This story comes from the legend of a fish, which originated from White Boy.
Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the day after tomorrow, I want to do a big event, and Bai Gongzi specially came to give a gift: a ginseng for 30 years.
Although he has always been generous, this gift is also very expensive.
Maybe everyone doesn't know the value of old ginseng.
Ginseng is generally divided into several grades: old ginseng, forest ginseng, mountain ginseng and garden ginseng.
Laoshan ginseng is a wild ginseng naturally growing in the depths of the mountains, a legendary demon, and a natural supernatural thing.
Ginseng under the forest is that people scatter ginseng seeds on the mountains and let ginseng grow in the natural environment. This is half wild ginseng.
Yishan ginseng is planted in the virgin forest, and it is transferred to its own vegetable garden after being unearthed.
Garden ginseng is the worst. It grows completely from the garden, just like radish.
Wild ginseng is life-threatening, and many families will prepare several plants.
Some old people saw it and quickly cut a piece of ginseng and put it in their mouth, which can hang their lives, especially those with bad hearts. Often, their ECG will be flat and can be "hung up" for a long time.
This half a day, people rushed to the hospital, and a life came back.
Some people say that this wild ginseng is so useful that it is not as good as Huang Jingui.
No, it's much better than Huang Jingui, especially the old ginseng with more than 30 years.
Because there is no ginseng for more than 30 years in the forest, ginseng for more than 30 years is definitely an old ginseng in the deep mountains and forests.
This plant sent by Bai Gongzi is fresh ginseng. Judging from reed, grain, body, skin and beard, the market price is almost RMB 200,000.
Ginseng is a good thing. It's autumn and winter tonic. You eat one gram a day and one month in winter. You are warm and in good spirits, and you won't catch a cold for a year.
But to be honest, unless you are a senior official, you really don't treat money as money. There is really no need to eat wild ginseng. Ginseng under the forest is quite good, mainly because it is cheap. A ginseng in the forest can be eaten for a week, which is only a few hundred dollars.
In terms of efficacy, it must be wild ginseng, but it can't be eaten as a dish. If you eat one plant, it is definitely not as good as eating dozens of ginseng under the forest.
And old ginseng, the older the year, the lighter the taste, in fact, the taste is not as good as that of that year.
Although I am very enthusiastic, tonight's dinner is for Bai Gongzi, which is stewed chicken with forest ginseng and half a basket of hazelnuts. We are not short of money.
White childe brought a man named Lao Fu, who was in charge of their northeast business. He just collected this wild ginseng.
The fresher the wild ginseng, the better the effect, just like velvet antler, but this thing is a collection, and no one wants to use it on the spot, so the medicine is stored in the shade.
White childe brought him here because he was afraid that I didn't know how to dry ginseng in the shade, so he was specially asked to operate it himself.
The old rich man is also a Manchu and a member of Fu Cha's family. Later, after the Republic of China, the hard-core crops failed, so he simply returned to his hometown and became a businessman at the foot of Changbai Mountain, occasionally following his head into the mountains.
At that time, the northeast was still wild, and the more sinister the place, the more old people there were, so I also saw many strange things.
While drinking, he told us a story about picking ginseng, which was amazing.
Lao Fu first told us some rules of taking ginseng.
Wild ginseng grows in the deep virgin forest, in the mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest with an altitude of 600 to 1000 meters, and is mostly found in the sapropelic soil on the southern Shandong hillside.
You need someone to take it with you when you go into the mountains to collect ginseng. The person who leads the team is called the head of the competition. Everything must be listened to by him, and businessmen are no exception.
The head of ginseng can analyze the terrain and mountains. There is also a saying that the mountain that produces ginseng is called "purple gas on the top and ginseng on the bottom", which means that the feng shui in places where ginseng is produced is generally good. As long as this gas field is sufficient, ginseng can be produced.
It also depends on whether there are birds on this mountain. This ginseng bird is a gray bird with a red mouth and red eyes. Its voice is very strange. It sounds like Wang Gan and Wu Li Brothers. It is said that this bird eats ginseng seeds, and where it is located, there are generally ginseng.
Finally, let's see if there are any big snakes on this mountain. If a big snakeskin is found, there is a great chance that a big ginseng will appear on this mountain. Ginseng collectors say that "the big ginseng must be guarded by the big snake", which means that the old snake is usually guarded by the big ginseng, and the old snake will practice beside the old ginseng, relying on ginseng to keep fit and will not leave easily.
When putting the mountain, everyone is equipped with a walking stick, which is called Suolong Staff. This stick is mainly used to poke thatch, find ginseng in thatch, and also for self-defense.
On the ginseng picking line, there is also a unique incision. For example, ginseng is not called ginseng, but "wooden stick", and the size of ginseng also has a special name. When you meet a snake, you can't call it a snake. It should be called money. When you meet a money-oriented person, please leave it and don't hurt it.
In addition, everyone should bring a set of wooden lock, which is a red line with a copper coin tied to each end. This wooden stick lock is used to lock ginseng. If you find ginseng, you should lock it with a wooden stick as soon as possible, otherwise it will run away.
After locking the wooden stick, let go of your voice and shout, "wooden stick!" " Cudgel! "
The president of the Senate asked, "What goods?"
This is the appearance of ginseng. Only when this is confirmed can ginseng be dug up.
After the ginseng is confirmed, it is necessary to start digging ginseng.
Digging people can't see iron. You must use deer bones or antlers. You can't even dig out the roots as thick as hair. It often takes several days to dig up an old ginseng.
Ginseng seedlings have only one leaflet in the first year, which is called "three flowers" In the second year, five leaflets grew completely, and a complete compound leaf appeared, commonly known as "slap". Ginseng will have two compound leaves in three years, called "dimethyl".
