Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

The couple had discussed it, but they didn't expect the weather to turn cloudy overnight.

However, the clouds don't look too thick, so it shouldn't rain today.

As usual, the couple had breakfast at the state-owned restaurant, packed a few large meat buns, and rode their bicycles out of the city.

"Are we going to the same place today as we did the day before yesterday?"

After leaving the city, the two bicycles were running side by side. Gu Jiu turned his head, looked at Lin Shu and asked.

Lin Shu: "That is the best preserved forest nearby and it is far from the surrounding villages. It is the most suitable place for us to enter the mountains. Let's go there."

The two men's strength was limited, and that piece of mountain would take them several months to dig.

Once they entered the mountainous area, everything was foggy and the temperature dropped by several degrees. Fortunately, they all brought a work coat.

The two of them changed the place to go up the mountain today and chose to go into the mountain along a stream.

"Gu Jiu, look at that stone slope, it's Pyrola that's growing."

"Pyrola?" Gu Jiu walked over and picked a leaf to identify it carefully.

"Yes, look at the back of its leaves, it is brownish yellow, bumpy, and looks a bit like leather. Ancient books record that stone fern grows in clusters on rocks, its leaves are like willows, the back is hairy, and the spots are like leather."

In the system, the purchase price of Pyrola is not expensive, only fifty cents per pound.

Lin Shu looked up and found a seven-leafed lily not far ahead, "Oh, seven-leafed lily."

Gu Jiu quickly dug out the stone wormwood and threw it into the backpack. He walked to Lin Shu and stared at the plant with seven leaves. "Is this the seven-leaf flower?"

"Yes, count them. There are seven leaves in this circle, and a branch with a bud grows in the middle. This is the Seven Leaves and One Branch Flower. It's a very descriptive name, isn't it?"

Seven-leafed Polygonum multiflorum is also known as Paris polyphylla, Nine-hoops, Screw Seven, etc. It has different names in different places. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, cooling the liver and calming the nerves.

It likes to grow under forests on hillsides and in moist places under the shade of trees by rivers. The system purchase price reaches 8 yuan per catty. I didn't expect its price to be more expensive than that of Polygonatum sibiricum and Asparagus cochinchinensis.

Gu Jiu asked: "Does this herb need rhizomes?"

Lin Shu made way: "You dig out its rhizomes. If the rhizomes are big, the price will be higher."

She also saw some copper hammer jade belt grass growing on the ground near the stream, and she had to dig it up at 2 yuan per pound.

The route chosen this time was good. There was a lot of vegetation along the stream. The two of them dug while going upstream, and the harvest was very good.

Halfway through the journey, the two men discovered a pool of water in the ravine.

"Gu Jiu, do you think there are fish in this pond?"

Lin Shu looked around and thought that if there were fish in this pond, they must taste good. Fish raised with mountain spring water must taste better than those raised in the mud.

"There should be."

Gu Jiu wasn't sure either.

He looked down the pond, pointed to a slightly lower area and said, "The soil here is very soft. Let's dig a hole here and drain the water out. We should be able to tell if there are any fish in there."

"That's not good. If we dig a hole, what if we don't catch all the fish? Wouldn't the pond become dry?"

Gu Jiu raised his hand and tapped her head gently, "You are stupid, we will just plug this gap after we catch the big fish. The water in this pool must be fresh water, there must be fresh water flowing out from the cracks in the stone wall. Otherwise, this pool would have dried up long ago."

"Ow~"

Lin Shu covered his forehead and looked at him resentfully, "When did you learn to hit people on the head? No matter how hard you hit me, hurry up and dig it out."

"..."

Gu Jiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Looking at her movements, someone who didn't know would have thought that he really hit her hard.

The gap was dug quickly.

Lin Shu took out a backpack and asked Gu Jiu to block the gap with the backpack to prevent the fish from escaping with the water.

After fixing the backpack in the gap and seeing that the water flow was not affected, the two men began to dig herbs on the hillsides on both sides of the stream.

