Chapter 4

  "Daniu, what is wrong with you?" The old man said in panic as he looked at his granddaughter.

  The girl didn't know what grandpa was talking about. "What is wrong, Grandpa? I'm fine."

  "You are bleeding all over." Grandpa Ma looked at his granddaughter's eyes, nose, and ears, all bleeding. If it weren't for his granddaughter's bright eyes and rosy face, he would have suspected that his granddaughter had died and her ghost had come back to find him.

  Daniu wiped her nose with her hand and found that it was bleeding. She frowned. She felt a little wet just now and thought it was from drinking water. She didn't smell blood. Could it be that her sense of smell could also be controlled? Thinking of this, she wrinkled her nose. A strong smell of blood filled her lungs, making her feel sick.

  "It's okay, Grandpa. I may be overnourished." Daniu's brain was very clear at this time, and she immediately analyzed the key to the problem. She was attracted by the smell just now and ate all nine seeds. Although she didn't know what was going on with this ginseng, the nine seeds must contain great energy and have special effects. Her brain absorbed that energy. If it were someone else, her blood might have surged up, and she would have exploded and died.

  The old man didn't know what was going on and asked quickly, "How did you get overnourished? Tell me quickly."

  Daniu quickly told the old man what happened and then showed the ginseng to him. Finally, she said, "I think that little stone might be an ice cube, and it melted in my hand."

  The old man looked at the ginseng that was as long as a child's forearm and its thin and dense roots. His hands were shaking a little, and he quickly wrapped it up and said, "Come on, let's go back quickly."

  "Yeah." Daniu nodded and touched her nose with her hand. It was bloody again. Everything else was fine, but her body was still warm in this early winter.

  The old man was a worthy hunter. He had a lot of strength in his hands. He climbed up using just his hands and one leg and then pulled the girl up with him.

  After the grandpa and granddaughter came up, they hurried back. Along the way, Daniu turned on her sense of smell to the maximum. All kinds of smells in the forest, including the smell of blood, hit her in the face. She tried her best to ignore the smell of blood and avoid the route of the wild beasts.

  The old man got a branch to lean on, and the two returned to the forest cabin in the evening.

  The first thing the girl did when she got back was to wash her face and hair to get rid of the dried blood stains. It was really scary.

  The grandpa and granddaughter rested for a night and walked home together the next day. "Remember the matter of the cave; don't tell anyone. Even if they find the cave in the future, it won't be a big deal. I don't think the puddle will be a big deal either. They won't suspect anything since you are a child."

  "Yeah, I know, Grandpa."

  "Don't talk about the ginseng. I saw this ginseng this morning, and it doesn't need to be specially processed. We can use it as it is. This ginseng is not ordinary. It can save lives at critical moments."

  The big girl nodded. She understood this. Good ginseng was hard to find, so it is better to keep it.

  The two walked for a day and rested for a night in another hunter's cabin. They met a hunter and asked him to send a message home, and someone from the family came and pushed the two out of the forest in a cart.

  When they got home, the old man told the vilge chief and secretary what happened directly, and the two of them did not dare to dey and reported the news.

  The higher-ups still took it very seriously. There were quite a few tombs from previous dynasties here. but they were built deep in the mountains and old forests where few people went since they didn't want them to be robbed.

  Ma Desheng's foot was badly sprained, and he could not go into the mountains again. It was Da Niu who led the way for the group of soldiers and archaeologists who came. After Da Niu returned home for a few days, her condition got better and better. She just had a nosebleed from time to time, but it was not a big deal.

  The old man shared the gourd water that Da Niu brought back with his family. At that time, he just felt a lot more rexed. Later, his hair gradually became darker. His family members were also in good health and rarely got sick.

  After Da Niu led the group into the mountain, the archaeologists carefully checked the entrance of the cave where they fell. Sure enough, there were only traces of a child crawling through it, and no signs of anyone entering, so they sent Da Nv back.

  Later, they only heard that the big tomb was the tomb of a princess of the Later Jin Dynasty. Nothing more was said in detail. They only knew that there was some kind of poison on the tomb door and two archaeologists were poisoned. Although they were rescued ter, their nerves were damaged. One of them had some stiffness in his hands and feet, and the other had facial nerves damaged and got a facial paralysis and lost his expression.

  This has little to do with the Ma family. The grandpa and granddaughter also received some rewards this time, fifty yuan.

