It smells so good!
Jiang Yue, drawn by the fragrance, stood under the honeysuckle vine.
Looking closer, a delicate fragrance wafted along the calyx, making her feel sweet and delightful.
Looking around, clusters and clumps of trees, one after another, yellow and white, resemble a waterfall.
This patch of honeysuckle is growing so vigorously!
Without saying a word, Jiang Yue put down the basket on her back and began picking honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle has been hailed as a good medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying since ancient times.
It is sweet and cold in nature and fragrant. Its sweet and cold nature clears heat without harming the stomach, and its fragrance can dispel evil.
In other words, honeysuckle can not only dispel wind-heat, but also effectively clear blood toxins. It is effective for various febrile diseases, such as fever, rashes, spots, carbuncles caused by heat toxins, and sore throat.
With so many flowers, I can pick them, take them home, rinse them with water, dry them in the sun, and then sell them at the herbal medicine shop to earn some money, maybe a few copper coins!
Ding~
Pure natural honeysuckle detected. System exchange privileges activated. Ten catties of honeysuckle can be exchanged for ten points. Host, would you like to exchange?
A transparent trading panel popped up, and Jiang Yue almost forgot that her cheat system could also be exchanged for points!
With her back to her daughter, Jiang Yue clicked the redemption button without thinking.
Then she quickly picked the honeysuckle flowers, using both hands, as if she wished they would fly into her basket on their own!
Ten pounds may not sound like much, but honeysuckle is actually very light.
Jiang Yue's arms ached from picking so many honeysuckle flowers before the basket finally held enough.
Looking at the system trading panel again, that's enough; it's now replaced with ten points!
Honestly, earning points is really not easy!
"Mom, my bamboo basket is full of wild vegetables. Let me help you pick some flowers!"
Wu Xiaocao, carrying a full bamboo basket, wobbled as she approached her mother.
Upon closer inspection, I noticed that there was only a layer of flowers at the bottom of my mother's basket. I thought to myself, "This isn't because my mother is being lazy; the flowers must be too tall for her to pick!"
"Grass is wonderful!"
Jiang Yue praised him awkwardly, thinking to herself, "Oh no, I hope Cao'er doesn't notice anything amiss."
Cao'er smiled shyly and then helped her mother pick flowers.
However, these flowers smell nice, but you can't eat them. Why is Mother picking them?
"Cao'er, this is honeysuckle. You can dry it and sell it at the pharmacy. It'll be worth some money."
Jiang Yue patiently explained, thinking to herself that she needed to come up with an excuse to make the children believe that she knew some medical skills.
"Really? Then we'll have to pick a lot more grass!"
Hearing that she could sell the flowers, Cao'er picked them even faster!
Seeing this, Jiang Yue was not to be outdone and quickened her pace as well.
Suddenly, the grass shrieked:
"Mother, a snake!"
Depend on!
There's a snake!
Jiang Yue's pupils dilated. She forced herself to remain calm, reassuring Cao'er not to move. Then, she took a kitchen knife from the basket, aimed, and swoosh—
Click~
The snake was cut in half at the waist!
Snake blood splattered out~
Jiang Yue dared not be careless. She remembered watching a video before, which showed that snakes do not die immediately after their bodies are cut off.
Smash the snake's head!
"Mother~"
Grass hid behind her mother in fear, too scared to look at the dead snake.
"mother--"
Wu Daniu and Wu Ergou arrived and breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that their mother and sister were safe.
Seeing her eldest and second eldest sons, Jiang Yue felt inexplicably at ease and quickly gave the instructions:
"Da Niu, quick, use the kitchen knife on the ground to chop the snake's head off!"
"Ergou, wrap the snake's body in leaves and burn it tonight."
Snake meat is also a type of meat, and just because she doesn't dare to eat it doesn't mean her children don't!
Even if the kids don't eat, there are still people in the old house~
"Sigh~"
Wu Daniu nodded and obediently went to chop off the snake's head. When he got closer, he was surprised to see that it was as thick as a wrist. It was a stroke of luck that his mother and sister hadn't been bitten!
"Mother, I told you and my sister not to go far, why didn't you listen and come here?"
Wu Ergou reprimanded him unhappily, saying that even he would be scared if he encountered such a big snake!
“The wild vegetables outside have long been dug up. I know this road. When your father was alive, he led me along it.”
Look, so many wild vegetables, and honeysuckle too! Don't just stand there, help Mom pick the flowers. We can dry them and sell them at the pharmacy!"
Jiang Yue had already devised a plan: to pin everything on Wu Sanlang, leaving no room for evidence.
Sure enough, when they heard that it was the road their father had taken with their mother, the three children fell silent.
Silently helping her mother pick flowers, she thought, "This is money, we can't waste it."
With help now available, Jiang Yue took a hands-off approach, sitting under the shade of a tree to rest, and asked curiously:
"By the way, did you stick any fish on your plates?"
"No, I caught two eels and half a basket of snails."
Wu Ergou shook his head, then hopped and skipped, hooking himself onto the tall vines and pulling down the honeysuckle...
After considering it, Jiang Yue made the following arrangements:
"That's enough. Tonight we'll cook eel, stir-fry some extra spicy snails, and snake meat. Boss, when we get back, you give this to your grandma. Since we have eel, we won't eat snake."
Actually, she's afraid of snakes, so since there are eels here, she doesn't want the pot to come into contact with snakes!
"Okay, I'll listen to Mother."
Wu Daniu nodded. In the past, he would definitely have been reluctant to part with it!
After all, such a thick and long snake must have a lot of meat.
However, he inexplicably agrees with his mother's increasingly logical and reasonable way of doing and speaking.
Wu Ergou was the same way. There was still a lot of grain in his mother's room and meat in the house, so whatever his mother said went.
Besides, the snake meat was cooked for his own mother, his grandmother, his grandfather, and his uncles, so he was very happy.
With two tall sons picking the flowers, many of the thriving honeysuckle plants on higher ground could not escape the "clutches" of the devil.
About an hour later, the honeysuckle flowers were almost all picked, and the baskets were overflowing.
Jiang Yue secretly exchanged ten jin during that time, otherwise she would have been full long ago.
"That's enough, we'll do it again next time..."
Jiang Yue stopped her sons and took the opportunity to teach them that they should know when to stop and when to quit while they were ahead, so that they could have a long-term, sustainable relationship.
Don't pick the flower buds, just like you shouldn't remove the roots of wild vegetables.
As long as there is hope, both flowers and wild vegetables have a chance to be reborn.
It was the first time Wu Daniu and Wu Ergou had heard their mother preach to them. They found it novel and insightful. They seemed to understand something, yet they were also somewhat confused.
Only Wu Xiaocao fully understood her mother's words; her mother was amazing!
"Come on, pack your things, let's go home and cook!"
With a command from Jiang Yue, it was time for today's educational correction!
She wanted to carry the basket, but her eldest and second eldest brothers beat her to it.
So she took her daughter's hand and followed behind her two older children...
On the riverbank, in the bamboo baskets where the eldest and second eldest brothers hid, lay two eels as thick as a thumb, along with snails that emitted a fishy smell.
Jiang Yue couldn't help but sigh, "This world, though poor, people are very conscientious; stealing is rare..."
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