Chapter 40 Ginseng Doll

Zhang Wolf held the book, his heart was hot, and he thought of the twenty-four puppies in his house. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

According to the book, this dog food can promote bone development and strengthen muscles and bones.

Zhang Wolf had the urge to start boiling dog food immediately.

The white fog of the next morning shrouded the entire Xilong Mountain, and Zhang Wolf followed the master to meet the morning glow that broke through the white fog and sprinkled to the top of the mountain, and finished the morning class.

After breakfast, Zhang Wolf was not in a hurry to go down the mountain, took the "Dog Sutra" to find Qingyuan Daoist, and said excitedly: "Master, look at me to find this, there is a dog food formula here, you can see that it can strengthen the dog's muscles and bones and promote bone development...... Isn't it amazing. ā€

Qing Yuan glanced at it, and scolded with a smile: "In the past, I always refused to work hard to teach you medical skills, but now I am embarrassed to take it out, and such a thing is also used as a treasure by you, a person who does not learn and has no skills." ā€

"Huh?"

"Ahh

After speaking, he continued to reprimand: "You are not allowed to read any miscellaneous books in tonight's class, memorize the gold prescription!"

"Got it, master. "In the previous life, Zhang Wolf was playful, and the master taught medical skills, but he always refused to work hard, and it was too late to regret it.

"How old a man is, get a room of dogs, go back and send the dogs to the mountains, and get a wild boar and two bags of flour. "Qingyuan Dao Chang explained.

"Got it...... Thank you, master!" Zhang Wolf knew that the master was going to help him make dog food and train puppies, so he agreed excitedly.

The status of dogs in Taoism is still very high, and there is the art of controlling beasts in Taoist miscellaneous, and Qingyuan Dao Chang Xun Dog is also an expert.

With the medicine that the master prepared for his father, mother and godmother, Zhang Wolf stepped on the early morning mist and went down the mountain.

Zhang Wolf went home first and handed the medicine to his father, "Dad, this is your medicine, go back and let your sister-in-law help you decoct the medicine." Mother, this is the medicine for you and your godmother, the master prescribes a medicinal meal for you, wrap it in gauze and stew it with the old hen, just drink a bowl every day. ā€

In fact, there is no need for Zhang Wolf to explain, who in the countryside will not decoct medicine in the past.

"I'm fine, what kind of medicine do I take!" Mother Zhang felt a little sorry for the old hen at home and was unwilling to take medicinal food.

"yes...... Wolf cub, Godmother's body is fine, now that life is better, and the mood is better, if you give us another grandchild, your mother and I can get better without taking medicine. The godmother said to Zhang Wolf with a smile, and glanced at Tang Feifei from time to time.

Zhang Wolf was a little speechless, "Yes, these two old ladies are fine now, and they are thinking about his marriage when they see the sky." ā€

"Dad, mother, godmother, sister-in-law, you are busy, I will leave first, there is still a mess in the village. Zhang Wolf hurriedly retreated.

"Why is this kid so thin-skinned...... Run as soon as you say it. The godmother looked at the back of Zhang Wolf and said with a smile.

"Don't look at the wolf cub in the village, but he went to be a soldier at fifteen, with a group of big men, then understand this!"

"That's right...... Fei Fei, why don't you take the initiative?"

"Mother...... I'm going to the village to help cook!" Tang Feifei also blushed and retreated.

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Entering the village, because Zhang Wolf sat in the morning class to welcome the first rays of the morning glow, he got up relatively early.

After going home and going around, the laborers of the village began to work.

"Mountain pillar, continue to hit the blast hole in this section of the village entrance today. Zhang Wolf stopped Dong Shanzhu, who was about to go to work, and explained.

"Got it, Uncle Wolf!" Dong Shanzhu nodded in agreement.

"Tell everyone, you must pay attention to safety!" Zhang Wolf confessed again before letting Dong Shanzhu leave.

"Third uncle, fourth uncle, you keep an eye on the affairs in the village, I will go to Qijiawopu in the morning. Zhang Wolf found the third uncle and the fourth uncle again.

"What's the matter?

"Well, my master gave my father a medical look and said that it would be better to have old ginseng! I'll go to my grandmother's house to see if I can find old ginseng. Zhang Wolf explained.

"Then let's go! These old five people have suffered, and speaking of them, the fifth child's illness was still caused by the construction of the reservoir in the village. As soon as he heard that it was to find medicine for Zhang's father, the third uncle urged Zhang Wolf to hurry up.

"Well, then I'll go. ā€

"Go ahead, we two old fellows are in the village. The fourth master waved his hand and asked Zhang Wolf to hurry up.

Watching his younger brother suffer all these years, he felt uncomfortable as an elder brother.

