"Didn't you say that ginseng has five leaves in its sixth year, how can this ginseng be thirty or forty years old?" Ling Zikai asked puzzled.

"Have you ever heard of reincarnation?"

"What kind of reincarnation?" Ling Zikai said in amazement: "Are you saying that the legendary kind of person will be reincarnated after death, dead and born, born and dead, life and death, like a wheel that turns non-stop, and the cycle is endless?"

The cuckoo nodded and said, "I don't know if there will really be reincarnation after death, but there really is a phenomenon of "reincarnation" in this wild ginseng. Sometimes, when you see that the stems and leaves are just "two horns", you must think that it is just a small ginseng plant, but when you dig out the soil, it is a seedling of large ginseng. Do you know why?"

Without waiting for Ling Zikai to answer, the cuckoo continued: "That's because when the wild ginseng grows to six leaves, it will transform into two horns and continue to grow until the six leaves are left, and then it will become two horns for the third time, and then "reincarnate" again!

Ling Zikai felt that his brain was a little short-circuited, which was too unbelievable! No wonder it was said that wild ginseng had the effect of greatly replenishing vitality, and it was mysteriously related to this phenomenon of "reincarnation".

"Then how do you conclude that this is more than 30 years of ginseng?

"There are two main ways to determine the age of ginseng, one is to look at the stem, leaves and fruits, but because of reincarnation, the reliability of this method is relatively poor, just like the plant in front of me, it looks like five leaves, in fact, it has grown several times!"

"The second thing to look at is the reed at the root. The root of ginseng resembles the human body and is composed of reeds, taro, taproot, lateral roots, fibrous roots, etc. The head of the reed is the head of a human being, which is roughly divided into three sections, the bottom is the garden reed, the middle is the pile of flower reeds, and the one that grows on the pile of flowers is the horse tooth reed. First, the garden reeds are grown, and then about fifty or sixty years old, a pile of flower reeds will grow on the garden reeds, which are called two-section reeds. After continuing to grow for several decades, horsetooth reeds grow on the head of the heap of flowers. Generally speaking, ginseng has reed bowls growing on it, usually one a year. The denser the reed bowl, the longer the age of the ginseng. On the other hand, the round reed at the bottom is a typical feature of wild ginseng, and it takes more than 30 years to show its shape during the growth period. ”

"There is also to look at its taproot, just like the human body, relatively short and thick, the upper end has a thin and deep dense spiral pattern, the line is concave, as if there is an iron wire that once tied it, restraining it to grow, fine, dense and deep, the circle is opposite, not connected to each other, because the line will be sandwiched with some black soil, and called "iron line". The denser and more dense the iron lines, the older the ginseng will be. There is also the outer skin, the younger one, the outer skin is compact and delicate and smooth, yellowish-white, without coarse skin. Older ones appear bumpy or have rough skin. The older the skin, the darker the color, and the older the age of the ginseng. ”

"Finally, you can look at its fibrous roots. The older the ginseng, the rarer and more slender the ginseng whiskers, therefore, the beard of old ginseng is concise, refreshing, flexible in texture, and not easy to break. Ginseng grows underground for decades, and many ginseng whiskers will rot and grow out, and the rotten ginseng whiskers will leave scars, which are pearl spots, which usually extend from the thicker fibrous roots to the ends of the small fibrous roots, sometimes sparse, but always very obvious, therefore, the more pearl spots, the older the ginseng. ”

"But sometimes, during the growth process, ginseng will stop growing due to the trampling of wild animals or natural reasons, and it will continue to grow after N years of dormancy. Therefore, it is difficult to accurately estimate the specific age, and most of them are judged based on the traces of the reed. If the reed is round and long, and there are dozens of reed bowls, then this ginseng must be more than 100 years old. ”

Ling Zikai listened to the cuckoo talk with relish, and after she finished speaking, he asked, "Since this is an old ginseng, why didn't you dig it out, but buried her again?"

The cuckoo said lightly: "Although it is very good to be able to dig a wild ginseng seedling of thirty or forty years old, but it is nothing in this tiger stream!"

Ling Zikai saw Du Juan's understatement, and he was a little unconvinced, but the next facts suddenly made him speechless.

In the next half hour, the cuckoo found at least two dozen wild ginseng seedlings. But they are all around fifty years old, and without exception, after looking at them, the cuckoos are all re-landfilled, and they are obviously a little unsightly.

Ling Zikai was a little puzzled, it is said that now is the most difficult time for the forest farm, these more than 20 wild ginseng seedlings can be sold for millions at least, why is the cuckoo not tempted at all? I don't know what idea she is playing in her heart, could it be that there are better wild ginseng seedlings waiting in front?

Seeing that the cuckoo found ginseng seedlings from time to time, Ling Zikai was also interested, and he distanced himself from the cuckoo, wanting to find a wild ginseng seedling in person.

