what!Ginseng is refined!

To the northwest of Huaiyuan Town, if you look up, you can see the Hengshan mountain range at a glance.There is another mountain between Hengshan and Huaiyuan Town, which is called "Iron Mountain" by local people.

As the name suggests, Iron Mountain is a barren land where not a single blade of grass grows.But it was Xiaosan who stood between Huaiyuan Town and Mount Heng.

Hengshan is rich in animals and plants, and the whole mountain is a treasure. During the slack season, people often go up the mountain to pick wild fruits and hunt.

People who have some medical knowledge and can identify useful medicinal materials will also go to the mountains to collect herbs, and then go to the town to sell them to big medical clinics and pharmacies to earn some scattered money to support their families.

The smaller clinics are not located in the town, but in the villages under the town.There are very few experienced old doctors in the village, so usually after a doctor in a village opens a medical clinic, people from three or five surrounding villages will come here to see a doctor.

The villages are scattered and the population is small, so the medical center often has leisure time.

In their spare time, the old doctor of the medical center often leads his disciples to Hengshan to collect herbs, which can not only subsidize the shortage of medicinal materials in the medicine box, but also teach the disciples to identify various medicinal plants and animals with real objects.

At the foot of Iron Mountain is the place where the villages in Huaiyuan Town gather the most, and next to the village is Dujiazhuang.

There is a small clinic in Dujiazhuang, and the old doctor in the clinic is also surnamed Du, and it is rumored that he is an old royal doctor in the palace.I grew up in Dujiazhuang when I was a child, and now I have opened a medical clinic in my hometown, and my medical skills are very good.

Old Doctor Du came to the village two months ago to open a medical clinic. He has no wife and children, and he is accompanied by a teenage apprentice named Chu Wenjing who is dumb and unable to speak.

The old doctor is sometimes a strict father to his apprentice, sometimes a loving mother, occasionally an old naughty boy who wants to play tricks on his apprentice, and often makes the apprentice's face turn red, but when he wants to speak but can't speak, he will sigh again. is a weirdo.

The sun was warm but not strong that day, and it was the time of leisure in the medical clinic, so the old doctor led his disciples to collect herbs.

Originally, there was one medicine basket for each person, but after climbing over the iron mountain, they all fell on the disciples.

The old doctor stood at the foot of Mount Heng and looked up. He didn't know what he thought of, and laughed silently. He refused to rest at the inn at the foot of the mountain, and his interest in picking herbs on the mountain became even higher.

Chu Wenjing had been prepared for a long time. He brought a thin blanket and tent, and tied them tightly with ropes, just enough to stuff them into the medicine basket.

Carrying thin blankets and tents on the back, dry food, boiled water and some tools for digging medicinal materials in the front, and a fork in hand to guard against wild animals, everything is ready, even if the old man wants to live on the mountain for five years. Six days, that's not a problem.

The old man was in high spirits, and he liked to tease his apprentice along the way, and once again succeeded in making the little apprentice blush, while he laughed out loud.

Uncle Wang, who was on the way back from hunting with his son, heard laughter from a long distance away. His eyes fell on the master and apprentice who were going up the mountain through the forest leaves. He opened his mouth and roared, scaring many roosting birds away.

"Old man Du, accumulate some blessings for you."

Also frightened was his son Wang Dapu who was carrying a lot of prey behind him, Wang Dapu took a big stride to catch up with his father, and said in a low voice, "Father, that's old doctor Du, don't offend anyone. "

Wang Dapu is an honest man, there is only one medical center like Dr. Du's in a radius of more than [-] miles around their house, and Dr. Du has a weird temper. What can I do?

"Go!" Uncle Wang glared at his son in dissatisfaction, "Our two old men grew up playing with bare buttocks, what's the matter with him?"

Uncle Wang got angry, so Wang Dapu didn't dare to talk anymore, he just made a note in his heart, and sent a rabbit to Doctor Du and Little Doctor Chu later.

The old doctor here heard the nonsense, turned his head and said to the young apprentice: "Did you see that old man coming in front? I won't see a doctor for him in the future."

The old doctor's voice was not low, and Uncle Wang and Wang Dapu went down the mountain quickly.After the old doctor finished speaking, Uncle Wang and Wang Dapu came in front of him.

Wang Dapu listened to what Dr. Du said word for word, shuddered, and quickly added another rabbit to his heart.

But Uncle Wang didn't take it seriously, "Look at you, the boss, you still bully children?"

The old doctor refused to admit it, and with a face of not knowing what the old man said, he opened his mouth and said, "Who bullied the child? Where is it?"

Uncle Wang had one hand behind his back, and when he passed by the old doctor, he raised his arm and patted the old doctor's shoulder, with a deep look on his face, but he said something not so deep and gloating, "Be careful that Xiao Wenjing won't give you old age in the future, Don't bully people."

The old doctor rolled his eyes back, and with his hands behind his back, he strode up the mountain. After a while, his voice came out from the shadow, "Don't worry about it."

