"Not bad! Brother Zhou's shooting skills are really good!" Wang Zhen trotted forward and picked up the pheasant, saying happily to the others, "It's a hen, plump and plump, perfect for stewing mushrooms."
"We have a lot of dried mushrooms at home. We can cook whatever we want!" Brother Yang took the mushrooms and put them in the basket. "I've never seen pheasants when I pass by here. No wonder they say newcomers have benefits when they go up the mountain."
Wang Zhen said with a big smile: "As a newbie, isn't this benefit a little small? I hope it can be bigger."
Yang Dongmei nodded happily, "Don't worry, our Hengshan Mountain God is very generous to new comrades, and there will definitely be a lot of goods."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Our Doctor Xiao Wang is not only a new comrade, but also Hengshan's new son-in-law. The Mountain God will also give you a big gift for this!"
Wang Zhen smiled and glanced at him, "You're coaxing me again. No wonder I heard you're the best at coaxing people!"
"Alas!" Zhou Huaian sighed to the sky, "I'm so sad! Even an honest man like me doesn't believe you. I won't play with you anymore."
When they saw him being funny, they all recalled the catchphrase they used to say when they were angry with their friends when they were little: Humph! I won't play with you anymore!
Wang Zhen smiled and cupped his hands, "I was wrong. Go back and drink a glass of wine as punishment!"
"That's more like it!" Zhou Huaian handed him the gun with a smile, "Today's game is in your hands."
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "We already have the pheasant, I'll try to get the rest!"
A few people walked forward, chatting and laughing, and unknowingly climbed up the first ridge. Brother Yang pointed to the mulberry forest below and said, "Not many people come here now. When we were in the brigade, there were quite a lot of people who came here to pick mulberry leaves and raise silkworms."
"Let's go down and see if there is any Coriolus polyphylla?" Zhou Huaian took the lead and strode towards the mulberry forest.
Yang Dongmei turned her head and looked at Yang Chunyan, "Sister, did you and your brother-in-law also pick up the Coriolus verniciflua in the mulberry forest of the brigade?"
Yang Chunyan: "I went to the brigade's mulberry forest twice, but I never found any Coriolus versicolor. The Coriolus versicolor your brother-in-law and I picked up was found on an old mulberry tree in the valley after crossing two ridges."
Yang Dongmei: "Oh! It seems that we won't find Coriolus versicolor here today."
The two sisters walked down while talking. Zhou Huaian and Wang Zhen, who were walking in front, suddenly saw a forest musk deer flying quickly into the mulberry forest.
"Hurry up... Zhangzi! Brother Zhou, it's Zhangzi!"
"Benefits for newbies are here!" While Zhou Huaian was speaking, he had already pulled the trigger at the running musk deer. With a "bang", the musk deer staggered but still insisted on running into the woods.
"Stay back a little, don't get shot accidentally." Zhou Huaian started to chase after him, and Wang Zhen and Brother Yang followed behind him.
"Sister, my brother-in-law shot a gun."
"Run faster and go down to take a look."
The two sisters who were walking slowly behind heard the gunshots and quickly rushed down.
Zhou Huaian was chasing the musk deer that was bouncing forward in front of him, and he began to regret not bringing a dog with him when he knew he was going up the mountain. Otherwise, the four-legged musk deer would have caught up with it and bit its neck long ago.
He was thinking wildly, but his pace did not slow down at all. Gradually, the Musk Deer slowed down. Zhou Huaian caught up with it and fired another shot. The Musk Deer fell to the ground...
Zhou Huaian hunched over, looking at the musk deer twitching on the ground, gasping for breath, and felt his throat dry and painful.
He took a breath, and Brother Yang and Wang Zhen also caught up with him, "Wang Zhen, where is the water? I'll go and drag the musk deer over."
Before he finished speaking, Wang Zhen handed him the kettle and said, "Drink some water and relax."
Zhou Huaian nodded, unscrewed the lid of the pot and took a sip, and found that it was filled with herbal tea. The refreshing and cool sip immediately made his dry throat feel better.
"I won't eat mooncakes next time. My throat is almost parched from running."
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "You don't have pharyngitis. Your dry throat is not caused by eating sweets, but by running too fast. Look, you have already run out of the mulberry forest, and we can't catch up with you even if we chase you from behind."
Zhou Huaian looked around and saw the maple tree in front. He then realized that they had already reached the end of the mulberry forest. "Next time I go up the mountain, I must bring the dog with me. Chasing wild animals still requires four legs!"
Wang Zhen laughed, "That's right!"
Over there, Brother Yang had already brought the musk deer over. Pointing at its long fangs, he said happily, "You two are so lucky! You caught an adult musk deer on your first visit. It's rare for people in the village who often go hunting in the mountains to encounter one."
Zhou Huaian smiled and glanced at Wang Zhen, "I've already told you that the Mountain God will definitely give benefits to newcomers. Do you believe it now?"
"Believe me, I'll give you an extra piece of meat when we get back later!" Wang Zhen said, winking at him mischievously, "Musk deer meat is very nutritious!"
"Haha!" Zhou Huaian smiled and patted his shoulder, "Brother, I find that I like our Doctor Xiao Wang more and more."
Brother Yang rolled his eyes at him and said, "It's because you, my brother-in-law, have not set a good example. You have led our mature and steady Doctor Xiao Wang astray."
"Wow!" Yang Dongmei, who had caught up, looked at the musk deer on the ground in surprise, pulled Wang Zhen and said with a smile, "You really encountered a big treasure!"
