Chapter 218 Surprise:
There is a small valley on the side of an unknown mountain, with a total radius of about three miles. Because it is on a cliff, even explorers do not want to visit, and no one collects plants. Among the trees, there is an octagonal lotus growing in the grass, with two sides. Needles, single-sided needles, hydrangeas, flying dragon palm blood and other medicinal materials.
Even though some medicinal materials had been collected, the medicinal materials in the small valley could not bear the age. Le Yun did not stop, excitedly walking and digging, collecting soil and moving it back to the space, and also dug out a few Coptis chinensis trees on the edge of the forest.
Coptis chinensis is the kind of coptis that "dumb people eat coptis lian". It is also found in the Taihang Mountains. Even if it is not the best variety, it is more than a little bit better than the ones in the medicinal material planting base.
After leaving the dense forest, she crawled into a grassy slope with sparse trees, and found the medicinal material she was looking for in a patch of grass with stones: golden thread hanging gourd.
Golden thread hanging gourds have herbs and herbaceous vines. What she is looking for is the herbaceous climbing vine variety, and there are several herbaceous vines, with slightly different varieties and slightly different functions.
There are many kinds of gold-threaded hanging gourds in the Taihang Mountains, all of which are several decades old. Those over a hundred years old are hard to find, and those over two decades old are rare.
Classmate Le Xiao found several golden-threaded hanging gourds, all of which were between ten and thirty or forty years old. They were not the variety she wanted. What she found this time was the type she was looking for.
In a small mountain valley that is inaccessible to people, a golden-threaded hanging gourd is a full 150 years old. It does not need to be moved to a space medicinal field to increase the medicinal effect and it can be directly used as medicine.
After finding the medicinal materials she had been looking for so hard, Le Yun happily cut down the weeds, followed the vines to find the vine roots, cut off some vines, leaving only a foot-long section, moved away the stones, and dug with a hoe. .
The golden thread hanging gourd likes to grow in piles of rocks. It often digs up stones. It took a long time to find the first gourd. The reason why the golden thread hanging gourd is called this is because of its roots and stems, which look like when strung together. A bunch of gourds.
Le Xiao's classmate worked tirelessly and kept digging along the roots for a long time. Finally, they all were dug out. There were more than ten roots in total. Each root produced round, long, flat, or gourd-shaped stems at short intervals. , there are as many as there are, there are more than twenty, there are more than ten, and together they are a big group, like a string of bells.
After shaking off the soil and setting it aside, Leyun kept busy and dug two small seedlings into a small space, leaving four trees for them to multiply in place.
Fill the pit back, put away the tools and medicine, return to the waterhole again, pull out a large bunch of gourds from the space, cut off the roots of the long stems, and put the roots back into the space. After cleaning the gourds, move them back to the space.
When she sat down to rest, she belatedly realized that she hadn't eaten anything at noon. With her face wrinkled like a bitter gourd, she picked black tiger fruits and August fried fruits while holding her stomach growling with hunger.
After a good meal, I saw that it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. I rolled up my sleeves and trousers, took off my shoes, and went to the medicinal field to collect peanuts.
Soybeans and peanuts are annuals, with a growth cycle of three to four months. The soybeans and peanuts planted a few days ago matured after seven or eight days of growth. The soybeans were harvested this morning, and the peanuts were still left. The reason why they were harvested so quickly was because they used well water. encouraged.
After half a day of growing peanuts, the seedlings are a little wilted and it’s time to pick them.
The soil in the medicine field is soft, so you don’t need to dig with a hoe. You just pull them out one by one. You don’t fertilize the peanuts, and they are not arrogant. They grow very vigorously. The seedlings are almost half a person tall. When you pull out a seedling, the roots are full of fruits. The shells are heavy in the hand, and each seedling can pick about four or five kilograms of peanuts.
At first, I planted about half a catty of bells. When it came time to harvest, Le Xiaoxiao was in despair. He was so tired that his back ached. In the end, he bent so hard that his waist almost broke before he plucked them all and piled them on the ridge of the medicine field. They were so big. of a pile.
To comfort my tired little waist, I peeled a few peanuts to try them out. They were sweet, crispy, and had a natural light fragrance.
After eating a few handfuls of peanuts, Le Yun had no time to play, so she picked up a hatchet to make room, went to the woods to cut a few small tree poles, chopped them into sections, and cut a handful of vines. After returning to the cave, she took out the tools and built her own Wooden rack.
The shelf needs to be elevated for collecting honey.
The cave is three to four meters high, and she is only a little over 1.5 meters. She can probably touch the top of the honeycomb with the longest honeycomb with her hand. There is such a height difference between the person and the cave, so she can only build a scaffolding and step on it. Go get honey.
Even though she was smart and clever, she couldn't figure out how to make a suitable shelf, and she was depressed to death. Why didn't she get an alloy double-sided ladder to store space?
