Chapter 308 Chapter 309: Men and women working together is not tiring
Zhou Huaian carried a backpack and they walked to the slope in front. Yang Chunyan saw a lot of red-rooted wild broad beans growing in the grass, most of which had already produced seeds.
She happily picked some seeds and said, "Huaian, the roots of red-rooted wild broad beans are worth a lot of money. Let's pick the seeds and dig up the roots to take home."
"You said it's good, so it must be right. Let's take it all back," Zhou Huaian put down his backpack and picked up the basket to pick.
Red-rooted wild bean, also known as large-flowered sesame grass, slippery wild bean, small red medicine, etc., is the whole herb of the red-rooted wild bean of the Scrophulariaceae family.
Red root broad bean is an annual herb, about 40 cm tall, with bristles all over the plant and rusty yellow fibrous roots. The hairs grow on small tubercles, the stem is erect, rigid, often branched, and the leaves are opposite; sessile. The whole plant is covered with bristles.
Flowers grow in the axillary area, the spikes are like wheat ears, the flowers are yellow and shaped a bit like small trumpets. The taste is sour and slightly numbing.
The red root of the wild broad bean is used as medicine: it is sour, slightly spicy and warm in nature. It has the effects of dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding; reducing swelling and relieving pain. The root can also be soaked in wine to treat rheumatism, muscle and bone pain, and contusions and tuberculosis.
The two men rummaged through the grass for an hour or so before they cut all the seed ears and put them in the basket.
Zhou Huaian threw away a handful of weeds and checked his watch. It was five o'clock. "Yan'er, there are so many wild broad beans growing in the grass. It will probably be almost seven o'clock by the time we dig them all up. We can only harvest the stinking peonies and coral grasses after the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Yang Chunyan wiped the sweat off her face and said, "That's fine."
She thought that the roots of the red-rooted wild broad beans were grown in the 1990s, and a pound of wild ones could be sold for hundreds of dollars, but she had never found so many before.
Now, no matter what, it should be sold for more than 10 or 20 yuan per pound, right? If you dig up all of these, they will weigh at least 10 pounds.
These days, you really have to go out and walk around to gain something.
Zhou Huaian saw her smiling face and felt happy, "Are you so happy to come out?"
"Of course, how can I not be happy if I get something out of this?"
Zhou Huaian thought of the way his sisters-in-law looked when their bellies got bigger. "It's okay now. When your belly gets bigger, you won't even be able to bend down. Then you'll have to stay at home."
"We have to wait until next year." Yang Chunyan dug up a tree and put it aside. "Huaian, when you went to Ning'an this time, did Doctor Xiao Wang mention your elder brother?"
"No. I just heard him say last time that my eldest brother sent red mushrooms to Ning'an. I heard that my mother-in-law, eldest sister-in-law, and a few cousins went up the mountain to pick them, but they also sent 60 to 70 kilograms."
"The mountains over there are not good. There are more rocks than mud, and the herbs don't grow as much as here."
"The area near our brigade has the best soil and the most water. If it were as flat as the one in Fangtian Brigade, our life would be better than theirs."
“No matter how fertile the land is, you still have to be diligent. Otherwise, money and food will not fall from the sky, and those who deserve to be poor will still be poor.”
"Got it, honey. You don't need to be alarmed!" Zhou Huaian took a look and said, "I'll dig the rest. You sit on a rock and shake off the mud and put it in the backpack."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan picked off the grass roots mixed in with the red-rooted wild beans, only to see that the rusty red roots were covered with mud. She picked them up, patted them gently a few times, shook them a few times, shook off the mud, and threw them into the backpack.
Zhou Huaian dug out one weed at a time with a hoe. The weeds mixed in were mainly because they had too many roots and it was a bit troublesome to dig them up as they were pulled together.
"Yan'er, it's better for me to come out with you. I was so bored when I went up the mountain with Huaigang and the others a few days ago."
"With so many people going up the mountain, everyone has the strength to do it, so it will be easier for you!"
"I have nothing to say to them." Zhou Huaian put down his hoe, leaned forward and kissed her, "It's so good to be with your own wife. You can just kiss her whenever you want."
"Bah! Shame on you!" Yang Chunyan spat at him. "You don't even work honestly. No wonder people call you a scoundrel."
Zhou Huaian patted his chest and said, "Yan'er, let me tell you, those who like to call me a second-rate person are those stinky women who smile silly every time they see me.
I swear to God, I have never been shameless to you since I was a child. To be honest, if people like me are all second-rate people, then there are no decent men in the world."
Yang Chunyan glared at him, "Who said you have a pair of charming peach blossom eyes?"
"Hehe!" Zhou Huaian threw a wink at her, "You are attracted by my charming eyes."
"You have something to say no matter what you say. It's a shame if you don't do crosstalk."
"I know crosstalk. I saw it on TV at Dr. Wang's house. It doesn't look as energetic as me."
"When others praise you, you are a flower; when you praise yourself, you are a rotten melon. I am talking about you."
Zhou Huaian was heartbroken, "Yan'er! Just be happy to marry a loyal and innocent handsome man like me!"
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes and said, "I don't want to bother with you!"
Zhou Huaian smiled smugly, gathered the herbs he had dug up, picked up the hoe and continued working, "Yan'er, do you want to eat fish? When I got home, Yiding said he was going to the ditch to fish in a trap."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan recalled what the doctor said when Zhou Xiaoqian was pregnant in her previous life: "I heard that if you eat fish during pregnancy, your baby will be very smart."
"Is that so? In the past, my sister-in-law and her friends couldn't even stand the smell of fish. They would vomit before they even started eating. I thought you couldn't smell the fishy smell of fish. Come back and try it. If you're okay, I'll go and trap fish for you every day."
Yang Chunyan recalled that Zhou Xiaoqian vomited everything she ate in her previous life, and she was also afraid of morning sickness. "The smell of pig intestines is so strong, but I'm fine after smelling it. So the smell of fish should be fine too, right?"
"When I get back, I'll go to Yiding's house and bring back a few to cook for you."
Men and women work together and the work is not tiring. One of the couple digs herbs while the other shakes off the mud and selects herbs. They chat while doing so and do not feel bored at all.
The two were so busy that dark clouds invaded the sky and the sun had long since disappeared, leaving only a ray of residual golden light on the horizon, before they finally collected all the red-rooted wild broad bean roots.
Zhou Huaian put the last handful of medicinal roots into the backpack and checked the time. "Yan'er, it's already past six fifty!"
Yang Chunyan took two sips of water and wiped the water drops from her mouth. "You should drink two sips too. Let's go home quickly. It's getting dark soon."
"Hey!" Zhou Huaian took it and drank a few gulps. Then he put the backpack on his back and went back up the mountain together.
When they reached the top of the mountain, a cool breeze blew towards them. Zhou Huaian turned his head and glanced at her, "This breeze feels comfortable."
"That's the good thing about the mountains. No matter how hot it is during the day, it gets cooler when the sun goes down."
The two men were talking as they walked down the mountain. When they passed a bush, they suddenly heard a few rustling sounds in the bushes, and soon there was no sound.
"There's a wild animal!" Zhou Huaian grabbed Yang Chunyan with one hand, took the gun from the backpack with his other hand, and rushed over quickly.
The two disheveled adults in the woods looked at Zhou Huaian holding a gun in panic.
(End of this chapter)
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