Chapter 188: A Hundred Years of He Shou Wu
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Ye Quan has rarely returned to his hometown in the past ten years, and Father Qiao just felt familiar, but he couldn't recognize Ye Quan, so he had to smile and say, "Who are you in this offspring?" The old man has a poor memory, and he can't recognize it. ”
Ye Quan only said a little, and Daddy Qiao immediately knew, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a college student from Taoyuan Village, and they all said that you have become a big boss now, and you have invested a lot of money in tourism in the village, how can you enter the mountain alone?" Come in and rest. ”
After introduction, the young man was the grandson of Daddy Qiao, named Qiao Ping.
Nanshantun is only twenty miles away from Taoyuan Village, and the two villages think of intermarriage, and they usually have close contacts, but Ye Quan has been away for a long time, and he only knows some older people, and he rarely knows the generation that is younger than him.
Qiao Ping said very little, but Daddy Qiao was very talkative, and he met him in the mountains, and he had a taste of "meeting old acquaintances in other places", and he was very enthusiastic.
The wooden house was built with a thatched roof, but the four walls were built thick and firm, and the area was very small, only forty or fifty square meters, but it was divided into two rooms, one of which was slightly smaller, and placed a low bamboo bed and a simple table, and two back baskets were placed on the bamboo bed; The outer room is slightly larger, with a fire pit in the middle, and two corners are stacked with firewood, four stake stools, and an old wooden cabinet.
As soon as Ye Quan put down his backpack, Father Qiao took out a mountain hare, a pheasant and a big white bird from the back basket, and opened the wooden cabinet in the corner, only to see that there were five large porcelain bowls, several pairs of chopsticks, a packet of dried chili peppers and a packet of used coarse salt, as well as a tin pot for cooking rice and an iron pot for cooking soup.
Daddy Qiao said, "We have just arrived, and we are about to raise the fire." Ah Ping, you go to the spring behind to fetch water, and then cut some thatch and come back. ”
Proximity to water is a must for camping, and the reason why the hut was built here is also because of its proximity, but it should not be too close to avoid encountering wild beasts that come to drink. Ye Quan vaguely remembered that about 300 meters away from the wooden house, there was a spring that continued throughout the year.
When you get to the mountains, you are the master. There was no polite reason, Ye Quan saw that the three wild animals were not enough for tomorrow's breakfast, so he took out the hunting crossbow from his backpack. said: "Daddy Qiao, I'll go and get some game back." ”
Father Qiao looked at the sky and persuaded: "It's getting dark, don't go, we brought a pound of rice, and dug a few nests of yams and kudzu on the way, enough for three people to fill their stomachs." ”
Ye Quan smiled: "It's okay, I'll go for half an hour, and I'll come back if I can't fight." ”
Of course, Ye Quan is so confident that he is confident, even if he can't hit the prey. It's a big deal to get a few animals out of the space, and you'll always be full.
The colorful pheasants, meat pigeons, turtle doves and rabbits and other animals he kept in the space, even if there are laborers and some carnivorous scourges, the number is still increasing, if not the space has been upgraded. The area is ten times larger, and I am afraid that it will be flooded.
However, with the mental power to search, and the big helper of the tiger girl, plus the luck was not bad, it only took thirty minutes. Ye Quan used a hunting crossbow to hit two ring-necked pheasants, and if it weren't for fear of arousing suspicion, Ye Quan even wanted to catch two hibernating snakes to fight tooth sacrifices.
When he returned to the wooden house, the fire had already risen in the fire pit, and Daddy Qiao had scooped up the rice and was about to cook porridge in a tin pot, while Qiao Ping was outside plucking pheasants and wild birds.
