Chapter 14 Ten Thousand Years of Wuling Ginseng Emperor

According to the Records of Lingzhi Foreign Objects, there are often treasures in the vicinity of the mountain climbing dragons.

Looking at the entrance of the cave that was getting closer and closer, he became confused about defeat.

It is only three or four meters away from the entrance of the cave, and the bright moon and colorful clouds in the night sky are all clearly reflected in the eyes.

Some of the dragon's vines have become entangled in the roots of trees on the surface, ready to reach the surface at any time.

"God, did you say that you were going to give me a batch of spirit stones, or a spirit vein, or a batch of unusual good things?

Seeing that he was about to "collect a few fewer buckets", he couldn't help but mutter.

At this time, the cave wall has undergone some obvious changes, the original is mainly based on rocks, and the change is now a mixture of sand and gravel and laterite, especially on the left hand side, there are a lot of hair roots, there are green ink color, there are also white, the big ones are as big as two or three fingers, and the small ones are also big with chopsticks.

Wouldn't it? It's such a coincidence, it's really hairy, and there are a lot of hairy roots?

In this situation, I feel a little funny when I look at defeat, God, what are you not good at, but you want to have a hair.

He couldn't laugh or cry, so he kicked it by the way, and the wall of the cave fell red soil like a lot of money, and after a while, a hole with a small child's height appeared, and it didn't continue to fall until the black rock was exposed.

Because of the bright moonlight, he could see very clearly that these hairy roots were not actually tree roots or grass roots, but the roots were shaped like soapberry fruits and/or sweet potatoes.

One kick can kick so many hairy roots, and one more kick!

The second kick was kicked down, and the cave wall continued to "clam" and not drop the red soil like a needle, and a second child-high hole appeared.

This time, he took a closer look and found that the white hair root was white on the inside, soft on the inside, and had an aroma similar to that of chicken (Tucong) fungi. The green ink hair root should be the white hair root after maturity, there is no hair, the middle is ripe and dry, the basic carbonization will be broken, and there are one or two circles of white matter in the middle.

These hair roots, the smallest such as cashew nuts and the largest such as facial discs, have a dark brown or black surface after ripening, slightly shiny, and densely covered with irregular fine wrinkles. There is a circular dimple at one end, which is in the shape of a "navel", and there is a protruding pedicle at the other end, and its tip is often split like a bird's beak. The body is relatively solid, not easy to break, the broken surface is uneven, white or yellowish-white, delicate and slightly soft. Occasionally, the skin lines are rough, and the body is light and loose or empty.

The smell is peculiar, the taste is sweet, and it exudes a strong medicinal fragrance and spiritual breath.

What are these hairy roots? Think hard to see if you can identify them.

"At present, the hair root belongs to the fungus, could it be the chicken fir fungus? The chicken fir fungus is thick and fat, the quality is fine and white, and the taste is sweet and crispy. However, the appearance of chicken fir fungus is not quite similar to the hair root...... By the way, I remembered the book "Medicine King Tongjian" by Mr. Tao Hongjing, a resident of Huayang, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", "Medicinal Heart Method", "Decoction Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", and the precious medicinal materials that had been recorded - Wuling ginseng. ”

His brain flashed, and he finally remembered what this thing was.

Wuling ginseng is a kind of fungus, the fungus is white (that is, the white root that emerges from the ground), rich in supernatural and healthy elements.

It grows on the abandoned ant nest of black-winged termites half a meter to two or three meters underground, and the mycelium is white, intertwined into a net, densely distributed in the cavity of the abandoned black-winged termite fungus. When mature, part of the hyphae assembles to form sclerotia.

Because the roots are spherical, elliptical or ovate, it is called "chicken (soil) egg". Other names include black ginseng, black ginseng, thunder zhenzi, chicken poria, chicken soil from the gall, hanging gold needle, charcoal stick, etc.

