The noise of the villagers attracted Xiangyun, who was performing hard at the side. She nestled in Zheng's arms and pointed her little finger in the direction of Mrs. Lin: "Na... Na..."
"Ah Bao, be good. Grandma is talking to the uncles. Come and hold Ah Bao later." Ms. Zheng patted her daughter gently and scooped up breast milk to feed her.
Unexpectedly, my daughter, who has always been unable to take her eyes away when she sees something to eat, is shaking her head and refusing to eat for some unknown reason today. Milky white milk drips on the small cloth on her chest, but her eyes are always looking at Mrs. Lin's position.
Zheng had no choice but to go find Mrs. Lin with Xiangyun in her arms.
"Mom, Bao is making a fuss and wants you to hold him, and he doesn't even drink milk."
Old Mrs. Lin hurriedly took over her granddaughter. When she saw Xiangyun's cute face, the anger aroused by the villagers in her heart was instantly calmed down. She fed her granddaughter spoonful by spoonful until the bottom of the bowl of milk was filled, and her belly was round with drink. Then he hugged Xiangyun and gently burped.
"What's the difficulty in getting prescriptions? I can write out ten or eight of them. The key is the medicinal materials in them. Where can you find them? Not to mention other things, just parsnips and bupleurum leaves are not available in this season. thing!"
"Then how is Aunt Jiang doing well! What kind of medicine did she take?" the man who took the lead said with an unkind expression.
Xiangyun burped loudly and nestled in Mrs. Lin's arms, secretly looking at the man with one eye. She didn't like the tone of the man talking to her grandma.
Lin Laosan stood up suddenly, and was a head taller than the man: "What do you want us to do? Ask her!"
The other party was frightened by the pressure, and his attitude immediately softened.
Upon seeing this, the village chief taught the man a few words, apologized to everyone in the Lin family, and begged Mrs. Lin to draw the description of the medicinal materials. The group of them planned to go into the mountains to look for it.
The man who was scolded was not convinced and actually ran to find Mrs. Jiang, but when he came back he was even more angry.
"How is it? What did Aunt Jiang say? Where does her medicine come from?"
The man said angrily: "She said she was strong enough to get through it, and she even laughed at us for having such a minor illness that we were going to die or live. She doesn't look like a man at all!"
The few people had nowhere to vent their anger, so they had to wait until dawn and follow the team into the mountains.
There is no doubt that without the auspicious clouds, it is simply a dream for them to find medicinal materials in the barren mountains.
When the village chief and others came back dejectedly, someone asked the officials guarding the city to help them purchase medicinal materials from a medicinal shop in the city.
Everyone thought the method was feasible, and the village chief quickly gathered some silver to find the city gate guard.
As a result, less than half an hour later, he came back disgraced.
"When the guards heard that I was fleeing from the famine, they wouldn't even want to open the city gate, let alone help us buy medicinal materials, unless they said I was infected with the plague!"
The faces of the villagers were gloomy. If this continues, the living people will die from their stomachs!
Mrs. Lin gently patted her sleeping granddaughter, with a sad look on her face. When she lowered her head again, the little girl woke up at some point and was looking up at her with round eyes.
"Abao is awake, did you sleep well?"
Mrs. Lin put her hand into the baby's swaddling clothes, and it was indeed dry to the touch. She couldn't help but feel soft in her heart. Her little granddaughter was very sensible. Every time she thought about peeing, she would make babbling sounds to remind her family. She never unzipped her pants pockets, which saved the whole family a lot of trouble.
Should such a good and sensible child have to live in the wilderness with them all the time?
In the past few days, the wind and sand have become more and more serious, and Xiangyun's face is not as smooth as it was some time ago.
She was thinking about covering her granddaughter more tightly when she suddenly discovered that there were several herbs growing under the hem of her clothes.
Mrs. Lin picked it up and took a look. Her eyes widened and she almost screamed.
Lying in the palm of his hand were the parsnips and bupleurum leaves that the villagers had not found despite searching across the mountains.
Mrs. Lin quickly took a quick look around to make sure no one was looking towards her. She put the herbs away and hid them in her sleeves, her heart beating hard.
Here we go again, just like last time, herbs appeared out of thin air...
Mrs. Lin was confused, suddenly remembered something, and her eyes slowly fell on her granddaughter.
"Abao, did you conjure these up?"
Xiangyun blinked his eyes twice, opened his front teeth, said "Ahhhh" twice, held his thumb and started sucking it.
"You want to help them?"
Xiangyun shook his head and stretched out his little hand to touch Mrs. Lin's face.
She wanted to help her family and didn't want to see her grandma unhappy.
Just at this time, the village chief came over again with the villagers, feeling very depressed, and begged.
"Sister-in-law Lin, we are not familiar with the habits of medicinal materials. We wander around like headless flies in the mountains. This time we want to invite you to go with us. Maybe with you in charge, we won't return empty-handed!"
"Yes, yes, aunt, come with us."
"Medicinal herbs are so hard to find. We don't even know whether they grow on trees or on the ground. Once we enter the mountains, all the plants look the same!"
Lin Laoer originally wanted to refuse on behalf of his mother. She was in poor health and could not walk, so she had no time to worry about it.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Lin agreed immediately and went with her granddaughter this time.
More than a dozen young people went into the mountain together. Once they entered the forest, they quickly dispersed. Mrs. Lin was sitting on a back chair, being carried by Mr. Lin, and she was followed by three or two villagers.
"Abao, if you want to help the villagers, throw out the medicinal materials now. Don't let everyone see it. Grandma will watch it for you."
Xiangyun loved Mrs. Lin's thoughtfulness so much that he immediately entered the space, poured out all the parsnips and bupleurum leaves from the purple sandalwood box, and sprinkled a little on each place he passed.
In order not to appear deliberate, she specially added several other medicinal materials to mix things up. Anyway, they are all good things to strengthen the spleen and regulate the stomach. No matter how you eat them, they are good for the body and mind.
With a verification mentality, Mrs. Lin felt that she was overthinking. But when the sun shone into the woods and scattered the parsnips lying under the tree trunks, no matter how much doubt she had, they all turned into surprises. She held her granddaughter in her arms. A fierce kiss.
"There is smoke coming out of the ancestral grave, and our family has a baby!"
Lin Laoer didn't know what was happening behind him, so he asked curiously: "Mom, what kind of baby is this?"
"I found it, I found the medicinal materials!"
Mrs. Lin's voice frightened the birds in the forest, and people scattered around came running over. Sure enough, they found medicinal herbs under the tree trunks.
Everyone immediately became excited: "Everyone, take a closer look, there must be some left behind!"
Soon, parsnips and bupleurum leaves were discovered one after another wherever Lin Laoer walked, and many other good medicinal materials were also found.
The villagers were so excited that tears filled their eyes when they looked at the baskets on their backs that were finally no longer empty.
After going back and counting, I found a total of ten kilograms of parsnips, five kilograms of bupleurum leaves, three kilograms of poria and perilla, one kilogram of perilla leaves, one kilogram of kudzu grass, and other scattered herbs.
When the village chief saw the medicinal materials placed beside the bonfire, he was so happy that he became incoherent.
"Okay, okay, go call Tao Weng and get everyone to make some medicine!"
