Farmer's Head: Busy farming

Chapter 27 What Brother

Chapter 27

"Xi'er, don't talk nonsense, what's the difference between a younger brother and a younger brother?" When her daughter said this, Liu's face blushed involuntarily.

Seeing Liu Shi's blushing face, Xi'er's eyes quietly fell on Meng Hai. Sure enough, her father didn't seem very natural at the moment.

Seeing Xi'er being so mischievous, Meng Yuan'er couldn't help but tapped her on the head with her hand, and said, "Concentrate on eating."

Xi'er turned her head and grinned, stuffed the leek egg on the chopsticks into Meng Yuan'er's mouth, forced her to eat, and said badly, "Second sister, these eggs are precious, you can't eat them." threw up."

Meng Yuan'er's face turned a little ugly in an instant. The egg in her mouth was neither good to eat nor spit up.

After she wolfed down the egg in her mouth, the fresh fragrance of leeks still lingered between her lips and teeth, it seemed that it wasn't too bad to eat.

She couldn't help but pick up another piece, Xi'er saw that the second sister couldn't hold back, and finally laughed, and said, "Second sister, there is no time when my cooking is not delicious, you should eat more. "

Her brazen words made everyone at the dinner table laugh, and Meng Yuaner hit her unceremoniously and said, "Xi'er, how can you praise yourself so much?"

The life in the country is monotonous and repetitive, but Xi'er can always find some fun, grow some small vegetables, feed the chickens, and go to the foot of the mountain and walk around the river from time to time, always reaping some gifts of nature.

In a blink of an eye, it was already August.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, but even so, Xi'er is still wearing long-sleeved trousers. I heard that women here can't show too much arms and legs.

But Xi'er is not a heat-resistant person, it's fine without an air conditioner, and she can't even wear short-sleeved shorts. After finally wearing a skirt, she has to wear a thin shirt and trousers underneath.

She begged needlework from Meng Yuaner, sewed a button on the inside of her trouser leg and sleeve, and when she entered the house, she rolled up the trouser leg and sleeve and buttoned it so that it would not fall off easily.

Fortunately, although the fabric used for this clothes is not expensive, it is breathable and cool.

Finally, a torrential rain came, and it rained for several days, but Mrs. Liu caught wind and cold.

"Mother, why are you doing well? You still have a cold." Xi'er carried the freshly boiled ginger soup and went to Liu's house, only to feel that there was a damp smell in the room.

Mrs. Liu was lying on the bed, coughing non-stop, her face was extremely pale, and her body was covered with a thin green quilt, which had been washed pale.

The room was even darker due to the rainy weather.

Xi'er put the ginger soup on the table, then helped Liu Shi up, and handed the ginger soup to her.

Mrs. Liu reached out to take the ginger soup, coughed a few times, and then said in a hoarse voice, "It was too hot a few days ago, so I opened the windows at night, and it rained in the middle of the night, and the wind was blowing. "

Xi'er couldn't help sighing, Liu's illness has been going on for several days, and because of the rain, the roads in the village are very muddy, and it's not easy for ox carts to walk, let alone herself, who has not walked a few steps. Covered in mud.

At first, she wanted to go to the town to get some medicine, but Mrs. Liu was worried and refused to let herself go. She had no choice but to drink ginger every day for treatment. Also very anxious.

"Mother, just let me go. It's only been more than an hour to go to and from this town, and I'll be back soon." Seeing Liu's haggard face, Xi'er insisted.

Mrs. Liu finished drinking the ginger soup in her hand, shook her head, and then said, "On weekdays, it would take an hour just to go, with such heavy rain, how can you walk on the muddy road, you are not allowed to go!"

"Mother~~~" Xi'er acted like a baby.

"Don't go!" Liu's attitude was very firm, and her expression became more serious.

Xi'er had no choice but to compromise, and hurriedly said, "Mother, don't be angry, I just don't want to go. After two days, when the weather clears, I will go to the mountain to pick some herbs for you. I heard from my father yesterday that we There is a kind of grass in the back mountain, which is the best for treating wind and cold."

When Mrs. Liu heard what she said, she nodded reassuringly and said, "Okay, then if you want Yuan'er to accompany you, you don't dare to go alone."

"That's no problem, mother, you can rest assured." Xi'er took the bowl, helped Mrs. Liu lie down, and then went out.

She has been praying in her heart, the rain will stop soon, mother has been ill for many days, and the cough is getting worse, she is really afraid that something will happen, but the family seems to be used to it, even Meng Yuaner said, This is a minor illness, no need to take medicine.

It is possible that Xi'er's filial piety moved God. The next day, the rain stopped and the sun came out. It was a sunny day. Standing in the yard, Meng Hai couldn't hold back his sighs, "If it continues to fall, the crops will be destroyed." They're all going to be drowned."

Xi'er is the happy one. Although her mother doesn't let her go to the town, she can go to the back mountain and look for the herbal medicine that can cure wind and cold.

After breakfast, Meng Xi'er was going to take Meng Yuan'er to the back mountain together, but when she thought that her father and elder brother were going to work in the fields, and her sister-in-law was unreliable, she finally thought about it and decided to forget it and let the two My sister will stay and take care of my mother.

"What? Xi'er, are you going to the back mountain alone?" Meng Yuaner was washing dishes by the well, and she couldn't help asking in surprise when she heard Xi'er say that.

Xi'er nodded, frowned and said, "Mother has also been ill for several days. I'll go to the mountain to have a look. It would be best if I can gather medicinal materials."

Meng Yuaner hesitated for a while before asking, "But, can you recognize what that herb looks like?"

It’s okay if I don’t talk about it, but when I said this, Xi’er remembered that she rarely took traditional Chinese medicine, and she didn’t study Chinese medicine, so how could she recognize the herbal medicine in the folk prescription? She shook her head, and then said, “I, I forgot gone."

Upon hearing this, Meng Yuan'er stood up, wiped the water stains on her apron, and then turned and went into the kitchen. After a while, she came out with a handful of withered hay, and handed it to Xi'er, saying: , "It's this thing."

Xi'er was taken aback for a moment, took the medicinal herb and looked it over and over in her hand, and then asked, "Second sister, don't you have it at home? Why don't you cook it for mother?"

"How can I not know, but this herbal medicine needs to be fresh to cure diseases. Now that it's dried like this, it has no effect at all!" Meng Yuaner sighed helplessly, and said.

Xi'er nodded half-understood, and then took the dry grass and looked it over carefully. The long and narrow branches and rhombus-shaped leaves are relatively sparsely distributed. Looking at the dry color, the color of this herb is probably a darker dark green. .

(End of this chapter)