Rebirth: the fiery age of Mori Gong's children

Chapter 18
Gastrodia elata, a perennial herb, also known as Chijian, Shanduo, Dingfengcao, and Bangmai, has a history of more than 2000 years in medicine.

Gastrodia elata generally emerges in mid-to-late June. It is easiest to dig Gastrodia elata at this time. Just find the Gastrodia elata seedlings and dig along.

After the Gastrodia elata blooms, the underground tubers will become empty and rot when the nutrients are exhausted, and some small Gastrodia elata will grow, and the Gastrodia elata seedlings will also wither.

Therefore, digging Gastrodia elata during the Spring and Autumn Period is generally called digging germination.

Those who dig Gastrodia elata can only hold a shovel, dig a shovel and turn it over to see where they think they are. If they are lucky, they can dig a lot.

In contrast, the quality of germinated gastrodia elata is higher, better than that of emerging seedlings.

The County Pharmaceutical Company began to purchase Gastrodia elata in [-].

In recent years, beekeepers in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces love to buy fresh Gastrodia elata, so that the price of Gastrodia elata has also risen accordingly.

The mountains are rich in products, including wild vegetables, Chinese herbal medicines, and fungi.

The forest farm is in the middle of the mountains. No matter the employees or their family members, as long as they have some free time, they all like to run into the mountains.

Everyone entered the mountain, no matter what they rowed back.

Skins and medicinal materials can be sold for money, and mushrooms, fungus and wild vegetables can be kept for home use.

The locals also call this kind of goods that go into the mountains and pick them up, and they call them “Ni Shan Li Luoer”.

Many family members of employees can earn a lot of money by going to the mountains all year round to do business in the mountains.

From the middle of May to the beginning of June, we go to the mountains to collect ox hair, that is, weet vegetables, and then export them to Dongyi after they are dried, which can be exchanged for foreign exchange.

In order to encourage exports to exchange foreign exchange, the higher-level departments will give various incentives to the lower-level departments.

In order to encourage employees and their families to generate income, the forest farm will also provide various conveniences.

In the season when cattle hair is widely picked every year, Qianchuan Forest Farm will arrange commuter vehicles to pull people into the Shiye area for picking.

From the end of June, it is time to dig Gastrodia elata and pick Ganoderma lucidum.

In September, when all kinds of mushrooms and wild fruits come down from the mountains, those who are engaged in mountain neatness will go into the mountains to pick schisandra and beat pine nuts.

So as long as people work hard, living in this big mountain is fine, otherwise, how can we call it "relying on the mountain to eat the mountain?"

Compared with the tree chicken mushroom that Sheng Xiping discovered, the Gastrodia elata that Chen Weiguo saw made everyone more happy, because it could be sold for money.

Although Gastrodia elata has just been unearthed, it is difficult to find, but everyone is still excited to disperse and look for it in the forest.

"Don't walk around, follow me.

In this deep mountain and old forest, there are tall trees and dense grass. You have never been in the forest, and you may be numb when you turn your head. "

Sheng Xiping was worried about Zhou Qinglan, and told her not to wander around, even if she couldn't find anything, as long as she didn't get lost.

Zhou Qinglan also knew how much she weighed, so she nodded obediently, "Well, I know, don't wander around."

In this way, all the men and women matched each other, walking in two groups, while walking into the woods, while looking down for the newly unearthed Gastrodia elata.

Sheng Xiping has good eyesight. According to the local dialect, it is called eyes killing weeds.

So just a few steps away, he also found the newly unearthed Gastrodia elata seedlings.

And it's not just one tree, there are five or six trees connected to each other.

Generally, in this case, there will be Gastrodia elata among several seedlings, and the harvest will not be small.

"Qing Lan, come here."

Sheng Xiping waved behind him, called Zhou Qinglan over, and taught her to identify Gastrodia elata and some common sense about digging Gastrodia elata.

