Chapter 4: Go up the mountain to dig vegetables
"Congratulations on getting a cluster of rose seedlings, please go to the back mountain to get it."
Gu Nansang listened to the system's voice quietly, tilted his neck and dried the bitter and astringent medicinal juice in the bowl, and said with a wrinkled face: "Mother, I'll go back to the room for a break first." ”
Xu Shi answered, watched her thin back go away, came back to his senses to clean up his mood, turned around and went to the kitchen to continue to be busy.
Gu Nansang questioned the system in the room: "I said, what kind of roses do you want in the Gu family's situation?" Give me the exchange for rice noodles. ”
System: "...... No. ”
"What do you want?" Gu Nansang sighed, but she also knew that this was unrealistic, even if the system could really do it, she couldn't explain the source of the rice noodles, so she just thought about it.
She sat in the room for a while, it was spring, the weather was pleasant, but she still sweated lightly, but fortunately she was much more relaxed, and it seemed that the disease was completely gone.
Although the small courtyard of the Gu family is not big, it has complete internal organs, Gu Nansang lives in the house in the backyard, originally she and Gu Xizhou lived, and the second sister got married a few months ago, so she lived alone. The main room in front is where the Xu family lives, and the rooms on the left and right of the east and west are where Gu Dongqing and Gu Beihuai live.
Xu's family was born in a wealthy family and knew that his daughter's family should have her own space, so the backyard was quite spacious. Opposite Gu Nansang's window was a small vegetable patch, which was once full of seasonal vegetables, but later Gu Congzhi died, and the Xu family was busy with farming in the field, which gradually became abandoned.
On the other side is the firewood room, and on the opposite side is a locked back door.
Such a small courtyard is rare in Lotus Village, and the living conditions of the Gu family were not bad, because Gu Congzhi was a big laborer in the family, and he was a talent, and the imperial court would allocate four taels of silver every year for his tuition. It's just that the ancestors of the Gu family were scholars, and a lot of books have been handed down, and now they are all placed in Gu Xizhou's room next door, so Gu Congzhi saved the cost of buying books, and the family's life is quite good.
I have to say that no matter how difficult the family is, Gu Congzhi and Xu have never thought of selling books to support their families, and they have never let go of their children's education in addition to farming.
But since Gu Congzhi died, the subsidies of the imperial court were no longer issued, Gu Dongqing was fifteen years old, and he could also go to the city to do some short-term work to subsidize the family, and now his life is barely passable.
But it's clearly not a long-term solution.
Gu Nansang cleared his thoughts, got up from the shabby chair, and casually took the cloth belt and tied his hair into a bunch behind his head. I went to the firewood room, picked up the rusty little hoe, found a half-worn basket, took a straw hat, and prepared to go.
Going to the back mountain to find what Rausch roses are secondary, mainly to see if there are any wild vegetables to eat.
The front yard was quiet, the hoe and flat pole at home were gone, thinking that Xu and Gu Dongqing had gone to work in the field.
As soon as Gu Nansang walked to the door, he heard Gu Beihuai's crisp voice: "Sister, where are you going?" ”
"I'll go to the back mountain to find some wild vegetables." Gu Nansang stood still and said, "You wait at home, lest my mother come back and not find us." ”
Gu Beihuai pouted: "I'll go too, I'll go!" ”
Gu Nansang said patiently: "You are at home, my mother and they will come back soon, if you go up the mountain with me, I will have to take care of you then." ”
"I'm a man, I can protect you!" Gu Beihuai was puffed up, his eyes rolled, and he changed to a flattering smile: "Sister, your illness is not completely healed, with me with me, I can take care of you!" ”
Gu Nansang couldn't help laughing, this kid was a ghost, what she said was used by him on himself.
"Okay then, you leave a note for your mother and eldest brother."
She was relieved, Gu Beihuai happily went to get the pen and ink, wrote the immature and crooked font, and followed her sister up the mountain.
The climate of Lotus Village is humid, lotus ponds are everywhere, although it is only early spring, but the back mountain is already lush with vegetation, and the two sides of the path are full of wild flowers, and the fresh fragrance is very pleasant.
Gu Nansang took a deep breath, she had been in a coma for days, so that she had never left the house, and it was really a pleasure to be able to smell such fresh and clean air.
She carried the basket on her back, put the straw hat on the top of Gu Beihuai's head, held a small hoe in one hand and waved away the weeds on the side of the road, and took Gu Beihuai's hand in the other, following the memory of the original owner, and climbed towards the mountain.
In the end, they are all children, and it won't take long to walk, both sisters and brothers are out of breath, Gu Nansang looked at his arm like a dry firewood stick, sighed, pulled Gu Beihuai, and walked under a big tree to rest.
The grass was green, Gu Beihuai looked happy, lying on his back in the shade of the tree, holding a straw hat to fan himself.
Gu Nansang looked around, and happened to see a bush of green leaves not far away, and his heart was overjoyed, and he instructed Gu Beihuai: "I'm digging wild vegetables not far away, you rest here, don't go far." ”
"Good!" Gu Beihuai agreed quickly, rolled around on the ground, and was very happy.
Gu Nansang stopped caring about him and concentrated on digging wild vegetables.
This dish is called purslane, the tender green branches and leaves are spread on the ground, the leaves are flat and thick, and they are horsetooth-shaped, which has the effects of clearing heat and dampness, detoxifying and reducing swelling, reducing inflammation and quenching thirst.
