Return to 1983: Starting from hunting in the mountains

Chapter 145 Digging Platycodon and Gastrodia Gastrodia

You must know that the wild ducks in the mountains are the fattest in this season. This wild duck weighs at least two or three kilograms. A wild duck plus white radish is enough for a family to eat.

Lu Erniu put the wild duck into the sack he carried with him, and the three of them walked around the mud pond and continued to set off.

However, next

The three of them walked with the dogs for more than an hour, but found no trace of any animals.

"Brother Jiansheng, this area is full of poplar forests. Why don't you let the dogs out to search nearby?" Liu Shengli reminded.

"Ah."

Lu Jiansheng nodded. There was no other way at the moment. He unbuckled the horses. Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli followed suit and unbuckled the horses of "Huang Zhong" and "Maverick".

The six dogs received the owner's order and immediately sniffed nearby. About ten minutes later, Lao Hei suddenly barked twice and ran to the left. The other five dogs knew that Lao Hei had a good nose and immediately followed.

Lu Jiansheng and the other three looked at each other and immediately started running after them.

Although letting go of the dog leash is helpful for finding prey, it is a bit useless for the owner. You must follow closely, otherwise once you are far away, they will come to you. It is no different from holding the dog on the leash. Of course, this is also the advantage of hunting dogs. In the mountains, we know that protecting the master is the most important thing.

Soon after passing through a forest, the three of them came to a hillside out of breath.

There are not many trees on this hillside, some are sparse.

Looking closer, I saw six dogs digging at the earth hole at the foot of the hillside.

Suddenly, Lu Jiansheng's eyes lit up. There was a large patch of platycodon growing at the bottom of the hillside. Platycodon is both a traditional Chinese medicine and a food.

This stuff is also sold at the Ha Giang Traditional Chinese Medicine Company, and can be sold for more than 20 cents per kilogram. If it is dried in the sun, the price will be doubled.

At this time, several dogs were digging into a hole, which was a rabbit hole. Maybe the dogs discovered the wild rabbit and ran into the hole.

However, wild rabbit holes can be found in all directions. Unless you raise wild rabbits that are natural predators like ferrets or angel ferrets,

Only in this way could they be driven out of the hole. These dogs were obviously helpless against the wild rabbit holes that extended in all directions, and Lu Jiansheng had no good solution.

However, Lu Jiansheng didn't plan to hunt at the moment. There were obviously few prey in this area, so it would be more cost-effective to dig platycodon, which could be eaten and sold.

"We're not going to hunt anymore, we're digging platycodon." Lu Jiansheng dug out a platycodon tree and showed it to Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu.

"Brother Jiansheng, I know this platycodon. You can pickle it and eat it. It seems worthless! I've never heard of anyone taking it!" Liu Shengli looked at the platycodon in Lu Jiansheng's hand and said.

"If we don't collect it in the county, it doesn't mean that no one else collects it. You can sell it for money when you get it to Ha Giang.

Although one pound and two cents is a bit cheap, the more things you have, the more valuable they become! This area can be dug up to several hundred kilograms of platycodon, which together can be sold for more than a hundred yuan. If you don't think about it, it is too far to go to Ha Giang City, and it is worth going to Yezhuling to hunt a small wild boar. "

"Two cents per catty, my dear, is this cheap? We dug up all this area today, and we can sell it for hundreds of yuan! Erniu and I also found this thing in the mountains to the north, and it was even better than here. If it’s more, we’ll get rich.”

Liu Shengli was pleasantly surprised, looking at the entire hillside of platycodon, and said with some longing.

"We'll dig there tomorrow, so hurry up and do it!"

Lu Jiansheng smiled and said that digging medicinal materials, especially medicinal materials from rhizomes, is a physical job.

The three of them got down to work.

Fortunately, Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu are both good at work, and they can dig up platycodon very quickly.

Lu Jiansheng is also very skilled at digging for medicinal materials.

The three of them worked very quickly, and within a short time they had dug out quite a piece.

Remove the upper branches, leaving only the rhizome.

Putting the roots into the backpack, the three of them sat on the ground to rest. They took out the water bottles and took a few sips to moisten their throats.

Then keep working.

"Rabbit," Lu Erniu suddenly shouted.

Lu Jiansheng looked up and saw a rabbit not far away, jumping quickly and getting into the hole.

"Get to work!" Lu Jiansheng said and continued digging platycodon.

After digging for a while, a pheasant flew up from the grass in front. Lu Jiansheng didn't even think about it and just smashed the stone next to it.

Bang!

Lu Jiansheng accurately hit the pheasant and smashed it to the ground.

Lu Erniu ran over quickly and picked up the pheasant.

"Brother Jiansheng, you are so awesome! You can hit all these!"

Lu Erniu ran back with the pheasant and said with admiration in his tone.

"It's just a matter of familiarity. You often follow me into the mountains to hunt, so you can practice it. Just in time, we caught this pheasant, and we have lunch!"

Lu Jiansheng smiled. In fact, he knew in his heart that there was a lot of luck involved. When the pheasant flew over just now, he had no time to draw his gun, so he threw the stone next to him, and unexpectedly he actually hit it.

"The pheasant is also fatter at this time. Let's grill it and eat it. It will be absolutely delicious." Liu Shengli said with a smile.

The pheasants were just an unexpected harvest. The three people continued to work digging platycodon. By noon, they had dug a large area.

