Chapter 2870 Integration
The villagers listened very carefully.
Most of the people present were women, because Zhou Man said that they should be smart and efficient at work, so most of them were not very old, mostly young wives in the village who were under 20 years old, and girls who were 12 or 13 years old.
The young men and teenagers obviously didn't want to hang out with them, so they didn't come. However, the boys around eight or nine years old in the village were at the age of being naughty, so they also came to join in the fun.
But now that it involves the plan of making money, even if the brothers, sisters-in-law and sisters don't say anything, they themselves have also quieted down.
When they came down the mountain, everyone returned with a full load. Manbao even picked what he wanted, and was very satisfied even though it was not medicine.
Koko was also very satisfied.
The village was bustling with activity. Bai Shan was recording and distributing grain seeds to them, and by now he had almost finished distributing them.
The people in Zhaojiagou also save their own seeds, but when Bai Shan asked about the rice yield last year, his intuition was that they saved the best ear of rice, and he was afraid that the seeds were not much better.
So he firmly demanded that all of them plant all the grain seeds he distributed and not eat them.
He said, "I've calculated that the seeds I'm giving you are only enough to plant two mu of land. You should use your own seeds for the rest. The county knows that you have concerns about the new planting methods for the new seeds, and the county will not force you to soak your own seeds, but the seeds distributed by the government must be soaked."
Most of the grain seeds they brought were distributed, and the rest were taken by Bai Shan to Ergou Village, which was also very poor at the foot of the next mountain.
Ergou Village and Dagou Village are connected by a large ditch. They have a smaller population and less land, most of which is forest. Of course, there are also more medicinal herbs and various species.
Manbao was like a mouse in a rice jar. Seeing that it was getting dark, she couldn't help but say to Bai Shan: "You go back first tomorrow. I want to stay."
Bai Shan looked at the various flowers, plants and trees she had dug out, which seemed familiar to him but he couldn't name, and asked, "Are we not together anymore?"
Manbao said seriously, "We have different responsibilities. We are already grown up. How can we be together all the time?"
Bai Shan: "...We want to be together because we've grown up."
Manbao refused: "You go back first, I want to work here."
Whether it was work or digging, they both knew it clearly. Bai Shan looked at Zhou Man steadily for a while, and finally compromised helplessly.
"I'll stay one more night. I'll go see Liushan tomorrow and then I'll have to go back."
He had already asked people from the county government to notify the village heads of each township to come to the county for a meeting. The day after tomorrow was the meeting day, so he had to go back no matter what.
Manbao nodded and waved goodbye to him, "Don't worry, I will definitely not get into trouble. Goodbye."
Bai Shan slapped her hand and said, "I'm leaving tomorrow. You can talk to me about this tomorrow."
The next morning, Zhou Man happily saw Bai Shan off. As soon as he left, Zhou Man turned around and took Daji and Xibing into the mountains.
Bai Shan left Daji and several guards to Zhou Man, and also left behind a yamen runner who was fluent in the local dialect. However, Zhou Man was always used to taking Daji with him when he went into the mountains, and at most a cake, and the others stayed in the village.
In the afternoon, Zhou Man came down the mountain carrying a basket of things. Before he reached the mountain pass, he saw the village chief leading a group of people waiting at the mountain pass. The yamen runners and several guards were squatting nearby. When they saw Zhou Man coming down, they immediately stood up to greet him.
Manbao put down the backpack, took out a few common medicinal herbs in the mountains for them to identify, and taught them how to pick them.
Some herbs are dug out by roots, some herbs are used as medicine as a whole plant, but there are also many herbs that are only taken from leaves and stems, especially some wild tea trees, which only take the tips of the buds.
Manbao discovered two types of tea trees on the mountain, neither of which had been included in the catalog, but they were recorded in the encyclopedia, so Koko could look up their information as soon as she saw her.
Zhou Man discovered several clusters of such wild tea trees on the mountain. She picked a lot of them and dug up three seedlings, which were just right to be placed in Daji's backpack.
She took out the seedlings and showed them to everyone, saying, "This tea has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and it can also help to lighten the body and prolong life. You can pick it daily, fry it, or dry it in a pot and eat it at home."
When people heard that it was food for their family, they were not very interested.
The village chief rubbed his hands and asked, "Sir, you said yesterday that there are still many medicinal herbs in the mountains that can be picked and profited from. I wonder what they are?"
"Here, I've picked them all for you. I'll leave you some samples later so you can take them up the mountain for comparison." Manbao smiled and said, "There are quite a variety of medicinal herbs on your mountain, so it's normal that you can't recognize them all at once. Just pick the ones you recognize. But remember to save the seeds."
Manbao said, "Immature plants cannot be picked. Even if you pick them and send them to the county town, the herbalist won't accept them, and your efforts will be wasted. Besides, we have to consider our descendants. If we don't save the seeds, what will our descendants pick?"
The village chief nodded repeatedly, turned around and asked, "Have you all written it down?"
The villagers shouted excitedly, "I've got it."
Then Manbao taught them to identify the medicinal herbs she had picked at the foot of the mountain. She could also roughly tell them where they grew and their habits.
The villagers were all very active in recognizing the words, and even the children listened attentively, but it was not certain how much they could remember.
Sure enough, before nightfall, the village began to hear the cries of children. Manbao pricked up his ears to listen, and vaguely heard the adults' angry howls, "You can't remember what the adults said so clearly, are you here to eat for free?"
Then there were the children's cries, "You didn't recognize it, and you didn't remember it either."
Then came the adults' irritable voices, "I'm talking to you, and you dare to talk back?"
Then there was the sound of clapping.
Manbao shuddered and frowned, suspecting that he had heard it wrong, so he asked the yamen runner if his translation was correct.
The yamen runner was surprised: "Sir, you are really amazing. You can even understand what they are saying?"
Manbao said sheepishly, "When they don't speak fast, I can barely understand some of it. After all, they often say things like yesterday. By the way, if you get sick in the future, go to the county town for a doctor. Don't delay your treatment. How do you say this?"
The bailiff taught her.
Manbao followed suit and memorized it after repeating it three or four times. Then he asked, "How do you say 'visiting a doctor and getting medicine for free'?"
When Bai Shan finally met Zhou Man in another village, she was no longer the same Zhou Man.
She was already able to chat with the old men and women in the village in the local dialect, which was not very standard. She even waved excitedly when she saw Bai Shan, then turned around and introduced Bai Shan to everyone in her broken dialect, "This is my husband, and he is also the county magistrate of Beihai County. If you have any difficulties in the future, just go to him. He is your father and mother official, and he will take care of your problems."
Unlike the fear he always received when entering the village in the past, the old men and women immediately nodded, and then looked at Bai Shan with admiration and love in their eyes.
Bai Shan: ...
See you at 10pm
(End of this chapter)
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