An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

She used the bloody strips of cloth as tissues for wiping. She couldn't accept not wiping them. They were all old cloths, cut from the clothes of the original owner's family. She had washed them three times with boiling water and dried them in the sun.

Cloth strips are useful, but they are very wasteful. Paper towels can just be thrown away after use, but cloth strips cannot. After use, they must be washed in boiling water and exposed to the sun, otherwise they will easily breed bacteria.

Without even making breakfast, Xia Qingyue boiled water and washed the strips of cloth. Her back and waist ached from washing, and her stomach ached when she moved. She broke out in cold sweats all over and felt weak and sore.

I don't want to do anything, I just want to lie down.

She felt that she was like a wilted weed that had been exposed to the sun for a long time, soft and weak, and would fall down at the slightest breeze.

After washing, she quickly boiled a bowl of brown sugar and egg water for herself and added a few pieces of ginger to cook together.

The dish tasted sweet and spicy, and the flavor was hard to describe, but in order to relieve her menstrual pain, she gritted her teeth and finished it.

Then I broke out in a hot sweat and my stomach didn't hurt as much anymore.

Feeling a little more energetic, she went to feed the chickens, ducks and rabbits.

Heihei ate the boiled eggs she cooked.

I don’t know if Heihei smelled the blood of menstruation or sensed that his owner was unwell, but he followed Xia Qingyue wherever she went, never leaving her side.

The little things she usually did were very laborious for Xia Qingyue at this moment. After feeding the chickens, ducks and rabbits, her legs were shaking. She stood up with the help of the dining table, looked at the bumpy pond, and sighed:

"Alas, the plan to dig a pond has been put on hold for the time being. I won't have the energy to dig until a few days later."

Her stomach ached slightly, so she sat on a stool, covering her stomach with her hands, with cold sweat on her face.

She was planning to make some wild pepper sauce with the one she picked yesterday. She endured the discomfort and washed it. The weather was bad and it would be a pity if it went bad.

While waiting for the water in the mountain pepper to dry out, she chopped some ginger and garlic into granules.

The main feature of mountain pepper sauce is its unique fragrance. The ratio of mountain pepper sauce to ginger and garlic is 3:1.

She chose to use camellia seed oil for making soy sauce. She originally bought several kilograms of it, but now most of it has been used up, with only about three kilograms left.

Pour half of the camellia seed oil into the pot. When it is 60% to 70% hot, add a handful of wild onion roots that have been drained of water. Fry on low heat until golden and fragrant. Remove from the pot.

Pour mountain pepper into the hot oil and continue on low heat, stirring from time to time to prevent the pan from getting burnt. Soon, it will become fragrant. Then pour in the ginger and garlic granules and stir-fry together. Continue stir-frying for more than 20 minutes until there is no water left.

At this time, add appropriate amount of salt and mix well. When ready to serve, pour a little white wine to sterilize and enhance the flavor. This will make the food last longer.

The finished mountain pepper sauce is very fragrant. If you have fresh red peppers, you can add some in moderation, but she didn’t.

She was tempted by the aroma and picked up some with a dry chopstick to taste it.

Mm, it tastes wonderful, and it’s perfect for mixing with rice or cooking with vegetables!

Pour the cooled mountain pepper sauce into a clean ceramic jar. Without a refrigerator, it should be able to be kept at room temperature for about a month. She eats it alone, so it should be almost finished by then.

Although it was an easy job, after finishing it, my back and waist ached so much that I couldn't straighten my back.

After sitting and resting for a while, at noon, she casually cooked a bowl of watercress and egg soup, some rice, and ate it hastily with freshly made mountain pepper sauce. It seemed simple and casual, but it tasted delicious.

After eating, she changed into a nighttime sanitary belt, washed the blood-wiping cloth, changed her clothes and went to bed.

She felt much more comfortable lying down and fell asleep in a trance.

During this time, Heihei climbed up to the edge of the bed several times to check on her condition. When he heard that she was still breathing, he lay back down on the ground.

In the evening, Xia Qingyue woke up. Her stomachache was gone and she had more strength. After changing her sleep for a few hours, she got up and went to the bathroom.

After washing the strips of cloth, dealing with the cloth bag containing wood ash and washing it, she began to prepare dinner.

My stomach is growling with hunger, so I have an appetite for dinner in the evening.

She soaked some dried mushrooms in water and cut the cured horse meat into pieces and stewed them first.

When it’s almost done, add the mushrooms and cook for a while.

After eating, I feel full of energy. If I ignore the issue of my period, my condition returns to almost the same as it was a few days ago.

As long as it doesn't hurt anymore, it's fine.

After the camellia oil had soaked for enough time, she placed the ceramic pot on the stove to heat it. After it was hot, she added an appropriate amount of beeswax, stirred it evenly with a clean, oil-free chopstick, and then set it aside to cool.

When it is almost cool but before solidifying, cover the large bowl with gauze, filter out the flowers and let the liquid flow into the bowl.

Then pour the liquid in the bowl into the thick round bamboo tube.

A total of four were made, weighing about 800 grams.

After solidifying, the cream is yellow in color and has the fragrance of camellia. The cream is delicate and melts in one stroke.

After the skin care product was ready, Xia Qingyue couldn't wait to use it. After washing up, she poured the pure dew on her face and applied it twice. After that, her face was visibly moisturized.

Then take an appropriate amount of facial cream into your palms, rub it to warm it, and press it onto your face.

When I woke up the next day after using it, I looked in the mirror and found that my face was moisturized and tender, and my complexion looked much better.

Xia Qingyue, who was having her period, was completely exhausted. She just fed the chickens, ducks, and rabbits, and ate, drank, and slept.

Four days passed like this.

In the blink of an eye, it is the fifth day of Xia Qingyue's period. After the stomach pain and blood clots yesterday, the amount of bleeding has obviously decreased, and there is almost no blood.

Having regained her energy, she felt like she was alive again and immediately devoted herself to planting vegetables.

After a few days, a lot of weeds grew in the field. She spent most of the day weeding with a hoe.

After we finished hoeing, it was already noon, the weather was hot and the cicadas were chirping.

The soil in the ground is dry, but it is the hottest at noon, so you cannot water it. You have to wait until the evening or the next morning to water it.

She held the hoe against the ground and looked up at the sky above the sinkhole. The sun was scorching.

After working for a while, her body was almost half wet, and the sweat on her face was like beads that had broken off a string, dripping out one drop after another, gathering at her chin and dripping down.

"It's so hot, why doesn't it rain? It will be cooler if it rains!"

She wished it would rain right now.

As the weather continued to be hot, the heat was one thing, but the water level in the pond gradually dropped. Water was used in many places, for her and the poultry to drink, for watering crops, and so on.

The water in the canal was almost dry, but the soil was still moist. However, there was watercress planted there, and she had to fetch water every two days to irrigate it.

Seeing that the water level had dropped by at least one meter, Xia Qingyue began to panic. What would she do if the temperature continued to rise and there was no water?

I don’t know what’s happening with the stream outside?

She wanted to stock up on water, but stocking up on water was not like stocking up on dry goods. Dry goods were durable, but water would go bad if left for too long.

“Hope it rains soon!”