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Chapter 46 Honeysuckle ([-])
The big dirt road outside this town is an official road, which can lead to many towns, but it was only repaired for a hundred or so meters earlier, and it was blocked when it came to Shangyang Village, because it was It's no use going into the mountains.

At that time, the county magistrate ordered the road to be built, and trees were planted on both sides of the road, saying that it was for the villagers to enjoy the cool weather, but the common people here did not appreciate it, they always said This county magistrate has good intentions to do bad things.

As a person who drives the town along the road, the sooner the better, but there are a lot of fresh grass suffocated under the trees in this row, which often provokes the passing animals to come forward for a few mouthfuls. Even if you are under the whip, you have to drag the car there. Isn't this a delay?

Seeing an old scalper on the side of the road, it was walking slowly with hooves, its head bowed down looking for something to eat the tender grass, and when it slipped away, it stretched its neck and shook its ears , This stuttered my mouth full, but it felt relieved.

This Chu Ge didn't rush it in the car, but just sat on the ox rope. He twisted his waist and leaned over half of his body, his neck was stretched tight and his handsome face was tense.

The old ox waited for someone to whip his whip, then bowed his head and gnawed grass with a "moo".

Chu Ge tightened the ox rope, and just thought about turning around to look around, but immediately let a pair of small hands pull it over, "Don't move for now."

With his back straight, he looked at Xiuniang holding a porcelain box, using two onion-like fingers to smear some ointment on his forehead, and rubbing it vigorously when he was done. kneaded.

Xiu Niang saw Chu Ge's sullen face, "What's wrong, does it still hurt?"

Chu Ge moved his lips, Mo Han shook his head angrily, it hurts too much, it's just...just don't get too close.

Xiu Niang smiled at him, spread the ointment evenly on him, and when it was almost done, she curled her fingertips together and said, "Okay, this way it won't be swollen tomorrow."

Chu Ge responded with a stiff face, and waited for Xiu Niang to turn around and sit down, then he was relieved, he quickly swung the hemp rope, and drove the old cow on the road.

The young grass on the side of the road is delicious, but there is no guarantee that the buttocks will be whipped. The old cow had a handful in his mouth, so he walked reluctantly, but his eyes were still squinting over there. .

Well, even Chu Ge was looking too closely at swinging the hemp rope, but what he was thinking about was not the tender grass, but the pretty wife sitting beside him.

Ren'er was touching her forehead, and when she found a sore spot, she applied ointment on it, and then wrapped it up with a handkerchief. She looked at Chu Ge, smiled and said something, and stuffed it with her backhand. In the bamboo basket behind him.

"I just bought four bunches of candied haws in the town. This ointment has a smell. Wrap it up so that you can cover it up. Otherwise, those two brats think I'm fooling them."

Knowing that the candied haws were bought by Xiu Niang for Chu An and Xiao Xiang'er, Chu Ge paused for a while and said in a muffled voice, "Xiu Niang, what you put in the basket earlier was not dried cauliflower."

Xiu Niang turned to look at him, and smiled, "Well, isn't that supposed to be dried cauliflower?"

Chu Ge was startled when he heard that, he tightened his grip on the ox rope, frowned and said, "Xiu Niang, you are wrong, just now you sold four taels of silver and it was enough, why, why are you still confused?" People."

Xiu Niang blinked her eyes, this is a clear price, has she been deceived by someone, but it is only a tael of silver for the honeysuckle, and then it is only the farmer who wants her herb with good quality.

She looked at Chugo thinking for a while, and suddenly realized, oh, could it be that he thought that other people paid a high price for dried cauliflower, and she sold that basket of stuff to him, No wonder it was so quiet along the way.

Xiuniang glanced at him, she was dumbfounded, why couldn't she hear a joke, she sighed, "It's done, don't wrinkle your face, I was teasing you in the town just now, you The daughter-in-law is not that kind of person."

Chu Ge didn't understand the smell that day, so Xiu Niang told him that the basket was indeed not dried cauliflower, but the white flowers picked from the vine in their yard, cleaned and put in a basket. It came out in the sun.

But it’s not a miscellaneous thing, it’s originally transplanted from the big mountain in Xiayang Village, it’s called Erbao Teng, and most people also call it Honeysuckle, it’s just a Chinese medicinal herb... …

In fact, this honeysuckle was also discovered by Xiuniang by accident. It seems that more than a month ago, that Aunt Zhao came to Chu Ge to make a fuss, asking him to pay back the money from the farm.

Chu Ge was so stubborn that day that he didn't even eat lunch, so he went to the mountains to look for prey, so that he could drive around the town, and pooled money to pay Aunt Zhao.

Then she went to Chugo with the potato heads, and she was sitting at the entrance of the mountain forest, looking at the white flowers and the short clusters of small trees at the bottom of the mountain road. You have to pay attention, originally, she was just looking for bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, so she didn't have time to worry about this.

Until one day, a lot of women and aunts came to dig bamboo shoots in the bamboo grove, and it was because of Liu's sloppy mouth that they shook her out. She stood outside the grove and didn't show anything, but she was anxious, and just now she was looking for someone. The way to get money is just pried away by someone.

At that time, she was in a mess, so she yelled for Xiao Xiang'er to go home first. They were walking on another road that day, and they passed the bushes just in time. It's a thing.

To say that what she saw in the pharmacy were all dried buds, and the flowered ones were not sold in the sun. The reason why she recognized it was because she saw it on TV once, and it was specially introduced. Honeysuckle, she looked at the white curly petals, just like the lilies.

It’s just that the lilies are big, and the petals are big, not as small as this honeysuckle. It’s very distressing to look at. As the old saying goes, turnips and greens have their own preferences, and she likes this little Mo at a glance. Honeysuckle flowers, so that impression is particularly deep.

At that time, she thought that she would raise a plant by herself, and it would be good to watch and play with it, and the flower buds could also be used as medicine, right?

But that was just her own idea, she had to be more careful about what she ate into her stomach, she thought that before planting flowers, she went to the town with Chu Ge, and picked up a few flowers Huahua also brought it, and then went to the drugstore to find someone to ask.

She took it to those pharmacy clerks, and said she wanted to weigh some of it, and they all said it was Erbao vine, that is, honeysuckle, and she felt at ease when she heard it.

But wait until the bills are settled, and the trouble of paying the bills is hard for Xiu Niang. She never thought that this thing would cost so much money, and she would only be able to find all the broken silver on her body, and it would not be enough to co-author it for a tael , I bought that small paper package of honeysuckle.

It hurt her badly to go out of the pharmacy, but she was too embarrassed to say no, after all, it was too much to ask people,
She carefully packed a paper bag in her bosom, it was really valuable, and she must earn money back from it...

(End of this chapter)