You are unlucky and I am tough

Hunter Zhao sat on a rock, nervously waiting for Cheng Shuang to give him an acupuncture. The other dozen people stared with their eyes wide open, not blinking.

Cheng Shuang seemed quite calm, but Zhao the Hunter was so nervous that he clutched his knees tightly with both hands. If it were not for his trust in Cheng Lizheng, he would never dare to let Cheng Shuang, a teenage girl, give him an acupuncture.

Cheng Shuang was too lazy to say anything like "believe me" and just said to Zhao the Hunter, "Uncle Zhao, close your eyes, relax and take a deep breath. Don't open them until I tell you to."

Hunter Zhao did as he was told. After taking three deep breaths, Cheng Shuang steadily injected the first shot.

The only sound in the cave at this time was the crackling sound of burning firewood. No one dared to breathe, and watched Cheng Shuang staring at her as she inserted long and thin silver needles into Zhao the hunter's head and neck without blinking.

Cheng Shuang's expression was calm and composed from beginning to end, and her acupuncture movements were extremely skillful, as if she was a veteran doctor with many years of practice. This made these dozen or so old men look at her with admiration and secretly admire her in their hearts.

Cheng Shuang's acupuncture was only for delaying the onset of the headache, not a formal treatment like the one she gave Cheng Lizheng. The time and place were not suitable, and there was no medicine.

After more than a quarter of an hour, Cheng Shuang began to withdraw the needles and said, "Alright, Uncle Zhao."

Hunter Zhao slowly opened his eyes and felt it for a moment, then was pleasantly surprised: "Hey, my head doesn't hurt anymore."

Everyone was shocked and found it hard to believe.

"It really doesn't hurt anymore?"

"Just a few pricks with a needle and it'll be fine?"

"It's so easy to cure, but didn't the doctors in Qushan County say it can't be cured?"

"Yeah, what do those doctors do for a living?"

"Quack."

"Yeah, so incompetent."

Seeing that everyone was getting more and more outrageous, Cheng Shuang raised her hand to signal them to be quiet.

"Everyone, don't get excited yet. Uncle Zhao's headache isn't cured; it's just been delayed.

Besides, the county doctors are not incompetent. I can treat it because I have a miracle doctor who taught me. How many miracle doctors are there in this world? I can only say that I am lucky, and our Chengjia Village is lucky too."

"Yes, it is a blessing for our Chengjia Village."

The group of people changed their tone instantly, praising Cheng Shuang one after another. After seeing Cheng Shuang's medical skills, they became more concerned about the next task of finding medicine.

At the hour of Hai, Wei Qinglang ordered everyone to rest early and began to arrange people to keep watch.

Everyone else agreed that Wei Qinglang was the one who worked the hardest to lead the way and needed a good rest, so he didn't need to keep watch.

Cheng Shuang naturally didn't need to keep watch, so she didn't care how they arranged the shifts. She took out two pieces of clothing from the space while rummaging through the backpack, folded one to use as a pillow, covered herself with the other, and lay down on her side facing the wall.

There was a fire in the cave so it wasn't cold, but she was still not used to spending the night in the mountains for the first time. As soon as she lay down, she felt like every cell in her body was clamoring with soreness, and she even couldn't sleep.

Unable to fall asleep, Cheng Shuang closed his eyes and thought about things. He wondered what would happen to the people of Chengjia Village when they knew that the entire village was going to relocate, and where the court would arrange for them to settle down. The road ahead was unknown, but this road had to be taken.

That mine, which has not yet been discovered, can harm the bodies of so many people with its toxic gases alone. You can imagine how serious the situation is.

After the imperial court took over, it would probably take hundreds of years to mine all the minerals. The surrounding area would definitely be blocked and martial law would be imposed by the military. They could no longer stay here no matter what.

I don’t know how long I was thinking about these things, Cheng Shuang suddenly felt that the clothes covering her body were taken away, and then another larger piece of clothes covered her body, and her legs were also covered.

She closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. After a while, she slowly opened them, reached out to pull the clothes covering her body, and looked down. What she saw was a dark blue color.

