Under the light blue sky, many railings stand on the slightly undulating hillside, which neatly organize the ginseng plantation. The emerald green ginseng seedlings are not very tall, with large, saw-like leaves, spreading a green carpet on the soil. The

ginseng plantation and the processing plant are not far apart. Boss Peng drove through the gate, waved to the people at the gate, and drove in with familiarity.

The people and monsters in the car all got out, they breathed in the fresh air, and finally felt refreshed in the suburbs.

Taking advantage of the good weather, Boss Peng took Chu Zhishui and Xin Yunmao to the fields, using ginseng as a topic of conversation. Anyone who wants to talk about something always has to have a reason and a point of entry. Elegant people talk about poetry and songs, and rich people talk about luxury cars and yachts. As they talk, their feelings progress, and then they will talk about the real things.

Boss Peng talked about ginseng, and he was very knowledgeable: "Ginseng is called the king of herbs. People outside always think that ginseng is very expensive, but in fact, depending on the different planting methods, the prices of various ginsengs are also high and low."

"Xiao Chu, you should know that when you grow ginseng, the grade of this thing depends on the planting method. There are wild ginseng, forest ginseng, transplanted ginseng, and garden ginseng. What we see here is all garden ginseng." Boss Peng stood by the road and took them to the field. "Garden ginseng is grown in artificial ginseng ponds or ginseng sheds. The price is naturally not very high, but it can be stewed into soup or used as raw materials."

"I see." Chu Zhishui followed carefully, "This ginseng garden looks very big."

"It was small before, and then I bought it bit by bit, and then I built a factory and reduced the area of ​​the ginseng garden a little bit. The income from growing ginseng in the garden alone is still not enough." Boss Peng asked curiously, "Do you grow garden ginseng?"

"We don't grow garden ginseng." Chu Zhishui hesitated, "It should be considered as forest ginseng."

Lao Bai himself may be a wild mountain ginseng. He sowed in the forest without human intervention, so it should be considered as forest ginseng.

"Growing forest ginseng requires forest land, so your bureau has a large area?"

"To be honest, I came from Huaijiang, and there are many forest lands in the bureau."

Chu Zhishui didn't know where the forest land and wasteland in the bureau came from. Anyway, there were very few buildings, and it was basically idle land. Because the bureau was in the suburbs of Huaijiang, the vacant land was of no use and the utilization value was very low.

"Oh, then you may not have seen ginseng planted in a garden. It's not easy to do this. It is said that ginseng grows on one's knees, so you have to lie on the ground to work." Boss Peng said with a smile, "We can see it if we go further inside."

Boss Peng led the way in front, and Chu Zhishui and Xin Yunmao followed behind.

The further they went, the muddier the field became. I don't know if it was just flooded, but it was not pleasant to step on it.

Boss Peng was really unpretentious. He rolled up his suit pants and went to the field in his leather shoes. He didn't mind the dirt at all, and even advised: "You two can stop here if you don't like it. My son doesn't like to go in there."

Chu Zhishui thought she should be polite and wanted to walk with Boss Peng for a while. Who knew that just when she was about to go to the field, Xin Yunmao raised his arm to block her way.

Xin Yunmao's brows were cold and he asked doubtfully, "What are you doing there?"

Chu Zhishui was startled, not understanding why he looked serious, and replied, "I'm going to take a look."

Xin Yunmao frowned, "Every time you go to the fields, you make a mess, and in the end I have to clean it up." "

???"

"How can I not do that every time..." Chu Zhishui was reminded of her dark history in person, and she subconsciously wanted to refute him loudly, but her eyes swept over the bewildered Boss Peng, and she quickly lowered her voice, saying angrily, "You can drink water casually, but you can't say casual words. It was just that time in the tea garden."

Although Chu Zhishui wore a plain face in the Huaijiang Bureau, she considered herself to be a decent professional, so how could she be dirty? Xin

Yunmao: "I also got muddy when I paid compensation on the spot."

Chu Zhishui looked confused. He reminded her and she finally remembered that she did go to the ground to calculate the compensation for Lao Li. Before getting on the car, she was surprised that her shoes were not covered in mud.

Boss Peng heard the two quarreling. He looked around and said hesitantly: "Xiao Chu, are you two..."

