When Gao Mingcheng bought the roadside land to build a kindergarten, Huang Dazhi also bought land to build a house. The locations they bought were also close, only a few hundred meters apart.
However, Huang Dazhi's new house has not been built yet, and he is still living in the single room he bought before.
When Gao Mingcheng arrived, Huang Dazhi had already gone to work at the police station. Only Luo Li was at home. When she heard the knock on the door, she opened it.
The first time Gao Mingcheng saw her, he saw that her hair was disheveled, she was wearing loose clothes, and she looked quite haggard.
Before he could say anything, he started coughing.
Gao Mingcheng asked with concern: "Luo Li, are you feeling better? Have you been to the hospital?"
Luo Li coughed for a while until she was able to catch her breath, then she said in a hoarse voice: "I went to see the doctor and got some Isatis root to take."
"Ming Cheng, I have to take two more days off. I've been having a fever and feeling uncomfortable these past two days. I have no energy and no strength."
After just a few words, Luo Li started coughing again.
Gao Mingcheng quickly asked her to lie down on the bed and rest. He said he was just there to visit her and would be leaving after understanding the situation. For a sick person, entertaining guests is a very stressful and laborious task.
"Don't worry about the leave. Take good care of yourself and come back to work when you are fully recovered! By the way, don't you have several sisters? Ask Dazhi to pick up a sister to take care of you, so that we can all feel more at ease."
Gao Mingcheng suggested, putting down the eggs in his hand and taking a look inside the house. He saw two packets of Isatis Root Granules on the table.
This thing is not unfamiliar to many people.
In the 1975 issue of the Barefoot Doctors Magazine and the local health bureau's Selection of Local Prescriptions, the government began to call on everyone to plant Isatis root.
By the 1980s, the cultivation of Isatis root had grown on a large scale. Pharmaceutical factories acquired it and made it into Isatis root granules, tablets, and injections, which gradually became a popular household medicine.
And because this medicine is relatively safe, pregnant women can take it when they are sick.
Speaking of Isatis root, it has a magical property, that is, once an infectious disease occurs, the price of Isatis root will skyrocket. For example, when the hepatitis A infectious disease broke out in Shanghai last year, almost all the Isatis root in the country was transported to Shanghai. Although the price of Isatis root continued to rise, it was still in short supply. At that time, many pharmaceutical factories and sales companies made a lot of money.
By 2003, the scene of people scrambling for Isatis root was deeply imprinted in many people's minds.
Gao Mingcheng is not unfamiliar with wild isatis root. Jiangxi is one of the important production areas of isatis root. There are a lot of wild isatis root in the mountains and ditches of Niuweiling.
However, isatis root is divided into northern isatis root and southern isatis root. Northern isatis root is woad, which is the one used to make isatis root granules, while the wild isatis root in Jiangxi belongs to maltose root. Although both are isatis root, their medicinal properties are different.
The whole plant of Adenophora indigo can be used as medicine. After its leaves, stems and roots are harvested and dried separately, they can be sold.
In addition to being used as medicine, the stems and leaves of Indigo can be processed into indigo, which is a plant dye with a long history.
In addition to wild Indigofera tinctoria, there are also places in the province where Isatis tinctoria is grown, but Gao Mingcheng did not specifically introduce it.
That's because in 1983, the domestic purchase volume of Isatis root was more than twice the demand, resulting in a backlog and unsold goods. Farmers in the production areas suffered losses, and most of them stopped planting.
It was not until last year when the hepatitis A epidemic broke out in Shanghai that the accumulated isatis root was consumed.
In other words, the market price of Isatis root is good again this year.
"Luo Li, have a good rest. I won't disturb you." As they were a man and a woman alone, Gao Mingcheng didn't want to stay for long, so he left quickly.
Instead of going back to the clothing store, he went to the police station.
After finding Huang Dazhi, they asked Huang Dazhi to bring Luo Li's sister Luo Juan over. When a person is sick, they are physically and mentally vulnerable. Huang Dazhi has to go to work and cannot be with her all the time. At this time, Luo Li will feel more at ease with a relative around.
Huang Dazhi had never thought of this, so he immediately asked for leave from the team leader Xiao Song. It happened that there were no urgent cases in the bureau recently, so Xiao Song generously approved the leave and asked Huang Dazhi to go and come back quickly.
