Chapter 10 Chapter Eight: Half-Day Ginseng Picking

I once lived in a forest area in Daxing'an Mountains for about a month, and the experience was very interesting.Daxing'an Mountains is a general term, stretching hundreds of miles across, even an old man who was born in the forest area and lived to be eighty years old cannot travel all over.That month, it was at the southern end of the Great Khingan Mountains, and the range of activities would not exceed twenty kilometers. Get lost in the forest, can't get out no matter how you walk, and die in the woods. A year before I entered the forest area, a Sino-Soviet joint survey team disappeared in the forest and could not be found. It was only a few months later that their bodies were found in the forest. On the side, there is absolutely no reason why you can't get out.The old man didn't dare to say it openly, but secretly said: There are ghosts and ghosts in the forest!

It is true that getting lost in the forest and resulting in death happens from time to time, and it is mysterious and unpredictable, and there is no trace of the cause. Therefore, inexperienced people must not go for a walk in the forest, otherwise, they may never return. However, he followed a group of ginseng pickers and walked several miles of mountain roads.It is generally believed that ginseng only grows in Changbai Mountain. In fact, there are wild ginseng in the northern mountains. This situation is similar to the hairy crabs from Hebei Province, which are called Jiangsu Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.

That group of ginseng pickers was a family: two brothers and their three sons.Out of curiosity, I insisted on following him, and I agreed to spend half a month's wages to buy wine for everyone to drink. That family is very talkative, telling the taboos after going on the road, the first is never to pat others on the shoulder behind the back.The reason is very frightening, because there is a kind of blue wolf in the mountain, which is used to stand up straight, put its front legs on the shoulders of people from behind, and when the people turn around, they will bite on the throat of people.

Therefore, as soon as the locals feel that someone is putting their shoulders on their backs, they immediately use the very hard sticks they carry with them to strike backwards without hesitation. This kind of statement is always believed to be unreliable. With the size of the wolf's kiss and the sharpness of the wolf's teeth, when it reaches the back of a person, as long as it is aimed at the back of the neck and bites the person, the person will die. Put on the person's shoulder, wait for the person to turn around, and then bite the throat.But when this question was raised at the time, the other party's face sank, and he was very annoyed, telling you not to put on someone's shoulders!

In addition to Nuo Nuo's repeated remarks, another taboo is that no fire can be set in the mountains. This is for fire prevention, but it is simple.Furthermore, I must not put the word ginseng out of my mouth, but I want to change the name to stick.I don’t know the reason for this. It is said that ginseng is psychic. Once you say it, ginseng knows that your purpose is to find it, and it will hide so that you can’t find it.This is naturally due to the fact that ginseng is hard to find. Then, on the road one morning, on the narrow and rough path, the five of them walked in front, and I followed, and I saw that the way they walked was extremely strange.The mountain road is not easy to walk, and you must concentrate on it so that you don't stumble. I walked carefully, but the five of them, except for the two at the head and the tail, the three people in the middle were walking the mountain road with their heads up to the sky. The order in which individuals are arranged changes from time to time, but the three people in the middle always look up to the sky, and sometimes it is obvious that the two people at the head and the tail need to take care of them.

At that time, the doubts in my heart were really indescribable. I wanted to ask several times but I was afraid of saying the wrong thing. mallet bird. If you ask again, you will know the reason.It turns out that there is no way to find where ginseng grows in such a huge mountain. To find it, you can only rely on the guidance of ginseng birds. Ginseng birds only eat ginseng flowers, and their eyes are very sharp. ginseng, so they hovered in the sky, from high to low, and fell down to eat ginseng flowers when they saw it.Therefore, if a ginseng bird is found, it can be proved that there is ginseng nearby.

This kind of bird has a small body and flies high and fast, so you must be extremely careful and use your eyesight to see what it looks like. , I haven’t even seen a picture of a specimen, and after asking around, it seems that this kind of bird only exists in the mouths of ginseng collectors. Others, even bird experts, have never heard of it! Naturally, I didn't see the ginseng bird, which is also the reason why I haven't seen how the ginseng is harvested.During the break, another group of ginseng collectors just came back. I thought I didn’t have the ability to walk with my head up, and I was afraid that I would encounter a blue wolf, and my reaction would be unresponsive. So I came back with that group.

That group of people was rewarding. As soon as they arrived in the town, they went straight to the purchase station of the local product company, followed in to watch the excitement, two wild ginseng with thick and thin fingers, complete branches, leaves and roots, tightly tied with red thread, untied From the red line, it looks like a shriveled radish-like plant, but it has the effect of almost bringing the dead back to life!The local product company accepted it at a price of 80 yuan each, and the seller was also very satisfied.These two ginseng, after brewing, may be worth 20,000 to 30,000 RMB!

Back at the Linzhan dormitory, when I told the story, I was ridiculed. Several workers whispered to each other, and suddenly I was given a task to contact a team of nearby garrisons. They were hunting wild boars tonight, and the workers asked to participate. .At that time, it was strange, there were wild boars in the forest, and there was no regulation on who could fight and who could not, so why asked to join the hunting team of the garrison?But just go ahead and say it.That night, I realized that the wild boar battle was so big that without an army, it really couldn't be successful.