Chapter 269
"Sister Lin, are you at home?"
Lin Shu was woken up by the loud voice of a rural woman. She took out her watch from under the pillow and looked at the time. It was only seven o'clock.
"Sister of the Lin family, sister of the Lin family, are you up?"
Lin Shu opened the door and came out of the house. The courtyard door outside was wide open, and there were three or four women standing in the courtyard.
Among them is Cuihua who came to the house yesterday.
When several people saw Lin Shu coming out, they all stopped talking.
Cuihua looked at Lin Shu's pure cotton home clothes, which looked quite fashionable. "Sister Lin, your clothes are so beautiful. Why haven't I seen you wear them before? It's just that the color is too light. If it doesn’t get dirty, it would probably get dirty just by walking around in the fields in our countryside.”
Others nodded in agreement with Cuihua’s statement.
Lin Shu gathered up her hair and simply tied it up with a rubber band. She avoided the subject of pajamas and asked with a smile: "Sister-in-law, are you coming over?"
Yancai Zhang was impatient. He took the lead and crossed Cuihua and asked: "Sister Lin, I heard your man said that you buy medicinal herbs. We live in the countryside and don't have much knowledge. I just want to ask you what the medicinal herbs look like? You can ask me if you have time." Tell us so we can go digging."
Gu Jiu went to Captain Feng's house early in the morning before the villagers went to work. He had already told them about his intention to buy herbs.
Lin Shu lowered his head and tugged on his home clothes, "You guys wait a moment, I'll go in and change clothes?"
Yancai Zhang smiled and nodded: "Okay, okay, hurry up Go in and change.”
Lin Shu went into the house and changed into a set of old clothes with long sleeves and long trousers. He found tools from the kitchen and threw them into the basket. He opened the lid of the pot on the stove and found nothing in the pot. .
Lin Shu bought a few steamed buns from the system, put them in bowls and put them in the pot to cover them. He took one himself and left the kitchen while eating.
She asked politely: "Have the sisters-in-law had breakfast?"
Yancai Zhang glanced at the white-flour steamed buns in Lin Shu's hand, and said with a smile that he had eaten.
As for whether he had eaten or not, Lin Shu didn't care. He took off the straw hat hanging on the wall, put it on, and walked out of the yard with everyone.
“Sister Lin, your man said that the weeds on the roadside are medicinal herbs. Look at the many weeds on the roadside, which ones are medicinal herbs?”
As soon as he left the village, Yancai Zhang couldn't wait to point to the weeds on the roadside and asked.
"Sisters-in-law, we will get along with each other in the village for a while. Don't call me Lin family sister, Lin family sister. Just call me Lin Shu."
Lin Shu held the medicine in one hand. Hoe, while eating steamed buns, he pointed at the plants on the roadside with the hoe. "Sisters-in-law, do you know what this plant is called?"
"Yellow thorn."
"Yes, this is yellow thorn. This plant is very common in the wild, but You probably don’t know it’s just a medicinal herb.”
Yancai's eyes lit up, "You didn't tell us that we really didn't know it was a medicinal herb. In the past, when our feet got rotten in the summer, we would knead the leaves of this yellow wattle and put it between the feet. Apply it a few times and it would be cured."
Lin Shu nodded: "The whole body of Huang Jing is a treasure, and the young leaves of Huang Jing can be made into yellow... The branches and leaves can also be burnt into ashes to make alkaline water, which is used to make alkaline rice dumplings. The taste is also good. In autumn, Huang Jingzi can be used to make Huangjingzi tea, and a little Huangjing can be added when ground into powder to make cakes. It can be used to smoke mosquitoes, and the roots can be boiled in water to soak your feet.”
In short, it has many uses.
The thorn in "Bearing a thorn to plead guilty" refers to the yellow thorn. I believe that many children in rural areas were beaten by the yellow thorn when they were children.
Cuihua did not expect that Huang Jing’s whole body was a treasure. “We used to go up the mountain to chop firewood, and sometimes we accidentally cut our hands. So we used the Huang Jing leaves to rub them and apply them on the wound, and the bleeding quickly stopped.”< br>
Salt vegetable Zhang asked the question that everyone is most concerned about: "Lin family. Lin Shu, you said that it is a treasure all over, so how much do you pay for it?"
