This time the survival in the wild is much easier than last time, the spring flowers are blooming, and there is a lot more greenery on the mountain.

The younger girls would walk around in groups, and when they came across edible wild vegetables, they would pick them and put them in the freshly woven bamboo baskets to bring home, which could also change the taste of the food at home.

In this rainy season, Helan often finds a lot of fungus and mushrooms in the mountains.

The villagers knew that there were some mushrooms to eat, but they didn't expect that they usually looked poisonous, but Helan said that they could eat it if they were not poisonous.

Helan and a few little girls went up the mountain together, and the hard-working little girls chattered about how many vegetables they had picked, what varieties they had, or found strange plants, and when they saw wild flowers, they would also pick them and put them in baskets, and then put them together to show off with the little sisters.

"Look, how beautiful this flower of mine is!" At this time, Wu Ling'er stood up in the grass and held up the flowers that she thought were particularly beautiful for everyone to admire.

"People are better than flowers, I think Ling'er is still better-looking." An acquaintance girl next to her answered and joked.

Wu Ling'er was also a little embarrassed when she heard this, and her face was a little shy, and she replied: "Let you see the flowers!" ”

Helan saw such a scene and suddenly remembered Teresa Teng's classic song "Don't Pick Wildflowers on the Roadside".

"Sister-in-law, what did you think of?" Qingmei, who was talking to Helan on the side, saw that Helan didn't reply for a long time, so she asked.

"I think of a song."

"Song? Does it sound good? Have I ever heard of it? ”

"I'll read you a few words, and you listen."

Helan first raised her voice: "Send you to the outside of the village, there is a sentence to explain, although it is already a hundred flowers, you don't want to pick wildflowers on the side of the road." Helan sang halfway through and realized that the words behind didn't seem to be suitable for this speech.

"Huh? Gone? The little girls who listened to it were confused, and the little girls didn't react.

At this time, Wu Ling'er also came over, waiting blankly for Helan's next words.

Helan thought about it, in such a feudal era, it was possible to be called inappropriate if she said it.

Turning his head, he changed his tone: "The next sentence, don't pick white, don't pick it, hahahaha." ”

Several people stared at them with puzzled expressions, some of them didn't understand what Helan was talking about.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just boring to say a few more words."

At this time, Helan remembered an elder brother who grew up together, and every time he said this, he would always roll his eyes at himself, and then say: "It's also in vain." ”

Then the two of them would laugh out loud, and a moment of event could always evoke a person's deep memory. Shook his head and didn't think much more.

After walking some distance further, from time to time I can pick up some dried fruits that fell from the tree last year, and the natural drying has a special taste. Some go bad, some sprout, and you can always find something to eat.

At this moment, Helan saw this round yellow thing not far away, very familiar, with a surprised face, and walked over uncontrollably.

"Ahh Hahahaha! ”

Helan was very excited, looking at the things in front of her with good eyes, God-given good things, look at them, what beautiful things.

"Sister-in-law He, why are you so happy to see it?"

"It's okay, it's just a fun thing."

A new variety of grain is difficult for people in this era to accept, not to mention that half of this thing under the feet has been broken, and I don't know how many are left and how many small seedlings can be planted.

Until the results are out, it's useless to say more.

"What's this round thing? It's all broken? Stinky! Qingmei saw that Helan was going to pull it, and hurriedly stepped forward to pull it.

"It's okay, this, huh...... I'll tell you later, I'd better see if there are any seeds, I like this thing very much! Helan didn't wait for anyone else to say anything, so she squatted down and pulled the pumpkin on the ground with a branch!

Yes, it's a pumpkin, Helan came to this world, and she didn't see a pumpkin, nor did she see a winter melon, which is quite a pity.

I knew where they were, but I didn't have the skills to cross the Pacific Ocean to get them there.

Now I see a pumpkin on the mountain, which can be regarded as a blessing from God.

First, cut the broken part and pull it aside, and then use the branch to find the remaining intact seeds.

The scene caused extreme discomfort among several little girls, and they couldn't stand it anymore, so they pinched their noses and moved away from Helan.

Fortunately, she found eighteen fuller seeds, and found three newly sprouted seedlings from the side, and after finding some soil and planting a few little ones in them, she wanted to go back to the place where she lived, which are now her ancestors.

If this little thing is served by itself, not only will there be an extra crop in the house, but the poor family will save their lives by saying that they can have an extra bite to eat in winter.

You should know that winter melon and pumpkin have a long storage life, if they are relatively complete, they can be stored for one to three months, boiled and eaten, fried and eaten, boiled porridge and eaten.

A must-have for home, perfect!

Helan, who was excited to fly, suddenly remembered one thing, they are still small seedlings, and they can bear fruit in August, and it is only May now, so they have to wait for three months!

"Forget it, the days go by quite quickly, isn't it just three months! I can wait. ”

When he returned to his place at noon, Helan saw that Wu's mother had already begun to work on food.

