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After the rain, the water vapor on the mountain did not dissipate, so they did not go out in the morning.After lunch at noon, the water vapor on the mountain gradually dissipated, and the two set off for the back mountain.

The mountains behind Zhou Qingwu's house are even denser, and there are very few people who go alone without a company on weekdays.However, there are many more types of medicinal materials in the mountains than in the mountain forest shared by the house and Yangjia Village, and the inside is also the favorite place for hunters in the village.

Along the way, the two were looking for medicinal materials, while Meng Chuxi was also paying attention to the traces of wild animals.When she was young, there were a lot of wild rabbits and wild boars, and they often harmed the crops. Basically, every household would set up traps in the fields and at the foot of the mountain. Meng Chuxi learned a lot with her grandfather.

Rabbits like low-lying places in cold winter. They can shelter from the wind and cold. If there is not enough food, they will come out to look for food. The woodland around the village and the south of the hillside are all possible places to pass by. Meng Chuxi put the stumbling blocks made before in the right place , take a chance.

It was just a matter of putting in this small organ, and the main purpose of this trip was to accompany Zhou Qingwu to find medicinal materials.Meng Chuxi likes botany very much, and knows a lot about medicinal materials. Together with Zhou Qingwu, the efficiency of the two is much higher.

Zhou Qingwu is very familiar with the market of medicinal materials. Which herbs are cheap and which ones are precious to her. Those too common medicinal materials can’t be sold at a good price, and there is no need for them in drugstores.

The most suitable medicinal materials for digging in winter are asparagus, bletilla striata, and Baibu, especially Baibu is consumed a lot during the season change in late winter and early spring. Today Zhou Qingwu mainly stares at it.

Zhou Qingwu found that Meng Chuxi's familiarity with herbal medicine was no worse than hers. Sometimes she didn't realize that Meng Chuxi had already seen it, and she dug a lot.She was really curious about what kind of family could raise someone like Meng Chuxi.

She was a little distracted looking at Meng Chuxi, who was carefully digging out the root of an asparagus, but she accidentally tripped over the vine after taking a few steps, her heart suddenly lifted, and she fell directly to the ground.

This dull sound immediately startled Meng Chuxi to raise her head, seeing Zhou Qingwu fell, she dropped her hoe and ran over to quickly tear off the tiny vines on her feet and help her up.

Looking at the ground to see if there were no stakes or thorns, Meng Chuxi breathed a sigh of relief and looked at her carefully: "Why did you fall, did it hurt?"

Zhou Qingwu waved his hand, his face was full of embarrassment, she couldn't say that she didn't see the way clearly because she saw something.I could only look back at the ground and gesture: I didn't pay attention to this.

After comparing her hands, her eyes froze slightly, and she squatted down to look at the vines that were pulled aside by Meng Chuxi.Just now, Meng Chuxi, who was anxious to help Zhou Qingwu, didn't pay attention to the withered rattan, but now she recognized it: "This is Polygonum multiflorum."

Zhou Qingwu also nodded. Polygonum multiflorum is also known as Yejiao vine. There are countless legends about Polygonum multiflorum in the market place, all of which say that it can make white hair and prolong life, which makes Polygonum multiflorum a good medicine for invigorating the kidney.

However, Polygonum multiflorum grows slowly, and it is said that it takes more than a hundred years to have that kind of miraculous effect, and it takes four to five years to grow before it can be used as medicine. However, the medicinal value of less than ten years is not great at all, and the price is not very expensive.The longer the year, the higher the price, and Polygonum multiflorum is not uncommon, so Zhou Qingwu was not particularly happy at the moment.

But it doesn't matter if you meet Tan Tan. The two of them followed the vine all the way back, and the closer to the root, the more intricate the vine became. After bypassing this small hill, they found that the Polygonum multiflorum had covered this small slope, and the vines had already extended to the bottom of the hill. On a barren wall, it seems to be quite old.There are high mountains and dense forests here, and few people come here, otherwise such a piece of Polygonum multiflorum may have been dug up long ago.

It took a long time for Zhou Qingwu and the two to find out where its root was, which happened to be near a big rock.Meng Chuxi used a knife to cut off the vine to expose the main root, and the two began digging beside it.

It took more than an hour to dig at the beginning. This Polygonum multiflorum is very big, and it just burrowed into the crevices of the rocks in the ground. Fortunately, the rocks look big, and they are not buried deep, so they can still be dug out. But it also exhausted the two of them.

Meng Chuxi's forehead was already sweating, and Zhou Qingwu knew that she loved to sweat, so he quickly waved his hand to signal her to rest: sweating is easy to catch cold, you should rest for a while.

