Xia Hua looked around, slightly disappointed.

Because she went into the mountains to pick mountain peppers, she naturally did not carry tools such as hoes or shovels.

She now clutched a snakeskin bag in her hand, and the woodcutter was carried on the back of her waist with a basket made of bamboo.

She had nothing but these two things.

Therefore, it is not easy to dig up the yams in the ground.

"It doesn't seem to be. Xia Hua replied, "But it doesn't matter, I can wait until I get the peppercorns home, and then bring tools into the mountains to dig these yams." ”

Chen Yang looked at the sun that had begun to turn west, and said with a smile: "If you really want to do that, then it is estimated that you will have to spend the night in the mountains." ”

He put the shovel in his hand on the ground and said, "I'll put the shovel I brought into the mountain here, and you can come and get it yourself later?"

"Huh?" Natsuka didn't expect him to do this.

I heard that he has recently started digging bamboo shoots again, so the digging shovel must have been brought into the mountains to dig bamboo shoots, if it was left to her, then what would he do to dig bamboo shoots?

"I have guests in my house today, and I have to get ready to go home. Chen Yang leaned his shovel against a sandalwood tree, turned around and walked back, saying as he went, "You can use my shovel to dig yams, and then send them back to me when you go home." Oh, oh, by the way, you can see more mountain pepper trees further down. ”

His voice was slowly moving away.

After a while, Xia Hua regained her strength and shouted in the direction where his voice disappeared, "Thank you." ”

Thank you!

Her voice echoed through the valley like a stream that flowed through her heart and nourished her trembling soul.

It turns out that being helped is such a feeling.

Although she felt a little uneasy and embarrassed to accept the free help of others, she felt a warmth from the inside out.

Just like the warm sun in winter, like the river in spring, and more like the little wildflowers blooming under the fence in the middle of summer, they not only gorge themselves, but also everything around them.

Chen Yang returned to the bamboo bush.

Now that the digging shovel has been left to Xia Hua, he naturally can't dig bamboo shoots anymore.

But it doesn't matter, because he entered the mountain relatively early this morning, and he has dug up more than 200 catties of bamboo shoots until now.

If you take it to the city tomorrow and sell it, you can earn a lot of money.

Now, it's time to think about what dishes you want to prepare to entertain Tang Lifen.

Although Tang Lifen is different from the bastard who loved to touch the ass of a female student and deceived his parents of more than a dozen catties of pork, after all, Tang Lifen came to his house for dinner for the first time, and he always had to express it.

It can neither be too shabby nor too extravagant and erosive.

He thought about it and decided that it would be better to eat wild stone frogs for dinner.

Their family hasn't eaten wild stone frogs for a few days, and it's not too much to catch a few today.

In addition, he originally planned to dig up some bee pupa, but since the digging shovel was left for Xia Hua, this idea could only be dispelled.

The stone frog is considered a meat dish, so you have to prepare some pure natural wild wild vegetables.

It is said that people in the city love to eat wild vegetables, and they don't know if this is true or false.

However, it's late summer and early autumn, and wild vegetables are not easy to find.

Bracken is in the Qingming Dynasty, and the shepherd's cabbage is in the beginning of spring, and now in this dry weather, it is generally difficult to find wild vegetables.

But this is not difficult for the natives in the mountains.

Chen Yang knows where to find fresh and delicious wild vegetables.

He first fastened the mouth of the snakeskin bag containing bamboo shoots with sandalwood nails, and then carried the heavy snakeskin bag by bag to the wheelbarrow parked in the open space and tied it with a strap.

In this way, when you catch the stone frog and find the wild vegetables, you can go home directly.

Moreover, with a few bags of bamboo shoots in his hands, he doesn't have to worry about some villain stealing the wheelbarrow. After all, a weight of nearly 300 catties is really not something that ordinary people can pull.

With that done, he turned around again and walked down the babbling stream into the valley.

There is not enough light in the valley, so most of the plants are not affected by the scorching sun.

They are still green, still fresh, still with fresh buds.

If we didn't know exactly what year, month, and day it is, who would have thought that autumn had already entered here?

After entering the valley, Chen Yang came to a small waterfall.

It is said to be a waterfall, but it is actually a stream. However, this stream falls from a high stone cliff, and there is a lot of water, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a waterfall.

