Chapter 23 Gained a lot

The two rested for a while and began to walk to the depths of the forest. This time, the mountain slowed down. Xu Xinger finally had the mind and strength to enjoy the surrounding scenery. She just walked too fast and didn't have time to look at both sides.

Most of the mountain road are still pine trees on both sides, standing tall and upright on both sides. With the rustling sound of the mountain wind, she breathes rosin air in her mouth and nose. Xu Xinger took a deep breath. Her whole lungs were full of fragrance, and her brain seemed to be clearer than usual. No wonder people in later generations I like to travel to such a place. This virgin forest really deserves the title of natural oxygen bar.

Shanzi walked slowly at this time and began to look at both sides, introducing some useful herbs or wild vegetables to Xu Xinger from time to time.

"You see, this is a rose fruit, and the fruit looks very recognizable. It's not yet. When the fruit is ripe, pick it and dry it, remove the core and hair inside, and it can also be used as medicine to cure the disease. However, it is too troublesome to clean up, and the mountain is worthless, so there is no one to pick it. Shanzi pointed to the bush barley on the roadside and said to Xu Xinger.

Xu Xinger recognized this thing. She often saw it when she was a child. It is a very common thing in the mountains. Children will also pick a few to eat and play, but since she was a child, she has told her that the hair in the rose fruit can't be eaten. If she eats it, she will have an upset stomach, so everyone dislikes that it is too troublesome. Most of them are picked and thrown away for fun. , and it's not a good thing.

Not far ahead, Shanzi pointed to a few yellow flowers not far away and said, "Look, that's a fake yellow company." With that, he cut it off and put it in the back basket. The remaining plant in his hand continued to preach to Xu Xinger, "This thing is poisonous and can't taste it casually. I heard that there is another one called broken intestine grass, but I don't know if it can really break the intestines, but it's a medicinal material that can be sold for money."

"The appearance of fake Huanglian is easy to recognize. If you are not sure, just pinch it and see that there is orange juice inside, that's right." Shanzi turned the thing upside down and pinched it with his nails. Sure enough, the juice flowing out was a little orange. "The fake yellow roots are useless. Just cut it off against the ground."

Xu Xinger looked carefully while trying to remember it in her mind.

Seeing her serious appearance, Shanzi smiled and said, "You don't have to be so serious. If you run the mountain a few more times, you can almost recognize it."

"Hmm." Xu Xinger answered, but still remembered it carefully. After all, following Shanzi will definitely delay him from collecting medicine to make money. How can she be embarrassed to disturb him all the time?

In this way, the two walked all the way to recognize things. For more than an hour, they also walked to the depths of the forest. The mountain road under their feet was not as clear and easy to walk. From time to time, tree roots arched out from the ground. The bushes that were already growing in the wind were even more horizontal and vertical, stabbed out from time to time to block people from going. .

Shanzi opened the way with a machete in front of him. In fact, he usually didn't pay attention to such small branches at all, but he didn't know how to think of Xu Xinger's white skin. He must not be as rough and thick-skinned as himself, so he consciously opened the way in front of him and reminded her to be careful from time to time.

The depths of the forest are actually very quiet. Occasionally, a few birds call from afar, which makes the surroundings more and more quiet. I can only hear the footsteps of two people. Occasionally, they dare not speak a word or two, for fear of disturbing the peace of the mountains and forests.

The two were walking when a gray shadow suddenly appeared in front of them. Xu Xinger originally thought it was a mouse, but then she thought that the mouse did not seem to be so big. She couldn't help shouting, "Rabbit, Brother Shanzi, look, it's a rabbit!"

In fact, Shanzi has seen it for a long time. He has clenched his machete and deliberately came over to disturb the rabbit, intending to add vegetables at noon.

"Brother Shanzi, look, there is still a rabbit here." Xu Xinger pushed away the grass, and there was actually a gray rabbit in it. Strangely, the rabbit only fluttered in the grass nest, but did not escape.

Shanzi came forward to pick up the rabbit's ear and picked it up. It turned out that the rabbit's hind leg was injured, like the clip of the captured beast.

The gray rabbit screamed, his four claws kicked randomly, and the scars on his hind legs cracked and bled again.

"This lunch is up." Shanzi held the rabbit and smiled, "Wait for you to taste my craftsmanship."

Xu Xinger opened her eyes wide and said, "You have to make it better, otherwise I won't buy it."

"Just wait for drooling." Shanzi knocked hard on the rabbit's forehead with a machete. The rabbit fainted directly. He pulled out the hemp rope from his waist, hung the rabbit on the tree, cut a knife on the rabbit's neck, cleaned the blood, enlarged the knife, pulled the rabbit's ears hard, as if he took off clothes, and instantly peeled off the rabbit's skin, leaving only clean. White rabbit.

Then he quickly cleaned up the water, flushed it with the wine in the wine pot, pinched some salt noodles and wiped the inside and outside, then tied the rabbit meat outside the back basket, and the two continued to walk forward.

