The old Chinese doctor in the courtyard

Chapter 309

Although it was difficult to get down the first ditch, Li Shengli still gained something. The jujube trees all over the ditch were supposed to be able to earn an income of [-] yuan a year.

According to the price of jujube kernels in later generations, which is now one or two yuan per pound, the income that this ditch can provide is only a few hundred yuan.

Sometimes, gains and losses cannot be calculated carefully, based on the income of this valley.

Scanning along the road leading to the village on the mountain will bring you at least a few thousand, if not tens of thousands, of income. Of course, the premise is that there are so many wild jujube trees in every ditch.

Although there are a lot of processes required from wild dates to wild date kernels, and the output ratio is not high, don't forget that this is an era when rice and white flour only cost less than [-] cents and less than [-] cents.

Being able to exchange money for your efforts is also a happy thing for the members of mountain villages. Some villages have insufficient congenital conditions to come up with such strength.

Madianji is a living example. It is located on the outskirts of the city. If there is a food problem, the village will not be able to survive.

Pushing the jujube kernels that had accumulated over the years at the bottom of the ditch, Li Shengli squatted down and pulled out some that looked relatively new, then picked up a stone and smashed the jujube kernels.

Part of the jujube kernels has turned gray and gone bad, but about a third still has an oily sheen.

"It's easy, just put two bags on the spot and take them back to try."

Taking out the engineer shovel and two cloth bags from the leather backpack with the rifle behind him, Li Shengli made a circle and asked Boss Zhao to put the two bags back first to test the output rate.

As for the medicinal properties of the wild jujube kernels produced, it is not Li Shengli's concern. Standards are a crucial thing. Without standards, the medicinal properties of the old goods have nothing to do with the taste of the mountain village.

"Uncle, the ravine is clean. If you go further down, the slope will be smaller. You can go up and down without a rope."

While Boss Zhao was packing jujube cores, Xiao Feng, who had gone out to explore the road, also came back. The ravines all have directions, and if there is no way forward and backward, they will become blisters in the mountains.

After shouting to Yang Xiushan who was guarding the rope above, Li Shengli led the two of them to explore the entire ravine.

The semi-primitive ravine is basically occupied by wild jujube trees. Although the slope of the second half of the two to three kilometers long ravine is smaller, the mountain is covered with thorny shrubs like wild jujube.

It is not easy for people to go down into the ravine, and it is not easy to go up again. It is even more difficult to pick jujubes among the thorns.

Thinking of the mountain village members who were driven away by starvation during difficult times, Li Shengli shook his head helplessly. If the ditch was gentler, even if the price could not be sold, the villagers could survive for a few months with the jujube cores full of ditches.

The mountain is a treasure mountain, but if you want to make a living with Baoshan, you need to work hard. You can fill your stomach by just picking up some. Facing the hills and mountains in the north, it is a bit too much to think about.

It would be okay to live in deep mountains and old forests like those in the Northeast, but it would be difficult to make a living in the ravines, ridges, and barren hills filled with low shrubs.

The forests on the other side of Huyu Valley are lush, but if you want to go into the mountains, you must at least have a full stomach. The output of the mountain fields is insufficient, and the distance between the village and the mountains and forests is a bit far away. This is a dilemma.

Throughout the afternoon, Li Shengli, Xiao Feng and Boss Zhao explored the ravine.

There are mostly wild jujube trees, occasionally mixed with cash crops such as pepper trees, and a few herbs are not worth harvesting.

Although he only visited two ravines in one afternoon, Li Shengli also had a general understanding of the mountains and ravines on both sides of the mountain village road.

The water veins on the mountain run along the village. The ravines outside the village are relatively dry and lack water, so only thorny shrubs such as wild jujube can grow.

In addition to watching all the way in the morning, these mountains and ravines outside the mountain village can only focus on one jujube kernel.

Although the harvest is not big, it is still productive, which is similar to what Li Shengli estimated. Such a large area of ​​wild jujube forest can contribute at least tens of thousands of dollars in revenue a year.

As for how to harvest, as long as the things can be exchanged for money, within three to five years, these jujube trees will be well taken care of.

