The big girl squatted down in confusion, and stared at the tree stump for a long time, but she still couldn't see a flower. She asked weakly, "Sister, what's wrong with this tree?"
Man Bao said with a serious face, "This is a pine tree."
Da Ya looked at it, and it seemed to be yes, "And then?"
"It was chopped off."
Da Ya: "... um, so?"
"So, are there any other stumps of pine trees that have been cut down around here?"
"Yes, before the family used up almost all the firewood to bake rice and wheat. My father and third uncle went up the mountain and cut down several trees, all of which seem to be pine trees."
This piece of land belongs to the head of the village. Anyway, it is not a good tree that can be used as a house, a bed, or a box. These pine trees are cut down casually.
Man Bao looked around, "Where is it?"
Da Ya: ...how does she know where it is? She didn't cut down the tree.
But Da Ya thought about it, and remembered that she saw several tree stumps when she went up the mountain in the past two days, but she couldn't tell what kind of tree it was.
But let him alone, just take my sister-in-law to see it.
Da Ya was still very curious, "Sister-in-law, how did you know it was a pine stump?"
Man Bao gave her a strange look, "I can tell, there is a pine tree next to the stump, and you can see it by comparing it."
Da Ya: ... She can't tell, she thinks that all the tree stumps in the world are the same.
Of course, Man Bao couldn't leave her bamboo basket behind, so she insisted on dragging her broken bamboo basket. The key is that there are not only dead leaves in it, but also a lot of soil, which is very heavy.
Da Ya followed suit, but she couldn't move much, so she dropped the bamboo basket and ran to look for the fourth uncle on the other side.
Zhou Zhoulang walked over happily. He picked up the bamboo basket and was about to go down the mountain. It would be better to follow Man Bao than to follow the second and third brothers, right
Manbao is a small person, so he will never do heavy work.
Seeing that he was going down the mountain, Man Bao immediately grabbed his clothes and said, "Fourth brother, we still need to find something, so don't go down the mountain yet."
Zhou Zhoulang glanced at the bamboo basket, um, it wasn't full enough.
He didn't mind either, so he picked it up for the two of them, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, I'll accompany you to find it."
After turning two tree stumps, Zhou Lang realized that they were not looking for dead leaves, but "tree roots".
That's right, Zhou Zhoulang saw the dark brown lumps that Man Bao threw in the bamboo basket, and he also thought it was tree roots, but when he saw the white root flesh, he thought it was wrong.
How can the inside of the root be white
Zhou Zhoulang was thinking about what it was, when a big girl's exclamation came from over there, "Sister-in-law, I found it!"
Man Bao immediately dropped the tree stump at hand and ran over to see Da Ya.
She saw it at a glance, and immediately stepped forward to break it happily, "That's it, that's it."
She didn't break it out the first time, and she almost sat on the ground.
Zhou Zhoulang put down the bamboo basket, rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward, "I'm coming!"
This tree stump is not as many as the previous one, but it is still quite a few.
After breaking it off, Zhou Zhou Lang smelled it and felt a fresh fragrance, so he glanced at Man Bao strangely, "Sister Yao, tell Fourth Brother quickly, is this a treasure?"
Man Bao nodded seriously, "Yes!"
Zhou Zhou's eyes sparkled, and he asked brightly, "What kind of treasure is it?"
"I'll find out soon." Man Bao hugged a piece and said, "Let's go down the mountain, I'll ask Mr.
Zhou Zhoulang: "... So you don't know?"
"I do not know."
Zhou Zhoulang was unable to speak anymore, picked up the small broken bamboo basket and said, "Okay, let's go down the mountain and go home. It's almost time for dinner, right? Have you finished your homework?"
Zhou Zhou was only working in the forest today, because there are many trees in the forest, shadows are everywhere, and it is relatively cool, so the old Zhou Tou didn't give them any time to rest.
Zhou Zhoulang felt that his waist could hardly straighten up now.
Man Bao accurately saw that the fourth brother wanted to be lazy, and hummed twice: "It's already done, I'm not you."
Da Ya didn't want to go down the mountain, many of her little friends were still in the woods, she wanted to stay and play with them, seeing that my sister-in-law was accompanied by her fourth uncle, she immediately let go of her feet and ran to play.
Man Bao didn't mind, and walked down the mountain with Zhou Zhoulang.
Man Bao didn't go home directly, but ran to find Mr. with the ball in his arms.
Mr. Zhuang was drinking tea in the yard, correcting the children's homework by the way, when he saw Man Bao running in dirty, he looked at her with a smile, "What's wrong?"
"Sir, do you know what this is?" Man Bao showed him the pile of things in his arms.
Mr. Zhuang was slightly surprised, "Poria?"
He smiled and asked, "Where are you from?"
"Poria?" Man Bao's eyes sparkled, "I know, Poria Cream, Poria Cake."
Mr. Zhuang laughed loudly after hearing this, and said, "This is all for food, at Shanbao's house?"
Man Bao bowed his head in embarrassment, he really ate at Bai Shanbao's house.
Mr. Zhuang looked at the Poria cocos in her hand, and said, "You broke it?"
Man Bao nodded, "I can't break some, so my fourth brother did it."
Mr. Zhuang nodded slightly, and said with a smile, "You should dig along the roots of the pine tree and there should be more."
Man Bao was surprised, "How did you know that I found it at the root of a pine tree?"
Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "Do you know why it is called Fuling?"
Man Bao shook his head.
"Because some people think it is a magical thing transformed from the essence of pine trees, and call it Fuling (Poria cocos), Fushen or pine. Ge Hong in the Jin Dynasty had a book "The Legend of Immortals", which contained "the essence of old pine turned into Poria cocos "say." Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "This Poria cocos has three parts, and these three parts can be used as medicine."
Mr. Zhuang pointed to the dark brown skin and said: "This is the skin of Poria cocos, which promotes water and reduces swelling, and acts as water for the skin;"
Pointing to the white flesh, he said, "This is white tuckahoe. The tuckahoe cream you mentioned is made of it. It has more uses. It can strengthen the spleen and nourish qi, and it can also cure insomnia and dreaminess."
Mr. Zhuang has only read one or two medical books, and what he knows is only superficial, and he has to search for more specific details.
Mr. Zhuang said: "This is a medicinal material. If you want to know more, you have to ask the doctor or the people in the pharmacy. But there is still a part of this Poria cocos that is pierced by pine roots, which is called Fushenmu. You probably didn't dig it out. Then Fushenmu is also a kind of medicine."
"What can be cured?" Man Bao asked quickly.
Mr. Zhuang smiled and shook his head, "I don't know as a teacher. I am a teacher, not a doctor."
"Then when I know, I'll tell sir."
Mr. Zhuang responded with a smile, "Okay, I'll wait for you to tell me as a teacher."
Mr. Zhuang checked the time, waved his hand and said, "Go back quickly, or the family will be looking for you in a hurry."
Man Bao responded, hugged Fu Ling and ran home.
At home, old Zhou was holding up the dark brown thing to look at, but he couldn't figure out what it was for a long time. He felt that the fourth child was playing with him, so he dropped it and asked, "Could this thing be a treasure?"
As soon as Man Bao ran back, she saw her father throwing her things on the ground, and immediately shouted: "Father, this is Fu Ling!"