Chapter 409 Harvesting (Part II)
Hu Hongde shook his head and said: "Ye Tian, it's not a matter of money or not, these ginseng are all made of the essence of heaven and earth, and it's a pity to damage them."
Although he owes Ye Tian a huge favor, as an old ginseng, Hu Hongde still insists on digging ginseng by himself.
You must know that in winter in the Northeast, even the land can be frozen, and digging ginseng is hundreds of times more difficult than in summer.
Ye Tian glanced at Hu Hongde dissatisfiedly and said: "Lao Hu, do you look down on me? Tell you, I have the art of hope in my door, what is digging a ginseng?"
"Really? Can you look at ginseng?" Hu Hongde was stunned by Ye Tian's words, it seemed that this qi was used when looking for feng shui, could it still be used to find references?
Hu Hongde didn't know whether what Ye Tian said was true or not, but seeing Ye Tian so persistent, he finally shook his head and said: "Okay, be careful, ginseng doesn't grow straight up, it is lying on the ground, you have to dig it from all sides first, don't hurt the ginseng beard!"
Unlike ordinary plant rhizomes facing down, the rhizomes of ginseng grow upside down, and the thin ginseng whiskers are all facing the ground, so when starting ginseng, it must be dug from far to near, from bottom to top, little by little.
"I know, Lao Hu, just take a look."
Ye Tian put his backpack aside, stretched out his hand and pulled out a short sapper shovel from it, and said bluntly: "Lao Hu, if I come to Changbai Mountain to dig ginseng, you will have no food to eat!"
Listening to Ye Tian's words and then looking at his movements, Hu Hongde almost didn't cry, grabbed the shovel, and said beggingly: "I said, let me dig, where can I use iron tools to dig ginseng?"
"What's wrong, what do you use to dig instead of a shovel?"
Ye Tian stopped moving when he heard this, glanced at Hu Hongde's hand and said: "Lao Hu, you practice eagle claw skills, but there are so many ginseng pickers in Changbai Mountain, they may not all have this kung fu, right? Do they also dig with their hands?"
In addition to accompanying Yu Qingya and others to play in the mountains in the past few days, Ye Tian also competed with Hu Hongde several times, and Ye Tian also admired this extremely fierce Changbai Mountain eagle claw technique.
Especially when he practiced to a state like Hu Hongde, the ten fingers of those hands were like ten sharp daggers, and the thickness of the tree trunk at the mouth of the bowl could be broken with one handful.
So Ye Tian wondered if Hu Hongde was directly in his hand when he was digging ginseng, after all, the shovel was not as flexible as his fingers.
"Who said they dug it by hand?"
Hu Hongde really regretted taking Ye Tian into the mountains, shook his head and took out a knife made of wood from his backpack, and said: "Use this wooden knife to dig, otherwise there will be deer antlers, you can't use iron tools anyway!"
Fresh ginseng, whether it is ginseng whiskers or rhizomes, is very fragile, as long as it touches iron tools, it will definitely cause damage, so this wooden knife and antlers are essential tools for ginseng pickers.
In the early years, Hu Hongde also used these two tools, but he later practiced kung fu more and more, as Ye Tian said, he used both hands to dig ginseng.
The reason why he went into the mountains this time with wooden knives and antlers was to make Ye Tian enjoy himself and find a wild ginseng that was more than ten years old to dig for him, but Hu Hongde did not expect that Ye Tian's ginseng, which would take fifty years of practice, was not an ordinary luxury.
"There are so many particulars, okay, just use this wooden knife."
Ye Tian threw away the shovel, took the small wooden knife like a toy, and couldn't help but shake his head, the land is frozen hard this winter, if you change to an ordinary ginseng picker, how long will you dig with a wooden knife?
But for Ye Tian, it really doesn't matter what he uses, this wooden knife is infused with true qi, I'm afraid it's a little sharper than that shovel.
Although Ye Tian didn't care before, after taking action, the whole person became calm, and after he sensed the position of the wild ginseng, he dug it up from more than 30 centimeters away from the ginseng whiskers.
Seeing Ye Tian so cautious, Hu Hongde had a little more confidence in him, although he didn't understand what it meant to have an attitude that determined success or failure, but he did need to be fully focused when digging ginseng.
"This thing grows in the soil, but it can absorb the essence between heaven and earth to refine and condense, it really deserves to be a legendary heavenly spirit treasure, but it grows too slowly!"
Ginseng is the most valuable medicinal material Ye Tian has used since his cultivation, and it has indeed not disgraced the name of the king of herbs, and its medicinal properties have also played a great role in the advancement of Ye Tian's technique.
Therefore, although he knew that he would not hurt the ginseng, Ye Tian's movements were also extremely careful, seemingly quickly but actually very gently cleaning out the frozen soil around the wild ginseng tree.
"Be careful, you're about to dig the mallet, slow down and clean it up!"
