Chapter 218 Surprise

The small valley on the side of the unknown mountain peak has a total radius of about three miles. Because it is on a cliff, even explorers do not want to visit, and no one digs plants. Growing in the grass are octagonal lotus, double-sided acupuncture, single-sided acupuncture, hydrangeas, flying dragon palm blood and other medicinal materials.

Even though some medicinal materials have been collected, they can’t hold up 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 some at the edge of the forest. A few Coptis chinensis trees.

Coptis chinensis is the kind of coptis that "dumb people eat coptis". 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 in a patch of grass with rocks: 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 hoists in the Taihang Mountains. They are all several decades old. Those over a hundred years old are hard to find. Those over two decades old are rare.

Classmate Le Xiao found several golden-threaded hanging gourds, all aged from ten to thirty or forty years old. They were not the variety she wanted. What she found this time was the type she was looking for.

A small mountain valley is inaccessible. 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 can be directly used as medicine.

After 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, and cut off some of the vines, leaving only a length of one foot long. Remove the rocks and dig with a hoe.

The golden thread hanging hoist likes to grow in piles of rocks, and it 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 The roots and stems are bunched 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 or long 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 string of bells.

After shaking off the soil and putting 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.

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 to be washed. Calabash, move back into space.

When she sat down to rest, she belatedly realized that she had not eaten anything for lunch.Xi, with a face wrinkled into a bitter gourd, picked black tiger fruits and August fried fruits while holding a hungry stomach.

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, and their growth cycle is three to four months. The soybeans and peanuts planted a few days ago mature after seven or eight days of growth. The soybeans were harvested this morning, but the peanuts are still there. The reason why Harvest so quickly because it is fueled by well water.

The peanuts have been growing for half a day, and 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. Just pull them out one by one. When the seedlings come out, their 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, Le Xiaoxiao 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 on the medicine pile. There is a huge pile on the ridge of the fields.

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. Go back to the cave and bring out the tools 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 longest honeycomb with her hand. There is such a huge difference in height between the person and the cave, so she can only Build a scaffolding and step on it to get the honey.

Even though she was smart and clever, she still couldn’t figure out how to make a suitable shelf, and she was depressed to death. Why didn’t she get an alloy double-sided ladder to store space?

If there is a double-sided ladder that can be extended and folded, 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 could only explore on her own, piece it together, dismantle it, disassemble it and reassemble it, over and over again, and finally managed to find a set of tripods to use. Made of homemade scaffolding.

It looks a bit ugly, but as long as it works, you can climb it 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, Le Xiao’s classmate 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 the small hoe and climbed up the hillside to dig beside the woods. medicinal materials.

　When the sun set, she first took a bath and washed 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 to avoid burning in the wild. Mountain, 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. The pot looks like it has been regularly grilled.

When she bought the pot, handsome guy Liu was there, knowing that she was going to take it to the wild to cook porridge and make medicine. If the bottom of the pot was clean when she returned, it would not be good if handsome guy Liu saw it. explained.

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. I sat down and made a special tool: take a piece of raw material with an empty space in the middle. The tree tube is stuffed with crushed dry moss, grass clippings, and tree powder, and compacted.

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 rattan fabric around her waist. He made a small bag, 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, which are ignited when encountering red charcoal, emitting wisps of smoke.

Le Yun took a small tool, climbed up 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 cut, put the small tool upright in the small pocket tied on the waist, and fold the knife in the left hand Go to your right hand and hold the knife flat against the top surface of the hole to cut the honeycomb.

A 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 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. 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 will make some horizontal honeycombs to surround the center.

In fact, every few yearsHoney once is good for the hive. 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, cut off the old hive. It is equivalent to helping them do a general cleaning.

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 honeycomb in the center is filled with honey, and the honeycomb at the top is caramel color.

When the honeycomb is newly made, it is milky white and very tender. As it ages, the color becomes 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 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 threw away the knife in a hurry, 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 bee stings. 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. , bees would not take the initiative to sting her. In grandpa's words, she was born to be related to bees.

Relying on her 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. During the most dangerous months just after birth, I often took honey when I grew up. Until my grandma passed away, I would eat the honey that grandma found for me as a health supplement every year for a month or two.

Now, she is in good health, but her grandparents have passed away one after another, leaving her with only endless thoughts.

If you want to support someone but your loved ones are no longer there, there is no greater sorrow in life than being together.

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 take revenge when she had enough ability, when she could protect herself, and take revenge. Help them avenge themselves, continue the legacy of the Le family, and pass on the words and deeds of her grandparents to the next generation.

Removing the honeycomb requires patience and carefulness, that is, cutting off the honeycomb without damaging other honeycombs to minimize bee casualties.

Le Yun carefully cut off the centermost piece of honeycomb, and then moved the queen bee lying on one piece of honeycomb to the most edge piece of honeycomb. Then, the bees rushed to protect the queen bee. Swarms are removed from several patches of honeycomb in the center of the hive.

There are no dense bees, making it easier to move aroundBefore the bees dispersed, she cut off a dozen pieces of the honeycomb as quickly as possible, removed the wax on the stone wall, and then sent the bees still on the removed honeycomb back to the hive and collected them. Tools, climb off the shelf.

She took away more than a dozen pieces of honeycomb, a piece of the huge hive, and a little more than one-third of the total amount. The amount of honey left was enough, even if the bees were not Work is enough to last for half a year.

After extinguishing the small tools used to repel bees, and baking the clothes in a circle of earth 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 Cover the honey in the bucket, then go for a walk in the medicine field, sit down and 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.

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, 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 I fell into meditation, suddenly the golden lights that were always flashing between my eyebrows merged into one, like a small sun hanging between my eyebrows, and the light shone down into my 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 strange force traveled from the Dantian to the limbs, through the hands, feet, and top of the head, and finally returned. Dantian, and then the strange power repeated the previous route, returned to Dantian, and repeated the previous steps, again and again, and went through thirty-six cycles. There was no movement in Dantian, but the light between the eyebrows was still there. Hanging quietly without falling.

Le Yun opened her eyes from meditating, and countless huge question marks popped up in her heart. Is this... a 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, the light between the eyebrows will shine on the Dantian. That is to say, the path between the Dantian and the Ajna Palace is opened, and the upper and lower directions are used to guide the true energy to flow throughout the body.

Confused.

She was completely confused. Why did the martial arts practice that was mentioned become a cultivation method for cultivators?

If she had previously suspected that the martial arts were being sold as dog-meat, now she is 100% convinced that the martial arts internal skills and mental methods mentioned in the book are actually the basic skills for cultivators.

After staring blankly at the air for a long time, Le Yun rubbed her eyebrows, calmed down, turned over and got up, touched the flashlight, turned it on and ran to find the jade slip, and found the jade slip in the pile of items. Touching one by one, when I touched one of them, my fingers seemed to be sucked, and I felt a cool and hot feeling.Mysterious power surged into his arms like electricity and went straight to his brain.

At that moment, she kept praying: Gongfa, Gongfa... important things must be said countless times!