Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

"Uh~ okay! 5000 is 5000, and don't bargain like this next time! I'm losing so much!" Huo An cried out for loss while quickly calculating the bill and stuffed the knife into Lin Xia's hand.

Lin Xia felt like she was being ripped off again, but never mind, this was what she needed and there was no place else to buy it. It wasn't an exaggeration to say it was a seller's market!

"By the way, Brother Huo, can you give me some of the chili peppers and peppercorns you have? The seasonings that Zack brought for me will last until next month, and I can't wait to eat the rabbit until next month just for the seasonings!"

"How good are your cooking skills? Why don't you give the rabbit to me to cook?" Huo An really didn't want Lin Xia to waste such good ingredients.

"You underestimate me, I just need some seasoning. Haven't you tasted my cooking? Everyone who has eaten it says it's good!"

Huo An: ... What are your skills? Pickling kimchi?

In fact, since Huo An has agreed to cook rabbit meat, Lin Xia can bring the ingredients over. But she can't trouble Huo An to cook it every time, right?

Lin Xia also wanted to try it herself. After all, there would be plenty of opportunities to hunt various prey in the future, and she also needed to practice her kitchen and cooking skills!

Just like that, under Huo An's speechless gaze, Lin Xia searched Huo An's kitchen and took some of the seasonings she thought she would need.

"By the way, Brother Huo, do you have ginger, scallions, and garlic seeds for sale? I saw Jeff at the grocery store said he had never heard of these vegetables." Lin Xia suddenly remembered that scallions, ginger, and garlic are indispensable for Chinese people to cook any dish, so she asked quickly.

"Oh, you know a lot! Onions, ginger and garlic are the soul of cooking, but it's a pity that people in Mineral Town have never seen them. I have dried ginger and garlic here. As for onions, I only planted some in the flower bed. Do you want to plant some? I can give some to you! In the future, you plant them and I won't! It's not convenient for me!"

"That's no problem! I'll be in charge of growing them. Just tell me when you want to eat them, and Zack can just bring them over when he goes to my place to pick up the produce every day!"

"This is great. You happen to have a lot of land. You can plant onions, ginger and garlic in spring, summer and autumn and harvest them repeatedly. I'll rely on you from now on!" Huo An said as he brought Lin Xia half a sack of ginger and half a sack of garlic. It can be seen that these are for his daily consumption. If he were to sell them, they would definitely not be packaged like this.

There were green onions in the flowerbed under the window at the door. Lin Xia dug up a few roots, went back and picked out an acre of land, planted 3 squares of each kind, and that was enough for them to eat.

Onions, ginger and garlic are mostly condiments, not commonly eaten vegetables, so there is no need to grow so many!

After leaving the beach, Lin Xia went straight to the hospital to find Dot and asked him to check whether the two plants he found were medicinal herbs.

"These are Pyrrosia stalked and Selaginella scabra, both are medicinal herbs, I can buy them!" Dot looked at the two plants in his hand happily and introduced them to Lin Xia happily, "This one is Pyrrosia stalked."

He held a plant with big and thick leaves and said, "There are three types of Pyrrosia: small Pyrrosia, large Pyrrosia and Pyrrosia with stalks. Pyrrosia with stalks is smaller than small Pyrrosia and large Pyrrosia, but its value is the highest. The one you dug is Pyrrosia with stalks. It tastes bitter, sweet and cold in nature. It is used as medicine to treat edema, urinary problems, phlegm-heat cough and asthma, hemoptysis and vomiting blood.

And this Selaginella has another name called 'Resurrection Grass'." Looking at Lin Xia's wide eyes, Dot hurriedly explained with a smile, "Don't get me wrong, it doesn't mean that it can bring people back to life, but it means that it has strong vitality.

Selaginella is a small fern plant with branches and leaves similar to cypress, but with extraordinary vitality. It grows in the cracks of rocks and rocks. In the dry season, it will curl up and wither into a ball, seemingly lifeless, but as long as there is rain, it will stretch out its branches and leaves, revealing an intoxicating green.

Therefore, people also call it the grass of nine dead, evergreen, and immortal grass. It has high medicinal value. It can reduce inflammation and stop bleeding when taken internally, and has therapeutic effects on symptoms such as stomach pain, numbness of hands and feet, and cough. Grinding it into dry powder and mixing it with vegetable oil can be applied to the wound to heal knife wounds.

If it’s convenient for you, you can pick more and send them over. I can buy them all!”

"Okay, today I went to the stone mountain to smash stones and found quite a few, but because I didn't know what they were, I didn't collect many. I will collect more and bring them back later." Lin Xia said happily.

"Since you've found a fixed picking spot and the quantity is not small, I'll add these two herbs to the delivery list. You can put them directly into the box for settlement after you pick them, so you don't have to waste time delivering them to me."

"That's even better!" Lin Xia agreed, and gave the herbs directly to Dot.

Dot happily accepted it: "By the way, our hospital has received a new medicine. As a thank you, I would like to let you try it first. How about it?"

Lin Xia frowned, there was no need for such thanks!

Seeing Lin Xia's face visibly turning green, Dot laughed and said, "I was kidding. I won't let you try new medicine again. I was scared when you fainted last time! I have something good to give you. I think it's very suitable for you. Wait, I'll get it."

Having said that, he left the clinic. Seeing Dotte’s excited look, Lin Xia really had no expectations. A doctor’s gift made her recall bad things again. . . . .

Just as she was desperately thinking of an excuse to shirk her responsibility, Dot came back with something.

"Ever since I studied medicine, I have been committed to researching new drugs while treating patients. Recently, I have been studying this, which is somewhat different from medicine... It has already received quite good reviews among the city people.

So I also hope that the people of Mineral Town will know about it, and hope that someone will come and try it out.

I think I can only ask Lin Xia, who is usually the most hardworking and adventurous, to take care of this matter."

Lin Xia: Is it too late to run now? It's another trial? Huh? Trial? Not a tasting?

"This is called a negative ion product. It can have a relaxing effect just by wearing it. I heard that when people bathe in negative ions, they can calm their minds and relax more than usual.

For example, when you take a forest bath, you feel refreshed, right? I heard that this is because the forest produces a lot of negative ions. "

"Wow~ Does it have such magical effects?" Lin Xia felt good after listening to it, and took the negative ion product that Dote mentioned. It was a small pendant that looked a bit like a gourd, and it was hollow inside. I don’t know what the principle is. If it really has the effect that Dote said, wouldn’t this be a magic tool that can help relax and improve sleep?

"It's great that you are happy!" Dortmund said happily, "As the saying goes, 'diseases come from the mind', which means that our mind and body are closely connected. I now feel that it is better not to keep everything in my heart. Living a happy life may be the best treatment."

"You are right, attitude is the most important thing!" Lin Xia agreed very much.