Xiao Yi was in good physical condition and recovered well after the surgery. He did not develop any infections such as redness, swelling, heat, or pain. After three or four days, he was able to move around on his own. Since Xiao Yi couldn't stay in the house, Xie Yushu went to town to buy him a pair of crutches so that he could use them to get out of bed and exercise.
It is worth mentioning that Han Zhongyu is extremely efficient at work. He has successfully implemented and popularized the civil engineering house structure diagram that Xie Yushu taught him in Beihe Town.
When Xie Yushu went to town, she happened to see Liu Nan leading people to set up a sample room next to the market, and village chiefs from various villages were already bringing their villagers to learn from it.
Xie Yushu inquired about Xie Tianqi and the others with Liu Nan, and Liu Nan said that everything was fine.
Liu Nan was also very busy with work. I heard that he had been here for three days and had only gone home for an hour each with Liu Bei. Seeing that someone would come to see him soon, Xie Yushu did not disturb him too much and returned home.
Sure enough, the news that the town officials had brought people to teach how to build sturdy, warm, and free houses reached Phoenix Mouth the next day. The village chief led people to learn, and the villagers who had originally wanted to line up to have Xie Yushu's tile-making workshop stopped lining up! Soon, things quieted down in front of Xiao Yi's house!
Those who finished firing the tiles didn't regret it, because they were paid in wages or firewood, and they were even provided with lunch. They heard that the official had taught them to seal the roof with soil, and they figured that tiles were definitely stronger than soil, so they wouldn't lose out no matter how they calculated it, and they felt particularly at ease.
They were busy putting up tiles, while those who went to town to study were busy tearing down the thatch and replacing the roofs.
Some walls were damaged, so the walls were repaired as well.
The days passed quickly, and more than twenty days had gone by. Xiao Yi's stitches had been removed, but Xie Yushu still didn't let him walk. She only allowed him to stand with a little effort, as long as he didn't feel pain in the surgical area.
The weather was starting to get cooler at this time of year, with a gentle autumn breeze. Xie Yushu and the others were able to put on their ruqun (traditional Chinese dresses) as they wished, and they undoubtedly became a beautiful sight as they walked through the village!
Although the group wasn't wearing their best clothes, but only a few pieces they had prepared for everyday wear, it still made many young women and wives envious. They regretted not being braver and going into the mountains with them to catch a couple of rabbits, so they could sell them and buy a couple of nice new outfits!
Xie Yushu and the others didn't enjoy their happiness for long before the harvest season began again. Xiao Dayong came to find Xiao Yi, saying that Old Man Xiao needed to use the car. Xiao Yi agreed, but set a time limit for them, saying that the Xie family also needed to use it.
Xiao Dayong estimated that it would take about three days.
Qu Xiaodie didn't trust Old Man Xiao and insisted on going with him herself, so she led the donkey and followed him.
When Xie Yushu had nothing to do, she would go into the mountains to collect herbs. In autumn and winter, people are prone to catching colds, especially after experiencing a major disaster, when people's physical condition is generally not good. She wanted to prepare some commonly used heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs to make pills for later use.
As a doctor, she hadn't been able to do her proper job for a long time.
Fortunately, nature's vitality is very strong, and in just over three months, many medicinal herbs have grown back.
Xie Yushu focused on collecting the leaves and roots of the Daqingye plant, which became the main ingredient in the later Banlangen (Isatis root).
There are also carnations and dandelions. Dandelion is the main medicine for treating colds and coughs in later generations.
Moreover, there was a lot of this stuff; it was almost everywhere they found it, in patches. Xie Yushu picked it for two days straight, filling four large sacks. Xiao Yi and Xiao Haitang helped at home to clean, wash, and dry it.
In addition, some herbs were also collected, including violet, honeysuckle, forsythia, chrysanthemum, pulsatilla, prunella vulgaris, cassia seed, rhubarb, coptis, astragalus, and phellodendron, all of which have good heat-clearing and detoxifying effects. Some are used for the upper burner, some for the middle burner, some for the lower burner, some for clearing heat toxins from the eyes, some for clearing heat toxins from the throat, and some for clearing heat toxins from the large intestine.
We happened to come across some wild rehmannia and yam.
With these medicines, we can prescribe several doses for common ailments, and if someone comes to us for treatment, we can manage for a while.
Xie Yushu was happily gathering herbs, while Qu Xiaodie witnessed the chaos and turmoil at the Xiao family's old house.
Under normal circumstances, those who can work go to the fields, while those who can't do strenuous work stay home to cook. With everyone working together, it's easy to harvest the potatoes from those seventeen or eighteen acres in three or four days. We can postpone unimportant matters and still not delay anything.
However, things don't always go normally in abnormal households. What should have been a three-day job dragged on for seven days.
Qu Xiaodie had only been gone for half a day when Xiao Taohua called everyone back from the fields and let Qu Xiaodie watch a show.
Xiao Yuanhang returned from the county school, saying that there was a busy farming holiday. This busy farming holiday has existed since ancient times, lasting ten days. Even in modern times, rural primary schools still have busy farming holidays! It was probably not until the beginning of the new century that the concept of a busy farming holiday disappeared, and instead, statutory holidays such as May Day and National Day were uniformly implemented.
Getting back to the point, when Xiao Yuanhang returned from his farm work leave and heard that Xie Yujiao was pregnant, his expression was quite strange. Xie Yujiao asked him several times...
"Aren't you happy that your husband is going to be a father?"
Xiao Yuanhang repeatedly said he was happy, of course he was happy, and then gave Xie Yujiao a few perfunctory words before going to find Old Madam Xiao.
Old Mrs. Xiao was instructing Widow Liu to massage her shoulders, but when she saw her beloved son arrive, she stopped and hurriedly asked Widow Liu to massage her beloved son instead.
Liu was naturally unwilling to massage Old Madam Xiao's shoulders and back, but she couldn't be happier to massage Xiao Yuanhang!
Xiao Yuanhang was very curious about why his mother was willing to hire someone to serve him. The old lady Xiao simply said that it was paid for by her second son.
Xiao Yuanhang naturally didn't refuse a massage.
Grandma Xiao looked at her son, who was comfortably squinting his eyes, and asked...
"Will my son stay for a while this time?"
"Who knows? I came back this time mainly to tell you something good—good news!"
"What good news?"
“I arranged a marriage for Xiao Yan with my classmate. Although my classmate is still a student, his father is the wealthy Cao family in the neighboring Nanwan Town. They own three shops in the town and five hundred acres of fertile land, so they are considered a local tycoon. They took a liking to my status as a scholar and were willing to befriend me, so they wanted to arrange a marriage between our families!”
They agreed to give one hundred taels of silver as a betrothal gift!
"Mother, if you and Father agree to this, I'll have my classmate come and meet both families."
"What? A dowry of one hundred taels of silver? Are you serious?"
"Of course, would I lie to you? You are my own parents, and Xiao Yan is my own sister!"
Upon hearing this, Old Mrs. Xiao was so excited that her heart almost jumped out of her throat. She hurriedly shouted for Xiao Taohua to go to the field to call everyone back. One reason was to discuss this matter with Old Mr. Xiao, and the other was to let Qu Xiaodie and Li Shi see that her daughter was going to marry into a rich family and become a grandmother!
That's why Qu Xiaodie and the others were all recalled after working for half a day.
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