"Xiao Xu, I know you are for everyone's good, but don't make too much trouble for yourself!" Uncle Ma stayed at the end, and waited for all the villagers to finish before he said with a slightly serious expression.

"Don't worry, uncle, you won't cause trouble, I know it in my heart!" Chen Xu smiled and continued, "Uncle will stay for dinner in the evening, and I still have something to discuss with you." ”

"Okay!" Uncle Ma agreed to come down.

As the sun sets, the smoke rises, and under the control of Xing'er and Chen Jiang's, a dinner is quickly ready.

Millet porridge, pursed cabbage patty, a cold salad with folded ear root, a cold salad with nepeta mustard leaves, and minced onions and garlic marinated with dogwood and salt, are more appetizing and refreshing to eat.

These small dishes were originally common simple dishes in the countryside, but because Chen Jiang's woman with two children in the past, there was no food to eat when she farmed and worked, so she didn't have time to get it, and now the family can't eat enough food, and she also lives in a spacious new house, although the clothes are still coarse linen clothes, but it is no longer the kind of poor state of patches and patches, so there is also leisure time to get these foods, bottles and jars are pickled a lot, and there are many wild vegetables densely hung in the pergola ready to be made into dried vegetables to prepare for winter.

"Uncle, because of the summer grain tax, I will go back to the town tomorrow to supervise, and I will ask you to take care of the affairs at home!" Chen Xu said while eating bread porridge.

"Xiao Xu, don't worry, we will take care of your mother and Xing'er, as the town's pawn, we have to take care of more than ten villages, it's very busy, don't be distracted at home!" Uncle Ma nodded repeatedly.

"By the way, uncle, I also want to pick a few clever children from the village to take to the town to learn something from me, and you can also help me at ordinary times, take care of food and housing, and have clothes every winter and summer......"

Uncle Ma stayed for a long time before saying, "How old do you want to be a child?" ”

"About ten years old, both men and women can do it, mainly to study, and they can also help as apprentices after the pharmacy opens!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"That's a good idea!" Uncle Ma was very excited to put down the meatloaf and began to count the babies in the village who met the conditions, and finally said: "There are eight who meet the conditions, and two of them are a little unenlightened, and going will only cause you trouble, so stay at home and help!" ”

"Okay, you can ventilate in the village for a week...... Well, in seven days you have them sent to town, and I'm going to have to prepare a place to eat and sleep!" Chen Xu nodded.

"Xiao Xu, I know you are good for the people in the village, but don't make trouble for yourself, these babies are very wild and don't know the rules......"

"Don't worry, uncle, I have my own measure!" Chen Xu interrupted Uncle Ma's words.

After eating for a meal, Uncle Ma went home, the sky gradually darkened, and the family and Yu Wuya sat in front of the door drinking tea and chatting.

"Brother, I want to go to town too!" Xing'er hugged Chen Xu's neck and was coquettish.

"Xing'er~" Chen Jiang scolded a little angrily.

Chen Xu picked up Xing'er and said with a smile on the lap of the house: "Mother, don't talk about little sister at every turn, but Xing'er, I'm not too familiar with the town, and you're still too young, if you also leave, how lonely your mother is at home alone, so you have to take care of your mother at home, by the way, I also brought you back a thing, you take the time to study hard at home, wait for a year, I'll send you to help Sister Shui, okay?" ”

"Really?" Apricot jumped up excitedly.

"Well, but you have to learn what I taught you first, Wuya, you help me take out that abacus!" Chen Xu commanded this free thug and bodyguard and errand runner.

Yu Wuya quickly took out a wooden abacus from the room, Chen Xu took it and shook it a few times, and then quickly flicked it with his fingers, and the abacus beads made a crackling and crisp sound.

This abacus is only more than a foot long, it is specially made by Chen Xu to let the carpenters in the town, the workmanship is very fine, the frame is made of good and dry sandalwood, the abacus beads are also hand-carved out of sandalwood one by one and then carefully polished, the size looks very uniform, and the middle gear lever is made of bronze, the wooden beads are very smooth, and the position of each gear lever on the middle frame is also engraved with a ten hundred thousand Lishu font, whether the appearance or style or the process is almost exactly the same as the abacus after more than two thousand years.

"Xing'er, this is called an abacus, now I'll teach you how to use it?" Chen Xu put the abacus on the dining table, hugged Xing'er and began to teach her the addition formulas of one, one, two, and two.

"Engong, this thing you made is simply amazing, I didn't expect a small abacus to solve the addition and subtraction operation, how many incredible things were recorded in that artificial creation, but it's a pity, there is no chance to see it!" Yu Wuya stood next to him and admired while watching, his face was also full of regret.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day Chen Xu got up early, washed his face and brushed his teeth, and then took advantage of the time when Chen Jiang's and Xing'er were making breakfast, and went to cut a few big bamboos back, and then used the knife to carefully wash and scrape into a bunch of bamboo silk, and was busy for more than an hour after eating.

In fact, these medicinal materials are basically known to the people in the village, but this thing is used to treat diseases, and the entrance is a matter of human life, so Chen Xu does not dare to be too careless.

After all, there are not a few people in later generations who were poisoned by taking the wrong medicine.

For example, the medicinal herb of bellflower is similar to ginseng, and if it is all sun-dried rhizomes, it will not be able to distinguish them at all, unless you are particularly familiar with the two medicinal materials.

There is also a plant called Shanglu, the whole plant is poisonous, and there are still people in later generations who can't tell the difference between digging it up and stewing chicken, and then the whole family is poisoned and admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital, if it is placed in the current era, it will definitely die.

As for things like banlan root, there are more similar ones, the most common are baiji and dandelion, and these three kinds of wild vegetables are everywhere, many of them are directly mixed together to grow, and after digging them out and drying and slicing, the gods will also be mistaken.

So for a whole morning, Chen Xu carefully taught the villagers to dig medicinal materials by the nearby mountain forest ditch, and also talked about the drying of medicinal materials.

According to the theory of Chinese medicine in later generations, many medicinal materials need to be steamed, some need to be fried, some need to be made of honey, and some are poisonous, and they need to be considered when they are used in medicine, but these ...... Chen Xu didn't know that he had seen his second grandfather do it when he was a child, but his eyes were still black.

It was already afternoon, and after a simple lunch, Chen Xu packed up his bags and prepared to leave with Yu Wuya and Niu Dashi.

"Mother, these days and my little sister have taken the time to make a mosquito net, and let him bring it with him when the uncle goes to town, and my little sister should practice abacus mantras!"

"Be careful on the road!" Chen Jiang nodded again and again.

"Mother and little sister also take care of their bodies, go!" Chen Xu turned over on the horse, clamped the horse's belly, and the three of them drove the horse away.

"Brother take care, Brother Dashi take care~" There was an immature shout from behind Xing'er.