Ginseng less than three years old can't be picked, but it will be marked and allowed to continue to grow.
"Dimethyl" will produce a third compound leaf in a few years, called "lampstand", which is not bad.
It takes more than ten years for the "lampstand" to grow the fourth compound leaf, which is called "four leaves". White childe gave me four leaves.
After the "four leaves", it will take hundreds of years to grow the fifth compound leaf, called "five leaves", which is a veritable treasure.
Above six leaves, the compound leaves will not increase, only the ginseng head will increase. In another hundred years, there will be another ginseng head, the legendary thousand-year-old ginseng, and it is said that it can also be transformed into a human-shaped ginseng doll.
By the way, artificially planted ginseng can grow a compound leaf in a year, and the legendary "six-product leaf" of the best ginseng king only takes six years, so it is worthless.
Let's talk about the rich ancestors first. At that time, I thought I met a thousand-year-old king who became a human form and almost lost his life.
After all, Lao Fuzu is a businessman and has a good position. He mainly plays with the mountains. At that time, he burned a pot of water on the bonfire, put some tea bricks, drank for a while, and talked with ginseng, and gradually became sleepy.
In a daze, I heard someone pattering towards him barefoot, and a child's heavy and rapid breathing was in his ear.
Then, like a prank, the child suddenly shouted in his ear and scared him.
He quickly woke up the others, and everyone was worried that it was a collision with a wild ghost, so he quickly bowed down and moved to another place.
Unexpectedly, something strange happened to the next night watchman. Several people swore that they saw a child running around them, wearing a red Chinese-style chest covering and barefoot.
The president of the Senate is Feng. He burned some plant ash and piled it in the shed, so everyone went back to sleep in the shed.
Everyone can see clearly in the crack of the shack that a little doll is jumping around on the plant ash.
When I woke up the next morning, everyone was creepy. Except that plant ash was scattered a little by the wind, it was just plain and there were no footprints on it.
That Feng lowered his head and said with a smile, Naturally, naturally! This is the turning point of the times, and we really met the ginseng doll!
The rich ancestor is not sure yet, and he doesn't know why he can't leave footprints.
That Feng lowered his head and said that when this ginseng grows to a certain extent, it will confuse people and make people look like children. It's not an illusion, so it can't leave footprints. We're in the neighborhood. There must be old people involved.
But everyone searched and searched, almost halfway up the mountain, but still couldn't find the old ginseng.
Just when everyone was about to lose heart, the little doll appeared again.
This time, he first looked at everyone curiously, then ran a few steps outside, stopped to look at them, then ran forward and disappeared.
Everyone didn't understand what this meant. Later, Feng took a firm look and said, Lao Shen wants us to follow! "
It suddenly dawned on everyone that the ginseng dolls came out three times and two times, which seemed to lead them in one direction, but everyone was obsessed with how to catch them and didn't think in that direction.
Everyone is also worried that this ginseng doll looks dreamy and can tell them where to go. Is this to hurt them?
Then, Feng nodded and said, "Nothing! In all my years in the mountains, I have never heard of ginseng harming people! Let's go and have a look. There may be a fortune waiting for us! "
At dawn, everyone followed the direction of the ginseng doll, but everyone was struggling with how to catch it and didn't think about it.
Everyone is also worried that this ginseng doll looks dreamy and can tell them where to go. Is this to hurt them?
Then, Feng nodded and said, "Nothing! In all my years in the mountains, I have never heard of ginseng harming people! Let's go and have a look. There may be a fortune waiting for us! "
At dawn, everyone walked along the direction of the ginseng doll.
Sure enough, before long, the ginseng doll appeared again, skipping towards the front, apparently leading them forward.
After walking for two days, the ginseng doll finally roared and hid in the grass, never to be seen again.
Everyone was so tired that they sat on the ground. Only one person looked curiously at the grass where the ginseng doll disappeared. His eyes lit up and he shouted, "Hold your head tight! Boss! It's ... it's a wooden stick! "
Feng suddenly stood up with his head propped up and asked, "Don't panic! Lock it with a mallet! Just a few leaves! "
The man quickly knelt on the ground, tied the ginseng with a red rope, and counted it carefully for a long time before saying, "Five products and five leaves!" " "
Feng just wiped his head and went over to have a look. He said: "It's a pity that we finally found a big ginseng. It's not worth running so far! "
He first bowed in the direction of the disappearance of the ginseng doll, then took out a deer bone for digging overnight, dug it out along the root of ginseng, dug it for more than half an hour, and finally dug up a big ginseng, then wrapped it in a thick layer of moss, hugged it tightly with Korean pine skin outside, and finally tied it tightly with red lines. This is the end.
After digging this old ginseng, I was so tired that I was sweating all over. I sat on the ground and smoked a bag of cigarettes before I recovered my spirits and let everyone look around carefully. These wild ginseng all appear in pairs, and there may be another big ginseng nearby.
Everyone promised and began to look carefully with crutches. As a result, it was not long before the sound of "wooden stick" came. It turns out that there are more than a dozen dimes and lampstands in this small place.
Feng opened his eyes and looked at it. He knew that it was the old man who took pity on the tree and brought them here. He quickly told them that nothing under the lampstand was allowed to be picked. He wanted to stay here and let them grow slowly.
Well, after half a day's hard work, we collected a lot of ginseng. When it was dark, we found that in just half a day, we collected a five-level leaf, three four-level leaves and seven lampstands.
Everyone is beaming, thinking that they are finally rich now. If nothing else, take those five-grade leaves and sell them at the foot of the mountain, and everyone will have money to marry!