Author: Yueyinyin

Aunt Zhang rushed out of the house and placed a small basket covered with red cloth in Chu Lian's hand.

"Good boy, you have helped Aunt Zhang a lot. These things are not good if you take them home to eat. Keep them!"

Chu Liandong hugged the basket tightly and nodded in thanks. She had been working all day today and had been performing a crying scene at the entrance of the village for so long in the evening. She was already going to faint from hunger, so naturally she would not refuse at this time.

Seeing her accept it, Aunt Zhang smiled and took out a list from her arms and handed it to her with a surprised tone,

"Lianwa, this is the list of herbal medicines that your Uncle Niu brought back to you. The medical center only gave you a five-day deadline. Although the time is a bit tight, you still have at least five taels of silver! My aunt is illiterate. Please look at it quickly.

Are they easy to find?"

Chu Liandong quickly took it and read it at a glance. The medicinal materials were basically the same as before, but there were only two new ones - the stamens of the moon greeting stamens and the roots of the barefoot lotus.

You know, she has handed over herbal medicines so many times, and the most she has handed over is only 500 yuan. This time it has doubled tenfold. Looking at the two new herbs, she thought to herself: Sure enough, there is no such thing as pie in the sky.

Although the moonflower and barefoot lily are not rare things, the difficulty is that the moonflower has no stamens at all. These so-called stamens are just the product of condensation at a specific time, place and climate. Because only

It exists at the center of the moon flower, so it is called the moon flower stamen.

The redfoot lily is a strange plant that grows on the edge of a cliff, but its roots are exposed and clinging to the cliff wall. It has only one rhizome but countless strands. The two are almost the same, making it difficult to tell them apart.

Chu Lian lamented in her heart, why is it so hard to make money! But she only had a forced smile on her face.

"It's a little hard to find. I'll try my best! But aren't the medicinal materials needed by the medical center fixed? Why are there suddenly new ones?"

Aunt Zhang recalled it for a moment, then waved her hand, motioning for her to come closer, and then explained in a low voice,

"I heard that a big shot came to town and he is not in good health. I don't know the details."

After leaving Aunt Zhang's house, Chu Liandong kept thinking about the two medicinal materials. The fragrance in the basket halfway through was so mouth-watering that she didn't care about the medicinal materials anymore. She couldn't wait to lift the red cloth, and there were two rice cakes inside.

, two brown noodle buns, a hard-boiled egg and a bowl of fried pickles.

Chu Liandong was almost drooling. She hadn't seen meat in a long time, so she just picked up the egg, peeled it, and stuffed it into her mouth.

She vaguely remembered that there was a time when she was eating a diet to lose weight, and most of the protein she consumed was boiled eggs and chicken breasts. At that time, she almost vomited after eating both of them, but now that she tastes the taste of boiled eggs, she just wants to eat them.

cry……

After returning home, Chu Lian thought about it again and again, and finally resisted the urge to finish all the food, and only ate a steamed bun and a piece of rice cake with pickles.

Life in the countryside still has many inconveniences. Because the environment is so good, mosquitoes start to appear in spring alone. And when it gets dark, cicadas chirp and frogs chirp from all directions, making it impossible for noisy people to sleep.

Chu Liandong smelled the sweat on her body in disgust, and went to the stove to heat hot water to take a bath.

There were some cracks at the bottom of the old wooden barrel, which were not obvious at ordinary times, but they would overflow once filled with water. She had no choice but to finish the shower quickly to prevent her bedroom from being flooded.

I miss showers and bathtubs so much!

Chu Lian got up early the next day. She was going to the mountains to collect herbs. The sky outside was still gray and the time was estimated to be around four or five o'clock.

She still remembered that when she first arrived here, her bright and warm bedroom suddenly turned into a shabby thatched house with four bare walls. It was such an indescribable state of mind that no one could understand.

What's even more outrageous is that the house leaks even when it rains. Coincidentally, it rained during the first few days after arriving, which really reflects the saying "when the house leaks, it rains all night."

The owner of her body is an orphan. Her mother died in childbirth, and her father is a barefoot doctor. Although his medical skills are not high, some minor illnesses can be cured. If he encounters a villager who cannot afford the medical fee, he will ask someone to take some from home.

Someone will pay.

Or old rice, or fish and shrimps caught by oneself, some crafty people would make some baskets and bring them over. But if there was nothing, her father would ask someone to help chop some firewood or cut some pig grass.

Good but not holy.

Because of this, the people in the village respected him. Unfortunately, he died young and the original owner became an orphan. Most of the people in the village took good care of her out of kindness.

The original owner was young but very smart. When his father was still alive, he had been learning how to read and recognize medicine. After his father passed away, he went to the mountains to study by himself with medical books in hand.

Chu Liandong didn't understand why she replaced the original owner. She only knew that the book written by her good friend had become a real world. The original owner was a covered ink dot in this world. She could not find a single word of description.

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The future is hidden by a thick fog. No one knows what is in the fog. It may be sharp and poisonous thorn bushes, or it may be a paradise surrounded by flowers.

Take it one step at a time! Chu Liandong could only comfort herself in this way. The horizon was hazy yet not pierced by the morning sun, and she thought of her dream last night.

Ever since she came to this world, she either had insomnia or was so tired that she slept until dawn. She hadn't had a dream for a long time.

But after falling asleep yesterday, she dreamed about things in the real world. She dreamed about her disobedient best friend holding a book and reminding her: Lian Dong, you are going to die soon. Do you still remember the setting that you complained about?

Well?

???

Chu Liandong was a little hesitant. That woman wouldn't curse herself to death because of her ridicule!

She put the backpack on her back, stood at the door and hesitated for a moment, but finally locked the door and went up the mountain. It was just a dream, it didn't mean anything, making money was more important.

The morning mist in the mountains was very heavy, and the dewdrops on the tips of the grass blades were almost falling. The lingering moisture soaked the girl's gray and burlap dress, leaving dark marks.

Chu Lian Dong carefully pushed aside the bushes beside the clear spring, revealing the small silver-white flowers hidden in high and low places. The bright yellow and round tiny fleshy beads were exactly the stamens of the moon greeting flower that she was looking for.

She excitedly took out her knife, gently cut off the flower stems, and inserted the whole flower into a box filled with wet mud. After picking five flowers in a row, the small flower bush was finished. She still had to find five more flowers.

Meet the requirements on the list.

Today I have looked for moonflowers in several places in the mountains, but I can only pick five. Let’s try our luck tomorrow!

Chu Lian Dong wrapped the box with a strip of cloth and carefully placed it in her backpack, and was about to get up and go look for regular medicinal materials elsewhere.

The winding mountain road is not easy to walk, and the rocks covered with wet soil can cause someone to fall hard if not careful.

She walked very carefully, after all, she suffered a loss the first time she came here to try to collect herbs.
Chapter completed!