Chapter 14 Collecting Medicine

Yesterday it rained, and today the field is very muddy, so the captain told everyone to rest for a day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Luo Zhentang's grandfather and grandson had breakfast to prepare for going up the mountain to collect medicine, and they had to wear long clothes and trousers, and smear some anti-mosquito potion configured by Luo Zhentang on their bodies. Prepare wicker baskets and shovels for digging herbs, weapons against wild beasts, water and food, and more.

Luo Qingyan was a little excited, originally, she had long wanted to go to the mountains, but she never had the chance, and this time she finally got her wish.

In fact, Luo Zhentang didn't go casually into the mountains, where there were many herbs, where it was easy to encounter large beasts, he probably had a number in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't dare to take his granddaughter to adventure. This time, he didn't plan to go to dangerous places, but just wanted to take his granddaughter to a more intuitive understanding of the growth habits of various herbs.

When the sun rose, the moisture in the morning went down a little, and the two men carried two wicker baskets, one large and one small, and headed for the mountain. It had just rained yesterday, and the ground was still very muddy, so it would be much better to step on the grass when there was grass. Each of them took a stick in his hand and walked and knocked on the grass in front of them, so as to drive away the snake in the grass so that it would not be bitten by it.

Luo Zhentang asked his granddaughter to walk behind him, and explained the precautions to his granddaughter as he walked. In fact, Luo Qingyan is not familiar with the mountains and forests, and in his previous life, he often followed his grandfather to pick herbs, and later became a soldier and often dealt with the mountains and forests. In order to collect precious animals and plants, she has been to the primeval forests of many places such as Shennongjia and Amazon, which are much more dangerous than here.

They belong to the mountainous area, rich in wildlife resources, and are the "hometown of the three treasures of the northeast". Wild animals include Siberian tigers, leopards, red deer, sika deer, black bears, and brown bears. Wild boar, roe deer, musk deer, sable, etc., as well as many birds and fish. Wild plants include Chinese herbs such as ginseng, gastrodia, rhodiola, and reishi lucidum, as well as wild vegetables such as prickly sprouts, bracken, and mountain mustard. Edible mushrooms include yuan mushroom, lion's mane mushroom, fungus, hazel mushroom, etc. There are also many types of trees, such as Korean pine, Yan pine, white birch, diamond willow, Northeast yew, etc. In autumn, you can also pick many wild fruits, such as wild mushrooms, mountain grapes, wild persimmons, wild kiwifruit, blue lake fruits, bilberries, hickory, hazelnuts, pine nuts, etc. Luo Qingyan thought about it, and felt that the products were too rich, and it was simply a natural treasure house.

The more the two of them walked in, the trees got bigger and bigger, the fog in the woods was clear, and the sunlight penetrated through the leaves of the towering trees, shooting out golden rays like sharp swords, and in front of them was a sea of green. The birds in the trees chirp non-stop, and the occasional squirrel can be seen running through the trees, rabbits scurrying through the soles of their feet, and pheasants flying away.

If it was only Luo Qingyan herself, the hares, pheasants, etc. would all be in her pocket, but unfortunately she didn't dare to expose her skills at will with her grandfather by her side.

Walking a little deeper into the mountains, you can already occasionally see herbs, Luo Qingyan followed his grandfather to learn how to dig out herbs without damaging their medicinal properties. Since no one has been collecting medicine in this mountain for a long time, the medicinal materials are still quite abundant, and the two of them have gained a lot in a short time.

Since it just rained yesterday, the mushrooms and fungus have grown a lot, and it is very good to find that this is too busy Luo Qingyan to feel that he should carry a bigger basket. If this is the amount of harvest every day, and it is sent to the purchasing station, the money must not come in a hurry, but unfortunately it cannot come every day. In the future, she must let her grandfather often take her up the mountain, and her grandfather will definitely not agree to come by herself.

