Lu Lu rode Zhuifeng back to Caodianzi. Chen Xiuyu was wandering around the bee farm next to Zuoluozi, checking the entry and exit of the bee colonies and whether there were parasites such as Varroa mites on the bees.
He also held Xiao Zhengyang's hand and taught him how to walk.
The little guy has already been able to sit firmly and climb on the kang very well. Judging from the current situation, it won't be long before he can learn to walk. Now he can hold Chen Xiuyu's finger with one hand and stand shaking.
Shaking, he tried to use his other hand to pinch the black bees coming in and out of the hive door.
The little guy is full of curiosity about the world and wants to touch everything without any fear. However, every time he reaches out his hand, Chen Xiuyu would gently slap him away, causing the little guy to babble and scream strangely.
Seeing Lu Lu coming back with big and small bags, Chen Xiuyu immediately came over from the bee farm with her child in her arms.
Lu Lu jumped off his horse and took down the things.
"Where are Yanzi and the others?"
Seeing that there was no one around, Lu Lu couldn't help but ask. It was almost lunch time, so everyone should be there.
"They went to cut grass and leaves in the nearby mountains. They should be back soon. I have almost cooked the food. When they come back, they will be ready to eat soon... What did you buy for those big bags?
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Chen Xiuyu stared at the things Lu Lu was carrying and asked strangely.
"Some Chinese medicine..."
Lu Lu entered the house first with the medicine in hand, and the first thing he did was to go to the kitchen to prepare the medicine.
There was no medicine jar at home, and he couldn't pay too much attention to it. After cleaning the malt and hawthorn he bought, he put it in an iron pot and added water to boil it: "This is for you to drink, one bowl at a time, twice a day, whenever
Stop when you feel the swelling stops."
When weaning, breast engorgement is not a minor problem and can easily cause inflammation.
Lu Lu thought very carefully, and Chen Xiuyu smiled obediently and nodded: "Yeah."
"You don't have to wait for me to eat at noon. I met Wu Biao in the district and he invited me to eat at Tian Youcheng's place..."
As Lu Lu spoke, he picked up the child and teased it. Hearing the little guy call him daddy twice, he was very satisfied: "I will go to the mountains later to find some dried elm bark."
Elm trees are very common trees in the deserted mountains, and elm mushrooms especially like to grow on the trunks or roots of fallen elm trees.
Stir cornstarch noodles with elm flowers and steam them in a pot. Once the water blooms, it will be cooked. Just fill a stove with firewood to keep the heat. Then, put it into a bowl, soak the chopped green and white tender green onions, and soak it with the next year's old onions.
Pickle the soup and mix it with rice to become an authentic country delicacy and human delicacy - Yuqian rice.
In the early years, Yuqian rice was a life-saving thing.
Nowadays, Yuqian rice is also a well-known local snack in Shanxi, Hebei and other places.
Of course, this is also the best thing for Lu Lu. Although the flowers do not have nectar, they are excellent pollen plants and play a very good role in the reproduction of bee colonies in early spring.
Now it has two more functions. The bark can be used to make mosquito coils, and the beautiful elm knots can be used to make carved ornaments.
"Then what's left?" Chen Xiuyu looked through the things wrapped in newspapers.
"Moxa velvet, tangerine peel and realgar." Lu Lu said with a smile: "There is a mosquito net hanging in the bedroom, but not in the living room. I am going to use these things to make some mosquito repellent to see the effect. If possible, I will prepare more
Some of them can also be used to repel mosquitoes and midges in farms.”
Lu Lu rested for a while, handed the child to Chen Xiuyu, took the hunting knife out of the meadow, and looked for dried elm bark. It didn't take long for him to come back.
They were all dry things, so there was no need to dry them in the sun. Lu Lu brought the stone mortar that he usually used to pound garlic and chili noodles at home, and started pounding the tangerine peel, elm bark, and realgar.
Wang Yan and Ma Jinlan were both at Lu Lu's meadow, which became a perfect reason for Chen Xiuqing to come over and have a meal.
