Chapter 0001 Wild Ginseng
Just live! If you live, there is hope!
Li Yunlong dragged his exhausted body and slowly stood up from the shade of the tree.
"This body, hey! The attacks are getting longer and longer every day, and the pain during the attacks is getting worse and worse. I don't know when the end will be!" Li Yunlong sighed, walked out of the shade of the trees, and came to the sun.
It was just the beginning of the day, and it was three o'clock in the afternoon. The sun shone down and shone on Li Yunlong, who was dressed in white, making Li Yunlong, who was already thin and exhausted, look paler, and he looks like a pathological look.
Li Yunlong took a deep breath and looked up at the sky. The sky was still so blue, with breeze blowing by. Various flowers, plants and trees in the mountains danced in the wind, showing their cool dancing postures and exuding vigorous vitality.
"Maybe, in a few years, this world will no longer belong to me! Maybe it will take less than many years to turn into a piece of loess! Alas!" Thinking of the strange disease that had tortured him for nearly nine years, Li Yunlong sighed lightly.
Li Yunlong's strange disease has been around for a long time. Since he was ten years old, every day when the sun was scorching at noon, his whole body was like a stove. The meridians, flesh, bones, and every inch of his body would become extremely hot, as if he was roasted alive. The feeling was indescribable and it was even more unbearable.
Li Yunlong is already seventeen and a half years old, and that kind of pain has been with him for eight and a half years. Moreover, as he grows day by day, the unbearable torture attacks every day are getting longer and longer. He doesn’t know when the end will be. Maybe, he really can only wait until the day when his life ends!
"The college entrance examination will be in more than a month. No matter what, as long as I am still alive for one day, I will do my best to realize my mother's wish and get into the BGI!" Li Yunlong clenched his fists and said firmly.
Li Yunlong is now in his third year of high school at the No. 1 Middle School in China Guoyu City, and will be in the college entrance examination in more than a month. Although his goal is very high, his ideals are full, but the reality is skinny. If he wants to realize his ideals, his hope is extremely slim.
Li Yunlong's grades in school can only be considered average. In the first mock exam of the city's senior high school in the end of the last semester, his score was only 560, and the key undergraduate score line he marked was only ten points higher. In that exam, Li Yunlong's performance was normal, that is, his current strength is just around the key line. He can play normally and can focus on the key line, but once he fails, he cannot even reach the key line.
As one of the two best universities in China, Huaxia University enrolls only 50 or 60 students in Chongqing every year, and the admission score is above 670. In other words, it is a dream to not be able to enter the top 100 in Chongqing.
Li Yunlong's poor grades are not because he is stupid, on the contrary, he is very smart; it is not because he doesn't work hard, but because of the strange disease that has tortured him for more than eight years. The strange disease not only makes him suffer from pain and torture every day, but also makes him weak and sickly. Because he suffers from illness every day, he naturally cannot devote all his energy to study.
Thinking of the huge gap between himself and BGI score line, Li Yunlong couldn't help but shook his head and said, "Don't consider BGI now. The most urgent thing is to find wild ginseng as soon as possible."
The purpose of Li Yunlong's visit to Wushan this time was to find the legendary wild ginseng.
Originally, when he was only more than a month away from the college entrance examination, Li Yunlong should have stayed at school to prepare for the upcoming second mock exam and make the final sprint for the college entrance examination more than a month later, but he had to leave school at this time because his dependence on his mother Zhu Fengying was sick. As a child in a single-parent family, Li Yunlong had to go home to take care of his mother.
Originally, Zhu Fengying did not intend to tell Li Yunlong about her condition, but when his neighbor saw that Zhu Fengying was seriously ill, he called Li Yunlong privately. After learning about the situation, Li Yunlong asked for leave from his class teacher and returned to his hometown Qianzhou District.
Zhu Fengying's illness is also an old problem. It was the root cause of the disease when she was born in Li Yunlong. It has not been cured over the years. Recently, she has worked too much for the huge sum of money Li Yunlong needed to go to college, which led to a recurrence of the disease and eventually fell ill.
After returning to his hometown in Qianzhou District, Li Yunlong was taking care of his mother, and accidentally heard news that there was wild ginseng in Nanwu Mountain, which was a good medicine to cure his mother's old problems. Therefore, he entrusted his mother to the neighbors for temporary care this morning and rushed to Nanwu Mountain by car.
Drive east from Qianzhou City for 50 kilometers, there is a primitive and lush green space. This is a maternal land at a high altitude that has mysteriously attracted the attention of the world for thousands of years. This mysterious place is called Nanwushan.
