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Chapter 211 Digging wild vegetables and eating poisonous mushrooms
In a blink of an eye, it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the weather was gloomy. It started to rain and snow at noon, and it was so cold that people could not open their hands.
There was no way to rush on the road, so Dong Su ordered to celebrate the festival at the inn and wait until the snow stopped before leaving.
Jiasi asked her if she wanted to go to a nearby small county to see the lanterns? Bring a few personal guards to escort her there.
Shen Dongsu had no interest. It was such a cold day and he was in a foreign country. There was no atmosphere for the festival.
Moreover, the custom of this small county is similar to that of Yizhou. It also sends lanterns during the Lantern Festival.
Even if it rains and snows, you can still see people holding white lanterns in the wilderness and burning paper at their ancestors' graves.
After burning, leave the lantern on the top of the ancestral grave and cover it with a small braided bamboo umbrella. From a distance, the field turns into the sky, and the lantern is just a dot of starlight.
But soon, the oil in the lamp burned out and the lamp went out. Or the bamboo umbrella is crooked and the lamp is extinguished by the rain.
Furthermore, if she goes to a small county town and hears that Princess Ling is coming to see the lanterns, the city will definitely be in a state of chaos!
If there is a county official holding chicken feathers as a command arrow, and an official wants to enjoy the snow in the mountains before he appears, the flattering official will immediately let the people go to the mountains to build snow houses, and as a result, several people will die of cold.
In order for Princess Ling to enjoy the lanterns, the county magistrate asked the whole county to clean up, and then asked the people of the county to decorate the streets, and then prepared a banquet with singing and dancing...
It is estimated that if she looked at the lanterns for a short time, she would be scolded by the local people for many years!
In order not to cause trouble to the people as much as possible, it was better for her to stay at the inn and not run around.
She didn't want to see the lanterns, but she still cared about eating Yuanxiao. She gave the postman money and asked Jiasi to go to the city to buy glutinous rice flour and ingredients.
She personally took the maids and the cooks from the Imperial Army to fry black sesame seeds, boil red bean paste, and roll Yuanxiao.
Just like that time when we had mutton hot pot, everyone in the team had a share.
What she didn't expect was that Xiao Pan, who accompanied Jia Si to the city, secretly bought some lanterns and came back.
For her and Tsukimi to play with, there are puppy lanterns for this Year of the Dog, a shrimp lantern with nine knots, and a butterfly lantern with two wings, all of which are lifelike and exquisite.
Brother Xiao Pan chuckled and gave her the puppy lantern: "Remember that you always wanted the zodiac lantern when you were a child, do you still like it now?"
Shen Dongsu felt that after a year, Mo Xiujin's temperament changed drastically. He was no longer as desperate and lifeless as before.
But he also lacks the vitality that a teenager should have, and looks like a calm and mature middle-aged man, or like a man who has lost hope in life but is still holding on without being decadent.
She took the puppy lantern and thanked him, wanting to comfort him, but she didn't know how. She knew very well that what Mo Xiujin needed was not her comfort, but Sister Ayuan's.
Maybe she is really a miracle doctor who can completely cure the madness he inherited. Unfortunately, she is not, so Mo Xiujin's life is still dark.
He became more and more silent, often looking into the distance absentmindedly. But this cold and sad temperament is very attractive to little girls.
Dong Su's maids all liked to peek at him.
When the Kongming lanterns were flying over the field, everyone was eating Yuanxiao. The postmen were cooking pots of rice and scooping them out bowl after bowl.
Eat in batches, the Imperial Guards eat one batch and then another batch.
Shen Dongsu had an idea and thought of a way to comfort Brother Xiao Pan. He asked the postman if he could still buy Kongming lanterns now.
If she couldn't buy one, she would make one herself.
It turned out that there were already a few postmen, and they prepared them for the festival themselves, so they gave them to Princess Ling without saying a word.
Shen Dongsu himself wrote the word "thinking" on a Kongming lantern and said to Mo Xiujin without any shyness:
"This lantern will fly to the north and bring my thoughts to the prince."
She wasn't blushing, but the half of Mo Xiujin's face that wasn't covered by the scarf was actually stained with a hint of blush.
He whispered: "You should tell the prince this kind of thing when you get to Youzhou!"
Shen Dongsu handed him a Kongming lantern: "Brother Xiao Pan, put one too. Whatever you want to write and who you want to give it to, just write it on this lantern!"
Mo Xiujin hesitated for a moment. Shen Dongsu had already put the pen into his hand, and he also wrote "Thinking".
Flying toward the southwest, even though it was raining lightly, the Kongming Lantern still flew very high and far before going out.
Mo Xiujin's mood was obviously relaxed, and he finished a bowl of Yuanxiao with Dong Su and Shen Linzhong.
The three of them talked about celebrating the Lantern Festival when they were children, and wondered what their families were doing now.
Maybe some "thinking" was really useful. Before going to bed, Dong Su was rarely interested and wrote a letter to Ling Moxiao.
The main thing is to talk about where you are? How long does it take to get to Youzhou? Then I asked him if he needed anything, and she bought some along the way and took him there...