If there is a double-sided ladder that can be extended and closed, you can just unfold the ladder and climb up to work. When not in use, you can fold it up to free up space, which is convenient and saves trouble.
Unfortunately, there is no point in thinking about it anymore. You need to be self-reliant now.
Because she was a novice and had no experience in making ladders or shelves, she had no choice but to fumble, piece together, dismantle, and reassemble, over and over again, until she came up with a set of homemade scaffolding made of tripods.
It looks a bit ugly, but as long as it works, I climbed up and tested it myself. Fortunately, it can bear a person's weight. You can also put a bucket or basin on it, and the height is about the same.
After completing a big project, Le Xiao's classmate went to collect dry firewood, hay, and dried moss, and piled them together at the entrance of the cave. Since it was not yet evening, he had nothing to do, so he climbed up the hillside with a hoe and dug for medicinal materials near the woods.
When the sun set, she first took a bath and washed her clothes, then returned to the entrance of the cave to collect the mushrooms on a silver plate that had been dried outside, made a fire to make food, and dried her clothes by the fire.
This is also the first time I have made a fire to cook since I went out. I have only lived on space products for the past few days. Firstly, I am lazy, and secondly, I have to find a suitable place to light a fire in the mountains, so as not to burn the mountains by wildfires, and I am afraid of being caught by the smoke. Discover.
While the food is being cooked, fill the newly bought milk pot with medicine and put it on the fire to boil, burn the bottom black, wipe it for a while, and then burn it again, repeat it several times. look.
When she bought the pot, Handsome Liu was there, knowing that she was going to take it to the wild to cook porridge and medicinal purposes. If the bottom of the pot was clean when she returned home, it would be difficult to explain if Handsome Liu saw it.
After eating the first meal of rice in many days, I packed up my tools, moved the mosquito-absorbing grass from the space and put it in the cave so that it could eat mosquitoes. I sat down and made special tools: I took a piece of raw tree tube with an empty middle, stuffed it and kneaded it. Crushed dry moss and grass clippings, tree powder, compacted.
It gets dark early in the mountains, and night quickly covers the top of the mountain. There is still a little light outside, but it is dark inside the cave.
When it got dark, Leyun also started to take action. She moved the shelf under the honeycomb, put a flashlight on her head, wrapped a towel around her neck, tied up her sleeves, tied a small bag made of rattan around her waist, and picked up two The charcoal left after burning a piece of firewood is put into a small tool made of a raw tree stem.
The raw tree stems are filled with dry moss and tree grass powder, which are ignited when encountering red charcoal, emitting wisps of smoke.
Leyun took the small tool, climbed up the scaffolding, put on latex gloves on both hands, took out a stainless steel bucket and a washbasin, held a knife in her left hand, and smoked the bee with the small tool in her right hand.
The honeycomb is huge, and the bees do not completely cover the entire nest. Wherever their king is, they will mostly surround it, usually gathering at the top of the nest.
When bees encounter heat and smoke, they give way one after another, drive away some bees at the bottom of the hive, find the point where the knife is inserted, put the small tool upright in the small pocket tied around the waist, pass the knife in the left hand to the right, and press the knife flat against the hole Cut honeycomb on top.
The honeycomb is composed of pieces of honeycombs that look like fans. The honey fan surface is covered with hexagonal cylindrical holes, which can be used as a honey storage warehouse or a nursery for bee breeding.
Bees are naturally smart and will separate the honeycombs where honey is stored and the honeycombs where brood bees are kept. Ordinary honey is also separated from royal jelly. Royal jelly is the food for the queen bee and young bees when they first pupate. Other bees eat honey.
When bees make a nest, they first make the first honeycomb, and then arrange it on the left and right sides. When the family business is large, they make some horizontal honeycombs to surround the center.
In fact, it is good for the hive to collect honey every few years. Hives that have been there for several years may have bugs. Once bugs destroy the hive, the bees will have to abandon their beautiful home and find a new place to settle down. When collecting honey, Cutting off the old honeycombs is equivalent to doing a general cleaning for them.
Le Yun carefully cut off a horizontal piece of honeycomb. There was not too much honey. She put it in the basin and cut the second piece. After cutting five pieces of honeycomb in a row, she saw the honeycomb in the center. The honeycomb in the center of the honeycomb was full of honey. The honeycomb in the top part is caramel color.
When the honeycomb is newly made, it is milky white and very tender. As it ages, it becomes more like honey, and as it ages, the color becomes darker.
The bees gathered at the top part to provide some space for Leyun to cut the honeycomb. She smoked away some bees, held the honeycomb with her hands, and cut the roots of the honeycomb with a narrow-backed watermelon knife.
The honeycomb was full of honey and was too heavy. When it was cut in half, it broke by itself. She was so frightened that she quickly threw away the knife, held the honeycomb, carefully moved all the bees to the stone wall, put it down, and cut another section of the honeycomb again.
