Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

It’s good to be young. Apart from anything else, the quality of sleep is really enviable to the elderly.

Lin Shu slept until dawn again, had breakfast, took a few steamed buns that Liu Xiaoe had made specially last night, and went out with a backpack.

After leaving the village, he took out the newly bought 28-inch bicycle from the system storage space, pushed it a few times and rode on it.

Xiaohe Production Team is under the jurisdiction of Shanyin Township. There are more than 20 miles of mountain roads from Xiaohe Production Team to the township, all of which are primitive dirt roads.

Because there hasn't been a car passing by for ten days or half a month, there is not much dust on sunny days, but it is still muddy on rainy days.

Lin Shu only carried more than 20 kilograms of wild yam and wild codonopsis, and had no intention of going to the county town. He told his family that going to the county town to exchange money was just an excuse.

The road of more than 20 miles was mostly mountain roads. After riding the bicycle for more than ten miles, Lin Shu stopped.

There are mountains and forests all around, and the woods on both sides of the road are very dense. From time to time, the mountain cuckoo calls, and the sound echoes in the mountains and forests.

Lin Shu put the 28-inch bicycle into the system, sold the herbs in the backpack to the system, and then went into the woods by the roadside.

The reason why she chose to enter the forest was that there was no village or shop nearby, which was perfect for her to dig herbs in silence.

As soon as I entered the woods, I noticed a lot of fragrant cucumbers growing on the ground.

[System, is this cucumber scent a medicinal herb? ]

[Reply to the host, this is Sanguisorba officinalis, which is called cucumber fragrance in some places because of its cucumber fragrance. It often grows in wilderness, mountains, and fields. Sanguisorba officinalis is a perennial herb in the Rosaceae family, with odd-pinnate compound leaves, opposite leaves, and oval shapes... The whole plant can be used as medicine, and it is best to collect it in spring and autumn. It is worth 0.2 yuan per plant. ]

Lin Shu raised his eyebrows, a little surprised, [Oh, you are pricing this herb by the plant again, the price per plant is not low. ]

[If you have Sanguisorba officinalis bark at home, you don’t have to worry about it getting burned or peeled off. If you have Sanguisorba officinalis charcoal at home, you don’t have to worry about the skin getting burned or rotten. This shows the value of Sanguisorba officinalis. The host should not worry about how the system will purchase it, just dig it up quickly. ]

Lin Shu took the backpack off his back, picked up the medicine hoe and started digging. Fortunately, the roots of the dandelion were not very deep and could be dug out of the soil in just a few strokes.

He walked deeper into the forest while digging. He didn't know how long he had been digging. When he saw that the basket was almost full, Lin Shu found a stone to sit down and rest.

She took out the kettle and drank some water. [System, how much can this basket be sold for? ]

[A total of 103 strains, worth 20.6 yuan, host, are you willing to sell them? ]

【Yes, for sale. 】

As she finished her words, the system balance became 492.6 yuan.

Lin Shu looked at the empty basket, drank some water, and carefully examined the plants around him.

A familiar plant appeared not far from her left hand. [System, there are several Polygonatum sibiricum plants there.]

[Host, that is Polygonatum odoratum, not Polygonatum sibiricum. ]

Lin Shu was shocked, [Is it Polygonatum? It looks like Polygonatum odoratum to me.]

Lin Shu stood up and patted his butt, then walked towards the plants and looked at them carefully. [You know what, this is really a little different. Is this Polygonatum odoratum a medicinal herb? ]

【Back to the host, Polygonatum odoratum, also known as Weirui in ancient times, is a perennial herb. It is recorded in many ancient medical books and is considered a relatively valuable herb. The rhizomes harvested in autumn are more valuable as medicine. 】

Lin Shu stopped his action of digging with a hoe, because it is more valuable as a medicine in autumn, which means it is not suitable to dig in other seasons.

[Host, there is a piece of Polygala tenuifolia three meters ahead, you can harvest it.]