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When I came to my grandfather's house, I told my grandfather about the need for old ginseng for my father's treatment, and my grandfather smoked a cigarette and began to ponder.

His son-in-law turned out to be a famous man in this ten miles and eight villages, and he repaired the reservoir that winter and fell into such a disease, but it was a pity that his old daughter also suffered with it.

Now that there is a chance to be cured, of course Grandpa Zhang Wolf is concerned.

"It's okay to say that this old ginseng should have a few hidden roots in the homes of several old ginseng guests in our village. Grandpa Zhang Wolf smoked a cigarette and pondered for a long time before he spoke: "It's just this tiger bone, if it was a few years earlier, you could have gone into the forest to fight one." Now that the state doesn't let me fight, there is really nowhere to look. ā€

"Grandpa, just have the old ginseng, I'll think of other ways to go back to the tiger bone, you go and help me ask, only there is ...... Whatever it takes. "Originally, I didn't have any hope for tiger bones, but now it would be good to have old ginseng, Zhang Wolf excitedly urged his grandfather to hurry up and ask.

"Don't worry, grandpa will ask you. Saying that, Grandpa Zhang stood up, knocked the smoke pot on the sole of his shoe, and went out to find someone to ask for ginseng.

"Alas, God forbid, God forbid, my poor child is saved at last. Grandma Zhang Wolf said to the sky.

"Grandma, this is not blessed by the gods, it is my master. Zhang Wolf said with a smile.

"Phew, don't talk nonsense, your master was sent by the gods. Children are not sensible, immortals are not strange! Immortals are not strange!" Grandma Zhang Wolf slapped Zhang Wolf lightly, blaming him for talking nonsense, in case he offended the immortals, he was blamed for it.

"Okay! Grandma is right, it is the blessing of the gods, let my master come to help the suffering. Zhang Wolf had no choice but to follow his grandmother's words.

After so many years of breaking the four olds and breaking feudal superstitions, the old people still can't stop the old people's awe of gods and Buddhas.

didn't let Zhang Wolf wait, grandpa came back with a red cloth bag.

"Well, it's all here, let your master see if these are suitable. Grandpa Zhang put the red cloth bag on the table.

"I'll take a look!" Zhang Wolf was also curious about what the old mountain ginseng that was so solemnly wrapped in red cloth looked like.

As the old saying goes, ginseng, seven taels are ginseng and eight taels are treasures, which means that ginseng can grow to more than 8 taels is rare and more precious, and more than 8 taels are called treasures, ginseng below 7 taels is more common, and those below 7 taels are called ginseng.

In the past, people often used half a catty and eight taels to describe that two things are the same, why do you say that? It turns out that the scale used by our ancestors is sixteen taels for one catty, so half a catty and eight taels are the same.

With the current weighing, even if it is more than half a catty, even if it is a treasure, it is also called a ginseng doll.

Speaking of ginseng dolls, there are many stories about ginseng dolls in the Northeast folklore.

It is said that a long time ago, there was a small mountain village in Changbai Mountain. There is a family in the village, and there is only a grandmother and a little grandson in the family, the little grandson is named Xiaohuzi, and the two depend on each other.

One year, the elderly grandmother was seriously ill, and Xiaohuzi was very anxious.

He heard that if he could find ginseng that had grown for more than 100 years in the deep mountains and old forests, he could cure his grandmother's illness. So, he went into the deep mountains and old forests and looked for ginseng everywhere.

But he searched for three days in a row, and he didn't even see the shadow of ginseng.

On the fourth day, Xiaohuzi saw a very big tree, and he was too tired to walk, so he sat under the tree to rest, and fell asleep because he didn't want to sit down.

He had a dream in which a chubby doll came up to him with a red belly tied around his belly and a red rope around his neck.

He told Xiaohuzi that he was a ginseng doll that had been growing for more than a hundred years.

Xiaohuzi woke up suddenly, and when he looked down again, he found that not far from the root of the tree, there was a ginseng flower, and he jumped up in surprise.

He knew that he had finally found a century-old ginseng. He immediately took out the red rope he carried with him according to the method the old people said, and carefully tied the ginseng flower. Because the old man said that if you don't tie it with a red rope, the ginseng will run from the ground.

Xiaohuzi was very excited, and immediately rushed back to tell his grandmother the good news and bring tools to dig ginseng.

But when he rushed home, it was already dark, and his grandmother's illness was very serious.

That night, when Xiaohuzi was asleep, he saw the chubby ginseng doll come to him again. The ginseng doll said: "Little Huzi, you are a good boy who is filial, in order to save your grandmother, you are looking for me everywhere, and I am here now."