The letter was a bit rambling, and I felt quite embarrassed after finishing it. A woman in this era would probably be able to write some poetry when writing a letter to her husband!
There are probably very few people like her who can speak the entire article in plain language. I didn’t plan to send it out at first, but then I thought about it, that’s not right!
Our contract has not expired and I am still an employee. This is not a love letter, but a report to the boss.
If you think about it this way, there's no problem. Just seal it up and give it to A4 to send away. It is estimated that when Ling Moxiao's reply is sent, she will arrive in Youzhou soon.
After the Lantern Festival, the weather changed. Maybe it was the rare snowstorm and late spring cold last year that wiped out all the snow accumulated in the sky.
It didn’t snow again after the Lantern Festival this year, so the journey went much smoother.
Before I knew it, it was February 2, and the smell of wind in the air was no longer cold, but filled with the warmth of spring.
The dragon raises its head on the second day of February, which is also the Outing Festival. Willows sprout, peach blossoms bud, and snow melts. It's just that Shen Dongsu goes outing in the countryside every day, so there is no need to celebrate this holiday.
However, during a break, she discovered that wild vegetables in the sunny fields were growing very well.
In particular, dandelion and Scutellaria barbata can be used both as medicinal materials and as wild vegetables that can be cooked and eaten.
As a doctor, part-time cook, and working as a farmer, not digging up these wild vegetables would be a waste!
The eldest brother was more active than her. When he was leading the horse to drink water, he found a piece of wild amaranth and wild polygonum and cut it with a knife.
When he came back with a full basket on his back, he happily said to Shen Dongsu: "Put some water on the young polygonum and make vegetable porridge. It will be delicious."
"If there were such a large field of wild polygonum near our hometown, everyone would have rushed to pick it."
Lin Zhong was a little embarrassed: "I still want to write down the place and cut it back for dyeing when the polygonum grows old."
Shen Dongsu didn't find his elder brother's behavior embarrassing at all and said with a smile:
"The place where we rest is uninhabited. That's why wild vegetables and fruits grow so well. Wherever there are people, people have already picked them all."
The same goes for the cook of the Guards. He had already led people to dig wild vegetables. Some of the vegetables were eaten by the people, and some were eaten by adding some salt to the horses.
Only the cook of the Forbidden Army didn't quite understand. With so much military rations, was it necessary to dig wild vegetables to eat?
The Forbidden Army has been in the imperial city for a long time and has abundant supplies, so it rarely experiences the hardships of survival in the wild.
Unlike the Guards, who followed Ling Moxiao at the border and went hungry for nine meals in three days, their ability to survive in the wild was extremely strong.
The cooks of the Forbidden Army felt that they were a bit out of place. Even the princess took her maid to dig wild vegetables, but they just watched, which was really outrageous.
What's the point of digging up those little wild vegetables if you decide to do something big?
Shen Dongsu directly led a team to the nearby mountains and forests. Shen Dongsu didn't know it at first. When it was time to set off, Jiasi said.
She couldn't help but become anxious. The mountains and forests of these days were not like those of later generations, where just walking around could become a scenic spot.
The only dangerous actions are snakes, insects, and monkeys that steal people's food. It's normal for a tiger or bear to randomly burst out of the forest these days.
It is not uncommon for a crocodile to emerge from any river while a horse is drinking water.
Not to mention snakes, they are obviously going to hibernate in the winter, but for some reason they still come across them all the time. I have cooked snake soup so many times.
Shen Dongsu was about to ask Jia Si to lead someone to look for him, when he heard that the leader of the Forbidden Army came to plead guilty. The team that went to the forest had already returned.
Then he presented a small basket of wild fruits, which he said were picked by the team in the mountains and forests, and other good things, which he would bring to the princess during meal time.
Shen Dongsu didn't punish the team. She was the one who took the lead in picking wild vegetables.
I took the basket of wild fruits and saw that they were a kind of small fruit called sheep's big face among the people. They were smaller than wild raspberries.
They grow into a peach-heart shape, are not yet ripe, and are cherry-colored. This fruit has a nice name, called acacia fruit.
I don’t know why the folks gave it the nickname of a sheep with a big face? It's even funnier than Mo Xiujin's nickname being Xiao Pan.
She tasted one and squeezed her eyes because it was sour, so she fed Yue Jian one, and Yue Jian also said it was sour and hurt her teeth.
Judging from the expressions of the two of them, no one else was willing to try. The eldest brother started drooling even before eating.
Shen Dongsu gave it to Yue Jian and asked her to add some brown sugar to make it into a pulp and eat it in white steamed buns.
No one took the "good stuff" mentioned by the leader to heart. Dong Su thought he was digging spring bamboo shoots or picking wild vegetables that could only be found in the mountains, such as thorn dragon buds.
Wild vegetable porridge is being cooked here, and after a while, the fragrance comes from the Forbidden Army camp. The fragrance is very strong, and the air is filled with fresh fragrance.
Yue Jian sniffed her nose and asked expectantly: "Princess, is this fresh bamboo shoot soup?"
