Chapter 133 132: You know, I don’t need
It is a plant of the Polypodiaceae family, Viscum altissima, about 30 to 40 centimeters tall. The rhizome is fleshy and thick, long and horizontal, and densely covered with brown-yellow, linear chisel-shaped scales.
There are two kinds of leaves. One is the oak-shaped nutrient leaf lying on the rhizome. It is thick and leathery, reddish brown or grayish brown, ovate and sessile. It is the leaf that provides nutrition for it to keep it moisturized.
The green leaves with pinnate lobes on the upper edge of the plant are its spore leaves. When the leaves are turned up, you can see the yellow-brown round spore sori, which are arranged in 2 to 4 rows on both sides of the midrib of the leaf. Each rectangular leaf vein mesh has a non-spore sori cover.
The medicinal part of Drynaria fortunei is its rhizome, which is fleshy, thick, long and horizontal, densely covered with brown-yellow hairs, cylindrical, long and narrow, slightly hard, and reddish-brown when cut.
The yellow and furry thing lying on the ground looks a bit like the paw of a yellow dog.
Drynaria fortunei: bitter; warm in nature. It has the effects of nourishing the kidney and strengthening bones; promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.
Yang Chunyan excitedly waved at Zhou Huaian who was looking at the woods below the slope, "Huaian, come here quickly, I said there is something good up ahead!"
"What good stuff did you find?" Zhou Huaian strode over, "I recognize it, this is stone ginger." Then he curled his lips again, "What's so special about it? It's not worth much!"
"You think I don't know? You want to dig up a golden baby with a hoe!" Yang Chunyan said, pointing to the plants with yellow flowers on the ground, "Then look at what are those things on the ground?"
"You can't test me with this! This is Imperata uniflora. Two years ago, we went up the mountain to look for wild beehives, and Cai Ermei found a lot of this stuff to eat!" Zhou Huaian said, turning his head and grinning at her, "Yan'er, you know, I can't use this stuff!"
"No matter what you say, you can always say that!" Yang Chunyan glared at him, "Why don't you get back to work!"
"Got it!" Zhou Huaian put down his backpack, "Yan'er, I saw a few walnut trees at the bottom of the slope, would you like to go and take a look later?"
"The walnuts are not ripe yet, why go and see them?" Yang Chunyan took out the sickle from her backpack and started harvesting ginger.
"Let's divide the work. You pick the stone ginger and I dig the Imperata cylindrica roots!"
"The medicinal effect of Imperata ulmoides root is not good now, so come back after the millet is harvested."
To dig the roots of Imperata odorata, you have to dig the rhizomes before it sprouts or when the seedlings wither. After digging them up, wash them, remove the fibrous roots and root heads, dry them, and then you can send them to the herbal medicine shop.
The scientific name of Curculigo is Curculigo. Its leaves are oblong-lanceolate, similar to those of Curculigo, but slightly wider, with green leaves and small yellow flowers, which looks similar to orchids.
The rhizome is cylindrical, with a dark brown or tan surface, rough, with longitudinal grooves, transverse wrinkles and pore-like coarse root marks.
It is hard and brittle, easy to break, with a flat and slightly horny cross section, light brown or brown, darker near the center, and with a dark ring. It has a slight fragrance and a slightly bitter taste.
The useful part of Curculigo is its rhizome: pungent, warm, and poisonous. It warms the kidney and strengthens yang; it eliminates cold and dampness.
The Drynaria fortunei that grows on rocks is easy to harvest. Just grab the rhizome and break it off to get a large piece.
Zhou Huaian put the broken boneset on the ground and said, "Yan'er, find a rock to sit on while I break it off and you clean it up!"
"Don't clean up all the rocks, leave some for seeds!"
"Yes! I'll keep four or five."
Yang Chunyan came down from the rock, gathered the boneset that was scattered on the ground, put on gloves, broke off the green leaves on the rhizomes, removed the nutrient leaves on top, and threw them into the backpack.
The dried Drynaria fortunei can be used to make medicinal wine, which has the effect of dispelling wind and dampness for patients with rheumatic joint pain.
When Zhou Huaian was not lazy, he worked very efficiently. It didn't take him long to pull all the bone-breaking plants off the nearby rocks.
He gathered the leaves on the ground together and put them in front of Yang Chunyan. "Yan'er, if you keep doing this, I'm afraid you won't be able to finish cleaning them until the sun goes down. I think you should pick off the green leaves first, and then slowly clean up the rest when you get home."
Yang Chunyan looked at the sun and said, "You're right. When you go over there, remember to knock on the grass. There are many snakes and insects in the cracks between the rocks!"
"Got it! I guess I don't have time to pick stinking peony leaves today."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan said as she speeded up her hands. She only needed to break off the green leaves, and the speed was more than twice as fast.
"Haha, look what I picked up?" Zhou Huaian stood on the rock, holding a pheasant egg in one hand and waving at Yang Chunyan.
Yang Chunyan threw down the bone-breaking herb and walked over. "Pheasant eggs?"
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian stretched out his hand to her, "There's more in the chicken coop. I'll pull you up to see it!"
Yang Chunyan climbed up the rock and saw seven or eight pheasant eggs with different shell colors in the pheasant's nest. She picked up the blue one and said, "This color looks good."
Zhou Huaian looked at it and suddenly had an idea, "Yan'er, if there are eggs in it, can we take it back and let the hen incubate it and hatch chicks?"
"As long as it's a seed egg, it can hatch a chick. I don't know how to identify a seed egg. I'll take it back and show it to mom and she'll know." Yang Chunyan held the egg in her hand and looked at it against the light. "It's not bad at all."
Zhou Huaian jumped off the rock with the egg in his hand. "If it's not broken, take it back and see if you can hatch a pheasant."
They put the eggs into the lunch box and placed a few mushrooms in it tightly to prevent them from being damaged by shaking.
After Yang Chunyan had finished cleaning up the pile of Drynariae on the ground, Zhou Huaian pulled out all the Drynariae on the other rock.
The two worked together for another ten minutes before they packed up what they had just pulled out and put it into the backpack. Zhou Huaian pointed to the slope and said, "Yan'er, let's climb straight up from here. It should be a lot closer!"
Yang Chunyan looked up. Based on her past experience, it was best to take the most common paths in the mountains. "Forget it! It's better to go back the same way!"
"I remember there's a bamboo forest up there." Zhou Huaian picked up his sand gun, "Let's go through there, maybe we can even hunt some wild animals!"
Yang Chunyan glanced at him and said, "Okay!"
The two men hurried on their way, carrying dozens of kilograms of things on their backs.
There was no other sound in the forest except the occasional crisp "crackling" sound caused by the two people stepping on dead branches.
After about an hour, the two of them climbed up the slope, panting heavily, and there was indeed a bamboo forest in front of them.
The best winter bamboo shoots are those grown from moso bamboo. The winter bamboo shoots grown from other bamboos are very small and not very edible. Moso bamboo is big, and the shoots it grows are also big. She remembered that once in her later life, someone in the team dug up a big moso bamboo shoot that couldn't be held in both hands.
People these days have little appetite and most people think bamboo shoots are too fat to eat, so few people come to dig bamboo shoots to eat.
Yang Chunyan felt like her legs were filled with lead. She walked to a large rock and said, "I can't do it anymore. I need to rest for a while!"
Zhou Huaian hurried forward to help catch the basket and put it down for her. "I was anxious when I didn't find any herbs, but I was exhausted when I looked for too many!"
(End of this chapter)
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