"You're right! Keep developing it!" Yang Chunyan picked up a Paris polyphylla. Although she already knew that the tubers underneath would not be small and she didn't have the joy of opening a blind box, she was still happy when she saw the thick Paris polyphylla tubers.
"Huaian, this one is another top-quality product!"
Zhou Huaian took a look and said, "So we have to go up the mountain, otherwise where can we find the money?"
"Yes! Construction has begun, and I have to spend money every day. But when I think about the bright new house I will be able to live in soon, I am happy to spend the money!"
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Zhou Yiding took Wan Xuejiao up the hill, took out a few nests of bird eggs, put them in a net bag and gave it to her to carry. Then Dahei came over with a pheasant in his mouth, wagging his tail.
"Well done!" He took the pheasant and found it was quite fat. He put it in his backpack with a smile and said, "I'll kill it and stew it with mushrooms when I get home."
Wan Xuejiao took a look and said, "Is this a hen?"
"Hmm! The rooster's feathers are much prettier." Zhou Yiding picked up the backpack, "Let's go find the youngest brother and dig some mud from the ditch to roast the bird's eggs."
Wan Xuejiao pursed her lips and looked at him, "Do you remember the time when we stole your grandmother's eggs and burned the reeds by the river?"
Zhou Yiding also laughed after hearing this, "Of course I don't remember! It was all because of that moldy winter melon from the youngest brother that I didn't get to eat eggs, and I had to eat bamboo shoots and fried meat instead!"
"He was also chased everywhere by his aunt." Wan Xue smiled, "You two were really naughty at that time."
Zhou Yiding pinched her cheek and said, "You're not that bad, otherwise why would we give you the nickname of Chili Pepper?"
"Don't pinch my face!" Wan Xue said coquettishly and punched him. "How dare you say that? You were the one who gave me the nickname Chao Tian Jiao!"
Zhou Yiding grabbed her hand and said, "You're still cute now. When you were a kid, it hurt so much when you hit people!"
"Humph! Who said you looked as small as a crake?"
"Men grow taller from behind. Look at Erchun. He was taller than me and the youngest brother when he was young, but now he is more than half a head shorter than us."
"That's wrong! My brother is not like that."
"Your brother was really tall when he was young!" When they reached the ditch, Zhou Yiding let go of her hand and said, "Youngest, I dug out a few nests of bird eggs. Let's roast them and eat them."
Zhou Huaian turned his head and looked, "Wrap the mud first, we still have a few nests of Polygonatum to dig out."
"Leave it to me."
Zhou Huaian saw that there were a few mature seeds on the stems, so he picked them up and put them in a bag before starting to dig with a hoe.
Wan Xuejiao helped Zhou Yiding find some firewood. After he wrapped the bird eggs with Polygonatum sibiricum leaves, covered them with a layer of mud and buried them in the fire, she walked to Yang Chunyan and squatted down, watching her wash the plump tubers of Paris polyphylla.
"Sister-in-law, is this the one with red fruits that we dug up just now? How long does it take for something like this to grow?"
Yang Chunyan cleaned the roots of the Paris polyphylla and put them in the basket. "Well! The Paris polyphylla has a long growth period. This one is at least ten years old."
Wan Xuejiao also helped after watching, "Yiding said that he would grow herbs with you guys in the future. Are the seeds you collected taken back for breeding?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Yes! We are still in the theoretical stage. It may take several years to see the effect after actual operation!"
"Don't be afraid! Take your time, I think you can do it!"
"Thank you for the encouragement!" Yang Chunyan said with a smile.
"It was Yiding who had high hopes for you. He said you have good vision and the path you chose will definitely not be wrong."
Yang Chunyan recalled that in her previous life, after she married Zhou Yiding, although they were not rich, Zhou Yiding had good character and a sharp mind. Compared with most of the people of the same age in the village, she lived a comfortable life. "You have good vision too!"
Wan Xuejiao was a little shy, "I think Yiding has a good heart and is a down-to-earth person!"
"Xuejiao, come and see what this is!" Zhou Yiding raised his hand and shouted at her.
Wan Xuejiao walked over, "Pa Hai! Who wouldn't recognize him?"
Paihai is what people in Sichuan call it, and most people call it mountain crab. It is an animal of the stream crab family, and its scientific name is the crab.
Although it is small in size, its meat is very delicious and has high medicinal value.
According to the "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", mountain crabs are also known as "Zonghengzi". They taste salty, cold and non-toxic. They have the effects of strengthening tendons and bones, dredge meridians and remove blood stasis, and promote labor and relieve pain.
Mountain crabs are commonly used in folk medicine for bone setting. The preparation method is also very simple. Just place the mountain crabs on tiles and bake them dry.
Nowadays, there are mountain crabs in the ditches at the foot of the mountain. Children like to catch them, but it is difficult to find ones as big as this one.
In another thirty or forty years, because its reproduction requires very high water quality, it can only be found in such deep mountain valleys.
"There are so many under the rocks. Let's break them apart and find some big ones. The ones with fat in them are delicious!"
"Hmm! Go back and make some spicy flavor. It's a good side dish for drinking."
"I'll leave it to you if you can do it."
Zhou Huaian walked to the fire with a hoe in his hand and saw that the dirt in the fire had burned dry. "Ding Ding Cat, the bird eggs should be cooked, right?"
"Dig one out and have a look!" Zhou Yiding held up a mountain crab. "You see, the mountain crabs here are much bigger than those in the ditch below."
"No one's catching them here, so of course it's big!"
Zhou Huaian dug out the lumps of earth from the fire, cracked one open after it cooled down, peeled off the Polygonatum odoratum leaves inside, tapped the eggshell with his fingers a few times, and after peeling it out, the white and tender egg white was exposed. "Comrades, the bird eggs are ready, come and eat them."
"Here it comes, here it comes!" Zhou Yiding put the mountain crab in the net bag, walked up to him, picked up a piece of soil, and knocked him on the head, "Haha, I hit it once."
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him, "Tsk tsk! How childish! You're already in your twenties, but you're still like a kid."
"This is called a child's innocence, do you understand?"
Seeing that the two had started bickering again, Yang Chunyan and Wan Xuejiao smiled, picked up the bird eggs, and sat on the rocks nearby to eat them slowly.
Gou Zi squatted in front of the two of them, drooling and looking at them pitifully.
Wan Xuejiao held up the peeled bird eggs and said, "I only have one egg for the four of you. It won't be good for any of you to eat it. Go find Yiding to ask for it."
Yang Chunyan laughed, "Like master, like dog. These are just greedy dogs!"
Zhou Huaian curled his lips, "You speak as if you two are not their masters!"
Zhou Yiding immediately agreed, "That's right, people from the same family stick together, don't you understand?"
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan and the other two glared at the two men and said, "Nonsense!"
After eating the bird eggs, the four of them continued to climb up the mountain. They dug up some wild yam on the way and continued to climb up.
When they were almost at the halfway point of the mountain, Yang Chunyan noticed that there were more bees and thought that the nest of small black bees Zhou Yiding mentioned should be nearby. (End of this chapter)
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