010 Saving Hands (1)

The first two flavors of medicinal materials are easy to find, but the latter few flavors of medicine took Li Banxia a lot of thought.

She once inquired with the old doctor in the village that grinding the important medicinal herb Coptis chinensis had to climb the mountain and find it on the opposite mountain.

The old doctor often goes to the mountains to collect medicine, and he is very familiar with the mountains around Dayang Village, so what he said should not be false.

Coptis chinensis is more precious, she is disease-free and painless, if she opens her mouth to take money from Dongshan, her mother will definitely talk about her when she learns about it. So if you can do it yourself, it will take a lot of work at most, and it will take you to understand the local environment.

Make a good idea, on this day, while the Ma family and the old man of the Liu family took their children to the village to drink the wedding wine, the Dongshan brothers went to help at someone else's house. Early in the morning, Li Banxia went up the mountain with the medicine basket on his back.

There is still some distance to go to the mountain, and if you want to come back before the evening, you have to walk slowly and dare not delay.

The dew on the mountain in the morning was very heavy, and Li Banxia pulled a bamboo stick from the fence next to him to beat off the dew along the road. The winding path winds straight to the top of the mountain, and there is no end in sight.

Fortunately, Li Banxia has been running behind her grandfather since she was a child, climbing a lot of mountains, jumping over a lot of ground, and she can still cope with it.

After a journey, I didn't see Coptis chinensis, but I also saw a few common medicinal herbs. Zhao Langzhong collected this kind of medicinal material there, picked it back and dried it, even if it couldn't be sold, it was not bad to keep it for emergencies.

Like honeysuckle, forsythia, andrographis, Poria cocos, hehe~~ That's right, there are chrysanthemums, bupleurum, and burdock. Along the way, it has been fruitful.

Li Banxia didn't know much about this mountain, but she knew very well about the shape and growth place of these Chinese herbs, and her big eyes were bright and bright, and no matter how tightly hidden the herbs passed through her eyes, she would never be able to escape.

While collecting medicine and going up the mountain, the days passed quickly, and when it was midday, Li Banxia remembered who he was going to today. I didn't dare to delay any longer, and according to the instructions of the old doctor, I climbed up the mountain, climbed over the small hill, and went to the other side of the mountain.

With some dry food in his arms, two rice balls and a piece of pot, he ate two bites in a hurry, and he couldn't swallow it tightly. It is said that there are a lot of mountain springs, and you will not be thirsty anywhere, what is going on today, let alone the mountain springs after walking for so long, I haven't even seen a small pond.

Over the top of the mountain, in the big ravine, there are several families. Three wisps of cooking smoke rose slowly from his chimney, curled up into the sky, and converged in mid-air.

A house on the left is built in front, with the gate facing the one on the right, opposite the door opposite. The opposite house is symmetrical to this one, next to the middle one. The three families looked like one person holding two hands flat. The two symmetrical households are the arms of the man, and the middle one is the body of the man.

The middle one was built at the back, and it was indeed a little behind. It's as if a person has been hit in the stomach by a sudden punch, shrinks back and is fixed there.

Backed by mountains, the mountains are densely forested. The place is quiet, but if there is a landslide or something like that, three houses will have to be buried alive.

Fortunately, the environmental protection in ancient times was not bad, and the trees were tall and dense, so there was no need to worry about this problem.

Li Banxia rubbed his dry throat, they are all from the village, it shouldn't be difficult to beg for a glass of water.

After walking a few steps, I went to the middle house, and the door of the three houses was open. The door opened wide enough to be seen at a glance. Li Banxia stood outside the door, and before he could make a sound, he remembered the sound of speaking.

"Who are you looking for?" The speaker was a woman in her fifties, walking slowly, with a stiff back, and her hands on the stove. Judging by her appearance, she should have just come out of the back of the pot.

"Eh, auntie, I'm tired of walking on the mountain road, and I want to come and ask for a glass of water to drink, I don't know if it's convenient."

The eldest lady looked like a kind person, and although her face was a little tired, she still cheered up when she heard her words.

"It just so happens that you're in a hurry, I just boiled water. It's hot outside, come in and cool off. ”

"Thank you, auntie." Li Banxia thanked happily. My throat has been dry for a long time and I'm about to smoke, and I can finally have saliva to drink.

The eldest lady took out a teacup from the tripod, scooped a small half scoop of the freshly boiled water in the pot, and handed it to Li Banxia's already stretched out hand.

"When you run out of tea, it's a little plain water, and you will quench your thirst with a little water."

"White water is very good, quench your thirst, thank you, auntie." Li Banxia carried the handle of the teacup, blew cold air into the hot water in the cup, and before he could take a sip, he put it into his mouth and took a small sip.

"Drink slowly, don't burn." The eldest lady looked at her anxious look, amused and worried, and her tongue was hot.

Li Banxia nodded, indicating that he knew.

"Auntie, are you alone at home?" Li Banxia asked casually.

The eldest lady's old face froze, shook her head, and her voice suddenly became extremely haggard. "And my daughter-in-law there......"

The daughter-in-law is the daughter-in-law, why do you say it so sadly? Li Banxia wondered.

"What about your daughter-in-law?"

"Hey! Lying in there—" The old man propped himself up on the stove with both hands, and it took a little effort to hold himself on.

The son is not at home, and she and her daughter-in-law are supporting this huge family. What's more, the grandson is still so young~~

Li Banxia was confused, what does this mean by lying down? Is there something wrong with your body or is it sleeping?

But she can't ask rashly, one is too abrupt, and if the two are okay, won't you become a curse.

Li Banxia's eyes rolled, and he inadvertently swept to a bowl of black paste on the stove. The taste is a little bitter, and you can smell it just by smelling it.

With his sensitivity to herbs, Li Banxia immediately smelled the ingredients of this medicine. Angelica, ginger, and some mutton flavors. Due to the concealment of other medicinal smells, the taste of mutton was extremely slight, and Li Banxia, who had a keen sense of smell, still smelled it.

"Auntie, did your daughter-in-law add a grandson to you not long ago?"

"How do you know?" The eldest lady exclaimed, and then thought that this girl might have heard about it, and it was not strange for people from all over the country to hear this.

Not long after Li Banxia got married here, the eldest mother may have heard her father's name, and she may have heard some of her names, which people can't recognize.

"That's it." Li Banxia's tentative matter was confirmed, and he immediately remembered the effect of this decoction.

Yes, the eldest mother is so troubled, not because of anything else, but because her daughter-in-law is sick.

It seems that it's not light.

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