Chapter 308: Close your eyes, take off your clothes, and you'll find yourself a mold.
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It's only been June 6th, and the sun is already scorching hot.
Li Shiyue, wearing a straw hat, went with her mother and the others to the top of Daheishan Mountain, towards the medicinal herb field that her mother and the others had cultivated.
Yes, Li Shiyue told her mother to think about growing medicinal herbs, and Li's mother really put her heart into it.
After inviting Jin Daping from Sanshan County to work as a doctor in Lijiatun, the planting of medicinal herbs began.
Jin Daping has been working as a doctor in Lijiatun for the past few years. In the first year, Li Shiyue had Yangzai and Li Yueniang kowtow to Jin Daping and acknowledge him as their master.
As for why Yangzai and Li Yueniang were made to become disciples?
The reason is that the two of them are the oldest among the children in Lijiatun, both male and female.
This apprenticeship is by no means easy; it's not suitable for young children.
As for why Li Qiutian and Li Xiatian were not allowed to study?
Li Shiyue did ask, but neither of them wanted to learn it.
With no other options, the mother had no choice but to send Li Yueniang, who had just turned eight.
Fortunately, Jin Daping was a good teacher and taught Li Yueniang and the lambs seriously.
Therefore, when Li's mother wanted to make this medicine, she encouraged her to ask Jin Daping if she encountered anything she didn't understand.
In Li Shiyue's words, "Go ask Dr. Jin. He may seem unreliable, but his medical skills are actually quite good."
Mother, just take the pickled vegetables you made.
Even if he doesn't understand, he's a doctor familiar with the properties of medicinal herbs, so it's always good to ask him.
Unlike Li Shiyue, Li's mother was not stingy. She took a piece of smoked meat to Jin Daping's courtyard near Daheishan Mountain.
This courtyard was built by someone hired by Li Shiyue, specifically according to the design Jin Daping had described.
Actually, this courtyard was built much like a small clinic in Qingsong Town. The front was where people could see a doctor, and a carpenter spent a lot of money to build a floor-to-ceiling medicine cabinet for it.
Behind it was a large courtyard, plus a side hall and bedrooms, and later east and west wing rooms were added.
Let alone Jin Daping, an old man, it's more than enough for Yangzai and Li Yueniang to stay here. They can even each have their own room.
When Li's mother arrived, she told Jin Daping the truth. Jin Daping didn't laugh at Li's mother for having such a wild idea of planting medicinal herbs.
Not only did he not think there was anything wrong with Li's mother's idea, he even happily kept Li's mother to talk for a while.
With Jin Daping's help, Li Shiyue no longer needed to spend points to exchange for medicinal herb planting guides from the system.
The first reason, of course, is that Li Shiyue no longer wants to be bound by the system.
Li Shiyue had actually gained a lot of benefits from the system before.
After completing those eight missions, in addition to the points, Li Shiyue also had the chance to draw eight consecutive times in a lottery, obtaining a string of items, each with its own function.
She currently has a fairly large stock of products like fertility pills, beauty pills, and vitality water.
She also found an opportunity to take a bottle of revitalizing water and sprinkle it into the water tank at home, secretly enhancing the physical condition of everyone in the family.
The second reason is that, even though Li Shiyue still went to the prefectural city three years ago, she tried her best to avoid contact with Liu Shu and Li Chunli.
Otherwise, why did she say before that Zhou Yiran was an old acquaintance?
For the past three years, she had been dealing with Zhou Yiran and Liu Shu, or rather, the Prince's Mansion.
Therefore, Li Shiyue's account in the system actually doesn't have many points left because she only spends money and doesn't do any tasks.
Because she always deliberately avoided contact with Liu Shu, the administrator once sent her a rather ridiculous task.
The content of that mission truly made Li Shiyue laugh.
The task assigned to Li Shiyue by the scumbag commander is to sleep with Liu Shu and he will get 500 points!
