Zhao Yuan gently put down the back basket, asked Meng Ying to hold the back basket a little, and then quietly approached the place where the hare was stuck, the hare didn't know how to get stuck in the two bushes, and its calves were kicking and kicking, but it couldn't struggle.

Seeing Zhao Yuan approaching, the hare struggled even more, Zhao Yuan approached quickly, and grabbed the hare's hind legs, this little guy still didn't run away.

"Whew, Uncle caught the rabbit!" The little girl who had been holding her breath cheered when she saw Zhao Yuan catch the hare.

"Haha, it's so lucky, this rabbit was automatically sent to the door, Luoluo, your eyes are so good, neither I nor your aunt saw it." Zhao Yuan grabbed the back of the hare's neck, lifted it about three catties, and said with a smile.

"Luoluo is awesome, is this rabbit the one we saw?" Meng Ying also smiled happily.

"I think it looks like it, we must have frightened it, and then it ran down the hill in a panic, and slipped and got stuck in the two bushes." Zhao Yuan lifted the rabbit in his hand, looked at the calf that was still struggling, and said.

"Uncle, can I catch the rabbit?"

"Wait a minute, I'll tie its legs and don't let it run. Xiaoying, you fold one ramie (zhù) hemp over there, and make a rope out of ramie to tie the rabbit, and be careful that there are small thorns on it. Zhao Yuan said to Meng Ying.

"Okay." Meng Ying said and walked towards a clump of ramie on the side of the road.

Ramie is a very important fiber plant, you can use the fiber of ramie to make rope or process into fine linen to make linen, but no one in Zhaojiazhuang makes linen.

After the people of Zhaojiazhuang cut the ramie home, after soaking, remove the epidermis, and then after beating, the fiber is extracted, after steaming and drying, you can get the ramie fiber, rub it into a fine hemp rope, mainly used to sew the sole, the shoes worn by Zhao Yuan and the three people are sewn out of the sole with ramie rope.

Meng Ying is very familiar with ramie, she was a clever girl when she was in her mother's house, she chose an older ramie, removed the shoots and leaves at the top, held the two ends and pulled it on the hoe, and took out the ramie fiber.

Tie the front and rear legs of the hare and hand it to Zhao Luo, who looked expectant, and the little girl had some difficulty holding the rabbit and held it in her arms.

"Let's go back quickly, the sun will be so big, Luoluo, you cover the sun with this leaf." Zhao Yuan casually picked a large leaf from the paulownia tree on the side of the road and put it on the head of the little girl holding the rabbit.

"Go home!" Zhao Luo hugged the rabbit and walked quickly to the front, ignoring the paulownia leaves on his head.

"Luoluo, slow down, don't fall." Meng Ying greeted the little girl.

"Xiaoying, let's be hungry, let's go quickly." Zhao Yuan picked up the basket full of mushrooms, got up and said.

"I'm not hungry, Brother Yuan, or I'll carry it."

"No, it's not sinking at all."

The three of them walked, and after a while, they came to the place where the thorn bubbles were picked, and the more than ten trees picked in the morning were covered under the shade with leaves, Luoluo did not forget, and when they arrived at the place, they went straight to the tree where the thorn bubbles were placed.

Zhao Luo handed the rabbit to Zhao Yuan, lifted the leaves, and found a few ants crawling on the leaves of the tung oil tree with prickly bubbles: "Uncle, there are ants." ”

"I'll see." Zhao Yuan walked over to take a look, and it turned out that there were just a few very common local black ants crawling on it.

"Look, uncle, the ants won't eat our thorns, will they?" Zhao Luo said anxiously.

"No, these ants don't climb into the leaves, don't believe it." Zhao Yuan picked up the leaf pocket, blew off the two ants on it, opened it and showed it to the little girl.

"It's good that it wasn't eaten by ants, let's put away all the prickly bubbles, auntie, and put them in the basket."

"Okay, let's put it all on top of the mushrooms."

When she got home, as soon as she put down the basket, Meng Ying immediately scooped up a basin of water, asked Zhao Yuan and Luoluo to wash their faces, and drilled in the mountains for a long time, with a lot of ash in their hair and face, and a lot of sweat, which was very uncomfortable.

After washing his face, Zhao Yuan poured the mushrooms in the basket and basket on the kitchen floor, while the little girl Luoluo tied the hare to the foot of the table and teased the rabbit with a green vegetable leaf.

"Brother Yuan, it's okay to heat up the bean rice cooked in the morning as lunch." Meng Ying also washed her hands and face, and then said.

"Okay, Xiaoying, you can have a hot meal, I'll go and carry the pigweed back first." Zhao Yuan said, then picked up the basket and took the basket to prepare to go to the river.

"Okay."

"Uncle, come back quickly."

"Soon, Luoluo, stop playing, and ask your aunt to pour you some cold boiled water to drink." Zhao Yuan walked to the door and said to the little girl.

went to the river to get pigweed and a basket of bracken nettles home, Meng Ying had already heated the meal, the three of them had eaten, and after feeding the two pigs in the pigsty, they began to process the mushrooms they had picked up.

