The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1785 Where Immortal Herbs Lie, Strange Beasts Are Surely Lurk

Chapter 1785 Where Immortal Herbs Lie, Strange Beasts Are Surely Lurk

Zhao Jun and his six companions formed a circle, gazing at the strange amber dragon.

After a while, Xie Chen finally asked Zhao Jun, "Brother Jun, how much will this cost?"

Zhao Jun gently stroked the whiskers of the amber dragon on the pine torch and said, "This is more expensive than ordinary wooden dragons; it's a rare find."

All three dragons in the ginseng are rare commodities, but this amber dragon is the rarest of all.

As soon as Zhao Jun finished speaking, Li Baoyu chimed in, "That's worth a lot of money; it's a rare commodity."

After Li Baoyu finished speaking, no one echoed him. Because of the idiom he suddenly uttered, only he among the six people present understood its meaning.

At this moment, Zhao Jun, who was squatting, stood up and said to the other five people, "After selling this club, we'll divide it into ten shares. Then, we'll take out seven shares and split them among the six of us."

Zhao Jun's statement meant that he would keep the remaining three shares for himself.

“Okay, nephew.” Wang Qiang was the first to respond to Zhao Jun, saying, “Whatever you say goes.”

“That’s right!” Li Baoyu grinned and said, “Brother, we’ll listen to you.”

Xie Chen, standing to the side, remained silent, only nodding repeatedly.

"Brother Jun," Zhao Jinhui said happily to Zhao Jun, "Brother Jun, I earn much more money working for you now than I do at a regular job."

"Hey ho!" Zhang Yuanmin laughed and patted Zhao Jinhui's chubby arm, saying, "Going to work? Even those who run businesses can't keep up with us!"

Indeed, this amber dragon seedling could fetch at least ten thousand or eight thousand yuan. If divided like Zhao Jun did, Wang Qiang and the other four would each receive over a thousand yuan.

Just imagine, I made over a thousand yuan just by taking a stroll up the mountain. That's incredibly fast money.

"Alright, brother." At this moment, Zhao Jun interrupted the others and instructed, "Let's quickly find some moss and then wrap it up."

"Wrap it up?" Zhang Yuanmin and the others were all taken aback when they heard this. They subconsciously looked at the amber dragon on the ground in the middle of them.

This is not just a simple ginseng root; this unusual wild ginseng has grown together with the pine resin.

The pine resin was about one meter long, with the thinnest part being as thick as a person's calf, while the large bumps at the front were as thick as a person's waist.

"Baoyu," Zhao Jun said, pointing to the large piece of pine resin, "take the curved saw and cut off the piece behind it."

The rhizome, body, and whiskers of the amber dragon are coiled on the nodule of the pine resin, occupying about forty centimeters. The rest is just pure pine resin, which can all be sawed off.

"Brother," Zhang Yuanmin asked Zhao Jun, "how much moss do we need to remove? Do we need to cover the whole patch?"

“No need to cover it all,” Zhao Jun said. “If we cover such a big lump, how much moss would we need? Just find a few pieces and cover the lump with moss.”

Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, everyone quickly split up and took action. Wang Qiang held the torch, while Li Baoyu used a saw to cut off the excess part.

Zhang Yuanmin, along with Xie Chen and Zhao Jinhui, went to remove the moss. After they returned from removing the moss, Zhang Yuanmin took out a knife and peeled off four large pieces of pine bark.

Then, Zhang Yuanmin and the other two went to find Zhao Jun and the other two to meet up.

It was already past 2 p.m., and Zhao Jun and his two companions were eating large pancakes around Amber Dragon.

Seeing the three of them return, Wang Qiang greeted them, "Come on, have something to eat, have a bite to tide you over."

"Uncle, you guys eat first," Zhang Yuanmin said. "I'll wrap up this club first."

After saying that, Zhang Yuanmin squatted down in front of the amber dragon.

Zhao Jun didn't reach out because he believed that Zhang Yuanmin was capable of doing this.

Zhang Yuanmin carefully covered the amber ginseng with moss. The moss not only helps preserve the wild ginseng, but its soft texture also helps protect it.

After the entire ginseng rootlets and stems were covered with moss, Zhang Yuanmin asked Xie Chen for a hand, as he wanted to wrap the entire large pine resin nodule with pine bark.

Zhao Jun ate his pancake without saying a word, trusting that Zhang Yuanmin would be more reliable than him at this job.

Sure enough, Zhang Yuanmin wrapped the pine resin knot in four pieces of pine bark to form a square, and then tied it with hemp rope. Finally, he left a knot on the top.

"Brother Zhang, what are you doing with this?" Jie Chen asked. Zhang Yuanmin laughed and said, "We can carry it ourselves, or the two of us can carry it on a stick."

As soon as Zhang Yuanmin finished speaking, Li Baoyu and Xie Chen gave him a thumbs up.

