Chapter 755 Into the mountains to carry ginseng

  Chapter 755 Entering the mountain to carry ginseng

  Xu Shiyan has not been so busy recently, so he leaves work normally every day.

  When I got home this afternoon, I found that my eldest son was at home. I only found out after asking.

  The last subject in the afternoon was geography, and Xu Haiyuan handed in the paper early and ran home.

  Xu Shiyan didn’t ask how his son was doing in the exam.

   It was Xu Haiyuan, who took the initiative to mention it, saying that the result of the competition came out, and he might win the prize.

   “Well, it’s pretty good, work hard.

  By the way, how many days do you take the exam for? When will you finish the exam? After you finish the exam, go out with me to do some errands. ”

  Xu Shiyan planned to go to that Shilazi in the big house and dig up all the remaining sticks on the platform.

   This trip is estimated to take several days. He doesn’t want to take others with him, so he should take his eldest son with him.

   “The exam will be over the morning of the day after tomorrow. After the exam, it will be a holiday. Just go back to school in a few days to listen to the results and get the homework for the holiday.”

  Xu Haiyuan didn’t know what his father asked him to do, but since he was called, there must be something important.

   “Dad, how many days does it take to go out to do errands?

  If it takes a long time, I will tell the teacher in advance, and I can ask someone to help me get the grades and homework. ”

   “Well, it’s estimated to be a week, not sure.

  Okay, you can find someone to help you get it. ”

  Xu Shiyan thought for a while, if the clubs on the platform were still there, it would probably take a few days.

  Of course, other situations are not ruled out, so set aside a week, it should be about the same.

   Just like that, the father and father made an appointment, and when Su Anying came back, Xu Shiyan talked to his wife again.

  Su Anying knew about the mallet on the platform, and thought that Xu Shiyan didn’t plan to go back.

  Since the two of them were going back to dig the club, Su Anying hurriedly prepared food for them.

  It has been a long time in the mountains, and pancakes are a must-have. No bread or cake can compare to this thing.

  In addition to pancakes, pickles, meat sauce, etc., Su Anying also prepared instant noodles and ham sausage.

   These two things are new gadgets nowadays, and they must be taken when traveling.

  July 12th, the junior high school exam is over.

  In the early morning of the 13th, Xu Shiyan and Xu Haiyuan packed up their bags, loaded them into the car, and prepared to go up the mountain.

   As a result, that rambunctious ghost who ran away for many days and only came back last night followed Xu Shiyan closely, refusing to leave no matter how hard he pushed him away.

   Xu Shiyan saw that there was no way out, so he could only let Lai Pigui and Xu Haiyuan sit in the back seat of the jeep.

   Just drove the son and the fox and left home.

  The construction of the cascade power station has not yet started, and the upper reaches of the Xijiang River have not been cut off, and there is a lot of water in summer.

   Xu Shiyan and his son had to take a boat if they wanted to cross the river.

  If they took a boat, they would inevitably alarm the villagers, so Xu Shiyan and his son could not go to Shilazi with peace of mind.

  So Xu Shiyan drove from the county to Xigang, and then drove from Xigang to the big house.

  The road from Xigang to Qingling is not easy.

   Fortunately, it was a jeep that drove past Qingling, a few miles away from the big house.

  Xu Shiyan managed to park the car on the side of the road, then took his son and the fox, got out of the car and walked to the place where he found the ginseng.

  While walking, Xu Shiyan told his son what happened when he went to the mountains to release them.

  At that time, how was he chased by the black blind man and had nowhere to escape, so he ran to the side of Shilazi, but it was a blessing in disguise, and met a bunch of sticks.

   “Dad, you met that piece of wild ginseng in the summer of 1977, right?

   It’s been more than ten years. Will someone find out that the mallet has been dug away? ”

  Xu Haiyuan was carrying a huge luggage bag, and followed behind Xu Shiyan. It was okay at first, and he didn’t fall behind at all.

