forest developer

Chapter 117
In the early morning of the next day, Ling Zikai, who was still asleep, was awakened by a burst of voices coming from outside the wooden house.

He opened his eyes in a daze, and looked out the window, the sky had just begun to dim.In the empty field outside the house, some figures were vaguely seen swaying.

Could it be that those hired mountain hunters came up the mountain, it's too early!

While thinking about it, Du Juan's voice came from outside: "Uncles, you have come up the mountain so early, you haven't had breakfast yet! I'll prepare for you to go."

"Miss Juan'er, you don't need to be too busy, we all bring our own dry food. We will dig six or seven hundred clubs in two days. This time is a bit urgent, so hurry up."

"Yeah, it will be dawn in a while, you should take us to the venue first!"

Hearing the conversation outside the house, it was really the hired ginseng pickers who came. As the master, Ling Zikai was naturally embarrassed to stay on the bed, got dressed in a hurry, and walked out of the wooden house.

Seeing Ling Zikai coming out, Du Juan was stunned for a moment, and then said, "You're getting up too! That's just right, go to the venue with us. We'll be offering sacrifices to the mountains later, and you, the leader of the show, will be indispensable."

Ling Zikai responded.

Because it was the first time meeting those ginseng pickers and they were strangers to each other, Ling Zikai nodded at them as a greeting.

Those ginseng collectors are all men over the age of 40, each carrying tools for digging ginseng, and they seem to be old mountain hunters who often run in the forest.

Although they met Ling Zikai for the first time, they had known the name of the new owner of Yunhai Forest Farm for a long time, so they all stared at him with curiosity.

Ling Zikai didn't care about their gazes, seeing Du Juan carrying a basket on his shoulder with a hoe, he walked over and took the burden.

Du Juan didn't refuse either, and seemed to think that Ling Zikai should have shouldered this burden in the first place, and it was a matter of course.

A group of people left the wooden house, and after walking for more than [-] minutes, they came to a forest planted with ginseng.

Originally, Ling Zikai planned to dig out the undergrowth ginseng in the forest where the black honey was nesting, but since those black honey nests in the forest, they have occupied that place, and outsiders dare not go in, for fear of being caught. The black bee was stung, so another participant had to be replaced.

Fortunately, when he was free a few days ago, Ling Zikai went through several other places in the forest farm where the under-forest ginseng was planted, and sorted out all the under-forest ginseng with the energy of the ancestor god. Which forest will be excavated now? Undergrowth ginseng is almost the same.

After arriving at the destination, the sky was already bright.

Before entering the forest, Du Juan stacked three more stones to form a small temple, then took the basket Ling Zikai had picked out, lifted the blue cloth scarf covering it, and took out several plates of offerings from inside. Taste.

Ling Zikai took a look, and there were a pig's head, four pig's trotters, and a pig's tail on the plates, which probably symbolized a whole pig.In addition, there are five wine glasses and a bottle of white wine.I don't know that Du Juan is ready at such a time, and I don't even know it at all.

Du Juan signaled Ling Zikai to open the wine bottle, and poured wine into the five glasses.Then he took out a large handful of incense from the basket, let him light it and distributed it to everyone present.

"Zikai, today you will lead everyone to worship the ancestor god!"

Hearing Du Juan's words, those ginseng pickers were stunned.

According to the traditional rules, this kind of mountain sacrifice ceremony is presided over by the oldest and most experienced veteran among the crowd. Unexpectedly, now Du Juan has just come to the forest farm for a few days. A boy who doesn't know much about mountains came to do the trick.

Fortunately, now it is just digging under-forest ginseng in the forest farm, not really going into the old forest to release the mountains, and offering sacrifices to the mountains is just a formality, so it is up to the cuckoo to make his own decisions.

Ling Zikai shook his head and said, "Sister, I don't understand anything, so you should do it!"

Du Juan straightened his face and said seriously: "No, you have to do this trick today. If you don't know how to do it, just learn from me!"

