If there was a choice, who would want to give up the comfortable city, or the life of a slow-paced and comfortable small town, and run into the barren mountains and mountains, under all kinds of poisonous insect bites, scorching heat and rain, and be a visitor?

Old Jiaotou, dressed in burlap clothes, with a short figure, looks extremely ordinary, but when he looks at his eyes, he is sometimes shining, sometimes sleepy and lazy. From a certain point of view, at first glance, it is an old fritter, which is extremely difficult to deal with.

After a long period of harsh environment and living habits of eating and lodging, he is less than fifty, and his face is already full of ravines, and his fish tail is vertical and horizontal.

On the dark face, there was no joy or sorrow, while silently turning out a bag of dry tobacco and smoking, the face slowly moved, and with the indifferent and expressionless corners of the mouth, a few smoke rings were spewed out, and they rose upward.

While silently thinking about the dry food and pickles he brought, he could hold on for a few days.

Lao Jiaotou is not without a name, but the tuba is often only useful in the Northeast when the members hold a meeting and the civil affairs handle the ID card.

Lao Jiao is a "leader", in the world of ginseng craftsmen with a long history, "leader" can be said to be a symbol of comprehensive strength, but also the entourage, companions to a senior visitor's full identification.

In the old forests of the Northeast, even if it is a wild ginseng of less than ten years, it has been difficult to find traces in recent years, and the legend of a large number of ginseng picking's revenge has arisen everywhere, which has also led to a huge impact on the ginseng harvesting industry.

has been in the visitor industry for more than 30 years, counting his father, grandfather, grandfather's father, father's grandfather (it seems to be the same person) The perception and inheritance of his ancestors in the career of visiting guests for generations seems to have penetrated into all aspects of his life and entered his bones.

In the world of visitors, the leader is not called the captain, not called the leader, not called the big brother, but called the leader, every time the deep mountain ginseng action, route, direction, line, shape are all decided by the leader, of course, after the completion of the ginseng harvest benefit distribution, the head in the first few years is also to account for the majority, because the young people who are willing to endure hardships are all, but the experienced, capable leader is difficult to find.

The two young men brought this time are newcomers who have just entered the industry, one of them He Xiaolong has just started a family, because the older generation broke into the eastern part of the country, and they left the west early without achieving anything, leaving only He Xiaolong, who was thin and weak, and grew up eating hundreds of meals, and with the help of neighbors, he married a daughter-in-law in a neighboring village, living in poverty, subsidizing family needs, so he could only leave his newlywed wife at home, follow the old tradition in the mountain village at the foot of Baishan, and resolutely follow Lao Jiao into the deep mountains. Get ready for a rich and dangerous adventure.

In fact, among the visitors, the first half of their lives were poor, once they made a fortune, a small ginseng seedling changed the trajectory of fate is really a lot of people, but there are very few people who can endure loneliness, take this money from scratch to do something, almost all of them are squandered, and then go into the mountains again to find a second chance to change their fate.

But God can't always favor you, maybe some people only have that lucky opportunity once in their lives.

The luck of Lao Jiao's three people is coming, but at the same time, luck is often accompanied by huge crises.

Three days later, three people entered the mountain, one person returned, and an old ginseng with many years of vicissitudes of life was placed on the counter of the first mountain village in Lanhe City.

The one who received him was Lu Yuan, a young man who impressed Zhao Yili at the beginning.

Peng Long still has obvious scratches on one of his arms, and the simple bandaging looks like the injury is not light, and there is still red blood oozing from the bandage, it is obvious that this mountain ginseng is probably his only life-saving straw.

Lu Yuan first poured Peng Long a glass of water to stabilize the young man's mood, and then carefully identified the ginseng seedling in his hand.

For Lu Yuan, although Peng Long's injury is not light, it is far from critical, if he doesn't deal with the goods he brought, I'm afraid it will treat him, and he may not be able to stabilize his emotions, but it will affect the effect of treatment.

