Litchi kernels can be dried and ground into powder and taken with warm water, or decoction and taken with other medicinal materials. It can be used for stomachache and hernia caused by cold qi stagnation.
Next to her, Qiao Yun couldn't put it down because of the new bracelet on her wrist, which consisted of lychee cores strung with red string.
It was the lychees Er Rui brought back to her and left behind after eating them.
She thought the lychees were delicious and the cores were smooth and black. Her mother said they could also be used as medicine, so she made them into skewers and wore them to play with.
In fact, it had been three days since he picked the tree on a hot day. Jiang Zhi gave the lychee he brought back to Mr. Man so that he could always take a look at it.
Unexpectedly, Xu Errui opened a hole in the button and brought back the lychees that had already changed color and even started to deteriorate.
Seeing that the part covered by the shell was still light yellow, the young couple shared the small piece that could be eaten.
Needless to say how it tastes, Qiaoyun feels particularly delicious and sweet to the core.
After the wheat is harvested, the wheat stalks still need to be moved back for threshing.
Among the people on the mountain, Xu Dazhu could cut wheat while sitting, but could not carry it on his back, so he and Xiao Manye were busy planting cotton.
Last year's cotton management was not in place. After all, Jiang Zhi only watched his parents grow it when he was a child. Only when he got his hands dirty did he discover many problems.
For example, the tipping time was too late, and I didn't realize anything was wrong until it reached my shoulders. Fortunately, I "broke off the buds" and topdressed the crops later, and the cotton harvest was okay.
But those few dozen kilograms of cotton already made Mr. Man extremely happy. He said he was not at a loss because he could learn to grow cotton in his lifetime.
This year, he did everything by himself, from raising seedlings to raising seeds.
Since there is land at the foot of the mountain to harvest grain to fill our stomachs, all this slope land will be planted with cotton, so that we can also buy new quilts for our grandchildren.
On the other side, Jiang Zhi and Chunfeng tied the wheat piled on the ground into large bundles with ropes, then put thousands of loads on them and carried them home.
In front of them, Peppa Pig was carrying a large bundle of wheat straw, humming and running very fast.
Without Xiao Man and Er Rui, a few old, weak, women and children could still take home several acres of wheat.
Xiao Mannai and Qiaoyun had already cleaned up the yard, and the recovered wheat could not be piled up, so most of it could only be stacked on tree poles outside.
This year there is enough fertility, and the wheat is piled up into hills. It makes Mr. Man smile with a smile on his face, but also worries in his heart.
There is a lot of wheat, and there are not enough places to thresh wheat in the mountains, so it cannot be threshed all at once.
Because there is no way to dry it, the harvested wheat grains will heat up and germinate after being left in the pile for a day, which will cause great losses.
We can only take the wheat back and stack it in a sheltered place, and cover it with straw curtains, so as to prevent it from getting wet from the night rain, and there is no need to rush to thresh and dry the wheat.
In the future, you can take out a portion of the wheat straw at a time and put it on the ground to dry. Use flails made of tree branches and bamboo poles to beat and thresh the wheat straw, sift out the wheat husks, and dry it in the sun before you can prepare the second batch.
The peas on the other side of the terraced fields have been harvested by Xu Dazhu and his wife, and even the soil has been turned over and dried. Now it is time to water the fields again.
Without oxen to pull the plow, field preparation was a heavy job, so Er Rui and Xiao Man came back.
The land in his village will be handed over to Tian Gui for management, and the rice grain will be converted to him when the time comes.
Under the leadership of Tian Gui, he is not afraid of having more land now. He can do anything as long as he can support his children and his wife.
Besides, my wife is pregnant, so I still have to harvest more grain.
This time, the artificial hybrid rice specially produced last year was divided into a separate field. It will take several months to know the results.
With two new troops, the paddy field of less than one acre was quickly planted.
After finishing the farm work, Xu Errui suddenly discussed with Jiang Zhi: "Mom, I want to give Xia Xiucai something more!"