  Children do not have that long-term strength, and they are a little tired later, and they are panting heavily.

  “I came back to see it twice before, and the mallets below are still there, but I haven’t been back in the past two years, so I don’t know what’s going on.

  I guess it should be nothing serious, unless you jump down there, you won’t find it on the top. “Xu Shiyan was also exhausted and panicked.

  After all these years, I haven’t made much effort, and I’ve been sitting in an office.

   Not to mention his age, he is almost forty, which is incomparable to what he was back then.

  My father and I left the house at 3:30 in the morning. After driving around for a long time, it was 7 or 8 in the morning.

  Get out of the car and enter the mountain, with a break twice, when they came to the pine tree by the cliff, it was already ten o’clock.

   “It’s right down here, see? There’s a platform underneath.

  You wait, I will tie the rope, and we will go down the rope. ”

  When they came under the pine tree, Xu Shiyan heaved a sigh of relief, and the two of them put down the big backpacks behind them.

  Xu Shiyan dug out a long rope from his bag, one end was tied with a pig’s trotter buckle on the tree trunk, and the other end was slid under the ladle.

  Xu Shiyan went down first, walked around the platform, and found a lot of ginseng.

  In this season, the ginseng seeds seem to be unfinished, and they are still green, which is the time when Dajiabianer City is transitioning to Qinglangtou City.

  Although the ginseng seeds are green and the same color as the surrounding grass and leaves, Xu Shiyan has many years of experience in mountain climbing.

  According to the local people, it means killing grass with eyes.

   It was easy to find traces of ginseng from the green grass and bushes on the platform.

   Seeing Shen, Xu Shiyan was relieved, so he went back to the rope and shouted towards it.

   “Yuanyuan, you roll the things down first, and then you come down again.

  Lumpy ghost, try to see if you can hold it down, or let it jump down by itself, and I will continue below. ”

   Lai Pigui definitely can’t stay on it, so he can only bring it down together.

  Xu Haiyuan heard his father’s shout, and after responding, he rolled the things the two brought down from above.

  Xu Shiyan caught the backpack and other things underneath, put them aside, and then stood below waiting for his son and rascal to come down.

  Xu Haiyuan carried Laipi Gui on his back with leggings, then he held the rope with both hands, stepped on the Lazi stone wall, and came down the rope bit by bit.

  Xu Shiyan was below, picked up his son, and Xu Haiyuan landed safely.

  After untiing Laipi Gui, Lai Pigui shook his big tail and wandered around on the platform.

   As a result, it just took a few steps when it found the ginseng on the platform, so it jumped back immediately, biting Xu Shiyan’s trouser leg and pulling it forward.

   “Yes, yes, I know there are ginseng on it, if it wasn’t for this, could I bring you here?”

  Xu Shiyan was amused by the rambunctious ghost, and quickly found out from the luggage the tools for lifting gins, such as a mallet lock, deer bone sticks, Kuidang axe, and Kuidang scissors.

  Xu Shiyan meant that this time, he almost lifted all the mallets from the platform away.

  So you don’t need to worry about the size of the ginseng, just carry it next to each other.

   But Lai Pigui was unwilling to live and die, so he had to drag Xu Shiyan forward.

   Walked all the way to the middle of the platform, and then Lai Pigui walked around a Liupinye seedling in the middle.

   “Dad, does it want you to carry this ginseng first? Oops, this is Liupinye.

   Didn’t you say that you carried away all the sixth-grade leaves on it? Is this a new leaf? ”

  Xu Haiyuan walked over to have a look, and asked a very strange question.

   “It’s possible, after all, it’s been thirteen years, and the five-rank leaf at the beginning may also grow into a sixth-rank leaf.”

  Things like wild ginseng can be dormant.

  Sometimes in the beginning of spring, when there is drought or other unexpected situations, it is likely that the wild ginseng will not germinate this year, and will be dormant in the ground, and will germinate in the soil when the conditions are suitable.

