Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Chapter 236

"Aiguo, those are your second uncle and second aunt in front, right?"

The next morning, Su Aiguo and his mother went to the hospital cafeteria to eat.

After finishing breakfast and getting a bowl of porridge on the way back to the inpatient department, I saw the two people in front of me. They were Su Bangjie and Su Ershen, who had come to the hospital early in the morning.

"It's them. They came here so early in the morning. I don't believe they came here just to visit my dad. Are they so eager to take our house for themselves?"

Su's mother patted his hands and continued to follow them at a distance.

Su Bangjie asked the doctor for the bed number and found Su Bangliang in the ward. He sat beside the bed and looked at Su Bangliang who had just woken up. He asked with concern: "Brother, how is your recovery?"

Su Bangliang was relieved that his second son also cared about him, and nodded with a smile: "He is recovering slowly."

"That's good. Big brother, you must take care of yourself. Dad has always valued you as the eldest son."

The smile on Su Bangliang's face froze for a moment, and his eyes fell on Su Bangjie's face. "Just say what you want to say, don't beat around the bush, it's hard for me to listen."

Su Bangjie sighed and looked at Su Bangliang's graying hair and old face. "At the beginning, Dad thought you were the hope of the whole family. He said that since you were the eldest son, the ancestral home should be inherited by you. Later, my parents helped me buy a house outside and I didn't say anything, but what's the situation now?

You actually sold our Su family's ancestral home to others and refused to sell it to me, a fellow clan member. Big brother, what do you and Aiguo mean by that? Do you think I am not worthy of living in the ancestral home?"

After hearing this, Su Bangliang combined it with what Su Aiguo said last night and realized that the second son and his wife had misunderstood.

"Second brother, what are you talking about? Aiguo and I are not that kind of people. You have misunderstood."

"Misunderstanding?" Su Bangjie sneered, "There has never been any misunderstanding in this matter. Facts speak louder than words."

Su Bangliang looked for help at Su Aiguo and his mother who walked into the ward.

Su Aiguo suppressed his anger, coveted his brother's house, and stood on the moral high ground to accuse the person he was plotting against.

He had no choice but to accept his second uncle's skill in confusing right and wrong.

"Uncle, please stop accusing me and my dad. What have we done to offend you? Why would you blame my dad in the morning, regardless of his weak body after surgery?"

"How dare you! Do you still respect your elders, you little brat? Is this the tone you use when talking to me?"

Su Bangjie slapped the edge of the bed and stood up, pointing at him and angrily scolded: "Today I am talking about the important matters of my Su family. Why can't I disturb your father's recuperation?"

Su Aiguo refused to give in: "No matter how big the matter is, it is not as important as my father's health."

"you!"

Su Bangjie was almost pissed off by this guy.

When the younger generation doesn't take you seriously, relying on your seniority won't work, and all that's left is probably impotent rage.

Su Bangliang said helplessly: "Second brother, why can't we talk about it calmly? You have to come here and shout and kill. This is a hospital, are you sure you have to let outsiders watch the fun?"

He spoke to ease the atmosphere. Su Bangjie also knew that his tough attitude would not do him any good in front of his nephew, so he sat down.

"Tell me, what exactly do you want to say today? Speak calmly, don't yell at me." When Su Bangliang saw the second son stretching his neck and trying to speak loudly again, he hurriedly reminded him, "If you can't talk properly, you and your wife will get out of here!"

Aunt Su spoke first: "Let me tell you."

Then he turned to Su Bangliang and said, "Brother, if Aiguo wants to treat you but doesn't have money, you can tell us. My family can scrape together some money. The day before yesterday we learned that he wanted to sell the house to raise money for your medical expenses, so we discussed it with my in-laws, and the two families scraped together enough money to pay for the house. But this guy turned around and sold the house to an outsider."

Su Bangjie was furious when he heard this: "Brother, since you want to sell your house, it's better to sell it to me than to someone else. Your house is our Su family's ancestral home, and Aiguo is such a spendthrift that he actually sold the house directly to someone else. What he did must have angered our ancestors!"

Su Aiguo couldn't help but choke: "Second Uncle, what's wrong with what I did? If the coffin lid of the ancestor can't cover it, it must be because you are angry that your own brothers did not save you!"

Su Bangjie was a little furious when he heard this: "How can you talk like that? Why did I stand by and watch him die without helping him? Isn't your father fine?"

"You can talk calmly. If not, then get out of here! Cough cough..." Su Bangliang was so angry that his chest heaved and he couldn't help coughing.

Su Bangjie pointed his finger at Su Aiguo from a distance and said, "You unfilial son, look at what you have done!"

Su Aiguo wanted to refute, but considering Su Bangliang's health, he turned away and tried to pretend that he didn't see it.