There are many varieties, such as Polygonatum sibiricum, Auricularia auricula, Heptaphyllum gracile, Smilax glabra, Asparagus cochinchinensis, Euonymus japonicus, etc.

Many medicinal herbs that prefer a humid environment also grow on both sides of the stream, such as Dendrobium, Acorus calamus, Stone Fairy Peach, and Clerodendrum odoratum.

When the snakeskin bags they brought were all filled, they carried all the herbs to the edge of the pond.

Lin Shu raised his wrist to check the time. It was already one o'clock in the afternoon.

“Gu Jiu, don’t worry about the pond for now. It’s getting late. Let’s wash our hands, eat something and rest. We can go fishing after we have recovered our strength.”

"Okay, let's fill our stomachs first."

Lin Shu glanced at the plants around him, then stood up, plucked a handful of leaves and gave some to Gu Jiu.

"......" Gu Jiu had a handful of leaves forced into his hands.

Lin Shu wet the leaves with water, then rubbed them gently, and many bubbles appeared on his palms.

Gu Jiu walked over and squatted beside her, rubbing it like her, and soon a lot of green bubbles appeared.

"Is this another kind of leaf that can be used as a cleaning agent?"

After Lin Shu made sure that his hands were clean, he put his hands into the water. The bubbles were washed away by the stream water, and a pair of clean hands appeared in front of Gu Jiu.

She smiled and said, "This is the leaf of the Bauhinia serrata, a natural detergent gifted to us by nature. In some places, it is also called white-backed maple or white foreign maple."

"Are scutellaria baicalensis and scutellaria baicalensis the same herb?"

"No."

The two found a big rock to sit on. Lin Shu opened the oil paper and let Gu Jiu take a big meat bun first.

Fortunately, the weather is not too cold now, and the meat in the meat buns has not frozen. Although it is cold, it is good to have food to fill the stomach in the mountains.

"There are really a lot of medicinal herbs in the mountains. If we don't consider the transportation problem, we can dig at least two to three times as much in a day."

Lin Shu couldn't eat anymore after finishing two meat buns. She took the aluminum kettle from her body, unscrewed the lid and drank two sips. "It's tiring to keep digging. My body can't take it."

Speaking of tiredness, Gu Jiu remained silent.

Mountain running is too tiring. Even if you ask him to keep going, he may not be able to do it.

"I'll go to a nearby village tomorrow during my day off."

"Okay, you handle this matter yourself. Make sure the person you find is someone you trust and someone who keeps his mouth shut." Lin Shu reminded him.

If a loud speaker is found and people from several villages know about it, then all the nearby mountains will be bald due to the villagers' efforts.

This is not what the couple wants to see.

After filling their stomachs, the two rested for a while before heading towards the pond.

The water in the pool has almost flowed away, and only the side close to the mountain wall still has some water.

But the shadows of fish swimming can already be seen on the water surface.

Lin Shu said happily: "There really are fish."

A man remains a boy until he dies, and young people like to slack off and catch fish and shrimp.

Gu Jiu happily took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his pants and walked down, digging a trench in the mud to let the accumulated water under the cliff flow out.

Lin Shu watched Gu Jiu catching fish with a basket, and he felt itchy to take off his shoes and join in.

Gu Jiu saw her standing on the shore, eager to try, and quickly stopped her, saying, "There are not many fish here, don't come down, I can do it by myself."

As he was speaking, Gu Jiu had already caught a few fish and thrown them into the basket.

"What kind of fish did you just catch?" Lin Shu asked.

"It's a little spotted. I don't know what this fish is called." Gu Jiu pinched a spot and said, "I caught another one!"

“The fish here don’t seem to be big.”

Gu Jiu chuckled: "For a wild fish raised with mountain spring water, how big do you expect it to grow? A few ounces is already pretty good."

"That's right. The water is getting less and less. You should catch it quickly."

"it is good."

Half an hour later, Gu Jiu picked up the basket and put it in the stream to soak. "There are about twenty pounds, enough for us to eat for a few meals."