Quick Transmigration: The Love Rescue Plan

Which village doesn't divide the harvested grain into four portions?

One portion was kept as seeds, one portion was kept for family consumption, one portion was used to pay taxes, and the other portion was taken to the city to sell.

Who would store all the food?

When famine really strikes, the question is whether you have enough to eat, let alone whether you eat well.

Therefore, Dong Ping did not intend to hoard too much food.

Moreover, since the land has been rented out, Wang Laoshi and Zhong Yougui's family will naturally be willing to help with the harvest, which saves them a lot of labor.

Furthermore, although it appears that the Wang and Zhong families benefited from this incident, the Guo family also gained considerable advantages.

Firstly, it's a win-win situation, but in the eyes of the villagers, the Wang and Zhong families have gotten a great deal, essentially making them owe the Guo family a favor. In the future, if the Guo family needs any help, the Wang and Zhong families will always consider this favor.

Secondly, the Guo family didn't need to work too hard to obtain food. Although it might not be a lot, it was definitely more than what most families kept for themselves.

The fields don't need to be left fallow, taxes don't need to be paid, and grain can still be harvested. Most importantly, the land deeds remain in their own hands! Land ownership is secure.

It is also very important to get along well with your neighbors and maintain good interpersonal relationships.

Even if the Dong family were to shamelessly try to usurp the throne, how could they silence the gossips of the Wangjia'ao people who had seen Guo Shi and Dong Ping?

Even if Dong Ping ultimately loses to the Dong family, she must firmly maintain her status as the first wife. The dignified second daughter of the Dong family can only be a concubine; if she's not ashamed, then come and fight!

As for future plans, Dong Ping considered many possibilities, but the future held the potential for drought, floods, famine, and plague, rendering money useless. When that time came, even a fortune couldn't buy rice.

Therefore, storing food and water is the priority, and storing money is the next priority.

Fortunately, first came drought and famine, then floods and plague. Dong Ping had already planned to sort through the dowry once it arrived, keeping what she needed and exchanging the rest for money at the market.

This is a male-dominated world, and the village's barefoot doctor would never accept Dong Ping as an apprentice.

However, not being able to learn medicine from a doctor has no impact on Dong Ping now.

It's important to understand that skills and knowledge are inherent to Dong Qianyue's very being. Although Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) isn't officially listed as a skill in Dong Qianyue's personal attribute panel, she does possess some basic knowledge of TCM.

In modern times, Dong Qianyue was originally a student of traditional Chinese medicine, but she died before she had any clinical experience.

However, I did quite well in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Plus, I was a liberal arts student, so even though I didn't have much practical experience, I could still memorize the prescriptions quite well.

When the time comes, we can prescribe medication based on the patient's condition... there shouldn't be any problem.

Dong Ping thought optimistically: There will definitely be no problem. If not, there is still the Fairy Spring Water!

However, when the time comes, Dong Ping will first try the medication, because if the diagnosis and treatment are successful, it will benefit the villagers.

After all, the spring water is limited and can only be used on family members.

Moreover, traditional Chinese medicine has been passed down for so many years, and with the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine today, the descriptions of symptoms are more detailed, so there shouldn't be any major problems with diagnosis.

The only thing to do during this period was to rebuild and expand the cellar, and then order more earthenware jars from the tile kiln in Chenjia Village. When winter came, they would fill them with clean well water, seal them, freeze them in the yard, and then store them in the cellar.

This way, even in times of drought and water shortage, the Guo family can still have access to clean water.

Time flew by, and they finally survived the drought, famine, and floods.

Before the plague struck, Dong Ping would boil a large pot of medicine every day, and then carry it with the women of the village to the fields to distribute to the men who were working.

Prevention is more important than treatment.

Bian Que was right: the best doctor treats illness before it occurs.

In this cold medicine, Dong Ping added dried ginger, licorice root, saposhnikovia root, perilla leaves, mint, and burdock seeds.

Dried ginger is pungent and hot in nature. It enters the spleen, stomach, kidney, heart, and lung meridians. It warms the middle jiao and dispels cold, restores yang and unblocks the meridians, warms the lungs and transforms phlegm. It is used for cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea, cold limbs and weak pulse, and cough with cold phlegm.

Licorice has a sweet taste and neutral properties. It enters the heart, lung, spleen, and stomach meridians. It tonifies the spleen and replenishes qi, clears heat and detoxifies, resolves phlegm and relieves cough, alleviates spasms and pain, and harmonizes the effects of other herbs. It is used for spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, cough with excessive phlegm, abdominal and limb spasms and pain, carbuncles and boils, and to alleviate the toxicity and harshness of other drugs.

Fangfeng has a pungent and sweet flavor, and is slightly warm in nature. It enters the bladder, lung, spleen, and liver meridians. It dispels wind and releases the exterior, eliminates dampness and relieves pain, and stops spasms. It is used for external pathogenic factors, urticaria and itching, rheumatic arthralgia, tetanus, and spleen deficiency with dampness.

Perilla is pungent and warm. It enters the lung and spleen meridians. It induces sweating to relieve colds and headaches, eliminates phlegm, calms asthma, and regulates qi to relieve chest tightness. It is used for colds and flu, headaches and bone pain, chills and fever, and weakness of limbs and joints.

Peppermint has a pungent taste and cool properties. It enters the lung and liver meridians. It disperses wind-heat, clears the head and eyes, soothes the throat and promotes rash eruption, and soothes the liver and regulates qi. It is used for exogenous wind-heat, headache, sore throat, and the initial stage of epidemic diseases.

Burdock seed is bitter and cold in nature. It enters the lung and stomach meridians. It disperses wind-heat, clears the lungs and soothes the throat, detoxifies and promotes rash eruption, reduces swelling and heals sores. It is used for wind-heat colds, the initial stage of epidemic diseases, incomplete measles eruption, carbuncles and boils.

Therefore, cold tea can be used to prevent colds and epidemic diseases, and even play a therapeutic role in the early stages of colds and epidemic diseases.

However, this was an ancient place with inconvenient transportation and a fear of plague. In addition, there were no clinics here, only barefoot doctors who traveled between a few villages.

If even one person in Wangjia'ao, or even Chenjia Village which is only separated from here by a lotus pond, were to contract the plague, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Moreover, in ancient times, the focus of treatment for villages infected with plague was more on isolation than on treatment.

It was fortunate that the village wasn't massacred, but simply sealed off and isolated.

In recent years, natural disasters have been frequent, and there are hardly any herbs left on the mountain, let alone medicinal herbs.

If someone gets sick, medicine and doctors won't be able to get in, and they'll just have to wait to die.

With frequent natural disasters in recent years, the barefoot doctor has to travel to several villages, and he has less and less time to come to the village.

Villagers with minor illnesses would go directly to Guo's wife, Dong Ping, who knew some medical skills, so Dong Ping didn't have many medicinal herbs left in the cellar.

Dong Ping wanted to go to the city to buy some medicinal herbs before the plague broke out, but it was still not possible.

Although medicinal herbs are not food, their prices have increased several times over in recent years.

Now that the natural disaster has just passed, the village is busy with sowing.

After all, for those who have suffered from famine, nothing is more important than food.

Therefore, it is impossible to get the villagers to grow their own medicinal herbs.

As time went by, Dong Ping grew increasingly anxious.

Everyone in the village is fine now, but we don't have much of our own stock of medicinal herbs left.

But there was no use in Dong Ping being anxious now. She could only take stock of the inventory in the cellar and then go to discuss it with Guo's mother.