The appearance of Wuling ginseng is white or black, and there is a circular pit at the junction with the hyphae, and the sclerotia gradually disconnects from the hyphae after growing, showing the shape of "navel". The upper end of the sclerotia hangs from the upper wall of the termite nest and is connected to the false root. False roots are cylindrical or oblate-cylindrical, black on the outside, white on the inside, often branched, zigzag and spread in the soil. It is connected with the peduncle of the sub-pedestal, and the sub-pedestal is scattered or grouped on the ground, mostly single-branched, and occasionally has some branches from the pedile, which is circular and upward-shaped. The sub-seat is club-shaped, slightly thicker in the middle, rounded and blunt at the apex, grayish-white at birth, later brownish, with a wart-like protruding ascomycete on the outside, the ascomycete shell is oval, buried in the outer layer of the subbase, the ascomycete is protruding externally, the wart-like orifice is black, the ascospores are numerous, spherical, black-brown when ripe, and the lateral filaments are single or branched.

Herb pickers in spring and summer. After digging out the underground sclerotia of Wuling ginseng, it is washed to remove dirt and sand particles, and then air-dried for storage.

Wuling ginseng is regarded as a rare and precious medicinal material by the world, with a wide range of medicinal value, has a significant effect of replenishing qi and blood, and is mainly treated with: insomnia, palpitations, vomiting blood, hemorrhage, scalds, skin and bone damage. It can also help people to tonify the kidney, strengthen the spleen, invigorate blood and lower lipids, etc.

"I didn't expect to fall into a deep hole, I didn't die, this time I have so many Wuling ginseng, I made a lot of money!"

Qiu Cheng looked at the clusters of black ginseng and laughed excitedly.

He first put away the sclerotia of Wulingshen buried in the two holes, and then asked Xiaolong to help dig and expand the area of the hole, and he took out the shovel-shaped bone from the storage ring, dug all the way to collect the sclerotia of Wulingshen, and put them into the storage ring one by one.

An hour later, Qiu Defeat and Xiaolong excavated a super-large Wuling Ginseng Emperor, at least more than 10,000 years old, and it was estimated that there were at least two or three people who were tall and chubby in the ascomycetes to hug it, about a thousand catties.

The storage ring originally had a space of about 20 square meters, empty, but now there are countless sclerotia of Wuling ginseng, and with a small mountain high, it finally looks pleasing to the eye.

"God, thank you for sending me Mao, no, send me Wuling ginseng, especially that 10,000-year-old Wuling ginseng emperor. ”

Digging and digging, he walked out of the ground and looked at the white sky in the east and said gratefully.

Previously, he muttered that he wanted to "collect a few buckets less", but now that he is full of loads, how can he make him unhappy?

The stinking and dirty water that I had been soaking in the nameless cave for an unknown amount of time, and two hours of digging ginseng, sweating and soaking wet, now looked at least like a prisoner or beggar who had returned from a dungeon and had not bathed for years, and the smell was incredible.

However, now, I can't manage so much defeat, I just want to go back to the county seat quickly and find a good sleep.

The little dragon at his feet seemed to feel that he deserved some reward for working for so long, and a vine "snorted" like a spirit snake on the cheeks of the defeater, rubbing the defeat from time to time.

"You're a little annoying, and you always like to show off. Forget it, for the sake of your dedication and hard work, I will feed you again and grow up quickly. ”

Qiu Shi touched the vine, thought about it, and bit his arm with his teeth again to drip blood and feed.

Then, the little dragon absorbed its own blood, and the vines kept getting smaller and shorter, slowly ...... It turned into a round ball that was only half a meter high, hovering in front of its owner and rolling slowly.

It's really a little tired, and I don't look at it when I seek defeat, and put it in the storage ring.

Perhaps there was hope in his heart, his steps became steady and fast, and he returned to the door of Hongyun Commercial Bank on Tiantian Road in the county seat in more than half an hour.

At this time, it was early in the morning, the sun had not yet risen in the east, and the pedestrian Liao Ruo was a morning star.

"Alas, coming back here is like coming home, don't think about anything, lie down for a while. ”

I was really tired of seeking defeat, so I quickly fell asleep.