Chapter 56 Chen Xia dug up ginseng! [Please collect it!]

Author: Yu Jingtian

Chapter 56 Chen Xia dug up ginseng! [Please collect it!]

Chen Xia looked carefully and found a ginseng seed emerging from the soil on the ground.

Underneath the ginseng seeds are purple and black stems, with three-piece branches and leaves growing on them.

"I'm lucky, this seems to be ginseng... these are ginseng leaves!" Chen Xia quickly squatted down and took a closer look.

Chen Xia has been in the mountains for a long time, but he has been hunting and fishing. This is the first time he has encountered ginseng. He has checked a lot of information about ginseng on the Internet and has some understanding.

Wild ginseng grows very slowly, and can grow a complete palm-shaped compound leaf in one to ten years, commonly known as "slap".

After ten to twenty years, two palm-shaped compound leaves will appear, commonly known as "Erjiazi".

After thirty years, it will be possible to have three palm-shaped compound leaves, commonly known as "Lampstand". It looks like a lampstand with three candles. The main root has distinctive characteristics of wild ginseng. It gradually matures and grows round reeds.

Bloom and bear fruit.

Towards the back, there are more leaves, but they grow more slowly. It may take ten years or even decades to grow one leaf.

If it is a garden ginseng, that is, the kind grown artificially, it will grow faster, reaching five or six leaves in six years.

Wild ginseng generally has five or six leaves, and the underground ginseng is very large.

"What I found is three-leaf ginseng. The third leaf is not big, only half of its length. It should have a cycle of about twenty-five years."

Chen Xia was a little excited. To him, this was already very good.

"I have to dig it out!" Chen Xia thought to herself.

As far as Chen Xia knows, there are actually many things to pay attention to when digging ginseng in the mountains. For example, if you encounter a four-leaf ginseng, the number is unlucky. You usually call it Bangchui, and your companions will know what it means.

When you find ginseng, you need to tie it with a wire tied with copper coins and dig it to avoid making mistakes when digging. Anyway, there are many rules. Chen Xia also heard it from the elderly and read some on the Internet.

Chen Xia doesn't care about anything else, just dig it out.

This is a delicate job and you have to dig little by little to avoid damaging the roots.

At this moment, Jiang Qing found Chen Xia squatting motionless in the corner of the grass, smiling furtively, so she came over and asked, "What's wrong?"

"There is ginseng here." Chen Xia turned around and smiled. If he hadn't gone fishing with Jiang Qing, he probably wouldn't have collected firewood here. Instead, he would have collected firewood in the nearby mountains, so he wouldn't have encountered ginseng.

"Ginseng?" Jiang Qing's parents dug it when she was a child, but there were so many people digging that it was difficult to find it. She didn't know much about it.

But ginseng is definitely a good thing.

Jiang Qing was very happy to know that Chen Xia seemed to be drinking Chinese medicine and practicing martial arts every day, which was just right.

"Do you have any knives in your package?" Chen Xia asked.

"There seems to be a small switchblade. Just wait, I'll get it!" Jiang Qing turned around and ran down the mountain. She went to the river and came back with the switchblade and handed it to Chen Xia.

Chen Xia popped out the blade and began to clean up the surrounding weeds, then shoveled the soil.

When selling ginseng, the rhizome must be kept intact, so be careful.

Of course, even if Chen Xia dug up ginseng, he would eat it himself, so he was bolder. Even if he dug up the ginseng, he could take it back with him to make soup.

Chen Xia was very strong and sometimes shoveled the soil with her hands. Jiang Qing saw Chen Xia grabbing the soil with both hands and quickly throwing it aside. She also came to help.

"Chen Xia, please be gentle, mud is thrown in my face!"

"OK…."

It was very time-consuming to remove the mud and pull out the rhizome bit by bit. Chen Xia wasted a lot of time and finally dug it out.

Chen Xia held it in both hands and looked at the muddy ginseng in his hands without moving.

