Chapter 216 Treasure Hunt

It was past eleven o’clock in the evening when Le Yun arrived at Wutai Mountain.

Changshou Village belongs to H North Province, and Wutai Mountain is the most famous scenic spot in S Province. The two places belong to different provinces. It normally takes more than four and a half minutes to take a shortcut from Changshou Village to Mount Wutai and take the county road.

Taihang in autumn is a good season for traveling and mountaineering. People from all over the country rush to Taihang. During the day, there are long queues of cars and tourists on both the scenic spots and on every road leading to them. .

Well aware that there are many tourists during the day, the traffic will inevitably be crowded, so Le Yun chose to set off in the evening. However, even if she is traveling at night, there is still an endless stream of self-driving cars and tour buses on the road. The speed cannot be too fast. It took more than five minutes to reach the destination.

Mount Wutai is a mountain range in the northern Taihang Mountains. It is composed of a series of mountains and peaks. It is more than 500 miles in circumference. There are five highest peaks. The mountains are majestic and continuous. There are no trees on the top of the mountain like a fortress. The platform of earth is therefore known as Mount Wutai.

The entire area of ​​Wutai Mountain spans many counties. If you only say that you are going to Mount Wutai without specifying the exact place, then it is generally understood that you are going to Taihuai Town, the center of Buddhist cultural activities in Mount Wutai.

At around eleven o’clock at night, even the tourist resort town of Taihuai lost the hustle and bustle of the day and gradually became quiet, with only some lights visible in the distance.

Le Yun’s car did not stop in the town and went straight to the Nantai of Wutai Mountain, which is more than ten kilometers south of the town. Nantai is the most beautiful among the five mountains and has the richest medicinal plants in the area.

The taxi driving in the dark arrived at the foot of Nantai Mountain. Master Gao looked at the young guest who was about to get off the car, feeling helpless and worried: "Little girl, do you have to climb the mountain in the middle of the night?"
< br />As a taxi driver, he is used to seeing many customers, many of them persistent, and many of them behaving strangely. But this little customer refreshed his understanding.

"Hmm, the person following me is so energetic. I will take him to climb the mountain and enjoy the night view." Le Yun turned over the small backpack in front of her and counted the red bills happily. Hook your lips.

"What if he is a bad guy?" Master Gao was particularly worried. The car behind them followed them all the way from Changshou Village. He was really afraid that he was a bad guy.

During the National Day, there were a lot of vehicles coming and going. He originally thought that the vehicle behind him was going in the same direction as him. It happened to be on the same road. The young guest said that it was following her, so he paid attention, and sure enough he found that A car is different from other cars. Other cars may be ahead or lagging behind, but one of them always only follows his car, neither too far nor too close, keeping a distance and not losing track.

"I'm not a bad person, someone else asked someone to protect me. I came to the mountains to look for medicine this time. The patient's family was afraid that I would be unsafe alone, so they asked someone to protect me along the way.They don't like people following behind them, so they have to follow quietly. "

"Then be careful. If anything goes wrong, just call me and I will call the police for you. "Master Gao didn't want to interfere with the guest's decision and told her to be careful. To be honest, his daughter was younger than the guest. If the girl traveled alone, he would definitely be worried.

Le Yun counted out fifteen red tickets to the driver, opened the door and got out of the car with a smile, turned around and picked up the bulging backpack: "Uncle, I probably won't go down the mountain until at least the 8th and the 9th. You Don't worry, just drive the car as you want. ”

She is not planning to take the train back to Beijing, because she will have to carry some medicinal materials, medicinal soups refined into juice, and collected plant resins, which may be detained when passing through the security check. In order to reduce Trouble, she decided to hire a taxi to go back. It was too troublesome to find a driver temporarily, so she made a deal with the taxi driver. He would take her to Mount Wutai and wait for her to return to Beijing, but she would still hire his car. The toll from Hanshi to Mount Wutai, from Wutai Of course, the cost of traveling to the capital is a penny.

Taxi drivers have to pay the company members every month, and the average monthly salary is only about three thousand or four thousand. If you charter a taxi, you can make money. It will be more than a month’s salary, and drivers with good business usually won’t refuse.

　“Okay. "Master Gao happily put away the fare and watched the little guest use the flashlight to slowly move more than ten meters up the mountain, then reverse the car and turn the front of the car back.

He drove dozens of meters away, followed by The taxi passed by, and I followed Master Gao's taxi to the mountain crossing. The taxi driver was a middle-aged man in his forties, with the most ordinary Chinese character face, and his appearance was so embarrassing that you couldn't pick it out in the crowd. Kind of.

He was carrying a large hiking backpack that was only one meter high and a tent sleeping bag. Because the night was very cold, he wore long-sleeved sportswear. After paying, he turned on a flashlight and walked along The hiking trail goes up the mountain.

