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Yuanyuan, Pingping, you two have little hands, if you can't pinch, use scissors.

Didn't your grandma bring scissors for you two when you went out in the morning? "

For adults, it is fastest to pinch directly.

But for children, they are small and have no strength, and their hands are tender. If they pinch it with their hands, even if they can cut it off, it is estimated that they will have a headache after pinching a few flowers.

So when she came out in the morning, Zhou Guilan specially brought scissors for the two children and asked them to use the scissors to cut down.

Just put in a little effort, it's better than a child with a sore hand.

"Oh, I see, Grandpa."

The two children agreed with a crisp voice, and then they carried the basket and scissors, starting from the end of the pool skewer, and knelt on the pool gang to work.

Under the ginseng shed, there are ginseng seedlings more than one foot high. On top of the blue-purple main stem, there are five palm-shaped compound leaves in whorls, and above it is a bright red ginseng fruit.

The Xu family took good care of the mallet. The base fertilizer used when planting ginseng was topped with bean cake water this spring, and foliar fertilizer was sprayed in summer.

So the leaves of this ginseng grow very well, the green ones turn black.

The flowers of ginseng seeds are also big, about the same size as Xu Jinping's fist.

The blossoming red ginseng fruits are plump, round and shiny, and they look extraordinarily rare.

Both Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping took scissors and carefully cut off the ginseng fruit one by one and put them in the basket.

When the basket was full, he carried it to the head of the pool and poured it into the woven bag.

The face of the pool is wide, and one person cannot cover all of them, so two people have to work face to face.

Xu Jinping's small arms are short, so she must not be able to reach the middle, so Xu Chenghou stretched his hand in.

The grandparents and grandsons cooperated well, although they were not as fast as Xu Shian and the others, anyway, after a while, they could carry a basket of ginseng fruits and pour them into the woven bag.

When you are tired, take a break, and then do it again.

By noon, Xu Chenghou and Xu Jinping, who were about twenty feet long in length, had done most of the work.

The weather was hot, so everyone didn't go to see the small house at noon, just on the ground, took out the dry food and water they brought, and took a bite casually.

Huang Shuqing, Feng Bin, and Sun Yu also came up the mountain. The big guys got together and exchanged meals with each other.

For children like Huang Shuqing who don't like studying very much, working in the mountains is much more interesting than reading at home.

Xu Shi'an and his youngest son finished picking up their own ginseng seeds in the morning, and helped Xu Chenghou and the others in the afternoon, so the work was done before three o'clock.

So he drove the people and ginseng seeds, went straight down the mountain, sent Xu Chenghou's grandparents and grandchildren home, and then drove back to the farm.

The three of Xu Chenghou and his grandson returned home, and it was still early, so they hurriedly poured the ginseng fruit out of the woven bag, and rolled off the red ginseng fruit one by one from the receptacle.

The red ones fall off easily when you touch them. Occasionally, if there are half-green flowers, you just pick them off one by one. In fact, most of these flowers are flat.

To pick up small red kidney-shaped fruits one by one, the thin outer skin needs to be crushed and washed with water.

Xu Chenghou led his grandson, put the small fruit into a woven bag, and asked Xu Haiyuan and the others to step on the bag with their shoes on.

After stepping on it for a while, I saw some reddish-brown juice flowing out from the bottom of the woven bag, that is the juice that flowed out from the crushed pulp.

It is said that this juice can also be used as medicine, and Sanshenchang is researching ginseng fruit granules.

Of course, the average ginseng farmers don't care much, just like Xu Chenghou, they just step on it and pour it into the ditch casually.

The children stepped on it for a while, turned the woven bag over and shook it, and continued to step on it.

Wait until the juice flowing out of it is getting less and less, pour some water into it, tie the pocket tightly and step on it for a while, then pour it into a large basin and rinse it with clean water.

The good seeds that are ripe will sink to the bottom of the water, and those that float on the surface of the water are all shriveled, and most of them will float out.

In this way, after scrubbing and rinsing, the snow-white ginseng seeds are finally left, fished out, poured on the fork that has been covered with gauze, and drained.

