Time flies so fast, it's almost Qingming Festival in a blink of an eye. The willows sprout and the apricot trees bloom, the poplars are covered with "Yangba dogs" (poplar spikes), and the whole village is draped in a veil of green, and occasionally one or two apricot trees are full of pink and white flowers, dotted among the green willows.

Surrounded by a beautiful village illuminated by the blue sky and white clouds, Yoyo often thinks of the dreams of future generations: give me back a piece of blue sky.

The spinach in the vegetable garden of the production team grows, but unfortunately the villagers did not eat a bite, and all of them were transferred by the commune to comfort the migrant workers who rebuilt the embankment. Fortunately, my uncle and grandfather had a vegetable garden, and my uncle and grandmother sent me a bundle of spinach the next day.

The big pots and small urns of the second grandmother's house are soaked in the willow silk (willow buds) that have been blanched with water, and the water has to be changed every morning and evening. Youyou followed Si Ni Guiping to hook the "Yangba Dog" (poplar spike), as long as it is tender, the flowering and hairy ones cannot be eaten. Grandma put it in a bowl, add oil and salt and put it in a pot to cook, it tastes fragrant and delicious.

Seeing the second grandmother's steamed willow silk to eat, the green willow buds were greedy when they looked at it. Yoyo pestered grandma to make it for herself, and grandma went to the second grandmother's house to ask for a small bowl and brought it back for Yoyo to eat. Youyou hurriedly took a big bite, chewed it twice and spit it out, full of bitterness, quickly drank water and rinsed his mouth, and the aftertaste was a little fragrant.

Yoyo asked with a bitter face: "Grandma, why did he eat it, it's really unpalatable." ”

"Eating bran when you are hungry is as sweet as honey, and eating honey when you are full is not sweet, it is all poor. It can't be said that it is unpalatable outside, and the second grandmother doesn't dare to go out to ask for food in order to take care of the children's face. Otherwise, so many migrant workers this year still need to eat this. Only then did you remember that every day, more than a dozen people did go to the shacks of migrant workers to ask for food.

Now people's food rations are tight, and everyone who asks for food is breaking a small piece of nest. This has to be in time to eat, after the meal, no one will send the food, there is a saying that "you can't catch up with the meal".

Migrant workers are relatively rich in food rations and can eat enough. is also generous to those who ask for food, and most of them give half a nest.

When Youyou saw Sini Guiping digging back a basket of shepherd's cabbage from the ground, the gluttonous worm came out again, asked for a small shoulder blue for her grandmother, and followed Guiping to the river beach.

I haven't been here for more than half a month, and the river beach has changed a lot, and it is green. The loess raised by the pears of the people is covered by the young seedlings of various weeds and wild vegetables, and even the corrugated beach by the river grows patches of grass.

There are not many people digging wild vegetables in the river beach, they are all teenagers. Nowadays, there is basically no transportation, and people have to walk for everything. Other villages are four or five miles away from the river beach, and it takes more than an hour to get to the river beach on the way back and forth, and then carry thirty or forty pounds of grass when you go back, and you have to go up and down the embankment ten meters high, and the degree of hard work is not something that a teenager can bear.

Adults participate in collective labor, and mowing grass and digging vegetables are generally about 10 years old and a half-old child. Therefore, the people who go to the river beach are basically people who live in the beach area, and they are still teenagers, after all, they are far away from the village, two or three miles away.

Hantun Village is small, and only a few children come to the river beach. Youyou is familiar with Baoshan's sister, 11-year-old Sizhuo and 7-year-old Wuduan, the second daughter of the "Big One" family, 12-year-old Jingyun, and the fourth daughter, 6-year-old Jingyu, all girls. There wasn't a single boy, and all the boys went to school.

There is a school in the village, and most people also let their daughters go to school, but they only go to the third grade, and they no longer go to Zhoulou Village in the fourth grade. Most of the boys go to elementary school and are admitted to junior high school to go to the Xiangyang brigade, except for particularly difficult families, boys are generally allowed to finish junior high school.

