When Shen Chi was at a loss for knowledge, it happened to be Thursday and he had a rest in the afternoon.
At this time, weekends have not yet been implemented. The school's rest time is half a day in the afternoon on Thursday and one day on Sunday.
When I got home from school, my grandma had already prepared the meal and was waiting for the siblings.
While eating, he saw that his father and mother had not come back. Shen Chi couldn't help but curiously asked his grandma: "Grandma, won't my dad and the others come back for dinner?"
"Your father and mother went into the mountains to pick salvia and won't be back for lunch."
Shen Chi was moved when he heard that Lishan Village is surrounded by mountains. The mountains are rich in various medicinal materials, among which salvia miltiorrhiza is the most abundant. Every spring and autumn, many medicine dealers come to the village to collect ginseng. At this time, the villagers will come together to collect ginseng. Dig wild ginseng in exchange for money to supplement family income.
Shen Chi was worried that he had no money to buy books, so he thought, wouldn't this be an opportunity? He immediately finished his meal calmly, put down the bowl and chopsticks, told his grandma to go and play with Heidan and the others, and ran out.
He sneaked behind the door and took a small hoe. Shen Chi also quietly entered the mountain. Lishan Village was surrounded by mountains. The mountains were beautiful and majestic. They stretched for nearly a hundred miles. It was very dangerous, so Shen Chi did not dare to go. It's too far away, so I just dare to look for Salvia miltiorrhiza nearby.
But all the ginseng nearby had been dug up. After searching for a long time, Shen Chi could only find a few small ginseng seedlings. Thinking that he had planting skills, he dug out a few larger ones, chopped the thatch, tied them around his waist, and hung them around his waist. After a while, Shen Chi's waist was covered with ginseng seedlings.
Although he dug a lot, none of them could really be sold for money. He was so busy that he didn’t know how long it was, and he didn’t know how long it had passed. Shen Chi suddenly heard people talking on the mountain path. After a while, he saw four people carrying The figure carrying a basket appeared at the end of the mountain trail.
Shen Chi took a look and recognized her fellow villagers Black Egg's mother, Aunt Zhao, Shitou's mother, Aunt Li, and Wangzi's mother, Aunt Wang. The last person was the oldest and looked to be about seventy years old. She was Grandma Yuan San. She was the same age. Although he is big, his body is strong and he actually follows these young wives into the mountains to dig ginseng.
When Grandma Yuan San saw Shen Chi, she immediately exclaimed: "Oh, isn't this a kid from Chang Lin's family? You came here alone?"
Shen Chi hurriedly stepped forward to ask someone to say hello. Seeing that he dared to run into the mountains alone, Grandma Yuan San scolded: "If you don't go back with grandma quickly, you are too courageous. You dare to run into the mountains alone. I’m not afraid of tigers in the mountains either.”
An adult in his thirties was still being threatened with a tiger. Shen Chi was speechless for a while. Knowing that Grandma Yuan San also had good intentions, Shen Chi just smiled innocently.
Seeing their baskets filled with salvia, Shen Chi smiled and asked, "Third Grandma, you dug a lot of salvia, right?"
"I was lucky today. I found a hilltop where a wild ginseng garden has grown." Grandma Yuan San replied with a smile.
"Xiao Chi, are you going to dig ginseng in the mountains too?" Aunt Li asked Shen Chi with a smile.
"Yes, I also want to dig ginseng and sell it to save money for tuition." Shen Chi replied with a smile.
"You are a little kid and you don't study hard. Is this what you should worry about?" Zhao Auntie criticized.
"This kid is really good. He knows how to share the worries of adults at a young age. He is much better than that bastard in my family." Aunt Wang praised fiercely.
Shen Chi just followed Grandma Yuan San and the others and walked towards the village while listening to them talking and laughing.
