Chapter 23: Mushroom Picking
Xiangling pointed to the cooling marinated taste: "Mother, brother, let's, isn't it time to eat?" ”
Only then did the four of them realize that they had forgotten to eat dinner because they were discussing spending money.
Jiang hurriedly took out an old purse pressed at the bottom of the box from the box, carefully put the silver into it, and locked it on the outside.
After tidying up, the family sat down to eat.
"Isn't it fragrant?" Xiangling looked at the other three people with a longing expression, like a child who was so good that he begged for praise.
Chu Xia blushed and said, "It smells very fragrant, it's just ....... It's ........"
"What's it?" Xiangling thought that there was something wrong with the taste, and she smelled very fragrant.
Chu Xia was embarrassed: "There is no kitchen knife, how can you divide it?" ”
"........" Xiangling suddenly realized that she used Ge Changlin's kitchen knife to divide the lo-mei into five parts, and did not cut it into small pieces, now it is indeed a problem, you can't take a bite and I will take a bite.
Chu Xia's eyes lit up, and he got off the ground with his shoes, and soon came back, with a blunt large firewood knife half an arm's length in his hand, which looked quite overkill.
Xiangling gave a thumbs up to the eldest brother, the eldest brother is really talented.
.......
As soon as it was dawn the next day, Ge Changlin came to the door with his two brothers.
Jiang opened the door and saw Ge Changlin carrying a cauldron on his back, and Li Gui and He Xiang arrived with shovels.
Jiang hurriedly let the three of them in, and said politely as he went: "It's really hard for you to come so early." ”
He Xiang rubbed his sleepy eyes and complained: "Sister-in-law, we can't get up if we don't get up, someone gets up earlier than the chicken, and comes to the door in the morning like a ghost." ”
Ge Changlin kicked He Xiang's calf and stomach, and said embarrassedly: "Don't you say that you sleep lazy by yourself?" There is so much work, you have to finish it in a day, can you not start early and go to the dark? ”
Li Gui said with a bitter face: "Done for a day? You're using us like donkeys,"
Ge Changlin's eyes widened again: "Did you treat me as a donkey?" ”
Li Gui and He Xiang didn't dare to speak, recently, this Ge Changlin's kung fu has been rising, and the two of them are willing to lose.
Hearing the voice, Xiangling walked out and saw Ge Changlin carrying a big iron pot behind him, and said in surprise: "Uncle Changlin, the pot is ready so soon?" ”
Ge Changlin scratched his scalp in embarrassment and said, "Yet, I haven't said it yet." I thought that you don't have a pot at home, and it is inconvenient to cook, so I removed my old iron pot from the stove, and your house uses it first, and when the new pot is ready, I will replace it with a new ....... for you."
"......." was warm and thoughtful to Ge Changlin, and Xiangling didn't know what to say.
The three men did not talk nonsense and began to work with the mud.
After a while, He Kui also arrived, and saw that Ge Changlin and the three of them had already arrived, and reconciled with Huang Ni, and said embarrassedly: "I'm late." ”
Ge Changlin replied with a smile: "It's not too late, it's not too late, it's us who came early." ”
He Kui sneered in his heart, knowing that he came early and came so early, as if he was lazy, this Ge Changlin was more active in his work than his own family.
Chu Shi heard the movement, pushed the window and looked out, opened his mouth to scold, remembered the warning of the main family yesterday, held back the words that came to his mouth, and fell to the window with a "snap", and went back to sleep.
Ge Changlin pondered the location, pointed to the Jiang family, and said: "Second sister-in-law, the room is set up here, the chicken rack is set up here, and the door is the same as the old house. ”
The chicken rack is open next to the toilet, the house is standing next to the house, the door is facing the main house, as far away as possible from the old house, closer to the wall of the Wu family, the location that Ge Changlin wants is quite suitable, Jiang nodded and agreed.
