Chapter 573: One Seedling, Six Leaves

Sheng Liancheng has been in the forest area for so many years, and he has heard people talk about the club bird. At this time, he listened carefully and heard a few strange bird calls.

"Well, this movement is really like the club bird they said.

You mean, there is a club nearby? Listening to the source of the sound, it doesn't seem to be under the earth slope."

"Don't worry about it, Dad, let's go in the direction of the club bird's call, just in case there is something?"

Sheng Xiping was a little curious and wanted to go and see.

The father and son thought about it, anyway, there was nothing to gain from this trip, and it was still early, so let's go and see.

So, the father and son walked forward along the bird's call, and while walking, they used the rope stick in their hands to pull the grass in front of them.

About two miles away, there was a small slow slope in front.

It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, and the sun was shining on this small slow slope. The sun was reflected between the bushes and weeds, casting mottled light and shadow.

The breeze blew, and there was a faint flow of light and shadow.

Sheng Xiping didn't have much experience in freeing the mountain, but for some reason, he suddenly felt that the small slow slope in front of him was different.

So, Sheng Xiping walked back and forth on this slope with a rope stick in his hand.

Mountain freers have a rule that they would rather leave a mountain than a brick.

Sheng Xiping searched carefully, not missing any bushes or grass.

Suddenly, the grass in front shook, and then a snake with a dark brown pattern, which was very similar to the color of the soil, swam out of the grass and meandered away.

"Qian Chuanzi." Sheng Liancheng was also nearby. He heard the movement and came over to take a look, muttering.

"Dad, it's nearby, look carefully."

Where there are snakes, there is likely to be ginseng. This is the experience summed up by Sheng Xiping.

As Sheng Xiping said, he took the rope stick and went to pull the grass where the snake ran out just now.

Just after pulling it twice, a flash of red appeared behind the grass.

A densely packed ginseng seed, full and shiny, bright red, ripe at first glance.

"Bangchui." Sheng Xiping was so excited that he shouted.

"How many leaves?" Sheng Liancheng hurriedly answered.

Sheng Xiping had already pushed aside the weeds, revealing the ginseng stalk inside and the several compound leaves below. He counted them and found that there were exactly six leaves.

"Six leaves."

"Quick, quick." Sheng Liancheng was very happy and hurried over.

He was immediately happy when he saw the ginseng seeds and the thickness of the stems below. "Oh, this ginseng seems to be quite big."

Sheng Xiping was too busy to answer at this time. He directly inserted the rope stick into the soil next to the mallet, then took out the mallet lock from his arms and locked the mallet.

Then, Sheng Xiping took out the quick axe and quick scissors from his backpack, and first cleared the tree roots and weeds around the mallet.

Then he took out the deer bone skewer, pushed away the soil bit by bit, and lifted the ginseng out.

Sheng Xiping carried the ginseng, while Sheng Liancheng started the fire, gathered the fire, and was responsible for the alert. The father and son cooperated with each other.

This ginseng should be quite big, and the reed head alone is quite long. Sheng Xiping spent more than two hours to get his shoulders exposed.

"I can't do it anymore, Dad, give me the dry food first, let's eat something, we are hungry."

It is said that carrying ginseng is like praying to Buddha. Although this thing is not a heavy physical work, it requires full concentration and cannot be neglected at all. It is very mentally exhausting.

Besides, Sheng Xiping and his family left home at four o'clock in the morning. At this time, they had not eaten anything and were very hungry.

So Sheng Xiping had to stop and rest for a while and eat a meal.

The Sheng family has not made pancakes for several years. When they left home this morning, Zhang Shuzhen got up early to make pancakes for them, and also brought meat sauce and pickles.

In addition, the father and son also brought two bundles of noodles and several packs of calcium milk biscuits.

Don't underestimate calcium milk biscuits. If you really have nothing to eat, eat half a pack with some water. At least you won't be hungry.

Put the calcium milk biscuits and noodles aside and eat the oil cakes first.

The father and son ate three or four cakes each with pickles. Sheng Xiping felt a little better and continued to carry the ginseng.

This ginseng is not small. The shoulders are as thick as a baby's wrist. Sheng Xiping saw this and knew that he would not be able to carry it all today.

"Dad, let's build a shack. We can't go back tonight and have to stay in the forest for a while."

"Okay." Sheng Liancheng responded, picked up the axe and saw, and went to work.

Sure enough, by dark, only about half of the ginseng was carried out.

Fortunately, Sheng Liancheng built a simple shack with wood, bark, plastic cloth, etc., and gathered two piles of fire, boiled a pot of water, put a bunch of noodles in it and cooked it, and then sprinkled two packets of instant noodle seasoning in it.

Instant noodles have only become popular in recent years. There is a kind of three-fresh instant noodles. Children love to eat noodles dry, and the seasoning is used for pranks.