Put the rhizome of platycodon in it,

In the past two hours, the three people dug up a sack of platycodon. Several dogs had disappeared long ago, but Lu Jiansheng knew that they had not gone far.

He whistled,

But for a while,

Lao Hei, San Bao, Si Bao and Wu Bao ran over from a distance. Good guy, Lao Hei and Si Bao even had a wild rabbit in their mouths, and Huang Zhongye also had a calf in his mouth.

Lu Erniu excitedly put the wild rabbits into the sack one by one, and then fed them some dog food.

Followed by.

Lu Jiansheng took Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli to the bottom of a cliff, where there was a mountain spring and a small pond.

After telling Lu Erniu and Liu Shengli to get some dry branches, they came back.

Lu Jiansheng took out his knife and started picking up the pheasants.

Lu Jiansheng's blow just now only knocked the pheasant unconscious, but did not kill it. It was still dazed at this time. It is estimated that even if Lu Jiansheng did not kill it now, it would not survive for long.

Just chop off the chicken head with one knife, turn it upside down, and control the blood.

Then he disemboweled the pheasant and cleaned the internal organs. Lu Jiansheng now carried some seasonings in his backpack, so he took out some ingredients from his backpack, first rubbed the pheasant's belly with salt, and then took out some ingredients and stuffed them into the pheasant. in stomach.

Then he dug some mud from the edge of the pond and wrapped the whole pheasant. Lu Jiansheng planned to make a beggar chicken.

In the wild, being a beggar chicken doesn't require so much attention.

It's even less likely to be as elaborate as the beggar's chicken made in restaurants.

In fact, beggar's chicken itself is a cooking method developed for convenience when living in the wild.

The main reason is that it is inconvenient to shed the feathers in the wild. After being wrapped in mud and roasted, the mud can remove the chicken feathers.

Therefore, the beggar's chicken made by Lu Jiansheng is quite rough, but it is also very consistent with the original flavor of beggar's chicken.

Lu Jiansheng was ready, and Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu came back with a pile of dry firewood.

Clear a safe area by the pond and light a bonfire.

Forest fire prevention is knowledge that everyone who has grown up in the mountains must learn from an early age. This is not very noble, but it is related to the vital interests of every mountain person.

Although Lu Jiansheng was not born in the mountains, he is now eating this bowl of rice.

Bury the mud ball wrapped in the pheasant into the fire, and the next thing to do is to wait.

"Brother Jiansheng, are you wondering if that's Gastrodia elata?" Lu Erniu suddenly asked, pointing to the clusters of dry trees not far away that looked like arrow shafts.

"You kid, your eyes are quite sharp, that's Gastrodia elata!" Gastrodia elata is also called Red Arrow. The description of Gastrodia elata in medical books is: the stem is like a thin arrow shaft, less than two feet high.

Therefore, when Lu Jiansheng saw those stalks, he recognized them at a glance. They were Gastrodia elata.

Gastrodia elata is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine that has the effects of calming the liver and calming wind, extinguishing wind and relieving spasm, and calming the nerves. It is suitable for symptoms such as headache, dizziness, facial paralysis, and spasm caused by internal liver wind.

Especially in the sequelae of stroke, postherpetic neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia and other conditions, it can be used as an auxiliary treatment.

The most important thing is that this thing is much more expensive than Platycodon.

Gastrodia elata grows in clusters. Generally, if you find a Gastrodia elata plant, it means there is a piece of Gastrodia elata nearby.

I originally thought that I would take Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu to continue digging platycodon, dig more, and make more money, but now, I encountered Gastrodia elata again.

"Haha! Gastrodia, there are a lot of Gastrodia over there. Brother Jiansheng, how much is a pound of Gastrodia?" Liu Shengli asked.

"Depending on the grade, the best dried gastrodia elata costs two or three yuan per catty! The inferior ones cost one yuan per catty!" Lu Jiansheng didn't know the specific price, so he could only give a similar price.

The last time he went to Ha Giang City, he saw that the Ha Giang Medicinal Materials Company collected many types of Chinese medicinal materials, but he only took a glance at it and couldn't remember clearly. He will definitely learn more about it next time.

However, although he could not remember clearly, Lu Jiansheng remembered that it was definitely not less than one dollar.

"One yuan per catty, then we will be rich. This piece of Gastrodia elata is almost enough to build a house, right? Er Niu, you have made a meritorious service today."

Liu Shengli shouted excitedly.

"Okay, don't leave it there to read the rice seedlings, dig up the gastrodia elata quickly and see how much is underneath?"

Lu Jiansheng smiled and said nothing. He still had the final say on how much money to give them, but Liu Shengli and Lu Erniu were all fooling around with him, so Lu Jiansheng wouldn't be too bad at what he did.

After all, if you want them to be obedient, work hard to help you make money, and be willing and grateful, you can't do it just by drawing pictures. You have to let the people who follow you make real money.

Lu Jiansheng led the two of them to the foot of the hillside, broke off the gastrodia pole, and then used his hands to spread the turf and soil along the bottom of the stem, digging down bit by bit until the potato-like gastrodia tubers were exposed.

However, he did not take out the tuber directly, but dug back the soil along the tail of the tuber.

Sure enough, not far away, four or five big cubs were pulled out. Looking further down, there were some slightly smaller ones.

Finally, within a radius of two feet, Lu Jiansheng dug out two large handfuls of Gastrodia elata.

Gastrodia elata is like sweet potatoes and potatoes. Under each Gastrodia elata stem, there will be a large nest of Gastrodia cubs.

(End of this chapter)