I scared those hares away, and Luo Xihan said behind my back: "Second brother, you are so bad, why did those hares provoke you?" ”

I hurriedly smiled at Luo Xihan, and Mao Qinglian was also there to say me, I didn't answer them, and hurriedly followed behind the king's head, and the king led us to a clearing, and then asked us to find a branch, and after lighting the fire, roasted venison there for us to eat, roasted the venison, first offered to the mountain god, and muttered a few words there, or that set of words, that is, please ask the mountain god to bless and find the big stick mallet, although this is said every day, but the king is respectful every time, and the mountain people worship the mountain god, They are all very religious, and even pin their lives on the mountain gods.

There is a column that can be seen, that is, the mountain man, in the mountains and forests to meet the king of beasts Siberian tiger, will respect the tiger as a god, because they believe that the tiger is the mountain god's door, but also the incarnation of the mountain god, there is a tiger squatting in the mountain barn, that is, the tiger squatting outside the shanman's shack does not go, the mountain man at this time is not to kill the tiger to escape, but to throw a hat to the ground, the tiger takes away whose hat, who will follow the tiger, everyone believes that the tiger eats this person is completely providential, is arranged by the mountain god, They never suspect anything.

After worshipping the mountain god, everyone ate some venison, rested for a while, and the king turned his head to us and said: "We have arrived at Lao Shengou today, and we will go to find the mallet in a while, today is a good day, the mountain god is happy, eat our venison, we must let us find the mallet, return in pairs, you take the noose stick in your hand, let's go, go to find the mallet." ”

When the king had finished speaking, he took up the things, took up the stick, went to a great tree, struck it with the stick, and cried out loudly, the sound echoing through the woods. After shouting the mountain, everyone began to enter the old ginseng ditch, the old ginseng ditch is actually a name, not a real big ditch, because there is a ditch, there are a lot of big mallets, so there is the name of the old ginseng ditch.

We came to a forest where large trees, small trees, and shrubs were mixed, and the king said to us, "In such a mixed forest, there are already mallets, and now I will tell you how we can find them." After we entered the mountain, we marched in a horizontal row when searching the mountain, and everyone remembered that the distance between each other was about one stick, which we called a row stick; The person in the middle of the row is called the pole, I am in the middle, the first time to put the mountain ginseng picker (called the first hand) in the middle of the side roller and the pole, since you are the first time to enter the mountain, we will not follow the rules of the row, Brother Yang, Brother Yu, for the sake of safety, you are on the side. ”

I listened and nodded, and asked the king what other rules there were, and the king said: "Ginseng has spirituality, so when you are in the mountains to make a mallet, you can't make a loud noise, generally use the plucking stick in your hand to contact, remember every time you walk a road, you have to knock on the trunk of the tree, you can only knock twice, everyone hears the sound of the stick, you have to respond, this is called a stick, one is to prevent everyone from getting lost, the other is to prevent wild beasts."

The mallet has spirituality, so when everyone is in the mountains to make a mallet, can not make a loud noise, generally use the plucking stick in the hand to contact, remember that every time you walk a section, you have to knock on the trunk, you can only knock twice, everyone hears the sound of the stick, you have to respond, this is called the stick, one is to prevent everyone from getting lost, the other is to prevent wild beasts. Let's look for the mallet now. The five leaves of the mallet are like palms, do you recognize them? ”

I said, "I've seen the head in the painting, and I still know this." ”

The others also said that they had seen it from the painting, and the king nodded his head and said that the city of Fa Li, and after saying that, we lined up and began to look for mallets in the woods, and it was a hard job to find the mallets, and we had rope sticks to search for mallets in the grass under the trees, and this mallet would not grow in the light, but must be in the shade of the trees, so it was a little hard to find.

On the top of our sticks, there were two big coins, and when we were pulling through the bushes, there was a clanging sound, and the king said, "This is called a quick stick, which means to find the mallet quickly, and when we get to the place where the mallet is picked, the things in our hands have changed their names, like what is quick to be a knife, a quick axe, and a quick stick." The trees in the woods are very dense, I and Mao Qinglian leaning together, the two of us are not far apart, so that there is a good response, we go forward to find the mallet, every time we walk, we will knock on the trunk, and then someone will knock on the trunk in response.

