Chapter 160 159: Chonglou
"I have looked for it. I have searched all over the forest to the south of the house, but I didn't see any. My husband said that a few trees were cut down over the ditch, and later many small trees grew out of the stumps. I went to check it out, and I thought you would come in the afternoon, so I came back to wait for you."
Zhou Huaian kept saying what a pity.
Yang Chunyan picked up the backpack and followed the two men into the house, where she saw a wooden bed and a cabinet against the wall with a lantern and an alarm clock on it.
Zhou Yiding picked up the thermos and poured two glasses of water and handed them to the two people.
Zhou Huaian took a few sips of water and looked at the alarm clock on the cabinet. "It's only half past three. It's still early before dark. Should we go to the north forest to look for it?"
Zhou Yiding nodded and said, "Sister-in-law, you have only walked such a long way. If you are not afraid of being alone, why don't you rest here for a while?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll go with you."
Zhou Huaian picked up the basket of tools and said, "Let's go."
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding took down the rifle hanging on the wall, and the three of them went to the gate of the yard together, untied the ropes of Dahei and Dahuang, and walked towards the woods to the east of the house together.
Dahei and Dahuang were running happily in front, stopping from time to time to look at the few people.
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "This is the good thing about being in the mountains. If you want to eat mushrooms, just go out and pick them. They are all the freshest. I'll get some mushrooms later. I have a leg of mutton. We can go back and cook some mushroom soup."
"You still know how to eat." Zhou Huaian looked at him with a smile, "We also picked up some green mullets and mushrooms when we came here!"
Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian followed him into the forest, and along the way, they saw milk mushrooms, brush mushrooms, blue-headed mushrooms, and green bar mushrooms...
Zhou Yiding said: "We just pick up morels, chicken mushrooms, chanterelles and big-foot mushrooms and sell them down the mountain. We are too lazy to pick these."
"You are the only one guarding such a big mountain. You can enjoy the good things in the forest as you like."
After walking for about half an hour, Yang Chunyan discovered that almost all the big trees in the forest had been cut down, and there were large tree stumps everywhere.
There are clusters of green loquat fungi everywhere under the green loquat trees.
With fewer big trees, the wild grass in the forest was well-nourished and grew luxuriantly. There were especially many forsythia and rhododendron, and they bloomed beautifully. The three of them used bamboo poles to knock on the grass to drive away snakes and insects.
Zhou Huaian saw a tree stump that looked like a small round table. "Oh my god, it would be a pity to cut down such a big tree."
Zhou Yiding took a look and said, "They are all pine trees, maple trees, fir trees, poplar trees and other large trees. Almost all the trees on the mountain that are thicker than an embrace have been cut down. The logging team went to Pulin Town, which is why it is so quiet here."
"When you split up, I'll find two good tree stumps, saw them down the mountain and send them to you. I'll polish them smooth and apply tung oil. You can still see the growth rings. They will definitely look good in the yard."
Zhou Huaian looked back at the tree stump again and said, "Yes, I'll find a few smaller and better ones to make some cutting boards."
Zhou Yiding glanced at him and said, "You and your sister-in-law need a few more cutting boards. What do you need so many cutting boards for?"
Zhou Huaian held him in his arms: "Let me count for you. We need at least three people to chop pig food, herbs, and vegetables. But more is fine."
"Not bad, you are a qualified housekeeper!" Zhou Yiding gave him a thumbs up.
Zhou Huaian glared at him, "Do you know how to speak? Men are called Gu family, and women are called Guanjiapo!"
"Who doesn't know that you are the only one who has the most crooked ideas!"
Yang Chunyan, who was walking behind the two, raised her lips and swung her bamboo pole. Suddenly, she found a plant with wheel-shaped leaves in the bushes. "Yeah, Chonglou!"
She remembered that the old herbalist said that if you see a Fritillaria cirrhosa, you must knock on the nearby grass, because there may be poisonous snakes hiding near the Fritillaria cirrhosa.
