Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 223
At six o'clock in the morning, the sky was already bright, and the workers who felled the trees had already gone to Xiaofushan by themselves.

Gao Mingcheng has no supervisor, but no one will be lazy. Because of the hot weather, everyone comes to work in the morning and evening, and the break at noon is longer.

After breakfast, Gao Mingcheng was ready to deal with the first batch of Poria cocos picked back.

These Poria cocos were piled up to sweat, dried, piled up to sweat again, and dried again, after repeated several times, until the epidermis shrunk and turned brown.

There are more than [-] tuckahoes in this batch, the big ones are like footballs, and the small ones are like sweet potatoes. Gao Mingcheng called Duomei over, and the two of them started to cut off the outer skin of the tuckahoes with a knife to reveal the white lumps inside. , some will reveal light red, this part is called Chi Fuling.

If Poria cocos is subdivided, it can be divided into four types, and each has different medicinal properties, such as Poria cocos skin, which has the function of reducing edema.

Red Poria, its function is to ooze dampness and heat, and the most common white Poria cocos, its function is to ooze dampness and invigorate the spleen, as for Fushen, it is the part of the white tuckahoe that holds the fine pine root in the center, cut it into square thin slices, It has the effect of calming the mind and tranquilizing the mind.

While dealing with Fuling, Gao Mingcheng explained to Doumi that he still had half a room full of Fuling, so he needed Doumi's help to deal with it.

Duomei also listened seriously, she is also considered to be an ingenious person, and she has some understanding of medicinal materials, so it is easy to learn.

First remove the skin of the poria cocos, and then start to cut into pieces, this is not a problem for many beauty, in her opinion, it is no different from cutting vegetables.

First cut into large pieces, then stacked together and cut into strips, and finally align the strips, and then cut into squares crosswise.

The length, width, and thickness of this square are about 4 centimeters, and it will shrink a little more after drying.

The two raised the knife and dropped it, and the white Poria cocos pieces rolled from the cutting board to the bamboo sieve.

After processing all the poria cocos, Gao Mingcheng said to Duomei: "Separate the leftovers, put them in another bamboo sieve and dry them in the sun, and keep them for your own use."

Poria cocos has many uses, and there are many ways to eat it. The simplest one is to cook porridge, and the more complicated one is to mix it with different traditional Chinese medicines, and then have different effects to treat diseases.

But for women, Poria cocos has another great advantage, that is, it forms Sanbai Tang with Baishao and Atractylodes macrocephala.

You must know that Sanbai Tang was recorded in the book "Introduction to Medicine" in the Ming Dynasty, and it was spread among the people after that, and it was deeply loved by women.

The prescription is very simple. Use 5 grams each of Radix Paeoniae Alba, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Poria cocos, 2.5 grams of licorice, decoct in water, and take it warm. After taking it, it can improve rough skin, chlorosis, chloasma, and heavy pigmentation.

However, this prescription is not suitable for people with damp heat and excessive liver fire.

Leaving the follow-up matters to Manymei, Gao Mingcheng took tools and bags and went into the mountain again.

He has already traveled all over the mountains and forests near Gaojia Village, and he plans to go farther today.The mountains are vast and contain many treasures, waiting for the arrival of treasure hunters.

Running wildly all the way into the mountain disturbed many birds and beasts, but Gao Mingcheng didn't take it to heart. After he left, the small animals in the mountain would naturally return to peace.

As the altitude increased, the plants in the mountains also changed somewhat. In the damp humus soil under the forest, Gao Mingcheng saw a large area of ​​asarum.

Asarum is also a kind of medicinal material. It is a perennial herb that can be used as medicine. It has many functions, but the most widely known is that it can remove bad breath.

Asarum can be harvested and dried in the shade in February and August, and now is considered the season, since Gao Mingcheng encountered it, he didn't show mercy, and stepped forward to gather it up.

The root system of Asarum is very developed, and its roots are mainly used, so it is necessary to use a hoe to loosen the soil, and then carefully pull out all the roots.

