Chapter 162: The Wild Boar Descends the Mountain
Gu Qingzhu patted the soil on his hand and chuckled: "Don't look at it small, this is a three-year-old astragalus, astragalus strengthens the body, is used to replenish qi, and can have the same effect as ginseng, although the purchase price in the pharmacy is not as good as ginseng, but it is much more expensive than ordinary medicinal materials." ”
"Really? Now you can pick up the treasure! The crowd rejoiced, and one by one they rushed to the hillside with small hoes.
"Everyone remember to only dig the flowers, those seedlings have low efficacy and can't be sold at a high price, keep them for us to come back next year!" Gu Qingzhu reminded in time.
Everyone nodded, at this time, no one disliked her as a girl, it was a burden that would drag people down, they dug carefully, while thinking that if they had brought her before, would they have dug up better medicinal materials a long time ago?
The whole astragalus facing the slope of Yangshan Mountain has added a heavy weight to everyone's bamboo basket, there are probably few people here, Gu Qingshui is extremely lucky, he dug several stout ones in a row, and it has grown for about four or five years, this kind of rare is rare, and the price is naturally higher.
Before you know it, the sun has risen to the top of the bare canopy, and the sun casts a golden brilliance, steaming up the damp smell of rotting leaves under your feet, which makes people feel sultry in the early winter.
More than a dozen people, thirsty and tired, followed the sound of water to a small stream, washed their hands and faces, and sat down to eat the dry food they had brought.
In the afternoon, a group of people continued to walk, although they did not dig up any more pieces of precious medicinal materials, but everyone's bamboo basket was full, and there were about seven or eight kinds of medicinal materials, most of which the young people did not know before.
The sun gradually moved westward, and everyone went out of the mountain with baskets full of medicinal herbs, at this time, these boys' attitudes towards Gu Qingzhu were immediately different, and they changed their previous dislike, and they all worshiped each other, asking questions all the way.
Gu Qingshi was a little older and had a calm temperament, and when he heard them chattering endlessly, he couldn't help but laugh and scold: "You rabbit cubs, now you have benefits, and your mouths are as sweet as honey." ”
A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy grinned and said, "Brother Qingshi, we didn't dig as much as this time when we came back, we dug well, and we went back early, isn't it happy." ”
Hearing this, Gu Qingshui, who was leading the way with the marker in front, raised his voice and said: "Who disliked Qingzhu before, and refused to take her alive or dead, which cost me a lot of spittle." ”
Several young people denied it one after another.
"It's not me!"
"I didn't!"
"Hey, you say, should we change the hill tomorrow?" There was a clever one who forcibly turned the subject to something else.
A group of people were embarrassed, and when they heard this, they couldn't help but echo it.
"Yes, yes, to the south!"
"It's better to go east!"
Everyone began to argue about where to go tomorrow, and for a while laughter flew over the mountains and forests, startling the forest birds and running away the hares.
"Qingzhu, where do you say to go, let's go with you!" A young man flattered.
Gu Qingzhu didn't shirk either, and thought about it: "Everyone likes to run to the rising sun, but I don't know that some medicinal herbs prefer to grow in the shade, let's go to the north cliff tomorrow, if you can pick dendrobium, it can be worth selling sheep." ”
"Then let's go up to the North Cliff!" The descendants were young and vigorous, calling friends all the way, and soon returned to Gujiaao.
As soon as he walked into the village, he heard a woman whimpering and crying, Gu Qingshui immediately heard that it was his mother's voice, and the girl rushed home, and everyone didn't know what was going on, so they hurriedly followed to see.
"Which one killed a thousand knives, this plaque bellflower was planed by my son kneeling on the ground a little bit, I went to the ground to dig a green vegetable, so I deceived my head of the house and stole it!" Gu Qingshui's mother, Chen, was paralyzed on the ground, beating her chest and crying, with a basket of vegetables dumped next to her.
And Gu Qingshui's father, Gu Shixi, stood at a loss under the wall, his eyes were blank, and he didn't know where to look.
Gu Qingshui has only three people in the family, his father suffers from eye disease, he has become more and more useless over the years, he basically relies on groping for eating and sleeping at home, if he is outside, a person stands under his nose, he can only see a vague shadow, if the other party does not speak, he can't recognize who it is.
Chen's family is a woman who has to take care of housework, but also to do the work in the tea garden field, and her temples are white.
Now Gu Qingshui went up the mountain again, she was thinking about chopping some vegetables and coming back, steaming buns to treat her son, so she let her wife sit in the courtyard and watch, thinking that even if she was a straw man, she could scare the sparrow that stole her mouth.
Gu Qingshui shook off the basket, hugged Chen at once, and said anxiously: "Mother, who stole it?" ”
"I want to know, I've been fighting with her for a long time!" When Chen saw his son, he cried more and more fiercely. Nuwa Library
Gu Qingshui took out the woodcutter in the bamboo basket and said angrily: "In our village, apart from the Wu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who else does this kind of thing of stealing chickens and touching dogs!" ”
"Son, you can't go!" Seeing Gu Qingshui's desperate posture, Chen hurriedly hugged his legs.
Gu Qingshui is the only seedling in the family, and he lost the bellflower, but he just broke a little fortune, if he was hurt by Gu Shigui's sinister villain, they would not be able to live.
The young people who came back together surrounded Gu Qingshui, and I persuaded you every word.
