Chapter 30 Horse's Feet
Shen Lan dug wild vegetables along the side of the canal, the soil on the edge of the canal was relatively wet, and the long wild vegetables were also watery, so Shen Lan picked up the wild vegetables she knew to dig, and dug a small basket after a while, and also found a puddle of water celery on the edge of the canal, Shen Lan did not hesitate to cut them all back, in addition to the water celery, Shen Lan also saw a piece of calamus.
In fact, Shen Lan also knew that calamus was also edible, that was when she used to watch a wild survival show, which introduced the edible part of calamus, but after cutting the water celery, the basket that Shen Lan brought out couldn't fit it, so she had to give up.
Later, Shen Lan saw a lot of snail lions in the canal, and she had the idea of touching the snail lion, so she pulled a few wild taro leaves, and then went into the water to touch a bunch of snail lions, ready to make them out to eat at night.
Compared with Shen Lan, Shen Zhao and Shen Hailing were much more fortunate, Shen Lan actually wanted to help, but they were stopped by Shen Zhao's drink, so Shen Lan simply found a stone by the canal and sat down, picked up the vegetables in the basket, so that after washing the canal, she could cook and eat it when she went home.
Time passed slowly, the sun was about to set, Shen Lan carried a vegetable basket and a bag of snail lions home, while Shen Hailing and Shen Zhao were still dragging the cut firewood and grass to the house in batches, so Shen Lan went home first to wash her hands and make soup.
In fact, she really wanted to say that she didn't need firewood at all, because one day and one night outside, she was in the space for a year, so she only had to go to the space once a day to pick up dry firewood that was enough for her to cook, but this secret was still only known to her, so in order to cover it up, she could only pretend that there was no space to live.
When she went home, Shen Lan washed the pot again, then boiled a pot of hot water, blanched the wild vegetables picked back by category, and then put them in a bowl, added some boiled seawater to each dish, and made them into cold vegetables.
When Shen Zhao and Shen Hailing came back, they saw four bowls of emerald green vegetables on the small dining table in the stove, as well as breadfruit packed in a basket, and they knew that it tasted very good when they smelled the fragrance.
After washing their hands, the three of them sat down to eat dinner, the wild vegetables that are bitter and difficult to swallow on weekdays are not so unpalatable in their mouths at the moment, but a fragrance of fresh vegetables.
"Lan Niang's rice is getting better and better, this wild vegetable can be so refreshing." After eating a mouthful of breadfruit and then eating the dishes on the table, Shen Zhao was very satisfied.
"Well, the eldest sister is really capable, even wild vegetables can be cooked so delicious, amazing." Shen Hailing was also very satisfied with his meal.
"If you like to eat, eat more, and tomorrow the eldest sister will dig wild vegetables and come back." Shen Lan smiled and gave her younger brother and mother a chopstick vegetable each.
"By the way, Lan Niang, why isn't this dish bitter or numb?" Shen Zhao asked.
"I'm blanching it with boiling water, then squeezing out the juice in it, passing another water, and then sprinkling a little salt." Shen Lan replied, in fact, it is best to sprinkle some sesame oil, then the taste will be better.
Shen Zhao nodded, she really hadn't heard of this way of cooking, but it was good to be able to remove the bitter taste from wild vegetables, but where did Lan Niang get the salt? However, thinking that Shen Lan can magically conjure that kind of white and delicious noodle fruit, it shouldn't be too strange to conjure up a little salt.
When Shen Lan didn't think of how to explain the problem of salt, Shen's mother made up for it by herself, so the meal was harmonious and satisfying, and after eating, everyone who had no entertainment could only obediently wash their faces and sleep, and the day passed like this.
Early the next morning, Shen Xiaoquan drove an ox cart into the village, the ox cart was full, which was full of things needed for home life, and the people in the village saw Shen Xiaoquan's ox cart, and they all talked about it, saying that Shen Xiaoquan was very hurt by his daughter, and he got married and sent a large bag to his daughter's house, but more people laughed at Song Ruhai, who asked his in-laws to give them a daughter-in-law and grandson.
When Shen Xiaoquan drove the ox cart to the door of Shen Lan's house, Shen Lan was preparing breakfast, and Shen Zhao helped to dry the firewood cut back yesterday outside, so Shen Zhao saw his old man driving over at a glance.
"Why did you come here so early?" Shen Zhao asked his old man while raking firewood and grass with a rake.
Shen Xiaoquan drove the ox cart to the door and parked it, and while unloading the cow, he replied: "Isn't Lan Niang waiting to use it here?" The vegetable garden in the back can't always be barren, so it can be opened early, so as to help Lan Niang plant some vegetables and sorghum or something as soon as possible. ”
Hearing this, Shen Zhao nodded, and hurriedly shouted at the east house: "Hailing, come and help your father, unload the things, and wait for breakfast to eat, you go to herd the cow for a while, this cow also went out early in the morning, it must be hungry at this time." ”
"Okay." Shen Hailing in the house readily agreed, and walked out of the door after a long time.
