Chapter 29
For this half ginseng, Qiao Sheng suppressed his nausea, took the rabbit meat, and made four dishes and a soup for Xia Beibei, including hot and sour potato shreds, spicy rabbit meat cubes, cold radish strips, cabbage with oyster sauce, and vegetarian radish soup. Making
some rabbit meat was already the limit, and she didn't want to touch pork at all, especially the pork with skin, which reminded her of the wound with curled edges just now.
With this ginseng, she can give Li Mu a good rest. She opened the trading system and found an order for pheasants. She exchanged a piece of cotton cloth for half a pheasant. The value of this cannot be measured. It is a seller's market. Buyers with her needs can only be forced to accept it.
Afraid that Li Mu's hunger would not last long enough to finish the ginseng chicken soup, she heated up the brown rice porridge left over from lunch and fed him some rice soup first. She used the thick brown rice left at the bottom of the pot as dinner.
Considering that the person lying on the bed was a wounded soldier, Qiao Sheng peeled the chicken skin when stewing the soup, fearing that it would be too greasy and difficult for Li Mu to digest. She cut two slices of ginseng and put them in to stew together, and only added a little salt to the seasoning.
While the soup was stewing, Qiao Sheng lit the oil lamp and sat at the dining table to eat her dinner. She kept a little of each of the three vegetarian dishes she made for Xia Beibei, but she didn't keep the spicy rabbit meat cubes, so she would eat them vegetarian for two days to slow down.
The brown rice, which had been cooked twice, tasted really bad and had no chewiness at all. Qiao Sheng hoped that Li Mu would wake up soon and eat normally. Then it would be better to let him take care of the leftovers.
After dinner, Qiao Sheng moved an empty storage box to the bow and put all the supplies piled there into it. Then he moved the storage box back to the storage room and sorted them into the corresponding boxes. What was more surprising was that he actually got eight drift bottles this time.
He put the drift bottles on the bamboo table and went to the bow to get the Panax notoginseng that had been exposed to the sun for an afternoon. He pinched it with his fingernails and found that the drying effect was good. It would be chopped and ground into powder in a while.
I collected the mature Panax notoginseng in the planting pots and continued to plant the seeds. I can harvest new Panax notoginseng when I wake up tomorrow.
I didn't miss any supplies in the fishing net. I didn't collect any in the afternoon. Now it's all full. After I put everything away, I went to check the chicken soup on the stove. I poked the chicken with a bamboo chopstick and found it was cooked. I scooped out a bowl and put it on the bedside of Li Mu to let it dry.
Suddenly I remembered whether I could put Panax notoginseng powder in the chicken soup, so I didn't have to feed him Panax notoginseng powder water again later. I took a piece of Panax notoginseng, cut off a small corner, put it in a stone mortar and ground it for a while until it turned into powder. I added it to the chicken soup. Qiao Sheng didn't dare to taste it. When he smelled it, he felt a bitter taste of Chinese medicine.
When the temperature was about right, he held the bowl and the new wooden spoon and slowly fed Li Mu into his mouth. This time, he swallowed harder.
"Do you feel it? Are you hungry because you didn't eat all afternoon? Drink chicken soup tonight, and I'll make you brown rice porridge with shredded chicken tomorrow, okay? Li Mu, you must try your best to live, and I will try my best to find the best medicine to treat you. Let's work hard together and neither of us will give up, okay?" Qiao Sheng felt really sad when he saw Li Mu's pig-like face. He was still a handsome guy when they separated, but he became like this in just a few days.
After feeding him chicken soup, he wiped Li Mu's face with clean water, but he didn't need to wipe other parts of his face, and wrapped them all with cotton cloth.
After settling the patient, I took care of the animals at home. I was so busy these past two days that I didn't notice that the little rabbit had grown fur, which was too fast. The chicken was also a lot fatter than before.
