The first thousand two hundred and twenty-three chapters ten sticks Li family
Qin Yu changed his mind and followed these men in Tsing Yi quickly walking in a direction deep into the mountain. Along the way, these men in Tsing Yi looked serious, and Boss Wang and others were also very scared. All of them ignored one thing.
The thing is: even though they were walking at such a fast speed, Liu Buyuan, as a child, did not fall behind at all.
The group passed through several forests and mountainside deep in the mountains, and finally appeared in a forest obscured by mist. The leader of the four men in green clothes put his hands into his mouth and blew a very special song.
whistle.
After the whistle fell, a soaring black hawk appeared above the men. After hovering around the four men for a while, it suddenly headed in one direction.
"Follow me. If you get lost in here, you will never come out in this life." The leading man turned around and warned Qin Yu and his group, and took the lead into the fog.
After entering the fog, the four men in green clothes looked up from time to time to glance at the black hawk above. It was obvious that these four men did not know how to get out of the foggy forest and relied entirely on the black hawk above to lead the way.
Qin Yu, who was walking among the crowd, looked at the fog that covered the mountain, and his eyes flickered. With his current state and eyesight, he could tell at a glance that the fog in front of him was a formation.
However, this formation only blocks people's sight and prevents some people from accidentally breaking into it, but it has no other function. Of course, for Qin Yu now, this formation cannot stop him at all, even if
Without Black Hawk to lead the way, he could still walk on level ground and move in and out freely.
After walking in the misty forest for more than half an hour, the vision suddenly became brighter. Boss Wang and the two brothers Park Hye-hyun looked at the ancient buildings in front of them with expressions of disbelief.
Mr. Pu's face was surprised at first, but then he seemed to have thought of something, his face showed excitement, and he looked at the man in green, "Are you from the Ten-Stand Li family?"
"I didn't expect that people outside now know about the Shizhang Li family. It's really rare." The leading man in green clothes looked at Mr. Pu with some surprise. His words could be regarded as acknowledgment of his identity.
"Third brother, take these people down first. I'll go to the ancestral hall to see what happened." After the leading man in Tsing Yi gave the order, the two men in Tsing Yi escorted Qin Yu and his party towards the ancient building.
Go, and the leading man in green is walking towards the ancient building in the upper area.
"Okay, you stay here for now. I will wait until my eldest brother reports your matter to the clan, and then I will decide how to punish you. I dare to dig ginseng from the Li family with ten sticks. I really have the guts of an ambitious leopard."
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Two men in green clothes led Qin Yu and his party to a courtyard among the ancient buildings. After opening the door of the courtyard, they watched Qin Yu and his party walk into the courtyard before slamming the door shut.
"Don't think about escaping. Even if there are no guards, you can't get out of that forest. Since you have heard of my Ten-Zhang Li family, you should know the abilities of my Ten-Zhang Li family."
What the man in Tsing Yi said outside the door was obviously directed at Mr. Park. When Mr. Park heard what the man in Tsing Yi said, his face suddenly darkened. When the footsteps outside the door faded away, Park Hye-hyun immediately
He opened his mouth and asked Mr. Pu:
"Grandpa Park, what is the Shizhang Li family? Why have I never heard of it?"
Park Huixian's doubts were also the doubts of everyone else present, including Qin Yu, who pricked up their ears slightly and were ready to listen to Mr. Park's answer. He had never heard of the Shizhang Li family.
"It's normal that you haven't heard of it. Even when I was young, I heard my grandfather and his generation mention it several times." Mr. Pu's expression fell into memories. The Shizhang Li family was already gathering ginseng.
This industry has disappeared, but as long as you are an older generation of ginseng pickers, you should have listened to the elders.
"The origins of the Shizhang Li family may be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the ginseng picking industry had not yet emerged. It was just the villagers in the Changbai Mountains who went up to the mountains to dig some ginseng and rarely sold it.
The situation did not change until the appearance of the Shizhang Li family."
Mr. Pu began to slowly tell the rumors he knew about the Shizhang Li family...
During the Ming Dynasty, ginseng was everywhere in the Changbai Mountains. However, there were many birds and beasts in the mountains at that time. The villagers in the Changbai Mountains did not know how precious ginseng was. There were even cases of villagers using ginseng to feed livestock.
sign.
