Legend among the mountain people says that this jackal is the patron saint of the mountain people.

Once, there was a young man who came to Kanto, and he went into the mountains to look for a mallet by himself, and he didn't understand anything, and he slept at night when he was alone in a random place.

But in the middle of the night, he saw something like a wolf, guarding him.

The young man was frightened enough to drive the thing away, but the thing came back in a circle, not far from the young man, and sat and watched him.

Later, the young man went down the mountain and told people about it, only to know that it was a jackal.

With it guarded, the other animals did not dare to come forward, and the young man could go down the mountain unharmed.

Xu Shiyan didn't know whether the legend was true or not, anyway, he wouldn't provoke the jackal, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual around, he went back to sleep in the shack.

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, or if the jackal dog pees is useful, anyway, in the second half of the night, I didn't hear the wolf howl again, and the big guys slept very peacefully.

After getting up early and eating, the five of them stood in a row and shouted in unison.

Then, Xu Shiyan was the head stick, Huang Shengli was the side stick, and the other three were waist sticks.

Five people held rope sticks in their hands, lined up horizontally, and pressed the mountain in the direction pointed out by Xu Shiyan.

Pressing the mountain is a boring job, you can't speak, you have to keep your eyes on the grass on the ground.

All orders are conveyed through the plucking stick in the hand of the head stick.

Everyone came out in the morning until more than ten o'clock, and there was nothing to be gained.

Xu Shiyan knocked twice on the tree with a rope stick, and the big guy stopped to smoke and rest.

Zhou Qingguo's background as a soldier, it is nothing to take this little road, so he casually found a dry place to sit down, took out cigarette rolls and distributed them to everyone.

"Third uncle, do you want one?"

Zhou Qingguo knew that Xu Shiyan didn't smoke on weekdays, but when he entered the mountains, there were many mosquitoes, so he smoked a cigarette to slowly relieve fatigue, and also drove away mosquitoes along the way.

Xu Shiyan took the cigarette, and Zhou Qingguo took out a match and lit it for Xu Shiyan.

"Third uncle, the mountain is so big, there are only five of us, how can we find a mallet?"

Zhou Qingguo is a first-time leader, and when he entered the mountain for the first time, he didn't understand anything, so he asked casually.

Xu Shiyan took a puff of cigarette and was about to say something to Zhou Qingguo, when he suddenly saw where Zhou Qingguo had just sat down.

suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly grabbed Zhou Qingguo, who was about to sit down.

"Mallet." Xu Shiyan looked at the grass that was overwhelmed by Zhou Qingguo and shouted.

Everyone was stunned, they didn't react, and they thought that Xu Shiyan was scolding Zhou Qingguo.

Huang Shengli was still quick-witted, followed Xu Shiyan's gaze, and then hurriedly picked up the mountain.

"What?" It's the same as asking a few pint leaves.

"The key to the mountain." It's Erjiazi.

Because Erjiazi has only two branches, like a key.

If you meet Erjiazi first, you are likely to meet a large cargo next, so Erjiazi is called the key to opening the mountain.

"Brother Xu, where are you? Why didn't we see that? ”

Sun Xiaofeng and Feng Chao all came over and looked around, but they didn't see it at all.

Xu Shiyan stuck the rope stick in the ground, straightened the overwhelmed mallet seedlings with his hands, and found two small sticks to wrap the mallet lock around the mallet seedlings.

Now, the big guys can see that this ginseng plant is not too big, and there are only two or three ginseng seeds on it, which is not conspicuous at all.

Zhou Qingguo didn't pay attention just now, so he sat under his belly, if he hadn't brought out the cigarette to Xu Shiyan, Xu Shiyan wouldn't have noticed.

Everyone also came back to their senses at this time, and they didn't know who started, so they laughed.

"Qingguo, Qingguo, but there is really you, people say that the first luck is prosperous, you are really, sit out of a mallet.

You're still there, asking where you can find a mallet, and you're sitting on a tree under your belly. ”

Where did Zhou Qingguo think that there would be such a thing? Reaching out and scratching his head, he smiled there with an embarrassed face.

He really didn't see it, so he just found a place to sit down, how could he think that this time he would sit so accurately?

"Fortunately, we have good eyesight, otherwise we would have missed it." Zhou Qingguo can only say this.

"Come on, don't brag there.

Victory, you will carry this ginseng. Xiaofeng, you go to the whole fire and help smoke the mosquitoes, and I'll walk around the neighborhood. ”

Xu Shiyan felt that there should be ginseng nearby, and he had to look around.

In this way, Huang Shengli, Sun Xiaofeng, and Feng Chao stayed to carry the ginseng, and Xu Shiyan and Zhou Qingguo accompanied them and walked around the neighborhood.

As he walked, Zhou Qingguo suddenly saw something, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he knocked on the trunk of the tree with a rope stick.

When Xu Shiyan heard this, he leaned over to Zhou Qingguo, "What's wrong?" ”

"Third uncle, do you think that is the old omen you said?" Zhou Qingguo pointed to an old pine tree not far ahead.

I saw a piece of bark cut off from the ground, and something was carved into the exposed wood.

Xu Shiyan looked at it, isn't it an old omen? hurriedly led Zhou Qingguo to him.

If you look closely, it is engraved with garbled characters, which is not an ordinary omen.

After all, Zhou Qingguo grew up in the forest area, and he also knew a little about this, but he couldn't understand the sign in front of him.

"Third uncle, what is this? Why can't I read it? ”

The general omen is engraved with the number of people on the left, a few people on the right, the growth years of ginseng on the right, and a few horizontal bars on the leaves.

I have listened to the old people in the village since I was a child, and most of them understand, but Zhou Qingguo couldn't understand this in front of him.

"This is the Suzhou code, also known as the flower code.

The person who got the big goods here didn't want people to know the specific situation, so he changed the omen and engraved it with Suzhou code. ”

Xu Shiyan carefully distinguished the mark on it, and sure enough, it was the Suzhou code.

Suzhou code, also known as grass code, flower code, is an early folk commercial number.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, it was a counting method separated from the calculation of chips, and was mostly used for commercial bookkeeping.

This kind of yard rarely appears in the Northeast, and Xu Shiyan also heard the old man talk about it when he was with the old man Han in his previous life.

The Han family walked through the dart back then and had come into contact with many merchants from the north and south, so they knew this.

"They were nine of them, and they brought one seedling and six leaves, and three seedlings and five leaves.

Let me look at the year, the second year of Xuantong, when is the second year of Xuantong? The last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, right?

Hey, if you count it like this, isn't it sixty or seventy years? ”

Xu Shiyan's history is not very good, that is, he has heard it from the commentary, as if the name of the last emperor is called Xuantong, that is, this omen is quite long.

"Come, Qingguo, come here, come with me, kowtow to the old man of the mountain god, and the old-timers, let the old man bless us, and we can find a big stick mallet near here."

"The First Evolution"

In the early years, the people who put the mountain adhered to the rules left by the mountain gods.

When encountering large quantities of ginseng, you should pick the ginseng seeds and scatter them around.

In order to leave a financial path for future generations, we cannot cut off the roots of our children and grandchildren.

The people in the past believed in these very much, and they obeyed them very religiously, unlike the later generations, who wished they could get it all at once, who cares about the children and grandchildren?