Chapter 27 Going up the mountain again
The old man who passed away was the almost 80-year-old mother of the captain Lin Zhong’s family. If it is the slack season, the death of the 80-year-old is a funeral, and the villagers will help to organize the funeral. .
But he died at the wrong time. This would be the busy time of spring plowing. The production team had production tasks. Captain Lin Zhong was rushing to catch up with the farming season every day. It happened that his old mother passed away at this time. Lin Zhong It was a headache to arrange the members who came to help.
After finishing the work for a while, when it was time to start work in the afternoon, Lin Zhong asked a few older members to stay and help, while the others were rushed to work.
Of course, Lin Zhong will also count half-day work points for the members who stay to help. The maximum work points for an adult man are ten work points, and half-day work points are five work points.
Everyone has no objection to the captain's calculation. Helping here is not as tiring as working in the fields, and every cooperative member's family has an elderly person. In the future, those who come to help after the elderly person dies will have work points from the team, so the captain's behavior is not considered fair. For personal gain.
The production team held a funeral and it was not a big deal for the young people. Lin Shu took a break after lunch and prepared to go up the mountain.
"Why don't you rest for a while before going up the mountain?" Liu Xiao'e asked when she saw Lin Shu packing her backpack.
"No, it's not hot now. I want to go into the mountains early."
Liu Xiao'e didn't object after hearing this. Diligence is a recognized good virtue among rural children. She handed Lin Shu's kettle to her To her, "Be safe and remember to go down before the sun sets."
As soon as you enter the forest, you can smell the fragrance of the vegetation and listen to the crisp chirping of the birds, which makes people relax physically and mentally.
“Wow, it smells so good!”
As a gust of mountain wind blew, Lin Shu smelled a very familiar fragrance of flowers. Looking against the wind, there were many golden flowers ten meters away. Little yellow flowers sway in the wind.
"Honeysuckle, this thing is good!"
Without any systematic knowledge, Lin Shu also knew that honeysuckle clears away heat and detoxifies, dissipates wind and dissipates heat. In rural areas, many women like to pick it, dry it in the sun, and make tea throughout the summer. Just rely on it. To clear away heat and relieve summer heat, especially during those days when they work under the sun all day, honeysuckle has become an indispensable holy product for them to relieve summer heat.
"System, how do you buy this honeysuckle?"
[There are no weeds in the mountains, and knowledge is all treasure. Congratulations to the host for identifying honeysuckle on its own. Honeysuckle that is already in full bloom costs 50 cents per catty, and buds that have not bloomed cost one yuan per catty. . 】
“Are there levels?” The honeysuckle is so small, and how long does it take to pick it up to a pound? Lin Shu feels that picking honeysuckle is not as cost-effective as cutting sow vines.
The flowering period of honeysuckle is very short. If you don’t pick these bushes, it will be a waste. In line with the principle of not wasting, pick them.
Honeysuckle, also known as honeysuckle.
It was first recorded in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" and was recorded by famous doctors in history. Tao Hongjing said: "The vines grow and do not wither in the cold winter, so they are named honeysuckle."
Li Shizhen said: "It blooms in March and April. About an inch long, one stem, two flowers and two petals, one big and one small, like half a flower The flowers have long stamens, and when the flowers first bloom, the stamens are white in color. After two or three days, the color turns yellow, and the old and new are consistent, and the yellow and white complement each other, so it is called honeysuckle. "
Lin Shu has always felt that honeysuckle is the only flower. The medicinal effect is very good, the fragrance is particularly pleasant, refreshing and refreshing.
"How much does the system's basket weigh?"
With the last bush left unpicked, Lin Shu sold the full basket of honeysuckle to the system, and the system showed that only one basket of honeysuckle was needed. It was less than four kilograms, which meant that she picked it for an hour and only exchanged it for four yuan, which was still a dime short of it.
Besides, there were some flowers in full bloom, so I didn't even get three yuan and ninety cents. The final balance showed that only three yuan and one cent were newly added to the account.
The efficiency is not very high.
Before the last bunch of flowers were picked, the voices of two children came from the foot of the mountain. Not long after, the two children climbed up from the bottom of the mountain.
When Lin Shu looked at them, the two children also noticed Lin Shu.
“Aunt Shu.”
"Sister-in-law Shu." There is a boy and a girl. The girl is the elder sister, named Lin Jiao. The boy Lin Bing is the younger brother, and the two children are about eight or nine years old and are children from the neighbor's family.
"Xiaojiao, Xiaobing, why did you two come up the mountain?"
"Aunt Shu, we are going to cut pigweed in the afternoon. When we came here, we found this I just want to dig some grass and eat it." Lin Jiao said, raising a plant in her hand.
“What grass?”
Lin Shu picked up the last handful of honeysuckle and threw it into the basket. When he walked up to Lin Jiao, he realized that he recognized the plant in her hand.
Moreover, she dug up a lot last time and sold them to the system.
"Haha, Lin Jiao, this is called drumstick. Do you think its rhizome looks a bit like a smaller version of drumstick?"
In the past years of famine, villagers liked to use it to satisfy their hunger. In this less affluent era, rural children like to dig it into snacks to satisfy their cravings.
Because its rhizome is peeled and tastes like chewing a chicken leg, it is called drumstick grass.
Also because the underside of its leaves is white, it is also called white grass and chicken claw ginseng. The whole plant can be used as medicine and has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
"Yeah, my sister-in-law is right. We like to dig up pigweed and eat it when we are cutting it outside." Lin Bing nodded.
"My sister-in-law also liked to dig them up as snacks when she was little." Lin Shu scanned the area, found a few plants, walked over, dug them out, and handed one to each of his siblings.
The siblings thanked them, then took it, peeled off the brown skin skillfully, and threw the white roots inside into their mouths.
Lin Shu also imitated their example, peeled off the skin and took a bite of the white rhizome. How do you describe the taste?
It is not bitter and slightly sweet after chewing. Compared with various fruits of later generations, the taste is bland, but for children of this era, it is a good snack to keep their hungry stomachs from going hungry.
"Sister-in-law, there are quite a few on this hillside. Why don't we dig some more, and you can also bring some back to Xiaoyu, Xiaoshuang and Xiaojun." Lin Jiao enthusiastically invited Lin Shu to join them. dig.
This enthusiasm may be because Lin Shu gave them a drumstick, or it may be because Lin Shu gnawed drumstick with them.
No matter what the reason is, Lin Shu likes these siblings very much. Both siblings are very polite.
“You don’t have to cut the pigweed?”
Lin Shu glanced at their basket, and there were still two handfuls of pigweed.
Lin Jiao shook her hair and didn't care, "It's still early, let's dig this drumstick first, and then we can cut the pigweed after digging."
It seems to be a Lin Shu smiled and nodded: "Okay, I happened to bring a little kid with me." Medicine hoe."
Lin Shu looked at the drumstick plants they threw on the ground and reminded: "The drumstick grass can be used as pigweed. You can pick up the plants on the ground and put them in the basket."
“Can this be used as pigweed?”
"Yes!"
The whole plant can be used as medicine. It can clear away heat and detoxify, cool blood and stop bleeding. It is not very good as pigweed.
"That's great. We can dig up this drumstick grass and eat it, and we can also cut it and use it as pigweed. But everything we dug before was wasted." Lin Jiao was a little annoyed.
I received the notification of release before the chapter was released. The rush caught me off guard and may have affected my reading experience. I’m sorry~
(End of this chapter)