"Dinner." As Old Man Li spoke, Li Wen's and Li Sun's helped Li Qiu's divide the gruel, and the family picked up the chopsticks and ate them fragrantly.

"Dad, the harvest in recent years is getting worse and worse, and it looks like it's time to pay taxes, the food at home is just enough to feed and wear, and you have to save food, and you can mix gruel with wild vegetables to harvest grain every year, I see that the babies also have vegetables on their faces, and there is nothing to make up for them, this God is not pitiful and pity our people, those who are officials are still urging us to pay food, and we can't live this day!" , the boss Li Yangde put down the big thick bowl and said heavily.

"Yes! Big brother, I think I should go to the mountains to hunt some game in my free time, change the taste of the family, and eat some meat at the tooth sacrifice! The mouth is already light and tasteless, the last time we ate meat was during the New Year, our old ones can still bear it, and the small ones can't do it, if you don't eat something nutritious, how can you grow one! ”

"The second child is right, when you are free, you will go to get some meat to make up for the children, but you must pay attention to safety! By the way, see if there is any work to do in the town and earn some money to subsidize the family. Old Man Li said earnestly.

"I see that the eldest and second daughter-in-law in the family also took a few babies out to dig some wild vegetables and come back to eat." Li Qiu looked at the surrounding family and instructed his daughters-in-law.

"Mother, don't worry! We'll arrange the time, and we won't delay the work at home when we go out, hehe! The second sister-in-law, Li Sunshi, scratched her head and said with a smile.

Li Yangqing patted his small chest, "Mother, I'm also looking for food, and I must pick a few more baskets of wild vegetables." ”

"I'll go too."

"I'll go too." A few children shouted at each other.

"Yes, our family will work together to get through this year, and there will be a good harvest next year, and I will also go to the town to see if there is anyone who writes letters on my behalf." , Lao Tingyuan clapped his head and said, after the old snack was finished, they went out after cleaning up, and did things.

After Li Yangqing finished eating, he sat at the door of the house with a small bench, and looked around the house, the Li family's houses are not big, they are all earthen walls and thatched houses, there is a hall with a room, which is where Li Tingyuan and his wife live, and a small room in the middle is Li Yangqing's boudoir, which is not just enough for her to live alone.

The hall is the dining room and the room for entertaining guests, it is the best room in the house, two large wooden tables with eight long wooden stools, all of which are some years old, or made by grandfather when he was alive, there are traces of time on it, and the original color can no longer be seen.

The two larger rooms on the left and right of the hall have made a cubicle, the eldest and the second with their wives and children each occupy one room, and the remaining one is used as the family's warehouse and utility room, and the third one is lived by the third with Li Wendong, Li Chengqiang, and Li Chenggang.

If the third child gets married or adds a few smaller ones to the family, it will not be enough, and a larger straw shed is built on the edge of the house to separate the kitchen, toilet and firewood shed.

Li Qiu's family also raised two hens and a rooster in the firewood shed, relying on the eggs laid by the chickens, and when a certain amount was raised, they would go to the town to sell some money.

The Li brothers diligently cut bamboo on the mountain, densely surrounded the house to make a fence, security and privacy were taken into account, and a gate was opened in the middle of the courtyard enclosed by the bamboo wall.

The Li family is a relatively good family in the village, at least there is no need for a family to live together, some families in the village have many people, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law live in one room with their daughter, father-in-law's son and grandson live in one, a total of two rooms, and a straw shed is the house where the family lives.

There is no harm if there is no comparison, when Li Yangqing thinks of other people's houses, he instantly feels that his home is a mansion, and the parents have created a home for their children to barely drink and shelter from the wind and rain, which is really lucky.

In the past, I was young and couldn't do anything big, but now that I'm older, I can do a lot of things, and I must think of a way to increase my family's income, otherwise I can only excuse food everywhere in this year.

Thinking about himself, a person who is not diligent in the twenty-first century, what can he do in this ancient world? I couldn't use a lot of knowledge I learned in the past here! There are still some skills in cooking, I used to live alone, delicious and delicious home-cooked food will be simple, it is the current family conditions, no materials are star chefs, there is no skill and nowhere to play!

According to my observation of the people in the village for so many years, it is estimated that the food culture here is not yet developed, most of them are steamed or roasted, and there is no way of stir-frying. Probably because the crop yield is small, the condiments are single, and the meat is less than the average person can afford to buy, and they will not be extravagant and willing to use oil to fry vegetables, of course, it is not excluded that the nobles have the habit of stir-frying, after all, Li Yangqing has grown up for so many years, and he has basically been around Lijia Village, and he has never been to the county seat farther away.

It's beautiful to think about, first it's cruel, the family can earn money to open a restaurant, I don't know what year and month it will be, forget it or don't fantasize, Li Yangqing is ready to go out for a walk and see if there are any new discoveries.

