Chapter 207: Medicine
Zhao Fengnian entered the room and saw his wife leaning on the soft couch in front of the window, squinting her eyes and smiling at the corners of her mouth. ”
As he spoke, he pulled the thin quilt on the side and put it on Ruixue's lap, Ruixue moved in, pulled him to sit together, leaned his head on his shoulder, and said with a smile, "I'm thinking about adding some land to the family, and you came back just in time." ”
Zhao Fengnian was also pondering this matter in his heart for the past two days, and his wife who heard it thought of him together, and she was happy in her heart, so she said, "Tell me, where are you in the picture, the current silver deposit at home, it is not enough to buy a grange, but it is more than enough to buy dozens of acres of fertile land." ”
Rui Xue casually took the account book and looked through it, and she was even more confident in her heart, so she said, "I have a fancy for the 100 acres of paddy fields outside the village, if I buy it and plant it for two years to save enough food, I will not be afraid of no matter how big the natural disaster is." However, Zhang Dahu, the owner of the paddy field, I had dealings with him when you were seriously ill, and he was a mean and money-greedy person, and it was difficult to deal with. If we come to the door and say that we want to buy the land, he will definitely open his mouth, and we still have to think of a good way to force him to take the initiative to sell it to us. ”
Rui Xue has always been unwilling to blame Zhao Fengnian, she never said much about the difficult things she experienced that day, even if Zhao Fengnian asked, she quickly diverted from the conversation, but as long as she took the initiative to mention it, it must have made her hate it deeply, so when Zhao Fengnian heard this, a cold light immediately flashed in his half-drooping eyes, Zhang Dahu? If the name is changed, it must sound even more pleasing to the ear...
Rui Xue didn't know that Zhao Fengnian had the idea of venting for her, and was still thinking about what to do, "Just now I thought, buy some sea salt, take advantage of the heavy rain these days There are few people walking around, and sprinkle it in the paddy field, when the seedlings wither, Zhang Dahu will definitely sell the field in a hurry, let's buy it, put more water to wash the field, and it will not reduce the yield too much, but a hundred acres of land, although it is a small mu, the amount of salt is also very large, and it is too time-consuming to sprinkle it, if there is a more labor-saving way." ”
Zhao Fengnian was a little surprised that Rui Xue could come up with such a method, gently hugged her waist, looked at her frowning ink eyebrows, slightly pursed lips, and felt even more spoiled in his heart, so he reminded, "When I first walked around the rivers and lakes, I passed by the shore of Daming Lake, but I didn't expect the fish and shrimp in the lake to die overnight, and I was curious to go and see, and then I heard that it was a certain predecessor who was both medical and poisonous, in order to test the medicine..."
Rui Xue rarely heard him talk about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and she was slightly sideways and listened to it interestingly, but suddenly there was no follow-up, so she hurriedly said, "Then, you say it quickly..."
Halfway through the urging, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in her mind, and she turned her head and smiled, "You mean, the predecessor of the medical and poisonous double absolute is..."
"It's Amber, so our son is a blessed one, and before he was born, he recognized such a powerful master." Zhao Fengnian was reluctant to hang his wife's appetite, smiled and nodded and took the words.
Rui Xue immediately understood, and immediately turned over the recipes she had memorized on weekdays, carefully found a few good dishes, and instructed Caiyun Caiyue to go to the stove to prepare the ingredients.
As the saying goes, if you want a horse to run, you must first give the horse grass, and it is the freshest and most palatable grass!
On the dinner table, the dishes are not ordinary and sumptuous, the whole crystal elbow, the large plate of stewed pork ribs with lotus root, the carp fried into golden sauce, and the fried pork slices with fresh mushrooms, the mutton in the pot, the fragrant milky white tofu fish head soup, and even the staple food is a small pie with plum cabbage and bacon, which made Wu Yu very surprised, and after thinking about it carefully, it was not anyone's birthday in the family, and he was curious to ask, but when he saw his sister smiling and serving Amber with a smile, he immediately shut up smartly, only eating, and not talking.
Amber looked calm, did not refuse to come, and when he was full of wine and food, he smiled and asked, "Snow girl, if you have something, just talk about it." ”
Rui Xue's face turned slightly red, and she smiled a little embarrassedly, "The old man is really wise, he can see that I have something to ask for so quickly." ”
"It's all a family, just say it directly next time, you still have me in your stomach, don't get tired." The old man is actually very satisfied with eating and drinking, but he still has to pretend to be an elder on his face.
Wu Yu muttered quietly while nibbling on the ribs, "I obviously eat more than anyone else, and I'm serious..."
Rui Xue was afraid that the old man's face would not be able to get by, so she secretly pinched her younger brother, so she smiled and said, "The shopkeeper said that the old man's ability to use medicine with one hand can be called the first in the rivers and lakes, and I just happened to be embarrassed, so I wanted to ask the old man to help." ”
Everyone loves to listen to good words, not to mention that Amber is an old man who sees that he is about to die, and he cares more about other people's judgments of him, sure enough, his face is better, and he waved his hand and said, "The good man does not mention the courage of the year, although some friends in the rivers and lakes praise too much, but when it comes to medication, I think the old man knows a thing or two." ”
Rui Xue raised her hand and poured another cup of tea for the old man, and said with a smile, "That's great, Amber, can you help me prepare a medicine to make the rice seedlings become sick and yellow in five or six days, in short, they should look like they are out of production, but after the antidote is thrown in, the rice seedlings can recover quickly and will not affect the autumn harvest." ”
Amber has dealt with herbs all his life, when he was young, he traveled to many mountains and rivers in the martial country, once found a very precious jade frost tree in the deep mountains and extremely cold holes, the fruit has been close to ripe, but because there is a hundred years of tourmaline python guard, dead or alive can not pick the hand, he was angry, pondered for a month, with a kind of medicinal powder in the wax pill, when he had to fight with the tourmaline python, the bullet and the tree, the wax pill shattered, the medicine powder was sprinkled out, the result of the jade frost tree, but four days withered, the tourmaline python was furious, After wreaking havoc in the cave, he left in frustration. Of course, Amber immediately poured the antidote on the jade frost tree, and soon regained his vitality, allowing him to successfully obtain more than a dozen jade frost fruits, and several friends of the same way who were greedy exchanged them for other good medicines, which made him earn a lot of money for a while.
