Chapter 145 144: Or can you calculate
Zhao Huifang nodded. "Jiaming is also very happy. He asks me every day when the construction will start. He even said that he doesn't want to live in the same room with us anymore."
Zhang Xiuxiang: "Jialiang also said that he doesn't like living in the same room with us and wants his own room."
As they were talking, the sisters-in-law arrived at a wasteland on the mountain. The sun was shining brightly on their bodies, and the wild grass in the wasteland was left lifeless.
"Chunyan, are we going to dig sticky grass (Bindrus pilosa) and drive away mountain whip today?"
"Yes! That's all we need to dig. We'll try to fill our backpacks and sacks in the afternoon."
"That's easy!" Several people dispersed and got busy.
Zhao Huifang and the others knew how to use herbs like sticky grass, rhubarb, ground ivy, mountain whip, plantain, etc. Yang Chunyan didn't need to teach them.
Zhao Huifang grabbed the sticky grass and pulled it up by the roots, shook off the mud on it and put it in the backpack. "Fortunately, we came to dig the sticky grass now. When it blooms and bears fruit, it will stick to my clothes and it will be difficult to clean up."
Li Qiuyue nodded, "That's right, I never dreamed that this thing is actually a herb."
Yang Chunyan pulled up a handful of wild grass with small brown-yellow flowers. This is Tianjihuang. It has slender stems and opposite leaves. The whole grass can be used as medicine, and the yellow-green ones with flowers are preferred.
In the 1980s, herbs and wild fruits were everywhere in the mountains and fields. However, with the widespread use of pesticides such as paraquat and glyphosate, most of the herbs and wild fruits that were everywhere will be difficult to find by 2023.
Tianjihuang is the whole herb of the plant groundgrass of the Garcinia family. It is also called groundgrass, quebracho, yellow flower grass, etc.
Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae: sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold. Rooted in: lung, liver, stomach meridians. Has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting dampness and relieving jaundice, and reducing swelling and dispersing blood stasis. Used externally to treat carbuncle, furuncle, swelling and pain caused by trauma, snake bites, and herpes zoster.
After pulling out a clump of Rhubarb, Yang Chunyan looked at the Rhubarb next to it.
At this time of year, the rhubarb is growing particularly luxuriantly. Its leaves are large and thick, and look somewhat similar to spinach leaves. People also call it wild spinach, which is also a kind of herb.
Both the whole plant and its root can be used as herbal medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, stopping bleeding, removing blood stasis, relieving constipation and killing insects.
The roots of Rhubarb are yellow and very thick. The rhizome is thick and upright, about 1 meter high, green-purple, with longitudinal grooves, and the surface of the leaves also has longitudinal grooves.
It is not the season to dig them up in summer. Wait until autumn to dig up the roots, wash them, slice them, and use them dried or fresh.
At this time, several women came over and said, "Huifang, I heard that you are digging wild herbs to sell. Have you dug some?"
"We just dig some plantain and dandelions and take them home. We can't sell them for much money." Zhao Huifang glanced at the old woman in front of her with sallow skin. "Auntie Chen, who told you that we are digging herbs to sell?"
Aunt Chen smiled and said, "Huifang, your family doesn't even have money to buy oil and salt. Can we really sell wild grass for money? If we can, we want to dig some and sell them to buy some oil and salt to eat."
Zhao Huifang didn't know how to answer, so she turned her head and glanced at Yang Chunyan.
"Yes, Auntie. We dig all the plants, such as the herb Zanzhan grass, the herb Baihua snake grass, the herb Plantain, the herb Ganshan whip, the herb Banbian flower, and the dandelion."
After Yang Chunyan listed several kinds of herbs that were collected in the season, she said, "If it is inconvenient for you to send them to the county town to sell, you can also clean them up and sell them to us."
She thought that since she had already been seen, she might as well admit it openly. If they sent the herbs they dug up to her home, she might be able to earn more money.
Aunt Chen asked hurriedly: "How much do you charge per pound of plantain?"
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment, picked up a plantain, cleaned it and said, "For a plantain like this without any dead leaves or mud, Ning'an Pharmacy charges three cents per pound. I charge two and a half cents per pound, and I will make five cents off you."
"You still have to earn the 5 cents as a running fee, so I'll send it to you this afternoon." Seeing that it could really be sold for money, Aunt Chen left happily.
When the other person saw her leaving, he hurriedly asked, "Youngest brother, how much do you charge per pound for dandelions and half-flowered flowers?"
Yang Chunyan: "They are all 2.5 cents per pound."
"Okay, we'll go dig it and send it to your house in the afternoon." Several people left in a hurry.
Li Qiuyue frowned and said, "Chunyan, you shouldn't have told them. Look, they've all gone to dig, so we won't have anything to dig in the future. Also, isn't 2.5 cents a pound too high? Apart from the loss, what profit do we have?"
Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang also looked at her in confusion, "Yes, Chunyan, you only make 0.5 cents per pound, what's the profit?"
Yang Chunyan looked at the people walking away and whispered, "I didn't plan to sell wet goods. Take Hemiptera and Plantain for example. Doctor Wang's price for fresh grass is 0.3 cents per pound. I've tried it, and ten pounds of Hemiptera can be dried into one and a half pounds of dry goods."
"We charge 2.5 cents per pound, so 10 pounds of fresh grass is 25 cents. We dry it and send it to Dr. Wang's house for 3.5 cents per pound, so 1.5 pounds of dried grass can be sold for 5.2 cents."
"We also have plantain. About 3.5 kilograms of fresh plantain can produce one kilogram of dried food. One kilogram of dried food can be sold for 25 cents, which only costs 9 cents. In addition, some people send them home to sell, and we can also recruit people to help take care of the crops in the fields."
"Also, when we bought eels, the price was already on par with that in the town. When people got to know the news, they immediately went to the city to find a market and bought eels themselves to sell."
"I think it's better to set the price higher now than to be passive at that time. Our current purchase price of each herb is only 5 cents cheaper than Ning'an. If they see that there is no profit, they will not be tempted to steal our business."
Zhang Xiuxiang and Zhao Huifang nodded after hearing this. "Your idea is right. We can dry the dried goods at home and send them to Ning'an. We can earn more and take care of the family at the same time."
Li Qiuyue thought for a moment and said, "What if they also dry dried goods to sell?"
"Unless they also know about herbs!" Yang Chunyan said, glancing at her. "Look, don't we have several ways to dry herbs at home? Just like Chen Ai, we also need to know which parts to dry to be the best quality?"
If you want to sell dried goods, you have to hang them in a cool and ventilated place to dry. Houttuynia cordata needs to be exposed to the sun. Some herbs have to have their useless parts removed before people will buy them.
After hearing this, Li Qiuyue looked at Yang Chunyan awkwardly, "You're right, I still don't understand it. You're the one who can calculate it!"
Yang Chunyan glanced at her sideways, "Third sister-in-law, are you praising me or insulting me?"
Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "Of course I'm praising you!"
"Then I'll take it as a compliment from you!" Yang Chunyan said, then picked up the basket and continued to look for herbs.
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Over there, Zhou Huaian had already arrived at the door of his house.
Zhou Xiaoru and the other two were playing catching at the entrance of the main hall. When they heard the noise, they turned around, threw the stones in their hands, and went to meet him, "Dad, you're back?"
The three of them surrounded him, looking at the bamboo basket on the chicken bus, "Dad, did you buy anything delicious?"
"I bought it!" Zhou Huaian took out a brown paper bag from the bamboo basket and looked at the three people proudly, "Look, there's an amazing egg cake!"
"I want to eat, I want to eat..."
(End of this chapter)
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