Chapter Twenty-Three: The Little Porcupine
"It's okay, I've also shed this blood, and I'm used to it." The sixth man on the side said with a worried face.
Le Lang looked at the wound on Naruto's buttocks, walked to the grass at the edge of the forest to look for it, and when he came back, he already had a crumpled ball of herbs in his hand.
"Use dog skin plaster, this thing is easy to use, and it won't leave a scar." As he spoke, he handed the thing to Naruto, it was better for him to apply it to the wound by himself, his face was tender, and it was a little difficult for him to take off his ass in public.
When you go up the mountain, you often bring some wound medicine or something, but just scratch the wound and the like, the dog skin plaster is indeed recognized as easy to use. Dog skin plaster is a kind of plant leaves, the specific official name is not clear, but it is particularly good for wound hemostasis and scarring, generally as long as the thin surface layer on the leaf is cut open, it can be directly attached to the wound, this leaf has a strong sticky surname, and immediately stop bleeding, so people call it "dog skin plaster", like Lelang can also be kneaded into a paste, but it is more troublesome, but the effect is a little better than only scratching the leaf layer.
After a while, Naruto put the wound on it, but he couldn't squat, he could only stand there straight, squatting a little, his butt hurt, and he couldn't help the sixth man dig ginseng, and now he was sick. Naruto leaned himself against the tree, trying to make himself as comfortable as possible. Looking at the blood stains on the ground, I felt as if I was a little weak, and I wondered if I should ask Lao Liu to take a few ginseng or American ginseng to make up for it, but ginseng is to replenish yang, and American ginseng seems to be to replenish yin, and I should complement yin and yang.
Lao Liuhu didn't know that Naruto was beating his ginseng and American ginseng, so he just looked at the two porcupines lying in a pool of blood and said to everyone, "What about these two porcupines?" ”
"Take it back and eat it, what should I do?" Naruto spoke.
"If you're not afraid that he will beat you, then you can take it back and eat it." Le Lang said with a smile on the side. You must know that the village has always forbidden the people in the village to hunt in the forest, and the sixth child, Che Shenfu, once warned them that if anyone dared to run into the forest to cause trouble, he would be beaten all over the ground. So as soon as Naruto heard Le Lang say this, he immediately stopped talking.
"It's better to bury it, otherwise it won't be good to go back to the village and let the people in the village see it." Shen Min said on the side.
"Bury it, we don't lack those taels of meat." Lao Qi also said on the side.
Le Lang looked at the porcupine on the ground, his eyes rolled, and he immediately had an idea, "Then I'll bury it," After speaking, he grabbed a porcupine with one hand, good guy, seeing that this frame is more than 100 pounds, he picked up the porcupine and walked quickly into the forest, and quickly disappeared in front of everyone.
Everyone couldn't help but wonder when this kid was so diligent.
Everyone didn't realize that Naruto had a hint of a meaningful smile on his face from the moment Lelang took the porcupine. Le Lang took the two porcupines to a place in the forest where no one could see them, quickly sent the two porcupines into the space, and then pretended to stay in the forest for a while, and then walked out, carefully looking at the hands that did not even have a trace of blood and dirt sticking to them.
Ginseng and American ginseng are actually planted in this area, so it is not surprising that ginseng was dug up by porcupines, and it is estimated that it was also gnawed as a radish, and then it was thrown aside when it was found that it did not taste very good.
When the sixth child came back, he divided the labor for everyone on the side, only to hear him say: "None of you have ever dug ginseng, I'll show you later, and then you go to pick it yourself, this piece of ginseng should be dug up, otherwise it's about to be ruined by these beasts, Naruto, you don't want to make a living, stay aside, San Lang also, hey, what about San Lang?" "Lao Liu looked around, but he didn't see San Lang.
"Wasn't it still here just now? Why is it gone all of a sudden, this little guy is much more slippery than when you were a child. The seventh laughed at the sixth on the side.
Everyone laughed.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, San Lang ran over again, and held a little porcupine in one hand, the little porcupine obviously hadn't opened his eyes yet, and he was burrowing around in San Lang's arms, not at all. Just now, Saburo was collecting porcupine spines on the ground, and walked to the hole that the porcupine had just rushed out, and felt as if there was something inside, so he lay down at the hole to look. Through the sunlight, I vaguely saw that there seemed to be two small black shadows inside, and the little kid didn't know what it was to be afraid, so he reached in and touched it, pulled things out and took a look, but found that they were two little porcupines.
So, he rushed over again to show his work to Le Lang. "Uncle Ah Lang, Uncle Ah Lang, look what I caught, look, these two little pigs are not cute, Uncle Ah Lang, let's take them back and raise them, you see, they don't have their parents so pitiful!"
Seeing the little porcupine held by San Lang, everyone understood why the two porcupines were so desperate just now, it turned out to be a cub protector, no wonder. Looking at the two little porcupines, several people couldn't help but have a headache, they would definitely die if they were put back, and they hadn't opened their eyes yet, so it seemed that they had to take it back and raise it according to what San Lang said, but whether they could feed it or not was another matter.
Le Lang touched Saburo's head and said, "Then we'll take it back and raise it." Naruto on the side endured the slightly aching buttocks, and took Le Lang's words in his heart, "Eat it when you grow up." ”
San Lang hugged the two little porcupines tightly, looked left and right, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, he gently touched the little porcupine with his hand, the little porcupine had just been born, the hair was still soft, and it was not stinging, and he felt that someone was playing with it, and he suddenly screamed happily.
