Chapter 318: 100-year-old soup

Lao Li also saw it and said, "It's really a kind of living fossil!"

After speaking, he explained to Wei Wei: "This tree is more precious than the white pheasant! Like the alder, it is one of the eight first-class protected plants in the country. It belongs to the remains of the Tertiary period of the Cenozoic Era 60 million years ago, and also has the title of "plant giant panda". ”

Uncle Orion said: "Now the flowers of the pigeon tree have just started, and after half a month, when it is in full bloom, it will be called a beautiful one, as if the tree is full of white pigeons, and we all call it 'pigeon tree'." ”

Wei Wei's eyes began to appear again: "Then I photographed the white pheasant on the dove tree, and there are second-class protected animals inhabiting the first-class protected plants, hehehe, this is not the time to contribute to the BBC again, hey, I will really be proud if it goes on like this......"

Everyone in the group laughed.

Then go up, and the topic is inseparable from the white pheasant and the dove tree. Li Junge asked Professor Ding: "Alder and Dove tree, it should be that Alder appeared on Earth earlier, right?"

Professor Ding nodded: "Alder is a fern, ferns are the earliest plants that appeared on land except for fungi, and the flourishing period of alder was 180 million years ago, the same era as the dinosaurs, much earlier than the dove tree." ”

"However, both trees were attacked by Quaternary glaciers, which wiped out most of the plants and animals on the planet at that time, and it is not easy for them to survive to this day. ”

Speaking of this, Professor Ding smiled again: "Actually, the protection of rare plants in our country is not as bad as the outside world understands, and in some respects it is quite powerful! For example, metasequoia, from a few trees when it was first discovered, has now become an ordinary street tree, a board tree, and a paper tree.

Lao Li laughed: "Lao Ding, don't talk about it, this thing hasn't been off the red list of endangered species yet, and you still need to continue to work hard!"

After noon, several people began to look for food and prepare dinner.

Wei Wei was surprised and said: "It's only the fourth day, and we've eaten more than a dozen kinds of wild vegetables all the way, right?"

Li Junge said: "In Shuzhou in spring, there are really not too many wild vegetables, in addition to the ones on the ground, there are also a lot of trees, look, there is one over there." ”

Only one looked, a small plant grew red and green shoots, and I couldn't help clapping my hands and shouting: "Tsubaki sprouts!"

This made Uncle Pharmacist laugh and fell: "Look clearly, the tree is full of thorns, that's the thorn old bag!"

Li Junge also smiled: "This thing is also called 'Birds Don't Fall', because it is full of large and small thorns, and there are a few big buds and leaves wrapped at the bottom, so it is called Lao Bao, which is not the same thing as Tsubaki Buds." ”

There is a trick to take the thorn old bag, Li Junge tied the stick heads of the two yellow wattle sticks with a rope, and then stretched out the tree to hang the rope on the thorn old bag, and then turned the stick together, and after the rope car was tightened, the thorn old bag was cut off from the tree, and he did not pick it by hand, so as not to be stabbed.

Vivi grinned and picked up the old thorn bag that had fallen to the ground and threw it into Uncle Craftsman's back basket.

When passing through a bamboo forest, Li Junge stopped to dig a few bamboo shoots.

Out of the bamboo forest, to a meadow by the mountain stream, Uncle Orion said: "Today, the first day of climbing, everyone is tired, let's rest early." ”

Wei Wei put down the bag and said to Li Junge: "Let's eat these old thorn buns tonight?"

Li Junge said: "This meadow is full of wild vegetables, but you don't know it, or only come with me, let's dig wild vegetables." ”

The two walked on the grass for a while, and Li Junge pointed to a bush of plants on the ground and said, "Look, this can be eaten." ”

Wei Wei fiddled with the leaves: "Ah, behind the leaves is ash." ”

Li Junge said with a smile: "By the way, this dish is called 'gray cabbage', but you can't underestimate it, don't look at it now as a wild vegetable, people in ancient times were eaten as the main edible vegetables, there is an ancient name 'quinoa'! Its sprout part is called 'Lai', "The Book of Songs" said that 'there is a platform in the South Mountain, and there is a Lai in the North Mountain, and the Le is only a gentleman, and the foundation of the state family. In "Han Feizi", there is also "King Yao of the world, the food of the rice and the soup of quinoa", which means that when Yao was the king of the world, he could only eat brown rice and drink wild vegetable soup. ”

Wei Wei said: "Quinoa is gray cabbage, what is it?"

Li Junge said: "Herb is deer weed, that is, wild soybeans, in ancient times, the poor people used these two things as vegetables, so the 'quinoa generation' also refers to the poor people. ”

Wei Wei rolled his eyes and smiled evilly: "Then why don't you eat wild peas?"

Li Junge rolled his eyes: "Test me, right? Wild peas have another name, called 'Wei', there is a poem in the Book of Poetry called "Cai Wei", Bo Yi Shu Qi and his brothers did not eat Zhou Su after the fall of the Shang Dynasty, and ran to Shouyang Mountain to eat this, but this thing was poisonous in the flower and fruit period, and I don't know whether Bo Yi Shu Qi starved to death or was poisoned. ”

Wei Wei was surprised: "Oh, you can say anything, you can do it!"

Li Junge smiled: "Hehe, if you want me in this regard, you are still a little hot." However, the common people in the Qin period were really pitiful, and most of the vegetables we commonly use now are alien species, and even Chinese cabbage was hybridized with several mustard greens in the Tang and Song dynasties. Yo, you see, there's another wild vegetable. ”

A grass that grows close to the ground on the ground, the leaves are spread out very widely, like a small green bamboo shoot with the leaves, and the leaves are cut out with scissors into many triangular notches.

