CHAPTER XXVII

Seeing that the sun was going west, and the basket was full of wild vegetables, the two walked back hand in hand. [No pop-ups. said that it was hand in hand, but in fact, it was almost Zhang Manchu who dragged her away. If he hadn't gotten up suddenly, he was afraid that Lin Baozhu hadn't found out that he had used too much force in the afternoon. Now that I am free, I naturally feel that my arms, legs and feet are hurting and I don't know where to put them.

After a tiring day, after arriving home, Zhang Man simply warmed up the hot leftovers and baked a few pieces of dry food, and the two of them made do with a few bites. When Lin Baozhu leaned over and leaned on the kang cabinet in a daze, she felt that a pair of dry and hot hands were taking off her shoes, and she didn't know if she had been living with that man for a long time, but she didn't even open her eyes and let someone pick her up.

Originally, I was going to talk to my daughter-in-law about going to work, but Zhang Manchu, who went to the stove room to clean up, entered the house again, and saw that my daughter-in-law began to nap. Thinking of the basket of wild vegetables, as well as the orderly tidying up inside and outside the house, and even the yard being cleaned, he knew that he was afraid that his daughter-in-law was tired.

When they were still at the top of the mountain, what everyone was most afraid of was cleaning up the village and cleaning the entrance of the hall, which was really tedious and laborious. If you don't put in the effort, you won't be able to clean it up. So he never thinks that women are idle at home, at most they go out less to do physical work than gentlemen, but they will definitely not be much idle.

Thinking of this, he didn't open his mouth to wake the person up, so he simply squatted down and helped her take off her shoes and socks, and then gently carried the person to the kang. As for whether his heart was hot when the daughter-in-law in his arms curled up and rubbed a few times, it is unknown, but in the end he went to the yard and poured two pots of cold water on the fire.

Rao is like this, and he still thinks of how soft and fragrant the woman who just looked like a cat just now, and from time to time I think of how she rubbed medicine on her round and white shoulders that night.

The sky was slowly getting dark, the night was still long, and Zhang Man couldn't sleep on the kang that was not far from his daughter-in-law. As soon as he closed his eyes, his mind was the appearance of his daughter-in-law's coquettish or angry, and even her embarrassed appearance in a cold sweat at that time could make his heart pound.

The next morning, Lin Baozhu woke up a little confused, didn't he think about making tea, why did he spend the night in a daze? My mind was like a paste for a long time, until I heard the barking of a dog outside, and my mind was pulled back to reality.

But in the end, she had already accepted the crossing, and she didn't have the wry smile and sigh at the beginning, looking at the bedding that had been neatly folded on the side of the kang. Then I got up and went to the ground to see what the man was doing.

When I got out of the house, I saw that the gate outside was closed tightly, and there was no sound in the yard except for the chirping of chickens and ducks. When I entered the stove room, I saw that there was still heat in the pot, as if I was burying a fire to warm rice.

I think the man got up early and went out to work before it was hot.

After eating, she was not idle. Cut off all the bracken roots that she had collected in the past two days, just to use the bracken rhizomes, she took so much effort to dig them, otherwise if she just cut the wild vegetable stalks like others and ate them, I am afraid that the family will not be able to eat them now.

The rhizome of fern root has a high starch content, which means that these starches are the raw material for making fern root powder. Not to mention anything else, just the fern root powder with chili pepper and balsamic vinegar, plus the fragrance and strength of the vermicelli itself, just thinking about it can make people want to stop.

Lin Baozhu himself is a handmade tea, and in order to practice the technique of picking tea and making tea, this kind of homemade fern root powder and other work are not less. In order to have a little bit of heat, a lot of heat, and a lot of heat, so that the work under his hands has a moment. So for the common hot and sour snacks, she misses it very much.

While thinking about the sour and spicy side dishes that people are comfortable with, she took a knife and gently removed the old skin on the outside of the fern root.

Because there were so many fern roots that she had dug up, she had only managed to make half a pot after half an hour. Looking at the basket of bracken on the side, I felt a little worried. But let's talk about it again, her arms and sore shoulders and cervical spine make her unable to hold on anymore.

When Zhang Manhoard came back with firewood, he saw his daughter-in-law staring at the wild vegetables in the basket with a bitter and hateful face. And in her hand, she also held the sharp knife she used to shave the flesh and relieve the wolf, and then looked down at a small pot of clean wild vegetable roots.

"Daughter-in-law, what are you going to do here? This thing can't be eaten, it's just chopped up and fed to chickens and ducks, and the chickens and ducks are too small to eat. Zhang Manchu put down the firewood, frowned and approached to look at Lin Baozhu. Since beating his daughter-in-law and being tortured by the Liu family, not only has his temperament changed greatly, but now he has done many things that he can't understand.

Thinking about it, Mo was frightened, and couldn't tell what could be eaten and what couldn't be eaten? After all, just looking at it, she didn't look like she was taken away by the evil in the mountains.

