Chapter 251: Shaving

Qiu Chen really couldn't do the next work by himself, so he called the Daxing family to come out, carefully instructed a few precautions, and left the big kitchen far away, returned to his house to wash, peeled an orange and ate it, and then felt that the annoyance in his heart had subsided.

I drank another cup of hot tea, slowed down for a while, and felt really fine, and then got up and went back to the backyard again. According to Qiu Chen's instructions, the Daxing family had already slice the fish fillet, grabbed it with egg white and water starch, put in a small amount of salt and cooking wine to marinate, and Qiu Chen pointed out to make a fish fillet.

Another fish meat is taken on the pork skin with the back of a knife to shoot into the fish minced, the fine thorns in the fish meat are slapped into the pig skin, the fish meat is delicate and white, the same egg white and water starch are mixed, add an appropriate amount of seasoning, squeeze into balls and put them in the clear soup to cook, then change to a small casserole, put in the fresh clear soup, take out the fish balls and put them in, after heating, put in the embellished coriander leaves and a few drops of sesame oil. Looking at the time, it was just an hour before Qin Zheng's breakfast, and sent Yufeng to the front yard, Qiu Chen took a small portion of fish balls and fish fillets into the three west, and invited the old lady Liu to taste it.

These two dishes, the fish is tender and nutritious, the taste is tender and smooth, and there is almost no fishy smell, which is especially suitable for the elderly and children.

Mrs. Liu took a bite and put down the spoon: "It's very fresh...... That's good. Keep it for the kids and try it too! ”

Qiu Chen smiled: "Mother, you can eat, there is still something in the kitchen, the fish I bought today is big, and I keep a lot of it for the children!" ”

Mrs. Liu didn't push back anymore, and finally asked someone to bring another spoon and let Qiu Chen eat with her.

Soon, the children were back from school. In addition to the fish balls and fish fillets tasted by Mrs. Liu, the fish bones boiled a large pot of thick soup, milky white in color, and Qiu Chen asked Daxing's family to cut a few large plates of thin rock mutton slices...... One of the advantages of Qin Zheng's master and servant living in the Lin family is that he doesn't have to worry about having no game to eat, although Qin Zheng can't move yet, Qin Li and a few people take the time to go to the back mountain, and the hares and pheasants don't talk about it at home, and the rock sheep and roe deer can also bring one back every once in a while.

After eating, the children were sent to the school, and Qiu Chen took Qingxing to the east wing of the Sanjin Courtyard. The north room of the three east wings is Qiu Chen's laboratory and dispensing room, and the south room is her private warehouse, temporarily putting the mountain wine and wild mushroom wine made a few days ago into the kang in the south room, and heating a little every day to promote fermentation, after seven or eight days, Qiu Chen came over to see the fermentation.

Sure enough, as she expected, the fruit was fermented, but the rate of fermentation was not satisfactory. It is not good for the process of fermentation to be too fast or too slow. Qiu Chen let the green apricots heat up a little, and at the same time thought in his heart, he would start brewing fruit wine early next year, and start brewing it when the weather temperature can still fully ferment...... Looking at the little white foam that overflowed from the fermentation in the jar, Qiu Chen frowned and worried, in case it was made into vinegar, it would be better to say, the nutritional value of fruit vinegar was also very high...... I'm afraid that if I turn it up with such fanfare, it will all be ...... Fertilizer, that's a big joke!

After checking the fruit wine, Qiu Chen returned to the house, he had nothing to do for a while, he wanted to find a book for recreation, he casually opened the drawer of the kang cabinet, and saw a thin cloth bag with neat plates...... Slightly stunned, Qiu Chen remembered that this was a meeting gift from Old Man Mu, and she took it back and let Yufeng put it away, but she forgot about it.

Curiously took it out, opened the cloth bag, and a thin booklet appeared in Qiu Chen's eyes. There are two simple words written on the yellowish paper: Notes.