This dark blue coat was bought for Wei Qinglang by her at the mall. Because it needed to be made of coarse cloth and not be too conspicuous in the village, she took a long time to choose this one. It has two layers, with cotton inside, which is suitable for wearing in autumn and winter.

Cheng Shuang closed her eyes again, and all the messy things in her mind seemed to disappear at once, and she fell asleep soon after.

The next day, Cheng Shuang woke up at dawn. She opened her eyes and found someone next to her, with her arm on that person.

Looking up, she saw that it was Wei Qinglang who was sleeping next to her, leaning against the wall, with his outer legs bent, one hand on his bent leg, the other hand on her forearm, and her entire arm resting on his waist.

Cheng Shuang looked at the position of her hand, feeling extremely embarrassed. She was also afraid of waking the person up and making it difficult to explain, so she carefully withdrew her arm.

She sat up and looked outside. The bonfire in the cave was still burning. There were more than a dozen people lying on the ground, fast asleep, and some were even snoring.

Two villagers who were on duty squatted at the entrance of the cave, whispering to each other. Light could already be seen outside the cave.

Cheng Shuang wanted to go to the bathroom, but it was not convenient for her to go out alone, so she could only reach out and push Wei Qinglang awake.

Wei Qinglang opened his sleepy eyes and looked at her. Cheng Shuang mouthed three words to him: "Bathroom."

Wei Qinglang rubbed his eyes and stood up, "Let's go."

The two men carefully walked through the dozen or so people lying on the ground, said something to the two people guarding the cave entrance, and went to the left. There was a small river not far away. After making sure that the two people at the cave entrance could not see them, they entered the space and washed up.

After washing up, the two of them quietly came to the river, squatted in the grass and looked at the river. Wei Qinglang was right. There were many animals drinking water by the river, including two wild deer, a goat, and several birds with long tails that they couldn't name.

This environment is also suitable for the growth of Gastrodia elata. They had discussed it last night and decided to search around the area today and stay in the cave for one night, so Wei Qinglang thought of hunting some wild game for everyone to have a snack in the evening.

After watching for a while, the two men quietly turned back. When they returned to the cave, everyone had woken up, and some people took out their dry food and started eating.

Wei Qinglang came up to Hunter Zhao and said, "Uncle Zhao, there are animals drinking water in the nearby river this morning. We just saw goats and wild deer. According to the habits of animals, most animals come out to drink water in the morning and evening. Let's wait and see if we can catch any prey in the evening."

"Great." Hunter Zhao's headache was gone, and he felt refreshed after another good sleep. He said excitedly, "If we can kill a goat, roasting it would be great."

The others began to salivate as they listened, and immediately became motivated for today's task of finding medicine.

The seventeen people were still grouped according to yesterday's grouping, but the surrounding environment was complex and the vegetation was dense, making it easy to get lost.

Cheng Shuang suggested a solution to let the villagers take out the ropes. Each group would find a tree, tie the rope to the tree, and then tie it to one person and pull the rope forward to search.

A set of three bundles of rope can help you find your way back even if you go far away, without getting lost.

According to Cheng Shuang's method, the six groups of people began their own actions, spreading out from the forest in front of the cave.

From the morning mist to the sunset, it took more than five hours. More than a dozen people searched almost the entire area before they came back to gather together one after another following the rope.

Cheng Shuang dug up a few other herbs, Wei Qinglang and Xu Daqing each found a Gastrodia elata, while Hunter Zhao dug up a ginseng.

When they first discovered it, they were far away and Hunter Zhao couldn't find Cheng Shuang when he looked back, so he dug it out directly with the help of his two teammates. After bringing it back, Cheng Shuang looked at it and said that it was indeed top-quality wild ginseng, nearly twenty years old.

When the others saw this, they were envious and congratulated Zhao the Hunter. Zhao the Hunter generously said that he would share some of the money he earned with his two teammates. The two of them were so happy that they were grinning from ear to ear.

Cheng Shuang held four Gastrodia elata in her hand. After examining them, she said to the crowd, "The head of our village has counted 766 people in need of treatment for headaches. One of the four we found is too small, so we may need to find six more adult ones to provide for the entire village. We'll continue tomorrow at another location."

Everyone responded in unison. They had been here for two days and had made some progress. Everyone was very confident that they could find everything.