My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 239 Qinling has no idle grass

   "Ginseng, where is ginseng?"

   Qin Rongxian's voice alarmed the people downstairs, and they ran upstairs one by one, staring at the four of them.

   "In the dog's mouth. It looks very similar, I don't know if it is."

   When Qin Rong first pointed to the past, Wang Cunye had already grabbed the fur on the back of the little yellow dog's neck, and took out the suspected ginseng thing from its mouth with one hand.

The little yellow dog thought that the old man was playing with it, swayed its neck, thumped with a hilarious smile on its ears, and annoyed Wang Cunye and slapped it, it stopped in a daze, and Wang Cunye put the slap in its mouth. He pulled out the thing, took it in his hand and squinted his eyes.

   immediately laughed out: "Let me just say, it's so easy to get ginseng now, this is the sister of ginseng, no wonder you can admit your mistake first."

   Having said that, he threw it to the little yellow dog and let it continue to chew and play.

   "Huh? Isn't this ginseng?"

   "Of course not, do you know what this is?"

   Those who asked this question, except for the big family of Chen Ling, only shook their heads.

  Wang Cunye smiled: "It's Kikyo."

   "Biankyo?"

   When everyone heard the name, they couldn't figure it out for a while.

   "Yes. We have ginseng in the deep mountains and old forests here, but it is extremely rare. There is a herb that looks very similar to ginseng.

Wang Cunye praised the bellflower and said: "The root of the bellflower is a medicinal material, which is an expectorant. It can also be pickled and eaten as a side dish. It's delicious. It is delicious when it is mixed with flour and steamed. The five petals are quite bright, it is only half a year old when it opens, and half of the **** is full of blue flowers, it will be sunny tomorrow, but you can go to the mountain to take a look."

Wang Cunye went on to say: "The platycodon and ginseng look alike, like two sisters born to a mother's belly. They are the closest to each other, and they can play together. Later, there were many people who went to the mountains to collect herbs. move."

   Ah, this is the old agronomist telling a story. Everyone realized that they all cheered up and listened carefully. They all used their longing eyes to signal the old man to continue talking.

Wang Cunye laughed and coughed twice, his face wrinkled like chrysanthemums: "Before leaving, Lady Ginseng told Lady Bellflower not to leak any news. Lady Bellflower swears to the sky that she will never reveal any secrets, otherwise she will be heartbroken. The ginseng lady was relieved and ran to Liaodong."

"Later, Tang Xuanzong fell ill and asked for medicine everywhere. He ate the medicinal materials donated from the mountains on our side, and he was cured soon. Tang Xuanzong was so happy that he slapped his thigh and was about to give him a reward. As a result, Tang Xuanzong did not know Medicine, I mistook the bellflower for ginseng. As soon as I said that I wanted to reward ginseng, the lady of the bellflower couldn't hold back her breath, and quickly said, I am a bellflower, not a ginseng, and the ginseng went to Liaodong a long time ago..."

   Having said this, the little kids were also attracted and asked in a low voice, "And then, Grandpa, didn't the Lady of Kikyo say not to tell others about it."

Wang Cunye nodded and said, "Isn't that right? Don't tell others if you agree. Once you say this, it will be leaked. Everyone knows that ginseng has gone to the Northeast, so they all go to the Northeast to dig ginseng. Because the Lady of the Bellflower swears, After disobeying it, it will be fulfilled, and it will be really black-hearted in the future."

   "Hey, don't believe it, you can compare it. The bellflowers in other places are broken, and they are all white-hearted. Most of the bellflowers here are black-hearted, because of this."

   Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up, and they all praised Wang Cunye for speaking well and vividly.

   Lynx even laughed and praised sincerely: "Uncle Wang can still tell stories. After listening to what you said, compared with what A Zhong said, what A Zhong said seemed impatient."

  Wang Qingzhong just scratched his head and smiled, saying how could he be compared with his father, his father was rolling in the heap of herbs, he had never seen anything before, and the stories in his stomach could fit in a few baskets.

   "Hey, nonsense, nonsense."

Wang Cunye waved his hand, "It is said that there is no idle grass in the Qinling Mountains. In the past, as long as you entered the mountains, the herbs were everywhere, but now it is becoming more and more difficult. The grass and trees in the Qinling Mountains have spirituality, which should be the same as the ginseng. There are too many, they have all moved. However, there is the matter of Empress Dowager Bellflower, and no one dares to talk nonsense this time, so we don’t know where the herbal medicines have moved to.”

