Chapter 130 Chapter 129: Small weed, big effect

The two of them went out to the back mountain. The ridge was shrouded in clouds and mist, and the air was damp and cool in the early morning after the rain.

When I walked to the edge of the corn field, a cool breeze blew, and crystal clear dewdrops swayed back and forth on the corn leaves.

The weeds in the corn field grew very tall in just a few days.

Zhou Huaian pointed to the people in front who were carrying baskets on their backs and said, "Yan'er, look, they are picking mushrooms earlier than us."

Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "You have to get up early to pick mushrooms. If you go too late, the mushroom nests will have been picked up by others."

After another twenty or thirty years, good wild mushrooms will become more and more valuable. Some people will wear headlamps and go into the mountains to pick mushrooms before dawn.

If you are lucky enough to come across a nest of chicken mushrooms or valuable fungi, you can earn more in a day than you would by moving bricks on a construction site for a few days.

Walking through the cornfield, Yang Chunyan saw patches of frog yellow, Xanthium sibiricum, wild tobacco, Solanum nigrum, and Rhubarb growing in the wasteland; and the sticky grass grew to half a person's height in just a dozen days.

The sticky grass that country folk hate so much is scientifically called Bidens pilosa. Its seeds are like hidden weapons that can get stuck in your clothes when you are not paying attention, and are extremely difficult to clean.

Bidens pilosa is an annual herb with an erect stem, slightly lavender at the bottom, obtusely quadrangular, glabrous, or slightly hairy on the branches at the top.

The leaves at the bottom of the stem are smaller, rarely pinnate compound leaves with leaflets. The leaflets on both sides are elliptical or ovate-elliptical, with five white petals and a yellow disc, which looks somewhat similar to wild chrysanthemums.

The whole plant can be used as medicine, with warm nature, bitter taste and non-toxicity. It has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling. It is often used by the people to treat diseases such as enteritis and dysentery.

It is mainly used to treat upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat, acute appendicitis, acute icteric hepatitis, gastroenteritis, rheumatic joint pain, malaria, and can be used externally to treat sores, snake bites, and swelling and pain from falls.

The unique feature of this drug is that it can lower the blood pressure of patients with hypertension, and can raise the blood pressure of those with low blood pressure, while there is no change in people with normal blood pressure.

It is indeed an effective medicine for preventing and treating hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Yang Chunyan thought that this piece of wasteland was ownerless and close to home. She would have time to harvest it tomorrow afternoon after returning from the mountain.

The two men were wearing newly bought boots, so they were not afraid of the dew on the weeds getting their shoes wet.

After crossing two ridges and arriving at the place where stinking peonies grow, you can still see groups of people picking mushrooms.

Zhou Huaian pointed at the stinking peonies that were in full bloom and said, "Yan'er, do you want to harvest them now?"

"We pick leaves from stinking peonies in the summer and dig up roots in the fall. Let's go check out the Ganoderma lucidum nest first, and pick the leaves when we come back."

"Then hurry up to the mountain. There are so many people picking mushrooms. I'm afraid our Ganoderma nest has been discovered by others."

He couldn't wait to see the two purple Ganoderma lucidum. Was they destined to be with him?

The two of them quickly crossed the ravine. There were fewer people coming to this ridge to pick mushrooms, and the one or two they saw occasionally were strong laborers.

Yang Chunyan saw a few big-foot mushrooms and went forward to pull them up, "Huaian, there are a lot of mushrooms here!"

Zhou Huaian looked at it with disdain, "Why are you picking up bigfoot mushrooms? It would be better to pick up some morels or matsutake mushrooms instead!"

"Do you think morels and matsutake mushrooms are so easy to pick?" Yang Chunyan put the mushrooms in the backpack and continued walking forward.

After several consecutive rains, the mushrooms, wild flowers and weeds in the forest were nourished by the rain and blossomed with their own beauty. The mountains and forests were decorated like a paradise on earth!

Suddenly, a few "Wa...Wa..." sounds came from the woods, like a baby crying.

Zhou Huaian grabbed Yang Chunyan and said, "There are golden chicken eggs ahead!"

The two stood there quietly, and soon they saw two golden roosters, a male and a female, emerging from a fern bush.

Golden Rooster is the name given by the locals. Its scientific name is Tragopan pheasant, and it is a national second-class protected animal.

The hen's feathers are generally gray-brown above and light yellow below, both covered with black stripes and white spots. From a distance, they look very similar to dead leaves and soil.

The rooster's feathers are very bright, with deep chestnut red feathers covered with gray-black spots, a shiny black crest on its head, and a pair of cobalt blue fleshy horns on both sides of the crest.

Yang Chunyan thinks the bird world is so amazing. Male birds have bright feathers and moving singing voices just to attract females.

The female birds are gray or have inconspicuous feathers. Such feathers can easily blend into the surrounding environment, making it easier to hide and less likely to attract the attention of hunters.

Golden roosters can still be seen in the mountains these days, but in ten years or so, it will be rare to see one even in the deep mountains.

She remembered that there were reports on TV saying that in addition to the golden pheasant, the rare birds in the mountains here include macaques, short-tailed monkeys, pangolins, leopards, forest musk deer, red musk deer, sambar deer, red pandas and golden cats.

Golden cats are mysterious and ferocious beasts that are extremely rare to see. However, the red panda, known as the cutest in the world, can still be seen these days if you are lucky.

The red panda is about 60 cm long, with a tail that is more than half of its body length. It weighs about 5 kg and has thick eyebrows and big eyes. It wears an eye mask like the giant panda. It has a furry, round body and a long ring-shaped tail. It looks very cute, and it loves to act cute!

Red pandas grow in bamboo forests at high altitudes. Because they love to bask in the sun on sunny cliffs or forks in large trees, they are also called "mountain gate squats" by the locals.

Looking at the two golden roosters, Zhou Huaian reached out to touch the sand gun in the basket, but Yang Chunyan stopped him, "No, it's better for the couple to be together."

The golden rooster heard the noise and disappeared into the ferns.

Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan with a smile, "They are looking for food for the baby. We should make some extra money while we don't have a baby to raise in the future!"

Yang Chunyan didn't expect him to say such a thing, and said jokingly: "You don't want to buy a tractor?"

"We need to buy a tractor and have a baby! I tell you, the money Erchun saves is for the capital of getting a wife. I already have a wife, so I save money to buy a tractor and raise a baby."

Zhou Huaian said, thinking of Xu Erchun's instructions, "Yan'er, has my younger sister-in-law found a partner?"

"Xiaomei is still in medical school and she still has one year to graduate. Why are you asking this?"

"Erchun wants you to help introduce me to someone!"

"Forget it! Erchun is a good person, but his mother is far inferior to my mother-in-law."

Yang Chunyan remembered that her brother-in-law in her previous life was very kind to her younger sister. After they got married, the couple had a daughter. They later opened a clinic and lived a prosperous life.

"I forgot about that." Zhou Huaian felt scared when he mentioned Xu Erchun's mother. "Compared with my mother, Erchun's mother is really far behind."

"Yes! When you marry, you don't just marry one person, you have to consider the whole family." Yang Chunyan remembered that in her previous life, her mother and husband agreed because they thought the Zhou family's parents were nice people and the sisters-in-law were easy to get along with.

"It's probably hard to find a family as harmonious as mine in the entire Baima Town." Zhou Huaian squinted his eyes and looked carefully into the woods, "Yan'er, go in and take a look. There seems to be a big fig tree there!"

(End of this chapter)