As for the small ginseng dug up by the two, a stewed chicken soup was given to everyone to relieve the summer fatigue, and the rest was concocted by Yingfang, wrapped in red silk cloth and tied to the beams of the house, and used at any time.

The 30-year-old wild ginseng and large purple lingzhi were brewed into medicinal wine according to the old man's preference.

Rice wine is still looking for Aunt Xiang.

Last year's grain harvest was poor, and Xiang's second aunt's family did not make wine, but her mother's family still had a vat of sorghum wine brewed the year before last that was unopened. Since Yingfang wanted it, and she wanted so many catties, Xiang Er's aunt carried the thirty catties of fine noodles that Yingfang took as a deposit, and took the time to run to her mother's house.

The sorghum wine that has been buried in the ground for two years, and the aroma of the wine wafts for miles when it is opened, which hooks out everyone's gluttony.

This year's early rice production is okay, although it is not comparable to the previous year, but it is much better than last year's poor harvest.

Seeing that the farm was busy and the joy of a bumper harvest was imminent, the family with a man simply took a luxury, put on the old rice and millet that he was thrifty and hoarded for the New Year, and quietly came to the second aunt's house to exchange two taels of sorghum to burn for the family's strong labor to relieve the fatigue.

Naturally, the public will not say that it is a change of wine, but that it was brewed at the second aunt's house earlier, and the intensity of the strong labor is very high at the end of the day when the farm is busy, and it can rest at night.

Peeling a few tender peanuts and sipping two sips of wine during the meal can relieve some fatigue. After that, I will have a good night's sleep, and I will have to continue to work when I wake up the next day.

Ying Fang didn't know this, as soon as she got the wine, she began to prepare medicinal herbs.

Ginseng, wolfberry, rehmannia and earth rock sugar, this is a good partner for soaking wine. Drinking without disease has the effect of strengthening the body and promoting longevity.

If conditions permit, it would be more perfect to add a "weed".

The scientific name of "Ageless Grass" is Cistanche, which is a herb that grows in the mountainous areas of the three eastern provinces.

When Ying Fang first saw this medicinal wine recipe in an ancient medical book, she consciously accumulated a few medicinal materials needed for the formula, so in addition to Cistanche, there were several other side medicinal materials at home.

Purple Ganoderma lucidum is also a health-care medicinal material, long-term use can anti-tumor, protect the liver, delay aging, strengthen the foundation, beneficial and harmless to the human body.

And purple Ganoderma lucidum is easier to make wine, take 50 grams after slicing and put it into a two-pound soju bottle, seal and soak for three days, until the liquor turns reddish-brown and you can drink it.

The purple lingzhi picked back by Xiao Sanye is still relatively large, and the net weight of the medicinal materials after processing is more than one catty, and after slicing, it is soaked in more than 20 catties of medicinal wine.

Two catties of empty shochu bottles were found at home, and the old man said that these two bottles were sent back to Xia Lao.

And the rest was sealed with jars.

Worried that the sealing of the cloth stopper was not good enough, the old man also made a lump of yellow mud with his own hands, and asked Xiao Li to pick a few green and tender bamboo leaves, wash and dry them to cover the wine jar, and then seal the mouth of the altar with yellow mud.

After tinkering with the medicinal wine, Xiao Sanye continued to explore the forest that seemed unusual to him with Xiao Li. Once, a pile of burnt ashes was found, and there were several used match stems scattered around the ash pile, and I couldn't help but suspect that someone had visited.

But who could it be? During the busy farming period, I didn't hear of a man who went to the mountains to hunt instead of earning wages.

Xiao Sanye and Xiao Li looked at each other, and there was deep thought in their eyes.

On the way back, Xiao Sanye turned around Qunying Village and told his son-in-law that there were traces of people on the other side of the deep forest, and asked them to be careful when training.

At the same time, I became more and more curious about the forest, and I went there almost every other day, and the area to explore became larger and larger, and the quiet area in the forest seemed to be expanding all the time.

If the two of them went to their prey at the beginning, then the rest was purely out of curiosity.

On the return trip, you can catch a few pheasants and hares as usual, and if you are lucky, you can even pick up a nest of wild eggs.

Sister-in-law Fu saw the wild eggs and said with a smile: "This Dragon Boat Festival is not worried about no eggs to boil tea eggs." ”

That's right, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming.

"Why did Xiao Xiang train for so long this time? I came back in early April, and it was May in the blink of an eye. The Dragon Boat Festival should always let them rest for a day, right?" Jiang Xinrou said as she sat under the eaves and mended the old clothes her husband wore when he went up the mountain.

"Closed training is like this, one month is not the longest, the longest is two months. Xiao Sanye leaned on the recliner and listened to the capital news on the radio, heard his daughter-in-law's muttering, and explained casually.

Jiang Xinrou pouted.

