Chapter 11 The little girl with the braided hair quickly...
The little girl with braided pigtails quickly handed the note from her pocket to Yu Jiajia, gesturing with her hands.
Yu Jiajia immediately understood that she couldn't speak!
Do you buy snakes here?
Yu Jiajia got goosebumps when she saw the word "snake," and it was her turn to be scared. "Do you have a snake in your bamboo basket? Is it alive or dead? You weren't bitten, were you? The clinic should take it in, let's go ask them."
The surplus agricultural products that the village cannot consume can be sold to the supply and marketing cooperative, and venomous snakes that can be used to make medicine can be sold to the health center.
Yu Songchuan was incredibly curious; if the other person hadn't been a woman, he would have gone over to the bamboo basket to take a closer look.
The girl shook her head to indicate that she hadn't been bitten, and then gestured a few more times. Yu Jiajia's big eyes were full of question marks; she could only understand that the girl hadn't been bitten by a snake, but she couldn't understand anything else.
The other person quickly took down the bamboo basket and took out a small bamboo basket with a lid. The lid had a large gap, so they could see the snake inside clearly.
Alive!!!
It wasn't very big, but it was dark brown all over. It was coiled up in the bamboo basket, flicking its tongue. It looked poisonous!
Yu Songchuan: "Holy crap, that's a short-tailed viper! It's poisonous."
Yu Jiajia took two small steps back timidly, afraid that the snake would jump out of the seemingly sturdy bamboo basket. She dared not look any further: "The health center took it in. I'll take you there."
The girl with the braided hair immediately relaxed, hugging her small bamboo basket and following Yu Jiajia and her brother. Perhaps noticing that Yu Jiajia was afraid of snakes, she kept a distance from her.
Upon arriving at the health center, the two found a nurse, and Yu Songchuan asked, "Nurse, does the hospital accept venomous snakes?"
The nurses were all in their forties, and their children were older than Yu Songchuan. They were called "sister" by the nurses and happily gave Yu Songchuan directions.
The health center buys venomous snakes, snake skins, and snake gallbladders. Live venomous snakes can fetch a high price; a short-tailed viper can sell for 1.8 yuan.
There was a sheet pasted behind the glass cabinet, and Yu Jiajia and Yu Songchuan were looking at it from the side.
After examining the snake, the doctor seemed quite nervous. He put the snake, along with the bamboo basket, into a plastic box, counted out 1.8 yuan, and asked the girl with the braided hair to sign the receipt. She hurriedly waved her hand. The doctor asked, "Can't you read?"
She nodded, somewhat afraid that she wouldn't get the money.
The doctor then asked Yu Jiajia, "What's her name? Write it down for her and have her put her fingerprint on it."
Yu Jiajia didn't know either, "We met at the hospital entrance."
They couldn't communicate with each other and didn't even know each other's names.
The doctor could only ask her to put her fingerprints on the document.
She held the money in both hands, counted it carefully twice, then wrapped it in a handkerchief and carefully put it in the pocket on her chest before going to look at the slip of paper pasted on the back of the glass display case.
But she couldn't read and was getting a little anxious.
Yu Jiajia pointed to the words above and read them out line by line.
Besides snakes, they also collect animal medicinal materials such as centipedes, scorpions, toad venom, and deer antlers, as well as plant medicinal materials such as dandelion, schisandra, honeysuckle, cassia seed, licorice, and wolfberry.
The most expensive are ginseng, lingzhi, he shou wu, and gastrodia elata.
If you know how to process it yourself, you can sell the dried product directly for a higher price.
The little girl memorized it carefully, afraid of forgetting it.
They remembered it all, and then they left.
The little girl was especially grateful to Yu Jiajia and her brother. Without them, she might not have had the courage to go to the clinic. Now she has 1.8 yuan in her pocket! In the future, she can also catch centipedes and scorpions.
Yu Jiajia said, "You must be careful."
If it weren't for making a living, she wouldn't be catching venomous snakes anymore; she couldn't be persuaded to stop.
