Defeat natural disasters with farming

The lake was very deep, and it was definitely not safe for Ye He to be alone, so Ye Boss and Ye Lao Er also followed behind him, and they dived to the bottom of the lake together to install the bamboo foil.

Ye Yu squatted on the bank and watched them disappear on the lake, leaving only shallow ripples. He felt uneasy and worried. His eyes reflected the clear lake, like a mirror.

They swam up to change their air two or three times before they actually installed the bamboo foil.

Ye He put his arms on the shore, took a breath and said, "There are a lot of fish in the lake, big and small, and the aquatic plants that were thrown in before are still alive and quite luxuriant."

The water plants are fished out from the Liu River by the villagers, and they are really casual. Occasionally, they think of picking up a little duckweed and throwing it into the lake, regardless of whether it will survive or not.

In addition, a lot of vegetation has been transplanted on the shore of the lake. This is a simple matter. You only need to shovel off the turf around the various water bubbles and press it on the shore of the lake. After a rain, these weeds will grow in the new soil. Take root.

There is even a clump of reeds among them. In a few days, when the reeds grow up, a reed marsh may be formed by the lake. The reed marsh is the favorite of wild ducks, so the activity of picking duck eggs can also be put on the agenda.

There are several not very tall pine and cypress trees nearby, and they are all living well after being transplanted. Now the lakeside scenery has begun to take shape, and Ye Yu can imagine the beautiful scene of the lakeshore after it is truly formed.

He asked, "Are there any river prawns?"

Ye He shook his head regretfully when he heard the words, "I didn't see it, but I can go to Liuhe to have a look later, and I should be able to catch river prawns and small snails there."

He did what he said, and as soon as he climbed up from the lake, he happily went to find Ye Shuan and Ye Minghui with a wooden bucket.

Ye Yu was not with them. After returning to the village, he first went to the paddy field, which was about two acres. The rice in the field was growing gratifyingly. When a gust of wind blew, the tassels would sway with the wind, but he was still a little worried. When harvesting, he couldn't let go of his heart. What if the rice was full of empty shells?

Everyone in the village is helping to plant these two acres of rice fields. Whoever comes early will weed and drain and irrigate. They are more careful than their own fields. They all think that if they can be planted, their own fields will be replaced with rice next year.

In order to increase the survival rate of the rice, Ye Yu specially bred the seeds on the kang before planting them in the paddy field, and waited until the seeds germinated. Not to mention, this method is really useful. The rice grows very fast in the early stage. Although the speed has slowed down, the growth is very good, and many tassels have been produced.

After finishing the rice, he walked around the village again before turning back to go home.

Mother Ye is cutting sweet potato leaves at home. She separates the thick stems from the young leaves. The thick stems are chopped up and can be fed to livestock, while the young leaves are delicious. Whether it is fried or steamed, it is delicious. Make sweet potato leaf steamed bread with flour, which is nutritious and delicious.

"I'm back." Mother Ye called him, "Go into the house and eat something. Brother Xu and the others brought it over. They said it was called tsampa. I tasted a piece, but I'm not used to it."

Tsampa, also known as barley fried noodles, can be made with camellia oleifera and barley fried noodles, which is very convenient to carry.It's just that it contains a lot of fat, so it's not suitable to eat too much, but it's a good choice to eat a piece once in a while to fill your stomach.

Ye Yu opened the curtain and entered the room, Chu Xufeng raised his eyes to give him a seat, "Try it, the taste is average, but the novelty is better."

General Chu didn't forget that he still had a son in Yejia Village, so he often sent his soldiers to deliver things, sometimes food, sometimes wool, and sometimes mutton.

The green barley was sent by him a few days ago, and it weighed two hundred catties. The villagers exchanged some of the barley just after it was delivered.

Ye Yu washed his hands and took a piece and put it in his mouth. It smelled like wheat mixed with ghee, with a slight salty taste. It couldn't be said whether it was delicious or not, but it was good to eat anyway.

After seeing him finish eating, Chu Xufeng said: "The sheep exchanged in the village are already on the way, and it is estimated that they will arrive in two days."

In Jingbian City, there are many livestock, but little food, and vegetables are rarely seen.

So some time ago, Ye's father exchanged grain with them for sheep. Two thousand catties of grain were exchanged for 24 sheep, including twenty ewes and four rams.

These grains are all grown from the village's ownerless fields, and the sheep exchanged for them naturally belong to the whole village, and as long as the 24 sheep start to breed, the village will no longer be short of meat. After the pasture by the lake is built, they can start herding sheep.

Ye Yu nodded and said, "That's good. Once the breeding is successful, our village will have mutton every year."