I don't know if Saburo has been lonely since he was a child, and he has no one to accompany him, so he likes small animals very much, and he especially likes to sit quietly with his little head on the side, watching the little ones playing around him, he will laugh happily.
"Okay, you go to the side to play, I'm going to dig ginseng with my uncles." Le Lang touched Saburo's head lovingly and said.
"Uncle Ah Lang, I also want to see digging ginseng, I found one just now? Ginseng can also be eaten. San Lang heard that Le Lang was going to dig ginseng and shouted to go and have a look, but Le Lang couldn't, so he had to take him. All that was left was Naruto leaning against a tree and a puddle of blood on the ground.
The forest was surrounded by tall trees, and as far as the eye could see, there were weeds more than a person tall, and they looked black and oppressive, and the weeds trembled slightly, as if some wild beast was about to come out of it.
After a while, there was a mountain breeze blowing slightly, Naruto felt a little cold, and after a second look, Le Lang and they had gone away, only the sound was still echoing in the woods, he pulled his clothes a little, looked around, how did he feel eerie, it seemed that something was wrong, and he hurriedly limped to catch up with Le Lang and them. Actually, Le Lang and they were very close, and when they turned a corner, they saw that the sixth man was pointing to a ginseng on the ground and explaining to Le Lang, and when they heard the voice, they didn't react when they saw Naruto coming, they just continued to talk.
Strictly speaking, Lao Liu's ginseng can be regarded as mountain ginseng, because he has not added any human factors to it, but only provided a good living environment for ginseng, without applying any chemical fertilizer, without regulating the temperature, without killing insects, everything is natural, and it should be regarded as wild ginseng.
The length of life of ginseng growth and maturity is different, some years, more than ten years or dozens of hundreds of years, generally use the leaves of ginseng to determine the age, there are two leaves, four leaves, six leaves, eight leaves and more, the more leaves, the longer the growth period, the heavier the weight, the higher the value. In the northern area, because ginseng grows in the weeds in the deep mountains and old forests, it is difficult to be found, so when going up the mountain to dig ginseng, several people go together, usually three or five people or seven or eight people. Led by a leader, I had to bring dry food and water, as well as some clothes for sleeping in the mountains and forests, and I could only go home once a week or so, which was very difficult.
In the early days, ginseng mining had its own set of rules and jargon, and it was not allowed to laugh and joke casually. Everyone should bring a set of bamboo fibers threaded with red rope, a few strips of red cloth, and tools such as knives and scissors. At this time, someone will ask, "How many leaves?" The person who discovered the ginseng then replied "two-pint leaves", "four-pint leaves" or more according to the number of ginseng leaves. At the same time, the bamboo fibers tied with red rope are surrounded by ginseng, and then the red cloth strips are hung on the ginseng leaves, and soon everyone will gather here and bow down to the ginseng in a line.
Some say that this is to worship Grandpa ginseng, to thank him for giving them ginseng dolls; Some say that they worship the mountain gods, some say that they worship the sky, and there are many different theories.
After the worship, the leader digs the ginseng by himself, and the others gather around to watch, and they can't move around. The leader is a veteran of ginseng mining, with rich mining technology and experience, and can not hurt the ginseng body, not even a single root can be lost, and the value will be affected if the ginseng body is lost and the root is lost. The people who dig ginseng do not break blindly but according to the call of the mallet bird (buku bird), looking for it in this area, because the mallet bird loves to eat ginseng seeds, so where there is a mallet bird, there may be ginseng, and in general, if you find a ginseng, there may be a second or third tree nearby.
However, there are not so many rules for digging this ginseng, in order to dig this ginseng, he also specially ran to Changbai Mountain to experience the journey of digging ginseng in Changbai Mountain, but he didn't expect that this digging ginseng is just about the same as digging herbs, that's what happened, he regretted that he spent a trip in vain after he came back, and he suffered in vain.
He took out a white sharp cone from his backpack with a red cloth belt tied to the tail of the cone, which he bought at a farmer's house during his experience of digging ginseng in Changbai Mountain. The surname of the deer is docile, there is an auspicious meaning, and the ginseng digging people use this to dig ginseng in the hope of peace and security. I saw Lao Liu lying on the ground, carefully pulling out the weeds around the ginseng, and took out a garden pruning scissors to cut off the small saplings around the ginseng, and gently cut the soil layer under the ginseng with a deer cone, the soil was soft, and the old six deer cones and hands were used together, and occasionally used scissors to cut the roots of the trees around the ginseng fibrous roots, and the fat roots of the ginseng were faintly visible for a while.
When the sixth child saw the ginseng that appeared, he quickly dug it up excitedly, and after a while, the whole ginseng was dug up by him. The surface of the excavated ginseng is covered with dirt, brownish-yellow, and the roots are large and spindle-shaped, looking like human heads, hands, feet, and limbs.
"Sixth, how much is this ginseng worth?" Naruto looked at it and asked curiously.
"Uh" Lao Liu was stunned when he heard this, he didn't seem to have inquired about the price of ginseng, he had only heard about the price of ginseng before, but he had never inquired about the specifics, "I don't know about this." ”
"Sixth, if that's the case, then don't dig this ginseng, wait until you sell this ginseng, see how much money you can dig again, otherwise it will be wasted." Le Lang said on the side.
"Well, sixth brother, it's better not to dig it first, you sell this ginseng first and see how much it can be sold, otherwise you will dig it back, but you can't sell it, it's not a waste." Shen Min on the side also said.
The sixth looked at the ginseng in his hand and thought about it, "That's good, let's not dig this ginseng first, let's dig American ginseng today." With that, he took out another piece of brown paper from his backpack, wrapped the ginseng, and processed it when he got home.
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