Chapter 427: Underground Medicine Garden
A small lake is located in the corner of this space, and there is still a hint of heat bubbling from the lake.
Close to the lake, or even at the corner of the lake, a dark red "earth fire" is burning quietly, that is, it lights up this space.
In addition to the lake and the earth fire, what Xu Guangling saw was a large number of plants and trees.
The first is a big tree.
It looks like a fir tree, but it also looks a bit like a pine tree, in short, the pine fir genus is right, and the botanical knowledge that Xu Guangling can't talk about can only be located to this step. Both trees are the kind that need to be held by several people, and there are hollows underneath.
From the ground to a height of more than 20 meters, it is impossible to climb any further, and the top is thick with dirt and rocks, so the two large trees grow sideways in a zigzag way.
It grows sideways, takes root on the top, and then grows downward.
Therefore, the scene Xu Guangling sees now is very novel.
A large tree, at the top, are countless large and small sideways trees that grow upside down.
After Xu Guangling's vision left this small tree system, he saw an even more amazing scene, and the first thing he saw was ginseng.
Blockbuster slices of ginseng!
Xu Guangling's first stop before came to Changbai Mountain, in addition to the first herb that Zhang Lao told him was ginseng, but also because Changbai Mountain itself is also a comprehensive wild herb growing area.
However, after coming here, from the beginning to the present, Xu Guangling has only discovered three strains of ginseng through Tianyan.
And only one plant is more than 100 years old, the other two, one is about thirty or fifty years old, and the other is only a seedling, less than ten years.
But he never dreamed that in this underground, in this underground space that does not see the light of day, at least a thousand ginseng plants have grown into a large ginseng garden.
The Heavenly Eye extends underground, well, Xu Guangling's Heavenly Eye ability has been slowly advancing, and now it can penetrate more than three meters or so underground. So at this moment, at the bottom of this big ginseng garden, Xu Guangling saw a scene that made him extremely shocked.
There are many, many large ginsengs, the largest one, with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters!
So it doesn't look like an underground stem at all, it's just a little stump!
Even if it's a sweet potato, it's amazing to grow like this, not to mention, it's ginseng!
Xu Guangling was completely stunned.
How many years has such a large ginseng grown in the ground?
Five hundred years?
A thousand years?
Xu Guangling estimates that it will not be more than a thousand years.
In fact, ginseng was known as the first herbal medicine in later generations, in addition to its nourishing effect is indeed extraordinary, and its longevity should also have a little to do with it. - It's just that the environment is suitable, it won't cause decay or anything, and ginseng can grow forever!
No one knows how many years its limit is.
Anyway, thousands of years old, it doesn't matter.
On the edge of the ginseng garden, Xu Guangling saw many other kinds of medicinal herbs.
The largest range is gastrodia.
Like ginseng, it occupies a large area of ground and underground.
After looking at this large area of herbs as a whole, Xu Guangling determined that this was a medicine garden.
If a ginseng seed fell in through the exit from the outside by chance, it would have been possible to reproduce a large ginseng forest after thousands of years, but ginseng, gastrodia and other herbs grew together, so Xu Guangling dispelled this judgment.
So, the conclusion is, it's artificially grown!
After coming to this conclusion, Xu Guangling's heavenly eye glanced again.
Xu Guangling didn't think that there were still people living in this underground, from the growth of ginseng, gastrodia and other medicinal herbs, it could be seen at a glance that they had been "wild" for a long, long time, which was a sign that they had not been taken care of for many, many years.
The next moment, Xu Guangling found a wooden hut in another corner of this space, which was also the farthest from the cave mouth above.
Specifically, just the general shape of the hut.
Several pieces of wood, completely decayed, with dense mushrooms growing on them. - The remains of a mushroom.
It was a mushroom from an unknown number of years ago, and it had decayed into wood, and it was they who barely maintained the general shape of wood. A few other logs "grew" out, creating a large area of bushes nearby.
The vision penetrated into this small wooden house with thick years of mottled years, and Xu Guangling saw the scattered white bones and some wood chips at a glance.
The wood chips have long been very mottled, and they should not be able to be picked up, and it is estimated that they can turn into powder when the wind blows, but some of the handwriting carved on them can still be recognized.
Traditional.
Xu Guangling knows several foreign languages, but he is not very familiar with traditional characters.
It was only then that he realized the problem, so he was ashamed.
But it's just that he hasn't learned it specifically, and if he simply talks about recognition, at least more than half of the traditional Chinese characters can be recognized.
At this time, with the mottled handwriting and the traditional characters that were not very familiar, Xu Guangling recognized the descriptions on the wood chips one by one.
It's not too difficult.
After all, this is not a precise and subtle thing that cannot be missed, but a description of the life of the herb garden and the owner of this cabin, and it is specially written for those who come after it!
"The servants of the Song Dynasty are also. ”
This is the beginning.
During the Song Dynasty, this seemed to belong to the territory of the Jurchen people, right?
Xu Guangling continued to watch.
The handwriting of the wood chips is mottled, and even directly mottled to the point of missing, but the wood chips as a whole are not missing, and they are also in order, so looking at it all the way, Xu Guangling also has a general understanding of the narrator's body.
This is a scholar of the Song Dynasty, who passed the examination, and then repeatedly failed the examination, so he did not take the exam, and the family was thin and talented, so he lived a comfortable life happily, and later married his wife, and was even more emotional and beautiful.
But not long after, his wife died due to difficult childbirth.
Happiness turned into misery overnight.
This person is three brothers, the eldest brother and the younger brother, and he doesn't worry about his parents and no one to serve him, so this person was sad and left home to become a monk.
Then he traveled with the other monks.
In the process, he learned first-hand medicine.
Some of the monks he may have come into contact with were healers, or he may have taken the initiative to learn this because of his wife's relationship, but there is no detailed mention of this on the woodchips. Then there is the monk and half of the Langzhong of this wandering side, from south to north, from east to west, swaying on this land.
Later, he even wandered out of the customs and went to the grassland.
I went to the northeast again.
The words don't make sense, and there are several crossovers, but it's not a problem. In that era, knowing one-handed medicine was the best pass.
The owner of the wood chips described his medical skills as "superficial skills", but he was treated as a "master", and later came to this Liaodong territory, and accidentally cured a seriously ill person by accident, and was greatly promoted.
So he settled here for a while.
Because there are many medicinal herbs on the mountain, especially, "thousand-year-old ginseng, everywhere, this Middle Earth dare not think of it." ”
Xu Guangling is not sure whether his description uses exaggeration, and to what extent.
Even if at that time, no one dug ginseng in Changbai Mountain, there was no reason to have it to this extent, right?
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