Yang Yuan is sixty-nine years old this year, his family lives at the foot of Changbai Mountain, and he has been digging ginseng as a profession all his life. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn the past, Changbai Mountain was full of treasures, although it was a lucky job to dig ginseng in the mountains, but basically when I went out for a few days and came back, I would not be empty-handed. With the passage of time, the fame of Changbai Mountain ginseng became more and more famous, and people became more and more energetic in digging ginseng, and soon there were fewer and fewer wild ginseng, and finally it was almost impossible to see. In the past, people didn't dig much, and it seemed to be enough for a family's life, but now people are digging hard, and it doesn't seem to be much better than before.

It turned out that there were more than a dozen families in Yang Laohan's village, and in recent years, everyone seemed to have made money, and more and more people moved outside, and slowly his family remained. And Yang Laohan has no children and no daughters and his wife Su Qin depends on each other, and he is reluctant to leave his homeland when he is old, and he has no worries outside, and he is happy and quiet in the mountains. Fortunately, Changbai Mountain is full of treasures, although there are fewer wild ginseng, but Yang Laohan also planted some ginseng in the forest next to his home, but the medicinal effect and price are not comparable to wild ginseng. Fortunately, in this rich land, as long as people are hardworking, they don't have to worry about food and clothing.

It's a pity that there are unforeseen circumstances, at the beginning of this year, my wife felt very uncomfortable, and recently it has become very serious, so Yang Laohan had to push his wife out of the mountain and come to the town with a cart. After a blood test, the hospital suspected that the lung had a malignant tumor, that is, cancer, and the doctor suggested that Yang Laohan take his wife to the county hospital for a follow-up.

After being diagnosed by the county hospital, Su Qin did have lung cancer, and treatment required a huge amount of money. Yang Laohan and his wife worked hard all their lives, but in the end they had no money to see a doctor, so they had to take their wife home again.

When he returned home, Yang Yuan began to use the conservative treatment plan given by the hospital, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, and various local methods for his wife, hoping that his wife would get better. The cost of traditional Chinese medicine treatment is much smaller, and Changbai Mountain is full of treasures, and there are countless kinds of Chinese medicinal materials on the mountain. The traditional Chinese medicine in the hospital is also based on the actual situation of Yang Laohan, and the medicines prescribed are basically herbs that can be collected locally in Changbai Mountain, even if they can't collect them themselves, the purchase price is very cheap.

However, the effect of conservative treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and these hearsay earthwork methods does not seem to be very obvious, and the wife is becoming more and more painful every day. Looking at his wife who was getting thinner and thinner, and her increasingly painful expression, Yang Yuan felt that he was living a very poor life, he could feel that his heart was dripping blood, hating himself for not being able to treat his wife, and hating that he couldn't share his wife's pain.

Yang Yuan will not do anything in his life except to go to the mountains to dig ginseng, and it is not realistic to go out to work and make money at this age, so for the sake of his wife Yang Laohan decided to try his luck in the mountains again.

For many years, Yang Laohan has not rushed to the mountains to dig ginseng, on the one hand, after all, he is old, and his family does not need so much money. In fact, digging ginseng is also a very dangerous job, and when everyone went to dig ginseng in the past, they basically went out in a group of people to prevent danger or getting lost.

Now there are not enough people, mainly because there are fewer people living in the mountains now, and everyone has moved outside, and on the other hand, the main reason is that wild ginseng has almost become a legend. Especially in recent years, the traffic has developed a lot, and the roads have been built to the depths of Changbai Mountain, and now many young people who come to the mountains to dig ginseng do not abide by the spirit of the previous older generation, such as taking the big and letting go of the small, so that the wild ginseng is almost extinct.

After helping his wife prepare enough herbs and daily necessities, he chose a sunny day with cloudless skies, and Yang Laohan took a full set of tools for digging ginseng and some daily life equipment into the mountains to try his luck.

Yang Laohan is very familiar with Changbai Mountain, after all, he has been working in this mountain all his life to make a living. Yang Yuan was going to go to the depths of the primeval forest this time, because there were almost no wild ginseng in the near places. In fact, the primeval forest of Changbai Mountain is very well developed, and it is almost impossible to go to places that no one else has ever visited.

During the day, Yang Laohan searched carefully in the forest, and at night found a dry place where no water flowed through and set up camp. It is also very convenient to dig ginseng people for the night, unlike nowadays when young people go out camping and bring a lot of wilderness survival equipment. When digging ginseng for the night, choose a good place, first build a shelf with thick branches, then put birch bark to protect from rain, and finally spread thin branches and animal skins in the shack.

In fact, there are a lot of things to do about spending the night in the mountains, not only to pay attention to tigers, insects, snakes and leopards, etc., but also to be careful not to camp at the water's edge, and not to camp on the aisle where wild beasts go to drink water, etc., but all this is not a problem for Yang Laohan, who has dealt with Changbai Mountain all his life.

The only thing that Yang Laohan is worried about is that he can't find wild ginseng, and there is no way to save his wife, and now it is past the best season to dig ginseng, ginseng grows in the bushes under the woods, and it is almost mixed with wild grasses, it is difficult to distinguish, and the ginseng diggers are mainly judged by the fruits of ginseng in autumn. But now it's a bit late in the season, and the seeds may have fallen or been eaten by the birds and taken somewhere else.

