Chapter 741: Tumbleweed

The strong wind blew all night. At dawn, Xiao Peng lifted the tent cloth that covered him, bared his head and looked around like a groundhog.
"How do you get this so special?" Xiao Peng sighed. .
Emilia squeezed and squeezed and showed a small head: "Oh, I'm stabbed to death."
Xiao Peng pressed Emilia's head and pushed her back into the tent. "Don't join in the fun! These are all thorns, and it hurts to stabbing people."
Emilia was honest: "Xiao Peng, what the is this!"
Xiao Peng was speechless: "I said that this is hay, that is not to tease you. This is called Russian thorn sapod. People are used to calling it tumbleweed. Have you never seen a western movie? There are often such scenes in western movies. When the wind blows a ball of grass, that’s the thing! A plant that is very common in the Gobi Desert. It is also the most troublesome invasive species in your Star-Stripe Nation! That’s why I said this was the pioneer of the Bear Nation’s invasion of the Star-Stripe Nation, but Although this thing was introduced from the bear country, it is actually rare in the bear country."
"Tumbleweed? I've heard of this name. Together with cactus and rattlesnakes, it is known as the symbol of the Western Wasteland. The Eagle Country movie is called this name!" Emilia said excitedly. "There is also O'Tui's song "Tumbleweed", and there are many books about this kind of grass. Many people use the tumbleweed to describe their love of wandering and freedom. You must persist like a tumbleweed. Go beyond restraint at any time, and surpass yourself in the face of difficulties! My coming-of-age ceremony travel is also because I read an article about Tumbleweed and decided to go out more."
Xiao Peng sighed: "The people who wrote these articles are all who have never seen tumbleweed. Who dares to try the tumbleweed in front of the people from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Star Strip Country? Xianglai. The economic losses caused by this tumbleweed in the Star-Stripe Nation are as high as billions of dollars each year!"
Emilia asked puzzledly: "Is it that scary?"
Xiao Peng nodded and said: "Every time this tumbleweed is in the dry season, the roots will be collected from the soil and rolled into a ball with the wind. While rolling, they will spread the seeds, and their vitality is extremely strong. The environment will take root and shoot out new shoots and grow again. People who live in the city think tumbleweed is very romantic, but if you live here, when you open the door in the morning and find that you can’t get out, the door is full of sharp points. If the thorny tumbleweed is blocked, would you still like this grass? And the grass itself has toxins. If the cattle and sheep eat a lot of it, it may cause fatal diseases! But don't worry about it now, tumbleweed The toxicity will disappear after it dries up. It's fine now."
Emilia asked puzzledly: "Then since it is so terrible, why don't you manage it?"
Xiao Peng said helplessly: "How to deal with it? In the past, people used fire to deal with tumbleweeds, but now most areas no longer allow agriculture to be burned. You don't even dare to smoke without seeing me? Caused a chain fire! The current treatment method can only be processed into grass powder to add fertilizer to the land, but this project is too large. The cost is high, and the efficiency is low! The government of the Stars and Stripes is now investing heavily in research and development. A virus specifically effective for tumbleweed, but that is too difficult. When they find out, I am afraid that the entire star-stripe country will be covered by tumbleweed. Now the spread of this tumbleweed has far exceeded that of the star-stripe country. Any known weed, this kind of grass hardly wastes time to grow leaves, but uses its strength to breed seeds, and it spreads wherever it goes. It is simply a disaster." After that, Xiao Peng stretched out his head and took a look: "Vaco, we are so unlucky."
The characteristic of tumbleweeds is that they run wherever the wind blows. Many pests will hitchhike and raging and polluting the environment together with tumbleweeds. Unless stopped, it will continue to roll, and eventually a big hay ball the size of a car will be formed! Xiao Peng was trapped here by a pile of tumbleweed. The reason why he said he was unlucky was that on the other side of the road where they were located, there was a windbreak forest about two kilometers long, which blocked all the tumbleweeds that came with the wind. That's why Xiao Peng was trapped in the middle of the tumbleweed.
If you are driving a car, Xiao Peng can run directly through the tumbleweed. Although the tumbleweed is full of spikes and not small in size, it is not heavy and not strong. He just rushed over when he drove the car. Okay. But he is riding a motorcycle now. If he really wants to rush through the middle, those spikes will be enough for him to drink two pots. Even if he can bear it, what about Emilia?
