Chapter 222: Almighty Rhus chinensis
Chu Qiao immediately followed. The gorilla ran farther and farther, and had already passed the safe distance that Chu Qiao had explored. If it went any further, it would be too far away from the camp. Xiao Diao encountered difficulties and he could not rush back immediately.
Chu Qiao hesitated and stopped.
The gorilla paced anxiously in the distance, and suddenly, he patted the stone beside him.
Chu Qiao: "You want me to sit here?"
The gorilla nodded. Chu Qiao sat on the rock, half believing and half doubting. She admitted that the gorilla was smart, but it was hard to imagine that the gorilla could know what she was thinking.
But Chu Qiao still decided to take a gamble. She sat on a rock and kept an eye on the movements in the camp.
I don’t know how long I waited, but the netizens in front of the screen had already fallen asleep while watching the still picture. Chu Qiao also propped up his head, his consciousness a little fuzzy.
Her shoulder was suddenly pushed, and Chu Qiao shuddered, her eyes widened.
Instinctively preparing to fight back, he saw the gorilla folding its arms and had already jumped over.
"It's you. You scared me to death."
After Chu Qiao finished speaking, he held his chest and looked at the gorilla.
The gorilla opened his palm, in which lay an orange fruit the size of a grape seed.
Chu Qiao's eyes lit up and he exclaimed, "Where did you get it from?"
The netizens who were still asleep were woken up by Chu Qiao's shouting.
Feng Ge asked in a drowsy state, "What is this?"
【Sea buckthorn?】
[This little fruit looks a bit like sea buckthorn, but why is there a white ring around it?]
[Whether the branches have thorns or not, the branches of sea buckthorn are covered with thorns.]
Is it sea buckthorn? Master Chu
Chu Qiao shook his head: "This is not sea buckthorn, this is called saltwort, it grows on the Rhus chinensis tree."
Chu Qiao continued, "The surface of the salt fruit is covered with salt, so it tastes salty, so we call it salt fruit. In the past, when people had no money and couldn't afford salt, they often used it as a seasoning."
Chu Qiao said to the gorilla, "Lead the way."
The gorilla immediately started running. The agile star climbed up the tree and jumped up and down at a very fast speed. Although Chu Qiao was running on the ground, he did not fall behind at all.
After running for about twenty minutes, they arrived at a bush.
Chu Qiao looked up and saw a tree slightly taller than her, covered with dense orange and green fruits. If you look closely, you can see that the outer layer of the orange fruits is covered with a layer of white frost.
Chu Qiao's face lit up with joy. He pinched one and put the white attachment into his mouth. Instantly, he felt a salty taste on the tip of his tongue.
Chu Qiao said to the netizens in front of the camera: "In the wild, don't cut the main trunk of a plant unless it's absolutely necessary. But this time, for Xiao Diao, I might have to destroy it once."
As he spoke, Chu Qiao took out a stone axe and chopped along the top of the most lush growth.
The branch, which was not very thick to begin with, broke instantly, and Chu Qiao carefully pulled the broken branch off.
He turned around and thanked the gorilla: "Although you attracted the black bear, it seems that since you brought me here to find the salt-skin fruit, we're even. I'm going to go save Xiao Diao first, you can do whatever you want."
With that, Chu Qiao quickly walked back. The chimpanzee watched Chu Qiao leave, scratched his head, and did not follow him.
Chu Qiao followed the footprints he had just left and it took him more than an hour to return to the camp. It was already past two in the morning.
There was not much change in the camp since Chu Qiao left. Chu Qiao asked the general to lick a handful of firewood, put the boiling water aside, and began to fiddle with the salt-skinned fruits.
Chu Qiao picked the salt apples one by one with his fingers, placed the white salt frost on a leaf, and placed the fruit in a jar of boiled water.
[Master Chu, what are you keeping the fruit for? ]
Can I eat it?
[It must be edible, otherwise why would Master Chu keep it.]
Chu Qiao shook his head: "This fruit has a strange sour taste. It is difficult to go blind if eaten directly. It has no edible value, but the water from it can be used as vinegar."
Chu Qiao was anxious and her hands moved faster. It took her more than an hour to process all the salt-skin fruits.
She took out some clean boiled water from the box, added a little salt frost that she had just picked from the salt apple, and forced Xiao Diao to drink some.
After more than half an hour, Xiao Diao slowly opened his eyes. Although he still couldn't stand up, his body was no longer as stiff.
Chu Qiao let Xiao Diao lie beside him so that he could observe its condition at any time.
[Didn't Xiao Diao take the banyan tree medicine yesterday?]
【Why does it feel like that medicine isn't working?】
[Do you need to send Xiao Diao back? ]
Chu Qiao explained as he soaked the salt-skin fruit, "The medicine did work, but Xiao Diao had just used up too much energy fighting the black bear, and his body, which hadn't fully recovered yet, couldn't hold on any longer. It's like someone recovering from a cold and then doing heavy physical work, and then collapsing."
"But don't worry, everyone. The whole body of Rhus chinensis is full of treasures. I'll pick some leaves and make some for Xiao Diao to drink."
[Even banyan tree roots don't work, will this work?]
I have my doubts too.
[Do you doubt Mr. Chu's ability? ]
【What? No, no. 】
Under the moonlight and the light from the drone, Chu Qiao carefully searched for something among the leaves of the Rhus chinensis, leaf by leaf.
Chu Qiao pointed at a leaf. The drone flew above and saw some scattered fruit-like things at the base of the leaf, which were green or khaki in color.
"Rhus chinensis is the host plant of the gall aphid. The bulges we see are galls formed by the gall aphid on young branches and leaves. This is called gall."
"Don't underestimate this little thing. It's often seen in ancient medical books and texts. It can be used to clear away heat and toxins, relieve summer heat and stop diarrhea, and treat many other difficult and complicated diseases."
"A medical book called 'Qi Fang' says that for watery discharge during the hot summer months, you can use gallnut powder, make rice balls the size of soybeans, and take 20 balls each time with lotus leaf decoction. The effect will be immediate."
Chu Qiao picked the yellowish-brown gallnuts, put them into a jar, crushed and pounded them with a wooden stick, and kneaded them into balls as big as soybeans. There were not many mature gallnuts, and Chu Qiao did not dare to waste any of them, so he kneaded out more than forty soybean-sized pills.
Chu Qiao put the lotus leaves that had been drying two days ago into the water and waited for them to boil.
The water with the lotus leaves floating in it slowly turned light green, and the fragrance of the lotus leaves wafted out. Chu Qiao set the lotus leaves aside and poured the water into another jar to cool.
The gallnut pills tasted bad. Xiao Diao shook his head while eating them. Chu Qiao could only comfort him slowly and let him swallow all twenty pills.
The sun rises early in the summer, and there is already a hint of light in the winter sky. Chu Qiao fed Xiao Diao some salt water and saltwort water, soothed Xiao Diao to sleep, and then climbed up the tree house, planning to sleep for two hours.
The netizens who had stayed up all night with Master Chu could no longer hold on and closed the live broadcast room.
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