Of course, there's no need for a hoe when picking flowers. Wei Yuyan was just thinking that if she came across any good medicinal herbs, she could dig some up.
"Would you like this flower?"
Wu Chen saw camellias.
"Pick some."
Wei Yuyan came here mainly to find plum blossoms today; plum blossoms smell so sweet and lovely.
He instructed Wu Chencai to continue searching for the winter plum blossoms.
Reaching a hillside, they finally found plum blossoms. Wei Yuyan happily ran over and first sniffed them.
Indeed, plum blossoms after a snowfall have a refreshing scent, and their beautiful red color makes them even more appealing. If you use their juice to make scented soap, it will have a slightly reddish tint, making it even more attractive.
Wei Yuyan was admiring the plum blossoms, unaware that someone was admiring her not far away.
"What are you waiting for? Come over and pretend to be a plum blossom."
Wei Yuyan picked the fruit but couldn't bear to put it on the ground, so she called Wu Chen over.
"What are you going to do by picking the flowers?"
Wu Chen was a little curious. At first, he thought Wei Yuyan wanted to make tea with camellia flowers, but he didn't expect her to pick winter plum blossoms as well, since winter plum blossoms can't be made into tea.
"I picked the flowers to make scented soap. I'd seen others do it before, so I knew a little bit and was wondering if I could make money from it."
Wei Yuyan gave a casual explanation, afraid he wouldn't believe her.
"You're amazing. I didn't know you knew so many things. And that double-cropping rice, I heard about it from Brother Lifu too. You're really good at it."
Wu Chen looked at her without any hesitation, admiring her.
"Actually, all of this was taught to me by one of my mentors. After she taught me, my family was poor and I was too young to experiment."
I planted rice myself last year and took charge of my own business, so I dared to try planting it this year, and I didn't expect it to actually succeed.
Wei Yuyan felt that the lies she was telling were getting bigger and bigger.
"Where is your master?"
Wu Chen seemed to have truly believed it and asked Wei Yuyan where her master had gone.
"She said she liked to travel around, and she left after teaching me, so I really admire her."
I envy her ability to travel everywhere, and I aspire to travel someday as well.
Wei Yuyan's words were half true and half false.
"I'll take you on a trip in a few years. You can go wherever you want, even to the outer regions."
Wu Chen looked at Wei Yuyan intently.
"I'm afraid you'll sell me."
Wei Yuyan avoided Wu Chen's gaze, not daring to meet his eyes, otherwise she was afraid she would also fall deeply in love.
Wu Chen was also amused by this remark. Wei Yuyan seemed to have answered his question, but it was as if she hadn't.
"Yu Yan, come here for a moment."
After picking the plum blossoms, Wu Chen went to relieve himself, and soon called Wei Yuyan over.
"what?".
Wei Yuyan was puzzled; why was she being asked to do this?
Good news comes quickly.
Wu Chen's voice sounded somewhat excited.
"They've arrived."
Wei Yuyan had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk over to see what good news he had in store.
"Look, isn't this ginseng?"
Wu Chen pointed to a plant on the ground and shouted happily.
"Ah~".
When Wei Yuyan saw the familiar leaves, she couldn't help but exclaim.
"Yeah?".
Wu Chen had read about this in medical books before, and this was the first time he had ever seen ginseng.
"Yes, yes, yes."
Wei Yuyan nodded excitedly.
"Then how do we dig?"
Wu Chen took out the hoe.
"I'll do it."
Wei Yuyan took the hoe and carefully began to dig, while Wu Chen stood beside her, barely daring to breathe.
Wow~.
It took Wei Yuyan almost fifteen minutes to dig out the ginseng completely.
This ginseng has been stored for quite some time, which is why Wei Yuyan couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.
"So, how much is it worth?"
Wu Chen guessed it should be worth a lot of money.
"This should be worth several dozen taels of silver. I'm not an expert in this field, but it's about fifty or sixty years old."
After careful observation, Wei Yuyan determined its age.
"Then let's not sell it. We're not short of money right now, we can keep it at home."
Wu Chen thought that these good medicinal herbs only cost a few dozen taels when sold, but could be bought by the piece.
"Okay, I won't sell it anymore. I'll have to buy a good box to store it in, so the mice don't steal it."
Wei Yuyan was worried that the dog would be damaged by rats or insects at home.
"Can we go back now? Should we look around some more to see if there's any ginseng left?"
Wu Chen started searching on the ground again.
"You think it's like cabbage, so easy to find? I've gone up the mountain countless times, and I've never found ginseng."
"You and Sister-in-law Xiuhua are so lucky! She found it as soon as she came up the mountain last time, and you found it as soon as we arrived. Hey, how do you know about ginseng?"
Wei Yuyan then realized that Wu Chen also knew about ginseng.
“I once accidentally read a medical book that said ginseng leaves look like this, but I’m not sure.”
Wu Chen explained that he had been reading a lot of books because he was so bored while he was in bed recovering from his leg injury.
I also read medical books, trying to figure out what medicine would be suitable for my legs.
"I didn't expect you to have such a good memory."
Wei Yuyan smiled as she wrapped the ginseng in a clean handkerchief and put it into her basket.
"Go back."
Seeing Wei Yuyan so happy, Wu Chen couldn't help but smile. He seemed to know what Wei Yuyan liked: money.
When the two returned home, the older sister had already prepared dinner.
"I don't know when you'll be back. The children and I have already eaten. You should eat now."
Wei Yuhan kept the food warm in the pot, so it's still hot.
"Okay, I'm really hungry. By the way, did you find any ginseng this year, brother-in-law?"
Wei Yuyan thought that her brother-in-law had been digging for medicinal herbs for several months, and wondered if he would have any good luck.
"No, we did dig up some Codonopsis pilosula, but we didn't see any other ginseng."
Wei Yuhan thought for a moment and then shook her head.
"Yes, we found a ginseng today. I'll let my brother-in-law take a look at it this afternoon so he can get to know it. Maybe we'll run into it again in the future."
Chen Yu went to town today. Tomorrow is market day, so we need to prepare more steamed buns.
"Really? You guys are really lucky."
Wei Yuhan was also happy for them.
Town~
Sun's mother wasn't feeling well that day, so she asked the landlord for two days' rent and then went home to get some medicine from her son's clinic.
"Oh, Sun Wei's mother is here. Sun Wei went out to deliver medicine and isn't here."
When the doctor at the clinic saw that Sun's mother had arrived, he quickly reminded her.
"Thank you, I won't look for him. My calves have been hurting for the past two days, and I don't know why."
Sun's mother pointed to her legs.
"Let me see."
The doctor took Sun's mother's pulse and then felt the bones in her lower back.
"Do you stand for long periods of time? If you stand for too long, the blood circulation in your legs will be a bit poor."
You need to rest more, and you'll get better soon. I'll also prescribe some medicine for you; decoct it and take it these next couple of days, and you'll recover faster.
After the doctor reached a conclusion, he stood up and began to prepare the medicine.
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