Chapter 35 Collecting Medicine in the Mountains
Since he had made up his mind to pay attention to the collection and dispensing of medicines, Liu Xiu immediately began to take action.
Collecting herbs is indispensable for carrying a basket, which can hold more medicinal materials and free your hands at the same time, which can be described as an indispensable tool.
Liu Xiu knows how to weave the back basket, I once remember that when he was a child, his family lived in the countryside, and his father had a period of time to weave the back basket to sell it in the town to maintain the family, at that time, a back basket could be sold for three or five yuan, Liu Xiu's father moved very fast, and he could weave four or five a day, and he was forced to support a family for a period of time.
When he was a child, Liu's father knitted a back basket, Liu Xiu watched from the side, he knew the whole process, and now his memory is very good, and many details are presented in his mind at a glance.
Picking up a firewood knife, Liu Xiu cut an old bamboo after a while, broke the bamboo and cut the strips, because of the experience of building a bamboo building, a firewood knife was played well in Liu Xiu's hands, coupled with the control of details, in less than half an hour, an old bamboo became hundreds of uniform strips.
Then in Liu Xiu's dexterous hands, the strips became a well-shaped back basket in just one hour, and it was not difficult to compile this thing, if you can, you can only look at a bunch of strips and scratch the blind.
"After all, it's not professional, it's far worse than the back basket that my father once wore......," Liu Xiu shook his head and said as he looked at the finished back basket.
When he thought of his father, Liu Xiu couldn't suppress a trace of sadness in his heart, he came to this world alone, in fact, he was not so open-minded, but many times he didn't let himself think about the past.
Putting aside his thoughts and filling his mind with the next matters of collecting medicine, Liu Xiu cut two bear skins with a knife as the strap of the basket, and then set off with a firewood knife and a hoe on his back.
The prescriptions I got from the old Taoist priest were all very familiar medicinal materials, ginseng, angelica, Polygonum multiflori, Ganoderma lucidum, deer antler, yellow essence, gastrodia, wolfberry,......
Although the medicinal materials on the prescription are all familiar to people, on the other side of the earth, once some medicinal materials are linked to the words wild and vintage, it is not something that ordinary people can play, such as ginseng Angelica He Shou Wu and the like are very valuable, but fortunately, Liu Xiu was not bad for money when he used to need a prescription.
To put it bluntly, almost all the medicinal materials on the prescription are things that nourish qi and blood, and in moderation, ordinary people can only eat it for the body, and there is no harm to it.
At the beginning, Liu Xiu spent most of his time socializing every month because of business matters, and his body was a little empty, and he relied on prescriptions and health cultivation skills to recuperate to the point of dragon spirit and tiger fierceness in just a few years.
There is no way, you can't help yourself in the environment at that time, you can't do business if you don't go to social.
Liu Xiu has been to learn more about each medicinal material, whether it is the appearance or the growth environment, he knows it well, and it is not difficult to collect all the medicinal materials in this unique environment.
Among them, he can already rule out the antler velvet, and a group of sika deer on the plain is ready-made, and this time he went out mainly to find other medicinal materials.
Unlike the herbs he used to treat high fever in Lausanne, the growing environment of the herbs he needed this time was a little harsher, but it was not a big problem.
No, Liu Xiu had a harvest within five minutes of going out, and he began to plow the ground with a hoe.
He is digging a yellow essence, yellow essence may not be familiar to ordinary people, then his other name many people should know, tiger ginger, lily plant, ordinary mountains and wild things are very common.
A few hoes went down, and soon a piece of yellow essence was started.
"This place is really blessed, too, after all, almost no one has set foot on it," Liu Xiu, who weighed the almost half-pound yellow essence in his hand, sighed in his heart.
Put it in the basket and continue to look for other herbs.
He couldn't just prepare a pair of medicines, and the more herbs in each, the better, until he could build up his physical fitness to the point of 'living in peace' with the giant python in the lake.
It didn't take long for Liu Xiu to harvest again, but this time it was not the medicinal materials on the health medicine prescription, but the discovery of a precious plant in this world.
Silver thread grass, a precious thing that can be worth the tax revenue of the entire forest border village, may be worth far more than that.
At this time, the silver thread grass presented in front of Liu Xiu's eyes was not a single plant, but a small patch, at least more than twenty, growing quite densely, especially the silver texture on the grass blades, which was more conspicuous than the original Lobsang tree.
Liu Xiu naturally won't let go of this kind of thing, although he doesn't know its specific effect yet, but it doesn't prevent him from collecting it first.
There are a total of twenty-five silver thread grasses, which do not take up space in the back basket.
"Lausanne has cost nearly twenty lives for a silver thread grass, and this thing is actually no different from a 'weed', which is really ......"
Shaking his head, Liu Xiu didn't know how to describe his mood.
The world is like this, many things seem to ordinary people to be worth the price of life, while in the eyes of others, they are just ordinary things.
Walking and stopping, Liu Xiu headed directly towards the forest, after all, some medicinal herbs like to grow in a dark and damp environment.
However, in just a few kilometers away, Liu Xiu had to return to the bamboo building, there was no way, his back basket was actually full, and six kinds of medicinal materials were found on the prescription, Huangjing, ginseng, Polygonum multiflori, Angelica, Gastrodia......
