Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Chapter 269

"Ms. Lin, are you home?"

Lin Shu was awakened by the loud voice of a rural woman. He took out his watch from under his pillow and looked at the time. It was only seven o'clock.

"Sister Lin, sister Lin, are you up?"

Lin Shu opened the door and came out of the house. The courtyard gate outside was wide open, and three or four women were standing in the yard.

Among them is Cuihua, who came to our house yesterday.

When they saw Lin Shu coming out, they all stopped talking.

Cuihua looked at Lin Shu's pure cotton home clothes, which looked quite fashionable. "Ms. Lin, your clothes are really beautiful. Why don't I see you wearing them normally? But the color is too light and it doesn't get dirty easily. In our countryside, it will probably get dirty after walking around in the fields."

The others nodded in agreement with Cuihua.

Lin Shu gathered her hair and tied it up with a rubber band, avoiding the topic of pajamas and asked with a smile, "Sister-in-law, why are you here?"

Yancai Zhang was impatient. He took a step forward and passed Cuihua. He asked, "Ms. Lin, your husband said that you buy herbs. We live in the countryside and don't know much. So I wanted to ask you what herbs look like. If you have time, please let us know so that we can go and pick them."

Gu Jiu went to Captain Feng's house early in the morning before the villagers went to work. It seemed that he had already told them about the purchase of medicinal herbs.

Lin Shu lowered his head and tugged at his home clothes. "Wait a moment, I'll go in and change clothes?"

Yancai Zhang smiled and nodded: "Okay, okay, go in and change quickly."

Lin Shu went into the house and changed into an old set of long-sleeved shirt and long pants. He found the tools in the kitchen and threw them into the basket. He opened the lid of the pot on the stove, but there was nothing in the pot.

Lin Shu bought a few steamed buns from the system, put them in a bowl and put them in the pot to cover it, then took one for himself and ate while leaving the kitchen.

She asked politely, "Have the sisters-in-law had breakfast?"

Yancai Zhang glanced at the white flour bun in Lin Shu's hand, and said with a smile that he had eaten it.

Lin Shu didn't care whether he had eaten or not. He took off the straw hat hanging on the wall, put it on, and went out of the yard with everyone.

"Ms. Lin, your husband said that the weeds on the roadside are all medicinal herbs. Look at all the weeds on the roadside. Which ones are medicinal herbs?"

As soon as we left the village, Yancai Zhang couldn't wait to point at the weeds on the roadside and asked.

"Sisters-in-law, we will be together in the village for a while. Don't call me Lin's sister. Just call me Lin Shu."

Lin Shu held the medicine hoe in one hand, ate a steamed bun, and pointed at the plants on the roadside with the hoe, "Sisters-in-law, do you know what this plant is called?"

"Yellow thorn."

"Yes, this is the yellow broom. This plant is very common in the wild, but you probably don't know that it is a medicinal herb."

Yancai Zhang's eyes lit up, "If you hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known it was a medicinal herb. In the past, when our feet got ulcers in the summer, we would rub the leaves of the yellow broom and sandwich them between our feet. Applying them a few times would heal them."

Lin Shu nodded: "The whole body of the yellow broom is a treasure. The young leaves of the yellow broom can be made into yellow broom tea, and the branches and leaves can be burned into ashes to make alkaline water, which is used to make alkaline rice dumplings, and the taste is also good. In autumn, the yellow broom seeds can be used to make yellow broom seed tea, and a little can be added when grinding it into powder to make cakes. The yellow broom can also be used to smoke mosquitoes, and the rhizomes can be boiled into water for foot soaking."

Anyway, it has many uses.

The "jing" in "carrying a thorn bush to ask for forgiveness" refers to the yellow broom. I believe many rural children have been beaten by the yellow broom in their childhood.

Cuihua had never expected that the whole body of the yellow broom was a treasure. "When we went up the mountain to chop wood, sometimes we accidentally cut our hands. We would rub the yellow broom leaves and apply them on the wound, and the bleeding would stop quickly."

Yancai Zhang asked the question that everyone was most concerned about: "Lin family...Lin Shu, you said that it is full of treasures, so how much do you want to buy it for?"