"Look, I usually encounter more than three Gastrodia elata seedlings, and most of them are rotted after a Gastrodia elata seedling emerged here before.

After two or three years of growth, those young Gastrodia elata all emerged this year.

In this case, there will be many under the majority. "

While talking, Sheng Xiping started to push the soil from under the stalk of a gastrodia elata.

Most of the mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest belts are black soil rich in humus, which is soft and moist, and the soil can be scraped away by hand without tools.

As the depth increases, the situation under the stalk of Gastrodia elata is also revealed.

A spindle-shaped massive rhizome with black filaments wrapped around it emerged.

Sheng Xiping didn't dig out this gastrodia elata directly, but scraped all the other ones out of the soil layer, and then started digging in the direction of the gastrodia elata's tail.

It doesn't need to be too deep, after a slap deep, you will see many large and small spindle-shaped underground tubers that are a bit like potatoes lying in the soil.

"Yeah, I can only use the rice bag."

Before going out in the morning, Sheng Xiping didn't intend to go into the mountains, so he didn't bring anything to pack Gastrodia elata.

Fortunately, when everyone entered the mountain, they all carried rice bags, and they could only use this at this time.

So he handed the tree chicken mushroom inside to Zhou Qinglan and asked her to put it away, and Sheng Xiping used his own rice bag to pack Gastrodia elata.

Sheng Xiping picked up Gastrodia elata from the soil while digging up the soil. Zhou Qinglan came forward and helped put Gastrodia elata into his pocket.

Gastrodia elata is not spread flat in the soil, but layer by layer. Sheng Xiping dug about three layers of soil, and he dug a hole in the ground.

In the end, just the young Gastrodia elata under these few Gastrodia seedlings almost filled the bag, and it is estimated that there must be at least five or six catties of fresh Gastrodia elata.

"Wow, that's a lot."

Zhou Qinglan was stunned. How could he imagine that there were only five or six seedlings on the top, but so many seedlings could be dug out from the bottom?
"Then if we meet again later, what should we do? How should we pretend?"

Just now Sheng Xiping handed Zhou Qinglan the tree chicken mushroom in his pocket, and put it in her pocket.

The pockets of both of them are full at the moment, what will they use later?
"We came early, and most of Gastrodia elata have not been unearthed yet. How can there be so many? There are quite a few of them." Sheng Xiping laughed when he heard this.

"If we can meet again later, I can still carry some in my trouser pocket."

Sheng Xiping was wearing work clothes issued to Sheng Liancheng by the forest farm.

The jacket of the overalls has four pockets, and most of the trousers also have four pockets, and they are quite large.

The main reason is that Sheng Xiping brought a lot of things into the mountains, such as slingshots, marbles, matches, etc., and the work clothes had a lot of pockets, which happened to come in handy.

The Gastrodia elata here has been dug up, and the two of them got up and continued to search elsewhere.

While walking, Sheng Xiping had to yell twice, for fear that Chen Weiguo and the others would walk too far and get separated.

After eating at noon, I went into the mountain. At this moment, Zhou Qinglan felt a little uncomfortable.

"Brother Sheng, you go ahead first, I'll go over there."

Zhou Qinglan pulled Sheng Xiping's lapel in embarrassment, and said with a blushing face.

When Sheng Xiping saw Zhou Qinglan's appearance, he guessed what was going on.

There are three urgencies in life, which is understandable.

"Well, don't go too far, pay attention to your surroundings, especially Zing Mazi, be careful."

There is a kind of grass called Zhemazi, which has small burrs on the stems and edges of the leaves. If you are stung by that thing, it will itch unbearably, and you will suffer a lot.

Zhou Qinglan had stayed in the forest area for half a year anyway, and knew how powerful Zing Mazi was, so she nodded, turned and ran to the side.

Sheng Xiping couldn't move forward, and couldn't look around, so he could only look forward without squinting, waiting for Zhou Qinglan.

Unexpectedly, not long after, I heard Zhou Qinglan screaming "ah".

(End of this chapter)