The ancient farming life of liberal arts scum

Wild ginseng has a lot of roots. Shaoxin originally thought it was a hundred-year-old ginseng, but after digging some, he found out that the ginseng was at least 800 years old.

The young people who came to hunt are all skilled in martial arts. They are good at hunting, but they are not very good at digging ginseng, especially because the ginseng has a lot of roots and no tools at hand. It is very difficult to dig in the cold weather.

Three people work in a group, changing hands every half an hour. From morning to sunset, only more than half of them have been dug. There are still many dense and long ginseng whiskers hidden in the soil.

Seeing the progress, Shaoxin sent his men back to Xunjiazhuang to bring torches, lanterns and other things. They couldn't finish digging for a while, and they still had to continue digging at night.

The people who went back to Xunjiazhuang to pick up things came back very slowly, and they came back when the sun was about to set.

To Chen Ge's surprise, not only the guards from the mansion came, but also Mr. Xu and his apprentices.

Mr. Xu bowed his hands to Xun Feiguang to greet him, and asked happily with his beard raised, "Master Xun found the old mountain ginseng."

"I didn't find it, it was Shen Ge'er who discovered it first."

"Oh? That's right." Mr. Xu took a few steps forward, squatted in front of the ginseng pit, looked at it carefully in the afterglow of the setting sun, and couldn't help feeling: "Good ginseng! Shen Geer, your luck is really incredible. .”

Shen Ge kept laughing at the side, the dug out part of the ginseng was vaguely humanoid, even if he didn't know how to do it, he knew that the ginseng was very valuable.

Shao Xin answered from the side, "That is, not everyone is lucky to discover wild ginseng that has been around for hundreds of years."

"What hundreds of years!" Old Xu stared, correcting him, "This ginseng is at least a thousand years old! Blessed!"

"Really?" Shao Xin also squatted down to examine carefully, "It's only this small, it doesn't look like it."

"This is an old mountain ginseng. Do you think it's a fat white radish grown in your vegetable garden?" Mr. Xu snorted heavily and then ignored him. The young man said: "Dig carefully, this ginseng is thousands of years old, don't dig it out."

The young men who dug the ginseng also knew that the ginseng was precious, so their subordinates became more careful.The ginseng whiskers are so delicate that no one dared to use tools to dig them out, they had to dig out the soil little by little with their fingers.

The ginseng dug until night and did not finish. Chen Ge originally wanted to wait by the side to dig out the ginseng.Xun Feiguang was afraid that he would get sick from the wind, so he forced him to take him back.

After returning to Xunjiazhuang, Shen Ge was so excited that he couldn't fall asleep, so he had to get up and recite the book, and he didn't feel sleepy until midnight.

Sleeping late at night, Shen Ge didn't wake up the next day when the sun was high.

Xun Feiguang came from outside with a chill in his body, "Is Shen Geer awake?"

"Not yet." Luzhi turned around and answered him softly, "Young Master Shen rested after the third watch yesterday, and I'm afraid he is sleepy now."

"Why is it so late?" Xun Feiguang asked casually, seeing Shen Ge's tired face, afraid that he would get sick, he reached out to touch his forehead.

Xun Feiguang's hands felt a little cold, he didn't feel it himself, but Chen Ge felt a little cold.He didn't sleep well at first, but he vaguely heard the voice of Xun Feiguang and Lu Zhi talking, and then he was so cold by the hand, the original [-]% sleepiness immediately went to [-]%.

Shen Ge opened his eyes, "Brother Xun?"

"Is there any discomfort?"

"No." Facing Xun Feiguang's worried eyes, Shen Ge remembered what happened yesterday, and smiled at him, "Brother Xun, did you dig out the ginseng?"

"It has been dug out, and it is in the courtyard. If you want to see it, you can go and see it now."

"Really?" Shen Ge said as he lifted the quilt and sat up, quickly fished out his clothes and put them on, and stuffed his feet into his shoes.He stretched out his hand to hold Xun Feiguang and walked out, "Brother Xun, let's go and see how big this ginseng is."

