Farmhouse Green Plum

Thinking of this, she immediately said, "I will take the cow back first and go with you right away."

Chen was relieved and helped her untie the ox cart. "Please thank your grandmother and her family for me. Today, we are all grateful to your family for their ox cart. When your Uncle Xu's leg is healed, we will come to thank them in person some other day."

Daya said a few polite words and led the cow back home.

Fortunately, today, under the supervision of his second uncle Song, Song Tian obediently cut a large basket of grass, which was almost enough to feed the cows.

She quickly told her family about Uncle Xu's snake bite, and said as she ran out, "I'm going to help Aunt Chen identify the medicine. You don't have to cook for me."

After leaving the courtyard and walking across a ridge, I met Xu Yulan and Chen who were holding torches.

Daya smiled and pointed to the southeast. "I've seen that kind of grass beside my home before. It's probably groundgrass. Let's go there and take a look first."

When they reached the mountain, Daya headed straight for the target and found it immediately with the help of the light of the torch.

She checked the grass leaves again and again, and after making sure that they matched the medicine boy's description, she looked up and said, "This is the ground-grabbing tiger."

Thinking about it, he felt uneasy and asked Xu Yulan, "Yulan, what do you think?"

Xu Yulan checked it out and showed some hesitation on her face, "It does match the description of the medicine boy, but I'm not sure it's a ground-grabbing tiger."

Chen looked at Daya, then at her daughter, and gritted her teeth and said, "Pick it!"

There is no money at home, so we can only take some risks.

Pick one plant and try it first. Even if you make a mistake, the medicinal effect of one plant is limited.

After digging up the medicine, the three of them rushed back to Xu's house and crushed the leaves for Xu Dahe to apply.

Chen looked at Xu Dahe nervously: "How do you feel?"

"It's very cool," Xu Dahe frowned and felt it carefully, "It seems not so uncomfortable anymore."

Chen heaved a sigh of relief and said to Xu Yulan, "I'll go cook. You stay here to watch over your father. Call me immediately if anything goes wrong."

Xu Yulan nodded, "Don't worry, mother, I will be careful."

"Daya, you are always considerate, so help me keep an eye on it."

Daya agreed immediately, and she also wanted to verify whether she had recognized the wrong tiger.

In the following time, Daya checked the wound covered with herbal medicine and asked Xu Dahe how he felt, which made Xu Dahe laugh and cry, and he joked that she was like a little doctor.

After dinner, there was no sign of any signs of Xu Dahe's injuries becoming worse, so Chen finally felt relieved. Daya was also very excited, as she had not identified the wrong herb.

She happily said goodbye to the Chen family and went home.

The next day, Daya got up early and went to the river before dawn to wash the clothes that she had not finished washing yesterday.

Today her morning job is to weed the fields, and in the afternoon she will still be scraping pine needles. She has to hurry to finish the work so that she can go pick the ground crickets.

She was full of energy today. The weeds that used to take her a whole morning to pull were finished at 10 p.m. She immediately took Song Yuan to the opposite mountain to find Lai Di.

"Daya, why are you here?" Lai Di was surprised to see her. "You finished pulling the weeds so quickly?"

Da Ya nodded.

Lai Di admired at first, then said: "Then go and wash the clothes that were not washed yesterday, and we can work together in the afternoon. It's too boring to work alone, I still prefer to work with you."

"You want my sister to share the extra pine needles with you." Song Yuan muttered softly.

Lai Di's cheeks turned red and she felt ashamed. She was indeed slow at work and needed Daya's help most of the time, but she liked working with Daya. She really just liked being with Daya.

She stretched out two hands covered in dirt, slowly approached Song Yuan's face, and said with a sinister smile: "Little vegetable gardener, do you want a painted face?"

Song Yuan quickly covered his face and hid behind Daya, "I don't want it!"

"It's useless to hide behind your sister..." Lai Di grinned, revealing her sharp white teeth, scaring Song Yuan so much that he screamed.

"Okay, I have something serious to talk to you about." Daya was amused and raised her hand to stop her. "Didn't I go to the county clinic with Xu Yulan and the others yesterday..."

She told him that there were herbs on the mountain that could be picked and sold to the clinic. Lai Di's eyes lit up when she heard it, "We can pick ground tigers and make money!"

"Yes, Uncle Xu was fine after applying the medicine last night. We can confirm that it was a ground-grabbing tiger."

"Great!" Lai Di was so excited that she almost jumped up. Suddenly she remembered something and asked hesitantly, "Should I tell the adults?"

Thinking of the pale green eggshells in the woodshed, Daya shook her head slowly: "No, I want to have my own money and eat eggs once."

If the adults knew, all the money they earned would have to be handed over, and picking herbs would become a job they had to do.

"Okay, we won't tell the adults," Lai Di touched the rag on her head, "I want to buy a hairband, a proper hairband."

After saying that, she looked at Song Yuan and said, "Little vegetable garden, you can't tell anyone."

Song Yuan's eyes rolled around, "I want some candy."

"I'll buy it for you when I make money." Daya agreed with a smile. Song Yuan was raised by her since he was a child and was the closest to her. Whenever he got something delicious, he always thought of her.

Lai Di bent down and looked him in the eyes. "Keep it a secret. I'll buy you some candy too."

Song Yuan smiled and said, "Okay!"

Daya added: "The price of dried ground tigers will be higher. After we pick them, we will go to the stream at the foot of Tiger's Mouth Mountain to wash them, and then find a place to dry them."

At this point, she suddenly had an idea and looked at Song Yuan: "If you watch while the herbs are drying and don't let others take them away or damage them, it will be considered as your contribution. I can give you a share of the money from the sales, and you can buy whatever you want to eat."

Song Yuan nodded hurriedly, feeling excited and happy. He felt that he had grown up and could make money. He was much more capable than his brother Song Tian.

Daya explained to Lai Di: "He is young. Even if others see him, they will just think he is playing and won't know we are drying herbs."

Lai Di had no objection, and only told Song Yuan: "You still have to be careful of birds and insects, so watch carefully."

"I'm not my brother," Song Yuan was a little unhappy, but he still assured Daya, "I will definitely take good care of it."

Lai Di then thought of another hidden danger, "Should we keep it a secret from Xiao Cui and the others? There are so many people and they are gossiping, so we won't be able to keep it a secret from the adults for long."

Daya nodded, "For now, it's just you, me, Xiaoxiang, and Song Yuan. Don't tell anyone else."

"Then we will shave pine needles and pick herbs in the morning, and do other work in the afternoon, so that we can naturally avoid them."

Daya shook her head: "No, it's cool in the pine forest. It's weird that we have to shave pine needles in the morning when it's not hot, and work in the hot sun in the afternoon.

Besides, there was dew on the pine needles in the morning, not only was it heavy, but we had to dry them in the sun when we got home, which was even more strange.”

"What should we do? We have always been scraping pine needles together. If we suddenly stop doing it together, it will arouse suspicion. When we go to pick herbs in the morning, the three of us rarely get together." Lai Di frowned, and became more and more discouraged as she spoke.