"Ling Bao, get up, we are going into the mountains."
In the early morning, Cheng Yun called Ling Bao gently while he was sleeping.
As the saying goes, if you rely on the mountains, you will eat the mountains; if you rely on the water, you will eat the water.
Now that the family's expenses are high, Cheng Yun wants to see if he can dig out some more turmeric.
Lingbao is very barking. He wakes up every time when he screams. He sticks his butt out and sits up from the bed. His sleepy little eyes are very cute. He rubs his eyes and sits up to put on his clothes and shoes.
After putting it on, the man woke up and buried his face in the king's body for a while.
"Brother, I'm ready, let's go!"
Ling Bao was carrying a small backpack and was full of energy, which was in sharp contrast to the yawning Cheng Yi next to him.
After entering the mountains, they first went to the place where they dug turmeric last time to see if there was anything missing.
Yes, there are, but not many.
Suddenly a smell that is difficult to describe in words wafted over.
"Hiss, what does this smell like? It smells so bad!" Cheng Yi pinched his nose, disgusted.
Cheng Yun also covered his mouth and nose, and the king with a well-developed sense of smell buried his head into his body in an exaggerated manner.
He hates the smell, meow!
The smell is very strange. It's not smelly at all, but it just doesn't smell good and has a strong presence.
If I had to describe it, it would probably be a combination of the pungent smell of garlic and xingyuan (onion), but at the same time there is a hint of grassy and leafy aroma.
Only Lingbao didn't find the smell unpleasant. She shrugged her small, round nose and said happily: "It's Chinese toon!"
"What is toon?" Cheng Yun asked.
Lingbao thought for a while and replied: "It's for food!"
You are right, it is indeed food.
But Cheng Yi didn't believe it. He asked suspiciously: "Are you sure this is edible? It smells so bad and it tastes terrible, right?"
As we got closer, the smell became even more overbearing. Cheng Yi couldn't stand the smell, so he kept fanning himself.
"It's really edible!" Ling Bao pouted unhappily. Why didn't he believe her? However, many people in the village didn't like it and said it was unpalatable. "It's delicious when I eat it."
Cheng Yi complained: "Are you eating anything that doesn't taste good?"
Ling Bao thought for a while and smiled naively: "No, I like them all, hehe."
Cheng Yun rubbed her head, so he said she was really easy to take care of.
Although they all can't stand the taste, since the younger sister wants to eat it, the older brother has to climb a tree to pick it!
The first person to bear the brunt is of course Cheng Yi, who usually jumps up and down and can't take any time off.
After picking two big bunches, Cheng Yi couldn't wait to jump down and pinched his nose: "Ouch, this smell is too strong."
Lingbao lay down in the small backpack, took a deep breath, and said puzzledly: "It smells pretty good." He didn't like it anyway.
"I'll give it to you if you like it!" Cheng Yi didn't want to take a bite.
Lingbao snorted and said, "You can eat it by yourself. She may have eaten it!"
The king suddenly meowed.
"Lingbao, come on, I found something good!"
Ling Bao's eyes lit up, he struggled to drag the basket on his back, and ran in the direction of the king.
After peeling back the grass, the king was about to come over to find them. When he saw them coming, he turned around and went back, wandering around what he found, his tail wagging happily: "Look!"
"Yeah, it's spring bamboo shoots!" Ling Bao ignored the basket on his back and walked over and touched the green spring bamboo shoots. They were as big as Ling Bao's arm and thicker than her arm.
Cheng Yun and Cheng Yi followed over, took out a shovel, shoveled out a gap from the root, then held down the head of the bamboo shoot and shook it back and forth and left and right.
"Bata!"
The moment the spring bamboo shoots broke, Ling Bao also sat down on the ground. The little girl hugged the spring bamboo shoots and smiled so hard that her teeth could not be seen.
"Spring bamboo shoots are delicious. Eat them simmering, boiling them, stewing them..." Lingbao sucked up the saliva that was about to come out.
Cheng Yun was also greedy after what she said. In the past, she could often eat fresh spring bamboo shoots on the table, but now she hasn't eaten them for a long time.
There just happened to be a lot of it in this small piece, so I just dug out a few more.
The spring bamboo shoots were so big that three of them filled up the basket. Cheng Yun and Cheng Yi were carrying two big ones and the smaller Ling Bao.
Cheng Yun wiped the sweat from his forehead. The whole morning passed and there was no sign of Jiang Huang.
"My lord, can you smell the turmeric anywhere?"
Ling Bao: "Your Majesty, can you smell it?"
The king shook his head: "The smell in the mountains is too mixed." He raised his cat's paw and pointed forward, "There should be some here, but I can't smell the specific location. Meow."
Cheng Yun took a look and saw that it was in the same direction as they were going, so he continued to move forward.
After walking for more than half an hour, he still didn't see Jianghuang. Cheng Yun glanced at the sky and said, "Let's go home first and come back in the afternoon. If we can't find it, we can only forget it."
Lingbao was still picking at the grass, looking here and there.
Turmeric, please come out quickly, please.
Seeing that her elder brother wanted turmeric very much, Lingbao refused to give up. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt that she smelled a faint fragrance of grass and trees.
"Here! Big brother, I found turmeric!" Lingbao shouted happily.
Hearing the sound, Cheng Yun and Cheng Yi ran over quickly and saw a large piece of turmeric, and couldn't help but smile with joy.
"Great, if we dig it all out, we will definitely be able to sell it for a lot of money!" Cheng Yi laughed loudly, "It's great!"
He hugged the great hero suddenly and said, "Lingbao, we are going to get rich!"
"Really? Will we get rich?" Ling Bao rubbed his little hands and asked expectantly, "Will there be a lot of copper coins?"
Cheng Yun said: "There are at least several hundred articles."
"Wow!" the little girl cheered.
Use a shovel to dig up the soil, and you can see long tuber-like objects, which are yellowish in color, but they are not the same as ginger.
It’s indeed turmeric!
For a while, the three brothers and sisters were digging furiously, and even the king was digging at the ground with his hind paws. After a while, a "turmeric hill" was piled next to it, and the strong smell covered up the smell of toon in the basket.
"Oh, I finally finished digging." Ling Bao's face turned into a little cat.
She asked Cheng Yun: "Brother, are these enough? If it's not enough, let's go look for it!"
Cheng Yun sat on the ground indifferently. He was really tired. He said: "The more the better, of course. The more, we can sell it for more money. Unfortunately, it is not easy to find this thing."
"
Lingbao blinked and suddenly said: "Then we can grow our own. Just like wheat and radishes."
She thought very simply. If you can grow wheat and radishes, you can also grow turmeric. They all grow in the ground.
Cheng Yun laughed: "How can growing crops and growing medicinal materials be the same?"
Ling Bao asked in confusion: "What's the difference?"
Cheng Yun choked for the first time. How did he know what was different?
...Yes, what's the difference?
Cheng Yun had so many thoughts in his mind that he had the urge to try it.
"Your Majesty, do you think we can give it a try?"
The king looked up in confusion: "Meow?"
What?
Why are you asking me? I’ve never planted it before!