Especially the ginseng in it, Liu Xiu seriously suspected that this thing was a big radish at all, and it was only a long distance, he picked thirteen trees, one of which could obviously see the human shape, and the roots were dense and the year was on it at a glance, but Liu Xiu was not a professional ginseng farmer after all, so he couldn't tell the exact year.
"Treasure of nature......"
Liu Xiu had to sigh once again that this place was blessed, he didn't know if it was because the natural environment of this world created these precious medicinal materials or because no one had set foot on it, in short, it was a good thing for him.
After putting away the medicinal materials in the basket, Liu Xiu set off again, this time changing the route slightly, and the harvest was not as much as the last time, but when he came to the edge of the forest, the basket was also half loaded.
Then, without hesitation, he plunged headlong into the dense primeval forest.
Stepping into the forest, the dark and damp environment is blowing in the face, and the thick trees are so dense that they almost obscure the sky, and even the sun rarely shines down.
In such an environment, Liu Xiu had to be vigilant, ordinary animals are fine, but those poisonous insects hidden in the dark corners are deadly, if they are bitten by a bite, it will be a lot of fun, although their physique is super strong, but Liu Xiu does not dare to guarantee that if they are bitten by poisonous insects, they can withstand it.
Not long after stepping into the forest, Liu Xiu suddenly looked entangled.
Looking at it, there are too many good things, he didn't pay attention to the surroundings in order to survive in the dense forest, but now when he looks at it a little, almost all of them are treasures.
Not to mention the precious woods such as red sandalwood and golden silk nanmu, mountain delicacies such as lion's mane mushroom, black fungus, and bigfoot mushroom abound.
repeatedly told himself that he was here to pick medicines, Liu Xiuqiang endured the idea of picking mushrooms and continued on the road, but in his heart he said that his recipes were going to be enriched again.
Under a tree, Liu Xiu put a bowl-sized Ganoderma lucidum in the back basket, and by the way, he used the firewood knife in his hand to slap away a black spider the size of a fist that wanted to sneak up on him, looking ahead with a little thought.
At this time, he had already gone deeper than 5,000 meters into the dense forest, and he estimated in his heart that he was afraid that he had exceeded the range of the giant python in the lake, and he looked ahead and became vigilant.
In front of him, a boulder was horizontal, covered with moss, but Liu Xiu's eyes were mainly focused on a plant growing beneath the boulder.
It was a ginseng, and there were almost no weeds around, so it was particularly conspicuous.
If it was before, Liu Xiu might not have been able to wait to go over to collect, but at this time he was a little hesitant, the surroundings were too quiet, which seemed very unusual.
After thinking for a while, Liu Xiu picked up a stone and threw it towards the boulder.
With a muffled bang appearing in the forest, Liu Xiu, who looked over there, couldn't help but jump his eyelids.
Just as the stone smashed on the boulder, in the crack in the stone next to the ginseng, a nearly two-meter-long centipede crawled out quickly, its body slightly winding and guarding the side of the ginseng, its head cocked and shook continuously against the half-foot-long tentacles on Liu Xiu's head.
Seeing the centipede, Liu Xiu's heart palpitated, fortunately he didn't rush over, if he was bitten, then he would have it?
The two-meter-long centipede, with a dark body, actually has a bit of a metallic cold texture, but its head is bright red, which makes people panic at a glance.
To be honest, this is the first time Liu Xiu has seen such a big centipede, and he never thought that there would be such a big centipede in the world, if it is used to make wine......
Ginseng, centipede guardian ......
Seeing such a picture, Liu Xiu couldn't help but have an idea in his mind, that ginseng was definitely different from the one he had collected before, and it was rumored that the treasures of heaven and earth were often guarded by strange beasts, but wasn't it the picture in front of him?
Just when Liu Xiu was thinking in his heart, his heart jumped slightly.
But it was the centipede that actually took the initiative to attack him, and the body flicked on the boulder, and quickly crossed a distance of more than ten meters to attack Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu obviously saw that when the centipede borrowed strength on the stone, it actually left shallow traces, which shows that its bullet is not only not weak but also very strong.
Liu Xiu was not allowed to think so much, the big centipede had already appeared in front of Liu Xiu's eyes.
Although the speed of the centipede is fast, Liu Xiu is not a vegetarian now, he did not hesitate to raise the firewood knife in his hand and think about the centipede's head and chop it down.
Because he was slightly nervous, Liu Xiu didn't notice that there seemed to be a trace of purple light flashing in his eyes at this time, just like the picture when he was practicing self-cultivation exercises in the morning sun facing the rising sun, when the purple light flashed in his eyes, the trajectory of the centipede seemed to be full of a lot.
While...... Click......
However, in an instant, the firewood knife in Liu Xiu's hand slashed at the centipede's head, and with the slight sound of Jin Ming's attack, the centipede was chopped upside down by Liu Xiu, and its head was also crushed, struggling on the ground and gradually not moving.
"This ......"
Looking at a small gap in the firewood knife and at the centipede that stopped struggling, Liu Xiu was in a complicated mood for a while.
This forest is far more dangerous than you imagined, and the centipede's head is so hard that it makes a hole in the metal wood knife? Although it is mainly because of the power of its own splitting, it is also true that the centipede's head is unusually hard!