peasant young lady

Chapter 17 Seeing Blood Sealing the Throat
These trees are also called blood-sealed throats. They are highly poisonous moraceae plants. In her previous life, she and her mentor had seen them once when they went to Yunnan. It is only found in Yunnan and Hainan, but I didn't expect it to be found in Fujian as well.

Seeing blood to seal the throat, as the name suggests, if you have a wound on your body, if you touch the juice, you will die of poison soon.The hunters in ancient times specially used the sap of the blood-sealed throat tree to make arrow poison, and used it to shoot and kill large wild animals. This alone is enough to prove its toxicity.

Cheng Xia carefully avoided these trees, and walked around for a while, and found that in addition to the bloody throat, there were heartbroken grass and oleander, and these things could kill people if they were not careful.

There are so many poisons in this small area, no wonder it can kill people.

Although there are many poisons here, it is still a good place.Cheng Xia wants to get out the pepper seeds as soon as possible. The best planting period for spring peppers is from late January to early February, but now it is the end of March and will soon enter April. Although it is not impossible to sow seeds now, but in the end The more you drag, the less effective the planting will be.

But chili peppers were still a new thing to the Ming Dynasty, not only had she never seen it so simple, if she planted chili peppers in the Yang family's yard openly, or in other places that could be easily found by others, it might cause an uproar.

When asked by others, Cheng Xia can't say that he conjured it up.But if it can be planted here, when the peppers are ripe, she will pretend to be unintentional and say that she accidentally discovered that the thing growing on the mountain is still edible, so she can fool it.

Even, Cheng Xia thought secretly, she must have left the Yang family at that time, she can make a lot of money by selling the mature chili peppers directly without telling anyone. Chance.

It is very hidden here, because no one dares to come in, and it is also very suitable for crop growth, because the light and soil are good, and now there is only one water source.

Cheng Xia pondered, if he could find a lake, then this would be the best choice.

Cheng Xia walked around this place a few times, and found a small lake. On a very hidden high slope, the lake is not big, but more like it was washed down.The water in the lake is so clear that you can see many fishes playing in it.

Cheng Xia was overjoyed, she could do whatever she wanted, if she was in modern times, she could buy a few lottery tickets and try.

She wants to use winter melon to make crystal candied fruit and amber candied fruit, but she needs brown sugar and white sugar, but she has no money.Selling wild vegetables and herbs is too cheap. If she can catch two fish and sell them in the market, she can buy a lot of sugar.

You know, based on the prices in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a big carp weighing five catties could be worth a hundred Wen.During the Wanli period, when prices were slightly abnormal, according to the current prices in the Chenghua period, it can only be worth more money, which is much more profitable than selling wild vegetables and herbs.

Without further ado, Cheng Xia rolled up her trouser legs and carried them around the edge of the lake with a basket. Although the method was stupid and took up a lot of time, there was no way she could do it. She had no tools. Fortunately, there were a lot of fish in the lake, so it didn't take much for her With all my strength, I got three of them.

But she didn't have a fish creel, so she carried the fish back with a basket like this, and she died when she got home.Cheng Xia looked at the weeds all over the place, selected some of the toughest and thinnest parts, and made two baskets according to the size of the back basket. Paste the innermost part of the back basket with a thick layer of moist soil, and then cover it with a basket. Put another layer of soil in the basket, and then cover the smallest basket, so that a simple and watertight device is completed.

Cheng Xia put lake water in it, put the fish in it, and didn't dare to stay any longer, for fear that Lin Xiu would panic if he couldn't find him, so he hurried out.

The closer you get to the rose bushes, the clearer you can hear Lin Xiu's shout. Cheng Xia carefully went out from a corner, then walked behind Lin Xiu and patted her. Seeing her panicked look, she felt very sorry, "I'm sorry, I went over there to have a look, and I went a little farther, which made you worry."

Lin Xiu carefully checked that Cheng Xia was not injured before he was relieved a little, seeing that she was carrying the altered pannier, and seeing three big fish jumping around in it, he was very pleasantly surprised, "Sister-in-law, you caught a fish. "

Such an adoring tone made Cheng Xia very helpful, "Yes, I caught three fish, and I will kill one for dinner tonight."

"Sister-in-law, you are really amazing. There are many lakes on the mountain, but the water is so deep that most people dare not go down." Lin Xiu stared nervously at Cheng Xia again, seeing that Cheng Xia was indeed all right, Coupled with the fact that the sun had risen high and a basket of wild vegetables and herbs had been packed, the two began to walk down the mountain.

Qingxian Village is a small village. Although Yang's family is in the west and Cheng's is in the east, it is not uncommon for them to meet each other.So when he came down the mountain and saw Cheng Qiu, Cheng Xia walked home without thinking about her.

(End of this chapter)