The group went up the mountain, and An Shuyao prepared medicinal herbs at Hu's house and waited for them to bring Bupleurum down.
If they just sit there and wait for death, death awaits them.
The snow is deep and the mountain is not easy to climb.
The villagers dug a short section of the mountain road and it was almost dark.
After coming back for a big meal, I went back to my room to rest.
Their house is far away from the patient's house to prevent infection.
In the next few days, the patients had no medicine to take, and their condition began to worsen. An Shuyao would go in every day to persuade them not to give up easily, but to hold on, and they would be saved when the villagers on the mountain brought Bupleurum down.
An Shuyao looked at the dwindling amount of rice in the rice vat. After thinking for a while, he took out five hundred kilograms of potatoes. This stuff is easy to cook and will fill your stomach.
I originally wanted to use it to do business and sell it to Yuan Yi and the others, but it turned out that I had to take it out first to survive this disaster.
An's mother has been looking gloomy these days. There are so many people in the village waiting for food, and their An family has a large population, so it is a problem to have enough to eat.
It wasn't until An Shuyao took out the potatoes that she remembered the grain she had collected.
Mother An had never seen potatoes before, so she hesitated while holding the round potato: "How do you eat this?"
"It can be boiled, stir-fried, or steamed. I originally thought that when the first batch of potatoes comes out, I will make mashed potatoes for you and fry some French fries. It seems that we have to wait until the village is stable."
With doubts, they followed An Shuyao's instructions, washed the potatoes, added some salt and boiled them in a pot.
An Jingzhou is always at the forefront of eating, and he is always the first to try new products.
The freshly baked potatoes were a little hot. He peeled them carefully and took a bite. His eyes lit up, and he exhaled and said in a vague voice: "Well, it's so sweet, soft and waxy. It's delicious."
As he spoke, he finished it in a few mouthfuls, picked up another, and ate it with relish.
It was the first time for the An family to eat potatoes, and they all found them novel. Fortunately, there were enough and they were large, so they were basically full after just two.
Then Aunt He, Guili and Yanyu were responsible for delivering meals to the sick patients.
They went in wearing face towels, and when they came out they had to heat mugwort water to disinfect them again.
It was approaching dusk before Mu Qingchen brought the villagers down.
He pointed to the basket happily: "Sister-in-law, look, Bupleurum has really been found and buried in the snow. Bupleurum in Anzhou is also cold-resistant enough. It didn't even freeze. There were still some before I went there."
Worried."
Bupleurum only needs its rhizomes. As long as there is no flood, its roots will basically be fine.
An Shuyao breathed a sigh of relief: "Great, let's start making it now. Every one of us can be cured. You have to go to the mountain again tomorrow. The more Bupleurum the better."
She solemnly said: "Folks, we will definitely survive this disaster. The food has been prepared. You all go and wash up and eat."
Different from the porridge in the past, there was an ingredient on the table today that they had never seen before. It was similar to sweet potatoes, but the taste was different from sweet potatoes. Anyway, it was quite delicious.
Some villagers began to wipe their eyes while eating: "Without Madam Lu and her family, would we have survived this winter?"
Everyone was silent. The answer was obvious. Without Anjia, they might not survive five days. It has been almost half a month now.
Lin Hui said in a deep voice: "Girl Yaotou is the life-savior of all of us. They say that the grace of saving lives will be repaid by the spring. It is not an exaggeration for us to be like cattle and horses for them in this life. We are all honest and conscientious people."
, should be able to distinguish right from wrong, I will swear to be loyal to their family from now on, and I hope you can do the same. By following them, we will definitely not suffer any loss, and maybe we can have a good future."
He turned to look at Lin He: "Uncle He, what do you think? Of course, I don't want to force everyone to obey the An family's orders. If you don't want to, you can withdraw. This time, you will not be short of treatment and food.
It’s just that if Anjia needs your help in any business in the future, he may be excluded. This is just my personal idea and has nothing to do with Anjia, and they don’t know what I think.”
Lin He was silent for a moment, then sighed and nodded: "The An family is not a thing in the pond. Their family may have a great background. My family is willing to follow her family. No matter where she goes, my family is willing to follow her for generations to repay the An family for this time."
Help with all your resources.”
"I won't force you, just follow if you want. Instead of trusting the senior officials, I would rather trust Anjia who brought us help."
Lin He's tone was full of disappointment. He had always known that all of them had been abandoned by the court and no one would care about their life or death.
Everyone was silent, and then some people spoke up one after another: "My family is also willing to follow. Anyway, we will be poor for the rest of our lives, so it is better to live with the An family."
"Yes, I do too!"
"Me too, I will never betray them."
"..."
After going around, no one disagreed. Lin He was very pleased: "Let's sign a contract and write every household's name on it. This will be considered the sincerity of our entire Rock Village. If anyone betrays me, don't blame me."
You're welcome."
The contract was written by someone who knew how to read in the village, and everyone signed it. When it was Li Yuanniang's turn, she hesitated. Although she was grateful for the An family's help, her son was going to be the top scholar in the future, so signing it was the same as selling herself.
What's the difference between a contract and a contract?
Moreover, because of the heavy snow, her son did not come back from the county, and she did not want to sign this behind his back. How could her son be inferior to others?
Lin He quickly understood and did not force her.
This was my own wish, so the Li family was excluded.
The next day, Lin He took the healthy villagers and showed the contract to An Shuyao.
An Shuyao was shocked after reading the content. Some of it had writings and some had fingerprints on it. It was so densely packed.
"What are you doing?"
Lin He was the first to kneel on the ground, and the villagers behind him also knelt down, and they all said in unison: "From now on, the people of our Rock Village will be at your disposal, without any hesitation, without any second thoughts, and we will swear allegiance to you to the death!"
The An family did not expect that everyone in Rock Village would defect to their families. An Shuyao was silent when they saw him.
Lin He was afraid that she would not agree, so he straightened his rickety back: "Ms. Lu, just agree to us. We have no culture, but we have strength. We can do whatever you want us to do. If we want to farm, we can farm and move things.
Even if we are all asked to move out of Rock Village, we will have no problem, we no longer trust this court, only your family is the driving force to support our survival."
Lin He burst into tears as he spoke. Too much has happened during this period. They have been content for most of their lives, and they are not willing to end up like this!
"Ms. Lu, just promise us."
An Shuyao stood on the spot and glanced around. The villagers all knelt down.
She took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Okay, as long as you follow me well, I will definitely lead everyone to make a fortune so that everyone can have enough to eat and have clothes to wear!"
I've gained weight again~ I hope you are all still here.