How can Meng Chuxi agree: "It's so deep, and Qingwu, you want to call my sister. How can my sister rest and my sister work."

When she said this, Zhou Qingwu remembered how she teased herself to call her sister when she was injured, and then her cheeks flushed slightly, her mouth pouted proudly, and she gestured: No, you don't remember how old you are.

Meng Chuxi raised her eyebrows with a smile in her eyes. The little girl has grown up and will refute her, and she even pouts.

"You're not good, you talk back even if you don't listen to my sister." She said in a serious manner, Zhou Qingwu stared at her hurriedly, seeing that the gentle smile in her eyes was still familiar, and she was not afraid at all.Sure enough, the next moment Meng Chuxi smiled happier, and reached out to poke her cheek: "You can still pout, why are you so cute?"

At the beginning, she was thin and small, just like a malnourished bean sprout. Now the bean sprout is a little taller. Although she is not fat yet, she is much more juicy.The first time Meng Chuxi saw Zhou Qingwu, she felt that the little girl was annoying, and then she liked her more and more. In her eyes, the little girl was simply the embodiment of cuteness, and she was good everywhere.

Just like now, when he was poking her face, she just stared at her softly, with a trace of helplessness and pleading in her big eyes.

In the end, Meng Chuxi let the little girl go, and the two of them took a break to continue digging. They dug a few feet deep to see its whole picture. It was different from the Polygonum multiflorum they had seen before. There was a big lump on top There are three raised lumps on the top, thick tubers on the bottom, and four columnar ones on the top of the tubers, which is quite strange.After digging out the last bit, Meng Chuxi carried the big Polygonum multiflorum, which weighed four to five catties, and said with a frown, "Why do I think this thing looks so weird?"

Zhou Qingwu stared at it, and gestured: "Like a human being."

Meng Chuxi looked at it, and it was true, use your imagination, this thing has a nose, eyes, and limbs, no wonder it is uncomfortable to look at.It's not that people like Polygonum multiflorum have never happened before, and I've heard similar reports in small news before.

A light flickered in Zhou Qingwu's eyes. She pulled Meng Chuxi's finger to point at the Polygonum multiflorum, and then stretched out her hand to slowly gesture: This Polygonum multiflorum should have been around for more than a hundred years, and it is worth a few cents at the pharmacy, but this person looks like There are other values.

There was a thin smile in Meng Chuxi's eyes: "How do you say?"

Zhou Qingwu knew that Meng Chuxi was very kind, and seeing her smile, he knew that she understood what he meant. He stretched out his hand and wrote on her palm: sell to whoever wants it.

Her father and mother run the medicinal material business together. Although the medicinal material business is related to life and death, so Zhou Changqing has always been doing business with benevolence, but the way of businessmanship is also indispensable.Zhou Qingwu, who has been with them since childhood, has been fascinated by it. In addition to knowing a lot of herbs, she also knows how to do business. Otherwise, she would not be able to make the largest pharmacy in the town willing to accept her herbs at any time under such a disadvantageous situation.

"So what is Qingwu going to do?" Meng Chuxi's eyes were a little happy. Ever since she sold thatch mushrooms that day, she knew that Zhou Qingwu had a lot of ideas in this regard, so she was not surprised, but was still pleasantly surprised. This little girl is really a treasure.

Zhou Qingwu didn't have to shrink back or hide his clumsiness in front of her, and Meng Chuxi's eyes were full of encouragement and appreciation, so Zhou Qingwu continued to write on her palm: The villagers like these conversations very much.

Especially related to her, whether it is bitter or curious, they will spare no effort to talk about it and spread it around.Not to mention the anecdote of the century-old Polygonum Polygoni Multiflori in human form, anyone who has a little curiosity will pay special attention to it.They don't need to worry about it themselves, the people in the village will bring the news to Qilibaxiang, and even the town.

The admiration in Meng Chuxi's eyes was undisguised, and he reached out and touched her head: "We Qingwu are too smart, we make the best use of everything, and advertise it widely. If the gimmick is up, there will be more people who want it, and the price is high." Whoever gets it."

The two carefully put the Polygonum multiflorum in the back basket and continued to search for other medicinal materials.When they were going down the mountain, the two of them walked down from the forest, and happened to pass a dead tree that fell on the ground, which seemed to be a paulownia tree. Half of it fell in the damp forest, and the other half stood on the soil slope and fell in the sunlight.

Zhou Qingwu carefully stepped over the top, and was about to leave but stopped suddenly. She pointed to the underside of the wood and waved to Meng Chuxi.