Chu Zhishui and Xin Yunmao didn't communicate much along the way. Boss Peng didn't see any clues at first. He only figured out something else after listening to the conversation.

Seeing that he was lost in thought, Chu Zhishui hurriedly explained, fearing that the other party would misunderstand her, "We are colleagues."

"Oh--" Boss Peng suddenly realized, "A two-employee family."

Chu Zhishui's body stiffened: "..."

Xin Yunmao was puzzled: "What is a two-employee family?"

Chu Zhishui was about to be driven crazy by them. She took a deep breath, calmed down, and gritted her teeth and said, "Don't ask any more questions. I'm warning you."

"?"

Fortunately, Boss Peng didn't hear Xin Yunmao's question. He got down first and said, "Then don't come down. I'll go and take a look myself. You guys wait a moment. I haven't taken a close look for a long time, and I still can't help it." Xin

Yunmao didn't let Chu Zhishui get down, but he followed Boss Peng downhill, his long legs quite comfortable in the mud. He turned his head to look at her on the hill, his eyes like black jade stained with dew: "What do you want to see? I'll help you see it."

Chu Zhishui saw that he was full of frankness, and the anger of being called dirty just now also disappeared. She lowered her eyes and pondered for a few seconds, and said softly: "It's the ginseng planting in the garden."

Xin Yunmao nodded, he turned around and followed Boss Peng inside, leaving only his tall, thin and straight back.

Chu Zhishui now has an indescribable feeling in her heart.

There is no need to be angry with him. This guy once complained about the smell of shampoo. There are always some strange problems, but they are not mixed with any malice.

It's just that she seems to be a little too familiar with him, so she has lost her sense of social etiquette and always reveals her true thoughts when provoked. Because she knew he wouldn't take it to heart, she could occasionally tease him and have a little fun with him, and subconsciously believed that the relationship between the two sides was particularly stable.

But to be honest, she only got to know him after entering the Huaijiang Bureau, and it wasn't a long time. It took her a long time to really open up to her friends like Wang Yiwen, but now it's like a rocket out of control, unable to grasp the direction, and inexplicably launched to a new height.

Xin Yunmao followed Boss Peng around the plantation. Boss Peng explained many ginseng planting techniques and was obviously very familiar with the land. He looked like a self-made type, unlike many office-based CEOs.

After visiting the plantation, the group went to the processing plant to learn about the raw material processing process and which products had high profits. Chu Zhishui benefited a lot from the talk. Although she had looked up information before, she still gained a different amount of information from talking to a real expert.

After a round of conversations, she also formed a cognition of Boss Peng. This is an old-fashioned and simple boss. He seized the opportunity to make a fortune when he was young, but he still has the diligence of working in the fields. He likes to do everything himself and often checks the ginseng garden. He always talks about his son and sometimes grumbles that he doesn't understand the thoughts of young people.

"You guys are really patient. My son would have been annoyed a long time ago. He wouldn't even come to the ginseng garden when asked." Boss Peng was helpless. "He just sits in the company, busy thinking about how to advertise, and never comes here to see it."

Chu Zhishui said gently, "In the early days, we must pay attention to the source. Now that the company and the factory are relatively stable, we also need to increase our visibility through advertising. You and your son are a perfect match for father and son. One is in charge of production and the other is in charge of the brand. Everything is just right."

"If my son could talk like you, I wouldn't have to worry about it now." Boss Peng laughed and said regretfully, "It's a pity that I can't take you to the forest area. The really valuable ones are wild ginseng and forest ginseng, which are not in the plantations."

"Is the forest area far away?"

"No, not far either." Boss Peng glanced at them and said embarrassedly, "The forest area is not very clean now."

"Not clean?"

"...It's hard to say anyway."

Chu Zhishui thought for a moment, she understood something, and curiously asked: "Actually, I have always been curious, how did you know about the Observation Bureau?"

Boss Peng even consulted her about praying to the gods in the bureau, and he didn't look like someone who knew about monsters. It was indeed a very magical thing that he could come to the Observation Bureau to queue up and get a number.

