Chapter 0565 Purple Bud Ginseng
In order to find the spiritual medicine of purple bud ginseng, Uncle Niu and his calf began to search day and night, searching all nearby mountains and cliffs, and finally found traces of purple bud ginseng in an unknown cave under a cliff half a month ago.
However, within ten steps of the spiritual herb, there must be a guardian of strange beasts. This sentence is not false at all. Moreover, there are not only one strange beasts in the cave where purple bud ginseng grows, but a group of them!
The cave turned out to be a kind of demon snake nest called "Blue Eyes" which is very venomous and used to living in groups. Uncle Niu roughly calculated that there were at least thousands of one-eyed vipers living in it. He was just an ordinary medicinal woodcutter and had no ability to cross so many demon snakes to pick purple bud ginseng.
However, for the sake of his critically ill wife at home, Uncle Niu decided to take a risk. He secretly observed with his son Xiao Niu, who helped him collect herbs, and finally realized the living habits of the one-eyed viper.
This group of vipers like to hunt for a gray monster bat near the cliffs. Every noon, a large group of one-eyed vipers will come out to hunt on the cliffs. It will take at least half an hour to return to the grotto for rest. So Uncle Niu decided to use this time to let his son keep watch at the entrance of the grotto and sneak in to pick purple bud ginseng.
The next day, as Uncle Niu expected, the one-eyed viper went out to hunt at noon, and he and Xiaoniu immediately climbed the rock near the cave.
At the beginning, the plan went smoothly. The calf hid in the grass nest at the entrance of the cave and was always on guard. Uncle Niu got into the cave with his waist. As a result, at the end of the cave, Uncle Niu was surprised to see that there were two purple ginseng plants here, and they were all fully mature.
Uncle Niu, who was not greedy, immediately wanted to pull out one, but unexpectedly, an accident was born at this time.
Near the purple bud ginseng was a huge one-eyed viper nest, with snake eggs inside. The moment Uncle Niu pulled out the purple bud ginseng, a small viper broke out of her shell, poked out her head and bit Uncle Niu's wrist. Under the severe pain, Uncle Niu barely fell to death. The poison of this newborn little snake could not catch up with the adult snake, but it also made Uncle Niu dizzy in an instant.
Uncle Niu gritted his teeth, waved the axe to chop wood, cut off his poisoned arm, and hurriedly escaped from the snake cave with purple bud ginseng. When Xiaoniu saw his father being injured and broke his hand, he almost cried loudly. While sobbing, he helped his father heal his wound. The father and son worked hard to finally return to the village.
I thought I could only run to my home just a few steps away and ate Zibu ginseng for Niu Sao to get rid of coughemia. But at this moment, a group of bandits who were not as good as beasts came from Fengxie Valley nearby. They drove the villagers to the open space and ordered everyone to hand over their food and property. If anyone dared not to follow, they would kill them on the spot without any mercy.
At this time, the village was not in the process of being in trouble. Every household had only some emergency food. In desperation, they had to take it out and gave it to the bandits. Looking at the pile of large trucks of food, the bandit leader was not satisfied and insisted that everyone get things again. A few young and middle-aged men could not bear it anymore. Just when they were about to resist, they were noticed by the bandits and immediately killed ruthlessly.
Just when the bandit leader waved his spear and overthrew the village chief and shouted to kill everyone, the kind Uncle Niu couldn't bear to see everyone die, so he hurried the purple bud ginseng, which was still stained with blood from his broken arm, gave it to the bandit with tears in his eyes.
When the beasts saw this, they finally laughed and accepted it without any politeness, and then left. The villagers were finally saved, but Uncle Niu fainted on the spot because of his injuries and anger. If everyone hadn't rescued him in time, Uncle Niu would have died like this.
The calf said this with tears in his eyes, sobbing and continuing to speak: "My father broke his hand and had a lot of blood. He was so drowsy that he didn't wake up until today. However, his mother coughed up blood more and more times. My father couldn't climb down the cliff and went to the snake cave to pick another purple bud ginseng. I had to run out secretly and wanted to pick it alone. Unexpectedly, he was caught by the tree demon here and almost lost his life."
Guan Heng knew it at this time and asked, "Xiao Niu, do you want me to help you pick purple bud ginseng?"
"Yes, big brother." Xiao Niu said, wiping his tears, "I know this is very dangerous. You are my savior again. I should not make such an excessive request, but I really have no other way..."
"Stop crying, you are a little man. Remember, men don't cry easily if they have tears." Guan Heng helped the calf clean the crying flower's face, and he said, "Okay, I will take you to the snake cave to pick purple bud ginseng now."
"Great, thank you brother, but..." Xiao Niu just shouted happily, but suddenly remembered something again. He suddenly cried out with a disgraceful look on his face: "Oh, I forgot that the group of one-eyed vipers will not crawl out until noon every day. It is already dusk, and they must be still in the grotto at this time. What should I do?"
"Don't worry, the big brother has so many treasures that he can let the demon snakes get out of the grotto by themselves, for example, I have a beast-controlling bead..."
Guan Heng just said this with a smile, and he suddenly smiled awkwardly. He thought to himself: "Oh no, I forgot that the beast-controlling bead was placed on Qing Huang. At this time, she and Ruotao were together. Tsk, the distance water cannot quench the near thirst."
When Xiao Niu saw Guan Heng's hand reaching into his arms suddenly stopped, he asked curiously: "Brother, what treasure do you want to take out?"
"Uh...this..." Guan Heng forced a smile at this time. With a sudden inspiration, he suddenly took out a small copper bowl and said quickly: "Here, it's this thing. It's called the 'Fragrant Beast Bowl'. As long as you ignite a special apple fragrant cake and throw it in, the fragrance inside will immediately attract various monsters. We will use it to deal with the Blue Eye Viper."
"Wow, brother, the baby around you is so amazing." Of course, the calf didn't know that Guan Heng was racking his brains to figure out a solution just now, so he applauded. The next moment, Guan Heng carried the calf on his back, walked towards the cliff with the ghost-swalking tiger, and like a snake bird.
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A moment later, in front of a cave somewhere under the cliff, Guan Heng frowned slightly, but the snake-like bird was extremely excited. For it, any demon snake or insect in this world could eat the delicious food.
"Idiot bird, calm down first, and you will have a full meal later." Seeing the greedy look of the snake bird, Guan Heng almost laughed out loud. At this moment, a black shadow suddenly shook behind them. It turned out that they could not climb the rocks. The ghost-swalking tiger that was bypassed from other paths had arrived.
At this time, Guan Heng whispered: "Calf, the cave is too dangerous, so you must wait outside with the Ghost-Swallowing Tiger, don't follow in, do you know?"
Chapter completed!