The stove in the pharmacy never went out.
Taking advantage of the cool weather, Qiaoyun would come to help out in the morning, and then use the old mule to carry away the dried and crushed mosquito coil raw materials in batches when she returned to the mountain in the afternoon.
As for medicinal herbs, Baicaotang helped with the procurement, while Xu Gensheng bought various leaves and bark from each market in town to use as mosquito coils.
According to the plan, Qiaoyun needs to make mosquito coils and extract mosquito repellent on the mountain.
There are currently no sealing conditions or preservatives available, so the mosquito repellent cannot be stored for too long. It is made to order and cannot be made in advance.
The most tiring and difficult part of making mosquito coils is grinding various powders in the early stages, such as charcoal powder, bark powder, and medicinal powder.
Last year, we rushed to make mosquito coils, spending a lot of money to hire villagers to dry, process, and grind them into powder. This year, it will be much easier.
Errui and a few others dried and ground elm bark, vitex leaves, camphor leaves, and mugwort leaves in advance at the pharmacy, and then used a special set of equipment at the pharmacy to sieve them layer by layer, which was convenient and quick.
The final step is to knead the various medicinal powders into a paste according to the specified proportions, and then press it into mosquito coils.
Because of technical confidentiality requirements, the pharmacy cannot easily produce mosquito coils and mosquito repellent liquid.
These tasks will still be handled by Chunfeng, Dazhu, and Qiaoyun on the mountain, and even the accounts will be kept separate.
Jiang Zhi's pharmacy was busy making medicine and preparing materials for mosquito coils.
The village is busy cultivating various seedlings, especially the early-season tender corn, which almost every household is planting. They can earn money in two or three months, and everyone is envious.
The corn seedlings that were prepared at the end of February are now over a foot tall and need to be transplanted immediately.
Those families who hadn't reserved corn rows in their fields beforehand began to feel bitter.
The wheat seedlings and rapeseed are also in their peak growing season, and the scene is full of vitality.
With the corn seedlings needing transplanting, and in order to sell the green grain, we have to cut down these growing wheat and rapeseed seedlings to make room for several rows of empty grain in the field.
Xu Changming stood in the field, hands on his hips, cursing loudly: "Eating barley is a disgrace! It's such a waste of these wheat seedlings; they should be heading in a month."
After cursing, he complained about his poor planning: "Sigh, let's harvest it! Let's harvest it! It'll be perfect for feeding the cattle. If I had known, I wouldn't have planted these rows; I could have left some wheat so I could have an extra wheat cake."
Faced with gold and silver, even heroes lose their courage; no matter how much it hurts, they must still make the cut.
In a plot of land below him, Qin was bending over, pulling weeds to feed the chickens on her way home.
That plot of land belongs to her family. They left empty rows there last winter, and now they're planting corn seedlings, which are growing just right.
Xu Genqing is now learning to farm from Aunt Jiang, and he started cultivating seedlings as soon as the temperature rose.
Not only were they transplanted ten days to half a month faster than Xu Changming and his group, but the corn had already taken root and was growing beautifully with green branches and leaves.
Hearing Xu Changming's cursing, Qin straightened up and laughed, "Uncle Changming, last year you wouldn't allow the sale of green grain, but now you have to harvest wheat seedlings. Harvesting wheat means eating a few less bushels of grain. Are you really willing to give that up, you stubborn old man?"
Xu Changming was feeling unwell and anxious when he heard Qin Shi still mocking him for being stubborn by bringing up last year's events. A surge of anger immediately rose within him: "Whether I eat less or more is none of your business. You should watch your mouth and stop stealing your son and daughter-in-law's money."
Several months have passed since Qin took money from the family to buy things. At first, she kept it a secret, but after Pi scolded her, the news spread throughout the village.
Now everyone is laughing at Qin for being gluttonous!
When someone accused her of stealing money to her face, Qin Shi didn't care at all, showed no shame, and even laughed.