【Polygala?】

Lin Shu walked forward a few steps and indeed found a patch of Polygala tenuifolia. He dug up a handful, about twenty or so plants.

[We finally got into the mountains, can we dig something valuable? Polygala root is 5 cents a piece, how much do I have to dig to get one dollar? ]

Lin Shu sold the bunch of Polygala to the system and continued walking deeper into the mountains. As a result, he found a lot of copper green fungi on a shady hillside.

【Host, found aeruginosa, worth 3 yuan per pound. 】

3 yuan per pound, not bad, it makes money faster than digging herbs.

In the silent forest, when you are alone and have no one to accompany you, sometimes it is really scary to hear a sudden sound.

Since Lin Shu entered the mountains, pheasants would be startled and fly away from time to time, and the flapping sound was quite loud.

It can be seen that the pheasant was very scared by her, and she was also very scared by the pheasant.

......

"Xu Ming, did you hear the sound?"

"I heard someone was cutting trees or digging the soil in the cave down below."

There are echoes in the mountains, and sometimes the sounds in the mountain valleys can be heard clearly even when standing on the mountainside.

"In this deep mountain with no village in front and no shop behind, is there anyone else coming here besides us?"

Xu Ming and his friends were standing on the mountainside but they didn't find any village nearby.

"Don't worry about others. Do you still want to hunt?" Xu Ming glanced at the turtledove in his hand. This was the harvest they got after wandering in the mountains for half a day.

"Go on. The group of people on the top of the mountain are pulling electric wires and we can't go down the mountain until dark. Instead of waiting foolishly, we might as well keep walking around." After saying that, Gu Jiu continued walking along the mountainside.

Not to mention, there are plenty of rabbits and pheasants in the deep mountains, but the tools he brought today are not powerful enough, and the slingshot can only shoot turtledoves at best.

"Remember to bring a bird gun into the mountains next time."

Xu Ming frowned: "Fowl guns are very dangerous. You have to prevent the barrel from exploding when firing. When hunting, you also have to worry about hurting innocent people. That thing is really unsafe."

A bird gun uses shotgun shells. If there is someone in the forest and the shotgun is fired, it will be troublesome if the shotgun shells hit an innocent person.

Gu Jiu glanced at Xu Ming with a little surprise, "Your worry is not unreasonable, but we have been wandering in the mountains for a long time, and we haven't seen a single person or ghost."

"Don't talk about ghosts in the middle of the night. The same goes for not talking about ghosts in the mountains."

Xu Ming only felt a chill in the mountains all over his body, especially the back of his neck.

Seeing Gu Jiu walking away, he hurriedly followed him, "Hey, where are you going? There's no telling whether there are people or ghosts in the cave down there. Why are you joining in the fun?"

"Where did this ghost come from!" Gu Jiu avoided the thorns and walked down.

As the two men walked down the mountain, they startled the pheasants hiding in the woods, and the sound of fluttering chickens was heard.

"Gu Jiu, your speed is not good enough. The pheasant has already flown up. Can you hit it by shooting at it?"

"Hey, react faster."

"Look, it flew away again!"

"Shut up!" Gu Jiu turned around and glared at him, "Can't you just be quiet!"

Gu Jiu snorted coldly, turned and walked towards the place where the pheasant had just flown away, and found a chicken coop in the thorn bushes with a few pheasant eggs in it.

"Go pick up the egg."

"There are eggs?" Xu Ming walked over to avoid the thorns, looked down, and saw that there were indeed a few eggs in the thorn bushes.

At this moment, he was not afraid of being pricked by the thorns. He stepped on the thorns with his feet and carefully picked out a few eggs.

"Eight pheasant eggs, not bad!" Xu Ming happily showed off the eggs in his clothes to Gu Jiu as if he was presenting a treasure.

Gu Jiu rolled his eyes at him for this childish behavior.