Ginseng seeds should be dried in the sun, but not exposed to the sun.

Therefore, put it in a cool place when the sun is poisonous during the day, and take it out when the sun is not so strong in the morning and evening.

If the drying is not timely, the seed kernels will be powdered.

If it is exposed to the sun, it will be easily roasted and will not germinate, so this thing is very delicate.

Dried ginseng seeds, if the ginseng seeds are directly grown in the same year, this is called hair water seeds.

Since the ginseng seeds have not gone through the dormancy period, the germination rate is not high and they are easy to rot.

If it is kept properly for one year, ginseng seeds will be grown in the next summer, which is called dry seeds.

Dried seeds have a high germination rate and a high seedling preservation rate, which is much better than water seeds.

Xu Shiyan had no shortage of ginseng seeds, so naturally he refused to produce water seeds.

After the ginseng seeds are dried, just put them away, wait for the dry seeds next summer, and then sow them in autumn.

Chapter 5 and Seven

Here, Xu Chenghou led his grandson to wash the ginseng seeds and spread them out on a fork to dry before eating and resting.

On the other side, Xu Shiyan and Li Chengrong took two translators and accompanied several foreign merchants to Erdaobaihe Town by train.

In these years, the environmental protection road from the west slope to the north slope has not yet been built, and there are only firewood transportation roads between various forest farms.

This firewood road was built for logging and transporting timber down the mountain.

For the convenience of transportation, it is always repaired wherever there is a cutting area, and it is often a big turn.

The mountain road is rugged, and driving is too troublesome and dangerous. It is more convenient and safer to take the train.

Erdaobaihe Town is under the jurisdiction of Antu.

Regardless of the two adjacent counties, Erdaobai River is not too far from Songjiang River, but it has a different style.

This is a place inhabited by ethnic minorities, most of whom are Korean compatriots.

Therefore, the ethnic customs here are strong. On the street, especially women, most of them wear brightly colored clothes, with short tops and long skirts underneath.

Many people do not speak Chinese, but the Korean language.

Even some newspapers and magazines are in the Korean language, and even the signboards on both sides of the street are mostly in two languages.

Although they are all yellow-skinned people, they look similar in appearance, but if you look closely, there are still some differences.

The foreigner is very curious looking at this place, so he has to ask.

Li Chengrong had studied foreign languages ​​in the provincial capital for two years, so he had no problem with ordinary conversations, but it took a little more effort to answer this kind of questions.

Fortunately, there is a professional translator, so Xu Shiyan talked about the development and changes of the dynasty.

The foreigner was very interested and asked questions one after another.

Xu Shiyan said everything he knew and could say, and naturally he wouldn't talk about some sensitive topics.

It stands to reason that when you come to this kind of ethnic minority settlement, you must experience the special customs of the ethnic minority area, and at least taste the special food.

There are still a lot of Korean food, such as cakes, rice sausages, sauce wood soup, and cold noodles, but the most famous one is dog meat.

Xu Shiyan doesn't eat dog meat, but anyone who hunts doesn't eat it. Dogs are partners for them.

And Xu Shiyan is worried that many countries in Europe and the United States prohibit the consumption of dog meat.

He didn't know whether these people would eat or not, so he didn't dare to decide on his own, so he asked the translator to ask.

Sure enough, when those foreigners heard about eating dog meat, they all refused.

If you don't eat dog meat, there are no western restaurants here, so you can only eat casually.

Fortunately, those foreigners just don't eat dog meat, but they can eat other dishes.

It's hot, so everyone ordered a cold noodle, roast beef, rice cake, rice sausage, etc., with Korean pickles, and that's it.

Cold noodles are made of white flour mixed with corn noodles or buckwheat noodles, starch, etc., pressed out by a machine, cooked in a pot and taken out.

After cooling with cold water, add the cold and refreshing soup, as well as side dishes such as beef slices, cucumber shreds, tomato slices, eggs, spicy cabbage, and hot sauce.

