"But without the materials, the villagers' houses cannot be repaired. I still have a lot of things waiting for you to do, so we can't delay too long on this matter." Su Miaomiao stuffed the money into Wang Hongjie's hand again.

Wang Hongjie refused and prepared to go back.

This is not 10 yuan, nor 100 yuan, but 1,000 yuan.

To earn this much money, the entire village would have to work tirelessly on the mountain digging medicinal herbs for half a year to make that much.

How could he take it for granted?

Su Miaomiao held Wang Hongjie tightly with her hands.

"Uncle Wang, it was the villagers who helped us build our house. The bricks and materials were all provided by the village. Now that I have money, I will consider it as repaying the villagers for their kindness in building our house." Su Miaomiao said this very seriously.

"But the materials you use to renovate the house are not worth so much money." Wang Hongjie has been upright all his life, and he couldn't accept the money against his conscience.

"Then consider this money as a loan from you. You can return it to me when the village has money." Seeing how persistent Wang Hongjie was, Su Miaomiao had to change her words.

Wang Hongjie's eyes were moved for a moment, but he quickly suppressed it.

“The village can’t pay back this much money.”

Now the snow on the mountain has not completely melted, so they cannot go up the mountain to dig medicinal herbs.

What’s more important is that in the two months last year, almost all the medicinal herbs on the mountain had been dug up by them.

We have to wait until the medicinal herbs grow up before we can go into the mountains, and this wait will probably take until the second half of the year.

How could they afford it?

"You don't have to worry about this. When I sold the prescription to those pharmacy owners, I also made another deal with them." Su Miaomiao's eyes sparkled.

"What business?" Wang Hongjie asked subconsciously.

"I saw that after the autumn harvest, after you handed over the grain to the team, there was basically no grain left in the village."

"You plant crops every year, and it's the same every year. You work hard from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, but in the end you can't even get enough to eat."

"I think instead of continuing this vicious cycle, we should change the crop species." Su Miaomiao said.

"What to change? Wheat or sorghum? We have planted all of these before, but in the end, corn cobs gave us the best harvest, so we planted them all," Wang Hongjie explained.

"It's not that. What I want to say is that our village will grow medicinal herbs in the future." Su Miaomiao spoke word by word.

"Grow medicinal herbs?" Wang Hongjie paused when he heard this. "Aren't these medicinal herbs all grown in the mountains? Can they be grown in the soil?"

"Why not? They grew out of the soil in the mountains, not from cracks in the rocks." Su Miaomiao found it a little funny.

But I also understand that Wang Hongjie and his team have never been involved in this area, so naturally they don’t know anything about it.

"But... we have never grown medicinal herbs before, and are the herbs we grow here the same as those dug out from the mountains? Will the pharmacy want them?" Wang Hongjie was a little confused.

"Don't worry, I have already discussed everything with the owner of the pharmacy. As long as we can grow the herbs, they will buy them."

"As for the technical issues you mentioned, what are you afraid of with me? I can actually teach the villagers how to dig and prepare medicinal herbs, and I can also teach you how to plant them."

"In terms of medicinal effects, cultivated medicinal herbs are definitely not as good as the wild medicinal herbs that grow naturally in the mountains. However, the consumption of Chinese medicinal herbs is very large, and there is no way to make up for this gap by just digging wild medicinal herbs from the mountains. Planting Chinese medicinal herbs is definitely a good business." Su Miaomiao said with certainty.

"But..." Wang Hongjie was still a little hesitant.

After all, at his age, his wildness and enterprising spirit have long been worn away by the years.

He was afraid that the medicinal herbs would not be able to be grown, and then they would not be able to complete the tasks assigned to them by the company.