Chapter 194 193: Troubles
Oxalis saffron: sour, cold. The whole plant is used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving diseases, and regulating menstruation. It is used externally to treat snake bites, traumatic injuries, carbuncles, and burns.
The stems and leaves contain oxalic acid, which can be used to polish mirrors or wipe copperware. Excessive consumption of cattle and sheep will cause poisoning and death.
In addition to picking leaves and digging rhizomes of Oxalis to eat, children also like to play with the fruit pods of Oxalis. When they find a ripe fruit pod and gently squeeze it, the capsule inside the seed pod pops out like a bullet.
Zhao Huifang saw her coming and said with a smile, "You're here! We didn't call you because you fell asleep."
Yang Chunyan said embarrassedly: "I've been very sleepy these days!"
Zhao Huifang glanced at her belly and said, "Go check if you are pregnant?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and shook her head, "No, I just went there!"
Zhao Huifang glanced at Li Qiuyue who was cutting rapeseed and said, "Do you know that Qiuyue went to the big house to pay 200 yuan without telling us?"
Yang Chunyan: "Third brother came up the mountain yesterday and talked to us. Has the money that was defrauded from the eldest wife been recovered?"
Zhao Huifang: "I heard that some of the money was recovered, but the scammers had already remitted the money. At dawn, someone blocked the door of the big house and demanded money."
"The one who yelled and cursed the loudest among them was Mrs. Zou, who was usually the closest to Auntie. Grandpa tried to persuade her but she still cursed Grandpa, causing the old man to sigh and groan, and he didn't even eat a few bites of food."
Zhou's mother took over the conversation, "Some people are like this. When there is something good to gain, they will swarm around you like flies and try to curry favor with you. If you let them suffer a loss, they will want to peel off a layer of your skin."
Yang Chunyan felt that what Zhou's mother said was absolutely right. Some people are born to hold grudges more easily than to remember kindness!
Zhao Huifang nodded repeatedly, "That's right, Zhou Huaixing brought back a radio, and those people gathered around his house laughing and joking, and they were still at his house when it got dark."
"You can see today that one by one they slammed the table and smashed the benches, forcing Dad to pay back the money, and they were just short of eating them alive. The old man tried to persuade them, saying that brothers are family, and asked our family to pay them money!"
Zhou's mother sneered, "We haven't gotten back the money that was cheated from our family yet!"
After hearing this, Li Qiuyue swung her sickle vigorously, wishing that the rapeseed in front of her was those swindlers...
Yang Chunyan grabbed the rapeseed stem, cut it off with a sickle beneath her hand, and then gently placed the cut rapeseed on the rapeseed stump.
"Where are Zhou Huaixing and his wife? Have those scammers been caught?"
Zhou's mother: "Still in the police station. I heard that they can come back once the investigation is complete. They caught more than ten scammers, and two of them got away."
"Secretary Xu said that there were scammers not only in Baima Town, but in several other towns, and that hundreds of people had been scammed. The police said they would reward Grandpa, but if he hadn't reported it, who knows how many people would have been scammed."
"It's really annoying that the eldest room is making such a fuss. Your old man said that the old man was in a bad mood and couldn't sleep well last night. He got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and saw the old man sitting at the door of the main room smoking."
It didn't take long for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to harvest another acre of rapeseed.
Mother Zhou looked at the rapeseed that had been cut. "Chunyan and Xiuxiang go turn the rapeseed. Huifang and Qiuyue pull out one acre of rapeseed piles, level them and lay out drying mats."
"Okay!" The four of them acted separately.
After the rapeseed is harvested, the first thing to do is to turn it over and dry it in the sun. Generally, when the surface is almost dry, the moist side facing downwards is turned over to expose it to the sun.
The action of turning the rapeseed stalks must be gentle. Otherwise, after the rapeseed pods on the sun-dried side crack, the rapeseed seeds in the pods will "escape" and affect the harvest.
Over there, Zhao Huifang and Li Qiuyue pulled up the rapeseed stalks and piled them in the furrows. After leveling the uneven surfaces with a hoe, they spread the drying mats that they had placed on the edge of the field early in the morning on the leveled ground.
Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang took the rape stalks and turned them over, then spread them out on the drying mat. This way, when they turned them over again for drying, they didn't have to worry about the rape seeds "escaping" after the oil pods burst.
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On the other side, the Zhou Huaian brothers arrived at the asphalt road one after the other. After walking for half an hour, they finally stopped a tractor going to Ning'an and rushed to Ning'an.
Seeing that it was getting late, the two brothers went directly to the guesthouse from Linhe Road, where they happened to meet Huang Yongcai standing at the door looking around with a worried look on his face.
Zhou Huaian went to meet him and said, "Brother Huang, I'm sorry I'm late today."
Zhou Huaishan also said: "We got on the asphalt road and walked for half an hour before we stopped a tractor. We were afraid that it would delay your work."
Huang Yongcai saw the black goat in the bamboo basket and breathed a sigh of relief. "It's okay, we just made it. It's okay if it's a little late at ordinary times, but it's mainly because we have a reception these two days. If the kitchen doesn't get what they want, the boss will make trouble for me."
"I guarantee you'll be satisfied with the stuff this time!" Zhou Huaian stepped forward with a smile, "My third brother went to the mountain to find me yesterday. My friend went hunting and hadn't come down the mountain yet. It was dark when he came back.
Fortunately, we got three black goats, some rabbits, and some pheasants, and the best thing was a musk deer. "
"Musk deer?" Huang Yongcai's eyes lit up. "Musk deer or Musk deer?"
"Lin Musk Deer! Wait a minute, my third brother will be here. I will send the musk deer to Doctor Wang to cut off the musk and send it to you."
He paused, "They almost got into trouble in the mountains this time... Two people were injured by wild boar tusks, and the dog was also injured. They were risking their lives to beg for mountain goods."
Huang Yongcai also felt a little scared after hearing this, "It's too dangerous. If you're not careful, something will happen. You must be careful when you go up the mountain next time."
"Thank you, Brother Huang. I'll go to Dr. Wang first and then bring the stuff to you."
"Okay!" Huang Yongcai patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Go quickly and come back soon."
While the two were talking, Zhou Huaishan had already moved the things to be sent to the pharmacy onto his bicycle, and Zhou Huaian rode his bicycle to Deshengtang on North Street.
Wang Zhen went to the backyard with him. "Brother Zhou, what good treasure did you find? You are in such a good mood!"
Zhou Huaian touched his face, "Is it so obvious?"
"Well! Even the eyes are smiling, and they are very charming." Wang Zhen joked.
"Hey! Doctor Xiao Wang, please stop teasing me." Zhou Huaian looked at him with a smile, "But I did get some good stuff. Let me show you."
"Okay, let me see what's good."
The two men lifted the sack down, and Wang Zhen saw the musk deer in the bamboo basket and picked it up. "No wonder you are so happy, it turns out we got musk deer."
"I made this with a friend. We don't know how to cut the sachet. Chunyan said you know how to do it, so she sent it to you to cut." Zhou Huaian looked at him with a smile, "Which is more expensive, musk or bezoar?"
Wang Zhen paused for a moment and said slowly, "The price of bezoar is higher. The price of the best musk produced by forest musk deer is 75 yuan per gram now, which is not bad. Gold is only 30 yuan per gram these days!"
Zhou Huaian looked at him and wilted after listening to him. "I heard from the old hunters in the team that the musk produced by forest musk deer is only four qian in weight when it is big, and only two qian in weight when it is small. The musk produced by this one can only be four qian at most, right?"
(End of this chapter)
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