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 are not willing to visit, and no one is digging for plants. Among the trees and grass, there are octagonal lotuses and two-sided needles. , single-sided needles, hydrangeas, flying dragon palm blood and other medicinal materials.
Even if some medicinal materials have been collected, they cannot hold up the age of the medicinal materials in the small valley. Le Yun did not stop, excitedly walking and digging, collecting soil and moving it back to the space, and even dug a few at the edge of the forest. Coptis chinensis.
Coptis chinensis is the kind of coptis that "dumb people eat coptis", and 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.
Exiting the dense forest, she crawled into a grassy slope with sparse trees, and found the medicinal material she was looking for, the golden thread hanging gourd, in a patch of grass with rocks.
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. Those over a hundred years old are hard to find, and those over two decades old are rare.
Le Xiaoxiao found several golden thread hanging gourds, all of which were between ten and thirty or forty years old. They were not the variety she wanted. What she found this time was the type she was looking for.
In a small mountain valley that is inaccessible to people, a golden-threaded hanging gourd is a full 150 years old. It does not need to be moved to a space medicinal field for planting to increase the medicinal effect and it can be directly used as medicine.
Finding the medicinal materials she had been looking for so hard, Le Yun happily cut down the weeds, followed the vines to find the vine roots, cut off some vines, leaving only a length of one foot long, and moved Move the rocks and dig with the hoe.
Golden thread hanging hoist likes to grow in piles of rocks, and often digs out rocks. It took a while to find the first gourd. The reason why the golden thread hanging hoist is called this is because of its roots. The stems are bunched up and strung together like a bunch of gourds.
Le Xiao’s classmates worked tirelessly and kept digging along the roots for a long time. Finally, they all were dug out. There were more than ten roots in total, and each root produced round, long or small roots at intervals. There are many flat or gourd-shaped stems, some as many as twenty, some as few as a dozen, and together they form a large mass, like a bunch of bells.
After shaking off the soil and setting it aside, Leyun kept busy, digging two small trees and throwing them into the space for seedlings, leaving four trees for them to multiply in place.
Backfill the pit, 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, put the roots back into the space, and wait for the gourds to be washed , moved back into space.
When she sat down to rest, she belatedly realized that she had not eaten anything at noon. Her face was wrinkled into a bitter gourd, and she was picking black tiger fruits and eight fruits while holding her hungry stomach. Eat fried in the moon.
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 are growingIt matures after seven or eight days of growth. The soybeans were harvested this morning, but the peanuts are still there. The reason why they were harvested so quickly was because they were grown with well water.
The peanut seedlings that have been growing for half a day are a little withered, and it is 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. Just pull them out one by one. When the seedlings come out, the roots are covered with fruit shells. They are heavy in the hand. Each seedling can pick about four or five kilograms of peanuts.
At first, I planted about half a catty of bells. When it was time to harvest, Little Le’s classmate was in tragedy. He was so tired that his back ached. In the end, he was so bent that his waist almost broke before he plucked them all and piled them in the medicine field. There is a huge pile on the ridge of the field.
To comfort my tired little waist, I peeled a few peanuts to try them. They are sweet, crispy and have a natural light fragrance.
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 down a few small tree poles, chopped them into sections, and cut a handful of vines. Then bring out the tools from the cave and build the wooden frame yourself.
The shelf needs to be elevated for collecting honey.
The cave is three to four meters high, and she is only a little over 1.5 meters. She can probably touch the top of the honeycomb with the longest honeycomb with her hand. There is such a huge height difference between the person and the cave, so she can only reach A scaffolding, stepping on the scaffolding to get honey.
Although she is smart and clever, she is also at a loss to make a suitable shelf. She is depressed to death. Why doesn’t she get an alloy double-sided ladder to store space?
What if There are double-sided ladders that can be extended and closed. 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 is a novice and has no experience in making ladders or shelves, she can only explore on her own, put it together, dismantle it, disassemble it and reassemble it, repeating it many times, tossing and tossing, and finally making a set of tripods. homemade scaffolding.
It looks a bit ugly, but as long as it works, you can climb up and test it yourself. 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 turned a small hoe and climbed up the hillside and dug for medicinal materials in the woods. .
When the sun set, she first took a bath and washed her clothes, then returned to the entrance of the cave to take back 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 need to find a suitable place to make a fire in the mountains to avoid burning the mountains. , and also afraid that the smoke will be discovered.
While making food, fill the newly bought milk pot with medicine and set it on fire. Burn the bottom black, rub it for a while, and then burn it again. Repeat several times. A newly bought milk pot. It looks like it's often grilled on a fire.
When she bought the pot, Handsome Liu was there and knew that she was going to take it to the wild to cook porridge and medicinal purposes., if the bottom of the pot is clean when you go back, it will be difficult to explain if Handsome Liu sees it.
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 so that it could eat mosquitoes. I sat down and made special tools to take out a section of the hollow tree tube. , stuff crushed dry moss, grass clippings, and tree powder into it, and compact it.
It gets dark early in the mountains, and night quickly covers the top of the mountain. There is still a 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, and tied a woven rattan around her waist. In his small bag, he picked up two pieces of charcoal left after burning firewood and put them into a small tool made of raw tree stems.
The raw tree stems are filled with dry moss and tree grass powder. When encountering the red charcoal, they are ignited and wisps of smoke are emitted.
