After breakfast and after Lu Lu finished making the tools, the sun had already climbed up the mountain and shed its warmth.
The two of them led the horses to follow.
The place where Bang Chui was found was several hundred meters away, and Lu Lu was worried that something might happen if he left his horse here.
Only staying within the range of what your eyes can see can make you feel at ease.
Don't worry about Zhui Feng and Lu Lu. Just feel free to eat around. Lu Lu can recall you with just a whistle.
Chen Xiuqing's horse was dying and had to be tied up, for fear that it would go crazy and disappear, and someone would have to find it and bring it back.
When he arrived at the place, Lu Lu immediately took a look at the rotten tree that he had pushed down. Among the dead branches and leaves, the stick tree was still growing alive, and there was even dew accumulated at night on the leaves. It looked lively. It's fresh and refined, and very moisturizing.
To Lu Lu's surprise, the money string was still there.
Lu Lu had to fiddle with it gently with a stick he had repaired.
This stick is repaired with a relatively straight dry walnut tree. It is only used as a temporary tool and is not worthy of being used as a rope pick.
The function of the pick stick is not that simple, and the selection of materials and workmanship are also very particular.
This money string was also fierce. When the stick touched it, it actually just raised its head to face Lu Lu. When Lu Lu touched it for the second time, he bit the stick like lightning. After biting for a while, I finally let go.
Yuanbao and several dogs were surrounding him, whining at him fiercely. Probably aware of the danger, he lowered his head to the ground and swam to the side along the gaps in the grass.
Yuan Bao and the four puppies wanted to chase, but Lu Lu stopped them and let Qian Chuan Zi go away.
Chen Xiuqing had already gathered next to the dead branches to look at them. When he saw the branches and leaves covered by the bark of the dead branches, he understood why Lu Lu said that he didn't know what grade the leaves were.
Following Lu Lu's example, he also held a wooden stick and gently stirred the surrounding weeds. After confirming that there was no problem, Lu Lu inserted the wooden stick about 40 centimeters away from the mallet and knocked it with a stone. Knock it to make sure it is firmly inserted.
The one in Chen Xiuqing's hand was also taken by Lu Lu and inserted firmly on the other side.
The two men slowly used cutting knives to cut away the vines and weeds that clustered on it bit by bit. Next, they removed the dead branches and bark fragments covered by the sticks and stalks bit by bit.
As the branches of the mallet were exposed little by little, the two of them, who had been expecting so much, began to beat fast.
"Sanpinye!" Chen Xiuqing shouted happily.
Looking at the three branches on the stalk of the stick, Lu Luque frowned slightly. He always felt that the branches were uneven. He looked sideways at the gap in the branches, and Lu Luque suddenly laughed: " Qingzi, you made a mistake, it’s a fourth-grade leaf!”
Unexpectedly, he guessed it right! Lu Lu was overjoyed.
Where the stem bifurcates, there is obviously a fallen bifurcated scar.
Chen Xiuqing also ran over and took a look, nodding excitedly.
After Lu Lu cleaned up the bark debris under the stick stem, he saw the rotten fourth branch, which should have been knocked off by the fallen bark.
Fourth grade, this is also a rare and large item.
Without a mallet lock (a red rope for hanging copper coins), Lu Lu could only ask Chen Xiuqing to take out the snakeskin bag from the hunting bag, pull out the braided thread, then wrap it around the mallet stem and tie it to two sticks.
The mallet lock is said to be used to lock the mallet to prevent it from escaping. Its actual purpose is to stabilize the stems and leaves to prevent them from tipping and damaging the reed head when lifting the mallet.
If it is in the traditional process of lifting the mallet, the pulling stick and the mallet lock play the role of solid treasure at this time.
Bangchui is a treasure!
"Take a rest!"
After Lu Lu was tied up, he sat down by himself. If he hadn't quit smoking, he really wanted to light up a few for himself at this time to calm down his mood.
The first time I encountered a stick in my life was at the fourth level, and this was also the place where Zhao Tuanqing's Wu Leng had been active.
Who would have thought that this mallet was so well hidden.
But then again, if he hadn’t been so well hidden, it wouldn’t have been Lu Lu’s turn!
Well...this is called fate.
Chen Xiuqing also sat aside excitedly, panting heavily, as if those cautious movements just now took a lot of effort from him. Despite this, his eyes still glanced at the mallet from time to time.
Ginseng has palmately compound leaves that grow in whorls. The age of the ginseng leaves depends on their age.
After the seeds are planted, the seedlings that grow out are annuals with only three small compound leaves, which are called "three flowers";
After it grows in the second year, it will have five small compound leaves, which are called palms. Palm corresponds to the number five, and five is close to the soundless. When people come across this kind of ginseng, they usually do not do it for the sake of good luck.
Excavate and leave it for later.
The tree that grows two branches in three years, with five leaflets on each branch, is called "Erjiazi" because it looks like the two horns of a deer or a roe deer, and more accurately it should be called Erjiaozi.
That is to say, in the third year, ginseng will bloom and produce ginseng seeds.
In the fourth year, three branches sprouted. Because it resembled a lampstand, it was called "Lengtaizi" or homophonic to "Dengtaizi".
In the fifth year, the ginseng has four branches, which are called four-pin leaves.
By the sixth year, the ginseng has five branches, which are called five-pin leaves, and some have six-branched compound leaves, which are called six-pin leaves.
After the sixth year of growth, the number of leaves no longer changes.
So, usually when you see six-grade leaves, it’s a big deal.
Of course, the exact number of years a ginseng grows must be counted from the reed heads, not just from the leaves.
This is still talking about artificially planted and managed garden ginseng.
Real wild ginseng cannot grow that fast.
