Chapter 5 Poria
Lin Wu watched the two children walk away, then came over and put his arm around Zhao Xiu's shoulders: "Let's go, wife."
"You don't worry about the two children going into the mountains by themselves." Zhao Xiu rolled his eyes and complained.
"Oh, the child is grown up now, not a three-year-old child anymore. It's time for him to go out and explore on his own." Lin Wu said nonchalantly.
I could also hear their parents talking, ten-year-old Lin Qian and eight-year-old Lin Shuo: "..."
"Sister, you are lucky to have such a father."
"Haha, I'll give you this happiness."
The two were silent for a moment, and then realized at the same time that they seemed to have the same father.
The mountain next to Linjia Village is very big. It is said that there are seven main mountain ranges, so it is named Qixing Mountain.
The brother and sister went up the mountain and picked a lot of wild vegetables, including broom seedlings, gray vegetables and purslane.
When they reached halfway up the mountain, Lin Qian also discovered several Sichuan pepper trees, scientifically known as Schisandra chinensis.
"Sister, what kind of tree is this? Have you been looking at it for so long?" Lin Shuo asked as he saw Lin Qian lying motionless.
Lin Qian came back to her senses and said, "This is Schisandra chinensis, a traditional Chinese medicine, it should be quite valuable.
I'm thinking of getting some interstellar spring water to water it, and see if the quality can improve when the fruit matures around October."
Lin Shuo listened to Lin Qian say a lot, and only heard one sentence: valuable.
"Is it valuable? Then what are you waiting for? Just pour it on me!"
There were five Schisandra trees in total. Lin Qian watered them one by one, and then continued to walk up the mountain with Lin Shuo.
After walking for a while, the two of them arrived at a pine forest. Lin Shuo spotted a pheasant and quietly ran to catch it.
Lin Qian looked at him, then sat down under a pine tree and took out the "Compendium of Materia Medica" to read.
As Lin Qian looked, she realized that Ganoderma lucidum was likely growing on the roots of pine trees. Lin Qian immediately stood up and looked around for dead pine trees.
The dead pine tree roots were found, but the Ganoderma lucidum was not.
"I've been thinking too much. How can I be so lucky that I can find Ganoderma lucidum just by saying it." Lin Qian sighed and continued to sit by the pine tree and read.
"Hey, Poria cocos also grows around pine trees, but it grows underneath. There are cracks at the roots of pine trees, so it's very likely that Poria cocos will grow there." Lin Qian saw the picture of Poria cocos and then looked at the dead pine tree. She really did find cracks at the roots of the pine tree.
Lin Qian immediately stuffed the book into the space, found a wooden stick and started digging. After a while, she really dug out a Poria cocos, a big black piece, as big as a basketball.
Lin Qian dug out the black lump, and there was a bigger one underneath. Lin Qian smiled and continued to dig with her butt sticking out.
When Lin Shuo came back with a pheasant that was almost completely featherless, he saw his sister digging something with her butt sticking out.
"Sister, what are you doing?" Lin Shuo came over and asked curiously.
When Lin Qian saw her brother, she immediately called him over and said, "Come and help me quickly. I found Fuling."
Seeing Lin Qian’s excitement, Lin Shuo didn’t know what Poria cocos was, but he knew it must be very valuable.
After tying the pheasant with vines, Lin Shuo also started digging with his butt raised.
After a while, another black lump the size of a basketball emerged. Lin Qian was already covered in sweat.
"Let's go home." Lin Qian said, looking at the two black bumps.
When they got home, Lin Wu and Zhao Xiu had already picked 60 to 70 kilograms of bayberries. Lin Qian closed the door and put all the bayberries into the space.
A natural refrigerator, don’t waste it if you don’t use it.
Then the brother and sister went to the bayberry forest and helped pick bayberries for a while. The sun was about to set.
