Chapter 230: The Ink Mill and the Paper Mill (3)

Spring is coming, and there is irrepressible vitality everywhere outside, and the size of the little girl is the same as the grass in spring, and it has also been raised by a small section.

"Luoluo, run slower, Guo Du still has to prepare tools, is your bag full of snacks?" Zhao Yuan shouted to the little girl who was on the loose.

"Uncle, how do you know, are you peeking at my bag?" Luoluo hugged his monkey backpack and said vigilantly.

"Your little bag is about to burst, you say I don't know, it's so heavy, give it to me, I'll hold it for you." Zhao Yuan said funny.

"It's not heavy, I'll just carry it myself."

"What kind of expression do you have, will Uncle still take your things!" Zhao Yuan saw that the little girl looked like she was protecting food, and said angrily.

"It's not heavy, the Luoluo bag is full of biscuits, preserved fruits, dried meat and other things, or I helped her pack them." Meng Ying looked at the bickering uncle and nephew and said with a smile.

"It's just, it's not heavy at all." Luoluo nodded her little head and ran forward with a puff of smoke.

"Don't rush to run, let's go to your fourth grandfather's house first." Zhao Yuan called out to the little girl, turned the path outside the house, and walked towards Zhao Si's house.

"I still have to go to the fourth grandfather's house, his family's medicine smells so bad, Uncle Guo Du, let's go to the fourth grandfather's house first, you are ready to find us, hurry up!" Luoluo had a bitter face, and shouted Guo Du, who was still preparing to catch rabbit tools, and followed Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying.

"Soon enough, miss, you go first, I'll come to you in a moment." Guo Du said with a smile.

In the eyes of the little girl, Guo is the most powerful person in addition to Uncle Zhao Yuan, not only can he make a lot of fun toys, but also catch rabbits, sparrows, and wild boars......

When I came to Zhao Si's house, before I entered the door, I smelled a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine, but the taste was not as bad as Luoluo said, but it smelled very comfortable.

Directly pushed open the door of Zhao Si's house, Zhao Sizheng was sitting comfortably at a large round table, there was a set of exquisite ceramic teapots on the table, and from time to time he commanded the fourth aunt Cai Yunxiang on the side to deal with the medicinal materials that had been cut, quite a landlord's style.

Hearing the sound of pushing the door, the two of them saw the Zhao Yuan family who came in, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised, didn't they just come back for the New Year not long ago.

"Fourth uncle, fourth aunt, busy." Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying greeted each other with a smile.

"Atom, Xiaoying, and Luoluo, why are you free to come back, old man, don't lie down, pour tea." The fourth aunt wiped her hand on her apron and said happily.

"Four grandpa, four grandma." Luoluo shouts.

"Our Luoluo is back, come with the fourth grandmother, the fourth grandmother has delicious food here." Cai Yunxiang pointed to the root-like medicinal herbs drying in a bamboo sieve and said.

"Wow, that's a lot of hairy chicken legs!" Luoluo saw the medicinal herbs drying in a few bamboo sieves and said in shock.

"The ones in those sieves look like them, but no, only those in this sieve are the ones that are bitter, and they can't be eaten directly." Cai Yunxiang said with a smile.

"Can I taste two, Fourth Grandma." Luoluo asked expectantly.

In fact, the little girl's small mouth has long been eaten and nourished by the various snacks made by Zhao Yuan in his spare time and some of the food brought by Wan Yunjun and others, but for the first snack of bracken nettle root, she has always been obsessed, and some are also planted in the vegetable garden, but the taste is different from that of the wild.

"You can catch it yourself, how much you want to eat, the fourth grandmother has it here."

"Great, then you're welcome."

"Little girl, when have you been polite." Zhao Yuan shook his head and started chatting with Zhao Si, and Meng Ying followed the fourth aunt to help clean up the medicinal materials in the yard.

"Fourth uncle, you have a lot of medicinal materials here, and they are almost full there."

