Chapter Ninety-Four: The Mountains Have Their Own Delicacies
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Zhang and a few of them went to the fields and sowed seeds of soybeans, corn, vegetables, and spring wheat by the way. Yesterday, they opened up more than a dozen plots of land, which are quite large, estimated to be as much as five or six acres, which is enough for them to be busy for a while.
The valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the south-facing side is open, blocking the northwest cold current. There are several hot spring streams in the valley, which make the temperature much higher than the surrounding area, with the lowest temperature of the year only about -10 degrees Celsius and the highest temperature in the twenties. For example, at the end of April and the beginning of May, the temperature is nearly 10 degrees, and there is no problem in planting some northern grains, fruits and vegetables.
The only pity is that there are a lot of rainy days in the mountains, coupled with the constant fog, the sunshine time is only more than 100 days a year. In such climatic conditions, there is no problem in growing wheat, corn, soybeans, etc., but it is not suitable for growing rice. It seems that the staple food may be mainly flour food.
Reporter Zhou: They went to pick up charcoal wood again, but the senior brother didn't follow. He has to go with Zhu Yan, Chen Lan, and a few classmates to collect wild vegetables, mushrooms, and medicinal herbs, etc., and he can't all chew rice these days!
Teacher Chen, Mrs. Fang, Jingjing and a few classmates stayed in the cave, and they had to use carbonized wood to calcinate the limestone into lime. In the afternoon, when Zhu Yan and the others came back, they started to build a house.
Zhu Yan and Zhang Liang each carried a big bag and walked south along the ancient road. Before leaving, Mr. Chen asked them all to put on raincoats, saying that in the morning there was a lot of moisture in the forest, and their clothes would get wet.
In the valley in the morning, before the sun's rays had time to spread, the air was indeed full of mist, overlapping and overlapping, as if there were countless barriers. As the mountain breeze blows, these clouds and mist continue to change shape, making the valley even more mysterious.
But Zhu Yan and the others didn't stop, and directly used their bodies to break through the fog in front of them and walked towards the dense forest to the south. Zhu Yan and Chen Lan walked in the team one after the other, and the two of them didn't need to reconnoiter their eyes at all, so they could see everything around them clearly. The others were sandwiched between the two of them, leaning forward one foot high and one foot low.
The first part of the trail was not difficult to walk, because it was made of stones, and there were not many weeds and thorns. But after a few miles, they had to slow down, because the stones on the road were gradually gone, and all kinds of thorny weeds were burrowing out of the soil, covering the original road surface.
Through the mist like smoke and clouds, everyone looked up and saw that there were old trees everywhere, shrubs and bushes, and in the weeds more than one person high, some thorns and wild vines stretched out from time to time, weaving large cobwebs between the trees.
On the branches and grass leaves, there are crystal dew drops, ready to drench them wet. The ground was also damp, and if you looked closely, there were many leeches, lying motionless on the roots and weeds, ready to launch a terrorist attack.
For so many mountain leeches, of course Zhu Yan couldn't kill them one by one. Although killing these mountain leeches is only a matter of seconds for him, he can't kill all the mountain locusts in the forest!
Fortunately, with Mr. Chen's reminder, they wore raincoats not afraid of the rain, and also brought some plastic bags and ropes to prevent mountain locusts. At the moment, everyone took out plastic bags and ropes, and tied their shoes and trousers tightly, so that they were not afraid of roadside bombs when they hid in armored vehicles.
Zhu Yan scanned the surrounding woods with his heavenly eye, and the result made him extremely excited, this is just a forest, it is simply a natural treasure house! There are medicinal herbs everywhere, and there are wild mushrooms and wild vegetables everywhere, which is simply too much to pick.
Seeing that there was no danger around, he simply didn't use the eye of heaven to perceive it, and directly used a wooden stick to push away the thorn bushes in front of him. Sure enough, on a section of rotten wood lying on the damp ground, there were a pair of wild mushrooms the size of a pair of cups, and there were dozens of them.
These wild mushrooms are white and round, growing in pairs, and their surfaces are covered with dense fungus spines. These spines are shaped like cylinders, like mammalian hair, and have grains of seed at the tip.
