Chapter 41: Medicinal Garden
I took a hot spring bath yesterday and it relieved all my fatigue. I woke up feeling very energetic today. Ziyi prepared breakfast early: mushroom pancakes, fried peanuts, and rice porridge. After breakfast, Yike followed Ziyi into the depths of the valley, and Ziyi said he wanted to give her a "surprise".
This valley is shaped like a gourd. The place with hot springs outside can be named the Big Hot Spring Gourd, and the place inside can be named the Small Gourd. 800 meters from the hot spring, the valley begins to narrow and only one person can walk in it. After walking about 30 meters, the valley becomes spacious again and the ground is no longer slate, but thick brown mud, which feels soft and loose underfoot. Not only the land is different, but the scenery has also changed completely. Voila:
Isn’t that the peach blossom with a shy and blushing face?
Those small white flowers standing on the branches are pear blossoms!
The one waving the big fan must be the banana tree.
The one wearing dark grey clothes and with many yellow-grey circular spots on his skin, isn't the 20-meter-tall tree his favorite chestnut tree?
When I was a child, there was a chestnut tree in front of my grandma's house. Every time I go back to my grandma's house, I have to eat chestnuts of various flavors: roasted chestnuts, steamed chestnuts, chestnut-roasted chicken, chestnut-braised pork, chestnut-braised spare ribs... In an instant, Yike thought of a series of ways to eat chestnuts and couldn't help swallowing.
"Yike, look there." Ziyi pointed to a few low trees not far away.
The leaves of the tree are oval and green like pieces of jade. The dewdrops on the leaves roll to the ground like elves playing hide-and-seek. The flowers on the branches are snow-white, round and plump, with smooth petals like a baby's skin. The pleasant fragrance penetrates into the nostrils and penetrates into the heart. ah! This is blueberry! Blueberries are even more delicious than strawberries, love love! Whoever says that the time-traveling god didn’t give out gift packages, I’ll get angry with him!
Yike was so excited that she spun around the blueberry. Ziyi was afraid that she would get dizzy, so he hugged Yike and said, "There's more! Look carefully! It's a big surprise!"
When I took a closer look, I was surprised to find that all the low plants on the ground in the valley were medicinal herbs.
Look, there are so many herbs that you can recognize, such as pepper, wild ginger, wolfberry, Panax notoginseng, honeysuckle, rehmannia root, angelica, ophiopogon, Polygonum multiflorum, Ganoderma lucidum...
Oh my god! There are also dozens of ginsengs. Developed, developed. One who dances with excitement. Just picking two of these ginseng roots would amount to a huge sum of money!
"I'm rich! I'm rich!" Yi Ke jumped up happily, hugged Ziyi's arm and shook it, "Brother Ziyi, can you pull out two ginseng roots to sell? Okay!"
"Okay, this time I came here to pick two ginsengs. One will be sold and one will be used to nourish your body. I will also pick some other herbs to sell." Zi Yi couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth when he saw Ginseng's happy look.
"Alas, although Yike is cute, he is not tall enough, and his arms and legs are too small. He lacks nutrition. I should go back and stew chicken soup with ginseng to nourish his body." Ziyi thought.
"Yeah! Let's dig ginseng!" Yi Ke ran towards the ginseng happily. Yike found a ginseng that was about six years old, fixed the ginseng in place, and then dug up the sand within one meter of the ginseng little by little, carefully finding each root. Each root was a treasure and could not be wasted. After digging it out, she carefully shook off the soil on the surface of the ginseng, then picked it up with a cloth and put the ginseng into the cloth bag. When Ziyi saw her treasured look, he felt amused. What a money-grubber!
Yike found another ginseng that was two years old and dug it up using the same method.
After digging two ginsengs and picking two wood ganoderma, Yike and Ziyi picked other herbs. She happily hummed a jingle:
If you want to sleep well, take Ganoderma lucidum regularly.
The octagonal lotus can sleep with snakes
Changshan and Amomum villosum, the pendulum has nowhere to hide
Take Eucommia ulmoides for lumbago and Chuanxiong for headache
Hiding the board, the snake was frightened away
Beaten to the ground, go find the ancestor
Seven leaves and one flower, the mountains are my home…
Ziyi listened carefully and heard a few words, but he didn't know what they meant. He thought it was a folk song. It was soft, mellow and very beautiful. He praised it, "It's really beautiful!"
Yike suddenly woke up. He was too excited just now and almost exposed himself.
"How could a country girl who can't read a single word learn this kind of herbal song? I didn't hum it very loudly just now, so he probably didn't hear it clearly." Yi Ke thought fortunately, but pretended to be shy on her face, hoping to get away with it.
Sure enough, seeing the shy little face, Ziyi felt itchy in his heart and couldn't help pinching the hot and red face.
Yike glared at Ziyi angrily. This man was becoming more and more aggressive. He was either touching his head or pinching his face. "Hmph!" Yike turned around and left Liyi to collect herbs far away.
"Hahahaha!" Ziyi finally laughed out loud.
"Lululu!" Yike tilted her head and stuck out her tongue at Ziyi.
…
In one day, Ziyi and Yike picked two sacks of herbs and removed some weeds in the field. When the sun set below the treetops, they returned to the cave carrying two bags of herbs.
After returning to the cave, I put down the herbs and went to the hot spring as usual to soak away the day's fatigue.
For dinner in the evening, of course, there was a pot of ginseng soup. After a hearty meal of ginseng chicken soup, they fell into a sweet dream contentedly.
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