Chapter 942: Free Medicine (5)
What does this mean? Shen Miao is not a doctor, she can't even distinguish herbs, how can she see these problems, but she still squatted down and took a closer look. She saw that there were densely packed black spots wriggling on the flower bud. She thought to herself, "It's probably infested with worms."
"That's what I thought too." Chi Yan said with a distressed look on his face, "But this red sleeve grass is very delicate. It can't be repelled with medicine, and it attracts insects. If you want to get rid of these insects, you have to pinch them out bit by bit with your hands, and you have to be gentle, otherwise you will damage the petals."
Luo Tan said, "So that's the case, but what does this have to do with us?"
Taoist Priest Chi Yan stood up and saw Shen Miao also stand up before he smiled and said, “But I am a man, my movements are rough, and I am not usually very careful. I am afraid that if I pick them myself, I will never be able to pick them out clearly, and I will damage the petals if I am not careful. These are rare spiritual medicines and very precious, so I would like to ask Madam to pick out the insects on them for me.”
Luo Tan’s eyes widened. Did this Taoist priest ask Shen Miao to come over because he thought she was a flower farmer or a herbalist?
Shen Miao asked, “After I pick out all these bugs, will the Taoist give me the herb that can cure all poisons?”
Chi Yan nodded.
“Okay, I’ll do it.” Shen Miao was about to start working immediately.
Luo Tan stopped talking, thinking that it was not a loss for the flower farmer to earn money from a medicinal herb.
But Chi Yan shook his head, led Shen Miao and Luo Tan a few steps forward, and said: "It's the red sleeve grass here."
When the two saw it, they were stunned.
It was a large area of medicinal herbs, almost as much as all the farmlands of a wealthy family combined. Moreover, the herbs in the entire field did not grow in neat rows. Some red-sleeved grasses and some other grasses grew together randomly, and it was extremely dense. It would take a lot of effort to find those red-sleeved grasses, not to mention that there were so many red-sleeved grasses that it would take an unknown amount of time to pick out all the insects in them.
"Are you deliberately teasing us?" Luo Tan jumped up and asked angrily, "How can one person pick all these things?"
Chi Yan simply looked at Shen Miao with a smile: “Madam, do you also feel that one person can’t select everything completely? Can’t one person do it?”
Shen Miao just looked at him deeply and said, “After doing all this, will the Taoist really give me the herbs?”
"Little cousin!" Luo Tan was anxious. "He's clearly teasing you. If he really wanted to save people, why would he propose such an impossible task? How can he be a compassionate person?"
Chi Yan said, "Little girl, you are wrong. There is no such thing as a free lunch. In this world, there is gain and loss, and if you want something, you have to pay the price. This lady wants my herbs, so she has to remove the insects from other herbs for me. This is a very fair thing to do. Besides, isn't it up to this lady to decide whether it can be done or not?"
He said, "Pick out the insects from the paths and buds of these red-sleeved grass, and then fertilize my herbs all over the mountain, and I'll return them to you." He waved his whisk again and said, "Don't be careless. I'll have to check them at the end. If you're even half-hearted, I won't be able to give you the herbs. Also," he looked at Luo Tan again, "this young lady can't come to help. Madam, can you do this?"
“I can do it, and I hope that the Taoist priest will keep his promise.” After saying this, Shen Miao jumped into the herb bush, bent down, and began to pick out the insects seriously.
A princess of a royal family, a spoiled daughter of an official family, yet here she was working as a flower girl and herbalist for a country bumpkin. Even those herbalists wouldn't do so much work by themselves, picking insects and... applying fertilizer... Luo Tan couldn't imagine Shen Miao's frail body carrying fertilizer. He felt that if Shen Xin and Shen Qiu in Dingjing knew about this, they would definitely be furious.
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