After showing the ginseng to his daughter and son, Shen Mingan carefully wrapped the ginseng with nearby moss.
I was feeling frustrated while operating.
I regret that I haven’t learned the skills well enough!
If it was an experienced master, he would definitely not break so many roots!
The ginseng he dug had too many broken roots, so its quality was affected.
Fortunately, he didn't break any of the thick roots, only the small roots at the ends of the branches were broken.
Otherwise, the sales price would be much lower!
Shen Mingan carefully placed the wrapped ginseng into Shen Qingli's backpack containing mushrooms and covered it with weeds.
After doing all this, Shen Mingan found a pine tree nearby and dug a square hole in the bark with a dagger.
"Dad, what are you doing again?" Shen Qingli and Shen Qingyu asked curiously.
Shen Mingan explained: "This is one of the rules of digging the mallet. This is called an omen."
"What do you mean?" Shen Qingli asked.
98K on the side also tilted his head and waited for Shen Mingan's explanation.
"The omen means that when you see this tree with its bark dug out, it means that wild ginseng has appeared nearby, and it is a relatively large one with more than five leaves. This place is called Ginseng Sleeping Area, and wild ginseng is more likely to grow in the surrounding area." Shen Mingan explained.
"It's indeed easy to find wild ginseng!" Shen Qingli nodded in agreement, "I just don't know if it's a hundred-year-old ginseng."
"Xiao Li, have you discovered another ginseng?" Shen Qingyu looked at Shen Qingli in surprise, "I've been with you the whole time, how come I didn't notice it?"
"You climbed the tree to pick wild fruits. I wanted to find a shady place to rest, but I didn't pay attention to the road and stepped on a ginseng seedling, and all the red ginseng fruits were rotten." Shen Qingli sighed with regret.
What a pity for the sweet ginseng fruit.
If only I had been more careful at that time.
well!
I regret it so much!
"Where is it? Take me to see it." Shen Mingan asked anxiously.
It was getting late, and if it was still an old ginseng, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to finish it today.
Shen Qingli took her father to the place where she and her elder brother Shen Qingyu used to pick wild fruits.
The ginseng plant that was trampled was soon found.
"It's a three-leaf ginseng." Shen Mingan observed the ginseng leaves and determined the year of the ginseng.
"Dad, how old is the ginseng from Sanpiye?" asked the studious Shen Qingyu.
"Look, this ginseng seedling has three forks, and on each fork are there five leaves, three large and two small, like a palm?" Shen Ming'an said, pointing to the ginseng plant that was trampled by Shen Qingli.
Seeing the two nod, Shen Mingan continued to popularize science: "In the first year, the club seedlings only have these three large leaves, and in the second year they grow five leaves.
In the third year, a fork appears, making a total of two forks, each with five leaves, commonly known as two-leaf leaves.
In the fourth year, three branches appeared, which are called three leaves.
"Oh~ So this is four-year-old ginseng?" Shen Qingyu nodded in sudden realization.
“That’s right!”
Shen Mingan had a teachable expression.
"Further down, there are four leaves in the fifth year and five leaves in the sixth year. After the sedge has five leaves, it won't grow any more. So after the sixth year, unless you're a professional, it's impossible for ordinary people to accurately determine the age of the sedge by looking at the sedge seedlings."
Four-year-old ginseng is much easier to dig than hundred-year-old ginseng, and Shen Mingan dug it out quickly.
Shen Mingan had just wrapped the ginseng in moss and placed it next to the century-old ginseng, preparing to take a break when Shen Qingli's voice suddenly rang out from deep in the orchard: "Dad, I found another one with three leaves."
Shen Ming'an cheered up and walked towards Shen Qingli, rubbing his waist.
When I walked over and took a look, I found that it was indeed a three-leaf ginseng. Moreover, next to this ginseng there was another annual ginseng with only three leaves.
Shen Mingan took the tools and continued digging.
At the same time, Shen Qingyu, who had carved a ginseng digging tool with a dagger, came to the ginseng with only three leaves.
While Shen Mingan was digging three leaves of ginseng, he was instructing his studious eldest son on how to dig ginseng.
Shen Qingli, who was not interested in these things, lay under the tree and yawned in boredom.
"Let's go, 98K. There is a wild pear tree in front. Let's go pick pears." Shen Qingli stood up and patted the dirt on her body and pants.
"That wild pear is not tasty at all. It tastes far worse than the pears we have here. It's so sour that it makes your teeth fall out!" 98K curled his lips. Thinking of the wild pear he had eaten before, his mouth began to sour.
Pooh!
98K spat out the saliva that was overflowing from his mouth.
It turns out that the idiom "looking at the plum to quench thirst" was not made up by humans in the past, but it is a real thing!
"Not only does the taste suck, but there are so few varieties." Shen Qingli missed the pears she had eaten before.
The old man pear has a delicate and soft texture.
Crunchy and juicy Crown pears.
The Korla pear is crispy, sweet, refreshing and melts in your mouth.
In the 1970s, when transportation was very inconvenient, even if these fruits were available now, they could not be transported across the country.
Especially for fruits from tropical areas, only some fruits that are resistant to storage can be transported here.
Tropical fruits like lychee, dragon fruit, and passion fruit are nowhere to be found here.
Even bananas were scarce.
Shen Qingli used her clothes to hold a bag of wild pears and planned to go back and steam some candied pears to eat.
It is easy to have throat discomfort in autumn and winter. Rock sugar and snow pear have the effect of promoting salivation, moistening dryness, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.
Although this wild pear is small in size and does not taste as good as snow pear.
But in this era of scarcity, it is a rare snack.
When Shen Qingli and 98K returned, his father Shen Mingan and his elder brother Shen Qingyu were still lying on the ground digging ginseng.
Shen Qingli looked at her watch. It was 3:30 in the afternoon!
It seems that I can’t go to the commune today.
Just when Shen Qingli was wandering around bored, Shen Mingan and Shen Qingyu had also finished their work.
Shen Mingan stood up and stretched.
It's finally over, but he's so tired!
Who understands this feeling of being tired yet happy?
Shen Qingyu contentedly wrapped the ginseng in his hand, which was as thick as his little finger, in moss and put it into the backpack together with the three-leaf ginseng dug by his father Shen Mingan.
"Dad, brother, come and see, I found another ginseng." Shen Qingli's voice suddenly sounded in the distance.
Shen Mingan and Shen Qingyu, father and son, looked at each other.
This girl/sister’s luck is simply incredible!
So, without having time to rest, the father and son started digging ginseng again.
This is a ginseng with two leaves.
Shen Mingan asked his eldest son Shen Qingyu to dig with him.
The two of them were very fast and dug out the ginseng quickly.
Although Shen Qingyu had dug up a lot of its roots and the quality was not good, it was only a two-year-old ginseng and could not be sold for much money.
Just as the father and son put the ginseng in their hands into the backpack again, they heard Shen Qingli's shout again.
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