Zhao Huifang nodded repeatedly, "I also think that growing herbs and medicinal trees is better than growing fruit trees. The herbs are more valuable as they age, while the fruits will fall to the ground and rot if they are not sold out when they are ripe."
Zhou Huairong was also very tempted after hearing this. "According to what you said, it won't cost us much to rent that piece of mountain land. We can earn enough from the contract fee just by the herbs in the forest. So let's rent it!"
Zhou Huaishan: "I've said it before, I just need to work hard and follow the youngest one."
Seeing that they were all willing to follow him, Zhou Huaian stood up and said, "I will go to Uncle Datian first to find out whether the mountain land belongs to the village or the public."
"Youngest!" The old man called him, "No need to ask, the mountain land from our village to the big pit is all public, otherwise the mountain temple would not have been demolished by those bastards that year."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian said, "The government also needs to ask Uncle Datian to help find someone. I'll go talk to him and see what procedures are required."
Zhou Huairong said, "Youngest, I know how to handle this matter. Just leave it to me."
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian smiled and patted his shoulder. "How could I forget that you are the team leader? I'll leave this matter to you!"
"Stop talking so smoothly, sit down and discuss it quickly. Aunt Jiang and the others will be here soon." Zhou Huairong pulled him to sit down with a smile, "How do you want to lease that piece of land? Have you discussed it with Yiding?"
Zhou Huaian: "If we don't cultivate the land carefully, there's no need to divide it up clearly like we did in the back mountain. We can just contract it together as a partnership!"
Zhou Huairong: "I understand. We still need to get the forest rights certificates, right?"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "That's a must. It's not something that can be guaranteed for one, two, or even several decades. Only after you have the certificate can we talk!"
The old man said, "You are right, youngest. If you plant the medicinal trees and herbs and you don't have the proof, they can take them back if they want to."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan also remembered that there was someone in Fangtian. At that time, he only signed an agreement with the village, but did not apply for a contract certificate and a forest rights certificate. Later, the village subcontracted his family’s mountain land to outsiders who planted fruit trees. The family’s hard work for more than ten years went down the drain.
Zhou Huairong: "I'll remember that. I'll do it tomorrow."
Seeing that his sons were going to lease a large piece of mountain land again, Zhou's father felt full of energy, "Okay, everything has been discussed, let's get to work quickly, finish it early and rest early."
Mother Zhou and Zhou Yumei came back with the child in their arms. Seeing that the grandfathers were so happy, they asked with a smile, "What good news did you talk about?"
Father Zhou looked at her with a smile, "The youngest brother and his family are planning... From now on, this area of the back mountain will all belong to our family."
After hearing this, Zhou's mother glared at him in reproach, "Look how happy you are. You won't even have time to sleep in from now on!"
Father Zhou: "Why do you sleep so much? You'll die three years early and your bones will rot from sleeping!"
"I don't want to bother with you! Every word you say is so stinky." Zhou's mother rolled her eyes at him and went to help clean up the dishes.
Several people started to get busy again. After a while, Jiang Yu and others also came. They sent all the red mushrooms into the baking room. After washing up, they went to bed. It was already past eleven o'clock.
Yang Chunyan gently patted the child on the back and said to Zhou Huaian, who was busy keeping accounts, "I forgot to ask you, the yard in the city has been under construction for more than a month, have you gone to see how the repair is going?"
"I put the money in the account book and gave it to Wang Zhen. Why should I go to see what he is doing when he is watching it?" Zhou Huaian packed up the account books and put them into the drawer of the cabinet.
"You are so comfortable being a hands-off shopkeeper!"
Yang Chunyan put the child down, and Zhou Huaian came up to her with a playful smile and kissed her face, "You promised, reward me well tonight."
"It's so late, aren't you tired?"
"I'm not tired..." Zhou Huaian blocked her mouth and rolled onto the bed...
The next morning, when he just got up, porridge and eggs were already on the table. Zhou Yumei and Yang Chunyan stood in front of the stove, scooped the steamed rice onto the bamboo curtain and began to make rice balls.
Crush the salted egg yolk and sprinkle some on top, then put a scrambled egg, salted vegetables, and two pickled peppers in it, then wrap the rice ball and put it in the lunch box.
He didn't stop until he filled the three lunch boxes on the stove.
Zhou Huaian wiped his mouth after eating, "Ding Ding Cat, take Da Huang with you. When you go to collect herbs, take Wang Cai with you. Lai Fu will stay at home to look after the house."
Yang Chunyan handed him the kettle and lunch box. "Got it. Be careful. Don't go to the old forest. Remember to bring the hemostatic medicine and snake medicine."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian agreed and said to Zhou Yumei, "When you and mom go to make the silk banner and send it to the joint defense team, you'd better buy some firecrackers and set them off to promote Brother Dongming."
Zhou Yumei nodded, "My eldest brother is going to the town to take care of the mountain land lease. Mom said she will take care of Jiuer and Xiaoxi at home, and asked me to go with him."
"It's good this way. If we run into those two shameless old guys, we'll have a strong laborer to help us."
Zhou Huaian put on the kettle, put the lunch box into the sewn bag in the backpack, and carried it out of the kitchen. Then Zhou Yiding came over with the dog.
"Have you had breakfast? Would you like a rice ball?"
"Rice ball, give me one!" Zhou Yiding put down his backpack and rifle and went to the kitchen. "Sister Yumei, you got up so early too?"