The little girl nodded earnestly, picked up her bamboo basket, and walked away. From her back, you could tell she was very happy; her steps were light and graceful.
Yu Jiajia felt sorry for her; she couldn't speak, couldn't read, and had an almost insurmountable difficulty communicating with people outside.
Yu Jiajia: "If only she could read. She could write down whatever she wanted to say."
In an era when people couldn't even get enough to eat, there were too many people who never went to school and never even learned to write their own names.
The Yu family has supported one college student and three high school students; 13-year-old Yu Songchuan is currently in the first year of junior high school.
Yu Songchuan: "She can't even write her own name, which means she hasn't been attending literacy classes. It's not that others are preventing her from going, it's just that she doesn't want to learn." Ultimately, it's something they can't control.
He changed the subject: "Fourth sister, when summer vacation comes, let's go to Grandma's house and climb the mountain to look for some medicinal herbs. We don't dare to think about poisonous snakes, scorpions, or centipedes, but we can look for medicinal herbs. If we're lucky, we might find ginseng or lingzhi, and we'll be rich."
Yu Jiajia: "You recognize medicinal herbs? I..."
She wanted to say that she didn't even recognize a dandelion, but she stopped halfway through her sentence. She really didn't recognize a dandelion, but she saw the system notification.
[A lone hero drives away tigers and leopards, and no hero fears bears! Rewards: 4 lamb skewers, 1 medicinal herb cultivation skill fragment (1/10)]
Once she has collected enough medicinal herb planting fragments, how could she not recognize the medicinal herbs?
She changed the subject: "I'll go to the recycling center this afternoon and see if there are any books about Chinese medicinal herbs."
Let's be geniuses for once and thoroughly study the medicinal herbs in four days!
If you farm three times a day, you'll acquire the herb cultivation skill on the fourth day.
Yu Songchuan was also confident that as long as he had the book, he was sure he could learn it with his intelligence: "I'll go this afternoon!"
Yu Jiajia couldn't help but look again and again at the four skewers of lamb in her spatial backpack, sprinkled with chili and cumin. How delicious they must be to take a bite!
Unfortunately, with Yu Songchuan around, I can't eat lamb skewers or drink malted milk powder.
Let's go fishing, and have grilled fish for lunch.
On the way, they encountered an elderly woman with a cane crossing a bridge. Yu Jiajia helped the woman up and down the bridge, obtaining [10 White Rabbit Milk Candies, 1 Herb Planting Skill Fragment (2/10)].
Yu Songchuan always considered himself a smart and kind child. He was always willing to help others at school, such as wiping the blackboard for teachers, helping classmates with their homework, and generously passing cheat sheets to classmates during exams so that they could all get high scores.
He never bullied anyone, not even the most universally hated bastards; he never joined in the clamor for violence.
But he really can't compare to Fourth Sister. Fourth Sister is truly...both politically sound and professionally competent.
The Yu family has produced such a kind-hearted fourth sister.
When Yu Songchuan discovered that Yu Jiajia had chosen a reservoir as her fishing spot, he asked, "Sis, let's go somewhere else. There aren't many fish here, and it's really weird. People drown here every few years. Last year, two half-grown children drowned. Nobody usually comes here."
Yu Jiajia: "The water is fast here, it would be dangerous for kids to swim in the river, and we don't swim in the river. This place is so beautiful, with beautiful mountains, trees, and scenery, and it's especially cool. Plus, there are fish here, I fished here yesterday! Look, there are people over there."
Yu Songchuan agreed. Once they reached the reservoir, the temperature dropped dramatically, and it was incredibly cool!
There were already people under the largest tree, a young couple. The young man was fishing on a small stool by the reservoir, while the pretty woman with a slightly protruding belly was eating an apple on a small floral sheet. There were also quite a few other snacks scattered around them.
Yu Songchuan tried hard not to look at the sugar cakes, fried dough twists, mung bean cakes, red dates, and apples.
Damn, how come his eyesight is so good? He can see so clearly!
Yu Jiajia also struggled to look away. She wanted to eat fruit, so why wasn't the system rewarding her with fruit?
