Chapter 13 Chapter 12 Tree Egg

Early the next morning, I got up and prepared to say goodbye to Hu Dayou, but Hu Dayou looked embarrassed and hesitated to speak. I asked curiously, "Brother Hu, what's the matter, you might as well just tell me." After hearing this, Hu Dayou said embarrassingly: "Doctor, I've troubled you yesterday, although my woman didn't live up to her expectations and made a ghost... Sigh, this is also a misfortune for the family!" I was busy comforting me: "Stop talking like that, in fact, the so-called ghost fetus is just caused by the fetus being stimulated in the mother's womb and stunted. If you let your woman have a good birth, the second child will be fine!" Most of the women in mountain villages are strong and strong, and it is not uncommon for them to have a child at the beginning of the year and a child at the end of the year.

Although Hu Dayou's woman had a miscarriage, as long as she is healthy and cultivated for a period of time, she is young and there is absolutely no problem in recovering.I thought to myself that I was lucky that this Hu Dayou didn't look like an unreasonable person. If he were an ordinary person, he might blame me, a stranger, for bringing bad luck, causing his woman to miscarry and give birth to ghost fetuses. "Doctor!" Hu Dayou sighed, "In our village, there are only a dozen or so households who rely on mountains to eat mountains. They live by hunting on weekdays, and there is no thank you for the doctor. I just want to invite Sit down, doctor, I'll go get some game, and you'll go after you eat."

Although my stomach was growling with hunger, I thought about something happening at home, how could I sit and chatter, and hurriedly said: "Let's forget it, it's easy!" Hu Dayou seemed to be very anxious. He held it back for a long time before telling me hesitantly that his parents died early, and there was no one reliable person to take care of the woman at home. He was really worried about going hunting, so he wanted me to take care of him for half a day. He went to the village over there to pick up his mother-in-law, took care of the woman, and hunted some wild game by the way.

As soon as I heard that it was only half a day anyway, and I couldn't delay anything, I immediately agreed. After hearing my agreement, Hu Dayou told me that the rice was next to the stove, and then I made preparations and hurried out. Door. I was really hungry, so I made some porridge by myself, and the woman who took care of him ate some, and I ate some by myself, and then sat and waited. Sure enough, at noon, Hu Dayou came with an old woman, no need to ask, I also knew that the old woman was Hu Dayou's mother-in-law.The old lady went straight to the inner room to see her daughter and ignored us.

When Hu Dayi went out early in the morning, he also gained a lot. He killed a wild rabbit and a cage of forest frogs.With a woman whose mother-in-law took care of Hu Dayou, he felt relieved and greeted me: "Doctor, I still have some homemade rice wine. I'll go and clean up the forest frog. Let's have a good drink later." I laughed and said, "Forget about drinking, after eating, I'm leaving!" I was poisoned by corpses, and I dare not touch these irritating things on weekdays. Hu Dayou smiled, and carrying the bamboo cage, he went to the stream behind to clean up the forest frogs. I was also idle, so I followed immediately.

"Huh?" I stared blankly at Hu Dayou pouring out a large pile of forest frogs from the bamboo cage, one of which was shining golden, and it was the very poisonous golden toad.How did he catch this thing? "Brother Hu, this is—" I asked, pointing at the Golden Toad. Hu Dayou said with a smile: "Doctor, this is really strange. These forest frogs are usually not easy to catch. I passed through the forest over there this morning, but I found that these forest frogs seemed to be stupid. Once you catch them, you can catch them." Caught a big cage, and this big toad..."

"This toad is poisonous!" I have not forgotten how this toad devoured Zhuyeqing yesterday, even if it is not the same toad, it is also the same species, and it is also highly poisonous. "This?" Hu Dayou was stunned and asked, "Doctor, is this toad poisonous?" "Naturally, and it is highly poisonous. However, this toad is a good medicine after being disposed of. I wonder if you can give it to me?" I asked for such precious medicinal materials with some embarrassment. "If you want, just take it!" Hu Dayou said while busy throwing the golden toad to me. I went back to find a small bamboo cage and put the golden toad in the cage. , I was very happy in my heart, my good intentions are rewarded, I accidentally stayed overnight and cured a woman who was pregnant with a ghost, and I got such a miracle medicine.

