The mountain forests were dense, filled with morning fog, and the roars of wild animals came from deep in the distance, making the whole area seem secluded and awe-inspiring. Likewise, the mountain forests were generous, with a variety of fungi thriving amongst the rotting leaves at the base of the trees, and wild fruits and unknown flowers and plants.
After walking in the mountain forest for about an incense stick of time, Zhu Shouyi gradually slowed down his steps, carefully checking the ground around him, and then signaled Zhu Pingan for the two of them to stand there and not move. Immediately after, Zhu Shouyi put down the basket behind him, gently placed it on one side of the grass, and then took out some ropes from it.
“This kind of footprint is the hare’s footprint, the hare likes to run straight, and will also leap up a certain height when running, so when you put down the set, you have to put it higher, and don’t destroy the surrounding environment, restore it to its original state, otherwise the hare will not get on the set ……” Zhu Shouyi put down the set while explaining to his two sons how to put down the set. The two sons explained how to give the hare set “fast running hare is not pay attention to this ‘trap’, once it rushed into the trap, the hare will not have the opportunity to exit.”
Zhu Pingan noticed that the traps his father laid were very simple, they were all made using materials that were readily available, sticks, branches and ropes, the ropes made two sets. One set was used to capture the hare, after the hare drilled into the set, it would struggle desperately, and would be pulled tighter and tighter and tighter! The tighter and tighter the trap how not to strangle the hare to death, how can we catch the live hare? The secret is in the second set, the end of this “set”. Finally, this “set” was blocked, and formed a new circle, this new circle to save the life of the hare, the hare will not be strangled to death.
After laying three sets, Zhu’s father led his two sons to go around and change the road, and with luck they could see the fat rabbits when they came back down from the mountain.
Slowly, a line of three people also gradually have a harvest: two pheasants, this is Zhu father found a pheasant nest, outside the nest under the set caught; two or three kilograms of carp five, this is in a mountain stream to catch, the stream is very shallow, with the stone blocked a piece of water Wang, the fish in the inside of the fish, this is still to pick up the heavy to catch, otherwise you can catch more than ten; fungus, fungus, also picked almost about ten kilograms of the same way.
When passing by a side of the bamboo forest, Zhu Pingan thought of the bamboo shoots mentioned in the tip of the tongue in China, and then roared to eat bamboo shoots, Zhu father listened to the eyes are also a light, from the goodness of the bamboo basket down, from inside
took out a pointed hoe.
In the bamboo forest to find bamboo shoots is also a technical work, to have a “soil to find gold” technology. Bamboo leaves are green with yellow bamboo is pregnant bamboo shoots, in the cracks of the topsoil around the excavation, you can get bamboo shoots. Zhu father happens to be one of the masters, Zhu father of the bamboo shoots into the so-called “male” and “female”, mature bamboo shoots, the first section if the branches into double, symmetrical growth, is the mother of the bamboo, around the bamboo shoots; the first section of the first if a single branch, is the male bamboo, no bamboo shoots. After finding the pregnant bamboo shoots, we should carefully observe the direction of the tip of the female bamboo drooping, the dew drops on the tip of the bamboo, is the place where the bamboo shoots grow. In addition, the lower part of each bamboo has a main bamboo whip, which is parallel to the plane formed by the first symmetrical bamboo branch, and the bamboo shoots are always born in the direction of the extension of the bamboo whip.
Dug almost ** bamboo shoots, are short thick kind, each is more than twenty centimeters or so, are tender is delicious time.
At noon is in the mountains to eat, picking some wild fruits, in the mountain stream and caught three slightly larger fish fire roasted to eat, as well as the family brought the dry food, especially the old man even found a gourd, cut open with the stream to make a fish soup, the old man’s basket is almost like a jingle bell cat’s pockets, salt all ah.
Two mouth flowing oil, stomach bulging, Zhu Pingan think this meal is their own to Ming Dynasty, eat the most full best meal, than at home to eat a hundred times better.
After eating, after a little rest, he started to look for good things in the mountains again.
Inside the mountain animals are very vigilant, may be hunters are afraid of playing, one by one have become as refined, a little bit of movement are disappeared without a trace. At this time, Zhu Pingan incomparably misses the stupid roe deer in the distant era of that era where dad went, if only there was one here it would be good, surely can be easily captured.
Unfortunately, this is Anhui and Hubei area, there is no stupid roe deer. Although there is no stupid roe deer, but still let Zhu Pingan found a good thing, under the tree over there bloomed a large white and golden flowers.
Surprisingly, it was a honeysuckle flower, Zhu Pingan’s eyes lit up, and he immediately ran over to the tree.
“Swine child, don’t run around.” Zhu father hurriedly followed.
Zhu Pingan ran to the honeysuckle flower and carefully confirmed, this piece of flower is all stick-shaped, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, slightly curved, the surface is yellowish-white or greenish-white, densely covered with pubescent occasional leafy bracts, it is indeed the honeysuckle flower described in the “Compendium of Materia Medica”. Honeysuckle can be the easiest herbal medicine to concoct, after sun-drying, shade-drying methods can be used to get the Chinese medicine. The Materia Medica Compendium states that it is bitter, cold in nature, and good at clearing away the poisonous evils of the upper burner and the muscle surface.
Pick these honeysuckle, and then take home to dry and sell to the pharmacy, may not be a good fortune.
Zhu Pingan made a mark in the neighborhood, if he could sell it for money this time, he could just come over and pick it in the future.
There are a lot of honeysuckle flowers here, so Zhu Pingan picked the best ones and only picked the buds. The best honeysuckle flower buds are cupped, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, slightly curved, with a greenish-white surface, the corolla is thick and slightly hard, and the number of open flowers, broken buds, and yellow stripes is no more than 5%.
When Zhu’s father came after him, Zhu Ping’an was pouting his buttocks and picking flowers, and his appearance was more than happy.
Picking flowers?
Zhu father corner of the eye some twitch forehead, his son is not a son in the women’s group in the mix of the prodigal son, right?
“What are you doing picking flowers? Let’s go, dad will take you to pick fruits to eat!” Father Zhu felt obligated to correct his son’s bad bud.
Zhu Pingan looked up at Father Zhu, shook his head, and continued picking.
“The fruit is very sweet and delicious.” Father Zhu continued his efforts.
“This can be sold for money.” Zhu Pingan muttered as he picked flowers.
Zhu’s father bristled, this wildflower can be sold for money, there are wildflowers and grasses all over the mountains, but I haven’t seen any that are sold for money! He patiently told his son, “City people buy flowers like peonies and moonflowers, not this kind of flower, if you feed this kind of flower to the pigs, the pigs won’t even eat it!”
The pigs won’t eat them?
See? That’s why the villagers are so poor!
It’s not the pigs that are the judge of whether they can be sold for money or not!
“Brother, let me help you.” Zhu Pingchuan’s heart ached for his younger brother and put down his basket to help pick flowers.
What he thought was simple, what the younger brother wants, the older brother has to get it for him.
“Then you can only pick this kind of flower haha.” Zhu Pingan took out a standard top quality honeysuckle flower and showed it to Zhu Pingchuan.
“Hmm.” The simple and naive big brother’s head helped pick the honeysuckle flower
