Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 91 Picking Tea Seeds and Finding a Way

After returning from the camphor tree, Gao Mingcheng's pace of life slowed down again.

Early the next morning, he resumed his habit of getting up early and going to the mountains to fight boxing. Then he took out the throwing knife and successfully got two hares.

Recently, the frequency of eating wild rabbits at home is quite high, and there are a lot of rabbit skins accumulated in the utility room, which can be sold at some time.

There is no need to go to the county town, there is a fur tanning workshop in the town. This kind of workshop can either sell the fur, or pay the other party to tan the fur for you.

It's autumn now, and it's the time when wild animals in the mountains have shiny fur. Gao Mingcheng thought about finding a time to hunt some rabbits and foxes with good fur.

From ancient times to the present, rich people like to wear fur, and high-quality fur can also be sold at a high price.

When checking the beehives in the mountains, Gao Mingcheng found that many villagers had gone into the mountains to collect tea seeds.

His mother clashed with Gao Fuqiang's mother because of picking up tea seeds, and broke his foot.

Originally, his mother wanted to call their brothers to trouble Gao Fuqiang's family, but his father refused. His father thought it was unreasonable for him to save face. Ken let his sons stand up for Luo Xiaohua.

This made Luo Xiaohua very angry.

But Gao Mingcheng's act of sending ginseng and wolfberry to his family made Luo Xiaohua happy.

In the early morning of the next day, Luo Xiaohua, who hurt her foot and couldn't move easily, went to a crowded place, and then loudly showed off that Gao Mingcheng gave her ginseng and goji berries.

But in just half a day, everyone in the village knew that Gao Mingcheng went out to sell medicine with his boss, and then used all the money he earned to buy ginseng and goji berries for his family.

So some people praised Gao Mingcheng for his filial piety, while others ridiculed Gao Mingcheng for being stupid, for not knowing how to keep money in his hands.

Since Gao Mingcheng has been living in Gao Zhuang's house recently, the villagers privately speculated that Gao Mingcheng had a conflict with his family.

But now that Gao Mingcheng spends so much money to buy supplements for his parents, it doesn't seem like he's having a conflict.

As a result, Gao Mingcheng's reputation in the village has actually improved.

At this moment, Gao Mingcheng was standing under a tea tree, looking at the tea seeds all over the tree, and thinking about picking tea seeds.

This kind of tea tree is a camellia oleifera tree, which can be picked every time the frost comes.The picked tea seeds are exposed to the sun, shelled, and the kernels with high oil content are collected, and then taken to the oil mill to extract the tea oil.

In the mountain forest owned by the brigade, a large tea forest was planted, which was planted by a farm in the 60s.

Now the farm is gone, and the tea forest is collectively owned by the brigade.By selling tea seeds every year, I can get some money.

Therefore, the villagers are not allowed to pick these tea forests, but it is inevitable that some villagers will pick them quietly.

After a while, traders will come to the market to collect tea seeds. Fresh tea seeds cost [-] cents a catty, and if they are exposed to the sun and shelled, they can be sold for [-] cents per catty.

Gao Mingcheng also planned to pick tea seeds, but he didn't plan to sell the tea seeds, but planned to save some more and use them for oil extraction.

Tea oil is sweet in taste and cool in nature. Pregnant women eating it is very beneficial to the development of the fetus; children eating it can benefit qi, laxatives, relieve fire, and help digestion, and it is very helpful to promote the development of bones and iliac muscles; while the elderly can eat it to relieve weight loss. Fire, beauty, eyesight, black hair, anti-aging, has a good curative effect on chronic pharyngitis and prevention of human hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and cardiovascular system diseases.

In addition, tea seeds have a good insecticidal effect and can treat ringworm and scabies.Chaku can also be used as shampoo and conditioner, which can resist ultraviolet light, prevent sunburn and remove wrinkles.

You see, tea oil is a good thing, right?So in later generations, camellia oil was a high-grade edible oil.

There are good things, can you not?
Gao Mingcheng didn't have a bag with him, so he quickly ran home and took two bags into the mountain.

He also didn't go to the small hill to fight with the villagers, but ran to the deep mountains.

Perhaps it was because of the large area of ​​artificially planted tea forests. There are also many wild tea trees in the deep mountains. Relying on his good physical fitness, he went to the mountains to pick them alone.

After working for three days in a row, the yard of Grandma Xi's house was filled with tea seeds.

After picking all that could be picked, Gao Mingcheng gave up.

Because there are too many tea seeds, Grandma Xi dare not open the yard door these days, nor let anyone come in.

Otherwise, others have worked so hard to get only a dozen or twenty catties, but your yard is full of thousands of catties, can you not be jealous?

After the tea seeds are exposed to the sun, they can naturally crack, exposing the black tea seed kernels inside.

But some will not be completely split, and have to be beaten with a stick, or peeled off one by one by hand.

But this is a matter of a few days later, so Gao Mingcheng doesn't care about it for the time being.

This day is market day in the county.Gao Mingcheng got up early in the morning, and then headed for the county with a large bag of medicinal materials.

These are the precious medicinal materials and western medicines he bought from the medicine fair. He plans to sell them in the county, so he has to take advantage of the market day to find a way out.

In addition to selling these herbs, Gao Mingcheng also planned to go to Gao Guo Bingjia, this trip was mainly to give gifts.

He also prepared two roots of ginseng and a catty of wolfberry for Gao Guobing.

Today is not a holiday, so Gao Yue is studying at school, and Gao Guobing and his wife are also at work.

Gao Mingcheng went directly to the police station with a large bag of medicinal materials.

He was here last time, so everyone in the police station knew that he was Gao Guobing's nephew. As soon as he entered the door, he greeted him warmly and told him: "Chief Gao is in the office."

Gao Mingcheng thanked him with a smile, and went directly to Gao Guobing's office.

"Uncle." Gao Mingcheng pushed the door in and greeted with a smile.

Gao Guobing was reading the newspaper, and when he heard the voice, his face appeared from behind the newspaper, and when he saw that it was Gao Mingcheng, he also smiled.

"Mingcheng, come to the county today when you are free. Sit down, I'll ask someone to pour you a glass of water." Gao Guobing went out to ask someone to pour water, and then sat opposite Gao Mingcheng.

Gao Mingcheng and Gao Guobing were already familiar with each other after the tomb robbery and dagger delivery last time, so he said straight to the point: "Uncle, a while ago I was entrusted to buy medicinal materials in our village and sell them at the camphor tree medicine fair." , and then bought some precious medicinal materials that are not available here, and the person who entrusted me asked me to find a way to sell them, and then share [-]% of the profits with me."

"But I have no connections, so after much deliberation, I have to ask my uncle for help."

Gao Mingcheng opened the bag he brought and showed Gao Guobing the medicinal materials inside.

Gao Guobing inspected it with a serious expression, and found that it was indeed a rare medicinal material that they did not have here, including ginseng, wolfberry, cordyceps sinensis, pilose antler, etc., and some western medicines.

He was not fooled by Gao Mingcheng's words, but asked: "Does the person who entrusts you have no connections? How did you ask you to find connections? Who is that person? Is it reliable?"

His voice was serious and concerned, because he was afraid that Gao Mingcheng would be deceived.

(End of this chapter)