The hubs of the carriages rumbled, the bells jingled, and the drivers shouted. One carriage after another loaded with goods set off from Xiao's house and drove into the distance in the dusk.
Countless people in the village watched this spectacular motorcade, and each carriage was filled with the Xiao family's newly brewed fruit wine.
Mrs. Li looked up, her eyes bright and eager. The shoe mat in her hand had not been touched for a long time. Where would she sell so much wine? How much silver is a jar?
She felt hot because when she was helping the Xiao family, Xiao Ming taught her and several women how to make wine. Li glanced at the Wang family and the Wang family who were also watching, and they both looked shocked. The two of them helped the Xiao family together with Li, and learned the brewing method at the same time.
Mrs. Li looked incomprehensible, envious of the Xiao family's wealth. After Xiao Ming taught them how to make wine, she was very excited. She went back home and secretly tried the fruit at home.
There were several old peach trees in her family, which would bear some fruit every year. Although they were not as fruitful, plump and juicy as the Xiao family's peach trees, the fruits were barely edible. She was impatient and couldn't wait for the peaches to officially mature, so she drank half a jar of wine. , prepared using the method taught by Xiao Ming, she waited with excitement and hope, but unfortunately, the final result was~~
How great is the hope, how great is the disappointment.
The fruit wine she brewed cannot be regarded as fruit wine at all. In addition to the pungent smell of wine, there is also the smell of rotten fruit, which is completely unpalatable.
Villagers, old and young, came out to watch the excitement. Cars passed by one by one, filled with wine jars. The drivers were well-trained and controlled the horses steadily. They shouted and drove the horses. Come out of Xiao's house and leave the village to get ready.
"Ouch, that's incredible, how many cars is this?" Grandma San exclaimed. From morning to now, the convoy has not stopped.
"There must be more than a hundred." The old man in the village said, his eyes were dazzled. There were too many, so he only counted a rough number.
"Sister-in-law Wang, how much does the Xiao family's wine cost per jar? How much money does it cost?" The woman in the village who did not help the Xiao Ming family pick fruit asked curiously. Not only her, but also many people were listening attentively. I scratched my head and wondered what was going on.
"How did I know that?" Mrs. Wang said. It was a lie to say that she was not envious. She felt a little uncomfortable. She thought that Xiao Ming's family only had three children at the beginning of the year. They borrowed food from their house at the beginning of the year. Now, these days, A big change.
"The wine in this city costs two taels of silver per jar. The Xiao family's fruit wine costs one tael of silver per jar. How much money does it cost?" Someone exclaimed. Everyone knows that the Xiao family only displays wine jars. With tens of thousands of altars, one tael of silver per altar can yield tens of thousands of taels of silver.
A group of people were silent, so much money was a figure they had never seen in their lives.
Different from the liveliness in the village, the courtyard of the Xiao family was also very lively. Mrs. Lin sent her nanny, Mama Li, to carry the fruit wine. After learning that Xiao Ming’s house had newly made canned fruit, Mrs. Lin generously ordered He bought 1,500 cans of canned fruit without asking the reason or the taste of the canned fruit. This was Lin's trust in Xiao Ming.
The amount of five thousand jars is not a small amount. Early in the morning, Mother Li came with a long convoy of girls and boys to carry the fruit wine, load it into the truck, and transport it away.
"Mother Yi, we've finished moving the wine, what else should we move?" Li'er ran over and asked.
"Moving the apple bar, there are five hundred jars of apples, peaches, and pear wine." A temporary table was set up at the entrance of the courtyard. Mother Yi, Mother Song, and Mother Li sat together and looked at the dozen or so people in the yard. The girls and boys are busy.
Mother Yi checked off the wine in the account book, and the Lin family ordered 2,000 jars of wine, and 500 jars each of other fruit wines. The wine accounted for most of the fruit wine. Fortunately, the girl turned all the grapes into wine.
"You all should be careful, don't break the wine jars." Mother Li warned without knowing it. These wine jars are valuable items, and can be sold for dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver each in her lady's shop.
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Xiao Ming ignored the chores at home. She led Wang Yunling and Jiang Xiangyuan to the edge of Daqing Mountain to collect herbs. The three of them each carried a small beetle on their backs and squatted on the ground to dig for herbs. In a short time, they had already picked up a lot of miscellaneous herbs. medicinal materials.
At the same time, Wang Quling's little follower Wang Lian and the big wolf dog Maomao were also following. When the three of them were collecting herbs, they and the dog were waiting nearby. Maomao would shuttle in and out of the grass from time to time.
Daqingshan is rarely visited by people. It is rich in materials. After a spring and summer of growth, herbs are everywhere.
"Mingmei, look at this, is it a blackberry?" Jiang Xiangyuan's face was flushed, and she was shaking a freshly picked medicinal material in her hand with excitement on her face.
"Well, let me take a look." Xiao Ming took it in her hand and looked closely. The stems were purple-green, with longitudinal ribs and tendrils; the young branches were soft and palmate, with compound leaves in the shape of palms, with five leaflets arranged in a bird's claw shape. It was indeed a blackberry. Berry, a medicinal material not found in the medicine garden.
"It's blackberry, pick more and transplant it into the orchard." Xiao Ming said, digging together with Jiang Xiangyuan, while digging, explaining the medicinal effects of blackberry to the two, "It is also called five-clawed vine and wild grapevine. It can clear away heat and detoxify, diuresis and reduce swelling. When crushed and applied externally, it can cure carbuncles, boils, gills, and erysipelas; rheumatism and bone pain caused by the influx of damp-heat into the meridians; jaundice, dysentery, and hematuria and white turbidity caused by damp-heat stagnation." .
Wang Yunling and Jiang Xiangyuan remembered it very seriously.
"Sister Ming, how do you know so much?" Jiang Xiangyuan sighed. Xiao Ming was younger than her and could remember so much. It was really amazing. She memorized it by rote for several months and couldn't remember much.
She recited books every day, and her head hurt when she read them. She felt that studying medicine was ten times more difficult than studying.
"You can memorize some every day and remember them more firmly when you apply them in practice later." Xiao Ming said that the first book she read since she was a child was medical books. Over the past few decades, medical books and medicinal materials have grown with her.
"This is called insect tooth medicine, also known as Three Sisters and Typhoid Head. It can..." Xiao Ming explained while digging for medicine. In this way, the two of them memorized a lot of medicinal materials. When they encountered space, Xiao Ming would dig out the roots and take away medicinal materials that were not available in her home or at home, preparing to transplant them into her home or space.
Daqing Mountain was very big, so she only collected herbs at the edge. Xiao Ming did not go deep into the mountain to collect herbs like last time. She collected a full load of herbs on the periphery and gained a lot.
Wang Lian just sat quietly as always, following Wang Yunling's movements. Maomao was in high spirits, whining and howling from time to time to express his mood at the moment, skewering around in the grass, sometimes killing a rabbit or a few wild eggs. , the harvest is equally huge.
"Oh, look at Maomao, there's blood in his mouth." Jiang Xiangyuan pointed at Maomao. The black dog's mouth was stained with blood, dripping down. There were several hares and pheasants wading in the ground, some of which had not yet died. .
"Woo!" Maomao walked around Xiao Ming's feet as if asking for credit.
"You are so naughty." Xiao Ming smiled lovingly, stroking its soft hair.
"There's game to eat tonight."