Yang Chunyan knocked the surroundings a few times with a bamboo pole. After a pause, she walked forward and pulled away the knee-deep weeds. She saw a brown stem about two or three centimeters thick, and a dead stem next to it.
This Fritillaria cirrhosa is already quite old. This year it has grown new leaves and flower buds on the leaves.
Paris polyphylla: slightly cold in nature, bitter in taste; slightly toxic. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, cooling the liver and calming the nerves. It is mainly used for furuncles, carbuncle, sore throat, snake bites, and pain from falls.
Its leaves are arranged in whorls of seven, in two layers, much like a small umbrella. Most people here call it Chonglou, some call it Qiyeyizhihua, and some call it Caoheche, etc.
A newly grown Fritillaria cirrhosa will only grow one leaf in the first year. It takes 5 or 6 years for wild Fritillaria cirrhosa to mature. A newly mature Fritillaria cirrhosa is only the size of a finger when dug out.
Paris polyphylla is a perennial herb of the genus Paris polyphylla of the Liliaceae family. Its stem stands upright on the top of the flower and grows in the middle of the leaves. The fruit that grows after the flower blooms is wrapped in a peel like a pomegranate. When it matures and bursts, the fruit is very beautiful red.
The rhizome of Paris polyphylla grows horizontally underground like a crab. The rhizome is very thick and the surface is brown with ring patterns. Its growth cycle is also very long and it takes more than four to five years to harvest after planting.
Some people can't tell the difference between Arisaema and Tripterygium wilfordii. Just remember that Pinellia ternata has three leaves, Arisaema confusa has an umbrella, but Tripterygium wilfordii is not convinced and adds another umbrella on top of the umbrella.
Zhou Huaian turned around and came closer, "Yan'er, what good stuff did you find?"
"Chrysanthemum, also known as Seven-leaf One-branch Flower."
Yang Chunyan used a medicine hoe to knock on the surrounding grass, and after pulling apart the grass, she found that there were several large and small ones within a distance of less than two steps.
"Huaian, Paris polyphylla grows horizontally, so when digging, dig the hoe a little further away from the rhizome. After digging, slowly push the soil away with your hands and take out the Paris polyphylla rhizome. Dig up the ones with flower buds and leave the others alone."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian picked up the hoe and started digging. The soil in the mountains was soft, and he dug out a piece with a few hoes. He picked it up and took a look. "Oh, this one has a few spores. It must weigh a pound."
"A Paris polyphylla this big must have been growing for at least several decades." Yang Chunyan looked back and said, "Cut off the spores and plant them back to see if they can survive."
She recalled that one year she dug up a piece of Tripterygium wilfordii weighing a few kilograms in the mountains and sold it for more than eight hundred yuan. Nowadays, a good quality Tripterygium wilfordii could be sold for ten yuan per kilogram.
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Okay, I'll cut it off and plant it in the place I just dug."
Zhou Yiding stepped back to look at it and said, "I've seen this thing. There seems to be one on the hillside of the forest over there. The flowers are not pretty at all, and the fruits are like pomegranates. When they burst open, the color is the same as the fruits on the mountain, bright red and beautiful. What's the use of this thing?"
Yang Chunyan: "Some are called Chonglou, some are called Caoheche, and some are called Qiyeyizhihua. This herb is particularly effective in treating snake and insect bites."
Zhou Yiding nodded repeatedly, "Oh! No wonder my old man said that all the wild grasses in the mountains have their own uses. If you know them, they are medicines, and if you don't know them, they are just weeds."
"That's right!" Yang Chunyan pointed at another bud, "Look, it's about to bloom. Let's keep two of them. When the fruits are ripe in October, you can help us pick them."
Zhou Yiding asked curiously: "Fruit is also medicine?"
"No, we want to collect some herbal seeds and take them back to try whether they can be grown." Zhou Huaian put the dug-up Fritillaria cirrhosa aside.
"That's a good idea. When the seeds are ripe in October, I'll ask you to come up the mountain to pick them."
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him and said, "Can't you help me take it off?"
I'm speechless. The cold schedule was sent out, but now I see that the order is reversed. This schedule is too weird!
(End of this chapter)
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