ancient five-star seventh system

Chapter 261 It’s Impossible to Be a Child Bride-in-Law (4)

Wang Qigou came home when it was almost dark in the afternoon. Zhang Juhua was full of anticipation when she saw him come back, and after seeing him take a few sips of water, he let out a long sigh of relief and said:
"It's sold. I sold all the seven fields behind the mountain. Guess how much it costs per catty?"

Wang Qigou's pride made Zhang Juhua's heart thump, "Could it really be sold for a penny a catty?"

A few days ago, Wang Qigou went to look at the hillside that Zuo Xiaole mentioned. There was a large piece of Tianqi, which weighed several hundred catties. Even if it was dried, it should be one or two hundred catties. Jin, if you sell it, you will have two or thirty taels of silver!

The two or thirty taels of silver, but her family's income from not eating or drinking for several years, is worthless, and it is impossible for her not to be excited.

"Hey, you haven't seen it. Such a good Panax notoginseng has been wild for several years, and it only costs a penny a catty. Where can you find such a good thing?" Wang Qigou said with disdain for Zhang Juhua.

"Then, wouldn't that be two coins?" Zhang Juhua's eyes widened. This is three to forty taels of silver to earn!
"Three cents and five cents! It's three cents and five cents a catty! Wang Qigou grinned triumphantly, and his heart was also surging.

Today he went to the pharmacy in the town to show him his Panax notoginseng, and the price he said was about the same as what he paid at home, only ten cents per catty, Wang Qigou thought, anyway, that piece is wild If it can be sold for two or thirty taels of silver, it is a profit anyway, so it is planned to close the deal.

But he didn't expect that at this time, a collector of medicinal materials came to their medicine shop. When he saw the Panax notoginseng in Wang Qigou's hand, he shouted that it was a good thing. He asked the medicine shop how many such Panax notoginseng they had, and he wanted all of them. .

Wang Qigou saw that this was not the common panax notoginseng mentioned by the pharmacist, so he asked the other party how much he was willing to pay for this panax notoginseng?That man was a merchant of medicinal materials from out of town. Wang Qigou was very happy when he heard that he had directly asked for three renminbi. Five catties.

Speaking of which, this is a major event worthy of his pride.

But at this moment Wang Xi and Zuo Xiaole came back. Seeing Wang Qigou come back, Wang Xi ran over excitedly, "Father, when you come back, where are my pens, inks, papers and inkstones? Did you buy them for me?" ?”

Wang Xi started to learn to write. Wang Qigou and Zhang Juhua watched, thinking that since his son liked it, he didn't intervene much. Even a few days ago, Wang Xi pestered Wang Qigou for a set of pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and he agreed. Instead of going to the town, on the one hand, it is to sell some home-grown vegetables, on the other hand, to try to see what price Sanqi can sell, and finally to buy pens, inks, papers and inkstones for Wang Xi.

Although Wang Qigou and Zhang Juhua are rural people with little education, they are also very envious of those talented masters who can study, so they actually support Wang Xi's study.

Besides, how much is the pen, ink, paper and inkstone worth?The most important thing is that your son is happy!

The whole family had a happy dinner. Wang Qigou, because he was concerned about the Tianqi with dozens of taels of silver, got up before dawn the next day to dig up Tianqi. What was surprising was that by noon, he was gone. When he came back, Wang Juhua was worried about something unexpected happening to him on the mountain, so he asked Wang Xi and Zuo Xiaole to take a look.

Although Zuo Xiaole didn't know that Wang Qigou went to the town to ask what was going on with Tian Qi's price, but seeing him digging Tian Qi so actively, he also understood that this Tian Qi should be sold for a lot of money. Wang Xi writes, studies medicine, and Wang Qigou and Zhang Juhua save her a lot of farm work at home.

Naturally, she was also happy, but the Wang family planned to do this kind of thing like digging Sanqi alone?
Here, Wang Xi went to the mountain with displeasure. His greatest pleasure now is writing and learning about herbal medicine. He doesn't care about anything else.

Zuo Xiaole saw his displeasure and knew that it was a child's heart, so she introduced some plants that could be seen on the road to him, "This is saxifrage, slightly bitter in nature, pungent and cold, and can reduce swelling and detoxify." Its effect. For cough due to lung heat, you can take this fresh decoction orally, or use it to make wine, and it can cure eczema, skin itching, etc..."

