In the blink of an eye, late autumn has passed and the winter solstice has arrived. Heavy snow has fallen in Dongliao, and Dongxiang Village is also covered in white. Thick snow mushrooms bloom on the roofs of every household, stables, woodsheds, and fences.
What a crystal clear world of snow!
On the winding and rugged road, Sheng Guoer was wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket, a thick scarf, and deerskin plush gloves, walking towards the entrance of the village on a jade trail.
Today is the Winter Solstice, which is also a festival. Eating dumplings during the Winter Solstice has been a tradition since ancient times. Legend has it that this custom was passed down by Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Sheng Guoer asked Shen to stay at home while she went to the countryside to pick up Xiao Tao for the festival and buy some things on the way.
Tieniu was wearing a thick fur coat and a dog-skin hat. He was stamping his feet and huffing, with his hands in his leather sleeves. His face was red with frost, and his eyelashes were hung with a layer of hoarfrost. He was anxious. Looking at the entrance of the village.
The horse kept shaking the snow on its body and snoring.
"Tieniu!" Sheng Guo'er greeted. Seeing Sheng Guo'er coming, Tieniu hurriedly greeted her.
"Sister Guoer, why are you here?" Tieniu asked curiously, lifting the thick car curtain and letting Sheng Guoer get in the car.
Sheng Guoer got on the car and said, "It's really cold this year!"
Tieniu got on the carriage, waved his whip, and whipped the horse. The horse felt pain, spread its hooves, and ran forward.
"Sister Guo'er, I don't know what happened today, it's so cold!" Tieniu huffed.
Sheng Guoer took out the hot tea prepared in a cowhide wine bag, handed it out and said, "Tieniu, drink some when you're cold."
Tieniu nodded, took the hot tea from the cowhide wine bag, took a sip, and instantly felt much warmer, and said, "Thank you, sister."
The road is long and slippery, full of ditches and bumps. Every time he crosses a ditch, Tieniu will remind Sheng Guoer.
I used to be able to walk for half a day, but now I only reach the countryside in the afternoon. Sheng Guoer felt that if he wanted to get rich, he should build roads first. The transportation was inconvenient and it was really inconvenient to do anything.
It wasn't necessarily any better when she came to the countryside. It was snowing heavily. Sheng Guoer found that few shops were open. She originally wanted to buy some vegetables and chop them into stuffings to make dumplings, which would save her the trouble of going to the greenhouse to pick vegetables. of. But she suddenly realized that this was ancient times, not modern. Even in modern times, the prices of some vegetables are quite expensive in winter.
What's more, in ancient times, most people ate pickled vegetables in winter, so where could there be fresh vegetables?
Thinking of this, Sheng Guoer burst into laughter. It seemed that she was the only one in Dasheng who had fresh vegetables.
The vegetables in Shengguoer's greenhouse are growing well, and it seems that my experiment was relatively successful. The reason why Sheng Guoer didn't tell anyone except Shen and her employees her true intention of building a greenhouse was because she was worried that growing vegetables in the greenhouse would fail.
But I was so lucky that my trial planting was successful!
It seems that if you can produce it on a large scale, it will be a good deal then. Sheng Guoer made some calculations in his mind and figured out that by improving the weeder, he could increase the yield of greenhouse vegetables. However, he didn't know how to get rid of diseases, so he had to learn this.
But Sheng Guoer then thought about it and realized that she was really confused. How could she kill the insects without pesticides here?
Sheng Guoer had thought about catching a few birds and using natural methods to eliminate diseases, but in the winter, the birds were reluctant to come out. Sheng Shi was willing to go to the mountains to catch birds, but the mountains were blocked by heavy snow and it was very dangerous inside. The thought of Sheng Guoer was dismissed.
Now she also regrets that if she had known this, she should have raised a few birds when trying to grow the greenhouse.
Just as he was thinking about it, Tieniu suddenly shouted from outside: "Sister, Dr. Li's hospital is here!"
Sheng Guoer walked away from the complicated thoughts and got out of the car with a sigh.
Tieniu followed Sheng Guoer into the hospital. Sheng Guoer prepared some banknotes. These banknotes were the generous interest Sheng Guoer earned from depositing the five thousand taels of silver in the Lin family bank.
