Chapter 161: Black Goat (asking for monthly ticket)
"Be careful not to lose your eyeballs!" Zhou Yiding said with a smile, "Wait until October, when the black goats on the mountain are fat and plump, let's go hunting together. Alas! My old man won't let me hunt alone, for fear of encountering black bears and mountain cats."
"That's true. If you have a gun, you're not afraid of one of them, but if you encounter both of them, it will be troublesome."
"How could I be so unlucky? If my old man hadn't warned me so many times and even brought my mother out, I would have gone out hunting a long time ago."
"That's what old people do, worrying about nothing all the time." Zhou Huaian picked up the parsley that Zhou Yiding had dug out and put it aside. "Yan'er, do you want the pole as well?"
"Just the tubers below." Yang Chunyan said as she picked up the dug tubers, broke off the stems, wiped the soil off the thick tubers, and looked at the tuber of Paris polyphylla in her hand. She felt that the smallest one might have grown for more than ten years.
Only in this year can you find such good wild Fritillaria cirrhosa.
Going forward, because of the high medicinal value of Paris polyphylla, it attracted herbalists to dig it up savagely, and coupled with the deteriorating environment, it will be difficult to find wild Paris polyphylla, and almost all of the ones used in pharmacies are artificially cultivated.
Wild Fritillaria cirrhosa was later listed as a second-level protected plant by the state. If you pick it privately, you will be punished by the government!
After the Chonglou was dug, Zhou Yiding led the two men towards Banpo.
The two men were talking about hunting in the mountains. They walked very fast and arrived at the hillside Zhou Yiding mentioned after more than half an hour.
Zhou Yiding pointed to a place where weeds grew after a large tree was cut down, and said, "Sister-in-law, look, there are many floribunda trees below."
"There are really a lot of them!" Yang Chunyan glanced at the Chonglou below, but her eyes were fixed on the dead green loquat tree in front.
Zhou Huaian turned his head and glanced at her, "Yan'er, what's wrong?"
"There is a Ganoderma lucidum on the tree." Yang Chunyan pointed ahead and walked towards the green loquat forest in front.
Zhou Huaian and the other man also followed. The three of them stood under the dead green loquat tree and saw that the tree ganoderma started to grow from the stump, and then grew layer by layer all the way to the trunk.
The largest one is as big as the ceramic bowl used to hold vegetable soup at home. I don’t know how long it has been growing.
Tree Ganoderma is also called tree tongue, and some people here also call it saponin fungus.
The aliases of the tree tongue are also varied: tree Ganoderma, flat-capped Ganoderma, red old mother mushroom, maple Ganoderma, old mother mushroom, flat mushroom, etc.!
The difference between the tree tongue and the Ganoderma lucidum is that the tree tongue has no stipe, while the Ganoderma lucidum has a stipe.
Ganoderma lucidum: slightly bitter, neutral. Enters the spleen and stomach meridians. Has the effects of relieving pain, clearing away heat, and relieving depression and diaphragm. It is a fungus that can be used as medicine to treat a variety of chronic diseases and as a tonic food for disease prevention and health care.
The cap of Ganoderma lucidum is flat and can be semicircular, fan-shaped or flat hill-shaped. Unlike Ganoderma lucidum, which has a growth period of only one year, it grows year by year, with a layer of cap added every year. The large cap can grow to the size of a pot lid, and is also called the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum.
The surface of the cap of the tree ganoderma is grayish white to grayish brown, with concentric ring ridges and often wart-like protrusions of varying sizes. The skin is keratinous and has thin edges. The flesh is light chestnut in color and the pores are round. New pores are white, while old pores are chestnut in color.
Most tree Ganoderma are edible, but those growing on mango trees, lacquer trees, evergreens, croton trees, etc., as well as moldy tree tongue Ganoderma are poisonous and cannot be eaten.
Yang Chunyan took out a sickle from her backpack and started cutting.
Zhou Yiding looked at the Ganoderma lucidum on the tree in surprise, "I came here last year, why didn't I see this thing?"
