AWB Chapter 453 Cordyceps Appears
Chapter 453 Cordyceps Appears
The next day, when the light is a little better, we can go up the mountain.
After walking up about twenty or thirty meters, Xu Wenyan found a place with relatively more green grass and squatted down.
Chen Sanlin followed closely behind him.
There is a skill to finding this Cordyceps. You need to squat down and look upward at an angle. The fruiting body exposed on the surface of the Cordyceps is only about five or six centimeters.
The color is dark brown.
If you look down, it's hard to see.
Generally, you need to squat or lie down to see the Cordyceps better.
Compared to Xu Wenyan's meticulous search, Fu Jian and his team were much more relaxed. After all, their main task was to find the gold nuggets, and the Cordyceps was secondary.
When they reached the mountainside, they saw more and more ground plums. Xu Wenyan also saw some gentiana, but they had not yet bloomed.
Most of the plants on the plateau are small in size and can be easily missed if you don't observe carefully.
"Ahhh! Lao Chen, come here quickly."
Hearing Luo Sanyuan yelling nearby, Xu Wenyan stood up and walked over.
“I found Cordyceps!”
"If you dare to lie to me, you're done."
Xu Wenyan walked over to him and squatted down. After seeing the dark brown fruiting body clearly, Xu Wenyan patted Luo Sanyuan and said, "Old Luo, you are great. You really found it."
"Of course, I'm awesome."
After digging with a hoe, there is a four or five centimeter fruiting body underneath, which is the insect body parasitized by mycelium.
"Oh my god, why do they call it Cordyceps? It really is a bug." Luo Sanyuan leaned his head closer and touched the bug under the fruiting body with his fingers.
It feels hard, like a tree root.
"do not move."
"Ah? What's wrong?"
Xu Wenyan took the fruiting body of Cordyceps sinensis and used the fruiting body to draw several circles on each of Luo Sanyuan's eyes.
"Huh? What are you doing?"
Luo Sanyuan was not used to calling Xu Wenyan and Chen Pingan, so he simply stopped calling them that when he was outside.
"Never mind. You can see more Cordyceps if you draw it."
Afterwards, he drew pictures for Chen Sanlin, Xiaoman and himself.
This is what the Tibetan people believe in. Although we don’t know why they do this, the Tibetan people must have their reasons.
"You guys are amazing! You found it so quickly."
Fu Jian roared down from a high place. He had started watching from just now, but he just felt a little dizzy after roaring.
Xu Wenyan didn't reply but just waved to him. It is better to talk less in this plateau environment.
After carefully putting away the Cordyceps, Xu Wenyan simply lay on the ground to search.
After searching for another quarter of an hour, Chen Sanlin saw Xu Wenyan digging something with a hoe, so he stood up, walked over and squatted down.
"Wife, you found it too?"
Xu Wenyan shook his head and held in his hand a handful of red plants with short and thick rhizomes that looked like a small radish, cylindrical in shape and surrounded by numerous small scaly leaves arranged in a shingle-like pattern.
"This is Rhodiola rosea. It is so rare to find it here. It can also be used as medicine to replenish qi and clear the lungs, improve intelligence and nourish the heart, and treat injuries from falls.
It also has considerable cosmetic value. Generally, the rhizomes are used as medicine, and the leaves and stems above are edible. ”
Although this thing is good, there is really too little of it. If you want to find more, you can only go higher. The higher the altitude, the more you will see.
Apart from these plants, Xu Wenyan didn't recognize any of the others he saw. It was only half an hour later that Xu Wenyan found a Cordyceps.
After finding this root, everyone's luck seemed to improve.
Xu Wenyan found several in succession.
That is because humans in ancient times did not intervene excessively, Xu Wenyan was able to find so many.
Fu Jian's team also gained something, but it was less than Xu Wenyan's after such a long time.
