Chapter 204: Take it Back
"This is Leonurus japonicus." Mu Xi answered, and then pointed to the herbs next to him and introduced them one by one, "This is Andrographis paniculata, Prunella vulgaris, and Datura stramonium."
"Mandragora?" Zhao Yeqing became interested. It was the first time she saw one of the most common plants in ancient online literature.
Mu Xi reminded, "You have seen it before, and you will recognize it when it blooms."
If that were the case, she was looking forward to it. "You want to grow it at home?"
Mu Xi was also considering it, and said hesitantly,
"It's not time for it to produce seeds yet, and the whole plant is poisonous. Chickens are now allowed to roam freely in the yard, so it's not safe to grow this herb. It's okay to grow it outside, and the flowers are pretty nice."
"So poisonous? What is it for?"
"The most significant effect is to relieve cough and pain, and it can calm neuralgia. But if you use the medicine carelessly, mild symptoms are abdominal pain and diarrhea, severe symptoms can cause coma, and even more serious symptoms are death in a coma."
Zhao Yeqing supported his chin, not daring to take action, and used a wooden stick to move the stems and leaves of the Datura. "It's quite scary."
Medicinal materials are more or less toxic, and their toxicity will be reduced after they are processed.
After Mu Xi washed all the medicinal herbs, he chopped up the roots, stems and leaves separately and placed them on a winnowing basket to dry.
The dustpan for drying medicinal materials should either be padded with plastic cloth or used specifically for drying them to avoid accidental contamination and poisoning when drying other foods.
The winnowing basket was placed in the original owner's house, which now contains not only grain and flour, but also all the household tools.
Zhao Yeqing squeezed in sideways and took the dustpan down from the nail on the wall.
When handing it to Mu Xi, he said, "The space in the house is almost full. By the time we harvest the food at home, I guess there won't be enough space."
If I had known earlier that the small garden at home would not be set up where the tool shed was, otherwise there would be an extra place to build a house to store things.
"There's still space next to the bathroom and next to the stables, so we can build it there."
The original tool room was not big, so it is possible to rebuild it in these two places. However, I am worried that if the cattle and sheep pens need to be expanded in the future, there will not be enough space.
Zhao Yeqing muttered, "It would be nice if it could be disassembled and reassembled at any time."
The cement boards used to build the wall last time can be disassembled, but they are too heavy and will crack if they are accidentally dropped.
Disassembly?
Mu Xi thought of something and paused, "It seems there is another way."
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The next morning, Mu Xi was standing outside the yard leading the cow, and Zhao Yeqing had laid a soft cushion on the cow's back.
Mu Xi supported the ox's back, stretched his legs and sat on it, looking back and said, "If everything goes well, we can be back at midnight, if it's later, we can be back tomorrow."
He shook the shotgun on his back again, "Don't worry."
Zhao Yeqing nodded and carefully checked the things prepared for him.
Rope, kettle, steamed buns and dried meat...
Mu Xi planned to go to the place where he found the cow before. That family’s house was a movable and dismantled prefabricated house, and he wanted to dismantle the house and take it back.
Riding a horse is fast, but the load it carries is too small. It is too difficult to carry a person and pull things at the same time.
Cows are different. Although they move slowly, they have great pulling power and endurance.
We fed the cows grass early in the morning and also gave them some extra night grass last night to prevent them from eating while walking and slowing down their progress.
I hope the wooden house can withstand the weight of the snow and doesn't collapse.
After Zhao Yeqing finished his instructions, he sighed softly, "If I didn't have to feed the sheep and chickens at home and look after the fields, I could have gone with you."
This time when Mu Xi went out, besides himself, Xiao Hei and Xiao Huang were also with him.
He soothed her, "We'll go after the first harvest. I'll check the area first to make sure it's safe."
After waving goodbye, Zhao Yeqing was not in the mood to sit outside in the sun, so he went back to his room, sat in a rocking chair and read a novel to pass the time.
She ate a quick bite at noon. She was alone at home and had a lot of things to do. Dahuang had gone out to graze and hadn't come back yet, and the cows didn't go with her today, so she had to go and milk the cows.
We have a lot of butter stored at home now, and we’re tired of eating milk tofu.
In comparison, drinking milk directly after cooking consumes the most milk.
In the evening, it began to drizzle. Zhao Yeqing stood by the window holding a cup of warm milk, feeling a little worried.
Mu Xi wore a windbreaker when he went out. It has rained occasionally recently, and this morning I saw cumulus clouds in the sky. In addition to the windbreaker, he also put on a straw hat.
I hope I don't get wet and catch a cold.
But as long as it rains, it means we won’t be able to get back tonight.
Cows are not like horses. Sometimes they won’t move no matter how hard you try, let alone on rainy days.
It was midnight. Zhao Yeqing didn't have a watch. Looking out the window, it seemed like the time outside was already past midnight. As expected, Mu Xi hadn't returned yet.
She waited for another hour before she fell into a drowsy sleep.
When I woke up the next day, the rain outside the window had not stopped yet. It was neither heavy nor light, but it dispelled some of the stuffiness and the temperature returned to around 20 degrees.
I got up in my short-sleeved pajamas, and my arms were still a little cold.
He put on a thin coat, fed the cows, sheep, chickens and horses, and then returned to the room.
The raindrops hit the glass, making a 'tapping' sound. Normally at this time, the sun should have already filled the yard.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the whole meadow looked dim, so we had to light oil lamps in the house.
The warm yellow light swayed slightly, and Zhao Yeqing sat in the rocking chair, staring at the fire in a daze.
Huhu and Xuebing came back from outside, jumped over the courtyard wall in one go, and pried the door open.
The cold wind blowing in from behind brought her back to her senses. She saw two leopards soaked to the skin at the door.
Taking the towels used for bathing them from the shelf, Zhao Yeqing quickly reached out to stop the two leopards when he saw their movements, "Don't come over and throw water!"
The two obedient ones swam around the door before coming in. She took a towel and wiped the water stains off their bodies.
After wiping, I touched the leopards' stomachs and found that both of them had bulging stomachs.
In the past, whenever the two leopards went out, there would be times when they failed to catch any food.
But since the beginning of spring this year, the two have basically been full when they come back from going out.
The leopard liked to go to the pine forest and the fir forest where she had encountered the hyena before, both places she had not been to for a long time.
I don’t know if the hunting abilities of the two have improved, or if there are more animals recently.
Zhao Yeqing thought of Mu Xi who had not returned yet, and hoped that it was not the latter.
If it is the latter, the journey may not be safe.
By the afternoon, Mu Xi had not returned yet.
She could only comfort herself by saying that this was normal, after all, the rain had not stopped yet.
Water had accumulated on the meadow, the stream had become turbulent, and the water flowing into the fish pond almost collapsed the bamboo waterway.
The water in the fish pond gurgled out through the outlet, but the flow rate was too slow and the outlet was too small, posing a sign of overflowing.
When the sky was about to get completely dark, the sound of rain outside the window seemed to become more obvious. The rainy night intensified the feeling of loneliness, so Zhao Yeqing lit the second oil lamp.
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