Su Bai heard Zhao Xinqing's words and followed Zhao Xinqing's fingers.
This plant is not tall, with dark green stems and leaves, and a small spike on the top. It looks like it will soon bear some fruits.
Barrage:
【Dr. Zhao is really a treasure girl!】
【Any time you go up a mountain, never go down empty-handed.】
【By the way...what the hell is this?】
[Shh! Upstairs, don’t talk, wait for Su Bai to ask. Don’t expose the fact that your brain is not good.]
【Yes, yes! He must not know either!】
Sure enough, Su Bai's voice came out from the live broadcast:
"What is this?" Su Bai asked.
Zhao Xinqing chuckled and said:
"You will know when you dig it out!"
With that said, Zhao Xinqing took matters into her own hands and quickly dug out the plant from the soil.
Pulling the plant's pole, I gently knocked it on the ground twice. The soil on the rhizome fell off, revealing a root as thick as a finger, which was purple-red all over and had a rough skin.
Su Bai took it in his hand, examined it carefully, and said in surprise:
"This is... wild mountain ginger?!"
Zhao Xinqing was a little surprised:
"Oh? You actually recognize it?"
"It's not easy!"
"Yes, this is wild mountain ginger."
"It's different from the ginger we usually eat. The rhizome of this wild mountain ginger is smaller, but it can also be used for seasoning and spices."
"Furthermore, the fruits of wild ginger are edible and the leaves can be used as medicine. It is a very useful plant."
Zhao Xinqing looked around and said with a happy smile:
"There are several more here. Let's take them back, cut off some of the roots, and stew wolverine meat today to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor!"
"If you lose some rhizomes, the wild ginger will not die and you can continue to grow it!"
Barrage:
[Wild Ginger: It’s over! I was secretly blooming and was discovered by the capitalist couple!]
[Wild Ginger: No way, no way? Could it be that every once in a while in the future, this beautiful woman would dig me out of the soil, cut off part of the roots and then bury them back?!?!]
[Wild Ginger: Gan!!! If I had known I wouldn’t have sprouted back then!]
Soon, Zhao Xinqing inserted the only seven wild ginger plants in the area into Su Bai's basket.
Zhao Xinqing also picked a handful of blades of grass. When passing by the drone lens, she shook the blades and explained:
"These are fennel and calamus, which are relatively unpopular spices. They are used in some places to season beef, dog meat, and snake meat."
"It's also a good choice for seasoning wolverines."
"I won't take this stuff back for planting. It's used in relatively small amounts. If you eat too much, it will be slightly poisonous, but if you eat less, it won't cause any harm."
Although the two of them still didn't find bamboo on this trip up the mountain, they still brought a heavy harvest with them when they came down the mountain.
Wolverine's fur, bones, tendons, and claws are all resources that the two of them need very much, but in comparison, wolverine's meat is insignificant.
Mulberry is also an important discovery. In the next two to three months, the two of them will rely on these mulberries for most of their vitamin and trace element intake.
With the support of mulberries and mushrooms, Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing's salt gap has been filled in. Although they still cannot persist in the long term, they do not need salt so much in the short term!
As for the seasoning of wild mountain ginger, it is already considered an extremely luxurious thing in the wilderness!
After going down the mountain, the two went to the river first.
Zhao Xinqing smiled and took out the two heavy stones from the bird's nest, then held the bird's nest and walked all the way to the camp.
The owl stood on Su Bai's basket, originally looking sleepy, but when she saw Zhao Xinqing holding the bird's nest, she immediately became energetic!
His bird eyes widened, his ear feathers stood up high, he spread his wings and flew directly into the bird's nest, making a low sound of "coo coo" in his throat.
Barrage:
[Owl: Zhao Xinqing! Something is wrong with you! 】
[Owl: Su Bai! Tell the truth! Where did those two stones come from? 】
[Owl: I didn’t expect that! You are such a bitch? 】
[Owl: That’s bad, this couple of bitches even resorted to this method in order to get my body... I’m afraid I can’t escape their clutches! 】
Back at the camp, Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing worked together to place the owl's nest on the top of a nearby big tree.
The bottom of the bird's nest was also tied tightly to the tree trunk with a rope, firstly to prevent the bird's nest from becoming unstable, and secondly, to completely eliminate the possibility of the owl moving.
Owl was obviously unaware of the great abduction technique secretly performed by Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing.
Seeing that the comfortable bird's nest that they had longed for was placed on a high treetop by two people, the owl's eyes almost shone brightly!
He flapped his wings and kept flying in and out of the bird's nest, jumping up and down, looking extremely excited.
Zhao Xinqing looked at the owl under the tree and smiled like an aunt:
"Cat is so happy!"
"Not bad, that's what I want."
"The owl trapping plan was a complete success!"
Barrage:
[Maomao: Ah? Really? This is a success? Is it so easy? 】
[Cat: Meow, meow? My name is Mao Mao? My such a mighty male owl is called Mao Mao?!]
[Maomao: Gan! Will he become a working cat for a capitalist couple in the future... How pitiful...]
[Cat: I am a little bird...I want to fly, but I can't fly high——]
After helping the owl set up a home nearby, Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing began to prepare the wolverine carcass in their backpacks.
Although Maomao ate a few bites of the wolverine, he was not particularly hungry to begin with, and the wolverine's carcass was still in a complete state.
Su Bai quickly removed the wolverine's odor glands, peeled off the entire skin, looked at it against the setting sun, nodded with satisfaction and said:
"You can make a pillow..."
Zhao Xinqing was beside the fire and took off all the long pointed claws of the wolverine.
"It's really long..."
Zhao Xinqing pinched the wolverine's sharp claws and sighed:
"This must be twelve or thirteen centimeters, it can be used as a knife."
"With these bone minions, we finally have useful tools, and the speed of making curved shaft plows will be greatly improved."
"It's a pity that I didn't find bamboo, otherwise we could start now..."
The two cut apart half of the wolverine's bones and stewed it in a pot.
With the blessing of wild mountain ginger and fennel calamus, the fishy smell in the wolverine meat was suppressed and replaced by a strong meaty aroma that wafted through the camp.
While the two of them were guarding the bark pot, waiting for dinner.
On the tree, the owl and the cat suddenly became restless and made a low cry:
"Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!"
Zhao Xinqing was startled, quickly turned to look at Maomao, and whispered:
"This is the owl's warning. I'm afraid some large beast has broken in?"
When Su Bai heard this, he was also very alert. He stood up holding the fishing rod and short stick and whispered: