Return to the small mountain village in 1981

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Chapter 831 847: Growing by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth The next day, the three of them got up at daybreak. Zhou Yiding first went to the lumberyard in the north to ask old man Lin for help in digging agarwood stumps, while Zhou Huaian and Yang Chunyan went to the mountain cave where they had been yesterday.
Although it didn't rain in the woods in the early morning, it was foggy and the uppers of my rain boots were soon soaked by dew.

When they reached halfway up the slope, Zhou Huaian pointed out the red roots to Yang Chunyan, and the two planned to dig them up again when they went down the mountain.

They reached the top of the hill without any delay. Yang Chunyan looked at the narrow mountain cave below, which was about two or three stories high and felt that it looked like it was dug out by someone with a hoe.

Zhou Huaian patted Dahei and said, "Get down the mountain!"

Dahei turned around and ran downwards. The two men followed it, leaning on wooden sticks. With it running in front, they didn't have to worry about snakes or insects jumping out and scaring them.

When they got down, Zhou Huaian took Yang Chunyan and walked along the path they had walked yesterday. The wild grass in the valley was growing very lushly.

There are also chicken shit vine, sea sand, unknown vines with thorns, as well as sea buckthorn, myrtle, and schisandra that look like bunches of red grapes.

The Schisandra chinensis and Myrtle were ripe. Zhou Huaian used his medicine hoe to hook down a branch, picked a handful of fruits and handed them to Yang Chunyan. "I was in a hurry yesterday and didn't realize there were so many good things."

Yang Chunyan picked a bright red Schisandra chinensis fruit, put it in her mouth, and after biting through the skin, the sour taste rushed straight into her mouth, and when it touched the flesh, there was a spicy and sweet taste.

Zhou Huaian saw that her eyebrows were knitted together, "This thing tastes terrible, especially the taste after biting through the core, it tastes very strong, no wonder it is called Schisandra chinensis."

After hearing this, Yang Chunyan recalled the bitter and salty taste she had experienced after biting through the fruit core, and quickly spat out the core in her mouth. "I read in an old man's medicine book that the skin and flesh of Schisandra chinensis are sweet and sour, but after biting through the core, it tastes spicy, bitter, and salty."

"Brother Huang's restaurant uses this stuff to make wine, and quite a few people drink it. These shrubs weigh at most ten pounds. How about we pick them and dry them to make wine?"

Yang Chunyan nodded, "Sun-dried ones are not as good as shade-dried ones."

"You have the final say."

Zhou Huaian picked up the medicine hoe and hooked down the vines, and Yang Chunyan grabbed a bunch of fruits and put them in the backpack.

Schisandra genus of Schisandra family is a deciduous woody vine with slender branches, reddish brown, and lenticels. The leaves are elliptical, obovate or ovate-lanceolate, and they bloom small yellow flowers.

The medicinal part is its dried mature fruit. Schisandra chinensis is divided into "northern schisandra chinensis" and "southern schisandra chinensis". The fruit of southern schisandra chinensis is slightly larger than that of northern schisandra chinensis, but everything else is similar.

Ancient medical books call it Xuanji, Huiji, and it was first listed as a top-grade Chinese medicine in Shennong's Herbal Classic. It can nourish and strengthen the body, has extremely high medicinal value, and has the effect of strengthening the body. It is used together with Qiongzhen Ganoderma to treat insomnia.