Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Han Zhaozhao dug with great effort. The roots of Trichosanthes were difficult to dig because they went very deep. Moreover, out of their survival instinct, they would drill into cracks in rocks and around tree roots.

This brought considerable difficulties to her excavation work!

It was not until she was almost down the mountain that she dug out three Trichosanthes roots.

But these three are not a small number. A pit of nearly two meters was dug for each one. After the three were unearthed, they weighed more than 80 kilograms.

The root of Trichosanthes kirilowii looked thick and fat, with the thickest part comparable to an adult's arm. Even though Han Zhaozhao was knowledgeable, he was still shocked.

Oh my god! Why is it so big?

Who could have thought of this?

The vines of Trichosanthes are so thin that they are not even as thick as the vines of Loofah. How many years have passed and how much essence of the sun and the moon have they absorbed to grow into such huge and plump underground rhizomes?

It's unbelievable!

Han Zhaozhao was extremely excited and washed a small piece of rhizome that he had accidentally dug off with water from the kettle.

The root of Trichosanthes kirilowii looks like a tree root and also like a cassava root, but the broken end is completely different from them. It looks snow-white, crispy and full of moisture.

One look at it makes one want to take a bite. Han Zhaozhao knew that Trichosanthes was non-toxic and was also a traditional Chinese medicine product for relieving thirst.

I carefully put it to my mouth and took a small bite. Oh my god! It was crispy, tender and juicy, with juice splashing everywhere, but it was bitter in my throat!

Bah! It's too bitter! Even bitter melon can't compare to it! Bitter greens are just great-grandchildren in front of it!

The creators of the Doudou videos are really not very professional. Why didn't anyone remind her in their works that the weather was very bad for Qiao Huafen? It's just a matter of saying one more sentence. She doesn't lack that little traffic!

Han Zhaozhao was deceived by Tianhuafen's appearance!

It seems that not all snow-white and tender fruits are delicious and sweet!

Trichosanthes has almost no hairy roots and looks similar to cassava. There are not many branches underground, only one or two roots, and some even have only one fat single root.

When packing the baskets, Han Zhaozhao trimmed the rhizomes of Trichosanthes and Salvia miltiorrhiza and collected them in the space. She planned to plant them when she got back. Both of these medicinal herbs are non-toxic, and she wanted to plant more of them in the space.

Fritillaria thunbergii is also easy to grow, but it is poisonous, so she is unwilling to plant it in the space.

Han Zhaozhao used the half-dried firewood on the hillside, tied it all up with vines, spread a large tarpaulin on the open space, and piled the firewood on it.

Han Zhaozhao discovered a few days ago that a patch of yellow broom seedlings had sprouted in the space.

Only then did she remember that she had forgotten to lay out the tarpaulin when she was collecting firewood. As soon as the seeds on the tarpaulin fell to the ground, they took root and sprouted in just over ten days.

It has to be said that wild grasses and trees have the strongest vitality. They do not require special planting and management by humans, they will sprout and survive as soon as they land on the ground.

They compete with crops for sunlight and water, like robbers, and are particularly domineering!

As a result, Han Zhaozhao had to use a hoe to ho the ground twice, but it still wasn't clean enough and the seeds were still sprouting.

Han Zhaozhao was very upset because he couldn't bear to use herbicides and had to weed manually. It was really a shame. He got himself into big trouble by not paying attention!

She will remember this lesson!

She put the tarpaulin in the space before collecting firewood. People are not pigs. It's okay to make a mistake once. You have to remember it!

Looking up at the sky, the sun was about to set and it was time for her to go home.

Although there are many good things on the mountain, Han Zhaozhao also wants to take advantage of the soft soil these days to dig more, but she still has to go home on time every day, because the old lady is waiting for her at home!

As a good child, it is not good to make your family worry.

Having someone worry about you and being restricted in your time to go out and come home, this is what people often call a "sweet burden"!

But she enjoys it!

Whenever Han Zhaozhao thinks of the old lady now, he feels warm in his heart.

The old lady is Han Zhaozhao’s closest relative in this life!

Han Zhaozhao picked up the backpack and was about to go down the mountain, but he still felt a little unwilling.

Han Zhaozhao gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, deciding to take a detour down the mountain today, walk along the hillside, check the traps that had just been set at noon, then climb over the hillside and turn to the other side of the mountain to find a new way out.

She knew that the back of the mountain belonged to another town and that there were large tracts of farmland not far from the foot of the mountain.

I heard there was a water source in that valley. There were several streams deep in the mountains that converged into a small river that flowed all year round.

Where there is water, plants grow well, and when plants grow well, they will attract animals.

Birds such as wild ducks, pheasants, turtledoves, quails, etc. also often visit.

Han Zhaozhao couldn't think of any other birds now. The only ones that could come into her mind were the edible ones!

She was very confident in the cabbages grown in the space. As long as there were still animals in the valley in the afternoon that were not scared away by the noise she made, they would definitely not escape the temptation of the sweet smell of the cabbages.

Sure enough, when she was still about twenty meters away from the trap, she heard a "fluttering" sound.

"A prey has been trapped!" Han Zhaozhao paused and listened carefully. The sound was indeed coming from the place where she set the trap.

She was very happy. Hard work pays off, didn't she? In order to eat meat, she spent a lot of effort. To make these condoms, she completely copied the full set of skills of the great wilderness survival experts on the Internet.

What a waste of brain cells!

Following the sound closer, Han Zhaozhao couldn't help but laugh!

The wire snare caught a gray pheasant with slender claws, a small gray beak, bright red eye shadow, a dark green and shiny neck, and a tail that was more than a foot long. It really looked like the pheasant feathers on an opera actor's hat, majestic and beautiful.

And it’s a male pheasant!!

Male pheasant

Hen pheasant

"Brother, brother, brother, brother!" The wild rooster saw her and screamed even louder with his neck straightened and flapped his wings even more violently.

"Want to escape? That's impossible!" Han Zhaozhao leaped over in two steps, grabbed it, and caught it by its wings.

The steel wire was wrapped around its legs, breaking the skin and exposing the bones inside. Han Zhaozhao couldn't help but feel frightened. The steel wire was really sharp!

Nowadays, pheasants are hated by farmers and their status is not as high as it will be in later generations. They usually start to move around at five or six in the morning.

It was daybreak at this time and most people had not yet gotten up. Pheasants took advantage of the sparse population at this time and secretly flew down from the mountains to steal the crops grown by farmers.

Around seven o'clock, when the sun comes out, they will fly back to the mountain. At five or six in the afternoon, they will fly down to look for food.

They come out most of the time during the day because their eyesight is not as good at night, so they can see things more clearly during the day and it is easier for them to find food, so people rarely see pheasants at night.

This pheasant has very sharp eyes. Among the withered yellow leaves on the mountain, it was the only one that spotted the tender green cabbage that Han Zhaozhao threw on the ground.

No wonder there is a common saying: People die for money and birds die for food!