Chapter Seventy-One: Digging Earthworms
After eating, Zhao Chunming's family took farm tools and went out again, although Ruofei didn't know what to do, but she wanted to follow Zhao Cuiying, so she found a broken jar to hold and went out with her.
This time they came to another mountainous area, the ground is full of climbing vine plants, this kind of plant Ruofei does not know much, because it is not an ordinary crop, Ruofei asked to know, here is gastrodia and He Shou Wu, today their job is to harvest these medicinal materials planted in the ground.
Ruofei didn't expect that her uncle and grandfather still planted medicinal herbs at home, so she was curious for a while, and chased after Zhao Cuiying and asked, only to know that her grandfather was a Langzhong.
These gastrodia and He Shou Wu were planted by grandfather before, in fact, in addition to these two herbs, other herbs were also planted, but some medicinal materials were not easy to take care of, and they were not easy to plant, Zhao Chunming did not have the mind to take care of them, but these two herbs were easier to plant, so one was planted.
In addition, the price of good gastrodia and He Shou Wu is not cheap, and my uncle and grandfather also learned the method of concocting from my grandfather, and the processed He Shou Wu and Gastrodia are also expensive to sell in pharmacies, which is also one of the important economic sources of Zhao Chunming's family.
In addition, compared to yesterday's sweeping digging of sweet potatoes, this digging medicine does not need to be so, after all, some seeds should be left in the ground, saying that it is planting medicinal herbs, in fact, it is no different from wild.
On weekdays, I just come to remove some weeds, and I don't deliberately fertilize or manage them at all, and I just harvest them at harvest time, and the rest is left to these herbs to grow on their own.
It's not that Zhao Chunming is lazy, but in order to maintain the medicinal nature and wildness of the medicinal grassland, the growth of traditional Chinese medicine is very particular, and it is not the same medicinal property when it is planted.
In order to maintain the medicinal properties of herbs, experienced herb farmers and Chinese medicine practitioners will try to imitate the wild environment to grow herbs, and only in this way can the medicinal properties of herbs be maintained as much as possible.
Zhao Chunming's cultivation method was passed down from his father, and naturally followed the ancient cultivation method, so that the concocted gastrodia and He Shou Wu also maintained their medicinal properties to the greatest extent.
Of course, the defect of this kind of cultivation is also the most obvious, that is, the harvest can not be guaranteed, and it cannot be mass-produced, and it is absolutely impossible to make a fortune by this method, at most it can win a good reputation.
The adults are in a hurry to dig up this medicinal herb, if the scarlet is carrying a broken jar to pick up the earthworms in the field, this land has not been fertilized, so it is very barren, and the earthworms dug out are not big red, compared to the thick and black earthworms of yesterday are much more pleasing to the eye.
Ruofei only picked up a ball of earthworms like eggs for most of the day, thinking about the little snake is not big, these amounts should be enough, Ruofei didn't pick it up again, in Ruofei's heart, these earthworms are also life, although she is hypocritical, but she doesn't want to kill more, so she stopped and got some damp soil into the jar, Ruofei is not ready to pick it up again.
"Xiaofei, why don't you pick it up? Do you pick up these earth dragons and go back to feed the chickens or fish?" Seeing that Ruofei was holding the jar and was not ready to pick it up, Ding Guihua couldn't help but ask curiously.
Naturally, it's not feeding chickens or fishing, but feeding snakes, Ruofei wants to come back like this, but he is afraid of scaring the other party, so he has to say dryly: "Fishing, is there a fishing rod at my uncle's house?"
Hearing that Ding Guihua was happy, if the little appearance of Scarlet was still fishing, although he understood in his heart, it was not easy to say it, so he replied: "There is no ready-made, why don't you ask your cousin to get one for you?"
Zhao Cuiying, who also heard Ruofei's reply, also spoke up, "What kind of fish to catch, I've told you a few times, you are not allowed to run to the pond to play, what if you fall into the water?"
At this time, the pond in the countryside is equivalent to the road in the city in the future, and it is absolutely impossible to let the children play by themselves, as soon as she heard that Ruofei was going to fish, Zhao Cuiying was a little unhappy in her heart, and she also had opinions about Ruofei getting up late in the morning, so she refuted her idea angrily.
Ruofei was not angry, he laughed, and changed his words: "Then feed your uncle's **, eat more insects and lay more eggs." ”
Anyway, she didn't pick up earthworms for fishing, but she couldn't find an excuse to say so, since her grandmother didn't allow it, then forget it, just feed the chickens, this earthworm is not enough.
Thinking about it like this, Ruofei had to come back and continue to pick up earthworms, otherwise the chicken would be finished eating, and the little snake would not have to eat, but another day had passed.
When he went home in the evening, Ruofei poured out most of the earthworms in the jar and fed them to his uncle's chickens, leaving a small part to feed the snake, hoping that the snake would not come after eating his earthworm.
Knowing that the snake was clever, Ruofei fed the chicken, so he ran to a remote corner with the broken jar and whispered: "Little snake, I'm not here, I got you something to eat." ”
In fact, Ruofei wasn't sure if the snake would come out, but she knew that she couldn't smuggle the jar into the house, and if her grandmother saw it, she wouldn't scold her to death, so she wanted to try to see if she could call the little snake out.
After shouting for a long time, Ruofei finally saw a touch of turquoise slowly crawling out of the crack in the wall, and Ruofei was suddenly full of surprise.
"Well, I brought you earthworms, you should love to eat this. Ruofei put the jar on the ground anyway, this snake is small, and it is not difficult to slip into the jar by himself.
The snake full of expectations paused, if it was a person at this time, Ruofei would definitely be able to see the entanglement on its face, but it was a snake, so Ruofei didn't see anything, and saw the snake's head stunned and didn't move.
"You won't be so lazy, do you want someone to pull out the earthworm for you to eat?"
Oh, the snake's heart is entangled, the old lady doesn't want to eat insects, she wants to eat fairy fruits, if Ruofei can hear the snake's heart at this moment, she will definitely be able to hear the roar of the little snake in front of her, but unfortunately she can't hear it, so she has a look of helplessness with it.
Then Ruofei squatted down, smashed it again from the jar with the wooden stick that had held the earthworm before, and took out a bright red earthworm that writhed desperately, and then handed it to the head of the snake.
How to break, I really want to bite, the tangled little snake has such a thought in his heart at this moment, and he wants to bite off the outstretched hand of the little kid in front of him, and his teeth are really itchy.
Although this earthworm is a little smaller, the red earthworm is more beautiful than the black earthworm, and the fish also love to eat it, anyway, you are all the same animals, so you should love to eat it too. Ruo Zhu babbled, she didn't know that the little snake lying there at this moment was so angry that she just wanted to eat her.
In the end, the little snake still gave in, opened its mouth and bit the worm that was still wriggling, swallowed it with a little disgust, and the little resentful eyes stared at the little fool in front of him, thinking about whether to take advantage of his unpreparedness to take a bite, drinking some blood is better than eating insects.