Elder Xu and Shaoxin have just washed the ginseng carefully, and weighed it with a cotton cloth.After Shen Ge and Xun Feiguang passed by, Shen's weight had already been weighed.

"Old Xu, Brother Shao, how much does the ginseng weigh?"

"12 two or three dollars!"

Chen Ge called from a distance, and Xu Laoyi answered from a distance, both of them had smiles in their voices.

Everyone in Xunjiazhuang knew that they ran into wild ginseng when they went hunting yesterday, and they were all beaming, even the usually steady green branches came out to look at it.

"So heavy?" Shen Ge was a little surprised. These days, 16 taels a catty, how could 12 taels weigh more than 380 grams, really heavier than a carrot.

When he got closer, Shen Ge discovered that the main body of the ginseng is actually not that big, but there are so many ginseng whiskers that it is a small handful to hold.

"This is a millennium ginseng." Old Xu stared at it with a smile.

Xun Feiguang, as the Duke of Zhen, used 700-year-old ginseng in his daily life. Even [-]-[-]-year-old ginseng still has several in the warehouse.However, he has only heard of the name of this thousand-year-old ginseng, but has never seen the real thing.

Not to mention Xun Feiguang, even His Majesty, the Lord of the Four Seas, doesn't have a thousand-year-old wild ginseng in the warehouse. Such treasures are really hard to come by.

Mr. Xu is proficient in the art of distorting yellow, and it is not uncommon to see such a good old ginseng. He felt itchy in his heart, and smiled at Xun Feiguang: "Master Xun, should I leave this ginseng to the old man? It's just fine. Use it with that prescription, and make the pill mentioned earlier."

"Shen Ge'er found out about it, you ask him."

Hearing Xun Feiguang mentioning himself, Shen Ge quickly waved his hands, "Old Xu, is the ginseng used for brother Xun? If you do, just use it for medicine."

Xun Feiguang frowned, and stopped Xu Lao who was about to carry the ginseng away, "This is a thousand-year-old ginseng, and it will cost at least tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy outside."

"What's the matter, it's just a wild thing that grows in the mountains, and it doesn't need capital. What's more, the ginseng was discovered by the two of us together, and the people from the Xun Mansion dug it out. Naturally, the ginseng belongs to you." Shen Ge smiled at Xun Feiguang, "here. You don't feel sorry for me, so why should Brother Xun be alien to me?"

Xun Feiguang glanced at him, and pulled him to the quiet room, where it was easier to talk.

After the two sat down in the quiet room, Xun Feiguang said: "Aren't you short of money?"

Shen Ge didn't take it to heart at all, "What's lacking is what's missing, I can't monopolize this ginseng no matter what. Brother Xun, you were injured and you need a good ginseng to recuperate? This ginseng should be enough."

Shen Ge lived in Xunjiazhuang for so long, getting along with Xun Feiguang day and night, slowly and naturally found that Xun Feiguang's body is not as good as it looks, and sometimes he needs to drink dark medicine.Shen Ge was not easy to inquire about, but he still vaguely knew that Xun Feiguang was unwell, so he came to Kunjiu County for recuperation.

"In that case, this ginseng will count as half of it for me. I will use the ginseng, and I will pay you 6000 taels of silver at the market price."

"No need, it's too much." Shen Ge quickly rejected it as if his hands were burning.Shen Ge is satisfied with earning more than 30 taels of silver in half a year, let alone 6000 taels.

"Even if you have money, you can't find a place to buy thousand-year-old ginseng. In terms of money, I still take advantage of it."

"Hey, that's what I said! Brother Xun, you have helped me a lot. I still live here for free, how can I ask for money?"

"6000 taels is just a small amount of money to me, but this ginseng can help me a lot. If you don't want to put it away, you can keep the money with me first, and I will give it to you when you need it."

Xun Feiguang's attitude was very firm, Shen Ge no longer refused, at worst he didn't ask Xun Feiguang for the money.

All Shaoxin's men who participated in the ginseng digging got rewards.Mr. Xu got this thousand-year good ginseng, and hurriedly led his apprentice to retreat to deal with it.For a time, everyone was very happy.

