A doctor who travels through two eras

Lin Sanqi knew that he had to help, and it was not a difficult task for him:
"Don't worry, Dean Shen. I'll take care of the fertilizer issue."

The three old village heads were all surprised: "Wow, there are capable people in the Chinese Medicine Hospital who can even get fertilizer? Chief Lin, can you help our village get some fertilizer too..."

Lin Sanqi rolled his eyes and thought to himself, you guys are just dreaming.

"Uncles, didn't you hear just now? Fertilizer is very expensive and hard to buy. Even if you old men lose all your limbs, you won't be able to afford it. Besides, I'm just trying to find a way, I may not be able to buy it."

The three old village heads felt a little embarrassed after hearing this. Indeed, it would be better for farmers to buy grain directly with the money. Only the big farmers in the city could afford fertilizers.

Vice President Ji obviously found inspiration at this time and said to President Shen next to him:
"We can't put all our hopes on fertilizers. What if Comrade Lin Sanqi can't get them? Why don't we go to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and ask if they have any corn seeds that can increase yield and tolerate drought?"

Dean Shen clapped his hands and said, "Yes, how could you forget about seeds? You can ask not only about corn seeds, but also about potatoes, sweet potatoes, or any other vegetable seeds."

Lin Sanqi next to him was thinking about something else.

In 1960, the level of scientific research in China was just so-so. A group of leading grain experts like Grandpa Yuan Longping had not yet grown up, so it was useless to ask at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

If there really is some good agricultural technology, why has the country been experiencing a food crisis for three or four consecutive years?

Others don’t have the conditions, but Lin Sanqi does.

It's just grain seeds. When the time comes, ask Mr. Zhao at the grain and oil wholesale market to see which company has the highest seed yield and then buy a batch. It will definitely be a high yield by 1960.

He is not too chaste. He doesn't want one ton or 1000 kilograms. He just wants the average yield per mu to reach 700 kilograms.

Those 1000 acres of land can produce 700 tons of grain, which can completely solve the problem of food and clothing for thousands of employees and their families in the hospital.

If these 700 tons of corn are all used as food, they can be turned into tens of thousands of tons of grain. Wouldn't that be considered a huge contribution to the country?
I just don’t know whether those high-yield grain seeds are genetically modified. If they are, they are doomed and cannot be used as grain seeds.

After seeing off the three old village heads, Dean Shen, Vice Dean Ji, and Lin Sanqi stood in the field and continued their meeting.

"Xiao Qi, you just heard that now whether our farm can run smoothly depends on you. How much money is needed to buy fertilizer? I will think of a way. We only have 10 yuan in our account now. I don't know if it is enough."

Lin Sanqi thought that this old man really didn't know how to calculate. With 10 yuan worth of ginseng, he could provide two or three hundred tons of food.

You spend 10 yuan to buy fertilizers. Even if the corn yield doubles or triples, it will only be a little over 100 tons. This will cost all the employees half a year's hard work. It's not cost-effective.

But there is no way. Chinese people are so attached to the land. They feel at ease only when food grows in the land.

"Okay, Uncle Shen, Uncle Ji, don't worry, I'll take care of the fertilizer issue, and I'll also take care of the seeds. Just prepare 5 yuan worth of musk and bezoar for me."

Dean Shen and Vice Dean Ji smiled at each other after hearing this, and felt relieved...

"Sanqi, what are we going to do?"

Pan Ye followed Lin Sanqi carrying a bamboo basket and asked curiously.

Lin Sanqi also carried a basket and walked towards the hillside:

"We are also picking wild vegetables today. Look, there are so many people on the mountain in the distance. I saw some people picking wild vegetables in the orchard of our Chinese medicine hospital this morning."

Pan Ye felt a little strange. Her boyfriend didn't seem to have any shortage of food. There were hundreds of kilograms of white flour hidden in the dormitory. How come he suddenly had to eat wild vegetables?

"Sanqi, are you having any trouble?"

Lin Sanqi was a little surprised: "No, what difficulties can I have? If there is any difficulty, it is just hoping that the two sides can be unified as soon as possible."

Pan Ye rolled his eyes at him: "Virtue!"

Lin Sanqi chuckled and was about to climb a slope, so he stretched out his hand.

Pan Ye put his hand into Lin Sanqi's hand without hesitation, then pushed hard and climbed up the hillside.

After pulling his girlfriend up the hill, Lin Sanqi was reluctant to let her go, so the two of them pretended they knew nothing and walked forward hand in hand.

