Chapter 167 Chapter 166: Going through thick and thin
The leaves of Arisaema are a bit similar to those of Tripterygium wilfordii. The leaves are also arranged in whorls and are shaped like an umbrella, so it is called Umbrella Arisaema.
The tuber at its root looks a bit like konjac, with a flower on the top. When the seeds mature, they are also the same as the seeds of konjac, and are particularly beautiful red.
Arisaema: warm in nature, bitter and pungent in taste, highly toxic. It has the effects of dispelling wind and calming the nerves, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, and reducing swelling and dispersing nodules.
Yang Chunyan couldn't help it, so she picked up the hoe, dug up the aroids, put them in her backpack, and followed the two men.
The three of them entered the forest. Yang Chunyan saw a clump of Dendrobium at a glance. She looked up at the tree and saw clumps of Dendrobium growing on the trunk about ten meters high from the ground.
Zhou Huaian took a look and asked, "Is this orchid?"
"No, it's Dendrobium jellyfish." Yang Chunyan pointed to the tree next to her and said, "There are still quite a few on the tree, but they are too high to reach."
Zhou Huaian looked up and said, "I'll kick it a few times to see if it will fall down."
As he spoke, he put down the backpack, called out to Zhou Yiding who was walking in front of him, took a few steps back and kicked the tree trunk. The trunk shook for a moment and then there was no movement.
"Oh, you're sticking pretty tight. I don't believe I can't kick you off."
"Come on, come on! How about a series of gossips?" Zhou Yiding applauded and cheered.
Yang Chunyan stopped Zhou Huaian who was about to kick the tree again, "Huaian, don't waste your energy. The roots of this thing grow close to the trunk. It won't fall unless there is a strong wind. Let's go to the front and find some Magnolia officinalis first."
"Kick him again!" Zhou Huaian kicked again angrily, then turned around to carry his basket. Suddenly, a bunch of Dendrobium fell from the tree and landed on his head.
"Hahaha... there's a chicken coop on your head." Zhou Yiding pointed at the Dendrobium on his head and laughed so hard that he squatted on the ground, holding his stomach.
Yang Chunyan couldn't help laughing when she saw it.
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at the two of them and took off the dendrobium on his head, "You two are heartless, why don't you pull me over."
Yang Chunyan walked forward with a smile, pulled him up, asked him to put the Dendrobium in her backpack, and the three of them continued to move forward.
Suddenly, a few pheasants fluttered out from the lush fern bushes and were driven out by Dahei and Dahuang. Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding, who were chasing them, shot them down with their guns.
"Wow, I didn't expect there are so many phoenix eggs here." Zhou Huaian walked up and pulled up a tree, picked off a few yellow-brown phoenix eggs, rubbed the fluff off them, and handed them to Yang Chunyan, "Try it, I haven't eaten it for a long time."
"We could find some in the back hills before, but now we can't even find a nest of feathers." Zhou Yiding picked a few phoenix eggs, rubbed them a few times and put them in his mouth. "They are crisp, sweet and thirst-quenching. I'll take them back and plant them in the woods next to the yard later."
The tubers of Phoenix Egg are very crisp and have a light sweet taste. They taste good and are very thirst-quenching. We didn't eat them before, so we picked them up and cooked them.
Yang Chunyan finished eating the phoenix egg in her hand, "Pick more. Its scientific name is Nephrolepis, and its leaves and phoenix eggs are also a herb."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding picked up the medicine hoe and started digging.
Yang Chunyan shook off the mud on the dug kidney ferns and put them into a sack, planning to pick the phoenix eggs when she returned.
The scientific name of Phoenix Egg is Nephrolepis nephrolepis, and some people call it comb grass, probably because its leaves look very similar to a comb.
The leaves of the kidney fern grow in clusters and have pinnate compound leaves.
The tuber is spherical or oblate, only as big as a pigeon egg; the surface is densely covered with yellow-brown velvety scales, which turn bright yellow after rubbing off the scales. It is hard and has obvious irregular wrinkles.
Kidney fern is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. The whole plant and tuber are used as medicine. It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, calming the lungs and relieving cough, softening hard masses and eliminating accumulation.
After the sacks were filled, the three continued to walk deeper into the woods. The woods were dark and filled with the smell of rotten earth.
Zhou Huaian and Yang Chunyan looked at the trees in the forest carefully. It felt like they were treasure hunting. They felt that if they took a few more steps forward, they would find the treasure.
But they knew clearly that the treasure was in this forest, and the treasure seemed to have grown legs and was playing hide-and-seek with them, not letting them find it easily.
The three of them walked for more than an hour, but didn't find even a single Magnolia officinalis leaf.
But there are a lot of mushrooms in the forest. After the three of them picked up a few pounds of chicken mushrooms and two or three pounds of morels, Zhou Huaian said to Yang Chunyan:
"If you can't find any, forget it. If you see good mushrooms, pick some and take them home to dry. After the mushroom season is over, maybe you can sell them for a good price."
"Well! Let's go back. If there really is a magnolia tree in this forest, we will definitely encounter it one day."
Suddenly, Dahei, who was running in front, started barking at a bush, and Dahuang also joined in, barking at the tree trunk.
Yang Chunyan saw a long emerald green worm slide down the tree trunk and disappear without a trace.
"A bamboo green viper!" Zhou Yiding touched the dog's head, "Luckily we have Da Huang and Da Hei. If it had bitten us, we might have died!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "We have some snake medicine with us. We will leave it for you when we leave."
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding looked at his watch and said to the two of them, "It's twelve o'clock. Should we go up from here and go home?"
"My stomach is growling. It will take at least two hours to get back. Let's eat some potatoes and taro to fill our stomach first." Zhou Huaian said as he took out the bag of dry food from Yang Chunyan's backpack.
Zhou Yiding took two potatoes and gave them to the two dogs. Yang Chunyan saw that the dogs did not dislike them and ate the potatoes with relish.
I think local dogs are better. They can guard the house, hunt, and are not picky about food.
Yang Chunyan took two taro, peeled off the taro skin, took a bite of soaked cowpea and a bite of taro, and started eating.
A bag of potatoes and taro was quickly finished by three people and two dogs.
Zhou Yiding patted the dog's head and said, "Dahei, lead the way. We are going home."
"Woof woof" Dahei ran up the slope first, and Dahuang followed.
The three of them carried their backpacks and followed the dog up the hillside. When they were almost at the top of the hill, a scent of flowers wafted over.
Zhou Huaian sniffed, pulled the shoulder strap of the backpack, grinned at Yang Chunyan, "If I had known earlier, I would have let Dahei lead the way."
Zhou Yiding looked at him and asked, "Did you find it?"
"Found it!" Zhou Huaian looked at him and smiled, "I smell the fragrance of flowers."
Zhou Yiding sniffed and said, "I smell the fragrance too, let's go up and take a look."
The three of them suddenly gained all their strength from nowhere.
Following the fragrance, she climbed up the slope breathlessly. Looking at the dozen or so Magnolia officinalis trees halfway up the slope, Yang Chunyan suddenly felt as if she had finally found something she had searched for everywhere without any effort.
Zhou Huaian put down the backpack and happily hugged Dahei's head, "I'll go back and give you some chicken legs!"
Zhou Yiding was also happy when he saw the two of them were so happy. "Youngest brother, how much can this thing really be sold for per pound?"
(End of this chapter)
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