Chapter 104: Gastric Lavage with Gold Juice
"Good morning, Mr. Lu!"
"What would Mr. Lu like to order today?"
"Mr. Lu, is this your little girl?"
"The little girl is really blessed. She is destined to be rich and powerful."
Went around Qingshi Town.
Jiang Miaomiao discovered that her mother had become a celebrity in Qingshi Town.
Even the little baby became the focus of everyone's attention.
The shop owners all greeted her one by one.
My mother also smiled and nodded in response, her smile was warm.
After her mother ordered the bamboo basket, she took her and Aunt Xiuxiu back to Taoxi Village.
I went back home to get the lunch box, and then went to the home of Uncle Fu, the head of the village.
It was Aunt Fu who opened the door. She smiled and said, "Oh, how come my niece-in-law has time to come to my house now?"
"Aunt, is Uncle Fu at home? I have something to ask him." Lu Qingyao handed her a jar of wine.
"Yes, come in quickly. You're here, what else do you want to bring?" Aunt Fu welcomed them in with a smile.
The Jiang family was not originally from this place. Their ancestors were scholars who came to Taoxi Village to escape famine.
Only Jiang Yunze's father and Uncle Fu, although they both have the surname Jiang, their ancestors are several generations apart.
The oldest member of the Jiang family now is Uncle Fu’s father, but he is old and seldom goes out.
The old ancestor's hair and beard are gray, but he looks in good spirits.
A pair of hands full of wrinkles and showing the experience of time held Jiang Miaomiao's white and tender little hands.
It forms a sharp contrast.
He stuffed a candy into the baby's hand and said, "Well, this baby is very lucky..."
Lu Qingyao's eyes were curved, and her little girl must be a blessed one.
"Grandpa..." Jiang Miaomiao called out in a baby voice, showing her baby teeth.
The people in the hall immediately started laughing, praising her for being clever and well-behaved, and for being beautiful, like her mother.
She never mentioned her scumbag father.
Little Miaomiao was puzzled. Does she look like her mother?
That's impossible. Although they are the closest mother and daughter, they are not related by blood.
Most of them are just polite remarks.
My mother responded with a faint smile.
After some pleasantries, my mother got down to business.
"Uncle Fu, it's like this. Yan'er and Feng'er found a kind of mushroom in the bamboo forest the other day. We picked it up and tried it. It's non-toxic. After stewing it, it tastes very delicious, just like chicken mushrooms. I'm thinking of collecting some..."
"But this mushroom is very special. It starts growing in the early morning and can be picked at noon. By noon, it will dissolve and rot. After picking it, it needs to be dried within three to five hours, otherwise it will also deteriorate..."
Uncle Fu and Aunt Fu looked at each other, and Uncle Fu said, "How can there be such mushrooms? We have lived here for decades and have never heard of them."
"Uncle, do you remember that there was something in the bamboo forest that looked like a deer antler, a white umbrella, and that gave off the smell of a decaying animal?"
Uncle Fu thought for a while.
"There is such a thing, but no one dares to pick it and eat it."
Then Aunt Xiuxiu took out a bowl of soup from the food box. It was chicken stewed with bamboo fungus.
When I opened the lid, it was still steaming and the aroma was fragrant.
Aunt Xiuxiu came up to the two elders and said, "Uncle, aunt, this is the mushroom, bamboo fungus. It smells very good. Would you like to try it?"
"No, no..." The two elders hurriedly shook their heads and waved their hands, their faces full of rejection.
A few years ago, their whole family was poisoned by eating mushrooms that were not cooked thoroughly, and almost the whole family was sent away.
The most annoying thing is that when my eldest son lost consciousness, he set the chicken coop on fire...
Seeing mushrooms now is like seeing a ghost.
How dare I eat it?
Besides, the thing in the bamboo forest looks weird and smells bad.
Maybe even more poisonous.
No one in the village dared to eat it, even during years of famine.
If you smell its scent in the bamboo forest, you will take a detour for fear of being contaminated by something bad.
