Three trucks loaded with fir trees were queuing up to enter the side entrance of the trading market.
A driver in the car dropped a cigarette butt on the ground.
I raised my head and saw Jigong Mountain in the distance. I stared at a white cloud above Jigong Mountain and was in a daze.
Jigong Mountain is located in the south of the trading market.
It is a remnant of the Dabie Mountains.
With a radius of fifty miles and the highest point of 784 meters above sea level, Xiaoxiao Peak was named after the fact that the entire mountain resembled a rooster with its head held high, wings spread, and its neck crowing.
The sun shines through the gaps in the towering trees and falls variegatedly on the winding paths, forming a spectacle of light and shadow.
On the ground, green grass and miscellaneous flowers are blooming, and occasionally they are caressed by the breeze, exuding a faint fragrance.
Occasionally, a squirrel quickly shuttles among the branches, stirring up the dance of fallen leaves. Further away, a stream gurgling by, the sound of water is clear and sweet, resonating harmoniously with nature.
swish swish——
A middle-aged woman wearing tattered linen clothes and a hat with two holes in it walked out of the grass.
Behind her were five young men and women in their mid-twenties.
They searched around, as if looking for something.
A young man was following behind. Suddenly, his skin was pierced by a fruit tree covered with thorns.
hiss!
The young man looked down and saw that the fruit tree was covered with oval-shaped fruits and had a ring of thorns on the surface.
He quickly shouted loudly:
"Professor Chu, can this be eaten?"
Chu Juan, who was walking at the front, frowned when she heard this, turned her head, cleared away the weeds and walked over.
"Yongzhen, how many times have I told you, please speak softer when you come out. Although it is daytime, there may be zombies on the mountain. You can easily attract zombies with your loud voice."
As she spoke, she carefully picked a fruit while avoiding the thorns.
Look at this fruit carefully.
The surface of the fruit is reddish-brown, with raised brown dots; there are disc-shaped flowers on the top, a thin yellow column in the middle, and the lower part is tapering. When touched, it feels a bit hard.
Chu Juan stuffed the fruit into the basket behind her, "You can eat it, but don't eat too much, it will burn your stomach. This one... is called golden cherry tree. It is a traditional Chinese medicine that can treat long-term diarrhea, metrorrhagia, and urethritis.
kind of problem."
"Just pick some. You don't have to pick too many to take up too much space. That's not our goal today."
While she was talking, several students around her had already picked all the fruit trees.
Chu Juan looked at them and sighed, the last days are difficult.
Fortunately, she was a botanist before the end of the world and knew all kinds of plants. At any rate, she could always find some satisfying wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains and forests.
After picking, she led everyone down the mountain.
Her main goal today is wild yam. There are many wild yams growing in the mountains and forests of southern Henan Province.
Moreover, the ripening season of wild yam is from September to October, and September is now the ripening season.
Yam is a nutritious root food. It contains about 43% starch. The starch content is relatively high. Moreover, yam has relatively high nutritional content. It contains protein, crude fiber and various trace elements, which can strengthen the spleen and nourish the spleen.
Qi, increase the body's immunity.
This rhizome-like plant has a high starch content and can be used as a staple food.
The group of people walked down the mountain and picked various wild fruits.
It is mid-September now, the season when wild fruits are ripe.
Along the way, they picked wild fruits such as mountain twisters, wild hawthorns, ground pomegranates, and jujubes.
These wild fruits are rich in vitamins, but no matter how much you eat, you will never be full.
After they picked it, they only ate a little bit, and kept most of it, and carried it back to dry the fruit so that it could be stored longer.
Everyone walked halfway up the mountain. A girl with a tanned face, rough skin, but pretty facial features walked up to Chu Juan and asked while panting:
"Professor Chu, why didn't you fill in the real situation? Now in the recruitment hall at the trading market, a notice has been issued, inviting doctors, professors and experts to find employment. Among the recruitment list is botany.
You can try it."
Chu Juan stopped and slowly turned her head. Time seemed to have left no trace in her eyes, and her eyes were still as clear and clean as before.
The cruelty and hardships of the last days did not turn her into a resentful person.
Her eyes were calm and gentle, as if nothing could leave a trace in her heart.
"Let's look at it again. I'm afraid I won't be able to come and go freely. Isn't it good that we are like this now?"
Wang Beibei nodded, lowering his head and not knowing what he was thinking.
Chu Juan led everyone at the front and did not forget to teach some knowledge to the students behind.
