Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

"Although the snake may weigh 7-8 kilograms, this piece of snake skin does not weigh much."

Lin Shu stuffed it into the small cloth bag hanging around his waist and asked the system to estimate the value of this snake skin, which was only about 0.4 yuan.

However, when hiking in the mountains, you just collect whatever you come across. It's a random process. Now that I have found the snake skin, I will definitely not let it go to waste in the mountains.

Gu Jiu nodded, turned around and went back to digging Acorus calamus.

Lin Shu went back and played with the Puhuang.

After she had pulled off all the cattail pollen from that patch, this powdery substance was not easy to carry. I believe Gu Jiu was digging Acorus calamus on the other side and didn't notice what she was doing here.

Lin Shu sold it directly to the system and got about two kilograms of Puhuang in exchange for 8 yuan.

There were a lot of Eclipta prostrata growing on the wasteland nearby, and Lin Shu squatted down to pick them.

Eclipta prostrata, which belongs to the genus Channa of the Asteraceae family, is also known as black hair grass and ink grass. It has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

Lin Shu remembered that when he was a child, he accidentally cut his hand while cutting grass for pigs. He applied the juice of this Eclipta prostrata and the bleeding stopped quickly.

Moreover, the villagers of Eupatorium harvest grass for pigs, so pigs of this era rarely get sick, and they taste a variety of herbs in their daily diet, so the meat is of high quality.

The purchase price of the Eclipta prostrata system is not high, only 0.2 yuan per pound. It is impossible for Lin Shu to carry it back from the mountains, so he digs it up and sells it directly to the system.

In the mountains, the most medicinal herbs are usually found around streams. I collected ten kilograms of Eclipta prostrata and then stopped there.

Lin Shu went upstream and found a patch of copper hammer jade belt grass covering the ground. This grass likes to grow in a shady and humid environment.

In some places, it is called yizi grass, ground eggplant grass, button grass, etc. It is a perennial herb of the genus Copper Hammer Jasmine of the Campanulaceae family, and often grows in large patches.

Copper Hammer Jade Belt Grass is very valuable and is a medicinal herb with excellent effects. It is even rarer in later generations. The price given by the system is 2 yuan per catty.

"Gu Jiu, you only need to dig a certain amount of Acorus calamus. Come over and dig Copper Hammer Jade Belt Grass."

"Hey, here we come."

Gu Jiu came over with a half basket of Acorus calamus. "What is Copper Hammer Jade Belt Grass? Is it expensive?"

"Two yuan a pound, not bad."

The two dug up a piece of copper hammer jade belt grass, half a basket, and then went upstream, Lin Shu found several ten great merits.

"Ten Merits? Is there such a name for a medicinal herb?" It was the first time that Gu Jiu heard this name. He looked at the leaves of the Ten Merits and asked in confusion, "Isn't this holly?"

Lin Shu chuckled: "The leaves of the Euphorbia solani are very similar to those of the holly, but the leaves and branches of the Euphorbia solani are spread out like an umbrella, while the leaves and branches of the holly grow in a random pattern."

"The Mahonia is a genus of the family Euphorbia. It is an evergreen shrub. It has a lot of uses and is full of treasures. Its leaves are called Mahonia leaves, its stems are called Mahonia trees, and its fruits are called Mahonia seeds. If you scrape off the skin of its rhizomes, you will see that the inside is golden yellow."

Gu Jiu looked at it carefully and said with emotion: "If I hadn't followed you up the mountain, I really wouldn't have known that the plants on this mountain are strictly speaking medicinal herbs."

Lin Shu chuckled: "There are no weeds in the mountains, and knowing everything is a treasure."

The two men dug out these ten-fruit trees, tied them up with vines and placed them on the backpack, and Lin Shu took him upstairs.

"I set a few traps when I came here last time. I'll take you to check them out now. I wonder if any of them have hit the target. If they have, we won't have to worry about food tonight."

The two of them carried backpacks and walked towards another hill. It was okay to walk in the mountains without any weight, but if they walked with a weight, it would be stuffy and hot.

After climbing up a ridge, Gu Jiu wiped the sweat off his face and took a breath. He wondered why he had never felt the weather was so hot before.

The money earned by mountain hikers is really hard-earned money. To hike in the mountains, you must first have good physical strength, otherwise you will be out of breath. The second thing is to be able to endure hardship.

He felt that he could not endure this kind of hardship. His family wanted him to join the army, but he was afraid that he could not endure the intensity of the training, so he was unwilling to listen to them.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have run to his ancestral home in his hometown to avoid the limelight temporarily.

Fortunately, when the two men walked into the woods where they had set the traps, they found that two of the traps contained two pheasants.

Pheasants are not big, about two or three pounds, and stewing chicken soup from two of them is enough for the whole family.

On the way home, Lin Shu found a Codonopsis pilosula, which was just right for stewing chicken.

