Early the next morning, after breakfast, Lu Xiaobu continued to set off with three military vehicles, going to the places they had not gone yesterday to continue searching, and Zhang Xiaoqiang led people to look for edible food resources by the lake.

They first found a large group of plants growing in the water near the shore, and the leaves of that plant were oval and smooth; The middle and lower part of the petiole has a gourd-like gas, the base has a squided bract, each plant has 6-12 leaves, the flower stem is solitary, the spike-like inflorescence has 6-12 flowers, the petals are 6-lobed, purple-blue, there is a large lobe, and there are bright yellow spots in the center.

This plant was recognized by Zhang Xiaoqiang at a glance, water hyacinth, there is also a name called water hyacinth, planted in some dead ponds in the countryside for many years, this plant is very regenerating, as long as it continues its roots, it will continue to grow leaves, and its leaves are also a good feed, feeding pigs and rabbits can be used.

This plant is born to purify water, in addition to being used as animal feed, it can also be eaten, the gorgeous purple flower spikes and young leaves can be eaten directly, its taste is fragrant and refreshing, and has a laxative effect, in the famine of the fifties and sixties, many people used water hyacinth to survive the difficult famine.

The flowering period of water hyacinth is from August to October, this is the most prosperous time of flowering, that piece of moving with the wind, the gorgeous purple flower spike is the best dish, knowing the water hyacinth is not only Zhang Xiaoqiang, those village names know the use of this thing, have begun to collect petals and young leaves.

The crowd at harvest time is joyful, the convoy is not short of food, they can eat a few bites of tender vegetables under the staple food is also a pleasure, and the convoy found a lot of cooking oil and all kinds of condiments on the highway, thinking that the taste of these things is not too bad after they are cooked.

Zhang Xiaoqiang has a dispensable attitude towards these harvests, when he was a child, he saw that they were feeding pigs with this thing at his grandmother's house, and he couldn't help but feel a little repulsed, Zhang Xiaoqiang let the crowd harvest water hyacinth, and the team members were on guard around the crowd, and he took two puppies and Yang Keer, Meow Meow They went to the coast to find if there was any trace of the turtle, yesterday's turtle soup was really good.

After looking for half an hour, Zhang Xiaoqiang was a little discouraged, after all, before the end of the world, wild turtles were not common, and it was strange to deliberately look for them at this time.

Zhang Xiaoqiang was about to reflexively go to meet the people who were collecting water hyacinth, when the two puppies jumped into the grass on the side and disappeared, "Is there a situation?" Zhang Xiaoqiang's heart tightened, and he chased after the two-headed beast horn cone in his hand.

Zhang Xiaoqiang ran quickly through waist-deep grass, occasionally jumping over some dense bushes, like his ancestors thousands of years ago, in the direction of possible prey.

The puppy is not big, the two puppies can't see their traces when they run in the waist-deep grass, it doesn't matter, the puppy will bring some grass stalks in the process of running, as the grass stalks bounce up, a wave in the green grass is extending into the distance, and what Zhang Xiaoqiang has to do is to chase the waves formed by the blades of grass.

When Zhang Xiaoqiang took Yang Keer and Meow Meow, and chased them to the place where the two puppies barked happily, Zhang Xiaoqiang was a little dumbfounded, and Yang Keer and Meow Meow kept retreating, as if the thing that was struggling between the puppy's paws was a terrible monster.

At this moment, it was a huge frog struggling between the dog's paws, in fact, Zhang Xiaoqiang was not sure if it was a frog, because he had not seen a black frog all over his body, until Zhang Xiaoqiang searched for a long time and did not find the spotted protrusions on the black skin, and finally determined that this thing about the size of a grapefruit was a frog, definitely not a lazy toad.

Since it was a frog, Zhang Xiaoqiang naturally wouldn't let it go, picked up the frog weighing three catties and walked towards Yang Keer and Meow Meow, Yang Keer and Meow Meow saw that the giant frog was still bouncing in Zhang Xiaoqiang's hands, and couldn't help but scream and turned his head to run away, as if he was afraid that he would jump on them and bite them with something.

