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Every time she thought of Xiao Yuchuan’s bright white teeth, she wanted to help him pull them out. After all, her own teeth were still not white enough despite brushing them for so many days,
Not only did she have to treat her face, but there was also no toothpaste in ancient times. She had to make her own herbal toothpaste.
Willow branches, locust branches, and mulberry branches were common. Boiling them in water and adding ginger juice and asarum could make a simple medicinal mud toothpaste.
With the asarum, she had an idea for her toothpaste.
After wandering around the mountain for half a day, she picked several commonly seen herbal medicines. To treat the pus sores on her face, she needed a medicine that could treat such sores, and also a supplementary herb that the poison spider juice could be used as a drug inducer.
Unable to find the required medicine for treating sores, she decided not to search blindly anymore. She would just buy it from the pharmacy in town once she had enough money.
She also saw a lot of wild vegetables on the mountain. She picked some, tied them with long grass, and stuffed them into the basket.
It was two or three o’clock in the afternoon, and the sun was scorching and poisonous.
She carried a large bundle of common medicinal herbs in her hands, and the basket was also full of wild vegetables and medicine.
There were still many mushrooms that she didn’t pick.
She couldn’t carry them back even if she picked them.
This trip had yielded a bountiful harvest.
She chose to walk in shady places covered by trees so as to avoid her already dark skin from getting even more tanned.
She hadn’t had any water since the morning, and she was incredibly thirsty.
Unable to bear the heat, she decided to find a place to drink some water.
Not far ahead, there was a mountain body with water dripping through the cracks in the rocks. Although it was not a stream, it was pure mountain spring water. She walked over, put down her basket and bundle of herbs, and bent down to drink the spring water dripping from the rocks. The mountain spring water was sweet and a bit refreshing, even better than well water.
After quenching her thirst, she still felt hungry.
It was already past lunchtime, she needed to eat something.
She took out the rice bowl from the bottom of her basket, lifted the lid, and discovered that the bowl of rice was full of ants, which made her scalp tingle.
She had forgotten how many insects and ants there were on the mountain. Next time when she had the chance, she would definitely make some insect-repelling medicine powder.
The bowl of rice was a waste. She emptied the bowl and washed it with the dripping water from the rocks.
She couldn’t just discard the bowl, as the Xiao Family had very few bowls, just barely enough to use. She put the cleaned bowl back into her basket full of items.
When she thought of Xiao Qinghe’s insistence on her having lunch and his concerned expression, she felt as if not eating would be letting Qinghe down.
She sat in the shade behind the dripping rocks, thinking that she should find something to eat to fill her stomach.
Looking around, she spotted a large bayberry tree with red berries dotting the branches between a cluster of trees. It was the season for ripe bayberries. The tree was full of ripe red bayberries.
She happily rushed over to pick a few bayberries and put them in her mouth. The color was red enough, but as they were wild bayberries, they tasted quite sour.
After eating more than ten, she decided not to eat anymore to save her teeth from the acidity.
However, bayberries had many uses.
At the same time, deep in another distant mountain, Xiao Yishan’s harvest for the day wasn’t very good. He caught only one wild rabbit that fell into a pre-dug trap.
Thinking about Fourth Brother’s medicine that was about to be consumed entirely, it would cost three taels of silver to buy medicine for another month. Third Brother’s fainting problem could occur at any time, and medical treatment would require a lot of money.
The family only had two hundred copper coins in total.
There was no solution to Fourth Brother’s imminent medicine money problem.. His wife, being a woman, still