Perfect pastoral life

Chapter 17 Meet the giant salamander

"Brother Chen Mu, have we gotten rich? There are a lot of wild party ginseng here."

Looking at these lush Codonopsis ginseng trees, Liang Xiaoyue was so happy that she almost jumped up. Her exhaustion disappeared in an instant, and her face was full of smiles.

Chen Mu just laughed; "Hehe, it should be rich, it seems that we are lucky."

"Well, it's a good thing that Village Chief Wu and the others didn't follow, otherwise the party members would have been poached away by them."

As Liang Xiaoyue said, she put down the back basket and took out a small hoe from it, impatiently going to dig wild ginseng.

Chen Mu also took out the hoe from his back basket, and reminded Liang Xiaoyue;

"Xiaoyue, you have to dig carefully, don't damage the rhizome of Codonopsis pilosula, otherwise it won't be worth much."

"Well, I know, I went to the mountain to dig Codonopsis ginseng with the villagers before."

Liang Xiaoyue squatted down confidently, and used her hands to push aside a dry grass branch around a Codonopsis ginseng tree. She spotted the location of the root, and carefully dug it down with a hoe.

Don't underestimate these wild Codonopsis ginseng, it is not easy to dig them out smoothly.

Digging wild Codonopsis pilosula is a technical job. First of all, you have to clean up the dead branches and rotten leaves around the Codonopsis pilosula tree, so that the whole Codonopsis pilosula tree can be completely exposed, and then dig the soil with a hoe. It must be more than ten centimeters away from the roots of Codonopsis pilosula. This is to prevent the rhizomes of Codonopsis pilosula from being dug up by hoes. Once the roots are dug up, the price of the whole Codonopsis pilosula will drop sharply, and only a complete Codonopsis pilosula can be sold at a good price.

Fortunately, the soil here is moist and loose, so digging is not particularly difficult. After a while, the two dug a large area.

Wild Codonopsis ginseng is not big. Generally speaking, adult wild Codonopsis pilosula is about the size of an adult man's thumb. Surprisingly, the Codonopsis ginseng they dug up is very fat, with bright and smooth meat, which can be seen as high-grade goods at a glance.

The bigger the Codonopsis ginseng, the longer its growth cycle. According to Chen Mu's experience, the growth years of this batch of wild Codonopsis ginseng are at least eight years.

As mentioned above, the price of wild Codonopsis ginseng with a growth period of more than eight years is at least 260 yuan per catty. It seems that today is a small profit.

The two worked together, and it took about two hours. The adult wild ginseng trees here were finally cleaned up, and the remaining young ginseng trees, Chen Mu decided to keep them and let them continue to grow. He still knows.

Putting down the hoe, Chen Mu roughly estimated the weight of the wild Codonopsis ginseng he dug up, and it looked like a fresh product of about twenty catties.

These 15 catties are not a small amount. Most of these Codonopsis ginseng have a growth period of more than eight years, and some even exceed 300 years. According to the conservative price of 8000 yuan per catty, the fresh products here can sell for at least seven [-] yuan.

After digging the wild Codonopsis ginseng, the sun in the sky had already begun to set to the west. Chen Mu took out his mobile phone to check the time, and it was not yet two o'clock in the afternoon.It was still early, and Chen Mu planned to take Liang Xiaoyue to search elsewhere to see if he could find any traces of other medicinal materials.

With this in mind, Chen Mu planned to go to the deepest part of the three dangers to take it away. Almost no one had gone in there, and there should be a lot of good stuff.

The two walked slowly down the mountain road to a valley.

There are endless mountains in this area, among which there are countless valleys, large and small. Apart from the valleys, there are even bigger canyons, and the Qingshui River meanders in the canyons.The route of Wu Dayi's group is to advance all the way along the canyon, and they don't know what good harvest they can get there.

In the valley that Chen Mu and the others are going to now, there is a small river at the bottom of the valley. This small river is a small branch of the Qingshui River, and the water here will eventually flow into the wide Qingshui River.

At the bottom of the valley, the two of them walked upstream for a while along the small stream. On the way, Chen Mu smelled the smell of wild Polygonum multiflorum again.

Soon, he identified the specific location of the growing place of Polygonum multiflorum, which is not far from their side, and should be within a kilometer.

Chen Mu planned to lead Liang Xiaoyue to dig out the Polygonum multiflorum over there, but at this moment, he found a half-sized natural pool in the creek. The area of ​​the pool was about [-] square meters, and it was not too deep. Do not exceed a depth of one meter.

He inadvertently looked into the pool, his eyes penetrated the clear blue water and reached the bottom of the pool.

At this glance, he found something good. Chen Mu found a strange thing lying on a smooth stone at the bottom of the pool. The shape of the thing was like a small lizard. About eighty centimeters.

Seeing this thing, a name popped up in Chen Mu's mind - Salamander.

He was overjoyed instantly, he never expected to meet such a precious and rare animal here, this is a pure wild salamander, it is very valuable.

The scientific name of the giant salamander is giant salamander, which belongs to the genus Sinidae. It is the most precious amphibian in the world. Because their cry is a bit like a baby's cry, people are used to calling the giant salamander a giant salamander, and in some places it is also called a big salamander. fish.

There are two types of salamanders in the world, one is produced in RB Kyushu Island, Honshu Island and other places, and the other is produced in China, mainly distributed in the Yangtze River Basin, the Yellow River, the middle and lower reaches of the Pearl River and other places, and is widely distributed.Nowadays, the number of pure wild salamanders is very rare, and it has been listed as a second-class protected animal by the country.

Salamanders are not actually fish, but amphibians, but they live in water most of the time.The living environment of giant salamanders has very high requirements on water quality. Except for big rivers and rivers, only those unpolluted mountain streams are suitable for them to survive.

It can be said that it is not only a pleasant surprise, but also reasonable to meet a giant salamander in an inaccessible valley pool.At that moment, a thought came to Chen Mu's mind, he planned to catch this salamander back and raise it secretly.

Although salamanders are national protected animals, it is illegal to catch and trade wild salamanders privately, but Chen Mu can't control that much. People are always greedy, and Chen Mu is no exception. Besides, he didn't catch salamanders and sell them.

Now, Chen Mu only wants to catch this salamander. As for the wild Polygonum multiflorum that appeared near here, he plans to let Liang Xiaoyue dig it alone.

The place where Polygonum multiflorum grows is not far from here, so Liang Xiaoyue should have no problem going there alone.

At that moment, Chen Mu told Liang Xiaoyue to say;

"Xiaoyue, I reckon there should be some medicinal materials at the foot of the mountain in front. Can you dig them out yourself? All the medicinal materials you find are yours."

Liang Xiaoyue said in a daze; "Brother Chen Mu, are you still going?"

"I won't go there, there is a fish in this pool, I want to catch it."

"Oh."

Liang Xiaoyue looked at the clear pool in front of her and nodded. She still wanted to say something, but she didn't ask.

Liang Xiaoyue trusted Chen Mu very much. He said that if there are medicinal materials there, there will be them, so she is always very active, carrying a small back basket, turning around and walking to the foot of the mountain not far ahead.

But in order to ensure Liang Xiaoyue's safety, Chen Mu blew a whistle to exchange Bumblebee back and let Bumblebee stay with Liang Xiaoyue just in case.

(End of this chapter)