Make a small hole in the seasoning bag, then put it in your hand, and slap it hard towards others, and a puff of smoke will be sprayed towards the other person.

The seasoning of the instant noodles is very pungent. If you inhale it suddenly, it can really make people cough and cry.

Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu have money in their hands, and the young boys are hungry quickly, so they often buy instant noodles to eat dry.

Zhang Shuzhen thinks that instant noodles and seasonings are also delicious when cooking noodles, so she asked the children to save all the seasonings and not waste them. They can put them in when cooking noodles or making soup, which tastes good.

The father and son did not bring bowls and chopsticks, so they simply broke branches as chopsticks and ate noodles directly from the pot.

After dinner, they added some firewood and lay in the shack to chat. They fell asleep while chatting.

The next morning, at dawn, Sheng Xiping got up and continued to carry ginseng. At noon, all the seedling ginseng was finally unearthed.

"Good guy, this time we two have finally made a fortune. This seedling ginseng must be five or six taels? Look at its shape, it's so beautiful."

Sheng Liancheng looked at the ginseng that was carried out and praised.

"Well, it's about right. No matter how heavy it is, we won't sell it anyway, so we'll keep it."

Sheng Xiping wrapped the ginseng with moss, wrapped it with a layer of birch bark, and finally tied it tightly and put it in the bag.

"Xiping, are you still cutting the omen?" Sheng Liancheng asked casually.

"Dad, don't cut it anymore. No one cares about that now."

With the destruction of forest resources, wild ginseng is becoming less and less, and it doesn't make sense to leave any omen.

This place, the two of them can find it, who cares about the rest?

In this way, the two of them casually dealt with the food, then packed up their things and carried them back. When they got home, it was already dark.

Last night, the father and son did not come back, and Zhang Shuzhen was worried all night.

Today, as it was getting darker outside, Zhang Shuzhen did not even have the heart to eat, for she was afraid that the father and son would encounter some danger in the mountains.

Suddenly, there was a choking sound of a dog outside, and Zhang Shuzhen knew that the father and son must have come back, so she hurried out.

It was not a big deal when she saw it? The father and son were carrying a lot of things and were walking into the house.

"Why did you come back just now? I thought you would not go home tonight. What happened? Did the old man sell a lot of goods again?" Zhang Shuzhen asked curiously.

"It's not that old man, it's not far away, I met a big one.

I didn't carry it out last night, and I carried it all morning today.

Mother, do you have food? I'm hungry." Sheng Liancheng threw the backpack and other things on the ground outside the room and said weakly.

After all, Sheng Liancheng is over 60 years old, and it is tiring enough for him to walk back for six or seven hours.

"Yes, yes, the food is in the pot. I don't know when you came back, but the food is still hot in the pot.

I don't feel like eating, so let's go together." Zhang Shuzhen hurried to clean up the food when she heard it.

The father and son threw their things on the ground, then changed their clothes, washed their hands and faces, and the food was ready, so they hurried to eat.

The two were hungry, and they didn't care about anything else when they sat on the table. They ate up the food in a short time.

After eating, they were lazy and unwilling to move. Zhang Shuzhen took down the table and made some foot washing water for the father and son.

The two washed and went straight to bed. They started snoring soon.

This year, August 15th is September 11th, which is Friday, and the day before is Teacher's Day.

After discussion, the Education Department of the Forestry Bureau decided to take a series of holidays. On the morning of the 10th, each school will have activities, and on the afternoon of the 10th, as well as on the 11th and 12th, there will be a total of two and a half days off, and classes will be held on the 13th, which is Sunday.

On the afternoon of the 10th, Zhou Qinglan led the four children back to the forest farm. It happened that the family was harvesting land.

Sheng Xinhua and Sheng Xinyu, two young men, went to the fields to dig peanuts and sweet potatoes, while Sheng Xinyue and Sheng Xinqi went to break corn and cut sunflower heads.

Everyone was laughing and doing the work.

On the morning of the 11th, they harvested the land, and in the afternoon they made dumplings at home for the festival. On the 12th, they harvested the land again. Basically, they had cleaned up most of the land.

The remaining little, Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen just had to slowly carry it back.

After dinner on the evening of the 12th, Sheng Xiping and his wife took the children back to Songjiang River, and Sheng Liancheng and his wife loaded two trunks with things.

Every year from October 15th to November 4th is the autumn trade fair.

Huayang Factory has been participating in the autumn trade fair in recent years. This year, even the pet products company in Dancheng has arranged people and samples to participate in the autumn trade fair.

The exhibition yielded gratifying results. Huayang Factory earned nearly 20 million US dollars in foreign exchange from its panels, furniture, office supplies, etc. The pet products company also earned nearly 10 million US dollars.

