Lichens are perennial plants and are organisms composed of 1 fungus and 1 algae.

Because fungi and algae are closely linked together for a long time, a fixed organism is formed in both morphology, structure, physiology and genetics.

Lichens have always been mistaken for a special and single green plant. In fact, they are not. Lichens are the collective name of special fungi formed by the combination of all fungi and algae. In the world, there are more than 500 genera and more than 26,000 lichens described in the world. From the poles to the equator, from mountains to plains, from forests to deserts, lichens grow everywhere.

Most lichens are light-loving plants that require fresh air.

Therefore, lichens are not seen near densely populated industrial cities.

In a sense, the existence of lichens can be used to check the air quality of cities.

Lichens generally grow slowly, but they can tolerate long-term droughts, sleep during droughts, and resume growth after rain, so they can grow on cliffs, rocks, barks or desert grounds. Lichens are cold-resistant, so they are available in alpine zones, permafrost zones and poles.

China has a rich resource of lichens, and people have a long history of eating and medicinal lichens.

According to endless statistics, there are 15 types of lichens available for consumption in China, such as skin fruit clothes, old dragon skin, mesh lung clothes, pine litmus, seriticum, stone ears, tree flowers, green tree hair, long pine roe, wind roll lichen, wind roll flat tea stains, etc. Among them, stone ears are a famous edible lichen in China and Japan. They can be stewed, stir-fried, roasted soup, and cold sauce. They are rich in nutrition and delicious.

After Chuchu ordered her friends, she turned around and digged wild vegetables with her father.

She was not a person who could do things honestly and calmly. After digging a few pieces of lichen, she began to turn around and look around. Her eyes were very sharp. She glanced at her and saw something crawling around not far away. So she ran over and grabbed Cai Hongming and asked for help, "Dad, dad, look, I caught a bug."

Cai Hongming buried his head in digging lichens, but no one noticed it. Then Chuchu ran away. When he heard her words, he turned around and saw that he almost lost his soul.

The little guy caught a bug in his hand, it was clearly a little snake. Fortunately, it was not a poisonous snake. Otherwise, if he was bitten, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Cai Hongming quickly took the snake in her hand, pinched it to death, threw it away, and then taught his daughter, "Chuchu. This is not a bug, it is a snake, which can bite people. Some of this thing is poisonous, and it will die if you are bitten. So when you see this kind of thing, you must look for your parents. If your parents are not here, look for uncles and aunts on the farm. If they are not here, run away quickly. If they are not here, look for something to kill it. Do you know?"

"oh."

Chuchu nodded. But the little brat knew nothing, probably he forgot when he turned around.

With this, Cai Hongming no longer dared to let his daughter leave his sight easily.

After digging the lichens and continuing to walk forward, Cai Hongming found that there were many plants growing here, including sand rice, sand bamboo, wormwood, sand whip, seddener, pig hair, glazed grass and cat thorns, etc. The so-called sand bamboo here is not real bamboo, but a kind of grass.

Shami is not the rice we eat, but a herb. However, the seeds of Shami can be eaten as rice, but they are relatively small.

This thing is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Shapeng rice is found in all sandy fields. Ordos produces a lot. The branches and leaves are like pilasters, and the rice is like flax and small. As porridge, it is smooth and edible; it becomes powder and can be used as a cake and tea soup."

Yuan Chengtinggui wrote a poem "Sending Pan Zhongming's Taixing" and said: "The rice is cheap in the year of the rich sand and the fish is fresh in the river."

The "Zhengzhu Ship: East Wall" by Hu Shi of the Ming Dynasty also records: "Sweet, cool, silver, and in the wilderness of summer, grass grows in the sand, as thin as poppies, and can be used as rice. It is commonly known as Dengzu, and is called Shami.

There is a snack in Minqin, Gansu Province called Shami Root Noodle. The aroma of meat and rice can be said to be the best among pasta.

In addition to seeds, the tender buds that grow in early spring can also be eaten. Other things such as wormwood, whip, seddened grass, glazed grass and other things cannot be eaten. Only the tender buds of pig hair and cat thorn can be eaten.

While walking, Cai Hongming told Chuchu the names of various plants and pick some of them if they can eat them.

In addition to him, the animals in the family also gained their own harvest.