When he stepped forward, he found that Wu's mother was about to carry a bare thing and throw it into the pot.

"Yikes! Pheasant, where did it come from? ”

Wu Qingquan, who was next to him, hurriedly ran over when he heard this, and then said, "Where did it come from?" Your brother caught Bai, as a man in the family, doesn't he want to let you eat meat! ”

"Oops! Brother Quan has grown his skills! How did you get it? ”

"My slingshot is very white, and you haven't eaten the birds you shot before!"

As soon as Wu Qingzhu finished speaking, Tie Niu poked his head out from behind and said very gossipy: "That's because the pheasant's leg was injured and he couldn't run fast, and he was crushed to death by Brother Quan without paying attention." ”

In a word, the people nearby laughed, and the children's anecdotes made the adults feel less melancholy.

"Nonsense, it was I who ran fast and the chicken was caught."

It's just that the uncomfortable twisting force made everyone see it, and they didn't believe his explanation.

At this time, another aunt joked and said: "Yu Niang, you are a good kid, you can catch chickens, and you are filial, you are really blessed." ”

"Hey, what's the matter, you didn't see it when you were naughty." It's just that the proud expression on his face can't be hidden.

Grandpa Wu didn't feel happy when he heard the words praising his grandson here, and this kid has had more things since he went up the mountain, and he hasn't thought about learning.

At the moment, he is teaching the children to write on the ground, so he has no heart to educate this playful boy, so let him for a few days, the current imperial court does not know when the imperial examination will be resumed.

In the evening, Wu's mother packed up and planned to lie down, when not far from Wu's house, Cuihua and Aunt Hong came over.

Helan hurriedly stepped aside and asked a few people to sit down and talk.

"What's wrong?" This was asked by Wu's mother, and there must be something to say when she came here so late.

Aunt Hong sighed first, and she didn't raise her head too much, so she said, "Alas, I'm embarrassed to talk to you." ”

"You can say what you have for the two of us, what is there to say?"

"Sister-in-law, you don't know, the Cuihua man and her mother have taken a fancy to our Qingmei and want to tell her nephew."

"Huh? Aren't the men all gone? At this time, no one is there, how can you say kiss? ”

"Alas, her nephew broke a leg in the early years, and now he can't walk steadily, and this conscription didn't take him away."

"What? Break a leg? Lame person? Marry my girl? ”

Aunt Hong also blushed with shame, and hurriedly grabbed her sister-in-law and asked her to be quiet, so as not to be heard by others.

"I also knew it was impossible, and I refused, but when she insisted that my girl come and ask your opinion, what if she agreed? said that if his nephew hadn't been lame on one leg, it would have been difficult to find him in ten miles and eight towns. ”

"I won't agree to just say that I'm lame, even if my girl has been divorced, she can't be so bad!"

"Don't be angry, be quiet, I'll refuse her to go when I go back later, I'll just come to say hello to you, so as not to make Cuihua go back up."

"Just don't talk about this in front of me in the future, it is impossible for my girl to marry their family, even if I can't marry in the future, I will be happy to raise my girl for a lifetime!"

After the two of them left, Wu's mother lay on the bed, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, especially when she thought of Wu Tiezhu, who had been stabbed a thousand times, she was so angry that she wanted to rush over and cut two knives!

Speaking of the marriage with Wu Tiezhu, there are also some reasons for this.

As mentioned earlier, Village Chief Wu said that there was still some kinship with Grandpa Wu's family five generations ago, but this relationship was only for a few reasons.

Village Chief Wu's parents are not from Wujia Village, and their Wu is not this Wu, but the "Wu" of martial arts. The people of their family fled to Wujia Village, and the family died and lost, leaving only a few young sons, which made people feel sorry.

A certain patriarch of the Wu family, seeing that a few people were pitiful, took them back to his home, and since then his name has been changed to the surname Wu.

And Grandpa Wu's life was saved by Grandpa Wu Tiezhu's life back then, and with this relationship, Grandpa Wu promised Village Chief Wu to marry his own girl to his youngest son.

And there has always been a rule that you can't get married in the same surname, but the blood relationship between the two families really has nothing to do with it, Grandpa Wu compromised and thought of a way to let Qingmei change her surname and follow her mother's surname, so it was strictly said that Qingmei was called Liu Qingmei.

It's just that everyone got used to it, and they didn't change it.

But there is a matter of withdrawing from the marriage, Qingmei's marriage in the future will definitely not go smoothly, and she has no household registration in the family, so she must not be looked down upon in the future? After thinking about it, Wu Tong from the same village is just right.

A village lives and is not afraid of bullying their own girls in private, and the two families are not related by blood, and some people ask about the same surname that they can't get married, and they can see that Xiaomei is surnamed Liu when they take out Xiaomei's documents.