"You all know what the wild yam we are looking for looks like. Who knows where wild yam usually grows?"
The words just fell.
Wang Beibei, the pretty girl who had been following her, said first:
"Wild yams generally grow on the forest edges of hillsides, under shrubs and ditches, as well as under forest in valleys, in shrubs or in weeds, so we are going down now just to find wild yams."
When Chu Juan heard this, she smiled.
Over the past few years, she often took her students to dig for edible wild fruit roots in the mountains and forests, and she managed to survive.
In the past, I always studied in the classroom and never applied this knowledge in practice.
It's in use now.
But...it's been a tough few years.
From the original 29 students, there are now only five left.
Three of them are physical education students in the school's undergraduate department.
But without these three sports students, they wouldn't be able to survive now.
They hold sickles or hatchets in their hands, and carry baskets made by themselves on their backs. The baskets are filled with wild fruits and vegetables, as well as digging tools such as small hoes.
A group of people walked down the mountain and happened to be in a valley.
There are towering mountains on both sides, and a flat land in the middle is covered with bushes and trees.
"Don't scatter, stay within my sight, and look for it carefully. It's relatively humid here, and wild yams are likely to grow."
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The wild yam here has not been dug for many years. Once found, it will definitely be the kind of super large wild yam.
Ten minutes passed by in a flash.
Suddenly, the young man with the high nose shouted again: "Professor Chu, I found this!"
"Wang Yongzhen, don't be so loud, fuck!" A slightly stronger boy glared at Wang Yongzhen angrily.
"Isn't this too exciting, hehe." Wang Yongzhen scratched his head and laughed.
While putting the basket down, he squatted down, took out a small hoe from the basket, and dug hard twice.
The leaves of this small tree are palm-shaped and heart-shaped, with triangular lobes on the edges.
Exactly the shape of wild yam leaves.
Chu Juan heard the sound and came over, and she could tell it was wild yam just by looking at it.
"Yes, this is a wild yam, but Wang Yongzhen, I'm warning you, if you whine like this again, you won't come out next time."
Wang Yongzhen clasped his fists and said with a guilty look on his face: "I found this wild yam tree. I'm so excited. I'm sorry to everyone."
Chu Juan sighed, shook her head and said:
"Liu Zhuangshi, you and Wang Yongzhen are digging this wild yam tree here. Let's go look for it nearby. Don't run around."
Liu Zhuangshi was the strong man who scolded Wang Yongzhen. He was a former college student majoring in physical education.
"Okay, Professor Chu." Liu Zhuangshi did not refuse.
He respected Professor Chu very much. If Professor Chu hadn't taken them all over the mountains and fields to collect wild fruits and food in the past few years, they would have starved to death.
Perhaps because we are far away from the city, there are fewer people and zombies in the mountains and forests, making it relatively safer.
In the past few years, he has also learned to know some wild fruit plants, learned how to preserve these foods, and how to survive the difficult winter...
Chu Juan then warned the two of them and continued walking into the bushes with the remaining three people.
After they left, Liu Zhuangshi turned his head and looked at Wang Yongzhen and said:
"You dig first, and I'll help you look around. I'll do it later when you're tired."
Wang Yongzhen dug very carefully, digging down little by little, with an excited smile on his face.
"Strong, believe it or not, this wild yam definitely weighs over 10 kilograms."
He dug to a depth of 30 centimeters, looked at the thick rhizome of wild yam, and concluded that it weighed 10 kilograms.
Liu Zhuangshi glanced at him and looked at the wild yam rhizome.
He mocked: "Don't be like last time, with a big neck and a small body. This wild yam must weigh ten kilograms and be at least half a meter long."
Hearing Liu Zhuangshi's words, Wang Yongzhen remembered the embarrassment from the last time.
The last time he looked at the trend of the rhizomes, he thought they would weigh more than 10 kilograms, but the bottom was rotten.
A small whisker sprouted out, weighing less than 2 pounds in total.
It embarrassed him to death.
This time, I must prove myself.
Thinking about it, he dug harder.
Sweat dripped down drop by drop, and the light and shadow shining through the gaps in the leaves gradually moved.
Digging wild yams is strenuous work and requires a lot of patience.
Wild yams grow straight and can only be dug downward, so the longer the wild yam is, the deeper you have to dig.
Even to dig wild yam king, you may have to dig a two-meter pit.
The workload is huge.
The two men dug alternately for a full hour, and they had already dug a pit more than one meter deep.
