After the second uncle's new house was built, it was officially divided into two sons. The second elder followed his eldest son Wang Linxi in the old courtyard, Wang Linyuan and his wife happily divided the new house, and the fields and family property were also clearly divided, and the two brothers had no opinion.

Lan Yi also thinks that this is the best, saving a large family from having a conflict in one place, but Lin Xi's new house is in the south of the village, far away.

On May 14, the summer solstice is several volts, and the day is at its hottest. Yu'er and the baby have some diarrhea and can't eat. Lan Yi invited Lang Zhong to see it, and boiled it a few times to eat the herbs before seeing it. Lan Yi thought that paying attention to the child's diet and hygiene would keep the disease away, but her powerlessness and panic after the child fell ill made her feel afraid. In this era, medical technology is backward, and people will die if they catch a cold, so Lan Yi is determined to make up for her knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine, so as to do some basic disease prevention for children.

After the two children recovered, she entrusted Chen to take care of them, and she went to the county bookstore to buy an illustrated introductory book on Chinese herbal medicine, which talked about the use of common herbs and the common diseases and prevention of the four seasons, which also met her basic requirements. Two yuan is enough to buy four acres of barren slope in Beigou Village, which shows that this study costs a lot.

Lan Yi took advantage of the process to visit Xia Wan and went to the peony garden for a turn. At this time, the peony flower is bearing seeds, and it is full of bone fruits, but the bone fruits are still green, and they have not grown into size, and it will take another month to harvest the seeds.

Lan Yi came to the county seat on a donkey this time, and the Zhou Dynasty followed Tang Feng, and it was common for women to ride horses and donkeys when they traveled, and they did not need to ride sideways. Lan Yi sat on the back of the donkey steadily, holding the reins with one hand and thinking about the recent land reclamation, and couldn't help humming a small tune, the mountain breeze blowing in the evening brought a trace of shade and made people feel happy.

On the back of the donkey was the fabric and cotton wool that Lan Yi bought in the county seat, although it was hot now, but the people in the village had begun to prepare winter clothes, and Lan Yi followed the Chen family to prepare clothes for a family of three to wear in winter. She herself is more afraid of the cold, and her two children are still young, so they have to wear warm clothes.

Zhou Weiji rode out of the city gate and returned home, and saw his new neighbor next door, Wang Linshan's widow riding a donkey on the road, and his petite figure was almost hidden under the big hat on his head.

"Brother and sister."

Zhou Wei's extremely low and magnetic voice interrupted Lan Yi's thoughts, she looked up at Zhou Weiji's iconic beard, and replied, "Brother Tuesday, are you coming back from the Yamen?" "Strange, why didn't I hear the sound of horses' hooves?

Zhou Weiji is the second in their generation, so this generation calls him second brother or second brother.

"Well, at this hour of the day, the yamen will be fine. Are the two children getting better? Zhou Weiji explained. The two families are only separated by one wall, Zhou Weiji is a person who practices martial arts, his ears are bright and clear, someone in Lan Yi's family is talking in the courtyard, and he can hear it louder.

"It's much better, thank you second brother for remembering." Lan Yi should arrive. She didn't have the pleasure of riding a donkey at this time, Zhou Wei was extremely tall and big, and his own short donkey was frustrated, and he was a dwarf child compared to others!

Lan Yi spoke with detachment and politeness, but there was no fear when other women in the village saw him, which made Zhou Weiji feel a little more comfortable: "Brother and sister, Lin Shan and I are also brothers who have grown up together since childhood. If there is anything you need the second brother's help in the future, you can greet you directly, no need to be polite. I still have something to do, go first. ”

"Brother Tuesday, please first." Lan Yi looked at his tall back, although Zhou Weiji had a fierce face, it was not as vicious as Liu said. Liu once said that Zhou Weiji returned from the border pass from the army, killing people on the battlefield, cold and bloodthirsty, and the women in the village walked around when they saw him, and did not dare to fight him.

