Chapter 575 Chapter 576: Big Cargo
Tree flowers are lichens that grow on the branches of old oak trees. Lichens are a special type of plant that is a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae. They are named because of their shape that resembles blooming flowers. In some places, they are also called firewood flowers, tree beards, and tree whiskers.
Because it lives on the host's nutrients, if the tree flowers grow too much, it will cause the host to wither. It is also one of the four major public hazards of forests.
"Shengguyousu!" Zhou Huaian looked at her with amusement, "What a difficult name to pronounce! Sometimes I think Chinese medicine is really strange. As long as it is used correctly, it is a medicine."
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "I haven't eaten it for a long time. I'll pick some fungus and some tree flowers to cook and serve cold!"
"Great!" They picked all the wood ears from a tree in two minutes, and then picked up the baskets to pick the flowers.
After picking this thing, wash it clean and boil it in water first. After it is cooked, add some wood ash or alkali and boil it. Then take it out, wash it clean and eat it cold or stew it. It has a cool taste, dry fragrance and is chewy.
After picking the flowers from the trees, the two men put the net bags into their backpacks and continued walking forward.
"Yan'er, I remember you guys were there last year and picked up a lot of spring grass and morels."
Yang Chunyan also remembered, "We need to go further in. There is a Ganoderma lucidum nest inside. Let's go in and see if there is anything we can harvest."
Zhou Huaian thought of the musk deer Zhou Yiding had picked up and sighed, "There are too few wild animals in the back mountain. It would be a waste to use bullets to shoot rabbits, turtledoves, etc."
Yang Chunyan remembered Zhou Yiding's invitation to go to the forest farm. "What are you talking about wasting bullets? I think you want to go to the forest farm to hunt, right?"
"Hehe! My wife still understands me." Zhou Huaian turned around with a playful smile and held her hand. "How about we take Xiao Jiuer to the forest farm to play for a few days before it rains?"
Yang Chunyan shook her head. "Jiu'er is still young. It's not good to take her to such a far place deep in the mountains. If you want to go, we can go down the mountain and you can pack up and go play for two days before coming back."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian gave her a kiss and said, "Thank you, my wife. My wife is the best! I'll go there this afternoon and come back the day after tomorrow afternoon to collect herbs at Baicaoping."
Yang Chunyan smiled and glanced at him, "If I agree to let you go, I'm a good wife. If I don't agree to let you go, I'm a tigress!"
"Unfair!" Zhou Huaian shouted exaggeratedly, hugged her and put her head on his chest, "Wife, listen, my heart is all yours!"
Yang Chunyan gently pinched the soft flesh on his waist and said, "Your mouth is so sweet, did you eat bee poop?"
"Hehe!" Zhou Huaian looked down at her, "I go up the mountain to dig out beehives every day, and my mouth is full of honey. Do you want to try it?" Before he finished speaking, he lowered his head and kissed her.
The two of them stayed close to each other for a while, and Yang Chunyan pushed him away with a red face, "It's not proper. It's so embarrassing to be intimate outside in broad daylight and be seen by others!"
"What are you afraid of!" Zhou Huaian looked at her smugly, "We are a couple, so what if they kiss outside?"
"I don't want to bother with you!" Yang Chunyan patted him, picked up the basket and walked forward.
"Yan'er, let me tell you something." Zhou Huaian chased after her, "The rainy season is earlier in Huangqinggou, so the mushrooms may have already come out. If Village Chief Qu comes tomorrow, ask him to prepare to collect the red mushrooms and send them down."
Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "I still have some dried red mushrooms at home. I'll give them to him as a sample."
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaian looked up and suddenly saw clusters of purple-red flowers blooming in the bushes in front of him, "Yan'er, chicken blood vine, there is chicken blood vine over there!"
Yang Chunyan looked in the direction he pointed, "Yes, it's chicken blood vine!"
The two walked to the woods in front. A chicken blood vine as thick as a bowl was winding around several trees, and little bees were working diligently on the purple-red petals.
In the past, there were a few Cassia canadensis trees with bright yellow flowers blooming on the treetops.
Cassia seed can also be used as medicine. Its main medicinal part is its flower, which has the effect of clearing away heat and removing fire. It is also a good choice for moistening the lungs. In addition, it also has the effect of stopping bleeding.
The flowers were blooming a little high, and Yang Chunyan felt it was a waste of time and was too lazy to pick them.
Zhou Huaian put down his backpack and walked closer to observe the busy little bees in the flowers for a while, "Yan'er, there must be a beehive nearby. I'll cut down the chicken blood vine and go look for it nearby."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan put down the basket and handed him the machete. "It's getting hot. I'll pick some flowers and make flower cakes. I'll dry them and make tea."
"This flower tastes good, with a light flavor of nectar. My grandmother used to pick it and fry it with corn flour and bean flour to make cakes. She said that drying it and soaking it in water can reduce internal heat and clear away heat."
"Old people in the past still know more about herbs!" Yang Chunyan said as she used the medicine hoe to hook down a branch, breaking off the entire flower spike, and looked at the basket on her back, "Huaian, give me a net bag."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian took out a net bag tied with a rubber band from his pocket, "Look, I brought so much, you can put as much as you want."
"Net bags are more convenient. They can be used to put things in them in different categories." Yang Chunyan took the untied rubber band, took one out and tied it up, then put the flowers in the net bag. When it was full, she tightened the rope and put it in the backpack.
