Farming Beneath the Changbai Mountains

Jinghan had nothing to do that day, so she went for a walk in the field. She happened to be walking to the area where goods were to be sold this year. This was a key area of ​​care. If you didn't pay attention, you would have to pay money if you lost the mallet.

Under the wooden shed is a piece of green leaves. At this time, the ginseng has grown to its peak. In a good place, it can be more than a foot tall. It has a purple-black stem with six palm-shaped compound leaves growing on it. Looking at the vibrant ginseng in front of her, Jinghan was naturally very happy. This year was a good year, and it seemed that the ginseng harvest would be good again.

The wind blows, and the ginseng leaves sway, revealing a little bit of red inside. red? what is that? Jinghan hurriedly walked over, opened the ginseng leaves and saw a ginseng seed. Jinghan looked at it and then remembered that when pinching ginseng flowers, she usually goes through it once. Some ginseng comes out later and the ginseng flowers grow smaller, so they will fall off at that time. No one will pay attention to it anymore. By this time, it will grow into ginseng seeds.

Something seemed to flash in her mind, and Jinghan was rummaging around in Chi Chuan'er. Sure enough, I found a lot of ginseng seeds that had fallen like this. The ginseng seeds on these ginseng for sale are actually larger than the frozen ones, and the seeds seem to be fuller. Jinghan carefully pinched off the ginseng seeds. Don't use too much force, otherwise they will fall out. After all, they are too ripe.

After looking at it, I could pinch out more than ten flowers inside the one-foot-long mallet. Jinghan quickly went to the nearby bunch to take a look, and sure enough, there was one there too. If you don't pick these ginseng seeds, you will be blind. When the goods are shipped this fall, the ginseng seeds will be knocked off. Artificially grown ginseng seeds cannot survive in the wild. Even if they sprout in the soil, they will rot.

Jinghan hurried back to her house, quietly found the basket, then dragged Wenhan and the others out, and together they came to the place where Jinghan had just looked. "Brother, look, there are ginseng seeds hidden in these stick leaves. Let's pinch off the ginseng seeds?"

Wenhan looked towards where Jinghan was pointing, and sure enough he found dots of red. "Is this good? These are not our mallets." Wen Han hesitated.

"Why not? There are only about a dozen in one foot. How many can we get for a family of fifteen feet? Who cares about this? Besides, how can they have the time to pinch these ginseng seeds? But we are different, we It’s okay to be idle. And the ones that make the goods this year will have to be more than 2,000 feet long. If they are like what we see, we can make a lot of them. Anyway, if we don’t do it, the ginseng seeds will fall into the ground. It's useless, right?" Jinghan analyzed with her brother. In fact, in the previous life, if the ginseng watchers could be busy, they would pick up the ginseng seeds that others missed. There are also some people who will wait for others to finish picking up the sticks, and then use a four-tooth pick to dig through the ground to pick up the missed ginseng seeds or small sticks. This behavior is called blocking, which means picking up the slack. So there will be blocking sticks, blocking sticks and so on.

When we got up before, Jinghan didn't follow, so naturally she didn't know if there was anyone here to stop her. But this kind of behavior, in the previous life, was a benefit for Kan Ginseng people. Some ginseng farmers can catch a lot of sticks and beards in autumn, and they can make some money just by doing this.

After listening to Jinghan's words, Wenhan lowered his head and thought about it, and felt that what Jinghan said made sense. "Okay, then we'll listen to you. Be careful not to knock over other people's ginseng leaves when we pinch them."

Wen Cheng and Jing Wan all nodded. They understood this without Wen Han's instructions.

Jinghan warned again, "Be careful when pinching. The ginseng seeds are overripe and will fall off when touched. If they don't work, just pull them off."

Everyone nodded, and then each found a place to pick ginseng seeds. As before, two people work in groups, kneeling on the opposite side of the pool, and then use their hands to open the ginseng leaves to look for ginseng seeds. For these children, who have sharp eyes and quick hands, this job is very suitable. After a while, Jinghan and Jingwan were five or six feet away. Looking at the increasing number of ginseng seeds in the basket, Jinghan couldn't be happier. There were about 2,000 feet of sticks used to make goods in the ginseng field. They were basically the same as what they saw, and there were ginseng seeds leaking out of every foot. Calculated this way, the ginseng seeds they obtained would be twice as much as what they kept at home. This is a lot. Maybe next year, the family can ask for more ginseng soil and sow more seeds. In a few years, I will be able to plant more ginseng at home.

The children of the Xu family are not stupid, so they can naturally figure this out. So everyone worked hard and stared at the ginseng leaves, for fear of dropping a few ginseng seeds.

