Chapter Twenty-Seven: Unexpected Peanuts

Lin Yunxuan was a little flustered at first when she realized that she was lost, but she quickly calmed herself down.

Now it is imperative to identify your own location before finding your way down the mountain.

Lin Yunxuan had participated in outdoor hiking activities in her previous life and had learned some knowledge about outdoor survival, so it would not be difficult for her to identify the location.

Fortunately, it was morning, and although there were many tall trees around, they were not the kind of towering trees that were entwined with vines, and the canopy was not so large that it would shade the sky and the sun, and the sunlight could still shine on the ground through the gaps between the trees and leaves, and the sight was still very good.

Lin Yunxuan found a gap in the shade of a tree, looked up and squinted at the sun, identified the position of the sun, and then carefully observed which side of the nearby trees had more lush leaves and how the moss on the ground grew, and carefully walked south after judging the direction of the south.

The cave she just ran out of was above the halfway point of Jinji Ridge, and she had been running for more than ten or twenty minutes, if she guessed correctly, she was now halfway up the mountainside of Jinji Ridge, and Jinji Ridge was in the west of Gangtou Village, and she would definitely have to go south when she went home.

Lin Yunxuan found a wooden stick in her hand and held it in her hand, which can be used as a mountaineering crutch or in case of emergency, for example, when encountering grass, you can first "hit the grass and startle the snake". She made marks as she went, in case she went the wrong way and came back.

After walking for about half an hour, after passing through a dense jungle, Lin Yunxuan's eyes suddenly opened up, there was no dense jungle, what was displayed in front of her was an open field, the ground was overgrown with weeds, and some low shrubs grew sparsely on the edges.

Lin Yunxuan saw that there was a big stone buried in the ground, only half of her body was exposed, and with the mentality of giving it a try, she climbed on the big stone and looked into the south.

Ah, there it sees! You can really see it!

Lin Yunxuan was so excited that she wanted to scream, and the nerves that had been tense could finally relax a little.

She saw Gangtou Village, although it was still a little far, but at least it showed that she was going in the right direction, and she had walked for so long, and it should not be very far from the foot of the mountain now.

Lin Yunxuan didn't dare to stay too long, and after sitting on the big stone for a short rest, she got up and prepared to continue her journey.

She carefully climbed down from the big rock, and was just about to take a step, when she noticed that ten meters away from the big stone, some grass leaves seemed to be a little familiar.

Lin Yunxuan stepped forward curiously to take a look, happy.

Isn't this a peanut? In her previous life, when she was a child, she helped her grandmother pull peanuts, dry peanuts, and eat peanuts. So she's quite familiar with peanuts.

In order to confirm her guess, she grabbed a handful of peanut leaves, pulled them along the peanut seedlings, and with a bang, the peanut seedlings were uprooted by her, and peanuts hung on the roots like bells.

It's peanuts!

Lin Yunxuan's heart blossomed, and Sai Weng knew that he was not blessed.

If God closes a door for you, he will surely open another window for you. It's not in vain that she fell twice today, got lost, and walked so many wrongful ways.

Peanuts are a good thing! It is rich in vegetable oil, protein and vitamins, long in nourishing and nourishing, helping to prolong life, so the folk also call it "longevity fruit", and soybeans are known as "plant meat", "meat in vegetarians". The oil content of peanuts is as high as 50%, and the fatty acid composition of peanut oil squeezed out is relatively good, which is easy for the human body to digest and absorb, which can not only reduce cholesterol, but also enhance memory. In addition to being edible, peanuts are also a traditional Chinese medicine, suitable for malnutrition, spleen and stomach disorders, cough and phlegm asthma, lack of milk and other diseases.

Lin Yunxuan took a closer look at the "weeds" in this field, and half of them were peanuts!

Since God let her find this peanut field, there is no reason not to take it away.

Lin Yunxuan uprooted several handfuls of peanuts, gently shook off the soil on the peanut roots, picked the peanuts one by one and put them in her pocket, and did not stop until all the pockets were full.

Unfortunately, her basket and medicine box had fallen into the cave, otherwise she could have filled more. Next time, I don't know if this peanut is still there.

In the end, Lin Yunxuan made a special mark on the edge of this peanut field and continued to walk home with two handfuls of peanuts with roots and leaves.

After three poles in the sun, Lin Yunxuan went around and finally returned to the original marked downhill route. By the time she got home, it was already past noon, and she had not eaten breakfast or lunch, and she was already hungry.

"Sister, where's your medicine box?"

Zhao An, who was flipping sweet potato starch blocks in the yard, was very surprised to see Lin Yunxuan pushing the door with a gray face, and the medicine box he brought with him was gone.

"Medicine box, I left it with someone else, I'll pick it up later." Lin Yunxuan replied calmly.

When she got lost in the mountains, she found that her medicine box had fallen in the cave, but she was too embarrassed to go back and get it now, so she had to leave it there first.

"Oh, what's in your hand?" Zhao An's sharp eyes saw Lin Yunxuan holding a handful of grass in her hand.