It took Su Bangliang a while to catch his breath, and when he spoke again, he was obviously a little weak, "Second Brother, I haven't sold my house, you can rest assured about that."

"You didn't sell it? How is that possible!" Su Bangjie looked at Su Aiguo questioningly, "If you didn't sell it, how would you pay for your hospitalization? And what about strangers living in your house?"

Su Aiguo glanced at him and snorted coldly: "My dad said it was not sold, so it was not sold. As for the stranger you saw, he was probably the tenant who rented my house."

Su Bangjie looked at Su Aiguo and Su Bangliang suspiciously. This statement was not credible. "Brother, if he is a tenant, the rent he pays cannot offset your hospitalization expenses. Don't you think it's ridiculous for you to perfunctorily answer me with this statement?"

"Who has the mood to perfunctorily deal with you? If you hadn't come to the hospital today to disturb my father's recovery, I wouldn't even bother to explain to you. Our two families have long been separated. Is there any need for us to explain to you?"

Su Aiguo was very annoyed with the entanglement with Su Bangjie.

Su Bangjie was so angry that he pointed at Su Aiguo and complained: "Brother, why don't you do anything about him? How can he treat his elders like this? He has no respect for his elders!"

"That's enough!" Su Bangliang's body had not recovered yet, and he felt so angry after this commotion that his liver ached.

"Don't doubt me here. I really haven't sold my house. The tenants are kind-hearted and paid a year's rent in advance because they knew we were in trouble. Otherwise, I would have run out of medicine in the past two days."

"Really?" Su Bangjie was still a little doubtful.

"Really." Su Bangliang closed his eyes and really didn't want to answer. He felt really uncomfortable.

After two days of recovery, Su Bangjie got angry and we went back to yesterday's state.

Su Aiguo saw that Su Bangliang was really upset, so he didn't care about the elders and just kicked him out.

Su's mother sat next to him and helped Su Bangliang calm down. She comforted him, "Don't be hard on your body. It's not worth it for outsiders to joke about your body. Your task now is to take good care of your body and try to be discharged from the hospital as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will be too expensive to stay in this hospital."

Su Bangliang let out a breath, and his heart didn't feel so suffocated anymore.

"Do you think I want to be angry? It's just that I didn't expect that after so many years, Su Bangjie still cared about the ancestral home. There is an order of seniority, and no matter how you arrange it, it will not be his turn to inherit the ancestral home."

Even if he died, his family still had Aiguo, the eldest son, so it would never be the turn of his second son to inherit the ancestral home.

Su's mother advised: "Your health will definitely not be as good as before after you are discharged from the hospital. From now on, don't get involved in their second room's affairs. It's a thankless task. We should just live our own lives."

Su Bangliang sighed and didn't say good or bad.

Su Aiguo drove Su Bangjie and his wife away, stood at the hospital gate, looked in the direction of home, thought for a while, but still felt worried, so he strode home.

The main reason was that Lin Shu and his family had just moved into their new home, and he was afraid that his second uncle's family would make things difficult for them, so he took the opportunity to explain to them the situation on his second uncle's side.

But when he got home, no one was at home and everyone was out.

"You're not home?"

......

Today, Lin Shu was urged by the system to go up the mountain to collect some medicinal herbs unique to the south, so she took Dabao with her instead of setting up a stall, and went up the mountain instead.

It would definitely be inconvenient to take Dabao up the mountain, but fortunately Dabao’s villa was brought along, and he could enter the villa at will.

"Dabao, when we get to the mountain, you have to go into the villa. There are many snakes, rats, insects and ants on the mountain. I'm afraid you will get bitten."

"There's a lot of rain in the south, and the temperature is high. I don't know if there are mushrooms in the mountains?"

Dabao is also very excited when he goes into nature. He shouts excitedly when he sees birds and wants to grab green leaves.

Lin Shu grabbed his little hand and said, "Son, you can't touch these leaves on the roadside. There are insects and ants crawling on the leaves. They are poisonous. What if you get skin allergies if you touch them?"

Dabao tried to pull his little hand out of hers, "It's okay!"

Lin Shu smiled and pinched Dabao's cheek on her chest: "When no one is around, talk to me more often and practice more. In the future, your articulation will become clearer and clearer."

When they reached the stream at the foot of the mountain, Lin Shu changed Dabao's diaper and then let him go into the villa to play.

There are many medicinal herbs by the water. After Dabao entered the villa, Lin Shu noticed that there were many water chestnuts growing on the slope by the water.

Speaking of arrowhead, Lin Shu couldn't help but think of an ancient poem he had read before: The movement of the pond at home has been different for a decade, how could the pine, bamboo and fish be gone? A clever woman hides in a small nest in the dark tree, and arrowhead grows on the new leaves of the barren canal.