As soon as we arrived at the village, we heard my grandma standing at the entrance of the village shouting Shen Chi's name at the top of her lungs. It turned out that Heitan was walking down the river to fish for shrimps and passed by the door of Shen Chi's house. Mrs. Hu saw that Shen Chi was not following him. Together, after asking, I found out that Shen Chi had not gone to play with Heidan.
This was so bad that Mrs. Hu was so anxious that she searched for Shen Chi all over the village. Grandma Yuan San heard the cry and responded from a distance: "Sister, please stop screaming. Your little Chi has gone into the mountains. We will bring it to you." Back."
When they got closer, Mr. Hu scolded Shen Chi severely, and thanked Grandma Yuan San and the others profusely.
After returning home, Mrs. Hu reprimanded Shen Chi behind closed door: "Why did you run into the mountains alone? What should I tell your parents if something happens?"
Shen Chi quickly admitted his mistake and said: "Grandma, I know I was wrong. I also wanted to dig some salvia in the mountains to exchange for tuition."
"Grandma is here for the tuition. You don't have to worry about it. If you dare to run around next time, I'll ask your dad to break your legs." Mrs. Hu scolded, and saw the small ginseng seedlings no thicker than chopsticks hanging on Shen Chi's waist again. He said: "Look at what you dug out. They are not as thick as chopsticks. Who would want them? It's such a waste."
Shen Chi smiled and replied: "I will plant these ginseng seedlings and sell them when they grow up."
After saying that, he went to the back of the house. Vegetables were planted in the garden, and there was no extra space. Thinking of the environment where salvia would grow, Shen Chi opened seven or eight square meters of wasteland in the woods behind the house and planted salvia. , watered it, and used the planting technique again, the Salvia miltiorrhiza, which was originally more than ten centimeters tall, immediately grew several centimeters taller.
At this time, Shen Chi's energy level had reached 42 points, and he could sustain it for several rounds. Until he felt dizzy, and knew that his energy was about to be exhausted, he quickly stopped.
Looking at a patch of salvia that was growing happily, Shen Chi was afraid that others would pick it, so he cut down a lot of bamboo and cut it into strips to make a simple bamboo fence around the ginseng seedlings, and nailed a wooden sign to show that he was the owner. things.
As soon as all this was done, the system immediately prompted: Gain one thousand knowledge points by planting salvia, and increase your planting proficiency by 50.
This prompt made Shen Chi stunned, and then he realized that in addition to reading books, he could also get knowledge points by farming, and the larger the planting area, the more knowledge points he would get.
This seems to be the only way for him to obtain a large amount of knowledge points at present. Shen Chi thought to himself.
Seeing that his grandson had been busy in the woods for nearly two hours, even his son and daughter-in-law had come back from digging for ginseng in the mountains. Before he could finish his work, he came to the woods and saw Shen Chi watering the salvia. While helping, he said: "What are you messing around with? Your dad and the others have all returned."
After pouring the last bucket of water into the ground, Shen Chi said: "I have already planted it."
Walking back with grandma, Hu was picking vegetables for dinner when passing by the vegetable patch in the backyard.
Shen Chi also helped. Seeing that the tomatoes were already red, he quickly picked them with a basket. In a small area, he picked more than ten kilograms of tomatoes.
Looking at the basket full of tomatoes, Grandma Hu said with confusion: "It's strange, other people's tomatoes in the village have just bloomed, why do ours grow so fast?"
Shen Chi was secretly amused. Wouldn't it be nice if he secretly used the implantation technique to induce another baby every day when he came back from school? Using the implantation technique to use up all his energy would give him knowledge points similar to the energy consumed, and his energy would be restored after sleeping overnight. Shen Chi Chi couldn't waste this opportunity to gain knowledge for nothing.
When he came to the main room, he saw his parents sorting out the salvia miltiorrhiza they had dug. Shen Chi said: "Dad, mom, you have dug so many ginseng."
"Well, let's dry it in the sun until the harvester comes. Can we sell it to Xiaochi to buy toys?" Shen Changlin said with a smile.