Chapter 492: Looking for the dog Langtou

"Isn't this coming to see you, I've been out for more than a month, and I don't know how to call your grandmother, the old lady comes to our house every day to inquire." Aunt Zhang Qian's words just now were good, but when she saw He Yifan, she couldn't believe that it was her son who was standing in front of her.

When I was at home, I was white and fat, and my face was ruddy, but now I am tanned and shiny, as if I have just come out of the black coal kiln. Fortunately, she was in good spirits, otherwise she would have suspected that Zhang Qian and the others would have abused her son.

In fact, the problem of tanning can be completely avoided, Zhang Qian suggested that He Yifan drink a few cups of earth honey every day or get some honey to paint on his face, but this person is not used to the taste of honey, and in the end he will not be able to do it.

Looking at her son's appearance, Aunt Zhang Qian was distressed and couldn't do it, her son had not suffered since he was a child, but he didn't expect to run to Liujiagou to suffer now. She insisted on bringing He Yifan home, saying that this work is not done by people, and we don't want to make more money. Don't you just want to buy a computer, this money is out of my mother's house

Liu Junhao understood that it was not that He Yifan had no ideas, but that he was beaten down by Aunt Zhang Qian. She doesn't educate her children in the right way, she dotes on them too much. He Yifan is seventeen or eighteen years old, and it is possible to be a father in the countryside at this age. Now he still treats his son as a child, and he doesn't have the slightest idea of letting him be independent, no wonder he has developed such a xingzi.

Don't raise your own children like this in the future, you must cultivate their independence, Liu Junhao made up his mind again.

Fortunately, He Yifan didn't listen to the old man this time, saying that he had no intention of going back, and he had to earn money to buy a computer by himself.

Zhang Qian's uncle-in-law felt that it was right to let his son come to Liujiagou, at least now he knew that he was making money. In the end, he persuaded his wife, saying that it was a good thing to let the child exercise. Besides, his own children are children, aren't they other people's families, don't you see how many children younger than him in Liu Jiagou are also knowing the shell?

When his parents arrived, He Yifan naturally couldn't go to the shell anymore.

A group of people sat under the neem tree to enjoy the shade, Liu Junhao hugged a big huā skin and was just about to cut it, Xiao Jianhui shouted, "Uncle, I don't eat watermelon, I go to the backyard to pick melons to eat." ”

"Pick one for me too," He Yifan told him later. They feel normal when they eat everything every day, and they now think that melons taste better.

Liu Junhao did not deliberately plant melons, but only planted five plants in the backyard and planned to eat them at home. Nourished by the spring water, these melon seedlings are very competitive, and they can pick two or three bowls of melons every day, and now in August, the huāer on the melon seedlings is still blooming very vigorously, and it is estimated that some of them will bear fruit.

"This watermelon is good, a few you asked people to carry some time ago, and the two of us ate it for half a month, and finally the one still wanted to be broken, who knows if it will be sweet and sand and flute." Aunt Zhang Qian sighed with a piece of watermelon.

"Hehe, this watermelon is fine for two months at room temperature." Liu Junhao replied with a smile. He experimented and ate his watermelon until November.

"It's raining?" Zhang Qian's aunt was holding a watermelon and nibbling on it, feeling a few drops of rain on his head, and he hurriedly looked up at the sky, but the sun was shining.

"Haha, uncle, it's the urine that knows how to pee" Xiao Jianhui took the bamboo pole from the side after speaking, and hit it a few times on the neem tree, and a few frightened "squeaks" flew away, and before leaving, he didn't forget to drop a few drops of urine on the top of everyone's heads.

There are guests at home, and when it was almost dark, Liu Junhao took everyone to dig up in the courtyard. Half an hour of effort, catch more than 20, and you can fry a dish at night.

Liu Junhao also wanted to fry an eel plate, but was stopped by Aunt Zhang Qian, saying that she would eat a stomach of watermelon in the afternoon, and now she is not hungry at all, just keep it simple.

So he went to the chicken coop to moo a few eggs, get some sun-dried toons, and make a toon scrambled eggs. Shoot a few cloves of garlic from the cucumber freshly picked from the vegetable field, and then make a loofah fried meat.

"Xiao Hao, do you have soil poria on this mountain, a sister of mine asked me to help dig some before I came." After eating the next morning, Aunt Zhang Qian, who was cleaning up the table, asked.

"Poria cocos, what is this?" Zhang Qian looked at her husband suspiciously.

"It's nothing unusual, it's the dog Langtou on our mountain, and the scientific name is Poria cocos." Liu Junhao then explained, "Yes, there is, but it was almost dug up a few years ago, and now if you want to dig, you need to go to the mountains to find it." ”

Poria cocos is a kind of Chinese medicinal material, now is the time to dig, dig out to remove the fibrous roots, wash and dry it can be sold as a medicinal material. The ingredient of the "Poria Cocos Turtle Soup" that Cantonese people often drink is this kind of thing, and it is said that this soup has a good effect on getting wet.

The people of Liujiagou have the tradition of digging the dog's head, but it was not used as a medicinal herb at the earliest, but as a meal when there was a famine. There is starch in the dog's head, which can be extracted and eaten in pancakes.

Liu Junhao had heard the old people say that it was not easy to extract starch from "Goulangtou". First of all, dig out the root of the dog Lang and rinse it with water, slice and dry it, then grind it into powder, then use a sieve to sift off impurities such as wood fibers, and finally wrap it in gauze and put it in a water tank to precipitate. After a day or two, a layer of white starch will be left at the bottom of the water tank, which can be used to make porridge or pancakes, which is a good lifesaver in times of famine.

