Chapter 862 Bangzikou

Zhang Xinya and Brother Yao had planned our entire trip long ago. Around noon, we were already at Miaoshan in Wangkui. This place has now been developed into a tourist park. Crossing Miaoshan,

We entered the Xiaoxing'anling area and it was no longer suitable for driving, so we stayed in the park in Miaoshan for a while, and planned to park the car here and have lunch along the way.

The feng shui and environment of this place cannot be said. As I said at the beginning, it is the layers of ravines and valleys in the north that block all the evil spirits from the Xiaoxinan Mountains, like a barrier, and here

It is surrounded by four sides, the feng shui is naturally good, and the scenery can be said to be beautiful. However, Suihua is a small place and relatively remote. In addition, the economy of the entire Northeast has not been booming in recent years. No matter how good the scenic spot is, there are not many people.

, there are only a lot of people in dirty and shabby clothes sitting on the stone benches outside the rest area. These people are carrying bamboo baskets. There are bursts of strange aroma from the bamboo baskets. It is the smell of herbs. It seems that it comes from the mountains.

When I came down, I passed by a herb gatherer who was resting.

I noticed these people while eating, and my heart moved slightly, so I handed the unfinished instant noodles to Wushuang. Wushuang turned red and hypocritically refused, saying that he had enough to eat. When he saw me, he looked at him sideways.

, without saying a word, I immediately took all the instant noodles away. Then I stood up and sat down next to an older herb collector. I took out a cigarette and handed it to him, then helped him light the fire and waited for him.

After puffing for a while, he glanced at the medicine basket next to the other party and said with a smile: "Are you gathering medicine? Aren't all the herbs grown these days? Why are there still people collecting medicine?

Na?"

"There are people who do all kinds of work, but there are just too many people to do it and not enough people to do it."

The herb picker replied with a smile, he was an old man about sixty years old, but he was in good spirits and very gentle. In the blink of an eye, he smoked all the cigarettes, so I hurriedly lit another one for him.

Support, the other party then said leisurely: "I have relied on Xiaoxing'an Mountains for food all my life. Apart from collecting medicines, I can't do anything else. But fortunately, there are still some discerning people who don't buy the artificially grown medicines.

If you buy the medicine that we people pick from the mountains, knowing that the medicine grown by humans is not effective, we people will not lose our livelihood!"

I smiled. My master also told me about his theory. Many artificially grown herbs are not old enough and have insufficient medicinal properties. Therefore, the efficacy of many prescriptions collected by our Taoists has to be compromised. The decline of traditional Chinese medicine is partly due to this reason.

, As for whether to use wild ones, it has nothing to do with vision. Who doesn’t know that those wild old medicines are good? People are not stupid, but they have to be able to use them. Those medicines collected by herb collectors like them, as long as they are old enough.

All serious and old medicines cannot enter the medicinal materials market. Drug dealers have a lot of money in their hands, and they are all put on the collection shelves of wealthy people's homes, waiting for life-saving help at critical moments. Ordinary people have no access to them. For example, earlier

Angong Niuhuang Pills, which were added with rhinoceros horns last year, are now sold for more than 100,000 yuan each. Who can afford them?

After briefly chatting for a few words, when the herb collector gradually opened up the conversation, I started to take it step by step up Yaowanggou. In fact, I wanted to take this opportunity to get more clues, but the old fox still told us too little.

Little is said about the specific location of Yaowang Valley or the great weirdness inside. In comparison, I think the herb collector who has spent his whole life in the mountains may know more.

The strange thing is that this old herb collector has never heard of a place like Yaowanggou!!

"Could this be the name of the Hu family's fairy?"

I had this thought in my mind, and then I asked indirectly: "Before I came here, I heard that there are sticks in Xiaoxing'an Mountains. You have been collecting medicines all your life, have you ever seen this thing? Is it still available now?"

Maybe the Northeastern people have a talent for acting. The herb collector got excited about chatting and started talking more. He rolled his eyes and said in an exaggerated way: "Oh my God, that's not good. Bangchui, that's not good."

It is also called life-saving grass. We herb collectors have known about this thing for generations. I saw it once when I was a child. When I looked at it through the paper window at night, it looked like a big girl was dancing. It was so magical.

But I haven’t seen it in these years, and I heard that there is still something like this in the mouth of the stick.”

After asking indirect questions for a while, I finally confirmed one thing - the Yaowanggou mentioned by the Hu family is the mouth of the stick in the mouth of the herbal collector!

So, I smiled and asked the herb collector if he had ever been to the stick mouth.

"I've been there. Which herbal picker hasn't been to that place? There are medicinal materials in front of the stick mouth. Sometimes you can dig old ginseng. Do you think it's strange? There are so many of us in such a big place.

, I don’t know how many times I have picked it back and forth for generations, but I can never finish it. Every now and then I hear that someone has dug out old ginseng, as if the old ginseng that is hundreds of years old is like mushrooms in the mountains. When it rains,

It grew out overnight."

The old herb collector grinned: "But I have never gone inside the mouth of the stick. There is evil in it."

I asked him what the evil method was.

Seeing my curiosity, the old herb collector's smile faded little by little. He glanced at the cigarette on his finger and frowned, "I'm not smoking your cigarette in vain. I'll give you a piece of advice. You can't go there."

