Defeat natural disasters with farming

Ye Yu felt limp all over his body, his hands and feet were weak and he had no strength at the same time. He opened his eyes with difficulty, only to see his mother standing by the bed, even her eye sockets were blue.

"Come and drink some water." Seeing him waking up, Mother Ye quickly poured a cup of warm water from the pot and fed it to his mouth, "Drink slowly, don't worry."

After drinking a glass of water, she pressed her forehead against Ye Yu's again, feeling that the temperature had dropped, she was relieved, and then asked in a gentle voice, "Want to eat? Chicken porridge is warming on the stove , let me feed you a bowl."

Ye Yu moved her sore body, coughed twice and said, "I'll eat it myself."

He was startled by the hoarse voice as soon as he opened his mouth. He felt the swelling and pain in his throat. He probably had inflammation of the tonsils. As long as the inflammation subsided, his illness would get better.

But before drinking the porridge, you have to take the medicine first. Ye Yu has not had such a bitter medicine for a long time. He squeezed his nose and drank the medicine soup in one breath. Spoon chicken porridge.

As soon as the shredded chicken porridge entered his mouth, his eyes lit up. Because of his illness, his mouth tasted tasteless. If he ate white porridge, he might not be able to eat it. Today’s shredded chicken porridge is just right, with salt and sliced ​​ginger in it, with With a light salty taste, it looks very delicious when paired with boiled white rice, shredded chicken and shredded carrots.

After eating a small bowl, his stomach was ironed instantly, and his body gradually gained some strength. Ye Yu touched his forehead, and the temperature was much lower than the temperature on his hand, which meant that he had begun to recover. , but the body still needs time to repair.

Seeing this, Mother Ye asked him to continue to rest, and sleep more to get better faster, while she stayed on the side to take care of Ye Yu while sewing the ermine sent by Chu Xufeng.

As the name suggests, the ermine skin is the fur of the ermine. In summer, the fur on the back of the ermine is brown, and the abdomen is white. In winter, the whole body of the ermine turns white. Therefore, the ermine is also called the ermine. The leather is naturally the same color.

The silvery white is noble and pure, and the ermine fur is thin and soft. Under normal circumstances, ermine skin is a royal product, so this leather is most likely a reward from the emperor.

The whole ermine skin is not big, but it is more than enough to make a small jacket for Ye Yu. I don't know if it is because of the chaotic temperature outside. Now the villagers are not sensitive to cold and heat. Well, the rest of the Ye family can even go out with only a small jacket, but Ye Yu can't, he is still very afraid of the cold, so he has to be wrapped tightly.

Therefore, in the hair that Chu Xufeng sent, there were two mink skins for Ye Jing and Xinghua to make clothes for, one piece of ermine skin for Ye Yu to make clothes for, and the remaining one was temporarily kept by Mrs. Ye , Wait until someone needs it in the future.

The ermine fur is the lining, and the outside is a layer of light blue satin. The sewn ermine jacket is beautiful and warm. After Ye Yu puts it on, there is a ring of soft silver-white hair around his neck, which suits him even more. Zhang Xiao's face was as white as jade.

Even Chu Xufeng smiled and praised him when he saw him, "The first time I saw this ermine skin, I thought it was very suitable for you."

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Today's weather can really be called fickle. It rained for half a month, and then it began to snow again. Mrs. Ye thought that winter had finally come. However, after Ye Yu's fever subsided, the weather suddenly changed again. It became clearer, and the dazzling sun was still radiating heat unscrupulously.

Taking advantage of the rising temperature, the Ye family hurriedly washed and dried the house, otherwise, if it started to snow again, they would not know when they would have to wait until the next time to dry the quilt.

Then the villagers went to Songshan Mountain again. They picked the ripe chestnuts, pine nuts, persimmons and other mountain products in the mountain. These things were filled with five big bags, and then Father Ye distributed the five bags according to the established distribution method. Bag mountain goods were equally distributed to all the families in the village.

After the village soldiers are trained in the future, they will also follow Master Wu and others into the mountains to hunt, and the animals hunted will also be distributed according to the corresponding distribution method.

Although it may not be fair to some individuals, it is extremely balanced on the whole. Therefore, people in the village agree with this distribution method. After all, it is less on the one hand, but it can be made up on the other. This way, one increase and one decrease It's generally fair.

Four members of Ye Yu's family went to Songshan to pick them, so their family finally got a lot of mountain products. Three kinds of persimmons filled a wicker basket, and one of the baskets was divided into two parts.

