The whole place is full of ginseng, the king is crazy, we are crazy, laughing there, jumping wildly, the main purpose of our coming here is to find ginseng, now the eyes are full of ginseng, how can people not be crazy. The king touched this with his trembling hands, looked at that, and ran out like mad.

When I saw the appearance of the king's head, I was afraid that the king's head would be happy, and my heart would be distracted, and I would lose my mind, so I quickly took the king's hand and said, "Head, what are you doing?" ”

The king pointed his head at the ginseng and said incoherently, "Yellow coat, yellow coat, I'll go out to find the yellow coat, or I'll be sorry for these superb mallets." ”

As soon as I heard it, I understood that this ginseng is not taken casually, it must be packed for ginseng, which is to keep the ginseng moist and intact, generally using red pine bark or linden bark, birch bark, and yellow poradix bark for Liupinye leaves, commonly known as wearing a yellow coat, otherwise it is not enough grade. Put moss on the bark of the tree, mix it with some raw soil, and wrap the ginseng to call it ginseng buns or stickstick mallet buns. The large goods are packed separately, the ginseng buns of the six leaves are carried by the head, the side sticks of the five leaves are backed, and the other small goods can be beaten by a few buns, and the first handle is backed. If you don't dig the ginseng, you should circle the beams, that is, make a fence with branches around the small ginseng that has not been lifted, and tell the latecomers that there is ginseng that has not been lifted. There is also a custom called pressing the ginseng, after digging the ginseng, you should plant the ginseng seeds on the ginseng seeds, and let the saliva dissolve its skin after the ginseng seeds are taken in the mouth.

In fact, it is simple to know if it was planted by the ancestors, and it is not without a trace, that is, to see if there is any sign on the big tree. Cutting the "omen" is to find a red pine tree near where the ginseng was found, cut a rectangular piece of bark from the trunk in the direction of holding the ginseng, and then carve a bar on the white wood without skin, the bar on the left represents the number of people who put the mountain, and the bar on the right represents the goods of a few leaves, and a few leaves are carved on a few bars. After cutting off the omen, you have to wash the face of the omen, that is, use a fire to grill the omen around the omen to prevent the loose oil from seeing the omen clearly, and after burning the pine oil, you can still see it clearly after several decades.

Therefore, ginseng picking has now become a culture and a thing worth studying, and the people of Fangshan are still following the rules left by their ancestors. As soon as the king said the yellow coat, I knew that the old man was looking for bark, so I didn't stop the old man and let Tianning follow the king.

After the king left, there were three of us left, and the three of us walked to the middle of the ginseng, which was already bright, but where we were, there was a mist floating on it, and it never dispersed, and there was ginseng everywhere, and the high poles, the leaves on it seemed to be open in the palm of the hand, and on the top of the ginseng, there was a fiery red hammer, and the ginseng with four-pin, five-pin, and six-pint leaves, it didn't matter when we got here, because there were many of these excellent ginsengs, and we looked at the ginseng and enjoyed this rare beauty.

After a while, Wang put his head and Tianning in the bark of the yellow pineapple tree, and said to me, Mao Qinglian and Luo Xihan: "Brother Yang, and you two girls, I don't want you to move today, you all rest, this work is done by me and Brother Yu, and you will watch us carry the ginseng." ”

I said, "No, I'll have to help with the head." ”

The king turned his head and said: "We have rules for carrying the mallet, that is, the meritorious person, there is no need to carry the mallet, you are all blessed people, just because you are blessed by the mountain god, we have such a good blessing, you just rest, my old bone can still work." ”

I said, "Okay, that's hard work." ”

Wang put his head and said with a smile: "It's not hard, it's not hard, I can't see so many mallets, I don't feel bitter at all, by the way, Brother Yang, this is looking for mallets, you have the greatest credit, you say we can carry a few mallets?" ”

I looked at the ginseng everywhere and said, "Heads, as the saying goes, the human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant, these mallets can be described as a wealth that rivals the country, but we can't be greedy." ”

