Farming with medicine

Chapter 4 Xiancai
I ate some pork last night, but I'm not very hungry. It's no wonder that such a small body is hungry and full, so it's no wonder that it is long, thin and shriveled. Cardamom looked down at her flat chest and curled her lips.

The mountain path is full of dew and steam, and her legs are all wet when she reaches halfway up the mountain. Walking on the path, the grass on both sides can reach the waist of cardamom. Now that the sun is rising, she is tired, thirsty and hungry , follow the spring water of Dingdong, and you will definitely find something to eat.

Sure enough, I pushed aside the grass that was almost as tall as her, and finally saw a meandering brook. Cardamom ran past with a bamboo basket on her back. The fish in the water were swimming happily, and the wild fruits on the bank were also juicy. Full, I picked a lot and ate it up by myself, and put some in the bamboo basket along the way. I didn’t dare to take more. First, I was too tired to carry the mountain climbing, and second, I was afraid that there would be no place to put the herbs.

Cardamom looked at the mountain stream, but there was no one around. She bit her lip and finally took off her sticky dirty clothes and jumped into the shallow water at one end of the stream. to wash.

This body is really too weak and petite, I can't even wash a piece of clothes well, I want to wring them dry, but my tiny hands can't hold them at all.

"Whose girl dares to play in the water here?"

Cardamom was startled by the sudden sound, the clothes in her hand fell into the flowing stream and walked downstream, she hurriedly pressed her body into the water pool and hid behind a gray stone.

"Who are you?" Seeing that it was a little man who was two heads taller than her, she was not so afraid. Cardamom pointed to her clothes and begged, "Can you help me get my clothes back, please?" .” This boy is carrying a bow, wearing straw sandals on his feet, and a strong skin, looks like a child of the Orion family.

"You wait," the boy blushed and turned his head to chase after Cardamom's clothes.

Cardamom soaked in the water for a while longer in peace, waiting for him to wring out his clothes.

"I can't go into this stream to play in the water to wash clothes in the future." He looked about the same age as Dug, and his hands were also strong. He wrung the clothes half-dried in two or three strokes. Just as Cardamom wanted to praise him, he heard a tear, and he With a blushing face, she asked in a low voice, "Damn, do you have any other clothes?"

Cardamom looked at the shredded clothes he had ripped off with a look of lovelessness, "What do you think?"

"Then you wear mine first, I'll do it shirtless," the kid was honest, took off his shirt and threw it to Cardamom.

"Why can't you take a shower here?" Cardamom told him not to look back while getting dressed.

"My father taught me since I was a child that if I see a girl taking a bath here, I have to marry her home. I have guarded this place since I was a child to prevent any girls from jumping in. But today I went to catch birds and forgot to watch, so you just jump in." Now, I have to listen to my father's words, after marrying you, you will be... just... my daughter-in-law."

"I still don't know what your name is?" Cardamom laughed dumbly, but his blouse was quite suitable, the hem of the blouse reached directly to her calf, like a loose skirt.

"Qi Tengmiao, my father hoped that I could fly to a larger place to see the vast waters, so he gave me this name," Qi Tengmiao urged after finishing speaking, "Is it okay?" Although it was an urging, it came from his mouth Came out with a hint of shyness.

Cardamom put on her clothes, picked up her bamboo basket, and didn't intend to talk nonsense with this silly boy, he looked only thirteen or fourteen years old, but she was an adult at the psychological age, and she was obliged to teach this child not to go astray.

"What about you, where did you come from and where did you go back? Just pretend you haven't seen me. Let's make an appointment at a place and time. I'll return your clothes later." Cardamom grabbed a handful of wild fruits from the bamboo basket and stuffed them into his hands. , "This is my thank you for wearing your clothes."

Cardamom stood in front of him, only reaching his chest, and had to raise her face to talk to him, "Then I'll go first, you listen to your father and guard this pool."

The sun was almost at the top of the head, and Cardamom would not be able to go down the mountain before dark if there was any delay.