It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon when they got home. Lin Shu saw Gu Jiu couldn't wait to take off the backpack and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Is your shoulder hurting?"

Gu Jiu waved his hand: "It's okay, I'm just very thirsty."

Lin Shu knew that he wanted to save face, so he didn't expose him. He put the two baskets under the eaves, walked around the house, and found that no one was home.

After washing his face, he went into the kitchen and brought out the food that was left for them. "You must be starving. Come and eat."

"Why is no one at home?" After washing his face, Gu Jiu poured out the water and sat down at the table.

"He should have gone to work." Lin Shu guessed in his mind.

"You're going to work so early? And it's not like mom doesn't have to go to work. She's not even at home."

"Maybe she went to the vegetable garden or to do something else."

Sure enough, after the two finished their meal, Lin Shu boiled some hot water, and the two took a shower and changed into clean clothes, and Comrade Liu Xiao'e came back.

"Why did you two come back at this time? Aren't you worried about starving yourself? Have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten them." Lin Shu put the clothes they had changed into a bucket and said, "Mom, please take care of these two pheasants. I'll go wash the clothes."

"How about I go with you?" Gu Jiu stood up.

"No, you can rest at home."

Liu Xiao'e also spoke up to stop him: "Jiu'er, washing clothes is a woman's job, why are you joining in the fun? You have been walking around the mountain with her for several hours, aren't you tired? Stay home and take a rest."

Lin Shu was washing clothes at Erdaojing when she found out what happened in the village.

It was Lin Shu who reminded him that the ferryman hesitated for a long time after he found a fish swimming in the middle of the river. Therefore, when the strong wind blew, his boat swayed violently but did not capsize.

Although the boat didn't capsize like in the previous life, the people on the boat were still very scared. The boat swayed from side to side, and the woman on the boat screamed. Fortunately, everyone got to the shore safely. Therefore, this incident was spread back and made into a supernatural story, with the only thing missing was saying that the fish that turned white was a carp spirit.

Lin Shu was relieved to learn that the boat did not capsize. He felt that his rebirth had finally changed the fate of some people.

This story was spread by a married woman who came back to the village to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, and it became a myth in the surrounding area.

At the same time, another incident in Xiaohe Production Team was also reported back by the married women, that is, Lin Shu, a rural girl, found a partner in the city.

The news reached the neighboring Jiejia Village and reached Jie's mother after the Dragon Boat Festival.

"How is that possible? My son is a temporary worker and he despises her because she is a country girl. What kind of blind city boy would date her?"

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family, "I heard from a daughter-in-law who married into the Xiaohe Production Team that her boyfriend is from the county town, he's good-looking, young, and of good height."

"How could a young man with such good conditions be dating her? Is he playing a joke on her?" Jie's mother still didn't believe it.

She feels that city people care more about their household registration than rural people like them.

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family: "No one can say for sure before they get married. We should wait until they are almost engaged before we can confirm it."

"An excellent young man from the city will never look for her. According to what you said, I think there must be something wrong with that young man, which cannot be seen from the surface. He can't find a suitable partner in the city, so he has to settle for the next best thing and look for one in the countryside." Jie's mother felt that she was making a very accurate prediction and could see the conspiracy from the performance.

She had heard from old people before that there are some men in the world who have no masculine abilities but still want to find a wife to act as a presentable figure for the sake of face.

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family said, "Mom, my uncle is getting old. You asked someone to help him find a partner. Is there any result?"

"Don't mention it!" Xie's mother got angry when she mentioned this. The workers in the city looked down on Xie Chunlei. And if she looked in the countryside, the girls in the nearby villages were dressed in rustic clothes and had dark skin. No one could catch her eye.

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family rolled her eyes, remembered something, and said, "Mom, do you think that the girl from the Lin family was angry that we broke off her engagement, so she found a date in the city just to save face?"

Jie's mother was stunned. "Don't mention it. It's really possible. That girl is very proud, otherwise she wouldn't have kept Chunlei hanging around for so many years. Now that she's been dumped, she will definitely not find someone worse than Chunlei to make others laugh at her."

Let's not talk about her new partner. At least on the surface, he must be better than Chunlei.

"If this is true, then we can't find anyone worse than her."

"You said you can find someone with good conditions? You don't know how many connections I used some time ago to find a few workers to look at Chunlei, but no one was interested in Chunlei."

How easy is it to find a good wife?

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family suggested again: "If you really can't find someone in the city, then find someone who can annoy her and whose conditions are comparable to hers."

"Your idea is good, but where can we find someone with similar conditions to her and who can annoy her in reality?" Jie's mother said unhappily.

“If you put your mind to it, you’ll find it.”

Although Jie's mother had no idea yet, she kept her eldest daughter-in-law's words in mind, thinking that if she couldn't find someone better off than her, she would find someone who would annoy her.

