Chapter 404

After Zhang Hai was excited, he also worried slowly.

It's 200 yuan to take a road. How can there be such a good thing?

"Big brother, you can't lie to me, can you?"

Zhang Cao doubted. Looking at Li Lin's eyes, he was worried and expected.

"Do you think I'm lying to you?"

Li Lin smiled.

"Well, I'll go back to the house and tidy up right away!"

Zhang Hai excitedly entered the inner room.

Then there was a murmur in the ground in the room. Li Lin guessed that Zhang Hai was telling his sister about being a guide.

Two hundred yuan a day's work is a sky high price for mountain people, which can't be met in a lifetime.

Li Lin is willing to pay these prices and feels at ease.

Soon, Zhang Hai came out of the house with a small basket on his back.

"Big brother, what are you doing up the mountain?"

Zhang Hai said in non-standard Mandarin.

"Go up the mountain to collect medicine! Big brother is a doctor! "

Li Lin said, gesturing to Zhang Hai to lead the way.

"Oh!"

Zhang Hai satisfied his curiosity and took Li Lin up the mountain.

The Yunnan Guizhou Plateau in winter morning is much colder than Jinghu province.

It snowed in Jinghu province. Although it didn't snow in Yunnan and Guizhou, some branches were covered with ice bars, just like waterfalls.

Such a landscape is only available in Yunnan and Guizhou in the whole south.

Creak, creak!

They stepped on the frozen soil and walked slowly up the mountain.

"Can you rest assured that your sister is at home alone?"

On the way, Li Lin suddenly thought of a problem. Zhang Cao is still a five-year-old girl. She doesn't understand anything and her strength is so small. What if something happens?

For example, pouring water is easy to be scalded. If you sit by the stove, what if you fall into the stove?

"It's all right! I told him that after I left, he would go to my aunt's house to play! "

Zhang Hai said.

As they walked up the mountain along the path, some children aged about seven or eight appeared not far away, carrying their schoolbags and walking slowly towards the mountain.

These children's faces were red with cold. Maybe the road was slippery. Several children walked and fell all the way. Li Lin was distressed to see it.

When Li Lin came to rest on the half slope, he saw Zhang Hai looking at the school children with envy on his face.

"Are they going to school so early?"

Li Lin asked clearly.

In order to divert Zhang Hai's attention.

"Yes! The school is in the town behind the mountain. It will have class at nine in the morning. It will take more than two hours to cross the mountain. They will be late! "

Zhang Hai took back his eyes and said.

"I want to climb over this mountain!"

Li Lin looked up at the mountain and the winding path across the mountain. It was preliminarily estimated that the road up the mountain was at least five or six miles.

It's much more difficult than when you go to school.

"Of course! The path ahead can go into the mountain to collect medicine! "

Zhang Hai said and took the lead in walking over.

Li Lin followed.

Soon they went into the mountains.

In winter, the Yungui mountain is still bare, with many trees and fallen leaves, including many medicinal materials, and only a withered rod stands in the cold wind.

No matter what kind of medicinal materials, Li Lin can recognize them as long as they leave a trace on the land. Besides, some special herbs grow in a special environment. Li Lin can be sure without too much speculation.

Click!

Li Lin smashed the frozen soil with an engineer shovel and only knocked down a white mark on the frozen soil.

It was not until Li Lin used his Qi that he dug a little.

As the temperature rises, the frozen soil slowly melts and turns into soft soil.

Zhang Hai followed Li Lin and watched Li Lin dig herbs. If he met something like yam, Zhang Hai would dig some.

They dug down the hillside to the top of the mountain.

Li Lin is looking for rare medicinal materials. If he finds a medicinal material, he doesn't need similar medicinal materials. So they kept walking up and soon reached the top of the mountain.

At the top of the mountain, Li Lin took out two bottles of drinks from his backpack and handed them to Zhang Hai. He took out big cakes and separated them. Half of them ate.

By this time, it was noon.

Sitting on the top of the mountain, I have a very wide view. On the opposite mountain, there are many families. This is the town Li Lin planned to go to. He originally planned to rest there.

When he saw the mark on the map, Li Lin thought it was a big town. Unexpectedly, it was a village.

On the hillside behind the town, there is a row of dirt houses. At the moment, there are children playing everywhere on both sides of the dirt house. Li Lin guesses that this is where the children go to school in the morning.

Zhang Hai sat on a stone, staring at the school in the distance, chewing the big cake in his mouth.

Li Lin didn't say anything. After they were full, they continued to go up the mountain to collect medicine.

In the evening, they went home.

At this time, Sister Zhang Cao, who was playing next door, also came back.

"Brother! My aunt made me tortillas. I left two for you! "

Zhang Cao bounced over and handed Zhang Hai one of the tortillas in his hand and Li Lin the other.

"Brother doesn't eat, you keep it!"

Zhang Hai returned the tortillas to his sister, and then took out a large cake residue from his pocket and handed it to his sister.

These were all secretly left by Zhang Hai at noon.

"This is delicious!"

Zhang Hai said happily.

Zhang Cao took the big cake residue given by her brother and stuffed it into her mouth. She chewed and smiled.

Li Lin shook his head, took out a lot of food from his backpack and handed it to them. At the same time, he also took 200 yuan to Zhang Hai.

Back to his room on the second floor, Li Lin entered the jade pendant space to sort out today's harvest.

"Siraitia grosvenorii, this is what grandpa wants urgently! Specializes in treating lung heat! White peony, Caulis Spatholobi... "

Plant the sorted medicinal materials one by one into a cleared land, and Li Lin returns to Zhang Hai's home.

"Where's your brother?"

After going downstairs, Li Lin only saw Zhang Cao baking by the stove.

"My brother went to my aunt's house to pay back the money!"

Zhang Cao's Mandarin is even less standard. Li Lin listened for a long time before he understood it.

"Aunt? It's good to have an aunt to take care of you! "

Li Lin muttered.

Then I thought that if no one looked after them, they would have starved to death.

At this time, two people muttered outside the door. When Li Lin turned back, the door was opening.

Zhang Cao brought a woman through the door.

Women's blood and bones look in their thirties, but with a face of vicissitudes and white hair, people who don't pay attention are an old woman in her 40s and 50s.

"Aunt, this is the big brother who asked me to be a guide. He gave me 200 yuan!"

Zhang Cao took his aunt to Li Lin and said.

"Ah ~ ah!"

My aunt looked at Li Lin and kept gesturing with both hands.

"Mute?"

Seeing that the woman kept making gestures, Li Lin was stunned.

"Ah! Ah! "

"What did your aunt say?" Li Lin can't understand it.

"My aunt said, thank you... And... And..."

Zhang Hai said, lowering his head and pinching the corners of his clothes.

Poop!

The woman knelt down to Li Lin and kept kowtowing.

Li Lin is inexplicable.

"Xiaocao, what did your aunt say?"

Li Lin asked the grass.

"My aunt said, you are a good man, let you take us when you go..."

Xiao Cao uses non-standard Mandarin. Although he is not clear, Li Lin still hears the general meaning.

Li Lin frowned.

Take two children? This is a big problem!

Without two children, Li Lin looked around. I'm afraid it's difficult for Zhang Hai and Zhang Cao to live.

Li Lin quickly picked up their aunt and said he would consider it.

The next day, instead of going up the mountain to collect medicine, Li Lin asked Zhang Hai to take him around the surrounding villages.