Fortunately, it likes to grow in damp humus soil under the forest, so it is still easy to pull out the roots.

Gao Mingcheng removed its leaves, leaving only the root system and throwing it into a bag. After digging out this piece of asarum, he went forward.

He didn't pick and choose, as long as he encountered medicinal materials, he just started digging them directly. The accumulation of various medicinal materials became more, and after going to the medicine fair, he could sell them in one go.

Although the sky is dry this year, it is only partially dry, so the impact on the mountains and forests is not great, but there are fewer streams on the surface. Looking around, there are not many ditches or puddles.

He passed the place where he had caught bullfrogs before, and found that there was much less water here. Most of the bullfrogs lived on the ground, and the remaining water was also full of bullfrogs.

Seeing this, Gao Mingcheng felt that he needed to make some living space for the bullfrogs, so he put down the bag full of medicinal materials and carried an empty bag, ready to have a close contact with the bullfrogs.

He specially picked the big ones, and his hand speed was amazing. Before the bullfrogs could react, he had already changed the bullfrogs to stay in another space.

He grabbed half of the bag before he gave up.

The water is about to dry up. Although bullfrogs are amphibians, they can't do without water, and a batch of them will definitely die by then.

Not only the bullfrogs, but even some fruit trees will reduce their production. He has found that the wild fruit trees in the mountains this year are not as fruit-bearing as in previous years.

This is something that can’t be helped. When encountering a natural disaster, people can still seek help from the same kind, but plants and animals are much more passive.

After some investigation, Gao Mingcheng found that there are still several ponds in the mountains whose water level has not dropped. These ponds are not affected by the weather, either there are springs underneath, or they are directly connected to underground rivers.

No matter what it is, as long as there is water, some aquatic animals will not die in large numbers, and the animals in the forest can also have water to drink.

When he discovered the water source, he also discovered that many animals had settled here, the most conspicuous of which was a herd of wild boars.

This group of wild boars is powerful, with a total of twelve heads, including eight adult wild boars and four young pigs. They occupy a small piece of water, playing and drinking here.

Gao Mingcheng left quietly, not thinking about the wild boars.Now is the time to grow fat in autumn, let them eat and drink well!
He walked all the way, digging medicinal materials all the way, and he was a little far away from the village. When he was ready to go back, even if he ran all the way, it took a lot of time.

When I ran to the mountainside near the village, I saw people gathering in the forest, and sometimes there were voices talking, which meant that the villagers had also gone into the mountain to dig medicinal materials.

When he appeared with several sacks on his shoulders, everyone instantly envied him.

Most of the people who come here to dig medicinal materials are women, they dare not enter the deep mountains, so when they saw Gao Mingcheng walking out of the deep mountains with so many things, they felt envious spontaneously.

But there are some things that I can only envy. Not everyone has the ability to enter the mountains, and not everyone has free time.

For these women, they have a very busy day. When they get up early in the morning, they have to cook porridge, then go to work in the fields, then do housework, and then have lunch and dinner.

If you have children, you will be even busier. Even if raising children is very rough now, it will take a lot of hard work from the mother to be able to pull the children up.

After Gao Mingcheng greeted someone from a distance, he went all the way home.

As soon as she put down the things she brought back, she saw Duomi come out of the kitchen. She said, "Mingcheng, Shufang came here before and said that grandma has been unwell for the past two days. Your father told you to go back and have a look. I I have prepared ten eggs, do you think they are missing? If not, I will go to my second sister's house to buy some."

Other people's eggs will be kept and sold for money, but his family's eggs can't be kept, as long as there are, they will be eaten. These ten eggs are made up of a few picked by Duomi from the chicken coop.

Seeing this, Gao Mingcheng said, "No need, just take ten. I got some bullfrogs in the mountains, and I'll take some bullfrogs with me."

So he went to the miscellaneous room to get another bag, and picked up ten big bullfrogs from the bag of bullfrogs.

Regardless of the size of this bullfrog, after the skin is removed and the internal organs are removed, there will not be much meat left.

(End of this chapter)