Chapter 29: Wild Strawberries
When Aunt Friday and Xiao Qin's family heard this, they hurriedly glanced at Aunt Saturday and signaled her not to say that. No matter how bad Lin Zhong is, it is also Ah Ruan's elders, how bad it is to criticize other people's elders so much in front of others.
Aunt Saturday doesn't think there's anything to say, she is a straightforward person, she has nothing to say, and she never wrongs people.
In order to avoid embarrassment, Aunt Friday quickly changed the topic.
"Ah Ruan, we are going to Guozigou to pick wolfberries in the afternoon, do you want to go with us?"
There is a mountain col near Linjia Village, in which a lot of wild wolfberries grow, and when the season is ripe, the people in the village will go to pick them. Countrymen don't have any supplements on weekdays, and these wild wolfberries are a rare good thing.
Lin Ruan thought that there was nothing to do left and right, so he nodded in response.
The topic was successfully diverted, and several people talked and laughed and washed their clothes.
When the farmer washes clothes, they pick a handful of honey locusts and crush them and rub them, this natural washing does not cost money, and the effect of washing clothes is also very average.
Lin Ruan rubbed his clothes in disgust and thought to himself, it would be nice if there was soap to use.
However, the soap here is not cheap, a piece of soap half the size of a palm is dozens of dollars, and the taste is not good. It's too far from the handmade soap she made in her previous life.
In her previous life, before the end of the world, she was a little woman who loved life very much, and she was very obsessed with some handmade works. Therefore, she has also made a lot of handmade soaps that were once all the rage.
An idea suddenly flashed through Lin Ruan's mind, why didn't she try to make a handmade soap?
However, the handmade soap she made in her previous life, the soap base was all ready-made, she has nothing now, and it is not easy to make soap, so she has to study it carefully.
Back in the courtyard of the Zhou family and hanging the clothes in the yard, Lin Ruan borrowed the kettle of the Zhou family, loaded the boiling water that had been boiled before, and asked Lin Han to carry it to the old mansion.
With Lin Zhong watching, there is no need for Lin Ruan to get involved in the matter.
The courtyard wall was demolished and rebuilt this time, and it was built very strongly, because it was necessary to prevent wild beasts, so the height had to be increased a lot, so even if the patriarch found more than 20 people to help this time, it was only a small half of the height.
After lunch, Lin Ruan took a small basket that was finely braided, went out with the Qin family, and went to meet Aunt Friday and them under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village.
By the time they arrived, there had already gathered a lot of people there, and these were all women who were going to Guozigou.
Seeing Lin Ruan coming, these women greeted her kindly.
With the memory of the original owner, Lin Ruan could also recognize these women completely, but the original owner's impression of these women was limited to remembering faces and names, and he didn't know anything else, so Lin Ruan pretended to be shy with the Qin family and didn't talk to them.
When everyone came, a group of more than ten women set off to Guozigou with a smile.
Guozigou is about two miles away from Linjia Village, at the foot of Funiu Mountain, some distance from the mountain, but there is no need to worry about encountering wild beasts.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, we arrived at the place.
Guozigou is a long, narrow col about several miles long, and at the bottom of the ravine is a small stream that flows out of the mountain. And those wild wolfberries grow on the ditch walls on both sides.
There are not only wolfberries here, but also many miscellaneous wild fruits, which is why it got such a name.
As soon as they arrived, the women scattered with their baskets in search of the wolfberry tree.
Lin Ruan was no exception, and when he saw that everyone else was at the bottom of the ditch, he carried the basket to the top of the fruit ditch.
There are really a lot of wild wolfberry trees here, but the yield is very small, and a tree can produce more than a dozen wolfberry seeds, and the fruit is also very small.
After all, it is wild, and such a yield is not unusual.
Lin Ruan patiently picked it for a long time, and it was only before he could only cover the bottom of the basket.
When do you have to pick it up like this?
Lin Ruan's patience was exhausted, and he was about to cheat with his ability, but when he was about to make a move, he suddenly found a somewhat familiar leaf in the grass.
When he opened the grass and looked at it, Lin Ruan's eyes lit up, wild strawberries!
Generally speaking, wild strawberries grow in patches, Lin Ruan hurriedly searched nearby, and soon found a large patch of wild strawberries at the border between Guozigou and Funiu Mountain.
At this time, it was past the strawberry ripening season, and only the last fruits of this wild strawberry were hanging on the branches. Fruits that have passed the season are generally not ripe.
Lin Ruan saw that there was no one left and right, so he activated his ability, causing one of the wild strawberries to be full of fruits in an instant.
The fruit of the wild strawberry is not large, at most the size of a small finger. And the taste is not very good, but the fruit that Lin Ruan used his ability to promote is much larger, not as good as those breeding varieties, but it is also similar to the size of the small strawberries grown at home in the countryside in the previous life.
I picked one and threw it into my mouth and tasted it, it tasted very good, compared with the variety of strawberries, it was a little worse, but it was much better than the normal ripe wild strawberries.
It seems to be a good idea to use this instead of grapes to send to the Drunken Immortal Building.
Such a wild strawberry, Lin Ruan dares to guarantee the ticket, it is definitely the only one.
After all, in this era, there is no artificial cultivation technology, and this wild strawberry is a rural thing, it cannot be put on the table, and the yield is small, it is generally the snack of the farmer's children, and those rich people in the county have never seen this kind of thing.
With an idea, Lin Ruan made a note of this place and planned to come back tomorrow morning.
After all, there are a lot of people in the ravine at this time, and if she does it now, it will easily arouse the suspicion of others. Moreover, this wild strawberry is more pressurized than grapes, and she did not bring a basket with her, and she has nothing to put it in when she picks it.
Carrying the basket back to the place where the wolfberries were picked, Lin Ruan activated his ability to make those wolfberry trees full of fruits. In order not to be too eye-catching, she only let the yield of those wolfberries increase, and the quality of the fruit remains at the original level.
In this way, relying on cheating, Lin Ruan picked a small half basket of wolfberries, and then went to the entrance of Guozigou, found a place to sit, and waited for the women to come out.
It wasn't until the sun was in the west that Aunt Friday came out of the ditch with the basket.
The amount of wolfberries in everyone's basket is about the same, and the appearance of a small half of a blue seed.
After these wolfberries are dried, they can be sold for about a dozen copper plates, and several women discussed coming back tomorrow.
Lin Ruan is not sensitive, this kind of inefficient and high-output work, she really has no patience to do it, with this kind of kung fu, what can't she do.
The group carried the blue seeds back to the village, and passed by a budding rice field, and a fat rabbit rushed out of the field.
The crowd exclaimed, "Ah, what a big hare!" ”
When the rabbit found someone, he turned his head to run into the budding rice field, Lin Ruan unhurriedly bent down and picked up a small pebble from it, and threw it at the rabbit with a "sigh".
The stone hit the rabbit's hind legs, the rabbit fell to the ground, and Lin Ruan rushed forward to catch the rabbit.
A woman exclaimed: "Ah Ruan is really powerful, this distance of two or three zhang, can even hit so accurately." Such a fat rabbit, I'm afraid it has to be seven or eight catties, and it can be stewed in a big pot with some winter melon. ”
The other women couldn't help but look at the Qin clan with envy.
Lin Ruan is now living in her house, and this rabbit must be stewed at Zhou's house.
The Qin clan made these people look a little embarrassed.