Apocalypse Cockroach
Chapter 409: 409 Lakeside Harvest
The next morning, after breakfast, Lu Xiaobu continued to leave with three military vehicles to continue their search where they had not walked yesterday. Zhang Xiaoqiang took people to the lake to find food resources to eat.
They first found a large flock of plants in the waters close to the shore, whose leaves were oval and smooth; the lower part of the leaf shank had swollen, gourd-like gas, chipped chips at the base, 6-12 leaves per strain, monosomy flowers, ear-shaped flowers, 6-12 flowers, 6 cracks in petals, purple blue, with a larger chip and a bright yellow spot in the center.
This plant is recognized at a glance by Zhang Xiaoqiang. Phoenix Lotus, also known as water gourd, has been planted in some dead ponds in the countryside for many years. This plant is highly regenerative. As long as it keeps its roots, it will continue to grow leaves, and its leaves are also a good feed, which can be used for feeding pigs to rabbits.
In addition to being used as animal feed, this plant is naturally purified and can be consumed by humans. The brilliant purple ear and soft leaves can be eaten directly. Its flavour is refreshing and has the effect of intestinal flushing. During the disaster of the '50s and' 60s, many people used water courgettes to survive that painful famine.
The flower period of the water gourd is from August to October. This is the time of the peak flower season. That piece of purple ear moves with the wind. The best dish is the gorgeous purple ear. There are more than just Zhang Xiaoqiang of the water gourd. Those village names know the usefulness of this thing, and they start collecting petals and young leaves.
The crowd was happy at the time of the harvest, the food was not scarce in the motorcade, it was also a pleasure to eat a few fresh vegetables under the staple food, and the motorcade found a lot of cooking oil and various seasonings on the highway. It was not too bad to taste after these things were made.
Zhang Xiaoqiang had an unconscionable attitude towards these harvests. When he was a kid, he saw that they were all feeding pigs with this stuff. There was some rejection in his mind. Zhang Xiaoqiang allowed the crowd to harvest the water gourd, and the team members were on guard around the crowd. He took two puppies and Yang Kel and Meow to the coast to find out if there were any signs of turtles. Yesterday's turtle soup was really good.
After half an hour of searching, Zhang Xiaoqiang was somewhat discouraged. After all, before the end of his life, wild turtles were not common. It was weird to look at this moment and find them.
Zhang Xiaoqiang was about to turn his back and rendezvous with the crowd gathering the water gourd. The two puppies jumped into one side of the grass and disappeared. "What happened?” Zhang Xiaoqiang tightened his heart and grabbed the double-headed horn cone in his hand and chased it.
Zhang Xiaoqiang ran fast in the grass deep beneath his waist, skipping from time to time some dense bushes, like his ancestors thousands of years ago, in the direction of possible prey.
The puppies are not big, and the two puppies can't see their tracks at all in the deep waist of the grass. It doesn't matter. The puppies will bring some grass stems as they run. As the grass stems bounce upside down, a wave between the green grasses is spreading far away, and Zhang Xiaoqiang is going to chase the waves formed by the grass leaves.
When Zhang Xiaoqiang took Yang Kel and Meow, he rushed to the place where the two puppies shouted, Zhang Xiaoqiang had some silly eyes, and Yang Kel and Meow kept retreating, something that seemed to be struggling between the puppy's paws was a terrible monster.
At this moment, there is a big frog struggling between the paws of the puppy. In fact, Zhang Xiaoqiang is not sure if it is a frog, because he has not seen a black frog all over his body, until Zhang Xiaoqiang searched for half a day and did not find the speckle protrusion on the black skin. Finally, this thing about the size of grapefruit is a frog, definitely not a lazy toad.
Since it was a frog, Zhang Xiaoqiang naturally wouldn't let go. He picked up more than three kilograms of frog and walked towards Yang Kel and Meow. Yang Kel and Meow saw that giant frog still jumping in Zhang Xiaoqiang's hand. He couldn't help but turn his head and run scared. He seemed scared that he would jump on them with something and bite them.
