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Chapter 946 The Most Stupid Way (For Subscription)

"What's more, I don't have any tools at hand now, and it's too difficult to dig ginseng with bare hands. This... I really don't have much confidence."

Li Yuan looked at the ginseng and explained to everyone seriously.

Many people don't know much about ginseng, so naturally they don't know that it is so troublesome to unearth ginseng.

Studio.

"It turned out to be so, no wonder."

"I said, why don't the anchors rush to dig out ginseng? It turns out that there are so many people talking about digging up ginseng."

"I heard that digging ginseng is a technical job. The anchor said so, it seems that it is really the case."

"Do you need professional tools to dig ginseng?"

"Digging ginseng is too troublesome."

"This spiritual herb...is really not a good one!"

Li Yuan nodded.

"Well, the work of digging ginseng is really troublesome. Anyone who has seen me dig ginseng for the first time should know that this job will not be completed in a short time."

"Especially this ginseng. After a hundred years, the ginseng has been separated, legs, and even side ginseng will grow. If you dig it up because you are in a hurry, it will be bad."

Li Yuan paused. "And... there is another reason. The gram weight of wild ginseng is generally not high, and every gram difference may be a four-digit price difference."

"However, every year in June, July and August, which is now, is the peak growth season for ginseng, and the dormant period of ginseng is from the early frost in September to the middle of May next year."

"These three months are the time when ginseng grows the fastest. If it can be unearthed later, the ginseng is likely to gain weight."

For wild ginseng, its growth rate is particularly slow, especially in the first few years, and the annual weight gain is only about [-] grams.

And it is very likely that negative growth will occur, allowing the stems and leaves to grow first.

The weight of wild ginseng that has been unearthed for 30 years is only about 5 grams. After 100 years, the weight of ginseng will gradually increase, but the weight increased by one year is only one gram.

During the centuries of growth, wild ginseng will also be attacked by natural disasters such as freezing, heavy rain, diseases and insect pests, etc. During the long growth years, it often encounters disasters such as insect bites, wild animals and livestock trampling.

It is precisely because of these reasons that the price per gram of ginseng varies so much.

And if it can be unearthed in a few months at night, it may increase the weight of ginseng. For such a century-old ginseng, every extra gram of growth is very precious.

Although Hu Kai didn't quite understand these sayings about ginseng, Hu Kai understood one thing, that is... ginseng can grow longer if it stays in the soil for one more day.

And the longer it is, the more ginseng can be sold for a penny!

No, it may be tens of thousands of cents more!
After thinking this through, Hu Kai instantly nodded in agreement.

Hu Kai: "Then it's up to you, let's not dig it first. Hey, no, Xiao Yuan, if you don't dig it, how can you take this ginseng back, and you can't let it stay here?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Of course we can't let it stay here, what I mean is, we have to take it back with the soil."

Hu Kai hesitated for a moment, then suddenly realized.

"I see! You mean to sell saplings and rice seedlings, take this piece of ginseng soil back, and let it continue to grow!"

Li Yuan nodded.

"Well, exactly."

In rural areas, merchants who sell rice seedlings sell the rice seedlings together with the soil below them.

Because in addition to the convenience of survival, the biggest reason is that it can maintain the nutrients in the seedlings to prevent the seedlings from dehydration, nutrient loss, and low survival rate of the seedlings.

It is also a reason to take ginseng with the soil.

The ginseng removed with the soil can keep the nutrients in the ginseng from being lost, and allow the ginseng to continue to grow in the soil and increase its weight.

And as long as this piece of mountain soil is properly preserved, it will not be a problem for the nutrients in it to grow ginseng for several months.

Waiting to survive the golden period of ginseng growth before unearthing it is obviously a way to achieve the best of both worlds, and this method is actually one of the methods commonly used by mountain walkers to preserve ginseng.

Studio.

"The anchor is indeed an expert, and he knows this method."

"I've learned a lot...it's still like this."

"It took such a lot of effort, just for that one gram...it's not troublesome enough."

"Trouble? Do you know how much a difference of one gram of century-old ginseng would cost?! If I had a way, I would use it no matter how troublesome it is!"

"Then how does the Li family plan to get it back? It shouldn't be easy to transport it away, right?"

It is indeed a troublesome thing to transport away. At this moment, Li Yuan is also looking at the ginseng, thinking about how to transport it away in his mind.

Hu Kai watched Li Yuan sink into deep thought, and asked curiously, "Xiao Yuan, what are you thinking?"

Li Yuan: "I'm thinking about how to remove this wild ginseng."

Hu Kai: "Then you figured it out?"

Li Yuan pondered for a moment, then nodded.

"Well, I did come up with a way, the only and the most stupid way."

Hu Kai: "What method?"

Li Yuan: "Make a wooden box and carry it away."

As soon as he said it, Li Yuan took off his coat, then picked up a wooden stick from the side, and came to the ginseng.

To make a wooden box, the first thing to do is to determine the size of the piece of soil that needs to be removed, and the way to determine the size is not difficult, that is, to measure it with the above-ground part of ginseng seedlings.

I saw that Li Yuan held the ginseng stem with his right hand, and put the ginseng stem as close to the ground as possible, and made a circular mark with a wooden stick on the maximum distance that could be drawn on the stem with his left hand.

The diameter of the drawn circle is almost [-] centimeters, and this circle is the maximum distance for ginseng whiskers to grow.

Li Yuan threw the small wooden stick aside, and then said to Hu Kai: "Come on, dig along this circle!"

This area is actually not small, but fortunately, ginseng is a kind of plant that grows on the surface of the earth, so the depth is not too much. The two of them only need to dig [-] to [-] centimeters down along this size.

Centuries-old ginseng is very precious, and the two men did not dare to relax at all. One held a wooden plank and dug along the edge of the circle.

Although the ground is soft, it is actually very difficult for the two of them to dig with bare hands like this.

After digging for a while, both of their fingernails had turned black.But now the two of them don't have extra time to be hypocritical, after all... the sun in the sky doesn't wait for anyone.

The two dug hard, and the digging took nearly two hours.

Studio.

"How's it going?"

"It's not over yet..."

"It's been digging for almost two hours, and it's almost dark."

"Yeah, anchor, when will you finish this?"

(End of this chapter)