According to the growth area, Cistanche is divided into desert Cistanche and Cistanche tubular. It grows in the western part of the province and the northern part of the J province, because the desert is predominant, and the parasitic plants of Cistanche are mostly Axon saxon, which is called desert Cistanche; In the south of Yaoshan Mountain in J Province, because the host plant is mainly red willow, the cistanche produced is Cistanche tubular flesh, but the medicinal properties are not much different.

Cistan Rong was once known as golden shoots, goblins, and blue water dragons. Among them, there is also a legend that in nature, the first desert Cistanche, and the later desert, because Cistanche absorbed the essence of the earth and the aura of all things, so the earth became a desert.

Therefore, Cistanche is also known as a "goblin", which shows its preciousness.

Cistanche contains a large number of amino acids, cystine, vitamins and minerals of rare nutrients and tonic ingredients, which have a great tonic effect on the male reproductive organs, and have an immediate effect on impotence and premature ejaculation. It was recorded in the "Collection of Materia Medica": "Cistanche has three coins, three decoctions and one system, and the yang is lifeless if it is served with hot drinks".

However, according to the statistics, among the wild Haloxylon and red willow, there are only 7 Cistanche plants for almost every 1,000 parasitic plants of Haloxylon or red willow, which makes the price of Cistanche remain high.

Cistanche can grow in at least 3 to 5 years, with a maximum growth of 10 to 100 cm per year, the heaviest plant can reach 10 kg, and 1 kg of cistanche can be sunburned every 7 kg, which is the most suitable for digging every year from April to June.

Thousands of years ago, the predecessors of traditional Chinese medicine, because Cistanche medicine is warm but not hot, warm but not dry, tonic but not harsh, slippery but not leaking, has the ability to calm and ease, is the old and infirm to delay aging, longevity and prolongation of life, so it is named "calm".

It is a unique desert shrub plant, with an average height of 2-3 and some as high as 5, known as the "king of desert vegetation", and is also a second-class endangered plant in China.

It is one of the best windbreak and sand-fixing vegetation in the Gobi Desert, which is resistant to thousands of droughts, sand-loving, cold-resistant, tenacious vitality, and has a lifespan of more than 100 years. The seeds of the Saxon are the seeds that take the shortest time to germinate in the world, and as long as it rains, it can germinate new life within two hours.

The material of the wood is strong and brittle, the burning fire is very strong, and there is less smoke, known as "sand coal", it is a high-quality fuel in the production area, and it is a good material for building livestock sheds. Its young branches are a good fodder for camels to survive winter and spring.

Moreover, the wild Haloxylon wood, it is not good to grow alone, it is necessary to rely on the camel to eat its leaves, minus some stalks, in order to grow as long as possible, and the camel's feces can better promote the growth of wild Haloxylon wood; In addition, the hooves of camels can also drive away the sand rats that are most afraid of the shuttle wood, and if there are no camels, the rat infestation will naturally be aggravated.

Therefore, if you only rely on the work to cut and pick the shuttle wood, if you want to make the shuttle wood grow quickly, it is still not possible to achieve the best planting effect.

And the red willow, also known as the strange willow, is one of the most common and common plants in the plateau.

Red willow is usually 23 meters tall and has many branches, with branches light purplish-red, rose-red, or reddish-brown. The leaves are lanceolate to reduce water evaporation. The plateau is easy to suffer from rheumatism, and the young branches and green leaves of the red willow are a good medicine for this stubborn disease, so it is affectionately called "Guanyin willow" by the local people.

Red willow is also a good livestock feed. In spring and summer, camels like to eat their twigs, and after autumn, goats and sheep are willing to eat their fallen twigs. If you use it well, you can also develop and get rich.

In Luo Han's hands, there are not only no saxon wood, no red willow, no active seeds of Cistanche, and no young camels. But Lohan wasn't worried. With Yuxue here, as long as he goes to the northwest desert area, he will naturally find these things, even the most difficult to find Cistanche.

It's just that, in order to avoid other suspicions, I feel that the plants in Luohan's medicinal material land are growing too fast, and Luo Han plans to directly transplant the mature Saxon wood and red willow to Yangcheng, and then collect a little wild cistanche, and by the way, buy a few pairs of camels and put them in the mountains and forests to raise.

As for the plants that originally grew in the northwest, whether they could be raised well in the southern city of Yangcheng, Luo Han was not afraid at all. At the beginning, he planted ginseng in Shenhai City, didn't he also grow ginseng that is better than the authentic wild ginseng in Changbai Mountain?

As soon as the active water comes out, the plants are happy!

Considering that it will take time for the birth of blood exhaustion, Luo Han will always take some days to go to Jinshan Temple and Kongtong Mountain, if it goes well, maybe he can turn around within ten years, but if it doesn't go well, it will take half a month or twenty years. Now that spring has begun, it is a good day to break ground, and we must not let that piece of medicinal herb be wasted there in vain, wasting time.

Therefore, after two deaths, Luo Han led Liu Qian to Yangcheng, met with Wang Hecheng and Ren Qiang, said hello, and left enough funds for activities, allowing Liu Qian to lead Liu Xuqin and Zhu Cai to toss back and forth in Yangcheng and the medicinal herb field, and he and Yuxue hidden in the Sumeru ring diverted from Yangcheng to Gemu Airport in the nearest Q province.

