Zhou Huaian turned his head to look at her and shrugged, "Our mountain luck today wasn't very good!"
"Why not? It's very good!" Yang Chunyan pointed to the lush vines in front, "Look, that Polygonum multiflorum tree in front."
"Oh! It's true." Zhou Huaian gently kicked Wangcai and pointed at the Shouwu in front. "Wangcai, lead the way, let's go up and take a look."
"Woof woof!" Wangcai spread out his four hooves and ran forward, while Zhou Huaian followed him as fast as the wind, leaning on the medicine hoe.
When Yang Chunyan followed him, he had already found the taproot. He turned his head to look at her and let out a strange "Yo hehe".
"Come here, Yan'er, come and take a look." Zhou Huaian saw a vine that was thicker than his thumb, "I'm sure it'll be a big deal if we dig this up!"
Yang Chunyan took a closer look and said, "Wow! This one is thicker than the ones we dug before!"
"It's thicker than before." Zhou Huaian put down the backpack, looked up and saw a bunch of vines with small yellow flowers on the Polygonum multiflorum vine. He hurriedly pulled her and said, "Yan'er, look at that thing."
Yang Chunyan raised her head and looked in the direction he pointed. Her heart sank. "Heartbreak grass. Everything around this thing cannot be eaten."
"Puh, puh, puh!" Zhou Huaian spat several times, causing Wangcai to run over curiously, looking at the two of them with a questioning look on his dog face.
"Don't spit!" Yang Chunyan said, "Let's cut the Polygonum multiflorum vine, dig up the Polygonum multiflorum and throw it away, so that someone who doesn't know the Gelsemium elegans may not accidentally eat the Polygonum multiflorum and get poisoned."
"I'll listen to you! Just consider it as a good deed every day!" Zhou Huaian picked up a machete and cut off the Polygonum multiflorum vine. He picked up a hoe and dug for a long time before he dug out a piece of Polygonum multiflorum. The rest was embedded in the cracks of the stone, so he had to give up.
Yang Chunyan looked at the Polygonum multiflorum, which was at least half a foot in diameter, and said, "Oh! It's such a pity that such a large piece of it is growing next to the Gelsemium elegans!"
"Don't feel sorry for the money that doesn't belong to us!" Zhou Huaian advised her with a smile, smashed the Polygonum multiflorum with a stone, and kicked it into the bushes.
"Yes, it's not our property!" Yang Chunyan put the medicine hoe into the backpack and handed him the rifle leaning against the tree. "Let's go. There are more big goods waiting for us ahead."
Zhou Huaian raised his rifle and said, "Yes, there is a huge truck ahead. Go towards it!"
“Woof woof woof!” Wangcai also joined in the fun, following behind happily.
“Haha…” Yang Chunyan watched the actions of the man and the dog and laughed so hard that she couldn’t straighten her waist. “You and Wangcai’s actions are just like the Japanese invaders who raided the village in the movie.”
"So what!" Zhou Huaian straightened his chest and raised his rifle, "Ahhh... a hundred years of coma..."
Yang Chunyan looked at him in reproach, "Jiu'er is becoming more and more like you, and loves to play tricks every day!"
Zhou Huaian looked smug, "Of course my son looks like me! It's good for him to be like me. When he grows up and sees a girl he likes, he will coax her home."
Yang Chunyan smiled and patted him, "I don't want to bother with you, hurry up the mountain and see if there are any good things."
"Yes, my dear wife." Zhou Huaian put away the gun with a playful smile, and the two continued to walk up. Neither of them picked up the not-so-good mushrooms they saw on the road. They only picked up some mushrooms with good taste and that had not yet opened, such as the blue-headed mushroom and the milk mushroom.
After walking for half an hour, they heard the sound of flowing water in front of them on the left. It seemed that there was a ravine ahead. Thinking that there were many herbs by the ravine, they turned and walked towards it.
After walking twenty or thirty steps, I saw an irregular pool of water about two meters wide. The water in the pool was clear and you could see the bottom. There were rugged rocks on the side of the ravine above the pool, and clear spring water was flowing down like a small waterfall.
"Huaian, let's go up the ditch and see if there's anything good?"
"Yan'er, look!" Zhou Huaian pointed at the animal feces on the ground and said in surprise, "This is the feces left by musk deer. Lao Xiazi told me that male musk deer will secrete a lot of musk during the estrus period to attract females.
Once the estrus period is over, there is too much musk in the sac, so the male musk deer will kick the sac out with its hind hooves. Wherever the sac falls, the grass and trees will wither.
I told him I wanted to raise two, but he said musk deer are naturally timid, and if they are frightened they will jump around everywhere, which can kill them, so they are very difficult to raise.
Yang Chunyan said indifferently: "Since we haven't found any live musk deer yet, we can just forget about raising them!"
"I'd like to give it a try if I get a chance!" Zhou Huaian looked around the pond and found no signs of withered grass or trees. He thought it might be because of his bad luck, or maybe this place was too close to the village and the musk deer just happened to pass by here.
Yang Chunyan washed her face by the pond and said, "Huaian is gone. Let's go up the ditch and take a look."
"Here I come!" Zhou Huaian picked up the backpack, washed his hands by the pond, looked back at the feces, and decided to go back and learn from Lao Xiazi how to dig traps before dealing with them.
The two walked a few steps upstream along the ditch and found a lot of saxifrage. On the large moss-covered rocks at the edge of the ditch, there were patches of Pyrrosia growing.
Zhou Huaian put the gun into his backpack, took a shovel and said to her, "Yan'er, let's pick it here first, and then go to the other side when we come back."
