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 of his had not been processed and could not be charged a high price, and that it was not just firewood and kudzu, so he could only pay him one penny or two kilograms, but the half of the kudzu root weighed enough. It’s fifty pounds!
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 up the mountain, and 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 many there are, you can’t go wrong by digging more and bringing them home!
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 of Pomegranate went up the mountain non-stop. With Pomegranate's sharp eyes, they found the right one and dug three clumps in the morning. Then Li Rongyu was responsible for transporting it to the foot of the mountain. After the last trip, Pomegranate would follow. Transport down the mountain together.
Then Li Rongzhang guarded the kudzu root at the foot of the mountain, while Shiliu and his second brother Li Rongyu walked non-stop to the homestead. In this way, the efficiency was greatly improved.
Although tired, I dug 100 kilograms more kudzu root in the morning than yesterday!
In the afternoon, the trio went up the mountain as usual.
But 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?
Pomegranate hurriedly grabbed the older brother and younger brother who were about to go forward. The three cats got down and said, "Second brother, do you see which family is over there?"
One hundred people in the village There were many families, and she wasn't 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, "It's the Chen family who lives at the foot of the mountain!"
"Is it the lame uncle?" Pomegranate 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 only walked with a limp and nothing else. Gradually, he no longer People talk about this.
Pomegranate feels that this is a bit like contracting polio, just a mild one. The deformity of the soles of the feet is valgus.
But this is not important. What is important is that the Chen family is digging kudzu root!
It didn’t exist yesterday, but it happened today!
Pomegranate thought about the half of the kudzu root that 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 bushes in a row with Li Rongyu. 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 is beyond the ability of two people to carry it down the mountain. Coupled with the investment in digging kudzu, the pomegranate is a little exhausted, and it is not too early. When Pomegranate arrived, she asked her second brother Li Rongyu to go down the mountain first. He had quick legs and went back to call 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 anything, and even the Song family went with him. .
A few people went up the mountain, and then they made two trips and carried all the kudzu roots dug out 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, I didn’t think much about seeing the Pomegranate siblings digging tree roots yesterday, but today, the Pomegranate siblings still dug so many roots and came home. They also saw Chen Qicai’s family digging too. Young Master, this is very annoying to the people in the village.
Could it be that this tree root is some sort 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.
On the other hand, Chen Qicai's neighbor saw Chen Qicai and the others coming back carrying 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, dig these What do tree roots do? ”
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!
I was 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 on the mountain. Almost all the firewood has been picked up. I thought the roots of the tree were very burned after drying, so I dug some back and dried them!”
The neighbor didn’t believe it at all when he heard this. , how can it 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 up 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.
Pomegranate didn’t plan to stop today, so she led Li Rongzhang up the mountain again.
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. 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 shouted in response.
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. You were really right! Then Chen Qicai took his son to the store before dawn!”
"After arriving at Daji, I watched with my own eyes as they went to Datong Warehouse and sold Kudzu to a man with a goatee! After they left, I went up to ask and found out that the man turned out to be a medicinal herb dealer! Kudzu is actually a herbal medicine! It costs one penny or two pounds!”
(End of this chapter)