Chapter 154: 153: Happy, Enjoyable
Because it has the effect of promoting blood circulation and relieving menstruation, pregnant women should not use it to prevent symptoms such as abdominal pain and miscarriage.
Selaginella can be planted for ornamental purposes and for medicinal purposes. The whole plant has the effect of stopping bleeding and astringing. People burn the whole plant into ashes and take it internally to treat various bleeding diseases. It can also be mixed with vegetable oil for external use to treat various wounds.
In addition, this grass can also be used for beauty. Mix the ground Selaginella dry powder with egg white and apply it on the face. Long-term use can make the facial skin smooth, reduce skin wrinkles, and improve skin condition. It is a natural beauty medicine.
Zhang Xiuxiang put away the stinking peony leaves and said, "Chunyan, what are you doing pulling those resurrection grasses?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "This is also medicine. If you encounter it in the future, just take it back."
Zhang Xiuxiang also stepped forward to help, "This thing is good, put it on the rocks in the back mountain, and it will come alive."
Yang Chunyan glanced at her sunburned skin and said, "Second sister-in-law, I read in a book that you can grind the dried resurrection grass into powder, add some egg white and apply it on your face. It's better than applying perfume. When we make some money, we'll try it!"
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and nodded, "When we eat white rice every meal, we will try it!"
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "Our brigade has more mountains and fewer rice fields. There are more than a dozen people in my family, and we only got less than eight or nine acres of land.
The youngest and I only got one acre of land, and after paying the public tax, we could only have 500 to 600 kilograms of millet left. If we want to eat white rice every day, we have to earn money to buy rice! "
Zhang Xiuxiang: "It was agreed upon when the households were divided. The land allocated to each household will not be returned or replaced. Our three big families were lucky. Each child was allocated more than 5 centimeters of land. You two won't even get any land after you have children."
Yang Chunyan: "We can only have one child in the future, so it's no problem to open up more wasteland to raise the baby."
The two sisters-in-law picked the Selaginella that were growing well, and left the small ones.
I found a puddle, washed my hands, wiped them with a wet towel, took out some dry food and ate while walking.
The two crossed the ravine and walked for a while before they arrived at a forest with big banyan trees. When they entered the forest, several squirrels quickly jumped onto another tree and stood there, looking at the two curiously.
Zhang Xiuxiang looked at the cute little squirrel on the tree and said, "Little thing, your furry tail is so cute."
Yang Chunyan saw it lying on the tree branch, looking at her curiously, so she picked up the bamboo pole and waved it at it, "Little thing, you are so brave, it's lucky that we met you, it would be bad if you met a hunter."
Seeing this, the little squirrel jumped up the tree trunk and disappeared.
The two arrived at the big banyan tree, and saw a lot of fruits fallen on the ground.
Zhang Xiuxiang stood under the tree and looked at the large figs on the trunk. "Oh my god! They are so densely packed with fruits. Even the fruit trees we planted at home can't produce so many."
Yang Chunyan put down her backpack, picked a ripe fruit and handed it to her, "Try it, it tastes good!"
Zhang Xiuxiang took it, broke it open and looked at it. "When I was a kid, I was hungry and went up the mountain to cut grass for pigs. I couldn't find so many big figs. Even if I did find any, they were not good. I couldn't bear to throw them away even if there were bugs inside. I ate them all."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Bugs are also meat, eating them can supplement nutrition!"
Zhang Xiuxiang glared at her in reproach, "You are the only one who has so many twisted ideas!"
The two sisters-in-law ate a few in succession before picking up the baskets and starting to pick them.
After picking all the good fruits, Zhang Xiuxiang climbed onto a branch, and Yang Chunyan waited for her to pick the fruits and put them in the basket with a bamboo pole.
Soon both baskets were full. "Second sister-in-law, be careful when you come down. I'll check nearby to see if there's anything else."
"Go! Watch out for Lao Shuai!"
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan put the basket on the ground, untied the bamboo pole tied to it, and walked forward.
