Chapter 17 Muwei Xizhi and Insect Tea
Seeing the wild boars carried down by Cai Hongming and others, the workers working on the construction site were all excited and ran over to see them.
After receiving the news, Bagong and Shi Wan'er and others stood in front of the house early to wait for these heroes who returned from hunting.
Ji Dong saw them carrying the wild boar, and was full of jealousy. Why didn't he go?
At this moment, Cai Hongming decided to take out some of the wild boar meat and share it with the workers who worked. The workers were so happy that they screamed. He originally wanted to kill the little wild boars to make roasted suckling pigs, but the third master stopped him and said he would keep them for raising them before killing them. There was no way, so he could only let him kill only the two largest male and female big wild boars.
In the evening, everyone squeezed into Cai Hongming's house and tasted the delicious dishes made with wild boar meat.
What are the fried garlic with wild boar tendons, white water wild boar meat, braised pork trotters, garlic-flavored wild boar bones, sweet and sour gourd meat, braised chestnut pig tails, etc. Anyway, the big table is full of wild boar meat, so there are no vegetables. When you eat it the next day, everyone wants to vomit when they see the wild boar meat.
I was so happy while eating fragrant meat and drinking wine. Finally, I got drunk and didn't know how I got back.
Shi Wan'er also happily joined in the fun and drank a few drinks. She accidentally drank her head. She was drunk and her face was as blush as peaches. She was yelling there, not knowing what she was saying. Cai Hongming was speechless and had no choice but to take her back to the room and turn to clean up the mess.
After packing up and taking a shower, he did not go to bed, but went straight into the blessed land of the cave in the jade tripod.
For a while, he didn't enter the Cave Heaven and Blessings, and as soon as he got inside, he felt that there seemed to be changes inside again, as if it had become bigger.
The jade tripod constantly absorbs the essence of the bright moon and turns it into the jade toad liquid to nourish the space. The space absorbs spiritual energy and changes slowly. Now it is several meters larger.
Cai Hongming looked at the jasper Ganoderma lucidum on the side of the huge stone. The jasper Ganoderma lucidum did not grow any longer, but the small green Ganoderma lucidum that protruded into the shape of a lotus on the cover became bigger and bigger. Now it has grown the same size as a normal lotus, and there are petals. Count it carefully. One, two, three, four... There are twelve pieces in total, and there are actually lotus pods in the middle. The lotus seeds in the pod are like jade, crystal clear and transparent. The mist is green.
Suddenly, he remembered the records of the volume of the immortal medicine in "Baopuzi" that he had read.
The book says: There are five types of zhi. There are stone zhi, wood zhi, grass zhi, meat zhi, and mushroom zhi, each with more than a hundred species. Wood zhi, pine, cypress, pine, cypress, pine, cypress, and cypress, each with a hundred species. Wood zhi, pine, cypress, pine, cypress, and cypress, pine, cypress, and cypress, and cypress, are transformed into Poria. Long live Poria, small trees grow on it, look like lotus flowers, and are called wood-wild zhi. At night, there is light, and it is very smooth, and it is burned without burning, and it is taken to rush to fight. Take chickens and use twelve heads of other chickens to cage them together. Remove them and shoot twelve arrows. Other chickens are injured. Those who carry vigor and enjoy zhi will never be injured. Pick them from the Shengmen and dry them in the Liujia Yin for a hundred days. Take a square inch dagger, three a day, and one pill every three thousand years.
He saw that the small green Ganoderma lucidum on the jade Ganoderma lucidum now looks very much like the Muwei Xizhi mentioned in the "Baopuzi" Immortal Medicine Scroll. However, when the ancients talked about some medicinal materials with extraordinary effects, they always liked to attach legends such as immortality. Cai Hongming didn't know whether it was true or false, so he didn't dare to try it. After all, there was only such a jade Ganoderma lucidum. What if it died? So he could only let it grow so long.
However, although he didn't know if the Jade Ganoderma lucidum was the Muwei Xizhi mentioned in the book, he knew very well that the green Ganoderma lucidum growing next to the Jade Ganoderma lucidum is a good thing, otherwise the livestock raised at home would not like to eat it so much.
Nowadays, the green Ganoderma lucidum under the jasper Ganoderma lucidum has grown to the size of an ordinary Ganoderma lucidum. Cai Hongming once picked some dried tea and made it tasted good. His mouth was full of the fragrance of Ganoderma lucidum, which can refresh his mind.
The more these green Ganoderma lucidum grow, the more it is, now occupying a large area. Cai Hongming wonders if he is going to pick some out to make hot pot ingredients. He doesn’t know if it tastes good if it is hot or not. Is it the same as mushrooms?
After looking at it, he continued to walk to the side.
The giant saguaro and thatch that were placed inside have been taken out and planted, making a space free, which looks much wider. The thatch has not been cleaned, and some of them have roots inside and grow very densely.
Cai Hongming walked over and pulled up a thatch, and found that the roots were very fat. He pulled one clean and put it in his mouth to chew it. It turned out to be a sweetness that was different from the roots outside. He originally wanted to pull out these thatchs, but now he looked better than the ones outside, so he was too lazy to pull them out again, so he stayed.
Walking past the thatch and coming to the purple gourd vine.
