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The birds on the tree were startled and fluttered, and the nearby beasts fled in all directions. After a while of chaos, there was only silence in the deep jungle.
Bai Xiaoxi closed his mouth and akimbo to ponder.
Although her original form is not a fierce beast, the fox demon is different from an ordinary little fox, and it is easy to deter ordinary beasts. From the sound of the movement just now, the effect is not bad.
She turned her head and said to Liang Sheng proudly: "Look, there is no danger now."
Liang Sheng was silent for a long time, and wiped his stiff face, feeling that something was shattering.
Bai Xiaoxi added: "Let's look for it now, maybe we can find something valuable."
She said, turning her head to search.
The forest is very dense. In addition to tall trees, there are also many shrubs and vines growing on the bottom. Many species that are not found in Xiaoyangmeiling and the village are all here.
Bai Xiaoxi recognized most of the plants, and also understood their value and medicinal use. At a glance, there were indeed many medicinal materials in Dayangmeiling, but there were no precious ones.
She strolled around the surroundings like watching flowers, she was a little disappointed, "Do you want to continue to go deeper?"
It's not that she is afraid of danger, but that she has to go to work in the afternoon. If she is too far away and can't go back in time, other people will definitely ask.
"How about this?" Knowing to persuade her not to move, Liang Sheng had to be patient and help. He pointed to a cluster of wild mushrooms, squatted down and pulled it twice, and said to Bai Xiaoxi, "Many people like this type of mushroom, and the price is okay. ."
Bai Xiaoxi went over to take a look. A large clump grows at the root of the big tree, about half a basket. She said, "This is what you found, it's yours, I'll take a look."
Without waiting for Liang Sheng's refusal, she turned to the other side to continue searching, and decided that if she didn't find anything more valuable before the start of work in the afternoon, she would pick up the herbs she had seen earlier, and in short, she couldn't run for nothing. Anyway, when I went up the mountain, I carried a basket on my back, so I was not afraid that there would be nowhere to put it.
Walking to the edge of a ridge, she saw a small amount of soil rolling down on the ridge, probably because of the abundant rain a few days ago, and the soil layer was loose.
Where the soil layer slipped, there were tuber-like things exposed, like sweet potatoes, but darker than sweet potatoes, which were the rhizomes of plants.
"Hey, this looks like..."
Bai Xiaoxi squatted down and took a closer look. The thing exposed was more than ten centimeters long, tan, with rough skin, and there were several auxiliary roots wrapped around the main root.
"It's He Shouwu." She nodded and concluded, and it was some years old.
"Liang Sheng!" She called to him, "How much can He Shouwu sell for?"
Few girls called his name. Her voice was soft and thin, and it sounded particularly different. Liang Sheng frowned to resist the discomfort in his heart and walked over on the fallen leaves.
"Acquisition station is a pound or two cents." He answered the previous question, raised his hoe and started digging.
The part buried underneath is not small, and it was only after digging a pit that was about half a meter deep that the whole He Shou Wu was dug out.
A piece of big guy fifty or sixty centimeters long and thirty or forty centimeters wide, Bai Xiaoxi roughly estimated that it was about thirty kilograms. According to the price of one kilogram and two cents, it could be sold for six yuan.
Although he has seen big money for a long time, the current six yuan is worth her monthly settlement fee, so how can Bai Xiaoxi be unhappy.
"Half of the money is for you!" She was very happy, after all, they did their best, and she only spoke.
Liang Sheng refused to give face, "No need."
Throwing He Shouwu up the hill, he was about to climb up, but found that there seemed to be something at the bottom of the pit.
Almost at the same time, Bai Xiaoxi said, "There's more down there."
Thinking that it was still Polygonum multiflorum, Liang Sheng was ready to continue digging deeply, but before digging a few times, the whole thing underneath came out.
It wasn't He Shou Wu, Bai Xiaoxi went over to look carefully, it was the size of her head, light brown, moist skin, with many ravines, shaped like coral, she picked up a branch and poked it, it was moderately soft and hard, and elastic, plants Unlike plants, animals are not animals.
She looked at Liang Sheng and blinked, "This... seems too old."
"Tai Sui?" Liang Sheng frowned, "The one that broke ground on Tai Sui's head?"
"No, that Tai Sui refers to Jupiter. In ancient times, people believed that the direction of Jupiter's rotation is fierce, so you should avoid it when you break ground. This Tai Sui is also called Meat Ganoderma. It is said in the medicine book that you can get rid of old age if you eat it."
"Not old?" Liang Sheng snorted, obviously not believing.
Bai Xiaoxi nodded and said, "There must be exaggerated ingredients. Tai Sui can indeed be used as medicine, but the effect is not so magical. However, there are many people who believe it."
She poked the bacon again, tilted her head and asked him, "Does the purchasing station accept this?"
After Liang Sheng sneered, he stared at Tai Sui without saying a word, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he did not answer Bai Xiaoxi's words, but instead asked, "Is it true that you said that the medicine book has its effects?"
"Of course," Bai Xiaoxi thought he suspected that he was telling a lie, and pouted, "Shen Nong's Materia Medica and Compendium of Materia Medica are both written."
When Liang Sheng was a child, his family was difficult and he didn't read for many years, but he still knew who Shennong was and who wrote the "Compendium of Materia Medica".