Over there, Zhou Huaian held the chicken blood vine in one hand and wielded a machete in the other, and soon cut the chicken blood vine in half.
Looking up at the long vines wrapped around the tree trunk, it was impossible to pull them down, so I could only cut them off section by section.
It was easier to use force on the part close to the ground, but the part hanging in the air was flexible when the machete was cut. It took a lot of effort to cut the entire chicken blood vine in half and collect them together.
Yang Chunyan also collected the flowers together and put them into six net bags. If she had not been worried that the mud from the herbs she dug would stick to them and be difficult to wash, she would have just put them in her backpack.
"Yan'er, these weigh about 50 to 60 kilograms. Let's go check out the little bees. If there are any, we can dig out a nest. If not, we can continue forward and check out the Ganoderma lucidum nest."
"Wait a minute, I'll find some chicken blood vine stems and take them back to make a bracelet."
Zhou Huaian pouted in disdain, "What's the point of getting it? It's so ugly that it makes my wife's hands look ugly!"
"I'll find a few good ones, take them home and bake them so they can be worn as key holders!" Yang Chunyan said as she rummaged through the cut vines for a while, "Huaian, help me cut them down."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian picked up the machete and cut off the sections she had selected and stuffed them into the tied chicken blood vine. He then lifted the chicken blood vine and placed it on the backpack, tying it with a hemp rope.
"Yan'er, come and help!"
"Hey!" Yang Chunyan stepped forward to help him lift the backpack, "Did you see the bee trail just now?"
"I see it!" Zhou Huaian pointed to where Cassia dahurica used to be. "It's probably next to that patch of comfrey."
Yang Chunyan looked through the gap in the bushes and saw many comfrey plants with small white flowers growing diagonally opposite. "Cut some of the comfrey plants and take them back."
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaian walked forward while leaning on the medicine hoe. "Comfrey, just by hearing the name you know it is used to treat injuries from falls."
Elderberry, also known as Elderberry, Lu Ying, Capsule, Wind Vine, Eight-angled Hemp, Big Stinky Grass, etc. It is a tall herb or semi-shrub of the genus Elderberry in the family Caprifoliaceae.
It can reach a height of 2 meters, with ridges on the branches, usually eight in number, and some people call it - eight-ridged hemp.
Elderflower blooms in April and May, with a white corolla and yellow or purple anthers. In August and September, it produces crystal clear orange-red fruits, which are very small, only the size of millet.
There is a saying among the people that comfrey is a "robber's medicine", and there is also a saying that goes "If you are beaten to the ground, you will be afraid of numbness." In the old days, people called those who stole and had dirty hands and feet "robbers."
Once they were caught, they would usually be beaten up and made to crawl on the ground, but these "robbers" with minor injuries would usually recover quickly. It was said that they used "Balengma" to apply to their wounds, so everyone called Comfrey "robber medicine."
Sambucus: sweet, bitter, neutral in nature. It enters the liver meridian. It can treat traumatic injuries, and has the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation, detoxifying and reducing inflammation.
As the two approached, they saw a large field of white flowers covered with little bees.
Comfrey has a very strong reproductive ability. If you leave it alone, it will grow into a large patch in no time. When the villagers see it, they dig up the roots and dry them to use as firewood.
Zhou Huaian knocked the comfrey with a bamboo pole, put down the basket on his shoulder, and helped her put it away. "Yan'er, don't go too far here. I'll look for a beehive nearby."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Be careful."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian carried his family and followed the bee trail he had chosen.
Yang Chunyan took out a machete and started chopping at the grass. Soon she had chopped down a pile of them. She cut some vines to tie up the chopped comfrey and then piled them in the basket on her back.
I estimated that there were about 50 to 60 kilograms, plus the things in the backpack, there were about 70 to 80 kilograms. There was also a lot of comfrey over there, and I thought that after cutting it, the two of them couldn't carry so much, so they left it for next time.
After she had chopped all the comfrey here, there was an empty space. She then discovered that there were some large rocks behind it, and countless little bees were flying in and out of the pile of rocks.
There were a lot of Drynaria fortunei growing on several large rocks, and behind them there were more than a dozen mulberry trees with trunks as thick as bowls. She thought that this kind of mulberry tree was most likely to grow Coriolus fungus, so she hurriedly picked up the medicine hoe and walked over.
Walk to the first mulberry tree, stand below and look up. As long as you find dead mulberry branches, there is a possibility that mulberry fungus is growing on it.
I didn’t find the first tree, nor the second tree, nor the third tree. When I found the fourth tree, I immediately saw the golden color on the dead branches above my head. When I saw another huge golden flower, I exclaimed in surprise.
"Huaian, come and see what I found?" She shouted but no one answered, so she stopped shouting and went back to where she had been before. She took a bamboo pole to tie the sickle to it and went under the mulberry tree.
She raised the bamboo pole and measured it. The height was just enough. She carefully moved the sickle close to the root of the Coriolus versicolor and pulled it down with force. The Coriolus versicolor did not move at all.
She was worried that she had damaged the Coriolus fungus, and was about to pick up her sickle to look for Zhou Huaian when she heard him calling her.
"Yan'er! Yan'er!"
Yang Chunyan stepped back and saw him on the other side of the rock. She waved at him and said, "Come here quickly. I found something good."
(End of this chapter)
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