Chapter Seventeen(1/2)
In February and March, the fields quietly change into golden clothes, and pieces of rapeseed flowers bloom one after another, forming a sea of golden flowers, shining like gold, like a natural oil painting, which is so beautiful.
With the message of spring, bees and butterflies were flying among the flowers. If she had a mobile phone, she could record the most beautiful moment with Cher. But in this era, there is only a Big Brother. If anyone has a black and white TV and a Big Brother,
I can show off for several days.
The sun is shining and the breeze is just right.
In the fields, a mother and daughter were walking through the fields, looking back and smiling, the flowers were even more beautiful.
Whenever the breeze blows, golden waves surge up one after another. Under the sunshine, each cauliflower faces the sun.
In the vegetable fields, you can occasionally hear the barking of dogs.
Mei Sanniang also picked a few and put them in bottles, adding a bit of flavor to the lifeless room.
After doing this, she turned around and looked at Xu Erzhu, who was teasing the return hall, "Brother Erzhu, are you not making any noise in the return hall today?"
"No fuss, I slept soundly after drinking!"
It was a bit unexpected that Xu Erzhu returned home without any fuss. Normally, Xu Erzhu would either poop his pants or be hungry all the time. As a grown man who had never raised a child, he was clumsy in doing things.
Mei Sanniang was naturally surprised when she returned to the hall without any noise or fuss today.
"Your mother isn't nagging, is she?" Mei Sanniang picked up the basket and shovel and looked at Xu Erzhu, her mouth raised like a little woman.
"without."
Xu Erzhu answered feebly, and he was told that 80% of the time, a man wants to save face, let alone in front of Mei Sanniang.
"A dead duck has a tough mouth."
"Needless to say, your mother must have told you."
"You all know...my mother's personality is like that. Sanniang is used to this, so I won't be surprised."
Mei Sanniang sighed, "80% of them say that as a grown man, you run to a widow's house every day and you won't be able to get a wife in the future."
"I never thought about marrying anyone else."
Xu Erzhu spoke bluntly, a little too fast, and blurted out directly. Mei Sanniang was stunned after hearing this, but fortunately she didn't take it seriously.
"Then you can still be a bachelor, that's nonsense."
"Even if you want to be a bachelor for the rest of your life, it's impossible for your mother to agree to it. Who will continue the legacy of your Xu family?"
"I see, Liu Ju next door is pretty good and a famous teacher."
Teachers and doctors are the most famous in their village. If you want to marry a teacher, how demanding are you?
Xu Erzhu probably never thought about it. He shook his head and said, "Sanniang, please stop teasing me! It's enough for my mother to tell me every day, and you still come!"
"Liu Ju, don't think about it!"
Mei Sanniang looked at Xu Erzhu with a smile and teased: "It seems that you are still interested in Liu Ju?"
"If he wasn't a teacher, would you just fall in love with him?"
Xu Erzhu didn't say anything, but Mei Sanniang had already made up her mind.
"I'm going to the mountains to dig some ginseng and some wild vegetables."
Men were supposed to do the work, but unfortunately there were no able-bodied men in Mei Sanniang's family.
"Sanniang, shall I come with you?"
Mei Sanniang shook her head, "If someone saw you going with me, wouldn't you accuse me of taking your things?"
"Sanniang, that's what you said! Okay, if I don't go, you can go. I'll take care of Guitang and Xue'er at home, and I'll wait for you to come back. If you cook then, I have to eat."
I have eaten the mushroom soup made by Sanniang before, but I still miss it and have endless aftertaste.
"Just have fun, Xue'er will give your uncle some milk."
After giving instructions, Mei Sanniang left the yard and walked toward the mountain, holding a small basket and a shovel in her hand.
You have to come back before dark, because those sand ginseng likes to grow in places with thick grass, mixed with some weeds, making it difficult to distinguish them.
Fortunately, she had taken experimental classes at school before and was able to identify many plants. Naturally, she remembered what this Adenophora japonicus looked like, and she found one soon after walking into the mountains.
Having the first strain is a good start, because there must be others nearby.
In the process of looking for Adenophora, we also dug up some other wild vegetables, the most common of which were Qingming grass, because Qingming grass grows everywhere on the roadside, and Qingming grass is the most tender in the world now.
The whole plant is grayish-white in color, and the two halves of the leaves are covered with white fluff, as if covered with a layer of snowflakes.
She picked the tenderest part of the Qingming grass and put it in a basket to pick a large handful.
In addition to Qingming grass, there are other wild vegetables.
Like plantain, the leaves are oval, and it likes to grow in fields. There are also lantern flowers, which can be used to make scrambled eggs.
