Chapter 18 Digging Cistanche

In the early morning, a ray of sunlight shines through the window screen.

Shi Wan'er lazily opened her eyes and found that Hongming had gotten up, so she got up and dressed and combed her hair, and inadvertently looked out the window, only to see him boxing in the backyard, his neat posture, dancing like a flying crane, and couldn't help but get drunk.

Cai Hongming said that today I will take everyone to ride an ostrich to dig cistanche. So after eating, the crowd gathered in front of the house where the ostrich was closed.

When buying ostriches, Cai Hongming specially bought 20 adult ostriches, one was to lay eggs and hatch them by himself, so that he could save a sum of money to buy ostrich seedlings; The second is to domesticate these ostriches and then ride them to play. Just think about it, riding an ostrich on the vast yellow sand is intoxicating.

After these twenty adult ostriches were brought back, Cai Hongming took special care of them, not only feeding them with jade toad liquid and green lingzhi, but also finding a prescription from family heirlooms to nourish their bodies and boiling medicine to feed the ostriches. After several months of feeding, these twenty ostriches appeared to be unusually powerful, their bodies were about twice the size of ordinary ostriches, and their feet alone appeared to be brave and powerful. The most important thing is that I can still understand a little human speech, and I don't have the stupidity of ordinary ostriches that bury themselves in the sand with the slightest sound.

One of these ostriches is particularly large, so it naturally became the king of these ostriches, Cai Hongming's mount.

Cai Hongming often deals with it, so he is very familiar. When he saw him coming, the ostrich king cried affectionately and flapped his wings. The black and white, beautiful feathers, and tall body stood there, just like the ballerina on the stage.

"Brother Hong, I'm going too." Liu Zhong looked at the ostrich. Said with a blank eye.

He was so fat, a few days ago, he weighed two hundred pounds, and he didn't know how to eat it. Cai Hongming was worried that he would crush the ostrich and did not dare to agree, even if he could ride, it was estimated that he would not be able to ride far. However, he was also worried that everyone would have an accident in the desert riding an ostrich, so he let him follow behind in the ferocious off-road muscle car converted from an armored vehicle with supplies.

When everything was ready, the group rode out on the ostrich.

Ostriches are fast and run so fast that they are too much for the average person to control. Cai Hongming went to the place where he bought ostrich seedlings to learn from the experience. An ostrich saddle was specially built for riding ostriches.

The ostrich saddle is made of yak leather. Soft and sturdy, it feels as comfortable as sitting on your own couch, not with your ass on top and the two balls underneath you like riding a horse.

Rush out of the Western Capital Victory. Outside is a newly bought 2,000 acres of land. The corn on the ground is about to ripen. A piece of golden. On the other side, yaks and ostriches are flocking, and they are thriving. On the side, the sea buckthorn fruit planted this year has grown more or less. A pinch of yellow fruit and a pinch of green leaves look very poetic.

The taste of sea buckthorn fruit was originally sour, but strangely, it slowly became a little sweet after the frost. People who like to make wine often choose to pick sea buckthorn fruit at this time to make wine.

Cai Hongming also wants to make some sea buckthorn fruit wine this year, and the kind of sea buckthorn fruit sold on the market is produced from the factory, and the taste is not very good. He wanted to brew something different, and planned to add some medicinal herbs to it, and then put some jade toad liquid, I believe it must taste good.

Running out of the farm and stepping on the soft yellow sand, the ostrich's speed slowed down significantly, but it was still fast.

Liu Zhong drove the muscle car and followed closely behind, and Ji Dong, whose arm had not yet healed, also came over to watch the excitement.

When I entered the desert and looked forward, I saw a piece of yellow sand that was vast and unduly, just like the yellow sea, and people seemed so small in the middle of it.

The boundless sea of sand is dotted with clumps of weeds and clumps of trees. The grass is hemp. They are drought-tolerant and have roots up to two meters long, allowing them to absorb the water they need in the arid desert. In order to survive in the desert where water is scarce, the sand willow relies on its tenacious perseverance to dig its roots deep in the sandy soil, up to dozens of meters, until it reaches to a place where there is a water source.

This clump of weeds and clumps of sand willow inject vitality into the otherwise dead sea of sand.

Here, once life is born, it is difficult to die, because the harsh environment can often nurture great and tenacious lives.

Shi Wan'er sat on the ostrich with a veil, her silk hair flying, her clothes fluttering, and her posture moving.

Here, how can you not take pictures? Therefore, as soon as she entered the desert, she asked Cai Hongming to take photos of her in various poses, and Liu Chong took on the responsibility of taking photos of the entire team.

Qilian Village is located on the edge of Gulang, with the vast desert in front of it, and the opposite side of the desert is Ala. Shanmeng, a little more past is Meng. Ancient borders. Of course, Cai Hongming and his entourage did not want to smuggle across the border to Mongolia. The ancient country goes, but to dig Cistanche.

Gulang and Allah. The vast desert in the middle of the Shanmeng has always been rarely visited, which also gives the parasitic Cistanche Shuttle tree some chance to thrive, and Cai Hongming happens to know that there is a forest of Shuttle in one place.

The ostriches of the divine steed are running fast across the desert.

Riding an ostrich is not easy, because this stupid ostrich is not like a horse, it will automatically turn or obey commands, you have to hold its head and turn in the right direction to know where it goes, otherwise it will be stupid to rush forward. And you can't talk loudly in its ear, or it will be frightened if it is too cowardly, and will plunge headlong into the sand and never get up again.

After almost an hour of running, we finally reached our destination.

Cai Hongming and his entourage also changed from the excitement of riding an ostrich to a bitter cry, who would have been like this if they had sat on the back of a bumpy ostrich and blown the wind for so long. The bumps of this hour made people feel numb in their buttocks, and there was a feeling of wanting to die and wanting to die.

In front of me is a small lake of more than 100 square meters, surrounded by trees and weeds.

In the desert, you can often see strange sights, such as a small lake suddenly appearing in a patch of yellow sand, or a green field overgrown with green trees and weeds. You don't know where its water comes from, why it's there, it's green, but it's a lifeless expanse of yellow sand.

When they arrived at the place, everyone jumped off the ostrich and rubbed their buttocks, which had been tortured all the way to pain.

Cai Hongming kindly wanted to help Shi Wan'er rub it, but she was beaten away with a lot of anger.

Liu Zhong drove the muscle car and followed them closely, and when he saw them rubbing their buttocks, he gloated and laughed beside them. As a result, he was pressed and flattened by the comrades who were not happy with the eyes.

After taking a break, everyone took off the shovel from the muscle car and dug it up separately to find Cistanche, which is rarely visited here, and there are many Cistanche, which can be found casually.

Cai Hongming found a big piece of cistanche and dug it up with Shi Wan'er.

Cistanche is buried in the yellow sand under the Saxon tree, shallow twenty or thirty centimeters, a few meters deep, so digging Cistanche is hard work, not easy. Shi Wan'er has been pampered since she was a child, she is the eldest in the family, the princess in the eyes of everyone, who has done this kind of work, after digging a few times, she can't dig anymore, she sits next to her and rests, and by the way helps her husband cheer up. (To be continued......)