Chapter 4 Goosegrass
There are a total of sixty-eight households in their Qili Village, and they occupy this large piece of land...well, the hillside, and they reclaim the land on the hillside as they please.
There are very few wastelands on the flat land, and the ones that exist are mostly soil and rocks, and are barren. It is better to open up the land on the hillside, so Zhou Silang carried a hoe and a sickle and walked up the hillside. He planned to stand on a high place and see far away, and then open up whichever piece of land he likes.
Zhou Silang wants to do what he wants, but will Manbao agree?
Of course not!!!
Manbao was carried to the top of the mountain. Zhou Silang took a look and pointed to a patch of grass on the hillside with the least grass and said, "Let's go there and open a patch."
"No!" Manbao refused without a second thought and pointed to another plot of land on the slope, saying, "I want to open that one."
Zhou Silang looked over and found that not only was the grass there very lush, growing as tall as Manbao, but there were also many low shrubs. He could imagine how difficult it would be to dig up the roots, so he immediately refused, "No, that piece of land is not as easy to dig as this one."
But there was a lot of grass and small trees there, so maybe there would be something Koko would like. Manbao, who wanted to trade candy with Koko, insisted, "We have to open that piece."
Her excuse was also very legitimate. "Look at how well the grass is growing over there, and there are trees too. Beans and melons will grow well there in the future. Look at the patch you chose. There's only so much grass, and the growth isn't any better than what I chose. Oh, and there are rocks too. Grass hates rocks the most, and the same goes for beans and melons."
Zhou Silang was unhappy, "Are you going to open up the wasteland or am I going to do it?"
Manbao pinched his waist and said, "It's you, but you have to listen to me, otherwise I will go back and tell Dad that you deliberately chose a bad piece of land so that you can be lazy, and let Dad beat you."
Zhou Silang was so angry, but he had no choice but to listen to her because their father would definitely listen to Manbao.
Touching the wounds on his body, Zhou Silang could only snort and say, "Okay, let's open that one. Let's go."
Zhou Wulang wanted to carry her on his back, but Manbao thought for a moment and waved his hand, saying, "No need to carry me. I want to walk on my own. Fourth brother, you go and open up the wasteland first."
Zhou Silang was furious. "How are you going to walk on like this, shorty? You don't need Wulang to follow you and take care of you."
"What's the matter? Sixth brother can stay."
"No, they still have to help me open up the wasteland."
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang, however, didn't want to work either. They shook their heads and said, "Mother told us before we came out that we must keep an eye on our younger sister. Fourth brother, you go down and cut the grass first. You only have a sickle, so it's useless for us to go down."
Zhou Silang was stunned. "You didn't bring a sickle?"
Zhou Wulang laughed, "We want to carry a lot of treasures, how can we hold a sickle?"
Zhou Silang looked at Datou and Daya, and Datou said cleverly, "We thought our uncles had brought it, so we didn't."
Zhou Silang then instructed Datou, "Go back and get the sickle now, quickly."
Datou said, "We'll be back for breakfast soon. You can bring it back after breakfast. If we go back now, we won't be able to do much work. Fourth Uncle, why don't we accompany my aunt and walk slowly downstairs? You can go and cut the grass first."
Everyone: "That's right, that's right, Fourth Uncle (Fourth Brother), just go quickly."
Zhou Silang felt that he was abandoned by everyone, and the culprit was Manbao.
Manbao was even more aggressive than him, "Go quickly, or I'll tell Dad when we get back to eat that you're being lazy."
Zhou Silang turned around and left, carrying his hoe and sickle.
Manbao was very satisfied. He walked down the mountain road with his short legs, pulling some grass and plucking some flowers from time to time. Wulang, Liulang, Datou and Daya were all used to playing in the mountains. When they saw their youngest sister (the aunt) walking on the road honestly, they ran out to play like wild. They picked up beautiful wild flowers when they saw them, and picked and dug up edible wild fruits when they saw them. They would even look at a nest of ants for a long time and were very happy.
Manbao worked hard to dig out a handful of grass, wiped his face with it, and asked Keke in his heart, "Do you want this?"
There was helplessness in Keke's voice, "Host, you recorded this kind of goosegrass a long time ago."
Manbao was suspicious, "Really? Why don't I remember it?"
The system retrieved the cowgrass that Manbao had entered, along with its ecological characteristics, habitat, reproduction methods, and main value, all clearly listed one by one.
Manbao loves reading the most. She gets happy when she sees words. She excitedly asks, "Where do these words come from?"
The system said, "Goosegrass still exists in my inventor's world. This is information in the encyclopedia. After you enter it, all the knowledge points included in the encyclopedia will appear behind the included plants."
The system paused and then said, "Host, even if you can't find species that were extinct or rare during the time of my inventor, you should at least find some precious or valuable plants to enter. That way, more people will click to download, and we'll get more points, which I can exchange for more sugar."
To be honest, he has been following Manbao for more than a year. Except for three plants that some people clicked to download, no one was interested in the other plants, and the click-through rates of those three plants were not high. He basically used his own points to exchange for candy for Manbao.