Driven by economic interests, people's motivation is boundless, and it is easy to get through a little bit of thorns and bushes.

Although harvesting is not easy, the wild jujube groves on both sides of the mountain road for more than [-] miles can still be eaten.

Returning to Yang Yulian's home with two bags of wild jujube kernels shoveled from the ravine, the little widow also knew the ancient steps of packing wild jujube kernels.

Shelling is nothing more than putting some chaff and wheat bran on the stone mill to prevent the jujube kernels from being crushed, and the rest is nothing more than picking the earth and sand.

"Sheng Li, take off your clothes. Can I patch them up for you?"

After spending an afternoon exploring the wild jujube forest in the ravine, the blue jacket that Li Shengli put on in advance also had many threads and small holes hanging out.

Looking at the gentle-faced little widow from the mountain village, Li Shengli sighed softly without saying any words of rejection.

This is why Li Shengli was reluctant to come when he heard that a young widow was running the mountain.

There are many things that are unavoidable. Zhang Ying, the Xiao family's sister-in-law, has no choice but to save her life.

These things cannot be messed with. No matter you are nice or harsh, you can always give them hope inadvertently.

Perhaps this was their hope for survival, and Li Shengli couldn't refuse too harshly.

The steamed buns in the pot were already steaming. Looking at the little widow repairing her clothes in the setting sun, Li Shengli said:
“There are many wild jujube trees and pepper trees in the ravines outside the village. At the turn of summer and autumn, we need to harvest the wild jujube trees to see how big the harvest can be in a year.

Prepare cloth bags, bamboo baskets, iron prongs, and hemp ropes in advance. The ravine is steep and steep, so don't hurt the members.

Younger women can do this. You can organize it. If there is militia training this year, let’s train up and down the ditch..."

The current production teams and production brigades are better in this regard, as personnel can be arranged centrally.

If the property was divided, no one would be willing to do such a business, so Yang Yulian was given a rough arrangement.

Seeing the little widow take out a piece of crumpled horse manure paper to make notes, Li Shengli felt soft and asked Xiao Feng to get a notebook and pen from the other courtyard above.These items were also found in the jeep. Some of the materials collected from the disaster area were sent to the field hospital, including miscellaneous items.

It's just that the things belong to the public, and the field hospital's management of these materials is also lax. In addition, there are no accounts, and generosity to the public is just a matter of course for some people.

In addition to notebooks and pens, Li Shengli also received several boxes of Zhonghua Cigarettes and Daqianmen, as well as dozens of bottles of fine wines such as Maotai and Xifeng.

To fill up two mid-sized jeeps, you need a lot of things for both young and old.

Eating at Yang Yulian's house was relatively relaxing. The little widow asked questions and Li Shengli opened her mouth to answer them.

The food and meat for dinner were all brought by Li Shengli from Wali. In a few days, the mutton would have to be fresh.

After dinner, seeing the little widow rubbing her notebook nonstop, Li Shengli simply assigned a task to her.

"Sister Yang, let everyone work hard at night. Prepare to light tree slivers more than one meter long and burn them with fire.

I will take it up the mountain tomorrow morning. When I encounter a place with medicinal herbs, I will plug it in directly.

The tree slivers need to be harder, so I’ll find two more small axes..."

Yang Yulian was living alone as a widow, so she was afraid that she would have nothing to do. Earlier, when she counted rice and distributed red and black beans to the widow, it was not just a fooling around, it was just to relieve her worries and relieve her boredom.

After arranging a living for the little widow, Li Shengli didn't stay at her house for long, and took Xiao Feng and Boss Zhao to the other courtyard above.

After driving Boss Zhao to the big bunk in the wing room and arranging for Xiao Feng to experience a large Western-style bed with a mattress, Li Shengli occupied the canopy bed in the main room.

At night, the courtyard is obviously colder than the village below. Even inside the house, the temperature is lower than the outdoor temperature below.

There is a reason why no one lives in the other house above the village on the mountain. It is the beginning of spring and the temperature is getting warmer, so the house is almost like an ice cellar.

If it is late winter, the other courtyard above will be nothing more than rows of large refrigerators, which have almost no thermal insulation performance and can only serve as a shield from the wind and snow.