Zhang Xiaoqiang, carrying a frog with two toes, was able to bring the dog with his tail back to the pond. Zhang Huaian, who was urging the women to gather, turned his head and saw the big frog. His eyes lit up like those of a turtle yesterday...
Zhang Huai 'an farted and ran to the camp with a big frog. As a senior eater, Zhang Huai 'an had more mouth than Zhang Xiaoqiang, otherwise he wouldn't even let go of the earthworm?
When lunch landed, Zhang Xiaoqiang was not in a hurry. He was walking on the shore of the lake. He was wondering whether to take a risk and go fishing in the lake. His eyes were shaken by something that was shaking in the lake. Zhang Xiaoqiang stopped and looked carefully in the lake with his eyes open.
Today's sun is very nice, the golden bright light brings sparkling light on the clear lake surface of Bibo, the brittle raw water gourd divides the eyes in the sun, except for the heat of the sun, everything seems to be fine, the reflection that shakes the corner of a small strong eye, it is precisely what the sun shines on the lake.
Slowly, Zhang Xiaoqiang's eyes adapted to the darkness of the bottom of the lake, and he could already see some things. The water by the lake was not very deep, and he could almost see the sludge at the bottom of the lake. In the middle of the sludge, an object with the appearance of melon seeds was inserted obliquely on it, some slightly widened, revealing a gap in the shell.
Zhang Xiaoqiang was very curious, he didn't know what it was, the size of the thing was different, the size of the puffer was large, the small one had only one finger long, couldn't see and touch it, Zhang Xiaoqiang could not dare to go into the water, although six months had passed since the first rain, who knew if there would be a virus in it?
As for whether the aquatic organism had the virus Zhang Xiaoqiang also thought about it, when he thought that the mutant organisms were drinking water containing the virus to mutate, and that the virus could not continue to survive in the organism, he reluctantly worried. Isn't it okay that the turtle ate yesterday?
Couldn't go into the water, doesn't mean Zhang Xiaoqiang had no choice. He walked into the bamboo forest on one side to chop off a thick green bamboo glass, broke off a branch, and a four-metre long bamboo pole was done.
Zhang Xiaoqiang stood by the lake carefully sticking the tip of the bamboo rod into a gap. Just as he reached in, that thing clamped the bamboo rod tightly. Then a bit of sludge was disturbed. The turbid sludge completely tainted the water area. Zhang Xiaoqiang could no longer see the specific situation of that water area.
If you can't see it, you can't see it. Zhang Xiaoqiang already feels the bamboo pole sinking in his hand. When Zhang Xiaoqiang dragged the more than a dozen kilograms of things ashore, he caused a surprise. This is a huge river mussel. This river mussel weighs more than 10 kilograms. The two huge mussels clamped the bamboo pole tightly together. On the black-green barbed housing, a wheel coil spread like an old tree's annual wheel.
This huge mussel is the size of a puffin fan, and its housing is homogeneous from left to right, mirror-symmetrical, and has a prominent shell neckline. The anterior end of the shell is rounded, the posterior end is slightly truncated, the abdominal line is curved, the dorsal line is flat, the joint is toothless, the outer ligament can be seen through the cracks of the bamboo rod, on the edge of the ligament, the slightly pink muscles are contracting hard inside.
In southern China, this stuff is common. They live in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and ponds. As long as they are slightly older, their shadows are generally found in ponds. Some of the mussels can form pearls. Pearls are useless for the time being. Their greatest value happens to be their fat fresh meat.
The mussels themselves have either a high protein content, or about 10 percent, but they contain dozens of microelements needed by the human body. At the same time, they also have a high medicinal value. They have the effect of nourishing the yin and flattening the liver, visibly preventing eye diseases, etc., and are considered a small treasure trove.
Zhang Xiaoqiang played a leading role, and the logistics team also knew how to do it. One bamboo was chopped up and one bamboo pole was made out. As people screamed, a large river clam was lifted out of the water. The joyful crowd knew that today's lunch must be particularly rich.