"Hey, Gu Jiu, look, there seems to be a lesbian down there." Xu Ming discovered a woman's figure in the mountain cave, waving a hoe and digging something.

Gu Jiu jumped down a slope and approached the female comrade.

"Hey, what are you digging here?"

Lin Shu, who was concentrating on digging, was suddenly startled when he heard a man's voice.

When she found out it was Gu Jiu, her heart, which had been beating fast, relaxed a little. She covered her chest and took a deep breath: "If you scare someone, they will die. Don't you make any sound when you walk?"

"It's you!"

Lin Shu raised her head from the pit, and Gu Jiu recognized her as Lin Shu, the girl with a bulging chest that he rescued from the river.

Xu Ming caught up with her from behind, "Cousin Lin Shu, so that's it."

Lin Shu saw Xu Ming and smiled at him: "Brother Xu, why did you go into the mountains?"

"Haha, we're bored staying in the city, so we went into the mountains for a walk."

Gu Jiu walked to the pit and looked at the pit she had dug. There was nothing but soil. "What are you digging?"

This is also what Xu Ming was confused about. "Yes, cousin Lin Shu, are you digging?"

Lin Shu wiped his sweat, smiled and nodded: "Yes, I'm so tired after digging for so long, Brother Xu, come down and help me dig?"

Xu Ming noticed the sweat on Lin Shu's forehead and jumped down the pit cheerfully: "Okay!"

Lin Shu handed him the hoe, climbed out of the pit, sat aside and gulped down a few gulps of water.

"What are you digging?" Gu Jiu asked for the third time, as if he would not give up until he got an answer.

Lin Shu tightened the lid of the kettle, pointed to a finger-long black-gray plant on the ground and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

Gu Jiu carefully looked at the thing growing on the ground. It was a finger-long stick, black in color, and looked a bit like a fungus. "What kind of fungus is this? What does this have to do with you digging the soil?"

Xu Ming stopped digging and crawled to the edge of the pit. He found that he couldn't recognize what this thing was. "Cousin Lin Shu, this should be a poisonous fungus."

Seeing that they were all staring at him, Lin Shu smiled mysteriously: "Have you heard of Wuling Ginseng?"

"Black ginseng?" Xu Ming shook his head, not knowing what it was.

Lin Shu looked at Gu Jiu again.

Gu Jiu was stared at by the girl's big, watery eyes. He coughed lightly and said, "Well, I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it in person."

"What is black ginseng?" Xu Ming asked.

Gu Jiu glanced at Lin Shu and explained, "Wulingshen is also called Lei Zhenzi, Jicong Egg, and Ditan Stick. It is a kind of fungus that grows underground. It has the effects of calming the nerves, stopping bleeding, and lowering blood pressure."

Xu Ming: "A name with the word 'Chan' in it should be very expensive, right?"

Gu Jiu nodded and looked at Lin Shu: "Do you know any medicinal herbs?"

Lin Shu did not deny it, "I roughly know a few."

There is no need to ask other questions, everyone can guess them.

Xu Ming continued to dig, and when he got tired, Lin Shu went down to dig by himself. Finally, they found the termite nest, but of course there were no termites inside.

"Dig it through!"

Lin Shu excitedly crawled into the pit and carefully dug the soil in the nest. He soon found several black balls hanging inside.

"Is this the black ginseng?" Xu Ming jumped into the pit, picked up the black ginseng on the ground and observed it.

It's just a black egg, not very attractive in appearance, and I really can't tell what it has to do with ginseng.

Lin Shu hollowed out the entire termite nest and took out more than a dozen black eggs.

"Cousin Lin Shu, how much is this black ginseng worth per pound?" Xu Ming asked. He had never been involved in the herbal medicine business before. Today was the first time he witnessed the digging of black ginseng with his own eyes, and his heart was filled with curiosity.

Lin Shu shook his head: "This is the first time I've dug this thing up, so I don't know the price yet."

