Jiang Xi was in a complicated mood.

I finally got out and ran into Zhang Xiuyun. This is such bad luck.

But there was one good thing, she was alone and didn't meet the original owner's uncle and his family.

Jiang Xi smiled, and her two younger sisters ran over to greet her in high spirits: "Mom!"

"Hey." Zhang Xiuyun was obviously very happy to have two children. She waved to Jiang Xi: "Big sister."

Jiang Xi walked over slowly and heard Zhang Xiuyun angrily say, "You three have no conscience. You don't even know how to come back to visit mom more often. If mom dies at home one day, no one will know about it."

Jiang Sanmei was not happy with what she said and stamped her feet: "Mom!"

Jiang Ermei bowed her head honestly: "I'm sorry."

She was indeed somewhat attached to Pei Jiale and gradually forgot that her mother was alone at home.

Jiang Xi was not as touched as they were. After listening to Zhang Xiuyun's words, he said seriously, "No, I have told the people in the village to visit you more often. If there is anything, they will tell me."

The gifts she brought back that time were not given for nothing.

But this did not make Zhang Xiuyun happy. Instead, she was choked up. She was just talking. She was not really going to die.

Although life was a bit difficult, it was better than raising three daughters by herself before. Even though the eldest daughter had the help of the Pei family, the two daughters still gave her a headache, not to mention that her younger brother would come to ask for things from time to time.

Now that she is alone, the pressure is gone. Although the food and daily necessities are hard to come by, she has enough to eat and drink, which is good.

However, Zhang Xiuyun already knew that this young lady was very powerful, so she did not hesitate and asked, "Where are you going? I heard people in the village say that they saw you two girls going to the mountain several times. What are you doing?"

Jiang Xi smiled and said, "Let's go find some wild fruits and vegetables. We have nothing to do anyway."

She didn't want to say more to Zhang Xiuyun, for fear that if she found out, it would attract the attention of the original owner's uncle. Although it was unavoidable over time, she might have to delay it for a while.

Jiang Sanmei's eyes rolled around. She knew her elder sister didn't want to say anything, so she nodded and said, "Yes, pick wild vegetables!"

Jiang Ermei pursed her lips and said nothing.

Zhang Xiuyun shook her head helplessly, and looked at her two little daughters with longing: "Big sister, you are immature. The two of them can't do much work. It's okay to pick wild vegetables, but you can't do this. The Pei family married you back, not to worship you as an ancestor. Now that you are married, you have to respect your parents-in-law..."

Jiang Xi: “…”

The three sisters looked at each other and felt a little speechless.

It's the same thing every time, but it's really unnecessary.

The three of them showed no disapproval on their faces. Zhang Xiuyun also felt it as she spoke, and said aggrievedly: "You just don't like to listen to me. One by one, you left and your hearts flew away. You didn't even want to come back to see your mother. Now you can't even nag me. You have no conscience!"

Jiang Xi said sternly, "It's not that I don't want to, but what you said is really unpleasant to hear. Don't say you're doing it for my own good. Your life experience is not worth listening to. I won't listen."

Zhang Xiuyun was a little angry, her eyebrows raised.

Before she could start to make trouble, Jiang Xi continued, "And mother, if you really want us to go back to see you, then in the future, if you have anything delicious to eat or drink, don't give it to your cousins. Leave it at home. I promise that these two girls will go back to see you every now and then."

"Where are the delicious foods and drinks?" Zhang Xiuyun said unhappily.

Jiang Xi counted on her fingers: "Before I got married, the most recent time, my aunt-in-law made soup and sent it to me. She originally wanted to give it to us three sisters and you, but you picked all the meat out of it and sent half of it to my uncle's house. My second and third sisters and I could only gnaw on the bones. And the second to last time..."

"Big sister!" Zhang Xiuyun didn't expect that she remembered it so clearly and even brought up the past. She said in embarrassment, "How can you remember it so clearly? We are all family, relatives at the very least. They are your mother's and my family!"

Jiang Xi threw his hands up: "I don't care. If there's nothing good, don't even think about us going back."

The daughter refused to listen and her words were so infuriating that Zhang Xiuyun did not want to continue talking to her. She said unhappily, "Okay, okay, our family is poor and we can't accommodate you. If you don't want to come, then don't come! Go away, go away."

