Chapter Twenty-Five: The Mountain

"You guys really have enough questions...... she sighed in her heart, so she had to start with the ancient legends, and picked a few legends at random, and finally just talked about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and arrived at the foot of the mountain.

The two hairy children listened attentively, chattered her and kept asking questions, talking to her dryly, and secretly hated why they didn't bring a kettle with them.

"Sister, don't go there. Liu Tiantian suddenly pulled Liu Haohao.

"What's the matter? I still want to beg for a bowl of water. At the foot of the mountain, there was a family standing alone, and she was so thirsty that she thought that they were all villagers, and it should not be too much to go to the door to ask for a bowl of water to drink to quench her thirst.

"That's Chen's blind family, have you forgotten?" Liu Tiantian lowered his voice and looked at her with a look of horror.

Only then did she remember that the small dilapidated house was lived by the original big landlord Chen Blind in the village, saying that it was a big landlord, but in fact, his land was only dozens of acres more than others, although they had tenant farmers, but they also worked in the field themselves, and their lives on weekdays were not much better than ordinary farmers, and the tenant farmers who worked in their homes ate almost the same, and they all used pickles to eat, which was not the same as the real landlord Haoqiang.

Damu Village is close to the mountain, close to the sea, there is not much arable land, there is a lot of saline-alkali land, there are not many crops that can be planted alive, and the yield is terrifyingly low.

But Chen Blind was a foreigner, and owned so much land, and lived a good life in the village, and soon brought disaster to himself, and the land at home was gone overnight, and he became the target of criticism in the village, and their family was driven to the foot of the mountain to build a small dilapidated house to live, and no one usually looked down on them, and they were completely isolated by this village.

Especially Liu Hao, who is very young, has four sisters and brothers, with a high personality, and they are dirty when they even approach their house, let alone ask them for water to drink, so Liu Tiantian was shocked by her actions.

Can you drink the water from Chen's blind man's house? Maybe if you drink it, your intestines will rot.

"Aren't I thirsty, my throat is smoking, and if you two hadn't pestered me along the way to tell me stories, I wouldn't have wanted to go to their house to ask for water." She looked innocent, although she felt that Chen's blind family was quite pitiful, but she was not full of sympathy, and she went to do something inappropriate to cause trouble for herself, and she followed Liu Tiantian very obediently and turned around, but this did not affect her to complain pitifully.

"Go to the brook and drink some water, there is a spring here, and the water is sweet. Liu jumped upwards and led her to a bush in which several large rocks blocked a spring, and the spring was bubbling out.

"Hey, this water hasn't boiled yet, how can you drink raw water?" she stepped forward to wash her face, and before she could stop it, Liu Tiantian and Liu Xiangxiang both stepped forward and drank a few sips of raw water.

Liu Shangxiang also let out a satisfied sigh.

"Didn't everyone drink like this in the past?" I see that everyone in the village is also ...... like this," Liu Tiantian disagreed.

"That's right, this water is sweet! Sister, aren't you thirsty, come and taste it......" Liu Shangxiang greeted warmly.

"Do you know what's in this water? Maybe there are nematodes, schistosomes or something......" She has been living in the city, she actually has no intuitive feelings about nematodes and schistosomes, and she is not sure whether this spring is contaminated by parasites, but vaguely remembers that in this era, these two parasites are very common, and the infectious diseases caused by them are raging everywhere, "Doesn't the school always tell you that the water must be boiled before drinking?"

"Trouble, I've been drinking for so many years. ”

"Do you know what happens to these worms when you drink them into your stomach? They don't get digested by your stomach and then excreted because they're alive, and they're going to jump around in your body, they're going to crawl into your brain, they're going to crawl into your eyes, they're going to lay eggs in your body, they're going to fill your stomach with worms, and maybe one day a worm crawls out of your ears or nose......" Liu Haohao's speech was originally vivid, with a startled tone and movements, he said that the good and decent popular science knowledge was the same as a horror movie.

Liu Tiantian and Liu Xiangxiang looked frightened, holding their stomachs, as if their stomachs were full of worms crawling, so uncomfortable that they scratched their ears and cheeks, and Liu Tiantian was even so disgusted that they found a bush and vomited.

"You can't drink raw water anymore. Liu patted them on the shoulder, looking at their embarrassed appearance, she miraculously did not feel thirsty, and walked around the foot of the mountain by herself.

"Huh?" she asked, pointing to a bush, "Is this Tripterygium vine?"

"It's mountain arsenic! Grandma said that this grass will kill people if you eat it. Liu shouted with wide eyes.

"It should be Tripterygium Thunder," Liu Hao stroked his chin and thought, "Tripterygium Thunder is very toxic, it can poison people and save people." ”

She beckoned to them, "Come on, come on, help me dig it out." ”

"Eldest sister, what are you going to do?" Liu Tiantian and Liu Xiangxiang both looked frightened, as if they would be poisoned if they approached this bush.

"Dig it out and sell it for money!" she lowered her voice, "This is Chinese medicine, and when I go to the commune in a few days to catch the market, maybe the buying station will be willing to buy it." ”

"Can you really sell it for money?" Liu Shangxiang was stunned, "There are many more on the mountain." ”

This kind of traditional Chinese medicine is very toxic, and the people in the production team don't know how to use it reasonably, as long as they don't want to commit suicide, they are far away from it, and no one cares about it at ordinary times, and the environment of Damu Village is suitable for the growth of this shrub, so it grows more and more.

The mountainous areas of Southern Province are full of poisonous insects, and there are also many herbs, and she believes that if you go further into the mountains, you can find many herbs.

Although she did not study traditional Chinese medicine, but her grandmother in her previous life was a well-known Chinese medicine expert in Southern Province, to be precise, her grandmother's family is the most famous family of traditional Chinese medicine in Southern Province, and even the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Southern Province was founded by her grandmother's father before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and many Chinese medicine talents have been trained for Southern Province.

She grew up in her grandmother's house, and she saw a lot of various herbs, her grandmother had rheumatoid arthritis, and Tripterygium wilfordii was a very important medicinal material for the treatment of rheumatism.

"Next time, I'll go to the mountains to dig a few bushes, and we'll take them to the commune together in a few days. "Although Tripterygium wilfordii is not an expensive Chinese medicine, it will not be as cheap as licorice honeysuckle, and it should still be able to sell for some money.

Liu lifted the leg of his trousers upward, revealing the sickle tied to his calf, which startled Liu Haohao, "When did you bring the knife with you?"