Living in a house like this in the mountains, if the heating measures are not good enough, you can freeze to death.

After all, the other courtyard here was built to escape the heat. The thermal insulation performance is inconsistent with the functions of the other courtyard. How to keep cool is the requirement of the other courtyard.

In the early morning, because he had to go up the mountain, Li Shengli simply walked a few laps to warm up. After breakfast, he brought dry food and carried on his back the tree strips that Yang Yulian organized the villagers to cut last night. Li Shengli, Xiao Feng and Boss Zhao went up. Entered the mountain.

Going up the mountain, Yang Xiushan's lame leg is not so easy to use. In the mountain village, except for Yang Xiushan, there are almost no people who can take action.

Looking back at the little widow Yang Yulian at the foot of the mountain, Li Shengli frowned and wanted to escape into the mountains to hide and relax.

But I don't know which nerve of Yang Yulian has been touched. If she really gets used to this, it will be troublesome in the future.

It's just that Yang Yulian's matter is still a small matter. The time for spring picking is tight. After picking the hair-growing rhizomes, there is still the saying that artemisia grows in March and artemisia grows in April, and pinellia grows in May.

After the spring harvest begins, it can also be regarded as the beginning of the year's medicinal season. From February to March to late autumn, there are many types of medicinal materials that can be collected on the mountain.

After the spring harvest to test the water, it is time to pick the wormwood. After picking the wormwood, it is time to pick bitter vegetables, mother-in-law, etc., and then the pinellia and the like. After the spring harvest, the medicinal materials are also one after another.

However, although there are many medicinal materials in the mountains, the medicinal materials company does not accept all the medicinal materials according to the order. Now there is a plan to collect the medicinal materials.

After going up the mountain to look at the types of medicinal herbs, Li Shengli still needed Zhao Mankui to contact the medicinal material company.

You still need to contact the medicinal materials company for what kind of herbs to collect. In addition to collecting herbs, you also need to contact the medicinal materials company for what kind of herbs to prepare.

In addition to the categories of purchases, you also need to find picture albums of herbal medicines from medicinal materials companies.

Nowadays, Wali is a little better, and the commune members still have experience in collecting mountains. The commune members in Madianji and the mountains may not have picture albums, and they can't recognize a few kinds of herbs.

Organizing learning, searching according to the diagram, and gathering in a concentrated manner is Li Shengli’s approach.

How to prepare the herbal medicine must also be carried out after the purchase details are available. In the two villages of Wali and Shanshan, Li Shengli is not only the commander, but also pays attention to some details.

Just like in Madianji, generally speaking, there are many people to carry out the work. Wali is better. In the mountain village, you can't even find anyone who goes up the mountain...

The two villages borrowed labor from outside, and the most basic thing was to ensure a balance of income and expenditure.

After spring harvesting begins, if you cannot make ends meet, it will be impossible to get rich by collecting medicinal herbs.

Pointing to the limited labor force in the mountain villages, it is obvious that it is not possible now.

Perhaps, if the herbs are moved to the mountain fields, the labor force of the mountain villages will be enough. But at this time, borrowing the idle labor force of Madianji and paying more than three to five times the work point income is not only a burden on the shoulders of the two villages, but Li Shengli is also under pressure.

Once the medicine collection business goes south, it's okay for Wali, but there are really no ways to get rich in the mountain villages.

If you borrow people from Madianji to farm the land, you will have to lose your pants. Just like Madianji needs to do business, the only way out for the mountain village is to grow and collect medicinal materials.

Spring picking is a test with minimal investment. Once the wormwood sprouts are delayed until March, the business of picking medicinal herbs will be somewhat difficult to advance or retreat.

Li Shengli also has conditions. It is okay to borrow money for emergencies, but he will not fill the hole in the mountain village, even if he has the ability to fill the hole in the public food supply.

Just as Li Shengli said to Yang Yulian, there is a reason for the public grain hole in Shanshan Village. Replacing public grain requisition with planned acquisition is the right path for Shanshan Village to take, instead of letting him, a big head, plug the hole.

(End of this chapter)