Jiang Xi immediately said, "Okay, Mom, don't work so hard. I can still support you in your old age."

After saying this, she turned around and left, calling her two younger sisters.

Seeing this, Jiang Ermei and Jiang Sanmei followed closely.

Finding bamboo ginseng is very important and cannot be delayed.

In the blink of an eye, all three children were gone. Zhang Xiuyun felt very sad. It was just as she had told her brother, raising a daughter was useless, and a son was better.

But she was unlucky and didn't have a son.

She thought of the basket of snails sent by the people next door who had eaten Jiang Xi's return gift this afternoon, and she planned to give it to her brother and nephew later. Maybe she would have to rely on her nephew for her old age in the future.

Fortunately, Jiang Xi didn't take Zhang Xiuyun to heart, otherwise he would be so angry that he would vomit blood if he knew what she was thinking.

After leaving Zhang Xiuyun, she continued walking forward for another twenty minutes. Just when she was about to collapse, she finally reached the foot of the mountain.

"You two are really amazing. You actually run so far to collect herbs every time!" Jiang Xi admired sincerely.

Jiang Ermei and Jiang Sanmei smiled and said, "It's okay, we walked very fast. Big sister, you walked too slowly, otherwise we would have arrived earlier."

Jiang Xi: “…”

She can't compare, she can't compare.

She asked the two men to lead the way while she walked ahead with a stick. The trees in the forest were tall and dense, so there were not many short bushes. Most of them were dead branches and rotten leaves. She used the stick to hit the grass and snakes. She knocked along the way and saw many herbs, which were more expensive and could not be seen in other places.

But she didn't have time to draw it for her two children.

So he just taught them with real objects and asked them to pick whatever Jiang Xi pointed to.

Until we came to a place where there were trees and the soil was loose and moist. It was cool here. We were already very deep in the forest, and only sporadic sunlight shone in through the cracks.

Jiang Ermei pointed to a patch of disturbed soil and said, "This is where the bamboo ginseng was found."

Jiang Xi nodded, this is a suitable place for bamboo ginseng to grow.

She told the two men, "Follow me first and watch carefully for any movement around you. If you see any movement, call me."

As she spoke, she lowered her head and looked around.

Carefully use branches to pick up the dead branches and leaves on the ground, and check whether there are any bamboo ginseng leaves among the green grass.

About ten meters away from the place the two children mentioned, Jiang Xi actually found a lot. It seemed that no one had been here for a long time, and there were a lot of bamboo ginseng. She took the two children to dig, and moved as quickly as possible.

One, two...

We also found a lot of other herbs along the way, which made the trip worthwhile.

Jiang Xi felt the basket on his back was getting heavy, and was thinking that it was about time to go back.

Suddenly, I heard a noise.

She didn't know what the sound came from, but it was very abrupt. Jiang Xi was frightened and turned around quickly. The light in the forest was not very bright, and everything in the distance was black. She couldn't see anything, but when she turned around, she found that there was a Ganoderma lucidum not far from her feet!

To pick or not to pick?

Jiang Xi was a little afraid that the noise might be from some wild animal, but seeing that the Ganoderma was very large, she was reluctant to give up: "Second sister, third sister, you two go back first."

"Ah? Big sister, let's go together?" Jiang Sanmei didn't understand why they had to go back first.

Jiang Xi said in a deep voice: "Go back first!"

Her words were still very authoritative. She emphasized it twice. Even though the two were still a little reluctant, they nodded honestly and went back down the mountain.

The two little girls ran and jumped in the mountains all day long. Their limbs were well developed. When they said they wanted to go back, they ran very fast.

Jiang Xi breathed a sigh of relief. She had always felt something was wrong just now. Now that the person had left and there was no movement, she must have been overthinking. Just as she was about to relax, she saw a brown figure appear in front of her where she was staring, and rushed straight towards her.

It turned out to be a lynx!

Jiang Xi instinctively pointed his purse at the lynx and pressed hard.

An almost invisible needle shot out.

Almost instantly, the lynx slowed down, Jiang Xi retreated repeatedly, and it couldn't catch up. When Jiang Xi came to his senses, it had already fallen to the ground.

call!

Safe!