   At the end of the story, he gradually became silent, tapped lightly on the injured leg, and couldn't tell the expression on his face.

   Everyone was also suddenly silent.

  The old man's education level is not high, but his words have some thought-provoking flavor in it.

   "Grandpa Wang, Grandpa Wang, what kind of herb is this thing?"

   At this time, Xiao Lizi suddenly ran to Wang Cunye with a "root" full of wet mud.

   "This, this is wild yam."

   "Then grandpa Wang, does wild yam have a story?"

"Story? It can be considered. The wild yam was actually called the potato taro, the taro of the taro. As a result, there was an emperor in the Tang Dynasty named Li Yu. Yu and taro have the same pronunciation. In the Song Dynasty, there was an emperor named Zhao Shu, but Shu Yao couldn't be called anymore, so Shu and Shu have the same pronunciation."

   "Toss and toss, the emperor is troublesome, so it's called yam, right?"

"Afterwards, I was afraid that it would not be safe. Seeing that this thing has a lot of beards, it needs to be burned with fire before cooking, so we mountain people gave it another name and called it Firevine Root—hey, this name is good, no emperor calls it Huo. Fuji root."

  Wang Cunye told people about the story of herbal medicine, and everyone listened attentively.

   Hearing the last, Liang Yuemin suggested to Chen Ling: "You have an old man who is rich and rich, and has a living dictionary of medicinal materials like Uncle Wang. Why don't you do some medicinal planting?"

   "This, I didn't think about it. I even inquired about it a few years ago, but unfortunately it doesn't have a good market, and it's easy to get scammed."

  Chen Ling shook his head. There were still a lot of herbs growing in his cave. The effect was far superior to ordinary herbs, but he couldn't sell them.

   First, it is not a good thing that the effect of medicinal materials is too good, and it is easy to attract attention.

  Second, most medicinal materials cannot actually be sold at high prices.

   It includes what most people think of as rare medicinal materials, too.

  Many people think that if they find Ganoderma lucidum, Cordyceps sinensis, Panax notoginseng, Gastrodia elata and other four medicinal materials that are as famous as ginseng in the mountains, or Dendrobium candidum, Polygonum multiflorum, and snow lotus, they can change their hands for a lot of money.

actually not.

   In most cases, the news is just to drive up the price for hype.

  Although the effects of medicinal herbs are not different, the price is not necessarily satisfactory.

   Medicinal materials, which the mountain people picked from the mountains, sold at a very, very low first-hand price.

   But the medicinal materials dealers or other people take it from the medicinal farmers, and the prices are immediately different in the county, in the city, in the big city, and even in the capital, and they all go up several times.

   Whoever is covered in Luo Qi is not a silkworm breeder. Medicinal materials are not like grain, the price difference is there, just a few cents and a few cents. The medicinal material industry is very deep.

   In addition, in this era, there are quite a lot of people who do business and cheat, and the local traffic is not very good.

  For medicinal planting, it is better to buy some ginseng seeds and use spiritual water to induce them. It is said that wild ginseng was dug from the mountains. No one can find where it was dug, right?

   In this way, I sell one or two of them every year, so I don’t have to worry about not having enough money to spend. It is much more worry-free than planting medicinal materials.

   "I'll help you find the sales. If you're worried, the money will be paid to you first." Liang Yuemin said.

"No, no, I'll try it on the mountain this year. If I can, please bring me some ginseng seeds if you have time, brother Yuemin. I'll try to plant them first." Chen Ling waved his hand and thought to himself. Might as well do it his own way.

   "Ah? Ginseng seeds, you want to grow ginseng, okay, okay, okay, I'll bring you back next time."

   "Well, when I mentioned ginseng just now, it made my heart itch, but it's too hard to find ginseng in Qinling."

At this time, Wang Cunye listened to what they said, and took over the conversation: "Looking for Shen? The rules for finding Shen are too big. Bring a stick and pluck the grass into the mountain, and you can't say a word. As soon as there is movement, Shen will run away. "

"When you see ginseng, you should quickly shout 'stick and mallet'. This is to cast a spell on the ginseng. As soon as you shout, it will stop and can't escape. Before it recovers, take a red rope and tie the stem of the ginseng. The stalk is tied, and a dead knot is tied, which is called 'tie doll'. Then slowly dig the root to find the ginseng."

