Today's season is the most abundant vegetable variety in the Ming family's vegetable garden, shallots, celery, spinach, cabbage, eggplant, beans... With the help of her three daughters-in-law, Mrs. Ming unknowingly picked three baskets of various vegetables.

In addition to these not very valuable things, Mrs. Ming also brought two catties of brown sugar, two catties of trough cakes, a basket of yellow apricots, a basket of hairy peaches, two domestic fat rabbits, and two pieces of muslin cloth of different colors to Ming Ju's family.

Zheng Youyan didn't dare to move so many things back from her grandfather's house, she was afraid that her mother would scold her by the ear, but Mrs. Ming was determined to let her take all these things home.

She also persuaded Zheng Youyan in turn, "The vegetables are grown by our own family, the rabbits are raised by our own family, the apricots and peaches are picked by a few of you who went up the mountain, and the clothes are brought back by your aunt last time, so you already have your share." As for brown sugar and trough cake, these two things only cost dozens of dollars when they are added together, what are you afraid of? If your mother says you, you let her come to me directly. ”

Zheng Youyan couldn't resist her grandmother, so she had to look at Mrs. Ming Zhang Luo with a worried face.

Mrs. Ming smiled and sent her eldest son, eldest grandson, and niece with four baskets to the donkey cart to sit down, and then led the rest of the family back to her yard with Old Man Ming.

After more than three months of hard training and eating and sleeping, the children of the Ming family are all like the little saplings in spring, not only tall, but also strong.

The children, who were originally skinny and almost skinny, are now ruddy and energetic, and even their hair has turned smooth and black.

Even a few adults in the family have been somewhat stained, and their complexion is better than before.

Mingyue is very satisfied with this change in herself and the rest of the family, but now that Zheng Youyan has returned home, the living standard of their family is afraid that it will return to before liberation.

As soon as she thought of this, Mingyue couldn't help but start thinking about how she could continue to make up for herself and her family.

Spending money is definitely not good, although the rabbits she raised have been successfully sold, but all the money from selling rabbits has been saved by Mrs. Ming.

It was the silver she saved to buy land for the Autumn Queen, and Mingyue didn't dare to fight this silver even if she ate the bear's heart and leopard's guts.

Even the money that her family might get from selling rabbits, grain, eggs, and whole pigs in the next few months, she would never be able to make up her mind.

In this way, the only place she can make up her mind is the mountains and rivers around Wulitun.

is still the same sentence, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, since there are mountains and rivers in Wulitun, Mingyue has to go to this mountain and this water to make an idea.

She first asked Mingcheng to get herself a simple fishing net with two wooden sticks, a bundle of hemp rope, and a bunch of useless rags, and then Mingcheng tried to help her find an old book introducing medicinal herbs.

In this era, books are precious things, Mingcheng has little money in hand, and almost never enters the city, so although Mingyue entrusted him, she didn't put all her hopes on him.

She asked someone to bring a message to her little uncle Chen Bai, and asked him to help her ask if the town hospital had old books for sale.

In the days of waiting for Chen Bai's reply, Mingyue didn't let herself be idle.

She got up at dawn every morning, washed up, and together with Yu Jiayan, Mingtang and her five cousins, tied sandbags and went out to Nanshan.

There are not only grasses, wild vegetables, wild fruits, herbs, pheasants, and hares on the South Mountain, but also several small springs, forming several small streams.

After the water of this small stream flowed out of Nanshan, it became the small river next to their house.

Every time they go up the mountain, they will first climb to the top of the mountain in one go, and then go down the mountain while mowing grass, digging wild vegetables, digging herbs, picking mushrooms, and looking for wild eggs.

If they accidentally startle pheasants and hares, they will also try to chase and intercept them, and they can catch the best, and they will not be discouraged if they can't catch everyone.

When they descend the mountain, they will use Mingyue's fishing net to catch fish in the small river.

Unlike when they used to really "catch" with their hands, six or seven times out of ten times always missed, although Mingyue's fishing nets looked simple, but the nets did not fail, and the easy to use Erlang Saburo screamed.

After surviving this rush, the time has basically reached the beginning of the morning (more than nine o'clock in the morning).

After returning home with the things and having breakfast together, Mingtang, Dalang, and Erlang will go to the field together and serve the crops with the other laborers in the family, while the half-grown children of Sanlang, Shilang, Golang, Mingyue and Yu Jiayan stay at home to feed the chickens, pigs, rabbits, laundry, and cleaning.

After doing these daily chores, Shiro and Goro will go to the village to play with their friends, and Mingyue, Saburo and Yu Jiayan will carry the basket and enter the mountain for the second time.

This time they usually don't cut the grass again, and the wild vegetables and mushrooms will only dig and pick up a little when they are handy, and their main energy is on digging herbs.

As mentioned earlier, there are only a few herbs that the little original master knows, and they are not very valuable, while Mingyue knows a lot of other herbs that are relatively precious.

She was short of money, and of course she would not choose to turn a blind eye when she saw valuable herbs, long before she followed Zheng Youyan to learn martial arts, she had already purposefully gone to Dr. Li's house for a few days under the guise of learning to identify herbs, so that she could "learn" to recognize astragalus, atractylodes, yellow essence, Yin Chen, Kudiding, Schisandra chinensis, Beisha ginseng and other herbs that she already knew.

After "learning", she specially taught several children in the family how to identify and how to collect medicine.

The Ming family didn't take it too seriously at first, after all, the little original owner had not taken medicine before, and they had long been accustomed to the little original owner working hard for many days in a row, but in the end, they could only sell a few or a dozen copper plates back to subsidize the family.

It wasn't until Mingyue exchanged the medicinal materials she had saved for three days for more than 400 copper plates that everyone in the Ming family was surprised-hey, it didn't look like before?

Mrs. Ming called her eldest granddaughter over to ask, and then she realized that the few medicinal herbs that Mingyue had recently "learned" to identify were more expensive than the ones she used to dig.

“... It's just that the number is a little small. In the past, Dr. Li was afraid that I would get lost if I walked too deep, so he only taught me a few of the most common things. ”

Mrs. Ming couldn't help but nod her head again and again, "It's still Dr. Li who thinks thoughtfully." ”

Since then, Mingyue's herb-digging business has received strong support from Mrs. Ming.

Old Man Ming wants to buy land, Mrs. Ming has always been worried about where to go for the thirty-five taels of silver, and now Mingyue has finally added a way to the family to make money, and it is strange that Mrs. Ming does not support it.

If it weren't for her age, Mrs. Ming would have hated to go up the mountain in person.

There is the instructions of my grandmother, and there is the temptation of food from Mingyue - every time she sells herbs, Mingyue will take out a small part of the copper plate for everyone to buy delicious food, so that several Taozi boys in the family are all keen on digging herbs.