Chapter 142 Ginseng Doll
Chapter 142 Ginseng Doll
The fat man and others walked in the horse hoof ditch for a morning and drew the general range of the frog farm. It was much larger than the fat man imagined. It could be more than two miles wide and three miles long. Then, the group officially returned.
Sitting in the carriage, the fat man discussed with the car owner: "Do you think there is a circle of fences around the frog farm?"
"Of course you have to surround me, otherwise most of the toads will run into the forest in this month. If you don't come back in autumn, it will be useless?" Wang Sanpao said first.
"So, our frog farm still needs to be extended to part of the forest, and the area needs to be expanded." The fat man is far-sighted. Since he wants to be an original forest frog, how can he do not enter the forest? Only by simulating the original ecology can he nurture the real forest frog that "condenses the essence of the mountains and forests, drinks clear springs and dew, eats hundreds of insects, and hibernates in ice water".
"How should this fence be built?" The fat man only knows macro-control, and needs to find professionals in specific details, so in the eyes of some people, it is a bit like a hand-off manager.
"How about using a marsh?" Lao Yaozi suggested. The marsh he mentioned was to dig large rectangular pieces of soil in the swamp. Because the soil contains fine grass roots, it will not be loose. Just like natural adobe, many people in rural areas use it to build courtyard walls.
The fat man shook his head repeatedly when he heard this: "This method is too destructive. Once the turf is damaged, it will not be able to recover for several years."
"Then use stones to build it." Boss Car exploded a loud whip flower in the air and said confidently.
"I think this is not a one-time deal, we must do it once and for all. Uncle Boss, how high can this forest frog jump?" The fat man still agreed with the boss of the car, but he didn't know how large the project was. If a circle of Great Wall was created, it would not be worth it.
How high a toad can be, one meter of the wall is enough. But it is better to have an eaves on it, which is safer. "Although the car owner has never played high jump competitions with the forest frog, according to his thoughts, although the toad often jumps, he can't jump too high.
"The project is not small." The fat man estimated that the land enclosure movement just now was just a swamp area, with a total length of about five or six miles. In addition, the part extending in the forest will only be longer than this one. Together, it will definitely exceed ten miles. For Kaoshantun, it can be called a major project.
When I returned to the village, I immediately asked the team leader to discuss this matter. However, I was about to harvest fruits and go to the ground to harvest wheat. The project must wait until Mai Qiu before starting construction.
The fat man turned his eyes and made a suggestion: "Now, send two idle people over here and make a fuss. As long as you are there during the day, you will be fine. The two of them take turns to guard the horse hoof pit on the roadside. I see that there are many toad seedlings in there."
Good guy, there are so many water birds. If no one looks at those little guys put in by the fat guy, they will probably have to feed them.
"It's so urgent? It's okay. I'll send two old men to squat first tomorrow. Boss, please pull a few pieces of wood, then some grass, and build a shack to deal with it for a while. Anyway, I won't live there, so I can shelter the wind and rain." Captain Li strongly supported and confirmed this matter.
"It's better to buy some goose chicks and start early. If you see a goose farm in the meadow, the goose will definitely grow happy." The fat man felt like he was in a hurry and wanted to eat the fat man in one bite.
"I can't buy much now, so I'll just wait for the autumn to catch it. And I probably don't have many of our commune, so I can't get to the county's food company." Captain Li was relatively stable.
"Sure, Lao Jieming seems to have a good relationship with Manager Zhang of the food company. If we don't do it well, we can still make white slips." The fat man smiled and remembered that Lao Jieming had bicycles into the city last time, and he participated in Cheng Lei in one fell swoop. He had a great hero style, so it should be fine to buy some big goose.
"Fatty, you dare to make a white note. What if someone asks you to force you to commit debts!" The owner of the car laughed.
"We are all one now. If you ask me for the debt, you can't escape." Of course, the fat man couldn't make him gloating and immediately tied him to the rope.
Lele hehes when he got home, the fat man saw the small quilt on the kang being laid again. Qiqi was putting wild duck eggs one by one, and there were also forty or fifty, most of which were green, but there were also white.
"Fat Uncle, how many days does a little duck take to hatch?" Seeing the fat man come back, Qiqi told him the most concerned issue.
"It seems to be longer than a chick, a chick takes three weeks, a duck takes four weeks, and a big geese is said to have a month passed." The fat man had not been in vain in the countryside for a year, and he knew a little bit.
Qiqi rolled her eyes and suddenly grinned and laughed: "I don't think it will take that long. These duck eggs have been hatched in the wild for a long time. Maybe, a little duck will be out of the shell tomorrow."
The fat man thought about it, and just as he was about to tease her, the old revolutionary came back. When he saw the quilt on the kang, he was shocked: "Why, I started holding my nest again? I can't sleep on the hot kang again?"
"This time it's a wild duck egg." Qiqi said proudly: "We picked it up on the meadow.
The old revolutionary took off his hat and slapped it in his hand twice, then frowned: "Can it work? If the wild duck grows up, he will snore and fly into the sky and never come back, will we be in vain?"
