While Gao Mingcheng was collecting herbs in the mountains, Duomei was also busy at home. Recently, she stopped going to Dong Feixia's place to make clothes, because from time to time someone would bring medicinal materials to sell. When Gao Mingcheng was not at home, she had to stay at home to collect the medicinal materials. .
This morning, she received some common medicinal materials in the village one after another, including brocade, black medicine, pilosegrass, Houttuynia cordata, monkey ginger, milkweed, abacus, etc.
This abacus is not an abacus, but the name of a traditional Chinese medicine, also called wild pumpkin. It is a very common wild plant. Its fruit can be used as medicine, mainly to treat sore throat, malaria, orchitis. disease.
It is also a very common herbal medicine. It can often be seen beside villages, roadsides, and wastelands. It is a plant in the Asteraceae family. Its flowers are similar to chrysanthemums. Many people mistake them for wild chrysanthemums.
The biggest difference between it and wild chrysanthemum is that it has barbs. The whole plant can be used as medicine. It has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispersing blood stasis, and reducing swelling. It is generally used to treat enteritis, dysentery and other diseases.
These common medicinal materials are all in many small books recorded by Mei. She is also very familiar with these medicinal materials. When others bring the medicinal materials, she needs to look through and check them first, and then price the purchase. If she feels that they are not good enough, then she simply refuses to accept them. .
Some people are dissatisfied, but many beauties are not vegetarians. She mostly has a gentle image in front of Gao Mingcheng, but she is not afraid at all when encountering problems. No matter whether the person is a man or a woman, she can talk back quickly.
In addition, Gao Mingcheng's reputation was so great that no one dared to make a real move with her, so they often had to swallow their breath.
But such people are always in the minority. Most people hope to establish a good relationship with many beauties and then sell the medicinal materials smoothly.
This year, due to dry weather, the fields have reduced production, and nearby villagers cherish this opportunity to sell medicinal materials.
Duomei received another batch of medicinal materials, and then wrote down the accounts in the account book with a pencil. At this time, she heard the cry of cattle and sheep. Take it out to eat grass.
So she put down what she was doing and led the cattle and sheep out first.
I was too lazy to walk far, so I placed it in the shadow at the foot of Xiaofu Mountain and let them eat grass freely. It was close to the pond and the vegetation was very lush.
Halfway up the mountain, the voices of men talking and the sound of chopping down trees could be heard from time to time. Thanks to the efforts of the workers, a large area of the mountain became bare, exposing the yellow and red soil on the ground.
The soil here is mostly yellow soil, with a small amount of red soil. In fields cultivated all year round, the color of the soil will be relatively darker due to year-round fertilization and careful cultivation.
Duo Mei returned home and picked some eggplants and peppers when passing by her vegetable patch.
Because she has been given enough water and fertilizer, her vegetables are growing well now, but the peppers and eggplants are also past their prime, and they don't bear as many fruits.
In June, the peppers and eggplants grew very fast, and the branches would be covered with branches if they were not picked for a day. At that time, they were so beautiful that I picked a lot of them and dried them in the sun.
For red peppers, just wash them, chop them and dry them in the sun. For green peppers, there is an extra step. You need to blanch the green peppers in boiling water until they are half-cooked. This is mainly to fix the green peppers, then take them out, mix with salt, and spread them out. Dry.
The chili made in this way has a unique flavor. In winter, it is very delicious when fried with meat.
When Duomei got home, he was ready to cook lunch. After cooking, he would eat it by himself. As for Gao Mingcheng, he would sometimes come back to eat at noon, and sometimes he would stay in the mountains all day and not come back until the evening.
Time passed day by day, and it was seven or eight days in the blink of an eye. At this time, Gao Mingcheng had almost found all the medicinal materials in the mountains.
As for the yellow gardenia and hedyotis, they were still a few days away from being fully mature, so he decided to take this opportunity to visit the county.
His father and his fourth brother told him last time that they wanted him to find Gao Guobing to arrange a job for Gao Mingli.
He thought about it and decided that he did not take Gao Mingli with him this time, but went alone.
This time when he went to the county, in addition to talking to Gao Guobing about the matter, he also wanted to ask Xiao Jinfeng how his purchase of medicinal materials was going.
They had agreed to go to the medicine fair together before, and they had to take a breather to see how many medicinal materials they each prepared and whether they could fit in a truck.