Li Yangqing stood up and walked out of the house, walked on the village road in the village, looked at the picture scroll of the countryside with mountains and rivers, took a deep breath and stretched his waist, and said self-indulgently: "Ah! It's so comfortable, I like it. "The fresh air is a specialty of Lijia Village! Take a breath to refresh your body and mind, and suck for a lifetime to live a long life. There is nothing else, at least the natural environment here is good, this is the place where many modern people seek to live.

Lijia Village is located in the south of the Jin country, the climate has four distinct seasons, it is a good place to live and live, much better than the north bordering the Rong country, at least the possibility of suffering from war and harassment is relatively low, the Rong country, which is famous for its courage and warlike nomadic people, likes to harass the people on the border of the Jin country every winter, robs the people of the Jin country of food, livestock, and even robs women to do all kinds of evil, its behavior is simply outrageous, the people of the Jin country who live in that border simply hate them, and there is really nothing to do.

The Son of Heaven in the palace felt that as long as there was no large-scale friction, the small fight would turn a blind eye to the past, and ordered the local lord to pacify and appease the people, and did not dare to take the initiative to provoke a large-scale war.

The emperor in the palace felt that as long as the Rong State did not attack the Jin Kingdom with all its might, it would be very good to exchange the losses of a small part of the people for the Taiping. But he has been dealing with the people of Rong Guo in such a weak way, this wolf that is getting fatter and fatter is not guaranteed to have a bigger and bigger appetite one day, and this little snack can no longer feed it, and the ambition to attack Jinguo in one fell swoop must explode at some point in time.

From the time Li Yangqing was able to speak, he often pestered Li Tingyuan to tell her about the national conditions of Jinguo and the situation of the surrounding countries, and he has always had a positive attitude towards the hidden dangers of Rong wanting to attack Jinguo, and the ambitions of other surrounding countries are not small! Whoever let Jinguo put the fat in front of him doesn't want to take a bite.

Li Yangqing has always kept these worries in his heart, and he can't tell his family, but he usually pays attention to all kinds of news in this regard, at least he can be prepared when the day of war comes.

Lijia Village is surrounded by small rivers on three sides, generally to the town is to take the village boat out of the village, if you walk out of the village to the town, the time and distance spent on the road can not be compared with the waterway, the waterway will arrive in a few hours, and the dry road will take a day to get to the town.

Lijia Village faces Wenjia Village and Sunjia Village across the river, and the people in the village generally rely on farming, buying some agricultural products or going to the town to work to support their families, which also leads to the problem that people in Lijia Village have to watch the sky for food.

The year is good, the harvest is good, everyone's life is better, the year is not good, there are not a few people who sell their children and daughters, the people in the village have not considered any dignity issues, it is good to have food to live, although it is to go to others as slaves and servants, but it is better than watching starvation to death in the village, and the good ones can take care of some of the family, and at the same time reduce the food burden on the family, and other children in the family can also eat an extra bite of food.

Li Yangqing walked along the village road to the entrance to the back of the village, this mountain is called Lijia Mountain, but because it is close to Lijia Village, the big guy is called so.

The foot of the mountain is still relatively safe, no one generally goes to the deep mountains, except for the Orion who dares to go, ordinary people are not allowed to trespass at will, there are large beasts inside.

I don't know if the people in the village have seen it, but Li Yangwu once took the people in the village to hunt but had seen wolves.

After this happened, it caused the taboo of the people in the village to the deep mountains, usually the children at home are not allowed to go up to the deep mountains, and occasionally some people dare to pick some wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain, and they are lucky to find pheasants and hares.

Li Yangqing went up the mountain today with his family behind his back, and did not tell his family about going up the mountain, mainly because he didn't want them to worry, and wanted to secretly see if there was anything to eat or sell for money on the mountain.

Li Yangqing walked along the hillside inside, looking for a few places and didn't see anything to eat, or maybe he had limited knowledge, after all, he had no experience in farming, and he didn't know many things in the countryside, plus the land boundary was different, and he was still very worried that many things here were different from modern ones, and some crops might not have appeared yet, so he could only see if he could pick them up.

Li Yangqing found a good thing in a leeward place where the land was a little wet, found a small patch of dense purple-red leaves of grass, approached and smelled it carefully, there was a fishy smell, found a branch and vigorously cut the surrounding soil, and saw the white roots.

Li Yangqing looked at the whisker found in his hand, and the smile on his face couldn't stop, because he finally found the wild vegetable he knew and could eat, this whisker is Houttuynia cordata, this Houttuynia cordata is a dish that everyone often eats in modern society, but in this era, I haven't seen anyone in the village eat it, maybe everyone thinks it tastes bad, and they don't know that it has edible value.

really picked up a treasure, Li Yangqing thought in his heart that even if he went back and was scolded by his family, this adventure to the mountain would be worth it, because he ate a lot from childhood to adulthood, and modern people pay attention to health preservation, the origin of these common wild vegetables has been more or less heard.