Chapter Eighty-Nine: Mugwort Leaves, Mugwort Grass
There are two more patients in the family who are taking medicine.
The silver money for selling spices is just enough for Huang Pingcheng to take medicine, and now there is one more Huang Jiang clan who also needs to take medicine, and it costs one tael of silver and five hundred copper plates a month.
The bamboo shoots that were dug up were sold for two taels of silver, and the money gradually disappeared.
The urgent need to make money is pressed in the hearts of everyone in the Huang family.
It's just that now that spring is in full swing, and when the farming is busy, the two brothers Huang Congjiang have no time to go to the town to find work.
Six acres of dry land should be ploughed, the soil should be broken, and fertilized.
In addition to weeding and fertilizing paddy fields, seedlings are also raised.
In particular, six acres of dry land were ploughed.
If you want to pull the plow, you need one person to support the plow and one person to pull the plow.
It's just that it's too tired to pull the plow alone, the Huang family is Huang Congjiang's two brothers pulling the plow together, and Huang Li's, Huang Liu's and Huang Yiyun's three people take turns to help the plow.
The second sister, the third sister, and the fourth brother are a few small ones, and they plow the stones or large pieces of soil that come out of the plough field, and weeds and pull out the weeds by the way, and throw the pulled out grass aside and gather it up, and after it is dried, it is directly ignited and burned with fire.
Spring wheat was planted relatively early, and after the Huang family ploughed the field, they applied fertilizer for a few days before sowing spring wheat.
By the time the spring wheat was planted, it was already early March.
At the beginning of March, spring is in full bloom and everything is recovering.
On this day, Huang Yiyun took his younger siblings to the dry field of wheat planting weeds, insects and fertilizer, and after passing by the paddy field, he heard a villager say, "These mugwort leaves are growing too fast, now they are too tender, if only they were elders, I have to pick some and go home to boil water and bathe."
Last winter, the two pillars of my house were a little itchy, and the mugwort leaves were washed well, and now the head of the house is gone. ”
"Well, this mugwort leaf can also repel mosquitoes, so it's easy to use, prepare more, we must be right." Another villager chimed in.
"Aunt Erzhu, don't you want to eat this mugwort leaf" After Huang Yiyun passed by the two of them, after seeing the mugwort leaf they said, his heart moved
"It's the eldest sister of the Huang family, this mugwort leaf has a strong aroma and a special taste, how can you eat it, and besides, this mugwort leaf is poisonous, and if you eat too much, you will have an accident."
We all boil some water, take a bath, go to itch, or wait for him to grow up, cut some and dry it, and use it to smoke the house to repel mosquitoes. ”
"Oh, that's right" Huang Yiyun said this, and his face showed a thoughtful expression.
Among the mugwort leaves they are talking about, there is a lot of wormwood growing together.
Wormwood is different from mugwort leaves, wormwood can be eaten as mugwort or mugwort poop, and it is very delicious.
"Second sister, where do you see this kind of wormwood?" Huang Yiyun pointed to the clusters of wormwood and asked.
"Hey, didn't the eldest sister say that Aunt Erzhu just now said that this can't be eaten, but at the foot of the mountain not far from the bank of the mountain and river behind our house, there is this kind of thing, it is much older, and it is still very tender," the third sister said to Huang Yiyun with some doubts.
"Look at it carefully, what is the difference between what the eldest sister said and what Aunt Erzhu said?"
"The leaves of the mugwort that the eldest sister pointed to are relatively small, and the stalk is also small," the careful sixth sister said suddenly.
"That's right, that's wormwood, not mugwort leaves, you can eat it." Huang Yiyun rubbed the sixth sister's head and said.
"Let's not go home yet, go pick some wormwood and go home, fifth sister, you go home and get the basket." Huang Yiyun took his younger siblings and walked directly to the place where the third sister said.
"Eldest sister, can you really eat this?" the fourth brother asked with some hesitation.