Xiangling remembered the slingshot of Chu Wen, who had been "confiscated", and said to Ge Changlin on a whim: "Uncle Changlin, help me set up a bamboo pole in the courtyard, which is as high as a tree and hangs something as big as a sparrow on it, okay?" ”
Although he didn't understand what Xiangling was used for, Ge Changlin still happily agreed.
Several men were busy building the stove first, according to Ge Changlin's meaning, if they built the stove first, they could immediately bake the stove, and they could use it to cook at noon.
It's the end of summer, and the big bones can't be stored for too long, Xiangling decided to take out the four big bones and cook them, and said to Chu Xia: "Big brother, put the big bones in the big pot to boil the soup when the stove burns for a while, remember to dig out a pot for you to drink at night." I'll go to He Hua'er first to pick mushrooms and eat them in bone broth. ”
He Huaer originally asked Xiangling to pick mushrooms together today, but Xiangling thought that she could help with some work by building a wall at home, so she changed it to tomorrow.
As a result, I sadly found that with the Jiang family and Chu Xia to help, she seemed to be in the way, so it was better to pick mushrooms today and boil them in bone broth, which was also a delicacy.
With He Hua'er accompanied, Chu Xia was naturally not worried, handed Xiangling a small basket and let her go.
When she found He Hua'er, He Hua'er had already gotten up, because the temperature of the kang for hatching chicks could not be too low, and she was helping He Shi burn the kang.
It had rained two days ago, and the mushrooms were growing very fast, but in the same way, there were many mushroom pickers, and there were thirty or forty women picking mushrooms and digging wild vegetables as far as the eye could see in the direction of the entire hillside.
The woman in front of her turned around, she was really a narrow family, she was Chu Wen's mother, Chu Zhang's family.
Chu Zhang also saw the two of them, spat on the ground, turned his head and said to the woman who was traveling with him: "Shameless, you want to marry my son even if you are a fool?" It's a dream! ”
"Phew, just Chu Wen's owe a beating, who is willing to marry him, you tell him to daydream less!" He Hua'er immediately retorted.
Xiangling felt bored, and pulled He Hua'er to go elsewhere, but as a result, Chu Zhang's toad jumped on his feet, not biting people, and where He Huaer and Xiangling went to pick mushrooms, she followed where to pick mushrooms.
He Hua'er and Xiangling finally found a small pile of mushrooms, and she immediately rushed up to pick them.
He Hua'er grabbed her and didn't let her pick it, so she stepped on it with her feet, and trampled the mushrooms to a shuffle and didn't let Xiangling get them, a woman in her twenties did things that were more childish than her son.
He Hua'er was so angry that her face was gloomy, and her heart was on fire, and she wanted to rush up and tear Chu Zhang's family, but after all, she was a yellow flower girl, and her face was a little thin.
Can't afford to fight, can't you hide?
He Hua'er took Xiangling's hand and walked in a densely wooded place, thinking that this would be able to get rid of Chu Zhang's family, but he didn't expect Chu Zhang's family to also come to twist his strength, pulling the woman to fall behind and follow closely.
Xiangling finally knew why Chu Wen was so annoying at a young age, it turned out that this temperament followed his mother Chu Zhang's family.
After walking for a while, there were no other villagers in the woods, and there were more mushrooms.
Looking at the rotten leaves next to a wet mud pit in front of him, Bai Huahua grew a layer of mushrooms, like countless small umbrellas, which had to be picked all down, and it was estimated that there was half a basket.
The two of them bent down and were just about to pick, Chu Zhang's and the woman stopped the two of them first, crossed their waists, and Yiqi instructed: "What we saw first belongs to us!" ”
He Hua'er wanted to reason with her, Xiangling hurriedly pulled her away, and comforted: "There are few people and many mushrooms in this forest, don't be angry with them." ”
Sure enough, I saw a lot of mushrooms in front of me, including chicken claw mushrooms, red bowl mushrooms, and white mushrooms, Xiangling didn't know the types of mushrooms, so she could only learn from them.
In just a few moments, the two of them picked two baskets full of them.