Qiu Chen blinked, not knowing how Old Man Mu would give her a notebook as a meeting gift...... Turning the page of the book, the first page of the eye is recorded: Tuojiang Luan valley, a flower and seven leaves...... Shu people used to treat snake venom...... It can cure sores and carbuncles, and the effect is fast. The rest is used to treat typhoid fever, and water immersion is better than decoction......

It turned out to be a notebook of Old Man Mu's own medical medicine!

Qiu Chen's interest was immediately aroused.

Seven leaves and one branch of flowers, also known as heavy building, flea rest, the herbal medicine book records, used to treat sores and carbuncles, clear heat and detoxify, treat snake venom, to modern times gradually studied that seven leaves and one branch of flowers can be anti-cancer, which can also be regarded as the extension of the effect of treating sores and carbuncles. However, it was found that the seven-leaved flower had a strong inhibitory effect on several typhoid bacilli and dysentery bacilli, and the effect of water immersion agent was better than that of decoction. This coincides with Old Man Mu's notes.

To achieve such research results, Qiu Chen knew how difficult it was to achieve such research results, and it was only achieved in a very complete laboratory. Unexpectedly, Old Man Mu actually groped and summed it up from practice in this era, which is really ...... Terrific!

Qiu Chen was like thirst meeting water, so he sat in front of the kang cabinet, holding Old Man Mu's codex and looking at it carefully.

After reading a few pages, Qiu Chen could see that the contents of this thin notebook that Old Man Mu gave her were more or less related to various plagues, and they were all medical notes summarized by Old Man Mu who had personally experienced and treated the epidemic and fever, not to mention that there were only more than 20 pages, but they almost covered the treatment of several virulent infectious diseases.

From these records, it can be seen that in order to study the treatment of these epidemics and fevers, Old Man Mu actually went deep into a number of epidemic disease areas and gradually explored from the actual treatment...... Every time I go deep into the epidemic area, I risk my life!

The codex was quickly finished, and the thin dozen pages of the codex were held in his hand, but it made Qiu Chen feel extremely heavy. These are the results of Old Man Mu's research and summary of risking his life again and again to experience the epidemic area...... It may not be as rigorous as the research results in the laboratory, but it is much heavier than the research results taken out in the laboratory.

At this moment, Qiu Chen had sincere admiration for the seemingly unruly and crazy old man for the first time!

After sitting for a long time, Qiu Chen exhaled softly, from Old Man Mu's codex, there are many diseases that she also does not know, and there are also some diseases, and there are clear prevention and control measures in modern times...... For example, cowpox for smallpox. Old man Mu recorded that he still planted pox, or used human pox, which is highly contagious, careless operation, easy to cause infection and death, and the side effects are much more serious than cowpox. Perhaps, she can join hands with Old Man Mu to study the cowpox method for preventing and controlling smallpox.

If you tell the old man the method of cowpox, will Old Man Mu go to the cowshed every day to sleep with the cow?

After this question flashed in Qiu Chen's mind, he got an affirmative answer without hesitation. As far as Old Man Mu's dedication to medicine is concerned, he will definitely go to the cowshed every day to study cowpox......

Qiu Chen imagined with some evil taste the scene where the little old man was with the cow every day...... I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Coming back from the kitchen in the backyard, Yufeng waited very carefully, watching Qiu Chen read very quietly, she was doing needlework at the end of the kang, at this moment, Qiu Chen suddenly laughed, frightened Yufeng's fingers trembled, and the embroidery needle pricked her hand, making her almost throw the embroidery work out of her hand in pain.

Wiping the blood beads off her fingers and stabilizing herself, Yufeng got up, put the embroidery work aside, walked over lightly, and called in a low voice: "Madam......"

"Huh...... Yes...... Yufeng, what's the matter? Qiu Chen's snickering was interrupted by Yufeng, and he was stunned for a moment before turning back and asking.

"Madame, what do you think of to be so happy?" Seeing that Qiu Chen had an unfinished smile on his face, but his eyes were clear, Yufeng was also relieved and couldn't help but ask.

"Ahh......h It's nothing, it's nothing......" Qiu Chen couldn't help but laugh for a while before waving his hand. Where can she say that little bit of bad taste in her heart?