When I had nothing to do, I rode my family's Oroqen horse, and by the way, I also brought over my family's horse that was used for farm work, and headed to Lu Lu's place on the meal site.
Just by looking at his posture, you can tell that this guy plans to stay here all day and won't leave without having dinner.
When he arrived at Caodianzi, he saw Lu Lu pounding charcoal with a stone mortar.
In the pot on the side, a lot of powder was produced from realgar, tangerine peel and elm bark.
Next to them, Wang Yan and others who had returned from cutting grass leaves in the mountains were also watching silently.
"What are you doing?" Chen Xiuqing asked as she came up.
“You’ll know when you make it!”
Several people at home, when they came to the yard and saw Lu Lu making trouble, they all wanted to ask questions, but he was a little too lazy to say anything.
"Brother Lu is making mosquito coils!" Wang Yan ran to Chen Xiuqing obediently and said something helpful.
At this time, Chen Xiuyu came to the gate and shouted: "It's time to eat!"
Several people followed him into the house, not forgetting to call Lu Lu.
"Brother Lu has already eaten at the restaurant in the district, don't worry about him!" Chen Xiuyu greeted several people into the room.
Lu Lu was minding his own business. After pounding the charcoal into fine flour, he mixed several things with flour in proportion. After adding water, he kneaded it in the basin as if mixing noodles. When the mixture was even, he found a piece of flour.
Use a wooden board, and then use a rolling pin to roll the black mud-like thing into a thin piece.
After a little trimming, use a wooden stick to compare, cut the hunting knife into thin strips of about the same size, put them in a dustpan, while they are soft, coil them into circles like a mosquito coil, and then put them in the sun to dry.
The sun is very sunny today, and the temperature is nearly 30 degrees. I believe it will be useful by the evening.
After washing the utensils, Chen Xiuqing and others also finished their meal. He had nothing to do, so he followed Lu Lu and wandered around in the meadow, looking at the deer in the farm and catching a few fish from the water bubbles to feed.
Xianhe, went to the apiary to check on the bees, and finally went to the section of woods circled on the hillside behind the wood carvings.
Lu Lu had never taken care of this linden forest after planting the sticks he brought back from the mountains. Although it was already considered an understory ginseng, Lu Lu still insisted on a wild state.
Chen Xiuyu said several times that she wanted to go in and deal with the weeds, but Lu Lu blocked her.
He didn't expect the mallets to grow, all he needed was a year.
The seedlings surrounding the sticks in the fence have emerged very well. Most of them have become three-branched third-leaf leaves. Among them, there are seven or eight that have grown into fourth-leaf leaves this year. There is only one, which was brought back and planted the year before last.
It has grown into five-pin leaves.
Of course, there are still many parts that did not sprout at all this year.
But Lu Lu believes that as long as these fourth-grade leaves and fifth-grade leaves are kept, in another twenty or thirty years, the sticks on the mountain will be rare, and when the fourth-grade leaves can be called big products, these sticks will
Even a mallet with many years of history can become a very rare item.
Not only Chen Xiuqing, but also Zhang Shaofeng and others came to see the linden forest surrounded by him. Seeing that the mallets inside were growing well, several people moved to carry the mallets and plant some of their own.
idea.
Lu Lu previously thought about poking alone for a while, but later, he quickly gave up the idea.
It can be said that he has experienced a lot of things. He has been with several sworn brothers for such a long time, and he can truly feel the true friendship they have for him.
I always think about poking alone and getting more mallets, but in fact it is completely unnecessary.
As long as he liked the mallets that were brought up, several people would give them to him. They never thought about getting anything from him, but only thought about giving him more.
This is not only because Lu Lu deserves it for his contribution in this process, but also because of the friendship between them.
Lu Lu also felt that there was no need to be selfish for this.
Once you become selfish, the relationship between brothers will fade away.
He actually likes this kind of mutual help between brothers, being direct and direct, without so much false feelings, and hopes to keep it like this.
