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Chapter Nineteen Black Blind

The ginseng is locked with a mallet lock, and then a fire is built upwind to smoke out mosquitoes and drive away wild animals to avoid being disturbed while digging ginseng.

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

However, people who often live in the mountains and forests also have a way of doing this.

There is a kind of tree called Qingcaozi. The trunk is green and the skin is smooth with a thin layer of white wax on it.

It's easy to find this kind of tree, chop it down into thin strips, and use birch bark to light it.

When the fire gets stronger, add other firewood, cover it with wormwood, suppress the fire and let out thick smoke, which will float with the wind to where the ginseng is. Then you can dig the ginseng.

When digging ginseng, it is called carrying a stick to show respect.

Lifting the mallet is not an easy job and requires experienced people, who usually do it themselves.

Xu Shiyan only has one brother, so don’t lose your temper and do it yourself.

Use your hands to remove the stray grass and leaves around the ginseng and cut out a "plate".

Ginseng is often entangled with tree roots and grass roots, and the roots need to be cut off with a "quick saw".

The main reason is that the roots of the tree are elastic and cannot be chopped with an ax as it will easily damage the ginseng.

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

After clearing the plate and exposing the soil, you need to take out a "quick stick", usually a stick made of deer bones, to push away the soil layer.

Start digging from the reed head under the ginseng stalk until all the ginseng roots are exposed.

Do not dig out any tiny roots, otherwise the price of ginseng will drop when sold.

Every ginseng root removed must be covered with loose soil at all times to maintain moisture.

This is a very troublesome job, and the person lifting the ginseng must have steady hands, not rush, and do it step by step slowly.

Fortunately, Xu Shiyan has a stable temperament and works carefully, so he is the most suitable person.

Although it is only a four-leaf tree, the main root is only as thick as a finger, but it would take a long time to dig it out of the soil completely.

Xu Shiyan was alone, and there was no one to help him when he was tired. He could only sit on the ground for a while and smoke a cigarette before continuing.

It took a long time to finally lift out the ginseng tree completely.

Although this ginseng is not very big, it is extremely beautiful in shape.

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

The main body is as thick as an index finger and as long as three fingers, followed by two legs. The ginseng is about half a foot long and is covered with pearl bumps.

It's pretty good. Although it's not too heavy, weighing only a pound or two at most, it's definitely top quality. Based on the purchase price in this year and month, it's estimated to cost about two hundred yuan.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiyan couldn't help but shake his head. If this were placed forty years later, it would probably be sold for tens of thousands.

Yeah, it’s useless to think about it so much.

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

Moss is soft, moist, breathable, and not easy to dry. It is used to wrap ginseng, which will not damage the ginseng, but is also conducive to preservation, and can keep the ginseng unchanged over time.

Then peel off a large piece of birch bark, wrap the moss in it, use the catalpa bark as a rope, and tie it carefully.

After the ginseng package is packed and put away, the "omen" must be cut.

Find a red pine tree near where the ginseng was unearthed, and use a knife or ax at a pole height above the ground to cut off a square foot of bark in the direction of the ginseng.

Carve marks on the smooth tree trunk. On the left side, mark the number of people and how many lines there are for each person. On the right side, mark the size of the ginseng and how many leaves there are.

After the carving is finished, the omen must be "washed". This is to use fire to burn off the pine oil flowing out from around the omen, in order to protect the omen and still see it clearly after decades.

The purpose of cutting down the "Omen" is to commemorate the occurrence of ginseng here, and to remind future people that in a few decades, someone may still find ginseng near the old Omen.

Of course, in order to prevent others from knowing the size of the ginseng they dug, some people record it in other ways, or adjust the direction of the omen, etc.

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

The farmers also pay attention to sustainable development and sow ginseng seeds. Maybe after a few years, ginseng will grow again here.

After being busy with work, most of the day has passed. Fortunately, I have gained something. Regardless of the size, it is worth comforting.

Xu Shiyan was no longer nostalgic, packed up his things and returned to Dijianzi.

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

After three consecutive days with no results, Xu Shiyan felt a little depressed.

In his previous life, when he was working at the Da'an Coal Mine, he heard his family mention that a group of people from the village went to the mountains to farm and came across a huge tree, which they sold for nearly a thousand yuan.

One thousand yuan in this day and age is not a small sum. Not to mention the Dongjiangyan Brigade, even the Daying Commune knows about it.

It was impossible for him to remember such a sensational thing. He found it near the Immortal Cave. Later he even saw the omen.

Why did he come here for five days and didn't see it? He shouldn't have made this fortune? He didn't have such luck?

The release of the mountain was originally a matter of luck. It was probably because he didn't have the financial luck.

Alas, if he doesn't meet her in another two days, he should go home. My wife will probably be anxious at home.

Xu Shiyan calmed himself down and regained his energy. He held the treasure stick in his hand and kept beating the surrounding vegetation while his eyes kept looking around.

The mountain forest was completely silent, except for the sound of sticks pushing aside the grass and the sound of trousers legs rubbing against branches and grass, there was no other sound.

Suddenly, there was a slightly different noise coming from behind.

Xu Shiyan felt a chill in his back. Based on his many years of hunting experience in his previous life, he was sure that there must be some wild beast coming behind him.

Xu Shiyan didn't dare to make any big movements, so he gently twisted his body and looked back.

When he saw the situation behind him, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. He must explain what happened today.

Two to three hundred meters away from behind Xu Shiyan, a huge black animal was wandering towards this direction.

With that body shape and the way he walks, there is no need to think about it, he must be a black blind man.

Heixiazi is a name given to black bears by the locals. This thing has poor eyesight and has black fur all over its body, so it is called Heixiazi.

Despite its poor vision, its sense of smell is extremely sensitive and it is extremely powerful. With a slap, it can break a cow's shoulder blade.

This is a guy who can fight with a tiger. He moves quickly, has a strong bite force, and has rough skin and thick flesh that can withstand beatings. If a person encounters him, he will have to peel off layers of skin even if he doesn't die.

Damn, this is not just bad luck, it’s almost as good as carrying it home.

Xu Shiyan secretly regretted that he shouldn't have dug up the four-leaf tree without believing in evil. It still makes sense for the older generation to stay.

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

Xu Shiyan's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly controlled the urge to turn around and run away, and moved back gently and slowly.


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