This incident has kept Xunjiazhuang happy until years ago.

Although Shen Ge doesn't have to go to school now, he can't let go of his homework. He follows Xun Fei every day, and he is more tired than before.

Just when Shen Ge was feeling bored and trying to be lazy, he received a message from Mrs. Wu.

The message said that the senior brother who was studying at the Imperial College in Kyoto came back to visit relatives with his wife and children, and asked Shen Ge to come and get together when he was free.

Shen Ge was supposed to pay New Year's greetings to his wife and wife years ago, but after receiving this message, he couldn't bear it anymore. He took the message and hurried to find Xun Feiguang, happily saying, "Brother Xun! My teacher sent me a message to be a guest."

Xun Feiguang raised his head and glanced at him, "That's all you need to do. Let Xun Qi set up a carriage for you and take you there."

Shen Ge agreed crisply, and seeing Xun Feiguang lowered his head to read the document again, he urged, "Brother Xun, you have been in Zhuangzi for so long, and you basically don't go out except to go hunting in the mountains, don't you feel bored?"

"I don't know." Xun Feiguang dismissed him with two words.

"Hey, even if you don't realize it, it's good to go down the mountain and walk around. Brother Xun, don't you always say that you can travel thousands of miles by reading thousands of books?"

"I have traveled this way."

Seeing that he was really not interested, Shen Ge felt a little disappointed.He still wanted Xun Feiguang to go down the mountain for a walk, so he begged, "How can the scenery on the road be the same in spring, summer, autumn and winter? Now it's the Chinese New Year, and it's busy. Brother Xun, how about walking with me?"

Xun Feiguang glanced at him again, finally seemed to be annoyed by him, put down the book in his hand, and responded somewhat helplessly, "Yes."

Only then did Shen Ge smile, and pushed him to change clothes, "Brother Xun, let's take a good stroll. Speaking of which, every time I go to the county town, I go straight to my destination, and I haven't been in the county for a long time."

Xun Feiguang responded casually, and his heart softened a little.

When Xun Feiguang wanted to go out, Shaoxin had to follow.After all the calculations, there are two big cars in the end.

Because Mrs. Wu was invited, after arriving at the county seat, Shen Ge took Xun Feiguang to the home of Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Wu first.

Xun Feiguang's identity is sensitive, but Shen Ge didn't reveal his real identity, only that he was a friend who cultivated near Shenjia Village.

Mrs. Wu already knew that there was a noble person beside Chen Ge who helped him a lot, so she didn't ask any more questions when she saw this, but warmly greeted Xun Feiguang and Chen Ge to come in and sit down.She also said: "Ge'er, you haven't come here for more than a month, is the injury on your foot healed?"

Shen Ge always said to the outside world that the injuries on his hands and feet were caused by accidental falls.Shaoxin's tricks were there, except for the Xun family and the Yan family, no one knew the truth about Shen Ge's injury, and the Yan family who knew about it had already been silenced.

"It's alright." Shen Ge smiled openly, "We went up the mountain a few days ago, so don't worry, Master."

Mrs. Wu stretched out her hand and patted him, angrily: "What mountain is the injury on your foot?" Then she explained: "You are out of luck this year, you have to go to the temple to worship during the Chinese New Year."

Shen Ge has always been able to make Mrs. Wu happy, "I know, I will pay homage to you later. Mrs. Wu, I am jealous of your craftsmanship. What did you do for me today?"

"Big meatballs and vegetable balls, you have everything you like, so you can't run away." Mrs. Wu pushed him out from the kitchen door, "Your wife and senior brother are in the hall, quickly bring your good friend in for a chat."

Perhaps it was the senior brother who came back, and Mrs. Wu's house was filled with lively fireworks, Shen Ge couldn't help laughing, "Then Mrs. Wu, I'll go in first?"

"Go, go, I'll wait for you."

Shen Ge took Xun Feiguang's hand and pushed away the Wu's living room.Xun Feiguang let him lead him, with a calm expression on his face.