Sun Xiang's expression was solemn, with piety and respect on his face, holding three branches in his hands, pinching his hands in the middle and bowing to the three stones three times, and then kneeling down and inserting the branches in front of the stones, which looked like three sticks of incense.

I wondered how I could use twigs instead of incense, and the poor couldn't even afford incense.

Liu Qianying next to me saw my doubts, and whispered: "Brother Qin, these three stones represent the mountain temple, and the branches represent the incense candles that are enshrined. ”

"I see, it seems that this mountain god is not bad."

"Of course it's good, this mountain god is the most revered god in the hearts of all the mountain people, you can see the old man and the people behind him, everyone doesn't squint and look solemn."

I nodded, and then I heard Sun Xiang say in a serious tone: "The mountain god is above, the little Sun Xiang brought people to the mountain to get the goods, and asked the mountain god to bless us, so that we can get the treasure, and when we come back, we will definitely kill pigs and sheep to honor your old man." ”

Sun Xiang's words were simple and unpretentious, but the words revealed sincerity, and the people behind him also said that the mountain god blessed, and accompanied Sun Xiang to knock his head on the ground.

After the ceremony, Sun Xiang stood up with a smile, walked in front of me and said, "I'm about to go up the mountain, do you have anything else to prepare?" ”

Sun Xiang is always respectful to me, just like the real thing, but I know in my heart that this Sun Xiang is just doing a show at all, and I don't debunk it, I just waved my hand, Sun Xiang nodded, and then looked at the evil-faced corpse woman Song Junhe and Qin? said, "Although you are not considered to be in our gang, there are some rules that you still have to abide by, and if you can't dig up treasures because you break the rules, the money will not be returned." ”

Although the evil-faced corpse woman was smiling, her appearance was terrifying, even those young men in Liuxiu Village who were about twenty years old were hiding far away, only Song Junhe and Qin? Standing with her, "Don't worry, old boss, I understand the rules of the mountain." ”

"Yes, that's good."

Sun Xiang bowed slightly, then picked up the stick and shouted loudly: "Pressing the mountain." ”

The people behind him echoed loudly, and then began to follow Sun Xiang up the mountain, each of them held a stick of about two meters, this stick is called a rope stick, standing about a zhang apart from each other, the left and right two sticks can meet and stagger the prevail, line up and walk forward, so as to ensure that there is no missing place.

Sun Xiang as the head of the team to lead the way, by him to control the direction of the team, his position is called the head stick, whether you can find the ginseng, largely depends on the direction he leads, on both sides of the team are the two middle-aged people, their position is also very important, they are deliberately ensuring that the team does not disperse, and people who are very experienced in the mountains can be served.

These things were told to me by Liu Qianying, although she went up from the north slope last time, but she also learned about these things, and today she saw the real release of the mountain, Liu Qianying seemed very excited.

"Girl, you can't talk much when you put the mountain." The old boss Sun Xiang didn't get rid of Liu Qianying because of my relationship, but Liu Qianying always kept talking, so the old boss had to say a word.

Liu Qianying nodded, her eyes kept looking at the ground around the old man's head, it seemed that she wanted to find wild ginseng to show in front of me, I was also very interested in putting the mountain, after all, I had heard about the preciousness and magic of ginseng since I was a child, and many books said that ginseng was a fairy medicine, and it must be false to say that I didn't want to find it.

"Old man, don't be surprised, Liu Qianying is just excited for a while, and she doesn't mean to make trouble on purpose."

Sun Xiang nodded and then said: "It has been a long time since the mountain god master entered the mountain to dig treasures, and there are rules for putting mountains into the mountains. ”

Then the old head Sun Xiang began to slowly tell me the rules of the mountain, originally I thought that going into the mountain to dig ginseng is to drill into the mountain to try my luck, but I didn't expect that there are so many ways inside.

There are many rules for putting the mountain, which should be called the mountain rules, for example, before entering the mountain, the old head leads people to shout in unison, the purpose is to scare away the beast, also called Huangshan.

Pressing the mountain is also known as opening the mountain, patrolling the mountain, pressing the trip, and sprinkling grass.

Before pressing the mountain, the head of the "mountain view" to choose which mountain forest to go, the mountain view is to put the head according to years of experience in the mountain, carefully observe the mountain-shaped mountain topography and trees and grass, and judge where ginseng will grow, for example, the old boss just introduced to me the grass and trees of Gouya Mountain, which is to view the mountain scenery.

Sometimes the head or other people will decide the time or place of pressing the mountain according to the dream they have at night, and there are indeed many people who have found ginseng according to their dreams. The old man said that in his dream, the mountain god told him that I would let him open his eyes, and this is the case, by the way, opening his eyes means finding ginseng.

When pressing the mountain, the gang members should divide the labor, called "row sticks". The head is the head stick, the person in the middle is called the waist stick, and the outermost one is called the side stick, and the side stick must also have rich experience in putting mountains. Put the mountain people to take the rope stick, according to the order of the row of sticks horizontally, generally two people are more than a foot apart, to the tip of the rope stick can be put together as a degree, do not let go of the distance of a brick, pull the grass slowly, looking for ginseng. Pay attention to "rather fall a mountain, not a brick".

It is not allowed to shout nonsense when pressing the mountain. The terrain is complex and there are many animals, and talking and shouting will cause distraction and not being able to see ginseng, or causing chaos due to palpitations. When pressing the mountain, the head stick and the side stick should "hit the crutch" every time they advance a certain distance, that is, they will casually fold the thin branches into 90 degrees to make a mark to avoid repeated searches. Turning in the direction pointed by the head and side sticks is also called beating the crutches.

The forest is dense and the grass is deep, and they do not see each other a few steps away, and they are not allowed to shout indiscriminately, so they should use the method of hitting the trunk of the tree with a rope stick to contact each other, which is called "calling a stick". As soon as you can't see anyone else, you knock on the trunk of the tree, and each of the others knocks back in turn, indicating both your position and the continuation of the mountain. Knocking the head twice on the trunk of the tree is to ask for the head to come closer to the head, rest, and smoke; Knock your head on the trunk three times, so that you want to go down the mountain together to return to the tree. Knocking on tree trunks in the primeval forest is very loud, which can not only communicate with each other, but also scare away the animals to ensure safety.

I have to say, there are really a lot of rules for putting the mountain, if it weren't for the old boss to tell me, I really can't figure it out, and this is just the rules of pressing the mountain, in addition to this, there are also shouting mountains, lifting ginseng, these old heads didn't believe in me.

At this time, suddenly Liu Qianying in my arms trembled and shouted loudly, "There are snakes." ”

When the old boss heard Liu Qianying's shout, his face became ugly in vain.