In the following year, the quality of life of Long Dan improved greatly. There is no shortage of food at home, and with the instructions of the bearded old man, Long Xin also took special care of this little son. Long Dan's body is getting better day by day, and his figure has also jumped a lot taller, and he looks like a five or six-year-old child at first glance.

On weekdays, Long Dan's activities are also colorful, because of knowing words, can understand the villain's book, often tell the children about that, although some words are not complete, after a long time, Long Dan can actually slip down, plus nonsense, it is also a beginning and an end. There are more than a dozen villain books, and the children in the village don't know how many times they have read them, but in the era of cultural deserts, they are also the only things worth talking about for children. Unlike today's children, who are born to watch TV, watch cartoons, and play games at a young age.

At the beginning of spring, Longxin's days gradually became busy. The county has to build a reservoir, and Longjiawan is also an irrigation area. Farmers in the irrigated areas have to contribute migrant workers to support the huge investment in the construction of reservoirs with money instead of work. Each family has to draw one out of three, two out of six people, and two people from work for one month. Long Xin's family was uneven, so he had to work for an extra month to replace the two. I didn't return home until early March, but I didn't delay planting ginger.

The process of planting ginger is very troublesome, first of all, the ginger seeds are brought up from the well cellar, stacked in the sunny place in the yard, covered with wheat bran firewood and grass, and then covered with thick mud. At the beginning of March, the ginger is planted, and after about 20 days, the ginger sprouts a lot, and then one by one, broken into pieces, and planted in the ground. Now the ginger planting time in this era is greatly advanced, because with the plastic film covering technology, the ginger seeds will not be frozen, the ginger growth time is longer than a month, and the yield is greatly increased than before. There was no such thing in those days. It's all dirt methods.

Long Xin was busy before and after, going to the east and west, helping the farmers with planting conditions in Longjiawan to plant ginger, and finally the busy work was over, about seventy or eighty farmers planted ginger that could give people the hope of making a fortune. In the blink of an eye, the harvest season came, and more than 20 farmers who wanted to follow Longxin to Jiangnan gathered at Longxin's house to discuss how to go to Jiangnan. After a period of preparation, Long Xin and a group of more than 20 people came to Jiangnan, and after agreeing on the date and place of the meeting, the others scattered and left, and Long Xin took Long Dan to the town of Meicheng again.

Walking into the old man's house, Xiao Longdan happily threw himself into the old man's arms. The old man also laughed happily: "It's good to come, it's good to come" and then asked Long Xin: "How are everyone in the family?" "It's all good, it's all good" Long Xin also said happily: "Since I sold ginger last year in exchange for a lot of food, my family's life is much better, and your old man has given so much money, you can see Long Dan's body, it is much better than the year before last." The old man looked at Xiaolongdan, and said to himself: "It's good, and the body is almost recuperated, but it's still almost hot, it seems that in addition to soaking Chinese medicine this year, I also have to take some strong muscles and bones."

Long Xin was busy going to the market the next day, and Long Dan followed the bearded old man to live and walk together, in addition to soaking Chinese medicine for an hour before going to bed every night, and drinking a bowl of decoction specially prepared by the old man for Xiao Long Dan in the morning on an empty stomach. Although it is not very delicious, there is a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine, Xiaolongdan is also sensible early, knowing that the old man will not harm him, so he willingly drink a big bowl every morning.

In addition, Xiaolongdan followed the old man to the four towns and eight villages to see a doctor for the villagers, which was also the old man's intention to exercise Xiaolongdan's knowledge. On this day, as soon as the old man was waiting for Xiaolongdan to drink the Chinese medicine, Ah Fu opened the door to welcome a young man. As soon as the young man entered the house, he asked the bearded old man, "You are Mr. Long, right?" "What's the matter with you?" The old man answered. The young man said: "I am from the capital, my surname is Wang, my name is Wang Jun, my ancestral home is from Meicheng Town, I followed my father back to my hometown to see, my father has not been back for decades, this time I went back to my hometown, lived for a few more days, I don't know what the reason, I was soft, I can't get out of bed, do you have time to go to my dad to see?" "No problem, let's go, you lead the way," the old man readily agreed. So, under the leadership of the young man, the bearded old man took Xiaolongdan to the patient's house together.