Zhang Yuanmin chuckled, patted the dirt off his palms, and then took the pancake Zhao Jun handed him.

Zhang Yuanmin took a bite of the pancake, chewed it, and asked Zhao Jun, "Brother, shall we go catch the sheep again?"

"What's the point of wearing a mask now?" Zhao Jun glanced at his watch and said, "It's almost three o'clock, let's hurry up and get back on track."

It takes almost three hours to drive home from this bluestone cliff. After setting traps and footholds, it might be sometime before I get home.

Zhao Jun's main principle is to know when to stop and be content with what one has. Today, he's carrying the amber dragon and making a quick retreat.

No one objected to Zhao Jun's words. They'd come to set a trap and catch a predator, but Zhao Jun insisted on going this way, and before they knew it, they had ten or twenty thousand yuan in their pockets, with Wang Qiang and the others each getting over a thousand. Following this lead, who could say anything? Who dared to say anything?

The group packed up and headed back along the river. Li Baoyu led the way, carrying a large bag of steamed buns, followed by Zhao Jun and Wang Qiang in the middle, and Zhang Yuanmin, Xie Chen, and Zhao Jinhui brought up the rear.

As he gazed at the murmuring mountain and river waters along the way, Zhao Jun was suddenly filled with emotion. The secret formula of the ginseng gang was truly useful; just fourteen simple characters had allowed him to carry a seedling of amber dragon.

Moreover, this secret is not something that will become ineffective after one use; as long as there is wild ginseng, this secret will still be useful.

So at this moment, Zhao Jun was thinking about how to get a few more secret tips.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jun remembered the Shao family and the legendary old leader, Shao Yunjin.

The secrets of the ginseng gang are the foundation of the gang, and which ginseng gang in Lingnan, Lingxi, or even Lingdonggou can compare to the Shao family gang?

Even the blind man Pang knows a few secrets, let alone Shao Yunjin.

Thinking about his trip to Lingnan in a few days, Zhao Jun added another task for himself: to find a few secrets about ginseng cultivation.

"Hey? Brother." At this moment, Zhang Yuanmin hurried over to Zhao Jun's side and said, "I just remembered something."

"What's up, brother?" Zhao Jun asked. Zhang Yuanmin replied, "I've been reading a book these past few days. It's about those great heroes searching for things like Tian Shan snow lotus, thousand-year-old lingzhi mushrooms, and ten-thousand-year-old he shou wu. And all these precious medicinal herbs are guarded by strange beasts."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun smiled and said to Zhang Yuanmin, "Brother, what do these things have to do with us?"

“That’s right,” Wang Qiang chimed in. “We have Ganoderma lucidum in our mountains, haven’t you picked some before? As for snow lotus and such, we don’t have any here.”

In the Yong'an forest area, you can find Ganoderma lucidum (reishi mushroom) in the mountains every June and July.

But the people here have never seen a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, and these days wild Ganoderma lucidum in the mountains isn't worth much.

"No, Uncle." Seeing that Wang Qiang had misunderstood him, Zhang Yuanmin still said to Zhao Jun, "Brother, I remember that time we were safari in the mountains, we encountered a little black bear that was caught in a snare, and then there was a big female black bear guarding it."

"Ah, yes." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "That's true."

Hearing Zhao Jun's approval, Zhang Yuanmin added, "We fought those three tyrants a couple of days ago, and we made it out of Lao'anzi afterward, didn't we?"

"Ah!" Zhao Jun responded again, but he still didn't know what Zhang Yuanmin wanted to say.

At this moment, Zhang Yuanmin continued, "Brother, the place where we carried the club today is surrounded by hanging sheep, big claws, and a big bear weighing 1,200 to 1,300 jin."

Zhang Yuanmin's statement is not entirely accurate. While the hanging sheep still exists, the large claws and the 1200-1300 jin bear were all things from last year.

“And Lingnan…” Zhang Yuanmin said, “Old Shao’s family’s old village, in some Daqinggou, doesn’t it have tigers there too?”

"Ah..." Even Zhao Jinhui realized what was going on at this point, and said to Zhang Yuanmin, "Brother Zhang, you mean if there's a strange beast there, there's a club there?"

“Hmm.” Zhang Yuanmin nodded, and Zhao Jun and the others didn’t say anything more. They were all pondering what Zhang Yuanmin had just said, because… they felt that what Zhang Yuanmin said made some sense.

Seeing that his words had been taken to heart, Zhang Yuanmin laughed and then said to Zhao Jun, "Brother... ah, no, my lord, if the people know one thing, they should all have a stick."

"Huh?" Zhao Jun was taken aback. Li Baoyu quickly explained for Zhao Jun, saying, "Brother Zhang said he knows a place where there are sticks."

"What place?" Zhao Jun asked. Zhang Yuanmin replied, "Old Ghost Head Ridge!"

　This chapter is a little over a thousand words short; I'll add it tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)