Chapter 57: Wild Plantains
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After dinner, the old village chief rushed to find him.
"Xiao Yan, how is your condition now? Is it getting better? The old village chief was also familiar with Yan Tianzhi, and when he came in, he saw Yan Tianzhi lying lying watching TV, and couldn't help asking.
"Huh! The village elder uncle is here? Looking for a strong family, right? He's taking a shower! Sit down for a while! Have a cup of tea, hehe! The more I drink these camellias, the more addicted I become! Yan Tianzhi said to the old village chief with a smile.
The old village chief sat down, took a sip of tea, and the two immediately chatted.
"Haha! It seems that your Chujiazhai is really a treasure! Yan Tianzhi couldn't help but smile when he learned about Tianma.
"Alas! If Jiaqiang hadn't found out, we would probably continue to treat them as weeds. The old village chief sighed, the people in the village are not highly educated, they have little knowledge, and they don't know about guarding the treasure. He is a little frightened now, such an expensive treasure, if it is dug up by others, it will be a real regret to die.
Chu Jiaqiang came out of the shower, and the old village chief couldn't wait to pull him away, and with dozens of agreements, he visited every family.
The villagers soon learned the news, they were very excited, this year is really lucky, the income has increased by several thousand yuan, plus this matter, it has exceeded 10,000. Of course, they did not have the slightest opinion on the content of the agreement, although they were all farmers, but they still had their minds. Therefore, I signed it very happily, and prepared to get up early tomorrow and set off quickly, now time is money.
Chu Jiaqiang didn't know that their approach directly made the people in the village sleep badly all night, and they always thought about the wind grass in their minds.
During the period, Chu Jiaqiang also talked to everyone about some precautions, mainly how to deal with the excavated gastrodia. This is also a bit exquisite, there is not much requirement for what you eat, but if you take it out and sell it, first of all, you must look good to sell it well.
After harvesting, it should be processed in time, remove the mud and sand while it is fresh, grade it according to size, boil, 150g or more of gastrodia, boil for 10-15min, boil 100-150g for 7-10min, cook for 5-8min below 100g, boil for 5min outside of the heart, take it as the degree, put it into the smoking room after cooking, smoke it with sulfur for 20-30min, and then bake it with a simmer, the temperature on the kang begins to be 50-60 °C, and when it is dry to 7-8, take it out and flatten it by hand, and continue to go on the kang, At this time, the temperature should be about 70 °C, and after the gastrodia is completely dry, it will be immediately out of the kang.
This was all found on the Internet, otherwise Chu Jiaqiang wouldn't know about it. According to the theory of the old Taoist priests, in fact, all Chinese herbal medicines are naturally dried in the sun to have the best effect.
The next day, everyone poured up the hill again. Chu Jiaqiang also joined in the fun because he had nothing to do. It is also followed by Xiaojin, a bamboo rat, climbing the mountain is its favorite sport, and it usually goes into the mountain every two or three days, going in the morning and coming back in the evening.
The little ones who went into the mountains were monkeys, and they were all over the place. At this time, some of the wild fruits on the mountain are more early-ripening and ready to eat.
In the mountains, children do not have the blessings of city children, and they can receive pocket money to buy snacks every day. Children in the mountains often go to the mountains to find wild fruits, although most of them are sweet and sour, not as delicious as those grown at home, but they enjoy it.
Generally speaking, most of the wild fruits in the mountains ripen in autumn, and this is not the time yet. There are many kinds of wild fruits in the mountains of Chujiazhai, such as wild grapes, wild lychees, wild strawberries, chestnuts, mountain green pears, hawthorns, wild bananas and so on.
"Brother! You see, the whole plantain is ripe there, so cut it down and take it home to eat. Chu Jiawan looked at the mountain stream and saw a bush of wild bananas, some of which had turned yellow.
Chu Jiaqiang looked, sure enough, it seems that no one has been here for a long time. Or when he was a child, this wild banana would never be ripe. In the past, their group of children ran up the mountain almost every day, and they knew the situation on the mountain very well, and the wild fruits there were ripe and could never be hidden.
"Let's go! Go cut it down and talk about it. Chu Jiaqiang brought a group of children over, and those adults were too lazy to take care of the wild bananas. If it is usual, you may still take a few looks, but now it is important to make money.
The stem of the wild banana is erect, 2~3 meters high, and has creeping branches. 7~9 single leaves, spirally arranged, petioles with deep grooves, lower parts with leaf sheaths; The leaves are oblong-elliptic, 1~2 meters long, 20~40 cm wide, the apex is acutely pointed, the base is slightly rounded, the whole margin, dark green above, light green below, thinly covered with white powder, the main vein is particularly raised, with pinnate parallel veins.
Its spike-like inflorescence droops; The flowers are unisexual, the bracts are large, the buds of the Buddha flame are purple-red, ovate-lanceolate, 10~20 cm long, and covered with boats. In the upper part of the bouquet are male flowers, and the lower part is female flowers. The calyx and petals are partially tubular, and one side is longitudinally lobed to the base after growth, pale yellowish-white.
This wild banana is actually not very tasty, it has seeds in it, black, similar to watermelon seeds. The bananas we usually eat do not have seeds, because when the bananas are formed, the banana farmers will generally remove the buds below, which is called broken buds, so they cannot grow seeds. And this wild banana is not paid attention to at all, it naturally has seeds.
Coming to the side of the wild banana tree, Chu Jiaqiang asked everyone to get out of the way, and then began to cut down the tree.
Don't think that Chu Jiaqiang destroys the ecology, banana trees are to be cut down. It is a perennial growing tree in its own right and reproduces quickly. If you cut it, it will grow up in the middle, and then continue to bloom and bear fruit. On the contrary, you don't cut down the tree, you just cut down the wild banana, and the tree will grow and no longer bloom.
Cut down a few of the trees that were ripe and give them to the little ones, and there was quite a lot left.
"Be careful! Don't let the banana juice get on you. Chu Jiaqiang reminded everyone.
Don't look at those people who are only five or six years old, they still know a lot about this common sense, and they know that banana juice is very difficult to wash. I didn't notice it when I first got it, but it quickly turned black. It gets on your clothes and can barely be washed off.
Those children peeled the skin on the spot and started eating, even Chu Jiaqiang couldn't help but eat one. The taste made him very evocative, not very tasty, but it made people reminisce about the happy times of childhood.
"Hmmm! It's not delicious! Brother, give it to you! Chu Jiawan took two bites, so she didn't want it. This girl is also enthusiastic for three minutes, and her appetite has changed during this time.
Chu Jiaqiang glanced at it, a little speechless, and took two bites by himself, and let people eat it.
"You've eaten it all, let me eat your saliva, brother?"
"Hee-hee! Brother eats sister's saliva, so what's there? After eating my saliva, my brother will listen to me more in the future. Chu Jiawan said with a smile.
There is a saying in the countryside that whoever eats saliva will listen to whomever he says. In order to be obedient to their children in the future, some mothers deliberately put them in their mouths when feeding their children, and then give them to their children. Of course, there is also a reason for the test temperature.
Seeing that Chu Jiaqiang ignored her, Chu Jiawan immediately shifted the target: "If you don't eat, I'll give Xiaojin something to eat." After speaking, he handed it to Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin also shook his head violently and immediately retreated. Let's not say that it doesn't eat bananas, and even if it does, it won't eat what you've eaten. This guy is quite picky about what he eats, and he can't even smell it if it doesn't fit his taste.
Chu Jiawan was magnificent, feeling that this little thing was as hateful as his brother!