When she was saving money, Mrs. Shen thought it would be better to put it in her house for insurance instead of putting it in the Lin family bank. However, Sheng Guoer rejected her idea.
Whether in ancient times or in modern times, banks are an indispensable and important link in finance. Without early banks, that is, money banks, the circulation of currency would be less convenient.
Of course Sheng Guoer knew this, so she was well prepared and put her money in the bank. Five thousand taels was a huge amount of money, so the Lin family paid special attention to it. Of course, with Mrs. Hong's relationship, the Lin family paid great attention to Sheng Guoer's jam and meat sauce. They were all satisfied, so the interest rate was increased accordingly.
Sheng Guoer took the interest and prepared to do something big in the coming spring.
Back to the main story, Sheng Guoer's arrival made Li Langzhong very happy. Firstly, Sheng Guoer has sent Zhou Rui to pay the tuition on time for more than a year. Secondly, she would ask Zhou Rui to send a gift every festival. This made Li Langzhong take special care of Xiao Tao and teach him his unique skills.
Xiaotao is also very smart. Although she is often punished by the teacher for being playful, with her quirky cuteness, she is always able to make her master happy with her eloquent words and avoids punishment in the end.
Moreover, this little girl is very "bad" and often tries to trick Lin Muyan, but she is very kind and understands the ways of the world. This is very similar to Sheng Guoer. With her prestige and popularity among girls, she often helps her senior brother. Lin Muyan stood out and cooked delicious food for Lin Muyan. Over time, he got the nickname "Little Pepper".
This made senior brother Lin Muyan both love and hate her.
Sure enough, when Sheng Guoer asked about Xiao Tao, the other brothers and sisters fell silent.
Mr. Li was also surprised: "What's wrong, where is Xiaotao?"
A girl said: "Master, little, little junior sister is taking senior brother to catch poisonous scorpions!"
What! Sheng Guoer and Li Langzhong stood up almost at the same time, Li Langzhong was more anxious than Sheng Guoer.
When someone came to see his sister, he didn't keep strict supervision, and actually let his sister follow his apprentice to do such dangerous things!
Mr. Li's expression changed, and he hurriedly comforted Sheng Guoer: "Don't worry, Miss Sheng, they can't go far."
Then Li Langzhong said: "Where have they gone? When did they leave? How long have they been gone?"
The little girl who replied said tremblingly: "Master, Xiaotao and the others just left."
Li Langzhong said: "Hurry up and look for it!"
Mr. Li's apprentices hurriedly set off to look for him.
But at this moment, a series of small sounds like silver bells suddenly came from the door, and Xiao Tao was seen dragging Lin Muyan and jumping into the house.
"Where have you been?" Sheng Guoer anxiously ran forward and took her sister's hand and said, "I'm almost dying of anxiety, you know?"
Seeing that it was her sister, Xiao Tao immediately restrained her naughty nature and said hurriedly: "Sister, I, I'm going to catch some poisonous scorpions."
Sheng Guoer was furious. The mountain was blocked by heavy snow. It was already dangerous, and it also caught poisonous scorpions. What if something happened!
But Sheng Guoer knew that she couldn't teach her sister a lesson in front of others, so she said with a tigerish face: "Follow me into the house!"
After finishing speaking, Sheng Guoer dragged Xiao Tao into the house.
Mr. Li also said with a fierce face: "Mu Yan, come into the house with me!"
Lin Muyan had no choice but to lower his head and follow Mr. Li into the small dark room.
After closing the door, Sheng Guoer's eyes widened and she said angrily: "Sheng Xiaotao!"
When Sheng Xiaotao heard her sister calling her name, she immediately shivered in fright and hurriedly hid in the corner without daring to speak.
Sheng Guoer hugged her arms and said angrily: "You were so crazy just now! If I hadn't come here today, I wouldn't have known you were so bold!"
Sheng Xiaotao hurriedly explained: "Sister, I really went to develop medicines, look!"
Sheng Guoer said angrily: "Have you learned what Mr. taught you? You want to fly as soon as you learn to walk. How old are you? You are only eight years old after the New Year. You dare to go up the mountain in the snow! You don't want your life. If you have anything Damn it, how are you going to let our family survive! We can’t survive this year!”