Zhao Xiu went to cook, while Lin Wu went to kill the chicken. Lin Qian and Lin Shuo went to the river to wash the Poria cocos, planning to take it to town to sell with the bayberries the next morning.
After dinner at night, the family went into the space to practice internal strength.
The next morning, after breakfast, the four of them went to town.
Lin Qian's house was at the northernmost end of the village, right on the road to town. Lin Wu, worried that Zhao Xiu and the two children would be tired from walking, even took the village headman's oxcart and paid two cents for the fare.
"Brother Wu, are you okay? Didn't Uncle Tiezhu say that you have tuberculosis?" asked Lin Fei, the eldest son of the village head.
Lin Qiandao spoke first, "Uncle Lin Fei, my father doesn't have tuberculosis, he just has a common cold. It was the barefoot doctor who misdiagnosed him."
Tuberculosis is contagious, so it must be explained clearly, otherwise people will mistake it for a plague and avoid it.
"Oh! It's really a quack doctor who is harming people. Fortunately, I didn't let him prescribe medicine, otherwise something bad would happen after drinking it." Lin Fei looked at Lin Wu, whose face was rosy, and immediately believed what Lin Qian said.
"Who said it wasn't?" Zhao Xiu continued.
On Lin Fei's ox cart, there were not only Lin Qian and her family, but also several villagers from the village who were going to the market in town.
Lin Wu showed up in good shape today. There was no need to explain that he did not have tuberculosis. The news would spread throughout the entire Linjia Village tomorrow.
After about half an hour, the ox cart arrived at the town.
"I need to buy a lot of things, and I won't be able to return to the village until the sun sets. If you still want to take a car, just wait for me here at the south gate of the city." Lin Fei gave instructions and drove the ox cart away.
Lin Wu and Lin Qian first went to an empty corner, secretly entered the space, and carried out a basket of bayberries and the poria cocos they dug yesterday.
"Yesterday, Shuo Shuo and I sold bayberries to these two medical clinics in the south of the city. Today, we will go to the north of the city first. There is a Renhetang there, which is the largest medical clinic in the town. You can also sell the Poria cocos to them later." Lin Wudao.
Lin Qian nodded, left the alley and met up with Lin Shuo and Zhao Xiu, and the family headed towards Renhetang.
Outside Renhe Hall, there was a mother and son sitting. The mother was in her thirties and the boy in her arms was about thirteen or fourteen years old.
Lin Qian looked at the mother and son curiously, then saw the boy's face and was immediately frightened.
The boy in the woman's arms had sores all over his face, black and red mixed together, with blood and pus oozing out.
Lin Qian frowned, feeling a little sorry for the boy. As she was watching, the boy suddenly opened his eyes, and Lin Qian was immediately stunned.
Because the boy's eyes are very beautiful, clear, bright, gentle and peaceful.
When they looked at each other, Lin Qian smiled at him subconsciously. The boy was stunned.
"Qianqian, what are you doing? Come here." Zhao Xiu saw that Lin Qian did not follow, so she turned around and called out.
"Coming." Lin Qian responded and followed her parents into Renhe Hall.
After entering Renhetang, Lin Wu walked directly to the counter with Yangmei on his back and stopped. Standing at the counter was a middle-aged man in his forties, who was counting the bill with his head down.
"Boss, are you buying bayberries? I just picked them this morning."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he stretched his head out and took a look into the basket. The bayberries in the basket were just taken out from the space. They were very fresh, and each one was ripe purple-red, which looked very pleasing to the eye.
The shopkeeper said, "Oh, that's pretty good. Xiao Shunzi, come and weigh it and see how much there is. I'll take it all."
Xiao Shunzi came over quickly, and Lin Wu carried the bayberry to the backyard to weigh it.
After a while, the two men came back and Xiao Shunzi said, "Boss, a total of 32 kilograms."
The shopkeeper hummed, scratched his abacus and said, "Your bayberries are indeed good. I'll give you ten cents per pound. Do you have any more? If you do, please send me another twenty pounds."
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