Now Wang Xi was happy. Zuo Xiaole told him about some medicinal herbs along the way, and he couldn't wait to pull some on his belt, and then asked various questions. Zuo Xiaole also patiently explained to him one by one, and soon the two arrived. The place full of wild notoginseng.

I saw that Wang Qigou’s basket on his back up the mountain was still on the middle of the mountain, but the person disappeared. Looking up, there were traces of digging Sanqi. The two of them followed this trace all the way up, and suddenly heard A feeble cry for help came from not far away, and the two people quickly ran over to follow the sound.

Only then did I realize that this was an old animal trap, because it had not been used for many years, and it was covered with vines. Wang Qigou accidentally stepped on it, and there happened to be a bamboo thorn that hadn't completely broken down underneath. The bamboo thorn directly penetrated his thigh, and he fainted for a while. When he woke up soon, the blood had already soaked his clothes.

"Father! How are you, Daddy!" Wang Xi saw that Wang Qigou fell into the nearly two-meter-deep pit, covered in blood, and dropped all the herbs in a fright. Jump into the pit.

"What are you doing? How can you help by jumping down? Don't step on me and hit me again, aggravating the injury!" Zuo Xiaole grabbed Wang Xi and said, "I'll teach you another lesson. As a doctor, when something happens, You must be calm and calm! Let’s take a few deep breaths and see if I can do well?”

Wang Xi was grabbed by Zuo Xiaole, and his whole head was in a daze. He really wanted to get rid of Zuo Xiaole's confinement, but he saw her big dark eyes. The silence inside made him calm down slowly. By the way, that's right, that's right, he still has a master!
He also has a master!
"Father! Wang Qigou! Can you hear us?" Zuo Xiaole yelled into the pit.

"Xi, Xizi, girl, you, you..." Wang Qigou's voice was weak, but the grass and vines at the entrance of the cave were cleared away, and he also saw the two children above.

"It's good that you can hear us. You slow down your breathing and mood now. You'll be fine. Don't be too nervous. Let's throw you some herbs to stop bleeding and pain. You should treat the wound first. Xizi, go pick some blood-scattering grass you just picked and give me a handful of Panax notoginseng leaves!"

Zuo Xiaole yelled to the bottom of the pit, and then told Wang Xi, who yelled to the bottom of the pit: "Father, don't worry, you will be fine!" Then went to pick the leaves of notoginseng.

Panax notoginseng leaves also have the effect of stopping bleeding, and the effect is very good.

When Wang Xi went to get the herbs, Zuo Xiaole dug out two small stones on the ground, and when Wang Xi got the herbs, Zuo Xiaole told him, "Xizi, go to the village and call for help." , the two of us will definitely not be able to get people up, my mother's injury is still not healed, don't let her worry, go quickly."

But as soon as her words fell, Wang Qigou at the bottom of the pit shouted: "Don't call people, I, I can come up by myself, I..."

"Go quickly!" This is what Zuo Xiaole said to Wang Xi, "it will be dangerous for Dad to stay here for a while, so hurry up and go!"

"Okay!" Wang Xi glanced at Wang Qigou who was covered in blood, turned around and ran away.

Wang Qigou at the bottom of the pit pointed at Zuo Xiaole and scolded: "Hey, you prodigal bitch! This, here... If someone comes, these Sanqis here will not be able to keep them. Here, I promise Boss Zhou to take care of them." Sanqi was sold to him, you..."

"Sanqi is more important or life is more important?" Zuo Xiaole didn't care about him, wrapped the herbs and stones with a big leaf, and hung them down with vines to Wang Qigou.

"You smash these two kinds of medicinal herbs with stones and apply them on your legs first, otherwise your leg will be difficult to keep." Zuo Xiaole said to Wang Qigou half-seriously and half-threateningly, but seeing his heart ashamed Then he continued:
"Selling the panax notoginseng here is just to make money once, and the family suddenly has a lot of money. There will always be a time when it will be exposed. At that time, this mountain forest should be shared by the villagers. Let's see what you are doing today. The first time you made money here, the next time you want to take it all by yourself, it will not be so easy,

It's better to let everyone earn this money together, and everyone has tasted the sweetness. You come forward and persuade everyone to grow Panax notoginseng together, and then you sell it to the medicinal material merchant who accepts Panax notoginseng, and earn a little difference from it. Hammer trading is much easier to earn money after hard work. Do you think what I said is true? "

Wang Qigou was so angry that he wanted to tear Zuo Xiaole up with his bare hands. After all, it was several tens of taels of silver. Now that it's all gone, who is not angry?
But now, after hearing Zuo Xiaole's way of making money, he suddenly felt refreshed, and immediately smelled the fragrance of money in the middle.

