A plate of stir-fried roe deer meat, a plate of spicy elm mushrooms, and a bowl of crisp vegetable soup were placed on the stove without using a table.
Chen Xiuyu fetched bowls and chopsticks for Lu Lu, and also took out an earthen jar and poured some wine for Lu Lu.
Seeing the dark color of the wine and smelling the fruity aroma of blueberries, Lu Lu couldn't help but look up at Chen Xiuyu: "Where did the blueberry fruit wine come from?"
"This morning, sister-in-law Unakan sent it over. She said that you told Father Zhao that you wanted some. When I left, I sent them some vegetables."
Chen Xiuyu said with a smile: "I opened this wine and smelled it. It had a fruity aroma and was very comfortable. I also asked Sister-in-law Unakan how she made it. I was thinking that the wild blueberries on the mountain are almost ripe now. You
If you like to drink it, I will go to the mountains to pick some and come back and brew more for you."
"OK!"
Lu Lu nodded, picked up a wooden block from the side, and pulled Chen Xiuyu to sit down. He also went to get the bowls and chopsticks, and poured some for Chen Xiuyu: "You can also drink some. The wine made with blueberries is very delicious.
, it’s not spicy at all. It’s quite hard for you to take care of so many things at home and go to the mountains to pick mushrooms in one day. Drinking it appropriately can relieve fatigue and is also good for your health.”
Chen Xiuyu smiled and sat down too.
The young couple talked and laughed at each other while suppressing their voices.
On the big kang outside, Wang Yan and Pu Guiying had already gotten out of the quilt and lay on the bed. They both propped their heads with their hands and listened to the two people in the kitchen talking and laughing quietly.
"I'm so envious. If only I could live such a small life!" Pu Guiying looked at the kitchen longingly. The two figures projected on the ground under the light were so intimate.
"It's better to go to bed quickly. When you get up early tomorrow, you have to go into the mountains!" Wang Yan glanced at her, lay down again, pulled the quilt over her, and looked at the ceiling, not knowing what she was thinking.
After downing half a bowl of blueberry fruit wine, Chen Xiuyu's face turned bright red. Although Lu Lu knew that she was actually a good drinker, he did not let her drink more.
While Lu Lu was eating, she got up and boiled water and brought it to the master bedroom. When she mixed the hot water, Lu Lu also ate and drank enough and got in.
Chen Xiuyu closed the bedroom door. When Lu Lu took off his clothes, Chen Xiuyu was startled when she saw something lying on Lu Lu's body.
Two insects, not much smaller than broad beans, bit Lu Lu's waist.
She quickly pulled Lu Lu up, turned her whole body around and looked, and found another one in the buttocks.
"What's wrong?" Lu Lu asked inexplicably when he saw Chen Xiuyu's frightened face.
"There's a creeper on your back!" Chen Xiuyu raised Lu Lu's arms, not even letting go of the creaking holes.
When Lu Lu heard this, his expression became serious, and he lowered his head and looked everywhere on himself.
Fortunately, I didn't find it in front of me.
Ticks, northerners call them grass crawlers or dog beans.
This is a parasite that lives in grass or woods. They can neither fly nor jump, but are very sensitive to smells. Once a host passes by, they will take the opportunity to get on the body and then look for behind the ears, armpits, waist, and legs.
Places where the skin is thin and hidden, such as the dimples or inner thighs, begin to suck blood.
Humans and animals are their parasites.
The key is to lie on the body and suck blood, but the host doesn't know it.
Before the grasshopper sucks blood, it is only the size of a grain of millet, but after sucking blood, it can swell to the size of a peanut.
This shows how terrifying the amount of blood sucked is. It is said that female grass crawlers can even enlarge their bodies a hundred times when sucking blood.
This thing is known as the craziest vampire in the insect world.
Moreover, they will lay a bunch of eggs on their bodies, which can easily infect people with various germs and cause various diseases, which can even lead to death in severe cases.
