Gu Jiaojiao felt a little embarrassed by the praise.
She hadn’t really done much.
Leng Yuan had drawn the blueprints, and he had been the one to build it.
But she couldn’t say that, so she could only accept the complints with a smile.
After they finished praising Gu Jiaojiao, the conversation turned to the thresher she had supposedly made, and then to the other teams that had co to borrow the machines.
Only then did Gu Jiaojiao learn what had happened next.
Just as Chen Beiguo was taking Li Dashan to get the machines, two more team leaders had shown up, also clamoring to borrow one. Li Dashan had originally planned to take them all, but the other leaders wouldn’t allow it. In the end, to placate everyone, each team left with one machine.
The ones who arrived later took the smaller one.
Anyone who ca after that left with nothing at all.
Speaking of which, this was a great source of pride for their Qingshan Team. A treasure that other teams were fighting over belonged to them, so of course, they were proud.
As they spoke, they heaped more praise on Gu Jiaojiao.
Gu Jiaojiao...
’I just wanted to hear so gossip, but everyone is being way too kind!’
Qingshan Team was certainly worthy of its na. The green mountains stretched for dozens, even hundreds of miles. Not only were there wild vegetables and bamboo shoots on the mountains, but there were also plenty of dicinal herbs.
This made Gu Jiaojiao ecstatic.
dicinal herbs were sothing she was very fond of. Whenever Gu Jiaojiao saw any along the path, she would pick them.
Aunt Zhao, who was beside her, glanced at Gu Jiaojiao’s back basket. She saw many strange-looking things and couldn’t help but ask curiously, "Jiaojiao, what are you picking all these weeds for?"
Hearing this, Gu Jiaojiao smiled and explained, "Auntie, these are all dicinal herbs. They’ll be very useful once I take them back."
When Aunt Zhao heard her say this, she couldn’t help but ask, "Actually, I’ve been aning to ask you for a while. Do you know dicine?"
When Wang Xiuhua ca back, she had ntioned that Gu Jiaojiao took her pulse and that her diagnosis was the sa as the doctor’s. But since it seed Gu Jiaojiao didn’t want to publicize it, Aunt Zhao hadn’t asked until now.
Gu Jiaojiao found it amusing when she saw Aunt Zhao deliberately look left and right before asking in a hushed voice.
"I actually just know a little about wellness, so I can spot so issues. I’ve never formally studied it."
Aunt Zhao thought Gu Jiaojiao was truly incredible. Not only could she build a thresher, but she also knew about these things. It was amazing.
"You’re really amazing."
Aunt Zhao gave her a thumbs-up.
Gu Jiaojiao had been praised so many tis now that she was quite used to it. She simply got back to digging for wild vegetables and herbs.
Without realizing it, she had wandered quite far and discovered a patch of bamboo shoots. Her eyes lit up at the sight.
’This is good stuff. I should pick a lot. I can pickle them when I get back, and they’ll last all winter.’
This was deep in the north, where winters were especially cold, with temperatures dropping to minus twenty degrees Celsius. This ant that besides radishes, cabbages, and dried string beans, there weren’t many other vegetables in the winter.
However, people here would pickle cabbage for the winter. Gu Jiaojiao also liked pickled cabbage; it could be stewed with at or used as a filling for dumplings. The thought of pickled cabbage dumplings made her mouth water.
Bamboo shoots were quite bulky, and before long, Gu Jiaojiao’s basket was full.
She let Aunt Zhao know she was heading back, then carried her basket ho. After dropping the things in the courtyard, she rushed back up the mountain.
Just like that, Gu Jiaojiao made three or four trips in half a day.
Looking at the dicinal herbs in the courtyard, Gu Jiaojiao felt this was too inefficient.
As she thought about this, she had an idea.
The next ti she went up the mountain, she grabbed a large burlap sack from the woodshed—the extra-large kind that could probably hold two hundred pounds of grain.
Besides the sack, she also took a rope and a sickle that were hanging on the wall.
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