Bamboo forests grow in clusters.
In clumps.
The withered yellow bamboo leaves and fallen hard bamboo shells completely cover the ground, forming a thick layer of rotten leaves. When you walk on it and crush the bamboo shells, it will make a crunching sound like crushing dry leaves.
This kind of bamboo shell can be ignited at a touch. Rural families like to burn this kind of bamboo shell very much. It is very useful for starting a fire.
Because of the coverage of bamboo leaves and bamboo shells, other weeds are difficult to grow, the vision is much better, and this place is actually easier to walk on than the previous road full of weeds.
Jiang Yan remembered the big rat she had seen in the bamboo forest before, and followed Lu Yunsheng carefully.
She looked around and seemed to hear some sound. She hurried forward and grabbed the corner of Lu Yunsheng's clothes.
Lu Yunsheng held Jiang Yan's hand and comforted her, "It's okay. Bamboo rats are afraid of people and won't come out."
“Chirp—”
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden noise coming from the bamboo forest in the distance.
Jiang Yan subconsciously looked over and saw a fat black rat poking its head out of the hole. Then it suddenly jumped out and quickly went into another hole next to it and disappeared.
Jiang Yan: “!!!”
Lu Yunsheng: “…”
The air suddenly became quiet.
Jiang Yan looked up at Lu Yunsheng, blinked her beautiful big eyes, and fluttered her long eyelashes.
Lu Yunsheng coughed awkwardly, but Jiang Yan chuckled, and then laughed louder and louder. Lu Yunsheng couldn't help but laugh too, and the two of them laughed together.
The laughter echoed in the woods, and the bamboo rats in the cave were so scared that they trembled and ran directly into the deepest hole in the ground.
"Let's go, husband. The bamboo rat will come out again later."
Jiang Yan pulled Lu Yunsheng forward, not forgetting to tease him. Lu Yunsheng felt helpless, and took two steps to Jiang Yan's side, paying attention to the situation around him.
Coming out of the bamboo forest, the two went down several small steep slopes and saw a messy grassland in front of them, but the grass was not very dense.
After crossing the grass, about ten meters ahead is the valley where Jiang Yan wants to go.
The stream has dried up a little.
The riverbed was littered with pebbles of all sizes, with only a shallow, narrow stream of water flowing slowly in the middle.
Both sides of the river bank are sandy areas with scattered stones and a few tall or short weeds growing here and there.
"Hubby, dig this... this... out."
"For that grass, just break off the yellow leaves at the bottom... and for that, just the rhizome..."
Jiang Yan was very happy.
She was right. The environmental conditions here were very good and many of the medicinal herbs she needed grew there.
Suddenly, Jiang Yan saw a purple-red plant that was slightly taller than a person's knees. She hurried over, took down her backpack, and carefully lay on the ground, moving the surrounding stones one by one, and then used a shovel to dig the soil around the roots bit by bit.
But this plant was a bit big, so after digging one side, she changed direction and continued digging. When she got close to the plant, she used a small brush and dug slowly bit by bit.
After digging the herbs, Lu Yunsheng saw his wife squatting on the ground, looking focused and cautious.
Putting the herbs into the backpack, he walked over quickly.
Seeing Lu Yunsheng coming over, Jiang Yan hurriedly said, "Hubby, help me hold this grass, don't let it break, otherwise it will affect the efficacy of the medicine. This is a good thing, it is a main ingredient."
Taking the backpack off and putting it aside, Lu Yunsheng squatted down, stretched out his hand to hold the purple-red plant, and asked, "Wife, what is the main ingredient of this medicine?"
Jiang Yan used a small brush to brush the roots of the plant. "It's the sugar bean you ate before. It's not easy to find such a big dragon grass."
"Jelly beans?"
The candy beans that can stimulate human potential and improve physical fitness?
Lu Yunsheng looked serious. He remembered Jiang Yan said that this medicine could not be copied. "Wife, can we make candy beans by collecting all the herbs?"
"No, I'm not capable of making that kind of medicine yet."
Jiang Yan shook the sand on the brush onto the stone, and then continued to brush the sand off the roots bit by bit, with the same care as digging ginseng.
"But we can save up the herbs first. If I get divine help one day, maybe I can make it."
Lu Yunsheng nodded, and Jiang Yan stopped talking and concentrated on digging the grass.
After digging for more than ten minutes, she had only dug up a small half of it. The main reason was that the roots of the Longxi grass were too large and too deep, and she couldn't damage the roots, so Jiang Yan's progress was very slow.
She stood up and stretched her body; her feet were numb.
Lu Yunsheng said distressedly: "Wife, let me dig for a while."
Jiang Yan handed the brush to Lu Yunsheng and held the plant with her hand.
The two of them took turns like this, and it took them nearly three hours to dig out the entire dragon beard grass.
"Look, honey, this is our first Longxi grass."
Looking at the Longxi grass that was intact from leaves to roots, Jiang Yan felt a great sense of accomplishment. She took out a piece of cotton cloth from her small backpack, carefully wrapped the numerous roots and put them into Lu Yunsheng's backpack.
"Hubby, you carry me. You're steadier than me."
"Yeah." Lu Yunsheng nodded and asked, "Do you want to take a look around? Since there is one here, there should be others around."
"Yes, let's go."
The two walked around the area and indeed found a few more plants, but they were all too small and not as big as the previous one.
Thinking that there was no urgent need to use them now and that she and Lu Yunsheng were also tired, Jiang Yan decided not to pick them for the time being and let them grow longer.
Anyway, no one knows her except her, so let the herbs grow for ten or eight years, and it will only be the 1980s.
After a busy morning, the two took a rest under the shade of a tree by the river, drank some water, and ate some pancakes that they had baked the night before.
While eating, Jiang Yan looked around to see if there were any good medicinal herbs to dig up later.
Suddenly, she noticed something shiny on the riverbed.
“Huh!”
Jiang Yan exclaimed in surprise. In this era, there was no pollution and there were no glass or metal industrial products in the wild. What could be so sparkling?
Confused, Jiang Yan stood up and walked towards the light.
Hearing her voice, Lu Yunsheng looked over and saw Jiang Yan walking towards the river, so he stood up and followed.
Jiang Yan walked quickly to the riverside and searched in the small stream which was only half a meter wide and ten to twenty centimeters deep. Then she saw a thumb-sized piece of yellow metal shining brightly at the bottom of the water.
Gold!
Seeing that rich color, two words popped into Jiang Yan's mind.
Action is faster than thinking.
She reached out and picked up the golden stone at the bottom of the water, put it in her mouth and bit it hard.
Soft.
Jiang Yan was pleasantly surprised and turned to look at Lu Yunsheng, "Hubby, look! It's gold! We've made a fortune."
"What?"
Lu Yunsheng took two steps forward, looked at the thing in Jiang Yan's hand, and saw clear teeth marks on it.
It really is gold.
At this time, Jiang Yan also remembered that she seemed to have heard someone mention in her previous life that there was a gold mine in Zhanchuan. Could it be that the gold mine was nearby?
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