On the road up the mountain that Wang Xiaoshan chose, many treasure spots were in a straight line, so he didn't run around like before. Today he was walking almost straight into the depths.
I walked for nearly an hour in the afternoon, and except for a wild chestnut tree, the rest were all small mushrooms, and they were the kind that were so small that you couldn’t bear to touch them.
After walking for a while, Wang Xiaoshan came to a few thicker vines. These vines were intricate and the leaves on the vines were like heart shapes. He found that he had encountered something good.
"Friends in the live broadcast room, we encountered a rare thing today. Although the leaves of this plant look like weeds, the rhizomes are treasures."
[If you don’t know me, don’t go through the process. Just tell me how much it is so I can be mentally prepared!]
[Just don’t tell me it’s wild ginseng.]
[I don’t want to know, don’t tell me, Lao Wang can start again!]
[Since it’s rare, let’s give it a few more years, it won’t be easy!]
This time the audience was not even curious. Wang Xiaoshan felt that the audience had misunderstood this time.
"Although it is rare, it does not mean it is very expensive. It is just uncommon, and the price per catty does not exceed 100. There are also wild ginseng that does not grow vines."
"This is a wild yam vine. This vine is thicker than my two thumbs put together. There should be a big yam underground."
Nowadays, yams have been widely cultivated artificially and are not expensive, but wild yams are definitely a hot commodity in the city. In the past, wild yams were still very common.
Wild yams can grow as long as there are some nutrients in the soil, but the growing environment in the wild is relatively poor, so the growth rate is much slower than artificial cultivation.
Later, it became popular among people, which led to more and more people going to dig wild yams in the mountains, and some ungrown wild yams were also dug away, making it increasingly difficult to find and turned into a relatively rare mountain product.<
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Artificially grown yams are planted one or two meters deep into the ground.
Wild yam, on the other hand, is deeper underground. Only in this way can it absorb nutrients and water underground, so wild yam is very difficult to dig.
[I was shocked, I thought it was a high-end product!]
[There are a lot of yams in the vegetable market. If Mr. Wang likes it, I will mail some to you for free!]
[Wild yams are very expensive, we pay more than 40 per pound, and we can’t even buy them!]
[Old Wang can dig it now. Compared with wild mushrooms, wild yams are too cheap. Buy as much as you dig!]
[We should dig up some wild vegetables like yams that are friendly to the people!]
"I went digging. Today's yams may be a bit big, so I need everyone to be patient."
In fact, digging wild yams also requires patience and physical strength. Otherwise, it would be impossible to dig out wild yams. In addition to soil, there are also a lot of stones underneath the forest.
After telling the audience of the live broadcast, Wang Xiaoshan started. He slowly followed the direction of the vine and began to search for the roots of the vine. After finding the roots, he opened up the dead branches and stones covering them.
When digging yams, don't let the yams be exposed early. Once exposed, they will break if touched slightly. Wild yams are very brittle.
Wang Xiaoshan first cleaned up the soil around the yam. He estimated that the wild yam today was relatively large, so he was going to dig a big pit to facilitate digging deeper.
Wang Xiaoshan dug about 50 centimeters along the vines before he found the roots of the yam. He roughly estimated the location of the yam, and then he was ready to start digging.
When digging yam, you must start from one side of the yam, which is equivalent to digging out only one side of the yam and leaving the other side buried in the soil.
Wang Xiaoshan didn't know what the yam would look like underground, so he couldn't dig it vertically.
Digging from one side is also guaranteed to dig out a whole yam. The price of a whole wild yam will be much higher. If it is broken, it will not be sold at a high price.
If he knew he would encounter wild yams today, Wang Xiaoshan would definitely bring a pickaxe, as digging with a shovel would still be difficult.
After determining the growth direction of the yam, Wang Xiaoshan began to dig downward. He was quite careful during the digging process, trying not to break the yam as much as possible.
Wang Xiaoshan was very lucky today. After digging for a while, he didn't come across any big rocks. If there were big rocks, the yams would grow crookedly. It would be even more difficult to dig yams like that.
Wang Xiaoshan dug for more than an hour, but the entire yam was not revealed. He even dug a tunnel to dig out the yam. It felt like he was digging his own grave.
The more Wang Xiaoshan dug, the more something went wrong. The yam got bigger and bigger, and it was even longer. Did he meet the yam king?
[If I hadn’t known that Lao Wang was digging yams, I would have thought Lao Wang was robbing tombs!]
[This pit is at least 2 meters deep!]
【Does this mean digging three feet into the ground?】
[Get an excavator and dig it. When will it be dug?]
【I am already so impressed that I am so impressed!】
After digging for more than an hour, Wang Xiaoshan was exhausted. He walked out of the pit and was ready to continue resting.
"I'm too tired. Take it slow and continue. The digging time may be a bit long today. Please be patient."
After saying that, Wang Xiaoshan started to drink water and eat. It was really draining his energy. Fortunately, he brought enough food today to replenish the energy he consumed in time.
After eating the food he had brought for a while, Wang Xiaoshan started to eat the wild fruits he had just picked. He should replenish some of all kinds. After eating for a while, he could pick some more when he went down the mountain. Anyway, there are still a lot of fruits on the trees. p>
"I'll eat the wild fruits first. I need to replenish some energy. If I don't give out 20 servings today, I'll make up for it later!"
[It doesn’t matter if you eat it all or not. Today I just want to see how long this yam is!]
[At first I thought the anchor was robbing tombs, but it turned out that he was digging yams!]
[Viewers who have just come in, 100% think that Lao Wang is robbing tombs or doing archeology, but they would never expect that he is digging yams!]
[This season of Digging Yams, if one episode is one hour, how many episodes can be played?]
Wang Xiaoshan has now dug such a big hole and dug tunnels. If someone who is not aware of it really thinks that he is robbing a tomb, who would have thought of digging a yam and doing such a big project.
Fortunately, I encountered this yam early. It is still early before dark. At least I can dig out the yam. If I had encountered it late, Wang Xiaoshan might have to live in the mountains today, or fill it with soil and continue digging tomorrow.
"It is not easy to dig wild yams. Artificially grown yams can be dug using machines, but wild yams can only be dug manually, which is very difficult."
"Artificially grown yams are generally straight and roughly the same size. Wild yams are mostly uneven, flat, round, and have various shapes. The one I dug feels like a round one."
"Many of the wild yams you see on the market are broken. The main reason is that wild yams like to grow in the cracks of rocks. If there are too many rocks, they will break easily if you are not careful when digging."