Chapter 9 Dendrobium
Li Laosan took out the basket obediently, and the floral cloth tightly covering the basket slid open a gap, revealing a few green incense sticks.
"Mom wants to worship the mountain god?"
It turned out that grandma had prepared incense, candles, and paper money. Daya tentatively asked, "Grandma, are you going to call back the soul of my uncle?"
Qin Fangci paused and replied softly, "Well, your uncle was terrified yesterday. It's amazing that he managed to run all the way to the bamboo forest with his head covered. If he had collapsed here... I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to come back."
"I am a lucky brother, so I deserve to call my soul back." Li Laosan was softer-hearted.
The three of them quickly set out the incense, candles, and paper money. They didn't bring much, as they only had these in stock at home. Luckily, Li Lao Er was a peddler. Otherwise, if it weren't for a festival, the villagers wouldn't have specially prepared these. "All of you come and kowtow, just consider it as helping to worship the gods and Buddhas."
Li Laosan and Daya were puzzled, but both of them were very well behaved.
Qin Fangci said a lot of things silently in her heart, then she stood up and recited in a low voice, there is a way of calling back souls here.
After all the paper money had burned, Qin Fangci pointed to the top of her head and said to Li Laosan, "Laosan, do you see that grass on the cliff? Carefully pull it down with the roots."
Li Laosan took a look at the height and knew what he was talking about. "Okay, Mom, please move aside."
Without much effort, Li Laosan took down the shortest dendrobium and asked, "Mom, do you think it's okay? What kind of flower is this? Why does it have a small bud?"
Qin Fangci carefully wrapped the roots with large leaves. Daya came to help. The two of them quickly wrapped the dendrobium and put it in the basket. "This is a flower that only rich people can appreciate. Your younger brother saw it at the master's house. This flower can be exchanged for money. The family quarreled over money. Your younger brother also wanted to make money for the family, but he didn't expect that his good intentions would cause an accident."
Li Laosan suddenly realized and said ashamedly: "I was wrong about this little brother. I didn't want to embarrass Cuiyun."
"I know you love your wife. You are the one who loves your wife the most in the family."
Li Laosan thought his mother was being sarcastic and was about to say something with a red face when Qin Fangci added, "A man who loves his wife and children is a good man. You're not wrong. Your wife is the one you'll spend your whole life with. If you don't love her, who will? Your father passed away early, and I was the only one who carried the family's ups and downs. I also wish she had lived two more years so I wouldn't have been so tired."
"Mom." Li Laosan was very surprised. His mother had never spoken to him like this before.
It was so heartfelt that it made him feel warm inside, but at the same time, he felt even more guilty.
Daya also looked at her grandmother in surprise and then quickly lowered her head.
"mother."
"I know you're a good person. I was mistaken in my thinking before, and my behavior may not be right, which is why our family has so many problems. I thought, let me change first, and see if our family's life can get better little by little in the future. When life gets better, I can give you more gifts for festivals, and you can also be more respectable when you accompany your wife to your parents-in-law's house."
"Mom..." Li Laosan's eyes were red, he was moved and distressed, he was excited that his thoughts were understood and supported by his mother.
"Okay, I won't say any more. Let's work hard for this family. Life will definitely get better and better. Let's work together."
Qin Fangci touched Daya next to her and said, "You are also a part of the family. Grandma never went to school, so she didn't understand it before."
Daya blinked her eyes to wipe away the moisture from the corners of her eyes. Was it her educated uncle who told grandma?
"Third brother, I see there are two more trees up there, dig one down."
Li Laosan wiped his face and looked up, "Mom, I dug up both of them."
As he said that, Li Laosan stuck the pickaxe head into the crevice of the stone.
"Dig one, just dig out the one below," Qin Fangci shouted hurriedly, "Be careful, making money is important, but life is more important. Your little brother fell here yesterday."
Li Laosan smiled and said, "That's because my younger brother doesn't work often. How could he do this kind of thing? He should have asked me to come."
Qin Fangci's eyes swept over the dried blood in the corner of the stone crevice, "We can't let any more accidents happen to our family. Bai Tai, you must be obedient."