About a dozen of them were used to dry persimmons. Mrs. Ye washed and peeled the orange-red persimmons while the sun was still in the sky, and put them on the straw in the yard to dry for ten days. The weather was sunny for ten consecutive days. When the skin of the persimmons was slightly wrinkled, they could be turned over and turned to the other side to continue drying. After about five days, the whole persimmons were left in the sun until there was a little moisture. , but the skin is dry, then you need to pinch the inside of the persimmon to soften it.

Sun-dried persimmons can be stored in a cool place, and can be stored for a long time as long as they are wrapped in straw. It should be noted that the white color on the dried persimmons is not mold, but a phenomenon called "covering frost".

There is no need to throw away the peeled persimmon skins. After drying, they can be steamed on top of the rice. It has the effect of laxative, clearing away heat and detoxifying. It can even be used to hangover, although few people in their family are drunk when.

Another part of the persimmons are temporarily put away, and when the weather is cold, they are made into frozen persimmons to eat.

As for the fried pine nuts and roasted chestnuts, they are extremely delicious, and it is also a good choice to eat as a snack.

In addition, the two fruit trees in the house also bear fruit. Perhaps these two trees have adapted to the climate here. This time the oranges and ringos are very delicious, with the right distribution of sweet and sour, and they are delicious without additional processing.

But because the fruit on the two trees was one-third more than before, and my family couldn't finish it, so Mrs. Ye gave some to the villagers, especially Chu Xufeng, Master Wu and Aunt Ye's family.

Even so, there was still a lot left. Mother Ye made some canned oranges and Ringo according to the original method, and stacked them neatly in the cellar.

Whenever Ye Yu finished drinking the medicine, Ye Mu would open a ceramic jar and pour out the oranges and sweet water for him.

Ye Yu had just eaten a piece of orange when he saw Ye He staring at the bowl in his hand and swallowing.

He silently handed him the bowl, "Let's eat together."

Seeing this, Ye He happily took the bowl, and the two finished the bowl of oranges and sweet water.

Just as Ye Yu was still taking medicine and continued to drink the medicine, the cloud gradually covered the sun outside, and it snowed again.

The snow covered the sky and covered the earth, and it didn't stop for half a month. Ye's father and three brothers had to go out to shovel the snow in the heavy snow. Everything was fine, but one day it suddenly fell Hailstones as big as a child's fist.

This hailstorm caused a disaster, which Ye Yu heard from his father at the end of the incident.

The sufferers were Ye Cheng’s family who had already separated. Ye Cheng was shoveling snow in the yard at that time. Although he had already felt that the hail was starting to fall from the sky, it was only small particles at the beginning. The place was not shoveled, so he didn't go back to the house, but what he didn't expect was that the hailstone was getting bigger and bigger, and finally the fist-sized hailstone hit his head, which directly knocked him down to the ground and passed out. Fortunately, before he fainted, his wife heard the commotion in the yard. After Qian opened the door, she saw the blood-soaked snow layer at a glance.

A sudden scream alarmed the neighbors near their house.

Ye Shuan's house was the closest, so Ye Shuan's father, Ye Zhong, ran out with a wooden basin on his head. He was slightly taken aback by the scene in front of him as soon as he came out. The blood flowing from Ye Cheng's head stained a large area of ​​snow. His face was frozen blue.

In such a serious situation, Ye Xu couldn't make the decision, so he quickly asked others to invite Dr. Hao, while he carried Ye Cheng back to the house with Ye Cheng's daughter-in-law, Qian Shi.

The only adult in Ye Cheng's family is his wife, and the other two children are only two or three years old.

When the two brothers and sisters saw their father's head covered in blood, they were frightened and cried loudly. This also caused Qian to take care of her husband and coax the children, wishing to break herself in half.

In the end, Ye Shuan's mother came to help coax the two children into the house.

Dr. Hao quickly rushed over against the wind, snow and hail. He gave Ye Cheng a serious diagnosis and treatment. Ye Cheng was hit a little badly. Fortunately, the temperature outside was low and the wound was frozen so that he would not lose too much blood.

While applying the ointment to Ye Cheng's wound, he sighed and said, "If he can wake up within three days, the wound will be fine and he will be able to live with it. If he remains unconscious within three days..."

The implication is that everyone in the room understands that if they fail to wake up, they may not wake up for the rest of their lives.

