Defeat natural disasters with farming

Fortunately, the whole night was calm, and Ye Yu was quite grateful when she woke up. It was a blessing that they could go back safely.

When going uphill, Ye Hai and Tang Youyan were the first to go up. After they went up, Ye Yu tied the rice to the rope, and as the people above pulled the rope up vigorously, all the rice was sent up along the rope soon.

Besides the rice, there were several baskets of fruits and medicinal materials. These things were really heavy. When the last basket of lemons was pulled up, Ye Yu saw that the two thick hemp ropes were about to be worn out.

"Let's go." Chu Xufeng said.

After speaking, he wrapped his arms around Ye Yu's waist, pulled the rope with one hand, used the protruding stones on the slope as a pedal, and jumped onto the slope three or two times. Ye Yu almost didn't realize it until he stepped on the solid ground. A little more realism.

After confirming that they hadn't pulled anything down, they went to find the three Zhuzi, but what people didn't expect was that when they went to the cave, they saw Hu Chun, one of the three, lying dying on the bedding, with wounds all over his body, bandaged Blood oozes from the white cloth.

Ye Yu was shocked all of a sudden.

Hu Chun is also a hunter in Xiaojiu Xing's village, and his hunting skills are among the best. He is also tall and big, standing there like a bear. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have suffered such a serious injury.

When Dr. Chen saw the wounded, he took the medicine box and went over to check his pulse.

Ye Yu took this time to ask Zhuzi what happened.

Zhuzi rubbed his head in frustration, sighed and said, "It's all my fault. Although we brought pancakes and sweet potatoes, our hands got itchy while we waited. It's okay to take turns to go hunting. Luckily, we managed to catch two of them on the first day." A chicken, but it died the next day. Chunzi was unlucky, and happened to meet a blind lone wolf. He climbed up a tree to hide, but the animal didn't let him go, and kept hitting his head against the tree. , No matter how thick the tree was, it couldn't withstand such a strong impact, the tree broke directly, and Chunzi fell from the tree, but fortunately we realized something was wrong and rushed over, so we rescued him from the wolf's mouth."

Jiang Ying, who was standing on the other side, couldn't help but interjected at this time: "That wolf hit the tree and hit his own head, and he didn't know what he was trying to do."

After Ye Yu listened to their words, he looked around for a week, and saw that the wild wolf had been skinned by them, cut into pieces and frozen in the basket. He looked at the wolf skin hanging out to dry, and estimated that the wolf's Shouldn't be too small.

"Wait for Doctor Chen's diagnosis and treatment results first."

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent, and surrounded Dr. Chen and Hu Chun worriedly.

Doctor Chen's face became more and more serious, and he moved his hand away and first ordered Ye Hai to take out the panax notoginseng in the basket and grind it into powder.

Then he said: "The external injury on the body is fine, just apply Sanqi powder to stop the bleeding. As for the internal injury, I have to drink medicine to recuperate, but now I am short of medicinal materials." Almost all the medicines he brought It's for trauma.

Ye Yu asked solemnly, "What medicinal materials do you need?"

"Rhubarb, bupleurum, peach kernel, melon, licorice, pangolin, safflower." Doctor Chen counted them one by one. "It's not extremely rare, in fact, we have them all in our village."

These are the medicinal materials needed for a prescription called "Fuyuan Huoxue Decoction". The curative effect is to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, soothe the liver and dredge the collaterals, which is suitable for Hu Chun's current condition.

Ye Yu thought for a while, "Why don't we find someone to go back to the village?"

At this time Ning Rong volunteered and said: "I am traveling fast, I will go back, and it will take at most a day and a night to go back and forth."

"Okay, Brother Ning, please go back." Ye Yu immediately agreed, "Be careful on the road."

He put the remaining pancakes and a water bag into the bag and asked Ning Rong to take it with him.

After he left, Dr. Chen mixed the ground Panax notoginseng powder with other medicinal powders and smeared it on Hu Chun's wound, and then wrapped it with a white cloth. The effect was remarkable, at least the bleeding basically stopped .

Although there is a shortage of medicinal materials now, Dr. Chen still picked out some usable decoctions and fed them to Hu Chun who was still unconscious.

Seeing that Hu Chun's expression had calmed down a bit, Ye Yu breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he could last until Ning Rong came back.

He saw a pile of rice in the basket in a blink of an eye, and couldn't help frowning. These rice still had to be processed, and it wouldn't be a problem to keep them here all the time.

So he asked Dr. Chen again, "How long will Uncle Hu need to rest? When will he be able to leave for the village?"

Doctor Chen thought for a while and replied: "I'm afraid it will take a while, maybe seven or eight days at the earliest, and half a month at the slowest."

The time is indeed not short.

At this time, Xiaojiu Xing said: "How about brother Yu, you can take the rice back to the village first, and Jiang Ying and I will stay and take care of him."

Doctor Chen said, "I'll stay too."

For the time being, it seems that this is the only way to go, Ye Yu sighed deeply.

The few people who returned to the village took action again. They pressed and tied the rice on the cart, which was pulled by horses and donkeys. Several large baskets of fruit were also placed on it. The weight was so heavy that the cart sank.

Ye Hai fed some bean cakes to the donkeys and horses, stroked their heads and said, "Thank you for your hard work. You can have a good rest after returning to the village."

Ma Xier cried twice, bowed his head and ate the bean cake.