Lin Baozhu was thinking about something in his heart, and when he saw Zhang Manchu coming back, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he happily stuffed the knife into his hand. Immediately commanded unceremoniously, only saying that when he was fleeing, he met someone who made food with bracken roots, which was extremely delicious.

She was very happy now, looking at the objects in front of her, there were a lot of them, and if they were all made into fern root powder, there would be many catties of weight. It doesn't matter if you keep it for your own home, or give it away as a favor, if you can get it, maybe you can take it to the town for money.

Although there is a man in the family who can make money, who can be disgusted with money? What's more, if she wants to make tea, she will inevitably spend a lot of money to buy her belongings, and if she can, she naturally plans to buy the hill with tea trees. First, it is to save disputes in the future, and secondly, it can also be a long-term method.

Zhang Manchu said that he was only afraid that his daughter-in-law was extremely hungry at that time, so he would think that this kind of wild vegetable root was delicious. But looking at her eyes full of hope, he really couldn't say anything to pour cold water. That's it, it's hard work and energy to get around, and it's not a difficult thing.

Thinking of this, he took the boning knife and sat on the side like his daughter-in-law, and began to help pick the rhizomes. Wait until the rhizomes are all plucked before carefully peeling them. The rough big hand that has the ability to hold a gun and a sword, now in order to satisfy the appetite of his daughter-in-law, he has carefully scraped the wild vegetable roots, but it is extremely harmonious.

Lin Baozhu was relieved when he saw that the man was slowly moving from awkward and unskilled to being able to cut strips neatly. It was not yet lunchtime, so she scooped up another basin of cold water and soaked the rhizomes she had made before.

In order for the fern root powder to be delicious, this rhizome needs to be soaked for two days, and the cold water must be changed every day. Wait until the color begins to seep out, then take it out and cut it into strips and put it in a clean cloth bag. The next thing is to rub the starch, to put it bluntly, put the cloth bag into the water and rub it vigorously until the color is not available.

When the starch is all out, it's time to clarify the water. It's easy to say, but it's just manual work, but the key is to filter out the coarse residue in the starch water at the back, and then let it stand for more than half an hour after precipitation. When it was almost over, he skimmed off the water inside, and used a white cloth poured with plant ash to suck out the water and impurities.

This is not only a technical work, but also with experience, if you can't make it or can't lift the starch in the fern root, even if you make it into the fern root powder, the taste will be earthy. Not to mention that it is fragrant and refreshing, even if it is a little difficult to swallow.

Zhang Manchu didn't understand this, but this didn't prevent him from listening to his daughter-in-law's words and carefully packing up a bunch of fern roots. By the way, I also helped my daughter-in-law go to Tian Da's house to borrow a pickle jar to soak those rhizomes.

At this time, Lin Baozhu felt how precious it was to have a man who could fight and fight and be obedient. For this, when she cooked at night, she deliberately adjusted two more cold dishes.

After eating, Zhang Manchu rested for a while, and then went to help his daughter-in-law pick up bracken roots. And Lin Baozhu saw that the man was still busy, so he didn't go back to the house, just took a bench and sat at the door of the stove room.

It's not that she doesn't want to do it, it's really sore all over, and there is a sharp knife at home, and it's unrealistic to want two people to do it together.

Zhang Manchu glanced at it and saw that his daughter-in-law was bending over and scrubbing the stem, so he deliberately asked her what she wanted to eat. But the words went around in a circle on the very edge, and they didn't ask in the end. In this way, two people work together, and from time to time the daughter-in-law also points out, which feels good.

The two of them were busy until it got dark, and they saw that they had made a full pickle jar, and even the vegetable pots were soaked a lot.

In the end, Zhang Manchu covered everything and moved it into the stove room, and then went to fetch cold water to rinse his body. It's not that he is exquisite, but he has seen his daughter-in-law scrubbing every day and drying the quilt at two ends for three days, so he thought that he was afraid that his daughter-in-law was a clean. Since he found out, he has had to wash up every day, and even if he sometimes comes back late from working in the fields, he will wash himself with some water in the river behind the mountain.

Regarding Zhang Manho's performance, Lin Baozhu is still satisfied. Originally, she was thinking about what if this man was rough and didn't like to wash, but it turned out that she was thinking too much. This man doesn't look at the five big and three coarse, but he is also a clean.

If Zhang Manchu knew Lin Baozhu's praise for him from the bottom of his heart, he was afraid that he would not know what to do. After all, before his daughter-in-law changed her temperament, he didn't take a shower for a long time like other farmers in the village. Generally, when you hunt in the mountains and get bloody, you will deal with it nearby and prick a few fierce men in the water.

The days go by like this, warm and plain, sometimes Aunt Tian and Aunt Ma will also come to visit the door, and she has to take tea to entertain her. A few days ago, several daughters-in-law in the clan passed by, and happened to meet Aunt Tian who came to visit the door, and after thinking about it, she followed into the small courtyard of the Zhang family.