Before they knew it, their baskets were full. Seeing that it should have been past noon, the two men ate some dry food they had brought in the morning, rested for a while, and then walked back with the basket on their backs. Don't look at Luo Qingyan's small basket, there are not as many things as grandpa's, but she also secretly threw a lot of them into the space, just kidding, it's easy to come here, how can you have enough money.

As the saying goes, it's easy to go up the mountain and hard to go down, not to mention that one person still carries a basket of things, so you have to pay attention to your feet at all times, so you have to walk slower than you go up the mountain. Just when Luo Qingyan carefully followed his grandfather forward, he was still looking around, in the novels I used to read, the heroine could find ginseng when she went up the mountain, why didn't she have this good luck, although the space was already full, but there was no excuse to take it out!

Suddenly, she saw a plant in front of her, and with her eyesight, she recognized it as ginseng. Haha, God finally appeared and let her meet ginseng too. She hurriedly grabbed her grandfather, "Grandpa, what do you think it is?"

Luo Zhentang looked in the direction of his granddaughter's finger, and suddenly his heart beat faster, the attraction of such a precious medicinal material as ginseng to an old Chinese medicine doctor can be imagined. Luo Zhentang hurriedly put down the wicker basket, walked to the ginseng, and carefully picked up the grass around the ginseng. He felt that his granddaughter was a lucky star, and judging from the branches and leaves of this ginseng tree, this ginseng tree would be at least more than 100 years old. This kind of thing that can be met but not sought by his granddaughter is encountered. Luo Zhentang took a small shovel and carefully dug the soil around the ginseng, and while digging back, he told his granddaughter about the skills and precautions of digging ginseng.

Luo Zhentang wasted a lot of effort to dig out this ginseng intact, according to his years of experience, this ginseng has been more than 200 years, it can be regarded as a treasure. Luo Zhentang took out the extra coat he wore in the morning, carefully wrapped the ginseng, buried it under the herbs in the basket, and told his granddaughter not to tell others. Luo Qingyan hurriedly nodded. Just kidding, what if you say it, you're being remembered?

In this way, the grandfather and grandson happily walked back, praising their granddaughter's luck while walking Luo Zhentang. Luo Zhentang came to this mountain to collect medicine I don't know how many times, but he encountered ginseng a few times, but only a few times. Look at the granddaughter's luck, she came across it the first time she came back, and it was so big. If you are lucky, you can't be convinced, and you will often take her to the mountain to collect medicine in the future, and you may encounter something good. This Luo Zhentang has gone farther and farther on the road controlled by his granddaughter.

The two of them walked back home unhurriedly, and when they arrived at Jialuo Zhentang, they put aside the other herbs and didn't care about it, they had to deal with the ginseng first. Luo Zhentang took this opportunity to explain to Luo Qingyan several methods of concocting ginseng. After dealing with the ginseng, he took out the other herbs in the basket and picked up some herbs that he had not seen before, explained the preparation method, and asked Luo Qingyan to try to get started. Luo Zhentang found that his granddaughter was born to learn Chinese medicine, and she absorbed what he talked about very quickly, and she could draw inferences from one another, which made Luo Zhentang very relieved that he had a successor.

This time the harvest of herbs is huge, it is almost dark and the herbs have not been processed, Luo Qingyan saw that it would be dark if he didn't cook dinner, so he said to his grandfather, "Grandpa, I can basically concoct the rest of the herbs, let's get it tomorrow, you rest for a while, I'll cook." As he spoke, he stood up and began to cook quickly, and it was getting late, so he made something simple. I'm tired today, so I'm well fed and rested early.

The next day, Luo Zhentang went to work, Luo Qingyan disposed of the remaining herbs at home, and had to dry the mushrooms and fungus, taking advantage of the fact that no one at home took out a lot from the space, anyway, the mushroom fungus shrank as soon as it was dried, and the volume was extremely reduced, who could see how much it was when it was wet before.