Li Junge said: "This is also an old variety that has appeared in the Book of Songs, called camellia, 'who says that it is bitter, it is as sweet as camelina', which means that whoever says that it is bitter, as long as I like it, it tastes as sweet as shepherd's." It means that the shepherd's cabbage is delicious!"

Wei Wei said, "Really, then let's take more!"

Li Junge's eyes rolled and said: "Tonight, eat bacon and wild garlic fried thorny old buns, bamboo shoots and clove sausages and baked flatbread, you are from the Northeast, if you wrap the flatbread live, I will make a 'hundred-year-old soup' for you with shepherd's cabbage, how about it?!"

Wei Wei smiled and said: "Okay! I'm very good at baking flatbread! It's hard for you to make this hundred-year-old soup, right?

Li Junge was very proud: "That is, this dish, there are very few people who know this name now, let alone make it!"

After picking a large bag of gray cabbage and shepherd's cabbage and returning to the camp, Li Junge first took all kinds of vegetables to the stream to wash them, and then came back, found two sausages and a few bamboo shoots and chopped them into dices, took out the flour and handed it to Wei Wei Qi and made batter fried cakes.

I took some fat bacon here, cut it into small dices and fried it into oil residue in the oil pan, then scooped up the oil residue, poured it into the thorny old bun, minced wild garlic, poured the oil residue into it and stir-fried it well, and then fried a stir-fried gray cabbage, and then chopped the shepherd's cabbage, and waited for the only pancake in a good way.

Wei Wei was so busy that he was sweating profusely, and said to Li Junge: "Huh, aren't you going to make a hundred-year-old soup? Why are you still idle?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, it's not too late to make the cake when you are ready, this hundred-year-old soup, if you want to eat it freshly, what you eat is fresh!"

Only finally baked the flatbread, and came over with great interest to watch Li Junge make 100-year-old soup.

Li Junge boiled a pot of water in advance, mixed a bowl of starch water, and said to Wei Wei: "Look at it, this hundred-year-old soup is coming quickly!"

After speaking, he threw the shepherd's cabbage leaves into the pot and stirred a few times, then added a little salt to enhance the taste, and then poured starch water into it, turned a pot of soup into a paste, dripped some sesame oil, and spread his hands and said: "Done! Verdant green, is it good?"

This made Wei Wei angry: "What '100-year-old soup'! You just want to trick me into working! This is a pot of shepherd's cabbage paste!"

Li Junge laughed and said, "I only understand now, it's too late!" After speaking, he picked up the shrimp pot and ran.

Angry, Wei Wei chased after him: "You stop me! I'm so angry! What the hell is a hundred-year-old soup! You are a big liar!"

Li Junge laughed while running: "Don't chase, don't chase, I'll go to the shrimp pot, and fry some small fish for you at night to make amends......"

Came to a rotting tree root, dug up a pile of earthworms and threw them into the shrimp pot, went down to the depths of the stream, washed their hands and returned to the camp, and everyone began to eat dinner together.

Professor Li rolled the flatbread into a loophole, added some bacon scraps to the cake and fried the old bun, chewed it and said, "Well, this cake is good, but the craftsmanship of the Northeast pancake is fantastic!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "The Northeast flatbread is a hundred-year-old soup, a perfect match!"

Wei Wei is going crazy again: "Shepherd's cabbage paste!

Professor Ding laughed: "I just heard the two of you making trouble, Piwa, you too, shepherd's cabbage is puree, and it's such a name!"

Li Junge hit the sky and shouted: "Professor Ding, I really didn't lie to her! This is the authentic 'hundred-year-old soup'! It is recorded in Tao Gu's "Qing Yilu" in the Song Dynasty, 'The common name is a hundred-year-old soup, and it can be said to be poor, although it can be enjoyed for a long time. ’”

After speaking, he said: "But it means that this thing is everywhere, even if you are so poor that you can't be poor, you will still have shepherd's cabbage soup to eat for a hundred years, but it doesn't mean that you can live a hundred years old if you eat it, it's the only way to make a fork yourself!"

A group of people laughed so hard when they heard Li Junge also quote scriptures.

After eating, seeing that the time was almost up, Li Junge came to the stream and put up the shrimp cage.

There are already a lot of small fish and shrimp in it, about a pound or so.

However, the fish and shrimp in the mountain stream are very small, and the big ones are only the length of the little finger.

However, small fish have the practice of small fish, put down the shrimp pot again, carry the fish and shrimp back to the camp, Li Junge also surrounded a fire pond, took out some red charcoal from the original fire pond and put it in, covered it with a layer of firewood ash, hung the pan on the top, and spread a thick layer of hay stalks in the pot, which evenly spread a layer of small fish and shrimp on the top.

I can't sleep casually tonight, and when I enter the range of the primeval forest, I must have basic vigilance, so I made an appointment with Uncle Orion to keep one person to watch the first half of the night and one person to keep watch for the second half of the night.

Before going to bed, a few wild animal cries sounded on the distant mountain.

Uncle Orion comforted the scientific research trio and said: "This is the red-haired dogs gathering, ready to hunt, they are afraid of fire, there are Piwa to take care of me, it's okay, you can sleep at ease!"

Everyone slept, and Li Junge came to the fire with a gun, added firewood, turned his back to the fire, and guarded the camp.

Since it was a scientific expedition, it was not conducive to the observation for fear of disturbing the animals, so this time I didn't bring them out, so I had to rely on people to keep vigil.

And the vigil must be carried on the fire, because the eyes suddenly move from the light to the dark, and there will be a process of adaptation, in which things cannot be seen clearly.

Moreover, wild animals are afraid of fire and will not attack over the fire, so it is safe to carry the fire on their backs.