Chapter Twenty-Five: The Flower of Xinyi

On the way down the mountain, I quietly walked another way, wanting to see if there was anything else to gain. Not to mention, she really found it. In a depression near halfway up the mountain, she found three spring trees. These trees seem to be twenty or thirty years old, each of which is as thick as two people and six or seven meters high. Wangchun flower tree, there is another name, Xinyi flower tree. This Xinyi is a precious Chinese medicine, and the reason why it is valuable is because the tree grows slowly. It takes ten years to pick a tree, and a tree can only pick more than ten catties of dry Xinyi, and a twenty-year-old tree can only pick more than thirty catties. In his previous life, he had been to the Yaowang Valley in Beichuan, where there were more than 2,000 Xinyi trees. Every year at the end of March and the beginning of April, the Shinyi Flower Festival is held in the valley. The Xinyi flowers bloom all over the mountain, the color is from white to pink, there is pink to purple, the mountain becomes a trend, poetic and picturesque, it can be called a wonder of the world. Now there are still ten days before the end of the month, and this bud is not released, which is a good season for picking. Quiet lowered the goat off her shoulders and set aside with the pheasant and rabbit around her waist. Climbed up the tree in twos and threes, tore off the cloth bag in his waist, and quickly picked it up, the forest gradually darkened, and quietly looked up at the sky, estimating that in another hour, the sun was about to set, and Quiet climbed down from the tree.

When I picked it, I was only happy, but now I look at the two big cloth bags full of them, and the goats, pheasants, and rabbits on the ground, and I am quiet but sad. How can she take these old things alone? After a little spin, I really came up with a solution. Just like last time, let's make a raft. Picked up a few thick branches, cut a few vines, and simply tied a raft out and tied two cloth bags, as well as goats, pheasants, and rabbits on the raft tightly, and then dragged the raft down the mountain.

The trees thinned out, and the road became much easier, but the forest grew darker. The sound of the wind, the rustle of shoes on the leaves, the cry of the owl mixed with the howl of wolves and the roar of animals in the distance, were eerie and terrifying. The swarthy mountains and forests are like giant beasts with their mouths wide open, as if they want to devour people. The timid people are afraid that they will be scared for a long time, but they are quiet and don't care at all. In my previous life, I was a special soldier for several years, and I went to the deep mountains and old forests to train countless times, and I don't know how much blood on my hands accounted for? If she hadn't injured her arm during a mission and could no longer hold a gun, she wouldn't have retired from the army and returned to her hometown to be a film policeman. Now that she is here, she has a young and healthy body, and she has earned it.

By the time we got out of the forest and down the mountain, it was completely dark. There was a fire in the distance, flashing and coming this way.

"Eldest sister, is that you?" A reassuring voice came.

"The second sister is me, come and help me." Quiet, at this time, it was tired and out of breath.

Hearing the voice of the eldest sister, Anxin ran over quickly. I saw that she was holding a torch in her left hand and a kitchen knife in her right hand, thinking that she was worried that she would come out to find it, but she was afraid of the dark, so she took the kitchen knife to give herself courage. The two of them dragged themselves home.

The next two days were quiet in the mountains. Three Xinyi flower trees, a total of six bags of Xinyi were picked. During this period of silence, another piece of honeysuckle was found, but it would take ten or eight days to pick it.

The goats he had hunted last time were sent to the cyclamen in the town and sold for four taels of silver. Jing Jing also brought a bag of bamboo shoots, which he sold to the restaurant for ten cents a catty. and a tael of silver. Bamboo shoots quietly only bring one bag, and there is still one bag at home. When I returned home, I was very happy, and I swore that I would dig bamboo shoots in the coming year, and I would dig more. Later, I heard that in early winter, you can dig another crop of winter bamboo shoots, and I was happy like something.

After three or four days of hard work, I got two sacks of dried Xinyi flowers. It happened that the family's food was about to run out, so Jing Jing thought about bringing these Xinyi to the town to sell them, and then buy some food back. Hearing that the eldest sister was going to town again, the two little ones looked at him with blank eyes. Thinking that her family lived on this hillside, far away from the village, and her younger siblings did not have any playmates, she would inevitably feel lonely when she stayed at home, so she simply took them to the town for a walk. The two little ones, when they heard that the eldest sister was going to take them to the town, jumped and jumped with joy, shouted and laughed. Even Xin'er, who has always been steady and sensible, curled the corners of her mouth.

Early in the morning, as soon as the sky was bright, it was quiet and I pushed the car and set off. This car was borrowed from Grandma Zhao's house the day before. There were two cloth bags of Xinyi flowers tied to the car, and a bag of dried bamboo shoots. The two little ones were also quietly hugged on top of the cart.

Today is the market day, and on the way, I met a lot of people from the village who went to the town to catch the market. When they saw two or three large cloth bags on the cart in Quiet Tun, they all guessed in their hearts what good things were inside. What do others think? I don't know, and I don't care if I know.

Quietly pushed the cart and walked quickly, with a small cloth bag on his back and followed his sister's side, the two little guys sat on the cart, looking around excitedly. This is the first time these two children have left the village. Looking at the winding road, looking at the green hills in the distance, looking at the pedestrians on the road, the two little guys who went out for the first time chattered head to head.

When the sky was bright, Zhoujiazhen finally arrived. The town is very lively, bustling with people, hawkers shouting loudly. The two little guys sitting on the board cart didn't have enough eyes, and they felt that everything was so new.

Quiet first came to the restaurant to sell dried bamboo shoots, because the family left some to eat, this time the dried bamboo shoots were only sold for half a tael of silver. Only then did I go to the pharmacy to sell Xinyi flowers. The two bags of Xinyi flowers totaled one hundred and fifty-one and a half catties, and the skin was counted as one hundred and fifty catties. Eighty wen a catty, one hundred and fifty catties get twelve taels of silver. Holding the twelve taels of silver in his hand, he was quiet and secretly speechless, no wonder so many people are sick and can't afford to take medicine, the price of this medicine is really not affordable for ordinary people.

With silver in his arms, he quietly pushed the cart and took his younger siblings to start shopping. I've been here many times this week, so I don't feel fresh, but the other three haven't been here, and the things sold by the stalls on both sides of the street are very novel. At a jewelry stall, she quietly bought Jiayue a pair of colorful hair bands with flowers to tie her hair, and also bought a small bracelet, the bracelet was made of colored rope, and a pair of small silver bells were decorated with them. The little guy wears it on his hand, which is rare. I bought a pair of silver ear pendants for the second sister Anxin, and bought her a pair of flowers. Jiaming is not interested in these girls' things, but likes the wood carving toys on the other stall. Seeing that he liked her, Quiet bought him a peachwood sword and a small slingshot. Little Jiaming has the first toy in his life. When I saw a stall selling pastries, I bought a bag of jujube cake and a bag of osmanthus cake. Four sisters and brothers, then walked to the only embroidery building in the town.