9 Four Leaf Ginseng
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Before dark.
Finally arrived at the destination.
There are two peaks in front, in the shape of a saddle.
In his previous life, Zhou Yun found a century-old ginseng on a shady slope on the mountain peak on the left. After testing by the Ji\1 Lin Changbai Mountain Ginseng Product Testing Center, the ginseng age of this ginseng has reached 126 years.
Zhou Yun found an open and sheltered open space. A pine house was built. A fire was lit. It will be cold at night. The wind is strong in the mountains and forests.
Here, there is no signal on the phone.
Zhou Yun got into his sleeping bag.
The sleeping bag was ambiguous.
Soon fell asleep.
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The next day, early in the morning. Zhou Yun woke up from his sleeping bag. Eyes are foggy. Hear the cries of various animals in the jungle.
It's too noisy.
At first, a bird was calling, and the sound was loud, and the song of 'Brother Wang Gang', Brother Wang Gang' was loud, and it spread all over the jungle. Then, the jungle woke up. All kinds of calls, the calls of wild boars, roe deer, all kinds of birds, played a jungle morning song.
Zhou Yun climbed out of his sleeping bag. Climbed out of the pine house. Put on a coat. It's too cold in the northeast. Not bone-chilling, but icy cold.
With a sigh of relief, it turned into a white mist.
The branches of the trees were frosty.
The ears are no longer their own ears. There is no consciousness anymore.
The hand became stiff.
Zhou Yun gathered a bundle of pine needles and dried pine branches around. A fire was lit and the body was harmonized. Cook a cup of beef broth and drink, and cook the dried beef in an aluminum lunch box.
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Zhou Yun started at 6 o'clock.
At 7:30 a.m., we arrived at the shady side of the mountain.
The spring sun dispelled the cold and the dense fog in the mountains and forests.
Zhou Yun saw a blue-purple purple gas in the air. Zhou Yun pinched his fingers and calculated, there must be ginseng hereγγγγγγ
Zhou Yun definitely didn't pinch his fingers.
However, there is purple gas on the top and ginseng on the bottom, and there is a certain scientific truth.
Two thousand years ago, the weft book of the late Western Han Dynasty, "Liwei Dou Weiyi" cloud: the king rides the wood and the king has ginseng, and there is ginseng below, and there is purple gas on it. "The ancients did not deceive the remnant.
There is some truth to what the ancients said.
This is the valuable experience of ginseng pickers in the mountains and forests.
There is purple gas on the top and ginseng on the bottom.
This is because ginseng likes to grow in places with high humidity, and it is easy to appear in the case of high humidity in the mountains, and sunlight is composed of seven colors, and the penetration of purple light is the strongest among them, so people can see purple light in the fog.
This side of the hillside. Backshade. The sunlight is oblique, the humidity is high, and the fog is heavy, which is a good growth environment for ginseng.
Zhou Yun began looking for ginseng on this hillside.
Slow pace. The pace is narrow. Gradually search the ground inch by inch.
Ginseng is a gift from the mountain gods,......γ
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It was noon.
was found by Zhou Yun to find a ginseng plant.
Bright red ginseng seeds. Four blades.
At this time, beware of poisonous snakes.
Legend has it that poisonous snakes 'guard' ginseng.
There are always poisonous snakes near wild ginseng. If the ginseng picker is not careful, it is easy to be bitten...
This is actually the color of the ginseng fruit is bright red when it is ripe, and the bright color is easy to attract rats and birds, and the snake is very happy to eat these small animals, so the snake will hide near the ginseng and wait for the food to be delivered to the door.
Zhou used a branch to pick up the ginseng compound leaves.
No snakes were found.
Then, crouch down.
Zhou Yun is not superstitious.
But, with awe. Be grateful.
Respect the mountains and forests. Thanksgiving to the mountains and forests. Thanksgiving ginseng.
Although, Zhou Yun did not use a mallet lock to lock the ginseng when digging ginseng, and the red thread of the mallet lock was wrapped around the reed head of the ginseng, and a shelf was built with a straw, which meant to give the ginseng a new home, and then, with two copper coins, they were put on the sticks or branches inserted in the ground to prevent the mallets from "running away." β
However, Zhou Yun is still grateful.
Thanksgiving for the gift of this mountain forest.
Zhou Yun pulled down his body. Pick up the messy grass and leaves around the ginseng with your hands, and then carefully pull out the soil around the ginseng with a bamboo skewer, and start digging along the reed until all the roots of the ginseng are exposed, and no small roots can be cut off. If it is broken, the quality will be broken, and the price will fall sharply.
It took 5 hours to travel around.
I dug up this ginseng plant.
This ginseng, 4 leaves.
Generally speaking, the compound leaves of ginseng can be planted with one compound leaf per year, while it takes several years or even decades for wild ginseng to add one compound leaf.
Therefore, the three flowers, palms, two jiazi, lampstands, four leaves, five leaves, and six leaves that ginseng pickers often say are only for wild ginseng.
The 1~5-year-old wild ginseng has only one three compound leaves growing in the aboveground part, the small petiole is not obvious, and the leaves are the same as seedlings, which is called "three flowers".
The ginseng is 5~10 years old and grows a complete five-piece palm-shaped compound leaf, which is called 'palm'.
After 10~20 years, there will be two palm-shaped compound leaves, which are called 'Erjiazi'. The head of the old mountain is called the "key to opening the mountain", which means that finding the small twist is to find the clue to take the big goods, and there are likely to be many mallets nearby.
It is only possible to grow three palm-shaped compound leaves after the ginseng is 30 years old, which is called "lampstand." "The wild mountain ginseng has three palm-shaped compound leaves, like a lampstand with three candles inserted.
At this time, the taproot already has the distinctive characteristics of wild ginseng, and it begins to mature and has round reeds that will bloom and bear fruit. Tip the head: If you see this wild ginseng, you have to take the way of large goods.
After 50 years, wild ginseng has four palm-shaped compound leaves, called "four leaves", and enters the robust period. Wild ginseng with four leaves is often 50~80 years old.
The lampstand of the three-pin-leaf is only beginning to blossom and bear fruit, dropping dozens of ginseng seeds every year, and after a few decades, there will be many small twists around, so the old man reminds that there are generally many of her "little children" near the four-pin-leaf leaf.
Wild ginseng with five palm-shaped compound leaves is called "five-pin-leaf". This kind of old wild ginseng is about 100 years old and is rare.
Wild ginseng with six palm-shaped compound leaves is called "six-pin-leaf". Wild ginseng is generally rare in the "six-grade leaves", which is the best in ginseng.
The four-leaf ginseng that Zhou Yun dug up. It is 50 to 80 years old. It's a big ginseng.
Zhou Yun peeled off a piece of linden bark, spread fresh moss on the linden bark, then spread a layer of soil on top of the moss, and then wrapped the ginseng and tied it with a red rope. Put it in your backpack. The ginseng preserved in this method does not decay over time.
Ginseng pickers consciously abide by an important rule, "Lift the big and keep the small." βγ
Zhou Yun spreads ripe ginseng seeds into the soil. Ginseng grows for posterity.
Then, fill in the pit where the ginseng was dug with the original soil. In order to facilitate the restoration of the landform, there will be new seedlings arched out in the future.
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