Chapter 29: Digging for herbs
Shen Yingyue closed her eyes and took a deep breath of the wheat-scented air.
If you come here, let it be safe.
She can't be filial to her adoptive parents, and handing over the research results to the Shen family is her greatest reward to her adoptive parents. The adoptive parents also have a biological son, and with him with them, she doesn't have to worry too much.
Let go of the past, she wants to live here.
Shen Yingyue opened her eyes again, and walked down the hill with the bamboo basket on her back.
Passing by the Shen family's cabbage field, she found that all the Lei Gonggen next to the vegetable field had been dug up.
In the morning, she told the neighbors who came to watch at home about the benefits of Lei Gonggen, and I think they also came to dig it up because of this, and they dug it cleanly, and they didn't even leave her a seedling.
She should have expected that Lei Gonggen was so well said by her, how could the villagers let it go.
Shen Yingyue collected some white cauliflower seeds and Lei Gonggen seeds next to the messy vegetable field, and planned to plant them when spring began next year.
In fact, she also wondered, how can Lei Gonggen and white cauliflower, which are supposed to grow in spring and in the south, grow in the autumn of the north?
It doesn't matter, just harvest the seeds with her.
Crops were scarce in those days. It is now the twenty-second year of Hongwu, and the great Yongle Emperor in history is only the king of Yan who was a vassal in Beiping, and it is still more than ten years before he sent Zheng He to the Western Ocean, and it is more than a hundred years before Columbus discovers the New World, and many things have not been brought back by Zheng He, nor have they been discovered by Columbus.
Now here, there is no corn, no chili peppers, no bitter gourd, no sweet potatoes, no flower fungus...... Many of the plants she was familiar with didn't have.
So she has to cherish every crop that can be eaten, including wild vegetables.
After going down the hill, Shen Yingyue did not enter the rice field, she went around to the small forest on the side.
It was early autumn, and the trees in the grove were beginning to wither, and at a glance, most of the green that represented summer had been replaced by the golden yellow of autumn, and she saw several herbs that she was familiar with.
There are many types of herbs, and different types of herbs are suitable for harvesting in different seasons, leaf and whole grass herbs are suitable for harvesting in the growing season, and warp trees are suitable for harvesting in the current season.
Shen Yingyue saw white peony, licorice, magnolia bark, etc., and her eyes lit up.
It's amazing. In this era, many crops have not yet been introduced, but the resources are really abundant, and it is most suitable for the survival of people like her, who have a lot of Chinese herbal medicine.
She dug up a few white peony plants, a few licorice plants, some kudzu roots, and then used a hoe to pick out some magnolia bark and cut it down. The active ingredient of this herb is mainly on the skin, but unfortunately she did not bring a sickle, only a hoe, and she thought that the next time she came, she would definitely bring a sickle.
"The third aunt of the Liang family, is that you?" Shen Yingyue had just put a few pieces of magnolia bark into the bamboo basket when someone called her behind her.
She turned around and saw Zheng Lin, the fifth aunt of the Zheng family, who was also carrying a bamboo basket on her back.
"Fifth sister-in-law Zheng, thank you for your fifth brother Zheng this morning, if he hadn't helped me testify that Lei Gonggen was written on the certificate, I don't know when I would have to explain."
"You're polite, he's just saying justice. And he and your Liang Laosan are also classmates in the academy, so it is also appropriate to help. I just can't imagine that you are so knowledgeable that you have even read medical books. ”