funbook-pk Chapter 66 Going into the Mountains Alone
Chapter 66 Going into the Mountains Alone
Old Mrs. Zhou took out an empty backpack and put some straw on the bottom. Then she picked out some mushroom buds of relatively good quality and put them in. After picking out most of the small ones in the backpack, she put some big ones in. These mushrooms could not be kept any longer or they would go bad.
Keep some for yourself and let them take the rest away and eat them today.
Old Mrs. Zhou’s parents’ home is Wangjiakeng. Although it is not far from Lianglin Village, it is quite far from the mountains. It is not easy to eat some mushrooms. Every time you have to walk a long way to go into the mountains.
Moreover, I don’t know how many times the hills over there have been turned over by the villagers at this time every year. There are no young people in my uncle’s family, and the old couple are old and have difficulty moving.
After Zhou Lao Da and his two brothers had a good nap, they took their water bottles and backpacks and went out.
Old Mrs. Zhou took a wooden fork and turned the rice back and forth to dry it. She put some ripe rice aside and prepared to thresh it.
Zhou Mingshu had woken up and was rolling back and forth on the bed with the quilt between her legs. Her body still felt sore. She yawned and didn't want to get up at all.
Zhou Mingshu felt a little numb on his scalp when he thought about the more than ten acres of wheat fields at home.
There is still a month before the wheat harvest, so she has to earn money quickly to buy a car. If she relies solely on carrying the wheat back and forth in a backpack, she will be busy for days and nights, and she will lose several pounds after all this hard work.
Recently, the family has been able to eat more, and she can't bear to see the energy and spirit that she had restored with great difficulty fall back again.
Thinking of this, Zhou Mingshu got out of bed and carefully counted the remaining porcelain bottles in the house.
Uncle Chen ordered 500 bottles last time, including the gardenia ointment and the rich version of mugwort ointment, but the scattered ones at home may not be enough.
In order to prepare for emergencies, it would be better to order some more porcelain bottles.
Zhou Mingshu covered the basket, turned around to check the chalk on the table, poked it with a stick, and found that it had become quite hard. It was worth it that she had dried it in a ventilated place for a day and a night.
Zhou Mingshu combed his hair and opened the door. "Grandma, has my mother gone to pick up rice ears?"
"Yeah, it's so hot, are you going out? Why don't you stay home and rest?"
"No, I'll go pick it up too, so everyone can go home faster."
Zhou Mingshu picked up a straw hat from the wall at the door and put it on, then took a shovel and went out.
As soon as she got out of the door, she ran wildly on the road. The hot wind whistled in her ears and her body screamed "heat".
But her first thought was: Oh, this is the feeling of freedom~
Instead of heading toward the rice fields, she broke off a suitable stick on the way, turned a corner, and headed toward the mountain.
There were not many people on the mountain at this time, so she could look for things slowly.
With the system's reminder, Zhou Mingshu quickly found a mushroom ring of the Mushroom Strip. The flesh of this mushroom was relatively thin and its body was relatively small. Even though it was a large mushroom ring, when he picked up all of them and put them into the backpack, they did not cover the bottom of the basket.
Zhou Mingshu shook the backpack and continued walking forward. She remembered that the place ahead was for picking cucumbers. She wondered if there were any more tender cucumbers over there. If so, she wouldn't mind picking some more.
But her main destination was the small river over there. The humidity there was higher than elsewhere, and there might be plants she had never seen before.
Zhou Mingshu picked a handful of cucumbers, enough for a whole dish, and stopped eating.
Walk slowly along the river, searching and enjoying the nearby scenery.
This valley has become deeper and deeper due to the continuous impact of the stream over the years, and many rocks on both sides have been rounded and smoothed.
Zhou Mingshu picked up a few clear stones and planned to take them home as decorations.
Apart from some small fish and crabs, nothing rare was found, just some common wild vegetables and mushrooms.
Now that we are here, we might as well treat it as an adventure.
The birds singing in the mountains are so clear. If conditions permit, she would like to hang a hammock in the mountains and sleep.
After climbing up along the river for some distance, the system finally said a name she had never heard of: Asparagus corydalis, also known as longevity melon and An pumpkin, a primitive asparagus plant of the Liliaceae family.
Small green stalks emerged from the soil, looking a bit like asparagus. Before they could sprout tender leaves, Zhou Mingshu picked them and threw them into the backpack.
There were not many asparagus in this patch, so Zhou Mingshu climbed up a distance with the help of a stick before he reached the asparagus's nest. He picked a large bunch, enough for two or three meals.
She exchanged the rest with the system and converted them directly into points. She no longer had to carry them on her back. These wild vegetables were too heavy to carry and her thin shoulders could not bear the pressure.
Going further up, Zhou Mingshu encountered a large patch of red mushrooms. Because her family didn't like red mushrooms, she didn't put them in the backpack after picking them, but directly exchanged them for the system.
This patch of red mushrooms grow densely, some big, some small, some red, some pink, in different colors. They hide under the dead leaves. When you pull them apart, they look like little girls in bud, all with blushing cheeks.
This made Zhou Mingshu's cheeks blush. Yes, he was excited!
I made a lot of money this time, and the points I got in the system are almost soaring to 5000.
As the points increased, Zhou Mingshu felt very proud. From now on, she could just buy whatever she wanted. She was truly a "little rich woman".
Against the backdrop of this patch of red mushrooms, those leather mushrooms and wood ears are not rare at all.
Zhou Mingshu longed to find another nest of red mushrooms, but her plan was dashed. Not only did she not find any, she was almost bitten by a snake. Frightened, she jumped to the other side of the river and hurried down the mountain.
Her hasty departure made her forget about the wild vegetables on the other side of the river, but she encountered something she had never heard of before.
This thing is called: Gastrodia elata, a plant of the genus Gastrodia in the Orchidaceae family.
It did look a bit strange, with yellow stems poking out of the soil, just like the agaragar that had just been picked. The leaf buds on it wanted to bloom, but Zhou Mingshu couldn't wait that long.
Take out a small shovel from the backpack and start digging.
This forest was very moist, so digging was not difficult at all. There were seven or eight branches growing next to the stone.
Zhou Mingshu was so excited that he looked elsewhere and saw three or four more people there.
After clearing away all the dead leaves nearby, she lowered her head and dug carefully.
Fortunately, this thing called Gastrodia elata did not grow very deep, and it could all be dug out after a few digs.
Another guy who looks like ginger.
Zhou Mingshu scraped off the dirt on the surface and put it carefully into the backpack. After a while, there were more than a dozen pieces in the basket, big and small. When put together, they looked more like ginger.
There are about four pounds of these in total, and the price is not bad. So many of them can at least be exchanged for seven or eight hundred coins.
Go back and look through the books to see if it’s edible.
After putting away the shovel, Zhou Mingshu washed his hands and face by the river and planned to go home. After all, the backpack was almost full.
On the way, she encountered some beautiful wild flowers called smilax glabra, which is also a kind of medicinal herb.
Zhou Mingshu dug up two plants and planned to grow them on his desk.
When she arrived at the rice field, she found that all the people in the rice field had disappeared!