"It's all common medicinal materials, and there aren't many, every time your uncle and they go to Laoshan to farm, I follow them, and let them help me dig up medicinal materials, so I can collect such a point, many medicinal materials we don't have here, and we have to buy them from outside." Zhao Si said with a smile.

"How are these utensils for serving medicinal herbs, tell me if they need to be improved, and I will arrange for someone to get them." Zhao Yuan also said with a smile.

"You don't need to change it anymore, it's easy to use, your things are good, but many medicinal materials can't be processed with these things made of steel, which will cause some medicinal materials to lose their medicinal properties, I ordered a lot of stone pestles and mortars from the Huangshimason in Zhulin Village, and they can be made after a while, all of them are made according to your utensils, and I didn't say a word to you." Zhao Si looked at Zhao Yuan and said gratefully.

"It's okay, I know that different medicinal materials have different processing methods, some can be processed with steel tools, some need to be processed with stone tools, and some have to be processed with wooden tools, but Fourth Uncle, if you make pills in small batches, you can carefully concoct medicinal materials like this, once the amount of concocted in the future is large, you will be too busy like this."

"Besides, even if you lose some of the medicinal properties, it won't have much impact on the final finished medicine, right?"

"The impact is great, although it still works, why can't we sell drugs with reduced efficacy." Zhao Si shook his head, since he got the "Thousand Golden Prescriptions", it seems that he has also obtained the medical ethics and medical products of the God of Medicine, and the owner has a noble doctor's heart.

"Uncle, you can also try the fourth grandfather's hairy chicken legs, it's delicious." At this time, the little girl took a nettle root and stuffed it into Zhao Yuan's mouth and said.

"It's delicious, but the fourth grandfather's hairy chicken thighs are used for medicine, so don't eat them all." Zhao Yuan took a bite of the bracken nettle root in his mouth, and a fragrant and sweet taste filled his mouth.

"No, no, I took three, no, I took five." The little girl jumped away, watching her aunt follow the fourth grandmother to cut a medicinal herb called honeycomb grass on the side, and asked some questions curiously.

Some medicinal herbs can be recognized by the little girl, but they were all picked home in the past and used as a kind of pigweed to feed the pigs, so Cai Yunxiang kept explaining to the little girl on the side.

Zhao Si's pharmaceutical business was originally intended to give Zhao Yuan a part of the profits, but neither Zhao Yuan nor Meng Ying wanted it, both of them knew that Zhao Si often gave free medicines to some people who couldn't afford to buy medicines, and in the small supermarket in the town, they also reserved a place for some commonly used pills made by Zhao Si, so that his family could sell medicines in the town.

"Has the fourth uncle considered recruiting a few more apprentices to expand the scale of the current pharmaceutical, and some medicinal materials can be planted in a place on the old mountain, so that the uncle can also plant some commonly used medicinal materials with large amounts, which can also give everyone an extra income." Zhao Yuan proposed.

"I've thought about it, let's wait for the second half of the year, atom, what you said is a good idea, but once the number of people increases, the number of medicinal materials needed will also increase, I'm afraid that the medicinal materials can't keep up now." It is a good way to plant medicinal herbs, last year the eldest brother they dug back from the old mountain, planted very successfully, you see, this one by one, the size is much bigger. Zhao Si nodded, got up and took out a burlap bag from the house, opened it and said to Zhao Yuan.

"I remember that there weren't many gastrodia seeds, and I could receive so many in a year?" Zhao Yuan said in surprise.

"I've tried it, and although the medicinal properties are not as strong as those dug in the old mountain, they are completely enough for medicine." Zhao Si said with a smile.

"Yes, we can expand the planting this year."

"Your uncle has already thought of this, the wood used to plant gastrodia has already been cut back to dry, just wait for the weather to warm up after a while, and say that they will go to the old mountain to find some gastrodia seeds back."

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Zhao Yuan's family sat in Zhao Si's house for a while, chatted for a while, and when Guo prepared the tools for catching rabbits and came to look for them, several people took the little girl and walked towards the field where everyone in the village was working.