Who told her to be so impatient to find a second love after she separated from her son? She really doesn't take the Jie family seriously. Since she wants to cut off her relationship with the Jie family, it depends on whether she is willing to do so.

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Gu Jiu returned to the county town after the Dragon Boat Festival, and Lin Shu went into the mountains alone these days.

The advantage of going into the mountains alone is freedom. She can sell any herbs she picks, whether they are valuable or not, directly to the system. She only needs to bring back one or two valuable ones every time.

When I have accumulated enough money, I will go to the county town to exchange it and give the money to my family.

There are a few annoying things about going into the mountains in summer. There are many mosquitoes, snakes and ants in the mountains, and the weather is hot and humid, making it very uncomfortable to stay in the mountains.

Lin Shu decided not to go into the mountains in the summer and just pick some herbs harvested in the fields.

Wait until autumn or winter to go into the mountains to collect medicinal herbs.

Most importantly, before this winter comes, she wants to find out who the man was who took away her innocence in the previous life?

On this day, Lin Shu did not go into the mountain. In the evening, his eldest and second brothers, who had been outside for nearly twenty days, came back.

It was not until after dinner that Lin Shu learned the original intention of his two brothers returning home.

"You mean you want to rent a house in the county town?" Lin Dashan asked, exhaling a puff of smoke.

Lin Wei nodded and explained the difficulties they faced while working away from home: “The electric poles of our production team have been erected, and now our team has been assigned the task of erecting electric poles in the neighboring township.

In the future, when we are erecting electric poles outside, we can live and eat with our colleagues, but when we return to the county, we don’t even have a place to stay except the unit. We can’t always live in a guesthouse, right? "

Liu Xiao'e took over the conversation: "Since it's for convenience, then rent a house and you brothers can live together. If the room is big, and there's nothing to do in the team after the autumn harvest, you can also ask your wife to visit you in the county town."

Lin Wei and Lin Guang also thought so in their minds.

Especially Lin Guang, he even wanted to let several children go to the county town to study next year, so that they don’t have to suffer like studying in the countryside every time it rains and blows in the wind, and the road is not safe.

The good thing about the city is that even if it rains or snows, the road surface is made of cement or stone slabs and is very clean so you don’t have to worry about getting splashed with mud.

Lin Wei looked at Liu Xiaoe gratefully, "We have a day off tomorrow, so I thought I'd take advantage of tomorrow to get the things I need back to the county town. Next time we come back for vacation, we can stay in a rental house and no longer have to stay in a guesthouse and waste money."

Lin Dashan knocked on the table, frowned and asked, "Have you already rented the house?"

After being exposed by their father's words, Lin Wei and Lin Guang were both a little flustered.

Lin Wei nodded honestly: "Gu Jiu helped us find the house, and we have already rented it. We will take the things we need to the county town tomorrow, and we can basically move in there."

Lin Shu didn't expect Gu Jiu to help. He raised his eyebrows slightly and didn't say much.

"It's good this way. Brothers and sisters should help each other when they are outside. I feel relieved that Gu Jiu is taking care of you in the county. However, if Gu Jiu needs help with anything, don't refuse and try to help as much as you can." Lin Dashan was very relieved.

Lin Shu checked the balance in the system and found that it had exceeded four thousand. With the money in hand, she was more inclined to buy a house in the county town.

However, I don’t know whether the county can support housing transactions under the current economic conditions.

I was thinking of asking Gu Jiu or Xu Ming next time I go into the city.

Gu Jiu, who was being missed by others, was currently opening a package he had just received from the county post office.

The package was sent by Gu Changsheng and Wang Suzhen from the provincial capital. It contained supplies that they had carefully selected, all for Lin Shu and the Lin family.

For example, the fabrics are divided into different thicknesses. There are a total of ten pieces of fabric, which are used to make clothes for Lin Shu in different seasons.

Most of the nutritional supplements were given to Lin Dashan and Liu Xiaoe, and there were also some snacks, which were probably given to Gu Jiu to coax the Lin family's children.

There were also things like cigarettes and alcohol, which should have been given to Lin's uncles.

In short, it can be seen that Gu's parents put a lot of thought into preparing this gift.

Gu Jiu opened the package and found a thick letter.

When I opened the envelope, the first thing that caught my eye was the colorful bills, then six hundred yuan, and a piece of letter paper, which explained the arrangement of the gift and the purpose of the six hundred yuan.

The last sentence, with its iron-like strokes and silver-like hooks, is so powerful that it can be seen through the back of the paper. You can see the strength of the person who wrote it.

"Marriage is a big deal, it's about lifelong companionship. I hope my son will take it seriously and not let down a comrade's sincerity!"

You don't have to guess to know that this sentence was written by Gu Changsheng. He was afraid that Gu Jiu would only be enthusiastic for a short period of time and give up after encountering some setbacks.

If you play with a lesbian's feelings, her life will basically be ruined.

Gu Jiu sneered and folded the letter, "Old man, you really look down on me!"