If you can get pregnant, you'll get 1,000 points!
At that time, the scumbag leader tempted Li Shiyue like this: "As long as the host uses love potion on the male lead Liu Shu, takes a fertility pill in advance, and rolls around in bed with the male lead Liu Shu, you can get 1,500 points!"
These points are enough for the host to exchange for the Medicine Planting Guide, and there will be quite a lot left over, which the host can use to exchange for whatever they want!
Host, didn't you want to buy the waterwheel blueprints a long time ago because of the drought?
So, just close your eyes, take off your clothes, and pretend you've found a mold for yourself.
Li Shiyue, of course, did not listen to the scumbag leader. Not only did she disobey, she also used her last few points to exchange for a blocking opportunity and directly locked the scumbag leader in a dark room.
So, over the past three years, it was truly Li's mother and Zheng Meiniang, along with several women from the village, who, with Jin Daping's help, gradually found a suitable place to grow medicinal herbs on Daheishan Mountain.
Then, we experimented little by little, starting by collecting wild herbs, beginning with obtaining the seeds, and gradually simulating the different environments required for different herbs.
It took three years, but they only managed to successfully grow three kinds of medicinal herbs.
One type is the easy-to-grow creeping euphorbia, which can be used to stop bleeding and treat external injuries;
The remaining two are called Ten Merits, which have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying;
Another type is called Artemisia annua, which is generally used to treat injuries from falls and blows, and has the function of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.
(I made this up, don't believe it!)
But now, as Li Shiyue climbed halfway up the mountain with her mother and the others, she frowned as she looked at the herbs in the medicinal field.
Li's mother squatted down and reached out to examine the herbs planted on the ground. "It's October. We'll have to call someone to help."
Li Shiyue nodded. The leaves of these herbs were already wilting, and they needed to find someone to help carry water up to water them!
Otherwise, all these herbs would probably have withered and died!
But when Li Shiyue came down the mountain and went to the fields to see the millet and wheat she had planted, her face immediately fell.
Even three years ago, after hearing from Old Man Liu that the water level of the river at the end of the village seemed to have dropped, she had already begun to take precautions against the drought.
Over the past three years, she defied public opinion and directly collected the dividends from each paper mill. With the money earned from the paper mills, she sought out experienced well diggers and searched for more than a dozen places in Lijiatun where water might be found. In the end, she finally dug eight deep wells.
These deep wells only make it more convenient for the villagers to get water.
The crops in the fields don't even have a place to get water.
Two years ago, Li Shiyue led everyone to the riverbank to look at the scratches she had left the previous year, confirming that the water level was lower than it had been the previous year.
Only then did everyone become anxious, fearing that a drought was about to strike!
It was around that time that Li Shiyue proposed digging cellars to store grain, and spent money and manpower to dig several large pits next to the fields of all the villagers.
They diverted the river water in advance to prevent the water level from dropping further in the future. Even if they managed to block the water here, where would they store it?
If the crops don't get enough water, it will be just like it was a few years ago when they were in Henan Province.
Drought, fleeing famine, searching for water, and starting over on another piece of land.
Even though several years have passed, the journey from Henan to Andong is still a past that many people in Lijiatun are unwilling to recall.
At this moment, Li Shiyue looked up at the dazzling sun in the sky, and her heart became somewhat heavy.
She thought that she would have to write to General Liu Tan and the Prince of Zhenbei later to tell them about her discovery.
She could take preventative measures in advance, but that only meant she had influence in Lijiatun.
To save more people, it is natural to rely on those in higher positions of power.
As Li Shiyue walked towards the riverbank, she didn't notice that Zhou Yiran, standing at the entrance of the council hall, was looking at her with a serious expression.
The longer Zhou Yiran stayed in Lijiatun these past few days, the more questions he had about Li Shiyue.
Zhou Yiran's question was: "What exactly is Li Shiyue trying to do?"
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