space medicine girl

Chapter 68
Then, secure the end of the handle with a string so that it does not come apart.The next most critical thing is how to make it move like an automatic electric fan?

After studying for a long time and thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly remembered that I saw a four-leaf fan that was passed down from Europe to the Qing Dynasty in a certain Qing palace drama. .

Although, when she was looking at it at the time, she still thought dismissively, how much wind could be blown out by fanning so slowly, but thinking about it now, she can learn from it, it doesn't matter whether it looks like it or not , as long as it can get out of the wind, but it doesn't have to be so laborious.

I also thought of the yo-yo I played with when I was a child. Just wind the string around the yo-yo, and pull it after a while, and the yo-yo will automatically spin. Let’s combine these two items for reference.

First, I found a piece of wood that was bigger and taller, and I dug a hole with all my strength, and put the handle of the fan in for a try. The depth and width were about the same.

Then twisted a slightly thicker string and wound it many times around the exposed handle of the fan.Although it was very troublesome to wind around, but when she slowly pulled it away, it was much better than shaking a fan to fan the wind and make her hands sore and hotter because of the effort.

Go get a basin of water again, put it in front of the fan, and try it again. It’s not too big or too small. The unhurried wind blows the cool water vapor. In this world without air conditioning, it’s really a good thing. An amazing invention.

"Nurse, nurse, come out with Xue'er in your arms and try to see if it's cool!" Miao Yinshu shouted excitedly.

"What?" Cui Gu, who was irritated by Xiao Xue'er's crying, didn't hear what Miao Yinshu called, so she hurried over, and when she saw that her young lady had hurt two fans, she couldn't help sighing, " Miss, why did you cut the fan and why are you stacking it together!"

"Hey, nanny, you'll know as soon as you sit down!" Miao Yinshu asked Cui Gu to sit down with Xue'er in her arms, teased and begged her to hug the little bun while crying, Miao Yinshu started mysteriously invented his own new invention.

When the cool breeze blew away the scorching heat from his body, Xiao Baozi immediately stopped crying, opened a pair of tearful eyes, and looked curiously at the fan that kept turning in front of him, waving his hands wildly, as if he wanted to play with the seedlings. Yin Shu held the rope in his hand.

"Oh, miss, this fan is really much cooler than fanning casually!" Cui Gu was surprised to see that the cattail fan, which was cursed by the miss, could get wind out just by pulling the rope and wrapping it around it. I don't know how much less effort it is than fanning with a cattail fan.

"The wind is cool because there is a water basin in front of it. However, it saves a lot of effort than holding a fan directly!" Miao Yinshu said proudly, and did not forget to praise herself secretly. Hurry up!
Of course, if the principle of gears is used again, it is possible to create a fan that only needs to be cranked by hand, just like in the Qing Palace Opera.This depends on whether there is a chance in the future, go to the blacksmith shop to see if the master blacksmith has this craft.

Now is not the time to think about this. After all, the unusually hot weather has probably attracted the attention of many old people. Maybe even the master blacksmith who also has to work in agriculture is not in the mood to be interested in her thing for the time being.

Still, let’s use it at home first!Make a few more and send them to Li Chang's family and Mrs. Zhong's family, and let them fiddle with the wooden stakes. She doesn't have the strength to dig so many tree holes anymore.

Miao Yinshu suggested hawthorn cakes, tuckahoe cakes, and mung bean cakes for appetizing and digesting food, etc., which became popular in Shilipo, which made the villagers who were too hot to work and had no appetite to fill their stomachs and work hard again.

There are also homemade simple fans that are also very popular. Anyway, cattail fans are very cheap, and every family has several prepared, and they can be brought to the field. When resting, they circle a few circles while eating, and then slowly It is indeed labor-saving and cool to pull the cord.

It's just that this day is really a competition with people, the temperature is still rising gradually, the heat wave is scorching the earth, almost scorching the rice seedlings.

Even though the busy season of farming is over, in order to wait for the seedlings that have been planted hard, every household will still stay at the head of the field, watch the water in the paddy field, and water it in time to prevent the field from lacking water.

The water level of the mother river is getting lower and lower under everyone's anxious attention, and the wells beside the river are being dug as deep as possible. A few clever villagers even joined another well under the guidance of Master Yang. During the excavation, it is only to give the villagers more protection of water resources.

The water in the reservoir at the foot of the Miaojia Mountain was about to bottom out, and the water drawn from the mountain stream seemed to be unable to withstand the scorching sun and flowed less and less.However, the water levels of the wells in the four directions of east, west, south, and north remained at the original position, which surprised the hired workers.

When such a surprising discovery reached Miao Yinshu's ears, she was obviously stunned for a long time. She was puzzled, and when she entered the space to clean it up, she suddenly remembered that she once had a look at the pool water that was added to the space for an experiment. When there is any change in the effect of the Chinese herbal medicine, the water that has been added to the well water, is it because of this reason that the abnormality appears?
I feel a little guilty, although this means that my family will not suffer from water shortage due to the drought, but it is also because of this abnormal phenomenon that ancient humans regard as a strange phenomenon. There will be some kind of crisis.

However, she had no way to separate the pool water that had been poured into the well, so she could only pray in fear that this matter would not cause a commotion.

The prickly heat powder for Xiao Xue'er finally has the feeling of later generations after her countless failures.

