Chapter 23 Pueraria
On weekdays, the villagers generally did not go up the mountain. This unusual behavior made Ye Sangwan a little curious.
She opened the courtyard door and ran out. She caught a random person and asked, "Sister-in-law, may I ask what this is...?"
This person's name is Juanzi, who is from Wangcun Village next door: "Oh! We are going to the mountains to try our luck and see if we can encounter something valuable."
Ye Sangwan's eyelids twitched. It couldn't be what she thought, could it?
Ya Fengyan himself lied about encountering a ginseng root in the back mountain and exchanging it for two hundred taels of silver, which spread throughout the village in the past two days.
Juanzi thought that Ye Sangwan was also thinking about it, so she invited her: "Do you want to go together? I heard that Brother Yun Jiaheng is leading the way with a group of men, and Orion Wang is also going together. There will be no danger!"
Orion Wang is Wang Tiezhu, a well-known Orion in the village. As long as he goes into the mountains, he will never come back empty-handed.
But Yun Heng's leg was still injured, and the splint had not been removed. The scene of the last injury was still vivid in Ye Sangwan's mind. When he thought of his confession just now, Ye Sangwan couldn't stay still.
After returning to Yun's house to pick up a basket, a small hoe, a hatchet, a small fence and other tools, Ye Sangwan said hello to Chen Ru and hurried up the mountain.
Along the way, we met many little kids laughing and joking, heading straight for Cangshan Mountain.
Cangshan is an ancient deep mountain with towering ancient trees that obscure the sun. The mysterious and dense mountain air rises in the deep valley, making the forest look even more eerie and terrifying.
Banyuepo Mountain is connected to the foot of Cangshan Mountain. Banyuepo Mountain is a mountain of earth and rocks. In addition to weeds, some low trees and wild fruits occasionally grow. The villagers of Banyuepo Village spend most of their time here. Even if they encounter
Wild animals, including hares, pheasants, goats, roe deer, etc., are not aggressive.
The goal of Yunheng and others is to climb over Banyuepo Mountain and reach the gap between them and Cangshan Mountain.
There is an underground river in the gap, which is where animals usually draw water. Ye Sangwan has never been to the sweet potato field, but based on the situation Yun Heng described at that time, she thought that there should be wolves and wild boars going to the underground river to drink water.
A place you are passing by, or nearby.
With Yunheng leading the way, nothing will happen as long as they don't wander around. But in the eyes of these ignorant women and children, Ye Sangwan is the beneficiary of this back mountain. If she were to remind them, it would be counterproductive.
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Feeling the women and children around her observing her covertly, Ye Sangwan had an idea.
She put down her backpack in a place covered with wild kudzu, and sure enough, many people stopped and approached her.
Some older aunts asked her, "Girl Wan, what are you trying to dig up?"
Her tone was so eager that it could even be described as questioning.
Ye Sangwan didn't care about her attitude, what she wanted was to keep these helpless women and children trapped here as much as possible.
She raised her voice and explained with a smile: "This is called Pueraria lobata. This Pueraria lobata is not only a traditional Chinese medicine. You can earn a few copper coins by drying Cheba Cheba and selling it to medical clinics."
Or if you cook it and eat it, you can save food for a meal and use it to stew chicken, which can also replenish your health."
Compared with saving food and replenishing health, everyone cares more about money. "Can you really make money?"
Just as Ye Sangwan was about to nod, everyone had already dispersed to look for kudzu vines. Some people even got anxious and started to quarrel.
Thinking of everyone's safety, Ye Sangwan couldn't help but remind him: "This kudzu root loves the sun and likes to grow on Banyuepo Mountain. It doesn't like to grow even if the geological conditions are humid further in. Let's look for it nearby!"
They were all simple women and children, and they were very grateful to Ye Sangwan when they heard how she generously shared ways to make money.
Ye Sangwan saw that everyone only looked at kudzu root and missed many delicious wild vegetables.