The fat man touched the back of his head: "Qiqi is here, it should be fine, right?"
The next day, early in the morning, a few duck egg shells began to crack, and then a small flat mouth was exposed. I really don’t know how strong it takes to peck the egg shell with such a flat mouth.
"The little duck is amazing." Qiqi held her cheeks and kept praising her mouth.
"There is no power to stop life from coming to this world." The fat man was also a little moved. After saying that, he accidentally found that the big braid looked at him with a strange look. It seemed that he could not have thought that Fat Brother could say such profound words.
The fat man said whisperingly: "Well, Xiaoyu, let us bake some sugar cakes in the morning. Today I will go into the mountain to see if I can get some ginseng fruits or something if I take my luck."
He didn't call Qiqi directly. The little girl was unpredictable. She watched the duckling come out of her shell and was excited. Once you called her, she would be okay.
"Fat Uncle, I'll go too. Sister Xiaoyu, take good care of Xiaoyu." It was still a great temptation to enter the mountain, and Qiqi finally had to follow the fat man into the mountain.
"You are all big and small, and you are running away from the wild!" Da Braidie smiled and scolded them a few times, then went to knead them.
After discussing with Lao Yaozi, the fat man decided to bring the tent in the end. He actually had a small mind: it would be better to choose the location near the radar station, and I see who dares to go there and secretly dig ginseng.
After breakfast, he called Wang Sanpao, and the three adults led a baby and set off. Benben followed him to the gate, but the fat man threw him back. Then he closed the gate, and Xiao Benben was so angry that he sat on the ground and whispered.
As soon as he left the village, a loud eagle cries sounded in the air, and Xiaobai's figure appeared. This guy has been elusive recently and has been in the mountains for a long time. He occasionally shows up at Fatty's house. According to Fatty's guess, the only one who has such a great charm is that this guy finds a companion - what, I don't know if Xiaobai is male or female.
But the fat man probably belongs to a male, otherwise it would be called "eagle".
Lao Yaozi was a little surprised when he saw the eagle above his head, "Fatty, what's going on with this guy?"
The fat man chuckled twice: "This old kite saw you, the old medicine, and found a companion, and thought about it."
Wang Sanpao also laughed: "Don't listen to the fat guys, this Haidongqing is raised by Qiqi."
"No, Haidongqing has the strongest temperament, and it can also follow people?" Lao Yaozi was stunned again. After saying that, he shook his head again: "Everything can happen to this little girl."
After entering the forest, the fat man pointed with his hand: "Let's walk along this path, pay attention to searching for the woods on both sides. Qiqi, you and Grandpa Lao Yaozi are there, and your third grandpa and I are here, so let's go hand in hand."
"This road leads to the radar station - a good idea, you are a good person, you are a scheming person." Wang Sanpao suddenly realized and understood the fat man's intention.
So the troops were divided into two groups, two miles away, and slowly moved forward. Even with the special abilities of Fatty and Qiqi, they carried out a large-scale search, and no old mountain ginseng was found until noon.
The fat man was not in a hurry. After all, he had not entered the old forest yet. There were many people passing by, so the probability of ginseng was much smaller.
I took a simple bite of rice, rested for a while, and then continued on the way. Although it was already midsummer, there was no heat in the forest. When I walked through it, I felt cool and comfortable.
Gradually walking into a big forest, the fat man was searching intently when he suddenly heard a strange cry coming from there: "I found it, I found it!"
The fat man and Wang Sanpao hurried over and saw Qiqi and Lao Yaozi squatting beside a bush. There was a small empty field in the middle of the bush. A ginseng thorn stood there, with small red fruits on it, like a cluster of bright red bells.
Lao Yaozi is carefully observing the leaves. Experienced ginseng pickers can determine their approximate age by the stems and leaves on the ground of the ginseng.
"Yes, it should be more than ten years. It is said that the lifespan of ginseng can reach four or five hundred years. This ten years can only be considered a ginseng doll." The old medicine has not dug up ginseng for several years, so it looks extremely excited.
"A ginseng doll, is it a little doll with a red bellyband in a bun?" Qiqi read in a little man's book. The ginseng doll drawn on it looks like this. And it is said that as long as a red thread is tied, he will never run away, nor will he become a human figure, and can only be dug out.
"Haha, there are no ginseng dolls, they are just making up stories." The fat man said with a smile.
"No, there are really people ginseng dolls." Lao Yaozi said seriously.
Seeing his expression was not like a joke at all, the fat man couldn't help scratching the back of his head: "Uncle Lao Yaozi, have you seen it?"
Qiqi also stared at her big watery eyes: "Yes, where is there anyone in the ginseng doll? I'll go find him to play with it."
The fat man secretly admired: "Awesome, I still want to find ginseng dolls to play with. However, it is said that ginseng dolls can deal with birds and beasts in the mountains. From this point of view, Qiqi really has the meaning of ginseng dolls.
Lao Yaozi stood up and touched Qiqi's little head: "You are the ginseng doll. Let's walk over from there and you run over from afar. If it weren't for the ginseng doll, how could you know there were ginseng here!"
Chapter completed!