"When digging ginseng, you can't use iron tools or bamboo or wood. For fear of hurting the ginseng whiskers, you have to use animal horns to dig the soil bit by bit. The most important thing is to use deer antlers. Only in this way can you dig ginseng. If you don't do this, the ginseng will run away. , I can't even dig out the fart."

   After listening to the crowd, Bobcat asked, "Is it any different from finding ginseng in Liaodong?"

Wang Cunye shook his head and said, "It's basically the same, but Qinling's ginseng has more aura. If you know that people want to dig them, you should avoid it early. If you know that you are coming tomorrow, you may run all night tonight, run fast and hide. It's so deep, it's very hard to find."

  …

   Another hot chat, Chen Ling listened to a few sentences, then stopped listening, but went to the kitchen in the back to clean up the lunch.

   There is a special dish today that he needs to try himself, Drunk Shrimp.

   The white-skinned river prawns caught in the morning are mostly only the size of two fingers, and many of them flow down with the mountains and streams. After staying in the canals for a period of time, they are quite fat and tender.

  If you grab it from a mountain stream, pinch the head and peel it, you can eat it raw.

   But after tossing in the rain for a long time, he couldn't handle it carelessly. After carefully soaking it in salt water, Chen Ling came over to rinse it several times, and then soaked it in fruit wine.

   "This shrimp is very clean."

   Looking up, Wang Qingwen and Wang Qingzhong's two sons followed him. Obviously, the story of the old man's husband was not new to them, and it was not very attractive.

   "It's okay, it would be cleaner if it didn't rain, but unfortunately, they don't jump out. I never thought of making this dish."

  Chen Ling talked to them, got up and went to the barn to take out two jars of fruit wine.

   Then take a large thick porcelain pot, use a fence to fish out the shrimp, drain the water, and put it in the pot.

  After all the prawns are fished, add shallots, fruit wine, soy sauce, sugar, make a large bowl of sauce, pour it into a basin and start to marinate.

   Cover the large porcelain basin with the shrimp with the pot lid, and you can clearly hear the sound of the shrimp bouncing and scrambling inside, and the shrimp is struggling.

   kept ringing, just listening to the sound, you can imagine how much the shrimp jumped.

  The shrimps are ready, but the crabs and fish caught can’t be left behind.

  The fish was fried with some eel paste and some pieces of fish. Today, there are still a lot of people in the family, so Chen Ling was busy making more dishes, and the amount of dishes was huge.

  The crab is mixed with small crucian carp eggs and boiled in a pot of soup. After simmering for nearly an hour, the strong aroma wafts out.

Lifting the lid of the pot, the soup turned white, and the crab was very badly cooked. Chen Ling scooped a spoonful of the soup with a spoon. The delicious fresh soup made him take a deep breath. This is the real soup, delicious and delicious, without any Bad fishy smell.

   At this time, the drunk shrimp was also done, so he shouted, "It's time for dinner."

   "Hey, here we come."

   Hearing the shouts, people came to serve dishes one after another, and brought them back to the front to prepare for lunch.

   This is just after noon, there is no sun after the rain, there is a slight wind blowing, it is very cool.

   Eating hot food like this will not feel hot.

Eel paste, with yellow garlic and shredded **** to give the bottom taste, but the taste is very good, the taste of salty and delicious taste is excellent, when you sip your tongue, the meat of the eel is tender, and it slides down the tongue. Don't chew.

  Women and children especially like to eat.

  The roasted fish has a strong fragrance. It is the appetizer of the gentlemen. It is a pleasure to eat and drink with wine.

   But in terms of popularity, it’s still the drunken shrimp dish.

   Because the practice is fresh enough and rare enough.

  Fresh river prawns, after the edification of fruit wine, the baptism of the sauce, and the simmering and intoxicating at the same time, detoxify, remove the fishy smell and improve the freshness.

  The prawns are wine red, the color is still transparent, and the texture is somewhat translucent. It is extremely beautiful just by looking at it.

   "Uncle, why did the shrimp turn red?"

  Little chestnut asked in a milky voice, this little girl likes to ask why when she sees strange things, as if there are 100,000 whys in her mind.

   "This is because shrimps and shrimps drank alcohol. Just like people blush when they are drunk, shrimps and shrimps who have been drunk will also blush."

  Chen Ling explained in words she could understand.

   "Wow, so that's so amazing."