  After returning from the mountain, Daniu's brain was better, but she still had nosebleeds from time to time. They asked the third grandpa to take a look, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, just that she was a little hot. It took half a year for her to get better.

  She spent some time sorting out her memories. Her past life was dull, but she had many memories. Her 25 years of life, from birth to death, were very complicated. In particur, the voices and faces of her retives were all clearly visible in her memory. The memory that she didn't want to recall at all appeared in front of her, and she couldn't help crying.

  After her memory was sorted out, the old man suddenly went into the mountains and broke his leg. Although it did not affect his ability to walk into the mountains, it was not very flexible.

  The old man began to teach some things to the children of the family, but the temperaments of the children of the Ma family were a bit porized. The smart ones had average physiques, and the strong ones were too fierce and didn't have flexible minds. In the end, he found that the one who understood some of his ideas the best was the eldest girl. As she learned more and more, the child was like a fish in water in the mountains.

  The old man's experience in the mountains was not difficult for Daniu, especially since her five senses were better than others. After entering the mountains, she would fully open her five senses to detect any prey in advance.

  In addition, the Daniu discovered another secret. Half a year after coming out of the mountains, when she stopped having nosebleeds, a drop of water always dripped from the tip of her left index finger. At first, she thought she was sweating, but ter she found that it was water overflowing from her fingertips. At first, she couldn't control it, and it dripped ten drops a day, but gradually she could control it and made it drip half a bowl every half a day. After drinking it, she found that it was simir to the water that ginseng was soaked in, but without the ginseng taste.

  She drank it and felt rexed and clear-headed. After a while, her basic physical qualities became stronger, including her strength. She named it Spiritual Water. As for where it came from, she didn't try to figure it out. Anyway, it didn't do her any harm.

  Later, she gave it to her family to drink, but the effect didn't seem to be that great. Her younger brother Dazhi (Great Wisdom), although called Dazhi, was not very smart and did things without using his brain. She thought that if her younger brother drank some of the water, he would gain some wisdom, but it just made him more stubborn and naughty, and his brain didn't improve at all.

  She learned to shoot at the age of twelve and became a sharpshooter in just two days. She could calibrate the aim of a gun after shooting twice. When she was thirteen, Ma Desheng took his granddaughter into the mountains, and after testing her for a few days, he let her go hunting by herself.

  That year happened to be a disaster year. First there was drought and then flood. There was no harvest for two whole years. The vilgers ate up all their stored food and had to go into the mountains to find food. Many animals in the forest died, and more migrated to other pces. The wild beasts in the forest were also starving and became emaciated and very ferocious. Many people went into the mountains and never came out.

  Three people also died in Majia Vilge, beaten by the angry blind bear. Ma Desheng saw that this was not going to work, so he simply consulted the vilge cadres and organized people to go into the mountains. At that time, Ma Desheng dragged his crippled leg and led people into the mountains. There were no prey to be caught outside, but Ma Desheng led people to dig holes, catch rabbits, or find edible pnts.

  Daniu took several boys from the Ma family to the deep mountains. It was a long journey, and it took three to five days to go back and forth. Fortunately, there were harvests in the mountains. Together with wild vegetables and tree roots, they had enough for the whole vilge to eat half full.

  At that time, people from the surrounding vilges who had nothing to eat came to the Ma vilge. They were all retives, so they could not let them starve to death. They exchanged the good meat of the prey hunted in the mountains for coarse grains. No matter what it was, they would clean it up and cook all the edible parts, then mix it with some bean dregs and dried wild vegetables. The taste was indescribable.

  There was a tofu house in the vilge. During the New Year and other festivals, the vilgers go there to exchange beans for tofu and bean skin. The bean dregs from the tofu house were also sold outside. In the past, families with livestock would buy some to feed the livestock, which would make them fat. When the tofu shop had too much and couldn't sell it, they would dry it and keep it for sale in winter.

  When the disaster hit, the tofu shop could no longer make house, and the dried bean dregs were all eaten by people. The doctor at the township clinic said that it had no nutritional supplement, but a few elderly people in the vilge studied it and decided to just save it.

  The vilgers could have two meals a day by cooking a pot of messy food if they worked a little harder. If there was food from outside, they could add some water, and they would not starve to death.

  At that time, Daniu showed her skills, and gradually all her brothers and cousins ??were impressed by her.

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