Age: Passionate youth, starting from graduation assignment

Chapter 38 The King of Ginseng
After leaving the camp, Xu Jichang continued to go deep into the dense forest. Whenever he encountered grass that might have ginseng growing on the road, he would use a rope poke to poke it aside.

During the process, he discovered several other medicinal materials, such as Panax notoginseng and Polygonum multiflorum.

Xu Ji often dug out these herbs with a shovel, shook the soil clean and put them in a cloth bag.

When digging Polygonum multiflorum, Xu Jichang also discovered a rabbit hole, and two rabbits jumped out of it as if they were flying after seeing the light coming in.

"boom!"

Xu Jichang had quick eyes and quick hands, and he hit two rabbits at the same time with a shovel.

The rabbit kicked its legs immediately after being shot, twitched twice and then lost its voice.

This is all right, we have all the meat for dinner.

Xu Jichang thought with a smile, picked up two rabbit ears and threw them into the cloth bag.

These two rabbits are a male and a female, and it happens that the husband and wife return home now.

I am really a kind person, I have two of them in one shot, so as not to suffer from the discomfort of the remaining one.

Xu Jichang thought to himself, looking around in the woods.

The visibility in the woods was not high, so Xu Jichang deliberately slowed down his pace to ensure that he would look at every place very carefully and not miss any corner.

The wooden stick in his hand never stopped, and he kept beating back and forth in front of him, so as to scare away the snakes and insects and find the traps.

When entering a linden forest, Xu Jichang was even more focused with 12 points of attention, without any distraction.

Ginseng likes to grow in linden woods, because the leaves of linden trees are large and can shade, which is most in line with the habits of ginseng.

After advancing in the linden forest for a while, Xu Jichang frowned slightly, feeling as if he had overlooked something in his sight just now.

So he walked back a few steps, then turned around again, and looked at a lime tree he had just passed.

This is an unusually thick and lush linden tree, at least 15 meters high, thick enough for several people to embrace, and the crown is enough to describe it as covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

There is a big tree hole on its trunk, and a lot of soil and fallen leaves have accumulated in it. In the fallen leaves, there are a few bright red things swaying in the wind, and there are several emerald green leaves growing beside it.

I actually found ginseng here...

The red fruit is not ginseng seeds, what could it be.

After confirmation, Xu Jichang took a deep breath.

The location of this ginseng is so coincidental.

How could most people imagine that a ginseng actually grew in the tree hole above their heads?How many mountain heads look up at the trees when they go into the mountains to look for ginseng?
Perhaps it is for this reason that the ginseng in front of me can escape wave after wave of ginseng pickers and grow until now.

Xu Jichang came under the tree, looked at the tree hole and said with emotion.

This linden tree is more than ten meters high, and the tree hole is about eight meters high. There are no branches below, which is not conducive to climbing.

Moreover, the diameter of the tree is so large that one person can't hug it at all, and it's impossible to climb up with the trunk between the legs like climbing the coconut tree in the south.

Xu Jichang looked at the ginseng on the tree and began to think about how to climb it.

One way is to repair the pedals on the tree trunk, use a knife to cut out pits for people to step on, and step on them step by step.

The downside of doing this is that it takes time and you have to climb and repair it. Considering the height of the tree, Xu Jichang did not take this approach in the end.

Think again and see if there is a relatively time-saving and labor-saving method.

……

After some thinking and observing the specific conditions of the branches on the linden tree, Xu Jichang dug out a bundle of hemp rope from his luggage, and made a noose with a loop on the end of the rope.

After pinching out a length of about ten meters, Xu Jichang held the noose in one hand, threw it up with all his strength, and put it on a broken tree branch with great precision.

Xu Jichang tugged lightly, and the noose on the noose snagged the branch dead.

After the noose was strong, Xu Jichang pulled it hard twice, and after confirming that the branch would not break, he grabbed the rope with his hands and stepped on the trunk, and began to climb up.

The tree hole was located not far below the broken tree branch. When Xu Jichang was about to climb to the end of the hemp rope, he put his legs into the tree hole one after another, passed through the thick fallen leaves inside, stepped on the bottom of the tree hole, and half of his body entered the tree hole.

This tree hole is really big, it doesn't look obvious when you look at it from below, but when you get to the top, you find that it is more than enough to accommodate a person.

Xu Jichang continued to hold the rope with both hands, and with his feet pointing to the bottom of the tree hole, he pushed his body into the tree hole bit by bit by relying on his waist strength.

In the end, most of his body successfully entered the tree hole.

call……

Xu Jichang breathed a sigh of relief, let go of the hemp rope, and stood firmly inside the tree hole.

Like the linden tree itself, this big tree hole looks like it has been around for some years, otherwise it would not have accumulated soil and even ginseng.

After entering the tree hole, Xu Jichang finally saw clearly that the ginseng tree in the hole had a thick rhizome and full fruit, with a total of six compound leaves, commonly known as six leaves, and was the king of ginseng.

The ginseng that can produce so many leaves must be over a hundred years old, and its medicinal value is immeasurable.

"This time I really got rich."

Xu Jichang squatted down, took out the tools needed for participation, and said with emotion.

According to Xu Jichang's experience, as long as there are six leaves in one place, there must be its descendants nearby.

But for Xu Jichang, the most important thing right now is to get out this top grade six leaf, and it won't be too late to look for its descendants.

Xu Jichang took out the deer bone skewers from his cloth bag, and carefully cleaned up the fallen leaves and rotten sawdust next to the ginseng.

After cleaning up the layers of fallen leaves and sawdust, he started to dig up the soil under the fallen leaves with a deer bone stick, very cautiously.

Picking up ginseng is a technical job, because when selling ginseng, what you pay attention to is a complete product.If the roots are broken, not only the efficacy of the medicine will be lost, but the price will be greatly reduced.

After carefully digging down about half a foot, Xu Jichang was even more surprised.

Relying on the light coming in from outside, he found that the appearance of this ginseng tree was very perfect, the reed head had long lines and fine lines, the whole body was light yellow, and the skin was delicate.The most important thing is that he dug so deep that he only dug the middle of the ginseng according to the signs.

The ecological environment in this era is really good, and such a large wild ginseng can be dug up.

Xu Jichang continued to dig down carefully, making sure not to damage a single whisker.

Before he knew it, the dirt dug up beside him had piled up into a hill.

(End of this chapter)