When Lu Wanxing heard the voice of the third aunt, she retorted in her heart: "Your Lu Wanqian is the laziest on weekdays, and she always oversleeps. After complaining for a few sentences, I suddenly remembered, and promised the patriarch Lu Yunian to take the clansmen up the mountain to look for ginseng, and said that she would go to the ancestral hall to meet. I didn't expect to be a little tired from working in the space last night and overslept. Presumably people have come to the door to look for it.

He pulled his hair and climbed into straw sandals to open the door.

The third aunt's hand paused in mid-air, and said to Lu Wanxing without a smile: "Wanxing, you have been entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the patriarch, and you can't go wrong on this first day." Hurry up and pack up! ”

Lu Wanxing glanced at her in disgust, and then noticed that the other person outside the door was not Lu Chengding of the Xiucai family? Asked with some pleasure,

"Brother Ding, will you go up the mountain with me?"

"Well, Grandpa Seventh has been waiting for you for a long time, let me come to you. Can you walk now? Lu Chengding was very shy when he laughed, and he was a little old when he wasn't smiling, not like he was fifteen or sixteen years old. is a very stable person, studied with Xiucai, and also participated in the township examination, but did not get Xiucai. He bluntly said that he was not interested in studying and taking a reputation test, gave up his studies, and choked Xiucai enough. It was rumored that Lu Yunian intended to train him as a candidate for the patriarch. The big and small affairs of the clan will involve him.

are all relatives surnamed Lu, who used to be good to the original owner, and he also helped her speak yesterday, Lu Wanxing has a good impression of Lu Chengding, and said a few words of greeting. Without delay, he carried a basket on his back, followed him out with a flat knife.

Walking to the ancestral hall, there were already several people waiting there, Lu Yunian sat on a Taishi chair, and explained the precautions very formally. It's nothing more than paying attention to safety, but also keeping it confidential. After all, Huai Shupo has several other surnames in addition to the Lu family, and if they dig ginseng with great fanfare, it will make people red.

"Wanxing, although you are responsible for leading the way, you still have to listen to your uncle when you go up the mountain. He is more experienced. With Lu Yunian's words, Lu Wanxing noticed that there was a red-faced man in this group, wearing a short fight of coarse cloth, and he looked very sturdy, and he noticed that Lu Wanxing looked at her, raised his head and pursed the corners of his mouth very shallowly, which was regarded as a greeting.

Lu Wanxing remembered that this person came back from outside a few years ago, was a side branch of the Lu family, and committed a "Jiang" with her father, named Lu Jiangben, who was a bachelor and usually went to the mountains to hunt. In the Lu family, he is a good hunter. But the reputation is not very good, and it is no wonder that he is the widow with colored glasses. There are always many widowers and widows.

After the explanation, Lu Wanxing followed them up the mountain, and met the same villagers on the way, who only said that they would go to the mountain to pick mushrooms and wild vegetables.

Lu Wanxing went up the mountain today and realized that the road from the locust tree slope to the back mountain was not very close. They hadn't walked directly to the back mountain, for fear of arousing suspicion. First I went to the front mountain, and then I went through the ravine to the back mountain. I also stopped to pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables, and this trip took more than two hours.

The group went around the ravine to the back mountain, and it was noon.

Someone who came with me suggested that you eat some dry food to cushion the bottom first.

At this time, Lu Wanxing realized that she hadn't eaten breakfast and didn't have dry food. Watching others take out cornmeal cakes and brown rice flour steamed buns, she swallowed her saliva twice and sat on a stone with her back to them. Those things are tantamount to the delicacies of the mountains and the sea for her who is hungry.

Suddenly, someone touched her on the back, "Here you go!" ”

Lu Wanxing turned her head to look, and Lu Chengding handed her a corn tortilla. She was embarrassed to pick it up, knowing that everyone was not rich, and Lu Chengding was still a half-sized young man, so it was the time to eat. He shirked and said, "No, Brother Ding." Eat, I'm not hungry! ”

When she said this, her stomach growled very unhappily, making her embarrassed little face pink and pink.

"If you give it to you, you will eat, I brought your share!" Lu Chengding turned to her, put the cornmeal cake on her lap, and opened the white cloth bag, and there were three flatbreads inside. I picked up one and took a big bite, chewing it and saying, "I knew that the third aunt couldn't bring you dry food." Look at you just got up in the morning! Didn't you eat breakfast? ”

Lu Wanxing felt a little embarrassed when he was exposed, and said with a wry smile: "I got up late and didn't catch breakfast." ”

"Half of the two of us," Lu Chengding said, handing Lu Wanxing another piece of cake in his hand. She was really hungry, thanked her, and took a big bite of the flatbread without hesitation.

This cornmeal is not so finely ground, and there is still corn husk when chewing. It's similar to eating brown rice, and it hurts to shave your throat. Lu Chengding saw that she was swallowing hard, and handed over the water bag again. "Eat slowly, don't choke."

Lu Wanxing took it and took a big sip of water, and smoothed down the cornmeal in her mouth, only to feel a lot more comfortable. In order to fill his stomach, he had to continue to eat, and with this water, a mouthful of flatbread and a mouthful of water, he was finally half-full.

She shook the water bag in her hand, probably empty. I'm sorry to return it to Lu Chengding, "I've drunk it all." ”

Lu Chengding smiled shyly, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth, "It's okay, I'll fill it by the stream in a while." ”

The group rested almost and then looked for ginseng.

Lu Wanxing and Lu Chengding walked together, holding a wooden stick while beating the weeds in front of them, which is called beating the grass and scaring the snake. They all did this when they went up the mountain, and they didn't say hello to the snakes in the grass, and they didn't know what was going on when they were bitten.

Lu Chengding asked as he walked, "Wanxing, is it right to go this way?" ”

"Yes, Brother Ding, I'll teach you the trick of finding wild ginseng," Lu Wanxing said and squatted on the ground and grabbed a handful of soil, twisted the soil and said, "The spirit is good ginseng, and the fat soil grows stupid ginseng." The soil of long ginseng is ideally yellow clay with gravel at the bottom; Wild ginseng cannot be short of water, but low-lying and poorly drained mountainous areas are not suitable for growth, and the slope is too large and unsuitable; It is not long in the place where it is too cloudy or sunny, and it is best to be under the dense forest that does not leak the sky; Our main goal is to have a hillside with trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. ”

Lu Chengding saw what she said, he believed it in his heart, but many of the words she said were very fresh, he had never heard them before, he listened carefully, and casually asked a question, "Wanxing, I understand the soil you said, it is soil!" What are the trees and shrubs? ”

Lu Wanxing secretly stuck out her tongue, she had tried to use as few professional terms as possible, such as slope, light transmittance, canopy density, she said it in simple words, but she was still a little obscure about the mountain people. So she pointed to the trees that covered the sky overhead, and said, "The tall trees are trees," and she pointed to the bushes on the side of the road, "These low clumps are shrubs." ”