Chapter 246 245: Tuanyu

See serum is the whole herb of the orchid plant Orchidaceae, also known as: sheep's ear garlic, Li Di Hao, hairy arrowhead, rock taro, etc.

It is a perennial herb with well-developed, brown, recumbent rhizomes. Its stems are cylindrical, fat and thick. Its leaves are emerald green, ovate to oblong, and gradually pointed at the tip. Their shape is somewhat similar to that of rice leaves.

It has purple flowers and is also a very ornamental potted plant.

See blood serum: bitter, cool. It has the effects of promoting new blood and dispersing blood stasis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding; clearing away heat and detoxifying.

When mountain people accidentally get scratched or bruised while going into the mountains, they often look for this herb, mash it and apply it to the affected area.

Yang Chunyan followed him and saw Grandpa Yang sitting on a bamboo chair with his instep swollen. "Dad, how did you hurt your foot?"

"Chunyan is back!" Daddy Yang said with a smile, "She slipped while chopping wood and twisted her ankle."

Yang Chunyan rubbed Dashuang's head and said, "You little rascal, you scared us."

Da Shuang looked innocent, "Grandpa came in with a stick, the last time the old man was like that, Grandpa said his leg was broken."

Uncle Yang was not angry either, he smiled and said: "Our Dashuang is the smartest."

Father Yang took the cleaned blood serum and mashed it into a paste and applied it to his ankle, then wrapped it with gauze. "You are old and your legs are not stable, so don't rush to do it."

Father Yang said cheerfully, "The eldest brother went to pick corn, and I saw the firewood piled there, so I thought I would help them chop it, but I didn't expect it to turn out like this."

Zhou Huaian followed his brother-in-law to the river, walked upstream, and came to a place where there were a lot of aquatic plants.

Brother Yang rolled up his trouser legs to his thighs, went into the river, lifted the fish cage from the water to the shore, untied the nylon rope tied to the fish cage, took out the small bamboo basket filled with bait, and poured the fish into the bucket.

There are fish in the cages: mullet, steel loach, crucian carp, and whitefish. Steel loach has a pointed mouth, a red tail, and patterns on its body, and looks a bit like loach.

The wheat ear fish has a pointed, slightly flat head, no whiskers, and no hard spines on its dorsal fin. It is small in size and looks like a grain of wheat. It likes to hide in places with lots of aquatic plants. There are a lot of them during the wheat harvest every year, so people call it the wheat ear fish.

The scientific name of whitefish is Sichuan Bancan. It has a long, flat and thin body, hard thorns, and tender and delicious meat.

Zhou Huaian scooped it up and took a look, "Just take the small fish out and put it back into the river."

"Yes!" Brother Yang carried the trap down to the river and placed it there.

Zhou Huaian fished out the small fish and put them back into the river. He also rolled up his trousers and went into the river with the shrimp basket. The water in the river was very cold, and it was not very comfortable to swim in this weather.

He saw a dark shadow swaying under the water plants, so he quickly picked up the shrimp basket and went over to it. When he lifted it up, he saw a big fish inside.

Zhou Huaian held up the shrimp basket and shouted happily to Brother Yang: "Brother, look, I caught a big fish."

Brother Yang looked back and said, "Wow, you're lucky!"

"Hehe!" Zhou Huaian went ashore and poured the grouper fish into the bucket. Seeing that the grouper fish was almost as big as the bucket, he said, "Let's cook it when we get home. It's very nutritious."

Brother Yang smiled and said, "Turtle shell is also a Chinese medicine. If you get it in the future and don't want to eat it, just take it off and sell it in the medicine shop."

"Oh! Last time we hunted a wild boar, Yan'er also said that the wild boar skin and gallbladder could be sold for money."

Tuan fish is also called soft-shelled turtle and turtle!

After catching the turtle, cut off its head and boil it in boiling water for one or two hours until the hard skin on its shell falls off. Take it out, peel off the carapace, scrape off the remaining meat and dry it in the sun. The turtle shell cannot be used as medicine after being cooked.

