In the blink of an eye, late autumn has passed, the winter solstice has arrived, Dongliao has been drifting goose feather snow, Dongxiang Village is also a white expanse, thick snow mushrooms bloom on the roofs of every household, horse sheds, firewood houses, and fences.

What a world of crystal clear snow!

On the winding and rugged path, Sheng Guo'er wore a thick cotton jacket, a thick scarf, and a deerskin plush glove, and walked towards the entrance of the village.

Today is the winter solstice, but also a festival, the winter solstice to eat dumplings, the tradition since ancient times, legend has it that this custom is still handed down by Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Sheng Guo'er asked Shen to be at home, and he went to the township to pick up Xiao Tao and come back for the festival, and bought some things by the way.

Tie Niu wore a thick leather jacket and a dogskin hat, stamped his feet, sighed, put his hands in the leather sleeve, his face was frozen red, and a layer of hoarfrost hung on his eyelashes, looking anxiously at the entrance of the village.

The horses were constantly shaking the snow off their bodies and snorting incessantly.

"Iron Bull!" Sheng Guo'er greeted him, and when he saw Sheng Guo'er coming, Tie Niu hurriedly greeted him.

"Sister Guo'er, why are you here?" Tie Niu asked curiously, and while lifting the thick curtain of the car, Sheng Guo'er got into the car.

Sheng Guo'er got into the car and said, "It's so cold this year!" ”

The iron ox got into the carriage, waved his whip, and whipped the horse, and the horse was in pain, and spread its hooves and ran forward.

"Sister Guo'er, I don't know what's wrong today, it's cold and evil!" Tie Niu said with a sigh.

Sheng Guo'er took out the hot tea prepared in her arms and put it in a cowhide wine bag, handed it out and said, "Tie Niu, drink some when you're cold." ”

Tie Niu nodded, took the hot tea from the cowhide wine bag, took a sip, instantly warmed up a lot, and said, "Thank you, sister." ”

The road is long and slippery, full of ditches and ditches, and every time you cross the ditch, Tie Niu will remind Sheng Guo'er.

I used to be able to walk for half a day, but now I only get to the village in the afternoon. Sheng Guo'er felt that if you really want to get rich, you should build a road first, the traffic is inconvenient, and it is really inconvenient to do anything.

Coming to the township is not necessarily good, the snow howled, Sheng Guoer found that the store was rarely open, she wanted to buy some vegetables and go back to chop into stuffing and make dumplings, saving the trouble of going to the greenhouse to pick. But she suddenly reacted, this is ancient, not more modern than modern. Even in modern times, the price of some vegetables is quite expensive in winter.

What's more, in ancient times, most of the winter was eaten with pickled vegetables, so where would there be fresh vegetables?

Thinking of this, Sheng Guo'er smiled dumbly, it seems that the only one who can have fresh vegetables in the entire Dasheng is himself.

Sheng Guo'er's greenhouse vegetables are growing well, and it seems that his experiment is relatively successful. The reason why Sheng Guoer did not tell anyone other than Shen and his employees the real intention of building a greenhouse by himself was that he was worried that growing vegetables in the greenhouse would fail.

But I was so lucky that I succeeded in trying to plant!

It seems that it can be mass-produced, and it will be a good deal at that time. Sheng Guoer thought about it in her heart, and improved the weeding machine to increase the yield of greenhouse vegetables, but she didn't know how to get rid of diseases, so she had to learn this.

But Sheng Guo'er thought about it, she was really confused, how can you kill insects without pesticides here?

Sheng Guo'er thought about catching a few birds and using natural methods to get rid of diseases, but in winter, the birds were reluctant to come out, Sheng Shi was willing to go to the mountains to catch birds, but the snow closed the mountain, and it was very dangerous inside, so Sheng Guo'er dispelled this idea.

Now she also regrets it, she knew that this was the case, and she should have raised a few birds when she tried to plant greenhouses.

Just thinking about it, Tie Niu suddenly shouted outside: "Sister, Li Langzhong's medical hall has arrived!" ”

Sheng Guo'er walked out of the chaos of thoughts and got out of the car in response.

Tie Niu followed Sheng Guo'er into the medical hall, and Sheng Guo'er prepared some silver tickets, which were the rich interest that Sheng Guo'er received from depositing the five thousand taels of silver in the Lin family's bank.