  That’s why there are often such legends, saying that they met ginseng when they entered the mountain, but for some reason they didn’t dig it out.

   So I left a mark and waited to dig it next year, but it disappeared the next time I came.

  People will mistakenly think that the ginseng ran, but in fact it is likely that it did not germinate afterwards.

   Xu Shiyan was not sure what happened to the extra sixth-grade leaves on the platform.

   It is hard to say whether the fifth-rank leaf has become the sixth-rank leaf in the past ten years, or whether the sixth-rank leaf was not unearthed that year.

  But the one that Lai Pigui led Xu Shiyan to look at has a thick stem and a large ginseng seed.

  So Xu Shiyan estimates that it may not be the new sixth-grade leaves that have grown in recent years.

   It is very possible that this ginseng tree was not unearthed the year he came here.

   Or else, he didn’t pay attention at the time and was left behind.

   After all, so many years have passed, even if Xu Shiyan has a good memory, it is impossible to remember the location of every ginseng.

  There are many ginseng on the platform, Xu Shiyan greeted Xu Haiyuan, and tied all the ginseng he found with red cloth strips.

  According to the rules, it should be locked with a mallet, but there is only one mallet lock, which is tied to the six-pin leaf that Lapigui found.

  Others can only be marked with red cloth strips, so as not to be confused with the surrounding grass and bushes.

  Xu Haiyuan took the rambunctious ghost around on the platform, looking for ginseng.

   It is estimated that the fox has a particularly sensitive sense of smell. This rascal is much more powerful than Xu Haiyuan.

   Shaking its big fluffy tail, it hopped here and there, and when it found a ginseng, it yelled at Xu Haiyuan.

  As soon as Xu Haiyuan heard the rascal whining, he went over immediately, found the ginseng, and tied it with a red cloth.

   After a while, Lai Pigui led Xu Haiyuan to find more than ten trees.

   Among them, there are two Liupinye trees. The stems seem to be a little thinner, and the ginseng seeds are not that big.

  Amidst the green, the red cloth strips are tied, which is particularly conspicuous, so there is no fear of missing anything.

  Xu Haiyuan and Lai Pigui went to find Shen, while Xu Shiyan started to find a way to build the master’s mansion first.

   After setting up the master’s mansion, he folded three wooden sticks and lit them as incense. He called Xu Haiyuan, and the two of them kowtowed.

  This is the rule of letting go of the mountain. The first thing to do when entering the mountain is to worship the mountain god.

  Even if Xu Shiyan came for this platform this time, he couldn’t ignore the rules he should have.

  After worshiping the old man of the mountain god, Xu Shiyan climbed up to collect a lot of firewood, filled it with water, and cut a few poles to build a shelter from the wind and rain.

  Nowadays, building a shack is much easier than before. You only need to use a pole to build a shelf, and directly cover it with a piece of plastic sheeting, which is windproof and warm.

  The shack was quickly set up, Xu Shiyan found something to build a fire, first boiled some water in a small aluminum pot with two ears, and cooked two packets of noodles.

   Greeted Xu Haiyuan to come over, and the two ate pancakes with instant noodles.

   No matter what, you can only work when you have a full stomach.

   After eating, Xu Shiyan found some Artemisia annua and other things, threw them on the fire, and smoked the mosquitoes.

   Only then did I take the reference lifting tool and start to lift the reference.

   The first ginseng tree is naturally the one that Lai Pigui dragged Xu Shiyan to see.

  Xu Shiyan cleared the weeds around the ginseng, then took a deer bone stick, and started to go down the ginseng stem, pushing away the soil bit by bit.

   This work must be done carefully and carefully, and not too anxious. Fortunately, Xu Shiyan is very patient and does not feel boring at all.

  Xu Haiyuan marked all the participants on the platform, and there is nothing wrong now, just helping Xu Shiyan.

