Chapter 037: Long ago, I was filled with hatred for the Northwest
It cost fifty-four coins to buy chicken flowers, twenty-one coins to eat rice noodles, six coins to ride in an ox cart, and sixteen coins to buy pancakes, a total of ninety-seven coins, leaving one tael and three cents of silver.
The three of them got on the ox cart. Since it wasn't time yet, Old Hong just took the three of them and went back to the village early.
The chicks in the basket chirped non-stop, and they were so cute with their furry appearance.
When Old Hong heard the chickens crow, he asked curiously:
"You bought chicks."
"Well, I bought four, two roosters and two hens!" Su Wan answered immediately.
"Raising chickens is great! We can eat meat during the Lunar New Year, and they'll lay eggs in half a year. As farmers, we all look forward to a good harvest and healthy livestock. As long as there aren't any disasters, life will be good!"
Although the old man is usually serious, Su Wan and her friends often ride in his car. Their family has a scholar brother, so whenever he sees the Su brothers and sisters, he is always friendly and can even chat with them.
He is right. The common people just hope to have a better life, as long as they are free from illness and disaster.
After staggering back to the village, the brothers were all idle today. The rice couldn't be husked all at once, otherwise it would get infested with insects if stored in the warehouse for a long time. They didn't know what to do with the husks, so Su Wan bought a few chickens and used them to feed them. It was great!
The osmanthus oil she soaked in had already produced fragrance, so she picked a lot of it at one time, keeping some to make almond oil and goat milk soap, and some to make floral soap. It would be great if she could get some other flowers and use distillation to purify the floral dew.
In fact, Su Wan has always had an idea that it would be great if he could add some ingredients that are good for hair into the soap and make it into shampoo soap.
After grinding it into juice and mixing it with osmanthus almond oil, the soap made can be used to wash your hair.
Rich people used soap nuts, which had a bad smell. After washing their hair, they would apply ointment on their hair to keep the fragrance. In addition, washing hair was very complicated for the ancients, and drying hair took time. Adhering to the principle that the hair and skin on the body are inherited from the parents, washing hair was a big deal for them. They would get up early in the morning to boil water and comb their hair. Both men and women had long and thick hair, and it was very troublesome to take care of it without conditioner. Ordinary merchants used egg whites, and royal nobles used aloe vera gel. But in autumn and winter, dry hair was also a problem, and it was easy to catch cold.
Poor families could not afford soap beans and could only use rice water, settled wood ash water, or hibiscus leaves to wash their hair, and they did not have any perfume to use.
If she could make a shampoo soap that smells good, cleans well, and is priced within everyone's budget, it would definitely be very popular.
However, I have to ask my second brother about this question. He can tell me which Chinese herbal plants are good for hair. He studied medicine and should know.
Su Wan knew about Polygonum multiflorum, but it was a high-end medicinal material that ordinary people could not afford.
After thinking about it all the way, she returned home and shared the leek and pork pancakes with her brothers. When Su Yun saw that she had bought some chicks, the joy on his face could not be hidden.
After eating the pancakes, I couldn't wait to go to the mountain to cut bamboo and prepare to build a fence in the corner of the yard to raise chickens.
But before that, the six siblings put the IOU in the fire pit and burned it completely, turning it into ashes.
The debt has been paid off and everyone feels relieved. In a few days, the eldest and second brothers will return to the county, some to study and some to work.
Jiang Yu has woken up and regained consciousness. He has completely passed the critical period and is just waiting for his wounds to slowly heal. This period is a bit long. He has too many knife and sword wounds on his body. In addition, his vitality has been severely damaged after detoxification. His internal energy is disordered and needs to be recuperated. It will take at least several months to fully recover.
He can now eat slowly. After drinking rice soup for so many days and being blind, he looks like a sickly handsome man.
Su Wan bought some leek and pork pancakes, and was thinking of giving him one. At dinner, Su Mu brought in some heated pancakes and a bowl of rice porridge with minced meat for him to eat.
Now he can only eat liquid food or light food.
"Drink the medicine first, then eat something to fill your stomach!"
Jiang Yu had his eyes blindfolded. He couldn't stand strong light, but Su Mu would wash his eyes with warm water every day. Now he only felt his eyes were astringent and painful, and a little spicy at first, and he couldn't see anything.
"Thank you very much!"
The confidence in his voice was not very strong. If he was not a martial artist with high martial arts skills, an ordinary person who had suffered such a serious injury would have died long ago.
Even if a life can be saved temporarily, it may not be possible to survive without absolute medical treatment.
All I can say is that this person is lucky. Even after being poisoned, he still has medicine to counteract the toxicity. This also shows that his identity is either rich or noble, and he is definitely not a simple person.
Jiang Yu said thank you. Su Mu was not modest either. He was a man of few words and had a cold personality. Jiang Yu could feel it himself over the past few days.
He already knew that the family consisted of six siblings and their parents were not at home. They were in the land temple at the time. It was the daughter of this family who insisted on saving him, and the young man who treated him happened to know how to detoxify the Seven-Star Begonia, which saved his life.
The fourth child in the family told him about the difficult process.
Su Yun was a chatterbox. After Jiang Yu woke up, he could hear him muttering in his ear from time to time. His words were sarcastic and not very pleasant to the ear.
For example, they would inquire about his identity, ask why he was being hunted here, whether he would attract enemies and implicate his family, etc.
Jiang Yu naturally did not reveal his identity. He just said that he was a wanderer who had provoked some killers in the world. In their eyes, he was already dead and would not cause trouble again.
The medicine and food were all placed on the table, but Jiang Yu couldn't see them. He was half leaning on the couch and could only vaguely see the dim candlelight through the cloth covering him. He couldn't keep his eyes open for too long, otherwise his eyes would become dry and stinging, and he would cry.
Seeing him reaching out to explore, Su Mu took the initiative to hand him the medicine bowl.
"Thank you very much!"
The two were very polite, and he drank the bitter medicine in one gulp without even blinking an eye.
I haven't felt very hungry after drinking rice soup for so many days. Today is my first full meal.
Therefore, even if it was just a very ordinary bowl of meat porridge and an ordinary pancake, he would eat it with gusto.
After being used to tasting delicacies from land and sea, I suddenly tried the food of ordinary people and found it tasted quite good.
"What's this"
Su Mu was writing something under the candlelight. Hearing this, he looked up at him. The pancake in his hand was already half eaten.
"My little sister bought these chive pancakes and saved one for you!"
The little sister he was talking about should be the girl with a soft and sweet voice, the fragrance of osmanthus on her body, and soft and cool hands.
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