Chapter 55: Northeast China has three treasures: ginseng, mink fur, and Ula grass



After leaving the compound, turn right, walk for fifteen minutes, then walk north for twenty minutes, and you will reach the foot of the mountain.

It doesn’t look far, but when you actually walk there, you realize how far it is.

At this point, Su Runrun finally understood what it meant to "run to death while looking at the mountain".

After reaching the foot of the mountain, the group dispersed.

Everyone came here to dig wild vegetables and collect firewood. If they all crowded together and fought for the things, they might as well disperse and do their own thing.

Niu Guifang led her three children and asked Su Ruanruan to go with her.

Niu Guifang's hands and mouth are never idle.

"Soft girl, you just came to the Northeast, you must not know that the Northeast has three treasures."

Hearing this, Su Ruanruan subconsciously wanted to say that she knew.

Although Su Ruanruan had never been to Northeast China before traveling through time, she had heard that the Northeast had three treasures: ginseng, deer antlers and mink fur.

Just as she was thinking this, she heard Niu Guifang say, "These three treasures are ginseng, mink fur, and Ula grass."

"Ula grass?" Su Ruanruan looked at Niu Guifang in surprise. "What is Ula grass?"

While asking this, Su Ruanruan still had some self-doubt. It had only been more than ten days since she came here, and her memory had become distorted?

"Ula grass is a good thing!" Niu Guifang talked about Ula grass nonstop, "Winter comes early and lasts long here, and it's also very cold! Cotton requires tickets and is hard to buy, so we use Ula grass to keep warm in winter.

When autumn comes, people come to the mountains to cut Ula grass, dry it and store it. In winter, they put it in their shoes to prevent their feet from getting frostbite! Isn’t it a good thing? "

Su Ruanruan nodded repeatedly, "That's really a good thing. Sister-in-law, what does Ula grass look like?"

"Ula grass, its leaves are slender and soft, not easy to break, and can be used to weave straw sandals and straw mattresses. I heard from my wife that it can also be used to make artificial cotton, fiberboard, and paper."

As she spoke, Niu Guifang pointed to a patch of lush green grass nearby and said, "Look, that's the Ula grass. It grows wildly every year and is everywhere in the mountains."

Just as Niu Guifang just described, the leaves of the Ula grass are long and slender. They have grown in the mountains from nowhere, and the leaves are particularly tall.

Su Ruanruan leaned over to take a closer look and said, "Then wait until autumn, my sister-in-law and I will come to pick Ula grass together."

"Of course we have to pick them. Our army accepts them and we pay for them!"

Su Ruanruan's eyes widened a little, "Is there such a good thing?"

"Of course, it's used to make paper!"

At this point, the two looked at each other and laughed.

Niu Guifang worked really efficiently. In just a short while, she had picked up quite a few branches and piled them all together. When there were enough branches, she tied them up with hemp rope.

Hongya and her two siblings were not idle either, they were all helping to pick up branches.

Hongya’s hands are small, so she can only hold one at a time.

Every time she picked up a branch, she would run over with her short legs, put the firewood in her hand together with the pile on the ground, and then trot away.

Seeing those movements, Su Runrun's heart softened.

The little girl is so cute!

As she was staring at him, she heard Niu Guifang say, "You want a daughter, soft girl? Then hurry up and have one. You and your husband are both good-looking, so the child you have will definitely be good-looking too."

Su Ruanruan thought so too.

But having a baby is a matter of fate, and she is not in a hurry.

"There's no rush for this, just let it happen naturally." Su Ruanruan said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, I'll go take a look around, you watch Hong Ya and the other two, I won't go far, I'll answer if you call me."

After all, Su Ruanruan is an adult and has a family, so Niu Guifang did not stop her. She just reminded Su Ruanruan to be careful.

Su Ruanruan agreed and walked to the other side carrying the backpack.

Su Runruan didn't go into the mountains to play, she went to dig wild vegetables and look for wild fruits, so after walking a few steps she squatted down, dug out the wild vegetables she saw, and threw them into her backpack.

But because this is the outermost part of the mountain, there are many people coming and going, and the wild vegetables have been almost dug up, so Su Runrun did not harvest much.

Su Ruanruan was not discouraged.

Wild vegetables are wild. If they grew in large areas everywhere, there would be no need for people to grow vegetables to eat.

Although I could only dig up one or two wild vegetables every time I squatted down, after accumulating over time, there were quite a few.

Su Ruanruan felt the weight in the backpack and was quite satisfied.

After putting most of them into Taojinjin's shop and sending a notice to the returning customer, Su Ruanruan walked back with the basket on her back.

Niu Guifang was not surprised to see that there were not many wild vegetables in Su Ruanruan's backpack. "People often go into the mountains, and the wild vegetables have been almost dug up. But we have to go down today. Let's go into the mountains again after two days after the rain. By then, the mountains will be full of mushrooms.

But you can't just pick mushrooms casually, some are poisonous. I'll teach you how to identify poisonous mushrooms later."

The original owner had also gone into the mountains to pick mushrooms. Su Runrun had all of the original owner's memories, so naturally she knew something.

But this place is very different from where the original owner lived, and there might be species that the original owner didn't know, so Su Ruanruan nodded and said, "I also know a few poisonous mushrooms, but I don't think they are all. Sister-in-law, you can teach me when the time comes!"

"Leave it to my sister-in-law!"

Niu Guifang patted his chest to assure him, then looked to the other side and shouted at the top of his voice, "Qiaoqin, we're done here, we're going back, are you guys going to leave?"

After a while, Zhang Qiaoqin's voice came from afar, "We're not leaving yet, you go first!"

Niu Guifang picked up two bundles of firewood on the ground and said, "If they don't leave, let's go. Soft girl, let's go home!"

Su Ruanruan took a bundle of firewood directly from Niu Guifang and said, "Sister-in-law, I'll help you carry a bundle."

The basket that Niu Guifang was carrying was also full of firewood, and with the two bundles in her hands, it was quite heavy.

Niu Guifang hesitated, "This firewood is very heavy, can you carry it, little girl?"

"Of course!"

Su Ruanruan picked up the firewood easily and said, "To be honest, sister-in-law, when I was in the production team, I also got eight or nine work points."

The more tiring the work and the more energy it takes, the higher the work points will be. This is why men generally have higher work points than women.

Niu Guifang looked at Su Ruanruan in surprise, "Really? I never expected that. You have thin arms and legs, and you look so soft and small. I always thought you were a soft little girl, like Hong Ya."

Su Ruanruan touched her face with her other hand and looked at Niu Guifang with sparkling eyes, "Sister-in-law, are you praising my youthful face?"

"Do I need to praise you? You have a tender face! Your face is like a boiled egg that has just been peeled. Fu Qi is so lucky!"

"No, no." Su Ruanruan shook her head repeatedly, "Wen Jing is also good-looking, so I won't suffer any loss."


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