I made forty dumplings yesterday, ate thirty last night, and there are only ten left, just in time to cook them for breakfast.

The dumplings were cooking, and after a while, Guan Yu came back.

Guan Yu said that he went to patrol the camp, but several people froze to death.

Guan Yu said it very casually, it was normal for a few people to die.

When Li Mengxi heard this, he knew clearly that although with a population of more than 100,000 people there would be normal deaths every day, most of the people who died last night were related to the cold.

It's so cold and there's no food...

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and Liu Bei tried to say, "Xi'er, why don't you put some food in? It's freezing cold, and there's no food to eat. It's hard for people to bear it."

Li Mengxi looked at the falling snow outside the house. After a long time, he calmed down and said, "It's cold, but it's just a good time. There's no need to put out food."

Liu Bei could only remain silent.

Before Li Mengxi finished speaking, Liu Bei clearly knew what Li Mengxi meant.

We have planned to collect money without food. If it doesn't snow and the weather is not cold, the people can barely bear it for three to five days. If they can bear it, it will be difficult to cheat money.

But it happened to be snowing heavily and the ground was freezing. The peasants only had a bowl of gruel for every meal, and it was unbearable to suffer from hunger and cold.

If there is no snow, the peasants can carry it for three to five days.

It happened that it was snowing heavily and the weather was cold, and the weather helped. One day, the people were waiting and watching, two days, everyone was hungry and cold, and three days, people's hearts were unstable.

In just three days, all the people will come to an end.

Li Mengxi said that it was cold, which was just what he meant, because the snow would make the money-raising strategy more efficient for a day or two.

But the price is that if you don't eat enough food in the cold weather, you will freeze to death, but you can only watch people freeze to death, and you can only continue to eat gruel and continue to eat gruel.

To some extent, it's a bit cold.

The remaining ten dumplings were boiled together in the water. After a while, Li Mengxi picked up the dumplings, including three for Liu Bei, three for Guan Yu, three for Li Mengxi and one for Xiao Zhuan.

The experience of eating dumplings yesterday was really bad. Li Mengxi was mentally prepared and prepared that it would be difficult to swallow. He frowned and ate.

I thought it would be super unpalatable, but when I ate the dumplings, they were still chewy and tasted weird, but they were much better than yesterday's Coptis chinensis dumplings.

Li Mengxi felt that he could barely eat it.

Guan Yu and Liu Bei also felt the same way.

Yesterday's dumplings tasted like medicine. Today's dumplings tasted like mutton.

"This is not bad to eat." Guan Yu praised, and then ate another dumpling.

Li Mengxi recalled the prescription, "Mutton, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, tangerine peel, and peppercorns...just use this prescription, and don't use the other three."

This is the recipe for dumplings.

In any case, Li Mengxi couldn't stand dumplings with coptis added inside. Although dumplings with coptis added inside can keep the heat out for most of the night and have excellent heat-generating effects, they are so damn unpalatable that even dogs won't eat them. How can they be called dumplings?

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After breakfast, not long after, Liu Bei's own soldiers came to report that military doctor Tian Bu was here.

Li Mengxi thought something was wrong, thinking that something big had happened in the wounded barracks, otherwise Tian Bu wouldn't have come looking for him so early in the morning.

Li Mengxi hurried out to meet people.

Seeing Tian Bu, Li Mengxi asked Tian Bu why he came to see him.

Tian Bu scratched his head and chuckled, and said, "Yesterday, I wrote four prescriptions for the medicine. I wanted to ask how the medicine was used."

Li Mengxi looked at Tian Bu in surprise. This guy came early in the morning to inquire about the prescription.

Then, Li Mengxi glanced at Tian Bu appreciatively.

Tian Bu is a very academic person. Tian Bu must have been afraid that something might happen to the medicine or it would not work well, so he immediately came early in the morning to care about the results.

Tian Bu was enthusiastic about business, so Li Mengxi told Tian Bu in detail the effect of eating the dumplings.

When Tian Bu heard what Li Mengxi said, he mixed the medicine with mutton, wrapped it in pasta, cooked it, and ate it, and as expected, he started to sweat.

When Li Mengxi complained that Coptis chinensis was really unpalatable and would not make Coptis chinensis dumplings anymore, Tian Bu secretly laughed.

Finally, Li Mengxi said to Tian Bu, "I don't understand pharmacology, but Coptis chinensis, Guizhi, etc., are they probably bad medicines?"

First, these medicinal materials have a bitter taste and are extremely difficult to swallow.

The two are just to keep out the cold, so why do you need to use harsh and heavy medicines? Even if you use them, taking them with food every day will not harm your body.

Therefore, the fourth prescription uses ginger, cloves, cinnamon, fennel, pepper, etc. The medicinal taste of this prescription is not strong and can barely be swallowed. Moreover, cinnamon, fennel, etc. are not strong in medicinal properties, and eating them for a long time will not harm the body.

Just use this fourth set of medicine, and don’t use the other three.”

Li Mengxi's analysis was unexpectedly in line with pharmacology.

