Farmhouse Green Plum

"Makes sense!"

Song Ying was excited. Although she had not seen this scene yet, just thinking about it now, she could feel astonishment and shock, and realized the importance of reading, not to mention that Li and the others had seen it with their own eyes!

Yuan Qing smiled and continued, "There are more benefits than just this. The main purpose of the Grand Master's Guanfeng Society is to show that the court attaches importance to culture and education and to encourage the people to study.

After he went to observe society, your cousin came to the school to study. What does this mean?"

"It means that his study at Guanfeng Society was very effective!" Song Ying almost blurted out.

Then she thought of how Magistrate Hu used Xiaohua's death to seek promotion last year, and changed her way of expression, "This is his political achievement!"

"That's right!" Yuan Qing said with admiration, "In this way, if your little cousin is successful in his studies and takes part in the imperial examination, then his existence will be the achievement of the Grand Master. Do you think the Grand Master would want your little cousin to go further?"

"Yes, but isn't it too early to think about this now? My little cousin hasn't even entered the academy yet."

Yuan Qing said, "Confucius said: If a man does not think about the future, he will have immediate worries. We must have a long-term vision and plan to avoid short-term difficulties."

Song Ying thought about it and realized that this was the truth. It was precisely because she was worried about the future that she sought to study and make money early.

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In April, the south wind turns the barley yellow, the jujube flowers have not yet fallen, and the shade of the tung tree is long.

The countryside in April of the lunar calendar is full of vitality. As the breeze blows, the golden rapeseed flowers in the fields sway layer by layer, emitting a rich floral fragrance.

Song Ying climbed up a tree, compared carefully, put away the "Collection of Hundred Medicinal Herbs", and took out a saw: "This is it, cut it."

On the forked tree trunk nearby, Luo Yanxing said in disbelief: "Are you sure? Such a big tree, all the branches are medicinal?"

"I'm sure!" Song Ying said as he selected a branch and began sawing, reciting fluently, "Oak, tall trunk, brownish-grey bark... The wood is tough and can be used to chisel handles, so it's commonly known as chisel wood, and is called 'oak' in prescriptions. Its branches taste bitter, are neutral in nature, and belong to the liver meridian. It's used for difficult labor and stillbirth."

"But this is a whole tree! And it's so big!" Luo Yanxing still couldn't believe it.

After more than half a year of experience in collecting herbs, she no longer thinks that herbs are very precious as she did before. They grow one by one in one place, but they are still scarce in general.

This oak is a whole big tree!

Song Ying sawed off a branch, and seeing that she hadn't moved, he said, "If you don't want to saw it off, go down and peel the bark, pick the leaves, or dig up some roots, they are all medicine."

Luo Yanxing opened his mouth wide, and was even more shocked. It was shocking enough that all the branches were medicinal. Even the bark, leaves and roots were medicinal!

Is this oak wood full of medicine?

She looked up at the scattered branches and murmured softly, "Aren't we rich?

We take care of this tree and saw some branches and pick some leaves when needed. Wow, this is our money tree!

Oh, by the way, does the book say how much it costs per kilogram? This kind of tree doesn’t last all year round, so will it be very expensive?”

Song Ying rolled his eyes and said, "This is a book to teach doctors how to identify medicines, not a book to teach merchants how to make money.

Hurry up and work, you only have free time now, after a while the wheat will be ripe and we will have to harvest it all day long."

Harvesting wheat is different from threshing rice. Threshing rice is done in the fields, and if you accidentally drop the rice into the fields, you won’t know unless you step on it. The adults are worried that they will drop the rice and waste it, so they won’t let them participate in threshing rice.

Harvesting wheat is different. The wheat is in the field and even if it falls, you can still see it. There is no problem of waste. They also have to use sickles to help harvest.

Moreover, wheat straw does not need much drying before it can be used as firewood. For a long time, scraping pine needles and collecting firewood were no longer a daily necessity, and other work had to be done.

Therefore, we must take advantage of this period of time to collect more herbs and make more money.

Luo Yanxing smiled, picked up the saw, quickly found a larger branch, set up the saw, and shouted to the people below: "Xiaoxiang, move aside, I'm going to start sawing!"

Song Ying turned her head and found that the branch she was sawing was so thick and big that it was as big as several branches she had sawed before. So she stopped after sawing half of it, as they would not be able to carry any more.

After sawing the oak branches, the two of them slid down holding the trunk and picked off the leaves together with Xiaoxiang, and then cut the branches into pieces with a machete or a saw.

Looking at the three full backpacks, Song Ying smiled with satisfaction. With these oak branches and leaves, even if she didn't go out to collect herbs, Zhao Xiaocui and the others wouldn't notice anything unusual, so she could study with peace of mind!

Xiaoxiang looked at the oak branches and leaves, feeling happy but also a little worried, "Hurry up and convince your family to send your little cousin to school. My cousin is also going to the county to sell medicine. She knows exactly what new medicine Brother Lin has taught her.

Occasionally, if we have one or two new drugs, we can say that Brother Lin taught us before they joined, but if we have too many, they will be exposed sooner or later."

"Yuan Qing asked me to wait for the Grand Master to observe the social situation before convincing my family..."

Song Ying told them the reasons Yuan Qing gave, and then said, "Even if I convince my grandmother now, it will take some time for my brother to learn enough words."

Seeing Xiaoxiang's increasingly worried expression, she said, "Hey, it's okay. I have a solution."

A quarter of an hour later, they found Zhao Xiaocui and the others. Song Ying stood on a large rock and patted the tree trunk next to him to attract everyone's attention: "Come here, everyone. I have something to say."

Everyone gathered around in confusion, especially Zhao Xiaocui.

In the past, everyone was summoned to teach new medicinal herbs, but during this period of time when he went to the clinic, Lin Wenxuan did not teach anything new.

After everyone came over, Song Ying took out the "Hundred Medicinal Herbs Collection" and shook it. "A few days ago, when I went to sell duck eggs with my grandmother, I took the opportunity to go to the medical clinic. Brother Lin gave me a book of herbal medicine. In the future, we will learn new herbal medicine from it."

"Huh? We can't read!"

The girls were stunned at first, and then they all looked panicked.

With the increase of harvesting, the common herbs in the village have been greatly reduced. It is not as easy to collect herbs now as before. It takes a long time to find some. It is only thanks to the new herbs I learned that the money I earned has not decreased.

If Lin Wenxuan no longer teaches them new herbs, the money they earn will become less and less, and they will even compete with each other.

Once they used tricks, the trust was gone. Without unity and trust, how could they hide it from other people in the village?

"Song Ying, what's going on? Why doesn't Brother Lin want to teach us?"

"This is how to do……"

Song Ying raised her hand, signaling everyone to be quiet, and opened the "Hundred Herbs Collection" to show them, "It's okay if you can't read, there are pictures on it, we can recognize them by looking at the pictures.

It’s not that Brother Lin is unwilling to teach us. We have books, so we can recognize more and avoid missing anything.”