Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 176 Li Muyang was bitten by a snake

In order to stimulate Li Muyang's interest, Wang Tianxiao specially gave the first red qi root dug out to Li Muyang and asked him to put it in a bag.

The two people were each carrying a bag at the moment, just like scavengers. The luggage was placed on a stone not far away, except for the ants who could get on it.There is generally nothing else to disturb the package.

As Wang Tianxiao said, except for some small animals such as weasels, there are no real dangerous beasts here.

Li Muyang is a person who likes to learn very much.

Although he has a lot of other experience, he is far inferior to Wang Tianxiao when it comes to digging herbs.

Moreover, he knew that in this mountain, the simplicity Wang Tianxiao said was completely different from the simplicity he imagined.

Just like what a college student calls simple is completely different from what a primary school student calls simple.

If he really thought there was no risk in this matter.That would be totally wrong.

Because of this, no matter what Wang Tianxiao said, he studied and listened carefully.

He originally had an idea, just tending orchards, and the way to make money was too simple and single.

At least until the orchards grow on a large scale in the early stage, other means of making money will be needed to assist.

Then, the herbs in this mountain might also be a good way.

Plan ahead.

"Brother Shepherd, what you say is wrong. The root of red stilbene is very malleable. If you dig it like this, only the main root will be left, and all the fibrous roots next to it will be dug out. Then its weight will be It’s dropped a lot. Well, it’s a bit of a waste.”

"Brother Shepherd, don't dig with the hoe standing up. It will be very laborious if you dig upright, and his hand will vibrate a lot.

Your arms will definitely hurt after playing for a long time.

Look a little sideways.Not only will this not break the roots, but it will also save a lot of effort. "

"Brother shepherd, don't throw away all the soil on top, leave a little soil on it.

Only in this way can we guarantee to follow.It's relatively fresh. If it looks like yours, wouldn't the fine roots on the outside be unprotected after being dropped? It's easily damaged and will dry out.

Well, for red qi, we need to bring a little bit of soil to dry it instead of letting it dry directly. If it dries, the epidermis layer will die, uh, the nutrients will be gone. "

"..."

Wang Tianxiao is like a verbose old woman and a very patient master.While working, he carefully taught Li Muyang how to dig red qi.

At first, Li Muyang thought that digging up red qi was a simple matter, no different from pulling out a radish. Anyway, he just pulled it out if he could. If he couldn't, he thought.Just dig around the soil and pull out the roots.

But after working for a long time, he discovered that there were many ways to do it. If Wang Tianxiao hadn't taught him, he would have done twice the result with half the effort, and he might not have gotten the results he wanted.

As time passed, he finally confirmed that sentence: Life is full of knowledge, but you can't underestimate anything.

Digging red stilbene is different from other medicinal herbs. Red stilbene is often found in clusters.

Maybe you find a place here and immediately look for other places after digging.

It won't form very big flakes.

According to Wang Tianxiao, it's because the roots of red sage root are relatively deep and require a lot of surrounding nutrients.

If concentrated together, all the red stilbene will not grow large, and other surrounding grasses and plants will not be able to continue to live.

so.Generally, they keep a certain distance from each other. This can be regarded as a kind of wisdom of nature.

Because of this situation, and because Li Muyang had just started, the search for red qi was still relatively slow, so the two of them dug out all morning, but didn't dig much.

When it was time to eat at noon, Li Muyang weighed the bag in his hand. It only weighed two or three kilograms at most.

As for Wang Tianxiao, he had to constantly teach Li Muyang how to work.Although it is a bit more than Li Muyang, it is not much more. It seems to be only five or six kilograms.

Li Muyang is actually quite satisfied with this result.

According to his idea, if two people can dig 20 kilograms a day, five days is quite a lot, and the speed in the future will definitely be faster than now.

But when he told Wang Tianxiao, Wang Tianxiao said that if it were him, under normal circumstances, one person could dig twenty or thirty kilograms a day.This made Li Muyang a little ashamed.It's not as fast as someone else to dig it out alone if his feelings carry him with him.At the same time, this also aroused Li Muyang's interest.He doesn't believe in himself, a person who often runs in the mountains.He can't do anything better than Wang Tianxiao.It's just a red flag. Study hard and work hard. What should I say?You should practice it.Can you all catch up?So he secretly made up his mind to speed up the digging in the afternoon.At least keep a similar distance from Wang Tianxiao.

"Okay, let's rest on this rock for a while. We can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. And it's hot at noon, and there's no one blocking the mountain. It wouldn't be good if we get heatstroke. Making money is making money, and your body is your body. But you can’t hurt your body just because you’re making money, isn’t that true?”