When Lan Yi returned home, the sun had already set over the western mountain, and she first went to the hillside to bring back the goats before going to Chen's to pick up the two children.

"Yu'er, baby, do you feel uncomfortable?"

Yu'er shook her head: "Mother, I'm so hungry." ”

The baby also looks unenergetic.

The second uncle's family only eats two meals a day, morning and evening, and only adds some dry food at noon when they are tired from working when the farm is busy. Lan Yi went to the county seat today to prepare snacks and food for Yu'er and the two of them, but the two children are used to the main meal at noon, and it is not enough to eat just snacks.

"Did you eat the midday snack?"

Yu'er patted the small satchel: "After eating, I gave it to Dafu and Niuniu to eat some, and the second aunt cooked porridge for us to drink." The two children were just sick and their bodies were still weak, so Chen took care of their appetite and cooked vegetable porridge at noon to replenish their stomachs.

"Then did you thank the second aunt?" Lan Yi asked with a smile.

"I have, the baby kissed the second aunt." Yu'er proudly said that he and his younger brother are good children.

"Yes, both of them are good boys, let's go home, and our mother will give you steamed egg custard to eat." Lan Yi patted Yu'er's little shoulder encouragingly and quickened her pace.

After dinner, Lan Yi boiled water to let the two children take a bath. In order to cool off, the hot water used for bathing in the past two days was boiled with mugwort leaves and wild chrysanthemums, and after the whole family washed the fragrant fragrance, Lan Yi began to study the newly bought books.

The preface to the opening of this herbal medicine book says that this book is compiled according to the content of the first volume of "Shennong's Materia Medica", and the book draws pictures of herbs, introduces the habits of herbs, medicinal value and picking season, picking, storage and processing methods, etc. Fortunately, there are not many too professional medical words in the book, and the sentences are quite plain, so Lan Yi is not difficult to read.

The above records the Chinese herbs that can dispel heat and fire and cure prickly heat, such as honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum, dandelion, schisandra, banxia, coptis, etc., and then also introduces several wild vegetables that can be eaten in May and June. According to the author of the book, medicine is three parts poison, and the use of medicine should be cautious. The treatment is still based on prevention, adjust the diet with the change of weather, and now it is good to drink some mild tea to remove the fire, such as chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, and even Coptis tea, Lan Yi carefully distinguishes the descriptions of wild vegetables and herbs in the book, and keeps the pictures in mind. Some herbs are poisonous, and they look a little similar to the herbs used on a daily basis, and if you pick them wrong, you will die.

After breakfast on the second day, Lan Yi took advantage of the humidity of last night, so she picked up her backpack and went to the woods at the edge of the village to pick wild vegetables and prepare to make wild vegetable buns. Vegetables such as leeks, cucumbers and beans in the yard are eaten every day, and the two children have no appetite, so they should be given a change of taste.

Lan Yi put on a hat and carried the basket to the woods in the east of the village, the two children could not be brought, now there are many mosquitoes in the forest, the children are just better, and the resistance is still low. Flies and mosquitoes, summer is the most annoying. The people in the village are used to it, and when they eat, they see the flies buzzing on the food and wave their chopsticks calmly to drive away this annoying little thing and then eat. Lan Yi couldn't stand it, she used gauze to cover the doors and windows of the house tightly, and used a bamboo fly swatter to beat the flies and mosquitoes that flew into the house several times a day, there were fewer in the house, but she had no way in the yard.

In May, there were two heavy rains, and the forest was full of trees, green grass under the trees, wild flowers, and active birds. Lan Yi used the branches to pluck the grass under her feet, always paying attention to the branches around her for snakes and insects, looking for the herbs and wild vegetables she needed. Hallehai, plantain, wormwood, wild chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, astragalus and coptis, the basket was so full that she did not dare to go deep into the woods.