When he was searching forward, he suddenly heard the junior brother shouting "mallet", and then the king turned his head and shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up, how many leaves?" ”

The junior brother replied, "I don't know." ”

As soon as we heard this, we hurried over, and at this time the king's head had already arrived, and I asked the king's head, "How many leaves?" ”

The king turned his head and said, "It's not a mallet, it's a mallet." ”

After I listened to it, I looked at the mallet that Tianning said, and it was a straight stem, and the leaves on it were palm-shaped, like ginseng on a painting, and I said, "Put your head, this one looks like a mallet." ”

The king shook his head and said, "It's not a mallet, it's five leaves, and this one is three leaves, and it's called Yuanbao grass." ”

I said, "So that's the case, junior brother, you shouted about the mountain." ”

Wang turned his head and said with a smile: "There is nothing about this, there is a proverb among the people who put the mountain, that is, when you see the ingot grass, the mallet can't run, and this place with the ingot grass is not far from the mallet." ”

After the king finished speaking, we continued to look for the mallet, and after looking for a long time, suddenly Qinglian shouted: "Zhendong, come and see, is this a mallet?" ”

As soon as I heard this, I walked over, and saw a plant on a mound under a bush, and the plant had one stem, two forks, and a few large leaves of five on it, and it was a little strange that the grass around the plant was yellow, and it looked very much like a mallet, and I cried out, "Mallet, mallet." ”

The king over there hurriedly said, "Hurry up, hurry up, a few pin leaves." ”

I couldn't tell how many leaves there were, so I didn't answer, and then the king had already come to him, looking at the mallet on the ground, and with a happy face, I said, "Handle, how many leaves is this?" ”

Wang looked at the mallet, his face was full of smiles, and his mouth said: "Oh, festive and festive, this is Erjiazi, this Erjiazi is a small mallet less than three years old, it is the key to open the mountain, and it is the most auspicious and festive to see Erjiazi first when you put the mountain." Sometimes, there is a miraculous phenomenon of this Erjiazi, that is, it is Erjiazi from the branches and leaves, and it is a ginseng when it is dug out, which is called rebirth, it may be that the six-grade leaf is turned two times and three times, and the regeneration ability of the mallet is very strong, and the bud buds of the fifth and sixth leaves are damaged, and the regenerated bud buds will start to grow from the three flowers and five leaves or the second Jiazi. If we find this Erjiazi, we will not be far from the big stick mallet, so we will definitely be able to find the big stick mallet this time. ”

I said, "Heads, heads, do you want to see if this is a rebirth?" ”

The king looked at it, stepped on it with his foot, then looked at it carefully, and said, "This is not the reincarnation of the tire, but the second jiazi." ”

I said, "Hit your head, you can just step on it, won't you?" ”

The king nodded his head and said: "No, I am looking for experience, the soil around the mallet is not simple, these are experiences, I say to you, this is where there is a big mallet on the ground, on the top of the mallet, there will be a layer of ethereal smoke, the smoke is not carefully seen, it is impossible to see at all, which requires a discerning eye." There is also an experienced mountain person, as soon as you step on it, you will know whether there is a mallet, the mallet is good in the place where the soil is hard, the skin is yellow, and the soil is white children, and the alluvial soil is called a water basin, and there are also white children. The skin of the mallet out of the back slope is thick, and the quality of the mallet on the west and east Chaoyang slope is good, and the mallet likes to grow on the second gang, and the grass around it is yellow. Look at the grass around here, is it yellow? ”

I said, "I see this, it's really yellow." ”

The more he talked, the more pleased he became, and at last he said to us, "Let's look for a little longer and see if we have a mallet to take." ”

After saying that, we continued to search, this looking mallet, it felt very fresh at first, but after a long time, it felt boring, this place was almost isolated from the world, in our eyes, except for the trees are weeds, except for the second jiazi, no other mallet hair was found. We searched for a day, and in the evening we found a flat land, built a few grass nests, and made a fire in front of the grass nests, and we sat there sullenly, one by one, not wanting to speak, except for the king to look like no one was right.