Chapter 414: Ginseng Harvesting (Part II)
Hu Hongde shook his head and said: "Ye Tian, it's not a matter of money or not, these 'ginseng' are all made of the essence of heaven and earth, it's a pity to be damaged."
Although he owes Ye Tian a great favor, as an old visitor, Hu Hongde still insists on digging ginseng by himself.
You must know that in the winter of the Northeast, even the land can be frozen, and it is a hundred times more difficult to dig ginseng than in summer.
Ye Tian glanced at Hu Hongde dissatisfied, and said, "Old Hu, look down on me, don't you?" Tell you, what is the art of promising qi in my door, digging up ginseng? ”
"Really? Can you look at ginseng? Hu Hongde was stunned by Ye Tian's words, it seems that this hope is used when it is good for feng shui, can it still be used to find ginseng?
Hu Hongde didn't know if what Ye Tian said was true or not, but seeing Ye Tian so persistent, he finally shook his head and said: "Okay, be careful, ginseng doesn't grow straight up and down, it lies in the ground, you have to dig from all sides first, don't hurt the ginseng!" ”
Unlike ordinary plants, the rhizomes of ginseng grow upside down, and the thin ginseng whiskers are all facing the ground, so when picking up ginseng, it is necessary to dig from far to near, from bottom to top, little by little.
"I know, Lao Hu, you can just look at it."
Ye Tian put the backpack aside, reached out and took out a short sapper shovel from it, and said unashamedly: "Lao Hu, if I come to Changbai Mountain to dig ginseng, you will have no food to eat for a long time!" ”
Listening to Ye Tian's words, and then looking at his movements, Hu Hongde almost didn't cry, grabbed the shovel, and begged for mercy: "I said, let's dig it, where can I use iron tools for this digging ginseng?" ”
"What's the matter, what do you dig without a shovel?"
Ye Tian stopped his movements when he heard this, his eyes glanced at Hu Hongde's hand and said, "Old Hu, you are practicing Eagle Claw Gong, but there are so many ginseng pickers in Changbai Mountain, they may not all have this kung fu, right?" Do they dig up a lot of words by hand? ”
In addition to accompanying Yu Qingya and others to play in the mountains in the past few days, Ye Tian has also studied with Hu Hongde a few times, and he also admires this extremely fierce Changbai Mountain Eagle Claw Gong Ye Tian.
Especially when practicing to the realm of Hu Hongde, the ten fingers of those hands are like ten sharp daggers, and the trunk with the thickness of the bowl can be broken with one hand, and if it is caught on a person, it is five bloody holes.
Therefore, Ye Tian wondered if Hu Hongde would take it directly when he was digging ginseng, after all, the shovel is not as flexible as his fingers. //**//
"Who said they dug it by hand?"
Hu Hongde really regretted taking Ye Tian into the mountain, shook his head, took out a knife made of wood from his backpack, and said, "Use this wooden knife to dig, otherwise there will be antlers, you can't use iron tools anyway!" ”
Fresh ginseng, whether it is ginseng whiskers or rhizomes, is very fragile, as long as it touches iron tools, it will definitely cause damage, so this wooden knife and antlers are essential tools for ginseng pickers.
In his early years, Hu Hongde also used these two tools, but he later practiced kung fu more and more, as Ye Tian said, he used his hands to dig ginseng.
The reason why he brought a wooden knife and antlers to the mountain this time was to make Ye Tian enjoy it and find a wild ginseng for him to dig for more than ten years, but Hu Hongde didn't expect that Ye Tian's old ginseng that would take fifty years to practice was not an ordinary luxury.
"It's a lot of exquisiteness, okay, just use this wooden knife.
Ye Tian threw away the shovel, took the toy-like wooden knife, and couldn't help but shake his head, the land is frozen this winter, if it is replaced by an ordinary ginseng picker, how long will it be dug with a wooden knife?
However, for Ye Tian, it really doesn't matter what he uses, this wooden knife is infused with true qi, and I'm afraid it is a little sharper than that shovel. …,
Although Ye Tian didn't care much before, after taking action, the whole person became calm, and after sensing the location of the wild ginseng tree, he excavated it from a distance of more than thirty centimeters.
Seeing Ye Tian so cautious, Hu Hongde had a little more confidence in him, although he didn't know what it meant that attitude determines success or failure, but he really needed to pay full attention when digging ginseng.
"This thing grows in the soil, but it can absorb the essence of heaven and earth to refine and condense, it really deserves to be the legendary heavenly spirit and earth treasure, but it grows too slowly!"
Ginseng is the most valuable medicinal material that Ye Tian has used since he cultivated, and it has indeed not insulted the name of the King of Herbs, and its medicinal properties have also played a great role in the advancement of Ye Tian's exercises.
Although he knew that he would not hurt the ginseng, Ye Tian's movements were also extremely careful, and he seemed to clean up the frozen soil around the wild ginseng very quickly.
"Be careful, you're going to dig up the mallet, slow down and clean up!"
The frozen soil is only the surface layer, and after digging it up, the soil inside becomes soft, Ye Tian's movements become faster and faster, and Hu Hongde, who is watching, is worried on the side.