Zhao Yuan found a bamboo that he had cut before, cut off three pieces of bamboo from the bamboo with a sickle, carefully removed the burrs on the bamboo pieces, and gently scraped off the soil on the stalk with the bamboo stalk.

"Xiaoying, Luoluo, we have to sort these mushrooms well, and first remove the dregs, pine needles, and soil from the mushrooms." Zhao Yuan found three small stools, sat in front of the mushrooms and said.

Originally, Zhao Yuan let the little girl play on the side, but Luoluo didn't do it, and she had to help.

After a while, the impurities on this pile of mushrooms were cleaned up, although there is still some soil, but it can't be washed like this, fresh mushrooms are very crisp and tender, easy to wash, you need to blanch the mushrooms with boiling water before washing.

The little girl followed Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying to run on the mountain all morning, and followed Zhao Yuan and Meng Ying to clean up the mushrooms and sat there with her head little by little, obviously sleepy, Zhao Yuan carried the little girl to the bed in the bedroom, let her take a nap, and then returned to the kitchen.

"Xiaoying, you blanch these mushrooms with boiling water at home, and then scoop them up and wash them, cut the lime mushrooms into shreds with a kitchen knife and soak them in cold water, and tear the other mushrooms into small pieces by hand and soak them in cold water, there is a big vegetable jar behind the kitchen, which is empty, you open the lid and wash the vegetable jar a little, you can soak the lime mushrooms in it, and I am going to go to the mountains to pick up some mushrooms again."

"Okay, Brother Yuan, you can go."

Meng Ying saw that Zhao Yuan had no problem in the morning, and he no longer worried about his body, which would not stop Zhao Yuan from wanting to go to the mountain.

Zhao Yuan carried the basket on his back and the basket and walked towards the mountain behind the house. Zhao Yuan's house is located in the west of Zhaojiazhuang, close to the edge of the village, which will make Zhao Yuan want to go to Nanshan, just passing by the village.

"Atom, are you well? Are you going up the mountain to collect firewood? The second aunt at the entrance of the village asked, she was sitting in her own hall to enjoy the shade.

"Second uncle, how about the cool, I'm fine, I'm going to pick up some mushrooms on the mountain, where's the big head?" Zhao Yuan said hello and asked, the eldest head is the youngest son of Zhao Erbo's family, five years younger than Zhao Yuan.

"I don't know where to go, what are you doing picking mushrooms?" The second aunt asked curiously.

"Of course."

"Aren't mushrooms inedible? And it's not delicious. ”

"Some mushrooms can't be eaten, but some are edible."

"Then you have to be careful, a few years ago, Madman Zhao was poisoned by eating mushrooms."

Zhao Maniac is a generation of Zhao Yuan, but he has some mental problems, about five years ago, because of the famine that year, he picked up some mushrooms from the mountains and came back, boiled and ate them and then died of poisoning.

"I know, don't worry, second aunt, I'll go to the mountain first."

Zhao Yuan knew that it was not easy for people to accept that mushrooms could be eaten at once, so he didn't say anything more, passed by the village and said hello to the people he met, and walked towards the Nanshan behind the village, but there were two small tails behind, it was Zhao Xianyu, the eldest head of the thirteen-year-old second uncle's family, and Zhao Zhili, the grandson of the uncle, who was more than nine years old.

"Second brother, let's help you pick up mushrooms." Big Head said.

"Yes, second uncle, we'll help you." Zhao Zhili also said.

"Zhili, aren't you going to study today?" Zhao Zhili is one of three children in the village who went to study at a private school in the town.

"Mr. Zhang, who is teaching, is sick, and we have been on vacation recently."

"Oh, you two want to go to the mountains to catch the golden turtle." Zhao Yuan looked at the two boys and said with a smile.

"Isn't this by the way, help the second uncle pick up mushrooms." Zhao Zhili said embarrassedly.

The golden turtle is a kind of beetle, which likes to climb on the green hill tree and feed on the sap leaves of the green hill tree, and children like to catch the golden turtle and help it fly with a thin hemp rope.

"Let's go, then." Zhao Yuan shook his head and walked towards the mountain with the two boys.

Nanshan is more shady, there are more mushrooms on the mountain, Datou and Zhao Zhili arrived on the mountain, and really helped Zhao Yuan pick up mushrooms, and soon filled the back basket and basket that Zhao Yuan carried, of course, the two of them also gained a lot, one person caught a few golden turtles, and they all used the fine hemp rope brought from home to trap the neck of the golden turtle, a few golden turtles flew around, and the carapace of two of them was golden.

"There are too many mushrooms on this mountain, no one picks up a lot of mushrooms are broken, the day after tomorrow is to catch the market, when the time comes, make a little mushroom finished product and go to the town to sell it, see if you can sell it." Zhao Yuan thought secretly.

"Second brother, can you eat so many mushrooms?" Big Head asked.

"Of course I can eat it, why can't I pick it up."

"But my dad told me that we can't eat any mushrooms in the mountains."

"You can't eat it, and if you can eat it, you won't be poisoned."

"Second brother, how do you know?"

"I just know, don't ask me why!"

"Oh!"

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Zhao Yuan, Datou and Zhao Zhili talked all the way, walking towards home, and went home to deal with the basket full of mushrooms.