Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

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The rain had been falling for more than a month. Rainwater from the fields and mountain streams had gathered together, and streams were flowing in the ditches and canals in the wild.

The water in the pond reservoir has reached the flood season level.

Especially at night, you can hear the sound of frogs.

The abundant rainfall has made the loaches, eels, small fish and shrimps in the fields and ponds particularly active.

In the Lin family, Lin Gang and his eldest nephew Lin Dongfa are also particularly active.

The older nephew and his younger uncle had nothing to do at home every day, so they put on straw raincoats and hats and went to the fields and ponds in the rain to catch fish and shrimps.

Early in the morning, the person disappeared as soon as he got up.

Lin Shu yawned and walked into the kitchen. The residual heat of the ashes in the stove was baking the half-dried fish and shrimp. There were a lot of loaches and eels raised in the wooden barrel with water.

Lin Shu smelled the aroma of fish and shrimp filling the room, took out a plate of spicy dried fish from the cupboard, took out two steamed buns from the steamer, and finally served himself a bowl of multi-grain porridge.

Sitting in the hall and eating breakfast, I looked at the weather outside. It was cloudy, neither raining nor sunny.

"Mom, where are the others?"

Liu Xiao'e had just finished feeding the pigs and came in from outside. "The eldest and second couples have gone to their private plots. The third and Dongfa are carrying buckets and hand nets. They must be going to catch fish and shrimp again."

"What about Xiaojun and Zhuangzhuang?"

"They are both restless and went to play next door." Liu Xiao'e said while washing her hands, "I really hope it won't rain again. It has been raining for more than a month and the clothes and quilts at home all smell musty."

Lin Shu nodded. The rain lasted for too long. Everything in the house was damp and the clothes were not easy to dry after washing.

"The loaches and eels we have in stock recently weigh at least 80 kilograms. They are still catching them. Do they want to send them to the village stores?"

"Who knows how they arranged it? You know that the third brother asked him to go to work, but he was always slacking off. He is interested in these unconventional things. I guess he wants to go to the store to exchange money."

Lin Shu was eating spicy dried fish with a look of enjoyment on his face. These small fish and shrimps are worthless in the countryside, but if you spend a little patience to dry them, they can be made into spicy dried fish, which is really delicious and goes well with rice or porridge.

"After breakfast, I'll go outside for a walk."

Liu Xiao'e warned, "It just stopped raining today. The dirt roads and ridges are all wet. I'm sure the bushes and weeds on the mountain are all covered with water droplets. Don't go up the mountain."

"I know. I'll just walk around."

After breakfast, he went out carrying the basket and medicine hoe.

There were quite a few people in the fields. The team leader did not call the villagers to work, but each villager had his own private plot, and as soon as the rain stopped, those who couldn't sit still went to their private plots.

Lin Shu left the village and met many villagers who were returning from cutting grass for pigs. Everyone smiled and exchanged polite words with each other when they met.

The sky did not clear up after the rain, so we could not go into the low bushes, but we could still enter the forest full of tall trees.

The trees in this kind of forest are tall, and there is relatively little vegetation growing on the ground beneath the forest, and no thorns.

Lin Shu had nothing to do and hadn't collected herbs to make money for more than a month, so he couldn't wait any longer.

As soon as we entered the forest, we found a lot of madder growing in it.

Rubia cordifolia is a perennial climbing herb of the Rubiaceae family. "Rubia" means red, and madder has been a natural plant pigment since ancient times. The ancients used madder rhizomes as dyes, which had a good color-fixing effect.

[Rubia cordifolia has the effects of cooling blood, removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, and regulating menstruation. The whole plant can be used as medicine and is worth one yuan per catty. ]

One yuan per pound, the price is good.

The soil in the forest was very soft, which made it convenient for Lin Shu to dig. The root system of madder was not very deep and was very developed. The whole plant could be pulled out by just digging the soil a little and pulling hard, which saved trouble.

[Host, there is a patch of thorny grass five meters ahead.]

[Equisetum arvense, also known as continuation grass, male and female grass, knot grass, etc., belongs to the genus Equisetum of the family Equisetaceae. It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, improving eyesight and removing cataracts, and is worth 0.5 yuan per catty. ]

Lin Shu sold the last piece of madder he dug out to the system, picked up the medicine hoe and walked forward.

[System, is the entire plant of Equisetum arvense used as medicine? ]

[Return to the host, you just need to cut the surface part. ]

[I only brought a hoe with me, not a sickle. This herb is not very valuable, let's try another herb.]

As soon as Lin Shu finished her words, she discovered a few Polygonatum sibiricum plants not far away.

[System, look at these Polygonatum odoratum plants. They are almost as tall as my neck. I think they are quite old.]

[Host, please dig out the Polygonatum and bury the top bud back in the same place, so that it can be recycled. ]

[Okay, you don't need to remind me, I always bury the section with buds in the soil.]

The most exciting thing to dig is the Polygonatum sibiricum of a relatively old age. Often, one rhizome weighs one to five or six kilograms. In addition, the price of Polygonatum sibiricum is not low, about two yuan per kilogram. If you dig a few of them, you are guaranteed a day's income.

[System, have you ever seen Huangjing that is several decades old? ] Lin Shu asked excitedly.

【...】

Lin Shu dug up the surface layer of soil, and the rhizomes of the Polygonatum sibiricum were revealed.

[Wow, my goodness, system, look at how beautiful the rhizome is, let me count how many nodes there are? ]

One, two, three, four...sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two.

[Tongzi, more than 70 rhizomes, more than 70 years old Polygonatum, I have been digging Polygonatum for so many days, but this is the first time I have come across one. It seems that today is really my lucky day.]

Lin Shu concealed his excitement, cleaned out the entire plate of Polygonatum rhizomes, and sold it to the system on the spot.

The system showed that this rhizome weighed more than ten kilograms, and it was sold for thirty-six yuan.

After burying the top section of the rhizome with buds in the original pit, Lin Shu looked at the other Polygonatum sibiricum seedlings that had not yet been dug with burning eyes.

It seems that no one has come into this forest to dig these unknown plants, and the vegetation is well protected. Lin Shu feels that the other few plants will also produce good goods.

[Replying to the host, the herbs in this forest have not been damaged and are of good vintage. Come on, try to dig more.]

[I have been in a slump for a month. Now that I have found some good stuff today, I will work harder to make up for the losses of the past month.]

There are several plants of Polygonatum, all of which are several decades old. The oldest one is more than 80 years old, and the others are more than 50 years old, or 60 or 70 years old.

Lin Shu dug out several plants of Polygonatum sibiricum that he found and sold them for a total of 125 yuan.

The harvest of this morning is equivalent to what one person would harvest in two days in the past. It turns out that digging high-value herbs is efficient.

When I entered the forest, I was digging herbs along the way and didn't pay attention to anything else. When I returned, I found that there were mushrooms in the forest.

I picked them up casually, and when I came out of the woods, the basket was half full.

"Aunt, are you going up the mountain again?"

When passing by a large paddy field, they met Lin Gang and Lin Dongfa who were catching loaches in the ditches of the paddy fields.

"Well, we went up the mountain to pick some mushrooms. How was your harvest?" Lin Shu stretched his neck to check the buckets they had placed on the ridge of the field.