"There are no yellow vitex seeds this season, so I will buy the young leaves." , and its rhizomes. You can make tea from the young leaves, and I’ll charge you five yuan per catty, and the rhizome will be sliced and dried, and it’ll cost you one yuan per catty.”
“The leaves cost five yuan per catty.”
Everyone was shocked by the price.
You must know that in rural areas, a family's monthly expenses are almost five yuan. Sometimes they save a little and don't even need five yuan.
No one thought that yellow vitex was so valuable. In the past, when they were disobedient when they were young, they were whipped with this kind of yellow vitex. Lin Shu reminded everyone: "It is the price of dried tea made from young leaves."
After hearing this, the women ran towards a few yellow wattle trees on the side of the road without caring about anything else. After a sudden plucking, the young leaves of several yellow wattle trees on the roadside were all gone in a short time.
Lin Shu: "."
Lin Shu climbed to the nearby hillside, pulled a polygala and introduced it to the women who followed: "You should have seen this plant before. , it has small purple flowers, and it looks like a soft and weak grass. In fact, it is called polygala, and it is a medicinal herb. ”
"There are a lot of this kind of grass in this wasteland. Lin Shu, how much do you charge per pound?"
"The only root of polygala root with medicinal value can be sold to us after it is dried."
Needless to say, several women started digging with hoes.
While the weather was still cool, Lin Shu saw that they were all busy digging Polygala, so he walked around.
I accidentally saw a Yin Yangwei plant, also known as three-branch and nine-leaf grass.
From this name, you can imagine what it looks like. One plant has three branches, and each branch has three leaves, for a total of nine leaves.
There is a yin sheep in the northwest, which can change all kinds of things every day. It is caused by eating this herb. It is this herb.
Among them, the best quality is the small-leaf three-leaf clover produced in the northwest.
Lin Shu collected a few nearby branches into the system, and she found two more coltsfoot flowers nearby.
Coltsfoot, unlike other plants, dies in winter, but coltsfoot blooms in winter, and the buds of coltsfoot can be made into tea, which has medicinal value.
At this time of year, the coltsfoot flowers are not in harvest season, so we have to let them go.
"Lin Shu, we are still digging here, where are you going?" Yancai Zhang dug for a gap in Polygala. He looked up and saw Lin Shu walking further and further away, and became anxious.
Lin Shu looked back at everyone and pointed around, "I'll be walking around, you guys dig first."
The herbs told them too much at once, and they couldn't remember them. .
Lin Shu felt that it was enough to teach them two medicinal herbs in one day.
On a sunny hillside, Lin Shu discovered another medicinal herb, windbreak.
The stems and leaves of the parsnip grow a bit like the stems and leaves of carrots, which are suitable for harvesting in spring and autumn, but with a system, Lin Shu harvested dozens of them on the hillside.
In fact, the geographical environment and climate in the northwest are very suitable for the growth of ephedra, but Lin Shu searched nearby for a long time and found no ephedra.
The Daqinglong Decoction in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" contains ephedra among the herbs.
The best season for harvesting ephedra is after the frost.
It's a pity that I didn't find it today.
Maybe it’s because the climate here isn’t too bad. The worse the environment, the more vigorously Ephedra grows.
The ecology of this era was not very damaged. Unlike the abuse of herbicides in later generations, wild plants now grow luxuriantly.
Lin Shu didn't go far when he found a wild angelica plant in the grass.
Angelica sinensis here in the northwest is not a perennial herb, but a triennial herb. It is the second-year angelica that is truly medicinal.
The reason why it is said that the Angelica sinensis in the second year can be used medicinally is because the Angelica sinensis in the first year is a seedling, while the Angelica sinensis in the third year has rotted roots and has no medicinal value.
As the sun rose higher and higher, Lin Shu came down from the hillside and saw a dozen more women from the village where the few women were digging polygala.
Lin Shu taught them how to dig mugwort leaves and licorice.
"Everyone, you are going to collect these herbs today. I have something to do at home, so I will go back and take care of it first."
The weather is too hot, and Lin Shu feels that the hair on the top of her head has become very hot. .