Chapter 9998: Wuling Ginseng
Li Qiuyue looked back at the others and said, "The girl that Li Hongying brought seems to be the daughter of Xu Changqing's family?"
Zhao Huifang nodded. "He's the youngest of Xu Changqing's family. Each member of the Xu family is more capable than the other. The eldest is the brigade secretary, and I heard that the second oldest, Xu Changqing, is now also the second in command in the town."
Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "Secretary Xu, the top leader, is much younger than his second-in-command."
"Yes!" Zhao Huifang nodded. "The good thing is that no one in their family puts on airs."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan finally understood that Li Hongying was the youngest daughter-in-law of Secretary Xu of the brigade.
Li Qiuyue curled her lips and said, "Did you see that? The wife of the youngest Xiong has also become Li Hongying's follower. Those bastards in the Xiong family are saying everywhere that we stole their bezoar."
"Who cares? Don't pay any attention to that family."
Yang Chunyan and her companions continued to walk toward the forest, where they saw more tree ferns and ferns, as well as a few crystal clear crystal orchids blooming in the grass.
The forest is full of orchids. These plants will lead to life imprisonment in the future. If you dig up a few of them, you will not only be sued but also fined. Now, no one even takes a look at them.
Several people picked up some miscellaneous mushrooms on the road, and also saw many poisonous mushrooms with "hats on their heads", "skirts around their waists" and "shoes on their feet".
Just as she was about to go uphill, she suddenly saw a lot of gray-black sticks among the dead leaves and weeds on the left. "Could they be fir mushrooms?" She walked closer and exclaimed, "Oh my god, why are there so many of them?"
The traditional Chinese medicine name of chicken fir egg is Wulingshen. It is said that when thunder strikes, Wulingshen will rotate with the thunder, so it is also called Leizhenzi.
Wuling ginseng can be eaten raw, and it tastes crispy and sweet. In fact, it grows in abandoned termite nests one or two meters underground, or even deeper. It is a sclerotium formed by the mycelium of a fungus called black-stalked carbonaria.
After the termites leave and the chicken mushroom dissolves, it becomes nutrition for the black ginseng, so it tastes crispy and sweet.
According to the Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Annals, "Wulingshen has the effects of replenishing qi, strengthening the kidney, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, and calming the nerves." Contraindications: The 1960 edition of the Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Annals states: "Pregnant women should not use it."
Guangdong people use it to treat injuries from falls, and there is a proverb that goes: "I'm not afraid of a hard fall, I'm only afraid of being hurt by the golden bell."
Zhao Huifang picked up a few mushrooms, turned around and saw her still there, and shouted, "Chunyan, hurry up!"
Yang Chunyan turned around and waved at the others, "Come down, there are quite a few chicken eggs here!"
"Chicken mushroom eggs?" Zhao Huifang turned and walked down, looking at the gray-black mushroom stems exposed by Yang Chunyan after she dug up the dead leaves. "I've seen this before, but I've never picked it up."
Yang Chunyan then remembered that no one had dug it up these days. "This is called Carbonaria nigrostellata. We don't want the mushroom stems growing on top, but the mushroom lumps that grow inside the termite nest that look like burnt potatoes. The mushroom lumps underneath are also Chinese medicine. Dig them up and send them to Ning An to see."
"Chinese medicine!" Zhao Huifang became interested, put down her backpack, and waved to the two people standing on the slope, "Come down, there are good things here."
Zhang Xiuxiang and Li Qiuyue also came down, "What good stuff did you find?"
"Chicken mushroom eggs!" Yang Chunyan looked at the two people, "You guys are digging over there. You may have to dig one to two meters deep until you reach the termite nest to find it."
Li Qiuyue pulled one out and looked at it. "Chunyan, is this thing valuable?"
Yang Chunyan shook her head, "I don't know, this is the first time I've seen it too."
