Chapter 70 Medicine Garden Plan
The medicinal soup cooked by this herb is basically impossible to taste, but as the saying goes, good medicine is bitter and good for the disease. After each has a bowl of medicinal soup, go to sleep. After a good night's sleep, the next morning, according to the three of them, they did feel a lot better.
One of them even said that he seemed to be completely fine.
After hearing this report, Zhou Xu nodded.
“Just in case, let him rest for another day and take medicine for another day. Divide it into three times, morning, noon and evening, and deliver them to him.”
The most fearful thing about colds is that they are not completely cured, and then keep recurring, which is very frustrating.
After you feel better, you cannot relax and be careless. Consolidation is still necessary.
Zhou Xu had already demonstrated the process of cooking medicine yesterday. It was basically not a technical job. To put it bluntly, you just had to pay attention to the fire.
In fact, it is more than enough to leave this matter to two apprentices.
However, in order to gain experience, Ye Yan decided to cook it himself first.
In this regard, Zhou Xu followed him.
After breakfast, he took two young followers and walked out of the camp.
The two followers, one named Zhang Xiaoshan and the other named Li Shitou, are both very ordinary two-star ordinary people with five-dimensional panels. Their talents are also very average, but their hands and feet are quite nimble.
As the size of the tribe continues to expand and the number of people continues to increase, Zhou Xu also needs someone around him who can help him run errands and deliver orders at any time, so he picked these two people.
Walking all the way to the farming area outside the camp, thanks to the addition of this group of new people, the farming team that originally had only one seedling officially expanded to three people. The increase in staff made the farming team more Work efficiency is significantly improved.
During this period, Zhou Xu's arrival did not have much impact on their work.
After a simple salute, he quickly devoted himself to the work in front of him, which was also Zhou Xu's own request.
Looking at the farming area marked out in front of him, he fell into deep thought.
When he was cooking medicine yesterday, he mentioned to Ye Yan that he was growing herbal medicine. This was not a casual mention.
Considering long-term development, if their tribe encounters some situation in the future and is in urgent need of herbs, or even a large amount of herbs, do they really expect to temporarily go to the wild to search and pick them?
That would be too inefficient.
So according to Zhou Xu’s thinking, planting it yourself is the most stable and reliable way.
Although I haven't found any vegetables and fruits that can be planted yet, part of the initial preparations for farming have been done.
In other words, the cultivation of herbs can start at any time.
The issue Zhou Xu needs to consider now is where to place this medicine garden and how to do it specifically.
After all, he really didn't expect that his medical department and Yaoyuanzi would be established so soon.
He has two ideas now.
The first idea is to place the medicinal garden and the working area of the medical department together, allowing the medical department to research and cultivate herbal farmers, plant and cultivate various herbal medicines, and form a complete system within them.
As for the second idea, it is naturally to hand over the medicinal garden to the Ministry of Agriculture to take care of it. The location will be carved out from the plowed agricultural land in front of us for growing medicinal herbs.
In this way, the medical department no longer has to worry about the cultivation of herbal medicines, and can devote itself wholeheartedly to the research on the medicinal properties of various herbal medicines.
After thinking about the two ideas, Zhou Xu was still more inclined to the second idea.
The most important thing for the medical department is to study the medicinal properties of herbal medicines and find more herbal medicines, rather than to study the cultivation of herbal medicines.
The matter of planting and cultivating medicinal herbs should be left to the agricultural department. Thinking of this, Zhou Xu waved to the two followers who were accompanying him. The two immediately understood. One was responsible for spreading the animal skins on the ground, while the other took out special plants and mashed them to get the juice, and then dipped a branch pen into it. Zhan, handed it to Zhou Xu.
What is painted on this animal skin is mainly the blueprint of their camp.
Taking the branch pen, Zhou Xu, after thinking about it for a while, directly drew out a piece of the originally drawn farming area, and then wrote the word "medicine garden".
At the same time, make arrangements...
"Go and notify the farming team to prepare for the formal start of work. Just use this piece of land that has been plowed, and then call the three people from the farming team. Gather outside the camp."
After that, Zhou Xu got up and returned to the camp.
At this time, Ye Yan had also fried the medicine and sent it to the three patients.
Zhou Xu didn't talk nonsense when he saw it, and directly moved his hand.
“Ye Yan, come with me to collect herbs. It’s time to start planting medicinal materials as mentioned before.”
Ye Yan was very concerned about this matter, and now When Zhou Xu mentioned this, he immediately became energetic and ran over quickly.
Take Ye Yan and his two apprentices, and after meeting with the three members of the farming team outside the camp, including Zhou Xu and his two followers, the group of nine people officially set off soon.
This herb grows everywhere outside the camp, and it is not difficult to pick a sufficient amount now.
"Everyone, please pay attention. What we are going to pick back this time is not just the herbs above. We are going to dig them back completely together with the roots growing in the soil."
As Zhou Xu said, With the help of the short-handled stone hoe in his hand, he dug out the surrounding soil, dug out a whole herb along with the soil, and held it in the palm of his hand.
“It almost looks like this.”
As he spoke, Zhou Xu put the herb into the basket next to him after letting Ye Yan and the others take a good look at it.
In this process, Ye Yan basically does not need to do it himself. After all, the only person who can accurately and efficiently find medicinal herbs from this large tract of weeds is Ye Yan.
So for this operation, Ye Yan's main task was to point out the herbs to them, and the hands-on work was naturally left to others, so that efficiency could be improved.
Otherwise, it would be too slow to let these newbies find it by themselves.
Zhou Xu didn’t carry it himself, so everyone worked together and quickly filled the baskets behind him and Ye Yan.
At this time, it was just past noon.
With baskets full of herbs on their backs, everyone rushed directly to the farming area without returning to the camp.
There is not much to say about planting. The land has been plowed in advance. All you need to do is plant the herbs.
The only thing you need to pay attention to is watering.
Zhou Xu doesn’t have much experience in raising plants, so what he can teach them is basically that watering should be done in the morning and evening, and not when the sun is shining brightly.
Other than that, it is common sense to water not directly but at the bottom.
However, this herb can grow everywhere when it grows naturally, which means it is easy to maintain, and there is no big problem in thinking.
(End of this chapter)