Chapter 28 Find a way to change a lot of money
The variety of medicinal herbs that can be dug up on Daping Mountain is very limited, and except for herbs such as licorice and white thorn root, other medicinal herbs can only be collected from high places, and the number of other medicinal herbs is not very large.
She couldn't take out these medicinal materials in the Baicao Garden and hand them over to her grandfather, but if she pretended to dig up so many medicinal materials from Daping Mountain at once, she would definitely make her suspicious.
Zihan's gaze swept over angelica and astragalus, and when she saw the seeds that occasionally hung on the tops of the clusters of leaves, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Could she have grown seeds in the herb garden and then planted them in the village?
With an idea in mind, Zihan began to get busy in the fields, pruning and beating seedlings for various medicinal materials that could already be harvested, so that they could set seeds.
The next day, Zhao Wenqing and Liu Shengqiang looked for Zihan one after the other and made an appointment to dig herbs on Ping'ertai.
Zihan had an idea in his heart, so he called Gu Shaoting with them, and the four of them went to Ping'er Platform together.
Zihan took a closer look at the barren land on Ping'er Terrace.
She found that the lands, while not fertile red loam or fertile black loam, were not barren either.
Herbs such as angelica and astragalus are relatively drought-tolerant, and they can be sown in autumn according to the current moisture of these soils.
If there is not enough rain in the coming year and you need to water it, you can find another way.
On the pretext of going to Gu Shaoting's family's wasteland on Ping'ertai to dig licorice and white thorn roots, Zihan took the opportunity to check the plots of about three acres that Gu Shaoting's family had allocated.
To her delight, there was a waterlogged pond about 200 meters south of the three acres of land, and because of the abundant rain this year, almost half of the waterlogged pond was still stored in the waterlogged pond.
Zihan was inexplicably a little excited, and returned to the village with Zhao Wenqing, Gu Shaoting, and Liu Shengqiang with a small basket, preparing to discuss with his grandfather about planting medicinal herbs on Ping'ertai in the evening.
However, when she learned that Gu Qingshan had not been discharged from the hospital and returned home, her heart became heavy again.
In the evening, Zihan, who felt that his idea was too simple, didn't talk to Grandpa Lin about planting medicinal herbs for the time being.
This night, while picking the seeds that have matured, she is making calculations in her heart.
Even if Gu Qingshan regained his health, he could no longer continue to work as a coolie to earn money.
The teenager said that he would find a way to pay for his younger siblings' tuition? But what could he do?
I thought of helping him by renting his family's land and planting medicinal herbs with them.
However, no matter how short the growth cycle of the herb is, it must take about a year.
In the past two days, she has learned from Gu Shaoting's mouth that his studies are not bad, and he ranks eighth among fresh graduates.
In the college entrance examination, his score was only two points behind, and with a little effort this year, he will not be able to be admitted to school.
However, it is conceivable that if the family does not have enough tuition fees for the three of them to continue their education, then as the eldest he can only drop out of school and find a way to pay for the tuition fees of his younger siblings.
Zihan finished his work with a frown, climbed Baicao Mountain, and looked at the precious medicinal materials that were growing longer and longer.
If you can take two or three clusters of lush dendrobium and hand them to him, then you can solve his family's urgent need.
There are also red reishi and ginseng that are hundreds of years old, which should be able to exchange a lot of money!
Zihan didn't know much about the value of money in this era, but he just roughly estimated the price of medicinal herbs purchased and sold by his grandfather in his memory.
Perhaps, she really should have figured out a way, no matter what, she couldn't let the guy who saved her drop out of school like this.