Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11410

In the grass by the roadside at the mouth of the valley, there stood a stone shrine half a person's height. In the shrine was a bowl-sized, black object that looked like the scales on a snake's body.

On the ground in front of the shrine, there was a clay basin with residual incense ash and burnt-out incense candles.

"Eh? It seems that during this period of time, some mountain people nearby really came here to worship the black snake?" When Yang Ruoqing saw the incense ashes for the first time, she was a little bit incredulous, but at the same time, she was relieved.

Since the mountain people came to burn incense and offer incense to the black snake, it means that the black snake must have helped the mountain people before and they have formed a good relationship with him, so the mountain people came to repay him with incense.

As good karma accumulates, the black snake will enjoy the accumulated incense from the mountain people, passing peddlers, and traveling merchants, and the sins on the black snake will be reduced little by little.

Over the years, let alone passing the Dragon-Slaying Sword smoothly, I'm afraid that the continuous aroma of incense will be helpful to the Black Snake's practice and greatly increase his cultivation.

For this kind of mutually beneficial thing, Yang Ruoqing is still very happy to be the middleman.

"The crying sound is behind the shrine." Luo Fengtang looked around and did not see any children on the roadside, so he fixed his sight behind the shrine.

There is a child behind the shrine? No way! The shrine is half a person's height, but the reference of this half person is not an adult man, but half a person's height of a ten-year-old child!
So the actual height is just a little above Yang Ruoqing's thigh, and it is not very wide, probably about the width of Yang Ruoqing's arm.

That's it. Can a child hide behind it? Unless it's a baby in swaddling clothes.

However, the baby in the cradle was not incapable of making the crying sound of the child just now. The crying sound of the child just now was obviously the crying sound of a two or three-year-old child.

"Qing'er, the three of you stay here. I'll go over and take a look."

Luo Fengtang turned around and gave Yang Ruoqing a warning, then put down the basket in his hand and walked steadily forward toward the shrine on the side of the road.

Yang Ruoqing turned around and told Ping An like passing a baton: "You two stay here, I'll go over and give him a hand!"

Yang Ruoqing also followed quietly.

Ping An swallowed nervously, turned around and was about to repeat what he had just said to the servant of the Wang family behind him, but the latter took the lead and said, "Let's go too, and see what kind of kid it is. He has followed us all the way here..."

Ping'an thought, yes, we have already passed through the old forest, so it doesn't matter if we take one last look.

The two men then put down the baskets in their hands steadily, pulled out the weapons stuck in their waists, held them tightly in their hands, and followed with their backs bent.

They had a thought in their minds that the children who inexplicably appeared in this old forest were not real children.

But it's broad daylight and the sun can shine right here, so the evil spirits wouldn't dare to be so arrogant, right?

Besides, there is a black snake shrine guarding here...

On this side, Yang Ruoqing quickly caught up with Luo Fengtang. Luo Fengtang glanced at her with a helpless look.

This girl just won't listen. She won't listen even when I tell her to wait there.

However, he knew in his heart that she was worried about him being alone, so she came over to help.

Then let’s do it together!

The two of them approached the black snake shrine little by little.

The crying sound continued intermittently behind the shrine.

Yang Ruoqing suddenly tugged at Luo Fengtang's sleeve. Luo Fengtang turned his head and Yang Ruoqing raised two fingers and made a simple gesture to him. Luo Fengtang nodded, and the two of them, one to the left and the other to the right, went to the back of the shrine to surround it.

"Little friend... eh?"

Yang Ruoqing jumped up from the right and came behind the shrine. When she jumped out, a fair and tender little baby with two buns, a red bellyband, sitting on the ground with bare butt and wiping tears flashed in her sight.

But when she landed on the ground, she found that there was no child behind the shrine!

The crying stopped abruptly the moment her voice rang out, as if everything before was just her illusion, and behind the shrine, everything was calm and peaceful!

"Where is the child? Where did the child go?" Yang Ruoqing was puzzled and used the long bamboo stick in her hand to dig in the nearby grass.

At this time, she picked out a long vine from the top of the bamboo stick. The vine had oval leaves and small white flowers under the leaves. Following the vine, Yang Ruoqing saw a fist-sized, milky white ginseng fruit hanging on it.

The ginseng fruit is like a curled-up child with a smooth little body, hugging its knees, and eyes lowered. Under its white skin, one can faintly see the red pulp flowing slowly.

"Tang, come and see!"

Luo Fengtang quickly came to her side and asked, "Is this a ginseng fruit?"

"Do you recognize him?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

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Luo Fengtang nodded: "I spent a lot of time in the mountains when I was young, and I saw a bunch of ginseng fruits like this once."

"Ah? Gathering together? What do you mean? Did you break into the ginseng fruit forest?"

Luo Fengtang shook his head. "This thing is similar to ginseng. It grows in the mountains. Over time, it gradually becomes spiritual and can change its shape. Some are in the form of children, some are young girls, and some are old men and women."

"Wow! I've heard this before, but I didn't expect it to be true!"

Yang Ruoqing had traveled far and wide before, and had heard many stories about the transformation of Changbai Mountain ginseng, both in the present world and in this era. At first, she thought it was a folk legend, but the legend was too magical, it was almost as if it had real details.

Especially during the more than ten years that my mother-in-law Tuoba Xian lived in Changping Village, she brought with her many legends from the Liao Dynasty, including the ginseng doll.

"But this is a ginseng fruit, not ginseng!" Yang Ruoqing said. This ginseng fruit looks very similar to the ginseng fruit in Journey to the West. When you take a bite, the fruit pulp may be as red as blood. It must be very nourishing.

"Was it the one crying before? But why was it crying?" Yang Ruoqing was puzzled. She pinched the ginseng fruit doll in her hand and rubbed it gently, as if she was rubbing a porcelain doll. She really couldn't let it go!

Luo Fengtang said: "I don't know either, let me take a look."

The two followed the vine of the ginseng fruit to find its root...

"Qing'er, look!"

Yang Ruoqing looked closely and saw that the roots of the ginseng fruit vine were deeply embedded in the hole of a nearby big tree. Outside the hole were thorns and weeds that just covered the hole.

But for some unknown reason, the vine was pulled out of the tree hole by external force and was exposed in the grass. At the other end of the vine, there was also a ginseng fruit growing on it, but that ginseng fruit was not as lucky as this one. Most of the flesh of that ginseng fruit had been pecked off by a bird. The bird probably was full and flew away. Then the sweetness of the exposed flesh and juice attracted nearby insects and ants, which crawled over densely, making the whole place black.

If Luo Fengtang hadn't had sharp eyes, it would have been difficult for Yang Ruoqing to discover it.

"Did this little fruit get scared when it saw its own kind being eaten? So it transformed into a child and went to ask for help from the black snake in the shrine?" Yang Ruoqing made a bold guess. "The black snake couldn't help it directly, so it tried to transmit the sound to the other side of the forest so that we could hear it when we passed by?"

"So, the black snake hopes to attract us and ask us to help this ginseng fruit?"