Chapter 218 Coptis chinensis
"Wait, everyone stop!"
If someone else had shouted "Stop", a group of half-grown children would not have listened at all, but this was Shen Qing!
She fried small fish for them, gave them lard, exchanged it for rice and flour for them, gave up her donkey cart for them and their younger brothers and sisters to sit on when there were many disaster victims on the road, and she led her parents and the whole family to make brushes and dig medicinal herbs to earn money. Her words were even more effective than her parents' shouts!
All the children in the gourd belly were making a lot of noise and acting lawless one second, and the next second they stood obediently as if they had committed a crime, lowering their heads and waiting in unison.
The braver ones quietly defended everyone: "We were just throwing weeds, no one was hurt. What else did we do wrong?"
The Lei family was also shocked by the scene in front of them, and hurried forward to explain for the other party.
Before he could speak, Shen Qing smiled and comforted him: "I didn't say you did anything wrong, maybe you even have a contribution."
Upon hearing that there was a merit, the children who had originally seemed to have done something wrong immediately dispersed and shouted excitedly: "What merit?"
Shen Qing didn't have time to answer them now, because there were too many weeds to pull out, and she wasn't sure which one it was, so she could only pick up one and let the mall identify it.
In the eyes of adults, isn't this just carefully checking the herbs?
They each waved at their own children and said, "What's your achievement? You bunch of troublemakers, get out of the way and don't disturb Shen Qing."
Of course the children didn't listen and still came forward, but they stopped making noise. Knowing that this was serious business, they squatted aside and stared at it with extremely serious faces.
Everyone's heart was in their throat, and they watched Shen Qing's every move excitedly.
Shen Qing picked up a plant with leaves separated into triangles, and the mall finally confirmed that it was Coptis chinensis.
The bitterness of Coptis chinensis
It turns out that this is the Coptis chinensis that means "a dumb person eating Coptis chinensis, unable to express his pain"!
Shen Qing looked everywhere with the leaves in his hand, but found that there was no such plant around. Could it be the only one?
Even if it can be sold at a high price of 221 kilograms, it is useless with such a pitifully small output.
Lei Dafu stepped forward and asked, "Auntie, are you looking for this grass?"
Shen Qing nodded eagerly and replied, "This is a medicinal herb. I don't know if you've heard the old saying, 'A dumb person eating Coptis chinensis cannot express his pain.' This is Coptis chinensis!
It can be sold for silver. When I went to the herbal medicine shop to sell astragalus, the shopkeeper described it to me and told me to find it, dry it, and send it to the herbal medicine shop. The shop will buy it."
She doesn’t know whether the pharmacy will accept it or not, but her mall will!
When the crowd heard that this was the old saying about Coptis chinensis, they all came forward in disbelief to watch.
"This is the legendary Coptis chinensis. It turns out this is what it looks like."
"Is it really that bitter? Why do I want to try it?"
"You are really greedy!"
"Hey, stop arguing, listen to what Dafu says, and see where it is. Earning money is important!"
When they heard about earning money, the crowd instantly quieted down and looked at Lei Dafu in unison.
Lei Dafu thought for a moment and said with certainty: "Near the top of the mountain, there are large patches of this kind of grass.
There are some on other mountaintops, but not many on the mountainside."
Shen Qing: .....It seems that Coptis chinensis likes to grow at high altitudes.
When they heard the sound at the top of the mountain, everyone looked up.
There were only lush trees, and I couldn't see the tops at all.
Jiang Ying retracted her gaze, swallowed, and asked Lei Dafu, "Dafu, how high have we climbed? How long will it take to reach the summit?"
Lei Xiaoman laughed and said, "It's still early! We haven't even reached the mountainside yet."
Everyone: .....
Zhao Mingyue sighed and discussed, "We have to climb even if it's high. This is a medicinal herb. We don't need to plant it, fertilize it, water it, or weed it. We can harvest it directly. What's the big deal about climbing a mountain?"
"Yes, but building a house is also very important and cannot be delayed. Before the house is built, we women have to select people to go up the mountain to dig." Zheng Hui wanted to sigh as she looked at the mountain road with no top in sight.
The men in the family have to make adobe bricks and build houses, while the elderly take care of the children at home. Although they are women, they are used to farm work and have great energy, and many of them are no worse than the men.
Climbing a mountain is tiring, but climbing up and down is not a problem if you work hard at it.
Lei Dafu saw that the women had come up with a general idea and said, "When you get home, decide on the candidates. Tomorrow morning, I will take you to the top of the mountain. After the October freeze, it will be impossible to climb the mountain, so we only have these twenty days to dig Coptis chinensis.
We also have to deduct the rain, because the ground is slippery and you can’t go up the mountain.”
When they heard that there were only a little over twenty days, not including the rainy weather, the old men in the crowd were eager to give it a try.
Everyone started a chaotic discussion, and Lei Dafu immediately took everyone to the next place.
Lei Chuntian was again responsible for the introduction: "This is mountain spring water, which flows all the way to the river below.
There are several large springs in the mountains, and there are countless small ones, just like small puddles with water bubbling out of them.
The clear spring water gurgles down, and I feel instinctively happy to see the source of water.
Shen Qing looked at the spring water rushing down, wondering if it could be diverted to her side or a branch could be opened to divert it and form a pond.
The pond belongs to our family alone, unlike the river which is shared by the whole village, so it is convenient to raise chickens, ducks, geese and fish. This is mountain spring water, and the fish in the cold water are firm and have no earthy smell, and are very delicious!
How can chickens, ducks and geese that are raised drinking mountain spring water not be delicious?
"Look, isn't that wild celery? But why is it so big?"
"Those who drink mountain spring water are different. Even wild celery can grow this big!"
Shen Qing came back to her senses and moved forward to take a look. Her family was in urgent need of vegetables. They picked wild celery that was well-grown and delicious. It would be delicious even if it was stir-fried, and it could be a dish.
"Is it a little old? I see it has already bloomed and produced seeds." Jiang Yu said softly to Shen Qing beside him.
There are indeed a lot of seeds, Shen Qing frowned.
Jiang Yu looked around and plucked a small one near a mountain spring. He looked up and smiled softly, "Look, sister-in-law, the small one is still quite tender. I think it's edible."
Standing not far away, Lei Dafu scanned the entire scene with a calm gaze. When his eyes fell on Jiang Yu, they paused for a moment, then hurriedly looked away. However, his peripheral vision couldn't help but catch the gentle figure by the fountain...
Shen Qing was also stunned.
She had previously boasted that she would open up a lot of new categories for the mall, but after several hours, she only found a Coptis chinensis plant an incense stick ago, and it was an accidental discovery.
And at this moment, it is effortless to find what you have been looking for!
There is a new discovery in the mall. The plant in front of us, which is similar to wild celery, is actually a medicinal herb: Qianghuo.
“This isn’t wild celery,” she said.
The women, who had been overjoyed, froze. They looked left and right at the plant in front of them, and asked in confusion, "It does look a bit different, but if it's not wild celery, what is it?"
"It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's edible. It's spring, can it be eaten?"
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