Old Man Tan wiped the tears on his face and his hazy eyes, and continued: "Since then, I haven't hunted again. ”

If it weren't for the fact that pork is now more expensive, Old Man Tan would definitely not carry a shotgun again because of a few catties of pork.

However, fortunately, he stopped the tragedy in time and did not let the previous tragedy repeat.

Whether the boar dies or the sow dies, it is an unbearable pain for this small family of wild boars.

He said: "Qingshan, listen to my advice, if you want to eat meat, go buy our own meat, and don't have crooked thoughts about the animals in the mountains, because you never know how many small ones are waiting for a big one." ”

Although Liu Qingshan is simple, he is not a cold-blooded animal.

From the sadness caused by his mistaken belief that the wild boar was dead, to the moment when he saw the injured sow soothing a group of piglets, he no longer wanted to hunt the wild boar.

No matter how much damage the wild boar had done to him before, he didn't want to repay it now.

In this world, there are many indescribable truths, and there are endless grievances, so why should you disregard your life because of a momentary anger?

As Old Man Tan said, you never know how many small animals will be waiting for a big animal to come home.

He didn't want to make the same mistake that Old Man Tan had made before.

"Well, in the future, I will never fight the idea of wild boars again. Liu Qingshan swore solemnly, "Moreover, in the future, my family will never open up the wasteland in the mountains again." ”

"Huh. Old man Tan smiled and patted Liu Qingshan's shoulder, "Good job." ”

When she returned home, Wu Cuimei saw that her son came back empty-handed, and the clothes on his body were dirty and torn, so she knew that he must not have hit the wild boar, and maybe he had eaten the wild boar.

"Aoyama, where is the wild boar?" she asked symbolically.

Liu Qingshan spread his hands: "I didn't hit it." ”

"Haha, I'll just say, how can a wild boar be so easy to hit?" Liu Yuanhe smiled, "You think it's a rabbit, just like you, even if it's a rabbit, you may not be able to hit it, let alone a wild boar." ”

"Dad, looking at you like this, it seems that you are very happy that I didn't hit a wild boar. In that case, you can pay for the pork tomorrow. ”

"What's the matter with me? The person who didn't hit the wild boar was you, not me, why should I pay for it? No, Lao Tzu has no money. ”

"Then you're glad you hell. Liu Qingshan rolled his eyes and said to his mother, "Mom, originally, I had already seriously injured the wild boar, but Old Man Tan fired a shot and scared the wild boar away." ”

"Ah, Old Man Tan's marksmanship has regressed so much?" Wu Cuimei regretted, "His previous marksmanship was very accurate, even a hundred steps away, he could hit a sheep." ”

What my mother said should be a hundred steps through the Yang, and there are no goats in the local area.

Liu Qingshan: "......"

"It's not that his marksmanship has regressed, he doesn't want me to hit the boar at all, so he deliberately shoots the boar away. ”

"Huh, why is that?" Wu Cuimei couldn't understand, "Didn't you make an appointment to go hunting wild boars together, why did he do this?"

"Well, he's not wrong. It stands to reason that we are constantly clearing the wasteland and occupying the place where the wild boar lives, so the wild boar will go down the mountain into the village to find food. So, in the end, it's our fault in the first place. Liu Qingshan explained, "At that time, Old Man Tan went to chase sows, and I beat boars. Old man Tan chased the sow, and finally found that the sow had a group of piglets, so he finally gave up the idea of fighting wild boars. ”

"Oh, I see. Hearing her son say that the sow in the mountains still had a litter of piglets, Wu Cuimei also felt pity, "Since this is the case, it is better not to fight, although it is really hateful for the wild boar to destroy our family's vegetable garden, but it is not a big deal if the vegetable garden is gone." Anyway, it's gone now. ”

"Haha, Mom, you're so open-minded. Liu Qingshan said with a smile, "In this way, there will be no wild boar." ”

"If you don't have it, you won't have it, tomorrow morning, let your dad buy it." ”

"Ah, what's the matter with me?" Liu Yuanhe didn't expect that he could be shot while lying down, "I don't have any money." ”

"If you don't have money, you have to buy it. Wu Cuimei didn't give him a chance to argue, "If you go to buy pork and come back, I will give you back the mobile phone, if you don't buy it, then don't think about the mobile phone." ”

This, this is too much!

