Chapter 103 Navigation Update
In early spring, the earth gradually wakes up from its slumber, and the sun shines through the thin clouds.
Plants can't wait to push their way out of the soil and grow towards the sun. Small flower buds hang on the branches, waiting to bloom in the spring.
Buds appeared on the branches. As the spring breeze blew, they grew stronger. Overnight, the tree was full of buds and the young leaves swayed in the wind.
Standing on tiptoe, she stretched out her rough hands, broke off a handful of tender leaves and threw them into the basket on her back. Lin Cuihe pulled out the hatchet from her waist and chopped down the branches that were too high, chopping off several thorny branches and dropping them to the ground.
Lin Xiatao squatted down and picked off the tender buds and leaves from the branches on the ground and threw them into the backpack.
Lin Zisu came over holding a handful of bracken and put it in the backpack next to her. She squatted down, broke off the thorny dragon buds on the branches, and threw them into the backpack containing the thorny dragon buds.
Lin Xiatao raised her head and looked at Lin Zisu and said, "Sister, don't break this. Be careful not to prick your hand. Go find some bracken."
"It's okay, be careful not to prick your hands." Lin Zisu helped to quickly pick the prickly buds off the branches.
Lin Cuihe was picking the prickly ash from the low branches and cutting down the tall branches directly.
The scientific name of this plant is Aralia, which belongs to the Araliaceae family and the Aralia genus. It is a shrub or tree, 2-5 meters high, rarely up to 8 meters, with a breast diameter of 10-15 centimeters; the bark is gray, with sparse and strong straight thorns, and the twigs are usually light gray-brown.
When picking the thorny dragon buds on the branches, cutting off its branches will not affect its growth. Cutting its branches can prevent its branches from growing too high and being difficult to pick.
There are many names for the thorny dragon bud, and the names vary from place to place. The thorny dragon bud is rich in nutrients and is known as tree ginseng.
Every spring, the thorny dragon buds on its branches are a delicacy on the people's tables. It has a unique fragrance and is delicious and tasty. There are many ways to cook it. Lin Zisu likes to stir-fry the thorny dragon buds with bacon the most, which is a super dish to go with rice.
Lin Zisu also loves fried bracken with bacon. Looking at the bracken in the basket, I can go back and use the wild boar meat that has been smoked for more than a month to stir-fry a bowl of bracken and smoked pork to try the taste.
Lin Zisu swallowed, picked up the basket, changed places, and continued to hunt in the wild.
"Be careful and hold on tight." Lin Cuihe warned Lin Xianshan and Lin Xianhe who were standing on the toon tree.
"What tender Chinese toon! Tsk... what a pity there are no eggs!" Lin Zisu said regretfully...
Walking towards the basket under the tree, which contained a basket of tender Chinese toon leaves, Lin Zisu looked up at the two people on the tree and said, "The tree is completely bald... Be careful, don't take the leaves on the top of the tree."
Lin Xianshan grabbed a handful of Chinese toon and threw it under the tree, "I know."
Lin Zisu picked up the toon that fell on the ground and sniffed it hard. People who like to eat toon find the smell very pleasant. She picked up all the toon scattered on the ground and put it into the basket.
Dahei wagged his big tail, ran back and forth, looked around, sniffed around, no one knew what he was busy with. Sometimes he would come to the side of someone's legs and rub against them, and sometimes he would run away again. Every time Lin Zisu saw him running over, she would stroke his fur.
Shen Xianglan and her sisters-in-law came over from the other side, carrying baskets on their backs.
"Mom, what good stuff did you pick?" Lin Zisu walked over and rummaged through her mother's backpack. There were tender green heart-shaped leaves and white and tender roots.
"Ah! Houttuynia cordata! So tender!" Lin Zisu picked one up and smelled it, wow! She was addicted.
People who like Houttuynia cordata like it very much, while people who don’t like it can’t stand the smell of Houttuynia cordata, let alone eat it.
Lin Zisu's family of four likes plants with strange smells, such as coriander, houttuynia, onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, and prickly ash. In this regard, there is nothing they cannot smell or eat.
Shen Xianglan: "I just came across a patch of them, and my hands and waist hurt from digging them out!"
"Houttuynia cordata is a great thing! It can be eaten as a vegetable or used as medicine!" Lin Zisu raised an eyebrow at her mother, knowing that her mother dug so much Houttuynia cordata for more than just to eat it as a vegetable.
"It can also be used as medicine! I was wondering why my sister-in-law asked us to dig so much! It can be eaten and used as medicine, great!" Lu pointed to her backpack, which was also full of Houttuynia cordata.
Spring is great, everything comes back to life, and all kinds of plants start to grow. Everyone no longer has to worry about food, as the radishes and cabbages of a winter are unbearable.
Their people are everywhere in the mountains. Today is a sunny day, and those who can go up the mountain are going up to hunt.
In the afternoon, everyone returned with a full load. Passing by a pond, they saw a large patch of water celery that was so tender that water could be squeezed out of it.
Everyone worked together and soon they had picked a lot of water celery. Water celery grows fast, so if you only pick the tender parts and don't pull out the roots, it won't take long for a large patch to grow again.
At about 4 p.m., everyone returned to the yard. Those who stayed in the house looked at everyone carrying baskets full of green wild vegetables, their eyes full of joy.
The fresh and tender wild vegetables are so delicious.
Lin Zisu counted the types of harvest today, including spiny dragon grass, toon, houttuynia cordata, water celery, wild onion, and shepherd's purse. It was so rich!
"Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!" The RV's horn sounded, neither hurried nor slow.
Lin Zisu was talking to her mother about whether to have fried bracken with smoked meat or fried dragon chestnut with smoked meat tonight, or how about having a bowl of each to try.
The horn sounded, and Lin Zisu was so scared that she rushed towards the RV reflexively.
The car has just started, the 20D map navigation is updated, the arrow points to the way we came, and the D map increases the radius by meters.
"Ah! The 70D map is meters in radius!!" Lin Zisu exclaimed, covering her face!
Happiness comes too fast, like a tornado in an instant!
Lin Youcai stood outside the car, panting, and knocked on the door, "Girl, what's wrong?"
Lin Zisu opened the car window and said, "Dad, it's time for us to set off."
Lin Youcai hurried to discuss it with everyone, and after the discussion, everyone immediately got busy.
Each family's carriages and carts are repaired after the New Year, and those that need repair are repaired and those that need repair are repaired.
After clearing out two carriages, they loaded the charcoal from the yard across the road onto the carriage, tied it up, and covered it with oilcloth, waterproof cloth, and straw mat.
The wild boar meat, which had been roasted for more than a month, was divided according to the number of people, 3 kilograms for each child and 4 kilograms for each adult.
There is also dried acorn tofu, which only has a few dozen kilograms. If you want to eat it, you have to deduct your work points to get it. Each person can only take one kilogram.
Spring is here, wild vegetables are everywhere, and they are not worth much. The wild vegetables I picked today, if you share them with each family, will be enough for two meals.
Take out the wooden spikes from the four deep pit traps outside the yard. Fill the pits with the soil dug out and tamp them down.
There are 4 deep pit traps, including the one outside the backyard, where a bear fell in. The other 3 traps were always empty.
They found feces on the mountain, which they didn't know whether it was wild sheep or roe deer, but they had never seen one. The traps they set on the mountain caught a few rabbits and pheasants, but nothing else.
The six charcoal-burning earthen kilns were also filled up to prevent people from falling in.
After dinner, everyone packed their luggage and went to bed early so they could set off the next morning.