The rich floral fragrance conceals the bitter aroma of Chinese herbal medicine. The light mint flavor is refreshing and refreshing. Combined with an appropriate amount of talcum powder, it is smooth, dry and cool when applied on the body.

After taking a bath, I applied it on the underarms and leg bends of Xiao Xueer, which prevented him from developing new prickly heat due to profuse sweating.

After the little guy applied it for the first time, he probably liked the cool feeling of mint on his skin, so he asked for a little bit from time to time, which greatly reduced the chance of crying.

The experiment can be said to be a complete success, and there was no adverse allergic reaction to the buns that had been smeared for several days. Miao Yinshu followed Fei Yunyi's agreement with Shen Yupei and asked Zhong Qi to bring some finished products to Shen Yupei to negotiate a price.

She is planning that if she passes the test there, she might as well start to build a prickly heat powder processing factory, and then recruit some careful female workers to come in. The way to make a fortune is to make money for everyone, otherwise it will always be just a small business. .

After lunch, while Cuigu took Xiao Xueer to take a nap, Miao Yinshu, who was so hot and flustered, sneaked into the space and had a good sleep. After waking up, she stayed in the space until the evening heat dissipated slightly. Some, just come out from inside.

"It's so hot!" It was still very hot outside, as soon as he stepped out of the space, sweat seemed to come out all of a sudden, Miao Yinshu really wanted to imitate a puppy by sticking out his tongue to dissipate heat.

Just as I was about to wrap the rope around and fan the wind, Zhong Yu's voice came from outside: "Miss, my brother is back! He has something to report to you!"

"Oh! Got it!" Wiping the sweat off her face, Miao Yinshu really didn't want to step out of the room, but Zhong Qi brought the news from Shen Yupei, and she had to listen to the report.

In the hall, Zhong Qi paced up and down with sweat on his face, his anxiety was evident on his appearance.Fei Yunyi was also there, also full of concern.

"What's the matter with you? Shen Yupei doesn't want prickly heat powder?" Miao Yinshu asked amusedly while shaking her fan and dragging her legs that were so hot that she didn't want to move. Yes, can you make a bitter face?"

"Miss, it's not because of this matter!" Zhong Qi took a look at Fei Yunyi, and first reported his task for today, "Mr. Shen is not in the Xuanhu Hall today, and shopkeeper Hu tried the prickly heat powder and thought it was very good. , so I stayed, and decided to discuss with Mr. Shen before setting the price with the young lady."

"That's a good thing! Why are you still frowning?" Zhong Yu slumped on the chair, and immediately came over to help her fan the wind.

The breeze that blows the cold water slowly blows on her body, Miao Yinshu finally feels a little cooler.

"Yin Shu, all the rice and grain stores in the town and county have stopped selling rice, and it seems that they have plans to stockpile grain!" Fei Yunyi said worriedly, "Although Uncle Feng asked the villagers to buy rice reserves as much as possible before. After thinking about it, there are still many people who don’t want to believe the speculations of the clan elders, so they didn’t buy rice. Now that they want to buy it, they can’t buy it anymore, and panic has already appeared in everyone’s heart!”

Miao Yinshu sighed secretly when he heard the words, not because he couldn't understand the thoughts of those villagers who were unwilling to save food in advance, why did everyone feel so poor.It's just that it's really too late for things to come to this point.Those unscrupulous businessmen who cannibalize people without spit out their bones may take advantage of this drought to make a fortune.

"Can I go further afield to buy food? For example, a county town?" Miao Yinshu has never experienced a drought in her previous life or this life, and it is because Xiao Yinshu is so remote that she does not leave her home. Personality, I have hardly been out of Shilipo, so I don't know how far the county is from Shilipo, and whether the drought will also affect the county.

"The drought in the county city is probably no worse than ours. I heard from the brothers in the martial arts school that the drought this time has spread to a wide range of places. Maybe the entire Guangyao province has experienced droughts of varying severity. Going to other places to buy food is probably too far away to quench my thirst!" Fei Yunyi said heavily.

Unexpectedly, the drought this time was not only serious, but also affected a wide area, Miao Yinshu's heart immediately sank even more.

Ordinarily, from now on, she hurriedly planted rice and wheat in the space, and she would be able to harvest a lot of grain before the end of the year.But the key is, how should she get the food out?

However, if nothing is done, the food stored in the space is only enough for their family and hired workers to last until the end of the year, and if the food runs out later, what should she do?

"If there is a disaster in the local area, won't the imperial court still provide food and grass for disaster relief?" Miao Yinshu, who could only pin her hope on the imperial court, asked with the last glimmer of hope.

Shen Yupei was silent, wanted to say something but didn't say it, but Zhong Qi couldn't hold back and said: "Miss, the imperial court must provide disaster relief, but the key is how much food will the imperial court allocate? To what extent will the county government and the county government implement it? How much food is in the hands of the common people? And our Shilipo is the most remote mountain village in the county, and we have not been able to hand in too much due to poverty. Taxes, whether the county government will remember our small mountain village is unknown!"

"Isn't it?" Miao Yinshu's hairs trembled slightly, and finally felt the so-called class differences and the possible helplessness of corrupt officials for the first time in another world.Although, only listened to Zhong Qi's one-sided words, but Fei Yunyi lowered his head and did not speak, Zhong Yu also looked sad, and even Cuigu who had just come in with Xiao Xueer looked sad, which made Miao Yinshu In an instant, he lost confidence in this ancient government.

(End of this chapter)