Chapter 60: Your Face

Old honeycomb that is more than three years old is still a rare Chinese medicinal material.

The main reason is that there are a large number of bee cocoons in the old honeycomb.

These cocoon skins are an important source of its medicinal value. When used as medicine, it has the effects of anti-inflammatory, analgesic, increasing immunity, and relaxing muscles and promoting blood circulation...

The beeswax of new honeycomb will break into pieces with a light pinch because it is softer and the honey is easier to squeeze out.

After Zhou Huaian finished squeezing out the honey, he said to Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, what should we do with these honeycombs that have been squeezed out of honey?"

Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "Put the honeycomb separately and send it to the pharmacy for Doctor Wang to make it himself tomorrow."

Zhou Huaian nodded, "Do you have any gauze at home? There are still some impurities in the honey, I want to filter it again."

"Yes, I'll get it for you!" Yang Chunyan washed her hands, went back to the room, took out a piece of gauze, and handed it to Zhou Huaian, "Do you want my help?"

Zhou Huaian shook his head, "No need, I can just put the colander on it to filter it."

Yang Chunyan nodded, went back and started to clean and select the clean half of the flower with Zhao Huifang and the other two.

The four people were divided into two teams, two of them washed it, and the other two cut it into short sections with a guillotine, and spread it out to dry in large and small winnowing baskets.

Li Qiuyue filled the last dustpan and frowned, "Looks like I need to get a cool mat and spread it on the steps before I can dry it out!"

"I'll get it!" Zhang Xiuxiang strode back into the house, brought out a cool mat, spread it on the eaves, and spread the remaining half of the flower on the mat to dry.

Zhao Huifang whispered to Yang Chunyan: "I am a little inconvenient, Qiuyue will go to Ning'an with you tomorrow."

Yang Chunyan understood immediately, "Is it necessary? Is it not on time?"

“It’s a bit messy!”

"When can I go to Ning'an to see Doctor Wang and get some Chinese medicine for treatment?"

"Okay!" Zhao Huifang smiled bitterly, "Before my family was in financial difficulty, I kept putting it off."

Yang Chunyan patted her shoulder and said, "Let's go and have a look after a while."

After Zhou's mother fed the pigs, Zhou Huaian gave her the remaining honey combs, "Mom, put these in a jar and mix them with water to drink."

Seeing a large piece of capped honey in the porcelain basin, Zhou's mother felt a little distressed. "So much! You are a prodigal son. Why don't you sell it for money?"

"Money, money, money, you only know how to make money! You make money for food, you don't eat what you pay for, do you want to buy it with money to eat?"

Zhou Huaian said as he reached out to take back the porcelain basin, "Forget it, give it back to me and I'll sell it for two more bucks!"

"Get out of the way! Pah~" Zhou's mother slapped his hand, "You son of a bitch, do you think I don't know how to be greedy?" After saying that, she angrily carried the porcelain basin to the kitchen.

Zhou Huaian curled his lips and gave up the idea of ​​eating fried bee pupae. He squeezed the honey out of the gauze, brought the honey and beeswax back to the room and placed them on the cabinet. He went out to the backyard to find a bamboo strip, made a straw stool, split it and sharpened it to use for picking bee pupae tomorrow.

Yang Chunyan and a few others hung out all the herbs and cleaned the yard. They saw that the eaves were filled with Houttuynia cordata and Dioscorea paniculata hanging out to dry.

Mother Zhou put the honey comb out and said to Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, I put the herbs that were dried on the mat into the basket, as well as the old wormwood and mint. If you want me to take them out for you."

"Okay, get me another sack, pour out half of the flowers and put them in the sack, and keep the old mugwort and mint for when I have time to make mosquito coils."

"OK!"

"Aunt, please make mosquito coils earlier! There are so many mosquitoes near the toilet that they bit my butt." Zhou Jiaming came back from the toilet while scratching his butt.

"Go pick some Panax notoginseng leaves, mash them up and apply them on your butt, and the itching will go away in a while!"

"Oh! I'll try it." Zhou Jiaming scratched his butt and ran to the backyard.