Chen Xiuqing followed Lu Lu around for a while, chewing on a piece of dogtail grass out of boredom, and dozed against the cellar. Lu Lu continued to lead the child to the meadow to learn walking after he woke up.
Yuanbao and the other dogs would always crowd around and flop around at times like this, making little Zhengyang giggle from time to time. They would also lick the little guy's little hands and face from time to time.
And once they are caught by the little guy, they will be unwilling to let go and forcefully peel them off, which will definitely make him cry non-stop.
Lu Lu was not worried at all that Yuanbao and the others would hurt his children.
The car is no longer useful. The little one is too capable of rolling around and will crawl out of it after waking up. Lu Lu specially asked Jin Jiabao for this purpose and asked him to help find steel bars and billiard plates (ball bearings), and help weld one.
A simple walker frame with a small upper circle and a larger lower circle, with a protective cover sewn with cotton cloth, put the little guy inside, and let him stagger around in the house and yard.
The pinball wheels were dismantled from the wheels of the mine wheels in the mining area. A few pieces of wood and a few boards can be used to make the pinball wheel, which is the favorite toy of boys these days. If you have the chance, go to the road and rush down the slope.
, even if it falls to the ground, it doesn’t matter.
Some people also use billiard plates to simply process them and make them into simple carts for pushing things.
In the Northeast, billiards have been available in Wafangdian, Liaoning Province as early as 1938, when the Wafangdian Bearing Factory was built, referred to as Wafangdian for short.
Of course, pachinko is more commonly called here in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
With this walker, Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu have gained some freedom. They don't have to bend down all the time to lead him to learn to walk, and they can have more time to do something.
When the little guy was pushing the walker around in the yard, Yuanbao and the others followed him almost all day long, and sometimes they slept next to the walker.
When we got to the house, there were three lynxes.
But in front of the lynx, Lu Lu and Chen Xiuyu didn't trust their children to provoke them.
Lynxes are never as humane as Yuanbao. Even if dogs open their mouths to bite, they can only bite them once without really exerting any force. However, lynxes are different. When they are angry, they are really cruel and casual.
If you put your paw down, you can see blood.
It was okay for the time being, so Lu Lu simply called Chen Xiuqing and green onions and headed to Xiushan Tun.
Wang Demin was also leisurely, wearing glasses and reading medicine books under the big apricot tree. When he saw Lu Lu and Chen Xiuqing coming over, he closed the book, took off his glasses and looked at them: "What are you doing?"
"I'm just here to find you!"
Lu Lu sat down on the elm tree: "Uncle Wang, this section of the elm tree belongs to you, right?"
"It's mine. I saw it on the mountain a few years ago. I planned to drag it back to make firewood, but I found that it was too difficult to chop with an axe. It was all lumps and twisted wires, so I threw it here. There are often old people in the village.
, the children come here to enjoy the cool air or play, and often sit on it, so they never touch it.”
Wang Demin asked strangely: "Why do you ask?"
"I think these bumps on the top are pretty, and I want to take them back to make a display or something." Lu Luzhi said.
"What can this thing do, and what's so good about it? It's hard to use it as firewood, so you can take it away if you want!" Wang Demin waved his hand, not minding at all.
"That's okay. You worked hard to get it from the mountain. Let's do this. I'll give you five yuan and I'll buy it!" Lu Lu took out the five yuan he had prepared and stuffed it into Wang Demin's hand.
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"It's just a piece of rotten wood..."
"Keep it...well, another day I will ask Zuo Songling to make a long chair and put it here for the convenience of enjoying the cool air!"
Then, Lu Lu looked back at Chen Xiuqing: "Qingzi, go back and hitch the carriage to load it up... I'll go talk to Brother Zuo first and settle this matter."
Without waiting for Wang Demin to say anything more, he set off first and headed to Zuo Songling's home.
After making a bench, Lu Lu said hello and returned quickly. When Chen Xiuqing arrived in a carriage, the three of them worked together to load the piece of elm wood and send it to Kong Siren's house in the district.
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