In the past two years, every household in Dongchen Village has grown a lot of sesame seeds. Jiang Sanlang also spent money to learn how to squeeze sesame oil from a castor oil pressing workshop.
When he came back, he taught his brother-in-law's son Daniel how to press oil, and asked him to build two thatched huts as oil mills at the market outside Dongchen Village, specifically to press sesame oil for people.
Of course, Danniu also harvests sesame seeds and sells sesame oil pressed by himself. The business is quite prosperous, and people from all over the country come to buy it. The supply is simply in short supply.
Nowadays, every family in Dongchen Village likes to use fragrant sesame oil to stir-fry vegetables and rice, and even less lard is eaten.
Yingbao led his second senior brother home, and just in time to catch up with his mother-in-law, she had already put out the roasted sesame seeds.
With a smile, Chun Niang brought the sesame seeds to the table, prepared to crush them, and said to her daughter, "If you want to eat it, Bao'er, grab a handful and taste it. It's delicious."
Ying Bao first grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his mouth, then motioned to his second senior brother to grab it too.
Zhang Min was not polite, he just grabbed a handful and threw it into his mouth and chewed it.
Not to mention, this stuff smells really good.
It was the first time for him to eat fried sesame seeds, and he was immediately greedy.
"Don't eat too much, it will hurt your brain." Yingbao said, "Later, grandma will crush the sesame seeds, and let's mix them with sugar and taste them."
Zhang Min nodded and said to Chun Niang: "Auntie, let me crush it for you."
"No, I can do it myself. It will be ready in a moment." Chun Niang took a rolling pin, spread the sesame on a clean board, and crushed it hard. The fried sesame was very crispy, and it was quickly rolled into pieces. Crushed.
The sesame flavor is more intense.
Chun Niang put the ground sesame seeds into a clean clay pot, kept some of it out, mixed it with icing sugar, and added a little bit of freshly boiled water to make two bowls of sesame paste, and handed one bowl to Zhang Min. : "Come on, try it."
Zhang Min took it and ate it deliciously.
Chunniang gave another bowl to her daughter: "Bao'er will also have a taste."
Yingbao took a spoon, fed her mother a mouthful, took a bite herself, and quickly finished the sesame paste.
Chunniang asked: “Do you want some more?”
“No need, eating sesame seeds will make you tired.” Yingbao took the empty bowls of himself and his second senior brother and washed them.
Zhang Min went out for a walk after eating and drinking. He met Hu Zi who had come back to drink water. The two of them stood shoulder to shoulder and talked about learning to fight.
Yingbao ignored them and sat at home talking to A Niang. "Mom, why is there no one in our textile workshop?"
Chun Niang took out a piece of cloth to cut a dress for her daughter and said, "All the cotton at home has been spun. It is the busy farming season again, and the weaver girls have gone home to work on the farm."
“What about our cloth? Have you sold all of it?”
Chun Niang pointed to the dozens of pieces of cotton cloth piled in the room and said: "Your father gave it to the cloth shop in Simen Town. The remaining ones are kept to make some clothes for my family. There is no need to buy them for the New Year and festivals, or for exchanges of favors. The cloth is ready-made at home.”
He paused for a while and then said: "Your sister Dani has made an appointment with the Zhang family. We will get married in the spring of next year. Oh, how fast it goes. Dani is also getting married, and your father and I are both old."
What Chun Niang lamented was not that Dani was going to get married, but that her little girl had grown up in an instant, and in five or six years at most, she would have to find a husband.
The thought of her daughter getting married made Chun Niang extremely heartbroken.
Once you get married, you will have fewer days to go home. Even if Chun Niang doesn't want to admit it, once a girl gets married, she basically becomes a member of someone else's family. When she returns to her natal family, she becomes a guest.
Ying Bao took a serious look at A Niang and said, "Mom is not old at all, and there are no wrinkles on her face."
Chunniang pursed her lips and smiled softly, touching her face: "Who said there are no wrinkles? Look at the deep wrinkles on my forehead."
“I also have forehead wrinkles.” Ying Bao tried her best to open her eyes wide and push out two wrinkles on her forehead.
Chunniang poked her daughter's forehead and said with a smile, "Where are the wrinkles on your forehead?"
Yingbao touched her forehead and said, "Then let me prepare some moisturizing cream for my grandma. If you apply it every night, your skin will definitely be white and tender. This is how the ladies in the city apply it on their faces."
"Okay, I'm waiting for Bao'er's moisturizing cream." After the two of them talked for a while, they heard someone outside shouting: "Is Mrs. Xu at home?"
Chunniang quickly put down her scissors and went out to check.
The visitors were two men in green robes and a middle-aged woman, who did not appear to be from the village.
"What do you want?" Chun Niang wiped her hands with her apron and looked at the people.
The woman stepped forward and saluted, "My surname is Wang, and I am from Liushu Township. Today, my husband and I are here to ask for a consultation from the little miracle doctor."
Chunniang then looked at the man next to her.
I saw one person standing unsteadily, being supported by his companions, and his expression was extremely bad.
Chunniang frowned, wondering whether she should agree or not. Then Yingbao came over and said, "Then please sit down."
She led the man under the grape trellis in the yard and asked the woman, "What's wrong with the patient?"
The woman walked up behind her husband and opened his collar, "Husband, he has a sore on his back. It hasn't healed. It's getting worse in the past few days. I asked a little miracle doctor to take a look at it."
Ying Bao walked over to check, and sure enough he saw a fist-sized abscess under the man's neck, which was emitting a strong stench.
“The doctor in our village said it was back gangrene.” The woman covered her face and wiped the corners of her eyes.
“Back gangrene?” Ying Bao frowned.
She has seen a method to treat back gangrene, but this requires cutting open the sore to drain the pus, then cutting off the slough, and then fighting the infection. If you are not careful, it can be fatal.
But the ulcer on this man’s back was so big that if he had to operate rashly, he might not be able to bear it.
Seeing Ying Bao's hesitation, the woman knelt down in front of her and said, "Please ask the little miracle doctor to help me."
Yingbao expressed her embarrassment: "His back gangrene has gone deep. If I want to treat him, I will have to operate on him to remove the carrion. The process is dangerous. If something unexpected happens, will you be able to bear it?"
The woman was stunned.
The sick man raised his head and said to Ying Bao: "Please ask the little miracle doctor to operate."
He had been to several medicine shops and even the county medical office. They first performed an operation on him, but then the sores recurred and there were maggots in them. He really couldn't bear it and wanted to die, but there was someone Tell him that there is a little miracle doctor in Dongchen Village, Chuanhe Town, who rarely treats people, but everyone who has been treated by her has been cured.
Yingbao: "In that case, let's sign a contract first. If you are cured, you have to pay the full medical fee. If you can't be cured, you can't rely on me."
She can't guarantee that she can completely cure this person. If she can't cure him, she doesn't want to be blackmailed.
“Okay!” The man agreed without hesitation.
Subsequently, Yingbao went to the house to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone, wrote the deed on the spot, and asked all three of them to take their fingerprints.
Of course, I, the person who established the position, also pressed the button.
Chunniang also specially went to invite the patriarch Chen Fu and two village elders, and asked them to press their fingerprints and bear witness.
Then it’s time to get ready for the knife.
It was definitely not possible at home, so Yingbao asked Aniang to free up a room in the textile workshop outside the yard for this person to live temporarily.
Then Yingbao began to boil the knife in a clay pot to sterilize it.
Take out another jar of spirits for later use.
Medicinal materials are essential, such as thistle, licorice, astragalus, etc.
But these are temporary treatments rather than root causes, and can only provide temporary relief to patients.