(069), torment
Hearing this, Ma An sat up from the bed again, and then waved his hand at Lin Shan again and again: "Don't, don't look for me about this." Oh, not only will I not go with you in this matter, nor will I allow you to go. You don't know how to take care of your body, I still have to watch you closely with Ye Ye and my eldest sister. ”
Lin Shan suddenly stopped mentioning the matter of drinking, but turned to say, "Ye'er...... Will she be mad at me? ”
Ma An pondered for a while and said, "Then she burned your things, are you angry with her?" ”
Lin Shan fell silent, and the look in his eyes became a little complicated.
Ma An casually leaned on the bed rail, and said thoughtfully: "Last night, when you pushed in the black light, Ye Er broke her forehead, although it didn't seem like a big problem, but she must not have felt good at that time!" This is the first time you've done something to her, she's usually so dependent on being close to you, and this time she made a mistake, but she's still just a child after all...... You'd better go back and see her. ”
Lin Shan's eyebrows frowned slightly when he heard this, he still didn't speak, and just nodded after being silent for a long time.
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There were two people missing from the family, and many things fell on Li Shi. She didn't complain about this, she just hoped that Mo Ye would quickly forget the mental stimulation she received that night, and she still had many thoughts for this.
For example, today, after lunch, after a half-hour break, Li Shi called out Mo Ye, who was stunned in the room at a note after taking a nap, and handed over the decoction to her.
Li Shi handed over the decoction matter that Mo Ye had never interfered with to her, in fact, he wanted her to have something to do, so as to divert her attention. It just so happens that this matter is very labor-intensive, and Mo Ye has never touched it, so it should make her work harder.
Sitting on a small stool next to the tandoor, Mo Ye gently shook the small pu fan in his hand against the tuyere of the stove, and guarded the fire according to Li's instructions. After guarding for a while, the charcoal fire in the stove finally burned steadily, the firewood smoke was almost invisible, and the mouth of the medicine jar on the stove began to gradually rise hot, and then she saw Li Shi enter the kitchen.
Mo Ye watched as Li Shi opened a door on the wall opposite the stove in the kitchen and walked in, she knew that her medicine was in it.
More than two years ago, since Liao Shi left, Master has built a small room next to the kitchen. The room was built against the wall and was very narrow, but many baskets of earth were brought out of it. At the time, Mo Ye didn't understand what it meant, but now she vaguely knew that there should be a cellar dug in that small room.
Mo Ye once flipped through some books in the library of the academy, among which there were records of the cellar where the farmers stored their crops and seeds. This is because the cellar is kept at a constant temperature, so the fruits and seeds will not freeze due to the severe winter cold, which is suitable for storing grain for winter.
The more things Mo Ye knows, the more things he used to think about in his family, and now he has a lot more guesses.
For example, in this cellar, Mo Ye really didn't understand why medicinal herbs should be stored in this way. Farmers store the fruits, which are wintered, and it takes about four months to ensure that the seeds are not frozen. However, the herbs are all sun-dried, even if they are placed indoors, they are more resistant than agricultural fruits, and there is no need to protect the germination ability of young shoots in the seed core.
And every time Master goes to Lejun, although he will buy back a month's worth of medicine, he will not have to dig a cellar next to the kitchen with great difficulty!
When Li Shi came out of the compartment in the kitchen, he had already scooped a bag of square wraps folded in brown paper.
Mo Ye watched as Li Shi scooped a foul-mouthed wooden bucket on the medicine jar, then opened the kraft paper packet, and poured the finely crushed medicinal herbs into the jar, and at the same time, a slightly pungent smell of medicine was already wafting out. She subconsciously sniffled and asked curiously, "Auntie, I have to take so much medicine every day?" ”
Li Shi said gently: "Isn't it? In order to make you drink such a large jar of medicine faster, so that you can eat less bitterness, I deliberately boil it into a small bowl every time, and it takes a lot of effort to do it every day. ”
Mo Ye's heart moved, and he said with a smile: "Otherwise, I will be responsible for boiling the medicine in the future, and my aunt will not be so tired." ”
Li Shi had already poured all the medicine into the jar and covered the log lid. While packing up the paper bag and wooden bucket, she said with a smile: "That's not possible, how can there be a reason to boil medicine for yourself, it's unlucky." ”
"I don't believe that."
Mo Ye showed an indifferent look on her face, she remembered one thing, and continued: "Why can I wash my clothes and cook for myself, but I can't boil medicine for myself?" How many lonely and helpless people in the world are not all living well? Didn't they give themselves medicine? If believing in the gods can prevent all diseases, then why do I need to take medicine, and why are so many people in the world suffering from diseases? ”
At this point, Mo Ye's tone paused, and she finished the last sentence after she settled down.