It was three o'clock in the morning.Oh, watching the sun reach its peak.perhaps.Wang Tianxiao suggested that the two of them take a rest.Li Mengyang looked at his watch.Sure enough, it was past 12 o'clock.

"Okay, let's take a rest."

Well, two people came to the big stone that Wang Tianxiao said and transferred the package to the ground.Everyone took out food from the package and spread it on the stones.

The only disadvantage here is that there is no shelter and it is still a bit hot due to direct sunlight.

"This place is a bit uncomfortable. If other places were fine, it would be better. There used to be a lot of trees on Yangziling, but a lot of them have been stolen in the past two years.

The forest farm said it was for management, but no one has been sent here.

Well, they said they were going to build a station, but I haven’t seen much of it.There are a lot of people stealing trees anyway, look around me.There are many trees that have been stolen before they grow up. "

"How is this possible? How could a tree as big as theirs turn down the mountain?"

Li Muyang looked around and found that some trees had been sawed off, leaving tree roots behind.

These tree roots have some very small and tender buds growing on them, so they are covered. If you hadn't looked carefully, you would have thought they were clusters of saplings.

"What's so difficult about this? We're coming up from this side now. It's a slope and it's a bit far to walk.

But in fact, there is a cliff behind it. You can throw the wood directly from the top and just pull it down.

Well, there is a village over there called Zhaojiacun, and there are many people like this.

I used to be a ranger, so I think this matter should be taken care of.

But...hey, look at my body, I can't control it.

Sometimes, I can't even control myself.I also told the forest farm that no one seemed willing to come here and endure hardship.

Who doesn’t know that our place to the east of Yangziling is living in a bad way, right?Then we can only do this for the time being and see what happens later. "

"Oh, this is not something you can control. Don't put too much psychological burden on yourself.

Then since you people in the forest farm don't pay attention to it, it proves that the trees here are not valuable.

It’s useless if you are anxious alone, right? "

"You can't say that, after all, I am from the forest farm.

Although he is on sick leave... Of course, those bullshit leaders of the forest farm are not good people either.

But trees belong to the public, and not everyone can cut them down easily, right?

Besides, look at the mountain here. It’s not just a mountain of dirt. There are rocks on it.

Do you know what dangers there are in mountains where rocks and soil are mixed? "

"You mean, soil erosion?"

"No, no, it's okay if it's just water and soil erosion. Let me tell you, this thing may cause mudslides."

"Mudslide?"

"It's nothing special. A few years ago, in 86, we had a flood here. It happened before.

But the trees on the mountain were much more lush at that time than they are now.

If I didn't take care of it in the past few years, it would become like this.

If there is another flood next time, who knows what will happen? "

Wang Tianxiao looked worried.

"Brother Wang, you are like this and you still have so many things on your mind."

Li Muyang sighed sincerely.

Thinking about it, this is indeed Wang Tianxiao's style.

He is just a good old man.

Li Muyang has a kind heart, but in fact he is still a bit smart and is not the kind of person who can be slaughtered by others.

But Wang Tianxiao basically accepted the situation.

It seems that he has never made a decent counterattack in his whole life.

In addition, Li Muyang basically sympathizes with the tragic fate of some individuals and is willing to help them.

Just like Midama.

But he rarely cared about bigger things.

But Wang Tianxiao obviously had a very unhappy life. When he saw this kind of illegal logging, he was still worried that the villagers would be hurt.

It can be seen that Wang Tianxiao has a big picture in his heart.

A very nice person indeed.

"Brother Lao Wang, I understand how you feel, but there's nothing we can do about this, right? The top doesn't care, but the bottom can't control it.

We are just idiots. We don’t have any worries in the dustpan clearly. How can we have the energy to take care of such a big thing?

What should be done, just do it.

If you can't do it, if you can't change it, just leave it to fate.

Isn't it important to be a human being and have a clear conscience?

Come on, try this dumpling of mine. Does it taste good?
It's just that it's not easy to make fire on this mountain, otherwise we would have built a kerosene stove to heat up the steamed buns and eat them with steamed buns, which would be very exciting. "

Because he had to stay in the mountains for more than five days, Li Muyang was quite well prepared.

Not only did I bring savory seeds, but I also brought several kinds of staple food.

There are steamed buns.

The baked pot helmet.

There are also pancakes and chives and eggs specially made by Li Xiangqin.

However, Li Muyang regrets that these foods taste good when they are hot, but they taste much worse when they are cold.

