Seeing that Changsheng didn't come back, Shen Rong brought food to Changsheng and brought it to the field. While Changsheng was eating, Shen Rong helped pick wolfberries.

After Changsheng finished his meal, he rested for a while and then started picking wolfberries again.

Seeing that the work was not heavy, Shen Rong simply stayed in the fields to help. She did not go home to cook until it was almost time for lunch.

The next day, Shen Rong went to help in the fields at noon and came back in the afternoon to prepare dinner. When she entered the kitchen, Sixth Grandma was already busy in the kitchen.

In this way, the grandparents and grandchildren were busy in the fields for five or six days in a row. Shen Rong went to the fields to help with the work for half a day every afternoon, and only then did they harvest all the medicinal herbs in the fields.

According to Shen Rong, collecting medicinal herbs was almost as tiring as harvesting grain, and Sixth Grandpa looked very tired.

Even Shen Rong herself was very tired after doing housework in the morning and helping in the fields in the afternoon.

Sixth Grandma was also very busy at home processing the medicinal herbs she had collected.

Only Changsheng is full of energy every day, and he even asks to enter the space to collect herbs at night.

In order to take advantage of the space to grow medicinal herbs, Changsheng also wanted to plant wolfberry, cassia seed, and angelica, which can be picked from the land at home.

Shen Rong was determined not to let Changsheng grow wolfberries.

Plant one of that thing and it can grow into a large area. It reproduces very quickly. Within a day or two, her small space will be full of wolfberries!

Finally, Shen Rong asked Changsheng to plant a small piece of angelica.

By planting a small piece every day and planting for several nights, Changsheng had accumulated a large pile of angelica.

Finally, it was mixed with the angelica planted in the fields outside, making the angelica in the fields look like a very good harvest.

Sixth Grandpa often muttered that growing medicinal herbs on such good land is different, and the harvest of angelica is really a lot.

After a busy period, Changsheng and Sixth Grandpa lost a lot of weight.

Shen Rong secretly felt lucky that she later rented out the twenty acres of land she bought to others for farming. Otherwise, Changsheng and her grandfather alone would not be able to finish so much work even if they died of exhaustion.

Thinking about the hard work that Changsheng and his grandfather had put in over the past few days, she caught a laying hen and killed it to provide nourishment for the two of them.

Shen Rong felt somewhat distressed when she killed the hen that laid eggs.

But there were only two roosters left in the house, and one was killed the next day. Only one rooster was left, and he had to keep it for breeding. He couldn't kill them all.

Changsheng was so distressed when he learned that his wife had killed the hen that laid eggs that he kept muttering: Too few, too few, too few eggs.

He kept mumbling and drank three bowls of chicken soup before he closed his mouth in satisfaction.

Shen Rong's eldest and second sisters-in-law discussed it and finally bought the shop with the two hundred taels of silver given by Shen Rong.

The shop was registered under Shen Rong's name.

In the evening of the day when Li Fenglian and Ma Xiuxiu went to the county, they went to the house and handed the deed to Shen Rong.

After Shen Rong received the house deed, she no longer cared about the affairs of the shop or what her sisters-in-law planned to do.

During the days when Changsheng and Shen Rong were busy collecting medicinal herbs, the shops in the county town also began to clean up.

The requirements for a braised meat shop are simple. They just need to build two stoves and two large iron pots. Ma Xiuxiu ordered pork from her brother-in-law, and the preparations for the shop are complete.

For this business, the eldest brother and his wife and the second brother and his wife have settled down in the yard behind the shop.

Ma Xiuxiu grasps the taste and makes braised meat with her eldest sister-in-law and eldest brother, while the second brother goes back to Chen Ji in the town before dawn every day to get fresh pork.

For a while, the two brothers of the Shen family were extremely busy.

Shen Rong is not having an easy time either.

Just preparing so much angelica is not an easy task.

During the days of preparing medicinal herbs, Changsheng took care of all the housework at home, except for washing clothes.

He not only does housework at home, but also goes to the fields every day to tidy up the land.

For example, the stumps left over from harvesting Cassia seeds must be dug out one by one, dried, and burned as firewood.

A cold autumn rain.

By the time the autumn harvest of medicinal herbs was packed up and sent to the herbal medicine shop in the town, winter was almost here and the villagers all wore padded jackets.

"These medicinal herbs are of really good quality. Seventy-eight catties of top-quality dried wolfberries cost eighty-five coins per catty, which equals six strings of six hundred and thirty coins.

Cassia seeds weigh 315 catties and cost 35 wen per catty, totaling 11 strings of cash and 25 wen.

Sixty-two catties of angelica sinensis, three hundred coins per catty, so eighteen strings of cash and six hundred coins.

The total is 36 strings of cash and 255 coins. Doctor Shen, do you want silver or copper coins?"

The owner of the drug store was clattering on his abacus, and finally came up with a number that surprised Shen Rong.

When Shen Rong heard that there were thirty-six strings of cash, she was secretly surprised.

She never thought that the medicinal herbs grown on less than five acres of land could be sold for so much money.

Shen Rong knew very well that, except for Angelica sinensis which was planted a little more, the other three medicinal herbs did not exceed one acre of land.

Wolfberries are only planted in a circle around the edge of the field.

Cassia seed was only planted on five or six mu of land.

Even if we remove the angelica that was taken out from the space, there would be at least more than twenty taels of silver.

The output of this land of less than three acres is more than twenty taels, which is already a lot.

However, they also collect a lot of medicinal materials, and now they are processed and dried when they are brought to the pharmacy. Both the size and weight have shrunk a lot.

However, the price of processed medicinal materials is naturally much higher than that of fresh ones.

Shen Rong used to sell medicinal herbs. Because they were picked in the mountains and mixed with herbs from the space, she knew that herbs were valuable, but she didn't know they were so valuable, especially when compared with the grains from the fields.

Nowadays, one acre of land can only produce two or three shi of millet. One shi of millet can produce about nine dou of brown rice. One dou of rice costs about thirty wen, which means that the rice produced from one acre of land can be sold for less than one guan of money.

Shen Rong calculated carefully in her mind and found that there was a huge difference between the two.

While Shen Rong was calculating the bill in her mind, the old shopkeeper took out several silver ingots of different sizes from the cabinet and handed them to Sixth Grandpa.

"Doctor Shen, please keep the silver."

Sixth Grandpa took the silver and handed it to Shen Rong, "Changsheng's wife, these herbs were planted by Changsheng, and he has been taking care of them. Please help Changsheng collect these silvers!"

Shen Rong looked up at Sixth Grandpa and saw that the old man was smiling. She took the silver. "Thank you, Grandpa."

Then he turned to Changsheng and said, "Changsheng, you have earned so much money, what do you want to buy? I will take you to buy it."

Changsheng tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "Buy a hairpin for my wife."

Shen Rong's face turned red, and the old shopkeeper behind her laughed out loud.

Shen Rong pulled Changsheng and ran out of the pharmacy in one breath without even waiting for her grandfather.

In the end, Shen Rong still couldn't bear to buy a hairpin, but bought some snacks for Changsheng, some soft pastries for grandma, weighed a pound of tea for grandpa, and took Changsheng back.

Changsheng kept muttering about not buying anything for his wife.

Shen Rong took a wooden hairpin and waved it in front of Changsheng's eyes, "If this isn't something, what is it?"

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