Exile at the beginning: I rule the world by drawing cards

Chapter 25 Discovery of Konjac
The night breeze was gentle, and the air was filled with the faint fragrance of grass. The night sky after the rain was as clean as if it had been wiped with snow. The bright moon was shining brightly, and there was the sound of frogs in the fields.

Zhou Lingqi, who had been busy all night before eating crab meat noodles, couldn't sleep at this moment.

Listening to the shallow breathing next to him, his mind became clearer.A pair of eyes were unusually bright in the darkness. He sat up quietly and stared at the sleeping person next to him. After a long time, he let out a deep breath and lay back down again.

He closed his eyes for just a moment, opened them again, stood up, and lay down again with his eyes closed.

Repeatedly, he didn't fall asleep until midnight.

Qin Mengshang went to bed early and got up early every day since she moved here. The quality of her sleep was not to mention very good. She didn't realize that someone was staring at her all night last night.

When I woke up in the morning, I found that I had rolled into Zhou Lingqi's bed for the unknown number of times. I lifted up the quilt and got out of bed with a dull face.

Last time I went to town to buy too many things, I couldn't carry them all, so I just bought a quilt. It's been raining these days, so I don't have time to go to town.

I couldn't sleep on just one quilt, so I had to buy a new quilt.

After cleaning himself up, Qin Mengshang took a bowl of porridge and wandered in front of the cultivated vegetable field. After the rain, the air was refreshing and the soil was soft and soft, making it the most suitable place to plant some vegetables.

When Zhou Lingqi came out with a sleepy face, he saw her standing in the yard, one foot on a dead tree trunk, one hand on her hip, and the other hand holding a bowl of porridge and drinking.

Now we don’t even have food on the table.

Qin Mengshang was used to this. He turned around and found Zhou Lingqi looking at her. He silently put his feet down and said, "Breakfast is in the pot. After eating, you have to go to the river embankment to work."

Zhou Lingqi had no appetite in the morning, so he took two steamed buns and went out.

As soon as he arrived at the river embankment, Sun Dawang came over to greet Zhou Lingqi. When he saw Qin Mengshang beside him, he smiled and called: "Sister-in-law."

Qin Mengshang glanced at him secretly and thought to himself, how can someone who can't say three sentences for a long time actually make friends?How strange.

Zhou Lingqi felt the strange look in her eyes, didn't want to speak or explain, and left with Sun Dawang.

The work of throwing rocks under the water on the river bank is still going on. Li Zhang did not come today. Some people speculated that the Xu family reported it to Capt. Xu, and Li Zhang was called back to the city.

It was calm and busy at noon. Qin Mengshang said something to Zhou Lingqi, went home, picked up the basket on his back and went up the mountain.

There is still more than 26 taels left in the family's savings. If she saves money, it will be enough for several years, but she has never been one to sit back and rest.

If you don’t have money, make money and work hard to become well-off.

After going up the mountain, Qin Mengshang called General Meng out and took a look at the remaining points.

【Currently Available Points: 618】

[Number of cards: 2]

Qin Mengshang was stunned. Didn't she spend two hundred points to draw a card last time?Why did I get an extra hundred points if I didn't reduce it?
System: [Your knowledge and wisdom helped the villagers solve the problem of water accumulation in the rice fields, achieved the achievement 'Intention in the Canal', and received 300 bonus points. 】

"...that's okay too?"

System: [Of course, your points have reached the standard for drawing cards. Do you want to choose to draw cards? 】

Based on the experience last time, Qin Mengshang decisively chose 'no', saying that he had to accumulate enough points and draw ten consecutive rounds.

She put away the cards and picked a few cedar mushrooms along the mountain road. When she was about to continue searching, she heard crying sounds not far away.Parting through the bushes, I saw several older children surrounding a little girl, and the little girl in the middle was crying.

Qin Mengshang recognized the crying child as Xiaocao from the Li Zheng family.

Xiaohe protected his sister behind him and glared fiercely at a group of boys: "Which of you bullied my sister?"

"Who bullied her? It's obvious that she was timid and was frightened by a piece of grass!"

"We won't bully a little baby! Xiaocao is so timid. It's better not to bring her to the mountain in the future, haha."

