Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Together with three or four children in the village, they drove a dozen half-grown calves all the way to the barren hill south of the village. The children dispersed with baskets in their hands, and the calves entered the barren hill to graze freely. In addition to herding cattle, the children also had a task of cutting grass for pigs.

Lin Shu also had to cut grass for pigs, but for an adult, cutting a basket of grass was too easy. You have to know that pigs in this era ate all kinds of grass in the wild, and as long as they were not poisonous, you could cut them and feed them to the pigs. Therefore, the pork of this era was particularly delicious and had a meaty aroma. Even the simplest cooking tasted better than the pork of later generations.

Lin Shu carried the basket and walked towards a deserted direction, one step deep and one step shallow.

In spring, all things come back to life. Many shrubs in the barren mountains have sprouted new buds and grown new leaves. It is the tenderest time. Lin Shu plucked a lot of leaves and cut a lot of tender branches, filling the basket in half an hour.

Xiaohe Village, also known as Xiaohe Production Team, is built at the foot of a valley. Behind the green hills behind the village is a river, and the other side of the river belongs to another township.

This river is the boundary between towns. You can imagine how remote the river is. It takes more than two hours to walk along the mountain road to get to the township. If you follow the dirt road connecting villages, it will take three hours to reach the township because of the detour.

Because of its remote location, the vegetation on the barren hills and green mountains in various parts of the river is well protected.

Lin Shu turned off the system's mute function, and the system prompted that there was a small piece of Polygala tenuifolia at his feet.

Lin Shu squatted down and stroked the short grass at his feet. Some of the grass had small purple flowers on it.

"System, you said this lanceolate plant is Polygala tenuifolia?"

[Yes, in the wild, Polygala is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Polygalaceae family, also known as small grass. There is a saying that it is small grass in the mountains and Polygala outside the mountains. Its effects: calming the mind, improving intelligence, connecting the heart and kidneys, and removing phlegm and swelling. The roots are collected in spring and autumn for medicinal purposes, and a complete plant costs five cents. ]

"Because its roots are used as medicine, so it's five cents a plant?"

You should know that some common grasses such as plantain and oregano are only one cent per plant.

[Replying to the host, the system evaluates the value of herbs based on the difficulty of mining and their rarity.]

This time when he went up the mountain to herd cattle, Lin Shu not only brought a sickle, but also a small hoe. Fortunately, the Polygala tenuifolia plants are short, so it is not difficult to harvest them.

In this small piece of Polygala, I roughly dug up some healthy plants, a total of 2.6 plants, and sold them to the system for yuan, which was temporarily deposited into the system's balance.

After digging, Lin Shu straightened up and breathed a sigh of relief. She found a stone and wanted to sit down and rest for a while, but the system reminded her again.

[Ding, I found chicken leg grass, the whole plant is used as medicine, worth three cents per plant. ]

"Chicken leg grass?" Lin Shu listened to the system's prompt with a confused look in his eyes. There were so many plants around him, which one was chicken leg grass?

The system seemed to know the doubts in her heart.

[Host, the plant at your feet has two colors of leaves, green on the front and white on the back, with hairs and opposite leaves. Pick it before it blooms, it can clear away heat and detoxify, stop diarrhea and stop bleeding. The underground rhizome is a holy product for lowering blood sugar.]

Lin Shu suddenly understood what was going on after reading the system's introduction. "The grass you're talking about is called ground radish here. Its rhizomes taste sweet. When we were young, we often dug it out and ate it in the wild."

In fact, when the leaves of this grass are tender, they will cut them and use them as pig feed.

This kind of chicken leg grass is also called chicken leg ginseng and chicken leg ginseng. It is easier to dig than Polygala tenuifolia. Basically, you can dig out one plant in two digs.

Watching the system's balance continue to increase, Lin Shu happily forgot about the hard work of digging for herbs.

"Aunt, aunt, have you finished cutting the grass for the pigs? Do you want us to help?"

Lin Shu was digging with great interest. Seeing the balance increase to 6 yuan, she was very happy. When she heard someone calling her, she stood up and looked down the mountain.

