Chapter 26 Planting Medicinal Herbs
"Husband, are there any coniferous or broad-leaved forests like larch and birch growing around here? And they should be growing on the shady side?" Li Wanqing asked while lying in Gu Yan's arms.
"Yes, there are plenty of places like this in the mountains. Why are you asking this?" Gu Yan answered without thinking.
“These places are suitable for ginseng growth. I want to go and see them. What if I can get some ginseng?
Although you are young and skilled, hunting is still dangerous.
This is what I thought. I can prepare herbal medicine. This deep mountain is rarely visited by people, so there must be a lot of precious medicinal materials.
Let's see if we can dig up some more herbs first. I'll prepare them and you can exchange them for silver.
Let's save more money, and then go out and buy some land when we have the chance. If we have more money, we will go to the county town and buy a yard.
In a few years we should have children, and then it will be convenient for them to go to school or do other things.
Don't worry about not having a job when you get to the county town. I have a recipe for braised pork, don't I? We can sell it then.
By the way, can the children of businessmen take the imperial examinations?" Li Wanqing explained her plan to Gu Yan in detail.
Gu Yan didn't expect that Li Wanqing had made such detailed arrangements for their lives.
How to say it, he was both moved and guilty, feeling useless.
He was touched that Li Wanqing was so sincere in living with him, and he felt sorry for him and worried that he was in danger.
He felt guilty because he only knew how to hunt. If he relied solely on hunting, his family would definitely not starve, but he could not guarantee that his wife and children would live a good life.
Although I will definitely work hard to support my family, some things really cannot be achieved by just hard work.
Although Gu Yan felt that he was useless, it did not stop him from listening to his wife.
"Wife, you can also prepare herbs? Wife, you are really amazing
I'll listen to you. But my dear wife, you can't look down on me for being incompetent." Gu Yan said while hugging Li Wanqing.
"How could that be? As long as you don't do anything to let me down, I will never abandon you.
You haven't mentioned it yet. Does the court have any restrictions on businessmen taking the imperial examinations? If so, we must consider it carefully.
We can’t let it affect our children and prevent them from taking the science exams in the future,” Li Wanqing said.
"There are no restrictions on doing business in this dynasty, and the children of businessmen can also take the imperial examinations." Although Gu Yan was surprised that Li Wanqing didn't even know such a simple thing, he still answered honestly.
Li Wanqing felt relieved knowing that doing business would not affect her future children.
Although she is not a very smart person and does not know how to do business, she can hire people and find people who know how to do business to cooperate with her.
She has some good ideas brought from modern times in her mind, so she is not afraid of not making money.
Apart from anything else, she can cook a lot of dishes and can make money by opening a restaurant.
She also knows how to make soap and brown sugar, which she learned from a book.
Moreover, her major is traditional Chinese medicine, and she is very knowledgeable about Chinese medicinal materials. They live in the mountains, so it is not impossible for them to grow some Chinese medicinal materials.
Come to think of it, she has many ways to make money.
But that will be discussed later. She doesn't want to be rich and powerful in this era. She just wants to live a simple life with a good fortune.
The couple chatted for a while and then fell asleep.
For the next ten days, Gu Yan took Li Wanqing to explore areas suitable for ginseng growth. During these days, they traveled through the mountains within a radius of more than 20 kilometers.
I have to say, there are really a lot of medicinal herbs in these deep mountains and forests.
Li Wanqing had a good harvest in the past ten days. She harvested dozens of ginseng trees of all sizes. The largest one was at least five or six hundred years old. There were three that were two hundred years old, five that were one hundred years old, eighteen that were thirty and fifty years old, and twenty-five that were five to ten years old.
There were also more than a hundred ginseng seeds, which she planted in the space.
He also collected quite a few other Ganoderma lucidums, including six of the most precious red Ganoderma lucidum, eleven of the purple Ganoderma lucidum, and more than twenty others.
There are also gentian, wild rhubarb, gastrodia elata, epimedium, cordyceps...
The area in Li Wanqing's space that was originally reserved for growing herbs was now full. Li Wanqing had only planted the precious and valuable ones. She hadn't planted the common ones at all.
Li Wanqing plans to clear out two plots of land to plant precious medicinal herbs such as ginseng, cordyceps, and gastrodia elata after planting two crops.
"Gu Yan, I have prepared all the herbs. We will go to the county town to sell them tomorrow. Let's sell a fifty-year-old ginseng first to see the price." Li Wanqing carefully put the herbs into the backpack.
"Wife, I still can't believe we dug so much ginseng. Why didn't I think of going to the herbal medicine store to see what ginseng looks like before?
If you weren't smart, we wouldn't have known there were so many valuable medicinal herbs around us." Gu Yan still felt like he was dreaming.
Li Wanqing was also a little puzzled. Don't hunters usually know simple medicinal herbs? Especially ginseng? Hunters traveled in the mountains year after year, so the chances of digging ginseng were very high.
This is what Li Wanqing and Gu Yan didn't know. Gu Yan's ancestor was just a scholar who had studied for a few years and had to go into the mountains to avoid the war.
It was extremely difficult for a scholar with no knowledge of grains to survive in the mountains. At one point, he almost died.
Later, he was rescued by an old hunter who had no children and lived in the mountains.
Later, he recognized the old hunter as his adoptive father, and later the old hunter paid for him to marry a peasant girl from outside.
It is said to be marrying, but in fact it can also be said to be buying. The world is in chaos outside, and some families will sell their girls if they can't make a living.
Soon after the two got married, they had a child, and the old hunter was ready to teach his grandson all his skills.
It’s not that I don’t want to teach my godson, but he is sick and gets out of breath if he walks a little distance.
There was no choice but to wait and teach his grandson, but the old hunter's idea ultimately turned into regret.
Because before his grandson grew up, he was bitten to death by a blind bear he encountered while hunting.
This also resulted in the Gu family's grandfather not learning the old hunter's skills at all, including recognizing simple medicinal herbs.
This is also the reason why Gu Chongshan doesn’t know the medicinal herbs. If Gu Chongshan doesn’t know them, it is even more impossible for Gu Yan and his brothers to know them.
"Do you know which drugstore owner in the county is honest? I'm afraid the owner is dishonest and will try to lower our prices." Li Wanqing asked.
Gu Yan thought for a moment and said, "I heard that Dejitang is honest and trustworthy, and has a very good reputation. Let's go to Dejitang."
"Okay, let's go to bed early today. We have to get up early tomorrow to go to the county town." Li Wanqing took the backpack into the cave and put it away.
Li Wanqing didn't dare leave these medicinal herbs outside, for one reason, she was afraid they would get wet by dew, and another, she was afraid they would be stolen.
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