Time flies and it has been half a month since Lu Yan and Lu Yu went to school.
In the past half month, He Yunxi went to treat Wang Yuyan for five days. After acupuncture was no longer needed, she taught her maid the moxibustion technique and asked the maid to give her moxibustion every day.
The acupuncture points and order of her moxibustion are fixed. Xia Chan watched them every day and learned them.
This way she doesn't need to go to town every day, just check her every five days and modify the prescription.
Liu and Pei Yuan no longer need daily treatment, so she spends more time dealing with things at home.
The last batch of peppers were picked and hundreds of kilograms of red chili sauce were made. She sold half of them and kept the other half for other uses.
There were several hundred kilograms of sun-dried chilies left, and all the chili seeds that were taken out were also dried and collected.
Three wells were drilled, and with good luck, water came out of them all. The water reservoir also began to accumulate water, although it was only a thin layer.
Now that He Yunxi had nothing to do, she went to the river to fetch water with buckets. She carried one bucket on her shoulders and carried two more buckets in the basket on her back. She poured the water she brought back into the pool, and the water in the pool became more and more.
Also, after half a month of practice, her workshop was completed.
He Yunxi moved the beans and stone mill below, so that he can make tofu below from tomorrow.
At the same time, she also plans to start selling tofu in town tomorrow.
In the evening, Lu Yan came back.
At that time, everyone had already eaten. When He Yunxi saw him, he said in surprise: "Why are you back?"
Lu Yan replied: "No bathing tomorrow."
"Oh." He Yunxi remembered that they also had a break, "Have you had dinner?"
"No."
"Then let me cook you a bowl of noodles."
"Okay." Lu Yan washed his hands, "I'm going to see my mother."
Mrs. Liu and a few little ones were already going to bed, but when they saw him coming back, they stopped sleeping and started talking around him.
He Yunxi made fried noodles for Lu Yan, and also made a small bowl for everyone else.
"Wow, thanks to big brother, we have midnight snack!" Lu Yunjiao said with a smile while holding her own bowl.
When Lu Yan heard this, he felt happy, and the fatigue from returning under the stars and the moon disappeared.
After dinner, He Yunxi let the others go to bed and boiled water for Lu Yan's bath.
Lu Yan stayed with her in the kitchen.
"It's so late, why did you come back?" He Yunxi asked.
"I went out to do some errands, and when I was done I wanted to go home, so I came back." Lu Yan said.
"Then why don't you rent a carriage or something?"
"The city gate is about to close before we come out, and no carriage is willing to pick us up."
It was too late, and if we were picked up by a carriage, we would not be able to enter the city. So generally no one would be willing to run out at this time.
He Yunxi saw that Lu Yan's shoes were covered with mud and said, "Next time you take a break, I will pick you up in the city."
Lu Yan's lips curled up: "Okay."
"Crack-"
The two of them were silent, only the firewood in the stove crackled.
Lu Yan saw the firelight illuminating He Yunxi's face, which made his heart warm.
"How are you doing at home these days?"
"It's pretty good." He Yunxi told him what happened at home in the past half month, and finally concluded: "Is everything done? I told you, leave the family to me, so don't worry."
"Well, don't worry." I just want to know how you are doing at home.
He Yunxi stuffed two more pieces of wood into the stove, and then Lu Yan saw her take out a few pieces of charcoal with tongs.
He was a little surprised: "Are you burning charcoal?"
"Well. Winter is coming soon. Let's burn some charcoal first. When the winter comes, everyone will have charcoal to use." He Yunxi responded, "Look over there, I have already burned a big vat."
It was used to hold red chili sauce, but now that the red chili sauce is sold, the big vat is empty. He Yunxi took this to hold the burned charcoal, and then wrapped it with oilcloth outside, so that he would not worry about the charcoal getting wet again.
The Lu family used to have the habit of buying charcoal, but the charcoal here was not very good. When using it, the whole room was full of cigarettes. Mrs. Liu was not in good health, so Lu Yan and Uncle Hong would spend a lot of money to buy some good charcoal for her.
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Although the charcoal He Yunxi burned was relatively small, the quality was even better than what he had bought before, and was almost as good as the Yin Shuang charcoal commonly used by wealthy people in the capital.
Lu Yan likes her way of preparing for a rainy day. A planned life is much better than being in a hurry when the time comes.
"If you know how to burn charcoal, burn more. This year will be a cold winter that has not happened in fifty years." He said.
He Yunxi paused: "So cold?"
"Yeah." Lu Yan thought about how many people died in this cold winter in his previous life. It was from this winter that the troubled times began.
"Then a lot of people will freeze to death here?" He Yunxi whispered, "Lu Yan, are you sure?"
"I'm sure, I met a wandering Taoist priest before. He knew how to observe the sky." Lu Yan thought about his previous life when he was poisoned and his two sisters had disappeared. Lu Yu, who was suffering from dementia, and Lu Qi, who was disfigured, almost died in this winter.
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If Lu Qi hadn't gone to the mountains at a young age and brought back a lot of dead branches, he wouldn't have lived to take revenge.
"No wonder I feel that the temperature has dropped a bit in the past two days. I plan to sell the tofu tomorrow and make some thick clothes for everyone. It's only the end of September..." He Yunxi said, "This is a cold winter that has not been seen in fifty years. It's a dead end.
how many people."
In He Yunxi's memory, it was also a cold winter five years ago. At that time, Li Zhigui said that it was a cold winter that had not been seen in ten years. At that level, more than a dozen people in the surrounding villages froze to death.
If there is a cold winter that has not happened in fifty years, under the current conditions, more than half of the people will die!
He Yunxi was obviously a little distracted when he was burning charcoal, and she didn't even notice that the water was boiling.
Lu Yan walked over, stretched out his hand to touch her forehead, and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"Lu Yan, I'm a little flustered." He Yunxi said.
Lu Yan held her hand, "Because of the cold winter?"
"Yeah. Thinking that so many people would die, I felt a little panicked." He Yunxi did not take out her hand. The warmth of Lu Yan's palm made her heart feel more at ease. "In our world, our country will
Life is very important. Where we are, if there is a disaster somewhere, people from other places will go to help, not to mention that there will be deaths. If someone dies in a disaster, everyone will be very sad, and people all over the country will be very sad.
I will pray for them.”
"Do you want to help everyone survive the cold winter?" Lu Yan asked.
"Is it okay?" He Yunxi asked.
Since she knew there would be a cold winter and many people would die, she would be very uneasy if she didn't do something. What's more, she used to be a military doctor.
Who are soldiers?
——That’s to protect the home and the country!
Who is a healer?
——They all save lives and heal the wounded!
The mission of being a soldier and a doctor is engraved in her bones.
Lu Yan looked at He Yunxi's bright eyes. He was very moved by her like this, "What do you want to do?"