Chapter 188: Go up the mountain to chop wood and collect medicine
After resting all night, Mulan suddenly felt much better, and her strength recovered. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info thought that selling peanut crisp and mung bean cake is hard, but I am very happy to make money, just sell it four times a month, the money sold is enough for the family to live, but if you want to save money, it is a little difficult, so many people in the family have to eat, and several children will have to go to school in the future, the cost will be more, if you don't make money now, I don't know what to do in the future?
Mulan thought of what Xueren said before that she wanted to sell medicinal herbs, and she felt that she couldn't miss this opportunity, after all, there were not many opportunities to make money in the countryside, especially women.
The mountain of Chenjiacun is not high, no more than a kilometer of the mountain, but there are still a lot of medicinal herbs in it, and there are no large animals in it. There will be no danger in going up the mountain.
Mulan knew a little about medicinal herbs, because her family was poor since she was a child, and if someone in the family was sick, her grandfather would go to the mountains to pick some herbs for treatment.
Mulan has been picking the commonly used herb Mulan with her grandfather since she was a child, and she has learned a lot, and some precious Chinese medicinal materials, such as ginseng, gastrodia, He Shou Wu, etc., also know some.
This season is just right to pick herbs, lukewarm. After breakfast, Mulan took her hat and wrapped her whole body tightly, bringing an axe, sickle, and rope. Mulan told Huiying that she went up the mountain and came back from chopping some firewood, and that there was not much firewood at home, so she asked her to help bring the maid.
Huiying nodded, Brother Gao didn't have much rest time to go to the mountains to chop firewood when he repaired the dam recently, so the firewood and grass at home were almost burned, and the doudou was too small to feed, so she couldn't leave, so she could only work hard for her sister-in-law.
This time she didn't let Da Han follow, Da Han would run around on the mountain, she didn't dare to let him go with his sister-in-law, for fear of dragging down his sister-in-law.
Mulan put on her hat, took all the tools she should have brought, and went up the mountain.
Mulan feels that compared with the women in the same village, her life is still okay, and the heavy work at home is generally done by Gao Yuan and Da Han, and sometimes Gao Yuan is too busy to have time, so he will ask her to go.
Mulan goes to the mountain, and there are many women who dig wild vegetables in the mountain during this season, but they are generally at the foot of the mountain, and there are more trees on the mountain. In the past, when Changsheng was in the village, he often brought her to the mountains to chop firewood, he chopped wood, and she was looking for wild vegetables and fruits around, and her life was very easy and happy. That's why she wants Changsheng to stay in the village. There is no busyness and rush in the city, but since Changsheng went to City A, his heart has changed a lot, and now he is going abroad, and he doesn't know what to send if he wants to write a letter to him.
Mulan shook her head, didn't think about these things, quickened her pace, greeted the people in the village she knew, and went to the mountain. Mulan didn't dare to go too far and too high, although there were no very fierce animals on the mountain, but she was afraid of getting lost, and it was said that there were wild boars in this mountain before, and she was afraid that if she encountered it, she would lose her life.
There are occasionally rabbits, pheasants and other animals on the mountain, but the nearby mountains have been hunted, and Mulan will not set traps, so he will occasionally go hunting with a few acquaintances in the village, and when he comes back, he will bring some game, that is when her family improves their food.
Mulan didn't think about anything else, she walked carefully, carefully watching her surroundings, and when she saw a dead tree, she approached and put down what she had brought, took an axe and climbed on the branch of a large branch in the tree, and carefully chopped each branch with the axe.
The dead branches in the lower places have been cut down, no matter how high Mulan is, they can't reach it, and the branches on it are too thin, and the trunk of the tree will break if people stand on it, so Mulan gave up.
There was a small pile of firewood on the ground after cutting a few places, enough to burn for a few days. Mulan got off the tree, sat on the ground to rest, unbuttoned her hat, and fanned the wind, "It's so hot!" "I sweated a lot.
I sweated so much after half a while, and the temperature was getting higher and higher day by day, so I had to go up the mountain a few more times to chop firewood, otherwise it would be too cold in the summer
It's not good for adults to be hot, and the worst ones are children. In hot weather, children love to run around, and after a few clicks, the whole body is soaked, and they have to take a bath and change clothes all the time.
This summer will be very tired, but there are three children at home, she wants to go out to make money, Huiying with three children, since giving birth to Doudou, the whole person has lost weight.
Huiying still didn't let Gao Yuan move in with her, but now that Niuniu went back to live with Gao Yuan, Hui Ying couldn't take care of the two children alone at night.
After resting for a while, Mulan stood up and tied up the rope she had brought with the firewood she had chopped before. So Mulan didn't plan to continue chopping next, she was going to find herbs to pick.
Mulan picked up the chopped firewood to the hill in front of her, and then picked it down the mountain after she finished collecting the medicine.
Mulan put the herbs away and folded them back again. This time, she's going back to find medicinal herbs.
There was no grass and trees in that place just now, and Mulan wanted to change to another place, seeing that the grass and trees in front of her were lush, there should be more herbs in it.
Mulan walked carefully, paying attention to her feet. This place grows a lot of local common see carrot grass, dandelion, and wild mint and other common herbs, etc., some can also be eaten as wild vegetables, in those years of famine, I heard her mother say that fortunately there are these wild vegetables, saved many people. But today, these magnolias don't want to be picked, and the too ordinary medicinal materials can't be sold at a good price, so it's not cost-effective.
When I walked to a place, Mulan suddenly lit up, a large area of stolon-wrapped shrubs, isn't that honeysuckle, I didn't think there was one here, I had drunk it before, and a strange fragrance said that she still remembers.
Honeysuckle has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, protecting liver and gallbladder and relieving gallbladder. In medicine, it is mainly used in the treatment of respiratory tract infections, headaches, sore throats and other diseases.
Usually, there are people in the countryside, especially in summer, who drink some very fire, or children have eczema, take some honeysuckle vines to boil water and wash them a few times. Mulan remembers that when she was a child, if any of her younger brothers and sisters had itching, her mother would go to the mountains to cut some honeysuckle vines and go back, boil a large pot of water and wash it, it was very cool, and it immediately stopped itching.
Mulan plans to pick flowers first, pick the flowers and take them back to dry, when the time is done, take them to the town's pharmacy to sell, cut some flowers and vines when you leave, you can also take them to dry, and when the weather is hot, boil water for a few children to wash and cool off.
Mulan was very happy to pick the flowers, and it took half an hour to finish picking all the flowers, and there was a large cloth bag. Cut some vine leaves and roll them into a ball so that you can take them back when you arrive. Mulan wanted to look around to see if there was anything else, so she went in the other direction a little more, walking, not paying attention to the road under her feet for a while, and accidentally tripped over the roots of the tree on the ground, and threw herself forward fiercely, falling to the ground.