This time, Page was still there to pick them up halfway.
By the time the three of them returned to the mountain with torches, it was already midnight. Xu Errui was tired and excited. As soon as he entered the door, he kept talking to the yawning Jiang Zhi: "Mom, today Xia Xiucai talked about the sun and the moon. I remember them all." Living!"
Jiang Zhi was so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes, so he nodded: "Just remember, we will go tomorrow. There is hot water on the stove. You can wash up and go to bed early!"
It's ten o'clock in the evening.
For modern people, nightlife has just begun, but in ancient farmhouses, which were accustomed to working at sunrise and resting at sunset, it was already time to wake up and turn over the clock and feed cows and grass in the middle of the night.
Even Jiang Zhi has followed the local customs, and is used to going to bed early unless he has something to do.
As soon as Qiaoyun entered the house, she went to see Caixia first and leaned over to kiss her daughter who was sleeping soundly. When she heard Er Rui talking about the lecture, she hesitated and said, "Mom, I won't go to the village tomorrow."
Jiang Zhi frowned slightly when he saw her making out with her daughter: "Are you tired of walking? Or are you afraid of walking at night?"
It is indeed dangerous to climb mountains and walk at night, but now that the road has been repaired several times, the risk has been greatly reduced.
Of course, Qiaoyun really didn't want to walk at night, so he could stay overnight with Mr. Liu in the village and come back in the morning.
But looking at her intimacy at this time, I'm afraid she still can't let go of the child.
"No, mother, I'm not tired. I'm just afraid that Caixia will disobey you and make you angry!" Qiao Yun explained hurriedly.
Jiang Zhi pursed his lips and stopped asking: "It's getting late. You go to bed first. If you have anything to do, we'll talk about it tomorrow morning."
She wondered if Qiaoyun didn't understand and didn't want to run away from exhaustion again, so she might as well ask Errui and Xiaoman tomorrow.
There is too little free time that truly belongs to women. If you don’t cherish it, it will be difficult to get it in the future.
Now that Caixia has been weaned, Qiaoyun can escape for a while. If she gets pregnant again, there will be no chance of learning at all.
The next day, it was dawn and thick fog shrouded the entire mountain forest. Jiang Zhi had already gotten up early.
I came back too late yesterday, Er Rui and Qiao Yun were still sleeping, and Jiang Zhi didn't wake them up.
She was going to pull some vegetables to feed the chickens and pigs, and by the way, she was going to check whether the fields of Ophiopogon japonicus in the ravine had begun to bear fruit, and to check some medicinal herbs planted near her home.
Miss Huo Er said that she wanted Xujiacun to grow medicinal materials, among which Ophiopogon japonicus was one of them.
The rhizome of Ophiopogon japonicus is used as medicine. According to "Shen Nong's Materia Medica": it is the best medicine for nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs. It can lighten the body after long-term use and prevent aging and hunger.
Ophiopogon japonicus is just a weed in the south, and it can be found on the mountains here in Xujiacun, but the quantity is small, and you won’t be able to sell it for much money after digging it up.
Jiang Zhi thought that he could save seeds or divide the plants for propagation in the future, and he could also keep the formula for medicine at any time, so he never picked it.
Now is the time when Ophiopogon japonicus is blooming. Strings of pale pink flower branches are stuck in the grass. They look ordinary from a distance, but very stunning when seen up close.
In early winter, Ophiopogon japonicus fruits can still be produced, which is also very beautiful.
The fruits of Ophiopogon japonicus are like dark blue gems scattered in the grass. They look good on a bracelet, but they are not edible.
Her ability to collect herbs does not mean she knows how to grow them. She leaves these native seedlings for her own consumption, and also to observe the growth of real wild medicinal materials.
Walking through the mist, various wild flowers and grasses come into view.
Summer is when plants grow most luxuriantly, and it is also when various medicinal materials are easiest to identify.
The world does not lack beauty, it only lacks eyes to discover beauty. In addition to decorating the beautiful scenery, these flowers also contain more functions.
The plants about one meter high on the hillside were ordinary, but now they were blooming with a bunch of lavender flowers, which were standard inverted bells.
Its southern name is American ginseng, and its northern name is Adenophora ginseng.
