Traveling to the Earth: My martial spirit is a hoe

Luo Qiong climbed this back mountain a lot when he was a child, and he was familiar with every place below the mountainside.

Riyue Village is located in the mountains, and there are no coal, natural gas or other minerals here.

So people here still use firewood as fuel for cooking and heating.

Especially in winter, there is no heating in the south of Qinling Mountains. Although Riyue Village is also south of the Qinling Mountains, because it is in the mountains and has a relatively high altitude, the winter here is still very cold.

In addition to making fires for cooking in winter, burning fires for heating is also a huge consumption.

My parents would only go into the mountains once a year to gather firewood once in the autumn, after all the crops in the fields were harvested. Later, I would have no time to cut firewood because of things in the fields.

I usually burn some wheat straw, corn stalks and other crop straws, which can meet my normal cooking needs.

But if you want to make a fire, the firewood is a bit scarce.

You should know that ordinary crop straw is not suitable for making fire for heating. These straws have a soft texture and although they are easy to burn, they burn quickly and do not last long.

After a burst of fire, only a pile of ashes was left, not even a charcoal fire.

The most important thing is that because these straws are very light, when burning a fire, the air pressure changes and it is easy to become windy, often before people are warmed up. The head and body will be covered with plant ash.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, few people use straw or other fires.

The wood suitable for making a fire is generally the kind of wood that is large and dense.

Those that meet this condition are tree knots, which refer to the stumps left behind by trees that have been cut down.

But although these tree knots are resistant to burning, they are not so easy to get out. The mountains are no better than the plains, and you can use machines directly.

If you have the ability, drive a tree stump pulling machine and climb up the mountain to pull out those tree knots. Let me tell you, let alone pulling it out, if you can drive it to the mountains, I will consider you a cow.

Mountain people can only rely on manpower and time to obtain big tree stumps.

Manpower can be easily explained, that is, people use axes and sledgehammers to hit hard to knock out the big lumps.

As for time, the root system of the tree lumps that have just been cut down is still alive and will firmly grasp the land. It cannot be retrieved by just a few people. Only after three to five years have passed, the roots of these tree lumps below the ground will rot. After that, it is possible to knock it down.

But adults are in the fields all year round, and they only have the opportunity to go up the mountain to cut firewood in a few days after the autumn harvest. Because time is tight, they usually choose firewood that is easy to chop and transport.

In this way, more firewood can be cut in the shortest time, and those tree knots will be given up by the adults tacitly.

When Luo Qiong was a child, because he studied in a village, rural primary schools ended at around 4 p.m., and children at that time were not as involuted as they are now.

Many teachers basically do not assign homework, and even if there is homework, it will be completed in more than half an hour.

So they had a lot of time. After the children returned home, they all responded to each other under the leadership of a child king, and went up the mountain carrying baskets on their backs, axes and hammers.

In Luo Qiong's memory, pimple making was his favorite farm work.

When there was a large amount of steel in the Qinling Mountains a few decades ago, due to lack of fuel, large areas of mountain forests were cut down to burn charcoal to support national construction.

When Luo Qiong was a child, those mountain forests had just recovered. There were many tree lumps in the mountains, and many of the roots of those tree lumps had rotted away after decades.

This makes it very easy for them to fight. Of course, rotten tree trunks cannot be used, but the trees that were cut down back then had grown over decades or even hundreds of years.

The trunk is very thick, and even if it is rotten, it is only the outer layer, and the inside is still full of hard and good wood.

During the years when Luo Qiong was studying in the village, he spent almost every winter in the mountains, banging tree stumps with all his strength, and finally got a big lump.

Getting rewards through labor, I believe everyone will be addicted to the feeling of harvest, not to mention that you can get praise from your parents after carrying these lumps of dirt home.

Therefore, the children enjoyed it very much. In a few years, they almost traveled all over the mountains below the mountainside.

Later, as children like Luo Qiong grew up and began to go to school outside or work in the city, the laughter and laughter of children gradually disappeared in this mountain forest.

Nature's ability to repair is very powerful. Although it had only been five or six years, Luo Qiong went into the mountain again and found that the surrounding trees had grown a lot taller, and the familiar paths had now become complicated. Overgrown grass.

And although the sun has risen now, due to the cover of the branches, the forest seems very dim at this time. Only the mottled light and shadow shine through the gaps of the leaves, reflecting the golden mist in the mountains in the early morning. of light.

The Qinling Mountains have a temperate broad-leaved forest climate, and the leaves here will fall in winter. Just because Riyue Village is located at a higher altitude, there is a large area of ​​boreal coniferous forest here.

For example, there are pine trees, cypress trees, etc., so even in winter, the place is lush and green.

At this time, Luo Qiong was carrying a small backpack on his back and a sickle on his waist. He was walking with a stick in his hand and beating the weeds in front of him.

There is a lot of dew in the mountains in the early morning. If it is not removed, all the clothes will be wet within ten minutes. In the mountains where the temperature is only one or two degrees, it is uncomfortable to wear wet clothes.

Luo Qiong's trip to the mountains was not a purposeless search. He was looking for the Ganoderma lucidum in the mountains. ,

Ganoderma lucidum is originally a fungus, and like mushrooms, it likes to grow on some rotten wood. The tree bumps in the back mountain not only provide them with materials for heating in winter, but also provide a hotbed for these ganoderma to grow freely.

Through this year of study, Luo Qiong already knew the value of these Ganoderma lucidum.

Ganoderma lucidum has been considered a symbol of good fortune, wealth and beauty since ancient times. It is also known as "fairy grass" and "auspicious grass". Traditional Chinese medicine has long been regarded as a precious Chinese herbal medicine that can nourish, strengthen and strengthen the body.

Moreover, its appearance is like an auspicious cloud with its own "auspicious" aura, very much like the clouds stepped on by the gods in fairy tales, fluttering like a fairyland.

Therefore, many images of "auspicious clouds" and "ruyi" evolved from Ganoderma can be found in many ancient temples, pavilions, clothing, embroidery, paintings, sculptures, porcelain and a large number of unearthed cultural relics.

For example, on the ornate watch in front of the Tiananmen Gate Tower, there is the "Soaring dragon riding on the auspicious clouds of Ganoderma lucidum"; the relief sculpture on the top of the Temple of Heaven praying for good harvests is "The clouds surrounding the Nine Dragons and the auspicious clouds of Ganoderma lucidum"; the royal road with dragons and auspicious clouds of Ganoderma lucidum is carved in front of the main hall of the Forbidden City; and there are carvings on the fence of the Confucius Temple in Beijing. Ganoderma potted plants and so on.

All of this is testimony to the worship of Ganoderma lucidum and the inheritance of Ganoderma lucidum culture in ancient my country.

In general, these Ganoderma lucidum not only have high medicinal value, but also have good moral meanings.

Luo Qiong discovered a lot of Ganoderma lucidum in the mountains when she was a child, but she didn't know the value of Linzhi at that time. She usually just threw it away, and then knocked off the big tree stumps with Ganoderma lucidum and took it home to burn as firewood.

Now that I think about it, I really feel like buying a casket for a pearl. However, Luo Qiong still remembered the areas where Ganoderma lucidum grew. Although many medicine nests were provided by them back then, there must have been some that slipped through the net.

After half an hour of trekking, Luo Qiong finally arrived at the first place in his memory where Ganoderma lucidum might grow.

And the God of Luck seemed to be paying special attention to him. Luo Qiong, who was far away when he arrived, discovered a red mushroom that looked like a small umbrella.

This mushroom is exactly a Ganoderma lucidum.