Rebirth 78, marry Qingmei as my wife

Chapter 276 There is too much Gastrodia elata, it hurts my waist.

After setting up camp, the four people were not in a hurry to catch forest frogs.

This is not the best time to catch wood frogs.

Although the wood frog is lying there lazily, it looks like it is easy to catch, but in fact, this thing is not easy to catch at all.

Wood frogs are agile and have strong jumping ability. They can jump two to three meters and can jump continuously.

Therefore, daytime is not the best time to catch wood frogs, the best time is at night.

Liu Hongjun took out the marching stove from his backpack. After setting it up, he told Dashan and Shitou: "You two go get some firewood and come back."

He carried a bucket and went to the river to fetch water.

The water in this river is crystal clear, definitely cleaner than any mineral water sold outside, and you can drink it with confidence.

While Liu Hongjun and the other three were busy, Qian Shengli was not idle either. He took a net and soon caught five or six forest frogs.

There is also a big black fish.

"Red Army, look at this black fish. It weighs seven or eight pounds."

"Then let's eat it for lunch!" Liu Hongjun stepped forward to take the big black fish and took it to the river to kill the fish.

"It's just that these forest frogs are not easy to catch. I thought I would eat them first! But it took me a long time to catch five or six of them." Qian Shengli lamented.

This is the time when wood frogs are most delicious. Wood frogs have been hungry all winter. Their stomachs are empty and there is no dirt at all. After cleaning the surface, they can put them directly into the pot, add yellow sauce and stew them, which is called a It's delicious, it's tender, even tenderer than a young rooster's chicken that's less than a year old.

My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Of course, the best thing about wood frog is wood frog oil, also called snow clam oil.

It's the female wood frog, also called the female bun. After the fallopian tube of the female bun is dried, it becomes the wood frog oil.

However, wood frog oil needs to be harvested in autumn. Wood frogs at this time are a delicacy.

"It's okay, wait till night!" Liu Hongjun said with a smile.

The best way to catch wood frogs is to shine them with a flashlight. Once you shine a flashlight on them, the wood frogs will immediately become obedient.

In later generations, in order to catch forest frogs, some people adopted a desperate method. Taking advantage of the special habit of forest frogs going up the mountain in spring and coming down the mountain in autumn, they set up dry traps on the way down the mountain in advance.

Hanliangzi uses plastic films to set up obstacles where forest frogs must pass when they enter the river. The forest frogs cannot jump high enough to pass through this plastic film. They will always linger along the way and then fall into the deep pits dug in advance by the frog capturers. Eventually captured easily.

This kind of capture method is a desperate method.

On the one hand, young forest frogs cannot pass through and return to the mountains to freeze to death in the mountains in winter. On the other hand, a large number of captured forest frogs cannot reach the river bed. There will be no forest frogs to lay eggs in the next spring, and the number of forest frogs in the mountain forests will plummet. .

In later generations, there were ruthless people who could surround a mountain with bamboo sticks just to catch forest frogs.

With this method, a mountain of forest frogs can be caught and exterminated in less than two years.

Naturally, Liu Hongjun and the others would not use this desperate method, but would use a stupid but more effective method to catch forest frogs.

"Brother Red Army, Uncle Shengli!" At this time, Dashan ran over with excitement on his face.

"What's wrong?" Qian Shengli raised his head and asked.

"Look!" Dashan stretched out his hand to show Liu Hongjun and Qian Shengli.

"Have you found Gastrodia elata?"

"Yeah! We saw a piece of dead branch that looked like Gastrodia elata, so we dug it up. It was all covered with Gastrodia elata, densely packed in piles." Dashan said with a grin.

"Yes, you two have done a great job!

After dinner, we dig gastrodia elata first, and in the evening, we eat wood frog stewed with gastrodia elata!

After eating, we continued catching forest frogs in the evening. Liu Hongjun laughed.

"Don't finish the meal, Red Army, you are responsible for cooking. We will dig Gastrodia elata first. You will call us when you prepare the meal!" After Qian Shengli finished speaking, he took the mountains and stones to dig Gastrodia elata.

This winter, there was no big profit, Qian Shengli couldn't wait to show off his skills.

After Liu Hongjun killed the snakeheaded fish, he chopped the snakeheaded fish into four to five centimeter pieces and washed them with water.

Then heat the pot again, add yellow sauce, stir-fry until fragrant, add black fish and stir-fry, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then switch to low heat and simmer.

After stewing the black fish, Liu Hongjun took out the sticky bean buns and placed them next to the fire and grilled them.

Last year, he didn't have sticky bean buns at home, so he couldn't bring them with him when he went into the mountains.

During the Chinese New Year this year, I made a jar of sticky bean buns, and I was finally able to enjoy them.

Sticky bean buns are very satisfying. Even a big eater like Liu Hongjun can only eat seven or ten, and he will be full.

After cooking, Liu Hongjun took out the dog food he brought and fed the dog.

Then he washed his hands and greeted everyone to eat.

After finishing the meal, Liu Hongjun washed the dishes and chopsticks, took the fodder from the carriage, fed the horses, and then took the shovel to dig Gastrodia elata.

This shady hillside is covered with Gastrodia elata.

There are two types of propagation of Gastrodia elata. One is vegetative propagation, which is rhizome propagation. The Gastrodia elata rhizomes formed in the first year will sprout from the rhizomes in the second year.

The second type is sexual reproduction, which is the seed reproduction of Gastrodia elata.

Therefore, once Gastrodia elata is found in deep mountains and old forests, it is often found in a large area. The entire hillside or the entire ravine is covered with Gastrodia elata.

The four people had a great time digging. The entire hillside was covered with gastrodia elata. Digging gastrodia elata was the same as digging potatoes, but it was a hundred times more fun than digging potatoes.

The happy time made the four of them forget the time, and they didn't realize it until dark.

"Ouch! What's my waist!" Qian Shengli let out a scream.

I just bent down to dig and pick up Gastrodia elata, but I didn't even straighten my waist all afternoon.

He suddenly felt like his waist was broken, and he screamed out in pain.

"Don't move!" Liu Hongjun looked up and found that Qian Shengli didn't look like he was pretending. His face turned pale and he quickly ran over to help him.

"Ouch! My waist..." Qian Shengli was half-hunched up, but he dared not move.

It feels like it's broken when it moves.

Liu Hongjun stepped forward, holding Qian Shengli's waist with one hand and supporting his shoulder with the other.

He stretched out his hand and pressed Qian Shengli's waist. After checking a few times, he found that Qian Shengli had reached his waist.

After all, Qian Shengli was no longer young. He had been bending down to work all afternoon, and then he stood up suddenly and accidentally slipped his waist.

"Brother Shengli, stand up straight slowly." Liu Hongjun said.

After Qian Shengli stood up straight, Liu Hongjun began to massage his waist muscles.

In fact, flashing to the waist is mainly caused by muscle strain.

If you bend over for a long time, the psoas muscles remain in one state for a long time, and then suddenly change state, the muscles cannot bear it, and strains will naturally occur.

Liu Hongjun massaged him for a while, allowing his muscles to relax from the tense state. The pain was naturally relieved, and his originally distorted expression also softened.

"Dashan, Shitou, you pack up the Gastrodia elata and take it back." Liu Hongjun told Dashan and Shitou, and then supported Qian Shengli back to the camp.