With Zhao Dahai interceding, Xu Shiyan also felt that it was not appropriate to offend anyone at the moment.
The Xu family's ability to gain a foothold in the big house depends entirely on Zhao Dahai, and they have to give Zhao Dahai face no matter what.
"Chen Deyong, please listen clearly. Today, for the sake of Uncle Zhao, I will spare you this time. Go away quickly and don't be an eyesore here."
Hearing this, the young men quickly carried Chen Deyong into the car, and the Chen family also left in despair.
Chen Deyong was sent to the commune hospital and received injections for three days. The swelling in the wound subsided and the wound began to heal.
I don’t know if there are any sequelae, but I dare to walk on the ground.
The Chen family made two riots in a row. They didn't get any advantage, but they annoyed everyone and made them even more unpopular in the village.
The Chen family and the Xu family also became bitter enemies because of these two incidents.
It's the eighth month of the lunar calendar in the blink of an eye, and it's time to collect the crops in the fields.
The Dongjiangyan brigade has a total of about 700 acres of land, and it is very easy to recover it. The whole village, old and young, worked together and collected all the food in a few days.
Taking advantage of the crisp autumn air, we dried what needed to be dried and what needed to be dried, then beat beans and peeled corns. The whole village, old and young, went to work together and were very busy.
Spring planting and autumn harvest are always the busiest times in the farm.
For those who live in the countryside, there is another more important task in autumn, which is to make ginseng goods.
The growth of garden ginseng is regular. From seed to ginseng production, it is divided into two stages, taking a total of six years.
In the autumn of the first year, sow open ginseng seeds in the ginseng field.
After three years of growth, it can basically grow into a cigarette as thick as a finger. This is called a ginseng seed.
Ginseng seeds are taken out of the soil in autumn, and those with good size, body shape, and no rust scars are selected. They are replanted in good soil and grow for another three years before the ginseng can be harvested for production.
After six years of growth, a ginseng tree can weigh about one tael or more, and the largest one can weigh three or four taels.
It mainly depends on the size of the plant, soil fertility, and later management.
The medicinal value of ginseng is very high, but there are very few wild ginseng resources. As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, garden ginseng was cultivated.
The place names of many places in Fusong are related to ginseng, and most of them are large ginseng gardens in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
Nowadays, ginseng gardens are owned by the public, and almost all communes and brigades have their own ginseng gardens.
The ginseng land in the Dongjiang River Brigade is not very large. The ginseng seeds and ginseng seeds added up are only over 2,000 feet in six years. The land that was used to make goods back then was only about 500 feet.
The so-called zhang is a term used specifically for reference to the ground. It generally refers to an area that is one foot long and five feet wide. When converted, it is only about five and a few square meters.
Don't underestimate the five square meters of ginseng land. If taken care of properly, it can produce sixteen to seventy pounds of water ginseng.
Steam and dry it to make red ginseng, which weighs about four pounds. Based on the current price, it can be sold for about three to four hundred yuan.
Three or four hundred in this day and age is incredible. Otherwise, why would communes everywhere be working hard to grow ginseng? It’s so valuable.
Of course, in later generations, with the use of various fertilizers, the yield of garden ginseng could reach twenty or thirty kilograms per foot.
However, ginseng prices fluctuate greatly due to international influences. When prices are low, ginseng farmers also suffer heavy losses.
As forest resources become increasingly scarce, the market for ginseng has been on the rise.
"Starting tomorrow, we will go up the mountain to take part in the ginseng practice. I will take a roll call next. Everyone whose name is called will gather at six o'clock tomorrow morning to go to the Qianchuan ginseng field."
On the afternoon of September 20th, just as everyone was busy beating soybeans and putting them into the warehouse, team leader Yu Shanhai started shouting loudly.
There are also solar terms for starting ginseng. If it is too early, the ginseng pulp will not be enough, and the scale will not work when making goods. If it is too late, it will not work.
