Qiao Mu and Ye lowered their heads as they watched Dahu being dragged away by Muba and the others. People who had small calculations in their minds stopped thinking after seeing this.
Yao Hu looked at them and said, "You remember what Qing Wu said to you, work hard and don't betray the tribe."
"Yes, chief." Everyone agreed loudly.
Yao Hu waved his hand, "Go wash up, eat food, and work."
He led his men to bring four captives, who were tied up and with red envelopes on their faces, to the mountain, and the tribesmen setting up stalls surrounded them.
A leader came forward and said, "Chief Yaohu, these few look like savages setting up stalls in front."
Yao Hu smiled and shook his head, "It's them, but they are not savages but sent by the great witch. They broke into the tribe last night and were caught by the warriors on guard."
Shi Shan stepped forward and looked at the prisoners with disdain, "Look, everyone, these are the warriors of the Great Witch. They are so shameless. If they can't win, they will send warriors disguised as savages."
One leader said: "If you dare to break into other people's tribes, you should kill them all."
Others were also shouting, "Kill them all."
Yaohu led his men to pull several people from the big witch tribe to the entrance of the market. He loudly said to the tribal leaders who came to the market: "After the Yaoshan tribe came to live by the Ning River, first they were invaded by giant bears, and then they were invaded by big witches.
, these bandits were defeated by us.
Although the Yaoshan tribe is a small tribe, we will not be afraid of any enemy, and we will never come to invade others. Anyone who dares to invade will not be spared."
He said to the Moubas behind him: "Kill these bandits."
Muba and others stepped forward, stabbed the six people to death one by one, and dragged the bodies toward the pit at the bottom of the mountain.
Shi Shan and the leaders of the small tribes cheered loudly, "Good kill. This is how you should treat enemies who invade your door. Kill them all." Especially the leaders of the small tribes cheered the loudest.
They have been oppressed by several major tribes. After the Yaoshan tribe defeated the giant bear, they no longer worried about the giant bear coming to rob them. After they defeated the great witch, they organized the Yaoshan Fair. Now they can enter the fair without paying for animal skins.
There are stalls in the market and wooden shacks for living.
Yaohu said to them loudly: "Brothers, Yaohu is here to tell you that Yaoshan Grand Market will never collect food from animal skins from tribes that set up stalls."
"Okay, Yaoshan tribe is doing well." Shishan was the first to shout.
Yao Xiaoqing took A Que and A Nuan with their backpacks on their backs and stood at Yaoshan Residence for a while to watch the tribal leader who had called in front of them before taking them away.
She planned to stay in the mountains for two more days before returning to the tribe.
The three of them walked down the creek and passed by the golden retriever dog's spine. Yao Xiaoqing taught them to pick the dog's spine and put it in a leather bag, then walked down the creek.
I sat on a big rock and ate some food, then continued searching and found some medicinal materials for treating colds, coughs and diarrhea, and then arrived at the edge of the mountain.
There is a steep slope of 20 to 30 meters high from the mountain to the col. The three of them grabbed the vines and slowly went down. Halfway up the slope, they found a piece of angelica and some Aesculus aesculata, elder and Snake Miemen.
Yao Xiaoqing showed the collected angelica to the two of them, and told them the morphological characteristics of the angelica, "You see, the root of the angelica is cylindrical, branched, with many fleshy fibrous roots, yellow-brown, and has a strong aroma..."
After the two of them carefully identified and memorized the herbs, they collected other herbs. Ah Que and A Nuan cherished this opportunity and taught Yao Xiaoqing a few serious lessons, and kept talking about it while collecting the herbs.
When they arrived at Shan'aoyao, Xiaoqing's eyes lit up and he saw something with bright red fruits growing underneath. "Could it be ginseng?"
She had never seen a living wild ginseng, but she only saw a bright red fruit, which was pleasing to the eye just by looking at it.
Seeing her excitement, Ah Que and Ah Nuan smiled and said, "Qing Wu, are red fruits a good thing?"
"Let me see!"
Yao Xiaoqing remembers hearing from her father that ginseng is made from the essence of heaven and earth and has a long life. The one-year-old ginseng has only one compound leaf with three leaflets, while the two-year-old ginseng has one compound leaf with five leaflets.
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A century-old ginseng only produces five or six compound leaves every year. Therefore, the age of a ginseng with a life span of more than six years cannot be determined by the number of leaves. However, the age of a ginseng can be estimated by using the whorls on the reed head.
Length. The more spiral horizontal stripes, the older the ginseng is.
"These are six compound leaves. How old are they? Ten years? Hundred years?..."
Yao Xiaoqing excitedly picked up a small hoe and started digging. She was not a professional at digging ginseng. After a while, she dug out a yellow-brown ginseng with a thick main root, two legs, and many knots on the fibrous roots.
Digged it out.
"Wow! I'm rich! This can't be ginseng essence!" She murmured and stared blankly at the ginseng in her hand for a while, then asked Ah Que and Ah Nuan to start digging, and they dug out thirty or forty ginseng.
Stopped, picked palm leaves, wrapped the ginseng and put it in the backpack.
If a professional ginseng digger sees them digging for ginseng like a big white radish, they will be so angry that they will vomit three liters of blood.
After digging the ginseng, Yao Xiaoqing found that the sky had darkened, "It's getting dark, I have to find a place to stay for the night."
Ah Que picked up his backpack and said, "Qing Wu, let's go look ahead and see if there is a cave?"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Okay! Be careful, don't step on the worms." Although there were snake killers and snake medicine in the basket on her back, she was still worried about encountering highly venomous snakes.
The three of them continued walking forward, and Ah Que, who was walking in front, shouted: "Qing Wu, there is a small cave here."
Yao Xiaoqing and A Nuan stepped forward and saw a dark hole exposed under the vines. She picked up the stone and threw it into the cave, and a gray rabbit sprang out of it with a "whoosh" sound.
Ah Nuan was so frightened that she sat down on the ground, "I was scared to death."
"Haha!" Aqiao laughed, "You are the only one who was frightened by the rabbit."
Ah Nuan got up and chased her and beat her, "Bad Ah Que, I will ignore you."
Ah Que smiled and begged for mercy, "Okay, okay! I'm bad, I'm bad."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the two of them and laughed, "It's getting dark, and the wild animals will come later. You two should quickly pick up more dry firewood."
"yes!"
There were dead branches everywhere on the ground, and soon the two of them arrived at the entrance of the cave carrying two bundles of dry firewood.
Yao Xiaoqing cut a large bundle of mugwort, blew a fire stick and entered the cave. The cave was only three or four square meters in size and there was a rabbit nest inside.
She led the two of them to tidy up the cave, lit firewood and put mugwort on it to fumigate the insects and ants in the cave. Yao Xiaoqing chopped some thick wooden sticks and inserted them at the entrance of the cave.
Ah Que and Ah Nuan spread out the animal skin, and the three of them sat on it. Smelling the fragrance of medicine coming from the baskets on their backs, their stomachs growled.
Yao Xiaoqing took out the dried meat from the bag and handed it to the two of them, "Oh! I didn't even catch a pheasant or rabbit, so I can only eat dried meat."
A Que smiled and said: "Qing Wu, our dried meat is delicious."
Ah Nuan nodded, "Yeah! When we went out to collect, we sat on the rocks, basking in the sun and tearing them apart bit by bit. After eating, we felt like sleeping."