Sagittaria has the effect of dispersing knots and detoxifying, and can be said to be the best material for making medicine and food.

Water chestnut can be stir-fried with meat, stewed in soup, stewed with meat, or stir-fried, and it tastes good.

In his previous life when he lived in Guangdong Province, Lin Shu liked to use water chestnuts, especially wild water chestnuts, to make soup. He also used clam meat, cuttlefish and pork ribs to make soup, which tasted quite good.

Of course, arrowhead is not suitable for everyone to eat. Pregnant women, people with constipation, and gout patients should not eat it.

After adding the water chestnuts to the system, a lot of tender mugwort also grew on the roadside.

Mugwort, also known as pure yang grass, is a perennial herb of the genus Artemisia in the Asteraceae family.

The mugwort harvested around the Dragon Boat Festival is the best choice. At this time, you can pick the mugwort and make mugwort cakes.

Although the best time to harvest is around the Dragon Boat Festival, the system also collects mugwort at this time.

[Host, there are a lot of saxifrage growing in the cracks of the rocks not far ahead. The whole plant can be used as medicine, and each plant is worth fifty cents.]

[50 cents a plant, not cheap. System, is saxifrage rare? ]

System: [Saxifrage is also known as stone-cutting vine. It likes to grow in cool cracks in rocks and reproduces through roots, one generation after another. Since it grows on cliffs, it is naturally impossible to reproduce in large quantities. It is considered a precious herb. ]

Lin Shu walked to the stone wall and found that there were indeed a lot of saxifrage growing on it. The leaves were round and hairy. The roots of a large plant were connected to a small one. It really was passed down from generation to generation, and the reproduction was very unique.

[System, is the plant with long, circling branches on the other side a medicinal herb? ]

After harvesting the saxifrage, Lin Shu discovered a plant with branches spiraling upwards growing on the other side of the road. He had never seen it before when he went up the mountain.

[System, this plant should be unique to the south, right? ]

[Replying to the host, that is the Closed-sheathed Ginger. It grows in a winding way, a bit like a walking stick. The flowers grow in pairs, opening and closing at the same time. The young stems and leaves are edible.]

Lin Shu walked over and collected several large plants around him into the system.

Although there are many plants in the south that are not found in the inland, most of the plants are the same.

Lin Shu walked from the foot of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, collecting things along the way and reaping a great harvest.

She didn't stop until she saw a plant she had never seen before.

[System, what is this plant called? Its leaves look a bit like taro leaves.]

[Replying to the host, this is red ginger. Its flowers are red when they bloom. They usually bloom in the evening. The fragrance can be smelled from 20 meters away. It is a natural shampoo with a fragrant but not greasy fragrance. The root tuber has the effect of removing dampness and expelling cold. ]

[Really? As expected, each place has its own unique plants. I've learned something new.]

There was a hillside covered with kudzu vines. Lin Shu trotted over and checked the leaves of the kudzu vines and found that they were triangular leaves.

This type of kudzu root with leaves is called powder kudzu, which is edible. Another type with round leaves is called tsai kudzu.

In ancient times, during famine years, the starving people ate the roots of kudzu.

Kudzu grows deep and is difficult to dig, but this is not a problem for the system.

The media collection function of the system is really time-saving, labor-saving and convenient. Just lightly touch the kudzu vine and the useful part of the root will be collected into the system.

[System, please save a rhizome for me. I will use it to make soup when I get back.]

The kudzu root soup has a slightly sweet taste and is delicious.

[Host, this kudzu vine is everywhere in the mountains, what else do you need to make soup with this rhizome? ]

Lin Shu: [Kudzu vines are growing all over the mountains, but they are so dense that I’m afraid there are spicy strips hidden in them.]

I have collected quite a few common medicinal herbs today, as well as some less expensive ones.

Of course, the amount on the balance is also rising rapidly.

Lin Shu saw a patch of fir trees growing on the opposite mountain, and thought that there should be mushrooms on the mountain at this season, so he went up the opposite mountain while collecting herbs as he passed by.

As a result, on the way to the opposite mountain, we found mushrooms in the thatch.

The mushrooms growing in the thatch piles are in clusters. If you find one, there will definitely be many more around.

Moreover, picking mushrooms is addictive. Picking up bunches of mushrooms will make you forget the time.

After Lin Shu had picked up all the grass, he walked into the fir forest and found an open space to rest. Then he remembered that Dabao was still in the villa and had stayed there for several hours.

Lin Shu took out a wet towel from the system, wiped her face and hands, and a large bag of thought appeared in her arms.

Seeing Dabao's aggrieved expression, she couldn't help laughing: "I'm sorry, son. I forgot the time while picking mushrooms just now. You must be hungry. I'll get you a bottle right away."