After 2000, the price of black ginseng was once pushed up to more than 1,000 yuan per kilogram. Before she left, it was slightly cheaper, and it still cost several hundred yuan per kilogram. She really has no idea how much it can be sold for now.
Zhang Xiuxiang heard that they had to dig one or two meters deep, so she said, "Chunyan, you and sister-in-law dig here, and we'll go look somewhere else to see if there's anything else good."
"That's fine. Four of us can't move here." Yang Chunyan said to Zhao Huifang, "Sister-in-law, let's go down a little and dig in from the bottom. It can save a lot of time."
"good,"
Yang Chunyan and Zhao Huifang stood side by side, picked up their hoes and started digging. They dug for half an hour, and it felt like they had hollowed out the soil with each hoe.
Yang Chunyan saw something moldy and gray in the soil and said, "Sister-in-law, we must have found a termite nest."
Zhao Huifang stopped and looked down at the cave entrance. "There seems to be something on the mud hanging at the entrance?"
"I'll dig it out and take a look." Yang Chunyan put down her hoe and dug out the mud. She saw something black on it at a glance. He looked at her happily and said, "I really dug it up!"
Zhao Huifang also said excitedly: "Break them off and see how many there are?"
Yang Chunyan broke off a piece of chicken fir egg the size of an egg, "One, two, three... six in total."
She wiped off the mud on the eggs. These eggs had fine skin texture and were very firm to the touch. If they could sink in water and were white inside, they would be called "fine flower goods" in the industry, representing the best quality and the highest price.
The eggs with coarse skin, light body, and half-sunk in water are commonly known as "second-rate goods", and their quality is much worse; the eggs with rough skin, light body, and brown-yellow flesh when cut are commonly known as "big-rate goods", and their quality is the worst and the least valuable.
"Dig open the hole, there should be more inside." Zhao Huifang said as she raised the hoe and gently dug open the soil at the hole, then lay down at the hole and looked inside. "Hey! Look, there's still a lot inside!"
Yang Chunyan lay at the entrance of the cave and took a look, grinning and showing her full white teeth, "Not bad, I'll send it to Ning An tomorrow and see how much it can sell for per pound."
The two men lay at the entrance of the cave and took out the chicken mushroom eggs inside. They counted them and found that there were more than twenty of them, weighing about two or three pounds.
Yang Chunyan thought that she would be satisfied if she could sell it for 20 or 30 yuan per pound. Finding a nest is better than picking mushrooms.
The two of them filled the soil back, and Zhao Huifang looked around. "Xiuxiang and Qiuyue haven't come back yet. They must have gone up there to look for mushrooms."
Yang Chunyan looked at the sky, which was gloomy and looked like it was going to rain. "Then let's go up and look for them."
"Okay!" Zhao Huifang picked up the backpack and the two continued to walk forward. There was a pine forest in front of them.
Yang Chunyan picked up some stone fungus from a few large rocks.
Stone ear: Also known as stone wood ear, it is a wood ear-like fungus that grows on stones. It is flat and irregularly round, brown on the top and covered with black hair on the back. It has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and clearing away heat and detoxifying.
Yang Chunyan bent over and used a wooden stick to dig up the pine needles and dead leaves on the ground. A little red hat appeared under the withered pine needles. "Red mushroom?"
She walked up, pulled it up and took a look. It was a real red mushroom with thick flesh and pink stem. She looked around and saw bright red everywhere under the withered yellow pine needles.
Red mushroom: It is sweet and warm in nature. It has the effects of nourishing the body and blood, nourishing yin, cooling and detoxifying, and anti-tumor. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica: "Red mushroom[3] has a light taste, warm nature, is appetizing, stops diarrhea, detoxifies, nourishes, and can prolong life if taken regularly."
The genuine red mushroom has a deep red cap on the front, dark red in the center, and horizontal wrinkles. The gills on the ventral side of the cap are dense and even, the stem is pink, the mushroom is arc-shaped, and the foot is short and round without being hollow. The foot and gills are also all red.
(End of this chapter)
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