Hard work

Chapter 190 Learning Medicine

The mead that I tried to make before really failed again. For Lan Huaer, I have only been in contact with this kind of luxury, and I haven't worked hard to do research. Even if I can't make it, it is a matter of course. .Moreover, even without considering the method of brewing mead, the current craftsmanship alone is enough for Orchid to survive.

As long as she has a way to make spicy cabbage and fermented bean curd, she can earn money and live well.Although this is definitely not a particularly profitable business for those big merchants or rich men, in Lan Huaer's view, as long as it can earn enough money to live on, there is still a part of it left for dog eggs. Going to a private school is quite enough.

She used to live a relaxed and simple life, and she never thought about being a noble lady in this time and space.She doesn't mind making her life a little more comfortable when possible, but that's all.

It must be a painful thing to be too reluctant to do things that are beyond your ability.

Businesses such as spicy cabbage, fermented bean curd, or even making glutinous rice wine do not require much effort, and the investment is not too much. Very happy.

There are pigs and chickens in the house, and the yard is full of vegetables. The crops and grains produced in the field all solve the trouble of orchids using cotton.After waiting for the cotton to grow to a large scale, it is estimated that even the stuffing in the quilt at home can be replaced with a batch.

Orchid misses the soft quilt very much.

Now the quilt at home is still buried with Ulagrass. Although this thing is also warm, it is very hard and rough to the touch. It doesn't feel as comfortable as a cotton quilt when held in your hands and in your arms.And because the quilt cover is filled with grass, every year when the quilt cover is removed and washed, the Ula grass inside must be vacated and replaced with a new one, which is extremely troublesome.

Even the winter clothes they wear and the thick shoes they wear in winter are full of Ula grass.It's no wonder that this thing is regarded as one of the three treasures of Northeast China - of course, this so-called "three treasures" are the three treasures of the poor.If it were a rich person, the only thing he would be looking at in his eyes would be bear paw ginseng.

Lan Hua'er even had such a dream when she first timed back.

The mountains behind Aozi Village were so big that she was surprised.She always thought that if she could dig out a century-old or even thousand-year-old ginseng on the mountain, she would definitely be able to sell it for a good price.With just one vote in this way, the family can already get rid of poverty and become rich, and since then they have lived a luxurious life of eating a bowl of dry rice and pouring a bowl of dry rice.

But she soon discovered that the mountain was so big that it didn't seem to grow any wild ginseng.Moreover, even if ginseng grows on this mountain, with Lan Hua'er, a little girl who almost grew up in the city, she can't recognize ginseng.Of course, she has seen ginseng, but all she has seen are ginseng that has been dug out to dry or processed. How can I know what the leaves of ginseng look like.

In the past, she read the Compendium of Materia Medica out of interest, but seeing it in the book and recognizing it in reality are obviously two different concepts.

Lan Huaer felt unconvinced, and asked Yang Langzhong about it, but Yang Langzhong dismissed her idea with a smile, "There are indeed ginseng growing on this mountain, but not ginseng, all are wild ginseng." , the age is not too old, just a few years of small ginseng, and they are still growing in a very high place. I have seen some by chance before, and the imaging is still good. If you meet them and dig them out, you can probably make a profit. Small money."

Just such a sentence from Yang Langzhong completely extinguished Lan Hua'er's enthusiasm.

Naturally, she couldn't tell the difference between ginseng and wild ginseng, and she didn't know how to dig it out.But what Yang Langzhong said, no matter whether it is called wild ginseng or ginseng, they all grow in extremely harsh environments, and she alone is unlikely to find it.

Especially when she was still in charge of taking care of Goudan at home, she had no chance to escape into the deep mountains and old forests—even if she escaped, the people in the village would not allow her to run into the mountains.If someone found out, they would definitely stop her.It is said that there is Xiong Xiazi in that mountain, and the bandit Red King who is more terrifying than Xiong Xiazi.Although Lan Huaer later found out that the Red King was not as scary as everyone said.

After there is an extra Zanglang in the house, she has no way to go to the deep mountains.If others don't say anything, Zang Lang will stop her first.Even when she went to the edge of the field, Zang Lang would watch her sadly for a long time. If she dared to run into the deep mountains, Zang Lang would probably use a knife to remonstrate with her in front of her.

Even so, Lan Huaer went to consult Yang Langzhong, hoping that he could teach Zang Lang to identify the original wild ginseng.

Zang Lang and Yan Dalang often went to the back mountain to hunt wild animals. Although Lan Hua'er didn't know where they went, they always ran farther than usual, and they went to the animal's colony.It is said that animals like deer can instinctively distinguish good plants from bad ones, and following them, one can often find medicinal materials hidden deep in the mountains.