The old man recalled the glory days of the year, and the story he told also made the three members of the Zhao family look admirable, which greatly pleased his old man, drank dry tea in one sip, got up and threw a sentence, "Come and get the medicine powder in three days." "I walked away with my chic back, the back that used to be slightly carried was much straighter, and the steps under my feet were also a bit of a heroic taste...
Rui Xue was happy that the matter was so easy to solve, but suddenly remembered something, and shouted, "Amber, remember the amount of a hundred acres of paddy fields!" ”
Amber was stepping on the threshold of his right foot, suddenly stumbled, almost fell on his stomach, when he finally stood firm, turned to look at Ruixue, his lips trembled, "How much?" ”
"Well, a hundred acres of paddy fields... Does Amber think it's too much? If you are worried that the medicine is not enough, 50 acres, no, 30 acres is fine! ”
The pride of the old man's life lies in the dispensing of medicine, how can he let people question it, and immediately waved his hand and said, "A hundred acres is a hundred acres!" Zhao boy will go into the city tomorrow to buy medicinal herbs! ”
Zhao Fengnian hurriedly responded, and Rui Xue said again, "Amber, you can't use too expensive medicinal materials, if the cost is more than two hundred taels, it won't be cost-effective..."
Amber's feet immediately rushed across the courtyard like a wind, and disappeared!
Wu Yu and Zhao Fengnian glanced at each other, and suddenly laughed, Rui Xue blinked a little ignorantly, sandwiched a piece of shiny and soft elbow skin, and chewed slowly...
In the next few days, everyone in the Zhao family's workshop never saw Amber lying under the tree to rest, and even three meals a day were sent to him by Zhao Fengnian himself, and in the room next to the gatehouse, from time to time from the window cracks out of the white smoke, the smell was very strange, there were originally people who were curious to sniff in the past, guessing what the old man was tinkering with, the result was that he was dizzy for a long time before he eased up, so no one stepped into the hut within two feet after that.
Finally, on the evening of the third day, Amber appeared on the dinner table wearing a crumpled cloth coat and unkempt hair like a bird's nest, which scared Ruixue and thought that his old man was sick, but after seeing the two and a half jars of medicinal powder, she finally understood the reason, and felt really guilty, and immediately gave her bowl of ginseng chicken soup to the old man...
In the middle of the night, Zhao Fengnian and Wu Yu changed their neat clothes and trousers, tied a small cyan cloth bag around their waists, and jumped out of the courtyard wall of their homes.
There was silence in Yunjia Village, every household was immersed in a sweet dreamland, the old dog of the Zhang family with smart ears could vaguely hear the movement, and got up to look at it suspiciously, seeing that it was a person he knew on weekdays, he wagged his tail flatteringly, Wu Yu waved his hand, and as Zhao Fengnian quickly passed by the door of each house, he arrived in front of the large paddy fields outside the village very smoothly.
There was originally a small grass shed in the middle of the paddy field, and a subordinate of the Zhang family lived, and watched the release of water on weekdays, and also prevented someone in the village from sabotage, but the weather was bad for the past two days, and the grass shed was really wet and cold, so the person was lazy and ran to the Liu family in the west of the village to borrow it, and of course it opened the door for the two people who were ready to do it.
Half an acre of a field, a hundred acres is two hundred, the two by the moonlight, compared to the division of the territory, they started work together, the feet quickly stepped on the ridge, each piece of the field on a small handful of medicinal powder, but two quarters of an hour, they met in the field again, and quickly returned to their own home.
In the quiet night, the powder fell into the water, quietly dissolved, diluted, spread, and finally slowly absorbed into the rice seedlings...
After Rui Xue sent them out, she also relied on a soft cushion, wanting to wait for the two to come back, but her pregnant body couldn't allow her to suffer so much, so she fell asleep quickly, and when she opened her eyes again, it was already the morning of the second day.
Zhao Feng had already changed his clothes, finished washing, and was sitting beside her with a travel book, seeing that she was awake, without waiting for her to ask, he smiled and said, "Everything is done, the boss will prepare the silver." ”
Rui Xue was relieved, happily threw herself into his arms, and said with a smile, "Now I really want the local housewife, tomorrow I will buy a dry tobacco pot, and then cut a set of clothes with a swastika pattern, and embroider a jade-inlaid forehead!" ”
How did Zhao Fengnian know that this was Ruixue's standard line of seeing the landlord's wife in the movie in her previous life, although she felt that her daughter-in-law must look old-fashioned when she wore it, but after thinking about it, as long as she was happy, what to wear, "Okay, just do it, swastika pattern, Fushou pattern, you can do whatever style you like, but don't smoke the dry tobacco, it's not good for the child." ”