“It’s really weird, he still comes to climb the mountain in the middle of the night. "Brother turned the car around, muttered, and returned to the town leisurely.

The middle-aged man adjusted the flashlight very weakly, which could only illuminate the road under his feet. He followed the light in front of him from a distance, and the beam went towards The light on the mountain was vague, and after a while, it suddenly disappeared.

Yes, it was gone. At first, he thought it was turning or being blocked, but after more than ten minutes, it still didn't appear.

The middle-aged man speeded up and hurried for a while, rushing to the place where the visual light disappeared to check. The road section there is high, no matter whether you climb up or down, as long as there is a light source, you can definitely see it. At the same time, the road section There was a sparse forest next to it.

He checked the traces along the edge of the woods. There were probably many tourists who had gone in and out of the woods. There were more than a dozen traces of trampling, and because it was not yet midnight, , the dewdrops have not condensed, and there is no particularly obvious reference.It was impossible to distinguish at a glance whether it was a new step or a trace that had been stepped on during the day, so that he could not tell whether the person had gone into the woods to hide, or whether he had gone forward in the dark.

After standing there for a long time, the middle-aged man slowly climbed forward again with his luggage on his back. When he reached almost halfway up the mountain, he still couldn’t see the light source. He knew that he had lost him again. , Find a flat place to sleep on your own.

It was extremely cold on the mountain at night. The middle-aged man had a sleeping bag and slept in the wild for a night. As soon as it got dark, he packed up his tent and sleeping bag, filled his hunger with compressed biscuits, and climbed up the mountain again, using it while climbing. Looking through the telescope.

Leyun did go into the woods. She originally wanted to climb forward and have a "friendly" chat about life with someone who was also very interested in climbing mountains in the middle of the night. When she left, When we reached a section of the road with woods, we smelled a faint fragrance. Not caring whether the person was a friend or an enemy, we happily got into the woods, crawled back to space and waited for dawn.

Sneak back to your own private territory, take care of the medicinal field crops, sleep beautifully, get up before dawn to meditate, wash your face and eat, wait for the dawn in the east, and happily put on water shoes and waterproofs The rush of clothes and pants flashed out of the space, identifying the direction of the smell, and ran into the depths of the woods like a joy.

In the early morning, there was still mist and heavy dew on the mountain peaks. The woods were damp and cold, and the light was extremely dark.

With a pair of sparkling beautiful almond-shaped eyes, Le Yun didn’t care about the thick dew or the dim light. She happily jumped up and down in the woods, digging for medicinal materials while looking for the source of the fragrance. It took a long time. Finally the source of the scent was found - a cluster of mushrooms.

Mushrooms are unique game from the southern peak of Mount Wutai - silver plate mushrooms. They have the same medicinal and nutritional value as matsutake mushrooms, and are also one of the health treasure mushrooms. Its fragrance is rich and fragrant, and it grows close to The farther away you point it, the stronger the fragrance. Because of its high nutritional value and delicious taste, it was once a royal tribute of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The Silver Plate Mushroom is milky white from the root to the crown, with flesh that is fat and solid. It grows in deep mountains and old forests or grass with fertile soil. It grows in a certain pattern and is difficult to find even in the peak growing season. , its best picking period is from the beginning of autumn to the white dew. October of the New Year is already the end of autumn, well past the peak growing season, and it is rare to see it in the mountains.

The production of silver plate mushrooms is rare, and the supply exceeds supply in the production areas. Le Yun’s nose is sharper than a dog’s nose. When she smells the fragrance, she immediately gives up the opportunity to chat with someone about life and decides to look for it first. If something smells fragrant, then someone will let him continue messing around.

There are not many mushrooms, about a dozen or so, emerging from under the dead leaves of the grass in the woods. Some have open umbrellas, and a few have just emerged from the ground, with no dew on them. little head.

The place is at least seven or eight miles away from the mountain climbing road in a straight line. It is actually half a hill away.The body is far away from the road.

If it weren’t for her sharp nose, Le Yun wouldn’t have been able to find it. At this moment, seeing the result that she spent a whole morning finding, she felt very happy. She chopped off a small wooden stick and slowly cut it. He pushed aside the dead grass and leaves to prevent himself from accidentally trampling on the mushrooms hidden in the grass leaves when he walked over.

I ran to the place where the mushrooms grew, picked them and put them in a small plastic round basket and threw them back into the space. I took out the flower pots and hoe to dig the soil, and collected seven or eight pots of soil. I searched all nearby places within a certain range and found only seven or eight scattered mushrooms.

I couldn’t find the Silver Plate Mushroom anymore. I quickly returned to the space and planted the few unopened small mushrooms I picked in a corner of the medicinal field. I poured some well water into a few flower pots. , and then take care of the space crops and harvest the fruits, vegetables and medicinal materials that should be harvested.

