Framed at the beginning: Female educated youth forced to marry disabled military officer

"You can see the fork on the right side of the mountain halfway up the mountain. There are two apricot trees not far away, and they bear a lot of fruit, but they are not ripe yet."

Mindful of the wild fruit trees on the mountain, Meng Xiaoman asked for leave from her team leader the next day and went up the mountain to pick fruits and dig wild trees.

Because she wanted to transplant into more space, she did not let Xiao Xiangdong come with her, but asked him to go to the market to buy a few large water tanks and bring them back.

Meng Xiaoman stored thirty water jars in the space to store water, but it was difficult to expose these to the public.

"Why do you need to buy so many water tanks?"

"Isn't the summer harvest coming soon? Then the grain will be divided for easy storage, and the weather is getting hotter. It's easy to get insects if you put it outside, so the temperature will be lower if you put it in the tank."

Indeed, Xiao Xiangdong went to the market to buy a water tank without thinking too much.

The apricot trees, peach trees, and plum trees on the mountain all bore fruit, but they were all still green and still a few months away from maturity. Meng Xiaoman didn’t dig too much. He dug one of each fruit tree and planted it in the space. inside.

She exercises every day and eats food produced in space. Meng Xiaoman's physical condition has improved greatly. Now she is stronger than an adult man.

In less than an hour, Meng Xiaoman transplanted cherry trees, apricot trees, peach trees and plum trees, and dug up ten or twenty wild strawberries.

In addition to strawberries, Meng Xiaoman also discovered a bush with small red fruits. When he took a closer look, he found that they were raspberries and thornberries.

Meng Xiaoman picked half of the basket, dug out a few more plants and planted them in the space.

When the trees didn't bear fruit before, Meng Xiaoman couldn't tell what kind of fruit trees they were. Now that the fruit trees were bearing fruit, Meng Xiaoman discovered that there were many fruit trees in the mountains.

In addition to the common apricot and peach trees, there are also many mulberry trees, some of which are particularly tall and covered with purple-red mulberries.

Meng Xiaoman climbed up the tree and picked up half of the basket.

Of course, it is inevitable to find two mulberry saplings and plant them in the space.

After looking for wild fruits, Meng Xiaoman looked for medicinal herbs in the mountains. Spring and autumn are the right times to dig for salvia. Many salvias grow on the sunny slopes and woodlands here. Meng Xiaoman has seen them even on the roadsides and ditches. But no one knows its medicinal uses, and it can’t be sold, so it can only be treated as weed.

Meng Xiaoman also found a lot of Gynostemma pentaphyllum that can be soaked in water to treat high blood pressure. However, when it is used for medicinal purposes, it has to be harvested in autumn, so Meng Xiaoman got it into the space first.

Meng Xiaoman even made a lot of Polygonatum japonica, which was called Chicken Head Ginseng by the villagers. Its roots, leaves, flowers and fruits are all edible. The young leaves can be pinched and blanched for cold dishes. The rhizomes can be eaten raw, stir-fried, steamed, or cooked into porridge and soup.

Since learning Chinese medicine from Mr. Chen, Meng Xiaoman looked at the flowers, plants and trees all over the mountain, and her first reaction was whether they could be used as medicine. Even when I go to weed the fields and encounter weeds, I always think of their medicinal uses first.

Mr. Chen never gave Professor Meng Xiaoman these diagnostic methods, but asked her to endorse them one after another, from "Compendium of Materia Medica" to "Human Meridian Map", from "Huangdi Neijing" to "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" 》.

These books are all wrapped in bright red covers, with red and technical titles written on them, but the names have nothing to do with the content. The neat yellow paper is filled with neatly written notes and notes. The explanation lets people see the care and attention the book owner has for the book.

I don’t know if it was a sign of drought, but the weather started to get hotter in mid-May.

The team had to give advance notice to dig potatoes. Qinghe Brigade has few plains and many mountains, and the land is relatively barren. Wheat and soybeans are usually grown in the plains, while potatoes, sweet potatoes, rape, sorghum, corn and other miscellaneous grains and cash crops are grown in the mountains.

Digging potatoes is the same as digging sweet potatoes. It is a physical job and is very laborious. Meng Xiaoman has had a hard time in the past few days and her waist is a little sore, so she does not work as hard as usual.

Moreover, now that Xiao Xiangdong has started to work, there is a strong laborer in the family, and she does not need to work too hard on herself.

His old house is on the outskirts of the village, and Xiao Xiangdong usually doesn't go into the village. Few people in the village know that his leg has healed. On the first day of work, it caused a sensation among the production team.

"Oh my god, am I reading that right? Is that the third child of the Xiao family? Isn't his leg disabled? How can he walk?"

"That's him, isn't it the educated youth wife who is following him?"

"I haven't heard of him going to a big hospital for medical treatment."

"It can be that as time goes by, it will heal on its own. You don't know, some diseases are like this. As time goes by, they will slowly recover."

"Before that, I heard from the Xiao family that it was completely ruined and couldn't be cured at all."

"I have a guess, maybe it's because of happiness. Not all diseases that can't be cured can be cured by marrying a wife. I guess that's what Xiao Laosan is like."

"It makes sense. To marry such a young, beautiful and capable daughter-in-law, even if I am paralyzed, I still have to stand up. Otherwise, if I run away with someone else, I will die."

The Xiao family was no less shocked than outsiders. They didn't know when Xiao Xiangdong's leg would heal. When the fourth child got married last time, he was still using crutches. Why did he get better so quickly?

Xiao's father and Xiao's mother suddenly regretted the separation.

Xiao Xiangdong has been very capable since he was a child. He can earn the work points of an adult man at the age of fifteen. Now, he is definitely more capable. If he is not assigned, he can still do some work for the two of them, and they don't have to work so hard.

Judging from the way he walks freely now, his legs must have healed a long time ago. This was deliberately hidden from them, and it was only revealed after they successfully separated the family.

Father Xiao put down the hoe in his hand and came to Xiao Xiangdong, "Lao San, when will your leg heal? Why didn't you tell your parents? It's a pity that we have been so worried about you."

Xiao Xiangdong knew the reason for his visit. He just saw that he was well and useful to his family, so he came to comfort him. Xiao Xiangdong didn't want to waste time talking to him. He finally recovered and was able to go to work. He just wanted to do more work, earn more work points, and make Meng Xiaoman more relaxed.

Xiao Xiangdong was very strong. He dug out a piece of soil with a hoe and brought out a lot of potatoes. While picking up the potatoes, he replied to Xiao's father, "Thanks to Xiaoman. He wrote to Haishi and asked for the secret recipe that he paid a lot of money for." I took medicine for a long time before I recovered. No, my legs just came to work. I want to make money quickly so that I can pay off the debt. You said that you and my mother have been worried about me, so how about you help me pay back the money I owe first? Just a part of it. Just the two of us, we don’t know when we will be able to pay it off. If we keep it, the interest rate will increase greatly.”

When Father Xiao heard that he had owed a lot of debt for the treatment of his leg and wanted him to pay it back, he was immediately glad to have divided the family. "As for paying off the debt, take your time and don't be in a hurry. You are in good health now and can go to work." Now, Xiaoman is young too. If you two work hard and work hard for a few years, you can eventually pay back the money you owe."

Xiao Xiangdong sighed, "The interest on the money outside is too heavy. Dad, why don't you help me pay back part of it first, and I will pay you back after I earn money. This way, I can save a little less interest."