Chu Yue hurriedly washed the tea bowl and put it back in the kitchen. Then she took the basket, the small notebook and charcoal pens that Lu Xinghe had ordered for her, and followed Zhang Zheng out.
The two came to the mountains. Chu Yue first led Zhang Zheng to the small patch of grass that Lu Yufang discovered last time.
"Master, do you know what this is?"
Zhang Zheng knelt down and looked at the grass in front of him carefully, then picked the leaves and smelled it, "This is called Zeqi. When it blooms in April and May, the whole grass is harvested and dried in the sun. It tastes bitter and the whole plant is poisonous. It can be used as medicine to treat edema, cough and asthma, tinea sores, etc., but it cannot be eaten, otherwise it will cause poisoning, which can range from nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain to severe headaches, coma, and even life-threatening injuries. The juice may contaminate the skin and may cause symptoms. Redness, swelling and sensitivity.”
After hearing this, Chu Yue quickly took out a charcoal pen and wrote down what Zhang Zheng said in a small notebook.
She couldn't help but feel happy in her heart. Fortunately, Yufang didn't eat the grass last time, otherwise she doesn't know what would have happened.
After remembering the key points, she picked all the small pieces of grass. Although it was not the best time for harvesting, the harvest was not good right now, so someone might pick these grasses when they were extremely hungry. Pick it and eat it.
Zhang Zheng waited for Chu Yue to finish picking the zeqi, and then led her to continue walking into the mountains.
Because the mountains had been excavated too thoroughly a few days ago, there were not many herbs encountered along the way. Even if there were, most of them were poisonous or slightly poisonous.
Chu Yue thought about it. Although people in the mountains didn't know any medicinal materials, they could automatically avoid these poisonous plants. It was really amazing.
Chu Yue followed Zhang Zheng to identify six kinds of medicinal herbs, and also listened to him talk about a lot of pharmacological and pathological knowledge. Seeing that it was almost noon, the two of them turned and went home.
When they got home, Yun Cuihe was scrubbing in the kitchen. After Lu Xinghe applied tung oil on the furniture in the house, he fenced a piece of land in the yard to grow vegetables. We caught all the chickens and ducks from the old house and raised them in the chicken pen at the other end of the vegetable field.
One of the twenty chicks I bought earlier was broken, and now they have grown into half-sized chickens weighing more than a kilogram. After a while, these chickens will be able to be killed for meat, and the ducklings are just one. No less.
Brothers Lu Xingping and Lu Xingan were helping. Despite the cool weather in early September, the three brothers were sweating profusely.
Chu Yue hurriedly walked to the kitchen, "Mom, let me help you."
We need to boil a large pot of water for the three brothers outside to take a shower. It's easy to catch a cold if you sweat on this day. It's safe to take a hot shower when you're done.
Soon, Chu Yue boiled a pot of water. She filled the water with a basin and took it to the bathroom next to the kitchen.
"Ms. Xingping, Xing'an, who of you will wash first? After washing, go back and change your clothes. Don't catch a cold."
Lu Xinghe looked at his two younger brothers behind him, "Xing'an, you go first."
Seeing that there was not much work left, Xing'an stood up and washed the mud off his hands, then went to the house to get some clothes and go to the bathroom.
Chu Yue scooped most of the remaining water in the pot into a bucket, covered it with something, and started cooking.
At noon, I cooked a pot of white rice, meat slices and cabbage soup, and a green onion and egg pancake.
When the food was put on the table, Chu Yue smiled and looked at Zhang Zheng, "Master, lunch is being made in a hurry today, so you can just eat something and I'll prepare something delicious for you in the evening."
Zhang Zheng waved his hand, "You are all busy, so you don't have to cook anything specially for me. Just take care of yourself."
Although this old man has a big appetite and likes delicious food, he is not picky. As long as it doesn't taste terrible, he almost eats it.
After the family had dinner, Zhang Zheng went back to his old house to rest. Lu Xinghe went back to the old house to read. Brothers Lu Xingping and Lu Xingan helped Chu Yue organize things in the new house and put the vegetable seeds they bought yesterday. Plant it.
Taking advantage of the fact that the weather is not too cold yet, planting some vegetable seeds will at least provide enough food for the winter. With so many mouths at home, the few plots of land planted in the old house may not be enough for food.
The seeds planted this time were mainly cabbage and radish, and when Yun Cuihe asked Sun Dazhu to dig a well in the morning, Luo Shi gave him a small handful of onions and leeks.
Just plant the vegetables and water them.
Yun Cuihe was tired from the morning's work, so she sat under the eaves while doing her embroidery work, and occasionally glanced in the direction of brothers Chu Yue and Lu Xingping.
"Mom, what did they say when you went to Uncle Dazhu's house today? When will we start digging a well in our house?" Chu Yue stood up and asked after pouring the water.
Yun Cuihe smiled and said, "They will come tomorrow. When we get water at home, I'll see who dares to talk nonsense outside."
Chu Yue returned all the used objects to their original places.
"We originally discussed inviting the people who built the house to come to dinner the day after tomorrow. Do you still want to invite us?"
Yun Cuihe grunted and said, "We invite you as usual, but we only have two brothers, Dazhu and Erzhu, to eat with. They are also helping dig the well at our house."
Chu Yue nodded, "That's right. The meat we bought won't last too long. It should be eaten the day after tomorrow at most. I'll cut five kilograms of meat and braise it with the elbows for storage. The rest will be stewed and eaten directly the day after tomorrow. how?"
Yun Cuihe smiled and said, "You are also the mistress of this family, so you can make the decision."
After hearing this, Chu Yue went into the kitchen to work.
She put the elbow and five pounds of lean meat into a pot and stewed the pork bones in another pot.
Fortunately, the orientation here does not face the village directly, otherwise the fragrance that wafts out would probably have to be arranged by many people for a while.
You can't smell it in other places, but everyone can smell it in the old house down the mountain.
Zhang Zheng, who was resting in the house, stood up from the bed when he smelled the smell. He swallowed, stepped on his shoes and walked out of the yard to the new house.
Lu Tiesheng also wanted to go with him, but Lu Xingping had brought a bowl of sausages in the morning. He couldn't bear to go to the junior to ask for food, so he could only sit in the yard and smoke a cigarette.
When Wang Xuelan saw this, she hurriedly said: "Smoking, smoking, can you smoke less? The clouds are rising every day, and the mist is falling. People who don't know think you are going to become a fairy."
Lu Tiesheng, who was shrouded in dry smoke, had a look of enjoyment on his face, "It would be great if the old man could really become an immortal. Then I will take you to travel around the world, eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, and wear silks and satins. We will go there in style."
Seeing his increasingly uninterested appearance, Wang Xuelan lost her temper instantly. She took Lu Xing's plain bowl of sausage from the kitchen and handed it to Lu Tiesheng.
"This is the third daughter-in-law's bowl. I have washed it. How about you deliver it to me?"
Lu Tiesheng looked at the bowl and raised his eyebrows, "Hey! The bowl hasn't been delivered yet?"
He knocked on the tobacco pole, then took the bowl and went up the mountain.
Wang Xuelan stood in the yard and looked at Lu Tiesheng's hurried back. She shook her head and said with a smile, "This old man is not shy. If he didn't know better, he would have thought he was rushing to eat."
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