   The little girl's eyes lit up and her interest increased greatly. She picked up one of the chopsticks and stuffed it into her mouth.

   "Slow down, don't swallow it whole, be careful to poke your mouth."

  Chen Ling reminded that the alcohol content of drunken shrimp is not high, it is okay for children to eat less, and then he invited everyone to try it, and he went to eat it himself.

You don't have to bite hard, just squeeze it gently with your teeth, and the shrimp will come out smoothly from the shell, and the fresh, smooth and elastic meat will be soft, sweet and sour with fruit wine. The sweetness and the freshness of the river spread in the mouth, the taste is full and the aftertaste is long, which is really wonderful.

   "Well, the shrimp in my mouth is jumping."

   Liu Yinhuan cried out in surprise, covering her mouth.

   "It's okay to jump. It is said that fish eat fresh shrimp and jump, and live shrimp can jump, and it's the most tender." Chen Ling said with a smile.

   "Wow, I ate it too, it really jumped in my mouth."

   As soon as Chen Ling finished speaking, Xiang Wenxia said that she had eaten it too.

   The two female comrades ate it, and the male comrades became hot with their eyes. They were unconvinced and went to use chopsticks to pick up the shrimp, trying to find a shrimp that could jump in their mouths.

  Little Fatty is more delicate than Little Chestnut. He couldn't eat shrimp that could jump, so he sat on the ground and kicked his legs and started crying. Liu Yinhuan held him down and spanked him, and the little Fatty cried even worse.

   Everyone laughed.

   It was Chen Ling who picked out two more for him who could jump, so he didn't cry, and told Chen Ling that he would bring Ruirui his toy car next time as a thank you.

   In short, after eating this dish, a group of people laughed and thought it was delicious and fun.

  …

   This full moon wine was eaten, and it was raining heavily. The group played for four or five days before and after, and they all dispersed after the weather was clear.

The brothers Wang Qingwen and Wang Qingzhong played a few days more than the others. First, it was rare to come here. Second, it was summer vacation. I've been busy for a while, and I haven't re-sold wheat a few times yet. It rains more recently, so I have no choice but to stop.

  The two family members came to Chen Ling's place this time, and they all had a good time, because in comparison, there are not only a lot of things to play here, but the farm is cooler than other places, and the living is very comfortable.

After playing for a few days, the two brothers followed Chen Ling to the county town to sell eggs, and then went to the village to go to the market to watch livestock and buy sheep. When it came to buying sheep, Chen Ling went straight to Erwazi's house to buy them. As a result, Erwazi thought that Chen Ling He always caught him to buy it, but he refused to sell it to him. He is also a person with a strange temper.

  Chen Ling had no choice but to lead the eldest brother and the second brother to the Luomashi market again, and finally picked six female goats and one big ram, all of which were pulled home with a tractor.

   Together with the two big and four small, there are thirteen sheep in total.

   Counting the two little rams that grew up from the lamb, there are three rams, three rams, and ten ewes can be divided equally.

  Otherwise, the rams are irritable, and if they are raised too much, they will easily fight for the little ewes. Now that there are too many ewes, they will only feel tired and will no longer have the mind to fight.

After buying the sheep, they lived for two more days. The Wang Qingwen brothers left, but the father-in-law and mother-in-law did not leave. Now Rui Rui is just a month old and can’t live without people. Wang Susu's young couple, not to mention that they are in a hurry, they must not care about other things, and the affairs of the farm and crops will be delayed.

Everyone left, and the life of Chen Ling's family returned to calm. Wang Cunye still kept sheep in the orchard all day long, and now he let the sheep eat the weeds that grew out of the crops. Chen Ling had been preparing for planting after selling eggs twice. As for sunflowers, I bought seeds and farm implements on demand. I packed it up slowly, did whatever I wanted, and rested whenever I wanted. From time to time, I would walk around with my son, or go back to the village with my son, very leisurely.

On the tenth day of the seventh month, I just went to the county town to go to the market to sell eggs yesterday. Chen Ling had nothing to do in the morning. He was holding his son by the lotus pond to watch the fish. Another uninvited guest came to the farm. people come.

   After walking into the farm, he greeted Chen Ling with a smile, and after a few words, did he express his intention of coming, and he came to buy wine.

   "What? Buy wine?"

   After saying these words, Chen Ling was stunned for a while. After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't respond.

   (end of this chapter)