Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes

Changbai Mountain is rich in species and rich in various wild medicinal materials, especially wild ginseng, which is known as the number one medicinal material among the three treasures of Changbai. The medicinal value of wild ginseng is particularly good. If you insist on eating it reasonably, it can nourish yin and strengthen the body, activate cells, and prolong life.

Six off-road vehicles parked in front of a two-story building, and more than twenty people stepped out of the vehicles. Li Mo was wearing sunglasses, looking at the rolling and gloomy Changbai Mountains in the distance.

"Check your equipment immediately, especially detoxification tablets, gas masks, insect repellent, ropes, mineral water, etc." The brown bear ordered loudly. Although it is very hot now, they are all soldiers. It's bad. Besides, everyone knows very well that as long as they follow the boss on missions, the next month's bonus will definitely be huge.

Last time, a group of people went out to sea with the boss for two months, and they ate expensive seafood every day. After returning, they each received a bonus of 100,000 yuan and paid ten days of vacation. I don’t know how many people are looking forward to the opportunity to go on missions with the boss.

But not everyone has the opportunity. Every time you go on a mission, you will be selected from the security guards with the best performance in the previous month. It is very simple. If you do things in a down-to-earth manner in the company, you will have a high chance of being selected.

The first six generals who followed the boss, when they got married, the boss directly gave each of them a house in Kyoto. That's not a house in a third- or fourth-tier city, but a house in Kyoto. After conversion, each house is worth more than five million.

There is also a gossip in the company that the boss's personal bodyguard, the brown bear, is estimated to cost more than one million a year in salary plus bonuses. Thinking about it makes countless people jealous.

So even in the hot weather like August, every security guard who followed was extremely excited, and it was foreseeable that the bonus next month would not be less.

A tricycle stopped next to the convoy, and a young man in his twenties and a middle-aged man in his fifties got out of it. He is tall, with a bronze complexion, deep wrinkles on his face, and calluses on his hands. He looks like a local who has been working outside all year round.

The most important thing is that he is still carrying a bow and a dozen arrows on his back. The surface of the bow is thickly covered with patina, and it will not be short.

"Associate Professor Li, this is Uncle Bangzi. He has been hunting in the mountains since he was a teenager, and now he is a good picker of herbs."

"Uncle Bangzi, this is Mr. Li Mo, an associate professor in the History Department of our Peking University."

It was Qiu Yang who made the introduction. This time he came to Changbai Mountain and needed to find a guide who was familiar with the environment. Li Mo contacted Qiu Yang and asked him to help introduce a good person in this field.

"Uncle Bangzi, I have to rely on you a lot this time when I go into the mountains."

Uncle Bangzi is a dutiful local, otherwise Qiuyang would not recommend it to Li Mo. He said with a naive smile: "Mr. Li, you are being polite. Qiuyang said that you are going to go into the mountains to find wild ginseng. I know more than a dozen routes for collecting herbs. This season is a good time to collect herbs, but there are also many people collecting herbs." , so it’s really not easy to find wild ginseng.”

"Uncle Bangzi doesn't know. I have a relative who was seriously injured. A very powerful Chinese medicine doctor said that if old wild ginseng is used as medicine, the recovery effect will be particularly good. But the wild ginseng parameters on the market There are too few, so I organized a group of people to try their luck in Changbai Mountain."

"I understand now that wild ginseng has many effects. Mr. Li, we will go into the mountains right now while it's cool in the morning."

Uncle Bangzi was still holding a big bag in his hand, he grabbed some powder from it and said: "This is the insect repellent and snake repellent powder we prepared ourselves. It smells a bit pungent, but it's better than being bitten by poisonous insects and snakes." Bar."

"Associate Professor Li, this medicinal powder is very powerful. Apply a little on your trouser legs and clothes, and you will know the benefits after entering the mountain. I used to apply this when I went to the mountain with others."

"Okay, then each of us will paint."

After everyone was painted, they started to hike into the mountain. Li Mo didn't let Qiuyang follow, and he didn't know how long it would take to go into the mountain this time. Their team was the largest along the way, and many small teams looked at them curiously.

"Uncle Bangzi, how many children do you have in your family?"

