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The guard asked Xu Fu: "Before Your Majesty fell ill, he sent a message to ask you to come back, Xu Fangshi, have you found the elixir of life? Your Majesty's illness is waiting for you to save it." ”

Xu Fu smiled bitterly: "At the beginning, I was ordered by His Majesty to find the elixir of life, and I led three thousand boys and girls to a small island between the three immortal islands of Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou, which the locals call Zhu Island, and there is indeed a legend about the elixir of immortality in Zhu Island. ”

"There is a legend in Zhu Island, there is a magical spiritual creature in the hinterland of the deep valley on the island, this spiritual creature is the fruit of a plant, called Chitose, the size of this fruit is like a walnut, the juice is thick, the taste is sweet, it is said that eating it can keep a thousand years of immortality, and it can also increase the life span of three years and three months when you smell it. This plant is extremely rare, rare in the world, and rare even for locals. ”

"So I specially asked the locals to be our guide and took us deep into the heart of the valley to find Chitose, and after a lot of hard work, we finally found Chitose. Chitose is indeed a rare plant, it is a vine-like shrub that uses its roots and fruits as medicine. It has the effect of regulating qi, moisturizing dryness, relieving fever and removing annoyance, invigorating blood and reducing swelling. The flesh is green, the skin is soft and hairy, and it can be eaten often to strengthen the body and prolong life. ”

"At that time, I was extremely excited to find the elixir of immortality in Chitose, thinking that I had lived up to His Majesty's mission and finally found the elixir of life for him. But an attendant from Nanyi reminded me, and he said, "Fangshi, do you know what this thing is called in China?" I asked, "What is it called?"

"It's called wild kiwi in China. ”

"Wild kiwi?"

Kiwi fruit is also known as kiwifruit, fox peach, vine pear, sheep peach, wood, hairy wood fruit, hemp vine fruit, Yangtang pear, etc., the fruit shape is generally oval, the early appearance is greenish-brown, after maturity is reddish-brown, the epidermis is covered with dense fluff, inedible, the inside is bright green flesh and a row of black seeds. Because macaques like to eat, so it is called kiwifruit, there is another theory because the skin of the fruit is covered with hair, it looks like a macaque and gets its name, it is a fruit of fresh quality, rich in nutrients, and delicious in flavor.

Kiwi has a soft texture and a sweet and sour taste, and the taste is described as a mixture of strawberry, banana, and pineapple.

As early as the pre-Qin period, there was a record of kiwi in the Book of Songs: "Xi has Chang Chu (the ancient name of kiwifruit), and its branches." Li Shizhen also described the shape of kiwifruit in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Its shape is like a pear, its color is like a peach, and the macaque likes to eat, so it has many names." ”

Kiwi fruit, commonly known as yang peach, hairy peach, mountain peach, hairy pear peach, etc., is an ancient wild vine fruit tree native to China.

There are many kinds of plants called kiwifruit in various parts of China, and there are more than 52 species of kiwifruit plants distributed throughout the country, and many of them are edible. Their wild species are widely distributed, including Shaanxi, Gansu and Henan in the north, Liangguang and Fujian in the south, Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan in the southwest, and all provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, especially in the Yangtze River basin.

The history of kiwi fruit being eaten by the ancients is very long, in addition to the Book of Poetry, there is also Chang Chu in "Erya Shi Cao", the famous naturalist Guo Pu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty named it sheep peach, and the people of some places in Hubei and eastern Sichuan still call the kiwi peach sheep peach.

"Kiwi taste is salty and warm, non-toxic, can be used medicinally, mainly for the treatment of joint wind, paralysis, long-term gray hair, hemorrhoids, and so on. ”

In addition to being eaten as a wild fruit, kiwi is also cultivated in gardens as ornamental flowers because of its beautiful leaves and flowers. "On the fence of the atrium well, a kiwi fruit" vividly describes the situation when people used kiwifruit to beautify their homes.

Judging from the relevant historical data, this wild fruit has been used by people in mountainous areas, but the way of use may be similar to that of golden cherry seeds, and it has not been domesticated and cultivated.

Legend has it that in ancient times, in the forest area of the south, there is a kind of wild fruit tree, the people in the mountains do not know, the fruit tree will bear fruit every autumn, the fruit is ripe and oval, the peel has yellow-brown fluff, the appearance is very ugly, people think that the wild fruit is poisonous, so they despise it.

One year, the people in the mountains unexpectedly discovered that when the wild fruit was ripe, they had seen it all over the trees the day before, but the next day there was only a bare trunk left, and no wild fruit had fallen on the ground. When people wonder, they wonder: Where did all these wild fruits go?

One night, in the dead of night, under the dim moonlight, people found groups of old and young monkeys running from all directions, climbing up the fruit trees one after another.

When the wild fruit was ripe in the third year, the people in the mountains said, "Since the monkey can eat this wild fruit, can't we eat it?"

So everyone went to pick and taste, peeled off the peel first, only to see that the flesh was as green as jade, and put it into the mouth to try, it turned out to be sweet and sour, very delicious. Immediately, everyone took a large basket and a small basket and picked them one after another and transported them home. The wild fruits that the people in the mountains will pick are eaten every day, every year. A few years later, since eating wild fruits, the people who used to have many diseases are no longer sick, the original weak body has become stronger, and the old and infirm have become light and long-lived, so everyone regards this wild fruit as a fairy fruit and a precious fruit.

But there was no name for this wild fruit, so the mountain people held a meeting to discuss the name of the wild fruit. At the meeting, everyone pondered but couldn't come up with a suitable name, and suddenly an old man stood up and said.

"This wild fruit monkey loves to eat, the color and form of the wild fruit is very similar to the appearance of the monkey, this monkey belongs to the macaque, this wild fruit belongs to the peach family. Based on this analysis, I think it is more appropriate to call it kiwifruit. ”

After discussion, everyone agreed that the name was good. It has been passed down from generation to generation, and all the herbal books of all dynasties have taken kiwifruit as a unified name of traditional Chinese medicine throughout the country.

When Xu Fu heard this, he was stupid, and he couldn't laugh at all: "This is a wild kiwifruit, then it's not an elixir?" I came to Xiandao with a lot of difficulty, and I actually found a wild kiwi fruit that is available in China, this time I am really dead, I have not found the elixir of life, how can I go back and deal with the Qin Emperor? I will definitely be killed by the Qin Emperor, this time I will really be beheaded. ”