Chapter 8 Farming

Time slipped away quietly in the teaching and learning of the grandfather and grandson. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe farming season is fast approaching, and the vegetable plot at home has been planted before this, so it is not affected in any way. Although Luo Zhentang is 52 years old, he still has to participate in labor, and he still points to this earning share! It's just that the older ones are assigned some easier work, not to mention that Luo Zhentang is a doctor in the village. After all, doctors are too rare these days, but they have to be protected, and there is only one doctor in their own village, and their medical skills are still very good.

During the busy farming season, the adults are busy with their feet on the ground, and many of the household chores at home fall on the children. For example, digging wild vegetables, cooking, hunting pigweed, feeding chickens and ducks, and so on. As the saying goes: children from poor families are in charge of the house early, and children in the countryside in this era share the housework early. Luo Qingyan tried to take on more housework in order to make his grandfather easier.

Luo Zhentang has been recuperating his granddaughter these days, plus Luo Qingyan often drinks spiritual springs and eats delicious food in the space, obviously the spirit is different, and the person has also grown some meat, which makes Luo Zhentang very happy. In these years, everything is lacking, and it is very difficult to get some nutritious things for my granddaughter to replenish her body. Fortunately, he treats others, and sometimes the patient's family will give a few eggs as medicine expenses, and eggs are a scarce good thing in these years.

Now that the farm is busy and the land has begun to farm, Luo Zhentang sees that his granddaughter's body is fine, and he no longer restricts her, and now Luo Qingyan is finally free.

In the morning, as soon as Luo Zhentang left, Liu Liying came in, "Xiao Yan, can you go out, right? Let's go dig wild vegetables today." ”

Luo Qingyan was about to go to her: "Okay, now the wild vegetables have grown a lot, let's dig more today." ”

The two of them took the basket and went out towards the mountain, passing by the river, Luo Qingyan said excitedly: "Let's go fishing in the afternoon, you can add a dish to the house." ”

Liu Liying was a little unconvinced, "Can you catch it?" But I've seen your grandfather catch fish. You learned it from your grandfather?"

Luo Qingyan patted his chest and said, "Of course, don't you worry, this is not me." We'll be digging for some bait while we're digging for wild vegetables. I make two hooks at noon and I'll teach you how to fish in the afternoon. ”

"Okay, I'll rely on you!"

Time flies, and the deciduous trees on the mountain have already sprouted, casting a faint green color over the mountain. The wild plants have grown a little, dandelions and bracken have grown in the sun.

Dandelion is a good thing, dandelion is a perennial herb of the Asteraceae family. The inflorescence is head-shaped, and the seeds have pompoms formed by white crown hairs, and after the flowers bloom, they float to a new place with the wind to give birth to new life. The dandelion plant contains a variety of healthy nutrients such as dandelion alcohol, dandelion, choline, organic acids, inulin, etc., which have the effects of diuresis, laxative, jaundice, choleretic and so on. Dandelion also contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, trace elements and vitamins, etc., has rich nutritional value, can be eaten raw, stir-fried, made into soup, is a plant with both medicine and food. Dandelion flowers bloom at noon and do not bloom in the morning and evening. In the countryside, it is also called cuckooing.

Bracken likes to be born in the shallow mountainous area to the sunny plot, most of the Chinese region has it, mostly distributed in the sparse coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest; its edible part is the young leaf buds that have not been developed, the treated bracken has a fragrant and smooth taste, and then mixed with condiments, it is cool and delicious, it is a rare high-quality wine dish, it can also be fried and eaten, processed into dried vegetables, made of stuffing, etc.

Some of the wild vegetables she met when she went to collect medicine with her grandfather, and some of them she knew when she was a soldier in her previous life for wilderness survival training or on a mission in the field. In the wild, as long as you can eat everything, you have to know everything, not to mention wild vegetables, and sometimes when you run out of dry food and can't make a fire when you are on a mission in the field, you have to eat raw meat. She was very emotional at this time, and when she was a soldier in her previous life, she learned a lot of things that she couldn't touch elsewhere.

There are a lot of wild vegetables found this time, in addition to dandelions, Luo Qingyan deliberately dug up some more bracken, and when he goes home, he can wrap cornmeal dumplings for his grandfather to eat, and he can't see it by putting a little more oil in the vegetable filling. Dandelion dip in miso is the best to eat, just as a cold dish, can also be made into soup. These days, grandpa has to work in the fields every day, and he must be very tired, and she wants him to eat better.

After two days, she wanted to go deep into the mountains to see if she could pick mushrooms and fungus, but the ones on the outskirts of the mountains had already been picked. Grandpa used to pick it before, but he ate it all in one winter. Now the snow in the mountains has not completely melted, and you have to wait to go into the mountains, and the beasts in the mountains have been hungry for a winter, and it is more dangerous to go into the mountains now. If you go, you have to go alone, and you can't let your grandfather know, or you just go with your grandfather.

When the wild vegetables were almost dug up, the sun was already high, Luo Qingyan looked at the sun, "Let's go back, let's dig some earthworms on the way so that we can go back to make bait." ”

Liu Liying straightened up, "Okay, I'll go look for you after lunch." ”

The two of them carried a basket of wild vegetables and dug up a few earthworms on the way. The fields on both sides of the country road are full of busy villagers, and it is a busy scene.

When they got home, it was almost time to make lunch. Liu Liying also hurried home, and her mother came back at noon and waited for her wild vegetables to cook.

Luo Qingyan also hurriedly washed the wild vegetables, chopped the bracken into a filling, fried a few eggs and stirred them into the filling. She took out the soybean oil from the space and poured it more appropriately, not daring to pour more for fear that her grandfather would find out. Now they all eat soybean oil pressed from soybeans, which has not been further processed, and the color of the oil is yellowish-brown. I put some meat oil, which is fried with fatty pork. Other ingredients like thirteen incense will be fine. She also dropped a few drops of spiritual spring into the filling, hoping to use this to also condition her grandfather's body. In the past, it was inconvenient to cook with my grandfather, but now I don't have to scruple about being alone, and I shouldn't be able to find out if I put a little less. Add some spring water to the water of the noodles. She reconciled the cornmeal, and seeing that the time was almost up, she began to steam the vegetable dumplings.

Luo Zhentang hurried home after work, afraid that his granddaughter would not be able to cook by herself. As soon as he entered the door, he smelled a fragrance, and it seemed that his granddaughter had already prepared the meal. "Qing'er, what are you doing so fragrant?"

"Grandpa, are you back, are you tired?" Luo Qingyan hurriedly fetched a basin of water for his grandfather, and said with a smile, "Grandpa, you wash first, and you will start eating immediately." Today I dug up a lot of bracken and steamed cornmeal gnocchi, you can taste it later. This is the first time I've operated independently, I don't know if it's good or not, and you'll criticize and correct it in a while. ”

Luo Zhentang nodded his granddaughter's forehead, "Yo, Qing'er is finally ready to show her hand, it must be delicious when it smells so fragrant." Grandpa must be cheering. ”

Luo Qingyan lifted the lid of the pot, and a hot breath came to his face, followed by a rich fragrance. Look at the golden vegetable dumplings in the pot, at least the color and fragrance are there, and this flavor should not be wrong with your own craftsmanship. She put the vegetable dumplings in the pot one by one on the plate and brought them to the dining table, and quickly made a dandelion wild vegetable soup