Chapter Twenty-Three: Watching People Fight
Not far from the foot of the mountain, there is a small sweet straw, not much, only a few sparse and sparse plants are left, cut into a small section with a firewood knife, but only more than 20 paragraphs, the mandarin duck invited Mingyue to take credit, "Mingyue, this is in the col, not much, I haven't told others yet!" We'll cut it again next year. ”
Mingyue gratefully gave half of the sweet rod to the mandarin duck, she really didn't expect so little, the mandarin duck also told her the place of growth, and she was really a good girl who could be honest.
Mingyue picked up the firewood knife, found a bush of green plants under her feet, looked very familiar, tried to dig it out, a small round head was displayed, Mingyue threw off the mud, and her heart was overjoyed.
As far as the eye can see, there are too many flat places to count.
The mandarin duck shook his head and poured a handful of cold water on Mingyue, "Mingyue, that's a brain melon, spicy, you can't eat it, you have to eat these if you want to eat wild vegetables." ”
The mandarin duck bowed his head and bent over, and dug out a few demonstratively, some of which Mingyue recognized, and some of whom did not.
The one with the big tooth leaves is the mother-in-law, and the round and long leaf is the lettuce, which these are the wild vegetables that Mingyue once ate in later generations and are sought after in the city.
There are also two long roots and whiskers, which look like long dolls, Mingyue didn't recognize them, but they took them very excitedly, and their voices stammered and trembled: "Mandarin ducks, this, is this ginseng?" Ginseng in human form? ”
It is conceivable that Mingyue's mood at this time, now she can make a fortune, and she doesn't have to worry about the problem that the wheat is not enough to eat for a year.
"Brain melon" in modern Chinese medicine is called Huangbai, folk called Xiaotou garlic, is also a kind of wild vegetable, because it is as spicy as garlic, mostly pickled vegetables, here, it is something that farmers do not like to want; Isn't ginseng also undiscovered for its medicinal value? This is different from wolfberry, it can continue to save lives, and if you don't make a fortune, when will you stay? Mingyue's eyes seemed to shoot out ingot-like light.
This time, not only did the mandarin duck look at Mingyue like a fool, but even Mingyang covered his face, looking like he couldn't bear to look at it directly, and whispered: "Sister, be a little louder, this is bellflower, how can ginseng be so lucky to encounter it, and it can only be found in the mountains." ”
Mingyue suddenly blushed, and now she was embarrassed.
In modern times, she has eaten bellflower in the north, but it is all long pickle-shaped, how have you seen this whole root? This has "arms" and "legs", what is it that is not an extended version of "ginseng baby"?
The mandarin duck looked down and looked for it, found a few more, brushed the mud on it, and threw it directly into Mingyue's basket, "These are enough to cook a soup, this thing is astringent, not delicious, and you can be a little hungry when you are not green." ”
It's not just starving, it's still a good thing to make a fortune! Mingyue looked at the wild vegetables in a place with pity, and didn't dare to show too much joyful expression, everything can only be determined by the salt mine, besides, the salt mine is an official camp in various dynasties, and he can't sell salt, but selling some small pickles is a good livelihood.
Mingyue wore another basket of wild vegetables, and then hurried home.
Back home, Liu has already cooked, see the vegetables brought back to the person, chop indiscriminately, make a bowl of clear soup and little water mixed with wild vegetable soup, there are bellflower, mother-in-law, lettuce, bellflower is hard, mother-in-law is old, borage hemp is bitter, this taste, you can imagine, how sad to urge, how sad to urge, completely reflects the life of a family of four---- full of bitterness and hardship.
Mingyue's mouth was really tasteless, so she secretly turned to the outer layer, blanched the remaining endive and hemp vegetables with boiling water with water, removed the astringency, added chopped green onions and chili flakes, and finally slapped the salt into broken noodles with a knife, ruthlessly put one-third of the salt at the bottom of the salt tank, mixed it and served it on the table.
Liu Shi only tasted one bite, and his face turned pale, not because the things were not delicious, but because he thought of the scarcity of salt, Mingyue was so wasteful, he was afraid that he would not have to eat it for most of the next half a year.
Mingyue took another pair of chopsticks and sent them to Liu's bowl, and whispered softly: "Mother, if you don't eat it, it will be bad tomorrow, eat it quickly, and I will find a way to do it in the future." ”
Liu sighed and silently took a bite of the most in his life
The delicious cold salad of wild vegetables, but like Zhu Bajie eating ginseng fruit, he swallowed it and did not taste it.
Xingxing and Mingyang didn't think about the problem of salt, they just thought that their sister went into the city to sell pork and made money, smacking her mouth and eating wild vegetables, Mingyang's eyebrows and eyes were like the moon, full of happy smiles, and raised her little face, "Sister, why didn't you cook before?" If you had done it, I would have been able to eat something so delicious before. ”
Mingyue scratched her little nose and smiled: "It's really delicious, isn't it a nonsense that Sister Yu cooks?" ”
Mingyang's little head shook like a rattle, "No, it's so delicious, so delicious that you want to swallow your tongue." ”
Mingyue smiled silently, and put another chopstick dish into Liu's bowl that didn't take a second bite.
