Medicine Girl Crossing the Mountain

On the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month, Little New Year's Eve, the mountains were closed by heavy snow. When Shen Fuling woke up in a ruined temple, she found that she was a seventeen-year-old peasant girl who had been expelled by her uncle and aunt and was dying. He had nothing but a silver needle left by his mother in the middle of his clothes, and a body covered with frostbite and on the verge of collapse. Outside the temple gate, the wind and snow wrapped around two younger children—A Xiao, who cannot speak but can resonate with birds and beasts, and A Ling, who is thin and timid but is naturally proficient in mushrooms. Three people abandoned by the world shared half a piece of hard biscuit next to the remaining fire and made an oath, "I will support you from now on." From ruined temples to hunting huts, from collecting firewood and herbs to prescribing prescriptions and acupuncture, Shen Fuling relied on the old notes left by the original owner's mother and her modern Chinese medicine skills to pry a way out of the mountains. Geothermal changes, animal herds migrating north, and plagues are rampant. A series of signs point to the same fact - the mountains below are awakening. When volcanic ash obscured the sun and poisonous swamps lay ahead, Shen Fuling was no longer just a "sister" protecting her two children. She became the leader of more than 300 villagers and mandrill hunters. In the face of natural disasters, what she teaches is not conquest, but symbiosis. Treasures of medicinal grains are hidden in various places, geological disasters are predicted with vegetation, and the last trace of vitality of the mountain forest is preserved by "rotating harvesting and resting". From walking alone to walking together, from saving herself to ferrying others, she re-understood the old woman's words when she was leaving in every desperate situation - If the doctor does not save people, people will heal themselves; if the mountain does not nourish people, people will support themselves. "Medicine Girl Crossing the Mountain" is a female coming-of-age novel that deeply integrates traditional Chinese medicine culture and the survival rules of the mountains and forests. A deep mountain road, a wind and snow disaster. When the medicine girl crosses the mountain, what she crosses is not the mountain, but the human heart.