When you wake up tomorrow, your grandmother's illness will be cured, please untie the red rope around my neck and let me go, I will go to save other people who need me. ā€

The next morning, when Xiaohuzi woke up, he found that his grandmother's illness was really cured, he was very happy, and told his grandmother what happened in the dream, and the grandmother said, "Good boy, my illness has been cured, you go and untie the red rope on the ginseng flower."

Xiaohuzi said, okay, I'll go right away.

He quickly rushed to the foot of the big tree, untied the red rope tied to the ginseng flower, and let the ginseng doll go.

In fact, there are many more such stories.

A long time ago, it is said that many ginseng grew on Mengshan Mountain in the Yimeng Mountains of southeast Ludong, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful and the scenery is beautiful.

Two of them have lived for thousands of years and become spiritual, turned into ginseng dolls, and often play in the mountains at night.

On a bright moonlit night, someone had seen them on the mountain - a man and a woman, white and chubby, with dazzling red pockets around their waists, bouncing and jumping, very cute.

One day, a black-hearted monk who came from afar learned about this, so he wanted to catch a ginseng doll, so he rode a donkey, and brought Qingfeng and Mingyue to Mengshan Mountain, and built a small temple, named Mingshan Temple.

After he came, he had no intention of reciting the scriptures, sleeping during the day, and wandering around the mountains at night to look for them.

The two little monks chopped wood, cooked, cut grass, and fed donkeys for him during the day, and at night they cooked rice until late at night, ate leftovers, wore rags, and were often beaten and scolded.

One night, the black-hearted monk went out to look for it again, Qingfeng and Mingyue were licking rice, only to see a man and a woman standing outside the door, two white fat dolls with red pockets, they said timidly: "Shall I help you with rice?"

Qingfeng and Mingyue were worried that they couldn't finish scooping, so they agreed, and the four of them finished scooping the rice in a while.

From then on, whenever the black-hearted monk went out at night, the two dolls would come to help with the work, and then play together, talking and laughing, very happy.

One night, the black-hearted monk came back very early and found the ginseng doll playing in the house, so he gently pushed the door open and grabbed it, but the ginseng doll disappeared immediately.

The black-hearted monk's eyes turned a few times, and he said to Qingfeng and Mingyue: "I'll give each of you a needle with a lock of red thread, and when the fat doll comes back, secretly pin the needle to their red pocket and loosen the thread, and when the time comes, you two can play with them often." ā€

Qingfeng and Mingyue believed it and were happy for most of the night. In the evening, two fat dolls came, and they kept the fat dolls to play for a while, pinned the needle and loosened the thread as instructed.

The next morning, the black-hearted monk got up early and searched along the crooked red thread, and it was not until evening that he dug up the ginseng doll deep in the mountains and trees.

The black-hearted monk was secretly happy: "Hehe, I'm about to be reborn as an immortal......" He quietly came to the kitchen, put the ginseng doll in the pot, and brought a big stone to press on the lid of the pot.

called Qingfeng and Mingyue and said, "You two just burn the fire and don't open it, otherwise you will have to die." After saying that, he bathed and changed.

Qingfeng and Mingyue had just lit a fire, and suddenly a strange fragrance wafted out of the pot, and they heard the shouting inside: "Help us." ā€

The two of them glanced at each other, and with the courage to lift off the stone and open the lid of the pot, they said, "Ah? It's those two fat dolls." ā€

Qingfeng and Mingyue knew that they had been fooled, and they desperately took out the two good friends and let them escape from the backyard.

Before leaving, the two dolls gratefully stuffed each of them with an unknown small mountain fruit, and told them: "When you are in danger, put it in your mouth", and their bodies disappeared in a flash.

After a while, the black-hearted monk came back and found that Qingfeng Mingyue had let go of the ginseng doll, so he took the wattle to smoke them.

Qingfeng and Mingyue hurriedly took the little mountain fruit into their mouths, only to feel that they were light, and their feet were off the ground.

They hurriedly grabbed the reins of the donkey tied to the laurel tree, but they didn't expect the donkey and the laurel tree to also rise from the ground and rise to the sky, and the stones and soil entrained on the root of the tree fell, and happened to hit the head of the black-hearted monk.

The breeze and the bright moon rose to the ninefold sky, and the Zhenyuanzi immortal who was sent by the Queen Mother to the Wuzhuang Temple of Wanshou Mountain became a fairy child who guarded the "ginseng fruit".

The donkey was wandering around in the sky, and happened to be bumped into by Zhang Guolao and taken in as a mount.

The laurel tree was stopped by Chang'e in the Moon Palace and planted in front of the Moon Palace, and on a bright moonlit night, we can still see the shadow of the laurel tree on the moon.

The ginseng doll who escaped from the tiger's mouth did not want to continue to live in Mengshan for a long time, so they took their family and left the Yimeng Mountain and moved to the great forest in the northeast of our country, where they settled down and multiplied.