Liu looked at the three daughters of the family who were rarely so happy, and couldn't bear to spoil the atmosphere, so he ate a bite of wild vegetables again, and finally tasted the taste, and it was really delicious.
Seeing that Liu Shi stretched his brows, he breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he was not angry with his "big hands and feet", Mingyue really couldn't imagine how to live this life without salt.
According to legend, in ancient times, there were only gods and demons, and there were no human beings, but it was the gods who discovered the existence of the most delicious --- salt in the world, and coveted the delicious food in the world, so they lived and finally multiplied into human beings. Sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty, with salty as the first, no salty, and other flavors are not known.
Mingyue secretly made up her mind that after restoring the reputation of the Liu family, for the sake of appetite and a stable life, digging out salt before winter became the first thing, and then making money to run for a happy life and a prosperous road.
After dinner, Mingyue excused herself to find a mandarin duck as a companion, and hurriedly walked to Li Yuehua's house by the color of dusk, and saw a lazy dog lying in the courtyard, Mingyue secretly threw a bone, the dog looked up at Mingyue, Mingyue shook another bone in his hand, the dog snorted lazily twice, and even wagged his tail familiarly, and the feeding of the past two days finally paid off.
Mingyue took the opportunity to step forward and secretly hide behind the room, there was a back window behind the room, and when she opened the window paper, she could just take in the scene in the house.
thought that all the actions of the gods were completely in the eyes of Li Chengyue, who went and returned.
Li Chengyue went and returned, seeing that Mingyue had gone up the mountain, he was embarrassed to enter the third room to talk to Liu, and waited outside the fence for Mingyue to return.
In the end, seeing Mingyue sneaking out, he looked around, and at first glance, it was not a good thing, Li Chengyue was suspicious, and the first thing that came to mind was whether this Yin Mingyue would be Yuan Siniang's accomplice, the two abandoned the car to protect the handsome, and gave up one of them to go to prison, so the ghost made God follow.
But seeing Mingyue sneaking into Li Yuehua's house, she carefully hid behind the room, staring at the bedroom with a pair of eyes, motionless like a wax statue, until the time of the lamp, the five fingers outside the door were missing, and the light in the house was like a bean.
Li Chengyue was suspicious, so he couldn't help but get closer, and he also made a hole and looked into the room.
In the room, a lamp has been turned on, Li Yuehua is only wearing a red belly pocket, holding a comb with shyness, combing her long hair like ink, and her hair is covered with bright head oil, which is shiny, but the taste is really not flattering.
The long hair was draped over the shoulders, and the thin collarbone, which was not beautiful, actually showed a very beautiful appearance in the light and shadow, Li Chengyue, who had not been in love for a long time, panicked in his heart, the sweat on his forehead flowed down like water, and his breathing became heavier and heavier.
Mingyue realized it later, looked at the extra man next to her at some point, her brows furrowed into a tight Sichuan character, Li Chengyue's face turned red, and she wanted to raise her legs to leave, Mingyue had already shook her head, put her fingers to her lips, and made a silent movement.
Li Chengyue had no choice but to retract her feet in embarrassment, accompanied Mingyue left and right, and continued to admire the self-absorbed Li Yuehua.
When Li Yuehua went down to open the door, he waved open the back window, flew up a stone, and hit the oil lamp, the head was not bad at all, and hit the wick, and the house was instantly darkened, only the faint moon flowed.
Li Yuehua sighed, and was hugged into the man's arms, and the coolness of the autumn breeze aroused her trembling, and she shrank into the man's arms like a rabbit.
In the midst of a burst of gasping, the young woman scolded the man twice, "Dead color, do you want me to stand still for so many years without looking for me?" ”
The man had happily stripped the young woman all over her body, and in the shadows, he saw two white shadows like white stripes in the waves, turning clouds and rain, and like the dry firewood, wanting to burn into ashes.
The man couldn't wait to smash the yellow dragon, the big yellow tooth was satisfied, and he smiled and slapped the woman's roundness, a rare show of tenderness, "Little girl, you want to be bitter about the man, right?" ”
Li Yuehua was covered for a while, struggled desperately twice, scratched Zhao Ergou's chest, and instantly made five bloody finger prints, and said in a trembling voice: "You, you are not Brother Da Lin?" ”
Zhao Ergou was so angry that he shook his hand and slapped him, half of Li Yuehua's face swelled up, Zhao Ergou didn't pity the jade, his rough and filthy hand grabbed it indiscriminately, and said angrily: "Damn, isn't it just a wild man who can hunt, one or two girls think, Liu Xiuxiu thinks, you also think, what's wrong with my two dogs?" Serving Zhou Lanhua is more comfortable than Boss Han's, and she barks more than a, if I don't leave tonight, I will definitely make you think about it for a lifetime. ”
Li Yuehua struggled twice at first, but later, he stopped struggling, and let Zhao Ergou exert his whole strength, if the boat was floating in the waves, it was frightened, and it was novel in the clouds, and it was impossible to extricate itself.
The mood of the two people in the room was as warm and humid as spring; The atmosphere was as hot and scorching as summer; The body is like a boat in the autumn wind, rippling and dizzy; The two outside the house stood straight out of the door like a winter ice stream.