After the three people left, the gray sky turned into a fish belly white.

Ye Nitang looked at the space alarm clock, which showed 5:23 in the morning.

She took the basket and hatchet, locked the yard, and walked toward the back hill.

After climbing over a hill, we came to a large ravine.

The hillsides on both sides of the ravine are covered with wild mint.

After she cut one basket, she came back with a rope pole and cut four more bundles.

When I picked it up to the door, I happened to meet Mrs. Wu carrying a basket and heading towards their house.

"Tang'er, make some cool water. How can I ask for so much wild mint?"

"Grandma Wu, I'm not boiling water to drink."

Ye Nitang smiled. In summer, people here often boil mint water.

However, she uses it to steam peppermint essential oil.

"This mint doesn't taste good," Mrs. Wu thought she was going to eat it cold, so she followed her and said, "But making cold tofu is not bad. Is the child awake?"

Hearing that she didn't continue to ask questions, Ye Nitang didn't say much, "You should be awake."

There were so many mosquitoes that she really couldn't sleep.

When the two of them arrived at the door, the sound of Yang Zhuer playing with Ye Langlang could be heard in the yard.

Ye Nitang threw the mints and piled them at the door. When she opened the door, she saw Ye Juejue sitting on the small bench staring at her brother with a smile in her eyes.

When he saw her, he retracted his smile and immediately lowered his head.

"Three little monkeys, come and eat."

Mrs. Wu put the basket on the small wooden table in the courtyard.

He took out a stack of cold cucumbers, five amaranth pancakes, and a pot of corn porridge.

"Tang'er, wash your hands and eat quickly."

"Okay," Ye Nitang went into the bathroom and scrubbed, then went to the kitchen to bring out a basin of water and distributed it to them. "Drink a bowl of water before eating and go get rid of the poop in your stomach."

Ever since the Ye family's accident, Mrs. Wu's family has been the only family in the village to take care of the three siblings of the Ye family selflessly.

She was afraid that the poison on her body would be passed on to them by mosquitoes, so she gave them some spiritual spring water to remove the poison.

"Sister Tang'er, I have a lot of poop in my stomach, I'll drink it." Yang Zhuer chuckled and took a bowl.

"Mom, I have a lot of poop in my stomach," Ye Langlang said immediately.

Originally, Ye Nitang didn't think it sounded good to say "shit", but when it came out of the mouth of the good-looking Ye Langlang, it was really rude.

She gave Ye Langlang a bowl of water and motioned for her to pass it to Ye Juejue, "Don't talk shit anymore."

"Thank you, mother." Ye Langlang happily took the water and fed Ye Jingjue himself.

"Then don't talk about shit, what are you talking about?" Yang Zhuer looked confused, "Do you call me a scumbag?"

"Pfft, haha!"

Ye Nitang smiled so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes, "You idiot, thank you for your imagination!"

Mrs. Wu was holding the water and couldn't stop laughing, "What the hell are you talking about while eating."

"What's the point? Everything you eat turns into shit, so there's nothing you can't say."

After Yang Zhuer finished speaking, he filled a bowl of porridge and went to feed Ye Jingjue.

The monkey-like boy took care of Ye Juejue, but he was extremely meticulous.

Ye Nitang nodded lightly, the Yang family are all good.

After the meal, Mrs. Wu saw that Ye Juejue was not very disgusted with Ye Nitang, so she asked Yang Zhuer to keep an eye on the two children, and she went home with the basin and dishes.

Now that the weather is getting hotter, the grass in the ground is growing rapidly, and she and her granddaughter have to go to the ground to pull weeds.

Seeing the three children having fun, Ye Nitang went into the kitchen and found a bamboo steamer.

She picked and chopped the mint, put it in a steamer, and steamed it over water.

Find a wide-mouthed plate and place it in the top layer of the steamer. Turn the lid upside down on the steamer to allow the steam to condense and fall into the plate.