The frozen soil is only the surface layer, and after digging it up, the soil inside becomes soft, and Ye Tian's movements become faster and faster.
Ye Tian also relaxed at this time, turned around and smiled: "Lao Hu, just take a look!"
After cleaning up the frozen soil, he simply threw away the wooden knife and used both hands to peel off the soil under the ginseng one by one.
After digging out the entire ginseng tree, Ye Tian peeled off all the soil between the ginseng whiskers like flying fingers, and Hu Hongde was stunned, and his whole body was dumbfounded for a while.
You must know that in the soil where ginseng grows, there are still many grass roots, tree roots, stubborn stones, gravel, and some of them are even wrapped in ginseng whiskers.
But Ye Tian's ten fingers were like embroidery needles, and they removed all the debris extremely dexterously, and although they moved extremely quickly, they did not cause the slightest damage to the roots.
Just over ten minutes later, an old ginseng with a complete ginseng whiskers, yellowish-brown main root bark, and a fine and deep screw-like horizontal stripe on the shoulder at the upper end of the hair root appeared in Ye Tian's hand.
There are dozens of ginseng whiskers of this wild ginseng, thick like toothpicks, and thin like hair.
Even Hu Hongde himself could not dig this old ginseng into such a complete appearance, taking parameters for ten years, Hu Hongde dared to say that the wild ginseng in Ye Tian's hand was not the oldest, but the quality was definitely the best.
"Except for the color, this thing is really the same as a carrot in other places?"
Ye Tian carefully held this wild ginseng in his palm and looked at it carefully, it was also the first time he had seen fresh ginseng, and it was still very different from the dried ginseng he had bought before.
Ye Tian could feel that the juice in this ginseng contained extremely abundant essence, and its effect was far from comparable to that of the old ginseng after drying.
Smelling the faint fragrance, Ye Tian even had the urge to throw it into his mouth and chew it.
For others, it may be over-replenished, but for Ye Tian's body, there will definitely be no deficiency that cannot be replenished, that is, if you take the old ginseng of the sixth-grade leaf for Ye Tian to eat, those essences of heaven and earth will also be transformed into the essence in his body.
"Ye Tian, you take it, be careful not to break the roots."
Hu Hongde also came back to his senses at this time, not caring about the wild ginseng coming over to check, but turned around and ran towards the birch forest more than 20 meters away.
"Lao Hu, what are you doing?"
Ye Tian turned his head in surprise, and as soon as he shouted, he saw Hu Hongde's right hand clawed and grabbed the tall birch tree.
With a "snort", a large piece of birch bark was torn off by Hu Hongde, squatted down and peeled off the snow on the ground, and Hu Hongde ran back after a while.
"Ye Tian, give me this mallet."
Before Ye Tian could ask, Hu Hongde was about to pass by the wild ginseng and wrap it in bark, and Ye Tian found that there was still some moss and rotten soil in the bark.
Hu Hongde dug out a wooden box from his backpack again, carefully put the bark-wrapped ginseng in it, and after doing this, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Seeing Ye Tian's puzzled eyes, Hu Hongde smiled and said: "This mallet will quickly become shriveled when it leaves the soil, I will hold it with bark and moss to ensure that its essence will not leak out!"
"It's really a lot of attention, if you want me to say, wouldn't it be better to just eat it to replenish your vitality?"
Ye Tian licked his lips, he stewed a lot of dried ginseng, but Ye Tian had never eaten this kind of fresh wild ginseng, and the huge essence in that wild ginseng made Ye Tian's heart itch.
Seeing Ye Tian's eyes, Hu Hongde couldn't help but take a step back, hugged the wooden box in his arms, and said: "Don't destroy the natural things, fifty-year-old fourth-grade leaves are rare anymore, and they can be used to hang their lives."
The so-called hanging life means that when a person only has one breath left, he cuts the century-old ginseng into slices and holds it for the patient, and the essence in this ginseng can make people live a little longer to explain the last words.
In ancient times, many high-rise households liked to hide old ginseng in their homes, and it was for this reason that century-old wild ginseng was already an object that could not be found in modern times.
"I just want to taste it."
Looking at Hu Hongde looking at himself like a thief, Ye Tian said angrily: "Lao Hu, there are still a lot of ginseng around here, but there is no thick one, should we dig them all out?"
Through the induction of qi, Ye Tian could perceive that there were still some objects containing essence around this fourth-grade leaf more than ten meters, which must be the descendants of this ginseng.
"I said ancestors, you should leave some wild ginseng seeds for Changbai Mountain, right? This mountain forest still has to feed a lot of people!" After hearing Ye Tian's words, Hu Hongde suddenly smiled bitterly.
Ginseng pickers have the rules of ginseng pickers, unless they encounter fifth-grade leaves, they will dig out the surrounding fourth-grade and third-grade leaves, and the other wild ginseng from more than ten years old, ginseng pickers will never move.
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