After listening to Bai Xiaoxi's words, he finally no longer hesitated, and made up his mind: "If you believe me, let me handle this matter, and the money will definitely be more than selling it to the acquisition station. If you are worried, just treat it as if I didn't mention it."
Bai Xiaoxi said without thinking, "We found this together. Of course you have the right to decide how to deal with it. Just divide the money from me."
Liang Sheng looked at her, frowning and trying to warn against believing people easily, and don't always give up the benefits. It can be seen that she looks candid and taken for granted, those words were swallowed back when they reached her lips, and finally she only asked: "You Aren't you afraid that I will be alone?"
"Then I'll hit you." Bai Xiaoxi frightened him with a fist, with a fierce expression.
Liang Sheng snorted, and an imperceptible smile appeared on his lips, which was quickly covered by his irritable face.
It was almost time for work in the afternoon, and the two began to walk back. Tai Sui was too eye-catching. After discussion, they buried it in the valley near the Xiaoyangmeiling. When no one was there, Liang Sheng would come over to dig it.
A lot of people have already gone up the mountain after eating, and they are getting together now and don't know what to say, and their tone is quite excited.
Bai Xiaoxi appeared in front of people dragging a large piece of He Shouwu. When a woman saw her, she immediately asked, "Xiaoxi, you didn't go down the mountain at noon, did you hear anything?"
Bai Xiaoxi looked at Liang Sheng, but found that he walked away at some point, leaning alone under a tree, with weeds in his mouth, as if no strangers should approach him.
She had to show her acting skills: "It seems that there is."
The woman pressed: "What is it? Does it sound like..."
"A bit like a wolf howl."
"Let's just say it!" The other party clapped his palms, "I was picking vegetables at the back door at the time, and I vaguely sounded like it, but someone said no, you come and give me a proof—Yo, what are you doing with a big wood lump?"
Bai Xiaoxi scratched his cheeks, looking a little embarrassed, "I was sitting on the edge of the mountain eating, and I was startled by the noise, thinking that there were beasts nearby, I got up and ran, and I stumbled, only to realize later. The voice sounded quite far, and when I went back, I found the thing that tripped me, it turned out to be a piece of He Shou Wu."
When the woman heard it, she immediately forgot what the wolf howled or not. She looked around the piece of Polygonum multiflorum, turning it over from time to time, tsk tsk in her mouth, "How much is such a big piece of Shouwuwu worth?"
Several people who spoke earlier also gathered around, you and me.
"Last year, my fifth uncle sold me for two cents a pound, but it's much smaller than this."
"Look at this piece of money, it's been a few years, maybe the price can be higher."
Someone mentioned it upside down and said, "Let's talk about 30 pounds, even if it is two cents a pound, it's still six dollars."
That woman was so envious that six yuan was enough to buy more than 30 catties of white noodles. In her family, she was reluctant to make several meals of noodles throughout the year.
She kept saying, "This fall is worth it. If I were to fall, I would be willing to fall a few more times!"
Others asked where Bai Xiaoxi found it, obviously wanting to try his luck.
Bai Xiaoxi said a place, in Xiaoyangmeiling, the place she and Liang Sheng had just pretended.
Going down the mountain in the evening, Bai Xiaoxi's trophies were arousing to see all the way, and when he returned to the educated youth point, it caused another heated discussion.
"Xiaoxi, what is this?" Huang Pingping looked curious.
Bai Xiaoxi was washing his face, the He Shou Wu was placed in the yard, and several educated youths were watching.
"He Shou Wu is a Chinese herbal medicine."
Huang Pingping exclaimed: "With such a large medicinal material, Xiaoxi, you are really amazing."
Bai Xiaoxi smiled and told everyone what he said before, "So, I'm just lucky."
Huang Pingping shook her head and said, "It's Xiaoxi, you are very knowledgeable. If it was me, you wouldn't recognize such a big He Shouwu in front of you. And I was scared to death by the wolf howl, how dare you turn around."
"Yes, we heard a little here, Comrade Xiaoxi, are there really wolves on the mountain? We usually don't encounter wolves when we go up the mountain, right?" An educated youth asked.
Bai Xiaoxi said: "I heard that voice quite far away, at least I won't encounter it in Little Yangmeiling, don't go to Big Yangmeiling, there are many beasts."
Lu Xiaoyan stood on the side, and when she heard this, she wanted to stab her, but she fell into the gutter in the morning, and her painful foot reminded her to shut up.
He didn't dare to say it, so he could only look at Bai Xiaoxi's harvest with jealousy and jealousy.
The next day, Bai Xiaoxi went to the commune with He Shouwu on his back, sold it at the purchase station for six yuan and eighty dollars, and went straight to the counter of the supply and marketing cooperative with the money.
Candy, canned food, chicken cake... She wanted all of them, but unfortunately, they were all in limited supply, and there was no corresponding ticket, so the salesperson was only willing to sell a little bit in a stingy way, but there was no more.
In the end, Bai Xiaoxi only bought a small handful of toffee, two pieces of maltose, and three pieces of chicken cake, and spent one dollar.
She stood at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative and felt the money left in her pocket. For the first time, she realized what it was like to have money that could not be spent.
The little fox couldn't help sighing, this sadness was like a group of eunuchs going upstairs.