In the blink of an eye, it is autumn again, looking around, the mountains are full of red, yellow, green, brown and purple colors, and it is the season when the stream is gradually thinning and the mountains are showing five colors. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, it was also the season when the ginseng seeds were ripe, and Huo Xiaoshan was digging a mallet under the shade of the linden forest not far from the lake.

Huo Xiaoshan was fifteen years old at this time, and in these seemingly ordinary two years, he had grown up, no longer looking like a child, he was already a wild boy.

The reason why he is said to be a wild boy is that he is dressed like this.

The feet are wearing pure natural moccasins (the old vulat shoes that used to be worn by the old head are no longer small enough to wear), and the shoes are tied with iron thorns and then strung together with their own hemp rope.

The upper body is bare, no longer the childlike little body, whether it is the pectoral muscles or the biceps triceps, whether it is the deltoid muscles or the shaped six-pack abs, although it is not exaggerated, it is strong and subtle.

There was a large piece of deerskin wrapped around his waist, just like the short skirt worn by a girl, and the deerskin was still that of a sika deer, with that little bit of plum blossom, and under the deer skin were long and strong thighs and sturdy and slightly thin calves.

Huo Xiaoshan's hair was very long, but he had cut it with a knife himself where the bangs were in place to prevent it from covering his eyes, and his jet-black hair was shining with a healthy sheen in the sun.

Huo Xiaoshan has no way to look like this now, although the original clothes are not scraped, but he still keeps them, and the scraped ones were used as ropes when he was falconry, and the large piece of cloth was also useful at this time, just enough to wrap the dug mallet.

The little roe deer was eating the young leaves of the trees not far from him, and the Haidongqing was on its back with a complacent look.

Huo Xiaoshan's falconry plan went well, and Hai Dongqing obeyed his call very much, but every time he flew back from the sky, he didn't fall on Huo Xiaoshan's arm, but always landed on the back of the little roe deer.

For this kind of domestication results, Huo Xiaoshan could only cry and laugh, and the scene of "leading the yellow on the left, Qingcang on the right, holding the bow like a full moon, looking northwest, and shooting the wolf" did not appear.

On the contrary, the little roe deer became arrogant, originally a beast that could be bullied and baated sheep, but there was a handsome and fierce Hai Dongqing standing on his back, which looked extremely majestic, not to mention that the hare, pine duck, pheasant and other herbivores fled when they saw this, and even the wolves in the mountains and forests could only stay away when they saw their strange combination.

Huo Xiaoshan was busy practicing martial arts in the first summer of coming to Tiankeng, so he never thought about digging a mallet, and now that his martial arts have been completed, or perhaps because he has the breath of the snow ape, the wolves in the pit saw him and avoided him like a plague god, and the pit became his own back garden.

And now that he saw that Hai Dongqing's injuries had recovered and there was already hope for getting out of trouble, Huo Xiaoshan was of course happy, there was a treasure in the sinkhole, and he might be able to come back again in the future.

It's just that he doesn't know the summer mallet, but when the mallet bears red ginseng seeds, he recognizes it.

So, early in the morning, when the dew had not yet dissipated, Huo Xiaoshan wandered around the mountains and searched for treasures.

He was looking for the plants with small red fruits on the grass all morning, but he didn't find it, but picked some wild flowers and tied them into a bunch and tied them to the antlers of the little roe deer.

Just when Huo Xiaoshan didn't find the mallet and walked back, he found the target in the linden forest not far from his residence, which was "looking for her thousands of times, and suddenly looking back, that person was in the lamplight."

The mallet referred to in the Northeast is ginseng. Ginseng heat is not afraid of cold is a great tonic, but it grows in the northeast extreme cold land, which also corresponds to the principle of yin and yang.

Ginseng has extremely high requirements for the growth environment, and it does not work in drought or waterlogging, and grows mostly in the shade of the linden forest in the northeast.

The folk proverb "three trees and five leaves, back to the yang to the yin, want to come to me, and the linden trees look for each other" is a true portrayal of the living environment of ginseng.

Huo Xiaoshan took out the Yanling knife and squatted next to the ginseng and looked at it carefully, this ginseng produced a large red seed, crystal clear and translucent, like agate, which was very gratifying.

Since Huo Xiaoshan fell into this sinkhole, Hao Cunyi's Yanling knife has made great contributions to Huo Xiaoshan.

