Everyone went back to rest for a while at noon and then split into two groups.
Lin Anru went to the village chief's house, while Liu took the children to continue digging herbs.
Among the three people digging herbs, two were weak and sick. They had to rest while digging, so their harvest was greatly reduced.
The three of them worked hard for an entire afternoon and only managed to lift about thirty kilograms.
"You've been gone all day just to dig up this lousy chicken intestine grass?"
Old Mrs. Lin and Mrs. Sun were busy preparing dinner in the kitchen. When they turned around, they saw Mrs. Liu standing behind them with her two children.
They were carrying baskets filled with chicken intestine grass.
Although this thing is a kind of wild vegetable, its taste and texture are not very good, and people who have no food at home will not dig it.
Old Mrs. Lin looked at Liu as if she were a fool.
Liu felt uncomfortable being stared at, but she couldn't say that it was a medicinal herb and that she dug it up to sell, not to eat.
It is still uncertain whether it can be sold, and spreading the news now will mislead others.
The most important thing is that if Dingxi can really be sold for money, she doesn't want others to know about it.
There were so many places in her family that needed money, and she didn't want to lose the source of her family's income.
You can call her selfish or heartless!
What she should do is to take good care of her family. As for other things, she will wait until she becomes rich.
She nodded stiffly.
Old Mrs. Lin looked at her with a look of disappointment, and she didn't know whether she was right or wrong to support the division of the family.
The original intention was to allow the third brother to live a more comfortable life in the future, but seeing his wife's condition, she was really afraid that the third brother's family would not even be able to eat wild vegetables in the future.
Liu was a little frightened as she watched Old Lady Lin's face change constantly. This was the natural oppression of the daughter-in-law on the mother-in-law in this era. She quickly spoke up to try to interrupt Old Lady Lin, whose face was becoming increasingly ugly:
"Mom and sister-in-law, can you lend me your spare dustpan for a few days?"
When the family splits up, each family only gets one of these things.
Thirty kilograms of herbs cannot be spread out to dry in the sun by just one or two people, which is why Liu and her group came into the kitchen.
"It's in the room, just ask Daya to take it out." Sun agreed readily.
"Okay! Thank you, sister-in-law." Liu hurriedly thanked her.
"We're family, why be polite? Just bring it back when you're done using it." Sun smiled sweetly.
"It's under the shed at the back of the yard. Go get it yourself!" Mrs. Lin didn't say what she wanted to say in the end.
No matter how much you say, it is better to let them experience it themselves, and then they will understand everything they need to understand.
It just means you have to suffer more!
After getting approval, Liu quickly ran out of the kitchen with her two children.
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"Sister Yu, are you going to separate the little ones?"
Before it got dark, the three of them quickly washed the coriander and spread it out.
When Liu saw Lin Shiyu picking out the larger ones and putting them aside, she wanted to help, but she couldn't understand her daughter's selection pattern. She put some obviously small herbs into a winnowing basket.
"No, mother." Lin Shiyu shook her head: "These are two kinds of herbs."
"Two kinds?" Liu picked them up and observed them, and found that they did look somewhat different.
Lin Boyu also leaned over to look: "Why do I see the same thing?"
"They are different. This one is cilantro, and this one is Centella asiatica." Lin Shiyu explained, pointing to their differences.
The leaves of Cilantro are membranous or herbaceous, round or kidney-shaped; the leaves of Centella asiatica are membranous to herbaceous, round, kidney-shaped or horseshoe-shaped.
In terms of size, the leaves of Centella asiatica are also larger than those of Coriander.
The umbel inflorescence of Coriander is solitary at the node, with a slender peduncle. Each inflorescence contains five to eighteen small flowers. The flowers are sessile or have short stalks, and the petals are oval and green-white.
Centella asiatica has two to four umbels that grow in clusters in the leaf axils. Each umbel contains three to four small flowers. The flowers are sessile, and the petals are oval, purple-red or milky white, and membranous.
"Ah, I thought they were all the same. I picked the big ones to dig. Isn't this a waste of work?" Liu looked annoyed after hearing this.
She thought that the small leaf was because it had not grown up, but who knew that it was something completely different!
"It's okay, Mom. This is also a herb, and you can use it after picking it out." Lin Shiyu comforted her.
The two of them look very similar, grow in similar environments, and even their medicinal effects are not particularly different, so they are often mistaken for each other.
"When we go digging tomorrow, let's separate these two. If we have to pick them all up again when we get back, won't that be a waste of work?" Liu complained, "Sister Yu, you should have told me earlier. Then we wouldn't have to work so hard when we get back."
Neither she nor her son are familiar with this, and in the end the one who will be tired is her daughter.
"Mom, I know I was wrong. I will tell you in advance next time." Lin Shiyu promised.
The main reason was that her brother had already mixed the two herbs together at the beginning, so she did not remind Liu.
Liu felt a little sorry for her because she had to work hard after returning, and she regretted it the moment she said the complaints.
Seeing that her daughter didn't seem to be affected by what she said, Liu breathed a sigh of relief.
Dinner time was about to begin, so Liu had to cheer up and help him sort the food carefully.
But she was not familiar with this and her speed in picking out the items was not even one-fifth as fast as her daughter's.
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"Where are the homesteads located?"
At the dinner table, Mr. Lin asked his three sons while eating.
Lin Anji swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "The second to last piece of land on the east side of Shangcun."
"So off?!" Old Master Lin frowned.
Lin Anji lowered his head and said nothing. He really wanted the land in the lower village, but his second brother had already decided to stay there, so he could only choose the land in the upper village.
My second brother and his family are not simple people. For the sake of our children, we should stay away from them if possible!
"And you?"
The eldest son didn't say anything, so Mr. Lin could only turn around and ask his second son.
Lin Anxiang put down his chopsticks, raised his head with a proud look on his face and replied loudly: "The one in the middle of the lower village."
All the unaware people in the Lin family looked up at him.
The people in the second house all raised their chests.
This is so embarrassing!
That is the best residential land location in the village, and you can't get it if you spend less money.
"You spent all your money on buying land, so what are you going to use to build the house?" Grandpa Lin's originally frowning brows now looked so furrowed that they could pinch a fly to death.
In the village, as long as you are not building a brick and tile house, you can basically be self-sufficient in the materials you need, but some materials still need to be bought with money!
Besides, you’ll have to buy pots and pans after moving in!
How could I spend all the money?
"There is money to buy land, and there is money to build houses." Lin Anxiang was not worried about this at all.
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