"There are no yellow brooms in this season, so I will buy the young leaves and its rhizomes. You can make tea from the young leaves, and I will charge you five yuan per pound. The rhizomes can be sliced ​​and dried, and I will charge you one yuan per pound."

"Five yuan a pound of leaves?"

Everyone was stunned by the price.

You have to know that in the countryside, the monthly expenses for a family are about five yuan. Sometimes, if they save a little, they may not even spend five yuan.

No one thought that the yellow broom was so valuable. When they were disobedient as children, they were beaten with the yellow broom.

Lin Shu reminded everyone: "It's the price of young leaves made into tea and dried."

After hearing this, the women ignored everything else and ran towards the yellow broom trees on the roadside, and started pulling out the leaves randomly. In a few moments, they had pulled out all the tender leaves of the yellow broom trees on the roadside.

Lin Shu: “…”

Lin Shu climbed up the hillside next to him, pulled up a Polygala tenuifolia and introduced it to the women who followed him: "You should have seen this plant before. It has small purple flowers and looks like a weak little grass, but it's actually called Polygala tenuifolia, and it's a medicinal herb."

"There's plenty of this kind of grass in this wasteland. Lin Shu, how much do you charge per kilo?"

"The only thing that has medicinal value is the root of Polygala. After drying it, you can sell it to us."

Needless to say, several women picked up hoes and started digging.

Taking advantage of the cool weather, Lin Shu looked around as they were busy digging Polygala tenuifolia.

I accidentally saw a plant of Yinyanghuo, also known as three-branch nine-leaf grass.

From the name you can imagine what it looks like: one plant has three branches, each branch has three leaves, a total of nine leaves.

In the northwest, there is a yin sheep, which changes into a hundred different things in one day. It is probably because it eats this herb.

Among them, the best quality is the small-leaved three-branched nine-leaf clover produced in the northwest.

Lin Shu collected several nearby branches into the system, and she found two coltsfoot plants nearby.

Coltsfoot, unlike other plants, withers in winter, but Coltsfoot blooms in winter. The buds of Coltsfoot can be made into tea, which has medicinal value.

It is not the season to harvest coltsfoot flowers at this time of the year, so we have to leave them alone.

"Lin Shu, we are still digging here, where are you going?" Yancai Zhang was digging in the gap between Polygala tenuifolia. He looked up and saw Lin Shu walking further and further away, and he became anxious.

Lin Shu looked back at everyone and pointed around, "I'll walk around here, you guys start digging first."

The herbs told them too much at once, and they couldn't remember it all.

Lin Shu felt that it was enough to teach them two kinds of medicinal herbs a day.

On a sunny hillside, Lin Shu discovered another medicinal herb, Saposhnikovia divaricata.

The stems and leaves of the windproof plant look a bit like the stems and leaves of carrots, and are suitable for harvesting in spring and autumn. But with the system, Lin Shu harvested dozens of plants on the hillside.

In fact, the geographical environment and climate of the northwest are very suitable for the growth of ephedra, but Lin Shu searched for ephedra in the vicinity for a long time and did not find any.

The herbs in the Da Qing Long Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases include ephedra.

The best time to harvest ephedra is after the frost.

It’s a pity that I didn’t find it today.

Perhaps the climate here is not that bad, and ephedra grows more vigorously the worse the environment.

The ecology of this era was not much damaged, unlike the abuse of herbicides in later generations, and wild plants are now growing lushly.

Lin Shu didn't walk far before he found a wild angelica in the weeds.

The angelica in the northwest is not a perennial herb, but a triennial herb. The angelica in the second year is the one that is truly medicinal.

The reason why the second-year angelica can be used for medicinal purposes is because the first-year angelica is seedlings, while the third-year angelica produces seeds and its roots have rotted, making it have no medicinal value.

As the sun rose higher and higher, Lin Shu came down the hillside and saw that there were more than a dozen women from the village where the original women were digging Polygala.

Lin Shu also taught them how to collect mugwort and licorice.

"Everyone, you will collect these herbs today. I have something to do at home, so I will go back and clean it up first."

The weather was too hot, and Lin Shu felt that the hair on top of his head was very hot.