Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

"Yeah, I feel better too, my chest isn't as stuffy anymore." Huang touched her chest and looked at Zhou Guo again, "Guo, what did you cook for us?"

Zhou Guo said: "Didn't I tell you? Medicine."

"Medicine, how do you know this is medicine?" Xu asked impatiently.

Everyone in the family was looking at her.

Zhou Guo blinked his eyes, but before he could say anything, Huang said, "What's so strange about that? Our Guo has been connected with the Bodhisattva since he was a child. He was destined to be the child in front of the Bodhisattva and come down to transcend the calamity. He knows everything. It's your blessing that I can personally cook medicine for you to drink. Don't ask any more questions. If you ask too much and reveal this huge secret, you will be blamed by the Bodhisattva and you will be in big trouble!"

When they heard that they were going to be in big trouble, everyone shrank their necks and kept silent. Xu even shut her mouth tightly. She was already unlucky enough now, and if she was to be in big trouble again, she didn't know if she would still be alive.

Zhou Guo's eyes widened slightly when she heard this. She looked at her grandmother in surprise, then at her mother. When she saw the two of them looking at each other with a look of knowing everything, she knew that they might have reached some kind of consensus.

This is a good thing. By letting them say it out loud, she can save herself the trouble of being caught as some monster.

No one knew if it was the effect of this unpalatable potion, but when they were traveling in the afternoon, everyone felt noticeably different. The heaviness in their chests was gone, their heads were much clearer, and their spirits were completely different, a clear difference that could be seen compared to other people.

Several elderly people couldn't bear it and fainted on the road. From time to time, sounds of vomiting were heard in the team. Some people began to beg the head of the village to stop and rest. Who would still be on the road in such a hot sun? There were many people resting on the roadside.

They were all rejected by the village head.

On the third day, more people complained.

Zhou Guo still stopped at every place he went to, dug herbs, and boiled a large pot of soup every day. The leftovers were poured into a gourd and drunk as water on the way.

Having experienced the benefits of the water, no one in the family complained anymore; even the two little ones held their bowls and drank it enthusiastically.

The elderly and children kept falling down, and the team's movement slowed down a lot.

At this time, the high spirits of the Zhou family were revealed.

"Uncle Deli, did your family drink some magic water? Why are you so energetic? Is this scorching sun not having any effect on you?"

When this question was asked, everyone around looked over, and Muran realized that this family of women, children, and the elderly were pushing two such heavy carts, but no one fell down.

There are not many old people in this family who are still strong. They all look like eggplants hit by frost. But Zhou Deli's family, from the elderly couple to the two youngest, are all still energetic.

Everyone couldn't sit still and asked for the secret. "Deli, it's time now. We can't hide any good things at home. We all live in the same village and have lived here for our whole lives. We are one family."

"Yes, Uncle Deli, can you please give me some magic medicine? My mother collapsed the day before yesterday and can't eat anything. Her health is getting worse day by day. You can't just stand by and watch her die!"

This was too harsh. Old Man Zhou immediately said with a serious face: "Zhou Ercai, you should be careful with your words. What do you mean by we watched you die without helping you? Everyone knows the situation of our family. Is there any panacea?"

Mrs. Xu couldn't help but said, "We don't have a doctor at home. What's the point of looking for us if someone is dying? We can't save people. Don't blame us just because we are a good person. It's not us who made you sick. Why do you have to force us to treat you? You are so shameless."

Huang didn't stop her.

Zhou Ercai's face turned red, and he fell silent in front of everyone. No one around him dared to speak.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

After a while, someone couldn't help but ask Huang, "Aunt, tell us how you did it. We are about the same age, so how come you are fine? Which doctor prescribed the medicine for you?"

When the other people around heard it, they came over silently.

Huang said, "Where do I have medicine at home? No one in my family is sick, why would I buy that thing?"

Some people were unwilling to accept it, "So what else did you eat?"

"Yes, yes, I did something else. Hey, just tell me what you ate and drank these days. I'm telling you, my head is foggy and my whole body is uncomfortable. It's okay to take a break. If I keep walking like this for a few more days, I'm afraid I'll collapse."

Who isn't? It turns out that working in the sun for a whole morning isn't that tiring.

Huang glanced at Zhou Guo inadvertently. She was already asleep in her mother's arms. Whenever she had nothing to do, this girl would fall asleep immediately when she was told to take a break, as if she had accumulated enough sleep for several days.

This girl had been boiling "medicine" for everyone every day in the past few days. Now she doesn't have to do it. As soon as the water is gone and they take a break, the first thing Xu and Li will do is to boil water in a clay pot and fill the gourds and bamboo tubes so that they can drink when they are thirsty on the road.

Regardless of whether it was the effect of this thing, no one in the family fell down under the scorching sun. They didn't feel uncomfortable after drinking it, and none of them had headaches, fevers, or diarrhea.

Thinking of this, she felt much more relieved, and said to everyone, "There is one thing that is different from you, I don't know if it is, but you also know that my daughter Guoya would dig wild vegetables everywhere when she had a break, and she was not picky. She dug up all kinds of wild vegetables, and would not let us throw away the old ones that were too chewy to chew, because it would be a pity to throw them away. The eldest and second daughters-in-law would use them to boil water. Every day, they would boil a big pot full of them, pour it into the gourd bamboo tube, and use that as water to drink. The children drank less, but they were forced to drink a bowl every day."

Hearing her say this, everyone was delighted. "Really? Show us what kind of wild vegetable it is. I'll ask the children to dig it up and cook it when we get it back."

"Yeah yeah."

This is easy. There are plenty of them on the cart now. There is half a bag of dried ones and a whole basket of fresh ones.

Xu took the basket and handed it to her mother-in-law.

Huang took the basket and took out the herbs one by one and handed them to everyone to see. She also introduced the dosage of the herbs to everyone, "These are also very common. Just don't pick the wrong ones. If you pick the wrong ones, you don't know if they will still work."

When everyone took it and looked at it, they found that it was the weeds growing on the ridges of the fields in front of and behind their houses.

A woman slapped her thigh and sighed, "Oh, I didn't know these weeds on the ground could be used like this. OK, I'll let the children dig them up. But, auntie, they won't dry in a short time after they are dug out. Look at this..."

"Yes, yes, Auntie, don't worry, we will return it to you as soon as it is dried. Can you lend us some first?"