Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Han Zhaozhao was chopping wood and searching around, wondering if there was anything on the mountain that could be exchanged for money.

She chopped more than ten bundles of firewood, but she couldn't think of any good way to get rich. Instead, she picked out a large bundle of smooth twigs as thick as chopsticks from the chopped yellow broom firewood.

The straight and smooth rattan is at its softest and most resilient when harvested in late autumn and early winter, making it best for weaving baskets.

She is also good at weaving, and is proficient in bamboo weaving and rattan weaving.

The furniture in the space is made of either stainless steel or plastic and cannot be taken out and used. She plans to dig herbs to generate income, and without enough furniture, it will not be enough.

She plans to use her free time in winter to make more baskets. As the old saying goes: It is better to have something ready than to have something unused!

Ordinary people have few useless household items in their daily lives. The more complete the preparations are, the more convenient they will be when they need them.

Han Zhaozhao discovered that there were some Chinese herbal medicines on the mountain, such as Polygala tenuifolia, Rehmannia glutinosa, dandelion, Plantain, Xanthium sibiricum, Selaginella, nettle, mugwort, etc.

Some varieties, such as mugwort, motherwort and plantain, grow in large patches.

However, these Chinese herbal medicines are too common and worthless. After being dried, they don’t weigh much and take up a lot of space, so drugstores may not even buy them.

If you want to save money, you have to find a way to do it, specifically to buy Chinese herbal medicines that are valuable and don’t take up much space.

In her previous life, she had planted Polygonatum sibiricum, Ginseng, Panax notoginseng and Gastrodia elata. The roots of these Chinese herbal medicines are used as medicine, are easy to harvest, have a high specific gravity, and have considerable economic value.

She thought about it carefully and realized that most of the Chinese herbal medicines whose stems and leaves are used as medicine are not as valuable as those whose roots are used as medicine. If she wants to increase her income from Chinese herbal medicine, she still has to choose the varieties whose roots are used as medicine.

It’s a little late to start now. Many Chinese herbal medicine plants have dried up and lost their leaves, making them difficult to find.

It’s also because the temperature now drops earlier than in later generations. Sixty years later, the branches and leaves of plants in the mountainous areas of Beijing are still green, red and yellow at this season, and have not fallen yet!

She had to find someone who knew what Chinese herbal medicines could be harvested in autumn and winter. No matter how small a mosquito leg was, it was still meat. She didn't mind it. She would harvest them when she came across them while chopping wood. It was still some income.

What's more, she has the plug-in of space. As long as it has economic value and she has seeds and seedlings, she can grow them herself. It is much better than searching for wild herbs all over the mountains!

Thinking of this, she became excited. She first dug up a few Polygala tenuifolia, Salvia miltiorrhiza and Rehmannia glutinosa that she found around her and put them into the space.

Seeing no one around, he bundled up the chopped yellow broom firewood and put it into the space, leaving only one bundle to hide it from others and carrying it down the mountain. He found the cart at the foot of the mountain, took out two more bundles, loaded them, tied them up, and excitedly pushed them home.

With so much on his mind, the way back to the city seemed much shorter. Han Zhaozhao had already reached the entrance of the alley before he felt tired.

Under a big tree at the entrance of the alley, a few old men and women were playing chess, sewing shoe soles, and a few children in open-crotch pants were playing next to them.

"Hey, Zhao Zhao went out to chop firewood, how come he brought back so much?

This cart must weigh more than 100 pounds, right? This kid is really capable!"

"Grandma Guo, Grandma Liu, you are looking after the children!"

"Hello, Grandpa Jin, Grandpa Guan, and Grandpa Liu, you guys are playing chess, who won today?"

"Of course I win!"

"Don't be so shameless. You have the nerve to say you won just because you won a round?"

"Zhao Zhao, don't cut so many. You are still young. Don't get tired!"

"Hey! I know Grandpa Guan. Don't you have a cart? I won't be tired!

You guys go ahead and play, I'm going home first!"

The old men and women waved their hands and said, "Go home quickly, you look so tired and sweaty!

Don’t wash your face with cold water when you get home. Children may sweat and catch a cold if they don’t pay attention to the cold water.

"Hey! I understand. Grandpa and grandma will see you later!"

