Chapter 71: Gastrodia

The meals prepared for the Full Moon Feast are plentiful and hard enough.

The guests collectively lost their speech, and expressed their satisfaction with the meal with lightning-fast chopsticks and quick discs.

The soup was full, and the people did not disperse, sitting together to show off today's harvest in the mountains.

In this season, there are many chongyang mushrooms on the mountain, and everyone picks some more or less, puts them in a cloth bag, and hangs them around their waists.

Du Ruozhen's shit luck was good, and he actually picked a clump of yellow and clear cockscomb mushrooms that looked like a cockscomb. In a large number of light-colored heavy yang bacteria, it looks particularly eye-catching.

In the previous life, the cockscomb Du Ruoli only heard its name, but did not see its shape. Because the production is scarce, it is extremely difficult to preserve and transport, and there are almost no on the market, only that the taste is abnormal.

Du Ruozhen saw that Du Ruoli liked it, and said generously: "Ah Li, for your hard work today, the cockscomb fungus is given to you." ”

"Wow, that's great!"

Du Ruoli took the beautiful cockscomb mushroom and took a deep breath.

Well, well, there is no taste, the deliciousness of mushrooms cannot be smelled by smelling, you have to taste it.

She will cook it early tomorrow morning, taste it, and see if it is as rumored that her eyebrows will be fresh.

Du Ruoli held the small basket of cockscomb mushrooms and continued to look at the other harvests.

The most harvested is the fern root, after all, the fern root is full of starch and can be used as a staple food to fill the stomach.

The second most harvested is the cone chestnut. From the place where they picked the cone chestnut yesterday, and half a mile up the road, there is a cone chestnut forest. Cone chestnuts fall all over the ground, and you can pick them up and eat them by bending down. If they didn't take it away, they would be eager to bring it all back and eat it all.

The third most harvested is the five spirit fat, the men of Du Ruozhen's family and Zhou Daya's family, who have been listening to the calls of the cold horn birds with their ears open last night, judging their location. After returning from hunting today, we went up the mountain collectively after lunch.

The three grandfathers followed behind them, lit fires everywhere, dried them everywhere, and obtained more than 20 catties of dried medicinal materials, and a harvest of ten taels of silver.

And then all that's left are some bits and pieces, pine nuts, pecans, kiwis, hawthorns and whatever. Du Ruoli saw something in Wu Yueniang's hand with sharp eyes, and immediately became excited: "Auntie, isn't it gastrodia in your hand?" Where did you find it, is there only one? ”

"What, Gastrodia?"

Wu Yueniang was stunned and looked at the ugly lump in her hand: "This is gastrodia?" Gastrodia sold in pharmacies? I also saw it by accident, and thought about coming back and cooking it to taste, in case it was stuttering! I didn't expect it to be a precious medicinal herb! I even had a lucky day! ”

Now there is no need for Du Ruoli to ask, other people's questions are one after another:

"Where did you find Gastrodia?"

"What does gastrodia look like on it?"

"How many are there in a nest of gastrodia?"

"Is it hard to find gastrodia?"

"Don't ask, don't ask, my head is big!" Wu Yueniang covered her ears and said, "Let me think about it, and I'll tell you when I think about it." ”

The others let Wu Yueniang go for the time being, letting her think slowly.

Du Ruoli said: "This place is so good, if it weren't for the guilt and the need to settle in the frontier, I really want to settle here." ”

Grandmother Santang agreed: "Indeed, the land here is vast and sparsely populated, and the mountains are rich in things. Just by going into the mountains to collect medicine and hunting, you can live very well. If you are more diligent, reclaim a few acres of wasteland and plant food, it is simply a fairy day. ”

The grandfather of the three cousins felt that they were talking nonsense: "In this kind of high mountain, the land is frozen for four or five months of the year. It was not until April that the seeds could be planted, and the frost was frosted before the elders, so there was no way to plant crops at all, so they could only rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. It's too risky to rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and if you don't do it, you'll die, so it's better to be in our hometown! ”

Grandmother Santang was not to be outdone, and she didn't know how to refute it, so she pinned her hopes on Du Ruoli: "Pear girl, we can't lose to the old thing, otherwise the old thing should tremble." ”

Du Ruoli couldn't help laughing, and retorted with a smile: "No matter whether it is high or low, as long as you choose the right type of food, you will have a harvest." We can grow wheat and millet in our hometown, rice and rape in the south, red beans and medicinal herbs in the mountains! Red adzuki beans like this climate the most, and the yield is very high. Medicinal herbs are also, lovage, gastrodia, seven-leaf flowers or something, and they all like this cold climate. So, you're wrong! ”

"That sounds pretty good." Grandfather Santang sighed heavily: "It's a pity, no matter how good the place is, we can't stay, we have to go to the frontier where birds don't." ”

"No, no, no,"

Du Ruoli objected to Santang's grandfather for the second time tonight: "The frontier is as good as the frontier, where the sunshine hours are long, the temperature difference between day and night is large, the grain grown is exceptionally sweet outside, and the cotton wool grown is exceptionally long. With abundant water and grass, and we can also raise cattle and sheep, we will definitely be able to live a good life. ”

The third grandmother suddenly became excited, grabbed Du Ruoli's arm and asked, "Pear girl, are you telling the truth?" Is the frontier really as good as you say, you can grow food, and you won't go hungry? ”

Others also looked at Du Ruoli with burning eyes, and their consciousness was the same as that of Santang's grandmother, is this true?

Du Ruoli nodded heavily: "Naturally, it's true!" Why should I lie to you? ”

Also, it doesn't do her any good to deceive people, and there is no need for her to deceive.

Therefore, it is true that people can live and live well in the frontier!

Everyone let out a long breath.

The long-standing worries that had been pressing on my heart finally disappeared. The whole body is relaxed.

As if to echo this relaxed atmosphere, Wu Yueniang suddenly let go of her hands and said loudly: "Ah! I remember! I remember where I got gastrodia! There should be quite a few of them there, who will go with me to pick them up? ”

Everyone here wants to go.

Who doesn't want to know about precious medicinal materials? If you meet it in the mountains one day, won't you be able to pick it up and sell it for money?

Several families who had been huddled together immediately stood up, picked up torches made of cedar bark, and wanted to go with Wu Yueniang.

The new joiner sat and didn't dare to move, drooping his eyes, and peeked at Du Ruoli from time to time.

Du Ruoli smiled and said, "If you want to go, you can go, what's here!" It's all a family, don't be so polite. ”

"Eh, then let's go see it!"

They hurriedly got to their feet and followed the large army into the mountains.

Du Ruoli handed over her sister to Xiaoqiu again, and walked in the middle of the team with a few good friends.

The team is moving fast, unprecedentedly fast, as if it is one step late, and Tianma will fly.

When Du Ruoli was so tired that she couldn't breathe, she finally heard Wu Yueniang's heavenly voice: "Here, that's where I found gastrodia!" ”

(End of chapter)