Climbing up high and looking at Nanwu Mountain, it is surrounded by misty mountains and green mountains, just like a mystery. Because the traffic there is blocked and the journey is rare, it has always been called a girl raised in the deep boudoir and is regarded as a mysterious journey by tourists from far and near.
Nanwu Mountain is an extremely primitive plant treasure house. These plants live on their own in this completely isolated natural environment, passed down from generation to generation, and are particularly eye-catching. Many of these plants are precious Chinese herbs, including wild ginseng.
In mid-April, the temperature has risen, everything is growing, and the mountains are full of flowers, which is very beautiful. Li Yunlong stepped into Nanwu Mountain at this time.
When the time was approaching 2 pm, Li Yunlong came to the middle of the mountain, Nanwu Peak, the main peak of Nanwu Mountain, with an altitude of more than 1,500 meters. The mountains here are high and dense forests, and it is the most likely place for wild ginseng to grow.
However, after repeated searches, Li Yunlong still found no trace of wild ginseng.
Looking at the sun that was already westward, Li Yunlong knew that if he didn't leave, he would miss the minibus back to the city.
Sighing helplessly, Li Yunlong was about to embark on the way back.
Perhaps it was because he was unwilling to give up, or perhaps because he felt something in the dark, before leaving, Li Yunlong turned his eyes to a cliff not far away.
The cliff is about 200 meters away from Li Yunlong. The cliff is high and steep. According to Li Yunlong's visual observation, the towering cliff is more than 300 meters high.
On the steep cliff, there were touches of green, which were some small platforms on the cliff, with some plants growing on it.
However, when Li Yunlong's eyes swept across one of the small platforms, a deep sense of joy appeared in his eyes. Under the sunlight, a green plant about 70 cm tall was so conspicuous.
Before coming to Wushan, Li Yunlong had specially checked the appearance of the wild ginseng plants online. How could he not recognize that the green plant was the wild ginseng he had been looking for in a thousand times?!
Of course, Li Yunlong, who had discovered something, would not leave. He quickly came to the top of the cliff, took out the rope he carried in his bag, and fixed it on a tree.
Having used up a lot of effort, Li Yunlong finally arrived on the small platform with wild ginseng growing.
The area of this small platform is not small, with a total of about ten square meters, but the area covered by soil is not large, only two or three square meters.
Moreover, Li Yunlong found a cave near the cliff. The cave was not big, with a diameter of only about one meter, but it was black and dirty, and I don’t know how deep it was.
Li Yunlong didn't care about this anymore. He took out the prepared hoe and began to dig wild ginseng.
The soil was very soft, and Li Yunlong easily dig the soil, revealing the appearance of wild ginseng.
However, when the wild ginseng appeared in Li Yunlong's eyes, he was shocked. This wild ginseng was too big! It was actually as thick as a baby's arm and was more than one foot long. Li Yunlong estimated that its weight was definitely more than three kilograms. Compared with the wild ginseng he dug, the so-called "ginseng kings" reported online and in newspapers were simply weak.
What shocked Li Yunlong the most was the shape of this wild ginseng plant. Its main body looked like a child, and it made people fall in love with it at first glance.
Li Yunlong was very happy at this moment. According to his estimate, the ginseng of this wild ginseng must have been over a thousand years, and it is definitely a great tonic. If my mother took this wild ginseng, she would not only replenish her vitality that she had lost over the years, but also be able to exercise vigorously and prolong her life.
Just as Li Yunlong was admiring the wild ginseng in his hand with a look of surprise, a muffled thunder suddenly came from the cave in front of him. The sound was getting closer and closer. Li Yunlong couldn't help but look up at the cave, but the situation that caught his eyes completely shocked him.
I saw that in the cave, the head of a huge green giant python about two feet thick was poked out. At this time, the giant python was opening its bloody mouth and pounced at Li Yunlong quickly!
Under the attack of the giant python, Li Yunlong subconsciously hid backwards. However, he immediately felt the empty feet, and then he remembered that the place where he was standing was a small earth platform on a cliff hundreds of meters high. When he retreated, he naturally retreated from the cliff.
Although he had come back to his senses, it was too late. His body had lost balance. Under the influence of gravity, his body involuntarily fell down the cliff.
Li Yunlong did not scream at a loss. He knew it was useless at all. He had only bitterness in his heart. He never expected that after he found the medicine to cure his mother's illness, he encountered such a situation before he could take it home.
At the same time, Li Yunlong felt a sense of relief in his heart. He had been tortured by the unknown strange disease for almost nine years. From today on, he was finally relieved. Li Yunlong's only regret was that he did not take the wild ginseng home, and he was also worried that his mother, who was dependent on each other, would definitely be very sad after learning the news of his death.
Chapter completed!