Shen Xiaoquan glanced at Shen Hailing, and said angrily: "You are getting lazier and lazier, your sister and your mother are busy working, you are good, you sleep until you just got up, what do you look like." ”
Shen Hailing, who got up from the bed in a hurry, smiled, and didn't reply to his father's words, and went directly to move the things in the car, his hands and feet were fast, and after a while, he followed Shen Xiaoquan to move the things in the car, and Shen Lan also walked out of the house when he heard the sound, and shouted at Shen Xiaoquan with a smile.
Shen Xiaoquan answered, and he was busy going to work, because the hoes he bought yesterday were all without handles, and he brought some wood from home to add handles to the hoes, otherwise the hoes would not be used.
Shen Lan stood at the door and looked at the things that Shen Xiaoquan brought, there were more bamboo utensils in it, after all, the Shen family originally made this, so there were many ready-made things, and Shen's father brought it over without Shen Lan to add it, some baskets, dustpans, baskets, baskets, etc. were all brand new, Shen Lan remembered that many of them were made up a few days ago and were ready to be sold, but now they are cheaper for her.
In addition to these things, Shen Xiaoquan also moved a bamboo bed, which is not brand new, it should be used by the Shen family before, after all, she only has one bed here, and the west wing room is still empty, which can be used to place the bamboo bed, so as not to have no place to sleep when Shen Xiaoquan and Shen Hailing come in the future.
Although Shen Hailing is still young now, after all, he will gradually grow up, and it is a little inappropriate to sleep with Shen Lan and Shen's mother, so Shen Xiaoquan deliberately moved a bamboo bed over.
In addition to these, Shen's father also brought some vegetable seeds and a small bag of sorghum rice grain, in fact, this bag of grain Shen's father gave Shen Lan as a cover-up, after all, he also learned from Shen's mother that his daughter can magically conjure white flour fruits, and there is no need to worry too much about eating, but after all, only he and his wife know about this matter, and the couple also discussed, this matter should be kept secret by Shen Lan, so this bag of grain is naturally indispensable.
Then there were some tools and a few newly cut bamboos and woods, all of which were prepared non-stop by Shen's father after he went back yesterday, and Shen Xiaoquan was really good for his daughter.
After watching it for a while, Shen Lan went into the house, thinking of the qiē that Shen's father did for her, she felt that she shouldn't hide something that had space, but she didn't want to be caught and burned to death as a monster, so she could only continue to hide it, but she still took advantage of the dimming of her palms to go in and catch a coconut crab, killed the crab and grilled it slightly, and then peeled the meat out, preparing to make a crab meat dish to reward Shen's father and others.
Coconut crab can be used to make soup, so Shen Lan made a crab meat and wild vegetable soup, mainly crab meat and dandelion leaves picked yesterday, dandelion was naturally processed by Shen Lan, otherwise the taste is bitter and difficult to swallow, and when the meal is ready, Shen Lan will go out of the house and call someone to eat.
As soon as he entered the house, Shen's father saw that the small and shabby dining table that had been wiped clean was filled with green vegetables and a bowl of steaming soup, and the other basket contained the white flour fruits he had been eating for the past few days, and he suddenly felt hungry in his stomach.
"Four bowls are still too little, and there will be no bowls to eat after filling the dishes." Father Shen looked at the dining table and sighed.
"You can be content, it's good that I didn't let you use the grinding disc eye to pretend to be soybeans." Mother Shen replied angrily.
Father Shen and Shen Hailing both laughed, while Shen Lan was a mist in his head, could it be that there was any allusion?
"Four bowls are enough now, so it's better to ask my dad to help me make a few bamboo bowls and cups out of bamboo, and use the bowls to hold vegetables and soups on weekdays, and eat with bamboo bowls." Shen Lan said, after all, she had seen bamboo used to make utensils before, and bowls and cups made of bamboo were relatively durable, and the most important thing was that it didn't cost money.
"Bamboo for bowls and cups?" Father Shen was surprised.
"Well, isn't there a section of bamboo? Let's just sawn off the thick one underneath, and then grind the edges with sandpaper to make the edges thinner and smoother, so that we can use them as bowls and teacups. Shen Lan explained.
Father Shen nodded after hearing this, and then asked, "What's the matter with sandpaper?" ”
Shen Lan was stunned, oh no, she forgot about it, it seems that there should be no sandpaper in this era, is it exposed?
"It's not sandpaper, it's a whetstone, yes, it's a whetstone." Thanks to Shen Lan's wit, she hurriedly changed her words, she had seen that thing before, that is, when she was making bamboo tools in the Shen family before, Shen Lan had seen Shen Mei use a red stone to sharpen her knife, that stone was not hard, it was composed of gravel, and the cut surface was similar to sandpaper.
"The whetstone is the whetstone, what sandpaper to say, I can't understand it, my father is still strange." Father Shen obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and Mother Shen on the side also had a somewhat obscure complexion, which made Shen Lan's heart tighten.
Then a few people didn't speak, just sat down to eat after washing their hands, Shen's father was the first time to eat the food made by Shen Lan himself, so he ate a mouthful of green salad malantou, which did not have the feeling of numb mouth in the past, but was very fragrant and refreshing.
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