Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

The old woman who passed away was the nearly eighty-year-old mother of team leader Lin Zhong. If it was the slack season for farming, death at the age of eighty would be a happy funeral, and the villagers would help to arrange the funeral.

But he died at the wrong time. It was the busy spring farming season and the production team had production tasks. Team leader Lin Zhong was seizing the time every day to catch up with the farming season. It happened that his old mother passed away at this time. Lin Zhong had a headache arranging the members who came to help.

After finishing this period of work, when it was time to go to work in the afternoon, Lin Zhong asked a few older members to stay and help, and everyone else was sent to work.

Of course, Lin Zhong would also count half a day's work points for the members who stayed to help. The maximum work points for an adult man were ten, so half a day's work points were five.

Everyone had no objection to the team leader's calculation. Helping here was less tiring than working in the fields, and every member's family had elderly people. When the elderly passed away, those who came to help would receive work points from the team, so the team leader's behavior did not constitute abuse of power for personal gain.

The production team had nothing to do with the funeral, so Lin Shu took a short rest after lunch and prepared to go up the mountain.

"Don't you want to rest for a while before going up the mountain?" Liu Xiao'e asked when she saw Lin Shu packing the backpack.

"No, the weather is not hot now, I want to go into the mountains early."

Liu Xiao'e didn't object. Diligence is a recognized virtue of rural children. She handed Lin Shu's water bottle to her and said, "Be careful and remember to get down the mountain before the sun sets."

Once you enter the forest, smell the fragrance of the grass and trees, and listen to the crisp chirping of birds, you will feel relaxed both physically and mentally.

"Wow, it smells so good!"

As a mountain breeze blew, Lin Shu smelled a familiar floral scent. Looking against the wind, he saw many small golden flowers swaying in the wind about ten meters away.

"Honeysuckle, this stuff is good!"

Lin Shu knew that honeysuckle can clear away heat and detoxify, relieve wind and dissipate heat without systematic popular science. Many women in rural areas like to pick them and dry them in the sun, and they rely on them to make tea all summer. It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, especially during the summer harvest season when they work under the sun all day long. Honeysuckle has become an indispensable summer heat-relief product for them.

"System, how do you purchase this honeysuckle?"

[There are no weeds in the mountains, and knowing everything is a treasure. Congratulations to the host for identifying honeysuckle on his own. The blooming honeysuckle is 50 cents per pound, and the unbloomed buds are 1 yuan per pound. ]

"It's divided into grades?" Honeysuckle is so small, how long does it take to pick one kilogram? Lin Shu feels that picking honeysuckle is not as cost-effective as cutting sow vines.

The flowering period of honeysuckle is very short. It would be a waste if these clumps are not picked. In line with the principle of not wasting, pick them.

Honeysuckle, also known as honeysuckle.

It was first recorded in Shennong's Herbal Classic, and famous doctors in history have recorded it. Tao Hongjing said: "It grows like a vine and does not wither in winter, so it is called honeysuckle."

Li Shizhen said: "It blooms in March and April, is about an inch long, has one stalk, two flowers and two petals, one large and one small, like half a side, with long stamens. When the flower first blooms, the stamens and petals are all white, and after two or three days, the color turns yellow, the new and old complement each other, and the yellow and white complement each other, so it is called honeysuckle."

Lin Shu has always felt that in addition to its medicinal effects, honeysuckle has a particularly pleasant fragrance that is refreshing and invigorating.

"How heavy is this basket of systems?"

There was only one bunch left to be picked, so Lin Shu sold the full basket of honeysuckle to the system. The system showed that the basket weighed less than four pounds, which meant that she had been picking for an hour and only earned four dollars, which was still ten cents short.

What's more, there were some blooming flowers in it, so I didn't even get three yuan and ninety cents in exchange. The final balance showed that the new money deposited was only three yuan and ten cents.

The efficiency is not very high.

Before the last bunch of flowers were picked, the voices of two children were heard from the foot of the mountain. Not long after, the two children climbed up the mountain.

When Lin Shu looked at them, the two children also noticed Lin Shu.

"Aunt Shu."

"Aunt Shu."

There was a boy and a girl. The girl was the older sister, Lin Jiao, and the boy Lin Bing was the younger brother. The two children were about eight or nine years old and were from the neighborhood.

"Xiao Jiao, Xiao Bing, why are you two here on the mountain?"

"Aunt Shu, we were going to cut grass for pigs this afternoon, and when we came here we found this grass, so we thought of digging some to eat." Lin Jiao said, holding up a plant in her hand.

"What grass?"

He asked Lin Shu to pick the last handful of honeysuckle and throw it into the basket. Then he walked in front of Lin Jiao and found that he recognized the plant in her hand.

Moreover, she dug up a lot last time and sold it to the system.

"Haha, Lin Jiao, this is called chicken leg grass. Do you think its rhizome looks a bit like a miniature chicken leg?"

In the past, during famine years, villagers liked to eat it to satisfy their hunger. In this poor era, rural children like to dig it up as a snack to satisfy their cravings.

Because its rhizome tastes like chicken legs when peeled, it is called chicken leg grass.

Because the back of its leaves is white, it is also called white grass and chicken claw ginseng. The whole plant can be used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

"Yeah, my aunt is right. We like to dig it up and eat it when we are cutting grass for pigs outside." Lin Bing nodded.

"My aunt also liked to dig them up as snacks when she was a child." Lin Shu looked around, found a few plants, dug them up, and handed one to each of the siblings.

The brother and sister thanked them, took it, skillfully peeled off the brown skin, and threw the white rhizome inside into their mouths.

Lin Shu also followed their example, peeled off the skin and took a bite of the white rhizome. How did it taste?

It is not bitter, but slightly sweet after chewing. Compared with various fruits in later generations, its taste is bland, but for children of that era, it is a good snack that can keep their hungry stomachs from going hungry.

"Aunt, there are quite a lot of them on this hillside. Why don't we dig more and you can bring some back for Xiaoyu, Xiaoshuang and Xiaojun to eat." Lin Jiao enthusiastically invited Lin Shu to dig with them.

This enthusiasm might be because Lin Shu gave them a chicken leg grass, or it might be because Lin Shu had chewed chicken leg grass with them.

No matter what the reason was, Lin Shu liked this pair of siblings very much. They were both very polite.

"You don't have to mow the pigs?"

Lin Shu glanced at their baskets, and there were less than two handfuls of pig grass in them.

Lin Jiao shook her hair and didn't care. "It's still early. Let's dig this chicken leg grass first. It won't be too late to cut the pig grass after we finish digging here."

He seemed to be a good kid. Lin Shu smiled and nodded, "Okay, I just happened to bring a small medicine hoe."

Lin Shu looked at the chicken leg grass plants they had thrown on the ground and reminded them, "Chicken leg grass can be used as pig feed. You can pick up the plants on the ground and put them in the basket."

“Can this be used as pig feed?”

"Correct!"

The whole plant can be used as medicine to clear away heat and detoxify, cool blood and stop bleeding. It is absolutely great as pig grass.

"That's great. We can eat this chicken leg grass and cut it as pig grass. But what we dug before was wasted." Lin Jiao was a little annoyed.