Cordyceps, which grows on alpine meadows.

Due to the high altitude, the plants on these slopes grow very slowly, and only the most stubborn plants can survive on the alpine meadows, and this grass does not know what it is called, but the locals call it thorn grass, which emerges from the ground only two or three centimeters high, and even if the sun comes out, there are frost flowers on it.

Cordyceps is mixed with this thorny grass, which is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, so you can only lie on the ground and look for it slowly.

In later generations, due to excessive excavation, crawling forward for several meters, it is not possible to find a single plant.

But now it's different.

Fan Yang and Lack of a door inquired, just outside the north gate, there was a lot of cordyceps, so the two of them took two small shovels, a cloth bag, and some dry food, and slowly went out of the city.

The clear sunshine, the clear blue sky, the snow-capped tops of the distant mountains shining golden in the sun, breathing in the fresh air, lifted the spirits of the two.

Today's Tibetan area is pure and unpolluted, and there are few tourists, the two of them are walking unhurriedly on the road, and a few wild dogs are hanging from afar.

The wild dogs in the suburbs are not terrible, followed by people are often curious, the hillside is scattered with cattle and sheep, and from a distance, I saw a grassy slope, lying on the stomach of a few herdsmen, it seems that they are picking cordyceps.

Regardless of whether there is economic value or not, picking Cordyceps is a traditional activity of herdsmen, they believe that the tip of the grass of Cordyceps is the hair of the mountain god, and the body of the insect is the body of the mountain god, which is a gift from the mountain god.

On several grassy slopes, you can see herders picking cordyceps on their stomachs.

Of course, in Kangding in later generations, it must be difficult to find Cordyceps around the suburbs, and almost all of them are light.

The two of them were excited, and as soon as they climbed the grassy slope, Fan Yang fell down.

After a few strokes on the grass, I found a small gray-brown mushroom top.

Use a small shovel to stick it in the soil, loosen the soil, and pull out a thin cordyceps.

"Is this Cordyceps? ”

Lacking a door, he also learned from Fan Yang's appearance and lay on the grass.

"Wow, I found one, too. ”

"There's more. ”

"Fan Yang, what else are we buying, it's so easy to dig, I knew that I would be done digging it. ”

In a short time, the two dug up more than 10 roots.

is so easy to dig, Fan Yang himself didn't expect it.

The two of them were in a state of excitement, and it took more than an hour to lie down, searching all over the small half of the hillside, and digging out seventy or eighty.

When they raised their heads, they only felt dizzy, and the two of them stopped, and they lay down on the grassy slope.

In practice, it's quite tiring.

After resting for a while, Fan Yang took out the small brush he had brought with him and brushed the dirt outside.

"What's the matter, how heavy is this?" asked the missing one.

Fan Yang ordered the cordyceps: "87, I'm afraid there are only one or two after drying." ”

"What? one or two? Won't you?"

"About 1,000 roots, only a pound of drying, what do you say. ”

"How much is a tael?"

"About 10 bucks. Fan Yang smiled helplessly.

"Isn't it, we've been busy for so long, it's only worth 10 yuan?"

After two trades, I don't feel that I feel high because I lack a vision.

10 yuan, two bags of Shaqima, sold in a blink of an eye, how easy.

Fan Yang smiled, today's Cordyceps is indeed like this, but in the future, one will cost twenty or thirty yuan.

Many cordyceps dealers stood guard on the hillside, holding money in their hands, and the herdsmen dug one out and collected one.

The hillside was assigned to the herdsmen, and outsiders were not allowed to enter at all.

Fan Yang still remembers that in the later generations, outsiders wanted to go in to dig Cordyceps, and the ticket was 1,200 yuan.

"Forget it, it's really boring for us to dig ourselves. Fan Yang clapped his hands and stood up and put the cordyceps he had packed into his pocket.

He looked at the herdsmen in the distance: "Let's go and ask and see how much they have dug up, and we will directly use the money to collect it." ”

The two stood up and walked towards the two herdsmen not far away.

It was two middle-aged people, thirty or forty years old, a man and a woman, who looked like a couple.

When the two herdsmen saw someone coming, they turned over and sat up.

Fan Yang walked over, smiled, sat down cross-legged opposite the herdsman, and gave the man a cigarette: "Uncle, you are also digging Cordyceps." ”

"Yes, how much have you dug up?" replied the middle-aged herdsman.

"I haven't dug much, it's all here, what are you digging for?"

"Digging and playing. ”

Fan Yang saw that the cordyceps dug up by the two of them were packed in a dustpan, and there were probably two or three hundred.

Then he said, "Uncle, do you sell this grass?" I will pay for it, and you can sell it to me." ”

"You want?"

"Hmm. Fan Yang nodded.

"If you want to take it, just take it. ”

The sun shone on the dark faces of the two herdsmen, Fan Yang paid attention to the hands of the two, they were dry and cracked, they looked like dry paddy fields, covered with ice cracks, and bloodshot, in order to dig Cordyceps, the two of them dug the ground for a long time.

As a result, Fan Yang asked, and directly planned to give it to the two.

The herdsmen in those years were so simple.

"It's not going to work, you have to give money. ”

But two or three hundred cordyceps, how much do you give?

After thinking about it for a while, he took out 10 yuan and handed it to the herdsman: "Uncle, take it, be careful." ”

"If you want me to take whatever money I take, you can take it. ”

The herdsman smiled and pushed the dustpan beside him to Fan Yang's side: "I don't want your money, you can take it if you want." ”

"Well, what's embarrassing. ”

"Take it, take it. ”

Another herdsman took out a few packets of instant noodles from his Tibetan robe, stretched out his chapped hand, and handed a packet to Fan Yang and the missing men.

"Come on, eat this, it tastes okay. ”

When the two of them looked at it, they actually sold it themselves.

I wanted to refuse, but the two herders insisted on giving it to them.

He also gave cordyceps to two people.

made the two of them blush.

It's just two or three hundred cordyceps.

After eating the instant noodles, the two herdsmen stood up and didn't look like they were going to dig anymore: "Let's go, friend." ”

"Well, thank you for walking slowly. ”

Looking at the backs of the two, Fan Yang and the lack of a door were not happy.

"Really, I'm so embarrassed, we're just taking it for nothing, and eating other people's instant noodles, these herdsmen are too easy to talk to. Missing a door sighed.

"Herdsmen believe in Buddhism, most of them are kind to people, and hospitable, and their nature is also bold, but we are not thoughtful, we already know that we should bring some cigarettes and alcohol or something, by the way, Shaqima seems to be good, do not charge money, we have to express it. ”

"Yes, let's just buy something and exchange it with them, and it should be okay to smoke and drink. ”

"You can buy some wine, and a bottle of Lao Baigan is only five or six yuan, so everyone will not lose money for two bottles of wine. ”

The two went to look at several other herders and found that they had not picked much grass.

I'm embarrassed to speak now.

Besides, 10 yuan is really a bit like sending Hanako.

And they are all elderly herdsmen, taking someone else's, and the two of them feel guilty.