"Oh, it's just that there were strange things in the forest area. I didn't understand these things before, so I asked many friends about which master to find or which temple to go to." Boss Peng said, "Then a friend of mine saw that I was anxious and advised me not to panic too much, and to go to the machine at the Silver Sea Bureau to get a number. If I can't get it, it's okay. If I get it, someone will help me."

Boss Peng was skeptical at the time. Anyway, temples and Taoist temples are mysterious, so it's better to go to the Observation Bureau to try my luck.

"I went to Yinhai Bureau right after hearing the news. I did take a number from the machine, but my number was never called. Every day, someone else's number was called. You all know what happened later."

Chu Zhishui understood. Yinhai Bureau's self-service number-taking machine was designed to target evil spirits. When ordinary people came to the bureau, nothing would happen. People with strong evil spirits would take a red number from the machine, and soon someone from the Observation Department would handle it. Only people with weak evil spirits would take a gray number and start a boring and long wait.

Boss Peng was in an awkward situation, and he was stuck.

Xin Yunmao said calmly: "Because you didn't encounter anything big."

Boss Peng was shocked: "The guards in the forest area will hear knocking on the door in the middle of the night, but there is no figure when they open the door. Isn't this a big deal? Isn't it scary enough?"

Chu Zhishui was stunned: "Ah, is that the case? Then you can wear noise-canceling earplugs and buy good quality ones online."

Boss Peng shouted hoarsely: "You should know that there is no one else on the mountain. Who knows what ghost is knocking on the door!" "

No, no, no, calm down, there are no ghosts in this world." Chu Zhishui comforted, "I used to be afraid of ghosts, but after working in the bureau, I am sure that there are really no ghosts."

At present, she only has monster colleagues, not ghost colleagues.

Boss Peng's expression eased slightly after hearing this. He suddenly remembered something and argued, "But our surveillance didn't capture anything, and there were indeed knocks on the door every night. Now no one dares to live on the mountain."

"You definitely can't see it if it doesn't transform." Xin Yunmao said calmly, "It's just like some people falling down on the ground, or things disappearing inexplicably, or being pressed to the point of suffocation in the middle of the night. It's really not a big deal."

Monsters have a certain level of ability to transform into human form, but transforming into a human requires condensing a lot of demonic energy. There is a state between demonic energy and human form, similar to a floating energy body, and some will show their true form to people.

People who are born with open eyes are more sensitive, and they will often be bullied by them, such as falling down in strange ways, and things being stolen in strange ways. It won't cause any big trouble, but it will just be troublesome.

Because they don't have human thinking yet, they often play boring pranks.

Boss Peng patiently asked: "Then what is a big deal?"

Xin Yunmao said calmly: "Losing someone is a big deal."

"..."

Boss Peng looked at the expressionless Xin Yunmao and collapsed: "Xiao Xin, this is what you are wrong. Is this what a civil servant should say? Your communication level is far behind Xiao Chu!"

Chu Zhishui tried to reconcile: "Contract worker, he is a contract worker."

Boss Peng said earnestly: "I often tell my son that we should not wait for small things to become big things. We must nip them in the bud, especially when the company is getting bigger and bigger, it becomes difficult to steer the ship. We can't turn around when we see the iceberg..."

Xin Yunmao reminded indifferently: "But this really can't wait for big things to happen."

"So there is no solution?" Boss Peng said dejectedly, "Are we really going to let it develop like this?"

"Otherwise, knock against them?" Chu Zhishui blinked, "If it knocks, you should knock too. No one will want to sleep tonight."

"..."

Boss Peng was confused by the calmness of the two people. He stared at them for a moment and murmured, "You two are really a good match. You are telling me a crosstalk."

Xin Yunmao said that it was not a big deal if no one died, and Chu Zhishui said that it was really embarrassing to fight with supernatural creatures.

Chu Zhishui, Xin Yunmao: "!!"

Xin Yunmao was silent for a moment. He thought about it and suddenly changed his attitude: "If you keep coming, maybe you have something to ask for, and maybe you can solve it."

Chu Zhishui was shocked by Boss Peng's words, and then he was shocked by Xin Yunmao's advice. He did more greening in the bureau and basically did not participate in any complicated affairs. Occasionally, she called him to the tea garden to expel evil spirits.

Since she realized that he was organized differently, she rarely assigned him work. She always felt that he was paid little but had a lot of work to do, and that it was too cruel to order him around so often.