As he spoke, Qiu Chen carefully put the codex in his hand back into the drawer of the kang cabinet, put on his shoes under the kang, went into the ear room to wash his hands, took a cloak and walked out: "You don't have to follow, I'll go to the front yard to have a look!" ”

Yufeng waited to take care of Qiu Chen's clothes neatly, and although she had some doubts in her heart, she had to bend her knees and stop, watching Qiu Chen walk out of the door briskly, and go straight to the front yard along the eaves corridor.

Madame laughed and annoyed like this...... It's a lot like the sisters she's seen who belong to each other...... Yufeng thought in a daze, and as if she suddenly realized that this was not something she could think of, she quickly shook her head and turned back to the room.

It is her duty to serve a good lady, who does the lady belong to in her heart...... It's not something she can think about as a girl, and it's not something she can manage as a girl. She still embroidered her wife in a warm tube with peace of mind, and then lined it with a well-picked leather...... It's getting colder and colder every day.

Picking up the needle and thread again, Yufeng couldn't help but sigh again, people's ladies and ladies make hand warmers to sew the leather outside, but their wives like to hide all the good things inside, and the outside should be lined with not too conspicuous cocoon silk, and the embroidery patterns and colors should not be too gorgeous and bright, and said that this is 'low-key luxury', I really can't figure it out...... However, it's like this, they do it inconspicuously everywhere, dress up inconspicuously, their wife is still good-looking, not dazzling, not pretentious, but refreshing and capable to make people relax and feel at ease, and make people want to be with her.

As a result, Yufeng couldn't help but think of the question that she had put aside before...... Which one does their wife like?

It is said that the three of them are all slaves from the Liao family, and she should be more partial to the third young master of the Liao family, and the third young master of the Liao family is indeed good, he is good-looking, capable, and good to Mrs. and Little Miss...... However, she vaguely felt that it was not easy for her wife to marry into the Liao family.

Qiu Chen came all the way to the second entrance, and after the stimulation of the cold air outside, the smile on his face faded, and his mood calmed down.

slapped himself on the head, Qiu Chen laughed at when he was so bored, and actually used this kind of thing to tease Old Man Mu...... Judging from the fact that Old Man Mu has entered the epidemic area many times to study epidemic prevention drugs, I am afraid that Old Man Mu will not feel anything if he lives with the cow, and maybe he will be extremely happy and excited!

Forget it, although Old Man Mu is not very careful, this dedication and fearless spirit of medical research is still very worthy of her respect. She didn't make jokes, lest the self-inflicted things of the morning happen again.

Thinking about it, Qiu Chen was not in a hurry to go to the front yard, but only explained to the Wang family on the second gate, asked her to pay attention to the front yard, and handed her a message as soon as Old Man Mu came back.

Seeing that the Wang family agreed, Qiu Chen muttered again: "It will be cold in the future, and the wind blowing in the hall here is the coldest...... Well, you go to Zhao Jiu and ask him to build a concierge here as soon as possible, and don't make a kang and install a charcoal stove! You can bake a fire, and in the future, there will be servants and servants who come and go, and there will be a place to stay. ”

Wang was moved when he heard this, and quickly bowed his knees to thank him.

Qiu Chen waved his hand and said, "Second sister-in-law is okay today?" Woke up from your lunch break? ”

"The second uncle and grandmother are okay today, they are good for breakfast and lunch, especially the fish balls for lunch, they said that there is no fishy smell, and they eat smoothly, and they ate a small bowl." Wang replied carefully.

Qiu Chen nodded in response and sent the Wang family away: "Before the concierge gets up, you can stay in this upside-down seat on your head for a few days." Go to Yufeng and ask for the key to this house, and then go to Zhao Jiu and ask him to dial a charcoal basin over. ”

Wang bent his knees again and again, Qiu Chen waved his hand, and went all the way along the eaves of the corridor into the second main room, and went to find Zhao to speak.

Qiu Chen doesn't like to visit the house, and she doesn't like to gossip with her husband, but after returning home for more than ten days, she hasn't talked to Zhao.