And during that time, there was a family named Li in a mountain village in the Changbai Mountains. The Li couple had given birth to eight sons in more than ten years, but none of the eight sons lived past three years.
, all died young.
The three most unfilial things are to have no heirs, but the old man of the Li family was so anxious. If he had not given birth to a son and a half, how could he die as the ancestors of the Li family had told him?
Fang Langzhong came to the Changbai Mountains.
Speaking of wandering doctors, in ancient times, most traveling doctors were Taoist priests. Taoists cultivated the way of cultivating health and refining elixirs, and curing minor illnesses was no problem.
The old man from the Li family found the doctor You Fang and asked him to take a look. The doctor You Fang did have some skills. After looking at the bodies of the Li family and his wife, he immediately found out the reason.
According to what Dr. You Fang said, the Li family couple, especially the old man of the Li family, were not very energetic, which resulted in the remaining children being smaller than the other children. When the Li family couple thought about it, wasn't it? They were other people's children.
They were all weighing around 5 to 8 pounds when they were born. When it came to my own children, none weighed more than 5 pounds, and the lightest one only weighed 3 pounds.
Therefore, the Li family and his wife trusted Dr. You Fang even more and took out the good things from home to entertain the mountain people. There were not many others, but there were plenty of mountain goods. They usually stored them for the winter, but now they brought them all out.
The doctor who entertained You Fang was successful. After eating and drinking at the Li family for half a month, the doctor finally came up with a solution for the Li family and his wife.
According to Dr. You Fang, the most abundant thing in the Changbai Mountains is ginseng, and ginseng is a natural tonic. However, for the problems faced by the old man of the Li family, ordinary ginseng is useless. To solve the problem, ginseng must be found.
Refined.
What is ginseng essence? It means ginseng that has been around for more than a thousand years. According to the people in the mountains, ginseng will become essence after thousands of years. With its own spirituality, it can move freely in the mountains and ordinary people cannot even see it.
The doctor You Fang left after leaving this method behind. Although the old man from the Li family knew that it would be difficult to find ginseng essence, he still decided to go into the mountains when he thought of having no future.
This old man from the Li family has been in the mountains for more than three months. Many people in the village thought that the old man from the Li family must have been eaten by wild beasts in the mountains. They couldn't help but feel sorry for him. They all felt that the old man from the Li family should not have gone to find ginseng essence.
, this ginseng spirit is psychic. According to the people in the mountains, he is the son of the mountain god. Whoever dares to take advantage of ginseng, the mountain god will arrange for wild beasts to eat him.
However, after two months passed, the old man from the Li family walked out of the mountain. This shocked the entire village. They all asked how the old man from the Li family had spent the past six months in the mountain and whether he had encountered anything.
However, the old man from the Li family remained silent and went straight back home without saying a word about what happened in the mountains. Although the villagers were curious, they were helpless.
And just two months later, the wife of the old man in the Li family was pregnant again, and her belly was obviously much larger than that of ordinary pregnant women.
After ten months of pregnancy, the wife of the old man from the Li family gave birth, and she actually gave birth to two boys at once, each weighing ten kilograms.
The two children of the old man of the Li family grew up very smoothly this time, but when the two children were twelve years old, the old man of the Li family took the two children into the mountains to dig ginseng, and each time the harvest was quite large.
But this was not something that the villagers would envy. After all, there were still a lot of ginseng in Changbai Mountain at that time. As long as you were willing to search carefully, you would always find it.
This situation lasted until the two children were sixteen years old. The two boys went into the mountains alone. As a result, when they came down from the mountains a few days later, they found several ginseng plants with six leaves that were more than 300 years old.
This time, the whole village was shocked. People in the entire village could only dig out one or two ginseng plants that were more than three hundred years old in ten years. It was extremely precious.
However, this was just the beginning. Next, the two sons of the old man from the Li family went into the mountain every three months. Every time they came out, they would dig up several ginseng plants that were more than a hundred years old. Suddenly, the old man from the Li family's
These two sons became famous far and wide.
It happened that Goryeo at that time presented a thousand-year-old ginseng plant to the Ming Dynasty emperor. The Ming Dynasty emperor was overjoyed and praised the ginseng profusely. Ginseng began to become a precious medicinal material pursued by the bureaucrats and nobles at that time.
