"What are you afraid of? We have plenty of bullets!" Zhou Huaian looked around but didn't find any golden thread lotus. Instead, he saw three Eucommia ulmoides on the opposite side. "Ding Ding Cat, look, that's the good stuff!"
"What did you see?" Zhou Yiding walked up to him and saw the Eucommia ulmoides trees growing opposite. The largest tree trunk was so thick that a man could hug it. He patted his shoulder and said with a smile, "Youngest, I admire you. You have a pair of eyes that want to make money!"
It was he who suggested coming here today. When we got here, we encountered two big ones, picked a few Ganoderma lucidum, and found a few Eucommia ulmoides.
These trees are at least several decades old. The bark of this tree is more expensive than Magnolia officinalis bark. The mountain people can sell the bark of a tree for hundreds of yuan.
Wang Zhen said that the things they collected last time were sent away because they were in short supply and needed urgently, otherwise they would have all been stored up.
Zhou Huaian glanced at it and said, "Vulgar, I have a keen eye for talent!"
Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes until only the whites were left. "Tsk~ We grew up together naked, damn it, why are you pretending to be cultured here!"
"Stay away!" Zhou Huaian laughed and punched him, then sighed, "It's a pity that we found it too early. Wang Zhen said that the Eucommia ulmoides in our area is generally in March and April. The Eucommia ulmoides harvested at that time has the greatest medicinal value, the highest grade, and the bark is easy to peel off."
Zhou Yiding was stunned for a moment after hearing this. "Two months will pass in the blink of an eye. We will peel the skin again when the time comes."
"This is the only way." Zhou Huaian pulled him and the two of them walked back. "The forest we just contracted needs a lot more saplings. In February, we will select some strong branches and cut them back for cuttings."
He turned his head and looked at the old forest opposite, wondering how many rare herbs and medicinal trees there were in it! It would be great if he could go in and take a look someday.
"It's free anyway, so I'll come and cut more when the time comes." Zhou Yiding shook his head and said, "It's good in every way, but the planting cycle is too long. It takes more than 15 years to peel the bark and sell it."
"Haer, not only the bark can be sold, the flowers of Eucommia can also be sold. The older the tree, the higher the survival rate of the seeds after sowing. The seeds are more valuable than those of young trees."
"Like Magnolia officinalis, can both be sold for money?"
"Yes! Wang Zhen said that Eucommia ulmoides is a tree with both male and female plants, and the male flowers are the flowers of the male Eucommia ulmoides tree. He also said that the male flowers of Eucommia ulmoides are precious medicinal pollen. The peel and leaves can also treat boils and bleeding from knife wounds."
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "The young shoots of Eucommia ulmoides as vegetables can dispel wind poison, athlete's foot, long-term wind-cold, intestinal hemorrhoids and bleeding, etc." Eucommia ulmoides flowers are fragrant, can strengthen the liver, nourish the kidneys, and promote bowel movements. They can also be used to make tea to relieve hangovers, etc.
Zhou Yiding was immediately interested after hearing this. "Why not plant such a good thing? Not only should we plant it, but we should plant a lot of it. When we sell it for money in the future, we will see those people still say that we are useless and don't plant fruit trees, but only useless herbs."
Zhou Huaian asked curiously: "Who said you are a jerk and don't know how to plant fruit trees?"
He remembered that most people in Funiu Village now planned to plant herbs and medicinal trees, and no one would say anything bad about those who did not plan to plant them.
Zhou Yiding said: "My uncle, I heard from my husband that we have leased one or two thousand mu of mountain land, and asked me to buy some pepper trees, walnut trees, peach trees, pear trees, mango trees and other fruit trees to plant, saying that there will be a harvest in a few years.
My old man told him that we were going to plant chestnuts and honey trees, and he scolded me, saying that I had nothing to do when I was full and was looking for something useless to do. "
Zhou Huaian became even more curious, "I remember your uncle was pretty nice to you before!"
Zhou Yiding curled his lips, "It was because of my suspension. He said that if I quit my job and have to pay the company, I should let his second son take over my job at the forest farm, and he would help me pay the part of the money I had to pay. My husband disagreed, and we had a conflict."
All this time was for the forest farm work.
Zhou Huaian asked curiously, "Why do they like working as workers so much?"
Zhou Yiding shrugged, "When workers say this, it's respectable. We are just middlemen who collect mountain products. How embarrassing."
Zhou Huaian thought about the earth-shaking changes in his family over the past two years, which were all earned by being a shameless middleman. He sneered, "I don't care about face, I just want substance, as long as my pockets are full."
Zhou Yiding thought of his uncle saying that he would regret quitting his job sooner or later, and he was a little speechless, "That's right, what's so good about being a face-giving person? He even came to me to borrow money to buy a bicycle for his engagement."
"It's a shame to save face!"
“Right!”
Zhou Huaian and the other man returned to the fire, heated up the rice balls and sausages, and tore off some bacon to put in the rice balls. Zhou Huaian took a big bite and discovered that there were also chopped pickled peppers in it.
The outer layer of the glutinous rice ball is roasted to a golden brown, and it has a burnt aroma when eaten, followed by the aroma of bacon and sausage, and the sour and spicy taste of pickled peppers.
"Bah, putting a pickled pepper in the rice ball is the best way to go with rice."
Zhou Yiding also took a big bite and said, "I asked my little sister to make it last night. It tastes pretty good!"
"It's delicious." Zhou Huaian finished eating the rice ball, drank a few sips of water, and used a wooden stick to dig out the red-hot mud ball from the fire. "It will be cooked after a while."
