This year's winter seems to have come very early, and it is only the beginning of October.

Fortunately, the weather is good, and the sun looks extraordinarily warm when it shines on people.

In the winter forest, all the leaves of the deciduous trees have fallen to the ground, but the pine trees are still green and tall.

The north wind was cold, the cold was invading, Wang Jing found a sunny place, and asked people to scrape the bark of a pine tree with a palm-long finger-wide opening, and scraped all the bark open, revealing the trunk, wrapped a leather open bag underneath, and used something to stretch the mouth of the bag open.

"Is that all right?" Qiao Chaoyang asked.

Wang Jing said: "I just heard that I don't know until I have to practice it." ”

Qiao Chaoyang said: "A little less bark will not affect the growth of the pine tree itself, we can cut a cut in each tree and put it on a bag." ”

His beaming appearance seemed to be not a pine tree, but a pile of silver.

Wang Jing was made laughed by him, "Cousin, it is said that a pine tree can only produce a few catties of rosin a year, which is equivalent to each month, and it is estimated that there is not even one or two in a month." I'm a little worried that when the wind blows, I guess the bag will be blown away, even if I don't blow away, I'm afraid of snow, and I won't need to soak it in snow water. ”

Qiao Chaoyang said: "It's really so easy to collect, rosin is worthless." But at present, there is no better way, it is better to pick some rosin, otherwise many farmers are afraid that it will be even more difficult to harvest wheat when the green and yellow crops are not harvested, and they will not be able to harvest wheat until May next year. Now it's just the beginning of winter, and there are still one or two days before there is light snow, and we generally don't snow until Xiaohan here, and there is a heavy snow in the middle, at least one or two months left, how much can be picked. ”

Wang Jing said: "The cost of this bag is a little expensive. ”

Qiao Chaoyang said: "Your bag is sheepskin, which is naturally expensive." We can talk to the butcher and find some pork skins to dry. Just make sure the rosin doesn't flow elsewhere, right? If you can't do it, let the craftsmen get some small wooden boxes to try. ”

The county man who followed hurriedly said: "The subordinates will arrange it." ”

The rest of the people began to busily scrape the bark.

Wang Jing couldn't scrape the bark of the pine trees, and was looking at the scenery.

It was Hongying, who was running around happily in the mountains and forests. I picked up a lot of pine cones and was trying to get them out.

She herself is three years younger than Wang Jing, and the Gu family loves her very much, so naturally she doesn't have to think about her livelihood, she just has to be happy and playful. At this moment, she was excitedly taking a small ball with many thorns to show Wang Jing, "Sister, what is this?" ”

Wang Jingna broke the ball hard, revealing a brown fruit the size of lotus rice.

"What is it? Is it OK to eat? Hongying asked curiously.

"Yes." Wang Jing said.

Hongying grabbed it and put it in her mouth and bit it, but she spit it out again, "I can't bite it!" ”

Wang Jing smiled: "You girl, what are you doing in such a hurry?" You have to cook it before you can eat it, and it's a little astringent when eaten raw. ”

"Then let's pick some up and go back." Hongying squatted down as she spoke, and after a while, she picked up a small half basket.

Wang Jing said: "So much! ”

Hongying said: "There are still a lot of unfinished ones." ”

Wang Jing looked up and found that there were many on the trees, and when the wind blew, they waved to people.

"Cousin, come here!" Wang Jing shouted at Qiao Chaoyang.

Qiao Chaoyang was scraping the bark, and when he heard Wang Jing calling him, he hurriedly put the knife on the ground and rushed over in great strides, "What's wrong Jingjing, I fell?" ”

Wang Jing shook her head, "No, look at this." ”

"It's like ...... Acorn? He said. I remember when I was a child, there were also children who went to the mountains to pick it up and play back, and lied to him that he could eat it, he took a lot of effort to peel off one, which thought it was astringent and hard, and there was no way to swallow it, and the taste is still fresh in my memory when I think about it now.

