"Liu Tiao, what do you want to do?" The second young man suddenly became alert. He turned his head and saw Liu Tiao digging into his basket and taking out two mushrooms. He suddenly stood up and rushed towards Liu Tiao, waving his fists.
Oh no, my second brother found me! Liu Tiao looked guilty and quickly ran away with the two mushrooms.
Yitiao was concentrating on picking mushrooms when he turned around and saw Liutiao rushing towards him with his hands raised, followed by his furious older brother.
"Big brother, wait a minute." Yitiao decisively pushed Liutiao out of his arms. Liutiao must have provoked Ertiao again. He was picking mushrooms and didn't want to get involved in this matter.
"Hmph, Liu Tiao, if I don't help you this time, I'll see where you can escape!" Er Tiao gave an evil smile.
Liu Tiao found that the thigh he was holding was gone, so he quickly thought of a way out and threw two mushrooms into his big brother's basket, then swerved and hid behind Yi Tiao...
One of them was staring into the basket. Where's the reward for two mushrooms? How about helping six of them?
Then the three brothers started fighting.
"Thalasalasalasalasalasalasala..." In another corner, San Tiao was humming a song while happily picking mushrooms. He was leisurely and contented, and the years were quiet and good, as if the troubles and fights in the outside world had nothing to do with him.
Cheng Zhenzhu glanced back at the three little ones picking mushrooms and the one, two, and six little ones making a scene. She narrowed her eyes and smiled, not interfering. It was perfectly normal for brothers to play and laugh, and besides, there was the little darling who was out of the question...
"Cold~" San Tiao picked a mushroom and saw several strange-looking leaves growing sideways. He immediately asked his mother for help. He had recognized many leaves during this period, but this one was unfamiliar to him.
Cheng Zhenzhu heard San Tiao and asked again, "What is this?", put down the small shovel and walked over, put her hand on it to touch and follow the process.
She couldn't remember many of the local names for the plants and trees on the mountain, so she relied on the system to identify their scientific names. Some of the scientific names were so long that they made her eyes bulge out.
"This is the feather-leaved star fern, also known as the arrow-leaved fern..."
"Yu Nie Xingxing?" San Tiao repeated in a whisper.
"The whole plant is used as medicine, promoting blood circulation, removing dampness, and detoxifying..." Cheng Zhenzhu read through the information the system had linked. As she read, she suddenly remembered the recipe for sea snake wine.
The recipe is primarily used to relax tendons and dispel rheumatism. The herb, Asteropsis pilosa, can treat conditions like joint pain, injuries from falls, and swelling. What would happen if Asteropsis pilosa were added to the recipe?
Having an idea, Cheng Zhenzhu acted on it. Using a small hoe, she dug up two feather-shaped star ferns and placed them in the basket.
"Mom, what is this to eat?" Liu Tiao had just finished fighting and had just escaped from his second brother's hands in shame. He saw his mother digging something he didn't recognize, and her eyes were shining, as bright as a large piece of obsidian.
"This isn't something to eat." Cheng Zhenzhu almost burst out laughing. How did Liu Tiao know it was something to eat? "This is medicine. Mom plans to use it to make wine for grandma and grandpa to drink."
It turned out it wasn't food, but grandma and grandpa's medicine. So he didn't fight with them for it... Liu Tiao turned around and carried the basket to pick mushrooms.
Not only did he not get the mushrooms from his second brother, he also lost a few of them, and his eldest brother also took two of them. He didn't have many mushrooms left...
"Grandma, Grandpa Nao, is he sick?" San Tiao frowned slightly when he heard his mother's words.
"It's not really a disease. It's just that you're getting older, so you'll have some problems." Cheng Zhenzhu looked at San Tiao, who looked a little worried, and comforted him, "You'll be fine after you drink the medicinal wine that mother brewed."
San Tiao nodded, picked up the small shovel and dug up the feather-like star fern. "Dig two more, so they can soak more~"
"Okay, soak more." Cheng Zhenzhu nodded, took the three and dug two more. The herbs would need to be processed when they got home, and then they would be fine after drying them...
Since many people had visited this place, the mother and her two children did not pick up a lot of mushrooms in the end, but there were still enough for two plates of fried mushrooms.
That afternoon, Cheng Zhenzhu fried some mushrooms for the children to eat to their heart's content. She ate a dozen of them herself, then went to prepare the herbs.
The sea snake had already been brewed into wine. She had used the white wine she'd previously collected. She'd given some to her father, Cheng Fugui, and the captain, and also kept some for later use. Two years had passed, and she'd already created quite a few.
It was more than enough to make four jars of sea snake medicinal wine. The jars were large, clear glass jars she'd brought back from town and were placed on the counter. Several of the children were very interested in snakes and would take a look at them from time to time...
After cleaning the feather-leaved star fern, Cheng Zhenzhu dried it. Drying is faster than shade drying. Soon, Cheng Zhenzhu had four dried feather-leaved star ferns that exuded a faint herbal scent.
After some consideration, Cheng Zhenzhu added dried feather-splitting star fern to two of the bottles of wine, leaving the remaining two untouched for comparison. The original recipe was a system creation, so it should have been top-notch. Perhaps she had overdone it...
"Mom, there's a letter." Four kids were playing outside. When they saw Wang Baogen delivering a package, they greeted him as if he were their own uncle, and then he moved the package into the house with great effort.
Cheng Zhenzhu went out, thanked Wang Baogen, then opened the two letters and kept the stamps.
There were two letters. One was from his mother's side, and contained many words from Wang Xiaomei, specifically thanking her for the fish maw. The rest was a bit of family gossip, and he mentioned in passing that his eldest sister had found a new folk remedy for conceiving a child.
In fact, she had gently advised her elder sister against having a baby at an advanced age, but it seemed to be of no use... Cheng Zhenzhu opened another letter.
The other letter came from Caoshi. Cheng Zhenzhu's face was grim after reading it. In it, young educated youth Gu mentioned that her father, mother, and brother had met with misfortune on the train back home. Just a few words, and tears welled up in her eyes.
No, it shouldn't be like this. Cheng Zhenzhu suddenly realized something. In the book "1980," the educated youth Gu's parents were still alive, as were his brother, sister-in-law, and nephew. How could such a huge change have happened?
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