Splendid Pastoral: Space farmers are good for farming

Chapter 4

Platycodon grandiflorum went back and forth one after another, running for an unknown number of times, and finally watered the roots of the big tree to a large enough area.

After confirming that the big tree got enough water, she was so tired that she collapsed under the tree, lay there exhausted, looked up at the leaves on the tree and asked: "I'm almost exhausted, are you full yet?" ?”

Talking to a tree is obviously more stupid than playing the harp to a cow, and the tree is unlikely to get any response.

She was so tired that she fell asleep after lying down for a long time.

When I woke up, my grandma was not there. I only saw a big boiled potato beside me. I guess the eldest sister or the second sister had come.

Kikyo's stomach growled with hunger, turned over and sat up, picked up potatoes and peeled them to eat.

While eating, I thought, where did I go last night?Why is it still in my aunt's new house, as if nothing has changed, is it just a dream I made?

The potatoes were too big, and her stomach was small, so she couldn't eat half of it. She walked out of the frame with the remaining half in her hand, and stood in the reed yard of her aunt's house, thinking: Should I go home now?I don't know what's going on at home, what if I get sent away when I go back?
After much deliberation, he turned to the side and saw a little boy sitting in the neighbor's yard, a white and clean little boy, with a fair and clean face, and fair and clean hands, no matter how he looked, he was different from the mud dolls in the village.

At this time, the boy was sitting in the yard reading a book, with a small face hanging sideways, with a focused and gentle expression, a well-behaved and smart look.

Reading is a rare thing in Shibantun. There are not many people here who can read. This little guy can read. Could it be that he also came here through time travel like himself?

Kikyo became curious about him, and walked to the fence between the two houses and looked there.

The boy seemed to be very hungry. After reading for a while, he rubbed his stomach with his hands. He raised his head to look, and his beautiful big eyes glanced at the bellflower outside the fence. After a moment of stupefaction, he asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm the youngest Jijie of Qiao's family in the east of the village. Who are you?"

"My name is Yao Jinfang, and I'm new here."

"Oh." Kikyo agreed, thinking it's no wonder he hadn't heard of it, because he just came here.

"What book are you reading?" Kikyo asked.

Yao Jin glanced at the palm-thick book in his hand, and said, "Pharmacopia, my mother said that if I memorize it all, she can take me out of here."

Kikyo's face froze for a moment, thinking that Yao Jinfang's mother must not want him to leave, otherwise why would he make such a thick book for him to memorize, and it will take until the year of the monkey?

When she was complaining, Yao Jinfang had already walked over with the big book in her arms, looked at the potato in her hand and said, "What are you taking? Can you eat it?"

The intention is so obvious, Kikyo can't pretend not to know, he sent the potato in his hand and said: "It's edible, it's called a potato, but I ate half of it, if you don't dislike it, eat it."

Sure enough, Yao Jinfang was a little disgusted, but he was so hungry that he swallowed his saliva and glanced at Bellflower's face, perhaps because he thought Bellflower was pretty pleasing to the eye and could barely make do with it, so he took the potatoes and ate them.

Kikyo gave him the potatoes and left. She didn't know her fate yet, so she didn't care about other people's business.

So I went out of my aunt's yard and went back to my own home.

When she went back, she hid her mind and didn't enter the yard in the open, but sneaked in by the fence and squatted under the window to eavesdrop.

The mother in the house was still crying, and the grandma was sitting in the kitchen and yelling: "If you say no, don't you still have to give it away? What's the difference between giving it now and waiting for another one?"

Dad sat in the room and said with a mouthful: "But what can we do if we don't send them away? There are too many people in the family, so many mouths are waiting for me to raise them alone, and I can't raise them."

"I can't give you a bellflower, I just like bellflowers for these kids!"

"But which one can I give her if I don't give it to her? She is not as sensible as others, and no one wants to give it away..."

Kikyo squatted under the window root and was secretly angry. The more sensible Ganqing was, the less pleasing it was. She was as stupid as Zanthoxylum bungeanum without even mentioning it.

She listened for a while, and heard that grandma was silent. It seems that the matter is basically settled like this.

Holding her breath, she slipped away from under the window, and went back to her aunt's empty house again, sitting in the courtyard and thinking more and more angry, since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous, send me to you when you give birth to the next one. People, then I can only prevent you from living.

But what method can be used to prevent them from living?I have no money to buy medicine, and I can't manage other things...

After much deliberation, she suddenly thought of Yao Jinfang, the boy in the yard next to him. Didn't he just read the Pharmacopoeia? The methods of contraception are always written in the Pharmacopoeia!

She turned her head and saw that Jin Fang was still reading a book in the yard, so she got up and went around from the road in front of the door to the yard of Jin Fang's house.

Yao Jinfang felt that someone came in and looked up. When he saw her, he asked, "Didn't you leave, why are you back?"

"I'm here to ask you to borrow a book and have a look."

"Oh, but do you know how to read?"

Kikyo choked for a moment, rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't know me, look at what the book looks like!"

Yao Jinfang handed over the book, and turned the page he was looking at. He saw a picture of herbal medicine drawn on it, and below it was written in teeny small letters: Platycodon grandiflorum, bitter and pungent in nature, flat, returns to the lung meridian, and has the effect of declaring Lung, sore throat, expectorant, pus and other effects.

Below the picture is also written a large piece of prescriptions based on Platycodon grandiflorum.

Kikyo looked at Yao Jinfang in a blink of an eye: "Are you looking at my name?"

Yao Jinfang blushed suspiciously, lowered his head and said, "Didn't you say you can't read?"

Kikyo raised her slender eyebrows, pointed to the pages of the book and said, "But there are pictures on it!"

Yao Jinfang didn't have as much thoughtfulness as her, so he just believed it.

The book in his hand was too heavy for Kikyo to hold it, so he could only sit on the ground and flip it over.

Yao Jinfang was worried when she saw her turning the pages of the book, for fear that she might spoil the book, so he said, "What do you want to read, I'll help you find it."

Kikyo struggled to find it by herself, and said hesitantly, "I'm looking for... herbal medicine that can prevent pregnancy."

She blushed a little when she said that, is it really good to say this in front of an eight or nine-year-old boy?

Yao Jinfang didn't understand the specific meaning of contraception, so he didn't take it seriously at all, and said, "There are several methods of contraception, but they are either sexually cold or destroy the blood, which is more harmful to the body."

"That's no good, I want to save myself."

"Then come to Huanhuacao, just boil it into soup and take it."

After speaking, he carefully flipped through most of the pharmacopoeia, found a writing, pointed to it and said, "That's it, who are you looking for this medicine for?"

Kikyo squinted at him dissatisfied, thinking to himself why this kid asks so many questions, can I tell that I drink it for my mother?
She looked at the picture in the pharmacopoeia, and felt that she had seen this thing on the mountain in front of the door, so she stood up and said, "Okay, I have something else to do, so I won't bother you."

(End of this chapter)