Chapter 255 254: A Pearl on the Head
"Youngest, I found a big hawthorn tree ahead. There are at least a dozen big honey bees hanging on it!" Zhou Yiding took down the pheasant and hare hanging on his shoulders, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and excitedly pulled him, "Come on, let's go get some honey."
Zhou Huaian's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Is it far?" After thinking about it, he asked again, "What time is it now?"
"It's half past four now." Zhou Yiding said, "It takes at least three hours to go back and forth. If we go to get the honey, it will take at least an hour at the fastest. It will take another two hours to go back..."
Zhou Huaian waved his hand, "It's too late no matter what. Bring some dry food with you into the mountains tomorrow."
"Okay, come back tomorrow." Zhou Yiding smiled and picked up a wild rabbit, and said to Yang Chunyan, "Sister-in-law, go back and make some pepper and sesame rabbit for us."
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "Yes, we'll dig a few more pieces of Arisaema and leave."
"I'll go dig it, and you put the Polygonatum sibiricum in the basket." Zhou Huaian picked up the medicine hoe and left.
"Be careful not to get your hands stained with the juice from the tuberous root of Arisaema, or else your hands will itch."
"Got it." The two of them walked towards Arisaema with their medicine hoes.
Yang Chunyan put the Polygonatum sibiricum and the cleaned half-flowered lotus into the backpack, and Zhou Huaian and his partner came back carrying the Arisaema consanguineum.
"I kept a few nests for breeding."
"Yes." Yang Chunyan took out a pair of plastic gloves, put them on, and together with Zhou Huaian, cleaned the pieces of aroids, then picked some leaves and placed them on top of half of the flower to separate them.
"This is the easiest time." Zhou Huaian picked up the backpack with a smile, "Ding Ding Cat, let's go!"
Zhou Yiding stood up and said, "Youngest brother, there's no need to go back. We can go up the mountain by walking up the ditch for about a hundred meters."
"Yeah! There are a lot of good things near the ravine, let's take a look while we're here."
Zhou Yiding walked in front with Gou Zi and Zhou Huaian, and Yang Chunyan followed them with a medicine hoe, watching as they walked.
There are myrtles growing on the hill to the right, and wild blueberries growing on the cliffs, some of which are already ripe.
Just as Yang Chunyan was about to go up, Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding climbed up and picked a handful each. "They taste pretty good, they're sour."
"Just looking at it makes me salivate!" Yang Chunyan took it with a smile and ate a few in succession. She felt that wild blueberries tasted sourer than cultivated ones, had less flesh, and were sour and sweet, with a fresh fragrance.
The three walked for about dozens of meters and saw a rock in front of them that was more than one meter tall and looked like a wall, standing in front of the bushes at the edge of the ditch.
When I got closer, I saw olive trees, golden thread vines and unknown small flowers growing on it.
Above the rocks grow lush Drynaria, Dendrobium and orchids with pink and purple flowers emitting bursts of fragrance.
Zhou Huaian looked at the rock and exclaimed, "Oh my god, if I could take this stone home and put it in the yard, I would feel at ease just looking at it!"
"Haha!" Zhou Yiding put his arm around his shoulders, "Dude, I thought the same thing when I first saw it."
"Hehe! You are indeed a good buddy!" Zhou Huaian glanced at him proudly, "No wonder Erchun always said that we have similar tastes!"
Yang Chunyan looked at his smug look and couldn't help but laugh, "Is 'birds of a feather flock together' a good thing? With this level of ability, you still say you only attended junior high school."
Zhou Yiding agreed, "Yes, silly and stupid."
"You are such a disrespectful kid who deserves to be beaten!" Zhou Huaian slapped him in dissatisfaction, put down his backpack, and followed Yang Chunyan to walk towards the rocks on the other side of the ditch through the stream.
Zhou Yiding also followed. Dahuang turned around and lay down beside the basket containing the hares, looking at the three people.
Yang Chunyan took two people with her, first picking the golden thread vine and then picking the stone olives.
Zhou Huaian wanted to pick the Dendrobium growing on the rocks, but the rocks were covered with moss and were too slippery to climb up.
Zhou Yiding took a look and said with a smile: "You idiot, squat down and I'll stand on your shoulders, and you can reach it!"
"That's right, why didn't I think of that?"
Zhou Huaian squatted down with his hands on the rock, and Zhou Yiding took off his boots. A smell of stinky feet and rubber from the boots wafted out.
"Ugh~" Zhou Huaian retched exaggeratedly, "Wash your feet quickly, you almost made me vomit."
"It does stink a bit!" Zhou Yiding stepped into the ditch embarrassedly, rubbed his feet back and forth a few times, wiped them on his trouser legs, and patted Zhou Huaian, "Squat down, I'm going up."
Zhou Huaian climbed up the rock while complaining, "My immortal boss, eat less! Even a pig is not as heavy as you!"
"I'm a 5-foot-tall man, but I only weigh 126 kilograms. You think it's too heavy, but I think it's too light!" Zhou Yiding pulled a nest of dendrobiums and handed it to Yang Chunyan, "Move over, a little higher..."
Zhou Huaian held his legs and slowly moved to the side, "You bastard, stand still! If you fall, Uncle Daqing will tear me to pieces."
"Don't worry, brother, I'm very nimble!" Zhou Yiding said as he pulled out another bunch of Dendrobium and handed it to Yang Chunyan.
"I know, if you stick a tail in your body you are a monkey."
Yang Chunyan watched the two people bickering with a smile and put the picked Dendrobium into her backpack.
Zhou Huaian and his companion were busy for more than ten minutes before they picked all the Dendrobium and Drynaria off the rocks, leaving some on them, firmly implementing the sustainable mining route.
Yang Chunyan carried the basket on her back and said, "I'll go back and wash some olives to make soup, and dry some golden thread vines to make tea for Uncle Daqing."
Zhou Yiding picked up a golden thread vine and asked, "What good is this thing?"
Zhou Huaian looked at him smugly, "What good do you think the royal stuff is?"
"Tell me the answer, and I'll believe you!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said: "Drinking tea can protect the liver, but people with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, and loose stools should not drink it."
Zhou Yiding said after hearing this: "I've heard Uncle Zhao say before that medicine is three-quarters poisonous, no matter how good the medicine is, you can't take it carelessly!"
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan and her partner followed Zhou Yiding up the slope and were suddenly attracted by the small white flowers blooming by the ditch. "Yuerqi?"
Zhou Huaian turned around after hearing this and saw her surprised look. He asked happily, "What good things did you find again?"
"Yaro seven, also known as a pearl on the top of the head!" Yang Chunyan squatted in front of a few pearls on the top of the head. After pulling them apart, she found that there were not four pearls, but four stems growing on one tuber.
Two taro plants have already borne fruit, but they are not yet ripe. The fruit of taro is delicious when ripe and is also good for the human body.
But most of the time, the fruits are already eaten by birds before the herbalists can find them.
In her previous life, she had found a few of these trees in the mountains. Because they were endangered and rare plants, they had been listed as national Class 3 protected plants. She only admired them for a while and then left.
She has found three of Shennong's four treasures: a pen from King Wen, a pearl on his head, and a flower with seven leaves. The only thing missing is a bowl of water from the river.
The top of the head is a plant of the lily family, and its rhizome and mature fruits are used as medicine. Other names: Trillium, taro seven, etc.
Trillium is a fleshy herb with three green leaves growing on a single stem. The leaves are round or diamond-shaped, and small white or lavender flowers bloom on the whorled leaves at the top.
(End of this chapter)
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