“Alright, Haesik, go down carefully and see you in three days..”

“Then I also bow to the mountain god. Please give me three good points. Mountain God.”

It was because of my flagship that I caught Hae-shik, who was about to bow three times and descend.

“uh!”

Everyone’s eyes were on me, and I pointed something that looked like a flying saucer above a tall tree.

Everyone ran to where I pointed at a high speed.

Something attached to the fallen tree the size of an adult’s torso.

that,

“Ummm, these are horseshoe mushrooms. Horseshoe mushrooms.”

“Wow, I’ve never seen a mushroom this big.”

“Your eyes are good too! I like the eyes too. How did you see this?”

“Sir, what did I say? Where Hoon and Yaga go, there must be something.”

It was the size of a large oval flying saucer, grayish-white in color, and made a plastic-like sound when tapped on the lampshade.

“and. It’s amazing.”

Matsutake is an annual, but horseshoe mushrooms are perennial.

I wondered how many years it was.

“It is over 50 cm in diameter and weighs 10 kilos. Looking at the obvious number of annual rings on the hat… 80 years is well over.”

“Ummm, that’s great. I have never seen a horseshoe mushroom this big in my 30 years of living.”

I can’t be this proud.

I found a treasure born in the 1980s that two veteran Simmani couldn’t find.

Two Simmani brothers explained that it relieves inflammation, has excellent digestive functions, prevents colds, constipation, diabetes, aging, removes active oxygen, as well as has excellent antioxidant and anticancer effects.

There is no panacea.

“The mountain god gave me a valuable gift. I hope this feeling is good.”

“You will receive 200,000 won per kilogram.”

If that was the case, it would have been worth about $200,000.

The two Simmani didn’t seem interested, so I opened my mouth.

“Your brother can take it.”

“What are you talking about? It should be divided equally.”

“We hug each other. Either go downstairs and sell it or boil it down and eat it.”

“Yes, you do, brother. We will only focus on wild ginseng.”

“Warmmae, are you talking like Simmani?”

“ha ha ha.”

Brother Hae-sik, who carefully collected horseshoe mushrooms and put them in his bag, has a bright face like a child.

“This, I think, will give you a good fortune.. Have a hard time, brothers.”

After guiding him for a while and getting a treasure worth 2 million won, Hae-shik descended.

Now, I started to find wild ginseng in earnest, but today I decided to descend to the group site as if I had warmed up.

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The two older brothers came down to the group site and hurriedly prepared for dinner.

As far as preparation goes, it was simple.

Picking wild greens scattered around.

Simmani’s mountain life was simple.

In a way, it was a way not to go against nature.

Without a tent, make a bed with kimchi linen to block dew and wind and rain, and a sleeping bag that will not feel the chill in it.

It was all about rice, red pepper paste, soybean paste, and rice balls that I had made for dinner.

As always, I went next to them picking wild greens and helped them with their work.

It was tearing off a green leaf that was bigger than the size of a human face.

“Wow, is this also a vegetable?”

“Ah.. Geuljii.. This is bear stink.”

“Ah, bear stink.”

“Have you eaten?”

It was frayed.

“well. I remember well..”

I’ve heard of it, but it’s the first time I’ve actually seen it.

everything is amazing

Dark green moth.

It was really wide and big.

“It looks really fresh.”

“Try it. Grown bear stink and wild bear stink have different scents, so you can feel your body becoming very healthy.”

Just hearing the words makes the salivary glands explode.

The greens the two brothers had collected were washed with flowing water.

“Try some water. It will be very good.”

“Can I eat it?”

“Ah.. a mouse. Stagnant water contains larvae and should not be eaten, but the valley water flowing here is pure water.”

First of all, I drank the valley water flowing through my hand.

“Wow, this is so refreshing and delicious. ha ha ha.”

After drinking the water from the valley, I put the washed greens on the prepared ramen box as soon as the water ran out.

Cold rice, kimchi, red pepper paste, soybean paste, and vegetables picked from the surroundings were all, but it was a rich dinner that brought nature as it is.

“Do you always eat like this in the mountains?”

“In the mountains, it is usually eaten with rice balls or raw rice that has been wrapped like this, and only with red pepper paste and soybean paste spread around. Bear sting comes from an area over 850 meters above sea level. It’s a medicine. approximately.”

gulp.

The dry saliva goes to the temple.

I will never forget the taste of sundae, jwipo, jajangmyeon, jjamppong, and chicken for the first time when I was young.

It was such an intense taste, and that’s why I still can’t forget the ‘first’ taste.

It’s a pity that I can’t find such a nostalgic taste now, but…

Gomchwi, Angelica sprouts, Ogapi sprouts, chamnamul sprouts, and wild greens were the wild vegetables we collected around us.

I wondered if there was anything so delicious in the world, but I was curious about the taste of bear stinger, so I put cold rice on the widest end of the stinger and added red pepper paste.

Ssambap made with wild gomchwi leaves.

The taste and aroma of bear odor that spreads thickly in the mouth.

“Ha, what a great scent. It seems that the fatigue of the day completely disappears. It’s really good. It’s nice to feel the freshness of nature.”

“Well, the herbs we picked are the restorative medicine, now, the restorative medicine.”

It was just cold rice, vegetables, and red pepper paste, but it was really delicious.

It is completely natural taste.

Being in the mountains together with nature like this, there is no time to get sick, and Simmani seems to be a symbol of health and itself.

It can’t be anything other than a generous dinner that is not envious of delicacies from the mountains and seas.

Cold rice and vegetables wrapped in plastic to reduce weight were disappearing in an instant.

ok.

I think I drank every day while camping, but today has a different meaning.

Being in the deep mountains, I felt something lessening.