Zhang Xiaoqiang carried the frog back to the edge of the pond with two puppies that could lift their tails to the sky, and Zhang Huai'an, who was urging the women to collect, turned his head and saw the big frog, his eyes lit up as if he saw the turtle yesterday...... Zhang Huai'an ran to the camp with a big frog, as a senior diner, Zhang Huai'an was even more greedy than Zhang Xiaoqiang, otherwise he wouldn't even let go of earthworms?

The lunch was settled, Zhang Xiaoqiang was not in a hurry, he was walking by the lake, thinking about whether to take some risks to go down to the lake to fish, when the corner of his eye was shaken by a bright thing in the lake, Zhang Xiaoqiang stopped and opened his eyes to look carefully in the lake.

Today's sun is very good, the golden light on the blue waves of the lake with sparkling waves, the brittle water hyacinth in the sun is particularly eye-catching, except for the heat brought by the sun, it seems that everything is fine, the reflection that shook the corner of Zhang Xiaoqiang's eyes, is the sun shining on the lake what reflects on the surface of the lake.

Slowly, Zhang Xiaoqiang's eyes adapted to the dimness of the bottom of the lake, and he could already see some things clearly, the water by the lake was not very deep, and he could vaguely see the silt at the bottom of the lake.

Zhang Xiaoqiang was very curious, he didn't know what it was, that thing was of different sizes, the big one was the size of a pu fan, and the small one was only one finger long, he couldn't see it, Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't dare to go into the water, although half a year has passed since the first rain, who knows if there will be a virus in it?

As for whether there is a virus in aquatic organisms, Zhang Xiaoqiang also thought about it, when he thought that those mutated creatures mutated after drinking water containing viruses, and the virus could not continue to survive in the body of the organism, he reluctantly put his mind at ease.

Can't go down to the water, it doesn't mean that Zhang Xiaoqiang has no choice, he walked to the side of the bamboo forest and cut down a green bamboo the thickness of a wine glass, knocked out the branches, and a four-meter-long bamboo pole was ready.

Zhang Xiaoqiang stood by the lake and carefully put the tip of the bamboo pole into a gap, just stretched in, the thing clamped the bamboo pole tightly, and then a burst of silt was disturbed, and the turbid silt completely polluted the water, Zhang Xiaoqiang could no longer see the specific situation of the water.

If you can't see it, you can't see it, Zhang Xiaoqiang has felt the bamboo pole in his hand heavy, when Zhang Xiaoqiang dragged the ten catties of things ashore, it attracted an exclamation, this is a huge river mussel, this river mussel weighs more than ten catties, two huge mussel shells tightly clamp the bamboo pole, the black and green mottled shell, a round of coils spread like the annual rings of the old tree.

This huge mussel is the size of a pampas fan, and its shell is identical on the left and right, mirror-symmetrical, and the shell is prominent. The front end of the shell is rounded, the back end is slightly truncated, the ventral line is curved, the dorsal line is straight, the twisted part is toothless, and the ligament on the outside can be seen through the gap of the bamboo pole, and on the edge of the ligament, the slightly pink muscle is straining inside.

In southern China, river mussels are very common, they live in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and ponds, as long as they are a little older in the ponds can generally be found, some river mussels can produce pearls in the body, pearls are useless at present, their greatest value happens to be their fat fresh meat.

The protein content of the mussel itself is not very high, that is, about 10 percent, but it contains dozens of trace elements required by the human body, and they also have high medicinal value.

Zhang Xiaoqiang played a leading role, and the members of the logistics team also knew how to do it, one by one the bamboo was cut, one by one the bamboo poles were made, with the shouting of the people, the huge mussels were hung out of the water, and the happy crowd knew that today's lunch must be particularly rich.