The pit in the ground was quite deep, and it was covered with dead branches and leaves.

If it weren't for Zhou Tiantian's luck, he only stepped on the edge and felt that something was wrong and immediately retracted, and he probably fell in.

Han Zhenyuan and Chang Yanzhe both came over, "Oh, this is probably a trap dug by someone before to catch prey, and it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time." Han Zhenyuan glanced at it and said.

"The prey around the garden is almost beaten by my master, these traps are not of much use to keep, I guess the people who dig the traps have forgotten, right?

Be careful, there may be traps near this garden, walk and watch so don't fall into it. ”

When Zhou Tiantian heard that it was a trap to catch prey, she suddenly came to her senses.

"Brother Yan Zhe, Sixth Brother, let's rearrange the trap, what if an animal really falls into it?" The little girl said whimsically.

Han Zhenyuan had the heart to say that it was impossible, so he never heard his grandfather talk about trapping and catching prey.

But the little cousin's expression of hope is really unspeakable.

Han Zhenyuan glanced at Chang Yanzhe, and the two exchanged glances.

Gotta coax, isn't it just a trap? It's not too much of a hassle to tidy it up.

So, Zhou Yanyan was sent back to get shovels and other tools, while Han Zhenyuan and Chang Yanzhe started to clean up the dead branches and leaves on the trap.

Then Han Zhenyuan carefully slid down the edge of the trap and cleaned up the fallen leaves and dirt in the trap.

"There's a nail board underneath, and you can still use it after a little cleaning, so I'll wait a while."

Han Zhenyuan was busy working under the trap, afraid that the people above would be worried, so he hurriedly spoke.

Han Zhenyuan cleaned up under the trap for a while, cleaned up the things inside, sent the dirt and fallen leaves in a basket, and then re-placed the nail board underneath.

Then they dragged the rope and came up from the trap, and then they carefully spread the dead branches and sprinkled them with fallen leaves.

Zhou Tiantian looked at the fun, and on a whim, he broke a lot of tender branches and threw them on the trap.

The young branches are covered with emerald green leaves, and others will know that something is wrong at a glance, and they will not step on it recklessly.

But if an animal passes by and sees the green and tender leaves, it will not be able to make sure that there is really something to eat, and then it will fall into the trap.

After packing up the traps, the children sent their tools back, and then wandered a little deeper.

The main reason is that Han Zhenyuan doesn't know if there are any traps near the garden, for fear that everyone will accidentally fall down.

Therefore, I stayed a little farther away from the periphery of the garden, and did not go into the big forest to be safe.

As soon as he wandered around for a while, Chang Yanzhe found a gastrodia.

Zhou Tiantian hadn't seen what Tianma looked like, so she was busy going over to join in the fun. "So this is Gastrodia? It's weird to look long. ”

The purple-red stalks, a yellow-green inflorescence at the top, the flowers are not big, the bottom of the soybean is the size of a grain, and the top one is about the same as a mung bean grain.

The top of the small flower is like a lip, and there is a small funnel at the bottom, which looks quite interesting.

It's strange that the whole plant only sees the stems and inflorescences, but no leaves.

"Gastrodia has no roots and no leaves, in fact, it relies on honey ring bacteria to provide nutrients, and does not need to photosynthesize, so it is different from the plant form in our impression."

Chang Yanzhe smiled slightly and patiently explained to Zhou Tiantian. "Here, you look closely, I'll tell you how to dig this thing."

As he spoke, Chang Yanzhe used his hands to pick up the soil under the stalks of Gastrodia, and gradually revealed the tubers buried in the ground.

It looks quite similar to a potato, except that there are some black threads wrapped around it.

"This black silk is the honey ring fungus, which is symbiotic with gastrodia.

In the early stage, the fungus provides nutrients for the growth of gastrodia, and after the gastrodia blooms, the tuber rots, and the fungus will absorb nutrients from it. ”

Chang Yanzhe said, the movements of his hands did not stop, he did not dig out the tuber of Tianma, but continued to dig towards the back end of the tuber.

As a result, after digging a few times, I saw several slightly smaller tubers that had not emerged from the soil.

"This, as we say, is called Tianma cubs, there are big and small, and these big ones will bloom next year.

Gastrodia is a very interesting thing to reproduce, the flowering tubers will rot, but at the same time as rotting will give birth to many small buds, that is, gastrodia pups.

After two years, when the gastrodia cubs grow up, they will bloom and rot. ”

Each organism has its own unique way of reproduction, and gastrodia is in this way, reproducing from generation to generation.

"So when digging gastrodia, don't directly pull out the stems that grow out, so that it is easy to miss the gastrodia cubs with better medicinal effect.

To look in the direction of the back end, sometimes, it is likely to come across a bunch, like this one.

Look, it's a layer, right? If you dig deeper, you might be able to find more. Chang Yanzhe patiently explained to Zhou Tiantian.

While explaining, they picked up all the gastrodia cubs they could see, and then continued to dig up the soil on the next layer, and sure enough, as Chang Yanzhe said, there were still below.

In the end, this gastrodia picked up more than a dozen cubs, and Zhou Tiantian couldn't hold them with both hands.

"I really didn't expect that there would be so many seedlings at the bottom when it looked like there was only one seedling at the top." It's like a potato, and there are a lot of potatoes under the top seedling.

"It's just one tree, if you come across two trees growing opposite each other, look for the middle of the two trees, and it's likely that there will be one in between.

If you're lucky, and you meet four or five trees that are very close, there will be more in between.

Some people will even meet Gastrodia Dragon, but it is a long slip, and if you meet Gastrodia Dragon, you can easily dig a pocket. ”

Chang Yanzhe said with great yearning and some regret, "But the gastrodia dragon is very rare, I go into the mountains every year to dig gastrodia, and I have never seen it." ”

Zhou Tiantian listened to Chang Yanzhe's words and nodded, "Brother Yanzhe, you know so much, amazing." ”

This person is really unsurpassed in medicine, and talent is really unenvious.

"Let's go, let's look for it again, maybe we will have good luck today, and we will see that Tianma dragon?"

Zhou Tiantian was in a good mood and dragged Chang Yanzhe forward.

"How can it be so easy? It is very close to the ginseng garden, and people who work at noon are willing to come out for a stroll.

The one I met just now is the fish that slipped through the net, it's already good, where do you dare to think about meeting the Tianma Dragon? ”

Chang Yanzhe smiled slightly, and followed Zhou Tiantian to continue walking, looking down in the grass as he walked, trying to find another gastrodia.

"That one just now is definitely not a fish that slipped through the net, really, Brother Yanzhe, you believe me."

Zhou Tiantian's eyes swept into the grass in front of her, and she suddenly laughed.

"Brother Yanzhe, come and see, is this the gastrodia you said?"

In the grass in front, a few ears of yellow-green inflorescences swayed slightly in the wind, as if beckoning to Zhou Tiantian.