Li Laosan paused and replied with a nasal voice: "I understand, mother. I will work hard in the future. If my younger brother can study, just tell him to study hard."
Li Laosan couldn't help laughing again. His mother also saw him.
"Mom, you and Daya, step back a little. Be careful of falling rocks."
Qin Fangci and Daya picked up the basket and backpack and retreated together.
Qin Fangci's gaze shifted away from the Dendrobium and she discovered another medicinal herb.
It also grows in the cracks of rocks, and those who don't know would just think it's a weed growing in the cracks of rocks.
"Daya, do you see that grass over there that's hanging down like hair?"
Daya nodded and said, "I see. Is that milk also medicine?"
"Maybe. Let's dig it up together and take it to the medicine store. It's short, so it won't be hard to dig it up."
"Okay." Daya walked over with the sickle.
That was Coptis chinensis, which Qin Fangci knew, but she couldn't say it directly. She was just an ordinary old lady in the countryside.
Daya dug out the Coptis chinensis, and the third child also dug out the second Dendrobium. "Mom, I found it."
Gravel fell as the voice spoke.
"Be careful!" Qin Fangci was very worried, and Daya also looked at her uncle nervously.
Li Laosan grabbed the pickaxe and moved down little by little. He breathed a sigh of relief when his feet touched the ground. "Mom, here you go. I still want to go up and dig up the other one."
Qin Fangci looked at him quietly, and Li Laosan slowly lowered his head. "Okay, I won't go. I won't go."
"Scarcity makes things valuable. It's too dangerous. It's not worth losing your life for a blade of grass."
Li Laosan could only feel sad in his heart. If he was not allowed to pick up the money right in front of him, he would wake up crying in his dreams.
"Don't be sad. When your little brother reads more books, he can tell us more about medicinal herbs. It's the same if we dig other herbs and exchange them for money. Let's go. There are several more herbs over there. Let's dig them up and take them back. We'll take them to the city tomorrow morning to check. We don't know if they are valuable yet. If they are, we can find a way to make money."
Li Laosan looked up at the cliff again. The green grass was twisting its body enchantingly and shining with golden light.
Two plants of Dendrobium and seven or eight plants of Coptis chinensis were placed in a basket.
"Grandma, the basket is not full yet." Daya said carefully.
"There are quite a few ferns here. Let's pick some and go back to the bamboo forest to see if there are any bamboo shoots emerging."
All three of them were good at work. Each of them took a corner and started to get busy.
Li Lao Da, who was rarely busy, was furious. "Second brother, second brother's family, why are you two taking a break again? You've only done so much work and you're already complaining of being tired. Didn't you hear mother say last night that she would come back to see us? At this rate, how can we finish this piece of land?"
Yuan curled her lips. Don't think she doesn't know. The eldest brother often works in the fields and takes a break. It has been a long time since they last worked in the fields. Isn't it normal to take a break when they are tired?
Yuan advised, "Brother, you often go to the fields, your hands are familiar with it, just work harder and you'll be done in a short time."
Boss Li threw down his hoe and said, "What do you mean I should do more? Do you know how to talk? If you don't do it, I won't do it either. What will you do if Mom gets angry?"
Being lazy has caught up with him!
Anyway, he wasn't going to ask his mother for money recently. Thinking of this, Boss Li walked to the shade of a tree and sat down, then picked up the bamboo tube and drank the water.
"Hey, big brother," Yuan was so angry that her hands holding the hoe were shaking. "Big brother, we didn't say we were quitting. We just wanted to take a break. Why are you so angry?"
Boss Li put down the bamboo tube in a bad mood and said, "I'm tired too. Let's rest for a while. It's still early anyway, and I'm afraid mother won't be back for a while."
Yuan couldn't look at her husband. Li Laoer felt a tightness in his chest. He took a breath and walked towards Li Lao Da with a hoe in his hand.
"Brother, it's my fault. Don't be upset. I'll do my job well this time."
Boss Li raised his eyelids and yawned loudly. "Then you go ahead and do it. I'll rest for a while. I got up too early and worked all morning. I'm exhausted."
Boss Li simply lay down with his hands on his head, closed his eyes, and said, "I'm already asleep, don't disturb me!"
Li Laoer: "..."
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