"Sister Chen, how many mushrooms have you picked?"
After wandering around the mountain for a while, Tan Xiaojuan and the others returned to Chen Suwen and the others and inquired about everyone's progress.
"Aunt Tan, look, we have so many mushrooms!" Song Qing handed her small basket to Tan Xiaojuan, which was overflowing with mushrooms.
"Wow, so many! You actually picked up so many 'gentlemen' (a type of orchid). Qingqing is so amazing!" Tan Xiaojuan praised the little girl generously.
"Hehe, actually my grandma and my mom picked even more mushrooms." Song Qing tugged at the bamboo basket her grandma had placed on the ground, showing it off to Tan Xiaojuan and the others.
"There really are quite a lot." Huang Xiufang peeked out and recognized a considerable number of termite mushrooms. "These termite mushrooms are very delicious and especially fresh. Auntie, Yunqi is so kind of you."
"Is this a matsutake mushroom? You actually found matsutake mushrooms?"
Matsutake mushrooms are very precious. I heard that every year people in Yunnan Province go up the mountain to pick them and sell them to the supply and marketing cooperatives, where they can make a lot of money.
Of course, people in other places besides Yunnan Province also find matsutake mushrooms; they are generally very precious.
Huang Xiufang was able to recognize them because she had seen the villagers cleaning up matsutake mushrooms when she went to their homes to exchange goods.
"I didn't expect there to be matsutake mushrooms here. We'll have to look more carefully then, maybe we can find some too."
Although Tan Xiaojuan and Huang Xiufang envied Chen Suwen and her friends for finding precious mushrooms and for finding so many, they felt no jealousy.
They just thought that since Chen Su and the others were able to find this kind of mushroom, they might be able to find it too if they looked around.
The group dispersed again. Chen Suwen told Zhou Ling to look after the two children while she went to look for pheasants or something similar.
These mushrooms are so fresh; if you stew them with pheasant, the taste would be absolutely delicious.
Chen Suwen also found it hard to refuse fresh mushroom and chicken soup.
"Why are you bleeding so much? Don't you even know when you got injured?"
Chen Suwen had only walked a short distance when she heard a complaining voice. She turned around and saw a woman criticizing a teenage girl.
It looked like a mother and daughter had gone up the mountain together. There was blood on the little girl's leg, and she had bled quite a lot.
Chen Suwen initially thought the girl hadn't noticed that she was menstruating, which was why she was bleeding so much. But upon closer inspection, she realized that the blood was only on her calves.
There were no leeches above her thighs, so she must have been bitten by leeches.
"Mom, I don't know when I was bitten by a leech. I didn't even see the leech."
She didn't see the leech that bit her and sucked so much blood, but she did see the other small leeches.
"Mom, leeches are so annoying."
People in this era are not usually fat, but after going up the mountain and getting sucked by leeches, I felt even weaker.
"Here, I got some herbs. Apply this to your wound first." The woman said, spitting out the herbs she had been chewing and applying them to her daughter's wound.
This herb doesn't have a particularly good hemostatic effect, but it's better than nothing; you can't just let the wound continue to bleed.
Leech bites are really annoying. Not only do you not feel anything when they bite, but they also die after they've sucked their fill of blood without anyone noticing.
Moreover, when a leech bites, it secretes some substance that prevents the blood from clotting, so the wound will continue to bleed regardless of whether the person notices the bite.
Chen Suwen took a look and thought that the substance secreted by leeches when they bite is really suitable as an anesthetic or painkiller.
Bites can make people numb, so wouldn't that be perfect for relieving pain?
And that substance that promotes blood circulation might have other uses as well.
"Mom, I'm still bleeding." The little girl was very worried because the wound was still bleeding even though she had applied herbal medicine.
Of course, the area has already been thoroughly searched by the army, so there are definitely no large carnivores around. There's no need to worry about the smell of blood attracting any powerful beasts.
Chen Suwen had no ulterior motives. Although she had hemostatic powder, she had no intention of giving it to a stranger.
She didn't know the mother and daughter. If she gave them the powder, they might not appreciate it and think she had bad intentions.
Or what if the girl has some problems later and someone tries to extort money from her?
Chen Suwen didn't have that much good intention.
She glanced at it and then turned and left. She thought she had just spotted some pheasants not far away, and they were the kind that were rather large.
There is a type of pheasant that is relatively small and looks similar to a large, red rooster raised at home, but Chen Suwen thought it was too small.
There was so little meat, not even enough to fill a tooth gap.
After searching for a while, Chen Suwen put the two pheasants in her basket and covered them with something.
Unlike people, the pheasants here are not skinny. There is plenty of food in the wild in Yunnan Province, so the pheasants have no shortage of food and grow to be plump and strong.
"Grandma, you're back."
"Grandma, let me tell you, Mom just caught a pheasant." Song Qing happily went over to share her mother's catch with Chen Suwen when she saw her return.
"Mom is amazing! She actually caught a pheasant. We'll have meat to eat today!" Song Chen was also very happy.
Chen Suwen looked at Zhou Ling in surprise, not expecting that she had also caught a pheasant.
The reason she caught pheasants so easily was because she was a high-level superhuman. Her superpowers made her feel right at home in the mountains and forests, and all the plants were her eyes and ears.
So it was easy for her to catch pheasants.
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