Chapter 213 212: The money is coming
By the time the three of them had finished pulling out that patch of weeds, the sand and mud at the roots of the verbena and yellow quail grass in the ditch had almost been washed away by the water.
Zhou Huaian looked at the two of them proudly, "Look, smart people use their brains to do things and get twice the result with half the effort!"
Zhou Yiding curled his lips in disdain, "From now on I'll just call you the boaster. You brag about everything you do, and you brag about everything to the sky."
Zhou Huaian scooped up half of the water and splashed it on him. "You idiot, what country are you from?"
Zhou Yiding wiped the water off his face and said, "Okay, attack me while I'm injured, and I'll deal with you when I'm better!"
"I'm scared to death!" Zhou Huaian smiled and squatted down to help Yang Chunyan wash the herbs. "The good thing about finding herbs by the ditch is that you can wash them right after you dig them up."
"It's uncomfortable to carry if the water is not filtered out!" Yang Chunyan said, looking at the willow tree leaning against the ditch. "How about we wash it, put it in a sack, hang it on the tree, and come back to get it later?"
Zhou Huaian nodded repeatedly, "Of course it would be the best."
"I'll carry the sack for you!" Zhou Yiding took the sack out of the backpack. The three of them put the herbs in it, tied it up with a hemp rope and hung it on the tree, and continued to move forward.
After walking for a while, Zhou Yiding pointed to the cherry trees growing on the right side of the forest and said, "The cherry wine at home is picked from those trees. They are old trees, and the fruits are not big, but they taste good."
The two followed the direction he pointed and saw three tall old cherry trees. Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Let's go up the mountain early next year to pick some and make wine."
Yang Chunyan: "Go ask the people who grow fruit trees in the village how to prune the branches. If they are pruned, the fruits will be bigger."
Zhou Yiding nodded and said, "I'll ask next time I go back."
There were a few Polygonatum sibiricum and Arisaema consanguineum growing sporadically by the ditch. Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian picked the big ones and dug them up, then continued walking forward.
Since they didn't see any patches of Polygonatum sibiricum, Polygonatum odoratum and Asparagus cochinchinensis growing along the way, Yang Chunyan didn't let him dig them.
After walking for about an hour, Yang Chunyan saw a lot of olives growing on the rocks on the other side of the ditch. "Huaian, pick the olives on the other side."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaian walked forward to take a look, "This thing is not bad in price!" Then he put down the basket and said, "Ding Ding Cat, just wait here for a while."
"Don't worry about me, just do your own thing."
Yang Chunyan took out two sacks from her backpack, folded them up and handed them to Zhou Yiding. "It may take a while to unload so many. Put the sacks on the rocks and sit for a while."
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding took the sack and found a stone to sit on.
The ridge on the opposite side of the ravine is more than one meter higher than this side, and the cracks in the rocks along the ridge are full of olive trees.
When Yang Chunyan got closer, she found that there were not only olives, but also stone lotus. She pulled up one of each and said, "Huaian, olives and stone melon seeds are not the same. Don't put them together."
Zhou Huaian took a look and said, "This is easy. They look different."
Echeveria is a species of the genus Echeveria in the family Polypodiaceae. It is also called fish and turtle Venus, stone melon seeds, meat dendrobium, and tree-hugging lotus.
The rhizome of Echeveria is slender and horizontal, with light brown lanceolate scales. The leaves are fleshy and come in two types: the nutrient leaves are ovate or ovate-elliptical, and the spore leaves are slender, tongue-shaped or spoon-shaped, or the same shape as the nutrient leaves.
The spore sori grow in a row on both sides of the midrib of the leaf. It likes to grow on tree trunks and rocks in the shade and wetness of the forest, hugging rocks and trees. It can also be made into a tree-and-rock bonsai for appreciation.
The whole plant of Echeveria is used as medicine. Herbal properties: sweet, bitter, cold. It has the effects of dispelling wind and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing blood stasis.
