Chapter 1313: Encouragement
Old Zhou caught her and said, "My girl..."
The father and daughter hugged each other happily for a long time, and Old Zhou praised her, "Manbao is getting more and more beautiful. This dress is also beautiful and warm."
Manbao showed it to him, "This is a cloak, made of fox fur."
She said, "Dad, my fourth brother and I bought a lot of fox fur and made a fox fur coat for you, mother, and sister-in-law. It's very warm."
Old Zhou felt distressed and suspicious. "You bought it with your fourth brother? When did your fourth brother become so filial?"
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang also arrived. They jumped off their horses and saluted the villagers. They couldn't help but smile when they heard this. Bai Erlang interrupted and said, "I didn't buy it with Zhou Sige. I bought it with Zhou Sige. But Zhou Sige said he didn't make any money, so he sold it at a fair price."
Old Zhou understood what he heard and couldn't help but scowl, muttering, "The fourth son has made great progress and learned to earn money for his own sister. Why can't he be filial to his parents? Where are he? Where is he?"
Bai Shan pulled Bai Erlang, and Bai Erlang laughed and turned and ran away, running towards his father who was standing by the bridge.
Bai Dalang had already gotten off the car and greeted his father. His face was a little pale. Seeing his brother so happy, he couldn't help shaking his head. He really didn't understand where he got so much energy from.
After exchanging greetings, Bai Shan and Old Zhoutou also went home, and everyone went back to their own homes.
The mule cart pulling the luggage at the back was loaded according to each family, one mule for each family. The cart loaded with Lao Zhou's luggage went directly to Lao Zhou's house. With the help of the villagers, Zhou Wulang unloaded the luggage. He took out a box and opened it. It was full of various wrapped snacks and candies.
They were all bought in Mianzhou City. He handed the box to his second sister-in-law, and Feng began to unpack the snacks and candies and share them with everyone.
The villagers were not polite either. After receiving the snacks and candies, they turned around and found their own children and gave them to them to eat. Some of them asked them to take some back for the elderly to try.
They didn't leave, but stood in the yard and talked to Lao Zhou's family, mainly wanting to talk to Manbao.
They were very interested in the capital and wanted to know what it looked like.
Zhou Wulang had already run off to look for his wife and children, and Manbao was surrounded by a crowd of people. Everyone started asking him questions, such as whether the gate of the capital city was really eight feet high, and whether Manbao had really seen the emperor...
Manbao also liked talking to them. After taking off her cloak, she moved a small stool and sat next to her father and started bragging to them. Oh, no, she told the truth.
She said that the capital city was much larger than Luojiang County. Any block was larger than Luojiang County. Within each block, there were four main streets, with shops along the streets and residential buildings in the back. Just think about it, Luojiang County only had one main street...
There are many delicious foods and beautiful things in Beijing...
The villagers listened with great interest, and Old Zhou was the most enthusiastic. Feng tried to interrupt them several times but failed, so she simply stopped disturbing them, turned around, pulled San Ya over, and moved the boxes to their respective rooms according to the labels on them.
Some people in the village saw them carrying boxes of things back to the house. They didn't pay much attention to it at first, but now they were jealous and envious. They couldn't help but ask, "Manbao, what good things did you bring back from the capital?"
Manbao took a look and said, "I bought fabrics for my parents, some special products from the capital, some books, and some medicinal herbs. Oh, and I bought a lot of medicinal seeds from the Jishitang and the drug dealer. You can try planting them on the mountain..."
The villagers were surprised and couldn't help asking, "Can medicinal herbs be grown?"
It's no wonder they were surprised. In their impression, medicinal herbs were all wild and picked from the mountains.
Man Bao said, "I've asked around, and some herbs can be grown. We're using mountain land anyway, and the seeds aren't expensive. Let's give it a try. If they grow, that's great. If they don't, it won't be a big deal."
In fact, she asked drug dealers and farmers to collect these seeds. There was no other way. Many medicinal materials were not included in the encyclopedia, but the ones in the drug stores were basically processed and no longer active. She could only write down the names of these medicinal materials, mark out the medicinal materials whose seeds could be collected, and then pay the drug dealers to help collect the seeds.
Otherwise, she only needs one or two raw herbs for each kind of medicine. Even if she pays a high price, the drug dealers don't want to go to the trouble because they are difficult to transport and keep alive.
That's why Manbao turned to collecting seeds.
Some medicinal herbs have seeds.
But as they said, most of the medicinal herbs are picked from the mountains and grow naturally. It is rare to find medicinal herbs in other places, let alone Qili Village.
As for the old ginger and yam grown in the village, they do not regard them as medicinal herbs because they can be eaten as vegetables.
Only Ligustrum lucidum is a little rare and is considered a medicinal herb by them.
Manbao said, "Ligustrum lucidum fruit, old ginger, Chinese yam, and jujube slices are all commonly used medicinal herbs, and they are used in large quantities. Now that my fourth brother has decided to go to the capital more often, it wouldn't be a big deal if you plant more."
Everyone's eyes lit up slightly. The new wheat seeds could not be sold at much price now. People heard that even the far north had switched to the new wheat seeds.
Moreover, due to the bumper harvest and the output of new wheat seeds in the past two years, the price of grain has dropped a bit. However, the old ginger collected by Zhou Silang this year and the new ginger sold with Zhou Erlang to Mianzhou, Yizhou and other places brought in a lot of money.
Moreover, ginger likes sandy soil, which is not a good place to grow crops, so it is most suitable for growing ginger.
The topic then changed and everyone turned to farming, and no one thought about boxes or anything like that anymore.
"Uncle Jin, your family only planted about twenty jujube trees this year. Where did you find the seedlings?"
Old Zhou said, "Erlang found it outside. I'll ask him about it later."
"If you ask me, it's better to plant jujube trees. You can eat them raw and sell them to pharmacies after drying. Planting them directly on the mountain will save a lot of land."
"Manbao, what kind of seeds are those you brought back? Are those medicinal herbs expensive?"
Everyone was talking at once, and Manbao answered slowly. They learned that she had never grown these medicinal species before, and even the herbal farmers had never grown many of them. So even if she said she knew how to grow them, everyone was still not very interested. Instead, they discussed how to grow more ginger.
Ever since the Zhou family said that old ginger can be dried and sold in pharmacies as a medicinal material, and that it can be preserved longer in the raw state, everyone started to grow old ginger intentionally.
Now it seems that we can definitely grow more.
Anyway, there is a lot of dry land in Qili Village, so we can plant fewer beans and more ginger.
When the villagers saw that the meal was almost ready in Old Zhou's kitchen, they all stood up and said goodbye to go home. Old Zhou stayed for a while, and two families wanted to stay for dinner, but they were surrounded and escorted away.
The family is having a reunion, why are you joining in the fun?
As soon as everyone left, Zhou Sanlang closed the door, collected the stools in the yard, and everyone went into the house to eat at two tables.
After sitting down, Old Zhou realized something was wrong. He looked around and asked, "Where are Old Four, Old Six, and Big Head? Why aren't they here?"
Everyone: ...Dad, isn’t your reaction a little slow?
See you at 11pm
(End of this chapter)
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