Seeing that she hadn't caught up with her for a long time, Zhang Xiuxiang dug some herbs she was familiar with and then came back to see her. She saw that her backpack was filled with more than ten Ganoderma lucidum of various sizes.
She smiled and sighed, "Chunyan's luck is better than ours. Every time she goes into the mountains, she can always find a lot of good things."
"Don't look at the cut tree stumps or the ones that have rotted, these two types will not grow Ganoderma. Look for the broken tree stumps and the maple trees that have just withered. After finding them, look along the roots, there may be Ganoderma growing around them."
"Thank you very much!" Zhang Xiuxiang and the other person took note of it carefully, and the three of them dispersed to continue their treasure hunt.
After Yang Chunyan found a few Ganoderma lucidum in the nest she had left behind, she saw a clump of lush green Clematis growing on the hillside, and a few of the sunny plants had already sprouted flower buds.
After a while, you will be able to see its beautiful white flowers.
Clematis is a perennial woody vine of the Ranunculaceae family and the Clematis genus. It has three bamboo-shaped leaves, and the longer it grows, the more roots it has underground.
The finished medicine is the dried roots and rhizomes of the Ranunculaceae plants Clematis, Clematis chinensis or Clematis chinensis.
Nature and flavor of Clematis chinensis: pungent, salty, warm. It enters the bladder meridian.
It has the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, dredge meridians and relieve pain, and treat bone stagnation. It is mainly used to treat rheumatic arthralgia, limb numbness, tendon spasm, flexion and extension difficulties, and bone stagnation in the throat.
Use two large bowls of water to boil the rhizome of Clematis chinensis, remove the residue after boiling several times, then add vinegar and sugar, wait for it to boil and then let it cool, slowly swallow it within 20 minutes to cure fish bone stuck in the throat. Patients with qi and blood deficiency and pregnant women should take it with caution.
Yang Chunyan put down her backpack, yelled at Zhang Xiuxiang and the others, cut off a few vines as thick as her index finger, and dug down along the roots until she was exhausted and sweating profusely before she finally dug out a tree.
The dug-out root tubers of the Clematis are as big as an adult's fist, and the fibrous roots below are like octopus tentacles, but it's a pity that they were dug off.
Zhang Xiuxiang came over with two purple Ganoderma lucidum and asked, "What is this?"
"Clematis chinensis, if you have fish bones stuck in your throat, you can use it to make soup to eliminate the bone spurs." Yang Chunyan pointed to the slope, "All of them are quite old. Pick the ones with thick stems and keep the small ones for seeds."
"Great!" The two put down their backpacks and started working.
Yang Chunyan dug up a dozen large ones and left the small ones. After sitting on a rock to rest for a while, the three continued to search on the mountain.
Zhao Huifang turned around and said, "Chunyan, I remember we left a lot of nests that time, but we have only found two now. Maybe someone has come to look for them."
Zhang Xiuxiang: "Nowadays, more people are looking for herbal medicines than before. It's good to be able to find these."
"Rabbit, wild rabbit!" Yang Chunyan shouted, and threw the medicine hoe in her hand at the wild rabbit. She missed the rabbit, but threw the medicine hoe into the valley below. "Oh no, I lost more than I gained."
Zhao Huifang stepped forward and grabbed her hand, "I'll take you down and pick it up."
"No need, I'll just grab the wild vine and go down." Yang Chunyan grabbed a vine with yellow flowers, carefully went down to the valley, and picked up the medicine hoe.
Suddenly, there was a rustling sound. She clenched the hoe tightly and saw a half-foot-long lizard crawling out from the crevice on the left. Following the direction the lizard crawled, she found that there was a straight steep slope over there. If she went down from there, she would probably fall.
When she turned her head and saw the thick golden thread vines growing on the rock wall on the south slope, her eyes widened, "So many golden thread vines, this is too good luck! Little rabbit, I will never hit you again."
Yang Chunyan put down her backpack, picked up a small shovel and walked to the cliff. The roots of these golden thread vines grew together, so she had to straighten the stems first before she could find the real roots and dig them up with the roots.
She straightened one, inserted the shovel diagonally into the soil, and pried it upwards. She dug out a complete golden thread vine. After digging for a while, she remembered that she had forgotten to call Zhao Huifang and the other person.
At this moment, Zhang Xiuxiang's voice came from above, "Chunyan, why don't you come up?"
Yang Chunyan raised her head and answered loudly, "There are good things down there, golden thread lotus, you two should come down and dig too."
"Golden Thread Lotus!" Zhang Xiuxiang's surprised voice came, "Is it the treasure of plants and trees, the king of yam, that you gave us to drink last time?"
"That's right!" Yang Chunyan answered without stopping, digging up the golden thread vines with their roots and piling them aside.
Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang came down and were so happy to see the golden thread lotus growing on the cliff that they couldn't close their mouths. "Oh my god, how come there are so many of them?"
Zhang Xiuxiang put down the basket and said, "I told you, whenever I follow Chunyan, I'll definitely find something big."
Yang Chunyan laughed and said, "If I hadn't hunted wild rabbits, I wouldn't have noticed that there were treasures growing here!"
Zhao Huifang: "Chunyan, how much does this thing cost per pound now?"
Yang Chunyan: "I haven't gone up the mountain to dig herbs for a long time. Huai'an hasn't received any golden thread lotus during this period. I wonder if the price has increased!"
The three of them dug for an hour or so, and after eating the dry food they brought with them, they continued digging for another hour or so. All three backpacks were full, and they weighed about ten pounds when they were lifted up.
