The barren slope is not very large, nor is it very small, and the slope of the hill is overgrown with weeds and shrubs, but there are no big trees. Such an environment is suitable for the growth of common bracken.

However, such an environment is not suitable for the black hair fern.

Fortunately, what Liu Qingshan is looking for now is ordinary bracken, not black hair fern.

In the mountains, there are many edible ferns, the most famous of which are about two of the common bracken, sweet fern and bitter fern.

Sweet fern and bitter fern look almost the same, but the taste of the two is different.

The bitter fern is bitter, and like most bitter wild vegetables, it secretes bitter protein during its growth to protect itself from insects. Therefore, bitter fern has a little bitter taste, and the taste will be bitter and astringent.

However, the taste of wild vegetables, in general, is mostly bitter, and most of the bitter wild vegetables have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, so it is normal to have a bitter taste, which is not a bad thing.

On the other hand, sweet fern is not sweet, but it is not bitter.

The so-called bracken, in fact, generally refers to the young leaves of the bracken.

Although there is also a word for fern, it belongs to the genus Pteridophyllum and is not in the same genus as the well-known bracken.

Whereas, the common bracken belongs to the European fern species.

In short, the two should not be confused.

The well-known bracken is a variant of the European fern of the family Fernaceae, and its plants can generally grow to about one meter, and even in some specific environments, it can grow to more than one meter.

Its rhizomes are not only long but also grow laterally, all densely covered with rusty yellow pubescence. Its leaves are distant, with stalks about 20-80 cm long, only 3-6 mm thick at the base, and brownish-brown or brown-straw color. The petiole is slightly shiny, with a smooth surface and a shallow longitudinal groove above.

When the leaves of bracken are dried, they will be nearly leathery or leathery, dark green in color, with no leaf hairs on the top, and the main veins of the lower lobes are more or less sparsely hairy or glabrous with brown or grayish white.

The leaf axis and feather axis are smooth, the small feather axis is smooth above, the lower part is sparsely hairy, there are few dense hairs, and there is 1 deep longitudinal groove on each back feather axis, and there is no hair in the groove.

Although many people think that bracken is mainly produced in the Yangtze River basin and the northern region, in fact, in the south, batches of bracken are produced from the mountains every spring.

They grow mainly on sunny slopes of mountains and forest edges at altitudes of 200-830 meters above sea level.

In other words, bracken likes sunlight and does not like dark and damp places, which is the exact opposite of the black fern.

The starch extracted from the rhizome of bracken is called fern powder, which can be used, and the fiber of its rhizome can also be used to make rope and cable, which can withstand water and moisture.

Among them, I have to say that its young leaves, which are also known as bracken, are really delicious in the world.

At the same time, the whole plant of bracken can be used as medicine, which can not only drive away rheumatism and diuretic, but also clear heat and detoxify, which is really a treasure.

However, Liu Qingshan looked at this hillside and was somewhat disappointed.

Because, there is no bracken on this first barren slope.

It's weird. This sunny environment is obviously a good direction for the growth of bracken, how can there be no fern?

He looked around with some frustration, and found no bracken except for some black ferns with huge leaves in the distance.

However, when I think about it carefully, it seems to be somewhat understood.

Since there are black ferns growing in this place, it means that it is a little damp here, so it is naturally not suitable for the growth of bracken.

He continued to walk, just in time to see a clear stream running through the middle of the hillside, flowing slowly from high to low.

It's no wonder that there are black ferns here, but not bracken, mostly because of this creek.

Although the creek does not have a lot of water, it is enough to keep this slope in a semi-humid state for many years.

Since there are no bracken here, it is better to look elsewhere.

Liu Qingshan was about to leave, but suddenly caught a glimpse of the bright green grass next to him dotted with bright red.

I looked at it and was happy.

It's actually a raspberry!

Actually, it's not a raspberry, it's just that people think of it as a raspberry.

Liu Qingshan's eyes fell on the grass next to him, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that although this barren slope did not grow bracken, it was overgrown with thorny 'raspberries' that would grow small red fruits.

These small red fruits are almost everywhere, but because they are hidden in the dense green leaves, they are not easy to detect if you don't look closely, but when you notice them, you will find that everywhere you look, you will find that everywhere you look, you are scarlet.

This scarlet little wild fruit is mistaken for a raspberry, but in fact, its scientific name is 'penglei'.

In fact, not only do most people not know which one is a basil and which one is a raspberry, but even the innocent raspberry can be mistaken for a raspberry.

