It's hard for my elder sister. I rely on the mountains to farm and pay off my debts.

Song Zhi returned the same way and put the herbs she had just seen but had not had time to pick into her backpack. When she saw that the basket was half full, she stopped picking these three herbs.

Instead, he moved to the south side of the mountain to look for other types of medicinal herbs.

What made her happy was that as soon as she stepped into the mountains in the south, she saw a sea of forsythia flowers swaying in the wind all over the mountains.

Song Zhi was pleasantly surprised. She didn't expect that there would be so many Forsythia growing in the mountains. It was a pity that it was not yet the harvest season. Otherwise, with the Forsythia growing all over the mountain, she would be able to pay off her debts!

Song Zhi looked at the forsythia flowers all over the sky with regret, and continued to look for medicinal herbs.

Perhaps the villagers rarely came into the mountains, or perhaps not many people knew these herbs. Song Zhi walked up the mountain path and not long after she walked, she found several plants of Bupleurum.

Bupleurum is a medicinal herb with a wide range of therapeutic effects. As far as she knows, it has the effects of relieving exterior symptoms, reducing fever, soothing the liver and relieving depression.

In the past, the medicines she always had at home included Zheng Chaihu Granules and Xiao Chaihu Granules. As the names suggest, these medicines all used Chaihu without exception.

She excitedly put down her backpack, picked up a small hoe and started digging.

Because the rhizome of Bupleurum is used as medicine, and its root system is well developed and deeply rooted in the ground, she is small and has little strength, so it took her a lot of effort to dig up the entire plant of Bupleurum.

After digging out the Bupleurum, she sat on the ground for a long time, feeling a little exhausted, and then continued to walk up the mountain.

It is not easy to go to the county town, so she wants to find as many medicinal herbs as possible and bring them over tomorrow.

When she was tired of digging, she would find a safe place to sit down and rest. When she was hungry, she would pick some wild raspberries on the mountain to satisfy her hunger.

The mountains to the south are rich in resources, and she was so busy digging herbs that she forgot to go home.

It was not until the sun was high in the sky and Song Zhi heard her grandmother's anxious call from the foot of the mountain that she realized it was already noon.

While responding to her grandmother's call, she stuffed the herbs piled on the ground into her backpack. For those that couldn't fit in, she rolled them into a ball, tied them up with wild grass, held them in her hands, and carefully went down the mountain.

When Mrs. Wu heard her granddaughter's response, she felt relieved and walked over with a stick.

The grandmother and granddaughter met halfway up the mountain. Mrs. Wu saw that her granddaughter was being carried and lifted, and the little person was bent over by the weight.

Seeing this, Wu hurried forward to take the backpack from her granddaughter, and could not help scolding her, "You little girl, you don't know how dangerous the mountains are. What have you dug up..."

Song Zhi didn't directly answer Grandma's question. Instead, she smiled and explained, "I have to go to the market tomorrow anyway, so I'll just dig some more. Who knows, I might come across it!"

Mrs. Wu couldn't help but shake her head and laugh, "What do you think it is medicine? It's not as easy as you say!" After saying that, she reached out to take the backpack from her granddaughter's back.

Song Zhi turned away and said, "Grandma, you've been coughing for a long time and can't bear any heavy loads." Then she handed the herbs in her hand to Wu and said, "Grandma, just help me carry this!"

Seeing that her granddaughter insisted, Mrs. Wu did not try to be stubborn. She took the herbs handed to her by her granddaughter, and the two of them walked down the mountain home one after the other.

When they got home, the younger sister presented a bowl of yellow juice to Song Zhi like a treasure, and said excitedly, "Sister, look, this is what we just picked up!"

Song Zhi put down the heavy backpack and praised generously, "Thank you so much, Huanhuan. You really helped me a lot!"

Song Huan's face turned red with joy because of Song Zhi's praise, and her eyes were filled with joy.

Seeing her like this, Song Zhi rubbed her sister's sparse hair with amusement, "Huanhuan, can you do me another favor? Go wash an empty pottery jar, pour this fresh bamboo juice into it, boil it, and then let grandma drink it!"

"When grandma's cough was cured, our Huanhuan made great efforts!"

Song Huan felt that he was valued by his sister, so he nodded with a firm look in his eyes and went to the kitchen with the medicine bowl in his hand.

Song Zhize sorted the medicinal herbs collected from the mountains into different categories and cleaned the dirt mixed with the herbs. She was too busy to spare a moment.

Mrs. Wu placed the medicinal herbs in her hand beside her granddaughter and returned to the eaves to continue spinning hemp thread.

At this time, Yang, who had returned from the fields, was also sitting under the eaves twisting hemp thread. She had noticed Song Zhi coming back with a heavy backpack early in the morning.

Although he was curious, he couldn't ask Song Zhi for the sake of face.

So when her mother-in-law came and sat down beside her, Yang deliberately lowered her voice and asked, "Mother, what was that thing you just picked up? It looks like the root of something!"

Mrs. Wu shook her head. "I don't know either. Ah Zhi said it was a medicinal herb and that she would take it to the market tomorrow to ask about it."

Yang was extremely surprised and sneered in her heart at how this girl knew what medicinal herbs were. She wondered what she was going to do next.

Although he felt disdain in his heart, his eyes couldn't help but glance at the busy figure.

Mrs. Wu saw that her daughter-in-law was not saying what she meant, but she did not expose her thoughts.

She knew that her daughter-in-law had worked hard over the years, and she wanted to say some good things to make her happy.

So he said to himself, "This girl is lucky. She got some advice from Doctor Zheng in the mountains today. I think she can make some money!"

Sure enough, after saying this, Yang couldn't help but sit up straight, and her hands that were weaving the hemp thread also paused.

In the past few years, apart from the meager income earned by my husband and eldest son working for the landlord, there was no other way to make money.

If I could really use these herbs to exchange for some money, the pressure on my family to repay the debt would indeed be less!

As for what Song Zhi said yesterday about giving her twenty taels within three months, she didn't take it to heart at all.

If this were to work, even a sow would be able to climb a tree. Anyway, she didn't believe it at all!

Just think of it as that girl finding a way out for herself!

Yang's mind became active, as if she had thought of something. She leaned close to Wu's ear and whispered, "Mother, look at the eldest girl. We dug so many medicinal herbs today. I'm afraid we can't carry them all by ourselves. Do you want Xiao An to go with us tomorrow?"

As soon as this question was asked, Mrs. Wu understood her daughter-in-law's thoughts. She wanted to know the market prices of these medicinal herbs!

She didn't want to expose her daughter-in-law's thoughts. She glanced at her busy granddaughter and nodded, "We have 20 eggs at home. I can go to the market with the girl tomorrow."

When Yang saw that her mother-in-law had also left, she gave up the idea. With her mother-in-law around, even if the eldest maid wanted to keep something secret, she would always be considerate.

In the past, the eldest girl could not see the difficulties at home. How could a person's character be changed so easily?

In the final analysis, she still didn't believe that Song Zhi had changed her personality so quickly.