Yes, as a military wife, aren't these all things that should be accepted and supported? It's one thing to say that, and it's another thing to do it without complaint.

Fortunately, they live with their daughter, and the girl only needs to take the baby wholeheartedly, and there is someone to do it when she is tired. Otherwise, alas......

Yingfang knew why her mother sighed. If she didn't recognize her parents, and Xiang Gang hadn't been transferred to the new base, she would have taken three babies in the family compound alone, and she had to be busy with housework, which was unbearable to think about.

How good it is now, there are family members around to help them, Shi Niang, Aunt Xiang, and Aunt Deng will also come to the door from time to time, and if they need help, they will take a hand. It can only be said that everything is fate.

It is fate to become a master and apprentice with the master, it is fate to know Xiang Gang, it is fate to reunite with his biological father, and it is not fate to give birth to triplets?

And the biggest reason is that she Qingling was reborn as a girl of this era.

Thinking of her adoptive parents, Yingfang couldn't help but stop the sewing work at hand and said to her family: "Dad, Mom, now that grandpa has moved next door, even if there are guests in the future, it is unlikely that they will be arranged to go to Dad's house, I want to arrange it there." ”

Jiang Xinrou knew her daughter's plan, so she was not surprised, and said: "You can arrange it as you want, what you need to use and move, just look for me and your father." ”

Xiao Sanye lowered the sound of the radio, and said after a moment's silence: "The family ancestral hall can be big or small, and now in addition to housing, the construction of civil engineering such as temples is strictly controlled......

"Dad, I didn't plan to break ground, I just wanted to decorate the room where my father and mother used to live. The one I live in is connected to the second half of the room, and the whole thing is a warehouse. If you don't use it often, put it there. That way, we can live more spacious. ”

Although the house will be Yangyang in the future, who knows how it will develop in the future?

What if Yangyang is a student and goes all the way to the Workers' Peasants' and Soldiers' University in the capital? After graduation, it is still unknown which city the school will be assigned to, but there is one point, there must be a public house divided into units, and there is a place to live when he comes back, so it is unlikely that he will move that house.

"It's just a wall inside the room, it's easy to do. Xiao Sanye sat up when he heard this, "Horizontal and idle, why don't you go now?"

Ying Fang couldn't cry or laugh: "Dad, don't listen to the wind and rain, I just have such a plan, and I haven't thought about how to arrange it yet." Besides, the weather is so hot, it's easy to get heat stroke when working in a stuffy house, so let's wait until it's cooler. ”

"You can wait for the house, you can't wait for the water chestnut in your small pond!" Xiao Sanye laughed, "Let's go!" ”

Yingfang: "......" dares to love her father is a tender water chestnut in the pond.

Last autumn, Shi Niang helped her keep the seeds, and in March this year, she put it into the pond, and now it has been three months since she was full, and she can indeed eat it.

Tender water chestnut meat is fresh, peeled and eaten raw or fried with beans and bacon, and it can be called a novel and delicious seasonal dish in early summer.

Jiang Xinrou saw that her daughter's interest was so high, so she asked her to follow Lao Xiao together.

"Put on a straw hat, the sun is scorching this day, and it will be hot to stand under the sun for a while, don't get sunburned. ”

"Hey!" Ying Fang replied, took the straw hat, put it on before going out, tied the rope tightly, and carried a sickle and a basket in her hand.

Not only water chestnuts, but also lotus root belts are also digging points by the way.

The lotus root is also called the lotus root whip, which is about the same size as the shelled whip shoots, and the appearance is also the same - white and tender.

After the middle of summer, the lotus root belt gradually expands, and it is a ripe lotus root.

Yingfang's pond is small, and there are lotus and lotus lotus. The lotus is the seed of the lotus, and the lotus is the one that gives birth to the lotus root. This is related to the seeds that the old man gave her at the beginning. There are lotus seeds and lotus roots.

The lotus root is buried and dug at the time of the autumn harvest, which is a fat lotus root festival as strong as a mallet. Digging at this time, it is still a fresh and refreshing lotus root.

It's hot, and everyone has no appetite. This kind of seasonal dish is the first time I have eaten it this year, and I hope it will be appetizing for everyone.

"Mom, I'll come back as soon as possible, the babies wake up, you tease them, it's not tight to feed them later." When she went out to the room, she glanced at the room, and saw that the children were sleeping soundly, Yingfang whispered to her mother and went out with confidence.

Xiao Sanye took the first step to the backyard of the Shu family, wearing only a sweatshirt vest, and was busy in the yard. First, I pulled weeds for the vegetable patch, and then took a broom to clean up the chicken coop and duck coop.

Including the master's house, a total of six hens leisurely pecked insects on the weedy field fenced off. Four ducks quacked among the lotus leaves in the pond.

A few lotus flowers have bloomed, and the pink petals are more and more delicate under the sunlight. Water chestnut in half pond and lotus in half pond. The turquoise leaves, large and small, cover almost the entire pond, and are as beautiful as a slowly unfolding picture.

