Beishan stretches for dozens of miles, and there are many places that are rarely visited by people. This time, Tian Cai plans to go deep into the mountains and spend a few days searching to see how many good medicinal herbs are there in the mountains.
Some medicinal herbs can be dug up and cultivated, while others cannot. However, Tian Cai wants to know the approximate distribution of medicinal herbs in the deep mountains.
If mountain villages want to grow medicinal herbs on a large scale in the future, many of them will have to be imported from within the province, or from Jilin Province, where similar climates make it easier for medicinal herbs to survive. The wild ginseng in the Northeast is still very famous.
Tian Cai had dew in her hand, and she didn't believe that the thing couldn't survive on its own.
I have heard from the old people in the village that they have seen tigers in this mountain. Some people also said that they have seen black bears, but they are active in the deep mountains and cannot be seen normally.
The ecological environment is good at this time. Tian Cai believes that there should be many large wild animals in the mountains, as well as poisonous snakes.
Today's goal was clear. She walked all the way deep into the mountains. As she gradually entered the inner area, the expressions of Mimi and the others changed. They no longer had the casual look they usually had in the village.
Tian Cai was afraid of encountering poisonous snakes, so he used a hatchet to clear a path along the way. Soon, he and his three cats arrived at a place where few people had been.
It is often in such places that rare medicinal herbs can grow easily.
Tian Cai dug up some rare medicinal herbs on the way. She dug them out whole, and it was no problem to damage the roots a little. However, rare medicinal herbs such as wild ginseng were hard to come by.
Tian Cai went back and forth to the mountains so many times, but he never found one. The one at home was dug by Cai Ping before.
It was already quite warm in May, but the trees were tall and dense in the deep mountains, and the temperature was several degrees lower than outside. Tian Cai always felt chilly.
Suddenly, she stopped and found several reddish-brown plants under a big tree not far ahead.
Tian Cai walked a few steps closer and took a look, and it turned out to be red Ganoderma lucidum.
This is also a wild medicinal herb, and its rarity is probably comparable to that of wild ginseng. Moreover, Tian Cai discovered several Ganoderma lucidum this time, and they were not small in size.
Grandpa Tian had collected Ganoderma lucidum before, but the artificially cultivated Ganoderma lucidum is very different from the wild one, and the medicinal effect of the cultivated one is much worse.
Ganoderma lucidum is used in prescriptions for treating stroke, arrhythmia, coronary heart disease, diabetes, etc. It is a good thing for prolonging life.
Tian Cai used the stick in his hand to whip the grass next to him a few times to make sure there were no poisonous snakes. Then he walked over carefully, picked all the Ganoderma lucidum and put them in his bamboo basket.
The largest of the Youtian Cai plants is as big as two palms, and even the smaller ones are as big as the palm of a hand. Just for these reasons, today's trip was not in vain.
There are no artificially cultivated medicinal herbs nowadays. Ganoderma lucidum can only be found in deep mountains, which shows how rare it is. If it were in the future, such wild Ganoderma lucidum would have to be sold by gram.
Moreover, the Ganoderma lucidum picked today has a strong aroma and is probably of a very high age, so it is not easy to come across it.
Tian Cai found a lot of good medicinal herbs that day, but he didn't have the incredible luck he had just now.
At night, she found a dry cave. After making sure there were no signs of animal life inside, she built a fire at the door, threw in some snake and insect repellent herbs, and then found some hay to cover the cave.
She pressed on it and found it fluffy and soft. She soon lay down on it and found it was quite comfortable.
The cat went into the cave and slept next to Tian Cai, while the other two stayed at the door all night, watching for a long time at the slightest movement.
Tian Cai got up at dawn the next day. She liked to eat light food in the morning. Since it was her second day out, she ate the vegetable pancakes she brought from home. These pancakes could not be kept and she would not be able to eat them in a few days.
After the cats finished eating, the group continued to go deeper into the mountains.
This Beishan is even bigger than Tian Cai had imagined, and the further in he goes, the more rare medicinal herbs he finds. At first, Tian Cai was thinking about taking them back and transplanting them, but now he can't care about that anymore. He doesn't know how long it will take to dig them up one by one.
So after four days, not only was the bamboo basket that Tian Cai was carrying full, but even the sack she stuffed into the bamboo basket was almost full.
There were quite a few good medicinal herbs here. Tian Cai was afraid that if he delayed too long they would get spoiled, so he hurried out carrying them on his back.
Yang Zhengping and his wife have been very worried these days. They thought Tian Cai would come back in a day or two like before, but they didn't expect that he would disappear for three or four days. They were relieved when they finally saw Mimi and Maomao in the village.
Tian Cai didn't have time to tidy himself up. The first thing he did after arriving home was to pour all the medicinal herbs in the sacks and bamboo baskets onto the bamboo mat, and sorted them into different categories. He waited until the moisture on them had almost dried up before he processed them separately.
The ones he dug up when he first entered the mountains were all wilted. They had been away from the soil for several days and he didn't know if they could still survive. Tian Cai had no experience, so he just tried to plant them in the vegetable garden and watered them with some dew, hoping that these plants would survive.
There are also some that are not suitable for planting in the ground, or require a damp and dark environment, so she put them all aside. There is a valley behind the mountain where the wooden house is located, which is quite suitable for growing medicinal herbs.
These were all experimental in nature, and Tian Cai did not tell anyone else, not even Yang Zhengping and his wife noticed.
After that, life returned to normal. Although Tian Cai no longer belonged to the Beishan Brigade, the villagers were still used to coming to her for medical treatment, and Tian Cai never refused anyone who came. Sometimes she would even go when people asked her to see a doctor.
Medical treatment for villagers is still free, and some medicinal herbs that are available in the mountains are also provided without charge.
That day, Luo Xiuyan returned to her parents' home with her child. There was not much work to do in the fields recently, and she did not have to go to the fields with them, so she thought of going back to her parents' home.
The little girl in Luo Xiuyan's arms was born last year. The older boy was the Liu family's treasure. As soon as he was weaned, he was taken in by Luo Xiuyan's mother-in-law to be taken care of.
It just so happened that she was pregnant with her second child at that time, so she felt happy and relaxed, and she just kept getting by like this.
The little girl just turned ten months old, and it was the time for her to have fun. She sat obediently in Luo Xiuyan's arms, her big eyes blinking at Tian Cai. I don't know if she was too engrossed or what, but a lot of saliva flowed from the corners of her mouth.
Luo Xiuyan took out a handkerchief and wiped her mouth. "You said she's ten months old and her teeth haven't come out yet. Is there something wrong?"
Tian Cai's hands were covered in foam, so she didn't reach out to touch the little guy. Instead, she asked Luo Xiuyan to lift the child's mouth upwards. She leaned over to take a look and said, "It's okay. It's not too late. It's almost out. Look at the white tip on the gums."
Luo Xiuyan also leaned over to take a look. There was a little white mark where the front teeth should have grown. "The eldest child started growing when he was just over six months old. I don't know who this child took after. Why is he growing so slowly?"
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