After carefully putting a dozen eggs into the basket, Lin Shu patted the dirt in his hands and climbed out of the pit.

After finding a stream to wash her hands, she asked the two people following behind her, "It's almost noon, aren't you going back for lunch?"

"Cousin Lin Shu, aren't you going home?" Xu Ming asked with a smile.

"It's not easy to go into the mountains. I have to come back in the afternoon."

"Then we won't go back either." Xu Ming took out a few buns from the green bag on his shoulder and handed them to Lin Shu: "If you don't mind, have one to fill your stomach."

"Thank you. You guys eat. I brought some steamed buns with me." Lin Shu took out two steamed buns from his bag.

Xu Ming sighed, "If we are lucky enough to catch a pheasant today, we can roast it and eat it with cousin Lin Shu."

Lin Shu had already noticed the turtledoves they were holding, "The turtledoves are not bad either. You can make a pot of turtledove soup with this one when you go back."

Gu Jiu kicked the tied turtledove towards Xu Ming, as if he didn't want to admit that he had been busy for the whole morning and only managed to catch a turtledove.

Lin Shu's lips curled up slightly, and he casually rummaged through the basket and took out a Codonopsis pilosula. "Here, I'll give you this Codonopsis pilosula to stew with turtledoves. Thank you for your help just now."

Gu Jiu took the Codonopsis pilosula and looked at it carefully. "Is this Codonopsis pilosula?"

"Yes, wild Codonopsis pilosula, great for stewing soup."

"Cousin Lin Shu is really nice. She knows so many medicinal herbs." Xu Ming gave her a thumbs up.

But, "It must be tiring to go into the mountains to dig herbs every day. It's also dangerous for a girl like you to go into the mountains. Have you ever thought about doing something else?"

Lin Shu laughed at himself: "Working in the production team every day? It would be even more tiring if I did."

Xu Ming touched his nose and said, "Working in the production team is tiring, cousin, have you ever thought about finding a job in the city? Being a temporary worker is safer than hanging around in the mountains."

Lin Shu did not answer his question, but asked: "Brother Xu works at the power supply station, so where does Comrade Gu work?"

Gu Jiu's lips curled up into a smile, "I'm a street urchin, I don't have a job."

"Your answer is quite surprising." Lin Shu raised his eyebrows and said jokingly, "You are just like me, not doing your job properly."

Gu Jiu couldn't help laughing: "Haha..." Interesting.

Xu Ming also laughed, "Cousin Lin Shu, you are wrong. He has a job but he doesn't go to work. He is willing to be a street vagrant. Although you are not working in the production team, you are also working hard in the mountains. Digging herbs is not considered as doing your job."

Lin Shu looked at Gu Jiu and said, "Oh, this is the first time I've heard of someone not wanting to go to work. You really opened my eyes."

Gu Jiu laughed enough and waved his hand nonchalantly, "I just don't like restrictions. I think the life of going to work, going to school and back every day is boring."

Xu Ming looked at Lin Shu, and suddenly an idea came to his mind, "Cousin Lin Shu, how about asking him to sell his job to you, and you take over his job?"

This way, Lin Shu can have the best of both worlds and he doesn't have to risk going into the mountains to dig herbs every day.

Lin Shu pointed at himself in disbelief, "You want me to buy his job?"

"Correct!"

"Not to mention that I don't have that much money to buy his job, even if I had the money I wouldn't buy it."

"Why? You have a job, so you don't have to farm in the future, and you can marry someone from the city." Xu Ming couldn't understand why there were people who didn't want to work. Isn't it everyone's dream to have a stable job?

Except for the person next to him, of course.

Lin Shu smiled, "Working doesn't give me much freedom, and when I get married, I won't marry someone who can't support me."

Xu Ming almost choked on his own saliva, "Ahem, I didn't expect you to be such a weirdo. Your husband will be under a lot of pressure from now on."