Manbao was not disappointed. She was reading the analysis behind the cow tendon grass with great interest. She had already memorized the "Thousand Character Classic" a long time ago. The day she got the system was the day she got the manuscript of the "Thousand Character Classic". She recited it every day and learned to recognize the characters. Now she still couldn't write many characters, but she could already recognize them.
So after reading the whole article, Manbao recognized most of it. She didn't hesitate to ask Keke directly if there were any words she didn't know.
The system always answers every question, and the key is that Manbao is also quite cute. Who can bear to reject a cute child who is over four years old?
No, Manbao has always insisted that he is six years old this year, um, in terms of age.
Manbao finished reading, but still didn't understand what she meant. However, she didn't ask about everything. She basically only asked about topics that interested her. "What does it mean that it says that Coleus can dispel wind and dampness, clear away heat and detoxify, and disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding?"
Keke: "It means exactly what it says. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that when people eat grains and cereals and are affected by the environment, they will have dampness and heat toxins in their bodies. For example, when you have a sore throat, you can boil some Coix Grass into a soup and drink it. It can dispel wind and dampness, clear away heat and detoxify. As for stopping bleeding, it's even easier. If someone falls and bruises their leg, you can crush it and apply it to the wound to stop the bleeding. It can also be taken orally."
Manbao exclaimed, "Wow!" "This grass is so precious! No, I have to dig some more to take home."
Manbao grabbed the grass and pulled it up with all his strength. It took a lot of effort to pull the grass out.
The system also thought the grass was pretty good, so it secretly encouraged Manbao and gave her a solution, "You can use the vines nearby to tie them up and carry them back."
Manbao thought it made perfect sense, and she pulled up quite a bit of oxtail grass. When Wulang and Liulang came over with a handful of wild fruits, her face and hands were covered in mud, and she was sweating profusely from pulling. The two boys were stunned and ran up to her, asking, "Little sister, what are you doing?"
Manbao's eyes sparkled as he said, "Fifth brother, Sixth brother, come and help me. I found a good herb."
The two young men walked over and saw the weeds in her hand. They were quite speechless. "Isn't this just weeds? They can be seen everywhere on the ground."
"No, it's called Oxtail Grass. It can detoxify and stop bleeding." Manbao instructed his two brothers, "Come with me and pick it up."
Wu Lang took the weeds from her hand and threw them away. He then wiped her hands clean and said, "Don't be silly. Come on, we found some prickly ash. Let's try one."
Then he stuffed a bright red fruit into Bao's mouth. It was so fragrant and sweet that Bao's eyes lit up and he forgot about the cowgrass on the ground. "I want more!"
The system was also very excited. "This is a plant that has never been included. Manbao, you must include it. I just checked, and there is no picture of this fruit in the system."
Even if the scientific name is included without pictures, they can still get a fairly generous points reward for adding pictures. That is issued by the encyclopedia. If someone clicks to view the picture, they will get more points.
Sure enough, letting the host go out and walk more is the right policy.
The system said: "Manbao, quickly collect it, it's best to collect the whole plant."
Manbao stuffed the wild fruit into his mouth and asked his brother, "What kind of fruit is this? I have never eaten it before. Where did you pick it?"
Wulang and Liulang asked, "Haven't you tried it? There's plenty on the mountain. It was plentiful during the Qingming Festival, but now it's rare. If you like it, I'll take you up the mountain to eat it next year."
Manbao felt that his brothers had missed the point and asked, "Where did you pick them?"
"We've picked all the fruits. There's nothing left. Let's go down the mountain quickly. Fourth Brother will be angry soon."
Manbao pinched his waist angrily, "I want to see what it looks like, so I know how to pick wild fruits next time."
Wu Lang laughed when he heard it. "That's not difficult. Just follow the road down the mountain. There are quite a few nearby. They just don't have any fruit. We'll teach you how to recognize them later."
Only then did Manbao realize that her brothers were not lying when they said the mountain was full of them, there really were a lot of them.
Liu Lang carried her down for a while, and Wu Lang pointed to a clump of thorny green vines on the side of the road and said, "Look, this is a thorny vine. It blooms in the spring when the weather gets warmer, and then bears fruit. When it turns red, it's very delicious. Next year during the Qingming Festival, we'll take you up the mountain to pick some."
Liu Lang said, "I think the yellow ones are better. They are hard and sour, but much more flavorful than the red ones."
Wu Lang looked down on him, "Red ones are delicious, we all say red ones are delicious."
Rokuro: "It's obviously yellow."
Wu Lang: “It’s red.”
Mukuro: "Yellow!"
Goro: “Red!”
Manbao saw her two brothers arguing. She had never eaten the yellow one and didn't know how to express her opinion, so she slid off her sixth brother's back and squatted down to look at the vines.
Wulang and Liulang only glanced at their sister, and seeing that she was just staring at them curiously, they turned around and concentrated on arguing, no, arguing.
Manbao asked Keke in his heart, "Do you want me to dig up the whole plant, or tear off a section for you?"
The system thought for a moment and said, "It would be best if we could dig up the whole plant, but if it's not convenient, picking a piece is fine."
(End of this chapter)
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