Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Lin Haiyan took her foot off the pedal. She gave up. "Forget it. It seems I can't learn it. Lin Shu, can these dresses you made really be sold in the city?"

"I don't know, but I have to try."

The dozen or so dresses that Lin Shu had just put away were made from the fabric she bought from the system. She made the dresses and prepared to go to the county town to try them out.

It's to see the market reaction and also to make more money.

After living a lifetime and working herself to death, she finally understood that one should make money while young and save money while young.

Otherwise, when a woman is over 40, both her physical condition and her labor value will begin to decline. It will become more and more difficult to make money, and her health will deteriorate year by year.

"You're starting to figure out how to make money, and I have no idea."

"There is a shortage of many things in the city. Now that pears are ripe, you can go to the city to sell them. Buy them at a low price from the countryside and then sell them at a high price, and make money from the difference." Lin Shu gave her advice.

Lin Haiyan was very tempted to make money, but when she heard about being a street vendor, she backed off, "But I've never sold anything before, so I really don't know how to do it."

"It's okay. There's a first time for everything. Take it slow. At worst you can get fewer pears the first time. Just test the waters." Lin Shu encouraged her.

I don’t know if Lin Haiyan listened to it or not, but she nodded in agreement and then changed the subject to talk about the gossip at the educated youth site.

"You've been busy making clothes recently, so maybe you didn't know that Zhu Zhiqing has returned to the city?"

"He's back in the city?" Lin Shu deliberately showed a surprised expression.

"Yes, he injured his hand last time. The wound was too big. He said the medical conditions in the city were better. He stayed in the township clinic for two days and then asked the captain for a letter of introduction. He left his new wife behind and went back to the city to recuperate."

Lin Haiyan felt a little unfair for Wei Miaoming. "You said he is a grown man, and he just injured his hand. He can recuperate in the village with his wife to take care of him, which is not worse than living in the city. He is acting like it takes a hundred days to heal a broken hand. I think it is hypocritical. It's a waste of car fare to go back and forth like this."

Lin Shu knew that Zhu Zhengliang would never come back after returning to the city. Later, his family members handled the household registration procedures.

Moreover, he and Wei Miao only treated the educated youth at the educated youth point to a meal and did not go to register.

In other words, they are in a de facto marriage, but not legally.

Wei Miao has been waiting for him in the village and should return to the city next year.

Lin Shu never paid attention to what happened to the two of them later.

In her previous life, she left the village after the Chinese New Year and only came back to visit her family many years later.

……

The eighth month of the lunar calendar had already entered early autumn, and there were many medicinal herbs on the mountain that could be harvested, so Lin Shu went up the mountain again the next day.

In the early morning in the mountains, the mist is floating, the breeze is caressing, the birds are singing, and the scenery is refreshing.

Lin Shu took a deep breath of the air filled with the fragrance of grass and trees, and estimated that there was not much fog in the mountains, so he would not have to worry about getting lost if he went into the mountains.

This time when we went up the mountain, my eldest and second sisters-in-law came with us.

We ate wild yam at the banquet yesterday. They thought it tasted good and was nourishing, so they wanted to dig some more to take back. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, so it’s a good time to dig more and bring some back to my parents’ home as a holiday gift.

On the way up the mountain, Lin Shu pointed to a very common wild grass and asked, "Sister-in-law, do you know what kind of herb this is?"

He Caiyun stopped and stared at the ordinary grass on the roadside, and said with a smile: "Isn't this just ordinary pig grass?"

Lu Yinhua didn't think so, and asked curiously: "Little sister, is this a medicinal herb?"

Lin Shu: "This is called Wushuikudzu, also known as Pus-pulling Grass. Because its rhizome looks like ginseng, some places call it wild ginseng. We rural people are prone to sores and pus on our feet, so we can mash this rhizome and apply it on the sores."

"Ah, this ordinary pigweed has such an effect?"

The two sisters-in-law stared at Wushui Ge in surprise, as if this was really ginseng.

He Caiyun directly wielded a hoe and dug out the rhizome. "You know what, it really looks like ginseng."

Lu Yinhua had never seen ginseng, so she asked, "Sister-in-law, have you seen ginseng?"

"I saw it once in the pharmacy of the health center." He Caiyun picked up the rhizome and threw it into the basket. "Last year, I had a boil on my thigh. It was red, swollen and painful at first, and then it started to fill with pus. It never healed until the abscess grew to a certain size. I pricked the abscess and squeezed the abscess out. It healed within two days."

If I had known about this herb at the time, perhaps the abscess would not have been delayed for so many days.

Lu Yinhua: "If I had known earlier, my sister-in-law wouldn't have to suffer for so many days."

The three of them walked up the mountain while chatting.

Lin Shu saw a black ant nest hanging on a branch. [System, do you collect black ants? ]

[Replying to the host, this system is a herb collection system and does not collect living things. ]

[If I remember correctly, black ants are also a kind of medicinal material. Don’t you accept them? ]

【This system does not accept living things. 】

[Tsk, what a pity, another opportunity for me to make a fortune wasted. ]

If the system had expressions, it would really want to roll its eyes at her. [Host, there are two wild yam vines in front of you on the left.]

"Sister-in-law, there are two yam vines over there. Do you see them? They are the two with heart-shaped leaves."

"Really? You found the yam so soon?"

He Caiyun looked around excitedly, and for a moment she couldn't tell which one was the yam.

Lu Yinhua had better eyesight than her, so she pulled out a vine and asked, "Little sister, is this the kind of vine you want?"

"Yes, there is another one next to it. It's just right for you two to be responsible for digging one each."

"Okay, okay, little sister, we will be responsible for digging these two plants. You look around and see if there are any other precious herbs." He Caiyun had already put down the basket and started digging with a hoe.

Lin Shu searched around and actually found a medicinal herb that kept insects away.

The leaves look like hearts and are covered with fine white hairs.

People who know about herbs should have heard that: "Asarum is not worth money, but if it is worth money, it will affect your life."

That’s right, the herb Lin Shugang discovered is Asarum.

As the name suggests, Asarum is small and exquisite in appearance and tastes spicy and numbing.

Asarum has the effects of dispelling cold, expelling wind and relieving pain, opening the orifices, warming the lungs and transforming fluid.

At the same time, its toxicity is also terrible.

Overdose can be fatal.

Because of its medicinal properties, those who know about it will dig it up, dry the rhizomes and place them in the closet to prevent insects, which is more effective than camphor.

Asarum can protect ginseng, so ginseng is not infested with insects. The ancients liked to use it to prevent insects when collecting ginseng, and it can be seen that the effect is quite good.

Lin Shu dug out a few Asarum plants and sold them directly to the system before his sisters-in-law came over, for 68 cents.

[Tsk, Tongzi, it’s more cost-effective to dig up more precious herbs. Are there any valuable herbs like Asparagus cochinchinensis, Codonopsis pilosula, Polygonatum sibiricum or Ganoderma lucidum around here?]

[Host, this system reminds you that the Herb Collection System is for collecting all kinds of herbs, not just precious herbs.]

What this means is that the system needs any kind of herbs, no matter how valuable they are.

[Okay, I will help you collect some herbs when I come across them when I am alone in the future. Didn’t you see two people following me today? I can dig cheap herbs, but I can’t carry cheap herbs all over the mountain, right?]