"Yes, Acorn!"

"What's the use of asking for this? I can't eat it, right? I remember it a little astringent. He said.

Although he was scraping the bark, he was not far away, so he naturally listened to the conversation between the two for seven or eight minutes.

Wang Jing said: "It's not astringent when cooked." It can also be ground into flour mixed with wheat and corn flour to eat, and it can also make wine. This sake has a high degree of sake and a good taste. ”

Qiao Chao was very surprised: "Is this true? ”

"When did I cheat on my cousin?"

"It's not that I don't believe you, but I'm too surprised to react." Qiao Chaoyang said.

Wang Jing said: "The hoe and plow leaned on the empty room at dusk, and Hu'er climbed the mountain to harvest acorns. ”

Qiao Chaoyang naturally read this poem, and he couldn't help but look forward to this acorn a little more.

If the acorns were indeed edible, then the famine of the people this winter would be solved.

"When I first took office, I went to this mountain, and there were more oak trees than pine trees, and they were all over the mountains." Qiao Chaoyang said.

They talked, and their hands didn't stop, and three people must have picked it up much faster than one. After a while, the basket was actually full.

Wang Jing tried to mention it, "It's quite heavy." A basket is estimated to be twenty or thirty pounds, and this is only the ground that falls, and there are still a lot of hanging trees on it. A tree has to pick up at least a few dozen catties, remove the shell, and at least two-thirds of the kernels, and it should be no problem to manage a person's ration for half a month. ”

Hearing her say this, Qiao Chaoyang was also happy, "Sister Jing is really amazing!" You know what to eat. ”

Hong Ying said: "Sister Jing took chopsticks when she caught Zhou, and it is estimated that she wants to eat all the delicacies in the world." ”

Wang Jing said: "I have this kind of ambition, but it's a pity that the girl's family is different from the man, how can I go wherever I want?" I'm just thinking about it. A small acorn for himself, if there is no way, who will take this to satisfy hunger. ”

"I'm going to take my sister to eat all over the world." Qiao Chaoyang rushed out, and after speaking, he remembered that there were many people around, and this was a bit Meng Lang, after all, the two of them are now nameless and have no share, and it will damage the reputation of the girl's family if it is spread out, so he explained again: "You have done my cousin a great favor this time, and when my cousin is transferred to another place in the future, I will naturally invite you to come over as a guest." ”

"Eating all the delicacies of Da Zhou, just thinking about it makes people look forward to it. I waited for my cousin to invite me. Wang Jing said with a smile.

Hongying said: "If you want to invite me, you have to invite me together, I discovered this acorn first." Sister Jing hadn't noticed it before. ”

Qiao Chaoyang hurriedly smiled: "Please together, please together." ”

The three of them laughed for a while.

Suddenly, Wang Jing said: "My cousin guards Baoshan, why is he poor every day?" ”

Qiao Chaoyang said secretly: It is estimated that she has found something good, and she hurriedly begged: "I guard this treasure mountain for my brother but I don't know the treasures, and I hope that Sister Jing will give me some guidance." ”

Wang Jing said: "Take this pine tree as an example, pine cones and pine needles can be used for heating, pine nuts and pine flowers can be eaten, oak leaves can be used to raise silkworms, pruned dead branches can be used for charcoal, and the trunk can be cut into sections of wood to grow fungus and mushrooms......

Hongying said: "These pine needles are so small, how can they keep warm?" ”

Wang Jing said: "Do we have to repair the trees in our house every year? I'm afraid this pine tree has never been repaired, right? Isn't the pruned branches used for warmth? Even these pine needles that fall on the ground can also be collected together with a rake. As he spoke, he found a vacant lot, and drew it as he spoke, "This rake is made of bamboo, the thickness of a baby's arm, the length is about the same as a person, the head is split and roasted, and the bottom end is fixed, and it can be used." ”

Qiao Chaoyang said: "Listening to my sister say this, this winter is indeed not so difficult. (To be continued.) )