After dinner, Xiaoman and Xu Errui continued to dig rabbit holes, but Jiang Zhi did not go out.
Pueraria was back and needed to be dealt with as soon as possible. When she arrived at Xiaoman's house, she first expressed her gratitude to Xiaoman for helping him repair the house.
Xiao Manye waved his hand to tell her not to say thank you anymore, and pointed at the kudzu piled in the room and said excitedly: "What I did was just a hand job, Er Ruiniang, this is a life-saving thing, and so is that one!"
On the other side, there are green berries soaking in the pit. Now every day I pick up green berries and take turns soaking them, grinding them into powder, and eating them into battered pancakes.
With these two things, he doesn't have to worry about starving to death again.
Moreover, kudzu root can also cure diseases. Dazhu ate stewed kudzu root last night and said that his thirst and pain felt better.
Xiao Mannai also said that she couldn't do heavy work, and washing and washing was not tiring.
When people get old, they are most afraid of becoming useless. Only when they feel needed can they feel at ease. Besides, there are still two burdens on the family.
Seeing that both of them were satisfied with the current situation, Jiang Zhi didn't say too many extravagant words, so he taught them how to get kudzu powder.
In fact, the process of getting the powder is similar to that of Qinggangzi. First, mash the kudzu root into a paste, then wash the powder with water, repeatedly sediment, and skim off the sewage on it. Finally, take the powder that settles at the bottom of the container and dry it in the sun.
Xiao Man Nai will know it as soon as she hears it.
When she learned that kudzu root powder was more delicious than green kudzu powder and more beneficial to the body, she smiled from ear to ear, and her eyes that were already cloudy were shining: When did she choose to eat when she was escaping, this was not the case in the previous famine. Years and months are nothing.
Jiang Zhi and the others spent the whole morning smashing the kudzu roots with wooden sticks, then filtered out the residue with a cloth, washed out the powder and began to precipitate.
Nini was holding the little rabbit and watching from the side, with a smile on her yellow face.
She liked little rabbits, so Xiaoman built a nest with stones and spread it with hay to raise the rabbits.
The little rabbit was still very weak and couldn't eat qinggangzi, so Xiaomannai took out the precious corn noodles and sorghum and fed it.
It's not good to eat grain all the time. This is something that no one wants to eat. But yesterday I found that rabbits want to eat kudzu, which solves a big problem.
The house has been repaired by Xiao Manye. Taking advantage of his free time, Jiang Zhi also wants to level the courtyard dam in front of the door.
When building a house before, I simply dug it out with a hoe. It looked very rough, incomparable to the ground paved with stone chips by Xiao Manye.
Now the mountain ash has fallen, making it so dark that even sweeping can't clean it.
Fortunately, Jiang Zhi followed his grandfather through the grain drying field when he was a child, and he still has fresh memories of these operations.
She and Qiaoyun first dug loose the soil on the surface of the yard, picked up the stones inside, and crushed the soil particles. Then they took a small amount of the white lime they carried from the village and spread it evenly.
Qiaoyun sprinkled water from leaves to wet the soil. After the soil was soaked, he beat it with a wooden stick.
Keep hammering "ping ping ping pong" until the ground is solid and flat. After hammering, sprinkle hay knots and beat again while the moisture is still wet.
Finally, Jiang Zhi found some thin stones and laid them neatly in a circle under the eaves to prevent water from dripping from the eaves and damaging the soil.
With such an arrangement, the smooth and clean courtyard immediately changed the appearance of the entire cabin.
Qiaoyun sat on the steps in front of the house, imagining that there would be children crawling around here in a few months, and couldn't help but smile shyly.
Xu Errui and Xiao Man came back earlier, and the two families gathered at Xiao Man's house under the cliff.
This time they only found two rabbits, and the other two brought back bad news.
Wildfires tend to spread to other peaks.
In addition to digging rabbit holes in the past two days, they were also monitoring the fire situation. They were also responsible for cleaning up the remaining fires when they encountered them.
The place where the two families live has already been burned by fire once, and the possibility of another fire is unlikely, but there is also a fear that the fire will come back and the two fires will be connected.
