1. In the mountains, in the evening, the cold wind flies and snowflakes are floating. Grandma Zhang, who was alone at home, saw that there was not much firewood in the house, so she got up and went to the firewood pile in the yard to get the firewood. When Grandma Zhang was holding a hug of firewood and preparing to go back to the house, she suddenly found a corner of the red skirt exposed from behind the firewood pile.
Grandma Zhang was so strange. She turned to the back of the firewood pile and saw that it turned out to be a handsome girl in red, hiding there with a few firewood in her hand. The girl probably wanted to use a few firewood to light the fire to keep warm because the weather was too cold. When she saw Grandma Zhang coming out, she hid. Grandma Zhang thought to herself, what a few pieces of firewood is, so she smiled and called the girl in red and invited her to sit at her house and have a cup of hot tea.
But the girl in red refused. She said she was just passing by here and there was an urgent matter to do, so she just asked Grandma Zhang to ask her to get a few firewood. Seeing her insisting, Grandma Zhang said, "Girl, then wait a moment, I'll bring you some food with you." Then she went back to the house to get the cakes, but when she came out, the girl in red had already left.
Grandma Zhang chased out for a while but didn't chase after him. At this time, it was getting dark. Grandma Zhang looked down and found that the girl's footprints were actually barefoot. It’s strange, how could barefoot stand this coldness on this cold snowy day? Going further forward, there is the forest, and the cries of birds and beasts came from it. Grandma Zhang was scared and thought, could she have encountered something wild? He turned around and ran back in fear.
When she entered the house, Grandma Zhang quickly bolted the door, her heart hopped violently. After a while, she breathed a sigh of relief. After that, Grandma Zhang did not go out again. Fortunately, there was enough firewood, and the snowflakes were floating outside, but the fire was burning inside the house. Grandma Zhang was roasting fire, cracking melon seeds, searching for strange stories in the mountains in her mind, trying to find a corresponding match for the girl in red, but she couldn't find it. Gradually, Grandma Zhang took a nap.
Suddenly, a bang bang knock on the door woke Grandma Zhang up. Grandma Zhang was shocked. Is that girl back? She was a little scared and didn't dare to open the door. But then I thought again that even a wild thing didn't look malicious. Besides, maybe she was really an ordinary girl, and she was barefoot on such a cold day.
2. Ginseng picker
Unexpectedly, the door opened, but there was a bearded man outside. Grandma Zhang was shocked and stunned. It was not until the man shouted, "Old man, don't be afraid, I am a ginseng picker." Grandma Zhang came to her senses and quietly looked down at the ginseng picker's feet. She saw that his feet were wearing big leather boots and were covered with snow on them, so she felt relieved and let him into the house. But as soon as he walked, Grandma Zhang found that the ginseng picker was a little strange and limped when walking.
The ginseng picker roasted the fire, ate some cakes and took out the money to Grandma Zhang. Grandma Zhang refused to ask for it. The ginseng picker said, "How can I feel good about this?" Grandma Zhang smiled and said, "Okay, if you really want to give it to Grandma Zhang, let me tell you about your ginseng picking. I like to listen. By the way, what's wrong with your foot?" Dabao sighed and said, "Oh, your feet are nothing, I sprained. But, I really encountered something this time."
It turned out that Dabao went to the mountain to collect ginseng this time. He picked some herbs, but he didn't meet a single ginseng. At noon today, he planned to change to a mountain to pick it up, so he packed his bags and walked to the stream to wash his face. On the way back from the stream, he unexpectedly saw a sixth-grade ginseng under a big tree. Dabao was very happy and quickly took out the red rope to tie the baby, and then ran back to get the tool. But while running, I accidentally stepped on the air, fell to the cliff, and fainted.
When Dabao woke up, he found himself hanging on a branch under the cliff. Fortunately, his clothes were thick and he was not injured except for twisting his feet. But the sun was westward, and the light in the old forest was dark, and snowflakes were falling again.He walked around several times and lost his way and could not find the way to the mountain. So he found a place to shrink into a ball, trying to recover his strength, but fell asleep unknowingly.
When I opened my eyes again, Dabao was surprised to see a fire in front of me, and a girl in red sat opposite me. When the girl saw him awake, she sighed, "You finally woke up. You slept here on a heavy snowy day, and there was no fire that could not be dawn." Dabao saw that it was not. Except for the fire near the fire, there was quite thick snow all around. Dabao said, "Girl, you saved my life!" The girl
smiled and said, "Haha, I can't drag a big guy like you. Okay, now you wake up, go in that direction. When you leave the forest, you can see the lights at Grandma Zhang's house at the entrance of the village." As she said that, the girl pointed in one direction, then got up and was about to leave. Dabao also stood up and asked, "Girl, aren't you going back?" The girl was frowning and walked in the other direction. Dabao twisted his foot and couldn't catch up. He shouted in a hurry: "Girl, what's your name? How can I repay you?" The aunt turned around and replied: "My name is Yanzhi. I still have to find my naughty sister Xiaoqin."
