"You're crazy!"

I walked up to Liu Sanshou in two steps and grabbed him by the collar, and was about to pull him up, when I suddenly remembered a loud shout: "Stick!" ”

This cry was full of confidence, and it made my eardrums buzz.

"You're sick!"

I watched Liu Sanshou just scold, but found that he was also kneeling on the ground with a confused face, staring left and right with wide eyes, obviously the sound did not come from his mouth.

"Mallet!"

Another loud shout of the same voice exploded in the air, more confident than the last time, and the brains were all blinded, but this time I heard the source of the sound clearly, and it was above Liu Sanshou's head!

But when I looked up for a long time, there was no hair on my head except for the black, impermeable canopy, and the shout was a little familiar, as if I had heard it somewhere......

Shouting Mountain!

I suddenly remembered the meaning of this mallet, in the process of picking ginseng, if someone finds ginseng, they must shout a mallet, this shouting mountain, one is to remind other partners who go up the mountain together I found the ginseng here, and the other is to use the meaning of the mallet to fix the ginseng so as not to let it slip away.

Once someone shouts about the mountain, then the head has to answer the question, "What goods?" ”

When you find that someone is accurate, you have to answer immediately and say a few pins of leaves.

Then, the group went on to say, "Hurry up!" Hurry up! ”

This is called "catching the mountain".

These two voices are clearly someone shouting about the mountain, but why did the voice come from Liu Sanshou's head, could it be that there is a ghost squatting on the tree.

Just when I was puzzled, Liu Sanshou was the first to react and shouted loudly: "What goods?" ”

As soon as the words fell, he heard someone answer above his head: "Erpinye!" ”

Two-leaf product refers to ginseng that grows to two ginseng leaves, and it is worthless when it is taken outside.

I was a little disappointed when I heard it, but Liu Sanshou was as excited as a monkey, the expression on his face was about to distort, and he hurriedly responded: "Hurry up!" ”

At this point, the mountain was successfully completed, and the sound was completely quiet.

Although I haven't figured out where this shouting voice comes from, this Erpinye really makes me a little uninterested, and I looked at Liu Sanshou with raised eyebrows and said, "Erpinye, as for it?" ”

"You know a!"

Liu Sanshou excitedly spat on the palm of his hand, wiped it dry, wiped it off, took out a flashlight from the deerskin bag behind him, opened it and stuffed it into his mouth, the light of the flashlight hit just under his head, and with the two thin black hands in the thick layer of fallen leaves, a red flower with two green leaves appeared in sight.

"Sure enough, it's a two-leaf product."

I sighed, but saw that Liu Sanshou's excitement did not diminish at all, and he reached out and took out a red rope with a few copper coins in the deerskin bag, as well as a wooden stick about five feet long, and a large number of strange things piled up on the ground.

Compared with the mountain rules of shouting mountains and mountains, digging ginseng is a unique activity that has been included in the national intangible cultural heritage.

Ginseng collection can be divided into three stages: in April and May of the lunar calendar, ginseng seedlings germinate, called "sprout grass"; In June and July, ginseng leaves are hidden in weeds and are difficult to find, which is called "putting black grass"; Between August and September, the ginseng seeds are ripe, bright red and clean, resembling a chicken loin, on the top of the thin stem of the crown group, very much like a hammer, the folk call "red hammer market", this is the golden season of ginseng picking.

Just like the little red in the green bush we see in front of us, it is commonly known as the red hammer.

It is not easy to do this business, you have to learn the art of apprenticeship, and before you enter the mountain, you must collectively bow down to the old leader who has passed away, which is the rule and ask for blessings.

Ginseng pickers have a smooth saying: they all say that ginseng is a treasure, but ginseng seedlings need blood to water, roots and bones throw cliffs, ginseng pickers are not as good as a grass.

Almost all of the ginseng pickers are scarred, small injuries are scraped by branches, touched by stones, bitten and scratched by small animals, and big injuries are encountered by tigers and bears.

There was a ginseng picker who ran into two bears on the mountain, and the bears licked off half of their faces and bit off their ears.

I don't know if Liu Sanshou has ever bowed to him, but although the skills of the gang are outstanding, it is really to be compared with the shepherd or the treasure-holding person who is only born for the treasure of heaven and earth, and it can't be compared at all.