According to the rhododendron, there are many companion plants in the growth environment of wild ginseng, such as bush clover, palm-leaved fern, wind-tailed fern, etc., and the more lush these weeds grow, the higher the nutrient content of the soil, the greater the chance of wild ginseng seedlings, but the same is also more difficult to find.

After searching for a while, Ling Zikai saw that he had found nothing, so he quietly opened the ancestral god consciousness and swept through the linden forest. As soon as the picture of the forest appeared in his mind, he was surprised to find some white stars jumping constantly, these stars were so small that they were difficult to spot without paying attention.

This—this is ----

When Ling Zikai looked for the nearest star point and saw what it was, he was a little speechless, only to see that what he saw in his consciousness was the wild ginseng seedlings that the cuckoo had discovered before!

Could it be that these stars come from the body of the wild ginseng seedling, why are the other plants not? Ling Zikai was a little unbelievable, they all said that ginseng is the best tonic in the world, it can replenish vitality, and has the effect of reviving the dead, could it be because of these star points? Or these star points are the vitality contained in the ginseng body!

Ling Zikai's brain was a little short-circuited, he kept checking those star spots, a star point means that there is a ginseng there, and the age of the ginseng can be judged according to the size of the star point, the older the ginseng presents the bigger the star point, and vice versa.

Ling Zikai was a little excited, in addition to discovering the secret of ginseng, he was overjoyed by this new function of the ancestral god consciousness, this can be regarded as looking for ginseng, it is obviously even more excessive than picking up ginseng! This is simply cheating!

Ling Zikai, who was in high spirits, immediately learned from the example of the cuckoo, and was no longer interested in these forty or fifty-year-old ginseng seedlings around him. He found a spot that was much larger than the others, and searched for it, and sure enough, he found it by a bush full of black rotting leaves, counted the leaves, and shouted at the cuckoo:

"Hurry up, I've found a big guy!"

Because he was a little far away, Du Juan didn't hear Ling Zikai's words clearly, thinking that something had happened to him, so he hurriedly ran over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ling Zikai pointed to the ginseng seedlings in the soil and said, "What do you think this is?"

Under the cuckoo's eyes, he let out a cry in surprise: "Seven ginseng seedlings?"

Then he squatted down with some suspicion, looked at it cautiously for a while, and couldn't help but say with a happy face: "That's right, this is a hundred-year-old ginseng, and it is also a rare seven-grade leaf!

Ling Zikai finally saw the cuckoo's shocked face, and said a little proudly: "I'm a little convinced! How about it, isn't it still eye-catching! Okay, I'll find you a bigger one, such as the eight-rank leaf and the nine-rank leaf!"

Hearing this, the cuckoo sneered and laughed: "You think this wild ginseng is a carrot, you can be as big as you want! The wild ginseng seedlings of the seven leaves are already the limit of ginseng, and I have only seen it once when I was a child." As for the eight-pint leaf and the nine-pint leaf, I have only heard it in legends, and it will become a ginseng doll, and it will run away before you can find out!"

"Is there really a ginseng doll?" Ling Zikai asked in surprise.

"It's not just ginseng dolls, I heard that those thousand-year-old ginseng are all watching with guardians!"

Ling Zikai asked puzzledly, "What guardian?"

"It's just some ferocious beasts, tigers, snakes, etc., even if you find them, you can't dig them up!"

Ling Zikai nodded thoughtfully, thinking that if he really found a thousand-year-old ginseng, he would have to be careful. Because of the new function of the ancestral god consciousness, he was confident to try his luck, after all, this Tigger Stream was different from the forest outside, almost no one had entered it for thousands of years, maybe it would really bring unexpected surprises to himself.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the cuckoo suddenly shout: "Mallet, stop!"

Ling Zikai couldn't help but be startled when he heard the cry coldly, but saw that the cuckoo took out a red rope from the package he was carrying, tied one end to a branch next to it, and wrapped the other end around the head of the ginseng reed. Then he picked up some dead branches and hay and built a small shelf around the ginseng seedlings. Seeing Ling Zikai's face full of puzzlement, he explained.

It turns out that digging wild ginseng seedlings does not mean that you can dig when you see it, there is still a whole set of procedures to go!

When I found that the ginseng first had to "shout the mountain", just like the cuckoo before, I shouted "mallet", and then the person next to me responded with a "what goods?" This is called "picking up the mountain". Because Ling Zikai didn't understand this, Du Juan omitted the procedure of "picking up the mountain". Tie the ginseng seedlings with a red rope to prevent the mallets from "running away". And building a house shelf means to give ginseng a new home.

Ling Zikai perked up when he heard this, and said, "So, we're going to dig up this ginseng seedling!"

The cuckoo glanced at Ling Zikai and said, "If you don't dig this hundred-year-old ginseng, you will treat me as a fool!"