It seems that "times are different, men and women are the same." "In the countryside it is a slogan, and patriarchy is the reality.

Shimiao Village in the west is closer to the river beach, and in some places it is only one mile, and it is relatively far away from the embankment, almost four miles, so there are no migrant workers stationed in the village. In the east, with the turn of the Yellow River, a production embankment was built at the junction with the land boundary of Heiseong County, which also became the dividing line between the two counties, and people generally did not cross this production embankment.

Gui Ping taught Youyou to identify wild vegetables, and the wild vegetables in this season are mainly camellia, artemisia (Artemisia annua), sieve bottom, yin seed cabbage, water spinach, honey artemisia (Yin Chen), potato flour seedlings, and noodle vegetables (cotton cabbage).

Guixiang told Youyou that a few days later, gray cabbage, mother-in-law, horsetail cabbage (purslane), ox tongue (psyllium), bitter bitter cabbage, Zha Maoleng (pig hair cabbage), safflower, and broom cabbage will grow.

"My father said that there is a lot of grass growing on the river beach this year, and he wants to raise another pig. ”

"Raise it, so much grass can be fed. "What Yoyo didn't say was that your family would have enough to eat even if you ran a pig farm.

and Gui Ping slowly distanced, squatted on the ground carefully distinguished, secretly released a few small robots to help dig vegetables, and secretly received the space, cleaned and packaged.

Yoyo saw that the oats and alfalfa he sown had emerged well, and they were everywhere, and they had grown to a height of five or six centimeters, mixed with various weeds.

Gui Ping quickly dug up a basket full of wild vegetables and helped Yoyo dig up the basket. Youyou deliberately dug up a handful of alfalfa seedlings and asked her what kind of dish she was, Gui Ping shook her head and didn't know it, saying that there was a lot of this kind of grass this year, but she didn't know if pigs and sheep would eat it.

After digging for a while, the children were tired and annoyed, so they sat together and played and rested. Yoyo took out a few fruit candies and handed them a piece to each person. Jing Yu and Wu Xuan, who were younger, happily took it, peeled it off and quickly stuffed it in their mouths.

Jing Yun and Si Zhu didn't want to hide, Gui Ping took it and persuaded them: "Go on, the people of the Youyou family are real." You can dig up more vegetables for Yoyo in a while, and go back to help her carry the basket. ”

The two of them took it, and the four bolts opened the candy wrapper and added a few bites, and then carefully wrapped it and put it in their pockets, apparently taking it back to Baoshan to eat.

On the way home, Jingyun, Xuanni and Guiping took turns carrying the basket for Youyou, but Youyou couldn't take it at all. Later, when I thought about it, I took it on my shoulder, my basket was small and not heavy.

Along the way, several girls chirped and sang children's songs:

The little sparrow, chirping, the guest came, and killed the chicken.

The chick said, "I'll lay eggs, cluck, it's better to kill me than to kill the duckling." ”

The duckling said, "I walk and twist Yangge, and it is better to kill me than to kill the goose." ”

The little goose said, "I have short legs and a long neck, and it is better to kill the lamb than to kill me."

The lamb said, "I go forward on four legs, and it is better to kill a dog than to kill me." ”

The puppy said, "My house is dumb and my throat is dumb, and it is better to kill me than to kill a horse." ”

The pony said, "I'll go down to Bozhou with a saddle, and it's better to kill a cow than to kill me." ”

The calf said, "I'll pull up the cart and kill a pig." ”

The little pig said, "Eat your vegetables, bag your chaff, and kill me, it's really wronged." ”

A few people you sing one sentence, she sings one sentence after another, and she takes turns to sing, and listens tactfully. You feel sorry for them when you listen to it, with such a good memory, why are adults reluctant to let them go to school.

