After eating part of the first day's harvest, the remaining meat is divided equally between the two families.
Originally, Mr. Man said that his family didn’t want it.
It was Jiang Zhi's idea to get the meat. His family only provided Xiaoman as a laborer, but the whole family ate it. They had already eaten too much and could no longer take advantage.
Jiang Zhi said, "Since Uncle Chang Geng has already said that you will listen to me in everything from now on, now you have to listen to me when it comes to dividing the meat. We will talk about the future after we get through this difficulty."
A detailed analysis of the specific situation shows that Xiaoman’s grandparents are not lazy and cunning.
The two of them are old and it is dangerous to walk up and down the steep mountainous terrain. Moreover, there are patients and children at home who need to be taken care of by them.
Xu Dazhu did not suffer from bedsores because he had to turn over in half an hour.
In addition, Xiao Man is also very sensible and always rushes to work, which makes Jiang Zhi very satisfied.
It's a good thing to follow the rules, but it's not good to be too fussy. Everyone needs help sometimes.
I divided half of the meat and brought it back. There were five or six pieces of it, weighing only three or four kilograms.
To be honest, wild food is not delicious. Just like wild vegetables, modern people who have already had enough to eat are just talking about it for the sake of freshness.
If pheasants and wild boar were delicious, why would agriculturists work so hard to cultivate superior varieties?
When you are hungry and have no food or water, and you eat wild vegetables every day to satisfy your hunger, you will not be able to say it is delicious if your face is full of food.
Pheasants and hares will not grow fat and thin meat just to satisfy human tastes.
The meat has no fat, so it cannot be braised without a lot of oil and seasonings, and it is very spicy when stewed.
Of course, this is also because Jiang Zhi has been to Sichuan, a place where no rabbit can leave, so he can be so picky about his taste.
For Xu Errui and others, these game meats are rare meat and life-saving rations.
Jiang Zhi plans to make the meat into bacon and later make jerky for emergencies.
That night, one room was missing due to burning, so the family of three had to make do with one room.
Qiaoyun and Jiangzhi slept on the kang, while Xu Errui hugged hay and slept on the ground.
Being young is good. After eating and drinking, you fall down and go to sleep. The two of them soon began to snore, but Jiang Zhi couldn't fall asleep repeatedly.
During the day, no one mentioned the village at the foot of the mountain, but the two corpses were left lying in the wilderness like this, unable to be buried in peace, and they always felt bad.
"Alas! You have become an unjust ghost, but you have to find the right enemy to attack. We are determined to help you, but the current troubled times do not allow it. We can only burn more ingots and paper money when we heal your bones in the future."
Jiang Zhi couldn't put the two families on the mountain in danger because of the two corpses, and he felt aggrieved for those wronged souls. He muttered in his heart for a while, and finally fell asleep.
Early the next morning, after dinner, Xiaoman came to Xu Errui to pick up meat. Jiang Zhi repeatedly told them not to go down the mountain, let alone enter the fire scene.
Master Xiaoman also told Xiaoman these words, and Jiang Zhi only let them go after receiving assurances.
The two boys went out to look for food, and Jiang Zhi was also preparing to set off.
Although she was in a hurry to open up wasteland and build a house, she still needed to find other things to eat. Only when she had enough food at home could she feel calm and be in the mood to build infrastructure.
This mountain range has several consecutive peaks and is habitually called Wufeng Mountain by the villagers.
Except for the weathered stone cliffs, the mountains are mostly composed of loess and gravel. The soil is poor, so it is dominated by drought- and barren-tolerant green trees, with some shrubs and trees mixed in.
Encountering a rare long winter without rain, it is still a withered and desolate place.
There are no ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, or wild vegetables to dig.
However, there are mountain streams and small silts between the peaks, and there are also some small alluvial silts. Compared with the monotonous mountain forests, the plants near the water are more diverse.
Jiang Zhi had a general understanding of the mountain from Xiao Manye, so he first found a ditch that was mostly dry, and then walked along the water's edge into the mountain.
People used to come and go here occasionally, and there was still a path available.
The cliffs on both sides of the ditch were still withered grass at first, but gradually there was more green on the stone walls.
It was a creeping vine clinging to the stone. The oval and opposite leaves were sparsely distributed on both sides of the vine, and their stems stretched out.