Shen Dongsu shook his head: "It doesn't look like it, it should be a fungus."
She had read too much news about fungus poisoning in her previous life, so when she smelled this fragrance, her first reaction was not to eat delicious mushrooms.
But, don’t pick the toadstools!
Just as he was about to go take a look, he heard the Forbidden Army shouting in panic: "Quick, call the military doctor!"
"Please come, Princess."
"You can't invite the princess, or you'll bump into her!"
Then there were shouts that were high and low, some were singing folk songs, some were shouting like apes, and some were dancing...
Shen Dongsu was anxious and speechless. He was really afraid that something might happen. He really picked poisonous mushrooms!
Jia Si and Yue Jian protected her, and the eldest brother and Xiao Pan brother followed behind. The group arrived at the Forbidden Army's camp.
Leader Shan made urgent accusations and held down the poisoned people.
Seeing the princess coming, he hurriedly said: "Princess, don't come near, they went crazy after eating mushroom soup!"
When he heard "Crazy", half of Mo Xiujin's face exposed under the scarf turned a little whiter. He looked at the soldiers who were singing and dancing with extremely solemn eyes.
Is this the case when you are sick?
Shen Dongsu took over the command and first asked the poisoned person to induce vomiting, and then brought the mushrooms to her.
It was a hallucinogenic poisonous mushroom. She quickly prescribed a detoxification recipe and asked Jia Si to go to the carriage where the medicine was loaded to prepare it.
It was so busy that it took more than half an hour for the dozens of 'patients' to stop, all of them lying feebly and talking nonsense.
Either pointing at something and screaming, or painting in the air, there are so many embarrassing situations.
There was no way to go on the road today, so we camped directly in the mountains to rest.
The soldiers began to worry that they would be poisoned and die. After the princess treated them, they knew that no one would die.
Everyone switched to watching the fun and laughing, imitating the poisonous people, singing folk songs, dancing, or doing various weird things.
Some people are curious about the mushrooms and are discussing how much they can eat to get poisoning.
Leader Shan felt so embarrassed. On the way to escort Princess Ling, the Forbidden Army was so greedy for eating wild mushrooms that he got poisoned and went crazy!
If this spreads out, colleagues in Chang'an will laugh to death.
When I heard that there were still people who wanted to eat them secretly, I was so angry that they dug holes and buried the mushrooms. They were also worried that the horses would eat them. What if the horses went crazy?
In the entire team, no one was watching the excitement, including the military doctor who was learning detoxification from Princess Ling.
It was like Mo Xiujin was watching the process of his madness.
I'm also asking Jia Si where the poisonous mushrooms were picked from.
Shen Dongsu asked Jia Si speechlessly:
"Do you want to try it? Don't bother me. Do you want to sing or dance? I have medicine here. I'll give you a dose and I'll make sure you get what you want."
The veins on Jia Si's temples jumped twice. Why did he feel that the princess was infected by these madmen?
"Princess, after these poisonous mushrooms are dried, are they still poisonous?"
Shen Dongsu nodded and said: "Most of the poison is still there, but a small part will no longer be poisonous."
Jiasi whispered: "Then can this be used as a weapon?"
Shen Dongsu instantly understood what he meant and said with a smile:
"Commander A is really awesome! Ordinary people think of eating mushrooms when they see them, but you think of poison!"
A4:...Are you complimenting me? Why do you think it's harming me?
I didn’t celebrate the Chinese New Year at your house. Do you have any objections to me?
Shen Dongsu asked him to put on a mask and gloves before picking those poisonous mushrooms.
Youzhou is short of everything. We need to stock up on food and weapons!
Fortunately, those soldiers didn't eat much and were able to continue their journey after a night's rest. They just felt ashamed and embarrassed to see others.
And because the cook team was poisoned, no one in the imperial army could cook, so they came to borrow a cook from the royal guard camp.
This episode has little impact on the progress of the journey. Shen Dongsu wants the poisoned Imperial Army to stay in the next county to rest, but the leader Shan won't let him.
This bit of poison is nothing at all. If you are left to rest like this, how can you go to the battlefield!
Being poisoned by eating mushrooms is humiliating enough, but if they are left to rest by the team, then these dozens of people will be ridiculed for the rest of their lives.
Because of the poisonous mushroom incident, although we will dig wild vegetables for the rest of the trip, no one dares to taste them randomly.
Anyone who didn’t know the wild vegetables would ask the military doctor. In the blink of an eye, by the end of February, the wild vegetables and fruits were exploding like a blowout.
Every time you pass a mountain or river, you can dig out a lot of wild vegetables, hunt hares, pheasants, and catch fish.
During this period, he also did a good deed for the people. He met several government officials and a group of young men who went into the mountains to hunt wolves. They said that a pack of wolves had come down the mountain to disturb the people.
They ate a lot of animals and even took a child away.
It actually eats people! Then you must not let it go.
At first, the team wanted to refuse their help because they didn't know their identity and were afraid that the soldiers would take the opportunity to ask for money.
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