Chapter 123: 122: Enemies Meet on a Narrow Road
Zhou Huaian covered his calf and wailed, "This is outrageous. A woman like you would beat her own man at any time. I'm going to find my mother-in-law and file a complaint!"
Yang Chunyan was too lazy to watch him act funny, and continued to walk up the mountain path with a brisk pace, carrying the basket on her back.
"Yan'er, wait for me!"
Zhou Huaian also followed happily. The two of them cut some motherwort, mountain whip and some chicken shit vine along the way.
All the miscellaneous mushrooms on the mountain have been picked up, and only the red mushrooms with their umbrellas opened are left.
"Yan'er, when we open up the back hill, how about planting some chicken shit vines, golden vines, wild yam, and Polygonum multiflorum beside the fence?"
"Okay, let's go dig some roses and plant them, to prevent the sheep from getting in and eating the herbs."
"I read in a book that there is a kind of red rose in the rose flower that has good medicinal value. It can treat liver and stomach pain, new and long-term rheumatism, and can also treat injuries from falls, irregular menstruation... It can also be used to make scented tea."
Yang Chunyan remembered that the chapter on rose cultivation was at the end. "Have you finished reading the book?"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "I read it all and plan to read it again carefully."
"Yes! There is lung-shaped grass." Yang Chunyan said as she took a few quick steps to the slope, bent down and pulled up a small grass with only four leaves, turning over the green leaves with light yellow-green clumps.
Among the many weeds, there are the horsewhip-like weeds, the half-flowered weeds with half of its flowers open, and the lantern grass that looks like a lantern. This grass is called lung-shaped grass because its leaves look like two lungs.
The young grass of Pulmonaria has four leaves, two large and two small. The leaves are opposite each other in a cross shape, oval to elliptical, green with light yellow-green clumps on the surface, and reddish-purple on the back.
Lung-shaped grass is only valuable when it is tender. It tastes sweet, spicy and cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing the lungs and relieving cough, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and treating hemoptysis caused by tuberculosis.
Yang Chunyan remembered that in her previous life, someone came to her house and asked her to help find wild lungwort. She searched many places before finding some in the mountains in the southwest, and she actually found a small piece here.
Wild herbs need a good environment to have space to grow.
In the past life, this mountain was completely cleared and planted with fruit trees, so there was no wild herbs to be found.
Zhou Huaian pulled a tree with vines, "Yan'er, dig it up by the roots or cut the vines on top."
Yang Chunyan shook her head. "Only pull out the tender grass that has no vines. Don't pull out the ones that have vines."
The two men pulled up all the tender grass, about thirty or forty of them, shook off the mud, put it in a backpack and continued to move forward.
Yang Chunyan used a bamboo pole to push aside the grass. "Oh wow, such a big mushroom, I didn't even notice it when I was picking mushrooms."
Zhou Huaian also saw one, "There are a few more here."
Yang Chunyan put down her backpack, patted the mushroom caps, and pried them up with a sickle. "I can pick these up and stir-fry them into a big dish."
After picking up a few big-foot mushrooms and not bothering to pick up the other fungi, the two continued walking into the woods.
After entering, he dug a few pieces of wild yam, cut some mugwort, mountain whip, some dandelions and plantain, and the backpack was already full.
By this time, it was already dark in the forest, so the couple went back down the mountain.
"Yan'er, wait for me at the bridge head later. I'll go see if there are any fish in the trap."
"Um!"
The two went down the mountain and crossed the bridge. Zhou Huaian helped Yang Chunyan carry the backpack and went to the ditch to look for traps.
Yang Chunyan picked up the kettle and took a sip of water, then turned her head to look towards the ditch. After a while, "Beep-ling-ling..." the sound of bicycle bells rang one after another.
She turned her head and saw a man in a white shirt riding a bicycle towards her. It turned out to be Xiong Laosan, who was proudly ringing the bell at her non-stop.
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes and thought to herself: Even cows and horses can pass through, so why can't you pass through on your bicycle?
"Hey, isn't this Zhou Laoyao's house? How about I take you back?" Xiong Laosan parked his bicycle next to the backpack and looked back and forth at Yang Chunyan.