Looking for ginseng seeds from place to place in this way, even though there are only ten or eight ginseng seeds in one foot, it is not tiring. But they have to pull each other side by side, so it’s not too fast. In the whole morning, Jinghan and Jingwan only found about thirty feet, and Wenhan and the others were about the same. If the three groups were added together, it would be good if they could find one hundred feet.

However, looking at the basket full of ginseng seeds, everyone felt that it was worth the effort. If you pick these all in one morning, you can probably get one-fifth of what you have left at home, which is only one hundred feet. If you pick them all, how much will it cost? So the eyes of the little guys were shining with silver light, and they were all very excited. "Let's go eat quickly and pick them in the afternoon. These are already ripe. In a few days, they won't fall to the ground as soon as the wind blows?" Wen Cheng said.

Everyone agreed, so they each carried their baskets and walked towards the house.

Mrs. Chen was talking to Mrs. Xue and others when she saw a few little guys coming back carrying baskets. Mrs. Chen was a little surprised, "Didn't you see them go out this morning? Why did they come back with the basket? It looked like there was something in it."

After hearing this, Mrs.

At this time, Jinghan and the others came closer, and only then did the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law see that the basket contained ginseng seeds. "Where did you get this? Haven't we all pinched the ginseng seeds in the place? Whose family didn't pinch them and you went to pinch them? Wenhan, you are the boss, you have to lead your younger brothers and sisters to do some serious things. How can you secretly pinch other people's ginseng seeds? If this is known to the villagers, do we still want to see ginseng here?" Mr. Xue came up and gave Wen Han a lesson.

"Mom, can you ask me clearly before you train me? This is what we found in the ginseng field where we are making goods this year after someone pinched the ginseng flowers. What is stolen? Brother Yu, you are so disrespectful when you come up. What do you think, brother? Are our children the kind of people who steal other people's things with unclean hands and feet?" Jinghan immediately became furious when she heard her mother's words.

Xue was stunned after hearing Jinghan's words. Looking at my daughter and then my son who looked aggrieved, I felt so regretful. "Well, oh, mother, isn't she impatient?" Ms. Xue knew that she was in the wrong and didn't know what to say.

"Okay, Jinghan, don't be angry there. Your mother is afraid that you will not follow the right path and steal other people's things. Wenhan, you are a good boy, and your mother has wronged you." Mrs. Chen hurriedly said Help Yuanquan. She loved these children and did not have the airs of an elder. She quickly pulled Wenhan and patted Wenhan on the head. "Good boy, quickly lead your brothers and sisters to wash their hands, and let's eat."

Mrs. Chen looked back at Mrs. Xue, "Meilin, you are not so quick-tempered on weekdays. What happened today? Even if the children are really at fault, you have to tell them properly. These children at home , It’s very worry-free. You can’t talk like this in the future. Ask for it again.”

Jinghan washed her hands and came out, leaning against her grandma, "Grandma, this morning I saw fallen ginseng seeds in the ginseng fields where they were made, so I thought about asking my eldest brother and the others to pick them together, otherwise it would be blind. "I was in a hurry and forgot to tell you." Jinghan explained the matter carefully, "Mom, is there a problem with this?"

It happened that the old man also brought the Zhixin brothers back and heard Jinghan's words. "Jinghan, there should be no problem with this. In this way, many people in our village are digging dirt at the new ginseng field. You can ask them this afternoon and see what they say. Let's let this matter go. It's better if they know better than to let anyone say anything." The old man sat there and drank some water before saying.

Jinghan was right when she thought about it, she thought it was nothing, but what if someone was so petty? Won’t the words be lost by then? "Grandpa, I listen to you and I'll go ask you in the afternoon."

"What are you asking? Didn't our family have such a little thing before? If it wasn't knocked off when we were getting the ginseng, who would pay attention to it?" Zhixin also drank a glass of water and cuddled all afternoon. Damn it, my throat is smoking.

"It's better to ask, be on the safe side. By the way, why don't you see people from the village coming to drink water?" Ms. Chen was a little surprised. In the past, these people would come here to drink some water and rest for a while.

"Mom, they are all at the other end of the new house. They are close to the toilet, but this side is a bit far away. They don't want to come over. There is also boiled water at the other end of the new house, which is enough for them to drink." Zhixin explained.

Everyone put the table outside and ate together. Naturally, there was nothing delicious. It was still corn pancakes, and the vegetables were naturally beans, eggplants and the like. The green beans are stewed with bacon and taste very fragrant. The eggplant is steamed in a pot and then eaten with miso or garlic sauce. Northeastern people love to eat pickles, and many things can be used for dipping in the sauce, such as green onions, garlic, radishes, cabbage, raw peppers, and new cucumbers. Wash these and dip them in the sauce to make a full meal. The sauce made by Xue's family is also very delicious. This year in the mountains, there was no grinding, so she made bean paste. Sometimes Jinghan likes to pick out the bean paste and eat it. If she eats too much, she drinks water vigorously.