As Li Mengxi believes, the medicinal properties of coptis, cinnamon twig, etc. are indeed very strong. Dumplings are a kind of food to keep out the cold and need to be eaten for a long time. If the medicine is too heavy, it will damage the body in order to keep out the cold, and the gain will not be worth the loss.

On the other hand, as Li Mengxi said, Coptis chinensis and the like are too damn unpalatable.

Tian Bu came here just to ask about the prescription. After getting the result, Tian Bu turned around and wanted to leave.

"Wait a minute." Li Mengxi stopped Tian Bu.

"The prescription was written by you and other military doctors, how can you not try it yourself? Yesterday I forgot, so you go get twenty kilograms of mutton and fifty kilograms of white flour to make dumplings, and you military doctors will also try it to familiarize themselves with the effects of the medicine.

, it would be better to refine the prescription."

When Tian Bu heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "Thank you so much, military advisor!"

"Also, how was the fire bed last night? Is it warm? You go and have a look...forget it, let's go together."

He went to the wounded barracks with Tian Bu and asked Tian Bu to fetch mutton and white flour. Li Mengxi went to see the fire bed.

The firewood was still burning in the kang that had just been set up yesterday. The kang was covered with manuscript mats and filled with wounded soldiers.

When Li Mengxi arrived, the wounded soldiers wanted to get up from their beds to greet them, but Li Mengxi stopped them.

He asked, "Was it warm when you slept last night?"

"It's warm! It's very hot!" the wounded soldiers replied.

"The skin is burned off!" said a wounded soldier sleeping near the front.

Immediately, I remembered a burst of good-natured laughter.

Others didn't know it, but Li Mengxi knew very well that the hot bed can really burn people. He frowned and walked over, "Come on, get up, let me take a look."

He forced the wounded soldier to crawl out of bed, and when he got up, Li Mengxi took a look and found that, sure enough, the wounded soldier had a burn on his spine and the skin fell off.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this point, Li Mengxi realized another shortcoming of the fire kang. The fire kang was too rough, the soil layer was not thick enough, and the heat insulation capacity was not enough, which could easily cause burns.

Therefore, the soil layer of the earthen kang needs to be thickened, either by spreading two more layers of mats, or when building the earthen pit, the soil layer close to the earthen pit should be slightly thicker to improve the heat insulation ability. On the contrary,

Towards the back, the soil layer is thinner to allow for stronger heat transfer capabilities.

Once improved in this way, the front will not be burned and the back will not be cold, which will increase the efficiency of the heated kang by several percent.

As a person from the Central Plains area, Li Mengxi originally had no idea how to build a heated kang, but now, he has figured out the technical points of building a heated kang himself.

An efficient heated kang should be thick at the front and thin at the back.

In addition to the shortcoming of insufficient heat insulation, the fire pit built last night perfectly solved the problem of insufficient heat preservation means.

Anyway, none of these weak and wounded soldiers froze to death last night.

If the fire pit had not been built in time, it was so cold last night, and there is no doubt that someone would have died in the middle of the night, when it was the coldest time.

In the past, Li Mengxi could not imagine that the fire kang would be significantly related to the survival rate of wounded soldiers. However, this is the fact. The fire kang has a strong thermal insulation ability, and its insulation ability is crucial to maintaining the lives of seriously wounded soldiers, so the fire kang can

Saved many seriously injured people.

The fire kang is so easy to use. The cost of building the kang is only yellow mud and wheat straw. It is extremely cheap. The weather is cold. There are too many people in the army but few warm clothes. The fire kang comes so timely. It can be regarded as an emergency aid.

The first heated kang had various shortcomings, such as there was no fire channel, the heat utilization rate was not high, the kang bed was not thick enough, and the heat insulation was poor.

It consumes more firewood, among other disadvantages.

If the kang is built again, Li Mengxi feels that it must be improved. There is a serious shortage of firewood in the army and the fuel utilization rate must be improved. Improving the heat utilization rate means that the same firewood can make the kang hotter and the kang bed longer, thus

Greatly save dye.

After a while, Tian Bu came. Tian Bu asked awkwardly, "Military advisor, how should I make these dumplings?"

Li Mengxi smiled, "Let's go, I'll teach you."

There is a small stove in the wounded barracks, so there is also a place to cook.

In the wounded barracks, Li Mengxi showed a group of military doctors how to make dumplings. The first step was, of course, to chop the meat filling. Chop the mutton into as fine pieces as possible. The second step was to add salt to the meat filling. The third step was to add salt to the meat filling.

The old ginger, cinnamon, orange peel, fennel, etc. are all chopped up, mixed together, and then sprinkled into the meat filling, and as much medicinal materials as possible are mixed into the filling.

The next step is to stir the flour into the water. If there is too much dough, add water. If there is too much water, add noodles. If there is too much dough, add more water. Add it until it is no longer sticky. Then take out the dough and dry it into small balls.

Thin dough slices.

Finally, a spoonful of stuffing, a dough, a wrap, a pinch, pinch tightly, and there you have it, a dumpling is ready.

Making dumplings is so simple that military doctors can learn it at a glance.
To be continued...