Ma Lili couldn't convince Wang Shaodong, and finally had no choice but to go home.

In the afternoon, Wang Fumin found Wu Zhe's firewood tricycle in the village, and then listened to his son's words, and went to Fangjiazhuang Village first, planning to get some honeysuckle leaves first.

Honeysuckle is a good thing, clearing heat and defeating fire, and making tea and drinking a little in summer can prevent colds. In the summer, when it is hot and children are prone to eczema, the doctor will prescribe some hormone ointment to the hospital, and it will be fine after applying. But the hormone ointment is bad for the body, the local people in Luzhong City have their own local methods to treat eczema in young children, the method is very simple, is to use honeysuckle to boil water and then clean the skin, the effect is not worse than hormone ointment.

In 2002, the price of honeysuckle was still quite cheap, and it was only twenty or thirty yuan for a pound of dried flowers.

However, there was a period of time when the price of this thing rose to two or three hundred yuan per catty, and the time was about 2004. Now, that's easy.

When they arrived in Fangjiazhuang Village, Wang Shaodong and his son inquired and came to the farmer who had planted three acres of honeysuckle.

Wang Fumin saw that it was his aunt's cousin.

I was going to spend money to buy it, but now I don't need it at all.

Wang Fumin's cousin's surname is Liu, and his name is Liu Fu. Liu Fu's mother and Wang Fumin's mother are half-sisters, Wang Fumin used to play with him when he was a child, but later they became families, and Wang Shaodong didn't know this old relative when he was eighteen.

As the saying goes, "aunts and uncles, relatives from generation to generation, break bones and tendons, and aunts are not considered relatives, and when they die, their aunts have broken their roots", that is to say, under normal circumstances, the cousins of the two aunts have less contact after they become families, and it is normal for the next generation not to know each other.

However, no matter how this relative is said to be a relative, the Wang family wants honeysuckle leaves, and of course Liu Fu did not shirk when he heard it.

Besides, honeysuckle is a vine plant, and the branches should be pruned every once in a while, otherwise the honeysuckle will not bloom with long leaves, which will reduce the yield.

The honeysuckle of three acres of land can harvest about seven or eight hundred catties of honeysuckle every year, and according to the purchase price of 20 yuan per catty, 15,000 yuan can be harvested after sales, which is most of the income of Liu Fu's family in a year.

In 2002, the annual income of a rural family was six or seven thousand yuan, which was considered a normal income in Dazhai Village. Then, when Liu Funong was not working, he went to the labor market on the Qiaotou side of Dazhai Village to work part-time work, increasing his income by 4,000 or 5,000 yuan a year, plus the income of more than 2,000 yuan from growing grain in the field, Liu Fu's family could have an income of 20,000 yuan a year, which was already very good in the countryside in 2002.

Hearing that his cousin's family needed honeysuckle leaves, Liu Fu asked Wu Zhe, a firewood tricycle driver in Taohualing Village, who he also knew, to drive the tricycle to his honeysuckle field.

Liu Fu's honeysuckle land is on a slope by the river, covering an area of more than three acres. Now the honeysuckle is blooming, and as far as the eye can see, a yellow flower.

Honeysuckle should be harvested before it blooms, and the honeysuckle that blooms is worthless.

The honeysuckle planted by Liu Fu's family has four peaks of picking a year, each time for about two weeks, generally the first peak of picking in March of the lunar calendar, the second time in May, the third time in July, and the fourth time in September.

Although Liu Fu's family grows four-season honeysuckle, there are flowers to pick at the rest of the time except in winter. But because honeysuckle is not worth much now, if it is not in full bloom, it is better to go to the labor market to work to make money. So except for the four peak picks, Liu Fu does not pick honeysuckle at home.

When he arrived at the ground, Wang Shaodong took a look and found that there were a lot of honeysuckle notes piled up on the honeysuckle field, so he said to Liu Fu with a smile: "Uncle Cousin, there are a lot of honeysuckle leaves in this place alone." ”

Generally, honeysuckle is picked in the morning, but it rained in the past two days, and the ground was too muddy to settle down, so all the honeysuckle bloomed. Honeysuckle is white when it doesn't bloom, and when it blooms, it becomes a flower color, so it's called honeysuckle.

"Cousin, there are so many of these things, you want as much as you want. This thing is not eaten by sheep and sheep, that is, it is dried as firewood. But who is still short of firewood now? ”

As he spoke, Liu Fu took out the sickle hanging from his back belt, and then cut off the branch with a large amount of honeysuckle and threw it to the ground without any distress.

Although the purchase price of one pound of honeysuckle is 20 yuan, it takes three pounds of flowers to dry one pound of dried flowers. And like these flowering honeysuckle, medicinal herb merchants are commonly known as "flowering goods", people don't want it, and when they are lucky, they meet "flowering goods", and they only cost five yuan a catty.

Moreover, picking honeysuckle is a very laborious job, a skilled farmer can pick up to 40 catties of honeysuckle a day, and a not skilled farmer like Liu Fu can pick about 20 catties a day. The two of them come to pick flowers together, and they can pick 40 catties a day, and after they are dried into dry goods, they can have 13 catties, which can be exchanged for more than 200 yuan.

However, this is the income during the peak flowering period, if it is usual, there are not many flowers, and it is good to be able to pick a few catties a day.

"Cousin, don't you cut down all these branches like this, won't it affect the yield of honeysuckle?" Wang Fumin felt a little embarrassed.

Liu Fu shook his head and said: "Cousin, even if you don't come, I have to cut down these messy branches, these messy branches don't bloom much, and it will be troublesome to pick flowers when the time comes." This honeysuckle cannot be plucked. ”

What Liu Fu said is true, the honeysuckle in the honeysuckle field is picked today and will grow another layer tomorrow, and it can't be picked at all when it is in full bloom.

Liu Fu was very reluctant to do it, and a large number of flowering branches were cut down, and then loaded on the tricycle hired by the Wang family.

Looking at the honeysuckle branches weighing one or two hundred catties, Wang Shaodong signaled that it was almost there.

Liu Fu wanted to leave Wang Shaodong's father and son to eat, but because Wang Shaodong was still in a hurry to buy salvia, he said goodbye to Liu Fu.

Liu Fu was sent all the way to the head of Fangjiazhuang Village before turning around and going home.

Originally, Wang Shaodong planned to spend money to buy it, but when he said money, his cousin was unhappy, and in the end, he didn't dare to mention it.

Out of Fangjiazhuang Village, Wu Zhe drove three rounds of agricultural firewood, and came to the side where Danshen was planted in Dalongmen Village.

Then, after finding the salvia growers, Wang Shaodong saw that a family of salvia growers dried the salvia trees after harvesting them last year as firewood. Wang Shaodong proposed to collect the other party's salvia seeds for a dime and a catty, and the other party happily agreed.

In this way, Wang Shaodong collected another 1,000 catties of salvia seeds, and then he was busy going home to cook soup for his little chickens to drink.