The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 34 Staring
Chen Qicai returned home happily with two sets of medicine and a handful of copper coins in his arms.

I never thought that the root of the tree called kudzu is actually a medicinal herb!

Although the master said that the kudzu root he had not been processed and could not charge a high price, and that it was not just kudzu or something like that, so he could only give him one penny and two kilograms of kudzu root, but the half of the kudzu root weighed fifty kilograms!

Good guy, these days, tree roots can be sold for money, and he was asked to sell them for twenty-five cents!

He grabbed two sets of medicine and still had nine coins left!
Tell me, this root is worth two pounds of meat! Isn’t this asking people to collect money? You would be foolish not to pick it up!

Chen Qicai's good foot moved so fast that he wished he could put on wings and fly back home.

He wants to go home quickly, take his wife and children and go up the mountain to dig kudzu!

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Yesterday I dug for a day, and the total amount was estimated to be about 100 kilograms of kudzu. But Pomegranate knew that this little kudzu would not be enough to make it.

Coupled with yesterday's incident of "the mysterious disappearance of half a kudzu root", Pomegranate's sixth sense gave her a sense of urgency.

No matter how much it is, you can’t go wrong with digging more and taking it home!

But how much can she and Brother Zhang dig in one day with just one and a half labors? The main reason is that it takes time to carry it up the mountain and back.

Therefore, Shiliu couldn't help but analyze it carefully with her father Li Jihe, and among the people who went up the mountain today, there was one more Li Ronyu.

The wall of the new house has been built to the height of one person's waist. Whether it is the master bricklayer or the helping tribesmen, everyone is working hard. The lack of Li Rongyu's half-labor will not affect the progress of the house construction.

The three people from Pomegranate went up the mountain non-stop. With Pomegranate's sharp eyes, they dug out three clumps in the morning, and then Li Rongyu was responsible for transporting them to the foot of the mountain. After the last trip, Pomegranate would be transported down the mountain with them.

Then Li Rongzhang guarded the kudzu root at the foot of the mountain, while Shiliu and his second brother Li Rongyu went back to the homestead non-stop. In this way, the efficiency was greatly improved.

Although I was tired, I dug 100 kilograms more kudzu root in the morning than yesterday!

In the afternoon, the trio headed up the mountain as usual.

But just after walking around for a long time after going up the mountain, Pomegranate discovered the movement under the forest slope, eh? It seems like someone is digging kudzu too?
Shiliu hurriedly grabbed the older brother and younger brother who were about to move forward, and the three of them got down, "Second brother, do you see which family is there?"

There were more than a hundred households in the village, and she was not familiar with everyone. They were so far away and their backs were turned to her, so she couldn't really see who they were.

Li Rongyu recognized it at a glance, "They are the Chen family who live at the foot of the mountain!"

"Is that the lame uncle?" Shiliu knew it as soon as he heard it.

Chen Qicai of the Chen family in their village heard that the soles of his feet were deformed when he was born, which made the villagers talk about it for a long time. As he got older, Chen Qicai just walked with a limp and nothing else. Gradually, he no longer People talk about this.

Pomegranate felt that this was a bit like contracting polio, just a mild form. The deformity of the soles of the feet was valgus.

But this is not important. What is important is that the Chen family is digging kudzu root!
It wasn’t available yesterday, but it was found today!
Pomegranate thought about the half of her kudzu root that had disappeared yesterday, and she felt vaguely frowning.

She did not continue going down, but turned around and took Li Rongyu and the two of them to another hilltop to look for kudzu root. Pomegranate had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, so she worked hard and dug four or five clumps with Li Rongyu without stopping. She was so lucky that she dug out an old kudzu root that was at least several years old. , dug out of the soil, it looked like a tree trunk, estimated to weigh at least two hundred pounds.

The combined weight of this pile was more than two people could carry down the mountain. Coupled with the investment in digging kudzu, Pomegranate was a little exhausted, and it was getting late. Pomegranate asked her second brother Li Rongyu to go down the mountain first. , his legs and feet were quick, so he went back and called his father and eldest brother to help carry the kudzu.

Li Rongyu ran home and was finishing work at the homestead. After talking to Li Jihe, Li Jihe took Li Rongzong with him without saying a word, and even the Song family went with him.

Several people went up the mountain, and then they made two trips and carried all the kudzu roots dug this afternoon down the mountain.

The weather is not the coldest yet, and cats are not moving at home, so there are still many villagers going up the mountain to collect firewood.

Originally, they didn’t think much about seeing the Pomegranate siblings digging tree roots yesterday, but today, the Pomegranate siblings still dug so many roots and went home. They also saw Chen Qicai’s family also digging a lot. This is called the village. People are very surprised.

Could it be that this tree root is some kind of treasure? I dug out one root after another. Isn’t it too strenuous at all? With this effort, like them, they have packed several bundles of firewood and gone home today. Isn't it better to burn than the broken tree roots?
The villagers couldn't figure it out no matter how hard they tried. They wanted to ask Shiliu's family, but they were very busy today and couldn't find the chance.

However, Chen Qicai's neighbors saw Chen Qicai and the others coming back with tree roots in the evening and asked out of curiosity, "Qicai! Didn't you say yesterday that you were collecting bamboo rats in Jishang? If you don't look for bamboo rats, why are you digging these tree roots?"

Chen Qicai listened to his neighbor's words and thought to himself: It's not like bamboo rats can't be caught, otherwise he wouldn't tell the villagers that catching bamboo rats can be sold for money, so as to sell it to the villagers!

The fact that tree roots can be sold for money has been kept a secret from the Li family. He is not stupid and will not tell the villagers!

He was also thinking haha ​​at the moment, "I searched all day yesterday and didn't even see a shadow of a bamboo rat. Today I wanted to go up the mountain to collect firewood, but there were too many people collecting firewood, and all the firewood on the mountain was picked up. It’s almost done, I thought the tree roots were very burned after drying, so I dug some out and put them in the sun!”

When the neighbor heard this, he didn't believe it at all. How could the firewood on the mountain be finished? Nothing is easier than digging up tree roots!
What secret does the Chen family have that they don’t want to tell?

And Li Yitian’s granddaughter has been digging tree roots since yesterday!
The neighbor couldn't figure it out, so he thought he might as well dig one out tomorrow to see what was so strange about the roots.

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After a tiring day, I just slept on the pillow at night, and slept until dawn.

Shiliu didn't plan to stop today, so she led Li Rongzhang up the mountain smoothly.

As for Li Rongyu, who was supposed to go up the mountain as well, Shiliu asked him to go do some business.

Li Rongyu has been running faster than others since he was a child, and he is also good at tricks. There is no one more suitable than him for this matter.

Pomegranate and Li Rongzhang worked hard for a long time, digging two clumps of kudzu, and then they met Li Rongyu who ran up the mountain to find them out of breath, "Pomegranate! Pomegranate!"

"Hey! Second brother! We are here!" Li Rongzhang responded in a hurried voice.

After a while, Li Rongyu ran closer, put his hands on his knees and took a good breath, and then said: "Pomegranate, you asked me to keep an eye on the Chen family before dawn, and you were right! Then Chen Qicai took his son and carried Kudzu to Daji before dawn!"

"After arriving at Daji, I watched them go to Datong Warehouse and sell kudzu root to a man with a goatee! After they left, I specifically went up and asked, and it turned out that the man was a medicine dealer! This Kudzu root is actually a herbal medicine! The price is one penny or two pounds!"

(End of this chapter)