Everyone has heard the story of ginseng essence. I remember there was some cartoon about ginseng essence, but I forgot the name.

Ginseng is probably the slowest growing thing among plants. If it takes three to five hundred years, it will be as thick as a big toe. If you go to Tongrentang and look at it, wild ginseng that is one or two hundred years old will be about the same thickness as a finger.

The growth of this thing depends entirely on absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. According to science, it absorbs various cosmic rays as nutrients, so this thing

The curative effect of the thing is very miraculous and the function is very powerful. If a person is dying, he can quickly drink a bowl of thick ginseng soup and maybe he can be saved. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", the ancestor drank this before his death, but he still died. This shows that,

Although ginseng is miraculous, it is not a panacea. Not all diseases can be brought back to life. It is very important to give the right medicine to the right person.

How powerful is wild ginseng?

I have a classmate who studies medicine at Tongrentang. One time when they were taking inventory on the counter, a three- to four-centimeter-long ginseng root fell out of a good ginseng root, which was about the thickness of asparagus noodles. He took advantage of the teacher when he didn't see it.

, and put it in his mouth.

Good guy, after more than an hour, my nose started to bleed, and I couldn’t stop it no matter how I tried. I couldn’t help it, so I told the teacher the truth. The teacher quickly made someone make mung bean soup and used the medicine to detoxify the nose bleed.

Stopped.

One more thing, mung bean soup is very effective in detoxifying, especially if you take the wrong medicine, food poisoning, etc. But when cooking mung beans, do not boil the mung beans until they bloom. Boil them for a while, and you can drink the mung beans when the soup changes color.

When the flowers are boiled, the medicinal properties change.

So for the same rhizome, the difference between a ginseng that takes three to five hundred years to grow as thick as a finger and a radish that grows as thick as an arm in three to two months is definitely huge.

If you have run too far, continue with ginseng essence.

Plants are generally lifeless. That is to say, although they can grow and reproduce, they have no soul. How can they become spirits? After an object absorbs the essence of heaven and earth over time, it is easy to attract ghosts and gods.

When something comes over, these ghosts and gods will attach themselves to this object for a long time, and they will take it as reality and feel that they are integrated with the object. This is why the pipa spirit and various peach spirits and willow monsters in the list of gods are like this.

Ginseng is a high-energy storage body. Over time, it will definitely attract things like elves to attach to it and practice with this ginseng. So it becomes a ginseng spirit. Such elves are generally very kind. I have not heard of ginseng.

The essence that harms people is usually caused by ginseng essence, which may be related to the positive energy absorbed by ginseng.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the amount of real wild ginseng was very small. Generally, more ginseng was produced in the three provinces outside the Guanhai Pass. Hebei and Shandong in North China also produced it, but the quantity was not large. The ginseng produced in Shandong was mainly Taishan ginseng.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a Taishan mountain man named Wang who sold twelve high-quality Taishan ginseng roots to Jinan Hongjitang (Tongrentang Shandong Branch) every year for use by the imperial court and provincial dignitaries. He also sold various fresh medicinal materials to Hongjitang.

Jitang and various drug stores.

Almost all the ginseng he picked was over a hundred years old, and all of them had to be whole-tailed. It is not easy to pick all the ginseng. If you want to bury the root system as thin as a hair in the soil, it will be broken accidentally.

If a little more is broken, the price of the ginseng will not be high.

After a few years, he became a wealthy local man. He bought a house in Jinan City and made a living by collecting rents from servants. He no longer went to the mountains to collect medicine. It was widely said that this man had accumulated Yin Gong and could only become rich with the help of the mountain gods.

This medicine farmer was a close friend of a drugstore owner. When he was not prosperous, no one wanted the inferior medicinal materials he collected. He had no money to buy rice to take home, so he had to beg everywhere. The boss took pity on him and took all of it. After cooking it, he gave it to

For poor people who have no money to treat their illnesses, the medicine is not as effective. My great-grandfather was a good friend of the drugstore owner, and he told my great-grandfather the story of this man’s prosperity.