Ginseng is not very big, and its appearance is very perfect. It has a segment in the middle, two and a half fingers long, the thickness of the ring finger, and two legs. The beard of the ginseng is very long, nearly half a foot.

It doesn't feel heavy when weighed, maybe only two taels after removing the mud.

"It's really ginseng. Isn't this thing worth a lot of money?" Jiang Qing asked happily as he wiped the mud from his face.

Chen Xia shook his head and said: "There must be this kind of ginseng worth three thousand, but I don't know the details."

He is not an expert in this field, but Chen Xia estimates that it will not be too high. After all, the weight and volume of the year are here, and it is not a ginseng that is hundreds or hundreds of years old, so its value is limited.

For this thing, you can roughly know the price by counting the year.

Moreover, the price of wild ginseng has nothing to do with the leaves. The leaves of ginseng grow in cycles. They start growing from the first-grade leaves. After growing to the sixth-grade leaves, they return to the first-grade leaves and start to cycle again. A few cases will produce seventh-grade leaves due to lesions.

The factors that determine the price of wild ginseng are the shape, age and weight of the ginseng.

"Here is a bag, here it is!" Jiang Qing went down the mountain and brought another bag.

Chen Xia carefully put it into the bag, just enough to avoid losing the roots.

"This ginseng is wild, stronger than the ginseng I bought online!" Chen Xia was excited.

Jiang Qing asked: "Have you ever bought ginseng yourself?"

"Well, I have. I bought a ginseng worth more than 900 yuan a few days ago. This time I will try to see how the wild ginseng works." Chen Xia looked at the ginseng, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

This is really a good thing for people who practice martial arts, especially Chen Xia with a strong physique. He can eat no matter how good the ginseng is, and he is not afraid of taking more.

Jiang Qing's eyes flashed with surprise. She didn't expect Chen Xia to use such expensive things.

After doing this, Chen Xia also specially made some ginseng seeds and put them into the dug hole, maybe they can be shipped in the future.

"I have to thank you this time!"

After burying the soil, Chen Xia was very grateful to Jiang Qing and offered some compensation. However, Jiang Qing was self-aware. Chen Xia discovered this ginseng. It was useless for Jiang Qing to have it. Even if it was sold for money, it had nothing to do with her.

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Chen Xia is not being pretentious, just help Jiang Qing catch more fish in the future.

"Chen Xia, let's look for it. Maybe there are some nearby?" Jiang Qing suggested.

"Okay!" So Chen Xia and Jiang Qing continued to search around. They only searched for a long time. Until noon, they searched everywhere and found only two small ginseng seedlings with one leaf.

It looks like a little guy at first glance. It would be a waste to dig it up, and the medicinal effect is not very good.

"Ginseng is not that easy to find. It's not available everywhere. It's almost noon, let's go back!"

Chen Xia glanced at his watch, and it was already half past eleven without realizing it.

Jiang Qing nodded. They had done everything they should do. They had caught fish and couldn't find ginseng. They had to go back to eat.

The two of them packed up and went down the mountain together.

Three bundles of firewood were placed behind Chen Xia's back.

Since he had a lot of things with him, including fish, tools, and firewood, Chen Xia asked Jiang Qing to ride back by himself and take the things with him.

"It's okay, let's go together!" Jiang Qing replied.

Chen Xia shook his head: "It's okay for me to go back alone. There are so many things now that I can't carry them with me on a bicycle. There's no need for you to wait for me. The journey is too far."

After all, it was only a kilometer or two, so Chen Xia didn't care. Jiang Qing, a weak woman, couldn't walk that far.

Hearing this, Jiang Qing pretended to hum and said: "Chen Xia, you still look down on me, I'm not that weak. I can walk, and besides, we came together, how could I leave you alone on the road?

?That’s so unjust! Just stop talking and I’ll help!”

"Okay!" Chen Xia.

Jiang Qing then smiled with two sweet dimples and said, "Look at me!"
Chapter completed!