In fact, even if you have money, there is no way to completely treat cancer in the current situation, but people need a hope.

A week has passed, and Yang Laohan still found nothing, and before he knew it, Yang Laohan had crossed the border. Yang Laohan didn't realize it, he was searching for the traces of ginseng, and he was calculating the time, he had been out for more than a week, and generally the ginseng digging people were limited to half a month, mainly because the dry food could only bring so much. A week had passed, and he had little dry food left, and if he didn't harvest in two days, he would have to make his way back. It wasn't until he heard the voice of the North Korean border guards that Yang Laohan came to his senses, and it turned out that he had crossed the border unconsciously.

God took good care of Yang Laohan this time, when the North Goryeo border guards were patrolling, he was carefully searching and studying the traces of wild ginseng in the bushes, and did not make any sound, otherwise according to the character of the North Goryeo scoundrel, it is possible to be killed on the spot.

After there was no danger, good luck came, Yang Laohan found wild ginseng in a not very obvious Xiangyang Mountain Col, and there was more than one plant. It is located at the junction of the two countries, and it is easy to ignore the fact that the col is so small and inconspicuous that it is easy to ignore. After all, the Border Patrol is not a professional ginseng digger, and does not have valuable experience in digging ginseng, so it does not pay special attention to this place, which provides convenience for the growth of wild ginseng.

If it had been somewhere else, it would have been discovered long ago. At this time, the ginseng has basically lost its leaves, so it is necessary to accumulate nutrients for next year's growth. And because it is sunny here, the temperature is high, and the wild ginseng here has not yet fallen leaves, otherwise it will be more troublesome for Yang Laohan to find, and it is possible to find it.

According to the excitement, Yang Laohan worshiped the mountain god again, carefully set up a shelf on the side of the ginseng, and then carefully wrapped the ginseng with a red rope with a copper coin. Take out the scissors, cut off the roots around the wild ginseng, and take out the deer bone needle, carefully digging out the ginseng slowly.

Generally speaking, ginseng diggers will not use metal tools to dig ginseng, because metal tools are easy to break ginseng, so after the pulp, the quality of ginseng will drop greatly, and the price and efficacy will be greatly discounted. The deer bone needle has strong toughness and will not break the ginseng whiskers, which retains the appearance and medicinal value of ginseng to the greatest extent.

After three hours of fighting, Yang Yuan finally dug up this ginseng, which was not an ordinary three-flower seed or horseshoe, but four leaves, which showed that this ginseng had been around for many years. Looking at the imprints on the ginseng that was dug up, Yang Yuan judged that this ginseng has been around for more than 50 years, and it is a rare old ginseng, and it is really the protection of the mountain god that allows him to dig such a good ginseng in today's situation.

Quickly get moss and birch bark, Yang Yuan carefully wrapped the wild ginseng, moss and birch bark can maintain the moisture of the mountain ginseng to the greatest extent.

After resting for a while, Yang Laohan began to dig another wild ginseng that looked relatively old. After another three hours, another wild ginseng was also dug up, and the time was not short, almost nearly seventy years old, looking at this wild ginseng that was about the same age as himself, Yang Laohan was also full of emotion in his heart.

Yang Laohan carved a sign on the birch tree next to him, and at the same time buried the ginseng seeds in the place where the ginseng was originally dug up. The purpose of the logo on the birch tree is to tell the ginseng diggers who come behind them what kind of ginseng has been dug up here, and to plant the ginseng seeds again so that the people behind can also dig ginseng here, which is the customary rule of ginseng diggers.

There are a lot of ginseng, but Yang Laohan didn't dig it again, these two wild ginsengs are in good condition, and the price should be able to sell for forty or fifty thousand, which is enough for the wife to cure the disease, and people can't be greedy.

It was getting late, and it was logical that you should rest at night, and it was not suitable for rushing, but considering that you had already crossed the border, you would be in danger of being caught if you stayed for a minute longer. It's not terrible that he was arrested, the key is who will take care of his wife? Yang Laohan walked back cautiously, at least to return to the other side of the border to feel at ease. Bypassing the border guards of North Goryeo, Yang Laohan finally returned to his familiar territory.

When I went out to dig ginseng, I walked very slowly because I needed to look carefully, and I got home quickly, and it only took me two days, and I arrived at home the next night. After returning home, tell his wife the good news, and prepare to rush to the county market early in the morning on the third day to sell the wild ginseng to raise money for his wife's treatment, or at least to relieve his wife's pain.

Barely closing his eyes, Yang Laohan set off for the town early in the morning of the third day, catching the first bus to the county.

There are pharmacies in the county that accept ginseng, but the price they give is very low, although the price they sell is scary. And they have to use instruments to do identification, the time period is very long, and the most important thing is that the price is very low. Yang Laohan still decided to try his luck at the local medicinal herb market.

Now the tourism industry in Changbai Mountain is very developed, many people come to Changbai Mountain to play, and many people come to buy Changbai Mountain ginseng, maybe if you are lucky, you can sell it, so that the time is short and the price is good.