Chapter 23: Weeds are treasures
During the break, the second master piled up the weeds that had dried a few days ago and lit them and burned them, saying that he wanted to burn the grass seeds. Youyou saw a pile of sheep egg-like grass roots left in the burned ashes, so he asked the second master what it was.
The second master told her that it was the root of the triangular grass, called Maodi pear, which was a weed with tenacious vitality. In summer, a prickly (about half a foot) long can grow after hoeing during the day and overnight. The sand on the river beach is the most abundant, and it grows wildly, and there are many places where the crops and seedlings can be eaten. The roots are buried deep in the ground and are difficult to remove.
Youyou thought to himself, what kind of weeds can't be cleaned with herbicides in later generations. Secretly received a few grains from the storage center, so that the brain could find a way to eradicate it.
After a while, the echo of the wisdom brain came from my mind: "Leader, this is a good thing, the scientific name is fragrant aconite, it is a very good qi regulating medicine, which can regulate qi and relieve depression, relieve pain and regulate menstruation." It is used for the treatment of liver and stomach disharmony, qi depression and discomfort, chest and abdomen flank distension and pain, phlegm and drinking, menstrual irregularities, collapse and leakage, etc., especially for patients with liver qi stagnation. ”
"There is also a beautiful legend about Xiangfu, once upon a time there was a girl named Suo Suo, who was born beautiful and kind-hearted. One year, there was a severe drought in Gudang County, and there was no rain in October, and all the grass withered. Suo Suo was forced to make a living and marry to a thatched village by the Yellow River, but there was a plague here, adults and children had chest tightness and abdominal pain, since Suo Suo got married, her husband was safe and sound, asked Suo Suo, Suo Suo did not know, her husband vaguely felt that Suo Suo had a fragrance on his body, and concluded that this was the mystery of the epidemic, so he let Suo Suo go out to treat everyone, and within a few days, the whole village showed a smiling face.
The farmer's family was idle, and then he pulled Suo Suo to see a doctor, and it was passed on to ten, ten to hundred, and it reached the ears of Suo Suo's husband, and it became like this, saying that every time Suo Suo arrived at a house, he took off his clothes and let adults and children come around and smell it. Although the husband has the heart to save the villagers, he will never tolerate this way, so the two often have awkward quarrels. Finally, on a stormy night, her husband killed Suosuo to death. A woman with a bad reputation was not allowed to enter the coffin, and a bundle of straw was buried by the river. Within a few days, a few wisps of grass grew on Suosuo's grave, narrow and stiff stems, bees are also around, butterflies are also around, some people say: Suo Suo is romantic, and after death, he also recruits small insects. When the husband heard this, he dug three feet into the ground and buried the bones deeply. But after a while, the grass popped up again, still attracting bees and butterflies, and the husband went to dig and bury it, but the grass dug more and more, and the more it was buried, the more prosperous it became. So people regretted it: Don't dig up the grievances of Suosuo's death, if you have another heartache in the future, maybe this grass can also cure the disease.
To this day, although the name of the medicine has been changed to fragrant aconite, people are still accustomed to calling it Suosuocao. It's a pity that if you want to use it to regulate qi and relieve pain, you must dig out its body, and the three root balls are deeper than the other. ”
"Lu Province is the main production area of Xiangfu, mainly distributed in the alluvial area of the Yellow River, also known as Dongxiangfu, with good quality. Spring, summer and autumn can be mined, generally in spring and autumn digging, wash the soil, dry until eighty percent dry, burn the fibrous roots with fire, put it in boiling water and cook it slightly or steam it thoroughly and then dry it. It can also be dried in the sun after the fire is burned. In the seventies, the price was about 0.7 yuan, and in later generations, due to the large number of herbicides, wild incense was almost extinct, and most of the medical incense was derived from artificial planting. Good quality wild incense is sold at a high price of 1,000 yuan, and it is often out of stock. ”
After listening to the report of Zhi Brain, Yoyo has only one thought: he has made a fortune, there are surprises everywhere in life, and there are many happy events this year. If you can buy all the incense sticks in the river beach and smuggle them to the mall to sell. While benefiting the neighbors, hehe, he made a small fortune by himself, and he had one more business in the great business of time and space.
When he went home, Youyou poured the potato flour seedlings in his small basket to Gui Ping, and collected a basket full of fragrant aconite, which could be sold for money if it was not a traditional Chinese medicine. When I got home, I ran to offer treasure to my father: "Dad, I picked up a basket of Chinese medicine for you." ”
"It's really fragrant aconite, how do you know it's a medicinal herb?" Dad asked curiously, holding a small basket.
"I could smell it with my nose and it smelled of Chinese medicine. ”
The second master asked in surprise: "This Maodi pear can really be used in medicine, is it worth it?"
"Yes, but it has to be processed, and it can't be handled like this. The medicinal herb company buys it, and it can be sold for more than three cents a catty, so just go to the commune hospital and ask. ”
"Doctor Wu, is this thing easy to handle? will you?" The second master heard that it could be sold for money, and he also came to his senses.
"It's easy to deal with, just use the fire, you have to be careful, master the heat, you dig me to help deal with it." ”
"That's great, there are so many things on the river beach that I can't take care of it, I didn't expect it to cure diseases, and digging it up can be sold for money and weeded. ”
The second master sighed: "If you don't talk about the skills of the family, how old is your family, you can recognize the traditional Chinese medicine! This is the difference between having culture and not being cultured. ”
Yoyo's father scratched his head embarrassedly, "Second master, you have won the award, haven't you remembered it after all these years of coming here? ”
In the afternoon, the second master's family went into battle, and grandma led Youyou to the river beach. When I found a patch of triangular grass, I cut it next to each other with a jue, and the pears were turned over. It's really a lot, and the second master's family dug a big basket in the afternoon, and grandma also harvested a piece of blue, which was poured on the field in the team to dry.
The two families began the great business of shaving pears, planing during the day and picking at night. Handle Yoyo Dad's good and pick it one by one.
The second master instructed: "Only choose big and full grains, which are originally unwanted." "After picking a good scale, there are really a lot, and each person can plane ten catties a day.
Dad took a look at the emptiness and sent the 50 catties of fragrant aconite processed by the second grandfather's family to the Chinese medicine pharmacy of the commune hospital. The doctor and the staff said yes and gave a special price, three cents and eight cents per catty.
I heard that there are still a lot of them at home, and the commune hospital itself can't consume them. The leaders of the hospital called the county medicinal materials company and explained the situation, and the county medicinal materials company said that it would send special people to investigate.
After receiving 19 yuan, the second master's excited hands only trembled, and his painful heart only trembled. A kilogram of thousands of yuan of things are sold for less than one yuan, which makes the senior businessman embarrassed.
The second master took the money, and trotted to pull Uncle Youyou to the health room, and asked Youyou's father to explain the matter. He also gave advice to his uncle and grandfather: "Yulin, you have a meeting in the evening, let all the idle people in our village dig it, you can earn more than three yuan a day, and you don't have to worry about hoeing endless triangular grass in the future." ”
The second master's family of five can earn 15 yuan a day just by digging pears from the ground. Ten more days of digging is 150 yuan, and I can catch up with feeding three big fat pigs.
can earn 500 yuan a month, at this time in the countryside, the family with a deposit of 100 yuan is a medium-sized family, and Wu Baiyuan is a wealthy household in the village.
Only then did you understand that the prestige of the second master not only came from his high seniority, but mainly from his broad-mindedness, kindness-heartedness, and always pretending to be the villagers in his heart.