"Wow!What a flower!!"

"It's really fragrant!!"

As soon as the little one entered the orchard, he immediately cried out with joy.

"Brother Madman, what kind of flower is this?" Xiao Maoya picked a honeysuckle, and then asked Zhang Feng with a smile.

"I know, I know, madman, this is a trumpet flower, right??" Xiao Shi immediately raised his hand and replied.

"This isn't the Trumpet Flower, the one on the wall of the madman's house is the Trumpet Flower, okay?" the duckling corrected.

"Then what kind of flower is this?" Xiao Shi asked listlessly when he heard that it was not a trumpet flower.

"This, this is ...... Hee-hee, I don't know!" the little duck thought for a moment, then replied with a grin.

"Hehe, this is honeysuckle, it is not only beautiful, but also a precious Chinese medicinal material............" Then the old man began to popularize the basic knowledge of honeysuckle to the little guy.

Honeysuckle, which blooms in late May and ends in October,

Its flowers are fragrant and reddish, and the flowers are white when they first bloom, and they turn yellow after a day or two, so they are called honeysuckle.

And because it has one pedicle and two flowers, two stamens poke out, form pairs, inseparable, like male and female companions, and like mandarin ducks dancing together, so it is called mandarin duck vine.

Honeysuckle has been known as a good medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying since ancient times. It is sweet and cold and fragrant, sweet and cold and clear heat without hurting the stomach, and the aroma is thorough and can dispel evil. Honeysuckle can not only dissipate wind and heat, but also be good at clearing blood toxins, and is used for various heat diseases, such as body heat, rash, spots, heat poison sores and carbuncles, sore throat and other symptoms, all of which have significant effects.

"So honeysuckle still has so many functions?" said the little ones in surprise.

"Of course!!," replied the old man with a smile.

With this group of little guys, the old man is also in a particularly good mood.

So next, while picking flowers, the old man introduced to everyone the precautions for picking honeysuckle:

The best time to harvest honeysuckle is early in the morning and in the morning.

At this time, the harvested flower buds are not easy to open, with sufficient nutrients, strong smell and good color. The afternoon harvest should be completed before the sun sets, because the opening of honeysuckle is restricted by light, and the buds will open after the sun is too late, which will affect the quality.

The quality of the flowers picked after noon and on cloudy days is poor, and the processing rate is low. From the perspective of the development process of flowers, the habit is divided into green buds, green and white, large white needles, honeysuckle, and goldenrod withered flowers.

When the upper part of the flower bud is swollen and grows into a rod-shaped, it is better to be blue-white, and it is commonly called a big white needle. At this time, the flowers are about to bloom, and it is the best time to harvest them, so that they can be processed into high-quality goods.

Honeysuckle products are preferably flower buds, and those mixed with open flowers or impurities from stems and leaves are of inferior quality. The flower buds are preferably large, blue and white, and clean in hand.

Harvest in May and June, pick the flower buds when the dew is just dry in the morning on a sunny day, and place them on the reed mat, stone shed or field to dry or ventilate and dry, and dry them in 1~2 days.

Do not turn when drying flowers, otherwise the flower color will turn black and reduce the quality, until it is ninety percent dry, and the impurities of the branches and leaves can be removed. Do not expose to the sun in the sun, cloudy days can be lightly dried, but the color is darker, not as good as drying in the sun or shade.

"Hehe, but we don't pick it back to make medicinal herbs, so the steps of drying it are exempt!!" The old man is like an encyclopedia, and he gave a detailed introduction to Yiyi and Zhang Feng about the key points of honeysuckle picking.

"Shall we pick it back to make tea?" Zhang Feng's expression moved, and then guessed.

"Hehe, honeysuckle can't be directly made into tea to drink, it tastes very bad, there is a green taste, if you want to make honeysuckle tea, you need to go through a series of fried processing, just like making ordinary green tea!!" the old man said with a smile.

It's really a long knowledge!!

Listening to the old man's words, Zhang Feng couldn't help but nodded, when he used to pick honeysuckle at home, he also used it to make tea and drink it, but the taste was really bad, just like drinking herbs.

After listening to the old man's words, Zhang Feng realized that the honeysuckle that had not been fried would have the taste of that kind of green plant.

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Before you know it, everyone has filled the basket,

The honeysuckle that spreads all over the mountains and fields is only one thousandth or one ten-thousandth, because the honeysuckle planted at that time is as large as the area of the orchard, but now, almost all of them have been abandoned by the villagers.

"Alright, little ones, let's go home!!"

Grandma Liu smiled and beckoned to the little ones running all over the mountain!

"Grandma Liu, we're going home?"

The little ones had a lot of fun, and some of them didn't want to go home.

"Grandma Liu, shall we play for a while?" asked Grandma Liu pitifully.

"Hehe, hurry up, let's go home and play, we'll make a lot of delicious things later!"

"Really?" As soon as they heard that there was something delicious, the greedy little ones immediately became entangled, should they continue to play in the mountains, or should they go home with Grandma Liu to eat delicious miles?

"Of course, there are a lot of cakes I made yesterday!!" Seeing that the little ones were moved, Grandma Liu increased her fire and continued to tempt.

"Let's go, go home, eat cake!!"

As soon as they heard that there was a cake to eat, the little ones didn't say how excited they were, and they ran to Grandma Liu in a hurry.

"Oh, you guys wait for me!" ran and ran, and the hairy slippers ran away, revealing a little white foot.

The little girl frowned and shouted as she ran, this little look is really cute.

"Slow down, don't worry, Maoya, we're still waiting here!!"

Grandma Liu said with a smile, seeing this group of little leather monkeys, everyone's mood was extremely happy. Such a mountain village life is really incomparably warm and incomparably happy.

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"Little duckling, can you perform yesterday's show for your grandparents??" Zhang Feng asked the little duck with a smile on the way home.

"Oh, madman, I didn't perform well. The little guy smiled a little embarrassedly and said shyly.

"No, I saw that you performed very well yesterday, and your father praised you offstage!" Zhang Feng smiled and continued to encourage.

Yesterday happened to be Children's Day, Zhang Feng and Uncle Er Niu went to our school to watch the theatrical performance, I have to say, these preschool children performed really well.

"Yo, the little duck also participated in the performance on Children's Day, what kind of show are you performing?" asked Grandma Liu with a smile to the little duck.

"We ...... We performed "The Little Girl Picking Mushrooms", and Da Mao also participated...... "The little duck saw that he was going into the water, so he pulled Da Mao together."

So on the mountain road, after a while, the cute song of two leather monkeys sounded............

A little girl picking mushrooms

Carrying a large bamboo basket on his back

Barefoot in the morning

Walk through the forests and hills

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