Qian Shi covered her mouth and choked up when she heard the words, Ye Shuan's mother immediately comforted her when she saw this, "You have to hold on, this family depends on you these days, and Doctor Hao didn't say that as long as you can wake up within three days Come here, okay?"

"Yeah, if you're too busy, just ask his parents to help." Ye Zhong just finished saying this when he saw his wife glared at him, which immediately made him look confused. But if the child has an accident, isn't it common for parents to come to help?

"Don't listen to his nonsense, I'll help you take care of Brother Yi later." His mother Ye Shuan twisted her husband's waist as she spoke.

This idiot is simply a pot that can’t be opened and carried. Ye Cheng’s family didn’t have a good relationship with his younger brothers because of the tofu recipe back then. Even after the separation, his parents didn’t live with them, but lived with his younger brother. At the same time, the family property was not divided much, which shows the rigidity of their relationship.

Qian wiped away her tears and thanked, "Thank you, Auntie."

Doctor Hao left the externally applied ointment, and then went back to prepare the internal medicine. After coming over, he carefully instructed Qian Shi: "The external medicine needs to be changed every day, and the internal medicine should be decocted in warm water three times a day."

The most fortunate thing is that Ye Cheng woke up in the evening of the third day. However, he suffered from sequelae. He was often dizzy during the day, and he couldn’t do tiring tasks. He easily fainted when he lowered his head, but he managed to save his life .

What happened to Ye Cheng has given the villagers a warning. No one dares to underestimate the hailstorm. They always pay attention to the sky when they go out to shovel snow every day. Once they see crackling hailstones falling again, they immediately run to the house.

This also made Ye Yu feel lucky. When the houses were rebuilt after the earthquake, all the houses in the village, rich or not, all built stone roofs, so they could withstand the force of the hail. It is still the original thatched roof, and many houses are afraid that they will be smashed out by hailstones.

The house I lived in escaped the catastrophe, but the cultivated land and the vegetable bed were pitted by the hail, especially the vegetable bed, like Ye Yu’s house, the cabbage leaves that hadn’t been collected in time were smashed to pieces, and the winter melon was full of holes. In the entire vegetable bed, only the carrots growing in the ground were not damaged.

Fortunately, these were all smashed by the hail, so they could still be eaten after tidying them up. The cabbage quickly piled up into sauerkraut while it was still intact, and the wax gourd was peeled and sliced ​​and eaten every day. In the end, even Yehe got tired of eating it. He said with a bitter face: "How many winter melons do we have? When will we finish eating them?"

Mrs. Ye took a mouthful of winter melon fried meat, then gave him a white look and said: "Some are good, why are you picking and choosing? Don't worry, even if you want to eat after today, you won't have to eat, and the rest I sent them all out."

She still didn't say a word, once the weather cools down, not to mention winter melon, even cabbage won't grow anymore, if they want to eat vegetables, they can only eat sauerkraut and dried bamboo shoots and mushrooms, etc., by then Ye He Definitely miss the taste of winter melon.

Ye Yu couldn't help laughing when he heard his grandma and his brother bickering, and then thought of the kang at home. In fact, it's easy to eat fresh vegetables, all you need is to grow some vegetables on the kang.

For things like cucumbers, coriander, cabbage, and shallots, burn two more fires on the kang in an unoccupied house to make it hot, and then plant these seeds in broken earthen pots. Watering is good.

Originally, Mrs. Ye didn't expect to be able to grow things, but what she didn't expect was that with the passage of time, all kinds of seedlings gradually emerged from the ground. The ones with hats and the oval ones were so lush and green. Swaying and lively, it adds a bit of freshness in the boring winter.

The vegetable leaves that grew out were crowded together and filled the kang. They were tender and tender. Mrs. Ye quickly picked out the cabbage leaves and the juicy cucumbers as big as her thumb, washed them with well water and put them in a basket. , next to it is a plate of soybean miso, the first crop of vegetables is extremely delicious when eaten as a dipping sauce.

Ye Yu once heard people complain that cucumbers had no taste of cucumbers. At that time, he didn't know what it meant to have no taste of cucumbers. Until today, he understood what he meant instantly when he ate this green and tender cucumber. The fragrance of cucumbers is very strong. It’s because the first crop hasn’t fully matured yet. When you bite it down, it seems to contain a bag of water.

After a few days, you can break off the leaves and eat them. As long as you don't pull out the whole one, the vegetables in the broken earthen pot can be eaten several times.