Sheng Xiaotao mumbled, "Sister, I was wrong."
Sheng Guoer angrily took off the scarf and said, "Lie down on the chair!"
Sheng Xiaotao raised her head and said with tears in her eyes: "Sister, we are from the same roots, so why are we in such a hurry? I am also doing this to learn my skills as soon as possible!"
Sheng Guoer chuckled: "Who did you learn to be smooth-tongued from?"
Sheng Xiaotao said: "Follow Senior Brother Lin, he often recites poetry, and I can do it."
Seeing Sheng Xiaotao's lovely appearance, coupled with her random quotations, Sheng Guoer's anger subsided by a large margin. Sheng Guoer sat on the chair with a tigerish face and continued to ask: "Say, Why did you go up the mountain to look for poisonous scorpions?"
When Sheng Xiaotao saw her sister put down her scarf, she understood that she had finally escaped a beating, and said, "Sister, I see there are bugs in Mr.'s flowers that are harming them, so I want to help those flowers. I see I read a lot of medical books, and one of them recorded that the venom of poisonous scorpions can be used to make a prescription for killing insects, so I went to the mountains to look for petals of poisonous scorpions."
Can scorpion venom kill insects? This is unheard of. No wonder ancient Chinese medicine was very good, but it seems to be a lost prescription.
Sheng Guoer said: "Then you can't go either! How dangerous it is!"
At this time, Sheng Xiaotao became energetic and said with joy: "Sister, don't worry, I have an idea in my mind. I understand the habits of poisonous scorpions. With the help of Senior Brother Lin, we have caught a lot and we can cure them today according to that recipe." Mr.’s flowers!”
Sheng Guoer thought to herself, if it was true as Xiao Tao said, could the pests in her greenhouse be controlled?
We still don’t know how effective it will be, but Sheng Guo’er said: “Okay, if you can’t cure Mr. Li’s flowers today, I will punish you for both crimes, and you won’t be able to eat well when you go back!”
Sheng Xiaotao said confidently: "Don't worry, sister!"
In fact, Sheng Xiaotao's confidence was mainly due to Lin Muyan's assistance. When Sheng Xiaotao came up with this idea, Lin Muyan thought it was a good idea. What farmers fear most when planting land and vegetables is pests, which have not been effectively controlled. If it can be developed successfully, it will be very beneficial to the production and life of the people. There are benefits.
Lin Muyan, who upholds the parent-like attitude of a doctor, decided to develop this medicine together with Xiao Tao.
Before they went looking for the Petal Scorpion, they had already made several insecticides using scorpion venom in the pharmacy, but in the end, they made a breakthrough with the Peculiar Scorpion, which had the closest toxicity to the Petal Scorpion.
So Sheng Xiaotao proposed to go to the mountain to find the Petal Scorpion. The two of them made careful preparations before leaving. In fact, it was Lin Muyan who mainly made the preparations. Sheng Xiaotao was so excited that she forgot to prepare.
Fortunately, the two of them found the Petal Scorpion from a small cave without any danger and brought it back.
After listening to the "confessions" of Lin Muyan and Sheng Xiaotao, Mr. Li also decided to let them give it a try and forgive them if they succeeded.
With their first success, Sheng Xiaotao and Lin Muyan were naturally confident.
Together they hid in a dispensary to develop insecticides while Sheng Guoer and others, including Mr. Li, waited outside.
"Do you think they can succeed?" Some of the brothers didn't believe it. What could an eight-year-old child do?
But they were wrong. Gan Luo became a prime minister at the age of twelve, Li Dongyuan could prescribe prescriptions at a young age, and Emperor Han Zhi dared to scold treacherous ministers at the age of eight. It can be seen that the size of achievements has little to do with age.
When Sheng Xiaotao and Lin Muyan were sweating profusely, Xiaotao had a smile on her face. She handed the medicine bottle over, and everyone took a closer look, but saw some black liquid inside the white medicine bottle.
Sheng Xiaotao poured the liquid into the flower pot. After a while, the pests actually died after struggling for a few times!
Sheng Guoer's first reaction when seeing this was: "Get rich!"