Ye Quan saw that there was not much rice in the pot, so he hurriedly took out a bag of about two catties of Xiangshui rice from his backpack, handed it over and said, "Daddy Qiao, I also brought rice, you put some in it." ”
Daddy Qiao didn't shirk either, opened the rice bag, and saw that the Xiangshui rice inside was plump, hard in texture, blue and white in color, transparent and pure, and couldn't help nodding and said: "This rice is really beautiful, and it tastes good if you think about it, just cook more, just hot and hot tomorrow morning." ”
After speaking, I added half a catty to the pot, this Xiangshui rice is produced in space, and the quality is several times better than the real origin of tribute rice, even if other rice is added, the porridge cooked is still as pulpy as milk, fragrant and attractive.
Daddy Qiao originally wanted to put some yams in the rice porridge, but after smelling the fragrance of the rice porridge, he suddenly changed his mind and didn't add anything.
After cooking the porridge, everyone left a hare and a pheasant to prepare for the barbecue, the rest was cut into pieces, all stewed in an iron pot, Daddy Qiao also added a few flavors of Chinese medicine to it, Ye Quan only recognized one of them is chicken head ginger, that is, yellow essence, this kind of Chinese medicine has the effect of nourishing qi and nourishing yin, strengthening the spleen, moistening the lungs, benefiting the kidneys, etc., which can strengthen the muscles and bones, replenish the essence and qi, and also have a miraculous effect on diabetes.
Because there is enough to eat, the cooked porridge is ready to be heated tomorrow morning for breakfast.
But the Xiangshui rice is extraordinary, it tastes soft and palatable, the taste is delicious, the fragrance is fragrant, the grandfather and grandson of the Qiao family were going to eat only half a bowl, but after tasting the taste, they really couldn't hold it, and only after eating two bowls did they move the pheasant in the pot.
Ye Quan usually feeds the tiger girl with beef or whole chicken, but now that there are outsiders, he has to be wronged and responsible for eliminating everyone's leftover chicken bones and rabbit bones.
Daddy Qiao has lived for decades, and his eyesight is naturally good, and when he saw that the tiger girl was alert, obedient and obedient, he praised him again and again.
After filling his stomach, it was still early, and the three of them chatted around the fire pond, Ye Quan was very interested in collecting medicine, and listened to Daddy Qiao talk about a lot of experience in collecting medicine in the mountains.
Most of the people who live in the mountains can know some of the herbs, and the medicine pickers like Daddy Qiao can even know one or two thousand kinds of herbs, and in addition to selling the medicines, they also prepare some herbs to treat common minor illnesses and pains for the villagers.
With the development of Western medicine, even in remote mountainous areas, there are fewer people who go into the mountains to collect medicines, but in recent years, with the people's attention to health, wild herbs have also been valued by many people, and many herbs have not been able to be cultivated artificially; Second, the medicinal efficacy of artificially cultivated herbs is not as good as that of wild herbs, and the prices of many wild and precious herbs are rising.
Ordinary Chinese herbs can be found everywhere in Nanyue Mountains, but some valuable and precious herbs can only be found in the deep mountains and old forests.
Picking medicine is not divided into the four seasons of the year, you can enter the mountain at any time, but what season to pick what medicine, which part to pick, such as picking branches and leaves in spring, picking flowers in summer, picking fruits in autumn, picking roots in winter, etc.
For example, for those rare and precious herbs, they have always only picked herbs and not roots, even if they use root herbs, they only dig some fibrous roots or old roots, and leave the taproot to prevent the source of medicine from being cut off.
However, outsiders, or people who are eager for quick success, don't care about long-term interests at all, and dig as much as they can.
Ye Quan opened the two bamboo baskets, and saw that there were hundreds of kinds of herbs stored in them, including branches, leaves, roots, fruits, etc., Ye Quan used to be exposed to it, and occasionally read books such as "Compendium of Materia Medica", but he only recognized more than ten kinds, among which the most attractive to him was a piece of Polygonum multiflori.
He Shou Wu is not uncommon in the Nanyue Mountains, Ye Quan can even distinguish the approximate year, the skin of He Shou Wu in the bamboo basket is red and translucent, the individual is full and full, the flesh is blood red, the weight is more than five catties, at least there are hundreds of years of years, but the appearance is not the legendary human form, or a long one, inconspicuous. (To be continued)
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