Now we are looking forward to rain more and more. Only rain can truly extinguish wildfires.
The custom that night was to stew kudzu root in soup. Although I was still full, the original joy was gone.
However, Zheergen was put on the table, and several children liked it. Even Nini and Xu Dazhu also tasted it.
After eating, Jiang Zhi was not in a hurry to leave. She was teasing Nini and chatting with Xiao Mannai.
In addition, Xu Errui, Xiaoman and Xiaomanye were building a kang.
We had prepared the materials for building the kang the day before the fire. Unexpectedly, when the wildfire broke out that night, the earth and rocks happened to cover the food, and now we had time to start over.
Because there was a need to make room for the Kang, Xu Dazhu's bed board was moved to the fire pit.
By the light of the fire, Jiang Zhi could clearly see his face. He was just an ordinary country boy, but he was too thin and out of shape, and his eye sockets looked scary.
Perhaps it was because of the meat and fish he had seen in the past two days, or perhaps because the firelight gave people a sense of warmth, Xu Dazhu's pale face looked a little more cheerful.
Xiao Mannai and Jiang Zhi all talked about eating, drinking, sleeping and sleeping.
Just intentionally or unintentionally, Jiang Zhi asked about the detailed process of Xu Dazhu's treatment back then.
The people in the village only knew that they had found a doctor for treatment, but they didn't know how the treatment was carried out.
Xu Dazhu said in a soft and weak voice: "At first, my legs felt like they were being bitten by millions of ants and I couldn't lift them.
The doctor said it was a dislocation of the bones in my back, so he carried me around the house on his back to fix my bones. At that time, I fainted from the pain.
When I woke up... I found that although my legs were no longer numb or painful, they didn't feel the pain even when being pinched, let alone lift them up. "
Jiang Zhi was speechless for a moment.
Xu Dazhu was harmed by a quack doctor.
The most taboo thing about bone injuries is to move them at will, let alone carry them backwards. This is treating spinal cord injuries as lumbar disc herniation, which will aggravate the condition.
It’s just that I can’t say this.
Saying it now will only increase the guilt of the two old people, but it has no practical use at all.
They found the doctor, and the treatment was performed in front of them.
If they knew at this time that their grandson's condition was getting worse and worse under their noses, they would be sad for the rest of their lives.
There is no way around this.
Not to mention the unevenness of folk medical skills, miracle doctors are rare but hard to come by, and healing depends on fate.
Even modern medical science and technology, with numerous instruments and equipment, cannot treat the sequelae of spinal cord injury, and it is still possible to walk into the hospital or leave the hospital lying down.
Seeing that Aunt Jiang stopped talking after asking, Xu Dazhu said cautiously: "Aunt, can I... use herbal medicine?"
When he heard that kudzu root could cure diseases, he always kept it in mind.
Jiang Zhi did not answer directly, but said vaguely: "You can try to use herbal medicine, but you have to eat well and nourish your body well and fatten up first before you have the opportunity to use medicine. Otherwise, you won't be able to stand up even if your bones grow well."
"Stand?" Xu Dazhu's eyes lit up.
Jiang Zhi nodded and read silently three times: I am not a doctor and cannot be responsible for my words. I am just comforting him now.
As the disease has progressed to this point, medicinal supplements are not as good as food supplements. What can be done at the beginning is to regulate his body in other aspects.
That is to eat, eat all kinds of food, and make up for the shortcomings of the body.
It was impossible for Xu Dazhu to stand up again, but his upper limbs could move.
After regaining her strength, she can sit in a wheelchair, get out of bed, grow up with Nini, and take care of her aging grandparents without becoming a burden to Xiaoman.
As long as a person has a glimmer of hope in a difficult situation, he will become extremely strong. Sometimes a person's willpower can change his destiny.
Here, Xu Dazhu clearly cheered up knowing that he could stand up.
Not only was he in the mood to watch Xiaoman and the others sitting next to him on the kang, but he also gave a few words of warning. Unknowingly, he even spoke louder.
