Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 643: No More Digging

Wang An heard this and said with a smile:
"Yes, the 6th-grade leaf, the legendary 6th-grade leaf, we have come across it, hahahaha. We are really lucky."

Wang Li didn't laugh when he heard this, but urged Wang Ando:
"Fourth brother, let's find it quickly. I remember that the supply and marketing cooperative is selling 6th grade leaf mallet for a minimum of more than 5 yuan."

When Wang An heard this, he rolled his eyes at Wang Li and said:

"Look at your useless look. How much 5 is your gold worth? It's a piece of crap. I won't sell it for 5, not to mention 5."

When Wang Li heard this, he was a little confused. He scratched his head and asked:
"Then let's keep it for ourselves. It's useless except for making wine."

Wang An said subconsciously:

"I'll keep it for wine instead of selling it. I'm not short of money."

Although Wang Li didn't understand why Wang An said this, he still echoed:

"If you don't sell it, I won't sell it either."

Wang An nodded casually, but did not explain why he didn't sell ginseng.

In fact, the main reason why Wang An didn't want to sell the ginseng was that he was not short of money.

On the other hand, as a reborn person, Wang An knows too well how precious wild ginseng is.

The price of this thing will only get higher and higher, there is absolutely no chance of it falling in price.

You should know that before Wang An entered Libazi in his previous life, even a wild ginseng that was more than 80 years old, that is, a ginseng with 5 leaves, could be auctioned for more than 50 as long as it was of good quality.

You have to know that it was the 90s. In the 90s, 50 yuan could easily buy a house of more than 100 square meters even in a first-tier city.

Of course, this refers to ordinary buildings, not courtyard houses.

As for ginseng that is over a hundred years old, that is, grade 6 leaf ginseng, as long as it is of good quality, its price is beyond the imagination of ordinary people, because the auction price is as high as more than 200 million.

However, Wang An had no idea about the prices after 95, because at that time, Wang An had already retired and neither cared about nor had the conditions to care about these things.

Without further discussing whether to sell ginseng, the brothers Wang An and Wang Li began to dig carefully with wooden sticks.

To be honest, with so many ginseng sprouts, Wang An and Wang Li felt a bit overwhelmed as to where to start. They could only dig the soil little by little from the edge.

Han Shuisheng once said that digging ginseng is a very time-consuming job that consumes both energy and physical strength.

Because the leader of their ginseng gang back then would need two or three hours, or even three or four hours to dig out a single grade 3 ginseng leaf.

If it is a fourth-grade leaf, six to seven hours or seven to eight hours is normal.

The most amazing time was when the leader of their ginseng gang spent two and a half days digging out a fifth-grade ginseng leaf.

The main thing is that the ginseng is quite special. It has a large reed head, but it has a thin main root, three taproots and five lateral roots, and the number of fibrous roots is countless.

Of course, terms like "reed head" and "tap root" are all names for different parts of ginseng.

To put it simply, it is because ginseng is similar in shape to humans.

So the "root" of ginseng is actually the head, the "main root" is the body, the "root" is the arm, the "lateral root" is the thigh, and the "fiber root" is the hair and feet. To put it bluntly, there are not many decent ginsengs like this, because there are not many 5-grade leaf ginsengs to begin with, and it is even more difficult to find such a weird-looking ginseng.

But it must be said that although such ginseng is difficult to dig, its price is also very amazing.

In fact, even if it is normal ginseng, it is quite difficult to dig it out intact. This can be seen from the three-grade leaf ginseng dug by Wang An and Wang Li respectively.

So although Wang An and Wang Li were full of expectations for the sixth-grade leaf ginseng, they soon discovered sadly that it was too difficult to dig ginseng with just a wooden stick!

It was not until this time that Wang An realized how important the set of ginseng digging tools Han Shuisheng gave him were for ginseng digging.

After Wang An pulled out two of the roots of the second-generation tree at the edge, he could not help but say to Wang Li:

"Old Five, we can't dig anymore. If we keep doing this, we'll turn these mallets into scrap."

Hearing Wang An's words, Wang Li, who was carefully digging the soil, took back the wooden stick from the soil, then blinked several times and said:
"Oh my god, this guy is staring at the beard and it's making my eyes dizzy."

After saying this, Wang Li shook his head vigorously, as if to relax his brain, and then said to Wang An:
"What should we do, Fourth Brother? If we go back to look for my brother Mu, he won't be able to come today, so we have to come again tomorrow."

Wang An nodded and said, "Yes, we have to get up early tomorrow and plan to stay here overnight."

Wang Li looked at the ginseng sprouts all over the ground and suddenly said with concern:
"What if someone comes here in the afternoon? They have to secretly dig up these sticks and take them away."

Wang An also looked at the ginseng sprouts, and his brows furrowed tightly.

In fact, this is exactly what Wang An is worried about, because at this time of year, those who specialize in calling for help in the mountains have basically all gone into the mountains to catch this "budding grass market".

Whenever they meet, there will inevitably be a fierce fight.

What Wang An was most worried about was actually the gang members who accidentally found this place. As for the descendants of the gang members who cut their roots on this old hill, Wang An was no longer worried at this time.

Because if their descendants often visit this old ginseng, there will definitely not be any grade 6 leaves left in this old ginseng, which are considered the genuine and top-quality ginseng.

You have to know that more than 5 yuan is a huge sum of money in this era.

So Wang An believed that their descendants would not come.

After thinking for a long time, Wang An said:

"Let's look for other places first. If there are any more Erjiazi or Dengtaizi, we can dig them up to practice. After that, we can leave before dark."

Once Wang An made a decision, Wang Li would generally not object, because in Wang Li's opinion, the decisions made by his fourth brother were always right, and most importantly, they were rarely wrong.

Wang Li nodded and said:
"Well, fourth brother."

As they were talking, the two of them worked together to fill the soil that had been dug out back in, and also covered the ginseng sprouts with the soil.

Finally, the two brothers picked out all the dried ginseng seedlings mixed in with the dead grass, and covered them with the dead grass again.

I have to say that after all this tinkering, even a professional might not be able to tell it at a glance.

(End of this chapter)