3. Red Girl
Speaking of this, Dabao stopped and asked Grandma Zhang: "By the way, this Yanzhi is from which girl in your village? I have to come to thank others." Grandma Zhang was stunned: "Rozhi? There is no one in our village called Yanzhi! There is no one called Xiaoqin! You are quite honest, but I didn't expect to make up stories to scare!" Dabao looked aggrieved.
At this time, Grandma Zhang remembered the girl in red she met in the evening, patted the table, and exclaimed: "Oh, I'm old, look at my memory. In the evening, a girl in red asked me for a few dry firewood and took it away. Could it be that she saved you?" So Grandma Zhang talked about the girl in red smoking firewood.
Dabao heard this and became happy and said, "You have seen her, that's great! Maybe she is a relative of a family in your village." Grandma Zhang shook her head, "No. She borrowed firewood and didn't go back to the village at all. I followed her footprints and went to the edge of the forest. Then I found that her footprints were all barefoot."
Dabao said "ah". Grandma Zhang continued, "This is what I saw with my own eyes. At that time, I was thinking that I was afraid I would encounter something bad. Later, I heard you say she saved you. I think she is wild, but she should be quite kind. It's a blessing for you to be lucky. Maybe it's a fairy or something..."
Dabao interrupted Grandma Zhang excitedly and said, "Hey, I understand, that's a ginseng girl! I've heard a long time ago that some of the best ginsengs who are older will turn into ginseng dolls. Those ginseng dolls are not afraid of the cold, and they still run around barefoot in the middle of winter. But..." As he said that, Dabao's mood fell down again.
Grandma Zhang also nodded repeatedly: "Yes, you are right, I have heard of it. That's right, it's Miss Ginseng. Oh, Dabao, it turns out that it was Miss Ginseng that saved you!" Grandma Zhang found that Dabao had no sound and felt very strange, so she asked, "Hey, Dabao, you know that the benefactor is a fairy, why are you unhappy?" Dabao just sighed.
4. Snow is vast and
That night, Dabao tossed and turned and didn't sleep much. However, early the next morning, he got up early. It was dawn, the snow stopped, Dabao's feet were much better, and he entered the mountain again.
Dabao found his bag and came to the big tree of the sixth-grade leaf ginseng. However, Dabao did not dig the ginseng tree. Instead, he untied the red rope tied to the ginseng.
Dabao didn’t sleep well last night because of this. He knew that since the Rouge girl who saved him was ginseng, wouldn’t the sister Xiaoqin, whom the Rouge girl was looking for, be this sixth-grade leaf that she tied with a red rope? If you want to repay your kindness, isn’t the best gift to untied the red rope and put the sixth-grade leaves? However, in that case, I really have to go back to see my family empty-handedly.But Dabao thought again, if it weren't for the ginseng girl, he would probably never see his family again. So he made up his mind to untie the red rope. Fortunately, there are some herbs. Thinking of this, Dabao felt relieved and regained his relaxation.
came out of the forest and before he could reach the entrance of the village, Dabao met Grandma Zhang. Grandma Zhang waved and called Dabao to his side, stuffed him some food, and then told him, "Dabao, I'm going to visit my granddaughter's house to visit relatives. When you go to my backyard, there are a few local specialties from the mountains that I gave you. You can take them back." After that, she left hurriedly.
However, when Dabao walked to the entrance of the village, he was shocked. How could there be any house for Grandma Zhang’s house? Looking further into the village, it was full of ruins. However, behind the land where Grandma Zhang's house disappeared, Dabao really found the gift from Grandma Zhang to him: three third-grade ginseng trees.
Dabao then realized that Grandma Zhang was also a ginseng. She was making up stories last night to enlighten herself. In fact, it was to persuade Dabao to put her heart on her Xiaoqin girl.
Dabao chased after Grandma Zhang, but only saw three barefoot footprints. At this time, snowflakes floated again in the sky. In the hazy area, Dabao seemed to see Grandma Zhang holding two girls Xiaoqin and Yanzhi floating away and disappearing between the white snow. Gradually, heavy snow covered those footprints again, and the whole world was so white that it was really clean. #Folkstories