Walking to the production embankment, the embankment is covered with some slender shoots. Gui Ping told Youyou that this is the ti (di) valley (thatched tidbits), how long is a handful, the thickness of the wheat straw, the soft leaves are wrapped in white and tender tidbits, and the sweet and silky ones are eaten in the mouth, and are regarded as snacks by the children. The elder's tidbits were pulled out and waved in the wind, like a small reed flower.

Everyone stopped and pulled out the valley together. Jing Yun, Xuan Ni and Gui Ping were very energetic, and they dug a bunch of thatched roots with a shovel, and the white and tender thatch roots were watery and bright, and they tasted much sweeter than Tigu, and they gave Youyou a lot of them.

Walking to the entrance of the village, Jing Yun and Shuni grabbed wild vegetables from their baskets, stuffed Youyou's little blue seeds sturdy, and handed them to Gui Ping to help Youyou carry them home.

Yoyo took Maogen and Tigu to tease Didi, and the three brothers grabbed a handful and chewed it, so anxious that Didi jumped around the brothers, and the elder sister and brother kept screaming.

Grandma separated the wild vegetables that Yoyo had dug up, and Yoyo took out a lot of them from the space. Soak Artemisia in salt water, saying that it has to be drowned for three or four days to eat, this thing is generally less, and only tender seedlings can eat, usually can not dig a few, this year to eat back to enjoyable.

At noon, my grandmother made a steamed noodle dish. After it is out of the pot, it is poured with sesame oil (sesame oil), the aroma is tangy, soft and delicious, and the taste is delicate, and the fragrance of wild vegetables is all retained. After two lives, Yoyo finally ate authentic natural wild vegetables.

When Didi was full, he looked at the pot of vegetables, and shouted: "I will eat at night", and his grandmother laughed at him eating in the bowl and looking at the pot.

In the afternoon, Youyou followed Gui Ping to the river beach again. Taking advantage of Guiping's inattention, he sneaked to the production embankment separated by Hepingcheng County.

Ignoring his sore legs, he quickly climbed up, and saw that the Yellow River was flowing all the way to the northeast, five or six miles away from the Yellow River embankment. There was no village in the riverbank, and there was not a single person in sight.

Yoyo is happy to see that, no one is good, he can let go of his hands and feet to cheat. As soon as I thought of it, a large number of robots were released and dug wild vegetables according to the instructions.

The speed of the robot is called fast, and after a while, it collected nearly 1,000 catties of wild vegetables, and began to prepare to launch a limited purchase of pure natural wild vegetables in the mall.

I was happy to patronize and didn't pay attention to the time. Until Gui Ping and a few older children came over with shouting, they were so anxious that they were sweating, and they hurriedly put away the robot.

"Yoyo, why did you come here, I'm scared to death!" Gui Ping's breath was uneven.

"I'll come over to see what's here?" Fourth aunt and grandmother, why isn't there anything?" asked Yoyo flatteringly.

Gui Ping heard Youyou's question, and she couldn't worry about it. Hurriedly replied to Youyou's question: "As my father said, the Yellow River was close to the embankment here, less than two miles away, and it was flooded on hot days every year, so it couldn't live in people. In the past ten years, the river has changed direction and is far away from the embankment. You see, they didn't build a production embankment on their side. ”

No wonder there is no one on the river beach here, in this era of traveling by legs, more than ten miles back and forth, even adults have to approach an hour, and children basically can't run.

But this is just right, rich in resources, and it is also convenient for you to cheat. The river beach on this side of Pingcheng alone has more than 1,000 acres.

The yoyo people trot and can't move, but the robot can, release some more, and everything will be solved.

In the evening, grandma made cold cabbage and water spinach, and Didi's little belly was round. Dad distressed and told Yoyo not to go again in the future, the road is too far, just walking back and forth her small body is tired enough, just eat fresh.

Hao Hao also followed the persuasion: "I want to eat and wait for my brother to dig in a week, I have a lot of energy." ”