Le Yun took the small tool and climbed onto the scaffolding. Wearing latex gloves on both hands, she took out a stainless steel bucket and a washbasin. She held a knife in her left hand and a smoked 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 cut, put the small tool upright in the small pocket tied on the waist, and hand over the knife in the left hand With your right hand, hold the knife flat against the top surface of the hole to cut the honeycomb.
A honeycomb is composed of honeycombs that look like fans. The honey fan surface is covered with hexagonal cylindrical holes, which can be used as a honey storage warehouse or a nursery for bees.
Bees are naturally smart and will separate the honey combs and the combs of brood bees. Ordinary honey is also separated from royal jelly. Royal jelly is the food for the queen bee and the young bees when they first pupate. Others 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 will make some horizontal honeycombs to surround the center.
In fact, it is good for the hive to collect honey every few years. 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 one. They want to settle down in the place where they live. Cutting off the old honeycombs when collecting honey is also equivalent to doing a general cleaning for them.
Le Yun carefully cut off a horizontal piece of honeycomb. There was not too much honey. She put it in the basin and then cut the second piece. After cutting five pieces of honeycomb in a row, she saw the honeycomb in the center. The center of the honeycomb The honeycombs are full of honey, and the top part of the honeycomb 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, cut a little bit of the honeycomb for Le Yun, smoked out some bees, held the honeycomb with their hands, and cut the roots of the honeycomb with a narrow-backed watermelon knife.
The honeycomb was full of honey and was too heavy. Halfway through the cut, it broke by itself. She was so frightened that she hurriedly threw away the knife, held the honeycomb, and carefully pushed all the bees onto the stone wall and put them down.Cut another section of the honeycomb again.
She is not afraid of bees stinging. 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. Bees would not take the initiative to sting her. In Grandpa's words, she was born to be related to bees.
Having a natural affinity with bees, her grandfather would guide her every time she went up the mountain to find a bee nest, and she would pick it herself, thus training her to be a little expert in harvesting honey.
Of course, she has also eaten a lot of honey. She has 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 support her life, and she was able to survive her recent illness. During the most dangerous months shortly after birth, I often took honey when I grew up. Until my grandmother passed away, I would eat the honey that my grandmother found as a health supplement for a month or two every year.
Now, she is in good health, but her grandparents have passed away one after another, leaving her with only endless thoughts.
There is no greater sorrow in life than to live with a loved one who wants to support you but is not there.
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 help when she had enough ability, when she could protect herself and take revenge. They took revenge, continued the legacy of the Le family, and passed on the words and deeds of her grandparents to the next generation.
Removing the honeycomb requires patience and care. That is to say, you need to cut off the honeycomb without damaging other honeycombs, so as to minimize bee casualties.
Le Yun carefully cut off the center of the honeycomb, and then moved the queen bee lying on one hive to the edge hive. Then, the bees rushed to protect the queen bee, and the swarm Bees were removed from several patches of honeycomb in the center of the hive.
Without the dense bees, it was much easier to move. Before the bees dispersed, she cut off a dozen honeycombs as quickly as possible, removed the sticky wax on the stone wall, and then Return the bees still on the removed honeycomb to the hive, collect the tools, and climb off the shelf.
She took away more than a dozen pieces of honeycomb, a huge piece of the hive, and a little more than a third of the total amount. The amount of honey left was enough, even if the bees did not dry up. It's enough to survive for half a year.
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 space, squeezed out the honeycombs that did not have much honey, packed them in mineral water bottles, and put them in buckets. Cover the honey inside, then go to the medicinal fields and sit down to read a book.
It takes a few hours to scan a book, meditate on time at eleven o'clock, and go to bed at one o'clock.
This 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, vicissitudes, melodious and clear. The sound is heard, the words are like pearls, and the mystery is endless.
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. After a long while, I sat cross-legged and meditated. After falling into concentration, I suddenly felt that there was something between my eyebrows.Several scattered golden lights merged into one point, 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 eyebrows. A trace of strange power traveled from the Dantian to the limbs, through the hands, feet, and top of the head, and finally returned to the Dantian. , and then the strange power repeated the previous route again, returned to Dantian, and repeated the previous steps, again and again, going through thirty-six cycles. There was no movement in Dantian, but the light between the eyebrows was still silent. Still hanging but not falling.
Le Yun opened her eyes from meditating, and countless huge question marks popped up in her heart. Is this the Xuanzhao?
The first step in cultivating immortality is to build a foundation in a hundred days. During the period of consummation, look down and see a golden light between the eyebrows; the second step is to hang the light, the light between the eyebrows shines on the Dantian, that is, the path between the Dantian and the Ajna Palace is opened, and the up and down are used as guides, causing the true energy to flow throughout the body. .
Confused.
She was completely confused. Why did the martial arts skills she said become a cultivation method for cultivators?
If she had suspected that the martial arts skills were being sold as dog meat before, , I am 100% convinced that the martial arts internal skills and mental methods mentioned in the book are actually the basic skills of cultivators.
Keeping her eyes open for a long time in confusion, Le Yun rubbed her eyebrows, calmed down, turned over, got up, touched the flashlight, turned it on, and ran to find the jade slip. She found the jade slip in the pile of items. He touched one of them one by one, and when he touched one of them, his fingers seemed to be sucked, and a mysterious force that was both cold and hot rushed into his arm like an electric current and went straight to his brain.
At that moment, she kept praying and saying important things about the exercises countless times