  Xu Shiyan handed him whatever he used, and the father and father cooperated very well. After an hour or so, the shoulder of the ginseng tree was finally exposed.

  Xu Shiyan looked at it and felt that this ginseng was not small.

   “I didn’t expect that such a big tree fell on the platform.

  This place is really a treasure. If it weren’t for the construction of a dam upstream, the environment here would be easily destroyed.

   Just keep it like this, and wait for another 20 or 30 years, and these mallets will grow even bigger. ”

  Xu Shiyan muttered to Xu Haiyuan while carrying the ginseng.

  Xu Haiyuan laughed when he heard this, “Who can say this kind of thing accurately?

  Even if the dam is not built, it must be lifted when it is necessary, otherwise who knows what accidents will happen? ”

  Xu Shiyan agreed when he heard it. The things in the mountains are not the vegetables in his own vegetable garden after all.

   Not to say that the participants will not encounter any natural disasters, but what if someone also discovers this place?

   After all, wasn’t Xu Shiyan also discovered such a secret place?

  The father and father chatted casually for a few words, and Xu Shiyan concentrated on promoting the ginseng.

  This ginseng tree is not too small. Xu Shiyan has been busy from noon until it was almost dark at night, so he finally brought out the first ginseng tree.

   “This ginseng tree must be at least four or five taels long. It can be processed and kept for many years.”

  Xu Shiyan looked at the ginseng tree in his hand and liked it very much.

   Quickly found moss and birch bark, took some soil from the original place, carefully wrapped the ginseng, and put it in their backpacks.

  It was too late to continue carrying ginseng, so the father and father took a bite to eat, and then got into the shack to rest.

  There is a layer of branches on the ground, and a mattress of roe deer skin, which insulates against the cold and moisture, and it does not feel cold when lying on it.

  The middle of July is supposed to be the hottest season, but the night in this mountain is chilly.

  Especially this platform is right next to the river, so there is a lot of water vapor at night, making it even cooler.

   Fortunately, the two of you have a lot of luggage, and there is still a fire outside, so it can be warmed up by roasting.

   In addition, Lai Pigui is lying between Xu Shiyan and Xu Haiyuan, this natural fur is warmer than anything else, so it won’t be cold.

  The shack is made of plastic sheeting. The white plastic sheeting is transparent, and you can see the sky full of stars when lying in it.

   “Father, how did you spend seven or eight days under the stone ladle?

  Where does the water come from? Are there any beasts at night? ”

  Xu Haiyuan thought this scene was very interesting, and couldn’t sleep at night, so he asked his father what happened back then.

  ”Yes, there were wolves at that time, I was below, and I could hear the wolves howling above.

   But they dare not come down, so I am not afraid. “Xu Shiyan smiled and told his son about the situation back then.

   “In recent years, wolves have become less and less. Even if there are, they are all in the deep mountains and old forests. There are no such places here. Don’t be afraid.”

   “Drinking water is easy. Go up here and walk southwest for a while. There is a small river ditch. Just get water from there.”

  The father and father were lying in the shack, looking at the sky above their heads, and Xu Shiyan told his son about the things he used to watch and hunt in the mountains.

  Xu Haiyuan was fascinated by what he heard, and kept asking this and that.

  The father and father babbled and didn’t know when, so they went to sleep separately.

  Xu Shiyan brought his son on the mountain, so naturally he didn’t dare to be careless.

   I got up several times at night, checked the surrounding situation, and then added firewood to the fire to keep the fire alive overnight.

  This night, apart from the movement of night owls in the mountains, there were no other sounds of wild animals, wolves or anything, and no movement was heard at all.

  During the summer in Northeast China, it is early morning, and the east side is bright at three o’clock.

  Xu Shiyan couldn’t fall asleep either, so he simply got up and lit a fire to boil water, and then started to lift the ginseng.

   Two chapters combined into one. I have a fever and my whole body hurts, let’s change these first.

  (end of this chapter)