In addition to chopping firewood and picking wild fruits, the people in the village rarely go to the woods to move, and then walk deeper for fear of encountering snakes, insects and beasts. This is not surprising, although the few hunters are people who have no fields, but no one in the village wants to venture into the mountains if the fields grow enough to eat. Although Lan Yi is curious about the mountains, she has never thought of going into the mountains to find Ganoderma lucidum or ginseng, she still wants to live for a few more years, this Ganoderma lucidum ginseng is not Chinese cabbage, she is a farmer, she has no golden finger, how can she have luck.

When she went home, Lan Yi saw two children playing with the toys she bought yesterday in the house, so she first dried the honeysuckle on the bamboo mat, honeysuckle is a good thing, you can drink water and take a bath, clear away heat and detoxify, cool the blood and reduce swelling, the effect is also very mild, Lan Yi likes the taste of honeysuckle very much.

The processing of wild vegetable buns is not a hassle. After the flour is added to the old dough and kneaded and fermented, the pork is chopped and fried, the wild vegetables are also scalded and chopped with hot water, stirred into a filling with diced meat, and then sesame oil, salt, fennel and pepper powder are added, and the filling is ready. Lan Yi can't pinch eighteen pleated buns, she can only roll the noodles into dough sheets to make big steamed dumplings, although they don't look as eye-catching as the buns, but the taste is definitely the same.

The two children love to eat, Yu'er ate two of them with heat, and the baby also ate more than half. After the meal, Yu'er carried a basket and sent more than a dozen to the second uncle's house.

Yu'er came back, and the basket contained the yellow millet noodles made by the Li family. The dumplings here are similar to potstickers, and they are much larger than potstickers.

"Mother, grandma said that this dumpling should be eaten hot at night." Yu'er handed the basket to Lan Yi, looking like a little adult, followed by two small radish heads.

"Auntie, auntie." Dafu and Da Niu Tian shouted, Da Niu Niu had dinner at Lan Yi's house during this time, and she was very familiar with her.

"Niuniu, I ran over with my brother, does my mother know?" The big girl is two weeks old, and she is only three years old, not yet the age of running around and playing.

"Yes. Mother said, come and see. The big girl hugged Lan Yi's leg and smiled sweetly.

Lan Yi smiled helplessly: "Okay, I'll see Hum later." Do you still want to eat vegetable buns? ”

Niuniu shook her head, and Dafu gnawed her fingers: "Uncle, Dafu wants to eat." ”

"Mother, Yu'er can also eat half of it." Yu'er patted her little belly and said embarrassedly. He couldn't help it even though he was full, and the food package made by his mother was fragrant.

"Done." Lan Yi was full of joy when she saw that the child loved to eat, "However, let's drink some soup before eating, and let's go and see Hum after eating, okay?" ”

Lan Yi put the mung bean soup in the pot and put it on the low table, the three children each had half a bowl, Lan Yi picked up the baby and sat next to him: "Baby, look at the baby, my brothers and sisters have drunk it, and the baby has also taken a sip." ”

Children like to imitate the most, and when they see everyone drinking, the baby drinks a few sips.

Pouring the swill into the pig trough, Lan Yi took a bunch of small radishes and looked at the two little black pigs snorting and snorting with their noses. These two little pigs have short noses and wrinkled faces, and Lan Yi feels that this is definitely a genetically mutated Shar Pei pig.

She likes pigs very much, in addition to eating and sleeping, simple and happy, the cutest thing is the sound of pigs snoring, Lan Yi feels very relieved every time she hears it at night, it is the kind of peace of mind that eats and sleeps, has a home and love. This feeling would be ridiculous to say, but Lan Yi really felt this way, as if the snoring of a pig could pull her back to her distant hometown, back to her childhood, to the days of playing and frolicking in the yard.

PS: I was suddenly in a bad mood today, and I was going to type more words, but what I typed didn't feel right, and it was always a little bit worse, and I didn't think it was my own. Do you sometimes feel this way, looking at yourself, you wonder if this is your real face; Looking at the Chinese characters one by one, I suddenly felt so strange, it seemed to be carefully read, and I didn't recognize every word?

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