, a young man went in some time ago, and when he never came out, I reminded him, don’t take my words as a joke, the old sayings passed down from our ancestors are correct!"

I squeezed out a smile and said: "I'm just curious, just curious, that's why I'm asking. You can just tell it as a story. I just want to hear it. By the way, you said you went in for a date some time ago. Who is it?"

?”

"I don't know him. He's about the same age as you, but he's very white. I don't think he even has a few black hairs on his head."

The old herb picker said: "At that time, I was near the mouth of the stick, thinking about picking some medicine. When I saw him, he fell in the old forest not far from the mouth of the stick. Although wild beasts are not common in the mountains these days, they still appear every now and then.

A wild beast would come out. I was kind-hearted and went over to wake him up. He got up and asked me if I had any water and gave him some saliva to drink. I gave him some saliva to drink. He became energetic and left, saying

There must be a generous reward for anything. Hey, I rescued him as if I was trying to do something for him. I saw that he didn't dress like someone who was struggling to make a living in the mountains. I reminded him at that time not to accidentally wander into the mouth of the stick.

Later, I heard from several people who were collecting herbs at Bangzikou that they saw him go in with their own eyes. It had been a while and he didn’t come out again. I guess he was gone..."

Xing Wei!!!

I immediately confirmed that the person the old herb collector was talking about was Xing Wei, and the young man Bai was the most obvious feature.

The opponent... indeed entered the stick's mouth, and our tracking direction is absolutely correct!!

After pondering for a while, I asked again: "How was your harvest from collecting herbs that day?"

The old herb picker kept saying "it's okay, it's okay", but looking at the smile on his face, it was not just okay, it was very good!!

"Xing Wei said there will be a generous reward, and that day... the old herb collector gained a lot. My dear, is it possible that this grandson really has some connection with Bangzikou?"

I rubbed my chin and thought about the amount of information here. The more I thought about it, the more unusual this matter became. Xing Wei's trace was confirmed, but... the situation seemed to be heading for the worst!

Immediately, I interrupted my thoughts and asked with a smile: "Apart from this? Is there anyone else who has gone in and has been clearly confirmed to be dead?"

"Yes! Otherwise, why would I remind you so seriously?"

The herb collector immediately said: "But it was many years ago. I was less than forty years old at that time. There was another family in our village that collected herbs, and it was that family that had the trouble. I still remember that

His name was Erhu, and he was a good hand. He knew exactly where there were particularly good treasures on the mountain. Later, he gradually became dissatisfied with digging for ordinary medicines. He didn’t know who instigated him, and all he wanted to do was dig for a stick.

After returning home, he ran into Bangzi's mouth. About half a month later, everyone thought he was dead, but he came back again, but he was already dead and his whole body was green. He was really green. Then

His skin was all green, he could no longer speak, and his swelling was three times larger than before. He died after being sent to the hospital. The body was also bought by the hospital. I heard that after the incision, all the kidneys were rotten.

It smelled very bad, the urine bubble was bigger than the cow's belly, and it was full of green pus...

Some people say that there is a fox in the stick's mouth. He had a relationship with the fox and was drained of his kidney energy, which is why he looked like this."

I asked: "After talking for a long time, where is the mouth of this stick?"

The herb collector said: "Going north, there is actually a small opening between two mountains, which is like a sliver of sky. Now in this season, there are white-headed weeds outside. There are many herb collectors, but they don't know how to go in.

Moreover, they will definitely leave there in the afternoon. This is also the rule left by the old man. He only said not to walk around Bangzikou when it is dark. As time goes by, people will leave there in the afternoon. "

I secretly wrote down all the rules and details mentioned by the herbal collectors, and then stood up and said: "Pulsatilla is a good thing. You can pick flowers in February, fruits in April, and roots in August. When dried, they can be used as medicine. They can be used all over the body."

Yes, it’s a good season to pick the real thing!”

After saying that, I said goodbye to the herb gatherers, called Brother Yaozi and the others, and got up and started on the road.

Because we couldn't drive, we carried our luggage directly into the mountain and walked north. We soon left the Miaoshan area and entered the ravine area to the north. As I expected, the feng shui here is really bad.

The woods are dark and the valleys are mostly foggy. If the geomagnetic field were not normal and the compass could still be used, it would be easy for people to get lost here.

After passing through these layers of low mountains, we dived into the Greater Khingan Mountains and walked north according to the instructions of the herb collector. We walked for about four or five hours, and we arrived at about six or seven o'clock in the evening.

At that time, I finally saw the lush green grassland.

After crossing this open space, there is a pass between two mountains on the opposite side.

At this time of year, the sky is not completely dark yet, and the overall sky is still bright. However, behind the pass, it is so dark that you can't see anything, and you can't see anything clearly. It seems that it is a completely different world from the outside world!!

"Yaowanggou, Bangzikou..."

I pondered for a moment and then said with a smile: "The herb collector said that we have to leave here when it gets dark. It seems that it is not peaceful when it gets dark. There is still some time before it gets dark. We might as well go inside first and explore once it gets dark."

, set up camp immediately, and walked not too deep or too shallow the first night, just in time to get a feel for what’s going on inside!!”
Chapter completed!