Alas, Emilia can't count on it anymore. Xiao Peng got out of the tent and immediately began to pick up the tumbleweed. He wanted to clear a way out for himself. This made the tumbleweed Xiao Peng body one after another. , The clothes were torn a lot.
Emilia wanted to help, Xiao Peng still let her go back and stay there. She couldn't stand the tumbleweed, so don't let Emilia go out and suffer.
Emilia stretched out a small head: "Xiao Peng, since this tumbleweed is so terrible, should it be widely distributed? Do you have China?"
Xiao Peng replied as he worked, "Of course there are."
Emilia heard: "Then your side is like this, is the tumbleweed so harmful?"
Xiao Peng shook his head while cleaning the tumbleweed.
Emilia wondered: "Then how did you manage this kind of disaster in China? Why didn't the government of the Stars and Stripes introduce this kind of governance?"
Xiao Peng smiled slightly: "Uh, you can't learn the governance style of our Huaxia people. In our Huaxia, this tumbleweed was almost killed into the cradle before it could roll."
Emilia was very interested in hearing this: "Then how do you Chinese deal with this tumbleweed?"
Xiao Peng laughed loudly: "It's very simple. This tumbleweed has another name in our Huaxia. It's called Pig-Mao Cai! Listen, it's a dish! What does that mean? You can eat it! Pig-salina is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It is effective in treating high blood pressure. Dried whole grass can be used as traditional Chinese medicine. The young stems and leaves are also good quality feed. Animals can eat it. Why can't people eat it? , Saying separately is the pinyin "eat na", do you think it is a joke?"
"But!" Emilia raised the question: "Just now you said that if cattle and sheep eat this food in large amounts, it may cause fatal diseases."
Xiao Peng said, "I'm talking about a large amount! The young stems and leaves of this pig-salacia are fed to livestock in a small amount, and the effect is still very good. When people eat, people eat cattle, and they can always find its value. How can he roll into a ball and run around? Tumbleweed like this can be directly used as medicine."
Emilia puzzled: "Then why doesn't Star Stripe use this method?"
Xiao Peng said: "Who made the Stars and Stripes country not recognize Chinese medicine? It is purely a deceptive witchcraft to think that we Chinese people can be cured by eating some flowers and herbs like this. !"
Emilia asked: "Why do you say that?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "You only believe that you do not believe in others. This is also related to your founding of the country. I can say that there is a history of using herbal medicines all over the world! But you don't believe in the efficacy of herbal medicines. Understand what you think, the history of mankind is so long, and how long is the history of Western medicine? Did people die before they got sick?"
Emilia felt speechless after hearing Xiao Peng's words. After thinking about it, Emilia replied, "That's because Western medicine is more scientific?"
"Hahahahaha." Xiao Peng listened to a huge joke: "Western medicine science? Then you must not know how Western medicine treats diseases! The earliest Western medicine only had two skills, one is enema and the other is Bleeding, as long as a patient finds the head, enema first, if the enema is not cured? Then the bloodletting, at that time the bloodletting is done by the barber shop, which barber shop can let the bloodletting, hang a red ribbon at the door, and the wind blows Turn and turn, this is why so many barbershops have rotating light boxes at the entrance. That means: come, I can let you blood!"
"And Western medicine doesn't use natural plants and animals? No, quinine, vincristine, morphine, atropine, artemisinin, etc., are all extracted from plants. You can use it yourself, but it is unscientific for others to use it? "Xiao Peng sneered: "Wagner said that fever can treat syphilis, and then he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine; there was a stage when countless western doctors used electric shocks to treat mental illness, and there was another Nobel Prize winner, Antonio Egas. Monis, his forebrain white matter resection has created tens of thousands of patients with sequelae who cannot take care of themselves throughout their lives. Well, including your former President Kennedy’s sister Rose-Mary Kennedy, and others have died because of this operation. Including your Oscar actor Warner Baxter. There are too many examples of this, do you want me to talk about it? Miss Emilia, this is the science you are talking about."
"But you can't deny that Western medicine is the most acceptable medicine in the world! Not your Chinese herbal medicine." Emilia defended.
"Of course. This is the power of capital." Xiao Peng said indifferently: "In the entire world, those medical groups will always be the richest people. And as long as you have money, you can find someone to replace you anywhere. You speak, in China, many people now stand up against Chinese medicine, and the reason for this is that a group of people who have collected money follow the rhythm, and a group of people follow it, and finally a group of unknown people follow to join in the fun."
Emilia was confused: "What does this capital have to do?"
"What does it matter? It's a big deal!"