Speaking of which, the donkeys and horses in the village have also changed a lot. The donkeys are alright, but they are stronger, and the horses are different. They have increased in size and endurance, and each can carry seven or eight hundred catties. s things.

On the way back, Ye Yu and his group didn't stop. They even ate hard pancakes and boiled a pot of water. It took very little time, so they spent nearly one-third less time than when they came. .

At this time, Ning Rong had already left with the necessary medicinal materials. They didn't bump into each other, maybe they happened to miss each other on the road. After all, Ning Rong is a good at knowing the way, with a natural sense of direction, and it is impossible to go the wrong way.

Father Ye looked at Ye Yu carefully and saw that he was not injured, but his face was a little tired, so he began to care about others.

"How is Hu Chun?"

"He fell from the tree and suffered internal injuries and needs to rest, so Dr. Chen and the others stayed there to take care of him. His condition is stable for the time being, as long as Brother Ning can bring the medicinal materials there in time." Ye Yu said.

Father Ye heaved a sigh of relief, "That's good."

Then he saw the rice on the cart pulled by the donkey and asked, "Is this glutinous rice?"

Ye Yu nodded, "That's right, but it's been too long, so I have to clean it up quickly."

Hu Chun's wife came over while they were free, holding an egg in her hand, and asked Ye Yu about Hu Chun's situation.

Ye Yu confiscated the eggs, and only told her that Uncle Hu should be safe for life.

She left with gratitude, and left the eggs behind when she left, no matter what Ye Mu called her, she didn't look back.

"Keep it, it can be regarded as a comfort to her." Father Ye said.

Ye Yu sighed secretly. Aunt Hu didn't want Uncle Hu to take on such a dangerous task again, and he could understand that, after all, their youngest son was just born this year.

Ye Yu just thought about it for a while and temporarily put the matter behind him, he still had to deal with Nuomi.

The process is basically the same as that of rice, you only need to spread it out to dry, remove impurities and then shell it.

However, the weather has been getting colder and colder recently. Although there is no snow or rain, and the sun is shining brightly, the water vapor is very heavy, and the moisture in the rice is difficult to dry. They have been drying for seven or eight days. When the sun is almost dry, you can start shelling.

Just at this time, Uncle Xing and the others also took Hu Chun back to the village. When he came back, Hu Chun was carried back lying on a wooden board, but his face was already bloody.

On the contrary, Dr. Chen's complexion was a little pale from exhaustion, "Fortunately, he didn't have any persistent illnesses. As long as he takes good care of himself recently, he will be back to normal in about a month."

Hu Chun's daughter-in-law was extremely grateful and thanked her repeatedly. After returning home, she specially asked her son to give Dr. Chen two live chickens as a thank you gift.

Dr. Chen's family did not refuse, mainly because two chickens are not considered expensive things, and they are not guilty of accepting them.

And Ye Yu didn't really let go of his heart until he heard what Dr. Chen said, as long as he is fine.

Next, he concentrated on shelling the glutinous rice. The shelling used in his village is a kind of stone mortar, which is quite simple to make. It only needs a wrist-thick wooden mortar and a stone mortar made of large stones. The stone mortar The method is not troublesome, but it is tiring. You need to use a chisel to hollow out a whole big rock, and the shape is similar to wine poison.

They put the rice into a stone mortar, pound the pestle down until the bran is peeled off from the glutinous rice, and pass it through a sieve again.

The pounded glutinous rice was slender. Ye Yu looked at it and felt that the quality was average, probably because the time of harvesting was wrong, and the moisture in the rice was not dried to the optimum level.

But no matter what, this is glutinous rice. Ye Yu saved some seeds and wanted to try planting them next year.

Then he changed some glutinous rice back and wanted to make some glutinous rice pumpkin cakes.

There are two or three pumpkins left at home, and they are all so big that Ye Yu needs both hands to hold them.

Once the swollen pumpkin belly is cut open, the inside is full of pumpkin flesh, with pumpkin seeds in the middle. After cleaning the pumpkin seeds, put them aside first, and stir fry them later to eat them.

Mother Ye cut the pumpkin pulp into pieces, steamed it on the steamer, and then mashed it into puree, poured boiled goat milk and sugar, while Ye Yu sat on the side and mashed the glutinous rice into powder, mixed it into the pumpkin puree, and mixed it into puree. Knead the dough.

After the dough was cut into small pieces, Ye Yu applied a layer of walnut oil on his hands, kneaded the small pieces and flattened them into round cakes.If you have sesame seeds at home, you can press the front and back sides of the round cakes into the sesame seeds, which will add a bit of refreshment. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have them, the simple glutinous rice pumpkin cake is already delicious.

The round cakes are fried in the pan, and the two sides gradually become golden, and the rich pumpkin aroma is released at this time.

Ye Yu took a sip, the taste was unusually soft and waxy, even sticky to the teeth, the sweetness of the pumpkin and the sweetness of the goat's milk mixed together, sweet from the mouth to the bottom of the heart.

The glutinous rice pumpkin pie is also very good-looking. It is golden yellow when it comes out of the pan, and it turns into the orange color of pumpkin after it cools down a little.

He divided the pumpkin pie into two portions for his grandma and Chu Xufeng. When he got home, he saw snowflakes falling in the sky again. It was just a little snow at first, and it melted before it hit the ground, leaving only little wet marks. Later, it became heavier and heavier, and the snow like goose feathers gradually covered the entire land, covering everything under the snow layer.