Is this where the white mist in the canyon comes from in winter? Jiang Li thought about reaching into the pool and found that the water was cold and oozing cold.
If it’s not a hot spring, where does the white mist at the bottom of the valley come from?
Heiba and Daliang took off their clothes and jumped into the shallow pond under the deep pool. They found that the water was freezing cold, so they scrubbed it clean and climbed ashore.
Jiang Li walked around and looked around, but didn't find any hot springs. After everyone had cooled off under the waterfall, he took Heiba and they continued to move forward. They didn't find any satisfactory food seeds until dark.
Returning the same way the next day, everyone packed up baskets full of dried meat and began to return to the tribe.
Two days later, Yao Xiaoqing saw the seeds Jiang Li brought back, "It looks a bit like sorghum, but also a bit different. Could it be that it hasn't evolved yet?"
Jiang Li saw her frowning and thinking hard, and pulled her into the house, "Xiaoqing, let me draw it for you. Its plant is a bit like a millet, but it is taller than a millet, and its stem is thicker than a millet. It's a bit like
Imperata poles.”
Yao Xiaoqing looked at Jiang Li's painting, and she couldn't figure out whether this spike-shaped plant was red sorghum?
"Don't worry." Jiang Li smiled and pulled her to a chair, she sat down, and said warmly, "I looked around at the bottom of the valley and couldn't find any rice. Let's go out and look for it together next year."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled, "I originally planned to go out to look for rice this year, but the weather was bad and delayed."
Jiang Li looked at her with a smile on his face, "I will go with you next year to protect you."
"Yeah!" Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Let's take the seeds upstairs to dry them and plant them next year. After a few times, we will know its true appearance in Lushan."
"Okay, I'll get a dustpan." Jiang Li went to the warehouse to get two dustpans, and dried the seeds with Yao Xiaoqing. After thinking about it, he asked, "Xiaoqing, do you want to go into the mountains to collect herbs? I'll accompany you.
You go together. Let’s go into the mountains to collect some fruits and bring them back to make preserves.”
"Okay! The two persimmon trees in the orchard have produced about ten persimmons this year. Let's go into the mountains to find some persimmons and bring them back to make persimmon cakes."
Jiang Li smiled and said, "Let's go to the orchard."
"Okay!" The two of them went to the orchard together.
There are already jujube trees, pear trees, persimmon trees, orange trees, hawthorns and some fruit trees that neither of them recognize in the orchard.
Yao Xiaoqing walked to several fruit trees with many thin branches and found a dozen fruits that were similar to jujubes. At a rough look, they felt a bit like vine jujubes in the mountains, but after a closer look, they looked nothing like them.
She tasted one and found it was crispy, sweet and delicious. "Jiang Li, do you know this kind of fruit? It tastes pretty good."
"Let me take a look." Jiang Li picked it up, looked at it, and tasted two. "It looks a bit like the wild dates those people sell."
Yao Xiaoqing pulled at them a few times and picked a dozen in total. "It's too few. If there are more, you can pick them back and make candied haws."
Seeing her wrinkled nose, Jiang Li smiled and pinched her nose, "I've never seen wild dates anywhere, but I know there is a forest with many persimmon trees growing there. Tomorrow morning I will take you into the mountains to pick persimmons to make persimmon cakes."
"Okay, let's go into the mountain and have a look tomorrow morning." Yao Xiaoqing nodded in agreement.
The next day, the two took Heiba and Aqiao up the mountain.
On the autumn morning, the sky was already cool, and the mountains were already a desolate scene. The scorched yellow leaves were blown by the wind, swirling and falling to the ground.
There was a thick layer of fallen leaves on the ground, like walking on a thick carpet.
Yao Xiaoqing and A Que collected herbs along the way, and Jiang Li also knew some herbs that could repel snakes, stop bleeding, and reduce swelling. Before they reached the persimmon forest that Jiang Li mentioned, Hei Ba and Jiang Li's backpacks were already filled with herbs.
The four of them also found some orange trees in the forest. The trees were full of bright red oranges, which made people's mouth water just looking at them.
Hei Ba avoided the thorns on the tree, climbed up and picked a few, and handed them to Yao Xiaoqing and A Que.
Yao Xiaoqing peeled off the bright red orange peel and handed it to Jiang Li, "Try it and see if it's sweet?"
Jiang Li took it and ate it, looking at the three of them, "Hmm! It's quite sweet."
Heiba impatiently stuffed one in, "Ah! Bah! Bah! It's so sour, so sour!"
Ah Que looked at Hei Ba's sour grin and smiled so hard that he couldn't stand upright.
Heiba looked at Jiang Li with a sad face, "Chief, you are so bad."
Jiang Li smiled and hit him on the head, "If you don't use your brain to blame others, look at why Xiaoqing and Aqiao didn't eat it!"
Yao Xiaoqing glared angrily at Jiang Li, the ghost hunter, "This kind should be red orange, suitable for making tangerine peel. Adding some to the stewed mutton will taste better."
Jiang Li smiled and nodded, then pulled Hei Ba up the tree to pick oranges. The oranges were too sour and no one ate them, so the two of them picked them and threw them down.
Ah Que picked up the oranges and piled them together, "Xiao Qing, I smell the oranges and want to swallow my saliva."
"I'm better than you!" Yao Xiaoqing found a stone and sat down, and began to peel the orange peel, swallowing while peeling, "You asked for it!"
Jiang Li came down from the tree and said, "Xiao Qing, there is a stream over there. I'm going to catch some pheasants and roast the hares."
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Go back quickly."
"Okay." Jiang Li walked away with his bow and arrow.
After Heiba and Aqiao finished peeling the orange peels, Jiang Li came back carrying two hares and three pheasants.
The four of them went to the creek and lit a fire to barbecue.
After eating and drinking, we went to the persimmon forest.
I saw only persimmon trees in the forest, with thick and big trunks. At a glance, there were at least hundreds of persimmon trees that had grown for many years. I saw that the trees were covered with bright yellow persimmons, each one like a small yellow lantern.
Hanging on the tree.
Yao Xiaoqing said: "Jiang Li, we should call Ah Hei and the others."
"Let's pick them back first and ask Heiba to bring them tomorrow." Jiang Li also didn't expect that there would be so many persimmons in such weather.
Yao Xiaoqing and A Que stood under the tree and picked the persimmons they could reach. They found that some persimmons had been pecked by birds, leaving holes.
"Xiaoqing, these fruits are delicious only when they are soft. The hard ones are uncomfortable in your mouth." Aque said, picking up one, "The fruits that the bird has eaten are sweeter than those that have not been eaten."
"You can't eat it." Yao Xiaoqing stopped her, "Birds will eat anything. If it pecks at an insect just before pecking at the persimmon, it will be poisonous and cause trouble."
Ah Que held the persimmon and imagined the scene of a bird holding a long worm in its mouth. He shuddered and looked at her resentfully, "Xiao Qing, I don't dare to eat what you said."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at her frowning bitter melon face and laughed secretly, "You're right if you don't dare to eat it. Find those hard fruits with bright fruits. When you get back, I will cover the persimmons for you and make persimmon cakes for you to eat."
Ah Que happily agreed, climbed up the tree and stepped on the trunk, shaking it, and the persimmons fell like hailstones.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the monkey-like bird and shook his head with a smile.
Jiang Li came down from the tree with a basket on his back, "Xiaoqing, it's almost done. Let Heiba bring someone to pick it tomorrow."