Minglang glanced at Xuan Zimo, swept the tiger's tail, turned around and jumped to a higher terrain, and said condescendingly: "Okay, I have some kindness in us, I won't pursue it this time, next time I see you ruining my good deeds, don't blame me for ignoring friendship." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Clear?" Xuanzi Mo shouted, but Minglang ignored his shout, turned around and disappeared into the dense mountain forest, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Master, this bright temper is still so big, and his prejudice against us is getting deeper and deeper."

Lin Xiao sighed deeply and said: "I have a responsibility, when the tiger mother handed over the two children to me, they were only a few meters old, although I took good care of them, but when it comes to education, I am really ashamed, the two children are now on a mountain, a mountain down, each doing their own thing, as their guardian, I can't educate any of them, how can I be worthy of their mother." ”

"Master_" Gillian touched Lin Xiao's back painfully and comforted him silently.

Another week passed.

"Master, there is no shadow of this 10,000-year-old wild ginseng, where can I find it?"

At this time, a middle-aged man with a patch walked down from a distance, and Lin Xiao ran up enthusiastically when he saw this, and asked, "May I ask this uncle, where can I find wild ginseng?" ”

The middle-aged uncle looked at Lin Xiao and the others, and said, "At first glance, it is a foreigner, this wild ginseng is not something you can easily pick." Forget it, since we met and we were fated, let me tell you about it. ”

The name of this ginseng is very distinctive, the annual ginseng is composed of three leaflets, commonly known as three flower seeds; The biennial is composed of five leaflets, shaped like a human hand, commonly known as a horseshoe; The two three-year-old branches, each with five leaves, are commonly known as Erjiazi; The three branches of the four-year-old, commonly known as the lampstand; The four-pronged five-year-old is commonly known as the four-pin (also known as batch and horse) leaves; The six-year-old five-pin leaf, commonly known as the five-pint leaf; There are also six palm-shaped compound leaves, commonly known as six-pint leaves, but it is rare, because ginseng no longer grows leaves when it grows to six-pint leaves, so six-pint leaves are the most precious.

I've been collecting ginseng for 20 years, and the one that has grown the longest is a 50-year-old wild ginseng.

When going into the mountains to collect ginseng, it is generally a group of several people or a dozen people, which is called a gang; There is also a person who goes into the mountains to collect ginseng, that is, a single stick. When the gang entered the mountain, there was a mountain leader who everyone could trust and had rich experience in releasing the mountain. Ginseng picking tools include deer bone chisels, rope sticks, quick knives, quick axes, red velvet ropes, oil cloths, copper coins, etc.

When entering the mountain, the ginseng pickers bring millet, pickles and cooking utensils. The first thing to do when entering the mountain is to choose a good field, and build a shack with tree trunks and bark in the col of the wind and sun, which is called a balancing. Build another old man's mansion and worship the old leader of the mountain god. When the ginseng pickers search the mountain, they advance horizontally, and the distance between each other is about one stick, which is called a row of sticks; The person in the middle of the row is called the pole picker; The first time to put the mountain ginseng picker (called the first hand) in the middle of the side roller and the pole, also called the press trip.

If the mountain caster finds ginseng, he must shout loudly: "Mallet!" , this shouts mountain. What kind of goods do you ask? When you find that people are accurate, you have to answer immediately, say a few pins of leaves, and then everyone goes on to say hurry! Hurry up! , this is called the mountain. If you shout wrong, and you find a grass instead of ginseng, you have to dig it out and take it, which is a shout that blows up the mountain.

Sometimes it is not a single ginseng tree, but a single leaf or a cluster, and the answer is based on the number of leaves that start with the first one. The ginseng should be dug by the head, and the ginseng leaves should be put on the ginseng leaf with a red velvet rope tied with copper coins, in order to bring a halter to the ginseng, for fear that it will escape. There are also those who cover ginseng with straw hats. Then, the head should be drawn a one-meter square frame on the ground around the ginseng, and four people's rope pulling sticks should be inserted in the four corners, which is called Gubao.

Others set fire to the worms in order to concentrate on digging ginseng. When digging ginseng, break the soil first, and then slowly dig the ginseng whiskers one by one with a smooth deer bone drill. After picking out the soil around the ginseng, pull out the ginseng with moss grass. Subsequently, the ginseng is wrapped with moss thatch, birch leaves, and some raw soil, and the ginseng is beaten into ginseng buns with straw rope. The big ginseng bun is held by the handle.

After digging ginseng, you should cut off the head, that is, choose a red pine tree near the head, peel off a piece of bark from the trunk in the direction of digging ginseng, and then carve a bar with a knife on the white stubble trunk. The number of people who put the mountain is engraved on the left, and a few people are carved with a few bars; The right side is engraved with a few pins of leaf ginseng, and a few bars are carved on a few pins of leaves, which is to let everyone know that this place has been dug up for ginseng and is a ginseng growth area.

"Oh my God, it turns out that there is so much attention to picking and digging ginseng?"

"Hehe, then you think that the ginseng diggers have stayed in the mountains for many years, in order to also call it worshipping the mountain, and we who rely on the mountains to eat are talking about this set of rules, which has been passed down to this day and has formed an unwritten habit."

"Have you ever seen a thousand or ten thousand years of ginseng?"