Huang Dazhi rode his bicycle quickly to his father-in-law's house. He was a good person. When he passed by the vegetable market, he saw pork on the butcher's shop, so he immediately bought two kilograms of pork and carried the pork to the house.
Since they were already at the police station, Gao Mingcheng did not rush to leave, but went to find Gao Guobing.
The police officers under him had no major cases to handle, so Gao Guobing, as the deputy director, was naturally even more idle. When Gao Mingcheng went over, he saw the classic scene: a cup of tea and a newspaper!
The uncle and nephew hadn't seen each other for a while, so they started talking warmly. After about half an hour, Gao Mingcheng said goodbye.
After returning to the clothing store, Gao Mingcheng was busy again. Because he had always kept accounts, he could find out the sales situation of the store by looking through the account book.
Putting down the account book, Gao Mingcheng thought for a moment and said to Gao Shufang, "I just went to see Luo Li. Her condition is not good. She may have to take a few days off. I will send your sister-in-law back to the county tomorrow."
Although Zhang Jinling and Hu Yinchen helped, they were not good at selling goods. If Gao Shufang was the only one doing the business, the business would definitely not be that good.
Gao Shufang felt relieved when she heard that her second sister-in-law could come back early.
After Luo Li took leave, Gao Shufang was under a lot of pressure.
After lunch, Gao Mingcheng drove the tractor back to the village.
Xuanyuemei learned from Gao Mingcheng that Luo Li was sick, and said that she would go back to the county tomorrow. As for Gao Mingcheng, he had to stay in the village for a few days. He had to take care of Dahuang who had just given birth at home, and also had to go into the mountains to continue collecting medicinal herbs.
The price of woad will rise this year, and indigo will also be much easier to sell, so he decided to dig more. In the afternoon, he went into the mountains carrying a hoe and a sack.
The indigofera here likes to grow in warm mountains and ditches. Because the environment is suitable for growth, it is easy to find their traces when entering the mountains.
However, the people in Gaojia Village do not have enough knowledge about indigo and do not have the skills to make it.
Also, because cotton is rarely grown here, few people know the skills of spinning and weaving.
Some people here plant some jute on wasteland, harvest it, soak it in water, peel it, and then twist it into hemp ropes.
Just as he was thinking about jute, Gao Mingcheng saw jute growing in the mountains, but he only took a glance and walked past it.
Jute is harvested in late autumn after the autumn harvest, and needs to be soaked in water for a long time before it can be spun into silk. The water used to soak jute will become turbid and smelly, and the fish and shrimp in it will die due to water pollution.
The work of harvesting jute and spinning it into silk is too tedious and cannot create much value, so Gao Mingcheng is unwilling to spend his time on these things.
His eyes scanned the mountains and forests, looking for crops of economic value, and occasionally when he came across the traces of a black-necked snake, he would capture it.
The market for black-necked snakes has always been good. They can be used as medicine, boiled into snake oil, and added to cosmetics. So if Gao Mingcheng sees a black-necked snake, he will choose to buy it.
His figure kept moving through the jungle until dusk fell, and then he went down the mountain with a full harvest.
As soon as I got down the mountain, I found many beautiful girls waiting for me at the door with little Xuxu in their arms.
As soon as she saw Gao Mingcheng coming back, Xuanyuemei said, "Gao Faming from the village has disappeared, and everyone in the village is looking for him! The village party secretary just came over here and asked if Gao Faming had come here, and asked you to help look for him after you come down the mountain."
After Xuanyuemei finished speaking, she immediately said, "Mingcheng, the food is ready. You should eat something quickly before going to look for someone."
Gao Mingcheng nodded. He was indeed hungry, and he didn't know where Gao Faming would go. There was no need to go looking for him blindly while hungry.
So he threw the things into the storage room and hurriedly ate a bowl of rice. In just two or three minutes, the bowl was empty.
"Duomei, take Xiao Xuxu to rest early. I'll go check on the situation."
When he finished speaking, Gao Mingcheng had already left the hospital.
He ran all the way to the old village and saw that the whole village was full of people. Everyone was shouting Gao Faming's name and looking for him everywhere. Some went to look for him in the fields, some went to look for him in the woods, and some went to look for him in the back mountain.
Gao Mingcheng was confused about the situation, and when he saw Gao Zhuang, he pulled Gao Zhuang over and asked him about it. (End of this chapter)
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