Zhang Liang was well-informed, and he recognized at a glance that this was the famous alpine specialty - lion's mane mushroom. This mushroom is named because it looks very much like a monkey's head, and its nutritional value is extremely high, and it is called the four famous dishes together with bear paw, shark fin and sea cucumber. The wild lion's mane mushroom produced in Changbai Mountain has a very high value of medicinal supplements, and it has always been hard to find in the market, but it can be picked up everywhere if you don't want to be here!
As soon as everyone heard Zhang Liang's words, their eyes lit up, and they rushed straight to the rotten wood, and a few students didn't even know that their clothes and skin were punctured by thorns. After a while, these dozen pairs of wild lion's mane mushrooms were picked by the eight of them.
With the first big harvest, everyone's enthusiasm was high, and they even bent over when walking, lest they accidentally miss something good. Besides, it's still April and May, and I'm not afraid to bow my head and miss the wild fruits on the trees.
It was a good way to walk bently, and soon everyone noticed that the ground was full of wild vegetables. There are wild bracken, mountain lettuce, endive, wild camellia, etc., some of which can be fried and eaten, and some can be eaten in stewed soup and porridge.
At the beginning, everyone did not refuse to pick everything, but later they picked more wild bracken and wild camellia and other things that had no bitter taste, after all, everyone was not used to eating bitter things. After thinking of a way to get out the bitterness in the future, it's not too late to pick it again.
In addition to the wild vegetables everywhere, Zhu Yan and Zhang Liang also found a lot of medicinal materials, such as Codonopsis, Astragalus, Fritillary, Mutong, Asarium, Gastrodia, Schisandra, Yunzhi and so on. But they didn't dig them all up, but only those herbs that were ripe.
As for digging up medicinal herbs, Zhu Yan is no longer resistant, after all, they don't have a living consciousness like animals. It's just that along the way, they haven't found particularly valuable medicinal materials such as wild ginseng, rhodiola rosea, and grass bush puree. Maybe it's because of their rarity that they are so expensive!
In this way, they burrowed through the dense forest while looking for treasures on the ground. There is a lot of dead wood and humus in the forest, and wild mushrooms are endless, and they have long been filled with a large bag. Even the uncommon fungus and ganoderma lucidum, they also picked a small half bag. As for the wild vegetables, they stopped picking them after they had filled two large bags.
Now, almost all of them are Chinese medicinal herbs, and they are all digging up roots. Zhu Yan and the others imagined that they would dig a little more of the various medicinal materials, and then open up a medicine garden for artificial propagation. If a cultivator has the assistance of these elixirs, his cultivation speed will be faster.
And Zhu Yan is also thinking about whether if these medicinal materials are complemented with minerals to make pills, will they receive miraculous results? After all, different herbs and minerals have different meridians. I don't know if the ancient alchemists used this principle to alchemy?
They searched and searched in the woods, and they were getting farther and farther away from the cave. At this time, the sun gradually rose, and the mist in the forest faded a lot, like a girl covered in a thin veil, which made people have a little more desire to explore.
Their harvest is also getting more and more abundant, and the bags brought by everyone are almost full. In terms of the types of medicinal materials alone, there are hundreds of species, and even wild ginseng has been picked for more than a dozen, and all of them are decades old. If these medicinal herbs are planted in the medicine garden, I am afraid that they can also plant a few acres, and it seems that their land will be cultivated again.
Zhu Yan and Chen Lan didn't use their terrifying perception anymore, there was no danger here, and they enjoyed the fun of searching.
Time passed in the mountains, and they had spent more than three hours in the dense forest. If they don't go back, Mr. Chen, I'm afraid they will have to come to look for it, and their harvest is big enough, so it's time to go back.
Naturally, the speed of going back was much faster, and it only took a little more than an hour for them to return to the cave. Except for the master Zhang Zhongyi and a few classmates who have not yet returned, everyone else has already returned.
Teacher Chen, they burned nearly 1,000 catties of quicklime in one morning, which was enough for them to build more than a dozen houses. Moreover, the foundation of the house has been completely rebuilt, and even if the weight is pressed several tons, there is absolutely no problem.
It seems that there is no problem with building a house in the afternoon.