An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

Chapter 131 Encounter in the forest

If the Li family hasn't gone up the mountain yet, then she will go to the dense forest first.

Lee's Shelter.

Xia Qingyue knocked on the cave door and waited for a few seconds. Li Weisheng opened the door with a smile on his face, "Sister Qingyue!"

He walked out and looked up at the clear blue sky. "We were just about to go out to collect herbs and hunt. Fortunately, it's a sunny day."

Li Benfu and his two sons came out, fully equipped with bows and arrows and traps.

Today was a good time, they were all here, she smiled and said, "Let's go then."

Several people headed towards the dense forest. Xia Qingyue shared her experience of looking for medicinal herbs in the mountains in recent days. "The only way is to go deep into the dense forest and see if we can find more valuable medicines."

"By the way, how many shops are open in town?"

"My brother and I have been taking turns going to town to get information these days. As of today, ten stores have opened."

Li Weisheng counted on his fingers and said, "There is a bookstore, a blacksmith, three drugstores, two grocery stores, two clothing and fabric stores, and an inn.

There are some vendors selling vegetables, mushrooms, and game at the market, but there are no vendors selling pork for the time being."

"Sister Qingyue, you know, when we went to the grocery store to buy food, we didn't know until we asked, and we were so shocked after we asked!" Li Weikang had a helpless expression on his face.

She tilted her head and said, "Everything has gone up in price."

Li Weisheng said: "Yes, the price has risen a lot. Take rice for example. The worst brown rice costs 27 wen per liter, an egg costs 12 wen each, and a bowl of coarse salt costs 25 wen!"

Even though she had guessed that the price would increase, she never thought it would increase so much. Compared with the original price, it increased by at least three times!

Oh my god, we have to find a way to make more money while we have these supplies!

Li Weikang continued, "These things were transported from the Southern Jin Kingdom over a long distance, and the price has risen so much all of a sudden. I think there is something fishy going on. Isn't it rumored that the King of Yue made some kind of deal with the Southern Jin Kingdom?

I guess that the money earned from the transported goods went to the Nanjin Kingdom, with the people who opened shops after receiving the goods taking a smaller share.

I looked around and found that although the price was high, there were still buyers. Moreover, the first people to open the shops were not ordinary people. They had close relationships with patrol soldiers and perhaps had connections with some powerful people. "

He only dared to say these words when there were no outsiders around and only his own people were present.

Li Benfu, who remained silent, looked solemn and nodded in agreement.

Xia Qingyue also agreed with Li Weikang's argument. She said, "The price of food is high, but I think we should buy more while it's available. I'm afraid that when we have more money, we will be finished without food."

The three Li family members nodded at the same time, all agreeing with this statement.

A few people talked and chatted as they entered the dense forest. With Heihei leading the way, they looked for medicinal herbs as they walked.

The deeper you go, the more medicinal herbs you can find, including Polygonatum sibiricum, Isatis indigotica, Bupleurum chinense...

Xia Qingyue generously taught the Li family some medicinal herbs.

In her previous life, when she was a child, in order to improve the situation of her family, she learned a lot about Chinese medicine from an old lady in the village who had a good relationship with her grandmother. This old lady’s two generations of ancestors were Chinese medicine practitioners.

After learning some herbs, she thought about making money, so she skipped school and sneaked to the village mountain. Later, she was caught by her grandmother, dragged back home, and had a good meal of stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots.

As they were almost at the pine forest where they had found the mushrooms, Xia Qingyue was surprised to find a shiny reddish-brown Ganoderma lucidum on a rotten wood. Unfortunately, it was only the size of an egg.

"Wow, this is red Ganoderma!"

With an excited heart and trembling hands, I gently broke off the red Ganoderma lucidum.

Li Weisheng came over after hearing the voice and said, "Sister Qingyue, what's wrong?"

"I found a Ganoderma lucidum!"

"Ganoderma lucidum is very valuable!" After being shocked, Li Weisheng smiled happily for her finding Ganoderma lucidum.

“I found Ganoderma Lucidum too!”

Over there, Li Weikang shouted. He was standing in front of a big tree, slightly bent over.

"Let's go and take a look." Xia Qingyue put the red Ganoderma lucidum into the vegetable basket.

"Brother, where is Lingzhi?"

When Li Benfu, who was digging medicinal herbs nearby, heard the news, he dropped his hoe and hurried over to see what was going on.

"Here." Li Weikang pointed to the tree trunk.

There is a gray thing on the tree.

Seeing the Li family immersed in excitement and joy, Xia Qingyue said softly: "This is a tree tongue that looks very similar to Ganoderma lucidum."

"What is tree tongue?" Li Weikang asked curiously.

"It is also a medicinal herb, but it is not as valuable as Ganoderma lucidum."

"Then pick it up too." Li Benfu reached out and picked it up.

Xia Qingyue also taught them how to identify the difference between Ganoderma lucidum and tree tongue.

At the same time, in the pine forest, a white shadow quickly jumped over the bushes, landed on the rotten leaves, ran for several meters, and finally surrounded and bit a rabbit's neck.

"Huh..." Xiaobai opened his mouth and the injured rabbit fell down. He smelled something, his nose moved, and he turned his head to look around.

Behind him, Han Zhibai strode over, "Come on, Xiaobai, we've played outside long enough today, it's time to go back."

In the past half month, he has brought Xiaobai here every day.

Seeing that Xiaobai didn't move, his eyes flickered slightly, "If you really want to see her...them, we can go to that stream right away."

She had been seen on that side of the creek before.

Xiaobai was still looking around, and finally, it seemed to have locked onto its target, and ran out like a wild horse.

"Xiaobai, Xiaobai!"

Han Zhibai shouted a few times from behind, but it didn't stop. Instead, it ran farther and farther. A hint of doubt appeared in its dark eyes, and then a small cluster of light lit up.

Could it be that she is nearby?

He bent down and quickly picked up the rabbit on the ground, then ran to chase Xiaobai.

After running for about quarter of an hour, Han Zhibai saw someone in front of him. It was a distance away, so he couldn't see clearly, but he saw Xiaobai playing with a big black dog.

It’s Heihei, so she is there too!

As the distance got closer, Han Zhibai once again shifted his gaze towards the few people not far away, searching with his eyes.

The moment Xia Qingyue saw Xiaobai, she immediately thought of Han Zhibai who was nearby and was also looking for him.

The two seemed to have telepathy and saw each other at the same time.

Her eyes lit up with surprise.

There was a barely perceptible smile in Han Zhibai's eyes.

"Han Zhibai, it's you!" Li Weikang greeted with a smile.

Han Zhibai nodded to the Li family. He patted the rabbit tied around his waist, his eyes a little vague, "We are hunting."

Xia Qingyue smiled and said, "What a coincidence! We are here to collect herbs and hunt. Han Zhibai, did you know that peace has been restored at the foot of the mountain?"

"Really? Have you gone down the mountain to see it?"

"Yeah." She gave a general account of the situation down the mountain.

Han Zhibai looked calm and nodded after listening to him, "Thank you for telling me this."

Xia Qingyue looked at Han Zhibai and wondered whether she should call him over to go together, like they did when they went looking for mountain products at the end of last year. After all, he was familiar with the terrain here.

Li Benfu and Li Weikang beside her seemed to have thought of this as well, and they looked at her with inquiring eyes.

Pursing her lips and thinking for a while, she said, "Han Zhibai, do you want to join us? Whoever finds something will own it. There is no need to divide it."

"it is good."

Han Zhibai: "I have picked all the mushrooms in the pine forest."

She smiled and said, "It's okay. It's the rainy season recently. There must be more in other places. Let's go."