Chapter 8 Picking up wild eggs up the mountain

Out of the farm, go to see if Xiao Dou Ding is awake, in the afternoon to let Xiao Dou Ding go out to take a look at the outside environment, since the crossing, has not left the house one step. I went to my brother's house and saw that Xiao Douding had woken up and was in a daze on his kang. The room was even more shabby, and there wasn't even a table.

"Little brother, go out with my sister, I don't know what it's like outside. I don't know the way when I go out, so you can familiarize me with it. Zhang Xiaoxue stood at the door and said. "Okay, sister, I'll be right away when you wait. "Xiaodou Ding came down from the kang neatly, and because he was relatively short, he still fell backwards.

The siblings closed the door. Xiao Douding took her sister's hand and introduced her as she walked. Whose family this is, who is it, all told Zhang Xiaoxue one by one. The houses live far away, and there are a few trees between the houses. The whole village covers a wide area. At this time, there are not many people walking around, it is the busy farming season, and the adults are busy tending to the crops in the fields. There is a stone archway at the entrance of the village, and there are three big characters of Zhangjiazhuang written on it. There was a large honey locust tree next to the archway, and five or six little boys were playing with stones under it. They saw Zhang Xiaoxue's sister and brother, one of them was a little boy with a tiger's brain, shouting from afar: "Sister Xue, I haven't seen you for a few days, I heard that you fell, are you well?"

"Well, well, I'm just throwing my brains and forgetting some things, what's your name? Tell me again, let's get to know each other again. Zhang Xiaoxue looked at these little boys, all of them were quite thin, only the one who spoke looked quite strong. Everyone has to introduce themselves after talking. The names are also quite simple, among which the tiger head and tiger brain are called Huzi, who is the eldest grandson of the patriarch. The rest are also small hammers, iron bolts, little six sons, and Bao'er. These children turned out to be the little brothers of the original owner, and the original owner used to be a child king, and a girl didn't lose to a boy in a naughty fight. Everyone looked like Zhang Xiaoxue was looking at the horse, waiting for Zhang Xiaoxue to arrange what game to play. Zhang Xiaoxue was speechless for a while, she was a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old person with a mind, and she really couldn't play with them. I had to let them play on their own, and they had to get familiar with the environment and play with them another day.

To get rid of this group of little children, Zhang Xiaoxue decided to go home and get a bamboo basket to go to the mountains to help Zhang's mother dig wild vegetables. The original owner is not too young, and he can help the adults do a lot of work. It seems that the original owner's family is very fond of the original owner, so that she is so old and mischievous with this group of boys.

When I got home, I found a bamboo basket next to the firewood, and Zhang Xiaoxue was a little big on her back. The bottom of the basket is up to Zhang Xiaoxue's calf. There was also a small shovel with a wooden handle next to it, which was thrown into the basket. Called the little bean dice and left. But Xiao Douding looked scared. "Sister, are you going to the mountains? We're not going, I'm not going to eat cherries anymore. It's all my fault, I want to eat cherries and cause my sister to fall from the tree, I don't dare anymore. Let's not go, right?" Xiao Douding finished anxiously, looking at Zhang Xiaoxue with a look of hope. "Oh, where do you want to go, I want to help my mother dig some wild vegetables this time, I promise not to climb trees, you can rest assured. Zhang Xiaoxue thought to herself that even if I was asked to climb the tree, I wouldn't be able to climb it now, I didn't have this function of the original owner. "That'...... Well, you must not climb trees. Xiao Douding looked hesitant. "Don't worry! ”

It really looked like it wasn't far, and it took more than 20 minutes to reach the foot of the mountain. Follow a path into the mountains. The mountain road is narrow, and it is not easy to walk at all on the high and low grounds. Xiao Douding introduced that this mountain is called Immortal Mountain, and legend has it that this mountain was inhabited by immortals before. Many years ago, there were still people who went to the mountains to explore treasures and search for immortals, but because there were too many fierce beasts in the mountains, they all returned in vain. I haven't heard of anyone who has seen an immortal or found a treasure. Usually, everyone goes up to the mountain to chop firewood and dig wild vegetables on the periphery of the mountain, and no one dares to go deep into the mountain. Every year in autumn, after the farming season, the patriarch would gather the villagers to go up the mountain to drive away the beasts, fearing that the beasts would come down the mountain to disturb the villagers if they had no food in winter.

While walking, Zhang Xiaoxue opened her eyes and looked around, in fact, Zhang Xiaoxue didn't know several kinds of wild vegetables, so she knew dandelion, shepherd's cabbage, gray cabbage, mountain cabbage and purslane. The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny. There are almost no wild vegetables near the foot of the mountain, and they must have been dug up by others. It's the season of green and yellow. Every household did not have much surplus food, so they all went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables to fill the grain. Finally, he found a place where a piece of shepherd's cabbage grew and stopped, took the basket down and put it aside, and let Xiao Douding watch from the side. Zhang Xiaoxue squatted down and began to dig vegetables with a shovel, and when she had accumulated a pile, she put them in the bamboo basket.

There weren't many wild vegetables, and it took half a day to dig up the bottom of the basket to fill it up. I dug up some dandelions, and found a piece of wild vegetables, and only pinched some of the tips of the wild vegetables. I looked at my watch, and it was four o'clock in the afternoon. Ready to go home. At this moment, she suddenly saw a pheasant in the distance, and Zhang Xiaoxue's eyes were green. She ran over and wanted to catch the pheasant, but she seemed to overestimate her combat strength, and the pheasant didn't catch it, so she was tired and sweating. After resting for a while, I thought that since the pheasants were nearby, there might be wild eggs nearby. Hey, it's really a reward for her hard work, and she really found six wild eggs. The beauty in my heart made it decided to scramble the shepherd's cabbage with eggs tonight. Xiao Douding was also overjoyed, and the two went home satisfied.

When I got home, I saw that Zhang's mother was already cooking. She didn't expect her daughter to dig wild vegetables. Zhang's mother was overjoyed, feeling that her daughter was really sensible, no matter how many wild vegetables she dug up, just this attitude was gratifying. What's even happier is that there are still six wild eggs, and my daughter is so capable. She also readily agreed to her daughter's proposal to use the scrambled eggs dug up tonight, which was the fruit of her daughter's labor and should be at her disposal. Originally, I planned to stew an egg for Zhang Xiaoxue, but now I have saved it.

Zhang Xiaoxue waved her little hand, and all six eggs were used. Zhang's mother was a little heartbroken, but she didn't say anything and nodded in agreement. When the father and son went home, Zhang's mother couldn't wait to show off to the three fathers and sons of the Zhang family, showing off how capable her daughter is today. My family has the joy of a woman's first growth. Zhang Xiaoxue was embarrassed to accept the praise of the three.

Xiao Douding had already washed his hands, sat at the dining table and waited, and the family was happily eating dinner. Parents and two elder brothers still can't help but leave the delicious scrambled eggs with shepherd's cabbage for the two younger ones to eat. I only ate a few bites, tasted the taste, and then stopped stretching out my chopsticks. Today's dinner was very satisfying, like a festival.

After dinner, the chatter is nothing more than what the crops are in the field, which field should be weeded, which field should be watered, and I hope that this year's year will be good, and the harvest will be more.