Ye Tian also relaxed, turned around and smiled: "Old Hu, just look at it!" ”
With Ye Tian's control of the body, it was the most suitable for doing these delicate tasks, and after cleaning up the frozen soil, he simply threw away the wooden knife and used his two hands to pick up the soil under the ginseng one by one.
After digging out the whole ginseng, Ye Tian's ten fingers peeled off the soil between the ginseng whiskers, and Hu Hongde, who saw it, was dumbfounded, and the whole person was stupid for a while.
You must know that in the soil where ginseng grows, there are still many grass roots, tree roots, boulders, and gravel flakes, and some of them are even wrapped in ginseng.
But Ye Tian's ten fingers were like embroidery needles, and they were extremely dexterous to remove all the debris, and although the movements were extremely fast, they did not cause the slightest damage to the roots.
After just over ten minutes, an old ginseng with complete whiskers, yellow-brown taproot bark, and fine and deep screw-like horizontal stripes on the shoulders at the upper end of the hair root appeared in Ye Tian's hand.
There are dozens of ginseng whiskers in this wild ginseng, the thick ones are like toothpicks, and the thin ones are like hair.
Even Hu Hongde himself can't dig this old ginseng into such a complete condition, after ten years of collecting parameters, Hu Hongde dares to say that the wild ginseng in Ye Tian's hand is not the oldest year, but the quality is definitely the best one.
"Except for the color, this thing is really the same as a carrot?"
Ye Tian carefully held this wild ginseng in the palm of his hand and looked at it carefully, it was the first time he had seen fresh ginseng, and it was still very different from the dried ginseng he had bought before.
Ye Tian could feel that the juice in this ginseng contained extremely abundant essence, and its effect was far from being comparable to that of the old ginseng after drying.
Smelling the faint fragrance, Ye Tian even had an urge to throw it in his mouth and chew it.
For others, it may be overdone, but for Ye Tian's body, there will definitely be no such thing as being empty and not being replenished, even if he takes the old ginseng of the six-grade leaf to Ye Tian as a meal, those heaven and earth essences will also be transformed into the essence in his body.
"Ye Tian, you take it, be careful not to break the roots."
Hu Hongde also came back to his senses at this time, and he didn't care about asking the wild ginseng to come over to check, but he turned around and ran to the birch forest more than 20 meters away.
"Lao Hu, what are you doing?"
Ye Tian turned his head in surprise, and as soon as he shouted, he saw Hu Hongde's right hand forming a claw and grabbing it on the tall birch tree.
With a "snort", a large piece of birch bark was torn off by Hu Hongde, and he squatted down and picked up the snow on the ground, and Hu Hongde ran back after a while. …,
"Ye Tian, give me this mallet."
Without waiting for Ye Tian to ask, Hu Hongde was about to pass the wild ginseng and wrap it in the bark, Ye Tian found that there was still some moss and rotten soil in the bark.
Hu Hongde took out a wooden box from his backpack again, carefully put the old ginseng wrapped in bark, and only after doing this, did he breathe a long sigh of relief.
Seeing Ye Tian's puzzled eyes, Hu Hongde said with a smile: "This mallet will quickly become shriveled when it leaves the soil, I will hold it with bark and moss, and I will ensure that its essence will not leak out!" ”
"It's really a lot of exquisiteness, if you want me to say, wouldn't it be okay to eat it directly to replenish your vitality?"
Ye Tian licked his lips, he stewed a lot of dried ginseng, but Ye Tian really hadn't eaten this kind of fresh wild ginseng, and the huge essence in that wild ginseng made Ye Tian's heart itch.
Seeing Ye Tian's eyes, Hu Hongde couldn't help but take a step back, hugged the wooden box in his arms, and said: "Don't be violent and ruin the heavens, fifty-year-old four-grade leaves are rare, and you can hang your life if you keep them." ”
The so-called hanging life means that when a person only has one breath left, he cuts the hundred-year-old ginseng into slices and gives it to the patient, so that the essence in the ginseng can make people live a little longer to explain their last words.
In ancient times, many high-rise families liked to hide old ginseng, which is for this reason, but the hundred-year-old wild ginseng has been an object that can be encountered but not sought in modern times, and it can barely be used for 50 years.
"I just want to taste it."
Seeing Hu Hongde looking at himself like a thief, Ye Tian said stupidly: "Old Hu, there are still a lot of ginseng around here, but there is no such stick, should we all dig it out?" ”
Through the qi induction, Ye Tian could detect that more than ten meters around this four-rank leaf, there were some objects containing essence, which must be the descendants of this ginseng.
"I said ancestor, you can leave some wild ginseng seeds for Changbai Mountain, right? A lot of words, this mountain forest still has to feed a lot of people! After hearing Ye Tian's words, Hu Hongde suddenly smiled bitterly.
Ginseng pickers have the rules of ginseng pickers, unless they encounter five-grade leaves, they will dig out the surrounding four-grade leaves and three-grade leaves, and the other wild ginseng for more than ten years, ginseng pickers will never move
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