It took more than three hours from the time he set out in the morning to the time he returned in the afternoon. Xu Wenyan found a total of forty-seven cordyceps, two handfuls of Rhodiola rosea, and several hidden sedges.
It’s not that he has no strength. Because he was walking on his stomach, Xu Wenyan moved forward very slowly. But the higher he went, the more he felt like he couldn’t breathe.
I had no choice but to go down the mountain.
Pick off the roots of Rhodiola rosea, wash the leaves above and cook them.
The taste was very average, and each person basically finished it in two chopsticks.
If it was really the price Fu Jian said, Xu Wenyan and his team would have earned more than ten taels that day. Xu Wenyan couldn't help but sigh whether this medicine was for saving lives or for taking lives.
If an ordinary person gets sick, he can almost wait for death.
No matter how serious the disease is, the royal nobles can use precious medicinal materials to prolong their lives.
This is the difference in people's destinies.
"Brother Chen, how much did you harvest?" Fu Jian walked over to the fire next to Xu Wenyan with a bowl of rice and sat down. Xiao Wang also followed him over.
"Not many, only about a dozen or so."
No matter what, Xu Wenyan still understands the principle of not showing off one's wealth.
"Amazing!"
Fu Jian smiled and said, "It took more than a dozen of us to find Uncle San's roots, and on average each person got less than one or two taels.
"We'll have better luck. We searched carefully, and you guys walked too fast. If you look carefully, you'll definitely find more."
"Brother Chen's words are so pleasant..." Fu Jian said hesitantly.
Xu Wenyan saw his concerns, but didn't say anything.
"Um...Brother Chen, my brother over there saw that you have some vegetables to eat, and I wanted to ask if you would sell them to me." Fu Jianxian spoke awkwardly.
Xu Wenyan didn't expect that such a tall man would be like this when asking others for help.
"My brother is just greedy. Hey, we shouldn't spoil these bastards."
"Haha, it's okay. I'm already very grateful to Brother Fu for bringing us to such a great place."
The vegetables I picked in the morning have been eaten, so now I can only look for them nearby: "I'll get some for Brother Fu later."
"Oh, no, no. Just take the required amount of silver."
Xu Wenyan stood up and patted the dust off his butt: "Forget about the silver, Brother Fu, please help me find some firewood."
After saying that, Xu Wenyan pulled Chen Sanlin towards the grassland. They definitely wouldn’t be able to find it on the mountains.
This is only the third day since they arrived, and Xu Wenyan has not yet walked into the grassland.
"and many more."
Chen Sanlin stopped and went back to the tent to pick up a bow and arrow.
This is the only hobby of mine, so Xu Wenyan also followed her child, which is quite practical.
But the most you can do on this grassland is hunt rabbits. If you're lucky, you might encounter Tibetan antelopes, foxes, hedgehogs, or something like that.
After walking only a few steps, I saw some fragrant tea leaves and dandelions.
These are all edible wild vegetables, and there are considerable quantities of them. Fragrant tea leaves are also common in the south and are a perennial herb for governance.
Its shape is somewhat like mint before it blooms, but it is easy to identify after it blooms.
At the same time, fragrant tea leaf is also a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, detoxifying and reducing swelling.
Used for edema, sore throat, hemorrhoids, joint pain, etc.
Xu Wenyan couldn't help but admire how this ancestor figured out the functions of these plants.
In this way, Xu Wenyan picked his prey, and Chen Sanlin walked around with his hunting bow. However, Xu Wenyan had filled most of the backpack, and Chen Sanlin didn't see any prey.
"That's all I'll take, Brother Chen. Let's go."
After returning, there was a small mountain of firewood piled in front of the small tent.
Xu Wenyan gave the wild vegetables in the basket to Fu Jian, and Fu Jian and the group of brothers kept thanking him.
Fu Jian is truly a man of loyalty and righteousness.
I also taught them the general method of eating it, and that’s the end of the day. I still gained a lot.