Xiaocao timidly grabbed the corner of her sister's clothes, blew her nose, and said, "Sister, there is a snake over there." When Qin Mengshang heard the snake, he looked at the grass at his feet warily. She was not afraid of anything but snakes. This cold and silent animal.

"There are no snakes!" The speaker was Hu Dajun, the grandson of Old Man Hu, who is 12 years old this year. "That's just a piece of grass. You saw it wrong!"

Xiaocao said stubbornly: "No! There really is a snake."

Xiaohe didn't know whether what his sister said was true or not. Even if there was a snake, it would have been scared away long ago.

"I've been chopping firewood here, and I've never seen a snake. If you don't believe it, look at it."

Hu Dajun used a hatchet to remove the weeds, revealing a half-meter-tall plant with a thick stem covered with deep and shallow spots, and two pale yellow flowers with a strange shape on the top.At first glance, it really looks like a snake wrapped around it.

Qin Mengshang's eyes lit up. Isn't this konjac? !
Konjac is full of poison. If it is not handled carefully during the cooking process, it will be poisoned. Villagers dare not touch it easily. Only medical centers use konjac as medicine, and it is even rarer to use it for food.She remembered that her grandmother used to make konjac tofu, and it seemed quite simple.
A bold idea suddenly came to mind.

She has been thinking about ways to make money these days, isn't this coming?

He immediately stepped over the bushes and walked out, saying warmly: "This is Konjac. There are indeed snakes around. Xiaocao must have read it correctly."

Several half-year-old children were stunned when they saw Qin Mengshang, not knowing what konjac was.

Xiaocao received her affirmation, she smiled with tears in her eyes, and said in a soft voice: "Beautiful Liu——"

"Beautiful sister." Qin Mengshang corrected her one step ahead.

Xiaocao tilted his head and blinked, as if thinking about the difference between the two.

Qin Mengshang stepped forward and after confirming that it was konjac, he turned around and said to the children: "The whole plant of konjac is poisonous, and the underground fruits are the most toxic. If eaten by mistake, convulsions, foaming at the mouth, etc. will occur. Don’t touch raw konjac at will, your hands will feel numb and stinging.”

When the children heard that it was poisonous, they took two steps back, thankful that they had not reached out to touch it just now.

Xiao He quickly grabbed his sister's hand: "Xiao Cao'er, you didn't touch it just now, did you?"

Xiaocao shook his head: "No."

"Don't panic if you encounter someone. Just go down the mountain to find your parents and ask them to wash your hands with ginger juice or vinegar." Qin Mengshang spoke softly and smiled, "Okay, since everything is okay, everyone should disperse. Come on, be careful on the way back."

Let's go quickly, she's going to start digging konnyaku.

The children were used to being nagged by their mothers, but they had never been treated so tenderly before. They couldn't help but blush, nodded obediently, and left.

Xiaocao held her sister's hand and went down the mountain with a small basket full of wild vegetables. Halfway through, she muttered: "That beautiful sister, believe me, it's different from what mother said."

The little girl is three and a half years old, and she still doesn't speak fluently. She only remembers that every time her mother mentioned the Zhou family's daughter-in-law, she always had a bad look on her face.

Xiao He frowned: "What mother said may not be right. Xiao Cao'er should not listen to mother in the future."

"But my mother said that disobedient children will be picked up by wolves. I don't want to be picked up by wolves."

"There are no wolves on the mountain at all. That's all what my mother lied to you!"

Xiaohe didn't like his mother, and his mother didn't like her either. Even his younger sister was ruined by her mother.

Xiaocao was confused. When she saw the abandoned cowshed at the foot of the mountain, she shouted in surprise: "Sister, sister, if we hide in there again this time, will dad come find us?"

Last time she and her sister were playing hide-and-seek in there, their parents came to see them. When they got back, their father bought her candy.

She wants to eat sweets and see her father.

When Xiaohe saw the cowshed, he bit his lower lip and walked quickly with his sister: "No, last time dad came back because of the rain. This time dad went to Jiangkou to move goods and won't come back."

Xiaocao is a little disappointed. She hasn't eaten candy for a long time. It would be great if her mother could buy her candy.
(End of this chapter)