Chapter 41: The Snail
Huang Yiyun's heart moved, but she quietly carried a wooden barrel and walked up.
Tie up the trouser legs, roll up the sleeves, and walk barefoot into the canal.
I fumbled with both hands, and after a while, I grabbed a handful of snails and came out.
These snails are large and small.
The big ones are collected directly, and the smaller ones are set aside for a part to be fed to the chickens.
The smaller ones were put back.
The sun was setting imperceptibly, and the dark curtain fell.
"It's time to go back, let's go." After Huang Yiyun saw that the time was almost up, he beckoned his younger siblings to go back.
I saw that my younger siblings had an unfinished look on their faces.
Huang Yiyun couldn't help but shake his head with a smile, thinking that they would be impatient and lonely, and they would stop fishing after a few times of catching field chickens.
Huang Yiyun didn't expect that a few of them would compete with the fishing chickens.
To see who catches more and who catches less, one by one they are energetic.
If Huang Yiyun hadn't said that he was going home, they would have wanted to fish for field chickens here all the time.
"Seventh brother, what's wrong with you." Huang Yiyun asked after seeing that the seventh brother had been scratching his cheeks.
"Eldest sister, I'm fine, it's just that I've been bitten by mosquitoes and it's a little itchy?" The seventh brother took the eldest sister's hand, shook it up and down, and said happily.
"Let the eldest sister see." After Huang Yiyun heard this, he patted his head and forgot that a few small ones have tender skin, on this ridge overgrown with weeds, it is strange not to attract mosquitoes?
Fortunately, I only bit two big red envelopes, but I didn't bite anywhere else.
"Eldest sister, isn't there a lot of snails you picked up! Our chickens can't eat so much! The second sister asked after picking up half a bucket of snails with her eldest sister.
"The small ones, let's chop them up and give them to the chickens, and the bigger ones for the chickens to eat." Huang Yiyun replied.
And Huang Yiyun also knows that the snail is actually for chickens here, but people don't eat it.
I don't know, they don't know how to do it, or they don't know if it's edible, or for some other reason, and no one in the villagers' homes eats it.
This is still after Huang Yiyun went to Liu's house once, and saw Aunt Liu chop up the fat snails directly, cook them, and feed them to the chickens.
They only know that snails are pests that eat rice seedlings in paddy fields, so the villagers go down to the fields from time to time to pick up all the snails in the paddy fields and chop them up for their own livestock to eat.
"For whom, eldest sister, isn't this something that can only be chopped up for animals? Can people eat it? The second sister asked puzzled.
"Let's give the fifth sister a foodie to eat." Huang Yiyun said with a smile.
"Eldest sister, this is for livestock, why don't the fifth sister eat it?" The fifth sister puffed out her face and said.
"I really don't eat it."
"Don't eat it." The fifth sister said firmly.
It's just that after Huang Yiyun makes the snail tomorrow, don't slap her face too quickly, the fifth sister is very happy to eat, and she rushes to eat the snail.
"I'm sure I won't eat it, that's okay, after the eldest sister made it, you said you wouldn't eat it, and the eldest sister didn't force you."
"I'm back, how many field chickens have I caught." Huang Liu, who was enjoying the cool in the courtyard, stepped forward to take the barrel from the hands of the eldest sister and the second sister.
"So much, no less." As soon as Huang Liu opened the lid of the wooden barrel, the field chickens in the wooden barrel croaked one by one, and a few of them kept jumping out of the barrel.
Huang Liu took advantage of the moonlight to see that there was almost half a bucket of field chickens in the barrel, and he was slightly surprised.
"It's only been a long time, and so many field chickens have been caught, big sister, you must know that field chickens are beneficial, they can catch insect pests, can eat the insects on the crops, and are beneficial to the crops, you must know, there is no reason to be too late, catch a few times, don't rush to kill them, when the time comes, there will be no field chickens to catch the pests in the fields in the coming year, and the bitter farmers are still farmers. At that time, some villagers saw it and said where the village chief went, and what was going on to say about our family. After Huang Li looked at the wooden barrel containing the field chicken, his brows furrowed slightly, and he taught a lot of small ways in his mouth.
"Well, grandma said the truth, and the eldest sister also knows." Huang Yiyun has a feeling of aggrieved, he just found a way to make money, he can't do it on the left, he can't do it on the right, and he feels really uncomfortable feeling aggrieved.
As Huang Li said, this field chicken is a pest that catches the crops and is a beneficial animal.
In case it is seen by the villagers, I am afraid that it is really like what I said to my grandmother, and I am afraid that someone will say something again.
When the younger siblings heard that this job of making money and playing with field chickens could not be done, their faces fell one by one, and they were a little disappointed.
"You can't do this, there is always something that we can do."
On the second day, the pheasants could no longer be fished, and the eels could not be caught at night.
"Eldest sister, can you really eat this?" Huang Yiyun asked the second sister to wash the snails, and then asked them to cut the tail of the snails with a firewood knife, but when the second sister was doing these jobs, the second sister asked with some doubts.
"You can eat it, after the eldest sister makes it, eat it for the first time, you still want to eat it for the second time, after doing this, you cut some green onions, ginger, garlic and chili, the eldest sister will go out for a trip, and come back at noon to get it for you." After Huang Yiyun explained, he went out with a basket on his back.
Huang Li and a few of them were idle in the house to enjoy the coolness, and when they saw that the eldest sister told the second sister to clean and dispose of the snails, let her come back and fry them, although they were a little surprised, but they didn't say anything.
As for Huang Yiyun, he went directly up the mountain with a bamboo basket on his back.
It's been three days since the last time I went to town.
Huang Yiyun estimated that he could pick some bay leaves, grass fruits, cinnamon, and star anise.
After being exposed to the sun, it was broken into pieces, and the bags were wrapped in dumpling leaves and sold.
The premise is that the shopkeeper used the spice packets he gave, and after cooking, he had to buy spice packets with himself after he was more delicious, fragrant and delicious than before.
However, the spice trees that Huang Yiyun found happened to be not far apart, and most of them were in a valley halfway up the mountain.
This valley was also discovered by Huang Yiyun when he was picking wild vegetables once, and he accidentally got into a shrub and thistle forest.
The valley is not big, a small stream across the river, the flow of zigzag to the unknown place, the temperature in the valley is suitable, very suitable for the growth of flowers and trees, there are many thorny vines densely grown on all sides, it takes a lot of time to climb to be able to enter the valley, and no one seems to have stepped in the valley.
It seems that the villagers could not bear the stinging vines around them, and were unwilling to climb in, so the valley has not been discovered and no one has ever visited.