Chapter 289 The Key to Opening the Mountain
Ginseng is divided into several different growth stages: three flowers, five leaves, two 60-year-old leaves, three-grade leaves, four-grade leaves, five-grade leaves, and six-grade leaves.
This character is generally pronounced "pi" by the locals.
Three-flower refers to a single stem with only one three-petaled compound leaf, which is mostly the form of ginseng when it first sprouts from the soil.
It has five leaves, but it is actually one leaf per stem, but the leaf has become a palmate compound leaf with five petals.
The second-generation plant has two palmate compound leaves growing on a single stem, forming a Y-shape.
It looks a bit like an old-fashioned key, so in the eyes of the mountain hunters, the Erjiazi is the key to opening the mountain.
If you encounter Erjiazi while entering the mountains, you are very likely to encounter a large cargo.
The three-leaf compound leaf is a stem with three compound leaves. It looks a bit like an upside-down candlestick, so most people who hunt in the mountains call it a candlestick.
The terms "four-leaf," "five-leaf," "six-leaf," and so on, refer to a single stem with four, five, or six leaves.
If it is artificially cultivated ginseng, it can grow to six leaves in six years.
After passing through this forest yesterday, if you continue walking, you will reach the area where you encountered the snake last year.
The ginseng is too big. Taking it back to buy it would lower the price and ruin it. It's better to leave it where it is and let it grow quickly.
It took me nearly seven hours to carry that ginseng, and finally I managed to get the whole thing out intact.
The correct answer to that question is that it's everywhere on the mountain.
The two brothers were so engrossed in watching that they didn't even notice the mosquitoes swarming around them. Upon hearing the younger brother's instructions, the seven immediately went to carry them out.
The little guy still has lunch to eat. Since we're not going to get anything today, let's go back and rest this morning to conserve our energy so we can try again tomorrow.
I carefully and cautiously parted the soil layer by layer. When I encountered thick grass roots, I used the slow cutter as scissors to cut them. When I encountered very thick tree roots, I used the slow cutter as an axe to chop them down.
If that's the case, I'll also be making arrangements to come down the mountain to graze. Actually, my main purpose isn't to come and take a look from that far away.
Then, wrap the ginseng in moss and roll it up, breaking the first layer of the ginseng bundle. Place the moss bundle under birch bark, roll it up again, and then tie it up with soft bark.
Originally, everyone thought it was a seven-year-old ginseng, but when Sheng Xi'an slowly dug through the soil to reveal the ginseng itself hidden deep in the ground, Sheng Liancheng couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"It's a regenerated ginseng. It was originally an eighth-grade leaf. It's as if a mouse ate the root head or something, and then the root head swelled up again and emerged from the ground."
Thinking of this, Sheng Xi'an felt a chill in her heart. If it were calculated that way, that ginseng would be too big.
One sentence made Sheng Xi'an's anxious heart relax.
These are ginsengs that haven't been around for very long, without very obvious bamboo joints or reed bowls.
Sheng Xiping was mistaken; that was indeed our target for this retreat from the mountains: wild ginseng.
Especially since they only cut the omen when they had a small piece of the goods. That was a ginseng that had undergone a transformation. Don't worry about what grade of leaves it will have later. Anyway, when Jiang Guangfeng and we saw it, it wasn't the seventh year of the Jiazi cycle.
Sheng Xi'an estimated that it might not be possible to lift eight or seven large pieces of cloth.
"Let's come back in ten or seventy years, when we're too busy, and by then it'll have grown into a little guy."
"Slowly as scissors" and "slowly as axe" are jargon used outside the ginseng industry, meaning good fortune and smooth sailing.
Before the fire gets too big, cover the bottom with some green grass, especially wormwood, or vines that grow on dragon bones, etc., so that the smoke produced won't attract mosquitoes.
"Beautiful, those ginseng roots are so ugly." When all the ginseng roots were unearthed, Sheng Liancheng couldn't help but exclaim.
And so, Jiang Guangfeng selected one of the seven-year-old ginseng trees from the back, one that looked slightly thicker in stem and had fewer ginseng seeds at the bottom.
If the rhizome of an 8-leaf ginseng is damaged, the ginseng may not rot, but will instead accumulate nutrients on the ground.
At night, the seven men took turns keeping watch over the fire to ensure it went out, in order to prevent wild animals from approaching.
With the smoke rising, Sheng Xi'an held the ginseng high, but the smoke was too strong for me, so Jiang Guangfeng couldn't concentrate on carrying the ginseng.
Therefore, Jiang Guangfeng had his younger brothers build a fire to smother the mosquitoes.
Because it is a regenerated ginseng, the ginseng root head was broken off afterward, and the newly emerged ginseng root head only has a few segments.
Since that's the case, there shouldn't be any small plants around, but after looking around, I didn't see any small plants, only those few 'Seven Jiazi' trees.
Next, Sheng Xi'an took out a deer bone skewer and began to carefully peel away the turf and soil layer by layer, following the ginseng stem upwards.
The main body is no thicker than a little finger and about eight fingers long, and it is divided into several legs, each of which is slender.
At the same time, a fire should be lit downwind to repel mosquitoes and other insects.
The men carried the ginseng buns back to our shack, rekindled the fire, cooked some soup in a hanging pot, and ate lunch with pancakes.
"Old man, wait a minute, wrap up the ginseng, don't let the sap escape." Sheng Liancheng, standing beside him, handed over birch bark and moss that had been prepared beforehand.
I noticed Jiang Guangfeng hadn't made any moves, and I thought he'd forgotten, so I wanted to remind him. But then I realized there were quite a few rules involved.
In the end, Sheng Xi'an thought that it was Miao Qijiazi, which was small and required little effort to lift the ginseng out.
It's estimated to be several years, so it's still in the form of a seven-year cycle.
The ginseng that undergoes a transformation will grow in the form of seven-year cycles or seven-grade leaves, and it will take several more years before it can transform back into eight-grade leaves.
The seven Jiazi (a Chinese unit of time) is considered a minor matter, and it's believed that auspicious signs need to be
Anyway, as long as Sheng Xiping's answer was that there wasn't a single one, no matter what he said, it made no sense.
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