Chapter 2130 Mountain Pepper
When I walked to the side of the broken shed, I saw her holding a chicken, with a fierce frown on her brow and a sad look on her face.
Manbao took a look at the chicken and couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, why are you killing this chicken when it's so young?"
The woman was startled by the sudden sound and the grouse flew away with a flick of her hand.
Manbao was a little frightened when he saw her holding the knife.
She had seen people slaughtering chickens many times since she was a child, but no one had ever held the knife like this when slaughtering a chicken.
The woman reacted and quickly pointed the knife downwards, forcing a smile and saying, "It's my lord, did I scare you?"
Manbao shook his head and looked at the chickens in the shed. He found that the chickens were not big, at least not old enough to be eaten.
But such tender chicken must be delicious when stir-fried. But there are not many vegetables now, so you can add some dogwood to enhance the flavor...
Bai Shan turned his head to look at her, and asked with a smile, "Are you preparing dinner for us?"
The woman replied respectfully, "Yes, the post station is leaking, and I am sorry to have troubled you, my lords."
Bai Shan shook his head and smiled, "This chicken looks young. It would be a pity to kill it now. We brought some food with us. I'll ask them to bring some to you. You don't have to kill the chicken."
Manbao came back to his senses, nodded repeatedly, and said to her: "It will take three or four months to raise a chicken like this before it can lay eggs, right? It would be a shame to kill it now."
Who says it’s not?
The woman nodded repeatedly and came out of the shed happily. "That's right. I also said I wouldn't kill it, but my husband said it would be a shame to neglect the adults."
She said embarrassedly, "Our post station is remote, and there are only a few adults staying here each year, so we don't have much to prepare."
Bai Shan said he understood and asked curiously, "How far is the nearest village from your post station?"
"It's not far. Just follow that path down. It's about ten miles away. It's a larger village with three or four smaller ones nearby, so there's a small market there. Occasionally, if the adults who stop by arrive early, we'll go there to buy some fresh meat."
Bai Shan understood, "Does everyone who stays here leave at noon?"
"Yes, the journey is faster, and they can stop here at noon."
Manbao then asked, "As for the vegetables, do you buy them or grow them yourself?"
"Alas, we don't need many vegetables to eat. Look, sir, this whole vegetable garden is planted by us. There are not many sirs coming, so there is enough for us to eat."
Manbao pointed at the plant and asked, "I recognize all the other vegetables, but I don't recognize that clump of grass. Is it also a vegetable?"
The woman took one look and said, "That's mountain pepper."
Manbao took a look at Keke's information, which was blank. It only said that a plant that had not been included in the record was found, but it did not detect what it was called. Obviously, they did not even have the basic data for this thing, so they could not identify it.
Manbao said, "The mountain pepper I've seen doesn't look like this."
She had harvested pepper and mountain pepper before. She couldn't say that she had a photographic memory of the plants she had seen, but at least she would recognize them when she saw them again.
But the woman insisted, "This is mountain pepper. The roots can be sold to pharmacies and used as medicine."
When Manbao heard this, he perked up and said, "Do you have any roots? Let me see."
"No, I only planted this last year. I was thinking of selling it at the herbalist's shop after it grew up," she said. "The people at the herbalist's shop said the roots need to be at least two years old for them to be good."
Manbao wanted to dig even more, "Can I dig one?"
"Hey, here's one of mine. Don't be fooled by how big it is, but it actually grew from just one root. If you don't believe me, just look at it."
Manbao curiously leaned forward to take a look, and after confirming that there was indeed only one root underneath, he was a little disappointed. "Can this thing be propagated by cuttings?"
"That can't be done. You can only plant it with seeds."
"Do you have any more seeds?"
"No more," the woman said. "My sister-in-law gave me a handful of seeds, and this is the only one that grew."
The planting skills are really average.
Manbao began to feel through her wallet. Bai Shan had already taken off the purse and took out a string of money from it and gave it to her. "We have never seen this thing before and think it is very rare. We want to study it. How about we buy it from you?"
The woman looked at the money in his hand and was speechless. After a while, she said, "This is not good..."
But she took the money, a bright smile on her face, and said, "You guys dig, you guys dig, dig as much as you want. If you see anything else in the vegetable garden that you like, you can dig it up."
Manbao couldn't help but laugh and said, "No need, we can just dig this one."
The woman looked at the small hoes in their hands, turned around and said, "This one is too small and hard to dig. Wait a minute, I'll find you a big hoe and let my boy dig for you."
After saying that, he took the money and the knife and ran away.
Manbao naturally wouldn't wait for her. Although her medicine hoe was small, it was specially made and was very strong and sharp. There was nothing wrong with it except that she had to hoe it a few more times.
Bai Shan took the hoe from her hand and started digging. In order not to damage the roots, he dug a little too large an area.
The woman didn't come. The last person to come was the postmaster. He was holding a hoe and the string of money in his hand. Sweat broke out on his forehead as he ran over. "Sir, this is just a wild tree. How can I ask you for money?"
Manbao smiled and pushed it back, saying, "This is the book you use to make money. Selling it to me is the same as selling it to a pharmacy. How can you not ask for money?"
The postmaster could see she wasn't being polite, so after a pause he said, "That won't cost that much. My wife isn't very sensible. Even if we grow this thing, a pound of rhizome only costs seventy or eighty coins. It takes three or four years to grow before we can dig it up. How many pounds can a plant yield? You're giving too much."
Manbao said, "But this thing is like an egg laying eggs in your hands. I heard that it is a seed. The seeds will mature in one year, and you can plant a large area next year. In two years, you can harvest a lot of rhizomes."
Just like their family planting yam and Ligustrum lucidum, there were only a few plants at the beginning. Then, year after year, many families in the village planted Ligustrum lucidum on the mountain and made a lot of money.
The postmaster was at a loss for words. "Your Excellency is too joking. This herb can't just grow by saying it. It needs to be cared for. My wife brought back a handful of seeds from her parents' home, and after sowing them for several months, only this one survived. It's good enough that she managed to grow this one well."
Bai Shan said, "Just take it if you give it to me. I wonder if your Yue family still has seeds. If so, we would like to buy some."
The postmaster immediately said, "Yes, yes, I'll have my boy go get it in a moment. I dare not say buy it, but I'll pack a bag for you later."
Finally, I stopped refusing to pay.
Both sides secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Bai Shan took the big hoe from his hand, thanked him for his help, and asked him to go to the front and get the ingredients from Daji, and they could dig it themselves.
I have to dig this thing out and offer it to my father-in-law, and it’s not convenient for him to be here.
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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