Rebirth 78, marry Qingmei as my wife

"I know this platycodon. It can be eaten as pickles. It seems worthless!" Dashan looked at the platycodon in Liu Hongjun's hand and said.

"The more stuff you have, the more valuable it is! The rhizome of this platycodon can be used to pickle pickles, but it is also a commonly used medicinal material. A pound of dried platycodon can be sold for a dime.

This area can dig up several hundred kilograms of platycodon. Liu Hongjun said with a smile.

"That's true. It's only a dime per pound. If we dig all this area today, we can sell it for dozens of yuan, right?" Shitou said with some longing as he looked at the entire hillside of platycodon.

"Hurry up and do it!" Liu Hongjun laughed.

Digging for medicinal materials, especially those from rhizomes, is a physically demanding job.

The three of them got down to work.

Fortunately, both mountains and rocks are good at work, and they can dig up platycodon very quickly.

Although Liu Hongjun has never done farm work, he often followed his father into the mountains to collect herbs, and he is also very skilled in 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 get on with your work.

"Rabbit!" Dashan suddenly shouted.

Liu Hongjun looked up and saw a rabbit jumping quickly into the grass.

"Let's work!" Liu Hongjun said and continued to dig platycodon.

After digging for a while, a pheasant flew up from the grass in front, just in time for Liu Hongjun to see it.

Liu Hongjun didn't think twice and threw the shovel in his hand directly.

Bang!

The shovel hit the pheasant accurately and knocked it to the ground.

Shi Shi ran over quickly and picked up the pheasant and shovel.

"Brother Red Army, you are so awesome! You can hit all these!" Shitou ran back carrying the pheasant and shovel, saying with admiration in his tone.

"It's just that you are familiar with it. You have often followed me into the mountains to collect herbs, so you can practice it. Just in time, we caught this pheasant and we have lunch!" Liu Hongjun said with a smile.

"The pheasant is the fattest at this time. Let's grill it and eat it. It will be absolutely delicious." Shitou 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 roots of platycodon into the basket.

I found that in this morning, the three people had dug platycodon to fill their backpacks.

Liu Hongjun took the mountains and stones to the bottom of a cliff. There was a mountain spring and a small pond.

Tell the mountain and stone to get some dry branches and bring them back.

Liu Hongjun took out his knife and started to pick up the pheasants.

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

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

Then he disemboweled the pheasant and cleaned the internal organs. Liu Hongjun took out some materials from his backpack, first rubbed the pheasant's belly with salt, and then took out some materials and stuffed them into the pheasant's belly.

Then I dug some mud from the edge of the pool and wrapped the whole pheasant.

In the wild, there really isn’t that much to pay attention to.

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

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 Liu Hongjun is quite rough, but it is also very consistent with the original flavor of beggar's chicken.

Liu Hongjun was ready here, and the mountains and stones on the other side also came back with a pile of dry firewood.

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

Forest fire prevention is something that everyone 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.

If the intensity of being beaten when playing with fire is one, then the intensity of being beaten when playing with fire in the mountains and forests is ten, which is the kind of mixed doubles between men and women.

Moreover, parents will go to the production team to study and review.

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

"Brother Red Army, do you think that's Gastrodia elata?" Dashan suddenly pointed at a bunch of dry trees not far away that looked like arrow shafts and asked.

"You kid, your eyes are quite sharp, that's Gastrodia elata!" Liu Hongjun said with a smile.

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 Liu Hongjun saw those stalks, he recognized them at a glance. They were Gastrodia elata.

The picking season of Gastrodia elata is from autumn to the second spring before Gastrodia elata sprouts.

The part of Gastrodia elata that can be used as medicine is the rhizome.

Once the Gastrodia elata sprouts in the second spring, the nutrients in the rhizome will be absorbed by the branches, and it will become shriveled and its value will plummet.

Until, in autumn, Gastrodia elata grows new roots again.

Therefore, at this time, Gastrodia elata is considered to be the best.

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 about taking them to another place in the afternoon to dig some Gastrodia elata and make more money.

Mountains and stones are all my little brothers.

If you want your little brother to be obedient and support you, you can't just rely on drawings. You have to let the people who follow you make money.

"Haha! Gastrodia, there are a lot of Gastrodia over there, Brother Red Army, how much is a pound of Gastrodia?"

"Depending on the grade, the best dried gastrodia elata costs two or three yuan per pound!" Liu Hongjun didn't know the specific price, so he could only give a similar price.

His family's medicinal materials are basically picked in the mountains by themselves. A small number of medicinal materials that are not produced in the local mountains are purchased from pharmacies in the county.

Therefore, Liu Hongjun really didn't know the specific price of medicinal materials.

However, the prices he gave were pretty much the same.

"Two or three yuan a pound, then we will be rich! This piece of gastrodia elata is almost enough to build a house, right? Dashan, you have made a meritorious service today." Shitou 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?"

Liu Hongjun led the two of them to the foot of the hillside, broke off the Gastrodia elata pole, then used his hands to push away the turf and soil along the bottom of the stem, and dug down bit by bit until the potato-like Gastrodia elata 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, Liu Hongjun 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.