Chapter 8 Mountain Shock

After noon, there are not many things that can be picked on the mountain. The wild vegetables in spring have passed the season, and the rest have to wait until autumn is ripe. Therefore, Xu Xinger can only go up the mountain now. What can she encounter? If she is lucky, she may be able to pick medicinal herbs or mushrooms. If she is unlucky, she will not get nothing in a day. It's not surprising.

Although the mountains are full of vegetation, although they can cover the annoying sun, they also breed many mosquitoes, rats and ants. Groups of small flying insects gang up in the air, like black clouds, moving slowly in the air with the sound of flapping their wings.

Xu Xinger tightened her trousers and cuffs, wrapped her head with a wide turban, revealing only two eyes, casually cut a strong branch from the inside, and pulled it on the ground in front of her. First, it was to drive away snakes and rats, and secondly, it was easy to find what was hidden under the weeds.

After walking on the mountain for about two hours, the back basket was still empty. Xu Xinger couldn't help but be a little depressed. Passing by a small river, she simply put down the basket on the bank, went to the river to scoop some water to quench her thirst, and then washed her face and felt that the river was cool and comfortable. Looking at no one left and right, she simply took off her shoes and socks directly and soaked her feet. Relying fatigue in the water.

The sun climbed higher and higher, and the trees in the forest could no longer provide more shade. Xu Xinger leaned on the warm stone. The cool stream flowed through her feet, and fatigue gradually surged up, and her eyelids became heavier and heavier. Finally, she couldn't stand it and fell asleep.

Xu Xinger dreamed that she had returned to modern times, nestling on a comfortable sofa at home, drinking cold drinks, and watching funny entertainment programs. The air conditioner blew a soft wind with a moderate temperature. It was when she was full of comfort. She only heard a "plop" beside her, and the splash of water splashed Xu Xinger's face and made her from sleep. Wake up in a dream.

She opened her eyes a little stunned. She looked around and found that the sofa, TV and air conditioner were all gone. She was still in the woods, closing her eyes hard and opened them again. Then she accepted the cruel fact that she had just dreamed. She jumped up angrily and shouted, "That bastard threw away."

A man came out of the water, climbed onto a big stone in the middle of the river, wiped the water on his face, and said with a hippie smile, "Oh, I saw a big fish swimming over the water, but unfortunately there was no tool around me. In a hurry, I picked up a stone and smashed it. Unexpectedly, the fish didn't hit it, which shocked my sister. Good dream."

Xu Xinger fixed her eyes. Where was a 14- or five-year-old teenager with dark skin and a smile, she showed a mouthful of snow-white teeth. She carefully identified that she did not know her. It seemed that she should not be from the same village, so she didn't want to pay more attention to it. She turned her head to pick up her shoes and socks and was ready to put on and leave.

The teenager jumped back into the water and swam not far from Xu Xinger in one breath. He held the stone in both hands and said with a smile, "Your feet are so white."

Xu Xinger turned around and stared at him and said to her heart that she knew how to make fun of girls at a young age. She must not be a good girl when she grew up, and she didn't want to talk to him more and more.

The teenager swam in various postures in the water. He really answered the word "like a fish in water" and said casually, "My name is Shanzi. My home is in Xishan Pass. What's your name? Where is your home?"

After listening to this standard pick-up phrase, Xu Xinger couldn't help laughing, carried the basket on her back, turned her head to the teenager in the water and said, "Little boy, your hair hasn't grown up, and you still learn from others to pick up girls. Be careful that your mother knows how to beat you." After saying that, he walked straight to the depths of the forest.

The teenager came out of the water, grabbed the back of his head, touched his smooth chin, and muttered, "Does it mean that I don't have a beard? But what does it mean to pick up a girl? I didn't pull her into the water.

Xu Xinger naturally didn't hear the following words. She took out the cake she had in her arms in the morning, nibbled it as she walked, took a few bites of water and took two sips of water. A palm-sized cake under her stomach felt particularly full when she was soaked in her stomach. She clapped the crumbs on her hands and searched in the forest seriously again.

Kungfu pays off. When her eyes swept over a piece of broken wood, she suddenly felt that something white flashed by. She quickly stopped and stared at it. On the broken wood more than one person high, there was a white object the size of an adult fist. Looking closer, the object was spherical, covered with a layer of long white hair, and it looked like a little white rabbit squatting on the trunk of a tree.

Xu Xinger is overjoyed. Wild monkey head mushrooms are rare to meet. As the saying goes, mountain monkey heads and sea-flavored bird's nests should sell for a lot of money, right?

Thinking of this, she threw the back basket on the ground, rolled up her skirt around her waist, looked at the thickness of the tree, pedaled it to see if it was strong, and estimated that she could support her weight. Then she climbed up with a knife in her mouth and hands and feet.

