"You seem to be a very smart person. If you are looking for death, you can't blame others."
Seeing Qin Feng not listening to his greetings, Qian Yi cursed and had no choice but to climb up the mountain by himself. All the dead branches nearby had been collected.
"Brother, let's go to the mountain to collect some firewood!"
Yao Er also said a little worriedly. He was very familiar with the situation in the mountains and knew that even if it was not a flower demon, there were often venomous snakes in places where flowers and plants were in full bloom. It would not be a good thing if they were close.
"Brother Yao, it's okay!" Qin Feng smiled and shook his head. As he spoke, he had already walked twenty or thirty meters down and was about to reach the edge of the sea of flowers.
"The boy who doesn't know how to live or die..."
Qin Feng's actions also attracted the attention of Lu Fenglei and others, but they only paid attention and did not care about Qin Feng's life and death.
"This...is this really a poppy?" When Qin Feng walked to the edge of the sea of flowers, he illuminated it with the simple burning torch in his hand, and his eyes suddenly widened.
When he smelled the fragrance of flowers before, Qin Feng was just suspicious, but when he came closer, Qin Feng recognized it at a glance. This vast sea of flowers was actually filled with poppies.
These poppies are about one meter tall, with branches separated and covered with rough hairs, with deeply feathery lobes, lanceolate or strip-lanceolate lobes, and rough hairs on both sides.
Under the illumination of the torch, the originally pink poppy flowers were rendered even more red, and there were many black round fruits growing on the fallen petals.
Because poppy is an annual herb, if the fruit is not picked after it blooms and bears fruit, the poppy will wither and fall to the ground, where it will grow again.
This piece of poppy field was obviously unpicked. Many poppy stalks had withered at the edge of the sea of flowers, but the poppies that were still in full bloom accounted for the vast majority of the area, so the withered ones looked a little inconspicuous.
"Damn it, if Mexican or Mafia drug dealers know about this place, they will risk their lives to come here!"
Looking at the dark sea of poppy flowers that stretched as far as the eye could see, Qin Feng was really shocked. Even in a place like the Golden Triangle, there might not be such a large poppy planting base, right?
"Brother He, are there any dry ones? If not, come back!" Yao Er, who was dozens of meters away, was afraid that something might happen to Qin Feng, so his voice spread far away in the empty mountain.
"Speak softly, aren't you afraid of attracting wild beasts?",
After Master Ning, who was sitting on the side of the bonfire, heard Yao Er's words, he lowered his voice and scolded him. Several servants around him glared at Yao Er angrily.
"Master Ning, don't be afraid!"
Yao Er pointed to the man-eating tree and said: "With this tree spirit here, no wild beasts dare to come over. Let's set up camp here and everything will be fine..."
Yao Er has lived in the mountains all his life. He knows that the instinct of beasts to seek good luck and avoid evil is far stronger than that of humans. The number of human corpses in the tree spirit forest is probably greater than that of beasts.
"Brother Yao, it's okay. There are a lot of withered flowers and plants here, which can be used as firewood!" Qin Feng's heart moved. He replied loudly, leaned down and held some withered grass stalks in his arms, and turned to
Walk to the bonfire.
But while walking on the road, Qin Feng picked all the poppy seeds and threw them on the ground.
This kind of seed is the fruit of refining drugs. If the drug dealers from the outside world saw Qin Feng treating their treasure like this, they would probably go crazy.
"Well, this is good for firewood!"
Qin Feng walked to the bonfire and threw a large armful of poppy stems in his arms. The bonfire, which had slowed down in burning momentum, suddenly burst into flames several meters high.
"Yeah. Good job."
Qian Yuandan also nodded. The night in the mountains was a bit cold, and the mountain wind sent chills to people's bones. The bonfire could not only drive away wild beasts, but also drive away the cold.
When withered grass burns, it emits more smoke than withered branches. However, the smoke is quickly blown away by the biting mountain wind. You can only smell some smoke at the end of your nose, which is completely bearable.
Master Ning stood up and pointed at Qin Feng and said, "I see there are a lot of withered flowers over there. You can do this tonight!"
Although he paid Qin Feng and others, Ning Shao felt uncomfortable.
Because the boy named Zhang Hu did nothing and received a stone of food for free, while Qin Feng only shouldered the burden and didn't let him do more work. Master Ning was absolutely unbalanced.
"Yes, Master Ning, please rest assured, I will not let this fire go out!" Qin Feng nodded seriously, dropped the straw in his hand, and ran back.
This time Qin Feng brought more straws over, but instead of throwing them into the bonfire, they piled them outside. After running like this for more than ten times, they were already lying on the ground near the downhill.
There is a thick layer of dead grass stalks.
Yao Er just wanted to help, but Qin Feng persuaded him to stop him. Seeing Qin Feng sweating profusely, he couldn't help but said: "Okay, brother He, let's take a rest. These straws are enough to burn a section of grass."
It’s time.”
"Okay, Brother Yao, take a look, is this food edible?"
