After returning from the county, it was time for the yellow gardenia and the white-flowered snake tongue to ripen.

Gao Mingcheng, like everyone else in the village, is devoted to picking medicinal herbs, making money, no one will be too much.

Huang Gardenia needs to be steamed and dried first, Gao Mingcheng and Duo Mei continue to divide and cooperate, he picks medicinal herbs in the mountains, and many Mei are responsible for handling medicinal herbs at home.

The closer to October, the more medicinal herbs are piled up at home, most of them are stacked on the wooden bed sent by Gao Yue, and if they are not enough, they will temporarily make a row of low shelves, so that the medicinal materials will not directly contact the ground.

This shelf doesn't have to be made by a carpenter, Gao Mingcheng will do it with the wood himself, although the workmanship is rough, but it is durable.

There are a lot of gardenia trees in the mountains, and they don't actually plant them here, but it may be that the climate and terrain are very suitable for the growth of gardenias, whether they are at the foot of the mountain or on the mountain, they can be seen everywhere, and they grow well.

At first, there were people who went to the mountains to pick flowers to eat when the gardenias bloomed, and then they knew that the yellow gardenia could be sold for money, so they were reluctant to pick flowers to eat.

Gardenia has a wide range of uses, can be used in medicine, can also be used as a dye, so in the drug fair, it is one of the medicinal materials that belong to the bulk trade, and it has always been sold.

When Gao Mingcheng was picking medicinal herbs in the mountains, he took a look at the situation of the beehive by the way, good guy, he hasn't come to check it for a while, and the bee spleen is full of honey!

Looking at the color of the honey, it is almost brewed.

Seeing this, Gao Mingcheng didn't say a word, went home and got the honey shaker, ready to shake the honey.

This batch of honey, he also plans to bring it to the drug fair to sell, you know, honey is not only a tonic, but also an auxiliary medicine, some pills, all need to add honey to reconcile.

After two days of busy work, Gao Mingcheng shook all the honey from the beehive, and then, the time to shake the honey changed from one month to two months or even once every three months.

When winter comes, the flowers in the mountains are reduced, and the honey lacks a nectar source, so the honey brewed before will be consumed to sustain life.

In order not to waste honey, some specialized beekeepers will choose to give the bees white sugar water.

This is because they have shaken away all the honey, and without food, the honey cannot survive the winter.

Gao Mingcheng didn't plan to feed the bees with white sugar water, although he raised forty boxes of honey, but scattered in the mountains, it would not be completely without a source of honey, plus he would not shake the honey so diligently, the honey in the beehive was enough for the bees to eat themselves.

As time passed, the medicinal herbs at home increased day by day, while the cash in hand decreased day by day.

Soon it will be October 12th, and Gao Mingcheng has already said that he will no longer accept medicine.

The camphor tree's medicine fair is from October 16th to 18th, last year he went two days in advance because he had to catch the train, he was afraid of delay, and now he is driving by himself, the time is abundant and flexible, so he can set off on the 15th.

In the past few days before departure, Gao Mingcheng had to check all the medicinal materials at home one by one to see if they were all qualified.

Most of these medicinal materials were purchased by many Mei, but Gao Mingcheng was always uneasy if he didn't take a look at them in person.

Check all the medicinal materials, and if you don't find any indiscriminate filling, then continue to dry what should be dried, and continue to put away what should be put away.

In the past month, there have been changes in the village, and some of the medicinal materials that could be seen everywhere have completely disappeared at this time, and the whole village has become a lot cleaner.

Gao Mingcheng carried a bucket and walked to Xiaofu Mountain, first filling a bucket of water in the pond at the foot of Xiaofu Mountain, and then came to a shady place.

There is a bare yellow earth with a pit about thirty centimeters deep in it, in which some sand and seeds are placed.

This seed is the seed of Polygonatum polygonatum.

When he first dug up the yellow essence in the mountains, he collected the seeds of the yellow essence by the way, and if he planted it with seeds, he could not harvest it that year, but he could plant a large area at once with seeds.

It's just that the seeds of Polygonatum need to be stored in sand.

What is a sand store?

That is, immediately after the ripe seeds are removed, one part of the seeds and three parts of sand should be mixed evenly, stored in a pit thirty centimeters deep in the shade, and kept moist.

Although the time has entered October, because there is almost no rainfall, the weather is still hot, and the weather is mostly sunny, Gao Mingcheng will soon go out to run errands, so before going out, it is necessary to water the sand pile to keep the seeds inside moist.

After watering, Gao Mingcheng continued to walk towards Xiaofushan.

Today, the felling of Kotoyama has almost been carried out, and the workers hired at the beginning have jumped from tree cutters to diggers.

Under Gao Mingcheng's instructions, they cleared out a sunny hillside first, and if Xiao Jinfeng brought him sugar orange saplings from Guangdong, they could be planted here.

It is not easy to cut down trees, but it is also difficult to dig soil, before digging, you need to clean out the tree pocket, and then clean up the large stones, after this cleaning, the surface of the soil has a certain softness.

Finally, dig a pit according to the spacing of the saplings and wait for the saplings to be planted.

Gao Mingcheng saw some stones piled up on the ground, which were stained with loess and were obviously dug out of the ground.

He went and found a load to carry the stones to the foot of the mountain.

These stones are large and small, and he directly smashes the larger stones, because these stones are intended to be used to pave the road, so that it is also convenient for vehicles to pass through, and the wheels are not easy to sink into the deep pit.

Working back and forth, Gao Mingcheng was in a good mood, although there was a bare mountain in front of him, he had already begun to imagine the scene in a few years.

At that time, it will be a forest of fruit trees, full of greenery, with fruit flowers in spring and fruits in summer and autumn.

On the ground, there are local chickens responsible for cleaning up the orchard pests, and well-fed local chickens will lay green eggshell eggs in the chicken nest.

This kind of green eggshell is a variety they introduced from other places, everyone thinks that this kind of green eggshell eggs are more nutritious than yellow eggshell eggs, and in later generations, people on their side will operate it into the brand of "Oriental God Egg", and then out of the gift box, as a local specialty, for tourists to buy.

It's hard to say whether it's an IQ tax, but it's really better than foreign eggs.

Gao Mingcheng worked on this job until the evening, and when he left, he saw that a small hill had been piled up with stones at the foot of the mountain.

It's not early, Gao Mingcheng didn't continue to pave the road with stones, but walked out with tools, and when he walked to the vegetable field, he only needed to take a look, and he knew if his wife was here to pick vegetables today.

If he didn't pick it, then he would bring some vegetables back, but if he did, then he didn't have to.

(End of chapter)