The extremely common wild onions, wild garlic, buckwheat sprouts, Houttuynia cordata, shepherd's purse and slender vegetables are in season. Ye Sangwan took out a pair of scissors from the space and searched for ways to cook these wild vegetables.
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Some greedy Tians, who were not satisfied with only one harvest, saw that she was only focusing on these worthless bitter herbs leaves. After watching for a long time to see that she was not secretly looking for other ways to make money, they devoted themselves to digging kudzu roots.
As more and more kudzu was packed in the basket, everyone’s laughter became deeper and deeper...
"Ouch!" A wolf howled in panic, and along with the earth-shattering scream, a flock of birds sprang up in the mountain stream.
The chattering voices of the men continued to grow louder. Ye Sangwan listened carefully and heard the news that someone was injured from the voices that echoed in the valley.
The Juanzi whom Ye Sangwan met at the door of Yun's house just now ran following the sound with a panicked look on her face, not even bothering to help up the kudzu root she had just dug for a long time after tripping over.
"It's my mother-in-law's voice!" She cried as she ran: "She was eaten by a wolf, right? My husband is fighting on the border far away. If he knew that I didn't protect my mother-in-law, he would definitely beat me to death when he came back!"
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Ye Sangwan overheard these words while running behind her.
Although she also sympathized with Juanzi's experience, if her mother-in-law hadn't been greedy for what happened today and went to the tiger mountain knowing that there were tigers in the mountain, she would have brought the blame on herself.
The fact that she earned two hundred taels of silver from selling ginseng was the pretense she said, but Banyuepo Village has lived here for decades, and Ye Sangwan is the only one who has encountered ginseng in a hundred years.
They know the truth well, but they insist on moving forward. They know that they are waiting for the chance of success, and they are happy to follow it. In the end, they are still poor.
"Sister-in-law, don't panic. The matter may not be that serious. Don't scare yourself!"
The other party wiped his tears with his sleeve and nodded gratefully to Ye Sangwan.
The two quickly ran to the scene of the incident and saw a woman in her forties or fifties. Her patched clothes were torn and torn by thorns. The weather was quite hot in late summer, and the clothes she wore were not suitable.
There are so many, so it looks very embarrassing.
Ye Sangwan got relevant information about this person from the memory of the original owner: Mr. Tian, one of the rare top people in Banyuepo Village.
Mr. Tian lay straight on the ground and did not dare to move, moaning in pain.
Listening to her angry voice, Ye Sangwan knew whether her injuries were fatal.
Covering it with his sleeves, he took out disinfectant, cotton cloth and swelling and hemostatic powder from the space. Ye Sangwan pushed aside the crowd and placed the things on the ground.
He used his sterilized hands to examine Tian, checking it inch by inch from top to bottom twice. While touching it, he asked repeatedly: "Does it hurt here? Is this like this?"
At first, Mrs. Tian responded cooperatively, but then she realized that there were all men around her, and her face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, "You little girl, why are you just groping at me? Not enough people think I'm embarrassed."
Is it much?"
Ye Sangwan explained patiently: "I'm checking whether you have broken bones."
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Tian pushed her to the side hard: "What do you know, you little girl? Go away!"
Then he looked at Juanzi whose eyes were red from crying: "What are you still doing? Wait until I die so that I can inherit the land of my old Lu family? I tell you, no way!"
He raised his hand and slapped Juanzi in the back, "Why don't you go and invite Dr. Song here? You really don't have any eyesight."
Ye Sangwan grabbed Juanzi and said, "Doctor Song has some inconvenience in his legs and feet, so don't bother him.
I see that you have had skin injuries all your life, and the most serious injury is the sprained right ankle, which is slightly red and swollen. I can help you deal with it."
"Just you?" Tian's tone and expression were full of disdain. Her slightly mean eyes narrowed slightly and her eyes were sharp: "Are you Wanya? You are afraid that I will get hurt when I go into the mountain and implicate you and Heng boy on purpose.
Is the injury not serious?
Chapter completed!