The stem of this broken tree is very thick, but I don't know how long it has been. There are many wormholes on her body, which is convenient for her to climb and quickly approached the position of monkey head mushroom.

She clamped the trunk with her legs, clasped a hole in the trunk with her left hand, took the knife from her mouth with her right hand, and stretched out to cut off the monkey-headed mushroom. As soon as her hand stretched out, a snake suddenly came out of the hole under her left hand. The cold snake skin was attached to her finger, and the snake's head was raised high and the blood-red letter. Keep spitting in the mouth.

Xu Xinger was stunned. She never thought that she would encounter such a situation, and she had recognized this snake, which is commonly known as the pheasant neck in Northeast China. Although it is not toxic and does not actively attack, who knows if it will give it a hard time.

In this barren mountain, in a place that should not be called every day, if you are really bitten, even if the toxicity is weak, it is difficult to guarantee that you will not die due to the delay in medical treatment.

At this time, she didn't care about the monkey head mushroom. Her whole body kept her posture close to the tree trunk, for fear that a movement would disturb the snake.

The pheasant's neck drilled out of the tree hole spit out letter for a while and felt that there was no danger outside, so it continued to climb out. The slippery and cold snake skin slowly moved to her arm along Xu Xinger's fingers, back of her hands and wrists.

Xu Xinger's tears almost burst out. This slow suffering was too painful. She almost wanted to let go regardless to see whether she would fall to death or be bitten to death, but reason told her that it was the stupidest move, so she could only grit her teeth and support the tree.

Most of the pheasant's neck has moved to Xu Xinger's arm, the snake's head is swaying left and right, and Xinzi almost vomited on her face.

Xu Xinger almost wanted to let go. Suddenly, someone shouted under the tree, "Don't move."

Then the tree trunk shook slightly, and the mountain climbed up deftly from the other side, grabbed the bottom of the snake's head like lightning, raised its hand and threw it into the distance, and the whole snake disappeared in an instant.

Xu Xinger's heart was finally put back in place, but she subconsciously blurted out, "That's a poisonous snake. Why did you throw it away? Maybe you can sell it for money when you get it to the pharmacy..." As soon as she said, she was embarrassed and quickly said, "Thank you for saving me."

Shanzi turned over and jumped from the tree, landed steadily and said, "Let's come down first."

Xu Xinger is still thinking about the monkey-headed mushroom on the tree. Now that there is no threat from the snake, she quickly leaned over and cut it down, and then carefully came down from the tree.

As soon as she moved, she found that her legs were already so weak that she had lost her strength, and as soon as her feet were loosened, she slipped out of the tree trunk to the end. As soon as her right ankle landed on the ground, there was a burst of heartache. She sat directly on the ground and couldn't get up, but the monkey head mushroom was still held intact in his hand. He pulled two big leaves from his side to wrap the monkey head mushroom, and nodded and sighed, "In order to invite you down, I'm tired."

Shanzi looked at her behavior and couldn't help but feel funny and asked, "Just cut one off?"

Xu Xinger looked up puzzledly and looked at the tree trunk and said, "I saw one. Did you just see anything else on the tree?"

"Monkey head mushrooms basically grow in pairs, and the other one should not be far away." Shanzi said that he looked everywhere. Sure enough, he soon found another white hair ball at the fork above the trunk. He climbed up and picked it down like a monkey and handed it to Xu Xinger, "Here, take it!"

Xu Xinger hurriedly refused, "You picked this. How can I have it? What's more, you saved me. This should be given to you." He said that he was going to stuff the monkey head mushroom he was holding into the mountain.

Shanzi threw the monkey head mushroom into Xu Xinger's arms like a ball, clapping his hands and said, "Although this thing is not common, I can occasionally encounter it when I run the mountain. I don't like to eat it."

"You can sell it for money!" Xu Xinger blurted out.

"Is it so short of money?" Shanzi laughed when he heard the words, "You are quite bold. Generally, when a little girl encounters such a thing, she doesn't cry."

"I'm also scared, but what's the use of crying? What if I cry and give me another bite? If crying can save me, I can cry more than anyone else. Xu Xinger pounded her sore leg and felt that she was not as weak as before. She tried to move the ankle that had just been sprained. She didn't know if she had hurt her bone and tried to stand up. "Anyway, thank you for saving my life."

"It's just a matter of hand, I will save anyone." Shanzi looked at Xu Xinger's empty back basket, "Are you going into the mountain to dig something to sell?"

"Yes, my family is so poor that I can only try to make up for it, but I'm not familiar with the mountains here, and I haven't gained much since I visited in the morning." Xu Xinger also blushed when she thought of her empty back basket, and couldn't help sighing that when she was in the countryside, she was also a child king and a mountain. Now that the climate, environment and customs are similar, the familiarity of the mountains has been greatly reduced, and I don't know where anything grows.