Especially in the summer, when this grass crawler reproduces vigorously.
When you enter the forest, you must check when you come out.
Lu Lu had lived in the wilderness for a long time. He had been harmed by this thing many times before. He knew how powerful it was, but he just hurried back all the way without having time to check it.
Unexpectedly, three of them were parasitic on me at once.
I have a rest tomorrow. It seems I have to help Zhui Feng and Yuan Bao look for them.
"Don't move...I'll take it off for you!"
Chen Xiuyu whispered something, ran back to the kitchen, fetched a match, struck a match, and baked it against the grasshopper. After a while, the baked grasshopper fell off.
In the same way, Chen Xiuyu baked the other two and dropped them.
As mountain people, they deal with the mountains and forests every day, so they know how to deal with this terrifying thing.
The head of the grass crawler is covered with barbs, so you can't just pinch it off with your fingers. The more you pull it, the tighter it bites. It will be very easy to break its neck and leave the head in the skin.
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Roasting it over fire and letting it exit on its own is the best way.
Another way is to use wine to paralyze the grass crawler, and then gently pull it out completely.
After taking out all three grass crawlers, Chen Xiuyu held a lantern and searched carefully everywhere on Lu Lu's body, not even missing the follicles. Fortunately, there were only those three.
But as soon as the egg was fiddled with, the cannon was immediately set up.
Seeing this scene, Chen Xiuyu, who was already blushing, turned even redder. She quickly sat Lu Lu down, took a towel and soap, and helped Lu Lu wipe his back.
After Lu Lu washed and dried, Chen Xiuyu opened the door and sent the bath water out to pour it out.
Lu Lu waited for Chen Xiuyu to come back, took 220 medicines and handed them to her, asking her to help disinfect the area bitten by the grasshopper. It was too itchy and swollen.
After the medicine was applied, when Chen Xiuyu climbed on the kang and put the medicine bottle in the kangqin drawer, Lu Lu climbed on the kang, stretched out his arms to hug Chen Xiuyu, and then turned over and pressed him on the kang.
"Stop making trouble, there's someone on the big kang outside!"
Chen Xiuyu struggled for a moment and whispered.
Lu Lu was not willing to let her go, and said with a smile: "You walk around the mountains and forests every day, come here, I will help you check to see if there are any grasshoppers!"
As he spoke, his hands began to become dishonest.
"There are two at the top, they are quite big, and there is one at the bottom too!"
When Chen Xiuyu was touched, her body couldn't help but tremble, and she quickly softened: "It's so bad, I told you there was someone outside..."
"The door is closed, just don't make a sound... hold on!" Lu Lu bit Chen Xiuyu's ear and blew air.
Chen Xiuyu knew she couldn't escape tonight, so she could only obey. She didn't use her hands, but moved her waist to cooperate.
However, when Lu Lu found the doorway and his tiger body trembled, Chen Xiuyu couldn't help but screamed "ah", and she was so frightened that she quickly reached out to cover her mouth.
This night seems to have a different kind of excitement.
On the big bed, the two little girls lay on the bed again, tilting their heads and listening. They vaguely heard each other's breathing which had become much heavier.
The next morning, Lu Lu got up a little later. When Wang Dalong and others came to work, he woke up, changed into clean clothes, took a towel, toothpaste and toothbrush, and went to the river to wash up.
After cleaning up, he briefly said hello to Wang Dalong and others. He went back to the house and cut a section of No. 8 wire with pliers. He lit a small fire on the grass. After burning the wire red, he placed it on an anvil and hammered it.
After more than twenty minutes of hammering, I finally made a small tool that was larger than an ear pick.
This is a small tool prepared to collect incense for deer.
After a brief polishing, Lu Lu walked to the warehouse and said, "Brother Wang, Brother Bai, Brother Meng, and Brother Zuo, please put down what you are doing and come down to do me a small favor."
They were doing whatever they were doing. When they heard Lu Lu's greeting, everyone put down their work and followed Lu Lu to the underground cellar.
