
He held the protruding part of the rock with one hand and carefully threw the ambergris into the bamboo basket with the other hand.
Then he came down from the rock wall step by step, but on the rainy day The rock wall was very slippery.
About three meters above the ground, the old man suddenly stepped on the air and fell.
"Bang" Fortunately, there was grass below, but the old man was still hurt by the stones in the grass.
He gritted his teeth and screamed in pain.
The girl hurriedly stepped forward and supported the old man: "Grandpa, where is the injury?
Where is the injury?"
Seeing the girl's worried look, the old man immediately endured the pain, laughed and stroked the girl's braid, and said with a smile: "Grandpa is fine, I am just teasing you.
Mengye, let's go.
This ambergris is in Bailing City."
They can be sold at a good price in the drug store, maybe for twenty gold coins, and then grandpa can buy a lot of candied haws for you to eat. " "Woo" The girl nodded, her big watery eyes seemed to be able to speak.
She held the old man's hand and walked out of the blood-red abyss step by step.
Bailing City was rebuilt due south of the ruins, a full fifty miles away from the Blood-Red Abyss.
It has changed from a famous city with a population of 3 million to a small city with a population of less than 200,000.
Most of the residents have been scattered to Among them are Sunset City and Shangyang City.
This is why Feng Jixing chose to set the capital of Lingnan in Sunset City.
In the rebuilt Bailing City, there were many groups of merchants.
Before sunset the next day, the figure of an old man and a girl appeared in the city.
The old man's name was Li Shu, a charlatan who made a living by collecting and selling medicines.
He got a granddaughter in his old age, so Naming my granddaughter Li Mengye, which is derived from the dream leaf grass in the herbal medicine, can be regarded as a good wish.
Li Mengye's young hands tightly grasped her grandfather's palm.
She knew that the ambergris in the bamboo basket behind her grandfather would be the family's source of income for the whole year this year.
Her mother fell ill after giving birth to her, and she was five years old.
He has been bedridden for 20 years, and his grandfather is old and does not have much time to collect medicines.
Moreover, his medicine refining skills are not enough to extract the medicinal essence of ambergris to make medicines, so he can only make money by selling the herbs directly.
This ambergris is the first valuable medicinal herb they have collected in three months.
Zhennan Pharmacy, a pharmacy with only a shopkeeper, is also one of dozens of pharmacies in the small town.
In the past, the herbs Li Shu collected were sold here.
"Hey, Uncle Li is here."
The shopkeeper of the pharmacy is a fat man.
He weighs at least three hundred kilograms, which makes his one-meter-six-meter body look very bloated and round.
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His eyes glance across Professor Li's bamboo basket. , suddenly smiled brightly and said: "Are you here to sell medicine and buy rice again?"
"yes."
Professor Li put down the bamboo basket, carefully took out the ambergris, and said, "This ambergris has fat roots.
It should have been growing for several years.
Shopkeeper Liu, please give me a good price."
"Hey, this was picked in the Blood Red Abyss.
I heard that there are swift wolves in the Blood Red Abyss.
It's not easy to tear apart your old bones."
Shopkeeper Liu took the dragon with ease.
Saliva said: "The medicinal properties are indeed good, and the medicinal essence is full.
Let's do this.
I'll give you ten gold coins."
"What?
It's only ten gold coins."
Li Shi was stunned and said: "Shopkeeper Liu, the ambergris collected by Defu Medicine Store half a month ago cost twenty gold coins per plant, and those ambergris It's definitely not as full as this one.
You see, I'm here for I came to you to sell herbal medicines to earn some money to support my family and treat illnesses, in order to pay less for the handling fees of the business.
You see, my family includes both young and old, so you must not cheat me.
In this case, I It’s better to go to the merchant store and sell it.”
"Hmph, the old guy is really good at talking."
Shopkeeper Liu said with impatience in his eyes: "Here you go, here are thirty gold coins.
I think it's enough to accept your ambergris."
Counting the gold coins one by one, Li Shuo suddenly had a smile in his old eyes.
He took out one of the gold coins and said with a smile: "Look, shopkeeper Liu, I want to buy a roast chicken for my granddaughter." , please help me turn this gold coin into a hundred silver coins, thank you."
“It’s really troublesome” Shopkeeper Liu impatiently took out a money bag containing a heavy one hundred silver coins and said: "Here, take it and leave quickly.
Don't be an eyesore in front of my store."
