Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 225 Huangjing Wushao Snake

Gao Mingcheng also sent a bottle of honey and a plate of bullfrogs to Grandma Xi's house. The bullfrogs are pre-processed, and they can be fried directly in the pan.

Grandma Xi asked him to have dinner at home, but Gao Mingcheng refused, saying that Duomi had already cooked the meal.

So Grandma Xi didn't insist, and after a few people talked, Gao Mingcheng said goodbye and left.

The next day, Gao Mingcheng went to the sweet potato field and dug out a small row of sweet potatoes. After shaking off the soil, he saw small sweet potatoes hanging from the roots. The big ones were like adult fists, and the small ones were as long as a baby's arms.

The kind of potato he planted, when the weather is good in previous years, the sweet potato grows very large and can be eaten as a meal, so they call it rice potato in the local dialect.

The potato seeds given by Mrs. Xi are white-hearted. The ridge he dug is all white-hearted. When the skin is peeled off with a knife, some milky white juice will emerge from the surface of the sweet potato, which is easy to stick to hands. .

The sweet potato can be eaten raw, it tastes sweet and crunchy, Gao Mingcheng ate a sweet potato in a few mouthfuls, and thought it tasted good.

Looking down, the sweet potato vines were lush green, and the sweet potato was not particularly big, so he planned to dig a part and eat it first, and save the rest for a while.

Because many beauty like to eat sweet potatoes with red hearts, and think red hearts are sweeter, so he went to dig a small row of sweet potatoes with red hearts, and then went back with sweet potatoes in one hand and a bundle of sweet potato vines in the other.

Duomei was turning over medicinal herbs, and when he saw him coming back with sweet potatoes, he couldn't help saying, "It's not time to dig sweet potatoes, is it?"

"Well, but someone in the village is already digging." Gao Mingcheng said, and then spread the sweet potatoes in a cool place.

The sweet potatoes that have just been dug out have a lot of water and have not been saccharified, so they are not sweet enough. After a few days of drying, the sweet potatoes will become sweeter.

"I dug some up first and ate them. The big ones can be cooked into porridge, and the small ones can be roasted and eaten." Gao Mingcheng said while dividing the sweet potato vines in his hand into two parts, and feeding one part to cattle and sheep. A portion was spread out to dry in the sun.

Cattle and sheep can eat fresh sweet potato vines or dry ones, but it is said that cattle cannot eat too much fresh sweet potato vines, otherwise they will have diarrhea.

"What are you feeding them? I'll take them out later." Many Mei was speechless, and felt that there was no need to feed them now.

"It's okay to take it out later, aren't you busy now?" Gao Mingcheng said, looking at many beautiful women turning over the medicinal materials with familiar movements.

During this period of time, he went to the mountains to collect herbs every day, but most of the people who were in charge of processing the herbs were Duomei.

Since many aestheticians have learned how to deal with poria cocos, once the skin of the poria cocos in the house shrinks and turns brown, she will take care of it by herself.

Now the bamboo sieve is full of various medicinal materials. Fortunately, the yard of his house is wide and there is enough drying place.

"I'm going into the mountain." Gao Mingcheng took the tools and bags and prepared to go into the mountain.

He ran all the way into the mountains again, this time going to a farther place. After nearly half a month of excavation, he has already visited the forest near Gaojia Village one by one.

This time, after his careful search, he found a few plants of Polygonatum in the shade.

Polygonatum is a multi-leaved branch, and the leaves are similar to bamboo leaves, but shorter than bamboo leaves.

It is a kind of medicinal material that is rooted in autumn. At this time, there are some mature fruits hanging on the plants of Polygonatum, which are the seeds of Polygonatum.

There are two kinds of reproduction of sealwort, one is to propagate by rhizomes, and the other is to propagate by seeds.Seed propagation is more troublesome, and the growth rate is much slower, so from an economic point of view, it is best to choose rhizome propagation.

This is similar to yam. Yam can also be propagated with rhizomes and yam beans, but if it is propagated with rhizomes, it can be harvested in the same year, but if it is propagated with seeds, it will not work.

When Gao Mingcheng saw Huang Jing, he was a little excited.

Their place is not rich in Huang Jing, and they hardly saw Huang Jing when they were on the small hills, but Huang Jing's reputation is still quite loud, and there is a saying that it is the essence of Zhicao.