Qin Feng nodded, sat down on the thick straw, and took out a finger-long, white and tender thing from his pocket, which looked a bit like the rhizome of a plant.
"What is this? Why haven't I seen it before?" Yao Er frowned as he took the plant rhizome handed over by Qin Feng.
There are many things in the mountains, such as the yellow spirit mushroom, which can prolong your life if you eat them. However, there are also some highly poisonous plants that can kill you if you are not careful.
"Huzi, have you seen him?" Qin Feng asked loudly.
"Uncle, I haven't seen this thing before!" Zhang Hu came over, held it in his hand and examined it for a long time, then shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like something poisonous. Why don't you try eating it?"
"Bring it to me and see?"
Master Ning walked up to Qin Feng and snatched the stem. Smelling the faint fragrance coming from the stem, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
"Master Lu, you are well-informed, can you see if this thing is edible?"
Although he had the desire to eat this thing in one bite, Master Ning still got it to Lu Fenglei first. As the mayor of the town, the life of the young master is more valuable than Qin Feng and others.
"I don't know you, so it's better not to eat it!"
Lu Fenglei took the stem and looked at it carefully for a while, shook his head and said: "Some things smell very fragrant, but they can kill people. Just like the mushrooms under the tree, the more beautiful they grow, the more poisonous they are..."
"What Master Lu said is that I was almost deceived by this boy..." After hearing Lu Fenglei's words, Master Ning became furious. After grabbing the plant roots, he threw them into the bonfire.
"Hey, Master Ning, don't throw it away if you don't want to eat it!" Qin Feng shouted: "We didn't have enough to eat at night, and we still want to fill our stomachs with this thing..."
"Eat. Eat you to death!" Master Ning glanced at Qin Feng with contempt and said, "If you are not afraid of death, just eat it. If you eat it to death, I will throw you to the tree spirit..."
"Our lives are so worthless that even the Prince of Hell will not accept them..."
Qin Feng curled his lips and said: "No, I'm very hungry now. Brother Yao, I don't think this thing is poisonous. I'll eat one first..."
While Qin Feng was talking, he took out a rhizome from somewhere. He wiped it casually with his hand, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it with a "click" sound.
"You kid are really not afraid of death, are you?"
Seeing Qin Feng's actions, Master Ning couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then looked at Qin Feng with a look that looked like a dead person, and said: "Look at me, how long can you last?"
"Stop cursing my cousin..." Zhang Hu glared at Master Ning and said, "There are a lot of edible things in the mountains. Only you who are afraid of death dare not eat them. I dare to eat them..."
As if to prove his bravery, Zhang Hu reached out and grabbed the plant roots that Qin Feng had not eaten, stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them. Through the firelight, you could clearly see the white juice flowing from the corners of his mouth.
"Huh? How can you eat randomly?"
Lu Fenglei could care less about Qin Feng's life or death, but he was very nervous about Zhang Hu. When he saw Zhang Hu actually eating the stem, he couldn't help but sway to Zhang Hu's side and grabbed Zhang Hu's wrist.
"It seems okay?" After checking Zhang Hu's pulse, Lu Fenglei's expression softened a lot, because Zhang Hu's pulse was beating strongly and it didn't look like he was poisoned.
"Stop eating these things!"
Seeing that Zhang Hu was fine, Lu Fenglei walked back to where he was sitting, but still stared at Zhang Hu closely, fearing that he would find signs of poisoning.
"What are you afraid of? I still have some here, do you want to eat them?"
Qin Feng reached into his pocket and took out five or six more white rhizomes. While stuffing it into his mouth, he said: "This stuff is a bit bitter, but it can fill your stomach. Young Master Qian, do you want some?"
"Don't eat!" Qian Yuandan shook his head. As the saying goes, a soldier cannot stand under a dangerous wall. Qian Yuandan grew up in fine clothes and fine food. How could he eat these weed-like things?
Hearing Qian Yuandan's words, Qian and others were initially a little moved, but they resisted asking Qin Feng for the plant rhizomes. Although they were servants of the Qian family, they felt that they were more valuable than Qin Feng.
"Forget it if you don't want to eat. Brother Yao, do you want to eat?" Qin Feng asked Yao Er beside him.
"forget it!"
Although Yao Er was a little moved, he still held it back. He once saw a mountain deer eat a brightly colored flower and plant. After eating, it only walked two meters before falling to the ground and dying. This shows how toxic the plants in the mountains are.
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"Only when you are full can you have the strength to work!" Qin Feng did not force Yao Er. After eating the few roots in his hand, he staggered back to hug the withered grass.
However, this time Qin Feng brought withered poppies, but he did not pick off the fruits that formed after the flowers withered. There was a strawberry-sized poppy fruit on almost every poppy stem.
They are all withered poppy stalks. Even in broad daylight, Lu Fenglei and others sitting on the other side of the campfire cannot distinguish this subtle difference, let alone at night.
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ps: Second update, it’s the last two days of the month, please clear your monthly pass!
