The second story of the ancient sword II

The sky is getting darker, the black and blue clouds are densely connected together, the wind lifts the curtains, bringing bursts of chill, the weather in midwinter is getting faster, the morning is still sunny, and it is about to snow in the evening.Ah Ruan added some ingredients to the charcoal stove, the sudden smoke made her eyes red and she coughed uncontrollably.Thinking of such a cold day, Yi Ze was still outside, and if he was exposed to the cold wind, he would definitely cough and wheeze, so his heart tightened.

I rode away with the guards in the morning, so I should also be riding a horse when I come back.Thinking of this, Ah Ruan put on a padded coat and got up and went outside the house. The street was dimly lit and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians, but there was still no sign of Yi Ze.

"Why haven't you come back yet?" Ah Ruan murmured to himself, with earnest eyes.Suddenly his shoulders tightened, and he felt a solid chest behind him.

"It's so cold, standing outside, what should I do if I get sick from the cold?" Yi Ze's voice sounded behind him, and Ah Ruan shivered slightly.

"Yi Ze... You, sent back?" Turning around, he saw a blue circular magic circle slowly disappearing around Yi Ze's body, and behind him was a horse wagging its tail.Ah Ruan habitually wrung her fingers, and said slowly, "You won't let me follow you to work, so I'll check at the door if you're back."

"Is Ah Ruan impatient to wait? Cough..." Yi Ze put his clenched fists to his lips and coughed slightly for a while.The skirt brought a small wind and set off a chill.

"You're coughing again." A Ruan raised his hand to touch Yi Ze's face with worry gathering between his brows, "I've lost weight from being so tired these days."

"It doesn't matter." Yi Ze smiled and led the horse to the stable, and fed it.

"Today..." Ah Ruan paused, a nice blush appeared on his face, "I want to give Yi a happy thing."

"Happy?" Yi Ze was a little confused, "Is it a surprise?"

"Hmm." Ah Ruan nodded.

"Hey, this is..." Yi Ze walked into the room and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Ah Ruan did it?"

"Yeah." Ah Ruan nodded, bowing his head in embarrassment and serving rice. "Brother Xie Yi used to let me follow suit when he was cooking, hee hee, although what he cooks is not very delicious... but what I cook... I don't know, Yi should try it!"

"Ah? This..." When Yi Ze heard that he learned the craft from Xie Yi, his head grew dizzy, and the look of anticipation on his face immediately turned into surprise.As a man of the royal family, he had never seen such a dish, but Ah Ruan's combination really made him stunned for a long time.Not to mention the novel dishes such as roasted meat with apples, stewed onions and grapes, as well as the unheard of and never-before-seen 'excellent products' such as roasted tofu with ginseng.The color is not bad when matched, but the knife skill is really...

"Yi doesn't like it?" Under his strange gaze, Ah Ruan put some 'very beautiful dishes' into his bowl. "Eat it!"

"Oh, I like it, I like it." Yi Ze took his eyes away from her and stared at the dishes in the bowl for a while, "This taste... this taste... really..." Yi Ze stuttered, his heart pounding. It's a sticking point, and it's not considered unpalatable, but it seems that it has nothing to do with delicious food.

"What is it?"

"... I can't compliment you..."

"what does it mean?"

"It means delicious." Yi smiled, "Ah Ruan is really better than blue, and it is much more delicious than what Senior Xie made..."

"Then... that means it's not as delicious as Xiao Yezi's. Let him teach me when he comes over next time." Ah Ruan twisted her fingers unwillingly.

While talking, a rustling sound outside caught Yi Ze's attention.He put down the bowls and chopsticks, walked to the door immediately, and was stunned at the heavy snow all over the sky.

"Hey, it's snowing." Ah Ruan followed, "What is Yi Ze thinking?"

"The Weihe River is freezing, so it's not easy to intercept and divert water, and the pipeline will probably be frozen." Yi Ze looked worriedly at the snowflakes outside.

"Does it mean that the victims will have no water to drink again?" Ah Ruan shook Yi Ze's big hand.

"Yes."

"Yi, don't worry, I have a solution." Ah Ruan said confidently.

"You are not allowed to use spiritual power." Yi Ze patted Ah Ruan's head.

"This doesn't require spiritual power, brother Xie Yi taught me this. But you have to take me with you tomorrow." Ah Ruan blinked.

After a night of retouching, the city of Chang'an is already as bright as a silver city, and all the gray pavilions and pavilions in the past are covered with a layer of crystal white jade.

"Let's go." Yi Ze tightened Ah Ruan's collar, "Don't run around, just follow me obediently."

"Why am I following you? Isn't it okay for you to follow me?" A Ruan was a little dissatisfied.

"Okay, whatever is fine, as long as it doesn't get lost again."

"By the way, when Yi Ze passes by the pharmacy, let's go buy some medicine."

"...Okay." Yi Ze paused for a moment, comprehended something from A Ruan's quirky eyes, and stopped asking.

The Baicao Hall exudes a strong fragrance of medicine, and a young man is grinding the medicine.

"I want two catties of alum." A Ruan said to the boy.

"There are so many, but it will poison people to death!" The boy stopped his work, with surprise in his eyes.

