The small valley on the middle of the unnamed mountain has a total radius of about three miles. Because it is on a cliff, even explorers do not want to visit it, and no one collects plants. Among the trees and grass grows an octagonal lotus with two-sided needles and one-sided needles.
Needles, hydrangeas, flying dragon palm blood and other medicinal materials.
Even though some of the medicinal materials had been collected, they couldn't stand the age of the medicinal materials in the small valley. Le Yun didn't stop, excitedly walking and digging, collecting soil and moving it back to the space, and also dug out a few Coptis chinensis trees on the edge of the forest.
Coptis chinensis is the kind of coptis liane that "dumb people eat coptis liane". It is also found in the Taihang Mountains. Even if it is not the best variety, it is more than a little bit better than the ones in the medicinal material planting base.
After leaving the dense forest, she crawled into a grassy slope with sparse trees, and found the medicinal material she was looking for in a patch of grass with stones: golden thread hanging gourd.
Golden thread hanging gourds have herbs and herbaceous vines. What she is looking for is the herbaceous climbing vine variety, and there are several herbaceous vines, with slightly different varieties and slightly different functions.
There are many kinds of gold-threaded hanging gourds in the Taihang Mountains, all of which are several decades old. It is difficult to find those that are over a hundred years old. Those that are more than two decades old are rare.
Classmate Le Xiao found several golden-threaded hanging gourds, all of which were between ten and thirty or forty years old. They were not the varieties she wanted. What she found this time was the type she was looking for.
A small mountain valley is inaccessible to people, and a golden-threaded hanging gourd is a full 150 years old. It does not need to be moved to a space medicinal field to increase the medicinal effect, and it can be directly used as medicine.
After finding the medicinal materials she had been looking for, Le Yun happily cut down the weeds, followed the vines to find the vine roots, cut off some vines, leaving only a foot-long section, moved away the stones, and dug with a hoe.
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The golden thread hanging gourd likes to grow in piles of rocks. It often digs up stones. It took a while to find the first gourd. The reason why the golden thread hanging gourd is called this is because of its rhizomes, which look like when strung together.
A bunch of gourds.
Le Xiao's classmate worked tirelessly and kept digging along the roots for a long time. Finally, they dug out all the roots. There were more than ten roots in total. Each root produced round, long, flat, or gourd-shaped stems at short intervals.
, there are as many as there are, there are twenty as many as there are, and there are more than ten as few as few, and together they form a big group, like a string of bells.
After shaking off the soil and setting it aside, Le Yun kept busy and dug two small trees into a small space for seedlings, leaving four trees for them to multiply in place.
Fill the pit back, put away the tools and medicine, return to the waterhole again, pull out a large bunch of gourds from the space, cut off the roots of the long stems, and put the roots back into the space. After cleaning the gourds, move them back to the space.
When she sat down to rest, she belatedly realized that she hadn't eaten anything at noon. With her face wrinkled like a bitter melon, she picked black tiger fruits and August fried fruits while holding her stomach growling with hunger.
After a hearty meal, I saw that it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. I rolled up my sleeves and trousers, took off my shoes, and went to the medicinal field to collect peanuts.
Soybeans and peanuts are annuals, with a growth cycle of three to four months. The soybeans and peanuts planted a few days ago matured after seven or eight days of growth. The soybeans were harvested this morning, and the peanuts were still left. The reason why they were harvested so quickly was because they used well water.
encouraged.
After half a day of growing peanuts, the seedlings are a little wilted and it’s time to pick them.
The soil in the medicine field is soft, so you don’t need to dig with a hoe. You just pull them out one by one. You don’t fertilize the peanuts, and they are not arrogant. They grow very vigorously. The seedlings are almost half a person tall. When you pull out a seedling, the roots are full of fruits.
The shells are heavy in the hands, and each seedling can pick about four or five kilograms of peanuts.
At the beginning, I planted about half a catty of bells. When it came time to harvest, Xiao Le's classmate was in tragedy. He was so tired that his back ached. In the end, he bent so hard that his waist almost broke before he plucked them all and piled them on the ridge of the medicine field. The yards were so big.
of a pile.
To comfort my tired little waist, I peeled a few peanuts to try them out. They were sweet, crispy, and had a natural light flavor.
After eating a few handfuls of peanuts, Le Yun had no time to play, so she picked up a hatchet to make room, went to the woods to cut a few small tree poles, chopped them into sections, and cut a handful of vines. After returning to the cave, she took out the tools and built her own
Wooden rack.
The shelf needs to be elevated for collecting honey.
The cave is three to four meters high, and she is only about 1.5 meters. She can probably touch the top of the longest honeycomb with her hand. There is such a big difference in height between the person and the cave, so she can only build scaffolding and step on it.
Go get honey.
Even though she is smart and clever, she still has no idea how to make a suitable shelf, and she is depressed to death. Why didn't she get an alloy double-sided ladder to store the space?