"Brother Qingshui, if there is no evidence, it is useless for you to rush to his house, on the contrary, he may have to go to the village chief and accuse you of falsehood." Gu Qingzhu calmly persuaded, his eyes swept over the bamboo basket on the ground, and said in a low voice: "Instead of wasting your tongue energy on that, it's better to get these things right." ”
Gu Qingshui followed her gaze, a thick astragalus was exposed, he turned his head to look at his frightened father and aging mother again, his clenched fist slowly loosened, his face eased a lot, he said to the others angrily: "I'm tired today, I have a break for the past two days, you each dry the medicinal materials at home, it's winter, the weather may be cloudy and sunny, it's better to settle the bag early." ”
Everyone else nodded, the snow came early last year, and several families wanted to save more than one time to sell, but they were delayed until the beginning of spring, and the price was reduced by half, but the loss was big, and today I picked such a valuable medicinal material as astragalus, and I still changed my money and wealth earlier.
When the people saw that he had calmed down, they went home.
Gu Qingzhu hurried back, the Zhu family was greedy, and once he succeeded, he would inevitably take advantage of the chaos to steal, and the other families in the village didn't know if they had suffered, as soon as she stepped into the courtyard, she saw Qingying and Rhubarb playing with sandbags, and her heart couldn't help but settle down.
She put down the bamboo basket, washed her hands, and turned over the medicinal materials in the bamboo plaque one by one, while Qingying stood under the loquat tree, threw the sandbag hard, and the rhubarb ran hard, grabbed it in her mouth, and brought it back to her, so repeatedly, one person and one dog, can play like this for most of the day.
The next day, Gu Qingzhu washed the medicinal herbs by the river and was spreading them out to dry in the courtyard, when he saw Gu Shifu lame, banging on the gong, and walking in a hurry.
"Uncle Fu, what's wrong?" Gu Qingzhu shook the water droplets in his hand and walked up quickly to ask.
The gong in Gu Shifu's hand would only be struck in case of emergency, and his expression was serious, so Gu Qingzhu couldn't help but panic in his heart.
"The wild boar came down the mountain last night to bring disaster to the vegetable garden, you must not go into the mountain these days, if you encounter it, it will be a disaster to the sky!" Gu Shifu thumped his stump leg and said.
"Oh." Gu Qingzhu obediently responded, and Gu Shifu hurriedly knocked the gong and went to the next house.
In the past month or so, all the people in the village have poured into the mountains, either picking mushrooms or digging medicinal herbs, the time is longer than in previous years, this must be robbing the rations of wild boars, they have not eaten, they have to go down the mountain to waste the vegetable field, wild boars go down the mountain to find food, most of them will drag their families to wander at the foot of the mountain, this time, Gu Qingzhu They are completely unable to go into the mountains to collect medicinal materials.
This wild boar in the vegetable garden to eat the sweetness, not a little bit of care, today arch a family, tomorrow gnaw a family, seeing that the family is not spared, the village people have been reluctant to eat the green cabbage and cabbage, it is ruined.
The women have to pick up half a basket of vegetable leaves in the vegetable field every day, feed the chickens and sheep, and they are distressed, but there is nothing to deal with, Gu Shifu has seen the footprints, and estimates that it is a 200-pound big wild boar, with a litter of wild boar cubs just laid down in autumn to forage.
Not to mention the 200 pounds of wild boar to start the wild, can break the top of a big tree hugged by one person, besides, it is still a sow with cubs, the temper will not be much better, if a blow misses, the consequences are unimaginable, therefore, everyone has to curse, while swallowing their anger.
After two days, Gu Qingzhu and the young people in the village went out to sell medicinal materials together, the price given by Tan Lide was real, the price of astragalus was really high, everyone smiled, and they each bought things for their families.
Gu Qingzhu got a total of more than two taels of silver, bought a bamboo basket of rice noodles, and carefully put some of them in his purse.
It is difficult for people from Gujiaao to come to Nancang County, and they only heard that they opened a noodle restaurant here in Qingshan on weekdays, but when they came here today, they naturally wanted to take a look.
The group carried baskets full of grain and cloth, walked through Pear Blossom Lane, and poured into Ding's noodle restaurant.
When Gu Qingshan saw them, they were all childhood playmates, his eyes instantly became hot, and he endured it again and again, so he smiled and gave each of them a bowl of noodles, and added more and more things according to their tastes. It's late afternoon, and there are few diners, only they eat with a whirring sound, which makes people feel that it tastes very good.
"You're here to sell medicinal herbs today?" Gu Qingshan was familiar with the phenology of the solar terms, and looking at the things they bought, he asked with a smile.
"Well, Qingzhu will also go this year, otherwise we won't be able to make money so easily." Gu Qingshui swallowed the noodles and said vaguely.
Another young man put down his chopsticks and sighed: "Hey, if it weren't for the wild boar, we're afraid we'll have to earn more." ”
"When did the wild boars come down?" Gu Qingshan was a little surprised.
Gu Qingshi said with a wry smile: "Not only did it go down the mountain, but it also took a few small ones, and it didn't eat them, and almost ruined the vegetable field. ”
Several people were complaining, and suddenly a burly and majestic man in a strong suit came in at the door, and when he saw everyone, he grinned: "Ha, it's rare for people to be so together!" ”
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