Madam, go home and farm

Chapter 6 Listening to the Corner

Puhuang went up the mountain to cut ferns several times, and also met several women. Seeing that she was going to the small road on Stone Mountain, they all stopped her, but Puhuangfei said that there were few people there, so there was no need to fight with others, and others would not. If you insist on it, of course you won't be with me, because I'm not familiar with you after all!

Therefore, Puhuang got a chance. After turning a corner and making sure that no one would see her, she let go of her speed and quickly walked along the path overgrown with weeds and entwined with vines and thorns.

Sure enough, as others have said, before reaching Stone Mountain, the entire mountain is almost slanted at seventy or eighty degrees. If you look down, you can see a small stream with lush vegetation on both sides.It took two quarters of an hour for Puhuang to reach the side of the stone mountain. Looking at the past, it is really all connected stones. In the gaps between the stones, there are tenacious trees and many weeds.

There are quite a few tendon-stretching vines crawling on the rocks, but they are everywhere and they are not worth much, otherwise they can be picked and sold.With the mountain wind blowing, Puhuang calculated the distance from the path to the creek at the bottom of the mountain. The advantage of this stone mountain is that it is not smooth and can be climbed everywhere.

Using mental power to choose a good angle, Puhuang jumped to the foot of the mountain in a short while, and mental power swept both sides of the stream, and found several water snakes, and two pheasants in the jungle on the opposite bank.

Her mental power, at the first level, can detect the surrounding environment, at the second level, it can be used as a magnifying glass, and at the third level, it can manipulate objects. It took a month of body fusion before he recovered to about level three.

He used some mental strength to catch the water snakes, and quickly threw them on the nearby rocks a few times. The force was not stronger than his body, but it also caused the heads of several snakes to rot.The two pheasants seemed to have sensed something was wrong, raised their heads, and looked around in shock. They didn't find anything, and they were wrapped around their necks by Puhuang's mental power, and they fell on the stone as usual.

Taking the prey to the edge of the stream, Puhuang quickly cleaned it up, and then picked the wild taro leaves by the stream to wrap the prey, but there was no seasoning such as salt on it.Looking around, Puhuang picked a lot of wormwood, some small wild fruits, and even a kind of very small and flat leaf fruit covered in very sour mucus. In this way, these wild things were seasoned , she knew that the taste must be bad, but she had eaten worse ones in her previous life, so it wouldn't be so bad.

Climb up the stone, and next to the stone mountain is a hillside, covered with all kinds of weeds and wild flowers. Puhuang directly dug a hole, put the wrapped wild animals into the hole, and then covered it with thin soil. I went to pick up a lot of dry firewood, and after a while, a big fire started.

Taking advantage of the fire, Puhuang cleaned up the surrounding area of ​​the grassland. After making sure that the fire would not spread, he went to the woods on the other side of the grassland to cut ferns. Just pour one piece at the beginning, and after a while, there will be three or four loads of fern grass.

According to the usual amount of picking back, Puhuang was tied up, and then I went back to the hillside, the fire had gradually weakened, and the spiritual force went into the ground to have a look, no matter how boring it was, it would be almost the same.

Two pheasants and five water snakes don't weigh more than four catties, which is just enough for Puhuang to eat half full. But thinking of poor Hong Hao'an, she very conscientiously kept two chicken legs and half a snake, although the taste is sour Sweet and sour, but some are good to eat.

After filling her stomach, Pu Huang suddenly felt more energetic. She sat cross-legged on the rock, spreading her mental power into a net, searching the rocky mountain inch by inch. , she saw a piece of ear-like thing lying on the rock, and a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind.

In her previous life, when she first entered university, she often went to the library, especially reading those herbal medicine books. After the end of the world, her mental power was mutated, and her memory improved a lot. She could almost remember all the books she had read. Unfortunately, the ones she remembered In the book, there are not many useful ones, but fortunately, I have read all the collections of Materia Medica.

Most traditional Chinese medicines are used for both medicine and food. At that time, she read a record about stone ear. It is a limb fungus plant that grows on rocks. It is flat like a human ear. The color will not change until old age, and the effects of improving eyesight and improving essence are very popular because of the benefit of color.

In order to confirm his discovery, Puhuang got up, ran and jumped on the stone nimbly, looked at the stone, and then carefully observed it with mental strength. It was indeed a stone ear.This thing likes to grow on cliffs, and it is not easy to get it usually.Puhuang held back the surprise in her heart, tore a piece of petticoat cloth to make a small pocket, and she happily picked up the stone ear by buckling the depression or protrusion on the cliff.

There are many rivers and lakes in this town of Bishui, so the farming is very developed, the farmers live a stable life, and rarely go into the deep mountains, except for a small number of hunters, and these hunters may not know the precious medicinal materials.As long as she goes to the deep mountains two more times in the future, she may be able to pick ginseng and ganoderma, especially the green and black mushrooms, then she will make a lot of money.

There are a lot of stone fungus, about half of which are puhuang, and where she has picked, she will leave some at intervals to allow them to continue to reproduce and grow, and she still makes a fortune from these.

After tying up the bag and stuffing it carefully into the fern grass, Puhuang reluctantly glanced at the remaining stone ears, which were all silver.

Puhuang didn't go back right away, but went into the mountains and forests, specially picked dark and humid places, picked up a lot of mushrooms and fungus, and then hurried back.