The bearded old man checked the patient's pulse, closed his eyes for a while, and said, "You are affected by dampness, and the old disease has recurred. You've been on the battlefield, right? The patient was amazed and said, "How do you know?" I have participated in the revolution since I was a child, and I don't know how many battles I have fought for decades", "You have a gunshot wound on your body that has not healed, and as you grow older, once you get damp, the old wound triggers, stimulates the meridians, and causes weakness in the limbs," said the bearded old man. The patient said eagerly: "Mr. Long, I have a lot of things to do in the capital, can I be cured as much as possible?" The old man said: "It's not difficult, I'll prescribe a prescription for you, you drink it according to the prescription, you can get up after three days, and drink it for another three days after getting up, don't do strenuous activities, and then, drink a bowl every morning to ensure that the medicine is cured." After speaking, he took out a pen and paper, wrote a few lines of words, handed it to the young man surnamed Wang, said goodbye, and left.

As soon as the bearded old man left, the young man surnamed Wang hurriedly looked at the prescription carefully, only to see that it was written: Ginger two taels mashed, add three peppers, three bowls of water boiled into one bowl, take it before going to bed, and it will be effective in three days. After reading the recipe, the young man couldn't help but be furious, "This old thing, I'm afraid it's in vain, what disease can ginger and chili cure?" The patient stretched out his hand to look at the prescription and said: "Your kid is sick again, don't underestimate people, there is no vanity under the fame, maybe there is a bit of Taoism, anyway, I can't find any good doctors in this town, just try." After that, the patient followed this recipe and drank it for three days, and miraculously got better, although his body was still a little weak, after all, he was able to get up and walk.

Let's say, the bearded old man returned home and said to Xiaolongdan: "I just treated the person surnamed Wang, and I can see that the person is a big cadre, and he may be angry when he sees my prescription, but if you take medicine according to the prescription I prescribed, maybe he will come to our house to thank you in three days, believe it or not?" Xiao Long Dan nodded as if he didn't understand. The bearded old man laughed confidently.

Three days later, in the afternoon, sure enough, the young man surnamed Wang walked into the courtyard of the bearded old man with his father's support and asked, "Is Mr. Long at home?" Ah Fu replied: "The old gentleman is in the house." The two entered the house, and the patient surnamed Wang thanked the old man: "The old gentleman is really Hua Tuo in the world, turning decay into magic, two common stir-fried condiments, can cure my old disease, I really admire", "The cure is not the quality of the medicine, the one that can cure the disease is the good medicine, if you eat ginseng and deer antler velvet but the fire rises, you have to be cured" After speaking, both of them laughed.

"Who is this kid?" The patient surnamed Wang glanced at Long Dan and asked the bearded old man, and the old man said: "It's my grandson, Long Dan is called uncle" "Uncle" Long Dan replied obediently. Although the patient surnamed Wang was suspicious of the age gap between Long Dan and the old man, he didn't think deeply. He also said: "Old gentleman, my name is Wang Zhan, I work in the first machine department in the capital, if you go to the capital in his year, you can go to me, don't dare to say anything else, you can take care of a meal." The old man said: "I'm ninety and eight, and I don't know how many years I can live, maybe my grandson will trouble you when he grows up." At noon, Wang Zhanye and the two reluctantly left.

Long Xin sells ginger in the market every day, calculates the time, and it is time to gather and go home, so he will exchange the remaining ginger into rice and wait for the villagers to come to Meicheng to gather.

Besides, the other 19 people left Longxin, some went to Wucheng Town, some went to Taohua Town, and so on, anyway, there are dozens of towns in Qiandao County, and their harvest is not small, especially Long Fang, Xu Geng, these ghostly and slippery people, the rice exchanged is more than Long Xin, it is really out of Long Xin's imagination.

Long Xin and his entourage of 20 people all pushed a wheelbarrow full of rice, humming "The Sea Sails by the Helmsman" along the way, chatting with each other about the yellow jokes that are not meat or vegetarian, and returned to Longjiawan with laughter and songs.

Longjiawan has since had the habit of planting ginger, has been developed until now, one of the most profitable 96 years, a pound of ginger has grown to 12 yuan a catty, and 96 years of ginger production has also reached 7,8 thousand catties, Longjiawan once had a number of families a year ginger income reached hundreds of thousands of yuan, Longjiawan completely got rid of the phenomenon of poverty, this is the later story.