"One son, two daughters, the daughters are already married, the son has a partner but has not yet married. They all live in the city, and only my wife and old parents live in my hometown. My three children are nothing good, no It’s amazing that Mr. Li is already an associate professor in Kyoto at such a young age.”

"I'm just a little better than my peers."

"Mr. Li is modest. The Qiu family boy is such a proud person, but when he mentioned you, he was respectful. I have no education but I can still see a little bit. Mr. Li, can you really give me 50,000 for the reward you mentioned?"

"Uncle Bangzi, don't worry, no matter whether you can find old wild ginseng when you enter the mountain this time, I will pay you every penny after you leave the mountain."

Uncle Bangzi smiled naively and said: "I believe you, hey, the house prices in the city are really expensive now, and I want to give more support to my children. They are sympathetic to our hard work. When we gave them money before, They don’t want it, and give us money every year during the holidays. As parents, we also know that our children are under great pressure in the city, so we try to earn as much money as possible, and we can give our children some support at critical moments. Mr. Li, from Kyoto Is it more expensive?"

"Yes, the housing prices in a slightly remote place are 40,000 to 50,000 yuan."

"My god, I can't spare so much after a year of hard work."

"Who says it's not? Housing prices are so expensive. Many people have worked hard for a year and suddenly find that all the money they earn has been handed over to the bank. Their own pockets are empty, and they dare not get sick or get married and have children."

While driving, Li Mo and Uncle Bangzi chatted.

"Mr. Li, there are five routes to enter the valley. One of them is relatively steep, so not many people take it. The other four routes are easy to walk, but there are many people. I want to find the one that has been missed. Wild ginseng is very difficult. I have traveled all five routes, which one is Mr. Li going to take?"

"Our main purpose of entering the Changbai Mountains is to find wild ginseng. We will naturally choose the road with fewer people. Everyone be careful later."

"That's right, everyone follow me. The probability of finding wild ginseng on this road is higher, but the danger is also greater. You may encounter miasma when you reach the depths of the mountains. If you inhale too much of that thing, it will cause headaches. The consequences of being dizzy and insane. Many people fell in the old forest before, but I have to say that the greater the risk, the more rewards."

"We will take your words to heart."

When Li Mo traversed the primeval forest in northern Myanmar, he also encountered many situations along the way. Fortunately, he was well prepared in advance, and he could prevent poisonous insects, poisonous snakes and miasma. Now entering the Changbai Mountains, although they are prepared, they still have to listen to the advice of the old hunters, which will save a lot of trouble.

The deeper they went into the mountain, the steeper the mountain road was. At first they could meet two or three herb collectors, but as time went on, they never met any more people who went into the mountain to collect herbs. A group of people were careful in the mountains. moving forward.

After walking for more than an hour, Uncle Bangzi asked everyone to stop, and then drank some water to replenish their energy. It's August now, but in the Changbai Mountains, walking under the broad-leaved forest is not so sultry.

"Ginseng likes yin, so our next journey is basically on the yin side. The identification of ginseng is also very simple. I think you have made such preparations in advance, so I won't say more. I want to remind everyone, If you find wild ginseng, you must be extremely careful when digging up the soil, and it is best to keep even a single ginseng intact."

"Uncle Bangzi, you have been collecting herbs for decades, what is the quality of the best wild ginseng you picked?"

"Mr. Li, you really asked the right person. I picked a nearly 40-year-old wild ginseng more than 20 years ago, and it sold for more than 80,000 yuan. Eighty thousand yuan is really not a small amount, and it is estimated that it can sell for more than two or three hundred thousand yuan now. But that time was also very dangerous, I was bitten by a poisonous snake, and I almost couldn't get out."

Uncle Bangzi rolled up his sleeves, and Li Mo saw that there were still four clear snake tooth marks on his right arm.

"Fortunately, I prepared some snake medicine on my body at that time, and I finally walked out of the mountains alive. Now more people go to the mountains to collect medicine every year, and it is quite lucky to meet a wild ginseng that is more than ten years old. I heard that now every year The highest value of wild ginseng kings discovered over a century ago is nearly 10 million yuan, and it is precisely because of this that more and more people go to the mountains to try their luck every year, but more and more people have accidents every year."

"Uncle Bangzi, where is the wild ginseng you found?"

"It's this route. Passing through the broad-leaved forest in front of you, you will see a valley. I found it on the sunny slope opposite the valley."

