"This girl is so beautiful!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, look at how white and tender her skin is. I wonder what she ate to grow like this."
"If this were my wife, I would have a very happy night!"
“Hehehe…”
Hearing everyone's discussions, Jiang Yan frowned slightly and glanced at the few people with foul mouths in the crowd.
Then he looked at the aunt who asked the question first in the crowd and replied, "Hello, aunt, I am a soldier's wife from the nearby military area, and I am here to dig some herbs."
When they heard that she was a soldier's wife, everyone immediately stopped teasing her.
Everyone present was an ordinary citizen. To them, the officer was the top official, so they naturally could not afford to offend the officer’s wife.
When she heard that they were medicinal herbs, the aunt immediately became interested, "These wild grasses are medicinal herbs, so can we dig them up and exchange them for money at the supply and marketing cooperative?"
“…”
Jiang Yan smiled.
"I don't know about that. I'm not from the supply and marketing cooperative. But the grass I dug can stop bleeding quickly if you crush it and apply it on the wound."
When they heard that they couldn't sell it, everyone lost interest and didn't really care whether it could stop the bleeding.
Only one or two people looked carefully at the weeds in Jiang Yan's hand.
Jiang Yan saw it but didn't say much. She put the herbs into the backpack and continued walking towards the foot of the mountain in the distance.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, Jiang Yan sat down on a big rock beside the field, took out the multi-grain pancake that she had baked last night from her backpack, and ate it slowly, bite by bite.
I got up early today and had breakfast at around five o'clock. I just dug herbs and my stomach was already growling with hunger.
Jiang Yan was sitting alone by the field. Villagers were working not far away. A breeze blew by, making the dense forest behind her rustle.
This picture, this scene, looks quite pleasant from Jiang Yan's perspective.
A gentle breeze blew, and the fragrance of the oil cakes drifted through the air to the distant fields, and the villagers in the fields pursed their noses.
“This smell.”
“It smells so good!”
"This is lard pancakes, right? Who would be willing to do that?"
Everyone followed the smell and saw Jiang Yan sitting by the field, eating a cake with her head down, and couldn't help but talk about it.
"Military families are so nice that they are willing to eat pancakes with lard."
"They are on rations, with dozens of kilograms of rice every month. Military dependents should receive special treatment, right?"
“That’s great!”
Everyone was extremely envious, but when they saw the scorer approaching from a distance, they quickly lowered their heads and started working again. It would not be worth it to have their work points deducted.
Finish eating the fried cakes.
Jiang Yan felt that she was not full yet, so she reached into the bamboo basket and took out a yellow corn bun.
This is a multi-grain steamed bun she made with white flour, corn flour and sorghum flour. There is a monthly quota of multi-grains, and she still needs to eat them, so she usually mixes them together to make steamed buns.
Jiang Yan had just taken a bite when she heard the sound of smacking lips beside her.
Two skinny children in dark patched clothes looked at her pitifully.
Because they were thin and had little flesh on their faces, the two children's eyes looked big and they looked at the steamed buns in her hands with longing.
So pitiful.
Jiang Yan felt a little soft-hearted and wanted to share the steamed buns in her hand with the two of them, but there were a dozen or so similar children behind them who also looked eager.
The villagers in the fields in the distance would glance over here from time to time, and Jiang Yan immediately gave up the idea.
What is worrying is not the scarcity but the inequality.
If she gave it to these two children but not to the others, it would probably cause conflicts.
And she didn't have so many steamed buns to share with the children.
Jiang Yan retracted her gaze and continued to eat her steamed bun, but every time she took a bite, the child next to her would smack her lips, as if he was also eating a steamed bun.
Jiang Yan felt a little embarrassed. She quickly finished the steamed bun in a few bites, then clapped her hands, turned around and walked towards the forest.
"Tsk, what are you so proud of? It's like you can't afford it."
"This military family is really stingy. The children are looking at them eagerly, but they are unwilling to share even a little bit."
"Work hard. They provide food for you. Do you have any?"
Seeing that the children didn't get anything, everyone was a little weird, and the children also gathered together to help with the work.
"Shitou, did you see that? She ate from the backpack."
A tall and thin boy kicked the boy who was pulling weeds next to him.
The boy called Shitou glanced in the direction where the military wife had left, then lowered his head and continued to pull weeds.
"Yes, I see."
The tall and thin boy rolled his eyes and continued, "You are very familiar with that mountain, why don't you go and take a look?"
Shitou looked at the tall and thin boy, "Li Tiezhu, aren't you afraid of being beaten to death? He's a military family member!"
The tall and thin boy looked very disdainful and sneered, "Being beaten to death is better than being starved to death. We are familiar with that mountain. Even if the bamboo basket was stolen, she would only think that it was taken away by monkeys or wild animals in the mountains, and would not think of us."
Shi Tou looked at Jiang Yan's disappearing figure and wondered what he was thinking.
…
Walking along the path into the mountains, Jiang Yan observed the surrounding situation as she walked.
She knew by heart all the medicinal herbs she had studied, their effects, and the environment in which they were suitable for growing.
Along the way, she also compared the actual growing environment of various medicinal herbs with what she had learned.
Jiang Yan immersed herself in it and found a special kind of happiness.
Every time I find a medicinal herb and carefully dig it out intact, I feel like I have found a treasure.
Others don’t know that this is a treasure, but she not only knows it, but can also turn it into valuable medicine. This unique sense of accomplishment is addictive.
Slowly.
Jiang Yan's backpack became heavier, with more fresh herbs in it. She slowly went deeper into the mountains, looking for deserted places.
Rustle!
There was a sudden noise in front. After the last experience of encountering a wild boar, Jiang Yan immediately became alert.
She stood still, paying attention to what was happening ahead.
After a while, she heard voices coming from the front and Jiang Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Look how impatient you are."
"My dearest, I miss you so much. Did you miss me?"
"Dead ghost~"
Field battle!
A secret affair? Or is it that the couple went out to seek excitement?
The man is vulgar and the woman is pretentious and artificial. The sound is really uncomfortable to listen to and there is no beauty at all.
Jiang Yan rolled her eyes and quickly stepped back to leave the scene, but ended up stepping on a dry branch.
Crack!
"What's that sound?"
The woman on the other side of the bush exclaimed. The two of them fell silent and listened carefully to the noises around them, but there was nothing except the birds singing in the trees.
The man laughed softly and said, "There was no sound. You must have heard it wrong. Don't worry, no one is coming here."
"Come on, little beauty, I miss you so much."
"Damn it~, you better try harder——"
…
Jiang Yan breathed a sigh of relief as the two men didn't notice her, but she felt a little embarrassed by what happened next.
Listen to the sound.
The two people opposite were not very old, probably around 30 years old, and from what I could tell, they seemed to know each other.
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