Walking into the main house, the temperature in the hall was obviously lower than the temperature of the main room in Sanjin, Qiu Chen walked to the fire wall and reached out to touch it, sure enough, there was no temperature, and he couldn't help frowning. She clearly ordered, the three courtyards set aside the charcoal, and the fire walls were all lit, even if the temperature was a little higher at noon, it only needed to reduce the fire, and the fire walls in this house were not hot at all, not to mention that there was no fire for an hour...... Is this someone deducting the second sister-in-law, or is it lazy to burn the fire?

Before she could turn around and go out to inquire, Zhao heard the movement in the house, and had already lifted the curtain and walked out of the west room: "Oh, it's my sister, why are you standing outside, come in!" ”

Qiu Chen turned pale and walked into the back room with a smile, and the oncoming warmth made her mood slightly better. Stretched out his hand and touched the fire wall in the inner room, and touched the kang surface, the fire wall was warm, and the fire kang was not too hot, so that the early winter could be fine...... Zhao wore cotton pants and a cotton jacket, so it shouldn't be too cold.

Watching Qiu Chen touch the wall of fire and touch the kang noodles, Zhao smiled and said: "You don't have to touch it, it's because I think the house is burning too hot and dry, so I deliberately didn't let people burn the outhouse, and the inner room is only burned a little bit at three o'clock in the morning and evening, and it is not cold...... Your brother and I don't spend much time in the house on weekdays, and the burning house is so hot and uncomfortable that no one uses it......"

As he spoke, he took the tea pot on the table and poured water for Qiu Chen and handed it over.

"Second sister-in-law, don't be busy......" Qiu Chen took the tea and put it on the kang table, helped Zhao to sit on the kang, and said with a smile, "If you want to say that you feel dry, just put a few more basins of water in the house, and in a few days, I will ask someone to send you a few pots of narcissus...... But if it's to save charcoal and not make a fire, I won't rely on my sister-in-law. Sister-in-law, think about it, when there is no one in this house, the fire wall is burned, the house is hot, and when people come in again, there will be fireworks in the province, not to mention, and they will not enter the house and ice hands everywhere...... Don't talk about others, let's just say that my brother's income is not small now, enough for my sister-in-law to open up and burn charcoal, and the thrifty housekeeper is not on this......"

As he spoke, both of them laughed.

Zhao smiled a little abruptly: "What my sister said is that I wrote it down." ”

Qiu Chen smiled, changed the topic and asked about Zhao's body, the two of them chatted a few words about pregnancy and childbirth, and Qiu Chen casually talked about the girl: "I ignored the second sister-in-law before, and I didn't put a girl for you to serve......"

Zhao smiled and waved his hand: "Begonia, don't say that, we cook and do housework at home, we do it ourselves, I haven't called a girl for so many years, now, there are people around my father and mother to serve, and I don't need to do any cooking, I don't have to do any work, where can I still use a girl to serve......"

Qiu Chen listened to what Zhao said with a smile, nodded with a smile, and said, "The second sister-in-law's words are not bad, but the second sister-in-law's body is getting duller and clumsier now, and everyone around her is guarding her, so my mother and I are not at ease...... Thinking of this, I pondered, the little girl in the family is young, not a big deal, now buy it from outside, the right age, how can you get fifteen or sixteen, this age girl bought in, I don't know the temperament and conduct...... I really don't dare to use it. After pondering and pondering, I asked the Wang family to come over and serve in the morning and evening, help the second sister-in-law clean up the house, serve food or something...... In this way, there is someone waiting for the second sister-in-law from time to time, and secondly, the Wang family has been at home for more than half a year, and she has a gentle and peaceful temperament, and she will not be naughty to the second sister-in-law, and the second sister-in-law of the province will be angry...... I'm also relieved. ”

Qiu Chen's words were a little twisted, Zhao was a little stunned when he heard it, and after a while he understood, the smile on his face deepened a little, he took Qiu Chen's hand, and said with a little shyness: "Let my sister worry!" ”

Qiu Chen held Zhao's hand with his backhand, touched Zhao's slightly rough fingers, and said with a smile: "Second sister-in-law, this is to see me." Not to mention that when I was at home, my second sister-in-law treated me like a sister-in-law, just said that over the years, my second sister-in-law has been filial to my father and mother, and I am also full of gratitude to my second sister-in-law! ”

As he spoke, Qiu Chen raised his eyes to look at Zhao's expression, and said thoughtfully: "Second sister-in-law, sister say something, second sister-in-law, don't think sister is troublesome......"

