Chapter 23: Selling Kudzu
Everyone looked at what the little girl said, their eyes were shining, and there were not many people who they might really understand, but they knew that these could be sold for silver.
Listening to the little girl teach them how to dig out the kudzu, everyone listened very carefully.
A few young and strong men took machetes and cut through the kudzu vine nets, trying to find the taproot below, which was a laborious and patient task.
Everyone looked at the rattan all over the mountain, and needed to find its root system in this large vine.
The old kudzu vine is very strong, and it is completely powerless in the air.
It's basically a slash and a jump, and the arms of everyone who are sore are sore.
But when they thought that this was a medicinal herb that could be sold for money and silver, everyone was full of energy.
In order to support the nutrition of so many rattans, kudzu has always grown deeper, and it is all gravel loess, which is more difficult to dig.
Soon, fresh kudzu roots were dug up.
Su Muyao watched from the side, looking at the piles of kudzu on the ground, and there were three or five hundred catties.
I remembered that my roommate who went to college once said that at that time, the countryside was poor, and the children had no snacks to eat.
After they dig up the kudzu, they can directly tear off the skin and eat it.
It's a little bitter at first, but the more you chew, the sweeter it becomes, mainly to quench your thirst and is one of the few snacks for children.
Take one and tear off the outer skin and put it in your mouth.
When Su Saburo turned around again, his little girl was already gnawing over there.
These villagers watched Xiao Fubao eat energetically, and everyone wanted to taste it.
Soon, a large area of this side was dug up.
Everyone looked at the hundreds of pounds of kudzu on the ground and fell into a dilemma.
Just when Su Muyao wanted to take everyone to find some more herbs and go back, a lady asked weakly.
"Little Fuxing, this can really be sold for money, this looks very much like an ordinary old tree root, although it tastes a little sweet, but is this really a medicinal herb?"
They all know that the rhizomes of some grasses are sweet.
A young man on the side looked at the village chief and asked, "Uncle Village, you see that you have made so many things, why don't you let everyone take it to the town pharmacy first to ask if it is a medicinal herb, otherwise you can't let everyone be busy in vain, right?" ”
The village chief also knew everyone's concerns, put aside the work at home, and came to the mountains to recognize medicinal materials, but in the end he dug up a lot of uncertain things, and it was inevitable that he had some worries in his heart.
After all, in their cognition, herbs are rare and expensive, and now this situation completely subverts their cognition where there are medicinal materials that are dug up hundreds of catties.
After descending the mountain, everyone tied all these kudzu to the flatbed.
The village chief looked at this group of people, and they all had to go to the town together, and suddenly made a difficulty.
"Listen to me, you can't go with so many people, or else, just choose six or seven people to go together."
"Uncle Village, I'll go, I'll bargain"
"Village Chief, I, I Can"
The old village chief saw that everyone wanted to go, and he really couldn't fight for a while.
Pointing directly to the crowd, a few people came out.
"Da Zhuang, Tiezhu's father, the junior of the old Su family, the old Liu family, a few of you come out together, and you have you, you together."
Immediately after that, everyone pushed the cart and was about to go to the town.
Su Muyao directly hugged her father's leg and didn't want to come down.
"Daddy, are you taking me there? I haven't been to the county once, so you can take me there."
Su Laosan couldn't resist his daughter, and the final ending was that Su Muyao sat leisurely on top of Gegen.
Su Laosan was on the side, so he was afraid that his daughter would fall from above, and basically his eyes didn't leave his little girl.
When I arrived in the town, I looked at the very lively streets, "It turns out that this is what it looked like in ancient times." ”
Su Saburo didn't hear clearly, what did his daughter say?
"Good baby, what are you talking about? Is it calling me? ”
"No, no, Dad, I said it looks very lively here"
When they entered the city gates, they found that the people inside were no longer in tatters like those outside the city.
Although most of them are not very well dressed, they are not patches and patches, and even many men in gorgeous clothes can be seen hanging out in the crowd.
First, I came to a small medical center.
Looking at the small medical hall, I'm afraid that she can't eat so much kudzu of herself.
"Daddy, let's change to a slightly larger medical center, this looks too small, it shouldn't be so many kudzu."
"Okay, I remember that there is a benevolent medical hall on West Street in front, the eldest lady over there is good, every time a civilian goes to prescribe medicine, he always uses affordable medicine to replace it, but the effect is the same, it is a medical hall that every family loves to go to."
Soon, several people arrived at the medical hall.
The guy inside thought that he was here to make trouble, and hurriedly reported to his Zhang Gong.
"Shopkeeper, the shopkeeper is not good, there are more than a dozen strong men outside, it seems that the person who came is not good, what should I do?"
The old doctor frowned, thinking that he had hardly offended anyone in his life by being kind to others, how could anyone come to the door?
"You give this medicine to the patient here, and I'll go over and take a look."
The old doctor walked to the door and found that this was a strong man who was coming to make trouble.
This cart of kudzu is placed here, and it is designated that it is here to sell medicinal herbs.
"You shopkeeper can collect medicinal herbs."
The old shopkeeper glanced at the man who opened the door, and then at the kudzu on the rear cart.
Nodding his head, "Received"
A few villagers behind him put their hearts back in their stomachs.
Several people changed from their original nervousness to excitement.
I only heard the old shopkeeper continue to speak: "I won't hide it from you, our kudzu is six cents a pound when we collect it outside."
But since you can't send us herbs for a long time, we can only give you five cents."
Several villagers' eyes widened when they heard this.
Six cents a pound God, how much food is going to catch up.
When Su Muyao heard this, she said to the old shopkeeper, "Uncle shopkeeper, we can also send you other herbs in the future."
And you see this one of ours is the freshest, someone else sent it to you, and it will take many days to get it."
The old shopkeeper just listened to the voice, but he didn't see anyone, and finally after looking around a few times, he saw the milk dumplings standing aside.
I looked like I was only about a year old, but I didn't expect to be very articulate.
The old shopkeeper asked the man next to the little baby, "This is your little girl."
Su Saburo hurriedly replied: "It's my little girl, who just turned one year old this year."
The old shopkeeper nodded, "Yes, yes, it's a clever one, if you say so, then I'll give you six cents."
Su Muyao immediately cheered on the side: "Yes, the shopkeeper is so good, we will find herbs and come to you again in the future." ”
The old shopkeeper looked at the lively children, and he was in a much happier mood.
"Okay, I'll come to play with Uncle next time."
The old shopkeeper has already determined that he wants to accept this batch of medicinal materials and come out, and the two guys help in the process, and the final weight is 940 catties.
The old shopkeeper's abacus snapped, "Ge Gen is 940 catties, and a total of 6640 wen is a catty." ”
Several people couldn't help but gasp when they heard this number.
5,640 copper coins are exchanged, and when they are converted into silver, they are five taels and six hundred and forty dollars.
More than five taels of silver, this has to be a family, not eating or drinking, farming for 3 or 4 years to save money, I didn't expect them to have so much in just one hour.