Wang turned his head and said: "Brother Yang said that we can't be greedy, to be honest, usually put the mountain, just have such a mallet, that is great luck, you look at these seven leaves of the best, not to mention lifting, ordinary mountain chasers, even have not seen it." ”

I nodded and said, "That's it, it's not easy for us to come here, each of us has two big sticks, in this case, I don't think Miss Qingluo will say that we are greedy." ”

The king turned his head and said, "Okay, Brother Yang is really a benevolent and righteous person, then there are two trees for each person, but Brother Yang, you have to take three." ”

I said, "You all have two, and it's not appropriate for me to take three." ”

Wang turned his head and said: "Suitable, suitable, first of all, let's pay attention to single and double return, we will get eleven mallets, so that it will become a pair." ”

I said, "In that case, then listen to the boss." ”

The king turned his head and said, "Okay, Brother Yu, let's work, let me tell you, it is a great blessing to be able to dig a mallet like this." ”

After finishing speaking, I led Tianning, to the middle of those ginseng, look at this and look at that tree, this ginseng is too much, and I can't tell the ginseng directly, I looked for a long time and chose a ginseng, and then tied it with a red rope, I saw this and said to the king: "Handle, don't use the red rope, these mallets, if you can really run, let it run, otherwise we really dig up the mallets with Taoism, then I'm sorry for the Qingluo girl." ”

The king turned his head and said, "Yes, yes, I am really confused, how can I forget this matter." Let's dig so openly, and whoever we dig away is considered to be the reward of the mountain god and the Qingluo girl. ”

After saying that, he lay on the ground and began to dig ginseng, and at this moment, suddenly many birds flew in, and those birds were about the same size as the mountain turtle dove, and they were black and pressed, and after flying here, they fell down to eat ginseng seeds, and the king saw this, and whispered, "These are the mallet birds." ”

We looked at these mallet birds carefully, only to see that these birds are gray, like pigeons, but the head is red feathers, very beautiful, they chirp happily, the kind of call like Wang Gange's mallet bird, very active, jumping, and the sound like Li Wu's mallet bird, then there for a long time to scream, Wang put his head and continued to whisper to me: "This mallet seed can only grow a mallet if it is eaten by the mallet bird or animal, and the seeds pulled out can grow into a mallet, and it is precisely because these mallet birds eat the seeds and fly everywhere, The mallet has just taken root everywhere in the woods. ”

After he had finished speaking, he didn't care about the cheerful mallet birds, but first dug up the soil around the ginseng with a shovel, and then broke the roots around the ginseng with a knife, little by little, and the king dug his head there very carefully, little by little with the soil, while Tianning waited for the soil to be accumulated, and then carried the soil with a cloth and put it elsewhere. After digging up the surrounding soil, Wang began to dig up the roots of the ginseng there with a deer bone stick.

Wild ginseng emphasizes the five shapes (whiskers, reeds, skins, lines, and bodies), and recognizes the six bodies (spirit, stupid, old, tender, horizontal, and shun). Back then, the king told me the way to distinguish wild ginseng, which was a song, "Horse tooth goose neck reed, stretching jujube kernel downward, short body, deep and dense rings, round and drooping shoulders, tight and fine skin, short legs two or three, crotch figure eight, sparse root warts, special shape of mountain ginseng." ”

The real wild ginseng, in fact, grows in a very deep ground, Wang first dug out the ginseng reed, from the bottom to the top can often be divided into three parts: round reed (also known as "goose neck reed"), pile flower reed and horse tooth reed, the whole reed is called three section reed; At this time, Wang Jiangtou had already pulled out the reed head of ginseng, looked at the reed head, and said in his mouth: "This is really a treasure, you look at this goose neck reed is beautifully cultivated, and the reed head below is like a pile of flowers, which is really rare." ”

The king boasted about the ginseng as he used a deer bone skewer to dig up the soil between the roots and whiskers of the ginseng, as if he was not digging for ginseng, but embroidering there. The king dug his head so earnestly that he almost forgot the time, and the sun was already very high at this time, but the mist above our heads had not dispersed, and the sun's rays were scattered on the ginseng leaves like a little bit of gold.