"Well, peanuts." Lin Yunxuan heard Zhao An ask about the things in her hand, and while handing them to him, she said, "I still have some in my pocket." ”

"Peanuts? Where is the flower in this thing? Zhao An picked up the handful of peanuts in Lin Yunxuan's hand, looked left and right, and said with a frown.

"Haven't you seen peanuts?" Lin Yunxuan was a little disbelieving, took out a handful of peanuts she had cleaned from her pocket, and asked, "What about this, have you seen this?" ”

Zhao An glanced at it and shook his head.

Lin Yunxuan was secretly happy, and ran to the door of the kitchen happily, and asked Zhao Dalin and Aunt Zhang, who were killing fish: "Uncle, aunt, have you seen this?" ”

Zhao Dalin and Aunt Zhang looked at the strange handful of "grass" and small yellow-white bell-like beans in her hand, and shook their heads.

Lin Yunxuan didn't care about looking for something to eat to fill her stomach, so she took the peanuts and asked them one by one in the yard, without exception, no one recognized the peanuts in her hand.

Zhao Yun'er blinked her big curious eyes and asked, "Sister, can you eat these things in your hands?" ”

"Of course you can eat it." As soon as Lin Yunxuan finished speaking, Zhao Yun'er grabbed a peanut and put it in her mouth and bit it.

"Poof~ Why is there still sand!" Zhao Yun'er wrinkled her little face and spit out all the peanuts in her mouth.

Lin Yunxuan couldn't help but laugh when she saw this.

"Silly Yun'er, peanuts are eaten like this." Lin Yunxuan put the peanut in her hand on the ground, picked up a peanut and peeled it off, and took out the peanut kernel inside and stuffed it into Zhao Yun'er's mouth.

Zhao Yun'er chewed unceremoniously.

"Well, it's delicious. It's sweet. Sister, I still want it. Zhao Yun'er finished eating a peanut and looked at Lin Yunxuan with a blank eye.

Lin Yunxuan poured out all the peanuts in her pocket and beckoned everyone to come and taste them. Everyone stopped what they were doing and leaned over.

"This is called peanuts, you can't eat them directly, peel off the shell first and then eat the peanut kernels inside." As she spoke, she showed everyone how to peel peanuts.

"Ah, it's delicious. Ting'er, come, here you go. Huzi tried a peanut first, and after thinking it was delicious, he quickly peeled one and handed it to his sister.

"I didn't expect this thing to taste a little sweet." After Aunt Zhang ate a peanut, she involuntarily picked up another peanut.

"Crunchy, a little sweet, delicious." Zhao An couldn't stop eating.

"Xuan'er, where did you find these things?" He Cuifang ate peanuts and didn't forget to ask the source.

"It's in the mountains. The peanuts that everyone eats now are raw, so you can't eat more, because eating too much is easy to have diarrhea. Lin Yunxuan saw that everyone was eating so happily, and she was afraid that everyone would eat too much and have diarrhea, so she hurriedly reminded her.

"Peanuts are also called longevity fruits, which can be eaten raw or cooked in water, or used to stir-fry or stew soups, in short, there are many ways to eat them. It can also be used for medicinal purposes, and eating peanuts properly is good for the body. By the way, you can also squeeze oil, and the peanut oil squeezed out is fragrant. Lin Yunxuan simply introduced peanuts to everyone by the way.

"Oil extraction?" When Aunt Zhang heard these two words, her eyes lit up: "Is it as fragrant as the lard we ate?" ”

"The fragrance of lard is different from the fragrance of peanut oil, so it should be about the same." Lin Yunxuan was not very sure, after all, the ingredients of the two were different, so she had to give the answer based on the smell of peanut oil and lard used in her previous life.

"Then we can pick a little bit and come back to squeeze oil to eat, so that we don't have to buy fat and boil lard." Aunt Zhang said excitedly.

"The amount of peanuts on the mountain is not very large, I'm afraid we can't pick enough to squeeze a bowl of oil." Lin Yunxuan had to pour cold water on Aunt Zhang.

Although the peanut field on the mountain is as much as two acres of land, it is wild after all, and they don't know what the yield is. If they finish picking it all at once, they won't have anything to eat. And since everyone doesn't know peanuts, there must be no process of squeezing peanut oil, and it is difficult to guarantee this oil yield, so don't waste this hard-won peanuts.

Aunt Zhang saw that it was hopeless to squeeze peanut oil, and suddenly it was like a deflated ball, wilting.

Seeing this, He Cuifang comforted her and said: "The lard is also very good, we can't eat peanut oil, we eat peanuts." Here, eat more. Later, bring some peanuts back for the kids to try. After speaking, he grabbed two handfuls of peanuts and put them in Aunt Zhang's hands.

Aunt Zhang is not a hypocritical person, she took the peanuts, and the look on her face came alive again.

Aunt Zhang's words gave Lin Yunxuan a new inspiration.

Although you can't squeeze peanut oil now, you may be able to do it later. However, squeezing peanut oil requires a lot of peanuts. Now only the peanuts on the mountain are found, and the number is still a little small. If the transplantation is successful, we can plant peanuts extensively, so that when the amount of peanuts is large, we can try to squeeze peanut oil.

However, where are the peanuts going to be transplanted? At present, they do not have any extra land, and the only land that is already planted with crops.