In short, in the eyes of most people, the red, sweet and sour one is raspberry.

In fact, the three are very different.

Although whether it is a fluff, raspberry, or thatchberry, they all belong to the Rosaceae family, and also have a unified common name called wild strawberry, but everyone has their own distinct appearance, which is completely different.

It is not that people can't recognize what they look like, but that too few people know the name of the basil.

Both basils and raspberries have white flowers, but the flowers of basils are very large, several times the size of raspberry flowers. If the raspberry flower is only the size of a soybean, the fluffy flower is at least the size of a dollar.

Among them, the basil is a low shrub, the highest is less than the waist of an adult, and many even reach the knee level. At the same time, the fluff is erect but has many stems and is clustered.

The raspberry, on the other hand, is a lonely pole and never stands upright. In the vast majority of cases, wild raspberries grow on upright or steep gables, so that they can grow their huge bodies obliquely into the space outside the gables without having to squeeze other upright shrubs into the same position.

Even if the raspberry grows on flat ground, its shape does not allow its main rod to stand upright, and when it reaches a certain height, it will start to bend from the waist, forming a huge arc that looks a bit like a bow.

They mostly grow in fields or hillside shrubs. Its fruit is hollow, seedless, pedicleless, round in shape, and dark red in color.

Raspberries grow almost entirely on the slopes of the hills and rarely in the fields. As a result, its fruit is more difficult to pick than that of a fluff. The fruit is solid and pedicle when harvested, and the color is lighter than that of the fluffy, and only when it is ripe to the extreme, it is dark red, and in most cases orange-red.

Although the appearance of the two is very different, the efficacy of the human body is not much different, both have a sweet and sour taste, and mild medicinal properties.

So, some people have to ask, why is raspberry a traditional Chinese medicine, but Peng Yu has never heard of it?

This is because it is a sessile hollow fruit that is difficult to preserve, so Chinese medicine can only choose raspberry as medicine.

Both raspberry and basil are beneficial to the kidneys, solidifying essence, nourishing the liver, and brightening the eyes. Next is the key point: at the same time, the two also have a good therapeutic effect on kidney yang deficiency, frequent urination, enuresis and spermatozoa, impotence and premature ejaculation, and dim eyes.

In other words, whether it is a fluff or a raspberry, it is simply a wonderful treasure that nature has bestowed on men.

However, although the fluff is good, it should not be eaten too much.

In the "Huiyan of Materia Medica" compiled by Ni Zhumo in the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded: Pengyu, nourishing the five internal organs, and benefiting the essence and qi of the medicine. Although this medicine nourishes the five organs, sufficient in the liver, but the liver mainly occurs, and the main excretion, if you take too much, the sexual taste is biased, the occurrence of rapid and excretion is more, it is inevitable that there is a problem of backlash, and the liver wood self-destruction of its body, be cautious.

Roughly speaking, although it can nourish the essence of the five internal organs and nourish the liver, if you eat too much, it will also harm your body, causing the liver qi to rise too much and hurt the liver.

The above is the difference between basil and raspberry and its efficacy.

As for the innocent raspberry, it is much easier to identify.

Although the fruit is similar to that of a raspberry, it is always orange-yellow in color, does not turn dark red, and the color of its flowers is not white, but pink or purplish-red. In addition, its fruit has fine brown hairs at the tip and is slightly long, making it easy to distinguish.

Therefore, the many scarlet wild fruits that Liu Qingshan saw at this moment were not thatched berries or raspberries, but hollow and stemless basils.

For the people in the mountains, it is a common childhood memory and an indelible source of happiness.

When I was a child, my family was poor and couldn't afford to buy snacks, so I grew up eating wild fruits in the mountains.

However, it is difficult to find large wild fruits such as rice balls or cow egg mounds, so these small, ubiquitous fluffy flies fill the childhood of every mountain child with vigorous vitality.

At this time of year, whether you are on the way to school or on the way to work in the mountains, you will always encounter a lot of fluffs growing on the side of the road or by the stream.

They are red, like red agate sprinkled by fairies on the earth, bringing infinite joy and endless memories to children.

Even if Liu Qingshan's iron hanhan has grown into the behemoth he is today, when he sees these cute little wild fruits, he still can't hide his excitement, and his whole face is full of joy.

He swallowed, hurriedly tossed what was in his hand, and then extended his clutch to these lovely red agate.

I picked a few and put them in my mouth, and before I could bite through the fragile skin, I could feel a sweet and sour taste overflowing my mouth, and saliva was pouring up.