"Okay! Pick the ones with thick roots. Saxifrage is easy to grow. We can take some back and plant them in a big pit."
"Great!" Zhou Huaian dug up a tree, "Hey, is the golden thread vine we planted last year alive?"
"A part of it has survived, and a lot of it has grown out." Yang Chunyan lifted up a piece of Pyrola, picked off the moss on it, and put it into the backpack with her back hand.
Wangcai followed the two of them, running around on the rocks beside the ravine, and from time to time he would run to provoke the big-headed, green-eyed Dingding cat that was resting on the wild flowers.
Zhou Huaian looked at Wangcai who was tiptoeing forward, "Wangcai, Dingding Cat will beat you up if he sees you catch his brother!"
Wangcai looked at the startled Dingding cat, gave him a resentful look, then lay on a big rock, licking his paws from time to time.
In a short while, Yang Chunyan had picked more than ten kilograms of Pyrola, and Zhou Huaian had also picked all the thick Saxifrage, and the two continued to move forward.
I picked up a lot of mushrooms from a dead tree that fell to the ground. The dead tree alone filled my basket, and there were still a lot of small ones left. I would not be able to pick them all if I didn't come a few more times.
Not long after walking, they found several bamboo ginsengs, with a few smaller ones next to them. The two planned to dig only those ones that looked like they were quite old.
The two men dug carefully for more than ten minutes, each digging up one tree.
"Yan'er, let me count how long it has been?" Zhou Huaian counted the bamboo joints one by one, "Fuck! It's been twenty-eight years, longer than I've lived."
Yang Chunyan also counted them and said with a smile: "Mine is smaller, with only 26 sections."
"Hurry up and dig, there are five of them!" Zhou Huaian put the bamboo ginseng aside and started working quickly.
Apart from the sound of flowing water in the ravine not far away and the sound of two people digging, there was no other sound in the forest. It was so quiet that it seemed isolated from the world.
"Oh my god! This one is the king!" Zhou Huaian screamed, holding up the bamboo ginseng's long rhizome that looked like a bamboo whip, and approached Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, I counted, it's thirty-two years old."
Yang Chunyan saw that he was grinning so hard that his teeth were showing. "Didn't you say that today's mountaineering was not very good?"
"It's a different time now!" Zhou Huaian gave her a sly smile, "I take back what I said before, we are having a great time in the mountains today!"
"I don't want to bother with you. Just dig out the remaining one and I'll go to the ditch to clean it."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian gave her the bamboo ginseng and continued working.
After putting a few bamboo ginsengs into the backpack and continuing to move forward, Yang Chunyan once again felt that the edge of the ravine these days was a natural medicinal field.
The two first discovered a clump of Polygonatum sibiricum that was taller than a person, and then found more than a dozen Paris polyphylla and Tripterygium wilfordii plants. It looked like these herbs were quite old.
Zhou Huaian happily pulled a Polygonatum multiflorum, with its white bell-like flowers swaying back and forth, "Hey, I said there was a big deal up ahead, look, here I am!"
Yang Chunyan thought that the Polygonatum sibiricum planted at home had also begun to bloom, and there was no need to keep these Polygonatum sibiricum for harvesting seeds. "You dig the Polygonatum sibiricum, I dig the Paris polyphylla, and keep the Tripterygium wilfordii for later."
"I'll do whatever you say." Zhou Huaian picked up the medicine hoe and carefully started digging along the direction of the rhizome. Some of the Polygonatum sibiricum grew in crooked places on the ground and would be rotten if not dug carefully.
When Yang Chunyan was digging those Paris polyphylla, she also found seedlings that had only grown two leaves. Paris polyphylla seedlings only grow one leaf in the first year, and usually they will bloom and bear fruit only after growing more than five leaves.
The total area of transplanted Fritillaria cirrhosae that survived at home is less than two mu of land. These seedlings can be dug up and planted in the spring of next year.
Yang Chunyan was busy for more than half an hour before she dug up all the dozen or so Paris polyphylla plants. Some of them were more than ten or twenty years old. One of them was accidentally broken off. The two thick tubers probably weighed more than two kilograms.
The smaller pieces weigh a few kilograms, and appear to be at least ten years old. Wild Fritillaria grows slowly, so ones of this age should be much heavier.
Yang Chunyan put the dug Paris polyphylla into the vegetable basket and said, "Huaian, I've finished digging it."
Zhou Huaian turned his head and looked at the basket. "Not bad, about 20 to 30 kilograms, right?"
"Almost." Yang Chunyan picked up a piece of Polygonatum odoratum. "It's nearly two feet long, and it's crooked like an old tree stump. It must be at least twenty years old, right?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and nodded, "I've counted them, there are a total of 26 sections, and there are about ten pieces like this. There will be no problem sending these to Wang Zhen for special grade evaluation."
Yang Chunyan put the polygonatum on the ground into the basket and said happily: "The ones I have here can also be rated as special grade. The good ones are getting less and less. I will keep them for a while before selling them."
"Wang Zhen also said yesterday that many things are going up in price this year, so it's okay to keep them for two years."
"I'll pick these up and bring them to the ditch to clean them. You dig up the rest and bring them over!"
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian said without even raising his head, "Take the dog over there, and I'll follow."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan picked up a basket in one hand, called Wangcai to the ditch, poured Paris polyphylla and Polygonatum odoratum into a shallow puddle, pulled out the roots on the tubers, cut some wild grasses and rolled them into bundles, and began to scrub them. (End of this chapter)
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