Where there is demand, there is a market. Those medicinal material dealers saw this and went to Changbai Mountain to purchase ginseng. As a result, Changbai Mountain began the first wave of ginseng digging. During that period, almost all the villagers in Changbai Mountain were not engaged in production, but just went to the mountains.
Digging for ginseng, because digging out a good-year ginseng is worth the entire income of their family's hard work for a year.
The pursuit of nobles and the new industry of huge profits made the entire market extremely chaotic. Those medicinal merchants just sent away the ginseng pickers with a few small sums of money, then transported the ginseng back and sold it to the bureaucrats and nobles at high prices, making a lot of money.
Plate surplus.
Among the most famous ginseng collectors at that time, the two brothers of the Li family were the most famous. The ginseng they dug was old, and the medicinal dealers wanted to buy it. However, the Li family's ginseng sales were different from other villagers. There was a rule for the Li family's ginseng sales.
For medicinal merchants who want to buy ginseng, after seeing the ginseng, the old man from the Li family will stand up from his chair, holding a crutch in his hand. The crutch will fall down every time he takes a step, and this time, it means one hundred taels.
, when the cane fell for the second time, the price doubled to two hundred taels, and every time the cane fell after that, the original price doubled.
And if those medicinal merchants feel that the price is about the same, they will say: "Mr. Li, you have good health and don't need crutches."
If the price satisfies Old Man Li, Old Man Li will put down his crutches, which means that the price between the two parties has been negotiated. However, if Old Man Li continues to walk on crutches, it means that the price of the medicinal materials merchant cannot be satisfied.
Old Man Li is satisfied.
Moreover, once he is not satisfied, the medicinal material merchant will not be able to raise the price any more. The Li family will not sell him the ginseng. Therefore, this is a huge test for the medicinal material merchant. If it is too late, this crutch will
If it falls, the price will double. If you call too early and fail to reach the Li family's bottom line, you will have to leave empty-handed.
Although these medicine dealers were dissatisfied with the Li family's approach, they could only accept it. There was no other way. Who told Old Man Li's two sons to be so good at digging ginseng? All the ginseng they dug were more than a hundred years old.
After the Li family's trading method spread, they were called the Ten-Stand Li family and gradually became the leader of ginseng pickers. The ginseng pickers in the entire Changbai Mountains also learned to be smart and did not follow suit.
The medicinal material merchant contacted them and instead handed the ginseng directly to the Li family, who would sell it. Although the Li family would take 10% of the money they sold, it was still much more cost-effective than selling it themselves.
After hearing what Mr. Park said, Park Huixian and his sister smacked their lower lips. Only people like them who come from a ginseng picking family know the prestige of the Li family that allows ginseng pickers in the entire Changbai Mountains to hand over ginseng to each other.
How terrifying it must be.
"And many of the rules for us ginseng pickers, including the fact that others cannot pick the marked ginseng, are also set by the Li family." Mr. Pu dropped another heavy bomb: "Whoever dares to violate the rules will be punished by the Li family and all pickers.
If a ginseng man resists, no one will go into the mountains to collect ginseng together with him in the future, and if a person goes into the mountains alone, it will basically be a dead end."
Mr. Pu's words made Boss Wang look ugly. They had met the person who made the rules. No wonder they would be caught. They didn't know how the Li family would punish them.
"Did anything happen to the Li family in the past?" While everyone was still immersed in what Mr. Pu told about the Li family, Qin Yu suddenly asked.
"How did you know?" Mr. Pu looked at Qin Yu in surprise.
"It's very simple. If nothing happened to the Li family, they shouldn't have moved to the depths of the Changbai Mountains and lost contact with the outside world for so many years." Qin Yu answered with the corner of his mouth raised slightly.
"Well, you are right. There was indeed an accident in the Li family." Mr. Pu nodded and admitted, and continued: "But I don't know what the accident was. After all, it was a long time ago.
I also heard from the elders that when the Li family was at its most glorious, everyone in the Li family suddenly disappeared overnight."
"When did it happen?"
"Probably 80 years ago." Mr. Pu replied.
"80 years ago?" Qin Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, recalling the major events that happened at that time. 80 years ago, it was when Japan invaded China... (To be continued)