Jiang Zhi said: "How much can Xia Xiucai receive from this food distribution?"
Now Xu Errui is managing the village affairs on behalf of Jiang Zhi.
Xu Errui nodded: "Yes, according to mother's instructions, Xia Xiucai has ten kilograms more white flour and a can of oil than other families!"
Every household has to pay back the grain they borrow, but for Xia Xiucai, Jiang Zhi subsidized some of it himself, so he didn't have to pay it back.
"Then why do you still want to send something?" Jiang Zhi felt that Xu Errui rarely had his own ideas and wanted to ask clearly.
Xu Errui coquettishly said: "Mom, we are almost done with the busy farming season now. I want to learn literacy from Xia Xiucai!"
The calligraphy he knows now is still based on Xu Dong's medicinal names, and he is still far from being able to actually write some documents.
Jiang Zhi had long planned to teach the children in the village how to calligraphy, but they still had no roof over their heads and no beds to sleep on, and the children were all collecting firewood and cultivating the fields.
Everyone is running around for survival and has no time to read or write.
Jiang Zhi clapped his fingers and counted the things that needed to be done one by one.
The summer rainstorm is coming, and the village is full of shacks that will leak when it rains, so the villagers must be urged to strengthen them quickly.
He can borrow grain to feed the villagers and cultivate the land, but he will not use money to build their houses.
Magistrate Zhang has repeatedly said that people's livelihood is the top priority, and he has been thinking about it since he came back: How can he help the villagers tide over the difficulties in a principled manner without developing the habit of "waiting, relying, and asking"...
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhi narrowed his eyes: He was still out of habit and always used the system of civilized society to constrain his actions.
This is not a place to promote the "Five Lectures and Four Beauties".
It is said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, and good people naturally come from the whip.
If someone dares to do something unusual in an emergency, he or she who dares to complain will be punished by the group and given a beating. If he is dissatisfied, he will be sent to Magistrate Zhang for training.
With an idea in mind, Jiang Zhi began to assign tasks.
"Er Rui, Xia Xiucai is not in a hurry to learn literacy for the time being. Send out the tools you bought in the town and ask everyone to cut down trees for my family.
Each person was given thirty cents per day, and a spacious house was built after the trees were cut down.
If you need to hire craftsmen, hire craftsmen. You don’t have to ask how good they are. The mud floors and wooden walls should be stronger, and they should be able to withstand wind and rain! It's the kind of warehouse you saw in Huo's house. "
"With a big house, it will be easier for you to learn calligraphy in the future, and I won't need the "dry toilet" shed when I come down.
The most important thing is that if there is a heavy rain, the villagers must have a place to hide! "
Jiang Zhi told him the priorities of the matter.
Xu Errui also knows that when a heavy rain comes, the shacks in the village will definitely not be able to withstand it. If there is a sturdy house, the villagers can temporarily shelter from the rain.
"Okay, mother, Uncle Tian also said that he would cut down the trees and build a house for my family first."
Xu Errui put aside his desire to learn literacy and got down to business first.
"In addition, the children and women in the village also use it. They are asked to dig for granny dices, loach strings, and roadside yellow. They are paid one penny per kilogram of clean dry goods!
Let Xia Xiucai help with the accounting and let his mother check it. If the amount is higher, he will give Granny Xia wages. "
Xia Xiucai's daughter-in-law can embroider, has a quiet personality, and keeps away from others. Only Xia's mother can do such a thing.
"Yeah, okay, I'll go down the mountain and tell them tomorrow." Xu Errui nodded repeatedly, which was also helping Xia Xiucai's family.
Jiang Zhi had thought of these things for a long time, and now he also said them.
Xu Errui was a little excited when he thought that his mother would build the warehouse first: "Mom, are we going to make medicine?"
"Get ready first! It won't cost much anyway!" Jiang Zhi did not deny it.
It's still too early to make medicine. I don't have any conditions. Now I have to stock up on raw materials.
