Time flies, the sun and the moon are like shuttles. In the blink of an eye, four years later, the mountains in the blood-red abyss have been continuous, wind and rain, and 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. The herbal medicine, cloud deer, badger and other animals walk through the mountains, making this mountain forest a treasure place for hunters and pharmacists.
It's just that people are circulating a story that there are immortals in the mountains, the sun and the moon are bright, immortal, proficient in spirituality, and there are many changes, but it seems that no one has ever seen such an immortal.
It is the rainy season again, the rain drops ticking down in the mountains and forests, flowing along the green leaves and falling among the grasses, moisturizing the soil, on the cliffs in the mountains, a figure is faintly visible climbing on the rock wall Climbing, it was a gray-haired old man with a small bamboo basket on his back, with clusters of herbs in it.
The old man's face was slightly ruddy, and he carefully moved the root of a herb with a shovel, for fear of hurting the root of the herb and affecting the medicinal properties of the herb.
Nearly ten meters below the rock wall, a girl of about four or five years old was wearing a cyan pigment dress. She looked up at the old man with her face up, her eyes flickering, her hands folded in her mouth, and she whispered: "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 her little mouth, as if she was not satisfied with the way her grandpa took such an adventure to gather medicine.
In a blink of an eye, an ambergris plant was pulled out by the old man, holding the protruding part of the rock in one hand, and carefully throwing the ambergris into the bamboo basket with the other hand, and then came down from the rock wall step by step, but it was raining. The rock wall was very slippery. Just about three meters above the ground, the old man stepped on the air and fell down.
"Boom!"
Fortunately, there is grass below, but the old man is still hurt by the stones in the grass, and her teeth are sore. 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. He laughed and stroked the girl’s pigtails, and said with a smile: "Grandpa is okay, I am making you fun, Mengye, let’s go, this ambergris is located in Bailing City. The drugstore can sell it at a good price, maybe twenty Jin Yin coins, and then grandpa will be able to buy a lot of candied gourds for you to eat."
"Woo..."
The girl nodded, her big Shui Lingling eyes seemed to be able to speak, and she took the old man's hand and walked out of the blood-red abyss step by step.
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Bailing City, rebuilt just south of the ruins, is a full fifty miles away from the Abyss of Blood Red. 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 Sunset City and Shangyang City are in the middle. This is also the reason why Feng Jixing chose to set the capital of Lingnan in Sunset City.
In the rebuilt Bailing City, there were crowds of businessmen. Before sunset the next day, the old man and the girl appeared in the city. The old man was named Li Shou. Naming the granddaughter Li Mengye, which is derived from the Mengye grass in the herbal medicine, is also a good wish!
Li Mengye’s immature little hands held grandfather’s palm tightly. She knew that the ambergris in the bamboo basket behind her grandfather’s back would be a source of income for the family for the whole year. Her mother fell ill after giving birth to herself. He was bedridden when he was young, and his grandfather was very old, and he didn't have much time to gather medicine, and his alchemy skills were not enough to extract ambergris medicinal ingredients to refine medicine, so he could only make money directly by selling herbs.
This ambergris was the first valuable herb they picked in three months.
Zhennan Pharmacy, a pharmacy with only shopkeepers, is also one of dozens of pharmacies in the small town. In the past, the herbs that Li Shou picked were sold here.
"Yo, Uncle Li is here." The shopkeeper of the pharmacy is a fat man. His 1.6-meter body is very bloated and round with a weight of at least 300 kilograms. His eyes swept across Li Shou's bamboo basket. , Suddenly smiled brilliantly: "Is this again selling medicine and buying rice?"
"Yes."
Li Shu put down the bamboo basket, carefully took out the ambergris, and said: "This ambergris has a fat root. It should have been growing for several years. Shopkeeper Liu, give me a good price."
"Oh, this was picked in the abyss of blood and red? I heard that there are swift wolves in the abyss of blood and red. It is really not easy to not remove your old bone." The shopkeeper Liu took it by hand. Ambergris said: "The medicinal properties are really good, the medicine is full, so let's give you ten golden coins."
"What, only ten golden coins?" Li Shou was taken aback, and said: "Shopkeeper Liu, the ambergris harvested by Telford Medicine half a month ago is a plant of twenty golden coins, and those ambergris The grass is definitely not as full as this one. You see, I came to you to sell herbal medicines to earn some money to support the family and cure diseases, so as to pay a little less business fee. Look... My family has a lot of money. If you are young, you must not cheat me. If this is the case, I might as well go to a business to sell it."
"Huh, the old guy would really say..." Shopkeeper Liu had impatient eyes in his eyes, and said: "Here you are. This is thirty gold coins. Isn't it enough to receive this ambergris?"