"Why, my sister has something to say." Zhao smiled and hurriedly said.

"Second sister-in-law, our family came from a poor life, the family has always been harmonious and beautiful, and now that life is getting better, the number of people in our family is bound to gradually increase...... After all, these outsiders were not taught by children, and no one knows what their temperament is...... I don't know if there are some unsavory thoughts...... Girl's daughter-in-law, I'll give my second sister-in-law a reassurance at this time, I can't see those things, and the second sister-in-law doesn't have to be afraid of what people say, just keep the second brother and nephews living with peace of mind, our family doesn't have those crooked things......"

Speaking of this, Qiu Chen laughed again: "I know that the second sister-in-law of Lu Dao will not object to my words at this time, but when she becomes a mother-in-law in the future and looks forward to holding her grandson more, it may be difficult to say this......"

Zhao blushed at what Qiu Chen said, but when he heard this, he didn't wait for Qiu Chen to continue, he held Qiu Chen's hand and said tightly: "Sister, don't say that, although I can't read, I'm not confused, those girls and concubines are all restless stirrgers, and the Junzhang brothers will definitely not let them touch this......"

Speaking of this, Zhao seemed to realize that he was expressing his position too quickly, paused slightly hesitantly, and continued: "Just like my sister said, we all came over in a hard life, and it is the right thing for the family to live with Hemeimei." ”

Qiu Chen smiled, changed the topic, and said a few more words, and the Wang family rushed over to reply, saying that Old Man Mu was back. Qiu Chen got up, left the Zhao family and went to the front yard.

As soon as he walked into the front yard, Qiu Chen saw several bloody game animals thrown in the courtyard, the skins of these game meat were all tattered, and it was difficult to distinguish what it was.

Zhao Jiuzheng brought someone over with a basket, and when he saw Qiu Chen, he hurriedly said, "Mrs. Hui, it was brought back by Old Man Mu, and the small one will be sent to the kitchen...... Madame come into the house, and we'll clean up the earth in a moment. ”

Qiu Chen was surprised, and did not enter the house as Zhao Jiu said, but walked over patiently and uncomfortably, and flicked the wild things on the ground, only to find that the skin on these wild things was almost intact, but they had all been sewn with needles and threads...... Uh, that's ...... Old man Mu used it to practice stitching?

At this pull, Qiu Chen sensitively noticed that there was a wild thing that was not completely dead...... Qiu Chensheng shuddered...... This old man Mu is really ......!

His heart was cold, and he couldn't save the wild things on the ground anymore, so Qiu Chen had no choice but to throw away his hand, not letting himself look at it again, and turned around and entered the main house.

As soon as he stepped into the main room, without waiting for Qiu Chen to react, Old Man Mu came out of nowhere, and he pulled Qiu Chen with a smile and walked out: "Girl, take a look, look at the old man's tricks to ......"

As soon as he said this, Qiu Chen thought of the wild thing that was not yet dead, his face turned pale, and he said continuously: "Mu Bo, I saw it, I have seen it just now......"

"Huh? You've already seen it, girl? How? Ha Lu Ha ...... Don't lose to you, right? Old man Mu asked with a smile.

Qiu Chen was not in a hurry to answer, first rescued his arm from Old Man Mu's hands, rubbed his wrist that was scratched by Old Man Mu, shook his head, and said while walking towards the house: "You didn't do it right at all, where do you still need to look at the technique...... Besides, you got those...... Uh, look, where to see your tricks? ”

The smile on Old Man Mu's face froze and faded, and a layer of annoyance and unwillingness gradually floated, staring at Qiu Chen's back, seeing that she was about to walk into the Xili room, then the figure flashed and followed closely.