In addition to sheep, he also wants to change some pigs and cattle. Pigs are okay. If it doesn’t work, they go to the mountains to catch wild boars.But the cows are hard to say. The government used to control them strictly, and there were only two or three cows in the nearby villages, not to mention now, where they don't know where to find cows.

Ye Yu had to take this matter to heart first.

While thinking about things, he took another tsampa and gnawed it slowly, which made Chu Xufeng think that he liked it very much, and thought about bringing some barley over later.

At this time Ye He came back with the wooden bucket, he shouted happily: "Come and see what I caught."

Mrs. Ye went over to take a look, and then laughed, "Oh, there are so many snails."

"That's right, you don't want to see who caught it." Ye He put his waist proudly, "Not only the snails, but also some river prawns."

"Okay." Mrs. Ye replied, "I'll make it for you when the snails finish spit out the sand."

She looked at the sky and said, "I can probably eat it at noon."

Ye He put the barrel on the ground, washed his hands and entered the room, and saw a bowl of tsampa on the table. His eyes lit up immediately, and he took three steps forward to pick up a piece of tsampa with relish, and ate it. Then he beat his chest hard, as if he could swallow the tsampa stuck in his throat.

Seeing this, Ye Yu handed over a bowl of white water helplessly, "Eat slowly, no one will grab you, and you have to have lunch later."

"Don't worry, I can finish eating even more." Ye He patted his chest and swore.

"It's not a question of whether you can eat it all. Tsampa is not easy to digest, so you can't eat too much." Ye Yu moved the remaining tsampa, "I'll eat it tomorrow."

Ye He put the last bite into his mouth and nodded in response.

Spicy fried escargot, boiled river prawns and fried sweet potato leaves for lunch.

The tails of the snails that had spit out the sand were cut off. Mrs. Ye washed them two or three times to ensure that there was no dirt on the surface of the snails. Fishy, ​​then bring to a boil on high heat, skim off the foam, and take it out for later use.

Pour off the used water in the pot, then pour in oil, onion, ginger and garlic and sauté until fragrant. Among them, dried chili, green chili and Chinese prickly ash are all essential seasonings. They are fried together with the snails, and soon A strong and choking smell came out.

It caused Ye He and Ye Jing to look in through the door frame, but Ye Yu couldn't get used to the smell, so he dragged Chu Xufeng to hide in the room.

Different from the spicy fried escargot, boiled river prawns and stir-fried sweet potato leaves are both light dishes, which are just complementary to each other. The former has the unique sweet taste of river prawns without any fishy smell, while the latter It is very refreshing, and it is not too much compared with serious vegetables such as cabbage.

At the end of the Ye family's meal, they only stretched their hands into the spicy fried snails. As long as they gently smacked with their mouths, the flexible snail meat inside would fall off.

Father Ye said with emotion: "It would be great if there was wine." Spicy stir-fried escargot is also very suitable as an accompaniment to wine.

"There is wine." Mrs. Ye put down her chopsticks and took out a porcelain bottle of rice wine from the room, "It was the wine that Geer Hai didn't finish when he got married."

The men of the Ye family are not picky either, even though the rice wine tastes bad, some of them are good enough to drink.

According to reports, the atmosphere gradually became lively between cups and cups. The children were full and did not leave the table, they were all chatting. However, they hadn't been leisurely for a long time when they heard a loud knock on the door.

Father Ye couldn't help but put down the rice wine in his hand, sighed and said, "There's something else coming."

Ye Mu gave him a white look, "I think you are just talking about it, but you don't know how much you enjoy it in your heart."

Father Ye is a busy and worry-loving person, and he won't be happy if you don't ask him to worry about it. Since he became the village head, he has been happily managing the affairs of the village every day.

"Hi."

Father Ye originally had a smile on his face, but when he opened the door and heard the news from Ye Mingde, his face instantly changed from sunny to cloudy.

"How did you fix it? Didn't I tell you to be careful when entering the mountains, how can someone be bitten by a snake?"

During this period of time, many people entered the mountain, and they did not necessarily follow the village soldiers. There were also many people who entered the mountain privately like Ye Yu a few days ago. After all, the prey that went into the mountain alone were all their own. Don't share with others.

The villagers who went into the mountain alone before were lucky, and nothing major happened. Only Wang Jiancheng was unlucky this time. He was bitten by a snake an hour after he entered the mountain.

Wang Jiancheng didn't show any signs of poisoning at the beginning after being bitten, so he felt that the snake was not poisonous, so he bandaged it casually and decided to continue hunting. However, only half an hour later, he fell to the ground with a pale face. The people who took him into the mountain were at a loss, they just remembered to carry him back to the village.

When Father Ye and Ye Yu arrived, the two Doctors Hao had already taken the pulse. Judging by their expressions, Wang Jiancheng was probably in a bad condition.

