Chapter 30: Plums' Magical Uses

Zhou Huaian glanced at Yang Chunyan in the courtyard and said, "Well! Chunyan is capable. If it weren't for her, I would have been seriously ill."

"You son of a bitch." Grandpa Zhou hit him with his pipe. "I thought you didn't understand, but you're pretending to be confused."

Zhou Huaian rubbed his head, "Of course I understand, otherwise why would I let her order me around." Even when she didn't let me touch her at night, I didn't even fart.

Mr. Zhou rolled his eyes at him and said, "You are so honest, but you don't have any money left in your pocket?"

Zhou Huaian smiled innocently, "No more, I'll have more after I sell the herbs tomorrow."

Mr. Zhou searched his pockets for fifty cents, stuffed it into his pocket, lowered his voice, and whispered, "Here, man, what's the use of having an empty pocket!"

Although the old man often scolded him, he often subsidized him in private.

Zhou Huaian looked at the money in his hand and suddenly felt it was a little hot, so he quickly handed it back to him, "Grandpa, I'm already married, and people will laugh at me if I ask for your money. I'll be rich tomorrow when I sell herbs."

Mr. Zhou nodded with satisfaction and put the money back into his pocket. "Follow your wife and save more money. You have been married for half a year. It won't be long before you have a baby." He took a puff of his cigarette. "Babies are greedy and want money for everything."

Others' wives follow their husbands, but my grandson is so different... Oh! I'm afraid I won't have to worry about him until the day I lie in the coffin.

"Don't worry. If there's another child like me, it's better for Chunyan and I to live alone. It'll be more comfortable."

"You son of a bitch, you don't even want to have a baby, why did your mom give birth to you? I'll beat you to death~"

Old man Zhou raised his pipe and hit him. Zhou Huaian covered his head and ran away, but he didn't dare to run faster for fear that the old man would fall.

No one in the yard, regardless of age, even raised their heads, as they were used to such scenes.

Mr. Zhou chased Zhou Huaian, grabbed his ear, switched to CCTV-6, and whispered in his ear: "You son of a bitch, you don't want to have a baby, are you looking for a mistress outside?"

Zhou Huaian made a bitter face, "Master, what are you thinking? Look at those girls in the team, which one is as pretty as my Chunyan? As capable as her?" He wailed in his heart, my wife doesn't even allow me to touch her, how can I give birth to a child alone?

"Just keep it in mind. I'm telling you, only your original wife is willing to stay with you until old age." Old Master Zhou looked at his lower body, "Behave yourself."

Zhou Huaian looked at the old man with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, I'll take care of it. I'll help you go back to sleep."

Yang Chunyan looked at Zhou Huaian who was helping the old man back to the house to rest, put the rolled Polygonum multiflorum vines into a backpack, and spread them out under the eaves to dry.

Zhang Xiuxiang came over with a basket of plums. "Come and eat some plums. It got hot early this year, and there are plums all over the ground. I asked my second child to climb up and pick a basket of plums. They are ready to eat, and they are sweet and crisp."

Li Qiuyue picked up two, rubbed them with her hands, gently broke them into two pieces, and put one piece in her mouth. "Hmm, so sweet! I think other plums are not as delicious as ours."

"I saw a small tree sprouting up next to it. I'll dig it up and plant it when the new house is built."

After hearing this, Yang Chunyan suddenly remembered that in her previous life, Li Qiuyue really dug up that small tree and planted it.

I don’t know if it’s because of the different soil or something else, but the plums from the plum tree that I dug up and planted were so sour that they made your teeth hurt. They were like two different varieties from the two trees in the old house.

The grapes from her family were grafted from the first and second wives' families, and tasted pretty good.

Zhang Xiuxiang nodded, "Yeah! I saw it too." She looked at Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan, take a break. I'll help you eat."

"It's finished drying." Yang Chunyan clapped her hands, took two, rubbed them and started eating. It was indeed the same taste!

Zhang Xiuxiang looked at the two with disdain, "They are just wild basil, you eat them without even washing them."

Li Qiuyue: "It's not clean, but you won't get sick if you eat it."

"Some of them were picked up from the ground. If they were crawled by centipedes, they would be poisonous! I'll wash them first before you eat them." Zhang Xiuxiang said as she poured a bucket of water into a wooden basin, put the plums in it and rubbed them a few times, "Eat!"

Li Qiuyue shook her head. "No, I find that every time I eat too many plums, I get hungry very quickly."

Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Plums can help digestion."