"Oh, girl, you make it clear, what's wrong with the old man?" Old man Mu asked reluctantly.

Qiu Chen had already entered the Xili room, and sat down on the kang, listening to Old Man Mu's question, Qiu Chen said unhurriedly: "Uncle Mu, you are a practitioner, you have good eyesight, and you can see the needle and thread stitching from the messy bloodstained fur...... My eyesight isn't that good! ”

Old man Mu was stunned, waved his hand and smiled nonchalantly: "Ha Luha, where can I find water on the mountain...... Why don't the old man go wash and bring it to the girl? ”

Seeing that Old Man Mu was about to go out, Qiu Chen hurriedly waved his hand to stop him: "Uncle Mu, slow down!" ”

Seeing that Old Man Mu stopped, Qiu Chen said: "Mu Bo, to suture the wound, the first thing to do is to clean up the area around the wound, including hair, dirt, and the skin that is too broken and broken...... The skin and flesh are then thoroughly cleaned and the wound can be sutured and bandaged after the last is the case. ”

"Clean up the hair? You mean to shave? Old man Mu asked, not knowing where to go, and glanced at the silent Qin Zheng quite meaningfully.

Qiu Chen was not in a hurry to answer, but went into the ear room to wash the blood that had just been stained on his hands, walked out and sat down again, and then said: "In principle, if the wound is relatively small, shallow, or the coat is not dense, so as not to affect the healing of the wound, you can also not clean it!" ”

Old man Mu sighed.

Qiu Chen ignored his strange sound of turning seven or eight corners, and changed the topic: "Mu Bo, I have seen the meeting gift you gave me today." ”

"You're a girl, huh?" Old Man Mu asked very dissatisfiedly, and couldn't help but ask, "How is it?" That's what I've learned for more than ten years, old man. ”

Qiu Chen nodded with a smile, and praised without hesitation: "The old man was able to go deep into the epidemic area several times, just to find a cure for the epidemic...... This self-sacrificing self for the people really makes me admire! ”

Old man Mu seemed to be looking forward to Qiu Chen's affirmation, but after really hearing Qiu Chen's sincere admiration, he showed a very indifferent expression, waved his hand and said, "Hey, hey, don't say that, it's really ...... What, the old man entered the epidemic area, but he just wanted to solve the confusion in his heart, and it has nothing to do with the high wind and bright festival! Don't praise me so much, the old man can't stand it...... Hey, the cold hairs all over my body stand up! ”

Told by Old Man Mu's words, Qiu Chen was speechless for a while, and simply stopped dwelling on this topic, and instead said, "Uncle, I see that you have recorded human pox...... Did you do that yourself? ”

Old man Mu glared, curled his beard and said, "Of course, the old man doesn't bother to use other people's things as a façade!" ”

Qiu Chen waved his hand, "I'm just confirming, I don't mean anything else, don't blame the old man...... That, I want to ask the old man, after planting human pox, is everyone free from smallpox? ”

When Qiu Chen asked him this, Old Man Mu was a little embarrassed, and he sighed and said, "After the pox is planted, as long as the pox is smooth and healed, there will be no more pox in the future...... However, there are also children who are too weak to survive......"

"How much?" Qiu Chen asked unceremoniously.

Old man Mu was stunned for a moment, and said a little depressed: "Seven or eight times out of ten you can survive!" ”

Seven or eight out of ten will survive, that is, after planting human pox, 20 to 30 percent will die from it!

It is no wonder that there was a human pox cultivation in the Song Dynasty in history, but it has not been able to be promoted on a large scale!

Qiu Chen raised his eyes and stared at Old Man Mu: "If there is a way, there will be almost no death, or only one in one hundred and two may die......"

Old Man Mu's face was full of disbelief, and his eyes suddenly became shining, and he jumped up to catch Qiu Chen, a hand shadow flashed, Old Man Mu subconsciously avoided it, and almost at the same time waved his palm to fight back......

"You fight slowly, win or lose, I'll come ......back again," Qiu Chen got up and walked out.

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