“Thank you, shopkeeper Liu” Professor Li held Li Mengye's hand and walked out of the drugstore with a smile.
He bought a bamboo leaf chicken from a stall nearby and handed it to Li Mengye.
He said with a smile: "Eat it, eat it.
The remaining money will be given to your mother."
I’m buying some soup and medicine.”
Li Mengye happily hugged a chicken, took a greasy bite, and smiled even more joyfully: "Grandpa, it's so delicious."
"Then eat more."
But the girl pulled off a fragrant chicken leg and handed it to the old man with a smile on her face: "Grandpa, let's eat together."
Professor Li was stunned: "Grandpa is not hungry."
"Mengye is hungry, so grandpa must be hungry too.
If grandpa doesn't eat, I won't eat either."
The little girl blinked her big eyes and said sensibly.
The old man was so moved that he took the chicken leg and ate it one bite at a time, while the girl just watched, fearing that her grandfather would lie to her and hide the chicken leg for herself but not eat it.
Turning a corner, three men with sly looks were staring at Professor Li from afar.
After all, thirty gold coins were not a small number, enough to feed and drink a family of ten for several years.
"Second brother, do it.
It's a kid or an old guy.
They'll do it when they enter the alley," one of the gangsters with a mustache said.
"Okay, do it" The old man who walked into the alley never thought about the coming of bad luck.
He suddenly suffered a heavy blow on the back of his head and the money bag around his waist was quickly snatched away.
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He wanted to scream but couldn't.
Instead, the girl shouted loudly and grabbed a The gangster's legs shouted loudly: "Bad guy, put down grandpa's money, come quickly, people, catch the bad guy, catch the bad guy" "Get out of here."
The gangster kicked Li Mengye's hand away and stepped on her neck.
The girl's face suddenly turned red.
"Let go of my granddaughter."
Li Professor hurriedly stepped forward and bumped into the gangster's waist from behind.
"Go to hell, old guy" Another gangster swung a bamboo stick and hit the old man's leg hard.
"Click" The sound of broken bones was heard, and the old man's legs were broken.
"Grandpa, let go of my grandpa," the girl burst into tears.
The gangsters looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't dare to show off.
One of them pointed at Professor Li and said, "If your special mother dares to speak out, be careful that I will kill you.
We are from the Heavenly Book Alliance."
The Heavenly Book League is an external organization of the Northern Qi Palace in Bailing City.
The Heavenly Book League is responsible for reselling the Heavenly Books written by the Northern Qi Palace to mercenaries, bandits, etc.
It is considered the largest gang in Bailing City.
When the gangsters left, the old man looked depressed.
The money he had worked hard for for several months was just gone.
Li Mengye hurriedly helped her grandfather up and cried, "Grandpa, are you okay?"
"Grandpa is fine, Mengye won't cry."
The old man wiped the girl's tears and looked into the distance tremblingly.
He could never afford to offend the Heavenly Book Alliance.
Even if he reported this matter to the government, it would be of no avail.
However, it was his own leg that he struggled to hold on to with a wooden stick.
He stood up and said: "Mengye, let's go, let's go home, let's go home" "Oooh, grandpa" The girl burst into tears and looked at her grandfather with unspeakable distress.
"Boss, how much does the bone healing potion cost?"
Two days later, a childish voice came from a small town southwest of Bailing City.
Li Mengye held a pile of silver coins in his hand and asked timidly with his big eyes open.
"Two gold coins for the high-quality bone healing potion.
Little girl, your dozen silver coins are not even enough to stuff between your teeth.
Come on, let's go, don't hinder our business."
"Boss, my grandpa is bedridden and needs medication.
Just be okay."
"Gungungun, we run a pharmacy, not do good deeds.
Get out of here and don't block our business.
If you want medicine for free, go into the mountains to collect medicine and grind it yourself."
"I me" Tears of grievance swirled in Li Mengye's eyes.
She turned around and looked in the direction of the Blood-Red Abyss, suddenly seeming to have made up her mind.
The blood-red abyss is lined with mountains.
Deep in the mountains, in a dark cave, starlight lingered around a stone statue.
Suddenly, there was a "pop" sound, and the rock burst out at the fingers of the stone statue.
Starlight flowed, and a powerful finger slowly stretched out, "pop" With the sound of "pop", the rocks covering the body of the stone statue cracked.
The young man who had been sleeping in the stone for four years finally woke up.
His face was covered with beard, and only a pair of clear eyes revealed a deep feeling. confused.
"Who am I and where is this":