The two men grabbed the rhizomes and pulled them up in a bunch, and soon they had a pile.
Zhou Huaian peeled off a bunch of olives and turned his head to see a lot of golden thread vines growing next to a big rock. "Yan'er, the royal treasure I picked yesterday is also here."
"Really?" Yang Chunyan put down the olives in her hand and walked over. "Yes, leave the small ones and pick all the big ones."
Zhou Yiding, who was extremely bored, stood up curiously when he heard him talking about the royal treasures, and stepped over the stones with his wooden stick, "Let me see what's so special?"
"Here!" Zhou Huaian pulled up a herb and handed it to him, "It's this herb with golden threads growing on its leaves. Your sister-in-law said it's used exclusively in the Emperor's second son's family!"
Zhou Yiding took a look and said, "I haven't noticed it before, but it looks pretty good."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan remembered that the soil in the forest farm was not bad. "Yiding, if you and Uncle Daqing are going to take care of this forest farm in the future, we can get some small plants to plant back."
She thought the wasteland in front of the forest house was quite good and was perfect for growing Fritillaria cirrhosa.
Thinking of Zhou Yiding's resignation and returning home to grow mushrooms in his previous life, I felt that he was very short-sighted. The environment here in the forest farm is simply too good for growing mushrooms and herbs.
Going further ahead, there are farmers growing bamboo fungus, morels, and ganoderma lucidum in the bamboo forests in the mountains... Some farmers have made good profits.
"Sure! If you want to plant, just come and plant." Zhou Yiding said, "Old Zhao is going to retire, and his son doesn't want to come here because it's too far away. I heard he went to work for a logging team. When I retire, I'll be the one working here."
Zhou Huaian: "I think you'd better get married soon, then you can bring your wife up to guard the forest together. Otherwise, you won't even have anyone to talk to when we go down the mountain."
Zhou Yiding: "When I was a kid, I was different from when I grew up. I have to understand it!"
Zhou Huaian: "That's right. If you don't like it, it's meaningless for two people to live under the same roof. Otherwise, you will end up having a first love like Cai Ermei!"
"Bah!" Zhou Yiding spat at him, "This is my first blind date in my life, don't ruin my reputation."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaian came close to him and looked at him without blinking. "I'm just giving you an analogy. Why are you so excited? Your kid is not really having a first love, is that right?"
Zhou Yiding slapped him away and said, "Get lost! I can eat two big bowls of ghost meat, but I can't stand seeing your ghostly appearance!"
"Hahaha!" Zhou Huaian laughed triumphantly.
"You rude little bitch, if I still care about you, I won't be named Zhou!"
"Then you and aunt have the same surname, Ding, so Ding Yizhou is not bad!"
"Climb further away..."
Yang Chunyan saw that the two had started to pinch again, so she shook her head and ignored them, only collecting olives and stone lotus. She left some olives and stone lotus in the places where she had collected them as seeds, so that she could come back to collect them again in two years.
Over there, Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding had stopped pinching. Zhou Yiding walked into the woods with the help of a wooden stick. Zhou Huaian put the picked olives, stonecrop and golden thread vine into the ditch and rinsed the mud and sand off the roots and stems a few times.
Yang Chunyan gathered the last few herbs and placed them in the ditch, then squatted on a rock to help wash them.
Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou Yiding who had gone into the woods, and saw that he was still nowhere to be seen. "Yan'er, I'll go check on Yiding. He's been in the woods for a while to relieve himself."
Yang Chunyan hurriedly said: "Go and have a look!"
Zhou Huaian put down the olives in his hand, picked up the rifle in the backpack and ran into the woods, "Ding Ding Cat, Ding Ding Cat, are you okay?"
"Okay! The youngest one has money again. Go back and get the bee cap and urea bag." Zhou Yiding's reply came from behind the bushes.
(End of this chapter)
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