Chapter 8 Can You Do It Yourself?
Bai Ling had once sought an opportunity to diagnose Bai Liu's pulse. Wind and cold were the cause of her illness, but the main reason was the deficiency of both qi and blood during the confinement period. If she was not treated in time, she would not be far from completely collapse.
But the third bedroom has no money, and the doctor prescribes some ordinary medicines, so they are not very effective.
If you can use the excuse of going to the mountains to collect herbs, you can get all the medicines in Bazhen Decoction and warm them for a while, Bai Liu's body will recover.
However, the main medicine in Bazhen Decoction is ginseng, which is not so easy to find when entering the mountain.
There is a time difference in space, but there is no money to buy seeds, which is also one of the reasons why Bai Ling is eager to make money.
"Cake it." Bai Wei nodded, but the glitter of her eyes quickly faded, "We don't recognize herbs and can't make this money."
"I know a few, but they are all ordinary." Bai Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and the smile on her face became a little brighter. "Today I will fill my stomach first, and tomorrow we will walk into the mountains, pick herbs and exchange them for some money, grab medicine and buy some food for my mother."
There was nothing to say all night. When it was almost dawn, Bai Ling got up quietly. Seeing that the whole family had not gotten up, she took the small shovel and flashed into the space.
The little fish that was put into the space yesterday had grown to a size of a few pounds. Looking back to find time to sell it, it was also a considerable income.
"I really envy you. I drink Lingquan water and don't have to do anything." Bai Ling stretched and said bitterly: "Working, such a large space, wouldn't it be too wasteful if you don't use it?"
Bai Ling waved the small shovel and leveled the ground, and planted some common medicinal seeds and wild vegetable seeds that he had harvested at the foot of the mountain yesterday.
Fortunately, there are not many seeds, otherwise Bai Ling would have to faint from exhaustion.
After watering the seeds, Bai Ling washed her face and found that the genius was slightly bright. The time difference made her very satisfied. She was not afraid of not having time to go to the space to be busy in the future.
In order not to be suspected, after Bai Ling came out of the space, he only added a small amount of spiritual spring water to the bucket and began to prepare for cooking.
The three rooms have no food, so the so-called breakfast is just wild vegetables cooked with salt.
After each of the sisters drank a bowl of wild vegetables, they carried baskets, carrying small sickles and hoes to the back mountain, not intending to tell their family members that they were going to go into the mountain to collect herbs.
The two of them dared not walk into the mountains. Along the way, Bai Ling had seen several kinds of herbs, but they were all worthless, so he only threw some seeds into the space and did not intend to pick them for sale.
Bai Ling took a deep breath, tightened his belt a few minutes before starting work.
"There is a large area, which is so great." Bai Ling looked at a wild astragalus and ran over excitedly. While digging the soil, he explained to Bai Wei: "Second sister, you have to identify it. This kind of oval leaf has white soft hair on the back of the leaf and a small pointed one. Don't dig it wrongly."
"Second sister, are these really herbs?" Bai Wei asked with some concern when she saw Bai Ling squatting down and digging the soil carefully with a small shovel.
"Well, the rhizome inside is herbs. Be careful not to break it when digging. The longest one is more than one meter... more than three feet!" Bai Ling said, his subordinates' movements were not slow at all.
"How do you know?" Bai Wei asked suspiciously, and also found an astragalus plant, and began to dig out herbs as Bai Ling.
Bai Ling paused for a moment. She lowered her head and worked without deliberately hiding her panic. She tried to speak in a normal tone: "When digging wild vegetables before, I saw someone digging."
"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Bai Wei complained, and his subordinates' movements were a little faster.
"There was no separation at that time, and it was not our own who made money. I was not stupid because I had found more work for myself." Bai Ling replied, afraid that Bai Wei would ask again, so he said, "That was a few years ago, and I forgot it later. If you hadn't told me yesterday that my mother's medicine was gone, I wouldn't have remembered it."
Bai Ling knew the function of Astragalus, and wanted to leave some for his family to replenish it.
Money is not as important as the body, and it is inevitable that it will be a bit bad when digging herbs, and you don’t have to pay attention to the appearance when using it for your own family.
He glared at Bai Ling, and Bai Wei muttered, "I really didn't realize that you are a little clever. I thought you were stupid by the people in the old house."
"Haha." Bai Ling laughed dryly and said to himself: Isn't the original owner bullied and stupid? Otherwise, he would have sacrificed his life for irrelevant people.
Seeing that Bai Wei was focused on digging medicinal materials, Bai Ling also made some herbal seeds and threw them into the space. It was finally difficult to enter the mountain, so naturally he had to create as much profit as possible.
That book does not introduce the growth time of crops in the space, and it does not know how long it will take to harvest them.
The two sisters held their energy and kept digging until the sun was up. Bai Ling was so tired that she could hardly straighten her waist.
The two sisters chatted occasionally, but their actions were not slow at all. By noon, they had already dug up most of the baskets, so tired that they could hardly lift their hands.
"Don't dig it now." Bai Ling pulled Bai Wei, ignored her glaring at her eyes, and pointed to the backpack and said, "While it's still early, I'll go to the town first to see if the fish is OK. Dig some wild vegetables and go home to cook, and boil your mother's medicine."
"What? Can you go to the town by yourself?" Bai Wei's eyes widened even wider, thinking that she was hallucinating.
"What's wrong?" Bai Ling pinned the hoe on his waist, squatted down and wanted to carry the basket. "I'll go to the medicine shop to ask. I heard that the medicinal materials need to be prepared and only the medicines are valuable."
"Okay, then you go." Bai Wei glanced at how many astragalus there were nearby, thinking about digging again in the afternoon.
Bai Ling made a move to take a piece of astragalus and a tool for fishing. He pretended to go to fishing, but in fact he went straight to the town.
Nanshan Village is under the jurisdiction of Wufu Town, not far from the town, but Bai Ling was hungry and walked for more than half an hour before he arrived.
According to the original owner's memory, Bai Ling found the alley where few people walked, got a bucket of fish from the space, and headed straight for the vegetable market.
Wufu Town has a special vegetable market, which was specially created by the mayor. If you come here to sell things, you won’t be entangled by gangsters, but you have to pay three cents a day for stall fees, which is more than gangsters collect.
Those who come to the vegetable market to sell things are usually slightly more expensive, or those who are older girls and young wives are afraid of being bullied by gangsters, so they have to pay the three cents.
Bai Ling naturally chose to go to the vegetable market to sell fish, and used a fish to offset the stall fee today.
"You're selling fish, a fat and big live fish, only ten cents a day, buy it first and choose the big one, so you won't suffer any losses!" Bai Ling shouted crisply, attracting many people's attention.
Bai Ling is not the only one selling fish in the entire vegetable market, and the price is not high.
When I heard Bai Ling’s hawking, many people surrounded me. I saw that the fish in the bucket were big and the price was moderate. There were many people talking about it, but no one bought the fish.
"Girl, you have such a big fish, which costs more than ten cents by pound. But the fish meat is not delicious and very fishy. There are people who spend two or three cents to buy a pound of small fish to make sauce. If you shout like this for a day, you may not be able to sell it." The young wife at the stall next to her said kindly.
Bai Ling was embarrassed, but she forgot that most people would not eat fish in this era. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!