Chapter 13 This girl knows medicine

Yin Huaixi was also slightly shocked.

Now she realized that the village chief was taking care of herself and her elder brother.

The quarry was very tiring, and if one person from each family had to go, then her eldest brother would have to go, and she would have to go too, leaving only her eldest sister-in-law and two girls at home. She didn't even dare to think about that life.

Fortunately, fortunately...

"Village Chief, you are being unfair! Why didn't you tell us about the quarry when we hadn't separated yet?!"

Old Lady Cai was almost driven crazy. The only men who could take charge of her family were the eldest, second, third, and second son Wen Sheng and Wen Yi. There were only five healthy men in the family, and all five of them were going to die at once. Who could bear it?

"I've said it before, it's up to you whether you want to settle it publicly or privately. If you regret it, I'll send you to the government office now. Originally, I only wanted you to serve the Yin family for two months, and if you continue to make trouble, you will serve for a year."

The old village chief didn't give me face. He really didn't have any good feelings towards the Cai family. You said you were exiled, how nice it would be to live a peaceful life in the village, like the Yin and Zhou families who are honest and hardworking, and I will take care of them.

When Mrs. Cai saw that she couldn't convince the village chief, she immediately grabbed her three daughters-in-law and ran to Yin Huaixi, kneeling and crying. She apologized loudly and begged her to give her a way out.

Yin Huaixi was very happy to have someone do the labor for her family. She would never forgive the Cai family. The village chief had already witnessed the theft, so it was meaningless for her to stay. She said hello to the village chief and left quickly with her brother.

Let the old village chief worry about the quarry matters. We don’t need to send anyone from our own family anyway.

This time, the lost item turned out to be a pleasant surprise. The brother and sister went home with smiles on their faces, and Song Wenhui was no longer distressed when she told her about it.

My husband is a scholar, how can he bear the work in the quarry? My younger sister is also weak, she absolutely cannot go.

The whole family was in a good mood, but Jiang Wan came out and poured cold water on them.

"Mother, didn't the village chief say that we can only take over for two months? I'm afraid we will need someone after two months."

Yin Huaixi nodded, but she didn't look nervous at all.

"Your uncle secretly asked the village chief's son, and he said that this kind of labor can be exempted by paying money, one or two taels of silver per person per month."

The family is poor now, but that is just the beginning, and everything has to be done from scratch. Yin Huaixi thinks that with his medical skills and his daughter's sea-catching skills, he will definitely be able to earn two taels of silver in two months. Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for a time traveler.

"Okay, let's put the money aside for now. The house smells so good. What's cooking? I'm so hungry."

Speaking of food, everyone perked up again.

The air was filled with the aroma of burnt food, which made people drool.

Song Wenhui went into the stove with a smile and took out the crabs and conches from the stove.

"This smell is all the smell of crabs and conches. Wanwan broke one for me just now when you were not at home. It tastes really good."

A pile of crabs and conches wrapped in wood ash looked dirty, but the whole family didn't mind. They picked them up one by one and started eating.

Anyway, you will wash your hands and face after eating, so there is no need to be so particular about the delicious food.

The adults took the crabs and started to eat them. Jiang Wan and Yin Ning preferred the conch. They pried out a large piece of meat with a bamboo stick. It tasted a bit salty from the seawater and a bit burnt from the roasting. It was fragrant and chewy in the mouth. With their appetite, three or four conchs and a bowl of clam soup would be enough.

"This clam soup tastes a bit fishy at first, but it tastes really good after you drink more. The meat is a bit small, because the shell is so heavy and there is only a little bit of it after opening. If we take out the whole bucket, we will probably only have half a can."

Just enough for the whole family to fill the gaps.

Song Wenhui thought that she should follow Wanwan to catch crabs in the sea, because clams are not as delicious as crabs, and their meat is not as good.

As soon as she said this, she was immediately opposed by her sister-in-law.

"Sister-in-law, crabs are very cold food. It's okay for us to eat one or two a day. If we eat too much, our bodies will not be able to bear it and we will get sick."

Although clam meat is also cold in nature, it is not as strong as crab. When her family did not have a stable source of income, they had to eat clam meat.

Making money is the most important thing right now.

Jiang Wan was picking at the snail shells, already thinking about how to make money from seafood.

Aunt Cuifang said that most of the seafood on the island is very cheap because there are too many fishermen and the catch is too much, so the people on the island can't eat it all. If they want to sell it, the seafood can't be stored.

The weather in June has started to get a bit hot. Live seafood can still last for about a day, but dead seafood cannot even get out of the bay and will become smelly and can only rot in the sea. Salted fish can be taken out, but most people don't like it and are not used to it, so basically no one buys it.

This has resulted in people in the mainland being unable to afford seafood, while it is sold at low prices on the island.

Jiang Wan didn't have any other options. After all, there were no cold chain trucks here, so fresh seafood couldn't get far. She could only start with dried goods and sauces.

The daily catch from fishing is not that great, and I don’t have enough money to save at home, so I can’t buy fish for dried goods for the time being. I’ll try making sauces first.

There is a kind of sand crab sauce that Jiang Wan and her mother have loved since they were young. It is easy to make and has a shelf life of one to two months. If anyone here likes it, they can try it first.

However, when she went to the sea, she did not see any sand crabs on the beach. She thought that the beach she went to was not the permanent habitat of sand crabs. She would have to ask tomorrow.

"Brother Yin! Sister Yin!"

Lian Jiabao ran over anxiously.

"The old man of the Cai family has started to have diarrhea, and the other members of the Cai family are also starting to feel unwell. How do you cure the poison? Dad wants you to go over there."

Yin Huaixi responded, and this time she didn't let her elder brother accompany her out.

Detoxification and treatment are her strengths, so there is nothing to worry about.

"Brother Jiabao, you walk fast. Go to the village first and see if anyone has green beans. Borrow five or six pounds. And borrow a mortar and some salt."

This amount is a bit much, but who can blame the Cai family for being so numerous? Anyway, it is the Cai family who are here to pay it back, so she just follows the prescription to save people.

Lian Jiabao was about to say something, but he ran away anyway because his life was at stake. When Yin Huaixi returned to Cai's straw hut, he had already borrowed a mung bean mortar and took a stove and pot.

"Brother Jiabao, you didn't think I was going to make mung bean soup, did you?"

It takes a long time to cook the mung bean soup, and when it is done, Mr. Cai will have to report to me. I don't have a silver needle at the moment, so I can't save his life.

Yin Huaixi smiled, and without looking at the stove or the pot, she poured the mung beans directly into the stone mortar and asked someone to grind them finely, then added salt and cold water, stirred evenly, and then soaked them to settle (the method comes from Baidu, so don't take it seriously if you don't know if it's true or not). Finally, she asked the Cai family to drink the water made from the mung bean powder, one bowl after another.

Old man Cai barely managed to save his life, but his face looked very bad. The whole family was in great pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and they had to force themselves to drink the unpalatable green bean water.

Yin Huaixi did not stay to watch the excitement. As a doctor, since she had decided to treat the Cai family, she still had to do her best to cure them. Otherwise, who would go to the quarry for her family? So she taught the villagers how to use mung bean water and took the two ladies into the mountains to collect herbs.

This time, the purpose was stronger, and the herbs I picked were all for stopping diarrhea and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

As long as the Cai family takes the medicine obediently, they will be able to recover within three days.