Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 299

The next day, the three of them did not take the train to Mudanjiang as planned but stayed in Weihe.

Qian Xiaobao walked out of the county hall alone after breakfast and rushed to the blue brick house he saw yesterday.

He had already inquired, and there lived a Chinese doctor named Niu.

Chinese medicine is no longer called in Manchukuo, but Han medicine like the Japanese.

The four members of the Cowherd's family stared dumbfounded at a Japanese soldier swaggering into the yard, then opened the door and walked into the house.

"Has the child gone to school?" Qian Xiaobao asked with a smile.In one sentence, he told the four people in the room that he knew everything.

"Don't be afraid, I'm also from Manchuria." Qian Xiaobao said to the four trembling people in the room.

He walked to the north kang and grabbed a handful of sesame-shaped grains and asked, "Is this plantain seed?"

In the Northeast, plantain is everywhere. In autumn, the flower spikes are picked and dried in the sun to rub out the seeds inside.

"Our Northeast is full of treasures. If someone sells this thing, how much can it sell for?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"These things are all over the place. They are cheap and worthless! I picked them all in autumn and rubbed them out." The cowherd in his fifties replied tremblingly.

Qian Xiaobao sat on the edge of the kang with a big face, took out a cigarette and smoked the four people in the room one by one.

A big monster in the Northeast, the big girl has a cigarette bag in her mouth.Most women are smokers.

No one dared not to follow the smoke from the imperial army.

Niulangzhong and his wife, Niulangzhong's son and his wife, plus Qian Xiaobao, five people started puffing in the house.

"Mr. Niu, how about this cigarette?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"It's okay to smoke, but the strength is too weak." Cowherd replied.

"I think these cigarettes are good! But they must not be cheap!" said the wife of the cowherd.The old lady's two fingers were burnt yellow, and she looked like an old smoking gun!
"Auntie, I bought this from Shanghai! Next time I go to Shanghai to get one for you!" Qian Xiaobao said with his legs crossed.

The five of them smoked cigarettes, and the awkward atmosphere gradually eased.

"Uncle, I didn't come here for any other purpose. I just wanted to ask you about medicinal materials. I heard that there are businessmen in the Northeast who buy medicinal materials in large quantities and ship them to Guanli for sale. These medicinal materials are those that your old man should always You know?" Qian Xiaobao asked with a smile.

He wanted to sell medicinal materials to Shanghai by sea. If the local medicinal materials in the south were transported from the northeast, it would not be worthwhile.

"There's also the tree bark in the yard. I heard it's hard to see it except in Weihe. Tell me what's the use of this kind of thing." Qian Xiaobao continued.

"It is said in "Materia Medica" that this stuff is very useful for stimulating the menstrual flow, diuresis and benefiting the kidney!" Cowherd said.

"Does that mean that southerners also know its benefits?" Qian Xiaobao asked.

"Of course! Don't southerners read "Materia Medica" the same way?" Cowherd replied.

Qian Xiaobao was relieved, so this kind of bark could be sold for money when transported to the south.

"Uncle Niu, look how poor the common people are now!" Qian Xiaobao said.

A man in Japanese military uniform had a heart-to-heart talk with you and said that the people in Manchukuo had a hard life, so he asked you how you feel?
Anyway, the four people in the room opened their eyes wide and looked at Qian Xiaobao like a monster!
"I went to Weihe this time to go to the three pioneering groups to collect grain. But walking on Weihe Street, I saw thatched houses on both sides of the road, so your house is not bad!" Qian Xiaobao continued. .

Hearing this, the four were almost scared to death.It turned out that the person in front of him took a fancy to his own house!
"Oh, sir, this house was accumulated by three generations of our family practicing medicine. Where will our family of five live without a house?" Niu Langzhong was so frightened that he almost knelt on the ground.

"Who said you want your house? I mean, seeing that the lives of ordinary people are too miserable, wouldn't collecting medicinal materials here give them another way to make money? That's why I'm here to ask you to write a list of medicinal materials!" Qian Xiaobao said.

"I'll write, I'll write right away!" Cowherd said hastily.

He stood up tremblingly, looking for pen and ink.

The old lady who was sitting cross-legged on the Kang and smoking a cigarette was too scared to move by what Qian Xiaobao said just now.

The son and daughter-in-law of the cowherd hurriedly took out the straw paper on which the prescription was written, poured water and rubbed ink.

"Is there anyone hunting here in Weihe? Write down such good things as tiger bones, bear gall, musk deer antler!" Qian Xiaobao said from the side.

The cowherd picks up the brush and writes the names of the medicinal materials on the trembling straw paper.

"Mr. Niu, take your time and write bigger." Qian Xiaobao said in a gentle tone.

"I really want to do something good for everyone. The food in the house has been taken away. If you can make some money by selling medicinal materials and buy some stick noodles, this winter will be over." Qian Xiaobao said.

"Now is not the time to dig medicinal herbs in the heavy snow and severe winter." The old lady answered.

She has now recovered from her fear.

"Yeah, how could I forget this!" Qian Xiaobao said angrily.

"It's fine if you have other things at home, roe deer skins, fox skins, whatever you can get from hunting!" Qian Xiaobao replied.

Cowherd looked at Qian Xiaobao suspiciously, meaning what did these things have to do with me?
"Don't you understand yet? From now on, your place will be the place to purchase medicinal materials and various mountain products for the Kwantung Army!" Qian Xiaobao said.

The Cowherd dropped the brush on the table with a frightened hand.

He stretched out his hands and tightly grasped Qian Xiaobao's hand and said, "Big Brother, I, I really can't do it!"

"You can't do it, or you don't want to be a traitor?" Qian Xiaobao asked in a gloomy voice.

Half an hour later, Qian Xiaobao walked out of the blue brick house in the Cowherd, and walked along Weihe Street to the place where he met Liu Guangju yesterday.

It was past nine o'clock in the morning, and sure enough, Liu Guangju was basking in the sun under the wall again.

It is colder in the broken thatched hut without a fire than in the sun outside.

The torn cotton wool was half spread and half covered, and Qian Xiaobao saw a piece of dark skin through the hole in the cotton wool.I don't know that I haven't bathed for several years, and the skin has scales.

Qian Xiaobao squatted on the ground, lit a cigarette, took two puffs, then pressed the cigarette butt on Liu Guangpin's thigh through the hole in the torn cotton wool.

A naked man suddenly jumped up from the torn cotton wool!

"Oh my god, your uncle, who banned me? Tonight I will lie on the bed of your kang and can't get up! I will celebrate the New Year at your house!" Liu Guangren scolded.

He should have experienced such a thing more than once, and every time he got up, he had already run away.

So Liu Guangfu yelled naked at the street, completely ignoring Qian Xiaobao who was squatting on the ground.

"Brother, stop scolding, take two puffs to extinguish the fire!" Qian Xiaobao said as he handed over the lit cigarette.

　The cold has improved a lot, and there will be another chapter tonight.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)