Adenophora japonicus, like Ophiopogon japonicus, is a high-quality yin-nourishing product. When stewing soup, dig out one plant and put the rhizome in the pot and cook together.
It's earthy yellow in the drugstore, but it's beautiful and translucent in the stew bag... (Ahem, it's still safe to eat colored ones)
The rhizomes of Northern Adenophora and Southern American Ginseng are naturally light brown or yellow-white, which are the hardest hit areas for sulfur smoked whitening.
Now, these medicinal and edible plants, like the mountain weeds, wild yam, fleece-flower root, and white grass, have been classified in Jiangzhi's vegetable garden.
After looking at these medicinal materials one by one and seeing that they were growing well, Jiang Zhi pulled out a few vegetables and took them back.
Jiang Zhi walked around the mountain, just like Mr. Man walked around the field. He felt at ease after inspecting his treasures every day.
By the time she got home, Qiaoyun was already cooking. Xu Errui was not at home, and she could hear the sound of banging in the woods nearby.
The rice eaten on the mountain needs to be pounded with a stone mortar, which is a heavy physical work. Now Errui grinds the rice and noodles in the morning when it is cool.
Under the cliff, there was also the sound of pounding wheat, either Xiaoman or Chunfeng was doing it.
If you want to eat fine grains, you need to spend more time processing the ingredients.
Jiang Zhi felt that he needed to build a reservoir on the mountain.
We use the ditch on the ridge above to store water when there is a lot of rain in summer, and use bamboo tubes to divert the water down.
The height difference is high enough to push a small water mill to pound rice to grind charcoal powder and medicinal powder, which can reduce manual labor by half.
However, the noise of the chickens forced her to admit that creating a paradise-like life was not something she could achieve overnight.
The chickens, big and small, were jumping up and down in the pen, looking around, waiting to eat the freshest vegetable leaves.
Jiang Zhi peeled off the leaves of vegetables one by one, chopped them into pieces, mixed them with bran and bean cakes, and fed them to the chickens.
The vegetable roots were left to Peppa Pig, who was still sleeping soundly in the grass nest.
Qiaoyun came over with water: "Mom! The meal is almost ready!"
Jiang Zhi took the warm water and drank it, then asked casually: "What did Xia Xiucai talk about yesterday?"
She felt like she was randomly checking the homework of students at home.
Qiaoyun, who was still downcast yesterday, seemed to have forgotten what he had said when he mentioned the lecture. He immediately said in high spirits: "Yesterday, when Xia Xiucai talked about the calendar, why did he use days instead of months? It was okay at first, but later many people asked. I don’t understand…hehe!”
She couldn't help but laugh when she thought of Xu Gensheng's embarrassment when someone pointed his nose at him and scolded him for talking too much, and Uncle Li who was thrown into the water tank.
"Oh!" Jiang Zhidou was a little surprised. Xia Xiucai really found a new way.
Yesterday I talked about "letting go" and "obsession".
Today I’m talking about the calendar again…
From philosophy to astronomy, Xia Xiucai's span is not ordinary. He is indeed knowledgeable and talented. Unfortunately, ordinary people can't understand it at all, let alone this group of idiots.
"You said you can understand it?" Jiang Zhi also became interested. Although Qiaoyun was only eighteen years old, he had not studied the book the day before. He had only learned the calligraphy from the doctor's book, so there was no reason he could understand the lunar calendar.
Qiaoyun nodded.
"Then why did you say you didn't want to go yesterday? Was it because you didn't like it or because you were really tired?" Jiang Zhi asked.
Qiaoyun lowered his head and said in a voice as low as a mosquito: "I like to listen, and I'm not afraid of getting tired. I'm just worried that Caixia will cause trouble!"
Hearing that she really couldn't let go of the child, Jiang Zhi became angry: "It doesn't matter if the child cries a few times. You are not sensible now and think that hugging her a little longer and smiling silly a little longer is good for her. The days of her crying are still to come. "
The sudden curse made Qiao Yun turn pale with fright.
The mother-in-law had not been so angry for a long time. She quickly shook her head: "Mom, I'm not afraid that Caixia will cry, but I'm afraid that she will tire you!"