"You're already awake!" Zhou Yumei handed him the rice ball with a smile, "Chunyan came up with this, and I think it tastes good too!"
"This makes you full easily without getting hungry!" Zhou Yiding took it with a smile, took a big bite, chewed it for a few times, and said with sparkling eyes, "Today's taste is better than before."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "I boiled a few salted eggs today and crushed the egg yolks and sprinkled them in. It tasted much better."
Zhou Yiding: "Sister Yumei, you can steam some rice and sell rice balls."
Zhou Yumei smiled and shook her head. "Eggs are only ten cents each. Add in the rice wine, salted egg yolks, salted vegetables, and pickled peppers, and we have to sell them for at least fifty cents each to make a profit."
"That's true!" Zhou Yiding finished his meal in a few bites, drank a bowl of rice soup, and walked towards the backyard with Zhou Huaian.
Not long after the two men left, Yang Chunyan, Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang also carried their belongings and took Wangcai towards the mountain temple.
When they climbed to the mountain temple, it was already dawn. The three of them walked down the path. Yang Chunyan saw a lot of Selaginella growing on the stones on the side of the road, and clumps of Codonopsis pilosula were entangled on the bushes.
Walking down, Zhao Huifang pointed to the bushes in front and said, "Look, they are covered with wild yam vines."
Yang Chunyan and the others looked over and saw that the bushes were covered with vines of pointed-leaf wild yam. Then they saw the Poria cocos that Zhou Huaian mentioned, as well as epimedium, stinking peony, and Euonymus japonicus with clusters of yellow flowers.
Mahonia is a plant of the genus Mahonia in the Berberidaceae family. Its leaves have large and small thorns that look a bit like cat's claws, so it is also called cat's thorn leaf in some places.
It blooms beautiful little yellow flowers, and when the fruits are ripe, they hang on the tree in bunches. The blue-black fruits look like bunches of grapes and are very beautiful.
It is also called Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Coptis, Rhizoma Phellodendri, Cat's Thorn, Star Anise Thorn, and Phellodendron chinense.
Its nature and flavor are bitter and cold. The roots, stems and leaves are used as medicine. The leaves have the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat. The roots and stems have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. They are also effective for diarrhea, burns, scalds, etc.
Zhao Huifang said: "It would be too heavy to carry it over there, so we should just wait until we come back to dig it out."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Then we'll come back and dig again."
After walking a few steps, Wangcai let out a "wool" and ran into the woods. Yang Chunyan and the other two hurriedly stopped and looked in the direction it went in, waiting for it to come out.
After a while, it ran out with a fat wild rabbit in its mouth, put it in front of Yang Chunyan's feet, and looked at her proudly.
Yang Chunyan smiled and rubbed its head: "You are capable. I will go back and cook some bones for you to eat."
Zhang Xiuxiang picked up the rabbit and put it in Zhao Huifang's basket. "It's really fat. It may weigh four or five kilograms."
Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "When we get back, add some potatoes to the spicy rabbit cubes. It will taste good too."
The three sisters-in-law talked as they walked, and soon they reached the ditch. Yang Chunyan saw that the ditch ran from west to south, and it seemed to lead all the way to the new river.
At this time, she saw several weeping angels that were taller than people. These flowers were sold for hundreds of yuan apiece in flower shops in later generations, but now they were just growing by the ditch, and no one even looked at them.'
The weeping angel is also called calla lily. It belongs to the genus Alocasia of the Araceae family. When there is sufficient water, water will evaporate from the leaves, which will gather at the tips of the leaves and drip down, hence the name weeping angel.
This plant is poisonous. If ingested by mistake, it may cause paralysis and swelling of the tongue, or even poisoning of the nervous system. It can only be viewed from a distance and not touched.
The three of them went down to the bottom of the ditch with their hoes. Yang Chunyan saw at a glance the bowl of water by the river and several oval reddish-brown fruits under the leaves.
The scientific name of the water on the riverside is the berberidaceae, a perennial herb of the genus Podophyllum, which can grow up to 150 cm tall. It is also called Podophyllum in Chinese medicine. Because the ancients often used Podophyllum as a medicinal material to treat fetal death, it is also called "mother-harming grass" in folk culture.
Leptospermum officinale: bitter, pungent, cool in nature, toxic. It has the effects of dissolving phlegm, dispelling blood stasis, relieving pain, clearing away heat and detoxifying. The rhizome is used for medicinal purposes, treating injuries from falls, hemiplegia, joint pain, snake bites, etc.
A Bowl of Water by the River is one of the Four Herbs of Shennong. According to legend, once when Shennong was collecting herbs, the stone under his feet suddenly loosened, and he slipped and fell off the cliff, half dying.
When he came to his senses, he felt unbearable pain all over his body and was extremely thirsty. He wanted to drink some water, but he could not move. Then he saw several medicinal herbs that looked like lotus leaves growing by the ditch.
He crawled over and saw that there was clear dew inside. He quickly held the leaf and drank it all in one gulp. He immediately felt the pain in his body relieved a lot and his strength was restored.
Therefore, it was recorded in the medical book and named "A Bowl of Water by the River". At the same time, its functions of dispersing blood stasis, activating blood circulation, stopping bleeding and relieving pain, and treating bruises and injuries were also recorded.
Zhang Xiuxiang and the others saw her looking through something and asked, "Chunyan, is this a herb? Do you want to dig it up?" (End of this chapter)
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