It's like truffles, which can only be found by following wild boars.

Yang Langzhong is also willing to teach Zang Lang the ability to distinguish medicinal materials.Yang Langzhong himself is a doctor, and he didn't want Zang Lang and others to practice martial arts since childhood, so his body is naturally not that good.Asking him to search for medicinal materials alone on the back mountain is actually a bit embarrassing for him, and he is not a medicinal person.

If it weren't for the fact that there are many medicinal materials on the back mountain, and it is really inconvenient for Aozi Village to enter the town, Yang Langzhong would not go to collect the medicinal materials himself.

Lan Hua'er told Yang Langzhong what she wanted, and Yang Langzhong was very happy, so he took some medicinal materials from his home, let Zang Lang look at it, and taught him to identify it.

Yang Langzhong still has a small wild ginseng hidden in his hand, only the thickness of a human finger, it is said that it has just grown and has no medicinal effect.Yang Langzhong also saw that it was not effective as a medicine, so he didn't sell it, but kept it by his side, which can be regarded as a treasure next to him.

Generally, wild ginseng of this size should not be dug out.The best way is to remember where the wild ginseng is, and wait a few years until it grows well before digging it out.But Yang Langzhong said that he had accidentally turned over the soil, and the wild ginseng had already been dug out and could not be buried back, so he brought it with him.

Since Zang Lang learned to distinguish these medicinal materials, when he went to the mountain to catch pigeons or other prey, he would also pick some medicinal materials down the mountain.

Zang Lang also found some of the medicinal materials that orchids usually need to eat, such as motherwort and wormwood, and simply uprooted those plants and brought them home to plant orchids in the yard.

Lan Hua'er couldn't help but laugh bitterly at his brutal transplanting technique.Zang Lang didn't have the consciousness of transplanting at all. He just grabbed the plants and pulled them up by the roots. Many taproots were injured, and they couldn't grow at all.It took Orchid a long time to pick and choose, and finally found a few healthy-looking ones among a large pile of herbs, and carefully moved them to the yard to serve them carefully.

Even so, the motherwort and wormwood that had been planted were still wilting for several days, and several plants died under the service of orchids.

The orchids have no choice but to dig out the sun-dead plants again, cut off the roots, wash the sand and dry them into medicinal herbs for future use.

After being ravaged by Zang Lang and treated carefully by Lan Huaer, the remaining herbs slowly adapted to the environment of the yard, and suddenly flourished.Probably because it is still spring, but those who survived will bloom all at once, and they look very lively.

Herbs like motherwort are actually wild vegetables to put it bluntly, but they only have some nourishing effects.

Yang Langzhong knew that Lanhuaer had planted this kind of thing in the yard, so he ran over to see it, and told Lanhuaer that since there is fresh motherwort, you can wash and chop the grass leaves on weekdays, just like It's like eating wild vegetables.Whether it is soup or scrambled eggs, it is very good, and it is also very good for women.

At the beginning, Lan Huaer always felt that this thing was herbal medicine, how could she eat a lot of it normally.After eating it twice, I felt that the taste was not bad, so I ate more slowly.When this thing is used to make soup, it still has the smell of medicinal herbs, and Lan Hua'er doesn't like it very much.On the contrary, the taste is not bad after scrambled eggs.

It's just that this egg is a rare thing no matter where it is, even Lan Hua'er dare not make it often, it's just to adjust the taste.

After the medicinal material was planted, Lan Hua'er even thought about whether she could grow the medicinal material in the field and sell it to the pharmacy in the town.

But she soon discovered that she did not have the skills to grow medicinal herbs.She couldn't even tell what the medicinal material looked like.Even if Zang Lang picked the medicine back, she didn't know what kind of environment to plant it in, and she didn't know how to take care of it.

And the pharmacies in the town are not used to buying medicines from unfamiliar drug farmers.Because there are always some poisonous weeds that look like medicinal materials on the mountain, if one is not careful, it will kill people, so they only buy medicinal materials from related households.Those related households have been collecting herbs for a living for generations, so they are naturally very cautious.

After Lan Huaer learned about this situation from Langzhong Yang, she finally gave up completely.Her family's land wasn't too much, so she just farmed the fields, paid taxes, threshed millet, cooked and ate, and don't think about so many crooked things.

About the third month after Zang Lang started to collect herbs, when the weather was already hot, he picked the first wild ginseng from the mountain.

(End of this chapter)