Chapter 247 Transplanting Mung Beans
The medicine was sour and bitter, and Zhao Yeqing almost vomited it out while pinching his nose to drink it.
It suddenly reminded her why she was so resistant to learning Chinese herbal medicine from her grandmother when she was a child. It was because it tasted too bad. Occasionally, when she was sick as a child, she would drink it, which made her want to stay away from this bitter thing for the rest of her life.
After being injured, Zhao Yeqing could only lie in bed to recuperate. Even though he felt that the pain would not be severe as long as he did not move around, he did not dare to get out of bed and walk around too much. After all, it would take a hundred days to heal a broken bone, and without professional medical treatment, it was safer to just take good care of himself.
In the few days before Zhao Yeqing was lying in bed recuperating from his injuries, Mu Xi frequently went out into the mountains to look for medicinal herbs, trying his best to find those with mild medicinal properties.
Zhao Yeqing joked that he was a barefoot doctor. "This reminds me of my college roommate who went to see a Chinese doctor. The doctor's level was half-baked. He didn't dare to treat her carelessly but wanted to make money. He always prescribed her Siwu Decoction, not expecting a good cure, but thinking that it would be mild and nourishing and nothing would go wrong."
Mu Xi was not annoyed, "You only have a half-baked barefoot doctor like me who can treat you now, so you decide whether to treat it or not."
She was lying on the bed and wanted to laugh when she heard this. She laughed twice and accidentally pulled her chest, which hurt so much that she gasped.
Mu Xi didn't dare to joke with her anymore, "Just lie down. I'll make you something to eat."
People with fractures should avoid spicy food and focus on calcium and vitamin supplements. Milk and soy products at home are good calcium supplements.
But her injured parts were ribs, and soy products and milk are foods that easily cause bloating, which would affect recovery. If the air was accidentally deflated and pulled her chest, the injury would be aggravated.
Zhao Yeqing chose eggs from the food she could eat, as egg yolks are also a source of calcium. She wanted to drink some bone soup, but she couldn't have that now.
Mu Xi, "Bone soup can supplement calcium, but it contains more purine than calcium. Stewing lamb ribs can supplement calcium, but you can't eat lamb when taking Chinese medicine. How about killing a chicken?"
Zhao Yeqing thought about it and shook his head, "I don't have much appetite. I can't eat those. I'll just have eggs."
Mu Xi steamed some egg custard and went down to the basement to pick some strawberries for her to satisfy her craving.
Zhao Yeqing was lying on the bed with a basket next to his pillow, which contained freshly picked strawberries and peaches that Mu Xi had picked yesterday.
The big peach tree I saw in early spring has borne fruit. The wild peaches in this mountain are hairy peaches. Each peach is only slightly larger than a walnut, crispy, 50% sour and 50% sweet, and has a good aroma.
She ate two peaches before she dared to eat strawberries. Strawberries are sweeter than peaches. If she ate the strawberries first and then the peaches, the taste would not be good because of the comparison.
After eating the last strawberry, he tried not to burp. "The temperature is too high in summer. Strawberries that ripen in winter will be even sweeter."
Seeing that she had finished eating, Mu Xi reminded her afterward: "Finish the strawberries. Don't complain if your mouth is bitter after taking the medicine."
Oh no, she forgot.
Zhao Yeqing frowned when he thought of the sour and bitter medicine.
When he saw Mu Xi bringing the medicine over, he also held two strawberries in his other hand, and his wrinkled face relaxed again.
Mu Xi, "Fortunately I predicted it in advance, otherwise some people would have asked for ice cream again."
She was touched on the spot but did not refute. She drank the medicine obediently, ate strawberries to clear her mouth, and lay back down.
In the afternoon, Mu Xi would help her get out of bed and sit in the yard to bask in the sunlight which had become milder. Basking in the sun was equivalent to free calcium supplementation.
During the week she was lying in bed, the temperature had reached 44 degrees, rising faster than last year.
The cotton, mung beans and rapeseed in the fields have completely stopped growing, and there are signs that they are about to die.
Zhao Yeqing could not do anything just lying there, while Mu Xi was able to do something but did not know what to do.
He accompanied Zhao Yeqing to bask in the sun, looking at the fields outside the newly repaired courtyard gate and said, "What do you think? Should I dig another basement and move these in?"
Zhao Yeqing blurted out without thinking, "Are you crazy? It's almost an acre of land, and you dug a basement of more than 600 square meters by yourself?"
"It's definitely impossible to dig it out. I just thought about digging one of the same size as the previous one and moving part of it in."
Zhao Yeqing sighed. It took them both a long time to finish the work. If Mu Xi was alone, it would take who knows how long. The PC board was barely enough, but firing red bricks also required digging the ground, building walls, preparing the land, transplanting crops and applying fertilizers...
"Forget it. If it can't survive, just wait until it's cooler before planting it again."
Except for the few mung bean seeds left, there is still half a bag of cotton seeds. The first batch of rapeseed has matured and is now gradually turning yellow in the field. It can be harvested at any time. Once the second batch of rapeseed is gone, it will be gone too.
Mu Xi thought that it couldn't be completely wasted, "Then I'll move a few mung beans into the basement. There's a small piece of land reserved for leafy vegetables, so I'll plant that."
Zhao Yeqing, "I just planted the seeds when you went back to Meishan. I think they will sprout soon now."
“What do you grow?”
"Chinese cabbage."
Seeing that the pickled cabbage she had made previously was almost finished, and even the pickled cabbage made from Chinese mustard greens picked in the winter was about to be eaten up, she thought of growing some pickled cabbage.
When Mu Xi heard it was cabbage, he said decisively: "The cabbage is fine, pull it out and plant mung beans first, there are plenty of cabbage seeds."
Zhao Yeqing could only respond, "Okay then." In comparison, mung bean seeds are indeed scarce.
If I had known this, I wouldn’t have been so diligent.
Mung beans are relatively afraid of heat. When the weather is high, they will only grow leaves but will not bloom or produce pods. The same is true for cotton. When the temperature is high, it will not bloom or produce bolls. Even if it does form buds, they will fall off quickly.
Transplanting mung beans does not take much time. The remaining area in the basement is not large, and the mung bean plants also need a certain distance between them. Only a dozen plants can be transplanted, just to preserve the seeds.
Zhao Yeqing estimated that due to his injury, he would not be able to participate in labor in the short term. The rapeseed harvest was about to begin, so he could only let Mu Xi do it himself.
Mu Xi would go into the woods to collect herbs during the day, and then go to the fields to harvest the rapeseed when the sun set in the afternoon.
I was afraid that she would feel too bored sleeping in the room, so I brought back wild flowers from the mountains and put them in a vase. Looking at them could soothe her mood.
Zhao Yeqing was delighted to see that he had brought back a few branches of jasmine with buds on them. He pointed to the most beautiful vase and said,
"Add some water and sprinkle sugar in the water to promote flowering and maintain the flowering period."
In the past, she would use Pocari Sweat and Sprite to grow the flowers she bought. A bottle of flowers could last for about twenty days. The same goes for sugar water, but the effect is not as good.
Mu Xi put the flowers in it and placed it on her bedside.
The jasmine fragrance is quite strong. The small flowers are white and fragrant.
"Is this jasmine?"
Mu Xi had guessed what she wanted to say, "Do you want to pick them and dry them for tea?"
Zhao Yeqing opened his eyes wide and nodded expectantly, waiting for his reply.
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