Lin Sanqi gently stroked Pan Ye's small hand, thinking that as expected, when falling in love, one has to go into the woods or to a dim movie theater. Only in such a deserted place will girls let down their guard.

If I meet a more open-minded girl, it is not impossible to have a deep and simple soul-to-soul communication in the woods.

The two held hands, smelled the fresh air, felt the breath of spring, and their inner hormones were stirring.

Men need women, and women need men as well. Spring is here, and it is the breeding season for animals...

"Actually, I wanted to pick some shepherd's purse so we can make shepherd's purse dumplings when we get home. Wow, this is the best gift spring has given us."

After hearing this, Pan Ye was really at a loss whether to laugh or cry:

"Others pick wild vegetables to save their lives, but you pick them to improve your life and enjoy delicious food. Be careful not to be heard by outsiders, otherwise they will criticize you again."

Lin Sanqi didn't care: "There's no outsider here, so of course I can speak my mind to my wife."

"Bah, who is your wife? You are so shameless."

Although Pan Ye had already admitted it in her heart, as a girl she certainly couldn't admit it out loud, as this was related to the girl's modesty and family education.

Lin Sanqi deliberately asked in surprise:

"Ah, you're not my wife? Then what should I do if I'm holding someone else's wife? Why do I feel more excited?"

Pan Ye got angry when he heard this: "You pervert, how can you say that about your partner? I'm going to beat you up!"

The two of them just kept running through the orchard, one chasing the other, laughing happily all the way.

In fact, there were quite a few family members of Chinese medicine hospital employees picking wild vegetables in the orchard. When they saw the young section chief playing with his girlfriend, they all started laughing too.

The hospital leaders are worried about the food problem, but the employees are not. These days they are used to the company taking care of everything about their eating, drinking, and defecating.

There are many varieties of wild vegetables in Changping in spring, including shepherd's purse, dandelion, wild garlic, wheel vegetable, etc.

But Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye only found a little shepherd's purse after searching for a long time in the orchard. Other places where there were wild vegetables showed signs of the soil being turned over, which made both of them a little depressed.

"Sanqi, I see that all the wild vegetables here have been picked. It seems that we can't eat shepherd's purse dumplings today."

Lin Sanqi thought that he could definitely eat it. He could travel back to the vegetable market in 2023 to buy cultivated shepherd's purse, but the taste of cultivated and wild ones was completely different.

Especially the wild vegetables in 1960 were purely natural and pollution-free, and could be eaten raw.

In 2023, wild vegetables either have excessive pesticide residues or excessive heavy metal pollutants. In short, wild vegetables can only be tasted for their own good. Eating too much of them will not only fail to clear away heat and dampness, reduce swelling and disperse nodules, but will be harmful instead.

"It's okay. The wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain have been dug up. Let's go deeper into the mountain. If nothing works, we can exchange grain with the farmers for some wild vegetables."

Only Lin Sanqi could come up with the bizarre idea of ​​exchanging precious grains with farmers for wild vegetables.

However, Pan Ye knew her boyfriend's ability and did not object. The girl was quite obedient and would do whatever her boyfriend said. She would never argue or make her own decisions. It is rare to find a girl with traditional ideas.

The two of them were talking and laughing as they walked towards the mountain. Halfway through, they met a few boys carrying a few broken bamboo baskets coming down the mountain.

These are some rural children from a nearby village. They are dressed in rags and don’t even have a pair of shoes.

On the other hand, although Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye were not dressed very well, they were both clean. If it were not inappropriate, Lin Sanqi would have wanted to wear Li Ning sneakers to go hiking.

Visible to the naked eye.

Lin Sanqi was also sharp-eyed. Seeing what these children were holding, he shouted in surprise:
"Hey, little brother, wait a minute."

Several little boys stopped and looked at Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye nervously:

"What do you want? We picked these things from the mountains. They are not from your farm. You are not allowed to take them away!"

Lin Sanqi was a little puzzled: "Why should I steal your things? Has anyone robbed you before?"

One of the little girls, about ten years old, nodded and said:

"We were robbed by kids who were about our age. They said the mountains where we were picking wild vegetables belonged to the farm of the Chinese Medicine Hospital and that we were not allowed to pick them anymore. They also took everything away. It was so unreasonable. City people shouldn't bully others!"

Lin Sanqi thought, this country kid is so naive, he believes whatever others say.