"You can eat it, but you have to pick this, let's take it off and eat it, take it off, and the eldest sister will make something delicious for you, and make something you haven't eaten." After Huang Yiyun picked a few wormwoods, he said mysteriously to his younger siblings.
However, when the fifth sister heard that she was picking these wormwoods for food, she quickly ran to the house to get the basket.
Huang Jiangshi saw that the fifth sister hurriedly came back and went out again, and asked, "Fifth sister, you hurriedly took the back basket, what are you doing, what are you big sister and them?"
"Mother, it's the eldest sister who asked the fifth sister to come back and get the basket, let's go pick something and go home." The fifth sister replied without looking back.
"Eldest sister, this is it." The third sister pointed to a piece of wormwood that was rising very well.
"It's a lot, let's hurry up, pick the tender cores and go back, don't want the old part, you know, see it clearly, mugwort leaves and mugwort leaves are distinguished." Don't make a mistake. Huang Yiyun picked a few wormwoods and motioned to his younger siblings to pick the most tender upper part.
I was going to pick some wormwood and go back to make Amy Baba or Ai Qingtuan.
It's just that after picking wormwood and going back, I saw that there were more places, so I picked them wherever I went, and I picked them at the foot of the mountain, and I came to a downhill slope with flat terrain and a lot of dead grass.
"Eldest sister, what do you see here, we haven't seen it before, it's like a hook of fire" The fourth brother saw that inside the withered grass, the roots were bent upside down, like weeds.
"Hey, it's still sticky and slippery, it's so tender" After the fifth sister also saw it, she broke one directly.
After just a slight pinch, the thing cracked directly, and a lot of juice stuck to her hands, which suddenly made the fifth sister a little uncomfortable.
"It's bracken, a type of wild herb that can be eaten. After it is fried, it tastes pretty good. Let's pick some and go back to fry and eat tonight. Huang Yiyun patted his head and said.
Now that everything is recovering, there are a lot of delicious wild vegetables to eat
It seems that I have eaten a lot of things recently, and I didn't think of this stubble.
For example, water celery, bracken, wild onions, spring bamboo shoots, small bamboo shoots, and folded ear roots.
This bunch of wild vegetables is stir-fried and delicious.
I'm afraid that during this time, the Huang family has been drinking porridge, and they all drink porridge with pickles.
I didn't eat rice and stir-fry, and I forgot about wild vegetables.
Most of the villagers in Qingshan Village eat rice, and although they don't eat wild vegetables often, they also go up the mountain from time to time to pick some wild vegetables to eat in order to add one or two wild vegetables to the table.
But I don't eat much, and now the mountains are full of edible wild vegetables
Huang Yiyun saw that after picking enough wormwood in a basket, he instructed his younger brothers and sisters to pick some bracken and go back, while picking bracken, Huang Yiyun saw the wild onion again, and then instructed the younger brothers and sisters to pick some wild onions and go back to fry and eat.
"Oh, how can it be so itchy, eldest sister, this bracken won't be poisonous, wow, what can I do, don't poison the fifth sister" The fifth sister suddenly felt that her hands and face were itchy, and she grabbed it vigorously, and instantly scratched her arms red, and cried with some fear.
It's just that the more she scratches, the more itchy, the more she wants to scratch.
"Ah poisonous" After seeing the fifth sister {fifth sister}, a few little ones were so frightened that they hurriedly threw down the bracken in their hands.
"Oops, this is allergies" Huang Yiyun forgot that some people can't stand bracken, because there are some fluffy things on bracken, and some people will be allergic after suffering from it.
In today's place where there is a shortage of medical treatment, allergies can be fatal.
Huang Yiyun hurriedly stopped the fifth sister's itchy hand.
"It's not poisonous, if there is, you are the same as the fifth sister, the fifth sister has a special physique, and she can't touch this bracken, so you take the bracken back with you." Fifth sister, you go with the eldest sister. Huang Yiyun grabbed the fifth sister and walked to the river below the mountain.
directly soaked her hands in water, and then washed the fifth sister with water, so that she didn't have such an itch.
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