Of course, this waterfall is not comparable to the world-famous waterfalls, but for the less knowledgeable mountain people, this is a waterfall in their small world.

In their small world, there are no waterfalls that swallow mountains and rivers, no lakes as vast as the sea, and no ancient ruins that are as glamorous as the crowd.

In their small world, there are only such babbling streams, delicate waterfalls, and ordinary plants that rely on the nourishment of streams and the water vapor of small waterfalls to survive.

Plants are common and precious. For example, the shrub that spreads all over the mountains is common and ordinary. Plants such as cordyceps sinensis or ginseng are uncommon and precious.

But what does it have to do with the most precious plants that cannot be useful to the lives of the mountain people?

However, those ordinary plants, in the eyes of the mountain people, are more intimate than Cordyceps sinensis and ginseng Ganoderma lucidum.

For example, the sandalwood trees are all over the mountains. Although this guy is rough, its branches have a tenacity and solidity that many trees don't have. Therefore, the mountain people love to use it as a nail, and also like to use it as a temporary crutch, and even think that the branches of this sandalwood are easier to burn than most mountain trees.

Another example is the golden cherry blossoms that are all over the mountains, although many times this guy is very annoying, but when their fruits turn from green to yellow until they are golden, they are clamped off one by one with iron tongs, and then put them in a snakeskin bag and roll them with their feet, and they will become 'precious medicinal materials' for soaking wine.

This nobility is not the same as the preciousness of Cordyceps. The prestige of the mountain people comes from their sweat, not the amount of money, nor whether they have all kinds of heart-wrenching stories.

Their preciousness lies in a heart.

When the Chinese New Year comes, relatives come to visit, and several big men gather at a table, and the golden cherry wine should be served.

Most of them don't have any high education and don't have much knowledge, but when they see Jin Yingzi wine, they know more than one another.

The effect of this wine is applicable to men.

How can a woman have the cheekiness to drink this wine, and if she does, will she not be laughed at?

Because this wine is commonly known as 'aphrodisiac @ yang wine'. Take a sip and your body will heat up immediately.

Ordinary plants, coupled with unusual minds, are precious things.

Therefore, if you can find Houttuynia cordata in this early autumn season, it is also a precious heart.

After all, Houttuynia cordata is a squeamish thing, and in autumn, it is difficult to find their traces.

Unless you know where they grow and then use a hoe to cut the ground open so you can find their milky rhizomes.

However, it was still easy for Chen Yang to find Houttuynia cordata. Not because he has superpowers, but because he knows the mountains too well. He knew where Houttuynia cordata grew.

There are a lot of houttuynia growing around the small puddle at the bottom of the waterfall in front of you.

Because it is deep in the valley, warm in winter and cool in summer, Houttuynia cordata here usually does not wither until the plants on the mountain hang ice bars.

Their large green leaves can still be seen around the puddles.

Chen Yang stepped forward a few steps, and at a glance, he saw Houttuynia cordata from the many weeds.

For those who love beauty and bright flowers, Houttuynia cordata is probably very ugly. After all, they don't look good. Their vines are brownish-green with many short branches. The color of the branches turns from dark to light, and from light to a faint incense, which hits people's noses.

Their leaves are not small, at least not compared to their branches. The leaves are somewhat rounded, but not very round. The leaves are mostly green, and the back color is lighter, which is really not comparable to the various colorful plants around it.

Perhaps, that's what they want. After all, life is not a glamorous arena, and being low-key is not necessarily a means of self-protection.

They didn't want to get attention from the beginning, they huddled together, hugged each other, snuggled, and grew carefully.

However, no matter how low-key and unglamorous they are, it is still difficult to escape the clutches of foodies in the end.

In fact, more than 2,000 years ago, their fate was already sealed. In ancient times, gluttonous ancients knew about the many benefits of Houttuynia cordata and cooked them into a variety of delicacies.

Nowadays, with the acceleration of people's pace of life, pressure and depression have persecuted people's physical and mental health for a long time, so more and more people have begun to advocate nature and pursue simplicity.

In many parts of the country, especially in the southwest, Houttuynia cordata has become a valuable game on the public table.

Therefore, there are also planting bases of Houttuynia cordata in many places.

But if you want to say that the taste is authentic, it is the wild Houttuynia cordata in the mountains. After all, it is a natural product of nature, and there is neither the assistance of chemical fertilizers nor traces of artificiality, so the taste is naturally better.