The conditions of the welfare home where Gu Nansang stayed were not very good, and the older children would always be taken out by the aunts to look for wild vegetables, and in the spring, the children were very happy. It's just that after eating too much, when I saw this purslane, I felt a sour feeling at the base of my tongue.
She was skillful and fast, and in a short time there was a thick layer in the small back basket, which was enough for the whole family to eat twice.
Gu Nansang straightened his waist and saw that Gu Beihuai was still under the tree, so he was ready to take a closer look.
"Sister! There is fruit in this tree! Gu Beihuai shouted.
Gu Nansang followed his line of sight and saw another time in the mountain, in the low-lying sunny place, there was a lush tree growing, with lush branches and leaves, and green fruits hanging all over the branches.
"Sister, I'll pick it!" He volunteered.
Gu Nansang looked at the tree, but it was not very high, so he agreed, took his hand, and the two walked down together.
"This is a green jujube tree, you can pick more of it, and go back to my mother and eldest brother to taste it." She smiled: "I'll see if there are any other dishes on the other side, you can pick them and put them under the tree, eat a few if you want, don't be greedy." ”
Gu Beihuai obediently responded.
"The rose seedlings are just south of the mountain." The system suddenly sounded.
"It's just you." Gu Nansang pouted, but in the end he still went according to his words.
Turning the hill, I saw a budding rose exuding its fragrance, and the mountain butterflies hovering over a few early flowers. There is also a small pond nearby, trickling down from the mountain wall, dripping into the pool, just looking at it is refreshing.
Gu Nansang has been busy for a long time, and he also feels thirsty, thinking that it is mountain spring water, so he walked over, washed his hands, and took a few sips.
The water of the pool is clear, and there are some dark green algae and weeds attached to the stone wall, and the taste is very cool and sweet, which sweeps away Gu Nansang's exhaustion a lot.
The system suddenly said, "There are fish in the pool." ”
"Where, where?" Gu Nansang fixed his eyes, and sure enough, he saw a few black-headed fish hiding under the algae, and some of them swam to the depths, thinking that she had just drunk water, and she was startled by them.
She smiled and narrowed her eyes: "Okay, this is the reward you gave." ”
The "......" system is speechless.
Gu Nansang plucked the dogtail grass and thatch by the waterhole, flipped his fingers, and quickly made a simple grass pocket, and then threw it on the water with a few purslanes to float, clapped his hands, and went to dig up the rose seedlings.
Digging up three or five plants at will, she stopped, spending this thing, there must be suitable conditions and mood to maintain it, for the sake of today's plan or fill the stomach first.
She swept her gaze casually, and when she saw that there were wild onions on the side of the path, she uprooted some of them.
After doing all this, I went to look at the waterhole, and sure enough, there were several fish eating purslane.
Gu Nansang held his breath and suddenly made a move, and the grass pocket instantly surfaced, and brought out two fish, one large and one small.
She said with some pity: "Look at these fish growing in the waterhole all year round, strange and stupid, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult to catch." ”
The system couldn't help but complain: "This is good enough, right?" ”
Gu Nansang still had some nostalgia for her living in his mind, so he looked at her everywhere unpleasantly, snorted coldly, passed the grass stalk through the mouths of the two fish, picked it up, and then walked back with the basket on his back.
When I walked under the green jujube tree, I saw Gu Beihuai sitting on the ground with a green jujube in one hand, gnawing vigorously. Seeing that Gu Nansang was back, he hurriedly stood up and said, "Sister, eat dates." ”
With the word "eat" in his mouth, the crumbs of green dates in his mouth flew towards him.
Gu Nansang's face did not change, he dodged quickly with his skills, squatted down and picked up the green dates on the ground into the back basket, and said, "Go back and eat, it's not too early." ”
"Sister, you've caught a fish!" Gu Beihuai exclaimed.
"Hmm." Gu Nansang's expression was calm, and he pulled him down the mountain.
Gu Beihuai was star-eyed, and looked at Gu Nansang with a look of adoration.
He always felt that the third sister was seriously ill and woke up very different, and she used to be soft and soft even when she spoke. How can it be like now, dare to throw shoes at the famous shrew in the village, can make Li Erniu cry, and catch fish with his bare hands!
He is simply a hero in his eyes!
The hero patted him on the head and admonished: "What do you think, look at the road, always step into the pit." ”
Gu Nansang had a heart, many people in the village have lotus ponds, which raise fish, but the Gu family does not have lotus ponds, if she carries two fish back like this, it will inevitably attract attention. So she cut a handful of grass from the side of the road and put it in the basket, put the fish in it, sprinkled a handful of grass, then put in purslane and green dates, and finally put the straw hat on, and then went home with the little hoe.
Along the way, I met some villagers, and everyone I knew smiled and said hello, but many of them had inquiring in their eyes.
Thinking about the Gu girl, she used to seem to be a docile and soft character, the last time Li Changsheng's family went to her house to make trouble, that posture actually scolded the shrew Zhao Guihua, at a young age, it is really not to be underestimated.
Gu Nansang knew what they were thinking, but he didn't bother to say anything, carried the basket on his back, pulled Gu Beihuai, and walked back home quickly.
When I was about to get to the door, I saw a few people standing there from a distance, talking to Xu.