After finishing the work, Mr. Le Xiao put on a backpack and took a small hoe to go out into the world again to find medicinal materials. The reason why he carried a backpack was just in case, in case someone was on the opposite mountain or mountain. When I see her while admiring the scenery on the top of a mountain, I will just think of her as a free explorer and not pay too much attention to her. If a person wanders around the mountains empty-handed, it will be too easy to attract suspicion and attention.

Autumn in the mountains comes early, and it changes every day. The autumn mood was not too strong in the days when Le Yun first arrived at Motianling, Han City. In just a few days, the forests in the Taihang Mountains were dyed with autumn colors. Manshan.

The Taihang Mountains in autumn have the beauty of autumn. There are as many tourists as an ox in the Taihang Mountains, and as many as ants in the Wutai Mountains. The roads up and down the mountain are overcrowded.

Le Yun didn’t have time to look at the scenery, she secretly shuttled between the woods and mountains, digging for medicinal materials as if she was trying to make a fortune, and tried to stay away from the crowd. Of course, no matter how much she avoided, sometimes she would inevitably meet with others. A chance encounter among free outdoorsmen.

She did not stay long at the Nantai Peak. She wandered around for a day and abandoned Nantai the next day, heading towards Zhongtai and Dongtai along the Beitai route.

On the fourth day, that is, at noon on October 6, in a mountain range between Beitai and Dongtai Mountains, a gray-headed man climbed up the steep cliffs and vines like a little monkey. , climbed over a cliff, and arrived at a place that no one had visited for an unknown period of time.

It is located about three-quarters of the total altitude of the mountain, closer to the peak. The mountains and the mountain are covered with trees, and there is such a small piece of land on the steep rock wall. The mountain is concave, with three sides backed by mountain peaks, and one side slightly lower, facing another mountain.

The valley is in an excellent location, with trees and grassy slopes. There is also a water hole in one place. The water makes a circuitous path along the lower part of the valley and flows down a cliff. During the dry season, the line of water is not surprising. If there is enough rain in summer, it will definitely become a beautiful waterfall.

　“Ah, aunt, I’m so exhausted.Breast milk! "After finally climbing over the steep rock wall, Le Yun sat down under a tree, took off her gloves, and patted the grass clippings and moss powder above her head.

This place is too weird. Grandpa's house was hard to find. It was surrounded by cliffs on three sides. Only one steep rock wall could barely be climbed. She spent a lot of energy and went around in a big circle before borrowing the vines and trees between the walls to climb up. .

The journey was too difficult. Even though she had strange strength and was so light and agile, it still took her nearly half a day. This shows how difficult it is to find this place.

Why climb to this valley where birds don’t poop?

The reason is simple, there is something here that attracts her.

Get the grass off your head and neck Leyun put on her gloves again and looked at the trees around her. She picked the tallest tree and climbed up holding the tree pole. She climbed to the top of the tree in one breath and looked down at the distance. .

The small valley is surrounded by mountains. It is high up and has cliffs. It is a unique geographical location. If there is fog between the mountains and ridges, it looks like a fairyland on earth.

Le Yun Sitting At the top of the tree, I saw a swarm of bees flying in a line from a place more than ten meters away, flying to the side near the main peak of the mountain, and then got into the green trees with red and yellow leaves, and there was more. There were bees in one direction, and there were bees flying in and out in formation in the other two directions.

In addition to the bees, there was also a medicinal fragrance that hit her nose.

She opened her eyes The light scanned around and easily found a piece of spiritual energy. The spiritual energy there was so thick that it was beyond human imagination. It made people... well, it made the blood of the birthmark on her arm boil.

This place She discovered it on the mountain opposite. She followed a medicinal scent and honey peaks in this direction. She climbed to the halfway point of the mountain opposite. When she was looking for the source of the medicinal smell, she saw a white light in a small recess of the mountain here. The white light is like a small white cloud hanging over the woods, never dissipating.

Le Yun never imagined that there would be such a strong light on an unknown hilltop among such mountains. Ling Qi immediately rushed to the land of Ling Qi without hesitation. He learned the climbing spirit of apes and finally climbed up the mountain valley on the cliff.

Ling Qi wow Ling Qi!

There must be a peerless treasure, that’s why there is such a strong aura.

Sitting on the treetop branch, Le Yun saw the rich aura cloud, which made her heart beat wildly and her mouth was pounding. He grinned to the back of his ears, but he was still in the mood to observe others. He hugged the tree and slid to the ground, grabbed the hatchet, plunged into the bush, and ran towards the direction of the spiritual energy: "Baobaobaobao, wait for me. I'm here! ”