The villagers listened carefully.
Most of the people present were women, because Zhou Man said that they should be smart and quick at work, so most of them were not very old. girl.
The youths and teenagers obviously didn't want to hang out with them, so they didn't come, but the eight or nine-year-old boys in the village were just naughty, so they also came to join in the fun.
But now it involves a big plan to make money, even if the brothers, sisters-in-law and sisters don't say anything, they themselves have calmed down.
When their group went down the mountain, everyone returned with a full load, and Man Bao even picked what he wanted, even if it wasn't medicine, he was very satisfied.
Koko is also very satisfied.
The village is also busy, and Bai Shan is making records for them to distribute the grain, and the distribution is almost done by now.
The people in Zhaojiagou kept their own seeds, but when Bai Shan asked about the rice yield in the past year, his intuition was that he kept the best ears, and the seeds might not be much better.
So he strongly asked all of them to plant all the grain seeds that he had distributed, and not to eat the grain seeds.
He said: "I have calculated that the grain seeds I gave you are only enough to plant two acres of land, and you still use your own grain seeds for the rest. This county knows that you have doubts about the new planting methods of new grain seeds. The county does not force you to soak the seeds that you keep at home, but the grain seeds distributed by the government must use the soaking method."
Most of the grain seeds they brought were distributed, and Bai Shan took the rest to Ergou Village, which was also very poor at the foot of the next mountain.
There is a big ditch connecting Ergou Village and Dagou Village. The population is less and the land is less. Most of them are mountain forests. Of course, there are more medicinal materials and various species in them.
Man Bao is like a mouse that fell into a rice bowl. Seeing that it was getting dark, she couldn't help saying to Bai Shan: "Go back tomorrow, I want to stay."
Bai Shan glanced at the various flowers and trees she had dug up that seemed familiar to him but couldn't name them, and asked, "Are we not together anymore?"
Man Bao said solemnly: "We have different responsibilities, we have grown up, how can we be together all the time?"
Bai Shan: "...It's because we grew up that we want to be together."
Man Bao refused: "You go back first, I want to work here."
Whether it's work or digging, both of them knew each other well, Bai Shan looked at Zhou Man for a while, and finally reluctantly compromised.
"I'll stay one more night, and I have to go back to see Liushan tomorrow."
He had asked the people in the county government office to inform the people in the townships that they were meeting in the county for a meeting, and the day after tomorrow was the official day, so he had to go back if he said anything.
Man Bao nodded and waved him goodbye, "Don't worry, I won't cause trouble, goodbye."
Bai Shan clapped her hand, "I'm leaving tomorrow, you can talk to me again tomorrow."
Early the next morning, Zhou Man happily sent Bai Shan away. As soon as he left, Zhou Man turned around and went into the mountain with Daji and Xibing.
Bai Shan left several guards of Daji to Zhou Man, and also left behind a yamen servant who is proficient in the local dialect, but Zhou Man has always been used to bringing Daji with him when he goes into the mountains, and at most one western cake, and the others stay in the village. .
In the afternoon when Zhou Man went down the mountain with a basket on his back, before reaching the mountain pass, he saw the village chief leading a lot of people waiting at the mountain pass. Get up and go up.
Man Bao put down the basket, took out some common herbs in the mountains, showed them to them, and taught them how to pick them.
Some herbs are taken from the root, some are used as a whole plant, but there are also many herbs that only take the leaves and stems, especially some wild tea trees, which only take the bud tip.
Man Bao found two kinds of tea trees on the mountain, neither of which had been recorded, but it was recorded in the encyclopedia, so Ke Ke could call up their information as soon as she saw her.
Zhouman found several clumps of wild tea trees like this one on the mountain. She picked a lot and dug up three seedlings, which just happened to be placed in Daji's back basket.
At this time, she showed the seedlings to everyone, saying: "This tea has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, lightening body and prolonging life. You can pick it every day, fry it dry, or put it in a pot and dry it in the shade to eat at home."
I heard that it was something I ate at home, but everyone was not very interested.
The village chief rubbed his hands and asked: "My lord, you said yesterday that there are more medicinal herbs that can be picked on the mountain to make money. I don't know what else?"
"Here, I have collected them for you, and I will leave some samples for you later, and you can take them up the mountain to compare." Man Bao said with a smile: "There are quite a variety of medicinal materials on your mountain, so for a while It’s normal to not recognize all of them, you can pick the ones you recognize, the only thing is the same, you must pay attention to saving the seeds.”
Man Bao said: "You can't pick immature plants, otherwise you will pick them and send them to the county, and the medicine shop will not accept them. You will be wasting your time; and we always have to count for future generations. If we don't save the seeds, then future generations What are you picking?"
The village head nodded repeatedly, turned around and asked, "Have you all written it down?"
The villagers shouted excitedly, "Remember it."
Then Man Bao taught them at the foot of the mountain to recognize the herbs she picked, and she could roughly tell where they grew and their habits.
The villagers all recognized it positively, and even the children listened carefully, but it was uncertain how much they could remember.
Sure enough, before nightfall, children began to cry in the village. Man Bao pricked up his ears to listen, and vaguely heard the howls of adults, "You can't remember what the adults said so clearly, are you Do you eat dry food?"
Then came the crying of the children, "You didn't recognize it, and you didn't remember it either."
Then came the grumpy voices of the adults, "Speaking of you, do you still dare to talk back?"
Then came the crackling sound.
Man Bao shuddered and frowned, suspecting that he had heard it wrong, so he asked the yamen servant if he had translated correctly.
The yamen servant was surprised: "My lord, you are so powerful that you can understand what they are saying?"
Man Bao said embarrassingly: "When they are not speaking fast, they can barely understand. After all, they often said things like this yesterday. By the way, in the future, if you get sick, go to the county for consultation. Don't delay the illness. How to say?"
The yamen servant will teach her.
Man Bao learned to say it three or four times before writing it down, and then asked, "Then what do you mean by 'no money for going to the doctor' to get medicine?"
When Bai Shan finally meets Zhou Man in another village, she is no longer the Zhou Man she was before.
She has already been able to chat with the elders and aunts in the village in a substandard local dialect. She waved excitedly when she saw Bai Shan, then turned around and introduced Bai Shan to everyone in a bad dialect, "This is my husband, and I The county magistrate of Beihai County, if you have any difficulties in the future, just go to him, he is your parent officer, and he has to take care of your problems."
Different from the panic that they would receive every time they entered the village, the old men and women immediately nodded, and then looked at Bai Shan with admiration and love.
Bai Shan: ...