After the purple gourd bloomed, it was artificially pollinated by others. It looked a bit effective. Several small purple gourds had grown, hanging among the green leaves, which looked very beautiful.
The gourd vine went over again and were nine camellia tea trees planted by Cai Hongming from the mountain. Because of his busy schedule, he didn't come in to pick tea leaves, which was a bit of a loss. Standing under the tea tree and looking up, he found that the tea tree had grown a little taller. It used to be only three or four meters, but now it is estimated that it is nearly five meters tall.
Suddenly, something seemed to fall off the top.
Cai Hongming subconsciously flashed and dodged away. When he looked down, he saw a round soybean-sized thing that looked like a black Chinese medicine pill. There were many on the ground. These things that looked like pills were not smooth on the outside, they looked very rough, and smelled a tea smell. It felt strange, so he picked it up and looked at it.
It is indeed a bit like a Chinese medicine pill, but it has no medicinal flavor. Instead, it has the fragrance of fermented ripe tea like oolong tea, accompanied by some lingering linguine.
Cai Hongming was wondering what this thing was, so he looked up and looked up. It was so dying that a piece of thing fell down and fell into his mouth. He quickly spit it out. But it was very strange that this thing was mellow and after spitting it out, it actually tasted after the sweets, which was much better than the good tea that cost thousands of dollars on the market.
What exactly is this?
Cai Hongming looked up again, looked carefully, and suddenly found a fat white worm eating tea leaves among a cluster of tender green tea leaves.
Isn't that the white worm he was still on the boulder last time? Why isn't he dead yet? Why are he running here? What's going on?
Cai Hongming was surprised, and many questions came to his mind. Suddenly, he thought that the thing that fell into his mouth just now would not be the shit pulled out by this white worm. It felt too disgusting and suddenly started to spit wildly, but it tasted good.
The white worm who was eating tea stopped when he heard the movement, looked down at Cai Hongming, and his big eyes looked very innocent.
Cai Hongming spat for a while, looked up and found that it was looking at it. He stomped on the ground, jumped up with force, and grabbed the white worm. The white worm was fatter than when he first saw it. It was about two thumbs thicker, more than ten centimeters long, a pair of black big eyes and huge insect heads, which made people look stupid, Momo.
Just as Cai Hongming looked at it, the white worm's belly squirmed, and a soybean-sized hard insect poop was pulled out of its butt.
Fresh, so it still has a scent.
It is not a stinky smell, not a fishy smell, but a fermented tea aroma, and Ganoderma lucidum.
Um...
Cai Hongming felt something was wrong. He sniffed it carefully and then savored the smell that fell into his mouth just now. It seemed that there was a Cordyceps sinensis smell. How could there be a Cordyceps sinensis smell? Could it be that this guy has eaten Cordyceps sinensis for so long and hasn't digested it completely? Or was this guy originally transformed from Cordyceps sinensis? That was too magical, but it was impossible.
Cai Hongming thought in his heart, touched his chin and looked at the insect shit in his hand, thinking that this was the legendary insect tea.
Insect tea is a traditionally exported special tea. It is feces discharged from insects such as scented worms, rice blackworms, and other plants after eating leaves of plants such as fragrant trees, bitter tea. It has the same principle as cat shit coffee, and it is both eaten into the stomach and then pulled out.
In the past, mountain people specially collected dry feces pulled out by these insects. After special treatment, they obtained fine round and oily and golden "worm tea".
This kind of insect tea is fragrant when brewed, and the taste is mellow and sweet, refreshing and endless aftertaste. If measured by the scientific definition of tea, it is actually not tea, but people's method of eating the feces of this insect is similar to drinking tea, so it is called "tea".
Insect tea is mainly produced in ethnic minority areas such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi. After years of exploration, local mountain people have come up with some methods, which have changed from the most primitive insect-picking tea to the current insect-raising tea.
Before and after the Grain Rain, mountain people will enter the mountain. The local wild bitter tea leaves collected, or fresh leaves of wild plants such as fragrant trees, glutinous rice vines, coptis chinensis, wild hawthorn, and uncaria. After steaming and cooking, remove the astringent smell, wait until it is 80% dry, then pile it in a wooden barrel, pour rice water evenly on the partition, cover it and keep it moist. The leaves gradually ferment naturally and rot, emitting a refreshing fragrance.
At this time, insects such as the scented scent will be tempted by this fragrance and will spawn here.
After about 10 days, dark gray larvae will break out of their eggs and cover the leaves. While eating the decaying and fragrant leaves, they will excrete "gold grains", which are insect shit, which is called "worm tea".
These small caterpillars have an amazing appetite and will eat up all the rotten leaves in the wooden barrel in a short time. At this time, the mountain people will collect these insect shit, remove the broken leaves, dry them and sift them, and finally get fine, round, oily and golden "worm tea". If you are more particular, you should dry the insect tea again, then put them in an iron pot, add honey and tea leaves, and fry them at 180c for 20 minutes at high temperature, so that you can get the best quality insect tea.
In fact, this is similar to raising silkworms, but the things you raise are different, the things you feed are different, and the things you pull out are different.
Cai Hongming didn't know if the white worm pulled out was insect tea, but he felt it tasted good, so he picked up the insect shit that fell on the ground one by one and planned to take it out for research. As for the white worm, seeing it as so cute, he didn't intend to kill it, so he put it on.
Chapter completed!