The soup is sweet and sour, cold and refreshing, and the beef slices in sauce are also very tasty. It is really comfortable to eat on a hot day.

Foreigners are still rare these days, and many people around are watching them.

Xu Shiyan could only smile and nod to those people, signaling that the world should not point and point at those foreigners.

But this is difficult to stop, and Xu Shiyan can't do anything about it.

After all, this is a remote town, not a big city, so this is really unavoidable.

After eating, I had to find a place to live.

This is not a county seat. At present, the tourism industry has not developed to the level of later generations. There must be no high-end hotels, only Chao nationality hotels.

The house here is also very distinctive. The door is a sliding door, and the inside of the house is a floor kang. You take off your shoes when you enter the house.

Two people share a room, Xu Shiyan and Li Chengrong live together, and sleep on the kang at night, which is not bad.

"I hope tomorrow will be a sunny day, and we can see Tianchi when we go up."

Before going to bed, Li Chengrong said so.

He specifically went to inquire just now, and said that it has been sunny for the past few days, so he finally came here, and everyone wanted to go up and see Tianchi.

But no one expected that when they got up early the next morning, it was gloomy outside. It didn't rain, but there was fog.

Seeing the sky like this outside, Xu Shiyan could only sigh, probably this time it was for nothing.

After breakfast, go to the designated place by car.

Climbing Changbai Mountain this year is different from later generations. There are no eco-friendly cars or reverse cars.

There are only big passengers, who send people to the climbing point at the bottom of the mountain, and then tourists climb up by themselves.

Tickets are not expensive, five yuan per person.

Now that we're here, no matter whether it's cloudy or sunny, we have to go up and have a look.

So a group of people got on the bus, walked up the mountain road slowly, and headed for the mountain.

Sitting in the car, you can only see the continuous mountains and trees coming towards you, and then flashing past the car endlessly.

People like Xu Shiyan and Li Chengrong who lived in the mountains and forests didn't feel anything at all.

But those guests from other places felt strange, pointing to the scenery outside the car window from time to time and exclaiming.

There are also some people who are whispering, hoping that the weather will turn sunny, at least it will not rain.

The bus ride point is still tens of kilometers away from the climbing point. As the car goes higher and higher, the fog outside is getting thicker and thicker.

When the car drove to the climbing point, the mist had turned into drizzle.

Near the climbing point, there are hotels and restaurants, as well as a place specializing in hot spring eggs. The construction is not bad.

But at this moment, they are all shrouded in misty rain and fog.

Looking far ahead, the high-hanging Tianchi Waterfall is also shrouded in rain and fog, and the water vapor below is transpiring, making it even more hazy and mysterious.

Before coming, Xu Shiyan had prepared raincoats, so he quickly took them out and everyone put them on.

At this time of climbing, you have to go up the Julong Hot Springs and walk up the stone-step corridor on the side of the waterfall.

Go all the way to the Chengcha River, and go up and down along the river to the Tianchi water.

The stone steps in the corridor next to the waterfall are steep and difficult to walk. There are many places where you can't wait to use your hands and feet, and you really have to climb up.

It is difficult to climb the mountain on a sunny day, not to mention this rainy day, the stone steps are covered with moss, and the rainy day is very slippery, making mountaineering extremely dangerous.

Many tourists directly got into the hotel, and they refused to take the risk of climbing in such weather.

Under such circumstances, Xu Shiyan naturally refused to let those foreigners climb the mountain again.

But they were all stubborn and insisted on going up. In desperation, Xu Shiyan could only go forward with him.

Just after passing the hot spring, walking forward, you can hear the sound of the rushing water of the waterfall.

The water coming down from the waterfall, slightly light blue in color, rolled up foam and roared under a small bridge.

After walking for a short distance, it became difficult to walk on my feet.

But at this time, the rain seemed to be much heavier, and the foreigners also began to hesitate whether to continue to move forward.

At this time, on the bare hillside in the distance, a lot of sand and gravel rolled down with a whirring sound.

This Changbai Mountain was originally a dormant volcano, and the main body of the mountain is volcanic ash, which is loose in texture.