Meng Chuxi bent down to take a look, and immediately beamed with joy: "There are wild fungus in this weather." On that piece of dead wood grew a piece of large and small brown mushrooms, which were plump and pleasing, and they were fungus.

She reached out and picked one, the color was beautiful, the flesh was plump and tender, very fresh.Over there, Zhou Qingwu also squatted down and walked around the dead wood: quite a few.

The two of them stretched out their hands to pick it immediately, which was indeed an unexpected joy. The fungus likes warmth, and it grows the most in summer and autumn, and basically disappears in winter.It was probably raining, the rain was sufficient, and the temperature rose quickly, so some of them rarely came out.After all, the temperature is low, the size is not big, and there are still many that have not had time to grow. They are curled up like pearls, soft and cute.

This was a pleasant surprise. The two of them had a good harvest and walked briskly. When they went down the mountain with their baskets on their backs, Zhou Qingwu peeked at Meng Chuxi, and then secretly pursed his lips and smiled.

She thought she was unaware, but unexpectedly, Meng Chuxi was also watching her quietly, and she could see clearly at the moment, and finally couldn't help asking her: "Why are you staring at me and laughing?"

Zhou Qingwu's eyes shy away shyly, and his long eyelashes trembled a few times, then he broke free from his shyness and looked at Meng Chuxi seriously, with a slight smile on his face, he stretched out his hand and gestured: After having you, I can always Good luck.

She has been digging for medicinal materials for so many years, and Houshan also mustered up the courage to set foot in when she was helpless, but she never met the Polygonum multiflorum plant, but she was with her, and they met when the leaves were all gone.

Meng Chuxi smiled: "This is not the first time you have said that, so it is true. Then you have to take good care of me, and your luck may be even better in the future."

Zhou Qingwu shook his head, chuckled and lowered his eyes.Meng Chuxi was a little surprised: "You don't want to support me anymore?"

Hearing this, Zhou Qingwu raised his head and looked at her with a gentle and serious expression: You can't expect too much, you are already very lucky to be by my side.

She made every gesture very seriously, even if it wasn't conveyed by words, she couldn't hear the different tones and emotions with her own ears, but Meng Chuxi knew the joy and satisfaction in the little girl's words, and it rolled softly in her heart, making her unable to resist The heart also softened into a piece.

"Silly girl." The little girl regarded her as a relative, and she was already quite dependent on her. In the end, she could only sigh and say these words, and walked home along the Asakusa path on the ridge with Zhou Qingwu.

In the morning, the mountains and forests shrouded in clouds and mist are clear and clear, and the village under the sun is even more peaceful. The people who go out to work in the village are now mostly digging the soil for their own vegetable fields and tidying up the ground, so there is much less farm work.

So after returning home, most of them sat around in twos and threes, chewing the fried fragrant soybeans, talking about the interesting things that happened recently, and also mentioned what the man in the family was going to do as a buddy in the spring, which was very pleasant.The rhubarb in the village was exposed to the sun, and it seemed to be dozing off while lying beside its owner with squinted eyes.

This kind of leisure was added to the excitement when they saw Meng Chuxi and Zhou Qingwu coming down the back mountain path.

Although Meng Chuxi's appearance was no longer attractive after three months, many people in the village paid close attention to the changes in their situation.They bought land before, but it caused a wave in the village. Two acres of fertile land is not much, but for Zhou Qingwu, who was still impoverished a few months ago, it was really an earth-shaking change.

There are two roads going down the mountain, one is east and the other is west. The west road to go home happens to pass in front of the row of houses of Mr. Xu in the village. Lots of chatter.A bunch of men and a bunch of women are so lively.

Someone who had a lot of dealings with Meng Chuxi took the initiative to say hello: "Chuxi, you and Qingwu went up the mountain again."

Meng Chuxi, who was waiting for them to speak, showed the usual smile, but she was obviously in a better mood: "Well, go to the back mountain to dig some medicinal materials." The joy on her face was a little obvious, and the sister-in-law of the Liu family who was familiar with her smiled and said : "Why are you so happy today, you got a good product?"

Meng Chuxi couldn't hide her smile when she heard the words, and said, "Sister-in-law Liu is really right. I dug up a Polygonum multiflorum, which is hundreds of years old, and looks like a doll."

Her words aroused everyone's curiosity.

"The Polygonum multiflorum that looks like a doll? This is really strange, show me quickly, it will open your eyes."

Meng Chuxi glanced at Zhou Qingwu, and the two of them knew each other that the fish was hooked.