Seeing that only the protruding part of the rock wall had some golden thread vines left here and there, Yang Chunyan hurriedly said to the two, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, don't dig it all up. Leave some seeds so that you can dig more in the future."
Zhao Huifang and the other person stopped and took a look. "There's only this much left. I forgot about it while digging."
Yang Chunyan smiled and looked at the time. It was already past two o'clock. Her chest felt heavy. She remembered that she had squeezed a bottle of milk for her son when she left in the morning. So far, her son has already drunk two meals of milk powder. She wondered if he was crying for his mother.
Thinking of this, she became flustered, “Sister-in-law, we’ll go back as soon as we go up.”
Zhao Huifang nodded and said, "We've been out for most of the day, it's time to go back. Little Jiuer will be crying for her mother to feed her at home."
"Yes, you see Chunyan's clothes are a little wet." Zhang Xiuxiang said as she put the herbs in the basket, "I'll go up first and tie a rope to the tree to pull you up."
Yang Chunyan looked down and saw that it was indeed the case. She quickly took out the gauze pad she had prepared in advance and put it in her vest. She picked up the Ganoderma lucidum and put it in the net bag. She waited for Zhang Xiuxiang to climb up, tied the rope, threw it down, and then the two of them grabbed the rope and climbed up.
She sat on the ground panting. "I haven't worked for a long time since I got pregnant. Climbing up a steep slope like this is much more difficult than before."
Zhao Huifang wiped her sweat and reached out to pull her up. "Go out more often and your strength will recover."
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan and her two sisters-in-law returned along the original route. When they passed through the bamboo forest and reached the hillside, they saw Zhou Huaian climbing up the mountain with his head down.
Zhang Xiuxiang said with a smile: "You see, the youngest one is the one who cares about others. Every time he goes out to dig herbs, he will come to pick you up."
Zhao Huifang nodded. "Yes! My guy, even if you tell him to pick him up, he sometimes forgets."
Zhou Huaian also saw the three people, "I thought I had to walk a long way before I could meet you!"
Yang Chunyan approached and asked, "How is Xiao Jiuer? Is he crying?"
When Zhao Huifang saw Zhou Huaian, she asked about the child first without asking anything else. She sighed and said, "Before Jiuer was born, Chunyan went out to dig herbs and was busy until dark when she returned home without worrying about it. Now she finishes work early and goes home, but she is still worried about Jiuer, afraid that she will be hungry at home."
Zhang Xiuxiang thought about the past, "We used to be the same!"
Zhou Huaian took over the backpack, "Grandpa said that he was fine after the first and second feedings of milk powder, but he became unhappy when he drank the third feeding, and even cried while drinking. Grandpa asked mom to coax him for a while, and then mixed some more for him to drink.
Maybe he saw that his rations were really gone, so he slowly finished the little bit of milk powder he had prepared. After he finished, his mouth pouted and he started crying. I had to coax him a few times before he stopped crying.
Yang Chunyan breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems like it's okay to drink for one or two meals, but if you drink for more than one meal, I'll complain."
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaian then looked at Zhao Huifang and the others, "How did you harvest today?"
Zhang Xiuxiang laughed and said, "We didn't find many Ganoderma lucidum, Chunyan didn't catch any rabbits, but we did find a large area of golden thread lotus!"
Zhou Huaian looked at the baskets they carried, "Wow~ the golden thread lotus we dug this time is pretty good. Will it be rated as a special prize if we send it over?"
Zhang Xiuxiang: "Youngest, how much did you sell it for per pound?"
Zhou Huaian thought about it, "First-class wet goods are 30 yuan per pound, and dry goods are 350 yuan per pound. For the finer ones, it takes ten pounds of fresh goods to make one pound of dry goods. If the goods are good, it is more cost-effective to dry them and sell them."
"Then we'll dry it and send it to Ning'an to sell!" After hearing this, Zhao Huifang and the others thought that they could just sell it at the previous price, and today's income would be good.
The four of them went down the mountain, and Zhou Huaian pushed out the two bicycles that were left at the home of a fellow villager, "I brought the bicycles from my second sister-in-law's home."
"Okay!" Zhang Xiuxiang took the bicycle and the four of them walked back.
After arriving home, Yang Chunyan hurriedly got off the bicycle, washed her hands and face, and went to hug her son. Seeing that he was asleep with a frown on his face, she kissed him distressedly and gently stroked his back, "Jiuer, mom is back!"
Little Jiuer didn't even open his eyes, he just arched his back against her chest, took the ration in his mouth and started sucking hard. After he was full, he opened his eyes and looked at Yang Chunyan, pouted his little mouth and started crying aggrievedly.
Yang Chunyan kissed him, stood him up, and gently stroked his vest, "Oh, baby, don't cry! Mommy has gone out to earn money, and will buy delicious food for Xiao Jiuer, pay for his tuition, and buy him toys..."
Zhou Huaian smiled and pinched his little nose, "Little thing, you recognize your mother at such a young age?"
"I know everything, I just can't tell you!" Zhou's mother walked in with a smile, "Your third brother bought some pork intestines and pig's trotters in Ning'an today, so he told you not to cook, and eat at his place tonight."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Mom, braise half of the pig intestines, stew the other half and stir-fry them, and stew the pig's trotters with white beans!"
"You're the only one who knows how to eat!" Zhou's mother glared at him in anger, then turned to Yang Chunyan and said, "I chopped off half a pig's trotter and the remaining Codonopsis pilosula and put them in a sand pot. Can you go and see if they've been raked?"
"Hey! Thank you, Mom!" Yang Chunyan responded gratefully and walked towards the kitchen with Xiao Jiuer in her arms. (End of this chapter)
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