At dusk, she had almost finished picking.
She picked up the basket and was about to walk back. Just then, a gray rabbit appeared not far away. She quickly put down the basket in her hand and looked directly at the rabbit.
If you can catch rabbits, you can eat rabbit meat.
It's a pity that she only took one step. The rabbit was very smart, moved its ears, turned around and ran into another bush.
The wild rabbits on this mountain are as nimble as pheasants, and it is really not easy to catch them.
The most common things in the mountains are pheasants and rabbits. Sometimes you can even see magpies. It is said that seeing magpies will bring good luck. She believes that life will get better and better.
She carried the basket and walked down the mountain, and sometimes she could see the soaring eagles in the sky, flying across the sky and swimming in the blue sky.
Along with the clear spring flowing down the ravine, many fish are jumping in the water, and sometimes you can see a few small crabs and lobsters.
On a whim, she actually had the idea of Yu'er.
Although the ravine fish is small, no matter how small the fish is, it is still meat.
Mei Sanniang rolled up her sleeves, stepped on two rocks, rolled up her trousers, and stared intently into the ditch. She could see the fish swimming in the water, but she had to hold them quickly and accurately.
She tried it with her hands first, but in vain. The cold water hit her hands. It couldn't be said to be very refreshing, it could only be said to be very cold.
She couldn't catch the fish, but she could always catch the crab. Unfortunately, the crab stayed in the crab hole and only quietly poked out its head and tentacles.
Just as I was about to put my hand in, the crab reacted very quickly and immediately retracted into the hole. If I wanted to dig out with my hands, I had to dig out all the surrounding soil and avoid being caught by the crab's claws.
It was really impossible to eat fish or crabs. The crabs could still walk sideways. Mei Sanniang became anxious and poured the wild vegetables in the basket aside.
Then she used the leaking function of the basket to scoop up the small fish in an instant. The fish seemed to have fallen into the bamboo basket before it even reacted.
The little fish flapped and jumped desperately in the bamboo basket, but could not escape from Mei Sanniang's clutches.
"This little shrimp is not enough to fill the gap between your teeth!"
Mei Sanniang also wanted to catch some crabs, but the crabs kept avoiding her. The small crabs had no meat and were all shells, so they tasted boring.
She could only catch a little shrimp and crayfish, and took them home to stew a pot of hot soup.
After catching it for a long time, it was more than a slap in the face.
Some of the small fish had even turned over and burped. She put all the wild vegetables into the basket and returned home with a full load of wild vegetables and small fish.
While she was digging wild vegetables in the mountains, someone at the entrance to the village started talking about milk cubes.
It was unfortunate that when Zhang Xiaoyan passed by Uncle Li's house, she happened to see him eating milk cubes. She walked up curiously, wondering when Uncle Li could buy such good things.
Uncle Li was a nice person and even handed Zhang Xiaoyan milk cubes.
He said that this thing was hard to come by and let her try it too.
Zhang Xiaoyan initially dismissed it, but driven by curiosity, she took a bite and found that the taste was somewhat unusual.
But she could only pretend that it tasted bad and looked at Uncle Li with disdain, "Old man Li, I'm afraid you bought the wrong thing. Does it taste sour? Has it been stored for a long time? You are reluctant to eat it.
Just throw it away, it will ruin your stomach by then!"
Old Man Li didn't believe it. He tasted it himself and found that the taste was still the same as before.
"Did you eat something else? Does the milk lump taste different?"
Zhang Xiaoyan snorted and asked: "Have you bought this milk block for a long time? You gave me this unnecessary thing to eat. It's really unkind!"
Zhang Xiaoyan pretended to throw away the milk lump and walked away. After she was far away, she took out the milk lump and tasted it carefully.
She looked at the piece of milk and suddenly remembered that she heard the sheep braying at Old Man Li's house just now. But if she thought about it carefully, where did the sheep at Old Man Li's house come from?
Zhang Xiaoyan thought for a while and thought that she might have had an illusion.
On the way back, she tasted the piece of milk slowly and leisurely. The taste was really different, and she wanted to eat another piece after eating it.
After eating one piece, I feel much better.
It's just that she couldn't save her dignity, and she was embarrassed to ask what the old man here used to make it.
As she was slowly walking back, several women stopped her.
"Zhang Xiaoyan! Where are you going? This direction is not your home, right?"
Zhang Xiaoyan glanced at the other person and said, "Don't I have two homes? Why do I need you to take care of which one I go to?"
The woman who stepped forward to ask smiled happily and said, "That's true, but it's not good for married people to always run to their parents' homes, right?"
To be continued...