Turtle Shell: Salty, cold. Enters the liver and kidney meridians. Has the effects of nourishing yin and suppressing yang, softening and dispersing lumps, and reducing fever and removing steam.

When Brother Yang saw that he had caught a grouper, he said, "These are enough to eat. It would be a waste if we couldn't finish eating too much."

"Okay!" Zhou Huaian came ashore with a shrimp basket and poured the freshly caught fish into the bucket. The two of them cleaned up and walked back.

"Huaian, how many days will you stay here?"

"There's a lot of work to do at home during this period, so I have to go back tomorrow."

"Well! When you have repaired the house, come and stay for a few days when you are free. We will go up the mountain to look for herbs together."

"Yes!" Zhou Huaian agreed readily, "Brother, when you went up the mountain to dig herbs, have you ever dug out a beehive? The price of old honey is not bad!"

"I take it out once in a while. My uncle Weimin often goes up the mountain to look for wild beehives. I helped him sell the honey a few times."

Zhou Huaian knew that Weimin was the youngest son of Brother Yang. He didn't know why, but he was always in a bad mood every time he saw him. He was too lazy to talk about this with Brother Yang, so he changed the subject.

"Brother, have you ever dug up any valuable herbs in the mountains?"

"I was lucky this year. The price of magnolia bark increased, so I cut some and gave them to Deshengtang. I sold them for more than 1,000 yuan." Yang Weiguo paused. "I plan to buy the old tractor of the brigade. I negotiated the price yesterday. It cost 780 yuan in total."

Zhou Huaian asked: "How many years have you used it since you bought it?"

"It's been seven or eight years. Although it's a second-hand tractor, it drives well. I can repair it myself, so it doesn't have many problems driving it."

"I can fix it myself, so of course it's better to buy second-hand."

"After breakfast tomorrow, we'll go to the brigade to pay the money and drive the tractor to plow those acres of corn fields. I'll teach you how to do it after two trips, and you'll be able to do it."

Zhou Huaian nodded happily after hearing this, "That's the best."

Brother Yang glanced at him and said with a smile: "In fact, learning to drive a tractor is very simple. You have a quick mind. You can stay here for one more day tomorrow. I guarantee you will learn it!"

Zhou Huaian thought for a moment, "The latest delay is until the afternoon!"

The two men returned home, and Uncle Yang was also kept by Yang's father. Zhou Huaian accompanied the two men to set up the dragon gate at the door of the main hall.

Yang Chunyan and others took the bucket, saw fish and grouper in it, and started to kill the fish.

Crucian carp is kept in a water tank, and the mackerel, whitefish and steel loach are picked out, wrapped with eggs, sweet potato starch and flour, and fried. After frying, sprinkle some pepper and salt, and even the fish bones are crispy, which is the best way to go with wine.

The Yang family and Zhou Huaian didn't like steamed food, so Yang's mother killed the round fish and cooked it with garlic, green and red peppers.

Yangjiaping is similar to Funiu Brigade, with more mountains and less paddy fields.

The Yang family is better off than the Zhou family. Usually, except for cooking white rice for the two children, the adults all eat rice with mixed grains. Today, when their daughter and son-in-law came, they didn't add any mixed grains and just made plain rice.

Tuan fish, braised pork, twice-cooked pork. Old hen stewed with mushrooms, which included green barley mushrooms, chanterelles, shiitake mushrooms and chicken mushroom flowers.

Yang Chunyan admires her mother. The taste of the chicken mushroom flower is really delicious, but each flower is only as big as a bean sprout, and it is very troublesome to clean up. She also dried three or four kilograms of it.

It was the same in the past. I knew that my younger sister and I liked to eat it, so I dried it every year and kept it there until they came home, and each of them shared half. Later, Huai'an passed away, and my younger sister often joked that I was biased...

In fact, she also knew that her mother was not partial, she just showed more care to the weaker child.

Mrs. Yang picked some vegetables for the two children, scooped some chicken soup and mixed it with the rice, then put it on a square wooden stool. The two kids sat down and ate obediently with spoons in hand.

(End of this chapter)