Seeing Du Juan's resolute look, Ling Zikai could only smile wryly, took the incense and led the crowd to kowtow on the ground, and prayed loudly under Du Juan's instruction:

"Old Master Ancestor God, all gods, we are going to enter the mountain today, please show us the way, let us open our eyes, take the big goods, make a lot of money, kill chickens and pigs and come back to worship you!"

After the worship, Ling Zikai explained to the ginseng collectors that all under-forest ginseng found to be more than "four leaves" (that is, grown for five years) will be dug out later.

A ginseng picker said in a skeptical tone: "Boss Xiaoling, the ginseng in the forest can only be worth a lot if it grows to more than 'five leaves'. You asked us to dig up 'four leaves', isn't it too much?" Pity!"

Someone beside him echoed, "That's right, after five or six years of digging, the price of your under-forest ginseng will at least double."

Some people also kindly persuaded: "Boss Xiao Ling, did you hear that the town is going to take back the contracting rights of the forest farm and resell it to those developers, so you want to sell all these under-forest ginseng! Don't believe those rumors , ruined these good ginseng seedlings."

"That's right, Miss Juan, you should persuade your younger brother!"

Listening to everyone's chatter, Ling Zikai was a little dumbfounded. Although he knew that they were all out of good intentions, he still felt a little impatient and said, "Okay! I said you planted these under-forest ginseng, or I planted it? Just do what I say, and you don’t have to worry about other things!"

Seeing what Ling Zikai said, those ginseng collectors immediately shut their mouths.

The ten people were then divided into two groups.First, five people lined up and walked into the woods with rope sticks in their hands.

Not long after, someone found the ginseng under the forest, took out a red rope and tied it to the head of the reed, and turned to call the other group of people to go up and dig.

Ling Zikai and Du Juan did not go into the forest to dig by hand, but collected the undergrowth ginseng that had been dug out and wrapped in mossy birch bark outside.

Although those under-forest ginseng were planted artificially, they were only seeds sown at the beginning, and they were allowed to grow under natural conditions, so the places where they grew were not regular, and it was not easy to find them. The age of the ginseng is younger than the requirements set by Ling Zikai, so it cannot be excavated.

So after nearly two hours passed, more than [-] ginseng trees were dug out.

Seeing it, Ling Zikai couldn't help feeling a little anxious.According to this progress, it will take at least five days to collect a thousand trees, and it must be too late in time.

"Sister, you collect it by yourself first, and I will help them."

After Ling Zikai finished speaking, he walked into the woods, collected the red ropes on the ten people, and held them in his hands.

Everyone didn't know why Ling Zikai collected all the red ropes.Just when he was puzzled, he saw Ling Zikai scan his surroundings, then went straight to a bush more than 20 meters away from him, took out a red rope, bent down and tied a knot, then turned around and shouted: "Here There is a mallet, and one of you came to dig it up!"

Before everyone could react, he immediately walked to another place ten meters away, tied a ginseng seedling with a red rope again, and yelled for people to pass.

In the blink of an eye, Ling Zikai actually found no less than twenty ginseng seedlings in this area of ​​more than a thousand square meters.

At first, everyone thought that Ling Zikai must have gone to the forest to look for these ginseng seedlings, and knew where they grew, so they could find them without looking.That's good, everyone doesn't have to spend time looking for it anymore, ten people can just dig out the ginseng seedlings tied with red strings.

However, as more and more red ropes were tied in the forest, everyone felt that something was wrong.

You know, the entire forest covers an area of ​​nearly five square kilometers, and the ground is overgrown with shrubs and weeds. Even if Ling Zikai came to check it before, it is impossible to remember all the growth locations of the ginseng in the forest. Find out exactly.Moreover, none of the excavated ginseng seedlings are younger than five years old.

Everyone began to slander secretly in their hearts: "Isn't this kid from the south? Before coming to Yunhai, I'm afraid I haven't even seen what a ginseng looks like! How can finding a stick be better than those of us who have spent half our lives in the woods?" The old mountain guest is still agile, how is this possible?"

(End of this chapter)