Counting the Jin Yin coins one by one, Li Shou's old eyes were full of smiles, and he took out one of the Jin Yin coins and smiled: "Look, shopkeeper Liu, I want to buy a roast chicken for my granddaughter. , Can you help me turn this gold coin into a hundred silver coins, thank you."
"so troublesome!"
The shopkeeper Liu impatiently took out a purse, a heavy one hundred silver coins, and said: "Here, take it, go quickly, don't get an eye in front of my store."
"Thank you, shopkeeper Liu!"
Li Shou smiled and took Li Mengye’s hand and walked out of the pharmacy. He bought a bamboo-leaf chicken and handed it to Li Mengye’s hand from a small stall beside him. He smiled and said, “Eat, eat, and the rest of the money will be given to your mother. Buy soup medicine!"
Li Mengye happily hugged a chicken, took a greasy bite, and smiled even more joyfully: "Grandpa, it's delicious."
"Then eat more."
But the girl tore off a fragrant chicken leg and handed it to the old man, smiling like a flower: "Grandpa, let's eat together!"
Li Shou was taken aback: "Grandpa is not hungry."
"Mengye is hungry, 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 drumsticks and ate them bite by bite, while the girl watched like that, for fear that her grandfather would lie to herself and hide the chicken drumsticks for herself instead of eating it.
…
Turning a street corner, three people with thieves and scowls stared at Li Shu from a distance.
"Second brother, do it, a little kid, an old guy, they do it when they enter the alley!" said one of the moustaches.
"Okay, do it!"
The old man who walked into the alley had never thought of the arrival of bad luck. He suddenly suffered a heavy blow in the back of his head. The money bag on his waist was quickly snatched away. He wanted to scream but couldn’t. Instead, the girl yelled and grabbed one. The bastard's legs said loudly: "Bad guy, put down Grandpa's money, come on, catch the bad guy, catch the bad guy!"
"Get out of here!" The bastard kicked Li Mengye's hand away and stepped on her neck, and the girl's face flushed suddenly.
"Let go of my granddaughter."
Li Shou hurriedly stepped forward and hit the bully's waist from the rear.
"Old stuff, go to hell!"
Another bastard swung a bamboo stick and hit the old man's leg heavily!
"Kacha..."
The sound of broken bones came, and the old man's leg was broken.
"Grandpa... Let go of my grandpa..." The girl cried.
A few gangsters, look at me, and when I look at you, I didn’t dare to make a public statement. One of them pointed at Li Shu and said: “If your special mother dared to speak out, be careful that I will kill you. We are members of the Tianshu League!”
The Tianshu League, the organization of the Northern Qi Mansion in Bailing City, is responsible for reselling the Tianshu written by the Beiqi Mansion to mercenaries, bandits, etc., which is regarded as the largest gang in Bailing City.
When the gangsters left, the old man looked frustrated. After months of hard work, the money was gone.
Li Mengye hurriedly helped his grandfather up, crying and said, "Grandpa, are you okay?"
"Grandpa is okay, Mengye doesn't cry."
The old man wiped the girl’s tears and looked tremblingly into the distance. The Tianshu League was absolutely unattainable by him. Even if it was reported to the government, it would not help. On his own leg, he had difficulty holding a wooden stick. He stood up and said: "Mengye, let's go, let's go home, let's go home..."
"Woo, grandpa..."
The girl burst into tears, looking at her grandfather's appearance, she was unspeakably distressed.
…
"Boss, how much is the bone healing potion."
Two days later, an immature voice came from a small town southwest of Bailing City. Li Mengye was holding a pile of silver coins in his hand and asked timidly with his eyes wide open.
"Two golden coins, a good bone healing potion, little girl, your dozen or so silver coins are not enough to stuff your teeth, let's go, don't hinder us from doing business."
"Boss, my grandpa is bedridden and needs medication, so you can do it."
"Ball, we open a pharmacy, we are not doing good deeds, get away, don't stop us from doing business, if you want a medicine that doesn't need money, go into the mountains to collect the medicine and grind it yourself!"
"me… "
Li Mengye's aggrieved tears hovered in her eyes, and she turned and looked in the direction of the blood-red abyss, suddenly as if she had made up her mind.
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The blood-red abyss is full of mountains.
Deep in the mountains, in a dark cave, the starlight lingers around a stone statue, suddenly "pop", the rock at the finger of the stone statue burst open, the starlight flowed, a powerful finger slowly unfolded, "pop In the sound of "Papa", the rock covering the body of the stone statue cracked one after another. The young man who had been sleeping in the stone for four years finally came back to life. His face was covered with beards, and the only pair of clear eyes was deep. confused.
"Who am I? Where is this?"