"By the way, how did you catch this toad?" I asked curiously. I remember very clearly that the speed of this toad is very fast. It takes some effort for ordinary people to catch it. Are Toads Poisonous? Hu Dayou was cleaning up those forest frogs, when he heard this, he stood up, pointed to a wood not far from the stream, and said, "In that wood, there is a big dead tree, here! It's about as big as—" As he spoke, he gestured with his hands. Due to the age, the dead wood has been soaked in rainwater, and most of it has rotted away. For some reason, these wood frogs like to surround this rotten dead wood pile - usually there are, but today there are especially many.

Listening to Hu Dayou's explanation, my heart suddenly moved, and I hurriedly said, "I'll go and have a look!" "I'll take you there!" Hu Dayou was very enthusiastic, and as he said that, he dropped the half-packed forest frog, went back to get a hoe, and led me to the small forest. Sure enough, within ten meters into the woods, I saw a dead wood pile as thick as three or four people hugging each other. Most of it had rotted away, and now there were only roots left.Ordinarily, even if such a tree withers and dies, new seedlings will emerge from the roots, but this ancient tree has not grown a single seedling, and there are no other small seedlings even near this dead tree. tree grows.

However, there are some forest frogs nesting on the roots of dead wood piles. Such things are considered normal.I wandered around the dead tree stump, wondering in my heart, could it be that there is really that thing?But since it's here, you might as well dig it out and have a look. "Brother Hu, lend me your hoe!" I said. Hu Dayou said with a smile: "Doctor, what you say is right, just leave the rough work to me!" I didn't want to be polite to him, and said with a smile: "Dig this tree stump and have a look—" "This is easy!" Hu Dayou said while wielding a hoe and digging down. Since most of the tree stumps have withered, it is very convenient to dig them out.

"Huh? What is this?" Hu Dayou suddenly called out. When I heard it, I was overjoyed, and hurriedly moved over to take a look. Sure enough, a light green egg-shaped object was dug out from the withered tree stump, which was oval in shape. At first glance, it looked like a snake egg. "Snake eggs?" Sure enough, Hu Dayou mistook them for snake eggs. "No, this is a tree egg!" I explained with a smile, "This is a rare medicinal material!" "Trees also lay eggs?" Hu Dayou was confused. "This..." It's really hard for me to explain this question, so I just smiled and changed the subject, "There should be five tree eggs here, I'm digging to see." "Oh?" Hu Dayou said while digging a few more hoes, and sure enough, he dug a few tree eggs, and the colors were also different. I remember that it is recorded in the Sutra of Green Sac that tree eggs are formed according to the five elements, which are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.There are five different tree eggs in five different directions.Now I carefully identify it according to the color. The green one dug out first is naturally the wood tree egg, and the one with a touch of gold is of course the golden tree egg, and the blue one is probably the water tree egg. The red ones are the fire tree eggs, and the yellow-brown ones are the earth tree eggs. These tree eggs are relatively light in color, presumably because they are not old enough, but even so, I am still inexplicably delighted.This trip to the mountains to collect herbs can be regarded as a great harvest. Not only did I accidentally get the Golden Toad, but I also got these tree eggs. It's just that these rare medicinal materials are worth a lot of money if they are sold in the market, so I feel a little embarrassed to ask Hu Dayou for them. Unexpectedly, he is generous, and smiled and said that I just let me take them, no worries. Then, he sighed again, and walked back together with me: "Doctor, our family has hunted for generations, and killed countless creatures. I am afraid that God will be angry-now the punishment is imposed, and the daughter-in-law is pregnant with a ghost. Today, these medicinal materials can be discovered. , giving it to the doctor to save people in the future, it can be regarded as accumulating some kindness." I saw that Hu Dayou had a cheerful temper, but I thought he didn't take the ghost story to heart, but I didn't expect him to have such insight, it was beyond my expectation. "Doctor, my mother-in-law didn't know that my daughter-in-law was pregnant with a ghost. I just told her that my daughter-in-law had a miscarriage and the child was not kept. When you see her, don't mention this." Hu Dayou instructed me again. "Okay, don't worry, I won't tell anyone!" I nodded. During the chat, I learned that Hu Dayou once went to the city to study for two years, no wonder his conversation was extraordinary, he just mentioned the things in the city, and he sighed - saying that the city is too chaotic, it is better to hunt in the mountains in the countryside .When I mentioned this, I couldn't help but think of my parents in the city. After so many years, they have never been back. I can't even remember their appearance. I am afraid that I may not know them face to face.Hu Dayou also asked me why I didn't go to a big city with my parents to develop, but I was born to be a doctor with no future in such a mountain village? Why?My own life is not long, so what future is there to talk about?