"Then I'm going to buy pork, why is he going?" asked Liu Yuanhe, pointing to his son.

Wu Cuimei thought for a while and said, "Qingshan, early tomorrow morning, you go into the mountains to help me pick some wild gardenias and come back, and let's make golden potbelly poop." ”

"Wild gardenias?" Liu Qingshan swallowed his saliva and looked bright, "Haha, no problem, no problem, Mom, I'll pick as much as you want." ”

If you use wild gardenia as a natural dye, the white glutinous rice flour will be dyed golden yellow, not to mention, it will also have a natural fragrance, which is particularly delicious to eat.

Cuckoo~

"Haha, it doesn't take much, knocking you like this, can't you wait to eat potbelly poop?" Wu Cuimei said happily, "Tomorrow after you pick wild gardenias, you will go to the orchard to pick some grapefruit leaves." ”

"No problem, these things are on me. Liu Qingshan patted his chest and said.

In order to eat delicious potbelly cake early, early in the morning, when the genius was slightly bright, Liu Qingshan went into the mountain with a cloth bag.

Because tomorrow is the winter solstice, there may be a lot of things to do at home today, so you have to go early and return early, and when you get home, you have to be busy with other things.

The flowering period of gardenias is around the Dragon Boat Festival, and as soon as the rainy season comes every year, the gardenias will be hidden in the delicate green branches and young leaves, blooming silently, giving the surroundings a rich fragrance. Therefore, it is impossible to see the gardenia that is white and snowy now.

Zhu Shuzhen, a talented woman in the Song Dynasty, chanted in the poem "Water Gardenia": "One once sent a small peak, and the perfume of the Portuguese is cold." The jade quality is naturally not heaty, and it is better to move to the middle of the month. ”

Li Dongyang of the Ming Dynasty also had the poem "Gardenia": "Draw white and yellow to be called talented, who leaves the mountain gardenia into the painting." It seems that the poet knows little, and Du Lingyin has never opened. ”

The literati are so elegant, and the gardenia is not only their graceful and beautiful poetic image, but also the spiritual sustenance in the depths of their souls.

However, for the uneducated mountain people, gardenias can only be food, natural dyes, and medicinal herbs.

Gardenia is a genus of dicots, gentiana, Rubiaceae, gardenia. Although its leaves are not as wide as those of Ge Mamu, they are larger than those of tofu chai. Moreover, its leaves are thick and shiny, and they are a little fatter than the leaves of cinnabar roots.

Gardenia is an evergreen shrub that prefers warm and humid climates, but is not tolerant of severe cold.

Its flower color is white, whiter than snow. Sometimes when you walk in the mountains, you can see the fragrant white flowers of the tree from a distance.

In addition to the white, beautiful and fragrant flowers, the fruit of gardenia can also be used as a natural dye.

It is said that before the Qin and Han dynasties, gardenia was the most widely used yellow dye. Because the fruit of gardenia contains the ketone substances gardeniaflavin, as well as crocin, etc., the substance used to dye yellow is saffron acid.

"Han Guanyi" records: Dyeing the garden out of gardenia, Qian, for dyeing royal clothes.

This indicates that the dye used to dye the finest clothing at that time was gardenia.

Ancient people used acidity to control the depth of yellow dyeing of gardenias, and if you want to get dark yellow, you need to increase the amount of vinegar in the dye. The dyed fabric can be dyed bright yellow directly with gardenia infusion, and the process is very simple. The yellow dyed fabrics unearthed in Hanma Wangdui were obtained by dyeing gardenias. However, the yellow resistance of gardenia is poor, so after the Song Dynasty, some of the yellow dyeing was replaced by acacia flowers.

Of course, even if the process of gardenia dyeing fabric is very simple, it is obvious that this simple skill is no longer used in the ordinary life of ordinary people.