It's just that Luo Han didn't expect that he came to Gemu just to get some mature Saxon wood, red willow, and cistanche in the desert, but it was better to calculate than to count, but he encountered another trouble here.

Gemu Airport is in the desert Gobi, and when you look down from the plane, you can see an undulating yellow sand wave, surging into the misty distance. Looking at the reckless Hanhai, I only feel infinitely desolate.

This was Rohan's first time in the desert. After getting off the plane and walking out of the airport, his head was like a scorching sun, and Luo Han only felt that the pores under his body suddenly opened outward, and then shrank back sharply. In just a few moments, the water in the body has been lost a lot, which is quite dry.

But at the same time, the earth under his feet gave him an extremely vast feeling, which was completely different from the vastness in the Lingling Courtyard, in the South Bend Niu Mountain, and at the foot of Yue'e Mountain, but it was more bitter, helpless, dazed, and unwilling.

Yuxue quickly floated out of the Sumeru ring, with a bitter little face: "It's very dry here, and it's very badly damaged!" As a snow-capped mountain spirit, she doesn't like the climate here.

Luo Han's expression was solemn.

Although sometimes you can see pieces of the Gobi on TV and feel the desert scenery covered with yellow sand and dust, but at this moment, he is in a desperate situation, and he lacks the greenery that he is used to, and Luo Han's heart is indescribably heavy.

In fact, some desert areas in China already existed before the emergence of classification, and it is not a side effect of the development of classification civilization, but it is not excluded that there are many grassland areas that were originally green and shaded, and it is because of the overdevelopment of classification that the ecological balance has been destroyed to become a desert full of yellow sand.

Luo Han's heart moved: "Is there an existence like you here?" ”

Originally, he wanted to ask if there were any mountain spirits, but when he looked around, he didn't see the mountains, so he changed his mind immediately.

"Yes!" Yuxue nodded affirmatively.

However, seeing Luo Han's eyes lit up, Yuxue sighed again, quite sympathetic: "But its vitality is greatly damaged, and it is currently asleep." I guess we'd better not bother with it! ”

Luo Han was stunned at first, and then smiled wryly.

"It seems that I not only want to plant a hundred grasses and find a happy land for the plants below, but I also want to prevent the further expansion of this desert as much as possible, so that this ancient land, with a few pieces of injured skin, can recover its spirituality as soon as possible!"

Yuxue's sigh was obviously a kind of injury.

After a moment of silence, Luo Han put his arm around Yuxue's immature shoulders: "I know, you're sad. The road can only be taken one step at a time. We don't have a shaky foundation right now. When the three major mysteries are completed, I will come to the desert again to solve the problem of greening and help the mountain spirit recover. ”

"Hmm!"

………… In a place where no one was looking, Luo Han and Yuxue began to teleport.

In the blink of an eye, they were on the bank of a river with red willows.

According to Yuxue's induction, there is cistanche here.

But this red plant was something he hadn't seen just now, Luo Han couldn't help but be glad, glad that there was Yuxue by his side, otherwise, even if he had Zhang Zhuxi to give him a trace talisman, he could hide his body and fly in the air, but he didn't know the target, and the ghost knew how long it would take to find this red willow land?

Looking to the other side, the desert of the Gobi Desert is boundless, meeting with the dead, where the impenetrable fog locks the desolation of the Gobi. Although it is now the time of the spring equinox, a touch of winter desolation still stays in the undulations of the withered grass and the white ice condensed on the water surface.

The sky was blue, but the white clouds were still in the flying thoughts. The sparse camel thorn grass whispers with the wind, revealing the starlight of last night.

From afar, clusters of red clouds are scattered in the Gobi.

Luo Han only felt that his eyes lit up, and the heavy mood before was swept away because of this bright and brilliant color, and somehow, he seemed to be able to understand their perseverance in the desert of great drought and little rain, struggling unyieldingly, and persevering hard and tenaciously to live, and the tip of his nose was suddenly slightly sore, and there was a kind of life-like touch.

This...... It's red willow.

Although he had searched for pictures of red willow on the Internet, the real plants in front of him still made him feel that it was better to see than to hear!

This plant is far more beautiful than he imagined!

The light purple branches, as if the Gobi in silence is gradually waking up, showing its splendor, the light purple figure looks very elegant, making Luo Han stare for a long time, and his eyes can't help but reveal a little tenderness.

Its roots are planted in the depths of the earth, absorbing the layers of bitterness in the Gobi salinity, dissolving the life-hating elements in the Gobi soil, ushering in green seeds, and brewing the spring of the coming year.

Luo Han couldn't help but release his spiritual power to sense the roots of the red willow.

The red willow under the sand dunes has deeper roots and stretches its tentacles very long, the deepest and longest can reach more than 30 meters; And it divides into many lateral roots, stretching horizontally in all directions, covering a very wide area. It is precisely because of this characteristic that it lives tenaciously in the desert and forms a tall pile of tamarix, which becomes a unique landscape.

To be continued