The biggest harvest was the big rooster flower. It did not pick wild vegetables, but grabbed a sand chicken. The sand chicken was not open, and it actually ate wild vegetables in front of the flower. It thought that no one could see it squatting in the sand nest. Huahua was not an ordinary chicken. She glanced at it at a glance, and immediately flapped her wings and flew over with her sharp claws, and pecked it over with her mouth. Xiong Da and Xiong Er also found a few pieces of lichens, but the two guys were very good at digging lichens. One bear's paw, and even the lichens and sand were dug together. So when the two silly brothers took the lichens to Cai Hongming, he didn't know whether they were digging sand or picking wild vegetables.

After following Liu Chong, these two guys ate and drank well every day, so they grew very fast. The originally thin body became fat and looked very bloated.

The two guys walked in the river, but they didn't pick a few wild vegetables, but instead stepped on a lot of wild vegetables that could be picked into the sand.

This is clearly here to make trouble.

When Cai Hongming saw them, he drove them back to avoid being upset when he saw them. However, the most annoying one was the Owl Hero. This guy didn't go to pick wild vegetables well. Somehow, he actually caught the little snake that Cai Hongming threw out, and put it in front of him to seek credit. Cai Hongming was so angry that he slapped it hard, which made the hero scream there in grievance.

Because the big cock Huahua caught the most things, she walked with a proud and proud way, and felt as if she was attending a National Day military parade.

Following the guards of Chuchu, Xuexue and Xiaolong did not waste time, and helped pick wild vegetables. However, Cai Hongming disliked the little guys Jiaojiao and Xuexue who bit the saliva left by the wild vegetables with their mouths. After picking them a few times, they did not let them pick them, leaving only the little dragon. Although the rat and rabbit dragon is not big, it is very smart. It never bites things with its mouth, but picks them with its claws. Although the amount is not very large, it is at least not as disgusting as the two Tibetan Mastiff Jiaojiao and Sika Deer Xuexue bite with their mouths and leave a pile of saliva.

Although the rivers in the canyon are large, they are in the desert and there are not many edible plants growing.

Even so, along the way, Cai Hongming and Chuchu still harvested a bag of wild vegetables.

When he reached the end of the river, Cai Hongming accidentally discovered that there was a bunch of fresh tender sand onions that had just grown in the sand in front. The sand onions tasted the best when fried eggs and fried meat. He dug some and left a little to keep it growing.

Seeing that the wild vegetables were almost picked, Cai Hongming walked back.

Chuchu's little brat was a little sore when she walked, and she pouted her pink mouth and pounded her calves. Cai Hongming looked at it and picked her up and sat on her neck. Chuchu hugged her father's head and giggled happily.

"Squeak, squeak."

Suddenly, the screams of the rat, rabbit, and the little dragon came from beside it. It was squeaking at the mountain wall next to the river ditch, and I don’t know what it was calling. Cai Hongming was curious and looked in the direction it pointed. After looking for a while, he didn’t see anything.

"What are you calling?" Cai Hongming asked Xiaolong strangely. But obviously, Xiaolong could not answer this question.

"Dad, Xiaolong said there was something inside." Chuchu sat on his neck and translated seriously.

"Do you know what it is talking about?" Cai Hongming said in surprise.

"Of course, I know what they say." Chuchu looked proud.

Cai Hongming didn't know whether what she said was true or false, but no matter whether it was true or false, he might as well give it a try. So he put down his daughter, picked up a small hoe that brought the wild vegetables to dig it into the mountain wall next to him. The mountain walls were mostly sandy and soil, which was easy to dig. Just when it was dug inside, the sandy and soil layer turned into a layer of earth and stone. The soil and stone layer was a little hard, but in the hot desert, even the hardest soil and stone layer would be softened, so it was not difficult to dig.

I dug about two meters forward and saw only a piece of soil and stone, but I couldn't see anything.

Most of the stones are common goose warm stones on river beaches.

From this we can see that the ditch must have been a turbulent river in the past. But these were useless to what he wanted to dig. After digging for a while, it still couldn't be dug, so Cai Hongming wanted to give up. Suddenly a ray of golden light flashed in front of his eyes. He didn't know if he was confused, but this undoubtedly gave him endless motivation and immediately started digging quickly.

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