Jiang Zhi casually called out its name: Sweet Potato Vine, also called Ground Centipede or All-Earth Golden.
The herbal name is also called ground loquat.
This plant is the most common ground vine in the Southwest.
It grows in sparse forests, ditch edges and grassy fields. It is evergreen all year round. It blooms from April to June and bears fruit from June to September.
The ripe fruits are half-buried in the soil like loquats. They are brown and dark red, with an attractive sweet fragrance. When you break them open, they are full of seeds. They are also the favorite snacks of children in the mountains.
Every year during the hottest summer vacation, Jiang Zhi would go to the mountains to pick sweet potatoes.
Sweet potato vines can be used as snack fruits, and they are also a target for housewives who go up the mountain to chop firewood in winter.
Use a knife to cut off the main vine, pull it in the opposite direction, and you will have a vine net, rolled into small bundles, which are very easy to burn when dried.
It is said that the soil and water support the people. In the minds of Chinese people, every plant has a different purpose.
Things that are not poisonous are food materials, things that are poisonous are medicinal materials, and things that are old and not poisonous and cannot be eaten are wood.
But the sweet potato vine, which is not favored by others, has many functions. It can be eaten, burned, and used as medicinal materials. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is full of treasures.
Sweet potato vine can treat lung heat, cough and asthma, edema, rheumatism, bruises, etc.
If 3 taels of ripe fruits are boiled in water and taken, it can treat simple indigestion in children.
Wash the affected area with decoction of fresh vine leaves to treat scabies and urticaria, and take the decoction orally to drive away roundworms.
But now... Jiang Zhi took a sweet potato vine in his hand and looked at the white pulp coming out of the broken end with regret.
The time is wrong now, so there is no use except for making firewood.
Because sweet potato vines are collected for medicinal use, they need to be washed and dried between September and October for later use.
The sweet potato vine was useless, but Jiang Zhi soon discovered a plant that made her ecstatic.
In the sand next to the ditch, there are piles of dead grass branches washed away by last year's flash floods.
She pushed aside the weeds that had not yet completely rotted, hoping to see if she could find hibernating frogs and crabs. Unexpectedly, what she saw was a pile of reddish-brown bud tips that had just emerged.
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For southwestern people, this thing is almost an addictive drug.
Jiang Zhi immediately put down the basket on his back and was reluctant to use the hoe. He took out the sickle and lay on the ground and began to dig carefully from the surrounding area.
Just looking at the thick bud tips above, she could already predict the thickness and length of the rhizome below. It must be at the level of a Tyrannosaurus rex. In the past, she had to dig through several field ridges to find it.
As the layers of sand peeled off, the roots inside were also exposed, and a row of white, tender and plump folded ear roots stuck straight into the ground like chopsticks.
Jiang Zhi hurriedly dug down to see how long and deep it was, for fear of breaking this unique treasure.
This is a real treasure. Medicine and food come from the same source, so there is no need to mention its medicinal effects.
It clears away heat and detoxifies, is a good product for treating upper respiratory tract infections, and is also anti-radiation. It is also a favorite among food lovers.
She felt that at some point, the worship-like digging movements of digging chicken fir trees, digging ear root and digging ginseng were basically the same.
I just don’t know if people who live by the sea feel this way when they go to sea.
The first batch of folded ear roots in spring is like the first cup of milk tea in autumn. It is not for eating, but for showing off on social media.
Perhaps he was carrying it in a basket and walking around the neighborhood. Amidst the envy and jealous inquiries, he simply replied: I have finished digging by the ditch!
Then he walked away without even wanting to score a single strand.
There are many folded ears here.
You wouldn't know if you didn't dig it, but you were shocked when you dug it. There were them all in the cracks in the rocks and in the grass. It looked like the first leaves would grow out in five or six days at most.
Counting the time, if it hadn't been for the long winter, it would have grown out long ago.
It's just that this place is sheltered from the wind, has plenty of water, and is covered with weeds to protect it from the cold, so it grows better than elsewhere. The longest root is a meter long.
Jiang Zhi put a large handful of the dug roots into her backpack and left the rest of the food untouched. She was worried that it would be a pity if she dug too much at once and couldn't finish it, so she saved it for later.
Moreover, when she went into the mountains this time, she only dug up the root of the earworm as a small ingredient. In addition, she also needed to find some plants that could be used as staple food for everyone.
