Chapter 35: Windfall

Packed up, Qingling put on the bamboo basket and went out to the mountain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Yo! You went out so early, it seems that others said that you are a mourning star and have picked up a lot of good things on the mountain?" A pair of little feet walked fast, holding his grandson and quickly blocking Qingling.

Qingling paused slightly, bent the corners of her mouth and said: "Who made me honest, God hurts people, seeing that I can't earn work with my injured arm, let me dig a lot of food from the mountains." Some people with crooked eyes can't do it, and they can't pick it up when they go. ”

Mrs. Shu said viciously: "Don't be ashamed! What god hurts people, let your mother's bullshit go! It's not that everyone is busy picking up leaks on the ground." The old lady doesn't talk nonsense with you, the mushrooms and wild vegetables in the yard, oh, and what other mountain fruits, are all used to honor me, but I am your milk, there are good things that do not honor me, and they are actually taken to outsiders, and my brain is in water......"

Qingling snorted softly.

How thick-skinned is this person, who actually came to ask for mushrooms and wild vegetables from him, and rightly thought that he should honor her?

"I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry up the mountain, so I don't have time to chat with you. "Turn around and walk into the alley of Xitou, I'd rather take a detour than deal with the other party, "What should you do, don't forget that there are snakes in my house, you have to sneak in and get my dried mushrooms, and don't rely on me if you get bitten and turn around." ”

"You ......" Mrs. Shu's hand that was about to push the courtyard door retracted suddenly.

She did have this plan, and she didn't give it to the dead girl, right? If she didn't give it, she would go in and get it. As a grandmother, what is it to take some mushrooms dried by her granddaughter? Who dares to gossip?

was just bluffed by Qingling, Fang remembered that there were still a few poisonous snakes in his eldest son's house, what if he really came out to bite someone?

"Milk, I want to eat mountain fruits, you can bring me mountain fruits. Shu Guigui, who woke up and was pulled out by the old lady to accompany him, pestered his milk to ask for mountain fruits to eat.

"Alas, the baby grandson, what is delicious if the mountain fruit acid is not slippery. I will buy you jelly beans to eat ......"

After all, Mrs. Shu couldn't resist the fear in her heart, so she withdrew her step, coaxed her grandson to go home, and gritted her teeth and secretly cursed her unfilial granddaughter dozens of times back and forth.

Qingling, who was about to walk to the foot of the mountain, sneezed twice in a row, sniffed, and whispered to Xiao Jin who was coiled in the bamboo basket: "That family is really thick-skinned, and I have to bow down to them when the copper wall is iron-clad." ”

Xiao Jin lazily opened his small black eyes and cohesively spit out the snake letter twice.

“…… Let's not talk about those bad things. Qingling shook her head, "Our task is heavy today, let's go to the cave first, simmer the taro in the fire, and then simmer a pot of white rice porridge, and then go to the mountainside, and strive for the sun to go down before the sun, pick some valuable herbs back, no matter how practical it is......"

Hearing her say this, Xiao Jin jumped up from the bamboo basket, and the slender snake body flew up to the only tall and lush walnut tree at the foot of the mountain like a straight line, and the unique coercion of the jade-crowned golden Jiao came as scheduled.

In an instant, the forest, which was filled with various noises such as rustling and chirping, fell silent. The low-level birds and beasts retreated in an instant.

And the birds and beasts that are higher than the jade crown golden jiao, in this mountain forest, have not yet been found.

"Great!" Qingling smiled slightly, and gave a thumbs up to her little friend who was leisurely entrenched in the treetops.

One person and one snake walked more than a dozen times to the cave where the route had long been remembered.

At that time, Mrs. Shu returned home, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, so she picked up the black rag on the table and threw it on Shu Caiyun's face.

"Milk, why are you throwing me with a rag!" Shu Caiyun pursed her mouth, so she was not aggrieved.

"What's the matter? Throw a rag and you'll be wronged? Dead girl who eats idle meals! Don't do anything all day long, you know how to be lazy! Go up the mountain to pick mushrooms for me today! How much do you pick for me!"

"Don't go!" When Shu Caiyun heard that she was going up the mountain, her head shook like a rattle, "There are wolves in the mountains, I'm afraid!"

"What are you afraid of, you have to go!" Mrs. Shu stubbornly kicked her little granddaughter out of the courtyard and threw her a basket at the same time.

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After Qingling arrived at the cave, she picked up some dead branches and dry leaves nearby, lit a fire on the simple stone stove she had built earlier, threw in a few bamboo piers that Xiaojin split with her tail, and set up a pot in which she prepared to boil rice porridge.

Under the stove, the taro brought up was washed with the stream water to wash the mud on the skin, and the whole thing was buried in the burning bamboo pier.

The lunch was simmered steadily, and she also arrived in the valley of the mountain under the leadership of Xiao Jin.

There is a lot more vegetation here than at the foot of the mountain.

In addition to common mushrooms and wild vegetables, the most gratifying thing is a large area of herbs that have not been picked for a long time-

Wormwood, amaranth alba, hexagonalis, indigo root, phalloid, coriander, yinchen, mint, etc., can be found everywhere like wild vegetables......

Relatively expensive ones such as gastrodia, dendrobium, notoginseng, yellow essence, and Polygonum multiflori......

Along the way, a two-acre field of millet was also found, and the heavy ears of rice were bent over. It's just that the ears of grain on the top are reddish-brown and green, and they must not be fully ripe.

Perhaps because the temperature in the forest is lower than outside, the crops in the forest ripen more slowly than the outside, and this millet field is the same, and the harvest is just right outside, but it takes at least half a month to mature here.

Removing the chaff, it is estimated that seven or eight hundred catties of millet can be made. Qingling was overjoyed, what a windfall!

Later, I saw a sunflower forest. Golden sunflowers bloom in the sun. Looking at the growth, the sunflower seeds must be full. Qingling smiled and looked forward to the arrival of the golden autumn October with the fragrance of osmanthus.

At that time, there will be not only sunflower seeds to pick, but also walnuts, chestnuts, wood nuts, and mountain grapes...... It's exciting to think about.

What's more, the walnut trees here are not as lonely as the mountain passes, but there are one hundred and eighty here.

Originally, I only knew that there was a wild walnut tree at the entrance to the mountain pass, just opposite the mulberry tree where Xiaojin liked to entrench, and I thought that the walnuts would be hunted as soon as they were ripe in autumn and October, and they would be fried more for the New Year. Now that the eyes are full of walnut trees, they are calm.

Although there are not as many chestnut trees as walnut trees, there are still a lot of them, at least enough for her to have a good year.

Wood nuts and mountain grapes are a cluster in the east and a bush in the west, and they grow together with other wild fruits that can be called and cannot be named.

In addition to eating, a lot of flowers and plants were also found - elegant and noble orchid, medicinal nasturtium, purple and charming caryophyllus, blue bell that can be used as medicine, roses that bloom freely, and daisies and butterfly orchids that can be seen everywhere. Of course, there are many varieties that she doesn't recognize.