Chapter 212 Chapter 211: Divine Grass
After he came back, the three of them started.
Zhou Yiding picked up a few pieces of bamboo shoots and cooked pig intestines. "It's delicious. I'll make some pig intestines to cook next time."
Zhou Huaian said proudly: "Your sister-in-law is a good cook, everything she cooks is delicious."
Zhou Yiding smiled and nodded, "It's really good!"
Yang Chunyan was very happy to see that the two liked it. "If you like it, the day after tomorrow we will go to Ning'an to sell herbs, and then buy a set of pig intestines to cook. It will definitely taste better."
Zhou Huaian agreed immediately, "Yes, buy two sets and keep them for later consumption."
After the three of them finished their meal, Zhou Huaian leaned back on a bamboo chair with his belly sticking out and looked at Yang Chunyan, "Boss, are we still going up the ditch tomorrow?"
Zhou Yiding smiled and patted him after hearing this, "You are indeed a lazy dog. You pushed away such an important responsibility!"
Zhou Huaian glanced at him proudly, "Brother Comrade, I have a piece of good advice for you: when your wife is the head of the family, you have money to spend!
Look at my brother, he has been making a lot of money since he handed over the house of the youngest son to your sister-in-law. Remember, when Chaotianjiao comes into the family, you should hand over your private money as soon as possible. "
Zhou Yiding couldn't help shaking his head. "That's not necessarily true. Isn't the Li Wu family headed by a woman? Look at what kind of life his son is leading."
Zhou Huaian pouted in disdain, "What did that bastard Li Wu say about him? That bastard is not a man at all. Our Uncle Daqing is the real man."
Zhou Yiding nodded and said, "I didn't think so before, but now I think my old man is really good at that."
Zhou Huaian patted his shoulder and said, "When he gets old, just respect him well."
"That's a must!" Zhou Yiding said, "The dog is not well yet. You can either check in the woods below tomorrow, or look for it in the ditch in front of the house."
Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan, "Boss, what do you say?"
Yang Chunyan glared at him in reproach and said, "I originally wanted to go to the ditch over at Huoshao Forest to dig for water rhubarb, but since it's not safe, I'll just go along the ditch and have a look."
"Yes, safety is more important!" Zhou Huaian stood up. "I'm tired after a day. I'll go to bed after taking a shower."
"Alas!" Zhou Yiding sighed, "I slept and woke up, sat up and slept again today, and my head is flattened. How about I go to the ditch with you guys tomorrow? Who knows, maybe we can kill two pheasants and make soup with them."
Zhou Huaian looked at his injured leg and asked, "Can your leg bear it?"
"As long as you don't stand for long, it'll be fine."
"Then go ahead! Sit for a while if you get tired of standing."
"Yeah!" Zhou Yiding walked out, "I'll go change the herbs for the dog."
The next morning, Yang Chunyan got up when she heard the alarm. She first changed the herbs for Dahei and Dahuang, washed up, and went to the kitchen.
I looked at the leftover rice in the steamer, went to the vegetable garden to cut some spinach, beat a few eggs and cooked a bowl of spinach and egg soup, scooped some pickled vegetables and mixed them with cooked oil and chili peppers, then started to heat up the rice.
Thinking that he had to leave in the afternoon and Zhou Yiding’s legs were inconvenient, he scooped some noodles, mixed them and put them in the pot to ferment.
Just as the meal was heated up, Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding also got up.
Yang Chunyan walked to the kitchen door and said, "It's time to eat."
"Here they come!" The two walked in with a smile. Zhou Huaian said dissatisfiedly, "This guy slept too much during the day and dragged me to talk nonsense at night. I didn't sleep well at all."
Zhou Yiding looked aggrieved, "Blame me! Blame yourself for getting better and better the more you talk about it."
Yang Chunyan looked at the two with amusement, "The ditch is not far from here, let's come back at noon and take a nap before going there again."
“Yes!”
