Chapter 161: Digging up medicinal herbs
"Tell you two to choose a fabric, why are you so rubbing!" There was a roar at the door.
The people in the shop were shocked, Gu Qingzhu turned to look, and saw a plump woman wearing a black satin skirt, fat head and big ears, scolding with a bloody mouth, two short eyebrows depicted like two black worms, lying on the eyes that were squeezed by the flesh forever, although half a catty of fat powder painted her dark face snow-white, but the neck down was like black charcoal, it was daylight, at first glance it was scary, if it was night, the figure was hidden in the dark, only a white face was exposed, I was afraid that it would kill people.
"It's coming, Mama Huang, what do you think of this horse?" The fat girl flew to the woman with an apricot pink satin in her arms, her chest jumped violently, and a pair of white rabbits seemed to jump out, which really made people sweat for her.
"And this!" The yellow-haired girl didn't dare to delay, and followed by handing over a smoky silk.
"Alright, go check out." The fat woman glanced at it and urged impatiently.
She was followed by two girls wearing the same clothes, one holding rouge gouache, and the other holding jewelry.
The group was like a gust of wind, hula-la-la, and then whirring away.
Gu Qingzhu bought two pieces of cloth and a pack of cotton wool, and when he paid, he asked casually: "Which lady is suitable, so magnificent." ”
When she was a countryman who had never seen the world, she happened to be not busy at this time, so she kindly said: "That is the nurse of the second master of the Changlong Qian family, and the wife of the ordinary small family is not as majestic as her!" ”
"Oh." Gu Qingzhu smiled, picked up the bundled cotton cloth and walked out of the cloth village.
After the cold dew, the weather turned cooler, Gu Qingzhu walked in the mountains and forests, the twilight and autumn wind, no sorrow and no joy, the road is self-chosen, is crying or laughing, being a person and being a plaything, all have nothing to do with others, just like the flowers and trees in the mountains, bloom in spring, and fall in winter, the literati praise spring and mourn autumn, and fall into their own mood, and the flowers and trees are still reincarnated in the four seasons, if they know, they must laugh at those people are idiots.
After a year's tea affair, Gu Qingzhu began to pick up the tea garden, prune and hoe the grass, loosen the soil and fertilize, cut a few loads of wild grass, and crushed the manure.
The wild chrysanthemums in the mountains are defeated, there is a chill in the morning and evening, the mushrooms in the mountains are difficult to grow, sometimes go out for a day, it is difficult to pick two catties of ordinary mushrooms around, so the people of Gujiaao began to save mountain goods for the winter, and there are fewer and fewer to sell.
Gu Qingzhu followed Gu Qingshui to the deep mountains a few times, and had good luck, just when the pine mushrooms were growing after the rain, he picked most of the basket in one go, and then picked some chicken fir one after another, chicken fir in late autumn is rare, but it is very large, more than a dozen flowers are spread all over the bottom of the basket, and chanterelle yellow, etc., so seven, seven, eight, eight, and also saved a small basket of dried mushrooms, except for sending some to Qin's, she packed them in cloth bags, hung on the beams in the house, ventilated and dried.
The night dew is frosty, the weather is getting colder and colder, you have to wear a coat when you go out, Gu Qingzhu sharpened his machete in advance, winter is getting closer, the firewood for the winter is an important thing, it should be prepared early, even Gu Qingshan and Fang Kui made a special trip home to help.
On this day, Gu Qingzhu ate a bowl of fried rice, took a flat pole and rope and went up to Laojun Mountain with the men to chop firewood, she had to cut a little more this year, because the Qin family saw that she wanted to use mulberry sticks for stir-frying tea, so she gave her more than 20 bundles of mulberry sticks left at home for cooking, she naturally couldn't let the Qin family have no firewood to burn in winter.
Chopping firewood is not as good as roasting tea and raising silkworms, that is hard work, every family goes out is strong labor, Gu Qingzhu is a girl in the end, she is not strong enough, she can only pick those miscellaneous trees with the thickness of her fingers, occasionally chop a few wrist-thick ones, Qingshan is a few strong hands, take turns to help her chop, and other people in the village are worried about learning to fry tea from her in the spring next year, this will not be good to stand by, each person can cut a few more sticks, you can help her make up a load of firewood.
Dead branches do not boil the fire, people in the mountains only cut live branches, such fresh branches are very heavy, each load has one hundred and fifty or sixty catties, and it is common for men to pick more than two hundred catties, Gu Qingzhu worked for five days, went out in the morning, and when he came back to eat at noon and evening, he each picked a load of firewood and went home, and dried it in the open space in the courtyard.
Within a few days, several large blood blisters appeared on her hands, and her shoulders were even more swollen, and it hurt her heart when she touched it.
At the dinner table that day, Qin saw that when she was eating, her hand holding chopsticks was shaking, so he persuaded distressedly: "Let's stop chopping wood, Ming'er, I'll go up the mountain to pick up some dead branches and burn them too." ”
"Then which is it, the number of cold days in winter, the heavy snow covers the mountains, and the brazier must be used to keep warm, and the charcoal burned by the dry branches is not used, and the heat of three is not worth one." Gu Qingzhu shook his head and said.
Qin Shi twisted his eyebrows and said, "Why don't you rest for two days, raise and then cut?" ”
Gu Qingzhu said with a smile: "Don't, I'm all here, and I will be solid after two more days, but I can't rest, I won't have to suffer again, and I'm even more afraid of pain." ”
Qin had no choice, so he had to tear off a leg of a specially stewed hen and put it in her bowl. fantasy
"Give the iron egg to eat, he grows one, I like to gnaw bones." As he spoke, Gu Qingzhu gave the chicken leg to the iron egg who was watching.