The two of them tacitly chose a willow tree a little further away, where there was some shade. Yu Jiajia took out a fishing hook and fishing line from her canvas bag and tied the other end of the fishing line firmly to the stick.
I found this stick on the road. It's long and straight, with a small fork at one end, making it perfect as a fishing rod.
Yu Songchuan quickly took out a piece of earthworm and hooked it onto the fishhook. Yu Jiajia adjusted it slightly, and while holding the fishhook, she added some all-purpose fish food, hoping for a good start.
Yu Songchuan carried a wooden bucket, filled it with water, and waited for the fish to bite.
This all-purpose fish bait is very attractive to fish, and soon fish started biting the hook. Yu Jiajia carefully lifted the fishing rod and caught a crucian carp about an inch long.
Yu Songchuan grinned from ear to ear as he carefully removed the crucian carp and placed it in the wooden bucket.
Yu Songchuan leaned over the wooden tub, looking at it from left to right, occasionally touching the crucian carp. His face lit up with a smile, and he praised repeatedly, "Fourth Sister, look at this crucian carp, it weighs more than half a pound! Fourth Sister, you're amazing! You can even catch crucian carp with a sewing needle!"
He felt somewhat ashamed that he had just thought his fourth sister couldn't catch any fish.
Their commotion naturally caught the attention of the couple next to them. It was clear that the young man was even more focused on fishing, staring intently at his float.
Yu Jiajia didn't want to touch the earthworms, so she put some of the all-purpose bait juice on the hook beforehand and left the task of putting the earthworms on the hook to Yu Songchuan. Actually, she wasn't sure if the smell would attract the fish.
The flavor was still a little off; it took forever to catch the fish.
Yu Songchuan was a little anxious. "Fourth Sister, let me fish for a while. If I catch another one, we'll grill one and braise one."
Grilled fish is definitely grilled outside, and Yu Jiajia really wants to eat grilled fish.
Yu Jiajia: "Okay." She handed the fishing rod to Yu Songchuan. After about ten minutes, she stood up and swayed, wondering whether she should go inside and secretly eat a skewer of lamb. "Wubao, you keep fishing. I'll go check if there are any mushrooms or wood ear fungus."
Yu Songchuan, focused on fishing, said, "Okay, sis, don't go too far."
Yu Jiajia didn't go too far. She didn't find any mushrooms or wood ear fungus, but she did see two scallions. She picked two, which were just enough to grill the fish.
Thinking about grilled fish made her even hungrier; her stomach rumbled, and she craved lamb skewers even more.
She looked around, even carefully examining the trees, making sure there was no one there. She crouched down near the tree roots, pretending to pull weeds, but actually took out a skewer of lamb. The skewers were small, with six pieces of lamb on an iron skewer—four lean and two fatty—sprinkled with chili and cumin. The flavor was incredibly delicious.
She took a big bite, a piece of fatty meat and a piece of lean meat. The rest of the lamb skewers were too heavy to hold, so she put them back in her backpack.
Oh my god, it smells so good.
The crispy on the outside and tender on the inside lamb skewers were evenly coated with a layer of chili and cumin, and the lamb fat was exceptionally fragrant and crispy. She had never eaten such delicious lamb skewers before!
She quietly produced another lamb skewer and took a big bite.
I quickly finished the three skewers of lamb, and I'll save the last one for when I'm craving it again!
I also put the metal skewers into my spatial backpack, to save for grilling later.
After eating the lamb skewers, it was obvious that her mouth would be greasy. She took out a steaming hot white steamed bun, broke off a piece, wiped her mouth, and ate it slowly, trying to get rid of the lamb taste in her mouth. After eating half a bun, she felt that the lamb taste should be gone.
However, she was still worried, so she took a sip of water, rinsed her mouth vigorously, and chewed some wild onions.
Now my mouth will definitely taste like wild onions.
She stood up, leaning against a large tree. She had been squatting for a while, and her vision was starting to blur. The original owner of this body might have low blood sugar! She needed to eat some more!
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