When saving money at that time, Shen felt that it was better to put it in his own house for insurance than in the Lin family's bank, but Sheng Guo'er rejected her idea.

Whether in ancient times or in modern times, banks are an indispensable part of finance, and if there were no early banks, that is, money banks, the circulation of money would be much less convenient.

Of course, Sheng Guo'er knows this truth, so she is also prepared, and puts the money in the bank, five thousand taels is a huge amount of money, so the Lin family attaches great importance to it, of course, there is the relationship between Mrs. Hong, and the Lin family is very satisfied with Sheng Guo'er's jam and meat sauce, so the interest rate has increased accordingly.

Sheng Guoer took these interests and prepared to do a big job in the spring of next year.

The book is back to business, Sheng Guoer's arrival made Li Langzhong very happy, firstly, Sheng Guoer has sent Zhou Rui over to pay the tuition on time for more than a year, and secondly, Zhou Rui will send a gift every festival, which makes Li Langzhong take special care of Xiao Tao and teach his own unique knowledge.

Xiao Tao is also very smart, although she loves to play and is often punished by the teacher, but with her quirky cuteness, she can always coax the master to be happy with her tongue, and finally avoid punishment.

Moreover, this little girl is also very "bad", and often routines Lin Muyan, but she is very righteous and understands some human feelings, which is very similar to Sheng Guoer, with her prestige and popularity among girls, she often helps her senior brother Lin Muyan to get ahead, and also gives Lin Muyan good food, and over time, she gets the nickname of "Little Pepper".

Lin Muyan, the senior brother, loves and hates her.

Sure enough, when Sheng Guo'er asked about Xiao Tao, the other senior brothers and sisters were silent all of a sudden.

Li Langzhong was also surprised: "What's the matter, where did Xiao Tao go again?" ”

A girl said, "Master, little, little sister is going to take the senior brother to catch the poisonous scorpion!" ”

What! Sheng Guo'er and Li Langzhong stood up almost at the same time, and Li Langzhong was more anxious than Sheng Guo'er.

When people came to see their sister, they didn't take strict care of themselves, and they let their sister follow their apprentices to do such dangerous things!

Li Langzhong's face changed, and he hurriedly appeased Sheng Guo'er; "Miss Sheng, don't worry, they won't be able to go far."

Then Li Langzhong said: "Where did they go, when did they leave, and how long have they walked?" ”

The little girl who replied trembled and said, "Master, little peach, they just left." ”

Li Langzhong said: "Don't go find it yet!" ”

Those apprentices in Li Lang hurriedly set off to look for them.

And at this moment, suddenly there was a string of silver bell-like whispers at the door, and I saw Xiao Tao dragging Lin Muyan and jumping into the house.

"Where have you been?" Sheng Guo'er anxiously ran forward to take her sister's hand and said, "I'm dying in a hurry, you know?" ”

Seeing that it was her sister, Xiao Tao immediately restrained her naughty nature and hurriedly said, "Sister, I, I'm going to catch some poisonous scorpions." ”

Sheng Guo'er was angry, this heavy snow covering the mountain is already dangerous, and it also catches poisonous scorpions, what if there is a good one!

But Sheng Guo'er knew that she couldn't teach her sister a lesson in front of people, so she said with a tiger face: "Come into the house with me!" ”

After finishing speaking, Sheng Guo'er dragged Xiao Tao into the house.

Li Langzhong also said with a tiger face: "Mu Yan, follow me into the house!" ”

Lin Muyan had no choice but to lower his head and follow Li Langzhong into the small black room.

Closing the door of the house, Sheng Guo'er's eyes widened, and she said angrily: "Sheng Xiaotao!" ”

As soon as Sheng Xiaotao heard her sister call her name, she was immediately frightened, and hurriedly shrank in the corner and didn't dare to speak.