However, this kind of thing has not been caught up with by the younger generation, and most of them have only heard about it from the elderly in the family. At that time, there was a famine in the spring, and people had to go up the mountain every year to dig a few months of dog heads, until the Dragon Boat Festival passed, and the wheat was harvested, and the spring famine was over.

Strange to say, a decade or two ago, there were a lot of dogs on the mountain, and they grew big. I can't dig it all up.

Later, when people stopped digging, this thing was much less, Liu Junhao also pulled the dog Langtou vine when they were children when they went up the mountain to play, its tuber is difficult to find, and often half of the vine is pulled off.

On the contrary, the fruit on the vine tastes good and is a little powdery.

Later, this thing became traditional Chinese medicine, and a large number of purchases were made in the town, and adults and children all went up the mountain to dig, and the mountains were full of digging pits with dog heads, which made people feel sad.

A few years ago, the mountain was closed for afforestation, and the dog Langtou recovered. In addition, there are many ways for people to find money now, and few people go up the mountain to dig anymore. Aunt Zhang Qian wants to dig, and she should be able to dig a lot.

In fact, there are a lot of dog Langtou Liu Junhao stone locks, and the quality is definitely better than those outside. According to his idea, he can dig some for them later, and don't let the family go up the mountain again. But Aunt Zhang Qian disagreed, and even said that she wanted to see it on the mountain and dig it herself.

Yes, Liu Junhao could only let his daughter-in-law take care of the two little babies at home, and he led a group of people up the mountain to find Gou Langtou.

There are a lot of dogs on a nearby hillside, but unfortunately they are all thin vines that have just grown in the past two years, and the tubers that grow under them are very small, and there is no value in digging them at all.

However, the reason why few people come to this area is that there are many shells in the bushes, and most of them are attached to the half-meter-high artemisia grass leaves, and they can be picked directly. He Yifan and the others were very excited, and immediately threw away the shovel, turned their heads and picked up the shell.

Aunt Zhang Qian didn't want to run anymore, and even said so many Poria seedlings and dug some small ones.

"Auntie, I definitely can't dig it" Liu Junhao saw that she insisted, so he had to make a demonstration, squatted and chose a slightly thicker vine to dig up, and after a few shovels, there was still a thin vine in the soil, and there was no tuber at all.

Aunt Zhang Qian couldn't dig it up, so she could only follow Liu Junhao to the mountains to find it.

As for a few little guys, they were burying their heads in picking up the shells, so naturally they didn't follow. I wanted to take Xiaopi over to explore the way, but I don't know where to go after a while, this guy doesn't know where to go.

Liu Junhao led them to a ravine, which was washed by a mountain torrent, and later the mountain rock collapsed, and the mountain stream was diverted, and it became a dry ditch. The bottom of the ditch is covered with wild grasses such as thorny seedlings and thorn branches, so it is also a natural paradise for small animals such as foxes, rabbits, badgers, and insects.

However, the people of Liujiagou rarely enter this ditch, mainly because there are more snakes in it, and they are quite large.

Listening to his description, Aunt Zhang Qian began to retreat. But fortunately, as soon as he entered the bottom of the ditch, Liu Junhao found a few thick dog head vines.

He and Zhang Qian's uncle-in-law immediately carried a shovel to dig, and just after digging a few times, they suddenly heard a soft sound overhead.

Aunt Zhang Qian stood up suddenly, but looked around and saw nothing.

She thought that she had heard poorly, but as soon as she squatted down, the sound of "bang, bang, bang" started again.

"Xiao Hao, what's the voice?" Aunt Zhang Qian also felt that something was wrong.

"It could be some wild thing, it's fine." There are a lot of beasts in this ravine, and it is normal for them to move. Liu Junhao replied and continued to wield the shovel. He didn't know that the ravine he had just described was a little terrifying, which made Aunt Zhang Qian and the others afraid.

As soon as the words landed, the voice sounded again in the grass in front of them. This time they all saw clearly, as if something was wriggling in the grass.

It's just that the artemisia grass is too deep to see really.

"It can't be a python, right?" Aunt Zhang Qian said and put the shovel horizontally in front of Xiong.

"I'll see," Liu Junhao picked up the shovel and walked forward.

He walked over to the artemisia grass and searched for a while, but found no trace of the serpent's existence. I was about to turn around and leave, but I saw a half-clear bamboo pole next to it. Liu Junhao squatted down and pulled suddenly.

"Mom" There was a shout in the distance, and I saw a person falling out of the grass, it was the hairy child.

Behind him, a couple of guys sneered and came out.

"You bear children, what are you doing when you know what the shell is running so far, you are not afraid of running into a big snake, and you deliberately scare people." Liu Junhao was angry, twisted the ears of the hairy children, split their heads and covered their faces, and reprimanded them.

"It hurts, it hurts, Uncle Xiaohao, we're here to cut wild celery."

"Cutting wild celery, what do you want to do, and do bad things, right?" There is no need to guess, Liu Junhao knows what crooked ideas these guys are going to have.

Some time ago, they didn't know who said that drinking peppermint oil can increase their height, so they went up the mountain and cut half a snakeskin bag of mint to boil peppermint oil, fortunately they were found early, otherwise these guys would have been stupid to drink into their stomachs.

And this wild celery is even more poisonous, so it's not good if it gets into trouble.