In particular, the egg pancakes are very doughy, and buckwheat noodles are added to them. When they are cold, they taste hard and make your throat sore every time you take a bite.

"It's okay, it's not like you can't use fire at all.

It's okay this season, just don't light the fire too much.

If fire were used directly, wouldn’t all those hunters freeze to death in the mountains when hunting in winter? "

Wang Tianxiao smiled.

“However, if you can make do with it, just make do with it, and then light the fire when you go to bed at night.

Or there will be a fire soon.

If you had actually brought the kerosene stove, you could have used it casually.

Not so much fussing.

When we say no fire sources are allowed in the mountains, it is relative. If no fire is allowed, what about the people living halfway up the mountain? How do they live? "

“It turns out that’s the case, I never thought about it.

I thought there was no fire at all. "

“It’s okay to be careful, but you have no experience in this kind of mountain, so it’s definitely better to be cautious.

Hurry up and eat. You've almost learned enough at noon. We'll do it separately in the afternoon, which will make things faster. "

"it is good."

Li Muyang took a bite of the pancake and swallowed it with water.
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In the afternoon, according to plan, the two worked separately.

For the same reason, the important thing about red stilbene is to find it, not to dig it out.

Li Muyang had basically mastered the actual digging techniques in the morning, and Wang Tianxiao also told him the geographical conditions where red qi is prone to appear.

So that he can also search alone.The two of them kept getting together, and even if they found some red gallbladder, it would be easily hollowed out quickly, and then two people would have to search for it together.

The gap time in the search process is a double waste.

The two of them agreed to meet again at this stone when the sun went down.

The sun gets very hot here during the day, but it’s a great place to camp at night.

The terrain is flat, there are no tall trees around, and the view is wide. If there is any accident, you can have an unobstructed view.

In addition, there is an advantage to two people being separated.

That involves benefit distribution.

Of course, what Li Muyang dug out was all his own money.

But Wang Tianxiao had to pay Wang Tianxiao for digging.

Being with others all the time will naturally affect the speed of digging for medicinal materials, which is inappropriate and unfair.

It's good to be separated like this. Whatever you do, it's your own.

However, there is always a gap between theory and reality.

Li Muyang felt that he had almost everything in the morning, but when he went to look for it independently, he found that many details were still unclear.

The search speed is much slower.

From one o'clock in the afternoon until after four o'clock, the speed was exactly the same as in the morning, not much faster than expected.

Moreover, it also tired him out.

It would be a lie to say that you are not depressed.

But the good thing about him is that he is very stubborn. The more he is like this, the more unconvinced he is.

I don’t believe that this thing is on the mountain. Why can Wang Tianxiao find it but he can’t.

His eyesight should be better than Wang Tianxiao's.

Carefully placing a freshly dug red sage root into the bag, he stood up straight and moved his waist.

It's painful to keep hunched over.

It was already past 5 o'clock, and although the sun was still hanging in the sky, there was actually not much temperature left.

It's starting to get cold in the mountains.

Li Muyang roughly estimated that it would be completely dark in about two hours.

Although the distance he walked was not far, it still took some time to walk back.

Then work for another hour and a half at most.

He saw an elm tree not far away, so he ran over and climbed up the branch, standing on a high place and looking around.

I don't know the true face of the mountain, just because I am in this mountain.

Standing on the ground, surrounded by grass as tall as a person and many bushes, it was difficult to see into the distance at a glance.

Finding things is particularly inconvenient.

But standing on the branch of a tree, many things below are clearly visible.

He raised his eyes and looked around, and sure enough he saw a shadow of red sage not far away, on the edge of a leeward cliff.

It looks like it's growing pretty well, so it shouldn't be a problem to dig out a few pounds.

This made him very happy.

Chi Liu slipped down from the tree and quickly ran to his destination.

Sure enough, it was indeed a rather large cluster of red stilbene, more than any other place I saw today.

This luck is simply bursting.

He didn't think too much and started digging quickly.

He didn't care about the many bushes around him, which had many sharp thorns on them. He scratched his arms and legs from time to time.

Soon, he cleaned up all the shorter ones next to it, leaving only a big one in the middle that was over one meter tall and as thick as a baby's arm.

According to Wang Tianxiao, red qi is perennial. It seems that this root is perennial, and the little ones around it may be small seedlings that multiply from its roots.

This is a good baby.

Li Muyang calmed down his complacent mood, squatted down, and carefully began to dig the surrounding soil.

This guy is prepared to sell more money.

It can't be damaged.

However, after thinking about it this way, when I actually dug it, I found that it would not be easy to dig out all the roots.