"Hey hey hey, look, they are still twins. Let alone ten pounds, there are twenty pounds here!" Wang Yongzhen breathed a sigh of relief and handed the little hoe to Liu Zhuangshi.
Climbed the pit.
Liu Zhuangshi's eyes were slightly excited. Twenty kilograms of wild yam was too much.
If you take it back to the trading market, you can redeem it for 10 points.
This wild yam is very rare and can be eaten as a staple food.
However, fresh wild yams contain a lot of water, 80% of which is water.
10 pounds of wild yam, after drying and grinding, only results in 2 pounds of yam powder.
Logically speaking, 2 pounds of yams can be exchanged for 1 point, which means that 1 pound of dry food can be exchanged. In fact, the exchange ratio is still very high.
You must know that 1 catty of gold can only be exchanged for 3 catties of grain.
However, because wild yam is also a traditional Chinese medicine, and the traditional Chinese medicine hall at Dazhangshu Base requires wild yam, a traditional Chinese medicine, it is relatively difficult to mine.
Therefore, the price was slightly increased.
Now in the task hall of the trading bazaar, some other required Chinese medicines have been released.
Just bring it and you can redeem it for points.
All along, most of the herbal medicines in the Chinese Medicine Hall were collected through survivors and collaborators after tasks were issued by the task halls of the Da Zhangshu Base and the Trading Market.
Another hour passed.
Liu Zhuangshi finally dug to the bottom of the wild yam, and he said to Wang Yongzhen above:
"Yongzhen, dig to the bottom!"
"Damn it, these two wild yams together weigh forty kilograms!"
The flesh on his face was shaking with excitement. This was the biggest and thickest wild yam they had ever dug.
Wang Yongzhen's hands trembled, he was so excited that he started beating.
"Don't shout." Liu Zhuangshi reminded him quickly when he saw him like this.
Wang Yongzhen grabbed his hair and roared silently.
The veins on his neck were exposed, his eyes were red, he was bouncing, and he kept patting his chest.
So excited!
So excited!
"Wang Yongzhen, what are you doing?" Chu Juan and others walked out of the bushes and saw Wang Yongzhen who looked like a madman.
"Professor, he may have been bitten by a zombie and will mutate. Stand back and let me do it." A man stopped Chu Juan behind him, took out a hatchet and was about to step forward to kill Wang Yongzhen.
When Wang Yongzhen heard what they said, he trembled and said quickly: "No, no, no, no!"
"I'm so happy! Stop making trouble!"
The man breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, but he wanted to make a joke.
"Huh? Can the zombie still talk? If he can't stay, I'll chop him to death right now!"
As he spoke, he took a few steps towards Wang Yongzhen with the knife in hand.
Wang Yongzhen took a few steps back and fell to the ground.
"Brother Bo, stop making trouble. Look at the pit below. With more than 40 kilograms of wild yam, we will make a fortune!"
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As he said this, Wang Yongzhen couldn't hold back his smile and laughed.
Bo Ge quickly walked over. When he saw the two-meter-deep pit and the two two-meter-long wild yams that were as thick as an elbow, his eyes slowly widened.
"I'm going! I'm going! It's so big!"
"It's still two!"
Chu Juan and others quickly moved over. When they discovered these two huge wild yams, smiles appeared on everyone's faces.
"So big!"
"We're rich!"
"There are forty kilograms of wild yams here, plus the ten kilograms we dug just now, this is 50 kilograms of wild yams, which can be exchanged for 25 points, which is 100 corn cakes. This is enough for us people to eat for ten days!"
"Wang Yongzhen, Liu Zhuangshi, you guys are so awesome!"
"This time, I want to eat something different. Professor Chu, can we not eat tortillas? Can we change it to other steamed buns?"
"I want to eat meat. I haven't eaten meat for a long time."
"Goodbye, meat is too expensive and we can't afford it, so we'd better save some money."
"The corn tortillas are very good. I just like to eat corn tortillas. They are very filling!"
.......
Before they even brought the wild yam back, they were already thinking about the points they could get in exchange for the wild yam.
Imagine using points to purchase various foods later.
Many of them swallow saliva every time they pass by a barbecue restaurant, but every time they can only swallow saliva and smell the taste.
When Chu Juan saw everyone so happy, she was also very happy.
He smiled and said:
"Hurry up and dig out the yam. It's so long that it can only be divided into several sections."
"Okay!" Wang Yongzhen got up and jumped into the pit.
Dig wild yams!
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(Little leek, I beg for a guaranteed monthly ticket, but I’ve fallen off the monthly ticket list. Woohoo~)