Seeing that his daughter was coming, Xiao Sanye put down the broom, rolled up his trousers and said, "Good girl, you stand in the shade and don't move, I'll pick the water chestnut, and I will take you home." ”

Ying Fang couldn't cry or laugh: "Dad, let me do some work, if I don't work anymore, my whole body will be rusty." ”

"Nonsense!" Xiao Sanye glared, "What should I do if I suffer from heat stroke on such a hot day?" The three babies are still waiting for you to breastfeed." If you are obedient, stand in the shade of a tree, and don't come out. ”

Ying Fang didn't have a problem with her father, thinking that she hadn't been here for a long time, so she said, "Then Dad, I'll go into the house and tidy up the warehouse, and I'll leave the work outside to you." ”

"Don't squat for a long time in the stuffy room, just come out with a little tidying. Xiao Sanye shouted.

The villagers passing by behind the house twitched the corners of their mouths when they saw this.

The heart said that the adopted daughter of the Jianjun family was so blessed, when she was a child, Jianjun and her mouth hurt like liver and flesh; when she grew up, she married the child of the Xiang family and was spoiled by that kid as an eyeball; she recognized her biological father and mother, and she didn't even need to touch her hands on housework. If you think about it carefully, it can be called hard when the first two years of Jianjun's death and the house was occupied by Mrs. Shu and the second child of the Shu family. Now it's a bittersweet one.

The psychological activities of the villagers who are envious or emotional, Yingfang does not know. She went into the house, went to the barn, removed the burlap bag and snakeskin bag, lifted the lid of the cellar, carried the lighted kerosene lamp, walked down a few squares, checked the grain hidden in the cellar, and saw that there were no moths or rat bites, and although it was old millet and old wheat, the grains were full, and it was impossible to tell that it had been left for a year and a half.

Ying Fang returned to it with confidence, put the cellar lid back in its place, spread the snakeskin bags, and piled up the miscellaneous sacks.

These sacks are also stockpiled, and some of them are leftover seeds, such as soybeans, mung beans, millet, sesame seeds, peanuts, and so on.

The little snake brother sent by King Jin came to inspect from time to time, and even if she didn't put rat poison around the barn, there would be no rats in her house.

As for the moths or something, each bag is put in a deworming and dehumidifying powder packet, which is changed regularly, and then the teacher helps to carry it under the eaves for ventilation and dehumidification every once in a while, so it is well preserved.

Ying Fang found a cloth bag from the stove room, and everything was evenly balanced.

When the weather is hot, mung beans can be boiled in soup, soybeans can be ground in soybean juice to make bean curd, peanuts are soaked in soft peanuts after being shelled to make vinegar peanuts, and sesame seeds are ground to make dim sum filling......

"Good girl!"

Xiao Sanye's water chestnut is almost finished.

"Hey—here it is!"

Yingfang put the cloth bag in the basket and carried it to the door of the hall, so as not to forget it when she left.

"Dad, come up. Let's talk about June, but it's weird to be soaked in water all the time. Yingfang came to the pond and urged.

"It's not cold, it's been a day in the sun, and it's warm. Xiao Sanye said, raised his elbow to wipe the sweat dripping from his forehead, and pushed the small wooden basin floating on the water to the shore, "I have picked so many lotus roots, I think it is still very tender, so let's pick a little less." We'll eat half of it, and half of it will be sent to your master's house, so that they can try it too. For the rest, I think it's better to support the elderly, and let my sister-in-law make glutinous rice lotus root in winter. I can't see this thing in Kyoto, and I ate it once in Haicheng, it's sweet and glutinous, and the taste is very good. Your mother and your grandfather should love it. ”

"Done. Ying Fang had no opinion, and bent down to pick up the wooden basin.

"Leave it alone, I'll mention it. ”

"That's a lot of weight. Yingfang didn't follow, held the wooden basin and moved it to the shade of the tree, waited for her father to come ashore, and discussed with him, "Dad, one day you taught me to practice boxing, and now I have an embroidered pillow at home." ”

Xiao Sanye glared: "Who said you embroidered pillows?"

"Isn't it?" Ying Fang pouted, "Even my mother can carry a hundred pounds of rice bags from the warehouse to the next yard without panting, and you have to worry about me even holding a basin." ”

Xiao Sanye laughed: "Your mother was able to do that time." I smeared safflower oil on her that night, and you didn't see it. ”

"But Mom's physique is really much better than before. ”

Jiang Xinrou didn't know how many times she had a cold in previous winters. This year, except for a few days before Yingfang's birth, I don't know if it was caused by anxiety or overdone, in short, I had a cold. Later, out of curiosity, I practiced boxing with the old man for a few days, and the cough actually disappeared. Since then, I've been in good health. Unlike in previous years, the cough will not get better until the weather is warm in spring, and the medicine will not work.