At this moment, Jiang Xi was extremely glad that the medicine he bought was an anesthetic, as lynxes are protected animals.

Ganoderma lucidum was obtained smoothly.

There was no ginseng, but there were Ganoderma lucidum and Panax notoginseng. Jiang Xi felt God's kindness towards him.

This trip back and forth wasted an entire afternoon.

When Jiang Xi got home, Pei's mother had already prepared dinner.

When they heard her movements, they immediately ran out and said to her, "A lot of people came this afternoon, but you were not there. They sat for a while and then left. It was not an emergency."

"Okay, I understand." Jiang Xi nodded and asked Jiang Ermei to take Jiang Sanmei to sort out the other herbs.

Mother Pei lowered her voice again, "They came and sat down, and told me that Xisheng's mother went to the team doctor at noon and made a scene. It was so ugly that people from the surrounding villages came to watch the excitement. Now everyone knows that the team doctor sold ordinary tonic medicine at a high price as a secret recipe for having children. He just came and something went wrong. Everyone says he can't be a team doctor anymore."

"He has no medical ethics, he deserves it." Jiang Xi frowned when he mentioned this, and added a rare sarcasm.

Pei's mother nodded and said with disdain: "You are so evil-hearted, you deserve it!" But she was also a little happy: "If he can't do it anymore, the captain will let you do it, right?"

Jiang Xi shook his head: "I don't know, the situation of some officers in the team may be a bit complicated."

Pei's mother also frowned: "A little bit. I heard that the team leader has performed too well in the past two years, and the other people are a little repulsive to him. Besides, our village has no connections in the commune, so he has a hard time. Your aunt Yuezhi, the team leader's wife, secretly told me that he has been in a bad mood recently. I guess it's because of these things. He doesn't want to do it anymore. He said it's meaningless to do it."

Jiang Xi could understand this very well. When she first became a doctor, many patients were suspicious of her because of her youthful appearance and bad temper. They would use the information they found on Baidu to question her prescriptions, asking why they were different and why they were so much more expensive.

Later, Jiang Xi learned to keep a cold face, which made them restrained themselves. Then, as more and more patients came to see her, her reputation spread, and as word spread, fewer people questioned her.

During that time, she wanted to quit several times.

Not to mention the captain's situation.

"Let it be up to fate. We can't interfere with these things. It's actually pretty good now. We're not short of money." Jiang Xi comforted her. Mother Pei was worried that she still wouldn't be able to become a team doctor.

Mother Pei nodded and was about to continue cooking when her eyes suddenly widened.

As Jiang Xi was talking, he sorted out the other herbs, and then took out the one buried at the bottom, which turned out to be a Ganoderma lucidum!

Oh my God!

Mother Pei thought she was hallucinating at that moment, and pinched her arm subconsciously. The pain made her face twisted, and soon she realized: "You found the Ganoderma lucidum?!"

She also remembered to lower her voice and not shout.

Although it is in the village, it is located in a remote area and neighbors can hear any slightly louder noises.

Jiang Xi pursed her lips and smiled like a cat that had stolen some fish, nodding vigorously: "Yeah, I found it by accident."

"May the Buddha bless us!" Pei's mother was surprised and happy. She clasped her hands together and bowed to the sky.

Although we don’t worship anything now, some things are habits. If good things happen to us, it is the Bodhisattva’s blessing.

Jiang Xi nodded and carefully took out the spiritual plant. This thing is usually placed in a cool and dry place. Once the moisture in its body has dissipated, it can be packed and hidden.

"Mom, is there a suitable place?"

"Yes, yes! If not, I will get it out." Mother Pei said repeatedly, and took her to her room. There was a small room at the back. She whispered, "This is the small compartment I made when your father and I were angry. It's dry and ventilated, just right for storing it."

In order to prevent it from being eaten by mice, Pei's mother took the vegetable cover and covered it on top, and then put a stone on it.

Jiang Xi went back to continue processing the bamboo ginseng.

The remaining bamboo ginseng had to be dried for preservation. That night, Pei's mother stewed the bamboo ginseng into soup and killed an old hen for it.

This dinner was a lavish one.

The meat was chopped very finely and plenty of water was used. After it was cooked, a bowl was sent to the eldest and second sons, as well as Pei's father's two brothers. This surprised the relatives. It was not the New Year or any other festival, so why were they suddenly killing chickens?

