Chapter 77: A man can be trusted, and a fat pig can climb a tree
"If a dog bites a person, they can't just bite it back with their mouths. That would be no different from an animal. People have hands, so they can hit it with a stick, hit it with a brick, or even find a dog poisoner to kill it. There are many ways to vent your anger."
Just as Yun Qiao finished speaking, there was a sudden "bang" sound from the next room, and no one knew what fell.
Chen Fengxia muttered quietly, "It must be Qi Chunhui who eavesdropped."
"Don't worry about her."
Yun Qiao ignored him and turned to Zheng Wenjing to explain, "Wenjing, I know how effective my ointment is. Not to mention the pain in the flesh, it's definitely much more effective than ordinary frostbite creams. I'm not good at saying nice things, so don't worry, in the end, you won't feel like you've wasted your money."
Zheng Wenjing nodded: "Yun Qiao, I believe you."
Yun Qiao curled the corners of his lips: "Thank you for your trust."
Zheng Wenjing didn't seem to be affected by Qi Chunhui at all. She quickly put the matter behind her and took Yun Qiao's arm. She continued the previous topic and asked, "You haven't answered me yet. When will you start making the ointment? I really can't wait!"
"We're going to start it tomorrow evening. But I don't have any utensils right now. Before I start, I need to borrow some from the cafeteria."
"Go to the cafeteria to borrow utensils?" Zheng Wenjing was stunned. "Why go to the cafeteria? Does the cafeteria have utensils for making medicine?"
"Borrow the millstone." Yun Qiao pointed to the bag of herbs and explained, "The first step in making frostbite cream is to grind all the herbs into powder. We don't have a medicine grinder, and we can't grind them by hand without borrowing a millstone, right?"
Zheng Wenjing said "Oh" twice, "But isn't the millstone in the cafeteria quite big?"
"There's also a small one, about 20 to 30 centimeters in size." Yun Qiao said, "I saw Squad Leader Lin grinding sesame powder last time."
Yun Qiao said, "After grinding the flour, we'll have to borrow a pot tomorrow. We don't cook in the educated youth compound, so we don't even have a pot."
"Who should I borrow a pot from?" Zheng Wenjing said, "The pots in the cafeteria can be as big as you want."
"Go find Sister Qin. I've already made up my mind. I'll borrow her pot. Then I'll give her half of my frostbite cream as a thank you gift."
Yun Qiao said, "The last time I had dinner at her house, I noticed that the joints on her hands were swollen and a little deformed. It must be caused by frostbite from years of frostbite."
Lin Shengnan, the canteen's cooking squad leader, was a very amiable aunt. When she heard Yun Qiao's purpose, she immediately agreed to lend her the millstone.
"Okay, take the millstone. I don't need it these days." She also reminded him, "Take good care of it when you use it, and return it promptly after use."
Yun Qiao hugged the millstone and said goodbye to Lin Shengnan: "I understand. Thank you, Aunt Lin."
After returning to the dormitory, Yun Qiao cleaned the table and washed his hands. He first separated the red ginseng, dragon's blood and camphor, ground them into fine powder, and wrapped each one in a piece of oil paper.
In addition, grind the other medicinal ingredients into a slightly coarser powder, and finally pour them into an enamel teacup together with sesame oil for soaking.
Soak overnight and it will be ready to use tomorrow.
The next morning, while Yun Qiao was eating in the cafeteria, he took the opportunity to return the millstone to the cafeteria.
Lin Shengnan was busy and had no time to chat with Yun Qiao. She took a look and saw that the millstone was clean, so she asked her to just find a place to put it down.
Yun Qiao didn't disturb her. He put down the millstone and started to prepare the meal.
After dinner, Yun Qiao went to bed.
The place where they went was the grain depot behind the house, so Yun Qiao made a special detour to visit Captain Yang's house.
Qin Guifen was having dinner at the time. When she heard Yun Qiao say that she wanted to borrow the pot to make frostbite ointment and give her half a bottle as a reward for borrowing the pot, Qin Guifen agreed immediately without saying a word and asked her to come to her house directly when she was free. She would wash the pot and wait for her.
Yun Qiao thanked him and then went to the granary.
2011 was a bumper year. Apart from the ration of grain delivered to the headquarters, the Fifth Company’s granary still had a full warehouse of grain left, which served as a winter’s food reserve for everyone in the Fifth Company.
The largest of these is wheat, followed by corn and soybeans.
The task of these female educated youth these days is to thresh corn using a cast iron hand-cranked corn thresher.
Although it is called a thresher, it is not a machine in the strict sense, but a tool. It can only thresh one corn at a time, which is not very efficient. However, it is more time-saving and labor-saving than rubbing it by hand.
The male educated youth rubbed the corn with their hands. Even if they wore thick gloves, their palms would be sore from rubbing that they couldn't even hold chopsticks when eating.
At noon, although Yun Qiao felt a little tired, she didn't care about resting. After eating, she took the medicinal materials to Captain Yang's house, preparing to use her lunch break to make the frostbite cream.
When they arrived at Captain Yang's house, Qin Guifen beamed with joy the moment she saw her. She took the initiative to lead her into the kitchen, pointing to the iron pot on the stove and the clay pot under the table and asked her, "There's an iron pot and a clay pot, both clean. Which one do you want to use?"
Yun Qiao said, "Casserole."
"OK."
Qin Guifen took the initiative to pick up the clay pot and fixed it on the earthen stove. She asked Yun Qiao with a smile: "How do you make it? Do you need my help?"
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