While pondering, he watched Liu Sanshou carefully put a red velvet rope tied to a copper coin on the ginseng leaves, and understood in his heart that the digging of ginseng began.

Usually after receiving the mountain, the head is first tied with a red velvet rope tied to the copper coin on the ginseng leaves, the purpose of this is said to be because the ginseng doll has the ability to escape, only with the red rope tethered, it will not escape.

After tying the red thread, draw a one-meter-square frame on the ground around the ginseng, insert four people's rope pulling sticks in the four corners, call it "Gubao", and the others light the artemisia grass to smoke mosquitoes in order to concentrate on digging ginseng.

When digging ginseng, the soil is first broken, and then the ginseng whiskers are slowly dug one by one with a smooth deer bone drill, which is very similar to the current archaeological excavation. After picking out the soil around the ginseng, pull out the ginseng with moss grass. Subsequently, moss thatch, birch leaves, mixed with some raw soil, the ginseng is wrapped, and the straw rope is used to make "ginseng buns".

After digging ginseng, you should cut the "head of the head", that is, choose a red pine tree near the head, peel off a piece of bark from the trunk in the direction of digging ginseng, and then carve a bar with a knife on the white stubble trunk. The number of people who put the mountain is engraved on the left, and a few people are carved with a few bars; The right side is engraved with a few leaf ginseng, and a few bars are carved on a few leaves. This is to let everyone know that this place used to dig ginseng and is a ginseng growing area.

So that a whole ginseng tree is dug up.

And when I watched with wide eyes as Liu Sanshou dug a whole two-leaf ginseng out of the soil, I don't know how long it had been, and his legs had been standing unconscious, and when he used the original soil to beat the ginseng into "ginseng buns", and then ran to the side with it and came back from "cutting off the head", he grinned at me and said, "The mountain has been blown up." ”

But before he could finish speaking, the expression on his face suddenly stiffened, as if he was constipated, and his free hand stretched out to the back of his buttocks, and then let out a muffled snort from his mouth, and he saw a black-headed snake covered with red spots being choked by Liu San's hand and carried in front of him.

"Dog, I actually forgot about you, dare to bite Lao Tzu's ass, Lao Tzu stripped you of your guts!"

As he spoke, he slammed the red-headed snake to the ground, and before it slipped away, he stepped on his tail, and the hand holding his head went down the snake body, and when he touched the slightly backward position between the snake's neck and the anus, the sharp nail of his thumb was gently scratched on the snakeskin, and then he used his middle finger to follow the opening in the body, and a gallbladder the size of a thumb was dug out in this way.

"Shaodong's taste, clear eyes and go to fire, good things."

Liu Sanshou handed the still steaming snake gall in front of me, so frightened that I stepped back again and again, and then hehe, he opened his mouth wide and swallowed it in his stomach, and with a "grunt" in his throat, the snake gall went down, and licked his lips unsatisfied, giving me a disgusting grin.

"Don't reminisce, what the hell is going on, a second-grade leaf can excite you like this, something is wrong, right?" I looked at Liu San's unfinished expression, frowned and said.

Liu San wiped his lips with his hand and said, "Shaodong, this is not an ordinary second-grade leaf, what do you look at?" ”

Liu Sanshou took out the ginseng again as he spoke, took it in his hand, and hit it with a flashlight, and I realized that this ginseng seemed to be a little different from what I was used to.

In the Northeast, there is such a folk song related to ginseng picking: the reed bowls are closely intergrown, and the round shoulders are round and the reed jujube kernels are round. Tight skin with fine lines and pimples, and the beard is long and clear like a strip of skin. The pearl dots are dotted under the whiskers, and the pearl dots are long and clear.

What is sung in it is what a good ginseng should look like, and the second-grade leaf in Liu Sanshou's hand, the reed bowl is sparse, the roots are messy, and it is not even an ordinary good ginseng, but the reed head is slightly red, which looks a little strange.

I shook my head and said, "Nothing different except the red dot on my head." ”

Liu Sanshou said with a smile: "Shaodongjia doesn't understand, the value is worth in this head." ”

"Why?" I was surprised.

"Let me tell you, this is a blood ginseng, and it is also the legendary key to the opening of the mountain, as long as there is a place where it appears, there will definitely be a thousand-year-old ginseng nearby, even the Grass King, maybe it's here!" ()

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