Before going to bed, I ground all the Panax notoginseng that I had dried today into powder. I have to change Li Mu's dressing tomorrow, so I have to prepare everything in advance. I put the ground Panax notoginseng powder into a clean glass bottle. The weather has been a little humid these past few days, and I am afraid that the powder will be exposed to moisture.
I also took some cotton and made a few pieces of cotton cloth, all cut into strips, and the cotton cloth strips have to be changed when changing the dressing.
That night, there was one more person on the boat, and Qiao Sheng slept very soundly. He slept until dawn.
When I was making breakfast, it started to rain heavily outside the cabin again. It was really sunny one second, cloudy and raindrops fell the next second.
The ginseng chicken soup left over from last night was prepared for Li Mu, with Panax notoginseng powder added as usual, and a bowl of radish vermicelli soup and steamed sweet potatoes for myself.
I still fed the wounded first before eating myself. After eating, I prepared to change his bandage and cotton cloth, starting with the least injured torso. I don’t know if it’s the effect of taking Panax notoginseng powder or applying it externally, or if the recovery is accelerated in the game, anyway, after untying the cotton strips on my body, I can see that the previous small wounds have healed.
"Oh my god, the recovery from this game is too fast. A small wound healed in one day after applying medicine?" Qiao Sheng even picked the whitened wound with his hand to confirm the degree of healing. He
quickly removed the cotton strips on his upper arm. The smaller wounds were healed and the larger ones were scabbed. He removed the strips on both forearms. The places without skin still had no skin, but many wounds were scabbed. Qiao Sheng did not dare to move this.
After making sure that wrapping the cotton strips had no effect on the wounds, he sprinkled Panax notoginseng powder on them again and wrapped them up. This time, he used a much larger amount and applied a thick layer on them all.
The wounds on the legs were deep and long. After untying the cotton bandage, they were not very different from yesterday. However, at least there was no trend of festering. After carefully checking each wound and making sure there was no more rotten flesh, the wounds caused by the second debridement did not look so scary. Then he sprinkled medicine and bandaged them.
After everything was bandaged, Qiao Sheng stood up and looked down. Well, his skills have improved. He even tied a bow at the wrist and ankle.
When wiping Li Mu's face, the pig head was obviously swollen a little, but it was still ugly. As expected, no matter how handsome a handsome guy is, he will be useless if his face is swollen. His facial features seem to have become smaller.
When the eye was wiped, the wounded man lying on the ground opened his eyes. The moment they looked at each other, Li Mu was in a daze, and Qiao Sheng frowned, with a look of disgust on his face like an old subway worker. Why was his face swollen and he couldn't even open his eyes? His eyes, which looked pretty before, have now become like pockmarks of pig skin, and his eyelids are gone.
Qiao Sheng frowned and watched Li Mu's expression change. He was stunned at first, and then suddenly his squinting eyes glowed. He raised his left hand tied with cotton strips and pointed at Qiao Sheng tremblingly. Before she could react, the big brother hit his right shoulder with his backhand. There happened to be an unhealed wound in that place. It had already scabbed over, and now it was bleeding again.
"Hey, hey, hey, Li Mu, you are crazy, there is no wound, I just woke you up, you don't want to live anymore, are you trying to kill yourself?" Qiao Sheng immediately covered the wound with a clean cotton cloth in his left hand, and took the bottle of Panax notoginseng powder in his right hand to sprinkle medicine on the bleeding wound.
The wounds on both upper arms were not serious before, Qiao Sheng was going to sprinkle some Panax notoginseng powder and leave it there, it was not good to cover the wound all the time, this time she didn't have to choose, and honestly wrapped the right upper arm with cotton cloth.
"I... am afraid... it's a dream, you... saved me?" Li Mu asked hoarsely and intermittently.
"Yes, you are lucky. You were floating in the path of my ship. When I saw you, your head was already in the sea. If it was later, you would have drowned." Qiao Sheng brought fresh water and fed him with a spoon.