Yang Chunyan picked up the elm bark drying on the windowsill, took a look at it and thought that it should be dry after being exposed to the sun for another day, so she would come back early the day after tomorrow to start work.

After a while, Zhou Jiaming came back from the backyard and said to Yang Chunyan, "Aunt, grandma rubbed Tu Sanqi on me, and it really doesn't itch anymore."

Zhao Huifang smiled and patted him, "Okay, take your brothers and sisters to fetch water to wash their faces and feet and go to sleep, otherwise you won't be able to wake up tomorrow."

Zhou Jialiang: "Wait a minute, our roasted potatoes will be ready soon!"

Zhao Huifang then saw several children sitting around the fire. "How long have you been stuffing the potatoes in there? Have you taken them out and looked at them?"

Zhou Xiaoqian pointed at the old man who was sleeping on the chair holding Zhou Xiaolin in his arms, "The grandfather put it in for us and said it will be cooked in a while."

"Come, I'll help you get them out." Zhou Huaian came over with a pair of tongs and dug out a dozen black lumps from the fire. "Hehe, there are also taro. Let's see if they are cooked."

Zhou Jiaming reached out and pressed it quickly, "It's cooked, you can eat it!"

Zhou Jialiang picked one up and threw it on the ground, pinching his ears with his hands, "It's so hot!"

Zhou Huaian gloated, "You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Wait a minute, no one will snatch it from you!"

Zhou Jialiang curled his lips, "Dad, you came here to wait until we dig out potatoes, and you dare to say you don't want to eat?"

"I don't want to eat the black and rotten potatoes you cooked." Zhou Huaian glanced at him, "Humph! Don't even think about eating the mint candies I bought tomorrow!"

Zhou Jialiang was in a desperate situation. He handed over the potatoes with a flattering smile on his face, "Dad, eat them. If they're not enough, I'll cook more tomorrow!"

"That's more like it." Zhou Huaian rubbed him proudly, "Be good, Dad will buy you mints tomorrow!"

Zhou Xiaoqian also handed over a potato, "Dad, you eat it. I've peeled the potato for you."

"good!"

Zhou Xiaoru: "Dad, the roasted taro is delicious too!"

"Go get some bean paste to dip it in, it will taste even better!" Zhou Huaian crossed his legs with a look of enjoyment on his face. He thought that raising a few children was not a bad thing, at least there would be someone to serve him tea and water.

"I'll go get it!" Zhou Jialiang turned around and ran towards the kitchen.

"You're such a grown-up, yet you're fighting for food with a kid of just a few years old. How shameless!" Old Master Zhou rolled his eyes at him, handed Zhou Xiaolin to Li Qiuyue, and went into the house to sleep.

Zhao Huifang and the others also found it unbearable to watch. The child they had raised with great effort had never been served like this before!

They all quickened their hands at the same time, and in no time they finished the work and carried away those greedy kids.

Yang Chunyan took a look and leaned back on Zhou Huaian on the recliner, "Huaian, go push the chicken cart out, we'll tie up the bamboo basket, and we'll leave tomorrow morning after we eat."

Zhou Huaian stood up lazily and looked at her, "The backyard is dark, let's go push it together."

"Mom and the old man are cutting bamboo poles in the backyard, just go ahead."

"You sit down for a while, I'll just squat in the toilet." Zhou Huaian ran away with a clatter.

Yang Chunyan nodded, sat down and rubbed her sore calves, and felt that she could not open her eyes.

At this time, Zhou Huairong and his three brothers walked into the yard carrying lanterns and sacks, "Brother, how many eels did you catch tonight?"

Zhou Huairong smiled naively and said, "Today there are not as many eels as last night, but Lazy Chan still caught a few pounds."

Mother Zhou came over holding a bamboo pole and asked, "Big brother, have you ever been to the corn field?"

"We looked, but we didn't see anyone so we went to shoot the eels."

The three brothers poured the eels in the basket into the bucket, which added up to more than twenty pounds in two nights.

(End of this chapter)