Looking at the white thing in the soup, my scalp feels tingling.
Jiang Miaomiao, however, giggled out loud.
Jiujiu was chirping on her shoulder, telling her about the glorious deeds of Uncle Fu's family.
Then she couldn't help but grin.
Mother stroked her head.
How can you laugh at such a serious moment?
Aunt Xiuxiu held the bowl of bamboo fungus soup, not knowing whether to put it in or not.
She was drooling over something so fragrant, but these two people didn't believe it.
Lu Qingyao knew that they would not believe it so easily, so she took out a small bowl from the food box and scooped a bowl of soup for herself.
This made the two elders very anxious, and they quickly prepared to scoop up the golden juice.
"Hehehe~~"
Jiang Miaomiao laughed so hard that she almost choked.
In ancient times, gastric lavage was done with gold juice...
Uncle Fu and his family must still remember the taste very clearly, so they are so resistant to it?
Lu Qingyao quickly called them over and said with a smile, "Uncle and aunt, I'm fine. We all ate the bamboo fungus yesterday. Look, I'm standing here fine now, aren't I?"
Uncle Fu also felt a little paranoid.
"You really don't feel any discomfort?"
"No, they're fine! We ate them all except Miaomiao."
Seeing that the person was fine, Uncle Fu was skeptical and asked, "Is this thing really edible?"
Lu Qingyao nodded vigorously, "Of course I can eat it..."
According to ancient records, when it rains in the summer months in the bamboo forest, the juice drips onto the ground and produces something that looks like deer antlers, is white, and is edible. [1] This thing that looks like deer antlers must be the bamboo fungus, which is edible as mentioned above…
Uncle Fu and his wife believed it a little, but still didn't dare to eat it.
Jiang Miaomiao was a little surprised.
It turned out that her mother had read about it in ancient books. No wonder she dared to collect bamboo fungus so openly. She probably saw its medicinal value.
I don’t know how my mother plans to sell the bamboo fungus for a good price. After all, people have an inexplicable fear of unknown things.
It may not be easy to accept at first.
Uncle Fu smelled the fragrance coming from the bowl and swallowed.
But I still restrained myself.
"Then what can an old man like me do?" He would take the responsibility to do things that are good for Taoxi Village.
"Uncle, there are two things. First, the bamboo fungus needs to be dried immediately after it's picked, otherwise it will go bad. I plan to dry it over charcoal, so I need a lot of charcoal..."
"It needs to be thoroughly burned charcoal. Fruitwood charcoal, lychee charcoal, and aged charcoal are best. Don't use wood that has an oily smell, and don't make smoke... because I'm worried that it will affect the quality and taste of the bamboo fungus."
Uncle Fu readily agreed. "That's easy. There are four or five charcoal kilns in the village, and my family has one. We can use them all. It just takes some effort..."
Lu Qingyao knew what he was worried about. Since he had high requirements for the quality of the charcoal, it would naturally be more troublesome.
The price of charcoal will naturally rise.
"Uncle Fu, this summer, white charcoal in Qinghe County is ten cents a pound, and black charcoal is three cents a pound. My fruit wood charcoal can be sold at six cents a pound. What do you think?"
Uncle Fu smiled and nodded. "Okay, don't worry, I will urge them to burn this batch of charcoal properly and won't delay your work. But how much do you want to burn?"
"I'll burn three thousand kilograms. This is half of the deposit. Please accept it." After Lu Qingyao finished speaking, Xiuxiu took out nine taels of silver from her pocket and handed it to Uncle Fu.
Uncle Fu was shocked.
so much!
But I didn't ask much.
"Uncle, there's one more thing. Three days from now, I need you to gather the entire village and have one person from each household go with us into the mountains to pick bamboo fungus. You need to pick them according to our method."
Jiang Miaomiao understood what her mother meant.
Bamboo fungus is rare and precious, and its availability is also limited.
In ancient times, it was a scarce resource.
If the villagers pick them up, wouldn't that be a waste of natural resources?
Note [1] Taken from the Dietary Materia Medica
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