After the three of them had finished their meal, Yang Chunyan found a dustpan, spread the golden thread vine on the wood in the yard, and together with Zhou Huaian, they carried their backpacks and walked out towards the ditch.
Zhou Yiding had a bad leg, so the two of them walked along the path at the door and went uphill to the ditch.
Not long after walking upstream along the ditch, Yang Chunyan saw a lot of horsewhip grass with lavender flowers and yellow quail grass with yellow flowers by the ditch.
"These two things are not bad, but I forgot about them until I saw them."
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding glanced at her and looked at her in surprise, "Horsewhip tips and wild greens are also medicine?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Yes, it is also a medicine. The yellow quail grass is especially useful to you. In the future, when you look for wild bees in the mountains, if you are bitten by wild bees, just find some wild green vegetables and mash them to make juice to eat.
Apply the remaining residue to the area that was stung by the bee sting. If the injury is not serious, it can reduce swelling and relieve pain. The tip of the horse whip can also stop bleeding. "
Zhou Huaian recalled the last time he was stung like a pig's head, "Is this thing better than the mountain whip and ground brocade grass?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Wild greens are better than mountain whip and ground ivy."
Zhou Huaian rubbed his forehead and looked at her dissatisfiedly, "If you hadn't told me earlier, I would have been stung like a pig last time."
Yang Chunyan recalled how he looked last time and found it a little funny. She apologized and said, "I forgot about it too. I only remembered it today when I saw such a big piece of it."
"It's nothing for a man to be stung once, he will be gone in a few days!" Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes at him, "Sister-in-law, ignore him, it's better to be stung like a pig."
Zhou Huaian bared his teeth and threatened, "Good fellow, don't let me block the wine for you on your wedding day!"
"Hey!" Zhou Yiding hugged him, "Brother, go pick the herbs quickly, I'll help you!"
Yang Chunyan thought that these two people were just a couple of funny people. She put down her backpack and took out a crowbar. She grabbed a plant and pried it gently, and the whole wild vegetable came out.
The scientific name of wild greens is yellow quail grass, also known as hairy greens, wild mustard, yellow flower branch herb, wild greens, and resurrection grass.
The young leaves and stems can be blanched and eaten cold.
It is called the resurrection grass not because eating it can bring the dead back to life, but because after pulling it out of the soil, even if it is thrown on the edge of a field or on the roadside and wilted by the sun, as long as it encounters a little water, it can sprout again and turn green again.
The petiole and leaves of the yellow quailweed have white fine hairs, and white latex oozes out when broken. It has long upright flower stems and small yellow flowers that are so similar to dandelions that it is almost impossible to tell them apart.
The fruit is covered with a layer of soft white fluff that dances in the breeze like dandelion seeds.
Yellow quail grass has the effects of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, detumescence, analgesia, cold treatment, heat-clearing and detoxification, relieving gas stagnation, and relieving throat.
Yellow quail grass can also treat finger boils and shingles. Mash the fresh grass and apply it with the residue.
The scientific name of the horsewhip is verbena, also known as wild nepeta, dragon bud grass, phoenix neck grass, dragonfly grass, etc. It is a perennial herb that can reach 120 cm in height, and the whip sheath is spike-shaped.
The small lavender or blue flowers form long spikes and bloom at the tips or axils of the hairy four-sided stems, looking somewhat similar to lavender.
It likes to grow on roadsides, hillsides, streams or next to woods.
Verbena is cool in nature, bitter in taste, and non-toxic. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, stopping malaria, detoxifying, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. People with qi and blood deficiency, weak stomach qi, and pregnant women should take it with caution.
In addition to its medicinal value, verbena is also widely used in the witchcraft of alchemists. It is also the magical herb that makes vampires lose their power instantly in the American TV series "The Vampire Diaries".
The three men pulled up verbena and yellow quail grass and piled them at the edge of the ditch. Zhou Huaian picked them up and put them in the ditch. He then picked up stones to surround them and let the water wash them away.
(End of this chapter)
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