The more he dug, the more he discovered that this guy was just like a small tree, and the root system's reproduction range was far beyond his imagination.

If he didn't have money to support it, he would have wanted to cut it in half with a hoe.

It took about ten minutes to dig out, and I only managed to dig out a third of it.

Li Muyang suddenly felt a chill on his neck.

There seemed to be something sticky on it. He subconsciously went to brush it off, but his hand came across something cold and soft.

Suddenly I was shocked!
He grabbed it and threw it away.

But at the same time, he felt a stabbing pain in his wrist.

Oh shit! !
He couldn't help but curse inwardly.

I really didn't expect to encounter a snake here.

Because the incident happened suddenly, he didn't even see clearly what kind of snake it was. The snake was probably coiled in the leaves of the red root. He dug the root of the red root underneath and disturbed it.

Maybe the snake hadn't thought of biting him yet, but no one could bear the thought of the snake coiling around his shoulders and sliding its body across his neck.

Subconsciously, he threw the snake out.

The snake was startled and bitten instead.

Li Muyang saw two obvious snake bite marks on his wrist, and there were faint blood drops slowly oozing out.

He didn't know whether it was a psychological effect or whether the snake was indeed venomous. He felt pain in his wrist, which was completely different from the feeling of a normal prick.

It's not that Li Muyang doesn't know anything about snakes.

It's just that there are some diamondback snakes on Peach Mountain, which are not poisonous.

And very afraid of people.

As long as you take a stick when you go up the mountain and bang it on both sides, the snake will run away.

I didn't expect that after I had been busy here for a long time, the snake was still on top, as stable as a mountain.

As a result, he took the opportunity to bite himself.

Right now, the most troublesome thing is not knowing whether the snake is venomous or not.

If it is poisonous, it will be troublesome.

He didn't prepare anything to cure the snake venom, he didn't even think about it.

Thinking of this, he didn't care to continue digging for the damn red root. He grabbed the bag and ran back the way he came.

It wasn't a long road originally, but now it seems very far away.

He had just run a few dozen steps when he felt a little dizzy. It seemed that his good luck had run out. This time he encountered a venomous snake.

This is really poisoning.

At the moment, he can only place his hopes on Wang Tianxiao.

I hope that if the other person has been walking in the mountains for a long time, he must know much more about snakes than you do.

Maybe there is a medicine to treat snake venom.

After running for a short distance, Li Muyang suddenly remembered where he had heard that after being poisoned by snake venom, people should try to slow down the blood circulation, so they should not run too fast, otherwise the poison will spread faster.

He slowed down again, looked in the direction ahead, and tried to keep his breathing steady.

The dizziness became more and more intense, and slowly, he even felt as if his head and neck were about to separate.

The head could fall off the neck at any moment.

The scenery in front of him became increasingly blurry, and before his eyes was a network of black and red.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

He vaguely remembered that the best time to treat many snake venoms was within an hour, and he didn't know if that was correct.

He didn't even know how long he had been gone.

Finally, he couldn't hold on any longer and fell straight to the ground like a sack.

Before he fainted completely, he shouted with great effort:

"Old Wang...big...brother~"

Then I don't know anything.
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When Li Muyang woke up again.

The first thing that catches the eye is the sky full of stars.

The terrain on the mountain is high and there is nothing blocking it. The starry sky that can be seen is larger and clearer.

Li Muyang knew that he was not dead.

He is still alive.

There must not be such a dazzling starry sky on Huangquan Road.

"Beep~"

There was a crackling sound of fire next to my ears.

He looked sideways and found a fire beside him, and Wang Tianxiao was sitting on the edge of the fire.

There was a small wire rack on top of the fire, and a pot on the rack.

Something was rumbling inside.

A gust of wind blew by, and Li Muyang smelled the smell of herbs, and knew that what was boiling in the pot was not food, but some kind of medicine.

Wang Tianxiao noticed the movement here, turned around and found that Li Muyang was awake.

He smiled naively and said, "Brother Shepherd, are you awake?"

Li Muyang felt that he had some strength, struggled to sit up, looked around, and found that he had returned to the agreed upon stone.

Their bags and packages were lying nearby.

Even his bag of red qi was packed back together.

It seemed that Wang Tianxiao found him back at the last moment.

This is a life-saving grace!
"Brother Lao Wang, thank you."

"Thank you, it's my fault. I was just thinking about how to apologize to you."

"what?"

Li Muyang was puzzled, "Brother Wang, you saved my life, what else do you have to apologize for? If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know where I would be."

Wang Tianxiao shook his head.

The firelight illuminated his face, which actually showed a bit of shame.

(End of this chapter)