He actually took the initiative to speak up, which was the first time in history.

Boss Peng was excited and asked, "Really?"

"Yes, but we have to go there and make preparations."

"Okay, okay, I'll lead the way!"

The forest area is the mountain that goes up the path next to the plantation. Wild ginseng is ginseng that grows completely in the wild, while forest ginseng is ginseng that is

artificially sown in the forest without any artificial means of fertilization or intervention, simulating the growth of wild ginseng. The growth of these ginsengs requires time to accumulate, and ginseng guards are usually arranged in the forest area to prevent ginseng from being stolen and to check the growth status regularly.

Boss Peng led them to the cabin in the forest. He saw all kinds of tools at the door and hurriedly added: "Yes, I remember now. They also said that every time they came back, the door was in a mess, everything fell to the ground, and there was no trace of wild animals."

Xin Yunmao: "It's still a prank."

Boss Peng said stubbornly: "You don't understand! We who make money from ginseng are a little in awe of these!"

If you are digging wild ginseng, there were people who would release it into the wild in the past, and you would tie a red rope around the ginseng. In short, there are a lot of rules.

Chu Zhishui tried to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, we don't understand, and we have never been respectful of ginseng." He bullied Lao Bai in the tea garden every day.

Xin Yunmao circled the cabin in the forest, and I don't know when he held the dragon bone umbrella in his hand. He thought about it, looked at Chu Zhishui again, and said: "I can't hear it here, I'll go inside."

"Where are you going?" Chu Zhishui said hurriedly, "I'll go with you."

Boss Peng and others stayed in the cabin, and one man and one demon walked into the forest.

The forest was lush with vegetation, and there was a creaking sound when stepping on the broken branches on the ground, and the air was filled with the smell of damp soil. There were clusters of strange-shaped plants growing under the tree trunks, and the large area of ​​dense shade blocked the sunlight, making the light in the forest gradually dim.

Chu Zhishui asked: "You just said you couldn't hear anything?"

Xin Yunmao: "I haven't transformed yet and my power is too weak to hear their voices clearly."

"Will you listen to what they say before telling General Peng?" Chu Zhishui looked at him in surprise and praised, "You really don't resort to violence."

Thinking of this, he only beat Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei in the tea garden, and he didn't have direct conflicts with monsters at other times.

"Humph." Xin Yunmao raised his chin slightly and said arrogantly, "If they don't hire me, how can I be so idle that I would fight every day."

The ink-blue dragon-bone umbrella was opened, and Xin Yunmao held the black long-bone umbrella handle. He looked clear-eyed and elegant, and really looked like a misty ink painting. It was a pity that he didn't wear a crown with long hair and an ancient robe today, but a simple modern outfit.

Chu Zhishui was afraid of interfering with the business, so she stood quietly aside and didn't say anything to disturb him.

Xin Yunmao noticed her silence, and he suddenly looked at her again, holding the umbrella in one hand and waving with the other, calling her to come to his side, inviting her: "Do you want to see?"

"What to see?"

Chu Zhishui walked under the umbrella in confusion, and then saw a brand new world.

Countless bright green dots of light were floating in the forest, like beautiful fireflies at night, or like emeralds formed by the aura of the forest. These green dots of light were like the eyes of nature, blinking and shining among the silent branches and mosses.

Chu Zhishui was mesmerized by the beauty in front of her: "This is..."

Xin Yunmao was in a familiar environment, and his tone became softer: "The state of plant monsters before they turned into humans."

All things have spirits, and plants and trees also have hearts, so we should not deceive the living.

The green dots of light embellished the forest like the starry sky on a summer night.

Chu Zhishui stretched out her hand to retain the green dots of light that passed by in front of her, but she did not touch anything. She suddenly thought of something and asked with interest: "What about you before you turned into a human?"

It looked good, and the scene was beautiful.

Xin Yunmao heard her excitement, but he didn't want to mention the time when he was not good, so he avoided the question and changed the subject: "It's started."

In the forest, he listened attentively to the words of the monster that had not yet transformed into a human. A burst of tiny sounds came with the wind, as if countless children were whispering in the dark.

They repeated the same words back and forth, as if they were singing children's songs with a smile on their faces.