Han Zhaozhao greeted everyone along the way, called out to everyone he met, and then went home pushing the firewood.

As soon as I entered the door, I pushed the yellow broom firewood directly into the backyard, chose a place where it would not get in the way, and unloaded the firewood.

Three bundles of firewood were stacked together. The yellow broom firewood was tied with elm strips, which saved the trouble of pulling ropes.

After stacking the firewood, she took out two bundles of firewood from the space. When her grandmother asked her about it, she said that she had chopped two bundles in the morning and three bundles in the afternoon. She had calculated the quantity!

It would have been even better if the old lady hadn't asked. She would have brought home five or six bundles of firewood every day like an ant moving house.

By the time it snows, we will have saved enough firewood to last the whole winter, so we won’t have to spend extra money on firewood this year.

After counting the small accounts, Han Zhaozhao pushed the cart back to the front yard, went back to the house, drank a bowl of water, and rested for a while. Suddenly, she remembered that she had not had time to dig a hole in the yard to plant the saplings!

If Xiao Sanzi came to visit and saw that she had bought so many saplings but hadn't planted any of them, he would definitely be suspicious.

Han Zhaozhao went to the warehouse to get a hoe, dug two holes on the left and right sides of the front yard, took out two wild jujube trees that he had cut down from the mountain, and cut them with a fruit shear.

The two good jujube branches were reduced to just the main trunks, two bare branches without roots or heads, which looked almost exactly the same as the jujube saplings she bought from Xu Xiaoguo's house.

Looking at the newly "planted" jujube tree in the yard, Han Zhaozhao nodded with satisfaction. It was just used to fool people anyway. Before her space developed, she would not have the energy to plant fruit trees in the yard.

It’s not that she doesn’t want to plant, the key is that seedlings are in short supply now, and limited resources must be left for space, so there are no seedlings to plant in the yard.

It will be fine next year! She has to hurry up and grow some seedlings, and find a way to replace these fooling "seedlings" before the fruit trees sprout next spring.

After collecting the scattered branches and vines on the ground into the space, Han Zhaozhao turned around and went to the backyard with the hoe.

Using the same operation, she dug holes and planted two more "grape trees".

Looking at the planted "grape trees", Han Zhaozhao laughed. No matter how smart Ren Xiaosanzi was, he would never have thought that these two were wild grape vines. As long as he didn't pull them out, he would never have discovered that these "fruit trees" had no roots.

After pretending to water the plants to establish their roots, Han Zhaozhao took the hoe and returned to the front yard.

Thinking it was too early to cook, she took out a pair of insoles from the sewing basket, picked up a stool, locked the door, and went to the entrance of the alley.

That place is the distribution center of all the information in the entire alley. If you have nothing to do, go there and sit for a while, you might find a surprise!

"Come, Zhaozhao, sit here, next to Grandma Liu.

Are these the insoles you knitted? Let me take a look. They are pretty good, with dense stitching!"

"You kids are really quick with your hands and good eyesight. No, from now on, I have to let my granddaughter sew the insoles and uppers of our shoes!"

“That’s right, I don’t want to let them sew my clothes, for fear that they will be used by cheap things, but I’m not afraid of the insoles under my feet.

It doesn’t matter if it looks good or not, after all, it’s worn by my family and no one else can see it, so just make sure the stitching is dense and it’s durable! ”

Several old ladies started chatting at once, and Han Zhaozhao had no chance to get a word in, so she had to lower her head and concentrate on sewing her insoles.

"Come on, Zhao Zhao is here, help Grandma Guo sew the needle. My eyesight is really bad, it's so blurry that I can't sew into the eye of the needle!"

Han Zhaozhao agreed and quickly took the needle and thread from Grandma Guo's hand and helped the old lady sew.

Grandma Guo started to pull the hemp thread to sew the soles of shoes again, "You kids have good eyesight and steady hands, you can sew the needle in no time.

I wasted all my time sewing the soles of this pair of shoes. At noon, I asked my granddaughter to sew three needles for me, and they were all used up in less than half an hour.

If Zhao Zhao hadn't come, I would have had to go around for a while! What do you think, should I get a pair of reading glasses?

In the future, making quilts and cotton-padded clothes will require a lot of needlework, and my poor eyesight will delay the work!"