"Still there." Ange stroked her chest as she looked at the dozen or so red flower balls still standing out in the bushes.
After her own bizarre experience, she was really afraid that these ginsengs would turn into ginseng dolls overnight and disappear without a trace.
She took out the red string she had asked Wen Jiuyue for yesterday (Wen Jiuyue gave it to her as she thought the child was just having fun) and strung it around each stem. Regardless of whether what was written in the book or the legend was true or not, there was no harm in following it.
But the legend says -
When you see ginseng, you must first shout "Bangchui". The louder the better. You should say that this is to tell the ginseng doll that you have found him and ask him not to run away. This is the same as the fact that a child will be frightened by being yelled at. Otherwise, the spirit of the ginseng doll may run away...
Leng You did not follow this procedure. Firstly, she felt it was stupid; secondly, her voice was still that of a child. If she really shouted out, it might not scare the ginseng doll, but it would scare Mr. Xiang San, who would think she had mental problems.
"Let's start!" Even though Wen Tian had seen real top-quality ginseng, he had never done such a thing as digging ginseng, so he couldn't help but look at Leng You.
When his eyes fell on that tiny little girl's height, his eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.
He actually had to follow the orders of an eight-year-old child?
It seems that this is the only way.
"Ginseng has many roots. We have to expand the periphery first. Otherwise, if we damage its roots, its value will be greatly reduced. You..."
Leng You was stunned when he saw Xiang Wentian take out two engineering shovels, one large and one small, from the bag.
She didn't know how Xiang Wentian managed to find such a handy tool in such a short time. One thing was certain, Master Xiang San had extraordinary abilities since he was young.
"I got it back from the county town yesterday." Xiang Wentian saw Leng You's confusion and explained lightly.
"After dinner? So late?" Leng You was even more surprised. You know, Daheishan Village is more than 60 miles away from the county town.
"Do you know what skiing is?" Leng You's expression with her eyes wide open in surprise was so cute that Xiang Wentian felt his heart suddenly softened and he couldn't help but reach out and rub her little head.
Then he picked up a large engineer shovel and prepared to dig one meter away from the ginseng.
"Skiing?" Leng You's eyes widened even more.
evildoer!
I can only silently give Mr. Xiang San two words in my heart.
But it also gave rise to new expectations.
"I'll teach you some other day." Xiang Wentian immediately understood the eagerness in Leng You's eyes.
"Okay!" Having fulfilled his wish, Leng You immediately picked up the small engineer shovel and started digging together.
The soil under the thick cover of fallen leaves was soft, and even Leng You could dig it effortlessly, let alone Xiang Wentian.
Xiang Wentian did not stop Leng You from helping at the beginning. He thought that although his body would be much better after the blessing, he was just a child after all, and would naturally stop when he was tired.
If you don't let her do it, she will be unhappy.
Unexpectedly, the little guy was like him, and seemed to not feel tired. He never stopped after he started.
And he dug very skillfully. To be more precise, he cooperated with him very skillfully. He followed behind him and used a small engineer shovel to dig deeper and deeper within the circle he dug, and his speed was not slow.
What she didn't know was that Leng You, who was wielding the engineering shovel, became more and more frightened the more she dug. With the slight warmth of the grape flower on her wrist, it seemed that there was some magical power guiding her, allowing her to proceed quickly and accurately without damaging the ginseng roots.
"The roots are exposed!" Only half an hour later, Leng You let out a low cry.
"I'll do it, you take a rest." Xiang Wentian wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was only wearing a shirt, but his back was already soaked.
"Okay." Leng You did not refuse. He wiped his forehead and sat aside.
The temperature at the bottom of the valley was too different from that at the top. She had been in a state of mental tension and needed to slow down because the next step was the most critical.
"That's enough!" Xiang Wentian withdrew his hand.
Leng You discovered that Xiang Wentian was just like her. He quickly and accurately exposed most of the ginseng rhizome without damaging the roots at all. Only a little soil remained under the largest root.
She looked carefully and found that there was nothing unusual on Xiang Wentian's face. In other words, he was so focused on digging that he didn't notice anything wrong.
From this, we can judge that the mystery lies with her. Where does Xiang Wentian's strangeness come from? Is it the purple mist? It should be.
And this purple mist originated from the imprint of a cluster of grape flowers on her wrist.
She pressed her wrist. Such fantasy always made Leng You feel so unreal. She wondered if she would wake up and find that she was just a wandering ghost in this purgatory on earth.
"Let's do it together." This was not a job that could be done by one person, so Leng You stood up and stepped forward. She asked Xiang Wentian to hold the main stem of the ginseng, and she began to carefully clean the last bit of dirt on the roots with her small hands.
Before he was sure that it was all a dream, Leng You decided to take this new life seriously, just to drag those demons into hell.
"It's out!" When Xiang Wentian saw Leng You holding a whole ginseng in his hands, there was uncontrollable excitement in his voice.
"No roots are damaged." Leng You stood in a pit deeper than her height, her eyes glowing like glass.
"Go up first." Xiang Wentian clasped his hands under Leng You's armpits and lifted him up to the pit with a light push.
"Go get the bark quickly." Without bothering to think that this was the second or fourth way that Mr. Xiang San had hugged her, Leng You carefully placed the ginseng on the grass, then immediately squatted down and pulled up the taller thatch.
"Okay." On the way here, Leng You had told him how to preserve the freshly picked ginseng, so after listening to Leng You's words, Xiang Wentian turned around without delay, found a relatively sturdy tree, took out a dagger and cut off a piece of bark.
Leng You quickly wrapped the ginseng with grass, then took the bark handed over by Xiang Wentian and wrapped it outside, and finally tied it with a rope. The purpose of doing this is to prevent the loss of moisture in the fresh ginseng.
After finishing, he continued to dig the next tree without stopping.
Since the outer soil had been hollowed out by Xiang Wentian, all they had to do was use a small shovel to extend inward little by little, and then use a thin stick or their hands to carefully dig after finding the roots.
"King of Ginseng!" Leng You exclaimed when the second ginseng was stripped of the soil and appeared intact in front of him.
This ginseng is about 1.5 meters long including the roots, and weighs about 2,500 grams.
Leng You had never seen such a large ginseng in any historical records.
Its reeds are round and long, with at least dozens of reed bowls, old and yellow skin, fine texture, beautiful shape, and lots of whip whiskers and pearl nodes...
These are enough to determine that this is a ginseng that is hundreds of years old and an extremely rare treasure.
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