Chapter 194 Ghost Orchid
The servant said with a smile: "Because the pomegranates grown on that land are particularly red, we locals call them blood pomegranates. Don't be fooled by the name, in fact, this pomegranate is better than medicine!"
"It's better than medicine? Really?"
"Of course it's true!" The servant said, "Do you know that miraculous doctor, the one named Sun? He said that if you don't believe me, you can find Longmen pomegranates in the medical books!! It can replenish qi and blood and so on... a long list! I can't remember them all,"
He chuckled and said, "I just remember that it can make me stronger."
The driver was intimidated by him: "Is it so magical?"
"Yes!" the servant said, "Plus, medicine is three-tenths poisonous, don't take too much, but food supplements are not poisonous. If you eat blood pomegranates for three months, you will be able to lose everything!!"
The two of them talked non-stop.
Inside the carriage, Chen Chengduo looked gloomy, but he did not interrupt.
When the car was halfway through, the servant suddenly said, "Look! That's over there! Longmen Pomegranate!!"
The driver couldn't help but rein in his horse and looked up. The servant pointed and paid attention to the movement in the carriage... After all, the time was almost up and the bait was put out. If he didn't take the bait...
The next moment, Chen Chengduo pushed open the car door.
He glanced in the direction the two were looking and asked, "What's wrong?"
The servant hurriedly smiled and said, "Nothing, nothing, I'm just talking about the pomegranates we have here!"
Chen Chengduo said calmly: "I'm feeling a bit sick of eating, and I want to eat some pomegranates to relieve the greasy feeling. Go buy me some!"
The servant was startled and said quickly, "Yes, yes."
Chen Chengduo jumped off the carriage and walked slowly over there, and Zhu Yinzhong hurriedly followed.
The driver was about to go over, but the servant stopped him and said, "Let's go up and look for someone."
He pulled him and walked up in a big circle. As he walked, he estimated the time. It was already past the third hour, and there was still no movement.
The servant looked down and saw Chen Chengduo and the other man looking around and about to turn back. The servant was secretly worried...
Suddenly there was a loud bang, the ground shook, and the two men lost their balance and fell to the ground.
There was a continuous rumbling sound like thunder in their ears, and the ground where the two men were lying on was also shaking. It took a while before it slowly stopped. When the servant looked up hurriedly, he found that there was billowing gray smoke rising from that place, and large chunks of earth and rocks were sliding down from time to time.
The driver was so scared that he lay on the ground and screamed. After a while, he slowly raised his head and said in a trembling voice: "The earth dragon turned over?"
The servant also showed a panic, pointing at that place: "The mountain collapsed! It buried Chen Ershao and Master Zhu underneath! "
The driver was also frightened when he saw it.
Such a large piece of mountain collapsed and buried the road. How could Chen Chengduo survive?
The driver immediately sat down on the ground and said, "Oh my god! This is killing me!"
The two of them ran back in a hurry to report the news.
When County Magistrate Liu heard this, he was also frightened and quickly took his men over, along with officials from the provincial government.
The group dug until dark, but they didn't find anyone. Moreover, large pieces of earth and rocks fell from time to time. Who wouldn't be afraid of death? They didn't dare to move too far forward.
County Magistrate Liu was in a state of confusion. This was really a bad year for him. Why did all these bad things happen to him?
He asked the boy anxiously: "What's going on?!"
"I don't know!" The servant burst into tears before the driver could, "After dinner, the second young master suddenly said he wanted to go out and play. Let's go out and play. We drove the car well, but the second young master insisted on stopping the car and called out to the girl over there with a smile. I didn't see anything, there was no one there! But the second young master insisted on asking me what the girl's name was. I had just gone around and the mountain collapsed. I don't know anything!"
Magistrate Liu’s eyes widened.
But I didn't dare ask about this kind of thing in front of others.
After holding it in for a long time, they could only grit their teeth and ask him to step back first, while the others looked at each other in bewilderment.
The servant retreated, and took advantage of the chaos to pull the driver aside, whispering: "Master Chen's own son died here, will he let you go when you go back? Why don't you run!?" He stuffed a purse into his hand and said: "This is what I found in the car, we will each take half, run!!"
The driver was brought here by Chen Chengduo. Unlike him, who was a local, he was totally panicked and just took the money bag and ran away.
So these people dug all night and dug out the two bloody bodies. When they wanted to find someone to ask, the servant and the coachman had already run away without a trace.
there.
The first thing Xinbao said when he woke up was, "Wife! Did Xinbao tell you about his dream yesterday?"
"I said it," Yan Shenjue said, "Do you still have it now?"
"Yes," Xinbao said, "There are some more, so my wife can't go out."
There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!
besides?
Do we have to wait until the mountain really collapses before it disappears?
Yan Shenjue said, "Okay, I won't go out."
Xinbao followed him around worriedly and even grabbed his sleeve when he took a nap.
Until he woke up, Xinbao was sitting there picking seeds as usual, preparing to go back and plant them in the village greenhouse. Suddenly he looked up and said, "The stone is gone!!"
Yan Shenjue looked at the clepsydra and nodded. Less than a quarter of an hour later, Xinbao cried out in surprise: "Again, again!!"
Yan Shenjue was a little surprised, and hurriedly put down the book and walked over: "Another time?"
Xinbao nodded and shook his head: "Gone again!!"
Yan Shenjue: “……?”
He asked, "Is there anything missing? What's written on it?"
Xinbao opened his eyes wide, trying to recall the scene just now, muttering: "There were no words, just a stone, it only appeared for a moment and then disappeared... But at that moment..."
On the big rock, there were faint traces of mountain waterfalls, pavilions, and people coming and going, forming a small world of its own. And at that moment, a corner of the rock, which was perhaps only the size of a needle, seemed to be rapidly enlarging and expanding as if clouds and mist were parted... It kept moving closer, and it was barely possible to make out that it was a pale white flower, but it was too short-lived, it only flashed for a moment and then disappeared.
Xinbao was more interested in plants and knew more about them. She thought carefully about the flower, which looked like a frog wearing a crown. She murmured, "Ghost orchid."
It's a ghost orchid.
This is not a Chinese organism. It was first discovered in Cuba. It is an epiphyte that grows by clinging to trees.
This flower has no leaves, and its coral-like roots are the same color as the tree trunk, making them perfectly invisible, so at first glance it looks as if the flower is floating in thin air, hence the name ghost orchid.
But why did she suddenly see the ghost orchid? ?
She was silent for a long time, then as if she had thought of something, she looked at the seeds in her hand.
When she examined it, she thought it was a shriveled flower seed and was about to pick it out, but...it turned out to be a ghost orchid seed?
Ghost orchids generally only grow in deep mountains and forests or dark and humid swamps, and often even live next to crocodiles. It is said that it can only be pollinated by Sphinx moths. It is extremely rare and very difficult to cultivate artificially, so... where do these seeds come from?
If she plants it, will it survive?
(End of this chapter)