The middle-aged uncle stomped his feet in fright, "What are you kidding, a thousand years, ten thousand years?" If there is really such a wild ginseng, it is no longer a wild ginseng in the real sense, it is the king of ginseng, you can't dig it, digging it is equivalent to offending the gods, and the mountain god is to blame. ”

Lin Xiao and the others were stunned when they heard this, and lowered their heads a little ashamedly.

The middle-aged uncle glanced at Lin Xiao a few times, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Young man, you look like you are still a student, digging ginseng is not something you can do, besides, I have lived a handful of years, and I have never seen a thousand years or ten thousand years of wild ginseng, as an elder, I advise you, don't be too ambitious, let alone spy on those god-like legends, ten thousand years of wild ginseng cannot exist, even if it exists, it is a god-like thing, don't be selfish, remember." ”

Lin Xiao nodded mechanically, and the middle-aged uncle patted him on the shoulder, carrying the hoe and walking away slowly, but his words lingered in the ears of several people for a long time.

"Sam King? God? Is this trip really going to be a failure? What should I do if the chief of the furnace is sick? ”

Lin Xiao and the others hung their heads in frustration and walked forward slowly, when suddenly a soft cry came, "Help, help." ”

Lin Xiao and the others slowly approached, and found that it was the white-haired old man who was chased by Ming Lang that day, the corners of his mouth overflowed with vermilion blood, and he seemed to be unable to move his steps when he was crooked to the side.

"Old uncle, what's wrong with you?"

"I was chased by a stinky tiger, he bit my foot, I can't move, can you carry me home, my home is in_" Before the words were finished, an earth-shattering tiger roar came.

"Lin Xiao, let go of that old man, he is mine."

Lin Xiao looked at Minglang, who was high above, sighed and said, "What did he steal from you?" Why are you chasing after it? ”

Ming Lang laughed when he heard this, "You still claim to be a generation of masters, and you can't even see the true body of this old man, he is a wild ginseng that has become a fine in this mountain, and the ginseng is at least 10,000 years old, eat it, I can transform successfully, and my skill has increased greatly, you give it to me quickly, let me swallow it." ”

Lin Xiao was taken aback when he heard this, and he couldn't imagine that the wild ginseng he was looking for was now under his nose, and it was this gray-haired old man.

Feeling the hot eyes of several people, the old man trembled all over, the cold juice flowed, and he was obviously really scared.

"You and you, you are actually a group, oops, I didn't expect that I would not come out of Shenluo for many years, and I would have such an end when I came out, I knew that I would not come out to mess around."

Lin Xiao looked at the old man who was in tears, crying like a doll, and his face was bitter at the moment.

"Minglang, I, Lin Xiao, haven't begged you for anything, for the sake of your friendship with me, you can let him go of this wild ginseng. It's not easy for him to cultivate into a human form, and it's really cruel to be swallowed by you like this. ”

"Hahahaha! Lin Xiao, in vain you are still the master of a generation of magic knives, if Demon Yue knew that you were such a woman, I don't know how she would feel, this is the world of the jungle, I don't eat it, and I have the idea of someone else beating him. Do you think your fake good intentions are saving him? Hmph, I am bound to get this wild mountain ginseng today, I can still talk well when I think of you, get out of the way quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being polite. ”

When Xuan Zimo heard this, his face suddenly darkened, "Minglang, I know that you have been unable to extricate yourself since you lost your mother, I asked myself if I took good care of you during your illness, and I didn't save you in return, but the master doesn't owe you anything, your mother entrusted your brother and sister to us when she was dying, because she was afraid that you would take the wrong path, or be assassinated, and you would just say goodbye without saying goodbye, why did you just talk badly to each other when you reunited, and you still have to draw a knife to see each other, is your heart made of iron?" ”

Minglang's eyes were red from Xuan Lao's words, and he yelled angrily: "Ahh

"Don't think I don't know, you saved me because you owe us, if it weren't for you, my mother wouldn't have fallen into the revenge of the goblins at all, even if I was injured, it was because I was implicated by you, in the end, you owe us, you are paying off your debts, you are always paying off your debts, and you will never be finished, hurry up and give me the wild ginseng, otherwise I will come down and rob myself."

Lin Xiao's face became colder and colder with Minglang's words, until Minglang jumped down from above, opened his mouth wide and was about to bite down, Lin Xiao moved.

With a sound of "swish", Feiyan foxstep moved slightly, Minglang pounced in the air, and rushed in the direction of the old man, Lin Xiao jumped up, riding on Minglang's back, his hands tightly grabbed the tiger hair on his neck, and his arms were like two iron pliers, tightly strangling his tiger head.

"Lin Xiao, what are you doing, you hurry down, hurry down."

Lin Xiao strangled his tiger head, making his mouth unable to open, so angry that he threw left and right, but he couldn't shake off Lin Xiao who was riding on him.

"Okay, okay, I won't eat him, you hurry up and come down for me."

Lin Xiao jumped down when he heard the "whoosh", only to see Minglang turn his head and bite the old man again, "Whoosh", a punch passed, and Minglang's tiger body was beaten out with a "whoosh", this punch, Lin Xiao did not use his true qi and internal force, it was completely strength, he was afraid that Minglang would really be injured, even so, Minglang's body flew out all the way and fell to the ground fiercely, and it seemed that the fall was not light.

"You? Lin Xiao, how dare you hit me? Do you dare to hit me? ”