If there is a double-sided ladder that can be extended and closed, you can just unfold the ladder and climb up to work. When not in use, you can fold it up to free up space, which is convenient and saves trouble.
Unfortunately, there is no point in thinking about it anymore. You need to be self-reliant now.
Because she was a novice and had no experience in making ladders or shelves, she had no choice but to explore, dismantle, dismantle and reassemble herself. She repeated it many times and tossed it over and over again, until she came up with a set of homemade scaffolding made of tripods.
It looks a bit ugly, but as long as it works, I climbed up and tested it myself. Fortunately, it can bear the weight of a person. You can also put a bucket or basin on it, and the height is about the same.
After completing a big project, Mr. Le Xiao went to collect dry firewood, hay, and dried moss, and piled them together at the entrance of the cave. Since it was not yet evening, he had nothing to do, so he climbed up the hillside with a hoe and dug for medicinal materials near the woods.
When the sun set, she first went to take a bath and wash her clothes, then returned to the entrance of the cave to collect the mushrooms on a silver plate that had been dried outside, made a fire to make food, and dried her clothes by the fire.
This is also the first time I have made a fire to cook since I went out. I only lived on space products for the past few days. Firstly, I am lazy, and secondly, I have to find a suitable place to make a fire in the mountains, so as not to burn the mountains by wildfire, and I am afraid that the smoke will be caught by people.
Discover.
While the food was being cooked, I filled the newly bought milk pot with medicine and put it on the fire. Burn the bottom black, wipe it for a while, and then burn it again. Repeat several times. The newly bought milk pot looks like one that has been regularly put on the fire for barbecue.
Look.
When she bought the pot, Handsome Liu was there, knowing that she was taking it out to cook porridge and medicinal purposes. If the bottom of the pot was clean when she returned home, it would be difficult to explain if Handsome Liu saw it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After eating the first meal of rice in many days, I packed up my tools, moved the mosquito-absorbing grass from the space and put it in the cave to let it eat mosquitoes, and sat down to make special tools by myself: take a
Cut the hollow tree tube in the middle, stuff it with crushed dry moss, grass clippings, tree powder, and compact it.
It gets dark early in the mountains, and night quickly covers the top of the mountain. There is still a little light outside, but it is dark inside the cave.
When it got dark, Leyun also started to take action. She moved the shelf under the honeycomb, put a flashlight on her head, wrapped a towel around her neck, tied up her sleeves, tied a small bag made of rattan around her waist, and picked up two
The charcoal left after burning a piece of firewood is put into a small tool made of a raw tree stem.
The raw tree stems are filled with dry moss and tree grass powder, which are ignited when encountering red charcoal, emitting plumes of smoke.
Leyun took a small tool, climbed onto the scaffolding, put on latex gloves on both hands, took out a stainless steel bucket and a washbasin, held a knife in her left hand, and smoked a bee with a small tool in her right hand.
The honeycomb is huge, and the bees do not completely cover the entire nest. Wherever their king is, they will mostly surround it, usually gathering at the top of the nest.
When bees encounter heat and smoke, they give way one after another, drive away some bees at the bottom of the hive, find the point where the knife is inserted, put the small tool upright in the small pocket tied around the waist, pass the knife in the left hand to the right, and press the knife flat against the hole
Cut honeycomb on top.
The honeycomb is composed of pieces of honeycomb that look like a fan. The honey fan surface is covered with hexagonal cylindrical holes, which can be used as a honey storage warehouse or a nursery for bee breeding.
Bees are naturally smart and will separate the combs where honey is stored and the combs where brood bees are kept. Ordinary honey is also separated from royal jelly. Royal jelly is the food for the queen bee and young bees when they first pupate. Other bees eat honey.
When bees make a nest, they first make the first honeycomb, and then arrange it on the left and right sides. When the family business is large, they make some horizontal honeycombs to surround the center.
In fact, it is good for the hive to collect honey every few years. Bee hives that have been there for several years may have bugs. Once bugs destroy the hive, the bees will have to abandon their beautiful home and find a new place to settle down. When collecting honey,
Cutting off the old honeycombs is equivalent to doing a general cleaning for them.
Le Yun carefully cut off a horizontal piece of honeycomb. There was not much honey. She put it in the basin and cut the second piece. She cut off five pieces of honeycomb in a row before she saw the honeycomb in the center. The honeycomb in the center of the honeycomb was full of honey.
The honeycomb at the top is caramel color.
When the honeycomb is newly made, it is milky white and very tender. As it ages, it becomes more like honey, and as it ages, the color becomes darker.
The bees gathered at the top part to provide some space for Leyun to cut the honeycomb. She smoked away some bees, held the honeycomb with her hands, and used a narrow-backed watermelon knife to cut the roots of the honeycomb.
