Ning Zhifeng's voice was so excited that it was impossible to ignore.
Ning Wuyan finished yawning and looked towards the door: What are you looking at?
Against the light, he could only see a group of children of different sizes standing outside the door. He couldn't see their appearance clearly, but he could see that they were all very thin.
The tallest boy among them looked familiar.
"Huh? Isn't this the brother of the boy who was bitten by the snake that day?"
It was Shen Youchu who recognized the other party first.
Ning Wuyan suddenly remembered that he had met the two brothers at Hanshan Temple, which made Cheng Yi plan to stay here to build a village and study. When he saw the boy again, he asked curiously: "Why didn't you go to work or study today?"
Didn't they go on strike collectively just to cooperate with Ning Zhifeng's mischief?
"Gentlemen, we all have a stomachache. The village school has suspended classes. Just then, Sister Zhaodi asked me to help me find herbs in the mountains."
The boy's answer gave Ning Wuchang, who had verified his guess, a headache.
He knew that Ning Zhifeng was serious, but he didn't expect to invite so many helpers.
She had better find tobacco, otherwise he would go to her aunt and ask her to ban her for two days.
"Fifth brother, we have been busy for a long time. Apart from the meat buns you made in the morning, we haven't eaten anything yet. We are starving."
Ning Zhifeng felt aggrieved first.
Ning Wuyan rolled his eyes at her and could only stand up, preparing to cook a sumptuous lunch for these children to compensate for their wasted time.
After standing up, the light changed, and he suddenly saw the basket behind Zhao Di and the boy, which contained a pile of green grass leaves.
Looking at Ning Zhifeng's triumphant expression, Ning Wuxu froze on the spot as if he had been struck by lightning.
No way?
Did these children really find tobacco in the mountains?
"Fifth Brother, why don't you look at it quickly?"
Ning Zhifeng stood on tiptoe and pulled out a piece of tobacco with fresh mud from Zhaodi's basket, strode to the table, put it on the table, and crossed her waist arrogantly.
"Look, is this the tobacco you are looking for?"
Closer.
You can smell the spicy smell of fresh tobacco, as well as the fresh earthy smell.
As Ning Wuyan, who had gone deep into the planting base and inspected various tobacco plants.
He recognized it as a tobacco plant at a glance.
The flower shape of Nicotiana tabacum is round and trumpet-shaped, and its flowers come in many colors and have a certain ornamental value. The flowers generally bloom in dark weather or at night, a bit like tuberose.
The living habit of Nicotiana tabacum is that it likes a sunny and warm environment. If it encounters continuous rainy days, it will easily fall ill and die.
"It turns out that the tobacco with the small pink flowers that the ladies were talking about was this kind of tobacco. Fortunately, I kept looking along the streams and rivers. It's strange that I could find it."
Sometimes things go in the wrong direction.
The further you go, the more wrong you become.
Hearing his words, the boy said aloud: "We found these herbs in a sunny place on the other side of the mountain. It may have been because it rained for several days and the sun came out, so they soaked to death and were sunburned to death." Quite a few, we searched all afternoon and only brought back ten baskets."
The boy saw that this was indeed the tobacco that Ning Wuxu was looking for.
Then he put the basket on his back at the door.
The other children quickly followed suit.
Ning Wuyang hurriedly walked towards the door.
Nearly 80% of the tobacco plants in these ten baskets have knotted roots. Even if they don't die now, they will die in a few days.
There are only a dozen or so seedlings left, but we can try transplanting them.
"These are also herbs. I buy them for ten cents per plant. You can count them and I will pay you the wages."
Ning Wuyang carefully took out the plants that could still be planted from the basket.
Only then did he realize that in addition to tobacco flowers, there were also pink tobacco flowers that bloomed in the shape of cones. The large grass blades had already allowed him to see the cigarettes that were dried and cut into shreds.
"If the origin of tobacco seeds cannot be found in the account books, we need to use these living plants to cultivate the seeds first."
Ning Wuyang was talking to himself excitedly.
As for the remaining dead ones, they can be made into tobacco after drying.
The boy, Zhaodi and the others obviously didn't expect the tobacco to be worth so much, and there was surprise in their eyes.
But thinking that they had eaten a lot of meat buns that they had never eaten before, they shook their heads in unison.
"We ate Zhifeng's meat buns, one herb and one meat bun. We didn't charge for it."
Is that so?
Ning Wuyan looked at Ning Zhifeng and saw her nodding decisively, wiping her curled nose stained with mud with her hand, and laughed dumbly.
"Zhifeng, I was wrong. I shouldn't have underestimated you and your friends. Since you don't want money, then I'll ask the kitchen to cook you a lunch. Is that okay with the head office?"
"OK!"
While Ning Zhifeng made the decision for them, he did not forget to remind Ning Wuyan.
"Fifth brother, we agreed that on the Qiqiao Festival, you will play with me and Zhaodi, and you will also make a lantern that can fly into the sky. You are not allowed to cheat or turn into a puppy."
"good."
Ning Wuyang got the tobacco sample and was happy.
Not to mention the lanterns flying into the sky, even if Ning Zhifeng said she wanted to fly into the sky, he would let her try.
"Zhifeng, take them to the kitchen to eat."
"Yunfei, go find twenty flower pots, and I will plant these living tobaccos in them."
Ning Wuyang squatted at the door and started working.
Everyone saw his performance and knew that he was not trying to make the children happy, but had really found the medicine of tobacco. Except for Ji Jin, everyone came forward to see what the rumored tobacco was. .
When he realized that the appearance was not that strange, but that the blooming flowers were quite beautiful, he stepped forward and took a deep breath.
Shen Youchu said suspiciously: "It doesn't seem that choking."
"The blooming flowers are naturally not so choking... Smell them gently. Their seeds are very small. These flowers have seeds. Don't inhale them and choke them in your nose."
In order to prevent their roots from becoming hardened, Ning Wuyang personally planted eighteen tobacco plants in large pots like pine and fir indoors.
Fourteen of them are flower tobacco, and the rest are tobacco with large leaves like eggplant leaves.
Don't look at it, there are only four plants.
When grown, two leaves can be used to roll a pack of cigarettes.
After planting the live ones, he began to select the dead tobacco leaves that could still be dried for use, and picked a sunny and ventilated place to dry them.
After everything was done, Ning Wuyan discovered that Shen Youchu and his second aunt had been following him to watch the fun.
Ning Wuyang was a little embarrassed: "Um...don't you check the account books?"
"Didn't you find the tobacco? Let Juxiang find some people and take them to the city to inquire about it?"
Shen Youchu was lazy whenever he could.
If she can use her brains to let others solve the problem, she will never waste her own energy.
Ning Wuyan could only remind her helplessly: "I asked people to inquire about tobacco before, and those merchants who often go to the Western Regions and Lingnan knew nothing about it. In addition, didn't Miss Ji infer that these tobacco seeds , maybe the boss picked it up and bought it. I think the possibility of asking the dealers in the city to get the origin of the tobacco is very slim."
"Ah? If you hadn't told me earlier, we would have been here watching you tinkering for an hour."
Shen Youchu was very upset.
Knowing that trying to be clever wouldn't work, he hurriedly turned around to go back and continue struggling with the account books, but he saw Ji Jin walking over holding an account book with bright eyes.