Pei's mother just glossed over the issue.

The chicken soup cooked with wild bamboo ginseng is very delicious. Of course, the chicken soup is delicious in the first place, because this is a genuine old hen with many unlaid eggs in its belly, which were all distributed by Pei's mother to Jiang Xi and her two younger sisters.

After dinner, the family was still smacking their lips, still feeling unsatisfied.

It's not easy to have a meal of meat these days.

Jiang Sanmei was even more disappointed. She had never expected to find bamboo ginseng and eat its meat. She looked at Jiang Xi eagerly again: "Sister, can we go collect herbs by ourselves again? I promise I won't go to the forest again."

Jiang Ermei said nothing, but nodded vigorously, full of anticipation.

The more they ate the good things from the Pei family, the more uneasy they felt. Even though they knew this was also their eldest sister's home, their surname was Jiang, so they always wanted to help this family. Daily tasks such as feeding chickens, sweeping the floor, and washing dishes were too simple and they did not feel at ease doing them.

However, Jiang Xi had already made up her mind. She already had enough medicinal herbs, so she shook her head and said, "No, second sister, you will have to go to school in two months. You are ten years old. If you go to the first grade, you may be a little too old. I thought I would give you extra lessons in the next two months so that you can skip to the second or third grade. How about that?"

Although there were few children going to school at that time, most of them started school at the age of seven or eight. My second sister was ten years old, two or three years late, because she was afraid of having no companions.

Moreover, the content in grades one and two is the simplest, and it is the easiest if you can skip a grade. Going forward, the courses become increasingly difficult, and you need a lot of talent to skip a grade.

Speaking of studies, Jiang Ermei was stunned, a little happy, and then hesitantly said: "Sister, I don't go to school, right?"

"Why?" Jiang Xi frowned.

Jiang Ermei lowered her head and whispered, "It's useless for me, a girl, to go to school. I will still have to get married in the future, and the tuition is very expensive."

Jiang Xi pulled her over and said, "Look up at me. Don't keep your head down whenever something happens. Who did you learn this from?"

Jiang Ermei shuddered as if she was frightened, and looked up with red eyes.

Jiang Xi stared into her eyes and said seriously, "No one stipulates that girls must get married. Second sister, your situation is special, but I must tell you that if you want to study, then study. I can afford it, so you don't have to worry about it. And after you finish your studies, if you don't get married and concentrate on your career, I will be very happy. The same goes for you if you get married."

"Your life is unknown. Nothing is certain. You can live it however you want."

It was unclear whether Jiang Ermei heard it or not, as she looked dazed. She nodded but said nothing.

Jiang Xi said, "Starting from the day after tomorrow, you will take classes with me every morning." Seeing her nod again, Jiang Xi smiled and looked at Jiang Sanmei who was watching them curiously: "You will recite the acupuncture points in the medical books in the morning, and learn acupuncture from me in the afternoon."

Jiang Sanmei: “!!!”

"I don't want it! Why don't I take a break in the morning and afternoon?!"

Jiang Xi smiled: "Didn't you say you wanted to learn acupuncture? Studying medicine is so tiring."

"Why?" Jiang Sanmei asked blankly.

Jiang Xi looked at her sympathetically: "Because the human body is too complicated, if you want to be a doctor, you must understand it clearly. Once a misdiagnosis is made, it can cost lives, so there is a lot to learn in this field."

"Hiss——" Jiang Sanmei took a breath, and felt a chill on her back. She was filled with regret. She really wanted to go back to that night a few days ago when she was in a daze and shouldn't have gotten up to see the excitement. She shouldn't have been so shocked by the way her elder sister was doing acupuncture that she said those words in a daze.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Xi laughed unkindly.

Jiang Sanmei stamped her feet in anger: "Big sister! Are you lying to me?"

Jiang Xi was even happier: "Of course not."

Jiang Sanmei felt that she had nothing to live for and wanted to say, "I don't--"

Just as she opened her mouth, she was stopped by the captain's loud voice outside the courtyard: "Sister-in-law, is Doctor Jiang here? I have something to ask her."

Captain?

Jiang Xi looked at the dark sky outside and wondered if there was any emergency at this time.