"I..." Li Mu drank the water obediently, and wanted to speak after his throat was moistened.
"Don't talk for now. Although I also want to ask you about what happened to you these days, you should take good care of yourself first. Tell me when you feel better. Talking too much will hurt your mood. You know that you are weak in both Qi and blood. By the way, are you hungry? Do you want me to give you some brown rice porridge? You have only had liquid food these two days, and I don't know if you can still satisfy your hunger." Qiao Sheng interrupted him to ask.
Li Mu was very obedient. He nodded first to indicate that he would not talk now, and then shook his head to indicate that he was not hungry now.
Qiao Sheng asked him if it was okay to have brown rice porridge with shredded chicken for lunch. He just woke up and didn't know how hungry he had been for a few days. He didn't dare to give him too much at once.
Li Mu, who was lying on the bed, still nodded gently to indicate that he could.
"Okay, then if you can sleep, continue sleeping. If you can't sleep, just lie down and look at the deck. By the way, do you know if this bloodstained cotton strip can be washed and reused?" Qiao Sheng asked him while picking up the bloodstained cotton strip. Li Mu nodded.
Qiao Sheng carried a wooden basin and a newly made low-legged bamboo chair to the cabin. She took the wooden basin and drew water from the wooden barrel of rainwater. She took out the soap and began to scrub the cotton strip carefully. The blood stains on it were all solidified, so it was particularly difficult to clean. The only cleaning product she had was a piece of soap.
When it became harder and harder to get it clean, Qiao Sheng, who was desperate to use the special blood-stain cleaning lotion she had bought before, finally applied thick soap bubbles to the blood-stain area and then soaked the cotton cloth in cold water. She would soak the cotton cloth first and wash it in the afternoon. Now, even if her hands were rubbed to pieces, she still couldn't get them clean.
Li Mu tilted her head and watched Qiao Sheng's movements. She watched her face go from calm while washing to frowning, and then she pushed the wooden basin away to clean up the crops in the planting pots.
At this moment, Li Mu wanted to say sorry for causing her trouble and for having so many things for her to wash. Thinking of Qiao Sheng asking him to talk less, he finally moved his lips and slowly closed his eyes.
Qiao Sheng, who was busy planting Panax notoginseng, did not notice Li Mu's gradually dimming eyes. She was still thinking about what to make at noon to strengthen his nutrition. He was rescued with great difficulty, and he should not be out of nutrition while recuperating.
Maybe she could change another chicken. Ginseng stewed chicken should be very nutritious. The half ginseng given by Xia Beibei should be enough for a long time.
When she turned around, Li Mu had closed his eyes. Qiao Sheng thought he had just woken up, felt weak, needed more sleep, and fell asleep again.
After finishing the work of planting pots, Qiao Sheng took out the dried sweet potato flour and put it into the stone mill to grind it into fine powder. The ground sweet potato starch was put into a specially nailed wooden box, and a lid was added on it, which was placed on the stove for easy access.
Seeing that Li Mu was still sleeping, he washed an apple, cut it in half, ate half of it first, and scraped the other half into apple puree with a wooden spoon. He pulled over a bamboo chair, sat down next to the wounded wooden bed, and reached out to pat the uninjured area.
Li Mu, who had not fallen asleep, opened his eyes as soon as he was patted. He saw Qiao Sheng holding a wooden spoon, not knowing what was in it, so he put it into his mouth. He subconsciously opened his mouth and tasted sweet. When he saw the half apple in her other hand, he realized that it was apple puree, and looked puzzled.
"I'm just worried that you can't digest it. Can fruits supplement vitamins? Eating more is good for you. I saw my sister used to feed her nephew like this. Eat quickly. You are not as obedient as my nephew. That child eats mouthful by mouthful in a hurry." Qiao Sheng scraped a full spoonful of food and stuffed it into Li Mu's mouth. She herself didn't realize that this action was similar to stuffing duck. Her sister only scraped a little bit to feed the child.