However, although the skill of gardenia dyeing fabrics has deteriorated in the human world, its ability as a medicinal material has not decreased at all.

Every autumn and winter, when the fruits of gardenia are ripe and red and yellow, they are taken home to remove the stems and impurities, then put them in a pot to steam or boil the leaves slightly in boiling water. Then take them out and dry them, and then store them as medicinal materials for a long time.

In summer and autumn every year, you can dig the roots of gardenia, wash the soil stains and dry them, and then use them as medicine.

Gardenia is bitter and cold in nature. It is connected to the heart, lungs, and triple burner meridians.

Fruits can relieve fire and eliminate irritability, clear heat and promote diuresis, cool blood and detoxify. Oral treatment is generally used for fever, jaundice, red urine, jaundice, astringent pain, blood heat vomiting and epistaxis, red and swollen eyes, fire poison sores and sores. External treatment is used for twisting, contusion and pain.

The roots of gardenia are similar to those of the fruit. They can relieve fire and detoxify, clear heat and dampness, cool blood and disperse blood stasis. However, it is mostly used in infectious hepatitis, bruises and injuries, and wind and fire toothache.

Liu Qingshan walked into the mountains and relied on his understanding of the forests to find a gardenia tree with red and yellow fruits hanging in the native bushes not far from home.

It is now winter, and relying on the warm climate, these small red and yellow wild fruits can sway on the branches.

It was still early at this time, the mountain breeze was swaying, the spring was gurgling, and bees and butterflies were fluttering.

Yes, the bees are graceful!

Although it is already winter now, because the sun shines on the earth and the temperature has risen, you can still see hardworking little bees flying around in the mountains.

Therefore, the mountain people here usually go after the winter solstice before looking for wild honey.

Wild honey is the most mellow and sweet at this time.

However, as the deforestation of mountains and forests becomes increasingly severe, the wild honey in the forests around the village is also decreasing, and it is only possible to find wild honey in the forests a little further away.

Because the mountains are high and the water is difficult to walk on, there are no one looking for wild honey in recent years.

Liu Qingshan looked at the bees flying among the flowers and trees in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the honey in the mountains.

It is no exaggeration to say that honey in the mountains is the best in the world. In the primitive environment, wild bees, and far away from human settlements, the sweetest honey in the world is always preserved in the deep mountains.

To be honest, those honeys in the deep mountains do not have any artificial impurities, they are just ordinary words. To be precise, those honeys are completely the work of heaven and natural heritage.

As long as you eat that kind of wild honey once, you will feel that the water has been so difficult to remove the water but Wushan is not a cloud. After that, no matter how high-end or famous honey you eat, no matter how expensive it is, as long as it is not from the wild mountains, you will always feel that the honey is not honey, but more like artificial saccharin.

So, Liu Qingshan now has a new idea.

Since his foot distance is far beyond ordinary people, it should be fine if he goes deeper into the mountains to find honey.

If you can’t find it in one day, look for two days, and if you can’t find it in two days, look for three days. As long as you use the right method, you will definitely find honey.

Thinking of this, Liu Qingshan's saliva suddenly popped up.

After this festival, I went to the mountains to find honey!

After picking some thumb-sized gardenias, Liu Qingshan quickly walked back, and then went to the fruit forest to pick some grapefruit leaves.

When I got home, it was around ten o'clock.

My mother has washed the glutinous rice.

The washed glutinous rice is much whiter than the ordinary rice cooked, and it is also a little bigger and rounder.

My mother pointed to the glutinous rice that was drained in a bamboo basket and ordered: "Qingshan, come and take these glutinous rice to your second grandfather's house to make flour later, do you know?"

"Oh." Liu Qingshan was not vague. He put down his things and put glutinous rice in a clean snakeskin bag and went to the outside village.

Making glutinous rice flour requires a machine.

Although small rice mills are now very common in rural areas, Liu Qingshan’s home does not have them.

Therefore, every holiday, I still need the help of my second grandfather.

When we arrived at my second grandfather’s house, several women from the village were already waiting in my second grandfather’s yard.

They were dressed in ordinary clothes, had no gold and silver objects on them, and their hair was also original, slightly curly natural-colored hair.

Most women in the mountains are not good at dressing up. Unless they have worked in big cities outside, they will know that there are magical chemicals such as "straight hair cream" and "hair dye" in this world.

However, the mountain people who went to work in the city never came back until the end of the year, so now, the woman who appeared in the yard of my second grandfather’s house and held her white glutinous rice was just the most common mountain village woman in the mountains.

Their skin is rough and wrinkled. Some of them are a little older and even have half a head of silver wire.

However, no matter how they look or how old they are, on festivals, the women in the mountains will always be radiant, as if they are several years younger overnight.

At this moment, several women were discussing the delicious food they were going to make today in the yard of my second grandfather’s house.

An old lady with long hair held about ten kilograms of white glutinous rice in a bamboo basket and said, "I'm making oil glutinous rice this year."

"Yumao glutinous rice balls are not delicious. Our family only makes them during the Chinese New Year. At that time, they are also for the convenience of God."

"Yes, if you want to make the winter solstice, just make the big belly cake."

"Qingshan, what glutinous rice cakes are your mother making this year?" A short-haired aunt saw Liu Qingshan standing aside and asked with interest, "You guy has made a lot of money this year, and you have to let your mother tinker with it."

When the short-haired aunt said this, the others immediately started to cheer: "Yes, Qingshan, what glutinous rice cake is your mother going to make this winter solstice?"

Faced with the enthusiastic inquiries from many aunts, Liu Qingshan smiled embarrassedly: "Hehe, my mother said, just make oil glutinous rice balls."

Youmaoji is the most common among all local glutinous rice cakes, and it is also the simplest to make and the cheapest material.

In the past, when the mountain people were not rich, it was already very luxurious to be able to make a meal of glutinous rice. However, as life gradually improved, everyone began to slowly neglect glutinous rice.

Oil-maoqi, use glutinous rice flour and sugar as raw materials. After mixing the glutinous rice flour and sugar evenly, mix the dough with boiling water, then grab the dough the size of an egg, use it with both hands to make the shape of a hollow big belly cake.

The shape of the oil cake is the same as that of the big belly cake, but the big belly cake has filling, but the oil cake does not.

Their shape is a bit like dumplings, but they are much larger than dumplings, and their hollow belly can bulge roundly, almost breaking the dough.

After making the hollow oil glutinous rice cake, you need to prepare the oil pan. After the oil pan is warm, put the oil glutinous rice cake one by one and fry until golden brown, and it becomes the most common glutinous rice cake in the mountains - oil glutinous rice cake.

The oil glutinous rice balls are very soft and glutinous when they are just out of the pot, but they cannot be eaten at this time because they are prone to heat. However, after cooling, the oil glutinous rice balls will become stiff again. You must use a kitchen knife to cut into thin circles as thin as a cicada wing, then put them in a bowl, sprinkle in chopped green onions, and pour half a bowl of oil tea, which will become the ultimate delicacy again.

Although oil-mao glutinous rice cake is simple, ordinary and cheap, the aroma and glutinous rice cakes that are fried are incomparable to other steamed rice cakes.

It can only be said that the failure is due to its low value, which has been neglected by the mountain people.
Chapter completed!