There are also many ways to take it. It can be used for brewing wine after being compatible with other medicinal materials, or it can be eaten with stewed meat or chicken.

Polygonatum is also called wild ginger. In ancient times, it can also be used as a grass to save wilderness. After nine steams and nine exposures, it becomes a food substitute.

Nine steams and nine exposures are very troublesome to operate. In fact, many people in mountainous areas often eat it as a vegetable, because its rhizome is shaped like a potato. Its fleshy rhizome is thick and contains a lot of nutrients such as starch and sugar. It can be eaten, or it can be stewed and cooked. It is useful for fitness and can make people grow stronger.

Therefore, people in mountainous areas like to eat sealwort very much.

In his previous life, Gao Mingcheng often ate it. This food is not only good for the body, but also tastes good, so it is very popular.

Now that he has encountered it, he must not miss it, so he started to collect the berries of Polygonatum, which have five or six seeds in them, which can be used for planting.

Yes, Gao Mingcheng intends to grow a batch of sealwort by himself. It’s fine if he hasn’t encountered it before. Now that he has encountered it, it means that this place is still suitable for the growth of sealwort, so it can be mass-produced.

The distribution of Polygonatum is not extensive, but it is not small. Many provinces have output. As long as the geographical location is suitable, it can also be planted artificially.

After collecting all the black berries, the next step is to dig up the roots.The rhizome of Huang Jing is more like ginger, which is segmented. If the rhizome is used for propagation, then cut the rhizome into several segments, and then each segment has three or four segments.

And it can be planted in late fall and early spring.

After digging up these Huang Jingcai plants, Gao Mingcheng found some nearby.Because it can be propagated by seeds, most sealworts will not exist alone. As long as there is one plant, look around carefully and you will definitely find others.

But it may not, because the conditions for seed propagation are relatively harsh, so the germination rate is not high.

Looking at the excavated sealwort, Gao Mingcheng looked serious. He knew that a certain chicken in their family was going to be unlucky, because for chickens, sealwort is poisonous, and one meal poisons a chicken to death!

Huang Jing stewed chicken is really delicious!
Just as he was thinking about the deliciousness of Huang Jing stewed chicken, Gao Mingcheng's ears moved slightly, his eyes followed the prestige, and he found a group of pheasants.

Well, the little chicken in his family was saved!
Gao Mingcheng took out the small knife he was carrying and aimed at one of the chickens from a distance. The moment the flying knife was released, the target chicken fell down.

Immediately afterwards, another throwing knife was thrown away, killing the pheasant flock before it was frightened. As for the other pheasants, they fled away long after they sensed the danger.

I haven't hunted for a while now. Gao Mingcheng was quite happy with these unexpected gains. He walked over to pick up the dead pheasant. When he bent down, he found rustling movements in the nearby grass, and one of them The snake's tail was disappearing quickly, after careful identification, Gao Mingcheng recognized that it should be a black-stalked snake.

Black-snake snakes are widely distributed in the country, and they also blindly buy a large amount of medicinal materials. Before that, Gao Mingcheng planned to catch a batch of black-snake snakes this year and sell them.

But the snake had already slipped away, Gao Mingcheng naturally let it go.

It's just that during the next search process, in addition to keeping his eyes on the ground, he would also observe the branches facing the water from time to time.

Black-headed snakes like to eat frogs, fish, loach, eels, rats and other foods, so they often appear in areas near water. In addition, they like to climb branches and often hang on trees.

Although the black-headed snake moves quickly, reacts quickly, and is good at escaping.But it has a very docile personality and generally does not bite people. Of course, it will bite people when it is in a hurry or frightened.

But even if it is bitten, it is not a big problem, because it is a non-venomous snake.

Because of its medicinal value and non-toxicity, black-headed snakes have been caught in large numbers. In later generations, the number of wild animals has been greatly reduced, and there is a tendency to mix them up to protect animals.

But now in the mountains and fields, you can often see black-headed snakes.

If you observe carefully, you will find that black-headed snakes often crawl along the ridges inside the paddy fields, and they can also be observed near vegetable fields and ditches.

Some people in the village who are not afraid of snakes will catch them and eat them specially, or use them in wine, or stew them, and the taste is quite good.

(End of this chapter)