The honeycomb was full of honey and was too heavy. When it was cut in half, it broke by itself. She was so frightened that she quickly threw away the knife, held the honeycomb, and carefully moved all the bees to the stone wall, put it down, and cut another section of the honeycomb again.
She is not afraid of bees stinging her. When she was a child, she would fetch honey from her grandfather. The bees would chase her and sting her, but would not sting her. Even if they crawled onto her face, as long as she did not catch or press them, the bees would not sting her.
, as grandpa said, she was born to be related to bees.
Due to her natural affinity with bees, every time she went up the mountain to find a bee nest, her grandfather would guide her and pick it herself, thus training her to be an expert at harvesting honey.
Of course, she had also eaten a lot of honey. She had been weak since she was a child, and most of the medicines her grandfather gave her were based on honey. I heard that she was lucky to have honey to help her survive the most dangerous days just after she was born.
Months later, when I grew up, I often took honey. Until my grandma passed away, I would eat the honey that my grandma found as a health supplement for a month or two every year.
Now, she is healthy and worry-free, but her grandparents have passed away one after another, leaving her with only endless thoughts.
If you want to support someone but your loved one is not there, there is no greater sorrow in life than being a sibling.
Thinking of her grandparents, Le Yun felt melancholy, pursed her lips, and silently collected honey. Her grandparents had passed away, and all she could do was to avenge them when she had enough ability, when she could protect herself and take revenge, and continue the Le family.
The incense passed down the words and deeds of her grandparents to the next generation.
Removing the honeycomb requires patience and care, that is, cutting off the honeycomb without damaging other honeycombs to minimize bee casualties.
Le Yun carefully cut off the center piece of the honeycomb, and then moved the queen bee lying on one piece of hive to the most edge piece of hive. Then, the bees rushed to protect the queen bee, and the swarm of bees moved from several pieces in the center of the hive.
Cell removal.
Without the dense crowd of bees, it was much easier to move. Before the bees dispersed, she cut off a dozen pieces of honeycomb as quickly as possible, removed the sticky wax on the stone wall, and then removed the remaining honeycombs.
The bees on top are sent back to the hive, collect their tools, and climb off the shelf.
She took away more than a dozen pieces of honeycomb, and a piece of the huge hive was taken away. The total amount of large pieces was just over a third, and the amount of honey left was enough. Even if the bees don't work, it would be enough for the first half of the year.
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After extinguishing the small tools used to repel bees and baking the clothes in a circle of soil around the fire, Le Yun quickly returned to the space, squeezed out the honeycombs that did not have much honey, packed them in mineral water bottles, and covered the honey in the bucket. However,
Then I walked around the medicinal field and sat down to read a book.
It took several hours to scan a book, meditate on time at eleven o'clock, and go to bed at one o'clock.
That night, she slept very soundly. In her dream, she heard several long and loud bell-like sounds, and also heard the familiar sound of reading. The sound was ancient and mulberry, melodious and clear, and the sound reached her ears like every word.
Guitar pearls have endless mysteries.
At the end of the dream, a beam of golden light broke through the sky and penetrated into her head. So when she woke up, Le Yun stared at the dark air in a daze in silence. After a long while, she sat cross-legged and meditated, and fell into meditation.
After that, suddenly, several golden lights that always flashed between the eyebrows merged into one, like a small sun hanging between the eyebrows, and the light shone down into the Dantian.
At that time, the Dantian became brighter, and there was a scorching light from the circle that reflected the light between the brows. A strange force swam from the Dantian to the limbs, through the hands, feet, and top of the head, and finally returned to the Dantian. After that, the strange power returned to the Dantian again.
Repeat the previous route again, return to the Dantian, and repeat the previous steps again and again, after going through the cycle thirty-six times, there is no movement in the Dantian, and the light between the eyebrows still hangs quietly.
Le Yun opened her eyes from meditating, and countless huge question marks popped up in her heart. Is this... the hanging photo?
The first step of cultivating immortality is to build the foundation for a hundred days. During the perfect period, you will look down and see a golden light between the eyebrows; the second step is to suspend the light, which is the light between the eyebrows shining on the Dantian, which is the road between the Dantian and the Ajna Palace.
Once it is opened, the upper and lower parts are used as guides to guide the true energy to flow throughout the body.
stupid.
She was completely confused. Why did the martial arts practice that was mentioned become a cultivation method for cultivators?
If before she had doubted that the martial arts were being sold as dog-meat, now she is 100% convinced that the martial arts internal skills and mental methods are actually the basic skills for cultivators.
She stared blankly for a long time, Le Yun rubbed her eyebrows, calmed down, got up, touched the flashlight, turned it on and ran to find the jade slips. She found the jade slips in the pile of items and touched them one by one.
When I touched one of them, my fingers seemed to be sucked, and a mysterious force that was both cold and hot rushed into my arm like an electric current and went straight to my brain.
At that moment, she kept praying: "Gongfa, Gongfa..." Important things must be said countless times!
