After entering the mountain and being able to ride horses, everyone felt that crossing the jungle was more interesting than taking the official road.
The main reason is that it is quiet. When going up the mountain, you can meet other refugees. After entering the hinterland, only people from Qingshan Village and the academy are left together.
They can also go hunting at any time. The few of them were lucky and caught a rabbit and two pheasants in a short time.
Suddenly, Gu Xinran, who was walking on the slope, slipped and rolled into a small valley.
The others were frightened and chased after him.
Brother Gu saw his sister squatting on the ground, her body covered with grass and dirt, but with no obvious injuries.
Holding a yellow rhizome in his hand, he looked down at it and smiled. As he felt relieved, he couldn't help but ask:
"Ranran, you want to scare us to death, are you hurt anywhere? What kind of treasure is that in your hand? You look so happy."
Gu Xinran looked at the thing in his hand and said excitedly: "I'm fine, this is a good thing, it can resist aging, calm wind and stop spasms, treat headaches, and stew chicken is also delicious."
Xiao Ba and the other two were very anxious and had no mood to care about the medicinal herbs in her hands.
Xiaomei carefully helped Gu Xinran to stand up, looked him up and down, and said with a look of self-blame, "Master, if you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me. It's all my fault for not protecting you well."
Gu Xinran brushed off the grass and dirt on her body, stretched her arms, twisted her waist, and smiled, "Look, it's fine. It's only a few meters high slope, no one will fall.
Come and see, this is called Gastrodia elata. When I fell down, I wanted to grab a small tree to steady myself, but I didn’t expect that when I pulled out the small tree, I brought out such a big treasure.
It's a long film, let's dig into it together, there should be more."
Seeing that she was indeed fine, several people were completely relieved and each found a piece of land to dig. After a while, everyone brought good news.
Unexpectedly, the entire small valley was covered with Gastrodia elata, and Gu Xinran's heart was burning with excitement.
The villagers can have one more food, which they can make into dried Gastrodia elata and sell to pharmacies, thereby increasing their income.
Brother Gu was also very happy. After consulting Gu Xinran's opinion, he ran towards the gathering place of the villagers.
A moment later, a group of people from Qingshan Village, young and old, arrived, some holding hoes, some carrying baskets, some carrying baskets...
When Doctor Guo heard that there was a precious medicinal herb called Gastrodia elata, he excitedly walked in front.
When he saw the small pile of strong and plump tubers that Gu Xinran and the others had dug out, he was so happy that he babbled incoherently, "Good! Good! What great stuff!"
After calming down, he said to the villagers seriously: "Everyone, be careful when digging, and try not to damage or break the gastrodia elata. The purchase price of good quality gastrodia elata after drying is three taels of silver per catty.
They have no leaves or roots and are known as 'divine medicine from heaven.'"
Then he told Wang Pozi and her family, "Your little Fatty can take it in moderation. It will help relieve symptoms and promote brain recovery."
When everyone heard this, they became excited. "Miracle medicine! Valuable!" These two words were engraved in their hearts.
Xiaopang woke up, but became dull and sometimes drooled. Mrs. Wang was heartbroken. When she heard that this Gastrodia elata was effective, she dug it more diligently than anyone else.
Everyone worked very quickly, fearing that if they were slow, they would dig less than others.
The Gu family left Man Niang to cook, and everyone, young and old, joined in.
By nightfall, only a large part of the crops had been dug, but the harvest was quite good, with each family getting hundreds of kilograms at most and dozens of kilograms at least.
Everyone decided to continue tomorrow and set off again after finishing the digging. They returned to the campsite with hungry bodies and high spirits, and laughter floated in the cave.
The people at the academy were very envious, so Li Daru and Mr. Fan came to Gu's house to see the "miracle medicine".
When I saw the plump Gastrodia elata, I couldn't let it go and exclaimed, "What a great thing! This is the first time I've seen fresh ones."
Gu Xinran specially brewed some tea made with spiritual spring water and asked Xuanxuan to serve it to them. Recently, during the break time, Xuanxuan was called to their side to teach them, so they had to thank him very much.
Looking at the two of them, he smiled and said, "There are still quite a few over there. I'll discuss it with the village chief and the others, and we'll all go dig together tomorrow."
The two men's eyes lit up. They were teachers in the academy and were richer than the villagers, but these precious herbs were hard to come by, and it would be a good thing to be able to pick some for themselves.
Mr. Fan said amiably, "My dear niece, I'll leave this matter to you."
"rest assured."
Gu Xinran talked to the village chief and he immediately agreed.
This thing grows in the wild, and whoever sees it gets a share. What's more, there are so many of them that the Qingshan villagers can't carry them all.
Everyone ate a late dinner in a hurry and fell asleep.
The next day, just after dawn, without even having time to eat breakfast, the two teams hurried to the small valley to continue digging Gastrodia elata.
Today Gu Xinran was in charge of making breakfast. Man Niang was very curious about how the Gastrodia elata, which had no leaves or roots, grew, so she followed her to see what was going on.
After exercising for a while, she started to make Gastrodia elata stewed chicken, and by the way collected some Gastrodia elata into the space.
Clean the two pheasants hunted yesterday, chop them into pieces and blanch them in water, slice the fresh Gastrodia elata, put them all in the pot, put a few slices of ginger, add diluted spiritual spring water, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat.
Soon, the aroma filled the air, making those who hadn't had breakfast yet drool.
Gu Xinran really didn't mean to make people greedy. She just happened to have chicken and Gastrodia elata, and it would be a shame not to stew a pot of these good ingredients.
When everyone finished work, Gu Xinran's Gastrodia elata stewed chicken was already out of the oven, and the edge of the pot was covered with vegetable pancakes. Afraid that there would not be enough, he also heated up a lot of steamed buns in the space.
Xiao Ba and his friends carried back two large baskets of Gastrodia elata, and each family had a bountiful harvest.
We also dug up a lot from the academy, and we got what we wanted. We are very happy.
Gu Xinran brought Xuanxuan and gave a bowl each to Li Daru and Mr. Fan to thank them for their teachings.
The hungry family enjoyed the pancakes, steamed buns and chicken soup with great relish, and they kept praising the meal.
After eating, Li Daru and Mr. Fan praised the dish highly and ordered their guards to hunt down pheasants so that they could stew them in a pot and enjoy a satisfying meal.
After a late breakfast, we packed up and continued on our way.
The team's progress slowed down today because there were too many Gastrodia elata, which slowed them down.
Gu Xinran thought, it would be great if we could find a water source. There is so much Gastrodia elata that we can’t handle it without water. It is also too heavy when wet, and it is too hard to carry it by manpower.
Everyone found that the further south they went, the better the vegetation on the mountains became, and there were more and more small shrubs. It seemed that the drought here had eased.
Gu Xinran kept an eye out along the way, looking for water sources, hoping to process the Gastrodia elata as soon as possible and speed up the pace of progress.
Two days later at noon, Gu Xinran and Xiao Ba discovered a pond while chasing a wild deer. The water level was not high, but it was deep and the bottom could not be seen.
The two stopped chasing the deer. Gu Xinran still couldn't believe her eyes and exclaimed in surprise, "Little Starling, did you see that? There's water. Have we left the drought zone?"
Xiao Ba looked at the deep pool of water, his heart filled with joy, "Of course it is, haha, I can finally take a good bath."
Gu Xinran felt better when she saw some fish swimming in the water. "Fish! Fish! Come on, let's catch some and make some soup."
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