The dew collected at the beginning was not pure enough, so Ye Nitang steamed it five times.

In the end, I got half a bowl of colorless peppermint water, one hundred milliliters in volume.

The tools are limited and the essential oil is difficult to refine, so what she steams can only be regarded as peppermint dew.

She dropped a drop of spiritual spring water into it to enhance the medicinal effect.

There is also an ointment for mosquito bites sold in town, which is made by soaking medicinal materials in oil and wine and adding beeswax.

It requires a lot of medicinal materials and the production process is cumbersome, making it expensive.

For ten grams, it costs thirty or fifty Wen.

Thinking of this, she had an idea.

She can use the steaming method to extract essential oil, add beeswax directly, and make a simple version of peppermint ointment.

It saves time and cost, and can be produced in batches. The price is set at a lower price and sold exclusively to ordinary people.

In this hot summer season, when there are many mosquitoes, you can definitely make a fortune.

But you need a set of cooking tools.

"Come here and take a look at the peppermint dew I made."

Ye Nitang put the mint dew on a small plate and brought it to the yard.

The clear water exuded a refreshing aroma, and Yang Zhuer licked his tongue.

"Sister Tang'er, does this taste good?"

"This is medicine for wiping mosquito pimples. Come on, stretch out your arm and wipe it on me like this."

Ye Nitang dipped her index finger into mint dew and applied it on her arm.

After massaging for a while, the itching there gradually disappeared, a cold feeling spread all over the body instantly, and the red bumps also became smaller.

Of course, it's not that mint dew has such a miraculous effect, but that the spiritual spring water amplifies the medicinal effect of mint.

Yang Zhuer and Ye Langlang also imitated her and rubbed some mint lotion on their body parts.

Children are already sensitive, and the feeling of coldness is even more obvious than Ye Nitang's.

Their eyes widened in surprise.

"Sister Tang'er, it's so comfortable!"

"Mom, I don't feel itchy anymore!"

"Then wipe all the pimples on your body. Don't wipe it on your eyes."

Ye Nitang glanced at Ye Juejue and saw that she wanted to raise her head but didn't dare to.

He got up, picked up the mint on the ground and went to the kitchen.

The little girl sensed that she was leaving, and stared at the mint dew timidly, moving her fingers, but did not raise her arms after all.

Seeing that she wasn't moving, Ye Langlang dipped his thin index finger into mint dew and rubbed all the pimples on her face and body.

Ye Nitang was busy until noon before steaming all the mint and got more than a pound of mint dew.

These are not pure enough and can only be used by family members.

She also had to go to the mountains to find some wild bees' nests to boil beeswax and make mint dew into a solid balm that was easy to carry.

Gurgling, my stomach is growling.

Ye Nitang rubbed her plump and soft belly and decided to cook first before going to the mountains.

Rural people, especially during lean times, usually eat two meals.

The Ye family and the Yang family are no exception.

Mrs. Wu has not come since she has been away for so long. She is probably still working in the fields.

She looked at the three children outside and rummaged around. There was only corn in the house.

She scooped half a bowl of corn, found an iron cauldron to make porridge, added a spoonful of spiritual spring water, and added a pinch of the fat dregs that Ye Qinghong had cooked yesterday.

After making the porridge, I went to the vegetable field and pulled out five green vegetables, washed them and chopped them into pieces, and put them into the porridge.

"Sister Tang'er, it's still early, why are you cooking?"

Yang Zhuer smelled the aroma of rice and looked at her in confusion.

Ye Nitang distributed the porridge to the three children and smiled slightly, "You're hungry. Eat quickly. I'll pick goat's milk fruits later. You guys stay at home and be good."

The advantage of living in the mountains is that there are a lot of wild fruits. As long as you are brave and not afraid of poisonous snakes and wasps, you can eat endless wild fruits all year round.

This is the time when goat's milk fruits, raspberries and mulberries are ripe.

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