[A single man and a single woman with an umbrella, shameless, shameless. ]

"..." Xin Yunmao paused for a moment, his tone was chilly, and he said unhappily, "I changed my mind, let's use violence."

Chu Zhishui couldn't hear the sound of the green light spot, and didn't know why he suddenly turned hostile: "?"

The overwhelming demonic energy surged, and in an instant, the green light spot was turned upside down, and it became a beautiful picture of meteors in the sky.

[Beat the child! Beat the child!]

Chu Zhishui looked at this scene foolishly, and his eyes deeply imprinted it in his mind.

Countless light spots turned into green vortices in the demonic energy.

[God, spare my life! God, spare my life!]

[嘔...]

Xin Yunmao sneered: "Sure enough, this method is faster."

Monsters are always bad at provoking, most of them are habitual, and they will call the God Lord after a beating.

Chu Zhishui: "Did they speak? What did they ask for?"

Xin Yunmao hesitated for a moment, and he relayed bluntly: "They told him to get out."

"?"

Not long after, Chu Zhishui and Xin Yunmao returned from the woods and sat in the cabin to communicate with Boss Peng who was sitting upright.

It was obvious that the green dot's words could not be said directly, so Chu Zhishui could only process and polish them, and said softly: "Mr. Peng, it's like this. We have learned about the situation. The other party believes that your ginseng collection in the forest area in the past two years has seriously affected their normal life. In addition, we have provided you with a lot of information before. Therefore, based on the concept that green mountains and clear waters are gold and silver mountains, we hope that you will not collect ginseng in the next 50 years."

"Ah? But we are following the laws and regulations?" Boss Peng was puzzled. "According to normal regulations, there is a long rest period for closing the mountains for afforestation."

Boss Peng believed that he had not violated the law and discipline. He has always attached great importance to ecological protection and has never excessively collected ginseng.

Chu Zhishui coughed lightly twice: "Have you ever thought that your law and other people's law are not the same set of laws, and cannot be enforced across species."

"..."

As human beings, Boss Peng and others certainly think that the rest period is long enough, but ginseng certainly doesn't think so. They wonder who decided the mountain closure time, and why no one asked for their opinions?

"And the other party seems to be a minor. If it is judged according to human law, the sentence will not be particularly severe."

"So I provoked someone who is not yet an adult...that..." Boss Peng was incoherent and tangled, "So I can only admit defeat?"

Chu Zhishui said seriously: "Then we generally do not recommend fighting with children. After all, you should have seen human naughty children. The cubs basically don't listen to reason with you."

Boss Peng was worried: "If I don't agree, will they hurt my family..."

Chu Zhishui waved his hand: "No, no, no, no one will die, they will just continue to make trouble and knock on the door at night."

Boss Peng asked: "How long will it last?"

"About fifty years." Xin Yunmao thought for a while and said seriously, "If they get tired of it, it may be forty years."

"But it's still unclear whether I have forty years left." Boss Peng was speechless.

Boss Peng had never seen such an outrageous thing. He had completed all the procedures for collecting ginseng, but in the end the ginseng jumped out and said that it was not allowed to be dug, because ginseng has a life (ginseng), and they need some time to rest!

In fact, it is because the forest area is well protected that the evil spirit is particularly abundant, allowing the ginseng to gradually become sensible. They may become sensible in a few years, and become as understanding and grateful as Lao Bai, and protect Grandpa Chen and his granddaughter who saved them, but now they are still as unreasonable as children, and they will naturally make trouble for no reason.

Of course, when the ginsengs really become sensible, Boss Peng is estimated to be gone, and they can only protect his descendants.

Boss Peng was helpless: "So I can only accept their request?"

"No, you don't have to accept it. What you arranged in the bureau is a court lawsuit. What we are doing today is called private mediation. If you don't accept the mediation, just don't withdraw the lawsuit in the bureau." Chu Zhiping said kindly, "We are a formal unit and we follow the procedures."

Xin Yunmao: "But the speed of the process there is about the same as it was forty years ago."

"You also understand that there is indeed a shortage of manpower, and our director also admits that it is normal for such a unit to be slow in efficiency."

Boss Peng looked at the two civil servants from formal units: "?"