However, this was a dispute between the children of the staff of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital and the rural children of the nearby villages. Lin Sanqi was too lazy to care about it. Young boys fight all the time. It's a normal thing.

"Don't worry, uncle is a cadre of the farm, he won't steal your things. Can I see what's in your basket?"

Seeing that Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye were both polite and easy to talk to, the children also put down their guard and said proudly:

"I'll show you guys this. This is Chinese toon. Look, there's a big basket of it."

Lin Sanqi started drooling when he saw the Chinese toon. It is so fragrant and delicious when fried with eggs.

"This basket is of willow buds..."

"Willow buds?"

Lin Sanqi was a little puzzled: "Is this a new leaf from the willow tree? Can this be eaten? What if it is poisonous?"

Pan Ye was speechless about her boyfriend, wondering how this family of traditional Chinese medicine educated him:
"Willow buds are not poisonous. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, they can be used as medicine. They have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, resisting inflammation and killing bacteria, moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, and helping to lower blood lipids."

Lin Sanqi was looked down upon and felt a little embarrassed. He was the disciple of 12 masters of traditional Chinese medicine, and his character was that of a descendant of a traditional Chinese medicine family.

In 1960, he had to rely on this identity to get medicinal materials and secret recipes. In 2023, he had to use this identity to fool rich people into buying precious medicines. If outsiders knew that he didn't even have a solid foundation in Chinese medicine, his character would collapse.

Several children have already started to chatter about how to eat it:

"Willow leaf sprouts are edible. In the past, the landlords used to wrap them in flour and fry them in oil. I heard that fried willow leaf sprouts taste better than meat. Now we take them home, boil them in water, and then add some salt before eating."

Lin Sanqi was a little curious: "Does boiling willow leaves in water taste good?"

Several children shook their heads and said, "It doesn't taste good. I feel like a sheep eating grass."

"Hahaha~~~"

Lin Sanqi thought these kids were very humorous, but unexpectedly, Pan Ye stepped on his foot lightly.

Sure enough, the expressions on the children's faces were embarrassed and annoyed, thinking that Lin Sanqi, a city boy, was laughing at them.

Lin Sanqi scratched his head awkwardly and quickly explained:

"I'm sorry, I really didn't mean anything else. Come on, I'll treat you to some candy."

After saying that, Lin Sanqi took out a handful of fruit candies from her messenger bag and distributed them to the six children present, and even gave more to the two little girls.

Children can be easily coaxed, not to mention candy, which they probably hardly ever get to eat on a normal day.

"Thank you uncle!"

"Thank you, uncle, you are such a good man!"

Lin Sanqi continued to look at the other baskets, because at a glance, it seemed that there should be a lot of colorful harvests:

"What other good things did you find?"

"Uncle, we also picked shepherd's purse, dandelion, and amaranth..."

“And this bamboo shoot…”

"This is yellow mushroom, but unfortunately there is no lard, otherwise it would be very fragrant when fried..."

"Wow, you guys have a great harvest. By the way, can you sell all these wild vegetables to me?"

"sell to you?"

The children looked at each other, and sure enough, the idea of ​​selling wild vegetables to others was not among their life options. To them, every household was picking wild vegetables, so how could they sell them?
One of the older boys touched the candy in his pocket and smiled innocently:

"Uncle, if you want to eat wild vegetables, we'll give these to you."

"Give it to me?"

Lin Sanqi was a little surprised. These were several baskets of wild vegetables. It might have taken so many kids a whole day to collect them.

Pan Ye was anxious. She had been taught since childhood not to take even a single needle or thread from the masses.

"No, no, this is all the result of your hard work. If we take it, we will become the exploiting class."

Lin Sanqi stopped Pan Ye from exaggerating and talking about class at every turn. It was clearly the good intentions of the mountain kids and he should not scare others.

"Well, I want all your wild vegetables, but I'll exchange them with food. Now I'll write you a note and ask you to send the wild vegetables to the bungalow dormitory of the Chinese Medicine Hospital and find a person named Aunt Li to give you 5 kilograms of corn flour. How about that?"

The children were excited when they heard this: "Really? Are you really willing to exchange food for wild vegetables with us?"

Lin Sanqi wrote in his notebook and said happily:
"Of course it's true. From now on, you can bring me any wild vegetables, rabbits, pheasants, etc. that you pick, and I'll exchange them with food!"

"Great, thank you uncle!!!"

For the children, 5 jin of corn flour is the best gift for them this spring... (End of this chapter)