It is a sword that can kill beasts.

It is a sickle to be able to cut flax.

It is a shovel to be able to dig snow.

It is scissors that can cut holes in animal skins.

If Hao Cunyi was resurrected, seeing him use his ancestral treasure like this, he would definitely play a brain on Huo Xiaoshan's head without hesitation, "You little cub!" ”

However, Huo Xiaoshan is based on the principle of making the best use of things, but he does not have any psychological burden, and his only regret now is that he is also poor, like the character Er Niu in the old head story, there is no red head rope tied to the ginseng, and he doesn't know if people will run.

In fact, according to the research of ginseng by later generations, the reason why ginseng will "run" is not that it disappears in place, but that ginseng has a self-protection characteristic called "dormant", once the branches and leaves on the ginseng are injured by ginseng pickers or wild beasts, or the climatic conditions are harsh and unsuitable for growth that year, the ginseng will enter a dormant state, and no longer grow branches and leaves.

Looking at the bright red ginseng seeds that were purring, Huo Xiaoshan smiled happily and squatted more than two feet away from the ginseng branches and leaves to dig.

That ginseng is full of treasures, and the roots of adult ginseng are also medicinal treasures, and they must not be hurt.

Huo Xiaoshan dug very carefully, after digging the root of this ginseng, Huo Xiaoshan put down the Yanling knife and carefully used his hands to slowly pick out the soil around the ginseng, when this ginseng was completely displayed in front of Huo Xiaoshan, Huo Xiaoshan was stunned!

As the saying goes, seven taels are ginseng, and eight taels are treasures, which means that the older the ginseng, the heavier and more precious it is.

In Huo Xiaoshan's impression, I remember that once my father Huo Yuan brought back less than four taels of ginseng from the mountain, just like a slender little girl, with a small head and a slender body, and a long ginseng beard, Huo Yuan held it in his hand as if it was a treasure! After washing, he soaked it in the wine jar, and he only drank a small cup every day and smiled happily, but he was very old like the poor boy who picked up a dog's head gold.

And this time, the old ginseng dug up by Huo Xiaoshan turned out to be triplets, and the three mallets turned out to be twins, three heads, three bodies, and gently swiped them with their hands, which was very falling, and they had to be in three or four catties.

This time it's a fortune! Huo Xiaoshan said secretly.

In fact, this sinkhole is far away from the people in the depths of the mountain, and the sinkhole originally had the snow ape in the vicinity of the activity, those mountaineers who picked sticks and mallets were superstitious and afraid of the punishment of the mountain gods, so since the formation of this sinkhole, no one has come down to take the mallet, so it is reasonable that the people here are long and sufficient.

Huo Xiaoshan's interest at this time is naturally excited, but his excitement is a little different from ordinary people, that is, he forgets after he is excited, but he can always maintain a peaceful mind, which is where he surpasses most people, he does everything very seriously, but he never leaves a deep imprint in his heart afterwards, so as to maintain the ethereal state of this heart.

It is precisely because of this that in his later anti-Japanese career, there were many times when there was a line between life and death, but he could not be nervous, and the more critical the situation, the more he could play extraordinarily.

Huo Xiaoshan then dug up two more ginseng plants, both of which looked like they weighed more than a catty.

It is important to know that this ginseng is not cabbage, and a pound of cabbage can be thrown all over the ground to feed the pigs without distress, but the one-pound ginseng is hard to find in the world.

Huo Xiaoshan only knew that this ginseng was very valuable, but after all, he was still young and lacked an intuitive impression of money, so he dug up three plants and knew that it was enough.

He had long heard the old man and Huo Yuan say that this ginseng is a great tonic, but not everyone can eat it, and the young man with strong blood will have blood through his nostrils if he drinks a burning knife soaked in ginseng, if he uses this old ginseng tonic, he will definitely find his own death.

Besides, he dug up ginseng alone in this wilderness and couldn't eat it, and he couldn't take it out and sell it for money, digging it out was really a violent thing, which violated his mother Song Zijun's teaching that he should not hurt his life.

Huo Xiaoshan carefully wrapped those mallets in his shabby clothes, satisfied, Shi Shiran walked back, followed by the little roe deer, and on top of the little roe deer stood Hai Dongqing.