Chu Wenjing waved his hands to Wang Dapu who was full of embarrassment, indicating that he was fine, and then followed Master's footsteps and walked up the mountain quickly.

What a good child, why is he dumb?

Wang Dapu secretly added three more eggs, thinking to deliver them to Dr. Du and the little doctor when they came down from the mountain.

When Chu Wenjing caught up with the old doctor, the old doctor was squatting under a tree not knowing what he was doing.

Chu Wenjing walked up to him and knelt down, and found that the old doctor was looking at a mushroom.

"Ask Jing, do you think this one looks like the one in the big flower pot at home?" The old doctor felt a little numb in his legs and feet, and finally stopped squatting. He stood up and told his disciples, "Make a mark here, and when you go down the mountain Take this mushroom home too."

The old doctor only loves mushrooms. He has several flowerpots in his home, and the reason for growing mushrooms every time is that they look like the mushrooms in the big flowerpots.

The two continued to go up the mountain all the way. The old doctor caught several plants and taught them how to distinguish the thorns, and asked questions about the usage of the thorns.

Walking to an old elm tree, the old doctor was tired and sat down under the tree to rest.

Chu asked Jing and asked, "Do you want to pitch a tent here?"

"Well, let's live here for the next few days, and we'll finish tenting and eat later."

"Eight or nine years ago, your Master Ziheng and I came back once. When we passed Mount Heng, I picked you up. I remember it was under this old locust tree."

Chu Wenjing smiled and continued to pitch the tent.

About picking him up, the old doctor has said it many times, and he can say it again when he sees an old locust tree.

"...I remember that there seems to be a ginseng or a ganoderma next to you," the old doctor couldn't remember whether it was a ginseng or a ganoderma for a while, and fell into the memory, talking to himself and slowly looking for it.

After the tent was set up, the old doctor was still thinking, Chu Wenjing didn't bother him, prepared dinner, and sprinkled animal repelling powder around the tent.In order to prevent accidents, the area was expanded and sprinkled in another circle. When it was on the other side of the old locust tree, Chu Wenjing stopped.

It was late autumn now, the leaves of the old elm tree turned yellow and fell, drifting past Chu Wenjing, being blown by the wind in a circle, and falling on a ginseng on the ground.

The surrounding flowers and plants, including the leaves, are all withered and yellow, only the leaves of ginseng are still tender green, there is a small open space on the side of the ginseng, nothing grows, it is clean.

Chu Wenjing, who had just heard the story once, had a strange look in his eyes. The masters were right this time, did they pick me up here?

"Ask Jing, ask Jing?"

When the old doctor's voice came, Chu Wenjing stopped thinking and walked around.

"I remembered, there is a high-quality Ganoderma lucidum next to you, let's go around the trunk and look for it, maybe it hasn't been picked yet."

The old doctor did what he said, and supported Chu Wenjing and Shugan to stand up.

I moved my body a little bit, searched around the tree trunk, but didn't see it, and muttered, "Did I remember it wrong again?"

Chu Wen looked at the ginseng with eyes full of eyes. Master must have remembered the place correctly this time.

Ginseng has many compound leaves, and it looks quite old. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell it's ginseng.

Chu Wenjing was a little moved, and for the first time, he also wanted to raise something.

I found a stone, tied it with old cloth strips, and placed it on the open space next to the ginseng.

With mushrooms and ginseng, there are few other things that can be put in the medicine basket. I guess I won't be able to stay on the mountain for too long this time.

The old doctor searched and searched around the old elm tree and the surrounding trees, but he couldn't find the Ganoderma lucidum in his "memory", but he found many medicinal materials that were missing in the medicine box.

Xing hurriedly called Chu Wenjing over, and once the two of them collected the medicinal materials, the old man was about to pack up and go back.

"Let's go down the mountain while it's still dark, put away the dry food, and let's go home for dinner."

The old doctor carried half a basket of herbs on his back, took a shovel, and replied as he walked down, "You pack it up first, I'll go dig the mushrooms."

The old man is used to tossing and tossing the apprentice, and Chu Wenjing has long been used to the master's repetition.

Tie up the tent blanket, wild fruits and dry food by yourself, put the medicinal materials dug out just now into the medicine basket, and use your own coat to wrap the ginseng that was dug out together with six catties of soil just now, and put them in the basket. On top of the medicine basket.

Carrying the tent and other things on the back, and holding the medicine box in the front, I went down the mountain and went back with the master.

After crossing Iron Mountain, I returned to Du's Village.

The old doctor put down the medicine basket to cook, Chu Wenjing put the tent and other things in the awning in the backyard, found a flower pot and planted mushrooms and ginseng in it, and then went to wash and divide the medicine in the medicine basket. Put it in the medicine cabinet.

Today is a rare sunny day since the beginning of autumn. The master and apprentice had packed up and prepared to eat in the yard.

The moonlight shone all over the ground, and the courtyard could be seen clearly without lighting a lamp.

The old doctor looked up, and said to his apprentice: "It rained heavily during the Mid-Autumn Festival and I couldn't enjoy the moon. Let's make up for it in two days and fifteen."