They grow in a natural environment, unlike garden ginseng or understory ginseng, which does not have artificial management and protection to ensure water and fertilizer.
They have to compete with surrounding weeds and trees for few nutrients, and grow extremely slowly.
It takes almost five years for wild ginseng to grow only one three-flowered compound leaf, and it takes five to ten years to barely grow into a palm; it takes ten to twenty years for it to grow into a two-branched Erjiazi, which is Fangshan.
People call it the "key to the mountain", which means that it is a clue to finding a big deal, and there are probably many mallets nearby.
Ginseng blooms and bears fruit. Some of the fruits are eaten by animals or taken to other places. Some of the fruits are not found and fall off. They are scattered around with rainwater or other circumstances and grow into new ginseng.
Precisely because of this, the surrounding areas are worth looking for, and there are likely to be other great products.
This is because wild ginseng will have its stems broken due to contact with animals or some abnormal circumstances. In such cases, wild ginseng will often stay dormant for one or two years or even several years before new stems will sprout and continue to grow.
The situation is very special.
This is why Lu Lu told Chen Xiuqing not to leave today when he estimated that it was a fourth-grade leaf stick tree.
You should know that such wild ginseng will not become a lampstand until thirty years old, and it will take fifty to eighty years to reach the fourth-grade leaves.
It is too difficult to accumulate the essence of so many years, which is also the preciousness of wild ginseng.
In the past few days, Lu Lu also told Chen Xiuqing a lot about the rules he knew about the mountain release and the matter of carrying the stick. He did not dare to do it, so Lu Lu could only do it himself.
The reason why "lifting the stick" is called "lifting" is because it expresses the hope of finding a big stick. Therefore, using the word "lift", we usually use hands to loosen the soil far away from the stick.
Lu Lu used a stick made of wood to start digging out the soil, carefully distinguishing whether it was grass roots, tree roots or stick roots. While cleaning the mud, he slowly moved closer to the stalks of the stick.
This process took Lu Lu more than two hours. He had to re-sharpen the wooden stick several times before finally revealing the mallet.
Fortunately, it rained yesterday, and the brown-black soil was very moist and soft. It was not particularly laborious to move the soil. The main problem was to distinguish the roots. Also, I didn't cut it quickly, so I had to cut it carefully with a knife.
Cut off the miscellaneous roots that are crisscrossed around the mallet little by little.
Lu Lu just kneeled and crawled to complete this task. Such concentration was quite exhausting. Just these two hours were more tiring than riding a horse for a whole day.
Looking at the mallet in front of him, which was riding on the rotten roots of a rotten tree. It was tiny and had dozens of long roots, probably no more than four taels. Lu Lu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Finally took it out.
Got it!"
Compared with wild ginseng with four leaves, this is already a very good harvest.
As the saying goes, seven taels is a ginseng, and eight taels is a treasure. This was the old measurement method, half a catty is eight taels!
The four taels mentioned by Lu Lu here are based on the current measurement method, which is less than 200 grams.
But even this little weight requires decades of growth.
This is still before being trampled by beasts and entering dormancy. If it is trampled and enters dormancy, it will have to consume its own nutrients and slowly breed buds to grow again, and the mallet will become smaller. This is the real reason why the mallet "can run".
The fourth-grade leaf stick in front of him, Lu Lu knew at a glance that it was a bamboo reed. After a long time, the stem marks had not flattened out, and there were link-like protrusions at intervals. In addition, Lu Lu counted the reed bowls and reed patterns carefully.
It can also count the years of more than sixty years.
The whole stick is separated by the small tree roots, and the crotch is quite natural and well-proportioned. It really has a human shape and looks full of spirituality.
Both the portion and the quality are very good. If you take it back and sell it, you will get a lot of money.
What a stroke of luck!
After taking a breath, Lu Lu picked up a birch knife, selected a nearby birch tree, and selected a smooth part. He made two cuts horizontally and vertically, raised the tip of the knife, and slowly peeled off a piece of birch bark.
Then Chen Xiuqing asked Chen Xiuqing to find fresh moss and spread it on the birch tree, sprinkle some newly dug fine soil, put the mallet on it, cover it with some moss, carefully roll up the birch bark, and cover it with a nylon bag
The thin braided thread is wound and tied into a bun, then the stems and leaves are cut off and the ginseng seeds are collected.
Originally, according to the rules, the ginseng seeds had to be rubbed to remove the red pulp and planted nearby. However, Lu Lu wanted to take these things back for planting, so he hid them carefully.
Next, the two men pulled up the wooden sticks, placed them about a few feet apart, and began to pick grass and leaves, looking carefully to see if there were any other sticks around.
The two of them didn't even eat lunch, and spent the rest of the time in this place. Not to mention, they actually found two more jiazizi, and they were carefully carried out and sealed.
However, it was this search that led Lu Lu to see several original pits left by someone carrying a stick on a higher hillside, which were relatively far away, and he also saw the marks left on the trees.
What is shown is a five-grade leaf tree that was lifted.
It looks like this mark was left last year and has almost healed.
Over the years, the ginseng seeds and newly born sticks produced by such a stick tree are all scattered into pieces.
If it is a sixth-grade leaf, it will be even more serious. A pile of new-born sticks can be used to weigh it.
This is a group of people.
Therefore, there is also a saying that the first number is called a piece with five, and the first number is called a pile with six.
Although he had been searched, Lu Lu was already quite satisfied with such a harvest.
This search lasted until dark.
After dinner and a good night's sleep, the next morning, the two searched again all morning. Seeing that they couldn't find anything, they had to end it.
After getting some simple things to fill their stomachs, the two of them continued riding their horses and headed towards the direction where Zhao Tuanqing's Wuli Leng migrated.
I just hope that in these short two days, they have not changed again since they were stationed.