"I'm full. I'll leave it there for a while before eating."
"Okay, let's clean up the remaining half first."
The two worked for another hour or so, cutting off all the good meat from half of the old bear. Zhou Huaian picked up the meat from the bear skin and put it in the backpack. "This piece of pork belly is really fat."
"Let's go back and braise the pork belly." Zhou Yiding looked at the meat on the skeleton and waved to the dog, "Come here, it's time to gnaw on the bones."
The three dogs immediately turned over and stood up, pounced on it and started to bite it.
After putting all the meat from the bear skin into the backpack, Zhou Huaian lifted it up and said, "There are at least 120 kilograms of meat in one backpack."
"Including the musk deer meat, it's about one hundred and forty or fifteen." Zhou Yiding put the bear skin on the backpack and put the pheasant eggs on the ground into the bag, and took it with him to eat when he was hungry on the road.
The two of them sat down to rest for a while, and Zhou Yiding kicked him and said, "Let's go, I'll help you lift the backpack first."
“Okay!” Zhou Huaian squatted down and put on the shoulder straps. After Zhou Huaian helped lift the backpack and put it on his back, he squatted down and put the backpack on his back. He waved to the dog who was chewing the food, “Dahei, Dahuang, Wangcai, let’s go home!”
"Woof woof woof!" After hearing this, the dog immediately dropped the bear meat and ran to the two men.
Zhou Huaian put the gun on the backpack and climbed up the mountain with the medicine hoe. "I haven't carried anything for a long time. My shoulders are still a little sore!"
Zhou Yiding said with a smile: "If there were such large loads every day, I would be eager to carry them from morning till night."
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes, "That's one or two thousand a day, you'll be so happy!"
"It's already beautiful now." Zhou Yiding thought about the big money he made this year and grinned, "Youngest, I calculated that if we continue like this, we can live a leisurely life when we are 40 years old, working when we want to, and fishing or hiking when we don't want to."
Zhou Huaian calculated, "I'm still a dozen years away from turning 40. Not counting the rent and the income from the hotel, the Magnolia officinalis, Eucommia ulmoides, cinnamon bark... on the mountain can all be peeled and sold for money. And those wild beehives will grow and prosper if nothing goes wrong. With these harvests every year, we don't have to do anything."
"Fuck, if you don't count, you won't know. Once you count, you'll be shocked. By then, the whole mountain will be filled with money!" Zhou Yiding pulled the shoulder strap excitedly, "Work hard, it doesn't matter if you suffer when you are young!"
It was already past three in the afternoon when the two arrived at the back mountain of Zhou Huaian's house.
When the dog saw his home, he felt safe, so he started running. When he reached the medicinal field, he saw the old man standing with a wooden stick in his hand, reinforcing the fence.
"Woof woof woof" Wangcai walked up to him, wagging his tail and circling around his feet.
The old man stroked it happily and said, "You are back. Where are your masters?"
"Grandpa, we're back." Zhou Huaian grinned at him foolishly.
Seeing that the two men were exhausted, panting and sweating, the old man hurried forward and took the gun from the backpack. When he saw the black bear skin and hairy bear paws on it, he looked at the two men in horror.
"Did you meet an old bear? Are you hurt?"
"No." Zhou Huaian smiled, "The mountain god gave us wealth, and we got a musk deer when we opened the business. When we walked to the old beehive, we encountered an old bear who was trying to steal honey and got his head stuck in the cave..."
The old man had lived to such an age, but this was the first time he had heard of someone beating a bear weighing several hundred kilograms so easily. "Hearing you say that, it really was the mountain god who sent you wealth!"
Zhou Huaian smiled smugly, "Of course not, I've been hunting all my life, and I've never encountered such a good thing!"
The old man thought of Old Shrimp, "He has taught you two a lot, and I think he is doing quite a lot of evil on his own. I'll send him a piece of bear meat later."
"Okay." Zhou Huaian and the other man agreed readily.
When the three of them got home, Wang Zhen and Yang Dongmei happened to be there too. When they heard about their gains today, they all thought that they were extremely lucky.
Zhou Yiding took the musk deer off and said to Yang Chunyan, "Sister-in-law, boil some water. We're going to have hotpot tonight."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "We are having a reunion dinner at my second brother's place tonight, so I will send it over quickly and let them clean up."
Zhou Yiding smiled and nodded, "Give a few pieces of bear meat to my eldest brother and his family, and another piece of bear streaky pork belly for my second sister-in-law to braise."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan put the musk deer, bear meat and bear belly into the backpack and walked towards the second room with Yang Dongmei.
Zhou Huaian happily took out the musk, bear gall and bear paw, "Take a look, how is the quality?"
"Yes, the bears here hibernate for a short time, and most of the bear galls collected after the beginning of spring are black gall. After this bear gall is prepared, you can store it for a while before selling it. The price should be higher."
Wang Zhen mentioned the bear gall and looked at him. "Do you still remember the method I taught you last time to prepare bear gall?"
"Remember!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "Use a clean pot to boil water, hold the thin hemp rope on the bear gall, dip the gall into the boiling water, then lift it up and hang it in a cool and ventilated place.
After a period of time, when the bear gall bladder swells up again, the preparation method is repeated until the bear gall bladder no longer swells up. This is considered to be done. "
"Yes!" Wang Zhen nodded with a smile, "Let me watch you do it again."
"Yes, Mr. Wang!" (End of this chapter)
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