Doctor Xiao Hao asked seriously: "Why didn't you come back straight after being bitten?"

Li Dazhuang replied tremblingly when he heard the words: "Uncle Wang, he thinks it's all right."

Ye Yu knows that all doctors hate patients "thinking they're fine".

Sure enough, Dr. Hao scolded him: "I don't know what you think, didn't I say before that you can't exercise vigorously after being bitten by a poisonous snake?"

Vigorous exercise will cause the toxin to spread faster. Since the villagers went hunting in the mountains, Father Ye organized several simple teaching sessions, asking two Dr. Hao to teach the villagers how to treat common injuries, including the initial treatment after being bitten by a poisonous snake.

Li Dazhuang said with a bitter face, "We didn't know that snake was poisonous."

With these words, even Ye Yu wanted to roll his eyes.

Doctor Xiao Hao didn't want to say any more, but just asked, "Did you take poisonous blood?"

Finally, they did something. Li Dazhuang was so excited that his eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly, "I sucked it, I sucked it clean, and I didn't stop until the spit out blood was red."

"You don't have a cut in your mouth, do you?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine!"

After this question and answer, Dr. Xiao Hao took out the poisonous snake killed by them from the basket, frowned and looked at it. She had never seen such a poisonous snake before, and she didn't know if it was from their side.

Ye Yu looked over and saw that the snake was not too long, its head was triangular, not flat, its body color was mainly dark brown and tan, it was lying limply on the ground, if there were people around who were afraid of molluscs People, it is estimated that it will be frightened by its appearance.

Doctor Xiao Hao discussed with her father in a low voice, "I can't tell what kind of snake this is?"

Dr. Hao recognized it, "This is a kind of snake that is not common here, let me prescribe it."

The medicinal materials required in the prescription include Atractylodes atractylodes, Angelica dahurica, Yinhua... and even two centipedes.

Ye Yu looked a little scared.

"Decoct it with water, take one dose a day, and take it twice. At the same time, use Atractylodes atractylodes as the main decoction, and smoke the affected area." 1;

Fortunately, the poison of the snake was not too strong. Wang Jiancheng was almost healed after drinking a few doses of medicine, but there was a sequelae, he couldn't move his face. According to Ye Yu's knowledge, this sequelae seemed to be called facial paralysis.

The matter of Wang Jiancheng caused an uproar in the village. The villagers dared not be lazy anymore, and they all listened to the knowledge taught by the two Doctors Hao honestly.

At the same time, this sounded the alarm to the outsiders who defected to Yejia Village. Some people didn’t get the fields and thought that they would make a living by hunting in the future. Cold water, let them calm down gradually, or look forward to the division of fields, at least it will be safe.

From this day on, the whole village has been silent for two or three days, and it didn't become active until the soldiers under General Chu drove the sheep over on horseback.

General Chu was afraid that the sheep would die on the road, so he asked the soldiers to drive 26 sheep over. As expected, there were only [-] sheep left in Yejia Village.

Two of the sheep couldn't adapt to the weather in Yejia Village and died, and the final number was exactly the same as the one agreed.

The 24 sheep are all born between six and eight months old. Lambs of this age are the most suitable age for trading. If they are younger, they will not be weaned, and if they are older, they will not be as adaptable as they are now.

Father Ye asked someone to count the number of sheep, and when he saw that there was no problem, he put the grain into bags so that General Chu's soldiers could take it back as soon as possible.

When they left, Chu Xufeng stood on the tower and watched them go away with some melancholy. It seemed that he and his father hadn't seen each other for many years.

Ye Yu took his arm and whispered, "I'll go to Jingbian City with you in a while."

Chu Xufeng was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, his eyes suddenly softened, and then he replied, "Okay."

Because the pasture in the village has not yet been built, the flock of sheep is temporarily kept in an empty shed. They are fed by a group of children who are only seven or eight years old. These children are energetic and mischievous. If feeding the flock can consume them The energy, it is also a good thing to say.

And Ye Yu carefully compared the sheep raised by his family with a flock of sheep he had just brought back, and found that the two are not of the same breed. His sheep have straight noses, big eyes and long ears, and most importantly, breasts. The bigger one should be a dairy goat, but the one just returned has a white coat, a big body and a small head, which is a very typical goat.

According to Chu Xufeng, goats grow fat quickly, but they don’t produce much milk and are suitable for eating meat. This is just the opposite of their family. Dairy goats grow fat slowly, produce more milk, and are more suitable for milking.

Along with the goats, there was also a pack of forage seeds from General Chu, which was said to be eaten by goats, so Father Ye asked the women in the village to plant them on the shore of the lake, not sure if they could be planted.

The author says:

1: From "Congzhu Baizhi Decoction Treating Venomous Snake Bite Miraculously Effective Folk Proof"