Seeing his wretched look, Yang Chunyan gave him a cold look and said, "No need!"
"Tsk tsk, what a pity, a beautiful flower stuck in cow dung!" Xiong Laosan got on his bicycle and rode up the hillside, shaking his head, singing "The Camel Returns Home" in a weird tune, "The other person's wife..."
Yang Chunyan picked up a bamboo pole and stuck it on the steel wire of his bicycle's rear wheel. The steel wire made a few "crackling" sounds, and then Xiong Laosan fell to the ground with a "clang".
"Son of a bitch, I can't kill you if I throw you down!"
Xiong Laosan climbed up with a grin and pointed at Yang Chunyan, "Bitch..." Before he could finish his words, he saw Zhou Huaian walking towards them with an oilcloth bag. He quickly stopped talking, picked up his bicycle and walked away.
When Zhou Huaian arrived, he only saw a figure with his butt sticking out and pushing a bicycle up the steep slope. "Who on the team bought another bicycle?"
"Xiong Laosan!" Yang Chunyan looked at the oilcloth bag in his hand and changed the subject, "Are there any fish?"
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian smiled and pulled it away, "There are some small shrimps, steel loaches, crucian carp, and two small carps."
Yang Chunyan looked at the fish in the bag and said, "Not bad, we have caught so many in just half an afternoon."
"If you like them, I'll come here every day to set up traps." Zhou Huaian handed her the oilcloth bag and said, "Come early tomorrow afternoon and get some rock creepers to send to Doctor Wang."
"We are going up the mountain tomorrow, so we don't know when we can come back. Just go back and tell our third brother and ask him to help us find the two kilograms."
"Alright." Zhou Huaian put on his backpack and wiped the sweat off his forehead. "It's very hot and humid. It might rain tonight."
"It's good to have some rain, otherwise the mushrooms won't grow."
Familiar villagers met along the way were surprised to see Zhou Huaian carrying a basket full of grass. "Youngest Zhou, I heard you've made a lot of money collecting and selling eels recently!"
Zhou Huaian stopped and looked at them with a wry smile, "Uncle Xu, to be honest, the little money we earned is not enough to compensate Lao Xiong's family for the plague cattle!"
"You also hunted a wild boar last time you went into the mountains. With the money from the beef and eels you sold, I'm afraid you've almost made up for it!"
Zhou Huaian sighed, "Selling eels is a hard way to make money, but I didn't expect that as soon as I found a way, someone would steal my girl away." After saying that, he shook his head and sighed and walked away.
"It was Cai Ermei who stole Zhou Laoyao's girl. I saw it with my own eyes. A ball hit Cai Ermei in the face..."
"How can a good buddy be compared to a woman's money?"
"Zhou Dasong paid for the house repairs, but it's worth it to get Zhou Laoya to be sensible!"
"That's right. Look at what Mr. Zhou is wearing. I heard that it was all bought with the money of Mr. Zhou..."
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When the couple returned home, Zhang Xiuxiang and her friends had already returned and were busy picking mushrooms in the yard.
Zhao Huifang quickly stood up and took the oilcloth bag. "You also brought back some fish. Did you two go to Guanyin Mountain?"
"Well, we also picked up a few big-foot mushrooms!" Yang Chunyan glanced at the mushrooms in the dustpan, "We picked up so many red mushrooms today?"
Zhang Xiuxiang said: "There are more than ten kilograms of Alpinia fasciata and some bigfoot mushrooms. No one wants these, so we picked up a lot of them."
Li Qiuyue pointed at the red mushrooms in the basket and said, "Chunyan, go to Ning'an the day after tomorrow and ask Doctor Wang if he will buy red mushrooms. It would be great if we could sell so many of them for money."
"I'm also planning to take some dry stuff with me, and ask him to ask if I can send it to the provincial capital to sell it? There should be someone there who recognizes it!"
Zhao Huifang, "I heard from Hongying that their relatives in the provincial capital like our mountain products the most. Every year, they send a lot of shiitake mushrooms, green oyster mushrooms, and chanterelles to the provincial capital."
(End of this chapter)
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