Seeing that Teacher Qi was also thoughtful, Zhao Zhuo and Sun Xiaoyu nodded.

At this time, the students had already received milk and bread under the arrangement of the driver, and were sitting in the classroom to eat.

Village Chief Ma also went home for dinner.

Therefore, Teacher Qi only needs to cook the meals for the three of them.

I saw Teacher Qi go to the kitchen, and after working for a while, he walked out with two bowls of rice.

"Wow, it smells so good."

Sun Xiaoyu was already tired and hungry after a bumpy ride, and when he smelled a strong aroma of rice, his index finger suddenly moved.

Teacher Qi smiled a little embarrassedly and said:

"We are in the poor countryside here, and we don't have any good things, so we can only grieve you to eat potato paste."

As he spoke, Teacher Qi handed Zhao Zhuo and Sun Xiaoyu a bowl each.

Sun Xiaoyu took it and said with a smile:

"It's okay, it's okay, some of the food is already very good, we don't pick."

Saying that, Sun Xiaoyu couldn't wait to eat.

Although Zhao Zhuo was already hungry, he didn't rush to gobble it up after taking it, but Zhao observed the potato paste in the bowl.

As the name suggests, potato paste is made by boiling potatoes and mashing them with some white flour to make them sticky and look like a paste.

This kind of meal is generally common in places like Huaping Village, where white flour and rice are very scarce.

Making potatoes into potato paste, which can resist hunger and save white flour, is a helpless way to eat.

Originally, there was such a thing as potato mush, but it was barely able to swallow, and it was far from being a delicacy.

But seeing Sun Xiaoyu eating happily, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but take a closer look, and then tasted it again, only to find that something was wrong.

Zhao Zhuo looked at Teacher Qi:

"Teacher Qi, this potato paste is not just potatoes, right?"

Teacher Qi smiled:

"You came from afar, even if you eat potato paste, you can't just eat potatoes, I added some bacon smoked for the New Year."

Hearing this, Sun Xiaoyu suddenly realized:

"Oh, I said no wonder this potato paste is so delicious, it turns out that Mr. Qi, you even added meat to us! Thank you, Mr. Qi. ”

Teacher Qi smiled and waved his hand:

"You have done me such a great favor, I should thank you."

After the two finished speaking, Zhao Zhuo continued:

"Teacher Qi, it seems that there is not only meat added to this, how can I taste the smell of Chinese medicine?"

Hearing this, Teacher Qi was slightly surprised:

"Mr. Zhao, your tongue is too good! That's right, I added a little notoginseng powder to it. ”

Hearing the name Sanqi, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be a little surprised and moved:

"Teacher Qi, you have taken out such a precious thing..."

Panax notoginseng is a traditional Chinese medicine, and it has some very good effects on invigorating blood and qi, so it has always been expensive.

Seeing that Mr. Qi was both bacon and notoginseng powder, and he simply took out everything he could take, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be a little moved.

When Teacher Qi heard this, he felt a little strange and said:

"This bacon is indeed a good thing that we are usually reluctant to eat, but Sanqi is not just a Chinese medicinal material, it is nothing."

Seeing Teacher Qi's attitude towards Sanqi so accustomed, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be stunned:

"You mean, these notoginseng are nothing precious?"

In fact, it is no wonder that Zhao Zhuo was stunned.

In the pharmacy in Fengtian, these three sevens can be sold for fifty yuan per catty, which is almost equivalent to half a month's salary of an ordinary worker, which can be said to be a lot of money.

Zhao's mother suffers from high blood pressure, and Panax notoginseng has a very good effect on the treatment of this disease.

It was when Zhao Zhuo went to the pharmacy to buy Panax notoginseng that he knew that this thing would be so expensive.

But Teacher Qi said:

"What we have here is that every family will grow a little bit of it and eat it for themselves, which is not worth much."

Hearing this, Zhao Zhuo was even more shocked:

"You mean, every family grows! It means that the land here can be planted with Panax notoginseng? ”

Teacher Qi nodded: "That's right." ”

The reason why Zhao Zhuo asked this question is because the reason why the Chinese medicine of Panax notoginseng is so expensive is because its planting conditions are particularly harsh, and it has strict requirements for soil, climate, environmental pollution and many other aspects.

Therefore, there is very little land that can be planted with notoginseng.

Scarcity is expensive, and the low output has led to the high market price of Panax notoginseng powder.

Now when I heard the news that Mr. Qi said that every family in Huaping Village planted Panax notoginseng, a thought appeared in Zhao Zhuo's mind:

"Could it be that the land in Huaping Village is the legendary land that is specially suitable for planting Panax notoginseng?!"

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhuo suddenly showed a look of surprise on his face.

"Teacher Qi, can you take me to the field of planting notoginseng powder?"

Hearing this, although Teacher Qi didn't know why Zhao Zhuo was so excited, he still nodded:

"That's no problem, there is a small piece of land I opened up next to it, which is specially used to grow notoginseng."

With that, Teacher Qi took Zhao Zhuo and walked out. Out of curiosity, Sun Xiaoyu also put down the bowl and followed.

The three of them went to the small vegetable garden at the back of the school.

The "small piece of land" in Mr. Qi's mouth really has no moisture at all.

I saw that there was not much area in it, and there were even fewer of them used to plant notoginseng, only a pitiful little.

Teacher Qi explained:

"I can't eat much of this stuff, so we grow a little bit here, mainly vegetables and potatoes are more affordable."

Hearing that in Teacher Qi's eyes, the expensive Sanqi was not as good as potatoes, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but smile bitterly.

However, he didn't care about saying anything at this time, but focused all his attention on Sanqi in the ground.

Thanks to the previous experience of buying notoginseng powder for Zhao's mother, Xiao Zhuo also has a lot of understanding of the flavor medicine of notoginseng.

It turns out that the most important factor to distinguish the quality of Panax notoginseng is the size of Panax notoginseng powder.

According to the calculation of a few notoginseng and one catty, notoginseng can be divided into a lot of "heads" from low to high.

Among them, like thirty or forty heads, that is, thirty or forty sevens that can be weighed in one catty, belong to the type of very general quality.

The common ones on the market, that is, the fifty yuan a pound of notoginseng powder that Zhao Zhuo bought, are ground from about twenty heads.

And those that can reach eight to ten heads can be called the best notoginseng, and the price is even higher, even twice as high as ordinary notoginseng!

And Zhao Zhuo looked at Sanqi in the field in front of him, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

Because these notoginseng in front of you are the best notoginseng with a quality that can reach eight to ten heads!