Along the way, there are many medicinal materials on the road, such as white peony root, Atractylodes macrocephala, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Platycodon grandiflorum, Radix isatidis, Aster, Prunella vulgaris, Panax notoginseng, etc. Dozens of herbs, but the most important one has not been found yet.

Qi Tengmiao watched as his little daughter-in-law left him and walked away, took the bow and arrow behind him from her back and followed, "Wait, there are wild beasts coming and going, and you will be eaten alone."

This sentence reminded cardamom that when you have money, you must prepare some Chinese medicinal materials such as narcotics by yourself. It is also good to go hunting in the mountains. If you pour them with medicine, you can easily get skin and meat.

Seeing Qi Tengmiao chasing after him, he asked casually, "I'm looking for a plant called aster, do you know where I can find it?" Cardamom felt that it was not a way to find it all over the mountains and plains, this kind of plant was only humming. The place where it grows is the most luxuriant, but it is not demanding on the land and temperature and is very hardy. The terrain of this mountain is changeable and there are many kinds of plants. She has little time to find time to go up.

"I am very familiar with this mountain. If you tell me what that thing looks like, I will know if there is such a mountain," Qi Tengmiao assured Cardamom, patting his chest.

There are white and purple flowers with long petals. Cardamom only mentioned these two characteristics. Qi Tengmiao took cardamom and ran up the mountain, "That kind of flower, there are many on the top of the mountain. I will take you to pick it, but I don't call it a flower. Aster, I call it a braid."

Great, what she was looking for was this kind of flower. Aster has many aliases, one of which is braid. I don't know if it is a plant.

This plant can not only be used as medicine, but also as a dish. It tastes spicy and is also called Xiancai.

Qi Tengmiao took the cardamom through the forest path, and it didn't take long to arrive at the aster field. The wind blew across the top of the mountain, and this aster was blooming white and purple, and the petals were dancing in the wind.

A lot of cardamom was uprooted and stuffed into the basket. I wish I could dress it up and go home. In addition to using it as medicine for my father, I can also make some fairy vegetables for the family to eat.

"Why are you pulling these flowers? Isn't it good to grow here?" Qi Tengmiao sat on the trunk and looked at the starry cardamom in puzzlement.

"I'll be responsible for replanting these after I pull them out," Cardamom wiped off the soil from the roots of the aster. With such a thick rhizome, it must be very easy to grow.

On the way down the mountain, there are other traditional Chinese medicines to be collected, so the cardamom is only half packed. When going down the mountain, Qi Tengmiao still followed her, telling her to walk slowly from time to time.

There are really too many herbs on the road, "Qi Tengmiao, have you lived here since childhood?" Cardamom thought of one thing, whether this mountain belongs to everyone or Qi's family.

"Yes, I lived on the mountain with my father since I was a child. My father can hunt ferocious animals. If you follow me from now on, you will have enough to eat," Qi Tengmiao vowed to her, thinking that Dou Kou's question was meant to test her. Is his family wealthy on the mountain?

"Then this mountain belongs to your family?" Cardamom suddenly turned around while walking, and Qi Tengmiao bumped into her, and Cardamom's nose was sour when he hit her hard chest.

"Hey, it's not our family's, it's everyone's."

That's good, that's good, Cardamom rubbed her nose contentedly and walked down the mountain. Before parting at the foot of the mountain, she asked Qi Tengmiao, "Aren't you going to marry me? I've given you a task to protect the aster flower on the top of the mountain."

"Then when can I marry you?"

"Just wait another seven or eight years." Ancient women should have married at this age, and Dou Kou didn't quite know how to make up an age. This silly boy, let alone seven or eight years, at his current age, there is It's time to get married in three to five years.

The two agreed to meet here seven days later to return their clothes.

At the foot of the mountain, there was smoke from the kitchen, and Cardamom went down the mountain contentedly with a heavy bamboo basket on her back.

As soon as she entered the door and called her mother, Cao Bailan jumped out of the room, twisted her ears and walked out of the courtyard.

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