Wang Zhen smiled and nodded, "We are so lucky to have met such a good person. We are in for a treat today!"
Yang Dongmei looked at the musk deer and said, "Oh my god! Its teeth are as scary as the vampires in the novels."
Yang Chunyan took a look and said, "The ones with fangs are male musk deer. Only this kind of musk can produce musk. I just don't know if the musk inside is good or not."
After hearing this, Yang Dongmei looked at them happily and said, "Then we are going to be rich today, right?"
"The price of musk has increased a lot now!" Wang Zhen said, turning his head to look at Zhou Huaian, "I remember you said before that you wanted to raise forest musk deer and cut musk to sell for money. If you can really raise a lot of musk deer, it will be a good way to make money."
Zhou Huaian scratched his head in embarrassment, "It's hard to catch them alive! Plus, I'm busy collecting goods every day. Even if I catch one alive, it will only add to the burden on me and my grandfather."
Yang Chunyan also nodded, "Yes, my family's medicinal fields are mostly taken care of by my grandfather and my old man, and we rarely go in to take care of them."
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "You have leased another 1,000 to 2,000 mu of forest. When you are not busy making money, you can ask the mountain people to help you catch musk deer alive and raise them in the forest."
Zhou Huaian thought this was a good idea. "That's right. Let's make more money while it's easy to make money now. Then we can raise livestock and fish and live a god-like life."
Brother Yang put the musk deer in the backpack and said, "Do you still want to find Coriolus versicolor? If not, go pick wax gourd and myrtle, and then walk back slowly."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Since we are here, today's mountain luck is so good, let's go and look for it!"
Yang Dongmei pulled Yang Chunyan and said, "Brother-in-law, you and Wang Zhen are on the same team. Let's compete to see who finds it first!"
"Let's compete, I'm not afraid of you!" Zhou Huaian said to Brother Yang, "Brother, Wang Zhen and I will go find Coriolus versicolor, you are responsible for protecting your sister!"
"Yes, take advantage of your good luck and find more big stuff!" Brother Yang said and reminded, "Don't go too far, it will be hard to find you if you get separated later."
Wang Zhen smiled and nodded, "We're only a few steps away, not far."
The two teams separated and started searching in the woods. Yang Chunyan picked a few mulberry silkworm cocoons and kept searching to see if there were any dead mulberry branches, as perhaps there might be a surprise there.
Not long after walking, I heard the sound of running water and a faint fragrance drifting in the wind.
Brother Yang sniffed, "Yan'er, Xiaomei, can you smell it? The turmeric is blooming."
"I smell it!" Yang Chunyan suddenly remembered, "I forgot there are a lot of turmeric here. Now it's blooming. Let's go and take a look."
Brother Yang: "We dug a few and planted them next to our private plot. The old man goes there to dig when he needs them. We haven't dug here for a long time."
Just as the three siblings arrived, Zhou Huaian and Wang Zhen also came. They saw a large field of turmeric with beautiful pagoda-shaped flowers with light pink corollas.
Yang Dongmei turned her head and looked at Wang Zhen. "It's so beautiful. Let's dig a few and plant them in the yard. It's easy to grow. It will grow into a large area in just a few years."
"Great, it's good for viewing and can also be sold!" Wang Zhen said to the others, "The price of turmeric powder is quite good these days, dig up the big ones, dry them, and grind them into powder."
"Great!" Yang Chunyan and others put down their backpacks and started working.
Since she didn't bring a sickle, she could only use a machete and a hoe to remove the stems. Yang Dongmei was busy breaking the turmeric flowers and putting them in a basket, saying that she would take them back to put in a vase.
Brother Yang and Zhou Huaian were both used to doing rough work, and they moved quickly and efficiently and cut down a large area. Yang Chunyan helped to carry the stems aside.
Wang Zhen dug with a hoe and dug up a large piece of yellow turmeric that looked very similar to ginger. "The soil here is very loose. I thought it would be difficult to dig!"
"The soil in the forest is very soft, but there are rocks in some places." Yang Dongmei took the turmeric he dug up to the ditch, rinsed it clean, rubbed the broken part with her fingers, and rubbed it lightly on the back of her hand, leaving a touch of bright yellow.
Seeing that there were not many stems left, Zhou Huaian left them for Brother Yang to cut, and he also picked up the hoe and started digging.
Turmeric is also known as yellow ginger, turmeric, Baodingxiang, Haoming, etc. Turmeric belongs to the ginger family, usually one meter high, with well-developed rhizomes, thick roots, and swollen tubers at the end.
It has broad and long light green leaves on the ground like rice dumplings, and in August it blooms with clusters of pagoda-like flowers. It has not only ornamental value, but the tuberous roots underneath also have great medicinal value and are a natural food colorant.
Turmeric: pungent, bitter, warm. Enters the liver and spleen meridians. Has the effects of promoting blood circulation, promoting qi, dredge menstruation and relieving pain.
Curcumin has anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-cancer and heavy metal removal effects. It can also inhibit osteoporosis. When your gums are swollen or your teeth are painful, you can add an appropriate amount of salt and water to the turmeric powder and boil it into a soup to rinse your mouth, which can relieve the pain faster...
In addition to adding fragrance to food, the brightly colored turmeric has long been used to dye fabrics and add color to food. Turmeric powder has a light spicy aroma, with a hint of wood, a little bit of fruit, and a slight hint of ginger and bitterness. (End of this chapter)
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