This time, except for a very few families who asked the village chief and others to help carry things, most families saved up the money they made from selling medicinal herbs.
Back in the village, the village chief handed out cloth bags to everyone, which were originally meant for medicinal herbs but were now filled with money. Everyone's face was beaming with happiness, and everyone was overjoyed.
"This is the bag from the left family, this is the bag from the top family, but whose bag is this? Why isn't there even a mark on it?"
The unmarked cloth bags had to be distributed last. After all the cloth bags had been distributed, the village chief sighed and had no choice but to tell the truth.
"Hey everyone, I have something to tell you all. The clinic said they won't be accepting any more medicinal herbs for a while, even though it seems like we've already dug up almost all the hills near the village."
but!
However, the people at the clinic also said that later, when all sorts of medicinal herbs on the mountain are ripe, such as black nightshade, cypress berries, jujube seeds, cypress fruit, earthworms, cicada molts, mantis egg cases, etc., we have plenty of these on the mountain, and they are all medicinal herbs that the clinic needs! Then we'll have more income!"
This news was absolutely exhilarating, instantly turning the villagers' sorrow into joy.
"Uncle Village Chief, what are those medicinal herbs you mentioned?"
Someone asked impatiently.
"Oh, this one, that black nightshade is the same as the pomegranate, Xu Changqing is the ghost inspector, earth dragon is the centipede, cicada molt is the skin of the water turtle, mantis egg case is the seed of the mantis, and I don't need to explain the sour jujube seed and cypress fruit, right?"
With so much to say, how could anyone remember it all after just one explanation? So the villagers asked again and again. The village chief was neither impatient nor agitated, and he simply repeated the explanation over and over until everyone had almost remembered it. By then, his mouth was dry and there was even white foam at the corner of his mouth.
The village chief's wife felt extremely distressed seeing this, but she dared not say anything, for fear of being scolded by her husband and mother-in-law. She could only hurriedly pour him water and watch him drink one ladle after another.
The village chief had just taken his second sip of water when Lin Chaodong arrived.
"Uncle Village Chief, this is the money for my brother's medicine and pig's blood. These are a few hair ornaments my mother sewed to thank you for saving my brother's life. They're nothing valuable, so please don't mind them, Uncle and Aunt."
Lin Chaodong went to town with his mother today because she needed scraps of cloth, needles, and thread, and his fourth brother needed to continue eating pig's blood. It wasn't good to keep bothering others, so he went by himself.
He had memorized all the medicinal herbs the clinic would need in the future. He went straight home as soon as he got back, and his mother took the needle, thread and scraps of cloth and started working. She cut and folded a few times, then sewed a few stitches, and a hair ornament was finished. Even he, a grown man, thought it looked good.
He only just realized how skillful his mother's hands were!
"Oh my! How could I dislike them? These flowers are so beautiful! I never knew your mother's skills were so good! It's really your brothers who have been held back."
The village chief's wife was happily arranging a few flowers when she accidentally slipped out a string of words.
"Cough cough cough!"
The village chief coughed a few times, reminding his wife.
"Oops! I misspoke, haha..."
However, your mother's hands are truly skillful; although these flowers are made of coarse linen, they are still more beautiful than the silk flowers sold in that fabric shop in town!
The village chief's wife happily called her little daughter over and immediately tied two flowers to her little girl's hair. The little girl was so happy that she ran out to show them off to everyone.
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