Qin had no choice but to rely on her, and continued: "Then the other chicken leg is for Qingying." ”
Gu Qingzhu ate a large piece of chicken breast, which was pressed in her bowl by the Qin family, so she just turned her face and ordered her to eat it.
In late autumn and early winter, drink a bowl of dried pine mushroom chicken soup, which is fresh and soft, rich in aroma, nourishing and delicious, and it is extra warm to sleep this night.
When the calluses on their hands were up, and the shoulders didn't hurt so much, Gu Qingzhu and Qin's courtyard had built tall firewood stacks, Qingying and Tie Dan were not idle, and they went to the pine forest with ordinary children to pick up pine balls, not only to eat pine nuts, but also because the pine balls were so burning, it was best to light the stove in winter.
Frost is the last solar term in autumn, at this time, the mountain people are particularly busy, the family sheep began to stock winter grass, corn stalks, sweet potato vines, no matter how bad it is, it is necessary to go to the mountains to cut the grass, as for the circle wall that was climbed by the sheep, gnaw the broken circle door, this time also to seize the time to strengthen and repair, some people in order to be able to sell sheep earlier, add extra soybean meal and bud grain crushed at night.
Gu Qingchuan is young, but he knows that his family is in debt, and his brothers and sisters are running outside, he gets up earlier than the children of other people's families every day, and he is looking for a place with less people and more grass to put the dozen sheep, Gu Qingzhu helped deliver the three lambs in the spring, and now they grow no worse than other families, all of them are smooth and slippery, shaped like big sheep, which makes the women in the village very hot, and they can't help it.
The days are slowly sliding in the curling fireworks, Gu Qingzhu has no sheep at home, this season is the best time to go up the mountain to dig medicinal herbs, and the young people in the village often go together.
The Taihua Mountains, which stretch for 800 miles, are a treasure trove of medicinal materials, as soon as the autumn frost falls, the pods of forsythia cassia are ripe, and they bring a sickle to cut the full basket of swollen pods and go home, and they are exposed to the sun in the courtyard for a day or two, and the seeds can be sold for money.
To harvest the red and bright schisandra and dogwood, you need to bring a long bamboo pole, the descendants will hold it and beat it, and the girls will pick it up under the tree, and everyone will be able to return with a full load of laughter and laughter.
The most difficult thing is to dig the underground stems such as bellflower and yellow essence, and often have to use a small hoe to dig very deep to pick one, as for angelica ginseng and the like, although the price is high, it is hard to find.
Some medicinal herbs have the same origin as medicine and food, and they can also be eaten on a full stomach, such as bellflower and yam, bellflower can be eaten fresh, occasionally make some cold vegetables to change the taste, and after the yam is dried, it can be stored for a winter, and it is excellent to stir-fry or stew with fungus.
At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, there is fog in the col in the morning and evening, and only the sun at noon is not stingy, and the medicinal herbs dried by each family are quickly dried and dried.
Gu Qingzhu hasn't saved any money this year, the price of tea is cheap, and the little money she earned from working in Dexing has been spent again to save the village chief.
The medicinal materials in the vicinity can't withstand the whole village rushing to dig, and if they want more, they naturally have to go further.
Generally go to the mountains, young students are reluctant to take girls, one is that they can't keep up with their physical strength, climb the mountain uphill and have to be taken care of, and then in case they encounter wild beasts, they are so scared that they can't run, and it's even worse to drag everyone down.
At this time in previous years, the work in the field was enough for Gu Qingzhu to be busy, and she rarely came out with them, but this time Gu Qingshui helped her say a lot of good things, repeatedly promising that she would not drag everyone down, and said that she knew a lot of medicinal materials, and the others were moved and reluctantly agreed to take her.
Gu Qingzhu had breakfast early this day, brought a few steamed buns and water bladders, and instructed Qingying to dry the medicinal materials at home, so he carried the bamboo basket on his back, took the guys, and followed Gu Qingshui and the others into the mountain.
In the mountains, the big trees are towering, the vines under the feet are entangled, the deeper you go, the more difficult it is, in the end, it is a village, out of the door, those boys who are in their teens and twenties, and who were still hard-mouthed before, consciously let the only girl Gu Qingzhu walk in the middle, Gu Qingshi cut down trees to open the way, and there are Gu Qingshui escort team marks in the back, and a group of more than ten people is also orderly, not chaotic at all.
Gu Qingzhu looked left and right, the few medicinal books left by her father, she almost memorized them backwards, and she was also familiar with the medicinal materials painted on them, although some of the leaves were scorched after frost at this time, but they still couldn't escape her eyes.
Soon, she found a few clumps of clematis in the withered grass, this kind of medicinal herb can be used as medicine even with vines, specializing in the treatment of rheumatism and paralysis, everyone according to her instructions have scattered mining and digging, looking along the hillside, there are actually a lot of them, the roots of this medicinal material are not deep, but the roots are long, to be a complete one, always have to be patient and planing a little bit.
Everyone had a harvest, so they simply continued to go up, Gu Qingshui marked all the way, and walked to a sunny hillside, Gu Qingzhu saw the half-withered feather-like small leaves on the slope, and couldn't help but take out a small hoe to plane carefully, the more he dug in his heart, the happier he became, and he was even more careful in his hands.
The others didn't recognize this, they all looked around her, Gu Qingzhu dug down more than a foot deep, and then took out a whole root system, straight and thin, only the thickness of a finger.
"What's this?" Gu Qingshi took it, looked left and right, and asked with some disdain.
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