Reborn in Changbai Mountain, I rely on my divine eyes to dig ginseng and hunt

Liu Xia Lian arranged: "I will go to the forest farm to deliver goods tomorrow morning. Hire a car. Go quickly and come back soon. The three of you should buy all the tools, such as machetes, axes, hoes, diggers, bone shovels, red thread coins, and rain sheets. When I come back, the four of us will go into the mountains. Don't make a fuss. We will act secretly. Women also hold up half the sky."

Liu Xia Lian got up early the next day and did not let her mother go to the forest farm, because she had already made an appointment with Uncle Li's mule cart yesterday and would come back to hire a donkey cart.

The fish are not sold at the forest farm, but are delivered directly to the Songhua River Fish Restaurant. As long as the goods are good, the boss has no shortage of money. In order to maintain long-term cooperation, Liu Xia Lian took the initiative to lower the price.

This trip was not more, not less, and I easily got one hundred and thirty yuan.

There are quite a lot of things that need to be bought when searching for treasure in the mountains. Li Damei can buy some from the village, and Liu Xia Lian can buy some from the forest farm.

Four large raincoats, tick repellent, a whistle to wear around the neck, an aluminum water bottle, a lighter, and a deerskin bag for ginseng.

After spending all the change, Liu Xia Lian only had one hundred yuan left when she got home. She gave twenty yuan to her mother and hid the remaining eighty yuan. She packed her equipment and carried a hunting fork and set off.

"Mom, I'm going to get some goods. You don't have to wait for me to have lunch. I'll be back in the evening."

It was already around ten o'clock when we set out, and Damei, Daya and Erya were all getting impatient.

The equipment was complete. Daya and Erya each held an axe in their hands and a crossbow on their backs. The crossbows were old, but still powerful. They could easily cross a hundred meters. Damei was not to be outdone. She held a four-meter-long pole in her hands and a sharp hatchet on her back.

Liu Xia Lian divided the equipment including raincoats, wind oil and water bottles, and the four of them walked out of the village and headed east. They followed the path, crossed the stone bridge and passed through the dry rice fields, and they arrived at the mountain not far away.

There was a simple ceremony before entering the mountain. Liu Xia Lian took out fruits, roast chicken, and steamed buns, offered them on the ground with straw paper, and lit three cigarettes.

The one being worshipped is the mountain god, the mountain boss. According to legend, the mountain god can guide people to find valuable goods and the way home.

Once we entered the mountains, the sky suddenly became dark. The primeval forest blocked out the sun, and the paths disappeared. The ground was covered with thick fallen leaves.

What caught my eye was a Hericium erinaceus, which I broke off and put into the basket.

Another pine mushroom, harvested.

Soon after, Daya found a Ganoderma lucidum, Acanthopanax senticosus, Schisandra chinensis, and Gastrodia elata. She earned small amounts of money along the way, and the backpack was covered with a thin layer of food.

The four-member group claimed to have bought everything, but most of the items they bought were of average value. This kind of dried medicinal materials are purchased at 40 to 50 cents per pound in rural areas.

Liu Xia Lian's target was not these ordinary things. When others were digging herbs, her big eyes were searching everywhere, under the trees and in the weeds.

The group walked five or six miles and filled the baskets halfway, but still didn't find anything special.

After walking for another three miles, it was very exhausting to walk through the dense forest. Li Damei was a little discouraged: "The road in the mountains is difficult to walk. Let's take a rest and take another road back to the village. It will be troublesome after dark."

Inadvertently, Liu Xia Lian suddenly saw a red light in the grass next to the small tree in front of her, and immediately went over with a harpoon. Suddenly, a poisonous snake rushed out, with its triangular head raised more than one meter high. It wanted to bite people, but was chopped down by Liu Xia Lian with a hatchet.

Chen Damei used a stick to pick up the dead snake and threw it far away. It is said that poisonous snakes have the ability to reconnect themselves, so the head and body must be separated, otherwise it can recover.

After peeling away the grass, a ginseng was revealed. Just looking at the reed head, one could tell its age, at least thirty or twenty years old.

"Bangchui, bring over the red rope and the big money." Liu Xia Lian tied the red rope with big money hanging on both sides.

Legend has it that old ginseng in the mountains will run away and must be tied up with red string and large coins.

Daya picked up a hoe and quickly cleared the surrounding weeds. She worked vigorously and leveled the weeds in minutes, quickly clearing the area around the ginseng.

Liu Xialian was not very good at judging the root, but she was sure it was quite old. She used a sharp shovel to dig and spent more than half an hour digging out a large pit. The ginseng was really big, at least 400 to 500 grams. Next, Chen Damei took the stage, using a deer bone shovel to clean the soil around the root system bit by bit. It took an hour to finally dig out a ginseng.

It took three people working together to dig it out. If it was just one person, it would take at least a whole day.

"It's so beautiful, hahaha, it's really good." Liu Xialian carefully put the ginseng into the deerskin bag, and found four or five more ginsengs nearby with a hunting fork. She was immediately overjoyed: "Great, this is a ginseng nest. These ones are small and not very old. They are probably only ten or eight years old."

Chen Damei came over with a hoe in hand and said, "It's so far away. Many people have been working in the mountains for half a month and haven't seen any ginseng hairs. Hurry up and dig. This place is not far from the village. If you don't dig, others will come and dig them away."

After careful searching, I dug quickly this time and found a total of six small ginsengs, each with ginseng seeds. Based on the principle of long-term development, I planted them next to them. Whether they will sprout or not depends on fate.

One big one and six small ones, a total of seven ginseng plants.

Although I don’t know the price, it’s definitely a great harvest.

Liu Xia Lian looked at the pocket watch in her pocket. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Sisters, let's retreat. It's too late and dangerous."

Chen Damei said: "This place is only seven or eight miles away from the village, so we still have time to do it."

"No, we have to go home. Women have a natural disadvantage when traveling in the mountains. The four of us have only two crossbows and no other weapons are useful. There will be more wild beasts when it gets dark. We must go home quickly."

Changbai Mountain is such a mountain. It can selflessly give you ginseng and delicious food, but it can also take your life quietly.

The group turned around and headed back, not picking up anything worthless along the way. They would only pick up a few valuable ones like Schisandra chinensis, Gastrodia elata, and Ganoderma lucidum when they saw them occasionally.

When we were almost at the edge of the forest, we suddenly heard the sound of wild boars grunting ahead.

Daya put down the basket and pressed her hand. Everyone looked over and saw a small wild boar eating food in the bushes in front of them. It weighed no more than a hundred pounds and seemed to be a boar that had been driven out of the other herd and was out to find a new herd.

Daya used a crossbow. She used a triangular arrow head, which was extremely powerful.

With a whoosh, he aimed at the wild boar's neck, but the wild boar turned around and hit its shoulder blade.

The wild boar roared and turned around and ran away, and Daya and Erya flew after it.

Liu Xia Lian was carrying ginseng on her back and was afraid that it would be damaged, so she didn't dare to run too fast.

The wild boar could not run more than ten meters. It was probably because its front leg shoulder blade was shot through and it could not move. Daya caught up with it and grabbed its ear. Erya grabbed the wild boar's tail from behind.