Lu Yuan's identification techniques and himself according to the teacher's biography? In order to exercise his vision, he has personally experienced many mountains, so he has exercised a pair of thieves' shrewd discerning eyes, and initially judged that this ginseng seedling for many years has been more than 40 years old, and if you further evaluate it, I am afraid that it is more than these years.

Because purely from the shape point of view, the appearance is already very good, the roots are luxuriant, and the thick forks are similar to two chicken legs, which is the label shape of the high-quality goods in the ginseng market.

The world of visitors is boring and mysterious, and the ability to identify from the master who has passed down from Lu Yuan understands:

There are thousands of plants in the world, growth, development, and death are its common rules, and longevity and immortality are just people's wishful thinking. There are three processes in the life of wild ginseng, the young root stage, the strong root stage, and the senescence stage. The ginseng is 1-30 years old, and most of the aboveground stems have three batches of leaves, which belong to the young root stage, and the growth rate is the fastest in a lifetime. Due to the different environments, the ontogeny is slightly faster and slower.

A small part of the leaves of about 20 years old, and a small part of about 40 years of only three batches of leaves. Wild ginseng grows and develops slowly, and it often takes several years or even decades to add a leaf, so it is inferred that it takes about another 30 years to grow to five batches of leaves, 40-60 years, and most of the above-ground stems have grown to five batches of leaves, which belongs to the strong root period, and the growth and development tends to be stable during this period, and there is a slight weight gain every year.

More than 60 years belongs to the senescence period, ginseng root weight loss, stress resistance is declining year by year, ginseng root is easy to disease and rotten, wind candle remnant, often dormant, often weak and reincarnated, the essence of the body is exhausted, the ginseng root is almost left with a skin shell, can live for a hundred years in the minority.

Wild ginseng ginseng with the growth of ginseng, the accumulation of medicinal components in the plant body increases, and at the same time, the root system of the plant continues to secrete toxic substances with high activity every year, when the accumulation of toxic substances in the soil exceeds a certain concentration, it will poison itself, so the ginseng age will not grow endlessly.

The secretion and growth of toxic substances in the root system of ginseng tend to be balanced, and the growth and development of wild ginseng is very slow, and the secretion of toxic substances is small, which is conducive to longevity. Garden ginseng grows vigorously, and the secretion of toxic substances is large, which is detrimental to longevity. The life span of the wild ginseng and the garden ginseng (including seed goods and stomach goods) is also in the middle section, shorter than the wild and the cultivation is longer, the life limit is estimated to be about 40 years, the fat and water are sufficient, easy to get sick, rotten roots into a seed, rely on the new tender wood to maintain life, prolong life.

Soon, Lu Yuan confirmed the value of this ginseng, and after consulting the boss, he happily paid for the goods and bought this old ginseng at a price of 170,000 yuan.

Peng Long is a frequent customer of this mountain goods store, so after taking the money, he was relieved and his mood stabilized a lot, Lu Yuan found a medicine box, helped him treat the wound again, and helped him bandage it meticulously, Peng Long thanked him and left.

Although Peng Long can be regarded as a shrewd person, he didn't realize that the shrewd young man sent by Lu Yuan behind him had followed him a long way.

It was getting dark, and the young man came back sweating profusely and told Lu Yuan:

"Brother Lu, as you expected, this kid's alertness along the way is really high, I once felt that I was about to find me, but fortunately I didn't follow too closely, or it was very likely that he would be discovered."

"Hehe, it's okay to find out, we are also well-intentioned, how about it, you have followed him for so long, what have you discovered? Did he run into trouble? As he spoke, he handed the young man a glass of water.

"It's true that there are two waves of people who want to take the sheep by the hand, but I have mixed them up. It seems that he is just observing words and feelings, and he is not here specifically for him. As for his movements, it is true that he did not go home directly, but went to the house of two other companions. I listened for a while under the window, and as you might expect, it was very faithful and distributed according to the division of labor. After a few sips, he drank the glass of water, and then refilled another glass of water by himself, and drank it slowly.

Lu Yuan, on the other hand, fell into deep thought. (To be continued.) )