"If my aunt is here to make me have a good time, I think Ye'er will grow up year by year, and she will also start to learn some things to take care of herself."
The smile on Li's face gradually faded after hearing this. She didn't reproach Mo Ye for his verbal conflict, nor did she immediately say no. She just walked slowly to Mo Ye's side, and was silent for a long time before she spoke: "Okay, today my aunt will teach you to boil medicine for yourself." ”
After Li Shi's guidance, Mo Ye realized that the knowledge of boiling medicine is not as simple as it seems, and it is not a package of compound medicines composed of various plants into a bowl of water. The process is quite simple, but the actual operation requires extra care and patience.
First of all, it is necessary to wait for the fire in the furnace to stabilize before pouring the medicinal materials into the jar, otherwise the fire temperature will fluctuate, which is not conducive to the leaching of the medicinal effect in the medicinal materials. After the initial boiling of the water in the jar, it is the time to use the boiling water to extract the effective medicinal juice, at this time, it is necessary not only to keep the heat, but also to always pay attention to stirring the decoction in the jar with a wooden spoon. Because the herbs do not contain oil like the bone and meat ingredients used in ordinary soups, when boiling on high heat, it is easy to stick to the bottom of the pot and cause burning, and the burnt soup will increase toxicity and cannot be taken.
After the fire extraction, the herbs swell in the water and enter the final slow fire extraction time, at which point it is enough to keep the warm fire. At this time, if you use high fire, it will make some ingredients in the herbs that are not resistant to boiling slag into the water, which will affect the taste, so it takes some effort to master the fire.
After tossing for an hour, the period of decoction on high fire is completed, and the rest is the period of warm boiling. Li Shi covered the air outlet of the stove with a wooden plug with a hole, and then beckoned Mo Ye to rest for a while.
Seeing this, Mo Ye asked suspiciously, "That's it?" ”
Li Shi said with a smile: "Fry first and then boil, at this time, you only need to slow the fire is enough, but if you keep it like this, it is estimated that you will fall asleep later." Kung fu is not so consumed, the next thing, just take a look at it every half an hour. ”
"Oh." Mo Ye stood up, at this time, her mind, which was a little drowsy because of the nap, had already been completely awake, and she couldn't help but feel empty and bored for a while.
As of today, Master hasn't been there for two days. In the past two years or so, most of the students in the academy have also known the relationship between Mo Ye and the strange master named Muwen. Therefore, Mo Ye estimated that the group of students who were eagerly looking forward to her master's only one or two classes a day would definitely have a lot of questions to ask when they saw her at this time!
In normal times, Mo Ye would be very patient to chat with those senior brothers, but now, Mo Ye didn't want to say a word. She could probably guess what the brothers would ask her, but she really didn't have the usual laughing mood at this time, talking to others about Master's leave of absence in the past few days.
The damage to her mind that night, although she could still endure it on the surface and not show it, but in her heart, she didn't even want to say more words about the side of the incident, so she simply asked her aunt to help her ask for leave.
The true purpose of her study has been known to the dean over the years. The dean has not been strict with her requests in this regard, and now she has a real injury on her head, and with this, Mo Ye took five days off in a row.
Mo Ye, who felt bored, walked out of the kitchen slowly, and after thinking about it, she still looked back again, and said, "Auntie, what else can I do?" ”
Li Shi glanced at her face, and suddenly said with a smile: "I didn't see it just now, you probably wiped your face with your hand that grabbed carbon, and now your face is not gray, come and wash your face." ”
"I'll wash it myself." Mo Ye turned around and came back, and saw that Li Shi was scooping up a face towel and preparing to wash her face, she raised her hand to block it gently, and then took the face towel in Li Shi's hand.
Seeing this, Li Shi had no choice but to say: "It's okay, but you have to be careful, don't wet the gauze on your forehead, it's not all right there, and you can't get wet." ”
"Got it." Mo Ye replied softly.
Because of her aunt's words, she thought of the events of that night, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then she saw a face reflected in the water in the basin. Although this face was partially blackened by charcoal gray, she could clearly distinguish that this face did not bear any resemblance to the other three people in the family.
Mo Ye looked at the face in the water for a while, suddenly grinned at the water shadow in the basin, and then threw the face towel into it.
After washing his face, Mo Ye returned to his room.
When she saw the stack of papers on the table that she had practiced for the past two days, she was lazy even to pick up the pen; But when she went to the hall and scooped up the rag, she looked at the smooth tables and chairs and did not know where to start; Pick up the broom, look at the same clean floor, and don't know what to sweep.
She went to the flower bed in the yard again, and looked at the empty bucket, and was about to pick it up for the water, when out of the corner of her eye, she saw that the soil in the flower bed was slightly moist, and it had already been watered. She could only put down the bucket again and sighed for no reason