Now there are only two hundred catties of panax notoginseng here at most, but if everyone in the village planted together and planted one thousand catties or ten thousand catties of panax notoginseng, he would earn one per cent of silver per catty, so he could earn a thousand catties Ten taels, 100 catties can earn [-] taels, and it is available every year. This, this is really a profitable business!
The more Wang Qigou thought about it, the more his heart beat up. Yes, these dozens of taels of silver seemed a lot, but it was only for the immediate benefit. He had to take a long-term view.

The main thing is that after watching Zuo Xiaole teach Wang Xi to read, read and learn medicine these days, he almost believed what Zhang Juhua told him. Maybe this girl was sent by God to help them. Listen Hers should be right!

After a while, Wang Qigou took a lot of effort to apply the medicine to himself, and he didn't know whether the wound was numb or the herbs really had an effect. When he was a little drowsy, he suddenly heard Zuo Xiaole yelling at him. road:

"In fact, notoginseng can't be dug like this. It's better to dig up the whole rhizome together. In this way, the best price can be sold if it looks good."

Hearing the little girl's voice, Wang Qigou woke up with a jolt, thinking that when he just dug Sanqi, he dug up a lot of Sanqi with a hoe, and he wondered if it would affect the price?

"Then how do we dig?" After all, digging with a hoe can be done quickly, and he doesn't want to spend forever on this mountain.

"It doesn't matter how you dig, as long as you can ensure that the roots of Panax notoginseng are intact." Zuo Xiaole felt that it would be better for them to find a way for this kind of thing.

Wang Qigou thought that digging with a hoe would destroy the integrity of Panax notoginseng, so it should be no problem to replace it with a small shovel or sickle, right?
"Panax notoginseng is a shade-loving plant. I took a look. In our village, the environment on several mountains is good. After simple reclamation, without destroying too much vegetation, it can be used to grow notoginseng. The fields in the village Because many of them are at the foot of the mountain, in order to improve the growth rate, they are facing the sun instead, which is not suitable for the cultivation of Panax notoginseng.

Besides, everyone still needs to eat and grow food, which is not very suitable.Fortunately, these mountains are still empty, so it is better to unite a few families and try to plant a batch first. "

Zuo Xiaole knows that she is a child after all, and there are not many people who can believe what she says, but it is relatively easy for Wang Qigou and the others to believe, after all, she has a "conviction" of.

Afterwards, these words will be more convincing if Wang Qigou tells everyone.

Hearing this, Wang Qigou nodded again and again. Although he had already decided to let everyone grow Panax notoginseng, he had no idea how to plant Panax notoginseng. Now hearing what Zuo Xiaole said, the heat in his heart slowed down. Slow down and think carefully.

But because he bled too much before, he was starting to feel a little cold now, and Zuo Xiaole was also a little anxious up there, if the rescuers didn't come again, Wang Qigou didn't know what would happen.

But what matters now is that Wang Qigou cannot fall asleep, so she raised her voice and continued:

"Actually, in a village like ours, because it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sunlight is blocked by the mountains, it is normal for the crop harvest to be poor. But we can completely switch to sweet potatoes, which have high yields. Although we cannot say that we will grow all sweet potatoes, but You must know that sweet potatoes not only have high yields from their roots, but their leaves can be used as vegetables, and their vines can be used to feed livestock, raising their value to another level."

The reason why Zuo Xiaole said this was because of the drought and insect disaster that would happen two years later. If he could start storing emergency food from this time, he would not be at a loss in the face of natural disasters.

When Wang Qigou heard that he was asked to give up growing grain and grow sweet potatoes, he frowned in disapproval. He couldn't bear to let him eat sweet potatoes all day long!

However, the production of sweet potatoes is large, and it is indeed true. As the little girl said, plant a large number of sweet potatoes, then feed the sweet potatoes to pigs and livestock, and finally sell the animals for money. A catty of pork is more expensive than a catty of grain too much!

Wang Qigou was just thinking drowsily, when suddenly Wang Xi's voice calling for his father came from not far away, he woke up with a jolt, Zuo Xiaole immediately got up to look at Wang Xi's voice, and saw The few people who usually walked very close to Wang Qigou rushed here panting under the leadership of Wang Xi.

Afterwards, several people worked together to rescue Wang Qigou from the deep pit, and Zuo Xiaole's hanging heart fell into his stomach.

(End of this chapter)