The old people said that eating plums on the Dragon Boat Festival would prevent sores. Doctor Xiao Wang said that eating plums has many benefits. It can improve anemia and dizziness, promote gastrointestinal motility and aid digestion...it also has the effect of beautifying and lubricating the skin.

It is said that grinding plum kernels into powder and washing your face with it can make your complexion moisturized, and mixing it with egg white and applying it on your face can also remove acne and dark spots.

But eating too much is bad for your health and can cause you to get irritated.

Li Qiuyue suddenly realized, "No wonder I get hungry so quickly!"

Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "It's because there's less fat in my stomach."

Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "I'll go get some water to take a shower. I feel uncomfortable because of the sweat on my body."

"We also need to wake up some kids to sleep."

Yang Chunyan grabbed a few plums and returned to the room. Seeing Zhou Huaian sleeping soundly with his arms around the quilt, she placed the plums on the cabinet beside the bed, drove away the mosquitoes in the net, folded the mosquito net, and went to the kitchen to get hot water to wash her body.

When he walked into the kitchen, he saw Zhou's mother there, and said with a smile, "Mom, are you scooping hot water too?"

"Yes!" Zhou's mother said with a smile, "I heard from your grandfather that you promised Huai'an to give him 20% of the herbs you sold?"

If you want a horse to run faster, you need to feed it more grass.

"Yes." Yang Chunyan looked at her and said embarrassedly, "Mom, after I sell herbs tomorrow, I want to go catch some lazy cicadas with Huai'an and fry them. Lazy cicadas are nutritious and good for the body."

Zhou's mother thought that the rapeseed distributed this year had not been used to press oil yet, and she planted more than ten acres of rapeseed on the mountain land allocated after the household contract responsibility system, so there would be enough rapeseed oil this year.

Now there is still a lot of money at home, and thinking of this, she became more generous, "Okay, go catch more tomorrow and bring them back, and fry them to give everyone a snack."

Yang Chunyan said gratefully: "Thank you, Mom!"

"Why are you being so polite to me?" Zhou's mother gave her a reproachful look, then thought for a moment and warned her again, "Keep a close eye on Huai'an and don't let him hang out with Cai Ermei and her gang."

"I understand." Yang Chunyan agreed and said a little embarrassedly: "Today on the mountain, I made a bet with him. As long as you promise me to use a flashlight to catch lazy cicadas and allow us to fry them with rapeseed oil, he will follow me to the mountain to dig herbs for a month."

Zhou's mother didn't expect that the two of them had made a bet. Now she was more willing to support Yang Chunyan unconditionally. "I'll buy two new batteries tomorrow. You can use them."

"Yeah! Thank you, Mom! I'm going to go back first, and you should go to bed early too."

"Okay, I'll bring an ash basin over to Grandpa, because he needs to spit at night."

"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan walked back with the hot water.

In her previous life, she knew that her parents-in-law were truly filial to her grandfather. Even though the food and accommodation in the second room were not as good as those in the first room, her grandfather still liked to live in the second room.

Later, my grandfather fell to his death, and my mother-in-law has always felt guilty about it.

After my father-in-law passed away, my mother-in-law and I were old and our children and grandchildren were very filial to us. It really was like the old saying goes: Water drips from the eaves into the old nest.

I checked Baidu and found that it is true that food supplements are not as good as medicine supplements. It happened that there were a lot of plums these days. After eating some, I found that eating too much did cause internal heat.

Plums are mild in nature, sweet and sour in taste; they enter the liver and kidney meridians. They have the effects of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, clearing the liver and removing heat, and promoting diuresis; they are mainly used to treat yin deficiency and internal heat, bone steaming and tuberculosis, thirst and drinking, liver and gallbladder dampness and heat, ascites, and urinary problems. 1. Promoting digestion Plums can promote the secretion of gastric acid and gastric digestive enzymes, and increase gastrointestinal motility. Therefore, eating plums can promote digestion and increase appetite. They are a good food therapy for people with gastric acid deficiency, fullness after eating, and constipation. 2. Clearing the liver and promoting diuresis is very beneficial for the treatment of ascites due to liver cirrhosis. 3. Lowering blood pressure, promoting catharsis, and suppressing cough can speed up intestinal motility and promote the discharge of dry stools. It also has the effect of relieving cough and removing phlegm. 4. It can "remove powder residue and dark spots" and "make the face shiny" for beauty and skin care. It is effective for sweat spots and dark spots on the face. Suitable for people: People with deficiency of qi and blood, sallow complexion and thin muscles, palpitations and shortness of breath

Contraindications: People with Qi deficiency or phlegm-dampness constitution

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