Lan Youyou of the Institute of Botany of Dongda University is an orchid fan, and often goes to Shennongjia to find the legendary magic orchid.
Legend has it that the magic orchid grows on the cliffs and looks like a grass, very inconspicuous. But once it blooms, the mountains are full of flowers. The fragrance seems to permeate the soul, and everyone who smells it is intoxicated. Many birds and beasts in the mountains are tempted by its fragrance to jump off the cliff and die.
Although it is a legend, Lan Youyou is still very interested. She has been searching for this for many years. This time, she went deep into the northern foot of Shennongjia for this. She went to the village below the mountain, planning to find a guide to lead herself into the mountain. When the villagers heard that they were looking for the magic orchid, they all refused. Wu Bo, the most experienced herb picker in the village, told her a story.
Thirty years ago, Wu Bo just turned 24 years old. He followed his father to collect medicine from the mountains since he was a child and knew Shennongjia well. At that time, university teachers from two provinces were very interested in the legend of the magic orchid and wanted to find someone to lead the way into the mountains. At that time, no one agreed, only his newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, and secretly agreed to them.
Wu Bo led them around in the mountains for 7 days but did not find a trace of the magic orchid, and finally got lost. Soon, the dry food they brought was finished, and they could only survive by collecting wild fruits and killing small animals. After another 6 days in the mountains, I still couldn’t find the way. Just when the three of them were about to collapse, a faint scent of intoxicating scent drifted across their noses, and all of a sudden, they felt tired.
Wu Bo got up, sniffing the source of the fragrance in the air. The two teachers also cheered up, and the three followed the smell of the mountain breeze and climbed towards a cliff. Along the way, they were amazed to see countless animals flocking to the cliff like a pilgrimage. Both the predator and the predator ran up the cliff together, as if they were of the same kind.
When they climbed to the top of the cliff, they saw an orchid blooming on the cliff, it was the magic orchid. Those birds and beasts are attracted by its fragrance. The animals ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped off one after another. When the birds flew to the top of the cliff, they stopped flapping their wings and fell into the abyss. The scene was terrifying, as if he had heard the call of the Lord Yan.
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Lan Youyou asked about the three of them, and Wu Bo told her that a teacher was fascinated by the fragrance of the magic orchid and jumped off the cliff like those birds and beasts. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wu Bo plugged his nostrils with leaves, and desperately held down another teacher before he rescued him.
Later, they were attacked by a beast in the mountains and were seriously injured. It took him two days to run into a hunter before he was killed. The teacher did not insist on being rescued, waiting for the hunters to search, only to find his leftover bones gnawed by wild animals.
“Later, when I returned to the village, the people in the village thought I was a ghost! When I said my name, they knew that I was the old Wu who had been missing for more than half a year. Yao.”Wupper said, pointing to his left face. There were several red claw marks on it, and the scars rolled and opened, which looked really scary.
“Where is the teacher who jumped off the cliff?”
“Dead! The cliff is very dangerous, and it’s a mountain like me who climbed it up When I look down, my legs will tremble. When I jump down, my body is broken.”
Wu Bo couldn’t help Lan Youyou’s stalking and a high salary of 10,000 yuan, so he decided to bring Lan Youyou. Go deep into the mountains to find the magic orchid.
When climbing halfway up the mountain to rest, Lan Youyou picked up the water cup she carried with him, drank and rinsed her mouth and spit it out. Wupper stumbled on the ground, like a urchin. Lan Youyou’s heart moved, turned her head and pretended not to notice anything. The two rested for a while, then got up and rushed, and finally rushed to a col before dark.
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Wu Bo set up a campfire to roast the dry food. Lan Youyou sat by the fire and rinsed her mouth with the water in the cup. Wu Bo curiously asked her why she always rinsed her mouth, Lan Youyou said: “I have chronic pharyngitis, so I often rinse with light salt water. Wu Bo, how far is it from where you met the magic orchid?”
“Come on. Tomorrow another day on the road, we can get to the bottom of the rocky cliff, I guess we will be there before dark.”
Eaten Dry food, Lan Youyou curled up in a sleeping bag, without a trace of sleepiness. She looked at the tent, the red campfire projecting Wuber’s figure on it. The shriveled shadow was like a monster. This night, Lan Youyou was half-asleep in a daze.
When Lan Youyou suddenly woke up, it was already bright. When I got out of the tent, I saw that Wu Bo had been cleaned up. Seeing the place where he rested last night was covered with cigarette butts, his eyes were also bloodshot, and it seemed that he did not sleep well.
While on the road, Lan Youyou found several more grass trips under the tree where Wupper had sat. This seems to be a habit of Wu Bo, as long as he is driving in the mountains, he always has a few stumbling blocks from time to time.
On this day, Lan Youyou’s words were obviously less, and he just bowed his head and hurried along. But Wupper asked Lan Youyou about the situation at home. When he heard Lan Youyou talking about his father’s death at the age of just 3, he couldn’t help being startled and his face became difficult to look.
Over the mountains after dark, there appeared a rocky cliff that stretched straight into the sky. Wupper pointed to the stone cliff and said: “We are here. The top of the stone cliff is where the magic orchid appeared.”
The two rested under the cliff for one night, and the next day As soon as it was light, Wu Bo woke Lan Youyou up to the top of the cliff. The cliff was like a huge rock, bare and slippery, and there was almost no place to step on it. Wuber took out the tools used by the herb pickers to climb the cliffs from the back basket, and displayed his own stunt of climbing over the mountains. Lan Youyou does not show weaknessIn order to wait until this day, she usually does not work less, in addition to frequent climbing in the wild for exercise, she has also developed superb indoor climbing skills. She took out the climbing gear from her big backpack, followed closely behind Wu Bo, and finally climbed to the top of the cliff in the evening.
The setting sun shines on the top of the cliff, surrounded by rugged mountains, except for the old and young on the top of the cliff, it seems that the whole world has disappeared. Wupper lay on the top of the cliff and rested for a while, then suddenly got up. Lan Youyou climbed up and stared at him alertly.