Chapter 16: The Harvest

Autumn is another harvest season, and although it is still early autumn, she has already begun to harvest busily.

The first thing to harvest is the chili peppers, all the red peppers in the field, some of them are washed and soaked in the kimchi jar, and some of them are dried on the woven fence, but most of them are dried. The next harvest is green beans, in fact, the green beans have been harvested almost, because they were planted earlier, so they matured earlier, in addition to the usual food, they were also dried and soaked.

The next harvest is cowpeas, some have been picked before, and the cowpeas planted this time are okay. Although the fertility is not very sufficient, it grows well because she takes good care of it, which exceeds her expectations. Cowpeas are similar to green beans, soak some of the rest and blanch them in the sun.

As for pumpkins and winter melons, they are mainly stored ripe and old, but it is not yet time to store them, only a few can, so it will take a while to wait for him to pick them when he is older. However, she still picks some young pumpkins and slices them to dry, and eats the rest fresh or keeps them for storage.

The rest is tomatoes, and the cabbage planted has been eaten or has grown old and cut to feed the chickens. Tomatoes didn't grow very well, but the fertility kept up in the later stage, so they also grew well, and they could bear fruit, but she often ate them as fruits, picking a few from time to time, so there aren't many of them now. In addition, it is red slowly in the mountains, so it is still okay to keep it and eat it slowly.

This year, due to the busy summer, she didn't go out to pick mushrooms, and all the things in the house were found around the road when the road was open, and there wasn't much except for the sun-dried food she ate at that time, so she wanted to keep it for herself to eat at home.

In fact, it didn't take a few days to collect the vegetables at home, it took two or three days to harvest almost them, and the rest were not very ripe. She didn't have much to do with the rest of the year, so she was going to go around and see how the wild fruit trees she had found last year were turning out this year. Then dig up some He Shou Wu and come back to dry it and sell it, she doesn't have much change left at home, she has to earn some more money.

Today she is going to dig He Shou Wu, she has gone to see those wild fruit trees before, some of them are beginning to ripen but not much, and she has already picked or picked them up. Many of them are still ripe and cannot be harvested, so they have to wait for a month or half a month. Therefore, in the last half month, she is going to dig Shou Wu, of course, if she encounters ripe wild fruits, she will also harvest them.

When she came to the place where the shou wu she had liked before grew, she still cleaned up the weeds, leaves, and branches next to it, and this time she brought a sickle and a machete and a hoe. Use a sickle and machete to clean up the surroundings, then find the head of He Shou Wuteng, and then use a hoe to slowly dig down the vine. In fact, she can dig faster, but she only has a hoe, and she is afraid that the hoe will be broken, so she digs slowly.

This Shouwu has been dug up for a total of three or four catties, and it would be good to have two catties if it was dried. She went to dig two more trees in other places and went back, digging a total of about ten catties. Of course, she won't say that she will dig it all, she digs it selectively, such as the vines are thick, and the terrain is good and there are no stones. She's not going to dig them all up, she's going to have to plan for the future.

I dug it for half a month, basically three or four a day, and the harvest was sometimes good and bad. Sometimes when she encounters those small He Shou Wu who didn't hurt their roots and body, she buries them back, although she doesn't know if they will live, but she also has a little hope of living. And she's not at the point where she doesn't even let go of the small ones now.

During this period of time, she has dried almost a dozen catties, and some of them are still drying yet. On this day, she was ready to dig for the last day, and this one was already optimistic about it a few days ago, and it had been seen for several days. The main thing is that the vines are very thick and leafy, but there are a lot of stones in that place. After thinking about it for a few days, she decided to dig it up, because the vine was really thick, and there must be a big shou wu in it.

When I came to the place where the shou wu grows, I saw that the tree in front of me was covered with shou wu vines, and the branches of the tree could not be seen, but many larger vines could be seen in the dense shou wu vines. There was also a vine nearly twice as thick as an adult's thumb, and it was because of this vine that she decided to come here to dig it.

She still cleared the surroundings first, found the vines, and then dug slowly. After digging for nearly an hour, she still hasn't dug up Shouwu, and she dug up many stones on the way. Then she dug for about half an hour and came to a very large rock, which she couldn't get out at all. So she dug in another direction, and it took more than two hours to dig a big rock as before, but this time she also saw Shouwu.

It was huge, bigger than anything she had ever dug before, but she could only see a small part of it and another part under the stone. But judging from the exposed part, she knew that there must be a particularly large shouwu underneath, and maybe it was all formed. But it's a pity that she can't dig it out, except that she can't move the stone and can't dig it out. She was also afraid of getting into trouble, after all, in her previous life, she had seen the sale of wild-formed Shouwu on the news for sky-high prices. These things are fine in modern times, but they are not necessarily good things in this feudal and superstitious ancient times, and if they are not done well, they will lose their lives.

So, she buried the excavated soil again. But when she left, she still wrote down this place very seriously, and made a note next to it, that is, she cut down half of a big tree next to her, but she didn't hurt the middle and wouldn't die. Then she went back.

Half a month has passed, and the vegetables in the field at home should be harvested again, green beans are the last batch, and cowpeas are almost the last batch. Tomatoes have been picking and there is nothing to harvest, winter melons have some that can be harvested, and pumpkins too.

After taking them all back, she went to harvest the wild fruits, and they were all harvested, but they were not ripe, and it took six or seven days to get all the ripe fruits back.

All the dried shouwu at home has dried up, and she wants to go down the mountain tomorrow to sell them, as for the three or four Ganoderma lucidum left at home, she is not going to sell them for the time being. These Ganoderma lucidum were picked last year, and they are bigger than the ones sold last year. This year, she also saw a few flowers, but none of them were very big and not picked.

Once again, there was no one in the medical hall of Chuncaotang Medical Center, only the medicine boy from last year was there, and Dr. Shi was not in the medical hall. She stepped forward and asked the medicine boy, "Hello, is Dr. Shi here?" The medicine boy looked up and was a little surprised to see her, but quickly replied, "Doctor Shi has gone to the clinic, why don't you wait or come back tomorrow?" ”

"Then when will Dr. Shi come back? How long have you been there? Is the place far away? She asked three more questions in a row. The medicine boy replied patiently: "Doctor Shi has been gone for half an hour, and he is going to the people in the town, and I don't know when he will come back." "Then if you have Dr. Shi here, there will be no doctor in the hospital?" I think you're the only one in the store? "There's another doctor in this one, and he's in there right now." After saying that, a person came out of the courtyard. It is a young man in his twenties, wearing a white robe, his hair is tied up with a hosta, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose, and moderately thick lips. At first glance, it was very ordinary, but after two more glances, it felt very eye-catching, and he was an intriguing person.

The medicine boy said: "Look, Cao Cao Cao arrived, this is our other doctor, Doctor Shi?" After saying that, he greeted the visitor again, and then the little doctor asked, "What's your problem?" "That's right, I used to sell He Shou Wu and Ganoderma lucidum here, and Dr. Shi said that I could come here again to sell medicinal herbs, so I came." Yang Xue replied. "That's right, I know, did you bring the herbs?" "Brought, here, this time only some Shouwu." "Then I'll see."

After reading it, he said, "Yes, it's really good." How much did Dr. Shi receive before? "Doctor Shi gave three dollars a catty." She replied. "Then can I also charge at that price? If you can, you can weigh it. "Yes." After that, he weighed the scales and gave money, a total of sixteen catties, four taels and eight coins, and gave two silver ingots of two taels and a broken silver of five coins and one three coins.