As usual, Wu said that Puhuang was lazy and cut a load of ferns and the like in the afternoon, and then the couple had two bowls of rice soup for dinner.Regarding this, Puhuang certainly knew that he had to resist, but it was only a few days later, don't worry, it will take another two days.

Looking at the taro leaf bag in front of him, Hong Haoan raised his head in confusion: "What is this?"

"Eat." Puhuang picked up the cloth bag on the box and spread it out on the table. At this time, the sky had not completely darkened yet, so he could still see clearly.

Hong Haoan untied the straw rope on the top and saw the chicken legs and snake meat inside. He was startled, looked up at Puhuang, and handed it over: "You eat it, you are tired from daily work."

Pu Huang waved her hand impatiently, "I left you specially, and there will be more tomorrow." She took the gray cloth that was used as a burden before and spread it out, removed the stone fungus little by little and put it in the sand. go up.Hong Haoan didn't ask Puhuang where the meat came from, but just ate it quietly. The taste was not very good, but his heart was full of mixed feelings.

When Puhuang was weighing the stone fungus in the bag, Hong Haoan asked curiously: "Is this fungus? It's not quite the same as the ones picked in the past."

"This is stone ear, which grows on rocks. Have you heard of it?" Puhuang thought that he would dry these out and sell them, and he would find an opportunity to sell them tomorrow. Not small.

"Stone ears? Earth ears? I have heard people say that the ones that grow on cliffs are the best. Ordinary people also sell ordinary ones, but the quantity is small, and they are taken away by rich families." Hong Haoan tried hard to recall. Really, tell me what I know, after all, I saw a lot of things when I traveled all over the world, "Did you go to the Stone Mountain?"

"That's right, I picked a lot from a piece of rock." Puhuang nodded, "What's the price of this thing?"

"The road to Stone Mountain is steep. You should stop going there in the future. It's not safe." Hong Hao'an frowned. Why did he have a feeling that his wife likes to take risks, and maybe the more he persuaded her, the more she would do the opposite.

"In terms of quality, generally, after drying in the sun, there are about two hundred wen per catty of low-grade, five hundred to eight hundred wen of middle-grade, and two to three taels of top-grade." Hong Haoan didn't understand this stone ear. Quality, "I don't know what quality it is, but the shopkeeper in the pharmacy can tell it."

Pu Huang frowned, "I heard from my uncle that when you were working outside, you must have known a lot of people. Did anyone do this dry goods business?" She always thought it would be more cost-effective to sell to a businessman.

"How can I know Shi Dadong's family, they are all ordinary people." Hong Haoan shook his head, his eyes were a little sad.

Pu Huang was keenly aware of it, and changed the subject, "Forget it, I'll take it to the county seat, and ask separately, maybe I'll find out."

"It's not going to work, you are a woman, and those shops will bully you even more." Hong Hao'an immediately refused.

"In this great and prosperous dynasty, there is no woman doing business?" Pu Huang frowned. She thought that in every dynasty, there would always be a woman standing on the cusp of the storm.

"It's not impossible, but there must be powerful support behind the girl who can become big, otherwise, those unscrupulous profiteers would not have invaded, otherwise, it would be small businesses, such as clothing stores and rouge shops." Hong Hao'an didn't think too much about it, he only thought that Puhuang lived in a remote place before, so he asked this question.

"The stone fungus looks good. After a while, I will find time to go to the pharmacy in the town and ask, if the pharmacy is willing to accept these stone fungus, how much will it cost?" Without any money in hand, I feel panicked and feel insecure. .

Seeing that Puhuang was so persistent, Hong Haoan thought for a while, "If it is a more honest businessman, it will be charged at three or four tenths of the selling price of the quality, and if it is a profiteer, it will be one or two tenths, or it will be to deceive you about quality problems. "Tell her clearly, it's better to have a psychological preparation to prevent being cheated.

"Then I know it." Puhuang nodded, bent over and picked up a small pot in the corner.

"By the way, do you want to try this?" This is the buckwheat she found when she went up the mountain for the first time. After searching the house, she found such a pot. Puhuang secretly took salt from the kitchen to pickle it, but the salt was originally There are not many, and I dare not take more, so I didn't follow the procedure. I don't know how it tastes?

At that time, Hong Haoan saw Puhuang whole, it was less than ten days old, can it be eaten?
It was the first time for Puhuang and Puhuang to do it together, and it was done by others in the previous life, so she didn't know how long it would take. She looked at Hong Hao'an nervously and listened to his opinion.

Hong Hao'an still recognizes this stuff. He used to dig it up and play with it when he was a child, but he didn't expect it to be edible. "It's a bit salty, a bit spicy, and the marinating time is not enough."

When Pu Huang heard this, he felt a little frustrated, "I'm too impatient, tell me, what if this is ready for dinner?"

"It's better if it's made sweet and sour. If it's salty, it can only be served with porridge." Hong Hao'an feels that Puhuang is very adventurous, and if she has the conditions, she can make more, but for now, I'm afraid I will continue to be wronged .

"I know how to make sweet and sour ones. It requires sugar and vinegar, both of which are precious things." Those expensive and edible ones are all taken care of by Mrs. Wu.

"It's nothing, you write it down, and find a chance to do it in the future."

It was getting dark, there was no oil lamp in the house, and they couldn't see anything. The couple were talking in a low voice, and after a while, they went to bed and lay down, but they didn't know that the conversation between the two of them was overheard by someone from the next room. .

　The price of the lower stone ear has been revised...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)