She found out that it was her second brother's daughter, Lin Xiaoyu, a little girl who was only ten years old this year. She also had a little tail behind her, Lin Xiaoshuang, also her second brother's daughter, who was seven years old this year.

"Xiaoyu, Xiaoshuang, why are you two here?"

Walking closer, Xiaoyu replied obediently: "Grandma asked us to cut half a basket of pig grass this afternoon. We have completed the task. We heard that my aunt came to the mountain to herd cattle, so we thought of coming to play with you."

Lin Xiaoshuang saw the small hoe in Lin Shu's hand and asked curiously, "Aunt, what are you digging?"

"Dig radishes."

"Will you dig it for us to eat?" Lin Xiaoshuang looked up at her, blinking her big eyes with full of anticipation.

"......" Lin Shu's mouth twitched, and he pointed to the chicken leg grass not far away, "If you want to eat it, dig it yourself with a sickle."

The rhizomes of chicken leg grass are not deep and can be easily dug out. If you want to eat it, you can do it yourself.

Even her own niece couldn't stop her from making a fortune.

Children of this generation do not have many snacks, especially those in rural areas. Born and raised in the wild, rural children who are used to the wild can always find some plants in the wild that can be used as snacks.

For example, there is chicken leg grass, sweet thatch roots, and sour and sweet red azalea petals, etc.

Lin Xiaoyu picked up the sickle next to the basket and took the lead: "I am the elder sister, I will dig, and you will pick it up."

"Be careful not to get cut by the sickle." Lin Shu reminded and then went about his business.

Children in rural areas are extremely skilled in using farm tools, so there is basically no need to worry about them cutting their hands, although accidents do happen sometimes.

The two sisters dug up more than a dozen plants, sat on the ground, rubbed the mud off with their hands, gently peeled off the skin, and put them directly into their mouths to start chewing.

Lin Xiaoyu threw one into her mouth. The sweetness of the radish made her enjoy it so much that she squinted her eyes slightly.

"Aunt, we found Zhiqing Zhu and Zhiqing Wei talking to each other in private this afternoon."

"Ok?"

Lin Xiaoyu's words made Lin Shu slightly stunned, "Why would you pay attention to them?"

"Didn't my aunt ask us to pay more attention to Zhu Zhiqing?" Lin Xiaoyu asked with her head tilted, as if puzzled.

"what?"

Lin Shu tried hard to recall and remembered that in her previous life, in order to learn more about Zhu Zhengliang's movements, she specifically asked her nieces and nephews to pay more attention to Zhu Zhengliang and tell her in time if he had any movements.

Tsk, the past is too hard to recall, so let’s not talk about it.

Speaking of Zhu Zhengliang and Wei Zhiqing, Wei Zhiqing's original name was Wei Miao. She heard that her parents were divorced and each started their own family, and she became the little burden who was neither loved by her father nor her mother.

When she grew up, she stayed at home for two years after graduating from junior high school and was then assigned to work in the countryside. She had lacked love since childhood, and when she met Zhu Zhengliang who cared about her from time to time after going to the countryside, she fell in love with him.

But Zhu Zhengliang is a scoundrel and a beast in human clothing. He maintains an ambiguous relationship with Wei Miao at the educated youth center, and is also hanging around with Lin Shu in the village.

One lacks love, the other has little experience, and both of them were deceived by Zhu Zhengliang.

If Lin Shu had not been reborn, he would not know Zhu Zhengliang's disgusting face now.

"Aunt, I saw that Zhiqing Zhu and Zhiqing Wei were talking and laughing, and it seemed that they had a very good relationship." Lin Xiaoyu talked about her discovery while chewing chicken leg grass.

She knew in her heart that her aunt liked Zhu Zhiqing, but Zhu Zhiqing was a city dweller. If her aunt and Zhu Zhiqing were to date, she wondered if her aunt would be able to go to the city with them?

If my younger sister-in-law marries into the city, can they find opportunities to go to the city to play during the winter and summer vacations?

Lin Shu didn't know what the little girl was thinking, otherwise he would have to wake her up.

"Don't pay attention to him anymore. He is an insignificant person. It's a waste of energy to pay attention to him."