02 Collect medicine

Aunt Zhang rushed out of the house and put a small basket covered with a red cloth in her hand in Chu Lian's hand: "Good boy, you have helped Aunt Zhang a lot, and these things are not a good thing for you to take home to eat." Keep it! ”

Chu Lian hugged the basket tightly and nodded in thanks, she worked for a day today, and she had been crying at the entrance of the village for so long in the evening, she was already hungry and faint, so she naturally would not refuse at this time.

Seeing her accept it, Aunt Zhang smiled and took out a list from her arms and handed it to her, with a surprised tone: "Lianwa, this is the list of herbs that your Uncle Niu brought back to you, and the medical hall only gave a five-day deadline, although the time is a little tighter, but there are at least five taels of silver!" My aunt is illiterate, can you take a look at what they are? ”

Chu Liandong hurriedly took it, and read it at a glance, the medicinal materials were basically the same as before, but there were only two new ones - the moon flower stamen and the barefoot lotus root

You know, she handed over the herbs so many times, and the most was only five hundred Wen, which increased tenfold this time, and then looked at the new two flavored medicinal materials, and said in her heart: Sure enough, there is no good thing about pie in the sky.

Although the moonflower and barefoot lotus are not rare, the difficulty is that the moonflower does not have a stamen at all, and the so-called stamens are just the products of condensation under a specific time, place and climate. Because it only exists in the center of the moon, it is called the stamen of the moon.

The barefoot lotus is a strange plant that grows on the edge of the cliff, but the roots are bare and climb on the cliff wall, with only one rhizome but countless silk whiskers, and the two are almost the same, making it difficult to distinguish.

Chu Lian wailed in her heart, why is it so hard to make money! But she only smiled far-fetchedly: "It's a little hard to find, I'll try my best!" However, aren't the medicinal materials needed for the clinic predetermined? Why is there a new one all of a sudden? ”

Aunt Zhang recalled for a moment, then beckoned, motioned for her to come closer, and then explained in a low voice: "I heard that it seems that there is a big man in the town, and his health is not very good." I don't know what it is. ”

After leaving Aunt Zhang's house, Chu Liandong kept thinking about the two flavors of medicinal herbs, and the fragrance in the basket was mouth-watering halfway through, and she couldn't care about any medicinal herbs, so she couldn't wait to lift the red cloth, which contained two rice cakes, two rough steamed buns, and a boiled egg and a bowl of fried pickles.

Chu Lian was about to drool, she hadn't seen meat for a long time, so she directly picked up the egg and peeled it and stuffed it into her mouth.

She vaguely remembers that she once ate a diet meal for a while, and most of the protein she consumed was boiled eggs and chicken breasts, both of which she was about to vomit at that time, but now she tastes the taste of boiled eggs again, and she just wants to cry......

After returning home, Chu Lian thought about it again and again, and finally resisted the urge to eat all the food, so she only ate a steamed bun and a piece of rice cake with pickles.

There are still a lot of inconveniences in rural life, because the environment is good, mosquitoes begin to have in spring alone, and as soon as it gets dark, cicadas chirp and frogs chirp in all directions, and noisy people can't sleep at all.

Chu Liandong smelled the sweat on her body in disgust, and went to the stove to boil hot water to prepare for a bath.

There were some cracks in the bottom of the old wooden barrel, which were not usually obvious, but as soon as the water was filled, it would overflow, and she had no choice but to quickly finish the shower so that her bedroom would not be flooded.

I miss the shower and bathtub so much!

On the second day, Chu Lian moved early in the morning, and she was going to the mountains to collect medicine. The sky outside was still gray, and it was estimated that the time was about four or five o'clock.

She still remembers that when she first arrived here, the bright and warm bedroom suddenly turned into a broken thatched house with four walls, which was simply an indescribable state of mind that no one could understand.

What's even more outrageous is that the house is still leaking when it rains, and it just happened to be raining in the first few days, which really reflects the sentence "The house leaks overnight".

The owner of her body is an orphan girl, her mother died in childbirth, and her father is a barefoot manzhong, although the medical skills are not high, but some minor diseases can still be treated.

Or old rice, or fish and shrimp caught by herself, some of them would weave some baskets and frames and send them over, but there was really nothing, so her father asked people to help chop some firewood or cut some pigweed.

Good but not the Father.

Because of this, the people in the village respect him very much, but unfortunately he died young, and the original owner became an orphan girl, and most of the people in the village took care of her very much because of their kindness.

The original owner was young but very smart, and his father had been following the literacy and medicine literacy when he was alive, and after his father died, he went to school in the mountains with medical books in his hand.

Chu Lian didn't understand why she would replace the original owner, she only knew that the book written by her good friend had become a real world, and the original owner was a hidden ink spot in this world, and she couldn't find a single word of description.

The future is hidden by a thick fog, and no one knows what lies in the fog? It could be a sharp and vicious thorn bush, or it could be a blissful place surrounded by flowers.

Let's take one step at a time! Chu Liandong could only comfort herself like this, the sky was hazy that had not yet been pierced by the morning light, and she remembered her dream last night.

Since she came to this world, she has either insomnia or is tired and sleeps until dawn, and she has not dreamed for a long time.

But after falling asleep yesterday, she dreamed of things in the real world, and dreamed that her unpersuaded best friend held a book to remind her: Liandong, you are about to die, do you remember, the setting that you complained about?

???

Chu Lian hesitated a little, that woman wouldn't curse herself to death because of her ridicule!

She put the basket on her back, stood in the doorway and hesitated, but finally locked the door and went up the mountain. It's just a dream, it's nothing, it's more important to make money.

The morning fog in the mountains is heavy, and the dew drops on the tips of the blades of grass will not fall. The swirling moisture soaked the girl's gray cloth and linen dress, leaving dark marks.

Chu Lian carefully pushed aside the bushes by the clear spring, revealing the small silver-white flowers hidden in it. The tiny flesh beads that are bright yellow and round are the moon-welcoming stamens that I am looking for.

Excitedly, she took out a knife, gently cut off the stems, and inserted the whole flower into a box filled with wet mud in advance. After picking five flowers in a row, this small flower bush is considered to have been picked. I have to find five more flowers to meet the requirements on the list.

Today, I have found several moon-facing flowers in the mountains, and I can only pick five, so try my luck tomorrow!

Chu Lian took the cloth strip and wrapped the box carefully in the back basket, and was ready to get up and go elsewhere to find regular medicinal materials.

The winding mountain road is not easy to walk, and the stones stained with damp mud can cause people to fall hard if they are not careful.

She walked very carefully, after all, she had suffered a loss in this area when she first came to try to collect medicine.