After walking for about ten minutes, we arrived in front of a big tree stump. The first thing that caught our eyes was four overlapping Ganoderma lucidums growing together. There were three big ones growing around the stump, and a small Ganoderma lucidum that had just grown out of its cap.
"What a beautiful purple Ganoderma lucidum! Today's mountain luck is really good!"
Yang Chunyan squatted in front of the Ganoderma lucidum with joy and saw some yellow powder remaining on the green grass next to it. This was the spore powder sprayed by the Ganoderma lucidum.
As usual, I patted the stem, held the stem and pulled it hard a few times, but it didn't come up.
I had to use a sickle to chisel the stump a few times before I could pull the entire flower out.
Yang Chunyan looked at the four mushrooms in her hand that grew together, with metallic stalks and purple-red caps. When she held them up to the light, they looked like a purple cloud. "They are so beautiful that they can be used as ornaments."
"Chunyan, what good stuff did you find?"
Yang Chunyan turned her head and saw Zhang Xiuxiang coming towards her with a backpack hanging on one shoulder and a basket in both hands.
She quickly put down the purple ganoderma and stepped forward to take the basket and the backpack. "I want to show you something wonderful. It's so beautiful that I'm a little reluctant to sell it."
"You look so happy. Let me see what good stuff it is."
"Look, isn't it beautiful?" Yang Chunyan picked up the purple 'auspicious cloud' and handed it to her.
"It looks good, really good!" Zhang Xiuxiang looked at her in surprise, "You must be lucky to have found such a good purple Ganoderma lucidum."
Yang Chunyan took the flowers from the basket of chicken mushrooms and said, "There are still a few. Let's pull them up, look around nearby, and then walk inside."
"Well, someone on the team picked up some truffles yesterday and said someone was collecting them. I don't like that stuff. It smells terrible."
"I heard that foreigners call it truffles, and they like to eat that stuff. Are the truffles not ripe at this time?"
"Hmm! The ones she found were lighter in color. The dark ones had the strongest flavor."
The two men plucked all four flowers from the tree stump, searched around nearby, found a few smaller ones, covered them with dead leaves to make a nest, and continued walking forward with their baskets on their backs.
A lot of brush mushrooms, milk mushrooms, blue-headed mushrooms and other miscellaneous mushrooms could be seen among the dead leaves, but the two of them didn't pick them up, but picked up some green mushrooms, big-foot mushrooms and red mushrooms.
Yang Chunyan looked at the ugly wrinkled mushrooms in front of her, pushing open the rotten leaves and standing tall. She pulled Zhang Xiuxiang in surprise and said, "Second sister-in-law, morels!"
"How comfortable!" Zhang Xiuxiang shouted in surprise, "It's good to be with you. I was a step slower the last few times I saw you, and someone else picked you up and ran away!"
The two men immediately put down their backpacks and pulled up the morels by the stems.
Yang Chunyan counted in a low voice, "One, two... Oh my god, I picked up seven big ones from the big butt, and I didn't even pick up the small ones."
"Hehe!" Zhang Xiuxiang chuckled, "So comfortable, so enjoyable!"
Yang Chunyan turned her head and looked at her with a smile, "You are so happy!"
"Of course! A pound of morels can be sold for five or six dollars. Aren't you happy?"
“Happy, enjoyable!”
The two looked at each other and both smiled with satisfaction from the bottom of their hearts.
It was still a good time! The mountains were beautiful, the waters were clear, the air was fresh, the people were friendly, and society was not as colorful as it is in later times, nor were there all kinds of temptations.
When people’s dreams are simple and the gap between their expected goals and reality is small, it is easy for them to feel satisfied and happiness is simple.
Zhang Xiuxiang picked up one swiftly and said, "Bring sister-in-law and Qiuyue here tomorrow. There may be more good stuff further in!"
"No one may have been to this forest before, that's why there are so many good things!"
"Yeah! Everyone goes to their previous nests when they go up the mountain, so no one noticed this place."
(End of this chapter)
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