Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1946 Processing
There was no need to dismount and walk uphill. Jike Azi rode on a big blue horse and led the herd of horses in a zigzag pattern on the hillside. After a while, they reached the old road between the pine forest and the broad-leaved forest.

We walked west on our way back, and the afternoon sun was shining from the opposite side. Fortunately, Zhou Zhi had been prepared and gave everyone a soft-brimmed cloth hat.

"I noticed that Brother Elbow is very well prepared. Did you often play like this before?" Jike Azi asked, "There are so many equipments, and they feel light and useful."

In fact, Zhou Zhi had this hobby in both lives, but now he has more money. Even if there is no equipment now, he can ask Su Datou to customize it. Zhou Zhi will certainly not lose himself: "There are virgin forests in my hometown. I used to go to the mountains with my classmates. But the conditions were worse at that time. We just brought a piece of plastic cloth, canned rice and flour, and often stayed in farmers' homes."

"The scenery is not as good as here, and there are not as many animal species. You have to walk there, and at most you can take a car to the forest farm. It's impossible to experience horse riding, but it's still fun."

"Are there also mushrooms, ferns, and leeks there?" asked Jike Azi.

"Well... we have mushrooms, but some are hard to find. Ferns are often mixed with edible and inedible ones, and they are also hard to find. I have almost never seen leeks." Zhou Zhi said, "But we have wild onions, watercress, and the most common are various types of bamboo shoots. In summer, we also have sour plums. There are also many farmers who have moved out of the mountains. We can pick fruit from the fruit trees around their old houses."

Thinking of the happy times in the past, Zhou Zhi's mood is actually a little different today. But now when he thinks about it again, Zhou Zhi suddenly finds that the bitterness of the past has faded away, and instead he can re-savour the goodness of those precious moments in the past.

"If there is a chance, everyone is welcome to visit my hometown." Looking at the two small braids of Mai Xiaomiao's hair that Ah Zi helped to braid under her soft-brimmed hat, swaying in the sun as the horse moved forward, Zhou Zhi suddenly thought this moment was very beautiful. He raised his camera and pointed it at the slender light and shadow in front of him: "Xiao Miao."

"Ah?" Mai Xiaomiao turned her head as far as possible: "What?"

"It's okay, I just think the light and shadow are beautiful now, so I took a picture for you." Zhou Zhi did not put down the camera.

Then Mai Xiaomiao in the camera smiled. Zhou Zhi knew this moment would come, and he quickly pressed the shutter again.

It was almost dusk, and everyone finally returned to the grain station when even their soft-brimmed hats could no longer block the sunlight from their eyes.

"Are you back? Did you have fun?" Gillette Abi came out to greet everyone.

"It's so comfortable, a blessed place." Zhou Zhi jumped off the horse with a smile, and reached out to help Mai Xiaomiao get off the horse: "If I didn't have to send A Zi and Sha Ma to school and work tomorrow, I would have wanted to stay a few more days."

"Let's wait for the Yi New Year. This year we have five full days off!"

Actually it is three days, but it happens to fall on the weekend. The Yi area has one more Yi New Year and Torch Festival than the Han area, which is quite enviable.

"Yes, if the villagers need anything for the New Year, please trouble Uncle Tu to organize it and make a list, and we will buy it for everyone when we go to the state." Wu Renzhong has been assigned to the township as a cadre and he is now doing a good job. Gillette Abi's words reminded him of these things.

"Isn't it still a while? Don't worry, it's hard for Renzhong to think of it. Are you all tired? Go and rest for a while, and we'll have dinner when they come back."

"We are not tired either." Zhou Zhi said, "We even brought some work back."

"I saw a large pile of Pashuo grass. I saved some tender fried tofu for Lu Gong and his friends to try!"

Making pickled vegetables with deer ear chives is very simple. First, wash the deer ear chive leaves, then boil a pot of water to scald the leaves, and when the leaves turn dark green, pick them up and squeeze out the water from the leaves, shake them loose, rub them with salt, and then hang a fan on the stone mill that has not been used for a long time, put the deer ear chive leaves in a two-layer cloth bag with inner cloth and outer linen, put it on the millstone, and then use the fan on the top to compact it. At this time, the water in the deer ear chives will be squeezed out, and wait until the next morning, and then press the pressed deer ear chive plate into the jar with the inner chamber burned with wine. After fermentation is complete, take it out and dry it until it is half dry and then store it back in the jar, or directly dry it until it is completely dry, and it can be stored for a long time.

The flavor of the dried vegetables will become more fragrant as time goes by. When you are ready to eat them, soak them in water and use them to stir-fry twice-cooked pork or bacon. Or simply mix them with roasted pepper sauce or chili oil. It is a delicious cold dish.

This method can also be applied to radishes, turnips, bamboo shoots, mustard greens, cabbage, cucumber strips... In short, almost any dish that can be made into pickles can be made this way.

This job doesn't require much effort, but the main reason is that Wu Renzhong and his team collected a large amount of grass, so it takes some time.

On the other side, Jike Azi was also doing delicate work, processing Aconitum, Fuzi, and Rhizoma Cibotii.

According to A Zi's introduction, although these three things come from the same species or even the same plant, there are some differences in their effects and uses.

Aconite is scattered in the ground for different reasons. The new tubers that grow next to the tubers become new aconites. Why is it called aconite? It grows on the mother root, so it is called aconite.

The original piece became the taproot and became Aconitum.

If the planted tubers do not grow aconite, and the tubers themselves grow like single-headed garlic, they are called Tianxiong.

Because the tuber is enlarged and no aconite is produced, the ancients believed that its warming and tonic effect would not be dispersed, so the warming and tonic effect would be greater. This is also the origin of the name Tianxiong. It is naturally masculine, and solitary yang cannot be produced, so it is named Tianxiong.

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Therefore, judging from the two perspectives of warming Yang and promoting circulation, Tianxiong has the greatest Yang-warming power but the weakest promoting circulation; Wutou has the greatest promoting circulation but the weakest warming Yang; and Fuzi is in between the two and is more moderate.

Therefore, when treating the symptoms, to treat pain and arthritis, obviously more power of promoting circulation is needed, so Aconitum is used relatively more. To treat strong wind, cold and dampness, arthritis, and body cold, obviously more power of warming Yang is needed, so Tianxiong is used more.

As a middleman, aconite can often take both ends into consideration and is less likely to make mistakes. This may be the reason why the Fire God School likes to use aconite and rarely chooses Tianxiong Chuanwu.

Zhou Zhi didn’t quite understand traditional Chinese medicine, but he was very interested in this simple logical dialectics.

The traditional method of making Chuanwu requires soaking, and the soaking liquid used is a magical thing, boy's urine.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhi brought a lot of bile to make tofu pudding, so he didn't need to use boy's urine. The same thing can be done by soaking in brine made with bile.

After soaking for seventy-two hours, rinse it in stream water for a few days. When the salty taste is gone, you can proceed to the next step.

There are three types of processed aconite, processed Chuanwu and processed Tianxiong, but the subsequent steps are slightly different, the first step is the same.

There was a lot of mud on the medicinal herbs that were dug up, and Jilie Azi didn't ask anyone to help. After all, this thing was highly poisonous, and she didn't trust outsiders to handle it. Even if Zhou Zhi wanted to help, he couldn't.