Lu Lu went to the fence and took a look. The deer, which had been trapped in the hunting net all night, struggled a lot that night. The ground was covered with fresh mud. Feeling Lu Lu approaching, he jumped up with all his strength. Unfortunately, it was in vain.
Lu Lu directly carried him out.
After untying the hunting net and asking Wang Dalong and the other two men to hold down the legs, feet and head, Lu Lu found a small bowl, came to the deer, stretched out his hand to grab its "sachet", kneaded it gently, and then mixed the newly made
The small digging tool was extended along the pipe of the "sachet". After digging for a while, there was some brown sticky matter stuck to the hair in the small bowl.
This is musk!
After digging about twenty grams, Lu Lu stopped what he was doing, found 220 potions, sterilized its sachet, and asked a few people to release it.
The little thing jumped out immediately and limped into the woods.
The five dogs that had been surrounding the deer immediately chased after the deer when they saw it running away, but were called back by Lu Lu.
Looking at the way the deer is running, it seems that even though it was trapped in the hunting net for a night, the deer's condition has recovered a lot.
Musk can be collected twice a year in spring and autumn, and the amount each time is only more than 20 grams. You cannot collect more, otherwise this method of collecting fragrance from living bodies will be inconvenient for the deer.
It hurt a little.
In later generations of breeding, when collecting incense, an anesthetic needle was usually injected into the deer's body through a blower to anesthetize it before proceeding.
But Lu Lu has no conditions here, so he can only use force.
Of course, this process is definitely uncomfortable for the deer. However, it is much better than the method of harvesting the sachet after hunting, which is a method of fishing.
It was also the first time for Wang Dalong and others to see such an operation, but seeing Lu Lu holding a glass bottle and melting beeswax to seal it with great care, he knew that these things must be valuable things.
However, the smell also made several people suffer a lot. After letting go of the deer, they ran to the side and gasped for air.
After taking a short rest, the others continued busy with the work at hand, while Lu Lu took out the four honey dogs.
Originally, he didn't even want the fur, but he still peeled the skin. After scraping off the oily skin, he stretched it with grass and put it in a fairy pillar to dry in the shade. As for the meat and offal, Lu Lu directly fed it to Yuan Bao, the others and the three lynxes.
cub.
The three lynx cubs have grown up a lot, and their appetites have also increased a lot.
I consume a lot of this meat every day.
Fortunately, you can always get some miscellaneous fish in the puddles and small rivers, so you can stay stable.
Thinking of the grass crawler on his body yesterday, Lu Lu went back to the house to get soap and a brush, whistled to call Zhui Feng, and led him to the river to wash himself. Sure enough, he also found several of them on Zhui Feng, especially in the
Among the long manes on its neck, there were seven or eight in its ears.
Each and every one of them was a grass crawler, their stomachs were bulging and full of blood.
With so many things causing harm, horses are prone to disease, and it is also difficult for them to grow strong.
Wash more in the future!
After taking care of Zhui Feng, there were still five dogs left. When Chen Xiuyu and others came back from the mountain, Lu Lu had not finished taking care of them.
The whole morning was spent in these chores.
After lunch, Zhao Meiling still drove the carriage and went to the district with Zhou Cuifen to deliver mushrooms, while Chen Xiuyu and the two little girls washed, dried and baked them.
However, Wang Yan and Pu Guiying always looked at Lu Lu strangely. Even when they occasionally spoke, they blushed and hesitated. Lu Lu also received many looks from Chen Xiuyu.
"You can't blame me for this. Who asked you to scream!"
After the matter was done, after the two little girls fled as if they were running away, Lu Lu led Chen Xiuyu to inspect the bee colony and use sublimated sulfur to treat the mites. Only then did he realize that on the mountain, Chen Xiuyu was often teased by Pu Guiying and Zhou Cuifen, and she immediately became confused.
Lu Lu was amused.
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xiuyu was greeted with fists one after another.