One time, a herb farmer went up the mountain to collect herbs. He heard someone moaning in the ravine, so he ran over to take a look. There was a naked child, about four or five years old, covered in dirt. The herb farmer asked him what was wrong, but the child didn't say anything.

, holding his own legs, one group cried and the other looked up. The medicine farmer looked up and saw, oh, between the two stone beams above his head

The distance was one foot wide and six or seven meters above the ground. The child must have fallen from it. It was a shame that he did not fall to death. The medicine farmer took out some wound medicine and applied it to his leg, and simply bandaged it.

After a while, I asked the child where his home was and why he came here. The child didn’t say anything and pointed towards the mountains with his hand. The medicine farmer thought about it.

, I can’t just leave the child here and let the wild beasts pick him up later. I picked up the child and followed the direction pointed by him and walked towards the mountains. I thought that he would not be too far away from home as a child. He would probably walk a mile or two.

The child found his house on the ground. After walking about to touch a pack of cigarettes, the child suddenly struggled to get off the ground, so the farmer put him down.

Come down. The child got off the ground, and his legs flew into the forest as if nothing was wrong. But the medicine farmer was frightened, thinking that he might have met a goblin. Before he could turn around, the child ran out again, holding a hand in his hand.

He handed him a piece of fine ginseng. He took it and looked at it for a long time. When he looked for the child again, he was gone again.

The drug farmer pondered in place for a long time and realized that this was when he met the ginseng essence. It would take less than eighteen hundred years for ginseng to transform into human form. How much does it cost to buy a thousand-year-old ginseng? But the greed is so small.

It was dark for a while and then I went back. I thought, we don’t have that fate, the ginseng essence gave me this wild ginseng will be enough for me to eat and drink for two or three years. What kind of bicycle do I need? Then I went down the mountain.

After returning home, I bought wild ginseng at a good price, and I felt so happy. After more than a month, before dawn, someone knocked on the door of the drug farmer's house. The drug farmer opened the door and saw no one outside, but he was shocked. There was something like this.

The red ball as tall as a man was floating in the sky, could it be a ghost? The ball didn't even enter the house, but was jumping around in the sky. The drug farmer quickly closed the door, he was afraid, what the hell is it. After closing the door, the red ball was floating in the sky.

The ball knocked on the door again. This was repeated several times.

Then the drug farmer realized what this thing wanted me to do. So I put on my clothes, closed the door, and came out. The red ball flew forward a few steps, and he followed a few steps. Keep walking, keep walking, and entered the mountain.

After walking for a while, the red ball fell to the ground and disappeared. The herb farmer walked up to see that it was ginseng. It turned out that the ginseng essence was giving ginseng to others. He kowtowed and bowed. Then he dug out the ginseng carefully and took it home.

From now on, I will do it once a month, just like menstruation, every time. I guess I am familiar with it, and I am very happy. At that time, a little kindness was rewarded so much, it was beautiful.

In this way for six or seven years, the drug farmer became a wealthy man. He bought land and a house. When the little red ball came again, the drug farmer said: Ginseng Essence, thank you for giving me so many benefits in return. These years

I have earned a lot of money and I am satisfied. I will stop picking after this harvest. How much can this Tai'an Mountain have?

Let me pick ginseng like this. When I move to the city, don’t come looking for me anymore. If we are destined, we will meet again. (Look, -_-||We Shandong people are so honest~~)

Later, the drug farmer moved into Jinan City and became an apartment. He lived until he was very old and his descendants were blessed with many blessings.

This medicine farmer will be rewarded by doing good deeds, stopping greed, and being content. It is because of the accumulation of yin skills and his own generosity that he will be blessed for a long time. If he had been greedy for the benefits of the Millennium Ginseng King or was not satisfied with money, he would have already been in trouble.
Chapter completed!