A small lake is located in the corner of this space, and there is still a trace of hot steam coming out of the lake.
Close to the lake, or even at the edge of the lake, a dark red "ground fire" was burning quietly, which lit up the space.
Apart from the lake and the ground fire, all Xu Guangling saw was a large amount of vegetation.
The first is a big tree.
It looks like a cedar tree, but it also looks a bit like a pine tree. In short, it is definitely a genus of Pinus. Xu Guangling's botany knowledge that he can't even talk about can only determine this step. It takes several years to grow two big trees.
It's the kind that a person can hold, and there's a hollow underneath.
Growing from the ground up to a height of more than 20 meters, they could no longer go up. The top was covered with thick soil and rocks, so the two big trees grew crookedly to the sides.
It grows on the side, takes root on the top, and then grows upside down again.
So what Xu Guangling saw now was very strange.
On the top of a big tree are countless side trees of various sizes growing upside down.
After Xu Guangling's vision left this small tree system, he saw an even more amazing sight. The first thing he saw was ginseng.
Huge swaths of ginseng!
Xu Guangling's first stop was Changbai Mountain, not only because the first medicinal herb Mr. Zhang told him was ginseng, but also because Changbai Mountain itself is also a comprehensive place where wild herbs grow.
However, after arriving here, from the beginning to now, Xu Guangling has only discovered three ginseng plants through his celestial eye.
And there is only one plant that is over a hundred years old. The other two plants, one is about thirty or fifty years old, and the other is just a seedling, less than ten years old.
But he never dreamed that underground, in this dark underground space, at a glance, there were at least a thousand ginseng plants growing into a large ginseng garden.
The Heavenly Eye extends underground. Well, Xu Guangling's Heavenly Eye ability has been slowly developing. Now it can penetrate about three meters underground. So at this moment, under the large ginseng garden, Xu Guangling saw
A scene that shocked him extremely.
There are many large ginsengs, the largest one is more than 20 centimeters in diameter!
So it doesn't look like an underground stem at all, but a small tree stump!
Even a sweet potato looks amazing when it looks like this, not to mention, it’s ginseng!
Xu Guangling was completely stunned.
How many years has such a large ginseng grown underground?
Five hundred years?
A thousand years?
Xu Guangling estimated that it would take more than a thousand years.
In fact, ginseng is known as the number one herbal medicine in later generations. In addition to its extraordinary nourishing effect, it should also have something to do with its lifespan. As long as the environment is suitable and it will not cause rot or anything, ginseng can keep growing!
No one knows how many years its limit is.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if it lasts for thousands of years.
At the edge of the ginseng garden, Xu Guangling saw many other types of medicinal herbs.
The largest one is Gastrodia elata.
Like ginseng, it occupies a large area on the ground and underground.
After taking an overall look at this large area of medicinal herbs, Xu Guangling determined that this was a medicinal garden.
If a ginseng seed fell in from the outside exit by chance, it would be possible to breed a large ginseng forest after thousands of years. However, ginseng, gastrodia elata and other medicinal herbs grew together, so Xu Guangling gave up this idea.
judge.
So, the conclusion is that this is artificially grown!
After coming to this conclusion, Xu Guangling's heavenly eye scanned again.
Xu Guangling didn't think there were still people living underground. Judging from the growth of ginseng, gastrodia elata and other medicinal herbs, it could be seen at a glance that they had been "wild" for a long time. That was a sign that no one had taken care of them for many, many years.
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The next moment, Xu Guangling found a wooden hut in another corner of this space, the farthest place from the hole above.
Specifically, just the general shape of the cabin.
Several logs were completely rotten, with dense mushrooms and mushroom remains growing on them.
Those were mushrooms from who knows how many years ago. They had decayed and turned into wood, and it was these mushrooms that barely maintained the general shape of the wood. Several other pieces of wood "grew" out, multiplying nearby.
Large areas of bush.
As his vision penetrated into this small wooden house that was mottled by time, Xu Guangling saw scattered bones and some wood chips at a glance.
The wood chips are already very mottled and should not be picked up. They will probably turn into powder when the wind blows, but some of the writings carved on them are still legible.
Traditional Chinese characters.
Xu Guangling speaks several foreign languages, but is not very familiar with traditional Chinese characters.
He didn't realize the problem until this moment, so he was very ashamed.
But it's just that he hasn't learned it in detail. In terms of simple recognition, he can recognize at least half of the traditional Chinese characters.
At this time, Xu Guangling identified the descriptions on the wood chips one by one with mottled handwriting and unfamiliar traditional Chinese characters.
It's not too difficult.
After all, this is not something precise and precise that cannot be omitted, but a description of the herbal garden and the life of the owner of this cabin, and it is specially written for those who come after you!
"He was a servant of the Song Dynasty."
This is the beginning.
During the Song Dynasty, this place seemed to belong to the Jurchen tribe, right?
Xu Guangling continued to read.
The writing on the wood chips was mottled, or even mottled to the point of being missing, but the wood chips were not missing as a whole, and they were in order, so as he looked along, Xu Guangling had a rough idea of the person who wrote the story.
This is a scholar from the Song Dynasty. He passed the scholar examination, but later failed the examination many times, so he stopped taking the examination. In addition, there were few talented people in his family, so he lived a happy and comfortable life. Later, he married
After the wife, there is even more emotion and beauty.
But not long after, his wife died due to dystocia.
Happiness turned into misery overnight.
This man had three brothers, an eldest brother and a younger brother. Regardless of his parents, he had no one to serve him, so he was heartbroken and left home to become a monk.
Then travel with other monks.
In the process, he learned medical skills.
Maybe some of the monks he came into contact with knew medicine, or maybe he took the initiative to learn this because of his wife. There is no detailed record of this on the wood chips. Then there is this wandering monk who is also a half-doctor, from south to north, and from east to west.
Go west and wander around this land.
Later, I even wandered out of the customs and went to the grassland.
Then he wandered to the northeast.
There was a language barrier and I crossed boundaries several times, but that was not a problem. In that era, knowing medical skills was the best passport.
The owner of the wood chip described his medical skills as "rudimentary skills", but he was treated as a "guru". Later, when he came to the land of Liaodong, he accidentally cured a seriously ill person, and he was highly praised.
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So he settled here for a while.
Because there are many medicinal materials on the mountain, especially "thousand-year-old ginseng, which can be found everywhere, which is something that Chinese people would not dare to think of."
Xu Guangling was not sure whether his description was exaggerated or not, and to what extent it was.
Even if no one dug the ginseng in Changbai Mountain at that time, there is no reason why there should be so much ginseng, right?
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