Chapter 185 184: Heartbroken Grass
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yes, if we can't sell them all, we can pickle them and smoke them for bacon while it's still cool in the mountains. Seriously, if the cobra hadn't been blown up just now, we could have taken it back and cooked it into dragon and phoenix soup."
"The sight of a cobra is scary. If you want to have dragon and phoenix soup, it's not that easy. Just get two cauliflower snakes." Zhou Yiding paused, "The black goat cured meat is not tasty. Wait for me to get some aniseed and grind it into powder and marinate it for an afternoon. Then roast it and it will taste great!"
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan was somewhat impressed by the two foodies. "I don't know how the black goat offended you two. You haven't even caught it yet, but you're already planning how to eat it."
Zhou Huaian turned around and looked at her proudly, "You forgot, there are three more hiding in the cave. If we don't catch them later, we can go back and kill one to eat roasted lamb."
"Sister-in-law, there are honeysuckle in front, do you want some?" Zhou Yiding, who was walking in front, said while climbing a bunch of vines with small yellow flowers.
Yang Chunyan looked over and said, "That's not honeysuckle, it's Gelsemium elegans."
"Oh my god!" Zhou Yiding quickly retracted his hand that was folding flowers.
Yang Chunyan stepped forward and pointed at the blooming Gelsemium elegans, "You see, its leaves are smooth and hairless, and the flowers are yellow when they bloom, and they grow in clusters.
The leaves of honeysuckle are relatively rough and fuzzy. Generally, it only blooms two flowers. The flowers are white when they first bloom, and turn golden yellow after one or two days. The flowers that bloom early are golden yellow, and the flowers that bloom late are white. That’s why people call it honeysuckle.”
"The entire herb is poisonous, especially the leaves and roots. I heard that if there is a herb growing there, everything around it cannot be eaten."
Gelsemium elegans, also known as Gelsemium elegans and Dacha, is bitter, pungent, warm, and highly toxic. It has the effects of attacking and removing toxins, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain, and killing insects and relieving itching.
Zhou Huaian and the others were so shocked after hearing this, "Damn it, what kind of luck is this today? The things we encounter are so poisonous!"
Yang Chunyan added: "I heard that if you eat the herb by mistake, your intestines will turn black and stick together, and your stomach will hurt until you die."
Zhou Yiding: "It's so scary, is there nothing I can do about it after I eat it?"
Yang Chunyan recalled, "If you accidentally eat duck feathers, dip them in peanut oil and poke your throat to induce vomiting. After vomiting, give it a small cup of peanut oil. You can also drink a large bowl of fresh duck or goose blood, and then send it to the hospital for gastric lavage and detoxification."
"I heard that last year someone from Fangtian Brigade picked it and took it home to boil water to drink, thinking it was honeysuckle. After being poisoned, they were sent to the hospital and found out that they had drunk Gelsemium elegans."
Zhou Huaian poked Zhou Yiding proudly and said, "Brother, remember this. If you ever meet someone who drinks Gelsemium elegans instead of honeysuckle, you might be able to save a life!"
Zhou Yiding nodded in agreement, "Yes, remember it well, just in case!"
"Let's go!" Zhou Huaian pulled Yang Chunyan, "I found that poisonous things have beautiful flowers."
Zhou Yiding: "That's right, the tiger whiskers just now are also beautiful, but they are also poisonous!"
Yang Chunyan looked at the bunch of heartbreak grass and thought about the many people in her family who had many hands to do. It would be troublesome if something happened when she cut it back.
After walking past the heartbreak grass, we reached the ridge. Dahei and Dahuang, who had come up earlier, turned around and happily wagged their tails to greet us.
After Yang Chunyan went up, she saw a huge square rock standing on the edge of the cliff. The rock was covered with Olea europaea. There was also a patch of stonewort with small light pink flower balls growing on the slope.
Zhou Yiding said with a smile: "Let's go this way, it's much closer!"
Zhou Huaian: "It's much closer. Let's see if there are any good things down there."