"Uncle Bangzi, is the valley in front of you big?"

"The span should be at least five meters. I heard the old man say that during the rainy season, the water in the valley may rise two or three meters deep, and there is no problem for boats to pass freely in it. But I have never encountered such a situation. At one time, the water level in the valley rose by more than one meter."

Li Mo was thoughtful, took two sips of mineral water and asked, "Uncle Bangzi, where does the water in the valley go?"

"To the north is the Tumen River, to the west is the Songhua River, and to the south is the Yalu River. Anyway, it extends in all directions." Uncle Bangzi stood up and patted the things on his buttocks, and said with a smile, "Everyone is ready to go, if If the medicine powder on your body is wet, or almost dropped, add a little more in time."

A group of people continued to move forward, and within thirty meters, Uncle Bangzi suddenly trotted to the right, shouting as he ran, "Mr. Li, I found a wild ginseng, and it produced red fruits."

Li Mo hurriedly followed, and saw that Uncle Bangzi had already laid out a moisture-proof mat that he brought with him on the ground, and then found a branch as thick as a thumb, and carefully fixed the ginseng fruit branch.

"Uncle Bangzi, can you tell how old this old ginseng is?" Li Mo's first reaction was to check with the different pupil perspective, but the different pupil did not show any abnormal reaction, which means that the wild ginseng in front of him Old ginseng is relatively young.

There is a saying about wild old ginseng: ginseng in the growth period of 60 years is called ginseng, and ginseng in the growth period of 70 years is called treasure. It probably means that the real wild ginseng has been called a "ginseng winner" after seventy years of growth.

"It's impossible to judge now. You have to dig out the whole ginseng. Mr. Li, you dig this wild ginseng."

"Uncle Bangzi, you discovered this wild ginseng first, so you can dig it up. If you want to sell it, I can buy it at a high price. You don't have to worry about the price. It must be higher than the market price."

Not to mention 100 years, not to mention 70 years, wild old ginseng in the growth period of 60 years is relatively rare. As for those over a hundred years old, they were immediately bought by mysterious buyers as soon as they entered the market.

"Then I'm not being polite. I'm digging here. You can spread out and look for it. Maybe there are other wild ginseng nearby."

"Uncle Bangzi, then you are busy first, I will take people around."

Collecting ginseng will definitely not be completed in a while, so take advantage of this time to look for it yourself, and maybe you will be able to find better wild ginseng. "

He also arranged for two people to stay and take care of Uncle Bangzi, and told everyone to be careful before heading towards the valley. About 20 minutes later, Li Mo and the brown bear had passed through the woods and saw the valley. The cliffs on both sides of the valley looked relatively steep, and there was still clear water flowing at the bottom of the valley. The amount of water is not large, but in this almost unpolluted environment, the water looks quite pure.

Taking over the binoculars from the brown bear, he was observing the surrounding environment. After carefully watching it several times, Li Mo gave the telescope to the brown bear in disappointment.

"Use the walkie-talkie to ask other people. If you don't find it, go back the same way. If you accidentally get lost in this deep mountain and old forest, it will be very troublesome."

"Okay, let me ask."

The brown bear communicated over there, and Li Mo walked to the edge of the valley, stretched his head to look at the bottom of the valley, and then looked at the winding direction of the valley. I don't know what I'm thinking, I'm in a daze.

"Boss, shall we return now too?"

The brown bear came over and asked, Li Mo came back to his senses, turned around and said: "Go back the same way, how to go next depends on Uncle Bangzi's arrangement."

When they returned to the original place, Uncle Bangzi had already formed a circle around him, carefully watching the process of picking ginseng.

"Everyone stand back a little." Uncle Bangzi finally began to slowly dig out the whole ginseng. After carefully identifying it, he said, "It's a pity that this kind of wild ginseng can only grow for ten years at most."

Wild ginseng cannot be eaten at any time when it is dug out. If one part is damaged, it will be very distressing.

Uncle Bangzi first filled a bag with some soil and moss, and then put the wild ginseng in it and said happily: "It's as long as there is a harvest today, Mr. Li, and the main journey will continue along the valley." Let’s go, judging from my experience, the deeper the depth, the greater the danger, but at the same time, there is a high probability that wild ginseng of different years will appear in dangerous places.”