Chen Yang picked up some relatively tender Houttuynia cordata next to the puddle, and after a while, he pulled out two handfuls.

Because these Houttuynia cordata grows in moist areas next to puddles, the soil is soft, so it is not difficult to pull it up.

After the Houttuynia cordata is pulled out, it must be soaked in water while the soil adhered to it has not yet dried. Otherwise, if you take Houttuynia cordata home and wash it again, the soil on the root will dry up, and it will be more troublesome to clean.

After washing the houttuynia on the spot, you can see the milky white rhizome of Houttuynia cordata.

Its rhizomes are a little more famous than its leaves. It is estimated that what people in the city eat in restaurants is the rhizome of Houttuynia cordata.

But in reality, Houttuynia cordata can be eaten all over the body.

The problem of Houttuynia cordata was solved, and Chen Yang used his skills to catch a few more stone frogs.

By the time he returned to the village with his wheelbarrow, the old people had fried the pot.

This kid is really born with divine powers. Not only that, but this kid caught several fat stone frogs!

The old people couldn't sit still, and one by one they propped their knees, moved their butts away from the stones, and stepped forward to surround Chen Yang's wheelbarrow.

"Chen Yang, where did you catch this stone frog?"

"Nonsense, of course caught in the water. Chen Yang smiled, "Is it possible, I can still catch it in the tree?"

The crowd laughed.

Someone asked, "Why is there still Houttuynia cordata?"

"Houttuynia cordata is available all year round, it's up to you to find it or not. ”

That's the truth.

"Chen Yang, you said that you are also a small boss now, why do you still dress like a beggar every day and go to the mountains? ”

"Yes, your boss doesn't look like a boss, look at you, you don't have as neatly dressed as us. ”

Chen Yang looked at the old man who was holding a cigarette and said with a smile: "You have entered the pension stage, I am still in the stage of struggle, we can't talk about things together." ”

That's right.

The old people ridiculed Chen Yang, and they didn't have bad intentions, but they finally blocked a good-tempered young man, and they couldn't help but have fun.

You said that in this big mountain village, most of the young people have gone out to study or go out to work, and there are few young faces to be seen all year round, and the old people can't help but feel bored when they look at each other's old faces every day.

Therefore, they love to tease Chen Yang.

Of course, the dolls who go to school are also the object of their 'jokes'. The joke is also malicious, it is just a pure joke.

At first, Chen Yang could still withstand the laughter of these old men and grandmothers, but after a while, he couldn't resist it, so he had to push the wheelbarrow and slip away.

Looking at his back as he walked away, the old people all smiled and said, "This kid has a chance." ”

"I've never seen anyone as diligent as him. ”

"Who said they hadn't seen it? weren't his parents like that back then?"

"Alas. Everyone sighed in unison and shook their heads. Speaking of which, Chen Yang, this kid is also a hard-working person. But fortunately, he is an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, no matter how difficult he encounters, he can always survive tenaciously.

So, now his good days have come.

The old people watched Chen Yang's life get better and better, and they wouldn't say that they were jealous or anything, after all, every hard work was harvested.

Chen Yang's current life is all earned by his own efforts. If their young people can have the strength to endure hardships and stand hard work like Chen Yang, then what do they old people have to worry about?

But the problem is that most of today's young people have only learned to enjoy, but they have not learned to bear hardships and stand hard work.

Chen Yang returned home, and the third aunt hurriedly came out to help unload the hemp bamboo shoots. Seeing that he had only prepared stone frogs and houttuynia cordata, he asked, "Didn't I ask you to prepare more wild vegetables?

"Third aunt, it's September! And it hasn't rained in this ghost weather, so it's good to find Houttuynia cordata. ”

Chen Yang said as he took off his shirt, then ripped off the clean clothes from the bamboo pole where the clothes were drying, and walked into the shower room to take a cold shower.

In fact, a person who sweats profusely should not take a cold shower, and he doesn't care if he is physically supertalented.

When I came out of the shower, the whole person was comfortable and clean. When his body is clean, he dares to hug Xiaoqian.

If you don't have a bath on your body and go directly to hug Xiao Qian, I'm afraid that you will get ants and other insects on Xiao Qian.

Although the ants are small, if they are bitten by black ants, not to mention children, even adults will have to cry in pain.