Chapter 70: Medicine Garden Plan
The medicinal soup made from these herbs is basically impossible to taste good, but as the saying goes, good medicine tastes bitter but is good for the disease. After each of them drank a bowl of medicinal soup and took a good sleep, the next morning, according to the three people, they all felt much better.
One of them even said that he seemed to be completely fine.
Zhou Xu nodded after hearing the report.
"Just in case, let him rest for another day and take the medicine for another day. I'll deliver it to him three times a day, morning, noon, and night."
The worst thing about a cold is that it doesn't get better completely, and then it keeps coming back, which is really stressful.
Even after you feel better, you cannot relax and consolidate your efforts.
Zhou Xu had already demonstrated the process of boiling medicine yesterday. It is basically not a technical job. To put it bluntly, you just need to pay attention to the fire.
In fact, this task is more than enough for two apprentices to do.
However, in order to gain experience, Ye Yan decided to do the decoction himself first.
Zhou Xu just followed his lead on this.
After breakfast, he took his two followers and walked out of the camp.
One of these two followers is called Zhang Xiaoshan, and the other is called Li Shitou. They are both very ordinary two-star people in the five-dimensional panel. Their talents are also very average, but their hands and feet are still nimble.
As the tribe continued to expand in size and increase in population, Zhou Xu needed someone who could run errands and pass messages for him at any time, so he picked these two people.
Walking all the way to the farming area outside the camp, thanks to the addition of this group of new people, the farming team, which originally had only one person, has officially expanded its staff to three people. The increase in personnel has significantly improved the work efficiency of the farming team.
During this period, Zhou Xu's arrival did not have much impact on their work.
After a simple salute, he quickly devoted himself to the work at hand, which was also Zhou Xu's own request.
Looking at the farming area marked out in front of him, he fell into deep thought.
When he was cooking medicine yesterday, he mentioned to Ye Yan that he was growing herbs, and this was not just a casual remark.
Considering the long-term development, if their tribe encounters a situation in the future and urgently needs herbs, or even a large amount of herbs, can they really expect to go to the wild to search and pick them temporarily? That would be too inefficient.
Therefore, according to Zhou Xu's idea, growing it by oneself is the most stable and reliable.
Although we have not found any vegetables, fruits or melons that can be grown yet, some of the initial preparations for farming have been completed.
In other words, herb cultivation can begin at any time.
The problem Zhou Xu needs to consider now is where to place the medicine garden and how to do it specifically.
After all, he had never thought at the beginning that his own medical department and medicine garden would be set up so soon.
He now has two ideas.
The first idea is to place the medicine garden together with the work area of the medical department, allowing the medical department to conduct their own research, train herbal farmers, and plant and cultivate various herbs, so that a complete system can be formed within them.
As for the second idea, it is naturally to hand over the medicinal garden to the Ministry of Agriculture, and to mark out a piece of the tilled agricultural land in front of us for growing herbs.
In this way, the medical department does not have to worry about the cultivation of herbs and can devote itself to the research of the medicinal properties of various herbs.
There are two ideas. After thinking about it for a while, Zhou Xu is more inclined to the second one.
The most important thing for the medical department is to study the medicinal properties of herbs and find more herbs, rather than to study the cultivation of herbs.
It is better to leave the planting and cultivation of herbs to the agricultural department.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu waved to the two followers who were accompanying him. The two immediately understood. One of them was responsible for spreading the animal skin on the ground, while the other took out a special plant and crushed it to obtain juice, then dipped a branch pen in it and handed it to Zhou Xu.
What is drawn on this animal skin is mainly the planning blueprint of their camp.
After taking the branch pen, Zhou Xu pondered for a moment, then marked out an area in the already drawn farming area and wrote the words "Medicine Garden".
Arranged at the same time...
"Go and notify the farming team to prepare for the official start of work. Use this already-turned land. Then ask the three people in the farming team to gather outside the camp."
After saying that, Zhou Xu got up and returned to the camp.
At this point, Ye Yan had already prepared the medicine and delivered it to the three patients.
When Zhou Xu saw it, he didn't waste any words and just waved his hand.
"Ye Yan, come with me to collect herbs. It's time to start the planting of medicinal herbs we talked about before."
Ye Yan had always been very concerned about this matter, and now that Zhou Xu mentioned it, he immediately perked up and hurried over.
With Ye Yan and his two apprentices, after they met up with the three members of the farming group outside the camp, along with Zhou Xu and his two followers, the group of nine soon set off.
This herb grows everywhere outside the camp, so it is not difficult to pick enough of it right now.
"Everyone, pay attention. This time we are not just going to collect the herbs above. We are going to dig them up together with the roots growing in the soil."
As Zhou Xu spoke, he used the short-handled stone hoe in his hand to dig up the surrounding soil, dug out a whole herb along with the soil, and held it in the palm of his hand.
"It's something like this."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu let Ye Yan and the others take a good look at it, then he put the herb into the backpack next to him.
During this process, Ye Yan basically did not need to do anything himself. After all, Ye Yan was the only one who could accurately and efficiently find medicinal herbs from the vast patches of weeds.
Therefore, Ye Yan's main task in this operation is to point out the herbs for them, and the hands-on work will naturally be left to others, so that efficiency can be improved.
Otherwise, it would be very slow if we let these newbies find it themselves.
Zhou Xu didn't hold it himself, and everyone worked together to fill the backpacks behind him and Ye Yan.
And it was just past noon at this moment.
Carrying baskets filled with herbs on their backs, the group did not return to the camp but headed directly to the farming area.
There is nothing much to say about planting. The land has been plowed in advance and all you have to do is plant the herbs.
The only thing you need to pay attention to is watering.
Zhou Xu didn't have much experience in growing plants, and all he could teach them was that watering should be done in the morning and evening, and not when the sun was shining brightly.
In addition, it is common sense that you should not water the plants directly, but water them at the bottom.
However, this herb can grow everywhere when it grows naturally, which means it is easy to grow and there shouldn't be any big problems.
(End of this chapter)
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