The two walked to the edge and looked down. When they saw the wild animals moving slowly at the foot of the mountain, they smiled and said, "It's better to go to a place farther away for hunting!"
"It's not a wasted trip!" Zhou Yiding said as he put down the backpack, took out the rope inside, and prepared to go down the mountain.
Dahei and Dahuang circled around the two of them, eager to try.
Zhou Huaian nodded and turned to look at Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, we'll leave Da Huang here to accompany you. You wait for us here."
Yang Chunyan pointed at the stone grass and stone ear on the rock and said, "I'm picking these two things up there. Be careful when you go down and don't delay for too long."
"Yes." Zhou Yiding tied Dahuang to a bush as usual, and the two of them ran down the mountain quickly with guns in hand.
Yang Chunyan watched the two people run to the middle of the mountain, looked at the stone ears on the rocks, which were still wet, and then collected those stone olives first.
After collecting all the olives, we start pulling out the stone weeds.
The scientific name of the stonegrass is Polygonum capitatum. Its medicinal properties are sour and cold. It has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood and diuresis. The whole plant can be used as medicine to treat urinary tract infection, pyelonephritis, rheumatism and pain, etc.
Polygonum capitatum is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Polygonaceae family. It is also known as powder ball Polygonum, and the locals call it grass pepper. The leaves of Polygonum capitatum are similar to those of fire charcoal, and the rhizome is somewhat similar to that of Houttuynia cordata.
The leaves are ovate or elliptical, and some leaves are red to reddish brown. There is a cute little pink bubble-like flower ball on the top, and it has high medicinal value.
It is said that in ancient times, the Sichuan people who lived in the mountains suffered from joint pains in the elderly due to the humidity and fog in the mountains all year round, which was especially obvious when the weather changed.
Later, they discovered a kind of herb that grew on rocks. They boiled it in water and used it to steam and wash the affected area. The rheumatic pain was significantly improved. Because it mostly grew on rocks, people called it stone mangcao.
Over there, Zhou Huaian and the other man chased Dahei to halfway up the mountain. After seeing clearly that he was bitten by Dahei, he struggled desperately to get rid of Dahei's beast, and his blood rushed up with excitement.
The two men raised their guns and fired, "Bang, bang!" After two gunshots, the wild animal let out a wail and fell down. The wild sheep at the foot of the mountain fled in all directions.
The two men ran so fast that it seemed as if they had Hot Wheels on their legs. They rushed forward and looked excitedly at the prey whose limbs were still twitching on the ground.
Zhou Huaian saw the fangs of the musk deer lying on the ground, and circled around it excitedly:
"Musk deer! Ding Ding cat, it's a musk deer, did you see it? Oh my god! What kind of luck is this? Could it be that the mountain god really heard what I said?"
Zhou Yiding's face turned red with excitement. "I never dreamed that I would catch a musk deer here, and a male one at that! Youngest, our mountain luck is here!"
Zhou Huaian's mouth was grinning from ear to ear. He walked forward, picked up the musk deer and carried it on his shoulder. "I think so too. Especially with my Chunyan, everything goes smoothly and we can find good things."
Seeing how smug he was, Zhou Yiding felt a little excited and thought, why not just take the chili peppers home?
Musk deer are the smallest species of musk deer, and an adult weighs only about 20 kilograms. They are timid and solitary by nature, and usually live separately as males and females.
The appearance characteristic of the forest musk deer is that both male and female musk deer have no horns, while the upper canine teeth of male musk deer are well developed, long and pointed, protruding from the mouth and resembling fangs.
Its hind legs are longer than its front legs, its tail is very short, its limbs are slender, its hooves are narrow and pointed, and its ears are long and erect. Its fur is dark brown, coarse, wavy, and has a very obvious feature: a wide white stripe on each side of its neck that extends to its armpits.
Only male forest musk deer secrete musk, which has a rich aroma. It not only has high medicinal value, but is also a world-famous precious natural high-grade fragrance.
(End of this chapter)
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