The mallet locks the ginseng, and then a fire is placed upwind to smoke mosquitoes and wild animals to avoid being disturbed when digging ginseng.

It had just rained, the forest was wet, and it was obviously not easy to start a fire.

However, people who are often in the mountains and forests also have a set of methods for this.

There is a tree called green straw, which has a green trunk and a smooth skin with a thin layer of white wax on it.

It would be easy to find such a tree, cut it down and split it into thin strips, and ignite it with birch bark.

When the fire is a little stronger, add other firewood, cover it with artemisia grass, suppress the fire and smoke it, and float it to the location of the ginseng with the wind, and then you can dig the ginseng.

Picking ginseng is called raising a mallet to show respect.

Carrying a mallet is not an easy job, and experienced people are usually hands-on.

Xu Shiyan only has one elder brother, don't stop your head and do it yourself.

Pick up the grass and leaves around the ginseng by hand and open a "plate".

Ginseng is often entangled with the roots of the tree and the grass roots, and the roots of the tree should be sawed off with a "quick saw".

The main reason is that the roots of the tree are elastic and cannot be cut with an axe, and it is easy to shake the ginseng.

Thin tree roots and grass roots should be cut with "quick scissors".

Clean up the plate and expose the soil, at this time, you should take out the "quick stick", which is usually made of deer bones, and remove the soil layer.

Start digging from the reeds under the ginseng stalks until all the roots of the ginseng are exposed.

No tiny roots should be cut off, otherwise the price of ginseng will drop when it is sold.

Every ginseng that is cleaned out should be covered with loose soil at all times to retain moisture.

This is a very laborious job, and the person who carries the ginseng must be steady, not in a hurry, and take it slowly little by little.

Fortunately, Xu Shiyan has a stable temperament and is careful in his work, which is the most suitable.

Don't look at it as just a four-leaf tree, and the taproot part is only the thickness of a finger, but it takes a long time to dig it out of the soil completely.

Xu Shiyan was alone, and when he was tired, he had no one to replace him, so he could only sit on the ground and smoke a cigarette for a while, and then continue.

It took half a day's work to finally lift this ginseng out completely.

Don't look at this ginseng, it's not too big, but the shape is extremely beautiful.

The head of the reed is the size of a bean, with a twisted mouth, a slender neck, and two whiskers on the shoulders like arms.

The main body is the thickness of an index finger, three fingers long, and then two legs, and the tendrils are about half a foot long, covered with pearly bumps.

It's good, although the weight is not too heavy, at most one or two to sink, but it is definitely the top grade, according to the purchase price of this year, it is estimated that it can be sold for more than 200 yuan.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiyan couldn't help but shake his head, if this is put in forty years, I am afraid it will be sold for tens of thousands.

Yes, it's useless to think so much.

Xu Shiyan shook his head, went to the side to peel off a large piece of fresh moss and laid it, spread the ginseng on it, covered some of the original soil, and carefully wrapped the ginseng with moss.

Moss is soft, moist, breathable, and not easy to dry, and is used to wrap ginseng, which will not damage the ginseng and is conducive to preservation, which can make the human parameters unchanged for months.

Then a large piece of birch bark was removed, the moss was wrapped in it, and the catalpa bark was used as a rope and carefully tied.

After the ginseng package is put away, it is necessary to cut the "omen".

Find a red pine tree near where the ginseng is excavated, and use a knife or axe to cut off the bark of the tree one foot square in the direction of the ginseng at the height of a rope stick on the ground.

Carved a mark on the smooth trunk of the tree, the number of people on the left side, a few people, the size of ginseng on the right, and a few leaves.

After the engraving, I have to "wash my face" for the omen. It is to use fire to burn the pine oil that flows out around the omen, and in order to protect the omen, it can be seen clearly for decades.

The purpose of cutting the "omen" is to commemorate the occurrence of ginseng here, and to remind future generations that in a few decades, there may still be people who will find ginseng near the old omen.

Of course, there are also people who record the size of the ginseng in other ways or adjust the direction of the omen in order not to let others know the size of the ginseng they have dug up.

After doing this, Xu Shiyan casually sprinkled the ginseng seeds he had picked before and scattered them nearby.

The people of Fangshan also pay attention to sustainable development, sowing ginseng seeds, maybe in many years, there will be ginseng here.

Busy and busy, most of the day has passed, but fortunately, there is something to gain, regardless of the size, it is worth comforting.

Xu Shiyan no longer had nostalgia, packed up his tools and returned to the ground.

For the next three days, Xu Shiyan wandered around here, but found nothing. I only saw a two-jiazi tree in the middle, but it was too small, so I let it go.

After three days of no gain, Xu Shiyan was a little depressed.

In his previous life, when he was working in the Da'an Coal Mine, he heard his family mention that a group of people in the village went into the mountains to release the mountains, met a large tree, and sold it for nearly 1,000 yuan.

A thousand yuan this year, that's not a small amount, not to mention the Dongjiang Brigade, even the Daying Commune knows it.

He couldn't be mistaken, he couldn't have remembered such a sensational thing, it was found near the fairy cave, and then he saw that omen.

Why has he been here for five days and hasn't seen it? Shouldn't he make this fortune? Don't have that luck?

Putting the mountain was originally a matter of luck, and it is estimated that he did not have this financial luck.

Alas, if he doesn't meet it for two more days, he will go home, and it is estimated that his daughter-in-law should be in a hurry at home.

Xu Shiyan relieved himself, regained his spirits, held the treasure stick in his hand, kept beating the surrounding grass and trees, and kept looking around.

There was silence in the forest, and there was no sound except for the sound of sticks pushing through the grass and trouser legs rubbing against the branches and grass.

Suddenly, there was a slight noise behind him.

Xu Shiyan felt a chill behind his back, with many years of experience in hunting in his previous life, he dared to conclude that there must be some beast behind him.

Xu Shiyan didn't dare to make too much movement, and gently twisted his body to look back.

When he saw the situation behind him, he couldn't help but gasp, yes, I have to explain here if I don't make trouble today.

Two or three hundred meters behind Xu Shiyan, a huge black animal was swaying towards this side.

That body shape, that walking posture, you don't have to think about it, it must be a black blind man.

The black blind man is a name given to the black bear by the locals, this thing does not have good eyesight and black hair, so it is called the black blind man.

Don't look at this thing, the vision is not good, but the sense of smell is very sensitive, and the strength is very great, and the shoulder blades of the cow can be shattered with a slap.

This is a guy who can fight with a tiger, he moves quickly, has a super strong bite, has rough skin and thick flesh and is resistant to beating.

, this luck is not good, it's just carried home.

Xu Shiyan secretly regretted that he shouldn't have dug up the four leaves without believing in evil. If the older generation stays, it still makes sense.

Just as he was thinking about it, the black blind man with his head down suddenly sniffed, then raised his head and looked in the direction of Xu Shiyan.

Xu Shiyan chuckled in his heart for a moment, and was stunned to control the urge to turn around and run away, and gently and slowly moved back.