Generally speaking, it is during the days before the autumnal equinox that people go up to the mountains to take part in the ginseng.
"Xu Shiyan, Xu Shixiang, Yang Chunming, Zhao Jianguo, Zhao Jianshe..." the captain read out a long list.
Ginseng digging is to dig ginseng out of the ground. This job requires not only strength, but also patience.
Your hands should be steady, as rough work can easily damage the ginseng rhizome underneath and destroy its value.
Xu Shiyan is famous for being careful and steady. He is responsible for setting up and planting ginseng every year, and he is the first to be named.
At six o'clock in the morning on September 21st, the forty young men who were named gathered in front of the team department. They took various tools for removing ginseng and sacks, drove the carriage and went straight to the Qianchuan ginseng field.
The Qianchuan ginseng field is about ten miles away from the village, near where Xu Shiyan led people to release the mountain.
The mountain path was rugged and the carriage did not go very fast. Half an hour later, we finally arrived at Maekawa Ginseng.
At this time, there is no special plastic sheet for ginseng. Most of them use wood broken into boards to make a ginseng shed, which is then covered with hay or linoleum paper or other waterproof materials.
So looking from a distance, you can see long black and gray dragons spreading along the mountain.
As soon as everyone arrived outside the ginseng garden, they heard the dogs inside barking repeatedly.
Old Li Tou, who was guarding the ginseng garden, walked out of the house in the ginseng garden with a gun.
Seeing that it was someone from the team, he stepped forward, opened the door made of branches, and let everyone in.
"Uncle Li, my aunt asked me to bring you these cotton clothes and trousers, a change of clothes, pancakes, sauce, pickles, and small fried fish."
When Xu Shiyan saw Old Li Tou, he quickly handed over the backpack on his back. There were things that Mrs. Li had specially packed last night.
"Hey, it's so heavy. My old lady packed it with me. I don't know how much food she packed for me.
Xiao Xu, thank you. You see, I’m on the mountain and I don’t care about the house. You help me take care of it.”
Old Li took the backpack and said politely.
Ginseng watchers can only go down the mountain all year round when the ground is completely frozen during the twelfth lunar month.
After celebrating the New Year, I had to go up the mountain again before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and I was away from home all year round.
Seeing ginseng on this mountain is not an easy job. You have to guard against people stealing it, and you also have to guard against wild beasts.
When Lao Li Tou was young, he was a well-known gunner. He lived by hunting and his marksmanship was superb.
Later, I got older and lost my physical strength, so I couldn't go hunting in the mountains.
It happened that the team had acquired a ginseng field, so they sent him to look at the ginseng. He earned a lot of work points, but he couldn't go home and couldn't take care of the family.
Old Li Tou knew that Xu Shiyan was kind-hearted and took good care of Mrs. Li, so he was extremely polite to Xu Shiyan when he met her.
"Look what the uncle said, I'm living in your house now.
Auntie doesn't want me to pay rent, and I can eat whatever I want from the garden. I should be the one thanking uncle and auntie." Xu Shiyan smiled when he heard this.
"Yes, then neither of us needs to be polite to the other."
Lao Litou was a very cheerful person and immediately patted Xu Shiyan on the shoulder and laughed.
"Would you like to come in and have a drink of water? I just boiled a pot of water, and I happened to have some baomazi picked in the spring. I'll make a pot for you."
The scientific name of the Baomazi mentioned by Lao Litou should be Baomazi, which is a plant in the mountains.
There are no tea trees in the Northeast, and poor people can't afford tea. So in spring, they pick up some leaves and flowers of marigold, dry them in the sun and drink them as tea.
This stuff is nourishing to the stomach, and the flowers of cinnamon are very fragrant, so it's delicious when made into tea.
"No, no, we're going to start working today. There's a lot of work in the fields, so let's get busy first."
Xu Shiyan waved his hand and followed everyone towards the ginseng field where the goods were launched this year.