All Hail Cousin Brother

"Then how do you make it? The lady wants to make medicinal meals, and the slaves can also do it. Why don't the girl just do the same as usual, pointing the slaves to do it?"

After finishing speaking, Zhao's mother also glanced at the eldest lady's delicate and delicate fingers. These ten fingers do not touch the spring water, how can they do rough work on the stove without hurting their hands.

Yu Youyao shook his head: "No need."

After persuading one sentence but not persuading, Zhao's mother also refused to persuade.

Yu Youyao and Zhao's mother picked chickens together: "Pick a young chicken and an old hen."

Zhao's mother was puzzled, stewing soup must be the most nourishing for old hens, and just as she was about to ask, she heard the eldest lady say, "Cousin's body is a little weak, and it's not good to make up too much, but it's not enough to make up for it, and it's bad to make up for it. body."

Zhao's mother suddenly realized, picked a one-year chicken and a three-year chicken, and instructed the mother-in-law to clean it up.

Yu Youyao was not idle either. He took seven or eight kinds of herbs such as angelica, ginseng, and deer antler, stuffed them into a cloth bag for stewing soup, soaked them in water, and put some spirit dew in the water.

Soon, Zhao's mother brought back the cleaned chicken and stomped it into chicken nuggets.

Yu Youyao first boiled the tender chicken pieces in a pot, boiled them out of foam, then picked them up, washed them with clean water, added spices to extract the fragrance, and added clean water to boil.

When it boiled, a thick layer of chicken fat appeared on the water.

Yu Youyao was worried that it would be too greasy and too nourishing, so she skimmed off the oil flower, put the chicken and soup together, put it in a purple casserole, and simmered it together with the medicine bag made of ginseng, deer antler and other medicinal materials.

Zhao's mother watched from the sidelines, but she didn't have a chance to give pointers: "Miss went to the kitchen seriously for the first time, but she was not ambiguous when she started to do things."

The eldest lady's work on the stove is very unfamiliar, but she does things in an orderly manner, so it can be seen that she has not learned anything from Mother Xu.

Yu Youyao smiled, made the old hen too, and put angelica and ginseng in it, and explained: "The ginseng and deer antler chicken soup is stewed for my cousin, and it is boiled for an hour. The angelica ginseng chicken soup needs to be stewed for two hours. Watch out for the heat."

Zhao's mother smiled.

After the explanation, Yu Youyao looked for Xu Mama.

After listening to Young Master Biao's leg condition, Madam Xu thought for a while: "I do know a medicated oil recipe, which has the effect of invigorating blood circulation, relaxing tendons and collaterals, as well as reducing swelling and relieving pain, Young Master Biao should use it well. of."

Yu Youyao's eyes lit up: "Mommy, tell me quickly."

"Don't worry, the medicated oil recipe is already available, but the medicated oil has to be prepared. Go to the incense room first, and I will teach you how to make it." After she finished speaking, she went to the incense room with Yu Youyao.

The Yu Yuyuan is very large and has many rooms. Yu Youyao was very interested in incense and studied it hard, so she set up an incense room with various herbs, spices and so on.

To make this medicated oil, more than 20 kinds of medicinal materials such as bay leaves, cinnamon, lemongrass, dried ginger, dried blood, and turpentine oil are needed, but these medicinal materials must be made into medicinal dew first.

In the previous dynasties, when the fragrance was prosperous, there were perfumers who used the wine vessel for steaming wine to make a scent vessel for steaming incense and extracting its essence: put the spices and herbs in water, cook them with charcoal fire, steam them to steam, and use the vessel to hold the fragrance. Take the dew, so the dew can be made.

The medicinal dew that medicated oil needs to use is not expensive, it is commonly used, and it is also used in many fragrances.

It took less than an hour for Yu Youyao to make the medicated oil.

The smell of the medicated oil was very pungent, and Yu Youyao couldn't stand it, but she still endured the discomfort, rubbed some on the back of her hand, and rubbed it hard, and soon the back of her hand became a lot of red, hot and hot.

Mother Xu nodded: "It's exactly the same."

Yu Youyao breathed a sigh of relief. When making medicated oil, she put some spirit dew in it, and the effect should be good.

After that, Yu Youyao asked Chunxiao and Dongmei to make two pairs of leggings together. They had good needlework, quick hands and feet, and no need for embroidery patterns on the kneepads, which could be done quickly.

Then Xia Tao and Qiu Xing burned the mugwort leaves, and Yu Youyao collected the mugwort ash and made two mugwort ash medicine bags, which were sewn into the close-fitting layer of the leggings.

Madam Xu looked at it, and couldn't help but praised: "Sister, what a coincidence, the ash of the leaves of mugwort also has the effect of invigorating blood, dispelling cold and dampness, so the ash of mugwort is made into a medicine bag and sewn into the shin guard, and placed on the charcoal fire. Bake it, and tie it to the leg warmly, not only can it warm the leg, but it can also be hot for a long time, and it can be easily replaced with a new one when it is cold.”

Yu Youyao smiled: "Cousin's legs can't stand the humidity. This is like a hand warmer. Mrs. Tang is convenient and warm."

The hand stove and Mrs. Tang couldn't keep their legs warm all the time, and Madam Xu took it seriously: "The Queen Mother also suffers from old cold and can't stand the humidity. I used to have a good massage technique with the old imperial medicine in the palace, and I will teach you a lesson. When used together with medicated oil, the effect will be better.”

Yu Youyao's eyes lit up and nodded quickly.

Madam Xu took the acupoint map and first taught Yu Youyao to identify the three acupoints on her legs: "Mainly these three acupoints, each with three fingerings, different acupoints and different fingerings, each acupoint is different. The time for one stick of incense is better, and it takes more than half an hour to make a set, which is a bit laborious."

Yu Youyao lifted her trousers, revealing her bright calf: "Just do it on my leg, and you will know how to handle it."

Mother Xu nodded and found an acupuncture point on her leg: "There are three techniques here, press, circle, and press, take a closer look."

Saying that, Mammy Xu pressed her thumb on this place, focusing on the acupuncture point, and pressing it in circles. After a while, Yu Youyao's legs were red, and she felt that this place was a little hot, and then Mammy Xu pressed it hard.

Yu Youyao suddenly felt tight and loose between her legs, the whole leg was numb, and after the numbness, she felt relaxed again.

Feeling the benefits of massage techniques, Yu Youyao learned more seriously. She never forgets these simple movements at a glance.

The **** of the three acupoints and the points that need to be paid attention to, Xu Mama explained it once and did it again, and Yu Youyao learned it.

Yu Youyao thought about it, and then said again: "Although Sun Bo's medical skills are good, when it comes to regulating and nourishing the body, he is no more careful than Mammy. Mammy will find me some medicinal recipes, fragrances, medicinal baths, and foot baths. The recipe, although these are useless for a while, but in the long run, you can see the effect, but my cousin is not able to make up for it, so he still has to take care of his body bit by bit from his daily life."

But she thought in her heart that these things didn't have any effect, but if you added a spirit dew, the effect would be different. As for whether the cousin would notice anything, she didn't think about it.

Mother Xu naturally agreed, and the two discussed it together.

At this moment, Chun Xiao came over: "Miss, the deer antler and ginseng chicken soup in the kitchen is ready."