This Is My Donkey Buddy
Zhou Wanwan slowly flipped through the pages and found two medical books. These medical books were quite useful, and they were Manman annotations.
The most useful part is the method for processing medicinal materials. Zhou Wanwan is not incapable of processing them, but this book records the methods in greater detail.
There's another book containing information on various difficult and complicated diseases, along with many prescriptions.
Zhou Wanwan continued flipping through the book and found many common books on the market, including the Three Character Classic, the Hundred Family Surnames, and even the Four Books and Five Classics.
Zhou Wanwan casually flipped through the books and suddenly found three travelogues in the pile of books. The paper was light brown and the titles were written in neat small regular script: Record of Travels in Dian, Record of the Yue Sea, and Things Heard and Seen on the Shu Roads.
Besides describing the mountains, rivers, and local customs along the way, it also records the prices of local products and even the distribution of medicinal herbs and minerals in remote areas.
A thought struck her: this information might seem useless now, but it would be quite interesting when she wanted to venture out into the world later.
Zhou Wanwan never intended to spend her whole life in this remote mountain village. After the disaster year is over, she still wants to go out and see the local customs and culture.
She also wanted to see the Upper Capital of the Great Xia Dynasty. She had heard that the Great Xia's imperial palace was paved with gold and had white jade steps.
She was very curious; could it be even more spectacular than the previous ones? What would it be like?
I wonder if she'll ever have the chance to enter the palace?
Zhou Wanwan casually flipped through a few books, then immediately clicked her tongue twice and said, "There are even storybooks! Not bad, not bad. My daily life is so boring."
Suddenly, Zhou Qingchen spoke up, "Wanwan, what's in here?"
Zhou Qingchen took out a piece of paper from inside, and Zhou Wanwan looked at it carefully and said, "A silver note, five taels in face value. Let's look for more."
Zhou Qingchen held up two torches, while the others searched frantically. Zhou Wanwan found the second five-tael silver note in a book of Hundred Family Surnames.
She quickly flipped to a few more pages Zhou Wanwan said with a smile:
"One ten-tael note, three five-tael notes, and five two-tael notes, totaling thirty-five taels."
Tonight's harvest was good, far exceeding my expectations. We can buy more grain now.
Zhou Wanwan was leading them home when they happened to pass by Jiang Family Village Jiang Family Village and saw two horse-drawn carriages and several oxcarts Manman of people.
Zhou Wanwan smiled slightly and said:
"We'll have work to do again tomorrow, so I'll stick to my money and not buy food."
"I'm going to use that money to buy land, and I want all the grain from Jiang Family Village."
Zhou Wanwan would never have done this if Jiang Family Village hadn't wanted to poison them.
The grain was stored in the granary of the grain drying factory by the villagers of Jiang Family Village.
Jiang Family Village has a dedicated granary, Zhou Wanwan didn't have time to see it last time due to time constraints.
Zhou Qingyan quickly returned with men, and all was quiet; only eight guards remained at the threshing ground.
Zhou Wanwan then threw the incense sticks away, and soon all eight people collapsed. Zhou Wanwan sneered and said, "Alright, let's see what the threshing ground in Jiang Family Village looks like?"
Zhou Wanwan pushed open the granary door and saw that it was filled with grain, piled up in layers and packed in sacks.
Besides food, there were also various cotton quilts and cotton-padded clothes in the corner.
Zhou Wanwan walked around and saw a lot of meat; it turned out to be a pig that had just been slaughtered.
Zhou Wanwan chuckled, "What kind of business does this Jiang Family Village do? How come they're so rich?"
Liu Xiuyuan:
"The method of making Songhua inkstones is based on a recipe passed down from their ancestors in Jiang Family Village."
It is said that many Songhua inkstones were sold to the capital, and even an ordinary Songhua inkstone would cost more than 100 taels.
Not to mention the finest Songhua inkstones, which can sell for several thousand taels, or even tens of thousands of taels.
Zhou Wanwan hadn't expected the Jiang Family to have such a background.
She whispered to the Little Ginseng, "Can you make pine flower inkstones?"
The Little Ginseng chuckled and said:
"I do have the recipe, but Songhua inkstones require a Songhua stone vein."
Otherwise, it would be impossible to do, so there must be a mineral vein in Jiang Family Village.
The Little Ginseng struggled inside the bag, saying, "Let me out, I want to wander around Jiang Family Village."
Zhou Wanwan looked at it and said, "Then you'd better be careful, or the people of Jiang Family Village might eat you up in one bite."
"Hehehe... Those idiots think they can catch me? I'm incredibly fast at escaping."
With a "whoosh," the Little Ginseng transformed into a white blur and flew away. Liu Sanlang rubbed his eyes and said, "I think I saw a white shadow float away. Did you see it?"
Liu Liulang nodded and said, "I... I think I saw it too. Do you think it could be a ghost?"
Zhou Wanwan quickly shouted, "What?! Wasn't that just a white cat? Hurry up and move the food, we don't know how many trips we'll have to make!"
In just one night, they made three trips to move all the grain into the nearby mountains.
The next morning, the people of Jiang Family Village were wailing and howling, "It's all over! It's all over! More than 400 bags of grain are gone!"
Jiang Wu trembled with anger. "What did you say? Say it again."
"All the grain in our warehouse has been moved out, and that pig is gone too."
Jiang Wu flew into a rage. "Go... go find our wolfhounds and have someone take them to search. I refuse to believe we can't find them!"
The doctor from Jiang Family Village rushed over, saying, "Oh dear! Village Chief, my medicinal herbs... all my medicinal herbs are gone! I don't know which bastard took them all!"
Zhou Wanwan looked at the large bag of medicinal herbs in the house and asked, "Lingbao, where did you get all these medicinal herbs?"
Zhou Wanwan named the Little Ginseng ginseng Lingbao, Lingbao was overjoyed.
"I took it! This Jiang Family Village is truly a blessed place. I smelled the fragrance of medicine and then went into that house."
I discovered it was filled with medicinal herbs, all of which are herbs I like.
"Wanwan, can you look for any medicinal herbs you like?"
Zhou Wanwan's lips twitched as she said, "Logically speaking, you shouldn't be able to bring back so many medicinal herbs, right?"
The Little Ginseng nodded and said, "I found a helper. That guy is outside. I'll call him in now."
Zhou Wanwan was also curious about what kind of helper it was, and then she saw a donkey walk in with its head held high and chest puffed out.
The Little Ginseng introduced with great ceremony, "This is my Donkey Friend..."
"Girlfriend?"
"Pah! Donkey Friend, Donkey Friend, I tricked it by saying we could eat and drink well here, and that's why it came with me."
Zhou Wanwan was speechless. She nodded and said, "What does it like to eat? I'll go get it something to eat."
"Hay, straw, millet, green grass, alfalfa, carrots, cabbage leaves, and if you have corn, bran, or soybean meal, that will also work," Lingbao said.
Zhou Wanwan's lips twitched as she said:
"How about we kill someone for you to eat? Where are we going to get that kind of thing so late at night?"
There's still some green grass in the yard. I'll go get some more hay; we have quite a lot.