"I..." Ah Ruan faltered and looked at Yi Ze.

"Just bring it. If you are worried, how about I make a written proof?" Yi Ze said, looking at A Ruan with a more understanding look, he had guessed a little bit what this girl was going to do.

"Sell, sell..." The boy responded.

"By the way, I also want some herbs." A Ruan thought for a while, resting his chin, "Cinnamon twigs, Poria cocos, Chinese yam, Atractylodes macrocephala, roasted licorice, dendrobium, Polygonatum... well, give me some of these , anyway, there are many people who use it, so let’s make a big bag of each.”

"Ah..." The boy was so startled that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time. He had never seen such a drug buyer.Yi Ze touched his forehead helplessly.

Satisfied, he left the pharmacy, and Yi Ze looked like a salesman, carrying a dozen packages, large and small, between his hands.

Teleported to the poor alley, Xuanmu and the others have already distributed the relief food allocated by the state treasury.Two people gave out, and the other three maintained order. Everyone lined up in order, and there was no more confusion when Li Kang came to provide relief.In the cold wind, the victims were all wearing very thin clothes, shivering uncontrollably.

At the end of the line was an emaciated old man, with snowflakes gathering on his silver hair, his trousers were like worn-out flags, hanging loosely on his legs and swinging in the wind, his trembling hands always wanted to grab something.Suddenly, his thin body swayed and fell down all at once.

"Old man..." Ah Ruan shouted, and was about to go over to have a look, when suddenly Wuyi appeared from nowhere, squatted down and helped the old man up.

"Brother Le." Yi Ze and A Ruan walked over.

"Yi... Yi Ze, fairy sister..." It's like carrying the old man on his back, "Yi Ze... you have a big bag and a small bag... where did you go to the market?"

"Three years are coming, and your time to go to the market is not far away." Yi Ze couldn't help laughing, "Let's go, let's send the old man home first."

"My food... my food..." The old man on his back woke up, blinked his cloudy eyes, and murmured uncontrollably.

"Don't worry...they will bring you the food and send it home directly." Wuyi said with some difficulty as she stepped on the thick snow under her feet.The three of them arrived at the old man's house while chatting.

"Old man, let me use your big pot." A Ruan picked up the big iron pot that had been empty on the stove for a long time and ran out the door, "I'll try to see if the water produced in this way is good or not."

Ah Ruan found an open space and used a spatula to shovel up a layer of pure white snow on top, filled a big pot, and ran back satisfied.

"Little Yezi, hurry up, light the fire for me." A Ruan placed the cauldron on the stove.

"Oh, it turns out that Sister Fairy is going to boil snow water for the victims here!" Wuyi immediately said what A Ruan was going to do.

"It's not that simple! Hmph—" Ah Ruan hugged his shoulders.

When the fire came up, the snow in the pot quickly melted, and large and small bubbles gathered on the water surface, forming a layer of unsightly foam. "Hey, I said Little Leaf, do you drink this kind of water?" A Ruan ordered Wuyi to stop the fire, and pointed to the somewhat dirty water surface.

"Oh, this... you'd better give it to Yi Ze to drink." Wu Yi looked at the muddy pot of water, scratched his head and gave Yi Ze a pleading look, as if to say, your wife really can't tell.

"This way..." Ah Ruan picked up the water ladle and skimmed off the layer of froth on the top, "Put the alum in it and let it stand for an hour. After that, dirt will settle underneath, so that the water on top can be drunk." !"

"Sure enough." Wuyi picked up the alum and looked at it, "I might use it if I buy some and bring it back to the desert."

"You can't put too much of this. Brother Xie Yi used to collect snow water every winter, and then save it for making tea in summer. But the snow water for making tea doesn't use this method, but is filtered with cloth layer by layer." Ah Ruan said rather proudly.

"Look, the water is much clearer than before." A Ruan lowered his head and looked carefully at the lukewarm water in the pot, "When the water is ready to drink, we need to boil it again, so that we won't get stomach upset after boiling it." .”

"This method is wonderful." Yi Ze walked over, "Ah Ruan is really smart."

"Wow, no way... Brother Xie Yi is smart." A Ruan twisted his temple hair a little embarrassedly. "By the way, Yi Ze, these medicines can be divided into small packets and sent to each family. Guizhi, warms the body; Poria cocos, dampness and invigorating the spleen; Chinese yam, nourishes yin and kidney; roasted licorice, neutralizes the medicinal properties; Polygonatum odoratum, Polygonatum odoratum... ...promoting body fluid and nourishing the lungs... Well, it's not bitter anyway, drinking it can warm you up and cure diarrhea."

"Sister Fairy, do you actually know medicine?" Wuyi's eyes flashed with surprise, while Yi Ze's eyes were full of relief.

"Senior Xie also taught you?" Yi Ze began to pack the medicinal materials with a smile.

"Well, Brother Xie Yi used to buy these to distribute to the poor around every winter, and I always went with him. He would repeat these medicinal properties many times, so I just remembered..."

The heavy snow in winter brought a long and severe cold, but these young people brought endless warmth to the people in the poor alleys.The barbarians are no different from being close to the people, and quickly won the support of the vast number of poor people, accumulating extensive popular power for the future.