When the teeth gently touched the foam-like film of the peel thinner than the cicada's wings, a strong sweet and sour taste instantly exploded, as if a pink bomb exploded in the mouth, and its fragrant and sweet taste took over every inch of the skin in the mouth with a powerful gesture.

At this moment, Liu Qingshan feels that the most beautiful taste in the world is nothing more than that. If there was a plate of lobster in front of him at this time, he might not even be interested.

The pure beauty and sweetness of the fluffy are like fairies who do not eat the fireworks of the world, once they are fascinated by her, and then look at other bewitching postures, they will only feel redundant, and it is difficult to be tempted again.

Looking at the spring in the mountains and eating the fluff in the mountain, Liu Qingshan thought to himself, he didn't know how much money this fluff could sell for......

He took a photo of the puff in this place and posted it to the circle of friends: "March bubble, who still remembers these things? One of the wild fruits I loved to eat when I was a child, and now when I see them, I suddenly feel old." Alas, the years are really unforgiving. I don't know how much these things sell for a pound in the city. ”

"I heard that it sells for 100 yuan a catty. "There are a lot of residents in the circle of friends, and someone responds quickly.

Seeing this figure, Liu Qingshan's first reaction was, I am going to get rich.

"I've made a fortune, a hundred dollars a pound. Someone replied immediately.

Liu Qingshan thought so at first, but after thinking about it, he felt funny, so he replied to the benevolent brother and said: "I think too much, even if I sell it for a hundred yuan a catty, I can't sell it for much after I pick all the March bubbles here." ”

"How is it possible?" replied the benevolent brother, "you have so many here, a large piece, all of them, how can you have hundreds of catties, that is ten thousand oceans." ”

"There are not so many, you just look at a lot, but in fact, these March bubbles are hollow, dozens or hundreds can make up enough for a catty, and here is at most a few dozen catties, and if they are all picked and sold, it is only a few thousand yuan. ”

After replying to the comment, Liu Qingshan looked at the fluffs all over the hillside, and felt a little regretful in his heart.

Although this small wild fruit is a small wild fruit that can be eaten in many seasons in the local area blessed by the "fairyland", its peak fruiting period is also from March to May every year.

After these times, although there are occasional pamphlets in other months, those other times are mostly achenes and do not taste good.

Therefore, looking at these wild fruits at this time, they can neither be sold nor eaten all at once, but it is not a pity.

Although friends in the circle of friends say that this fluff can be sold for 100 yuan a pound in big cities, it is estimated that no one will pay for these things locally.

Because all the local villages can find this thing, even if the dignitaries in the county occasionally go to the countryside or something, they will definitely encounter a lot.

Therefore, although this fluff is delicious, no one really spends money to buy it, let alone a large price.

Naturally, the world of rich people is difficult to understand, but the richest person Liu Qingshan has come into contact with so far seems to be Guo Hucheng.

If he sold these wild fruits to Guo Hucheng, he would definitely think that Liu Qingshan was a fool.

In a word, even if it is a fairy fruit, it can't be sold locally.

You can't sell it locally, and you can't take it to a distant big city to sell. Because the fluff is very fragile, not to mention that it is all packed together and squeezed, it is held firmly in the palm of the hand, and if you hold it for a while, its weak peel will also explode, and the juice in it will flow out.

If you can't afford transportation, you can't take it to big cities and sell it.

However, Liu Qingshan only regretted it slightly.

Although his job is to dig mountains and sell things, he knows that not everything can be sold.

And the reason why he still regrets it is not because these fluffs cannot be exchanged for money, but because he thinks that these fluffs on the hillside are likely to be ripe and rotten in the mountains because no one picks them, which is a pity.

However, while he was lamenting, a few birds flew in the air.

Most of the birds in the mountains are brightly colored, red, yellow, orange, and green....... They gather in groups and fly in the air, like a colorful rainbow, which is very beautiful.

Flocks of birds landed not far from the hillside, or trampled on slightly thicker branches, or landed in the meadows.

Without exception, they all sang cheerful songs in praise of nature's gifts.

When they took the fluffs off the branches, or swallowed them into their stomachs, or picked them back, the regret and pity in Liu Qingshan's heart disappeared in an instant.

Haha, it turns out that these delicacies endowed by the earth are not exclusive to humans, but also birds, insects, beasts and so on in the mountains and forests. Strictly speaking, perhaps, all this was meant for them, and humans are nothing more than savage possessors.