Chapter 4 Goosegrass
There are a total of sixty-eight households in their Qili Village, and they monopolize this large piece of...well, the hillside, and they reclaim the land as they please.
There are very few wastelands on the flat ground, and the wastelands that are available are mostly soil and rocks, and are barren. It would be better to open up the land on the hillside, so Zhou Silang carried a hoe and a sickle and walked up the hillside. He planned to stand on a high place and see far away, and then open up whichever piece of land he likes.
Zhou Silang wants to do what he wants, but will Manbao agree?
of course not!!!
Manbao was carried to the top of the mountain. Zhou Silang took a look and pointed to a patch of grass on the hillside with the least grass and said, "Let's go there and open a patch."
"No!" Manbao refused without thinking, pointing to another piece of land on the slope and said, "I want to open that one."
Zhou Silang looked over and found that there was not only lush grass there, growing as tall as Manbao, but also many low shrubs. He could imagine how difficult it would be to dig out the roots, so he immediately refused, "No, that piece of land is not as easy to dig as this one."
But there are a lot of grass and small trees there, maybe there will be something that Koko likes. Manbao, who wants to exchange candy with Koko, insists, "We have to open that piece."
The excuse she gave was also very legitimate. "Look at how well the grass grows there, and there are trees too. If you plant beans and melons there in the future, they will also grow well. Look at the piece you chose, there is only so much grass, and the growth is not any better than the one I chose. Oh, and there are stones too. Grass hates stones the most, and the same goes for beans and melons."
Zhou Silang was unhappy, "Are you the one who is going to open up the wasteland or am I?"
Manbao pinched his waist and said, "It's you, but you have to listen to me, otherwise I will go back and tell Dad that you deliberately chose a bad piece of land so that you can be lazy, and let Dad beat you."
Zhou Silang was so angry, but he had to listen to her because their father would definitely listen to Manbao.
Touching the wound on his body, Zhou Silang could only snort and say, "Okay, let's open that one. Let's go."
Zhou Wulang wanted to carry her on his back, but Manbao thought for a moment and waved his hand, saying, "No need to carry me. I want to go on my own. Fourth brother, you go and open up the wasteland first."
Zhou Silang was furious. "How can you walk on like a short guy? Do you need Wulang to follow you and take care of you?"
"So what? Sixth brother can stay."
"No, they still have to help me open up the wasteland."
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang did not want to work either. They shook their heads and said, "Mother told us to keep an eye on our sister before we came out. Fourth brother, you go down and cut the grass first. You only have a sickle, so it will be useless for us to go down."
Zhou Silang was stunned, "You didn't bring a sickle?"
Zhou Wulang laughed, "We have to carry a lot of treasures, how can we hold a sickle?"
Zhou Silang looked at Datou and Daya, and Datou said cleverly, "We thought the uncles had brought it, so we didn't."
Zhou Silang then instructed Datou, "Go back and get the sickle now, quickly."
Datou said, "We will be back for breakfast soon. You can bring it back after breakfast. If we go back now, we won't be able to do much work. Fourth uncle, why don't we accompany my aunt and walk down slowly? You can go and cut the grass first."
Everyone: "That's right, that's right, Fourth Uncle (Fourth Brother), just go quickly."
Zhou Silang felt that he was deserted by everyone, and the culprit was Manbao.
Manbao was even more fierce than him, "Go quickly, or I will tell Dad when we get back to eat and say you are lazy."
Zhou Silang turned around and left, carrying his hoe and sickle.
Manbao was very satisfied. He walked down the mountain path with his short legs, pulling some grass and plucking some flowers from time to time. Wulang and Liulang and the big-headed and big-girl kids were all used to playing in the mountains. When they saw their youngest sister (the aunt) walking obediently, they ran out to play like wild. They picked any beautiful wild flowers they saw, picked and dug up any edible wild fruits they saw, and looked at a nest of ants for a long time. They were very happy.
Manbao worked hard to dig out a handful of grass, wiped his face with it, and asked Keke in his heart, "Do you want this?"
There was helplessness in Keke's voice, "Host, you recorded this kind of cattlegrass a long time ago."
Manbao was suspicious, "Really? Why don't I remember it?"
The system then retrieved the cowgrass that Manbao had entered , along with its ecological characteristics, habitat, reproduction methods and main value, all listed clearly one by one.
Manbao loves reading the most. She is happy when she sees words. She asked excitedly, "Where do these words come from?"
The system said: "Goosegrass still exists in the world of my inventor. This is the knowledge in the encyclopedia. After you enter it, all the knowledge points included in the encyclopedia will appear behind the included plants."
The system paused and said, "Host, even if you can't find species that were extinct or rare in the era of my inventor, you should at least find some precious or valuable plants to enter. That way, more people will click to download, and we can get more points, and I can exchange them for more sugar for you."
To be honest, he has been following Manbao for more than a year. Except for three plants that some people clicked on and downloaded, no one was interested in the other plants, and the click rates of those three plants were not high. He basically used his own points to exchange candy for Manbao.