Zhou Huaian looked very proud, "It's like this when you go into the mountains to look for mountain products. If you're lucky, you can see good things. If you're unlucky, you won't even see them if you pass by them."
"..." Zhou Yiding felt like he had no time to watch it anymore, so he rolled his eyes at him and went forward to help break off the tree ganoderma. He broke off the small one, but after trying hard to break off the big one a few times, it still didn't budge at all. "It's so solid!"
Zhou Huaian stepped forward to take a look and took out the knife. "First, make a cut with the knife."
"Let me do it." Zhou Yiding took the knife, cut a slit along the trunk, and bent it hard, and the Ganoderma lucidum fell off.
Zhou Huaian broke off one and smelled it, and felt that it was not as fragrant as the purple Ganoderma we picked last time. "Yan'er, is this Ganoderma as good as the purple Ganoderma we picked last time?"
Yang Chunyan: "Tree tongue ganoderma is far inferior to purple ganoderma, but it is a little more expensive than ordinary herbs!"
Zhou Huaian threw it into the backpack with disdain, "No wonder I didn't smell any Ganoderma lucidum fragrance when I sniffed it."
It didn't take long for the three of them to harvest all the tree Ganoderma lucidum. Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding even counted them and found that excluding the extra-large one, there were still more than 20 of them, filling most of the backpack.
The three of them reached the hillside. Zhou Huaian carried the backpack down the hill and started digging the loquats with Zhou Yiding. Yang Chunyan followed behind them to clean up.
The two dogs lay aside, looking at the forest.
The woods were quiet, with only the sound of three people talking and laughing. Suddenly, Dahei and Dahuang shouted twice into the woods and ran towards the black shadow in front of them like lightning.
Zhou Yiding picked up the hunting rifle and said, "Youngest, Black Goat." Before he finished speaking, he raised the gun and fired a shot at the black shadow.
The black shadow staggered and ran deeper into the woods, with the two dogs barking and chasing after it.
"Chase it, we've already shot it." Zhou Yiding started chasing with his gun.
"Yan'er, don't go too far, just wait for us here." Zhou Huaian also chased after him with a gun in hand.
"Be careful." Yang Chunyan watched the two people running away, picked up the packed Chonglou and put it in her backpack.
Looking at those lush pieces of Paris polyphylla, I thought that even if I couldn't find any Magnolia officinalis this time in the mountains, it would be a good harvest to find these Paris polyphylla.
After chasing for a while, Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding caught up with the injured black goat. Dahei was biting the black goat's tail. Zhou Yiding raised his gun and shot the black goat in the belly. It shook and fell down.
Zhou Huaian said enviously: "Your gun is still powerful."
"This is a rifle, specially issued to forest rangers."
Dahei wagged his tail and barked around the black goat. Zhou Yiding walked up to it and touched its head. "Be good, I'll give you a piece of meat tonight."
Dahei was satisfied and lay down on the ground.
Zhou Huaian stepped forward and picked up the black goat. "Yes, it weighs at least 60 to 70 kilograms, with shiny black fur, strong and fat!"
Zhou Yiding pointed down the mountain and said, "Let's go to the valley below and take a look. There must be wild sheep down there."
Zhou Huaian was a little moved after hearing this, and thought for a while, "Forget it, I'm worried about your sister-in-law being alone there, let's come down early tomorrow morning."
Zhou Yiding nodded and said, "I heard that this kind of wild black goat can be sold for RMB 1.89 per pound in town."
Zhou Huaian remembered Huang Yongcai saying that the guesthouse wanted a young rooster stewed with mountain radish, "Alas! It's almost June now, the meat won't keep well. It would be great if it could. I'll send it to the city to sell the day after tomorrow, the price should be even higher."
"There is a cave above where we live. In the dog days of summer, there is still cold air coming out of the cave. My husband and I used to hide the good stuff we caught in the cave. It would last for ten days."
"Great, carry it back and hide it in the cave. We'll send it down the mountain tomorrow afternoon." Zhou Huaian said as he went to carry the goat. "Chunyan is alone there, let's go back quickly."
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