Lianhua told Genqing that she could say what she wanted to eat from now on, and that the family would share the same pots and bowls, and that she would have a share of everything in the house, so she wouldn't have to sneak around anymore.
The son and daughter-in-law are not pursuing the matter anymore, so no matter what others say, it's useless.
Now that Xu Changming brought it up, Qin Shi said nonchalantly, "That was a gift from my son and daughter-in-law. I can take it if I want, it's none of your business!"
Seeing Qin's shamelessness, Xu Changming pointed at her nose and said, "If your son wants to be filial, then he can be filial. You two can keep your own business to yourselves and don't drag Li Laoshi into it."
"I think you're a menace! Old Li was kindly looking out for the villagers, and you scratched his hands and face until they were raw!"
Upon hearing the mention of Li Laoshi, Qin Shi, who had just been oblivious to shame, immediately fell silent.
His face slowly turned red, and although his mouth moved a few times, he couldn't utter a single word.
I don't know what was wrong with me at that time. The thought of losing money made me feel like I had lost my soul. I was really scared, scared of being beaten, and I even had thoughts of dying.
When Li Laoshi came to pull him away, he only thought he was going to be taken back and beaten, so he didn't hold back.
By the time I calmed down, it was already the next day.
She remembered that she had not only scratched Li Laoshi, but also cried and said a lot of things.
Even though only Li Laoshi heard it, she still felt embarrassed.
So he pretended to be a quail and stayed at home all day, avoiding people.
If you really can't avoid Li Laoshi, just pretend you've forgotten about him when you run into him.
Xu Changming didn't care whether Qin Shi, his nephew's wife, could save face.
He only heard that Qin Shi had been lazy and gluttonous ever since she married into the Xu family. She would fight with her stepdaughter and stepson for food at the dinner table all day long, and was only changed after being beaten and scolded by her mother-in-law and husband many times.
Later, he had a falling out with his stepdaughter-in-law, and they argued every day, which drove his stepson away from home. Now he's tormenting his own daughter-in-law.
In this village, Jiang used to be a shrew, but she was able to hold her household together.
The men in the family were weak, and the whole family depended on the woman to make ends meet. No matter how wicked or shrewish she was, no one in the village dared to provoke her or say anything.
With the Jiang family ahead of them, this Qin family can only be a petty scoundrel.
Although the Jiang family is shrewish, they are capable. Now they are leading the villagers to repair houses and level the land, and Xu Changming has to admit their superiority.
But Qin's family is different. They've been making a ruckus in the village for decades, and now they're becoming more and more outrageous, even threatening suicide and embarrassing themselves in front of outsiders.
Xu Changming felt that Jiang was an incompetent village chief.
They're only focused on making money now and can't keep up with the village's atmosphere. As an elder in the clan, I should step in and speak up.
After all, if it weren't for Li Laoshi's willingness to give him that bowl of medicine on that stormy night last year, he would probably be able to beat his bones with a drumstick right now.
Seeing that Qin was speechless after he had spoken, Xu Changming continued to seek justice for Li Laoshi: "Li Laoshi is an outsider who did nothing wrong. You went crazy and hurt people, and they didn't hold it against you or say anything. But now your family is pretending to be stupid and hasn't even apologized!"
Qin was so angry that her chest heaved up and down. Finally, she couldn't hold back anymore and yelled at Xu Changming, "What does it have to do with you whether I apologize or not? If you have a temper, let Li Laoshi come and ask for it in person. What kind of skill is it to talk behind my back!"
Xu Changming's eyes widened: "You have the nerve to say that you want Li Laoshi to come and ask for it!"
Qin stamped her foot, stopped pulling grass, picked up her basket, and turned to leave.
As he walked, he muttered curses under his breath: "Li Laoshi, you pretend you don't know anything, what kind of man are you to send someone to find me? If you dare to spread what I said, I'll pinch your balls off."
In Qingquan Bay, Li Laoshi, who was being tortured half to death by two little devils, felt a chill run down his spine. He sneezed twice, almost popping his eyes out, and yelled, "Which bastard is cursing me?"
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