When he arrived at the county, Gao Mingcheng went to the police station first. When Gao Guobing saw him, he deliberately made a joke: "Rare visitor! How long have you not been to the county? I heard that you were collecting medicine in the mountains recently? What medicinal materials are there in the mountains?" How is the output?”
Gao Mingcheng said with a smile: "Although the weather is dry this year, it will not have a big impact on the medicinal materials in the mountains. Compared with previous years, it will be about the same!"
In fact, he didn't go that deep into the mountains last year. He had been walking in the mountains and forests near Gaojiacun. This year, his steps went further. For him personally, he gained more than last year. many.
However, due to the wanton destruction by Lord Ma and his party in the mountains, the production of some medicinal materials has been reduced, but there is no need to tell Gao Guobing about this.
After briefly talking about the medicinal materials, Gao Mingcheng directly explained the purpose of his visit.
Hearing that Gao Mingcheng was asking for a job for his fourth brother, Gao Guobing couldn't help but smile and said deliberately: "You help your two younger brothers find work, and you don't care about your elder brother?"
Gao Mingcheng also smiled and said: "My eldest brother works on the construction site with my sister-in-law's brothers, and he can make money, and he can also take care of the family in his spare time."
In fact, if Gao Mingli is willing, he can wait until the time is right and follow his elder brother Gao Mingpeng to work on the construction site. In a year or two, there will be countless people building houses, and the work on the construction site can continue.
But judging from Gao Mingli's intentions, he would rather have a job that is stable and not tiring.
"Uncle, can you help with this matter? If not, I will refuse." Gao Mingcheng said straightforwardly, but Gao Guobing rolled his eyes.
Gao Guobing said grandly: "It's just arranging things for one person, what's the difficulty? What does your fourth brother want to do?"
Gao Mingcheng briefly described Gao Mingli's needs, which were nothing more than stability and ease.
But these two points are the most difficult. Which migrant worker doesn’t want to have a stable and easy job?
Gao Guobing pondered for a moment and then said: "We can make arrangements for the paper factory and the sugar factory. You go back and ask where he wants to go? It's not urgent. You can take him to a medicine fair first to see the world. .”
"Xiao Jinfeng's transportation company is short of manpower. When the time comes, he will go alone, and you will have to bring one more person to help look at the medicinal materials."
Gao Mingcheng nodded when he heard this.
This is indeed the case. There are a lot of medicinal materials this time. When the time comes, I and Xiao Jinfeng will definitely seek opportunities to sell them early, so someone will have to help guard the medicinal materials.
When he went to the Medicine Fair last year, he took Huang Dazhi and Gao Zhuang with him.
But this year Huang Dazhi has become a co-op, and he has a high probability of becoming a police officer. There are a lot of things waiting for him at home and in the field.
After much calculation, it seems good to take Gao Mingli with him.
Although Gao Mingli is a scumbag, he has at least reached junior high school and knows the basic words. He is not too timid. He can be taken out to practice.
"By the way, I heard from Xiao Jinfeng that you have a talent for learning to drive? In that case, you should find time to get your driver's license. Being able to drive is very important," Gao Guobing said.
Gao Mingcheng had this intention. Taking advantage of the rare free time these days, he said: "I plan to go to Brother Xiao's place to practice driving later, and I will go get my driver's license tomorrow."
In this case, Gao Guobing didn't keep him much longer, and told him to stay at home at night, and then let him go about his work.
The relationship between the two was very close, like uncle and nephew, so Gao Mingcheng went out without being polite.
While in the lobby, I greeted all the police officers I knew and specifically spoke to Huang Dazhi.
Huang Dazhi said: "When I came home from a break, I told my parents that you wanted to collect medicinal materials, and asked them to take the time to collect some medicinal materials near home. But they have many things to do and don't go out much, so they probably haven't. I'll send it to your house. When you go back, can you go to my house and collect the medicinal materials that my parents have prepared?"
The relationship between Gao Mingcheng and Huang Dazhi became closer after Huang Dazhi generously gave him three taels of gold. Gao Mingcheng directly agreed to this small request without saying a word.
"Thank you." Huang Dazhi thanked him sincerely.
It would also be a good thing if my parents could make more money.
Although he had some gold in his pocket, he kept it tightly and didn't dare to take action, so he didn't have much cash in his hand.
(End of chapter)