Manbao was not disappointed. She was reading the analysis behind the book "Cnidium monnieri" with great interest. She had already memorized the Thousand Character Classic a long time ago. The day she got the system was the day she got the manuscript of the Thousand Character Classic. She recited it every day and learned to recognize the characters. Now she still couldn't write many characters, but she could already recognize them.
So after reading the whole article, Manbao recognized most of it. She didn't hesitate to ask Keke directly about the words she didn't know.
The system always answers every question asked. The key is that Manbao is also very cute. Who can bear to reject a cute child over four years old?
No, Manbao has always insisted that he is six years old this year, um, in terms of age.
Manbao finished reading, but still didn't understand what she meant. However, she didn't ask all the questions. She basically only asked about the topics that interested her. "What does it mean that it says that cowgrass can dispel wind and dampness, clear away heat and detoxify, and disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding?"
Keke: "It means literally. Chinese medicine believes that people eat cereals and grains, and are affected by the environment, which will cause dampness and heat toxins in the human body. For example, when you have internal heat, you can boil beef tendon grass into soup and drink it, which can dispel wind and dampness, clear away heat and detoxify. As for dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, it is even simpler. If someone falls and bleeds, you can crush it and apply it to the wound to stop the bleeding. It can also be taken orally."
Manbao exclaimed, "This grass is so precious. No, I have to dig some more to bring home."
Manbao grabbed the grass and pulled it up with all his strength. It took a lot of effort to pull the grass out.
The system also thought that this grass was pretty good, so it secretly encouraged Manbao and gave her a solution, "You can tie them up with the vines nearby and carry them back."
Manbao thought it made a lot of sense, so she pulled up a lot of oxgrass. When Wulang and Liulang came over with a handful of wild fruits, her face and hands were covered in mud, and she was sweating profusely. The two boys were stunned and ran up to ask, "Little sister, what are you doing?"
Manbao said with sparkling eyes: "Fifth brother, Sixth brother, come and help me, I found a good herb."
The two young men walked over and saw the weeds in her hand. They were speechless. "Isn't this just weeds? They can be seen everywhere on the ground."
"No, this is called cattle tendon grass, it can detoxify and stop bleeding." Manbao instructed his two brothers, "Hurry up and pull it out with me."
Wu Lang took the weeds from her hand and threw them away, then cleaned her hands and said, "Don't be silly. Come on, we found some prickly ash. Let's try one."
Then he stuffed a bright red fruit into Bao's mouth. It was fragrant and sweet. Bao's eyes lit up and he forgot about the cowgrass on the ground. "I want more!"
The system was also very excited. "This is a plant that has never been included. Manbao, you must include it. I just checked and there is no picture of this fruit in the system."
Without pictures, even if the scientific name is included, they can get a fairly generous points reward for adding pictures, which is issued by the encyclopedia. If someone clicks to view the picture, they will get more points.
Sure enough, letting the host go out and walk more is the right approach.
The system said: "Manbao, quickly collect it in, it's best to collect the whole plant."
Manbao stuffed the wild fruit into his mouth and asked his brother, "What kind of fruit is this? Why have I never eaten it before? Where did you pick it?"
Wu Lang and Liu Lang asked, "Have you never eaten it? There are plenty in the mountains. There are a lot of them during the Qingming Festival. Now there are very few. If you like it, I will take you to the mountains to eat it next year."
Manbao felt that his brothers had missed the point and asked, "Where did you pick them?"
"We have picked all the fruits. There is no more left. Let's go down the mountain quickly. Fourth Brother will be angry soon."
Man Bao pinched his waist angrily, "I want to see what it looks like, so I know how to pick wild fruits next time."
Wu Lang laughed when he heard it. "That's not difficult. Just follow the road down the mountain. There are quite a few nearby, but they are fruitless. We will teach you how to recognize them later."
Only then did Manbao realize that her brothers were not lying when they said the mountain was full of them, there were really a lot of them.
Liu Lang carried her on his back and walked down for a while. Wu Lang pointed to a clump of green vines with many thorns on the side of the road and said, "Look, this is the thorny bubble. It blooms in the spring when the weather gets warmer, and then bears fruit. When it turns red, it is very delicious. We will take you up the mountain to pick it next year during the Qingming Festival."
Liu Lang said, "I think the yellow ones are better. They are hard and sour, but much more flavorful than the red ones."
Wu Lang looked down on him, "Red ones are delicious, we all say red ones are delicious."
Rokuro: “It’s obviously yellow.”
Wu Lang: “It’s red.”
Rokuro: “Yellow!”
Goro: “Red!”
When Manbao saw her two brothers arguing, she had never eaten the yellow one and it was difficult for her to express her opinion, so she slid off her sixth brother's back and squatted down to look at the vines.
Wulang and Liulang only glanced at their sister, and seeing that she was just staring at them curiously, they turned around and concentrated on their quarrel, no, arguing.
Manbao asked Keke in his heart, "Do you want me to dig up the whole plant, or give you a section?"
The system thought for a moment and said, "It would be best if we could dig up the whole plant, but if it's not convenient, picking a piece is fine."
