sbdcsierra Chapter 226 Orchid in the Empty Valley
Chapter 226 Orchid in the Empty Valley
She picked up a leaf that had wilted a little and said to Zhou Dacang and Zhou Mai, "Uncle, brother, look, this is a ginseng leaf."
They each picked up a ginseng from the ground and looked at it over and over again. "So this is what ginseng looks like?"
Zhou Dacang held the plant and said, "Hey, do you think we have seen this thing in the mountains before, but missed it because we didn't recognize it?"
Zhou Mai thought about it seriously, and nodded uncertainly for a while, "It's hard to say, maybe I have really encountered it before."
The old man laughed and said, "You are quite thoughtful."
Zhou Guo said with a smile: "What do you think ginseng is? It's not so easy to come across it."
After saying this, the three of them turned their eyes to her.
Zhou Guo: "...I, it was just a coincidence."
Zhou Dacang looked at the large piece of land and sighed, "I wish it would be so by chance."
Zhou Mai said: "Who wouldn't want to? Who would have thought that the ginseng that is hard to come by in a hundred years would be found here in large quantities? This is the luck accumulated over several lifetimes."
The old man was a little sad. He often ran in the mountains. He didn't know how many times he had run in the mountains alone, but why didn't he find this good thing after running around? Fortunately, they were a family. If they had followed others up, they would have seen a lot more.
Zhou Guo was afraid that the two of them would be upset, so he pointed to the seedlings on the ground and said, "Look, these are the few small ones left."
The two of them squatted to watch, then got closer to watch, and then lay down to watch.
Zhou Mai looked at the plant in his hand, then at the seedling on the ground, and said, "The leaves here are also growing very differently, one by one."
Zhou Dacang nodded, "That's why we say this ginseng is a treasure. Even its leaves look different from others."
Zhou Guo was stunned and said, "Uncle, not only are the leaves of ginseng different from others, but the leaves of any other grass, flower, or tree are also different."
Zhou Dacang nodded perfunctorily, looking at the seedlings back and forth, which showed no sign of growing up.
The old man was getting impatient waiting, so he stood up and started looking around. The fact that ginseng could grow here meant that this place was suitable for its growth. The soil on the top of this mountain was the same, so maybe there were other plants around.
Zhou Guo didn't really want to watch the two people prostrating themselves here, so he reminded them, "It's getting late. We have to leave the mountain early today. We can go down the mountain directly after watching for a while."
When the two heard this, they jumped up from the ground.
While patting the dirt, he said, "We are so excited. This is the first time I have seen this thing in my life. I never knew what it looked like before, even in my dreams."
Zhou Dacang nodded seriously, "That's good. Now that we know this thing, we can go back and dream about it at night and know how to do it."
Zhou Guo said: "Let's go and look around."
He chose to walk in the opposite direction of the way he came, taking out the sack from his bag, shaking it, and folding it as he walked.
Zhou Dacang saw her take out a bag and asked curiously, "What are you going to do?"
"Picking pine mushrooms." Since I can't find ginseng and can't hunt, I can't go out empty-handed. If I come across pine mushrooms along the way, I can pick them up, so I don't count as going out empty-handed.
Zhou Dacang nodded.
Zhou Mai walked along without raising his head. His eyes were busy looking left and right, near and far. Because it was a cloudy day, the forest was a little dark and he could not see clearly. Sometimes he could vaguely see a plant from afar that looked very similar to ginseng. His heart would jump out of his chest with excitement and he would run over in two steps. But when he saw that it was not ginseng, he would be extremely disappointed.
Zhou Dacang was even more excited than him every time. He jumped up and down not far away and asked, "Really? Really? Did you find it?"
After a few blunders, Zhou Dacang was no longer excited and advised Zhou Mai, "Ermao, don't be so nervous. If you do this a few more times, I, your uncle, can't stand it. Be careful not to faint."
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Zhou Guo was digging around for pine mushrooms. He pried one up, wiped off the dirt and put it into the bag. There were really not many wild mushrooms in the forest, not even a few pine mushrooms. Most of the ones he encountered were already rotten. He was too late.
I picked up mushrooms as I walked, but I only managed to pick up half a bag. Before, I would have picked up two bags of pine mushrooms. I don't know if the mushrooms in the mountains can grow again after the rain.
I stood up and moved a few steps to the right, and found another pine tree that had just started to emerge. With the corner of my eye, I saw that another pine needle was pushed up in another place, and I found another one, and there was another one next to it. I found three pine trees at once, this was the first time today.
However, as I kept prying, a faint fragrance always lingered at my nose; when a breeze blew, the fragrance became even stronger.
This familiar smell! So warm!
She pried open the pine mushrooms, put them into a bag, and started searching around, smelling the fragrance.
Zhou Dacang looked up and saw her sniffing like a dog. He was very surprised and asked, "How come you are so good now that you can find where the wild mushrooms are just by smelling them with your eyes closed?"
Zhou Guo sniffed hard and felt the fragrance getting stronger. His eyes lit up. It was in this direction. He took the time to reply, "No, I'm looking for flowers."
When Zhou Dacang heard about looking for flowers, he immediately lost interest, but also felt relieved. Although the little girl seemed carefree and like a boy on weekdays, she was still like other girls and loved flowers, grass and so on.
Zhou Guo followed the scent all the way forward, turned around a few big trees, and came to a big rock taller than her, "It's here." The fragrance is the strongest here.
I looked around and walked around the stone, but I didn't see anything.
He looked up at the big rock, tiptoed and jumped up.
Turning around, right in the middle of the stone, in the depression, there grows a thriving orchid.
The verdant leaves spread out in all directions, with two columns of brilliant flowers standing gracefully in the middle. The color of the flowers is as bright red as blood and is extremely beautiful.
The aroma is rich and refreshing.
It is like an ink painting, quietly blooming in this forest, growing on this big rock. When the wind blows, the flowers and leaves move slightly, and the fragrance is blown everywhere.
Zhou Guo walked forward and squatted, looking at the orchid from the deep mountains, and for a moment he was reluctant to dig it out.
Thinking back to the pots and pans at home, it seems that nothing is suitable.
Never mind, just dig it up first. You can always find pots or jars to plant it later. If that doesn’t work, just plant it in the yard first.
The dust and dirt that had fallen from the stone over the years were not very thick. She pried it up gently, and the entire orchid was pried up along with the dirt in the stone pond.
She found two large leaves and wrapped the roots together with the soil. After thinking it over, she carefully put them in the bag in front of her and washed them herself.