You know, that county is a poor county, and there are not many things that can be taken to the autumn trade fair. Even if people were sent to the autumn trade fair in previous years, there was not much gain.

Unexpectedly, this time, a big satellite was released, which made the leaders of the county very happy.

Sheng Lianjie, Sheng Xiwen and others were also praised by their superiors.

Sheng Lianjie has been the secretary of the commune and town for so many years. This time he finally raised his head and was directly transferred to the county as deputy county magistrate.

The county also gave the pet company many preferential policies and specially allocated funds to repair the road from the county seat to Shilou Town.

For a time, the two towns of Shilou and Zhongxing became the hot spots of the whole county.

In late November, there were several consecutive snowfalls in the Songjianghe area, and the heavy snow sealed the land. Winter has officially arrived.

The main part of the workshop of the factory invested by Sheng Xiping and Guo Shouye is almost complete. It looks like it will be ready for production next summer.

Sheng Xiping discussed with Guo Shouye that in order to differentiate themselves from Fenglin Wood Industry and not compete with each other for business, this place mainly produces mahogany composite floors, composite doors, etc., which can just match the furniture of Huayang Factory.

In the blink of an eye, it was late December, and the children started their final exams and holidays.

Elementary school was the first, junior high school was two days later, and high school was the latest. The last two subjects were finished on the morning of December 31st. The school held a New Year party in the afternoon and the holiday was on the first.

This year, the New Year's Eve was early, on January 22nd.

Sheng Xitai's wedding date was set on the 16th of the twelfth lunar month, which was January 8th in the Gregorian calendar.

Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen went to the capital in early December. They had to go there to help their son with the arrangements. Young people are not very reliable in doing things. They must have the elders to take charge.

Sheng Xiping and his wife and children accompanied Zhou Mingyuan and his wife to spend the New Year's Day. They set off on the morning of the 2nd and arrived in the capital on the 3rd.

Sheng Xian, Sheng Yunfang, Sheng Yunfei and others also arranged their work, took annual leave, and went straight to the capital.

The brothers and sisters of the Sheng family gathered in the capital. It has been several years since they have been so complete and lively. Everyone gathered together and laughed and laughed.

Sheng Xinyao and Sheng Xinze are eight years old, Wu Peng and Wu Hao are six years old. They are all grown up and follow Sheng Xinyu and his family in the front and back yards.

Jiang Luwen is two years and seven months old. Although she is a girl, she is also very naughty. She walks with short legs and follows her three sisters closely. She has a lot of fun.

Sheng Liancheng and his wife were so happy looking at their grandchildren that they couldn't stop smiling. What are people busy for in their lives? Isn't it just looking forward to this day?

Sheng Xitai's house has been cleaned up, with a full set of mahogany furniture, a 24-inch color TV, a large refrigerator, and a twin-tub washing machine, all of which were arranged by Sheng Xiping.

The remaining pots and pans, beddings and luggage, and miscellaneous daily necessities are also all available.

On January 5th and 6th, the relatives and friends of the Sheng family arrived one after another.

In the hometown, the brothers Sheng Lianyi, Sheng Lianjie, Sheng Lianqiu, and Sheng Lianqing all came.

Sheng Lianhua, the eldest sister of the Sheng family, is old and not in good health, so she asked her eldest son to come on her behalf.

Zhang Shouzhi, Zhang Shoushan, Zhang Shouguo, and Zhang Shuxiu, these brothers and sisters, also came to the capital.

These people are not young anymore. Now that they are together, the scene is full of crying and laughing. Don't mention it.

Sheng Xiping, Sheng Xikang, Sheng Xitai, and Sheng Yunfei all have houses in the capital, so no matter how many relatives and friends come, they can arrange for them to stay in a hotel.

On January 8, Sheng Xitai got married.

Wu Yucheng and Sheng Xikang found a convoy for the bride, which consisted of more than a dozen black cars and a bus.

The first car was decorated with red plastic roses and ribbons, forming a heart shape. The cars behind were all hung with big red flowers, red balloons, and ribbons, which were grand and festive.

The wedding banquet was arranged in the hotel, and the wedding scene was decorated very beautifully, dreamy and beautiful.

Sheng Xitai and Lin Xiangxue's leaders and colleagues all attended the wedding.

Wu Bingzhong and his wife, Jiang Guozhong and his wife, even Feng Jingyi and his wife, and Zhou Mingyuan and his wife, all came to attend the wedding.

After Sheng Xiping came to the capital this time, he specially gave the Miaoshan ginseng that he and his son dug this year to the old man through Chief Zhao and Secretary Chen, as a little thought from the younger generation.

The only pity is that we can't find the ram now, otherwise, Sheng Xiping would like to get some ram blood to give away.

Chief Zhao and several military leaders changed into casual clothes to come and congratulate.

Even Secretary Chen came to give a gift and expressed the old man's blessing to the newlyweds.