Farming with medicine

Chapter 10
"I told you to stand still and be obedient just now, why are you disobedient now?" Cardamom took out honey from the basket and ate some, and said simply and simply, "Let's go."

But Qi Tengmiao smiled and walked happily with the bamboo basket on his back, "With me here, I can help you carry more grass down the mountain. I will take care of those flowers."

If he couldn't get rid of it, Cardamom could only let him follow, and by the way, he could carry some more herbs down the mountain.

Cardamom planned to make some medicine for her father first, and she could make the rest into pills to treat coughs.

The noon sun was shining brightly, and the hair sticking to the cheeks and neck was sticky and uncomfortable. Qi Tengmiao got into the grass beside him and came out with two big leaves in his hand, "This is for a hat and this is for a fan," And the newly added bloody scratches on the cheeks are all negligible in Cardamom's smile.

The two continued on their way. At a turn, Dou Kou noticed that the creek disappeared after stretching to the front left. At her feet was a downward cliff, and lush trees grew at her feet. Qi Tengmiao saw her standing still, He didn't dare to come up to him and shout, and he didn't dare to go over to give him a hand. None of the people who fell into the mountain stream came out alive.

Cardamom is not afraid, but is interested in the sunken valley under his feet. The geographical environment here is very suitable for the growth of ginseng.

"Qi Tengmiao, why are you standing there?" Dou Kou stared at the concave terrain under his feet for a full quarter of an hour, only to realize that he was still standing not far from him, not moving a step, "Hurry up."

The upward mountain road was muddy and difficult to walk. Qi Tengmiao turned his head every step, his eyes stayed on Dou Kou with a worried face, and finally reached the top of the mountain, he took a long breath and pulled Dou Kou to him, "It's all my fault You are still a little girl, and you were asked to go up the mountain with me, next time you tell me what grass to pick, I will pick it for you and send it down the mountain," he said, looking around to see if the cardamom was hurt or scared by the mountain.

"I'm fine, let's go to work," Cardamom pushed his hand away, took the bamboo basket from his back and began to pick out fresh asters, just squatting down to the edge of the ground, but Qi Tengmiao lifted her up from the ground.

"You go and rest, I'll help you hunt pigweed," Qi Tengmiao, who was scorched by the noon sun, carried the cardamom to the branch of a big tree and took fresh berries from the bamboo basket and handed them to her, "You eat Fruit, I work."

Nutmeg held a handful of berries in his hand and sat on the branch of a tree, although the distance from the ground was only more than one meter, but there were rocks underneath, and his foot would swell for a few days without breaking a bone, "Hey, that's not pigweed , ". After finishing speaking, I was stunned, as if the point was not this, "You put me down... Hurry up."

Qi Tengmiao didn't care about her screaming on the tree, and helped her fill the whole bamboo basket with asters with a smile, and picked two flowers, pinning them to her ears, "It's so beautiful."

The cardamom was completely defeated. For the rest of the time, she kept holding the berry in her hand, with the flower in her ear, and commanded while eating, "That one won't work, pick the one on the right. That's right, the one on the left."

Gathering herbs, going down the mountain, Qi Tengmiao was strong and took an extra bamboo basket from his home to put the grass in his mouth. Cardamom was not idle, holding some herbs in his arms. It was not because she was greedy for money, but because Qi Tengmiao was too annoying. To carry her down the mountain, the road is slippery after the rain, and she still wants to live a few more years, so she prevaricates by saying that holding her will damage the integrity of the grass.

As soon as the sun slanted westward, the cardamom descended to the foot of the mountain.

Osmanthus found that the cardamom was missing early in the morning, so she knew that the girl must have gone up the mountain. Everyone in this area respected the God of the Mountain, and no one dared to follow her. Osmanthus hugged the child and walked to the middle of the mountain to feed the baby, crying non-stop , Worried about attracting wild animals, he retreated to the foot of the mountain and gave the child to the neighbor's sister-in-law to take care of, while she waited for cardamom here.

"Mother, why are you here?" Cardamom saw a woman kowtowing to the mountain from a distance, but when she got closer, she realized it was her mother.

Osmanthus fragrans saw the cardamom leaves on the top of her head coming down the mountain intact, and kowtowed gratefully to the mountain, "Thank you, Lord Mountain God, for your protection, thank you, Lord Mountain God, for your blessing."

Cardamom stuffed the herbs in her bosom to Qi Tengmiao and knelt down with her mother, and kowtowed devoutly, thanking the mountain god for giving her father the medicine to cure her illness, and asking the mountain god to bless her to practice medicine and make a fortune in the future.

After kowtowing, Osmanthus picked up the cardamom to help her pat the dirt on her body, saw that Qi Tengmiao was carrying grass on her back, and asked, "When did you find your little friend, why hasn't Mom seen it? "

Cardamom turned to look at Qi Tengmiao, he lowered his head and his ears were red to the neck, in order to prevent him from talking nonsense, Cardamom hurriedly said, "Mother, let's talk about it when we go home."

When Qi Tengmiao saw Dou Kou called "Mother", he looked down at his straw sandals and scratched his head, closed his eyes as if mustering up a lot of courage, and shouted, "Mother".

"This," Qi Tengmiao's address frightened Osmanthus fragrans, "this, this," after a long time, there was no more text, and the news of the tip-off was forgotten.

Cardamom bit her lower lip, wishing to sew Qi Tengmiao's mouth shut, "Don't shout, this is my mother."

Qi Tengmiao saw that Doukou refused to admit that she was his future daughter-in-law, so he revealed everything that happened that day.

"What? You still peeked at my baby taking a bath?" Osmanthus was so angry, if it wasn't for the cardamom, she insisted on talking to Qi Tengmiao's parents, how could cardamom let her really go to his parents, What if the marriage is settled?

Cardamom finally explained clearly to Mother, Osmanthus felt a little relieved, and remembered what she forgot to tell Cardamom just now, "Mother came to look for you, it was your aunt who went to look for Boss Rong again, and their big tiger secretly They ordered the woodsheds of Mrs. Rong, and Dahu and your aunt were sued by Mrs. Rong to the county government."

"What does it have to do with our family? Let them go. Dahu should have improved his memory a long time ago." Cardamom took the herbs off Qi Tengmiao's body, "Mother, look at the herbs I picked in the mountains today. These are for Dad." Now, make these into pills and sell them." Before she finished speaking, she realized that something was wrong when she heard Mother crying, "Mother, then Boss Rong asked me to come in to withdraw the case?"

Osmanthus wiped away tears and nodded.

The herbs in Cardamom's arms fell all over the floor.

Qi Tengmiao knelt down to help her pick them all up and put them into the bamboo basket, "Why don't you want pigweed?" He thought he had offended Cardamom just now, so he rubbed his hands and moved to Osmanthus and said, "I was wrong, don't blame Cardamom. "

The sweet-scented osmanthus had just wiped away tears, and Qi Tengmiao felt that he had caused a catastrophe, remembering that his mother cried so sadly when he left him and his father.

Cardamom figured it out with her toes, her grandma must be trying to force her mother to send her away. She calmly picked up the herbs that fell on the ground and put them back into the bamboo basket, and asked Qi Tengmiao, "Help?" Can I do a favor?"

(End of this chapter)