She is not afraid of bees stinging her. When she was a child, she would fetch honey from her grandfather. The bees would chase her and sting her, but would not sting her. Even if they crawled onto her face, as long as she did not catch or press them, the bees would not sting her. , in Grandpa’s words, she was born to be related to bees.
Due to her natural affinity with bees, her grandfather would guide her every time she went up the mountain to find a bee nest, and she would pick it herself, thus training her to be an expert at harvesting honey.
Of course, she had also eaten a lot of honey. She had been weak since she was a child, and most of the medicines her grandfather gave her were based on honey. I heard that it was fortunate that honey kept her alive, and she was able to successfully survive the most dangerous days just after she was born. Months later, when I grew up, I often took honey. Until my grandma passed away, I would eat the honey that my grandma found as a health supplement for a month or two every year.
Now, she is in good health, but her grandparents have passed away one after another, leaving her with only endless thoughts.
If you want to support someone but your loved one is no longer there, there is no greater sorrow in life than being a close friend.
Thinking of her grandparents, Le Yun felt melancholy, pursed her lips, and silently collected honey. Her grandparents had passed away, and all she could do was to avenge them when she had enough ability, when she could protect herself and take revenge, and continue the Le family. Incense, passing on the words and deeds of her grandparents to the next generation, the next generation.
Removing the honeycomb requires patience and care, that is, cutting off the honeycomb without damaging other honeycombs to minimize bee casualties.
Le Yun carefully cut off the centermost piece of honeycomb, and then moved the queen bee lying on one piece of hive to the most edge piece of hive. Then, the bees rushed to protect the queen bee, and the swarm of bees moved from several pieces in the center of the hive. Honeycomb removed.
Without the dense crowd of bees, it was much easier to move around. Before the bees dispersed, she cut off a dozen pieces of honeycomb as quickly as possible, removed the sticky wax on the stone wall, and then removed the remaining honeycombs. The bees on top are returned to the hive, put away their tools, and climb off the shelf.
She took away more than a dozen pieces of honeycomb, and a piece of the huge hive was removed. The total amount of large pieces was just over a third, and the amount of honey left was enough. Even if the bees don't work, it would be enough for the first half of the year. .
After extinguishing the small tools used to repel bees and baking the clothes in a circle of soil around the fire, Le Yun quickly returned to the space, squeezed out the honeycomb that didn't have much honey, packed it in a mineral water bottle, and covered the honey in the bucket. However, Go for a walk around the medicinal field, sit down and read a book.
I scanned a book in a few hours, meditated on time at eleven o'clock, and went to bed at one o'clock.
That night, she slept very soundly. In her dream, she heard several long and loud bell-like sounds, and also heard the familiar sound of reading. The sound was ancient, vicissitudes, melodious and clear. The sound hit her ears, and the words were like The pearls have endless mysteries.
At the end of the dream, a beam of golden light broke through the sky and penetrated into her head. So when she woke up, Le Yun stared at the dark air in a daze in silence. After a long while, she sat cross-legged and meditated, and fell into meditation. After that, suddenly, several golden lights that always flashed between the eyebrows merged into one, like a small sun hanging between the eyebrows, and the light shone down into the Dantian.
At that time, the Dantian became brighter, and there was a scorching light from the circle that reflected the light between the brows. A strange force swam from the Dantian to the limbs, through the hands, feet, and top of the head, and finally returned to the Dantian. After that, the strange power returned to the Dantian again. Repeat the previous route again, return to the Dantian, and repeat the previous steps again and again, going through the cycle thirty-six times. There is no movement in the Dantian, and the light between the eyebrows still hangs quietly.
Le Yun opened her eyes from meditating, and countless huge questions popped up in her heart. Is this...is it Xuanzhao?
The first step of cultivating immortality is to build the foundation for a hundred days. When it is completed, you will look down and see a golden light between the eyebrows; the second step is to suspend the light, which is the light between the eyebrows shining on the Dantian, which is the road between the Dantian and the Ajna Palace. Once it is opened, the top and bottom are used as guides to guide the true energy to flow throughout the body.
stupid.
She was completely confused. Why did the martial arts practice that was mentioned become a cultivation method for cultivators?
If she had previously suspected that the martial arts were selling sheep's heads for dog-meat, now she is 100% convinced that the martial arts internal skills and mental methods are actually the basic skills for cultivators.
She stared blankly for a long time, Le Yun rubbed her eyebrows, calmed down, got up, touched the flashlight, turned it on, and ran to find the jade slips. She found the jade slips in the pile of items and touched them one by one. When he touched one of them, his fingers seemed to be sucked, and a mysterious force that was both cold and hot surged into his arm like electricity and went straight to his brain.
At that moment, she kept praying: "Gongfa, Gongfa..." Important things must be said countless times!
(End of chapter)