Then, the mountain pung a few leaves from the roadside from time to time, or pinched a few grass, but it was not used for anything, nor put it in the back basket, but pinched it in his hand.

The two walked for another half an hour. The sun had basically climbed to the top of their heads, and the sky was getting hotter and hotter. Xu Xinger raised her hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead, looked left and right and asked, "Brother Shanzi, let's find a place to rest for a while."

"Hold on a little longer, it's almost there." Shanzi slowed down, raised his finger and said, "Go over this dirt road, and there is a small river below. Let's go up to the river to get lunch."

Xu Xinger heard that there was a river and suddenly became energetic and took the initiative to speed up. The two quickly climbed up the earth and could already hear the sound of water. Sure enough, not far down, there was a winding river. There were several big trees by the river, and there was a small open place in the middle of several trees.

"Oh, Brother Shanzi, this is your secret base, right?" Xu Xinger looked at the stone slab and the stove under the tree and blurted out.

"Base? What is that?" Shanzi asked strangely.

"Nothing, you heard it wrong. I'm talking about a secret place." Xu Xinger hurriedly covered it and walked forward to find that this small piece of land was well arranged. A bluestone slab was raised with several stones and placed under a big tree like a small table. There was also a smooth stone beside the slab, which was slightly shorter than the stone table and used as a stool.

Far from the stone slab, three large stones are arranged in a zigzag shape. All three stones are burned a little black, and the ground is covered with grass and wood ash. At a glance, you can see that it is a stove built up to cook. Two "ya"-shaped tree branches are inserted on both sides of the stove, which are estimated to be used to burn the east. Western...

Xu Xinger turned around, looked left and right, and finally smiled, "Ok, Brother Shanzi, you have cleaned up quite well here!"

"That's right, you can't lose anything." Shanzi put everything down, tightened his belt, climbed to the tree beside him, and took a pot from it.

Xu Xinger laughed and pointed to Shanzi and said, "Brother Shanzi, I didn't see that you are really a foodie."

Shanzi has never heard the word foodie, but he can roughly understand what Xu Xinger means. He put the pot on the stone stove and ordered, "Go and get some branches to make a fire, and I'll find some food."

"Okay, don't worry!" Xu Xinger agreed and watched Shanzi turn around and disappear into the dense forest, and began to collect firewood.

It was naturally difficult for her to make a fire. After burning the fire, she brushed the pot with the river water, washed the leaves and grass stems just picked by the mountain and put them on the stone plate for later use. They were all cleaned up and stopped, but she still didn't see the mountain coming back.

Staying alone in this empty jungle, Xu Xinger couldn't help feeling a little bored and put her hand in her mouth and shouted twice: "Brother Shanzi? Brother Shanzi, come back." I could only hear the echo of my voice in the forest, but there was no other sound.

She had no choice but to sit on the stone in a daze. The poisonous sun was blocked by the canopy, and there was only warm laziness left on her body. Soon, people began to be sleepy and leaned against the big tree to take a nap.

Not long after, the mountain returned with a full load. When he came out of the forest, he saw Xu Xinger sleeping soundly against the big tree. He couldn't help laughing. He said that the little girl was bold. She dared to sleep alone and was not afraid of being taken away by the wolf.

Although I thought so, I didn't wake her up and prepared to go to the river to clean up what she had just touched.

Xu Xinger was actually not asleep. She also heard Shanzi's footsteps coming back, but she was a little sleepy. She couldn't open her eyes and was confused for a while before she broke away from that energy. She looked up and saw Shanzi cleaning up a snake with a baby's arm.

The snake's head was nailed to the trunk by him with a knife, and the snake's belly had been cut open. His index finger flexibly hooked inside, and the other three fingers were pulled. The dark green snake gallbladder was pulled off and thrown on the slate by him.

The sharp knife was like an arm and finger in the mountain's hand. It was so flexible that it waved and drew a circle behind the snake's head. The snake skin was easily pulled off by him, revealing the tender snake meat. Finally, he cut it into sections with a knife, threw it on a large leaf, poured some wine and tore a few leaves and threw it away. Go, rub it for a while before putting it aside.

Xu Xinger looked at it with great interest and knew that he must have done such a job many times. Maybe every time he went up the mountain, he would have such a game, so she couldn't help asking, "Brother Shanzi, you have to run the mountain for half a year and always eat these things. Are you tired of it?"

"Wake up?" Shanzi looked back at her, turned around and continued to pack up the things in her hand. "I'm still tired of eating. How many people can't eat? I'm tired of eating meat for you. Why are you so crazy?"

Xu Xinger curled her lips and said, "Who's crazy? I'm just curious to ask, my family doesn't eat meat every day."

"It's like eating meat all day." Shanzi smiled and cleaned up the fish in his hand, but he didn't say anything he usually got in the mountain and was willing to eat. He took it back for money. The reason why he made it so rich this time was not because Xu Xinger followed him up to the mountain.