Curious about Simmani’s life, he began to ask questions.

I naturally became an interviewer and an interviewer.

Of course, it is also true that it announced the presence of head cams on the chest and head.

They knew the power of the nutube, so they didn’t care too much.

“How long are you in the mountains in a year?”

“There are more than 200 days in a 365-day year, so 7 months are in the mountains. April through November.”

“If you two find wild ginseng, how do you distribute it?”

“As for the distribution method, there are gakme, dokme, and wonangme.”

“Dokme and gakme mean that the person who first discovered it had it alone. Wonangme means sharing equally regardless of who finds it…”

“ah…”

“What about today… We’ve always been Won-Angme. how much do you take I don’t have the heart to be human in the mountains..”

They say it as if they would take care of me, but wouldn’t it be impossible for me to discover wild ginseng?

Come to think of it, I also found a large 280-year-old horseshoe mushroom.

So I didn’t even know you were saying that, but to be honest, I’m not confident.

Horseshoe mushrooms are so big that you are lucky to find them.

“Excluding me, the two of you have to share it, how dare I do it, I’m really fine. I’m having fun enough and I’m learning and experiencing a lot.”

“Heh heh heh…”

They are two older brothers who just answer with laughter.

To be honest, I think there’s very little chance I’ll ever find one.

“Tell me some hemp leaves. older brother.”

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Among the many herbs that older brother Gilsu picked, he picked a green leaf much bigger than the palm of his hand.

“These are the leaves of the cucumber plant.. There are five leaves. Wild ginseng looks just like this.”

“Ah.. Then, are there five leaves of wild ginseng?”

“Yeah, we also get confused with Ogapi a lot. There are five wild ginseng leaves these days.”

“Ah.. I understand. I’ll have to carry around the leaves of the quinoa and compare them to find them.”

“ah. There was such a way. But, it won’t be easy. Heh heh heh.”

“I’m not going to be as fast as my two older brothers, but I can’t help it.”

“Draw. Still, it’s nice to see you working so hard.”

I couldn’t follow the two of them around, so I decided to move on my own for two days using the group as a base camp.

“W Even your smart phone won’t explode in the mountains, so take this with you.”

“?!”

What Gilsoo-hyung gave me was a walkie-talkie.

It was a device like an analog walkie-talkie that we used in the past, but this is enough to share each other’s location and news in this deep mountain.

In the past, there was a case where he shouted, “I found ginseng and sawed it,” and went to a colleague, but he crossed two mountains and arrived in two hours and harvested wild ginseng.

In the case of Wonangme, this is because everyone should bow down to the mountain god and share their devotion.

There are numerous cases of people descending the mountain without finding a single root even after living on the mountain for six months.

Still, I felt respect for the two people who said they liked the mountain.

It can be a lonely and difficult job.

And handed over a small plastic bag.

“What is this?”

“Three servants…Three servants…”

“ah…”

“It would be nice if it grows well and our descendants find Cheonjongsam 30 or 40 years later. They said they buried it well in a sunny place with lots of birds.”

“all right.”

In autumn, the darkness in the mountains came quickly and the cold air suddenly descended.

After finishing our meal in nature, the three of us went inside the plastic-covered group to escape the cold.

Isn’t this bad enough?

“It wouldn’t be easy to last all day with just one piece of that…”

Gilsoo said while handing over a blanket.

I didn’t prepare a sleeping bag.

Hae-sik gave me a blanket, saying he had prepared it just in case he didn’t know.

Wouldn’t two blankets be enough?

I have a cache

<I can keep a certain temperature overnight>

Then no problem.

After putting Cassie, who had turned into a stick, into the blanket, she lay down.

“I think two blankets will suffice.”

“I like being young.”

“You have to move early in the morning. go to bed early Are you okay?”

“Yes, that’s fine. Never mind.”

The darkness in the mountains with the two Simmani was different.

Rather than facing the darkness alone, he was more pious and serious.

If it was the mindset and position to enjoy the darkness and taste of the mountain, the two are different.

It feels like worshiping all things in nature and feeling noble.

very serious

Just like that, the darkness in the mountains erased us in the group site.

the next morning.

woke up happy

As if it was because of the effect of the mountain vegetables I ate yesterday, my heavy body felt light and refreshed, as if it were being lifted into the air.

The two of them already finished preparing such a simple breakfast outside and called me.

“Are you sleeping well?”

“Yes, brother. I slept really well to the point of being strangely refreshed.”

“It’s fortunate… But, there were no particularly ticks tonight…”

“I will, brother. Is it because Hoon came this time..?”

“Ah, ha ha ha.”

That’s right.

Cathy would have activated the tick repellent on her own.

“He washed his face and sat down here.”

“Yes, brother.”

Even going down to the creek, I carried Cathy, who had transformed into a stick.

In the mountains, venomous snakes, ticks, bees, and even wild boars if you’re unlucky.

This is because you cannot relax even for a moment because unexpected situations may arise.

oops oops..

“Hey. It’s really refreshing. thank you cache Thanks to that, I didn’t get bitten by a tick and slept soundly.”

<I’m glad you were happy>

“Please take good care of me today.”

Honestly, if it wasn’t for Cassie, I wouldn’t have come this far.

After washing my face, I solved my morning with super-simple kimchi rice balls and set out on the road.

It was normal rice with only stir-fried kimchi, but it couldn’t be that delicious.

Kimchi fried rice balls disappeared in an instant.

Even a grain of rice on his hand was sucked on.

The two Simmani hyungs grinning as if my actions were funny.

“Since it comes out like this, it must be delicious.”

“Yes, it is really good.”

“After spending three days and a week in the mountains like this, I feel grateful and precious for the little things.”

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