Sheng Guo'er hugged her arms and said angrily: "You were crazy just now!" If I hadn't come today, I wouldn't have known you were so bold! ”

Sheng Xiaotao hurriedly explained: "Sister, I really went to develop medicines, you see!" ”

Sheng Guo'er said angrily: "Have you learned what Mr. taught, you just want to fly when you learn to walk." How old are you, you are only eight years old after the New Year, and you dare to go up the mountain on a snowy day! You don't want to die, if something happens, how can you let our family live! It's not a good year! ”

Sheng Xiaotao snorted and said, "Sister, I was wrong. ”

Sheng Guo'er angrily took off the scarf and said, "Put me on the chair!" ”

Sheng Xiaotao raised her head and said with tears in her eyes: "Sister, we are born from the same root, why are we in a hurry?" I'm also trying to learn the skills as soon as possible! ”

Sheng Guo'er snorted: "Who did you learn from this flamboyant?" ”

Sheng Xiaotao said: "With Senior Brother Lin, he often recites poetry, and I will do it." ”

Looking at Sheng Xiaotao's cute appearance carved with pink, coupled with her messy quotation, Sheng Guo'er's anger subsided by more than half, Sheng Guo'er sat on the chair and continued to ask with a tiger face: "You say, why did you go up the mountain to find a poisonous scorpion?" ”

Sheng Xiaotao saw that her sister put down her scarf, and she knew in her heart that she had finally escaped a beating, so she said: "Sister, I see that there are small insects in my husband's flowers that are harming the flowers, I want to help those flowers, I have read a lot of medical books, and there is a record that the poison of poisonous scorpions can be used to make a recipe for killing insects, so I went to the mountains to find petal poisonous scorpions." ”

Can scorpion venom kill insects? This is unheard of, no wonder ancient Chinese medicine is very good, and it seems that it is a lost prescription again.

Sheng Guo'er said: "Then you can't go either!" How dangerous! ”

At this time, Sheng Xiaotao came to her senses, and said with her eyebrows fluttering: "Sister, don't worry, I have my own idea in my heart, I understand the habits of poisonous scorpions, and with the help of Senior Brother Lin, we have caught a lot, and we can cure Mr.'s flowers according to that recipe today!" ”

Sheng Guo'er thought to herself, if it is really as Xiao Tao said, then can the pests in her greenhouse be controlled?

I don't know what the effect will be now, Sheng Guo'er said: "Okay, if you can't treat Mr. Li's flowers today, I will be punished for both crimes, and I won't have your good fruit to eat when I go back!" ”

Sheng Xiaotao said confidently: "Don't worry, sister!" ”

In fact, Sheng Xiaotao can have such self-confidence, mainly thanks to Lin Muyan's assistance. When Sheng Xiaotao had this idea, Lin Muyan felt that this idea was very good, the farmers were most afraid of planting land and vegetables was pests, which had not been effectively controlled, if it could be successfully developed, it would be very beneficial to the production and life of the people.

Lin Muyan, who adheres to the heart of the doctor's parents, decided to develop this medicine with Xiao Tao.

They had already made several insecticides with the scorpion poison in the pharmacy before they went to find the petal scorpion, but the effect made a breakthrough in the colorful scorpion that was closest to the petal scorpion's poison.

So Sheng Xiaotao proposed to go to the mountain to find the petal scorpion, and the two made careful preparations before leaving, in fact, it was mainly Lin Muyan who made preparations, and Sheng Xiaotao was so excited that she had forgotten to prepare.

Fortunately, the two of them found the petal scorpion from a small cave and brought it back.

After listening to the "confessions" of Lin Muyan and Sheng Xiaotao, Mr. Li also decided to let them give it a try and forgive them if they succeeded.

With the first success, Sheng Xiaotao and Lin Muyan are naturally full of confidence.

Together, they hid in the pharmacy to develop insecticides, while Sheng Guoer and others, including Mr. Li, waited outside.

"Do you think they'll make it?" Some of the brothers and sisters are not convinced, what can an eight-year-old child do?

But they were wrong, Ganluo worshiped the prime minister at the age of twelve, Li Dongyuan could prescribe a prescription when he was young, and Emperor Han dared to scold traitors at the age of eight, which shows that the size of the achievement has little to do with age.

When Sheng Xiaotao and Lin Muyan sweated profusely, Xiao Tao had a smile on her face. She handed the medicine bottle up, and everyone looked closely, but saw that the white medicine bottle contained some black liquid.

Sheng Xiaotao poured the liquid into the flower pot, and after a while, those pests really struggled a few times before they died!

Sheng Guo'er's first reaction when she saw this was: "I've made a fortune!" ”