Xie Tietou was repairing the fence at home, and when he saw their mother and son coming, he hurriedly took the initiative to say:

"Aunt Liu, I have already talked to them in the morning, and we plan to do this about this."

Xie Tietou said the plan he discussed with everyone, and after Liu Wan heard it, she agreed.

After the discussion, Liu Wan had a bottom in her heart and was a little relieved.

Looking at the sky, Liu Wan asked Zhao if he wanted to go up the mountain.

Spring is the season when all things germinate, and it is a good time to go up the mountain at this time to search for the gifts of nature, what mushrooms, wild vegetables, fruits, all over the mountains.

Of course, these wild goods are only Liu Wan's favorite, she has rich seasonings, cooking techniques, to remove the bitterness, astringency, firewood and other shortcomings of wild goods, for the people now, wild goods are also to fill their stomachs, difficult to swallow alternative food.

However, Zhao, who had always agreed to the appointment in the past, excused herself today, saying that she had been coughing a little for the past two days, and today she felt wheezing and hard, and she would not go after resting at home for half a day.

When Liu Wan heard this, she quickly checked Zhao's pulse, and then said that her cough was caused by wind and cold, and asked her not to be too tired in the near future and recuperate at home.

In spring and autumn, you should wear more clothes, even if you sweat from work, don't take off your coat easily, otherwise you will catch a cold accidentally.

Hearing Liu Wan's careful advice, Zhao said with emotion:

"Thank you Aunt Liu, I will definitely pay attention. Speaking of which, it was the rain that went up the mountain a few days ago, and when I got home, I got cold, and then I didn't add or remove clothes in time, and I delayed until now, so I coughed. ”

Liu Wan thought for a while and said, "I'll boil some loquat paste and send it later, the loquat paste can clear the lungs and moisten the throat, and it is very easy to use." ”

On the way back, Wang Xiao asked Liu Wan a little nervously, saying:

"Mother, Uncle Xie, are they doing this? Will it cause a big mess? ”

"Don't worry, it's okay, this matter is measured." Liu Wan patted her son on the shoulder and said, "You go back to work first, I will also go up the mountain to pick some loquat leaves and boil loquat ointment, so that it can be used by Aunt Zhao, her illness cannot be cured." ”

When Wang Xiao comes back in the afternoon, he will not be idle, he will marinate chicken feet, cut meat, marinate meat, and if he is still free, he will have to milk the cows and do all kinds of work needed to go out tomorrow.

Liu Wan carried the basket on her back to Zhushan, and when she usually went up the mountain, she noticed that a loquat tree grew in a place.

Climb to the left side of Zhushan, those loquat trees have grown green loquat fruit, but this loquat fruit is very sour, even if it is yellow, it is very sour, no one wants to eat it, except for those who are particularly not afraid of sour, or pregnant women who want to eat sour, it is estimated that no one likes it.

Liu Wan looked at the soil under the loquat tree, which belonged to red loam soil and had no nutrients, no wonder the loquat fruit grew thin and small, and sour.

There are a few small loquat trees next to the loquat tree, only about a foot high, which are small loquat trees that have grown after being buried in the soil after they have fallen in previous years.

Liu Wan picked half a basket of loquat leaves, dug up two small loquat trees in the basket, and prepared to take them home to plant.

Of course, she didn't plan to go down the mountain so soon.

It's still spring, and the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest are still popping up, Liu Wan's current physical fitness is different from ordinary people, so she easily dug up 35 spring bamboo shoots and put them in the food cabinet, leaving only two spring bamboo shoots in the bamboo basket, ready to go home and fry them.

On the way down, she saw a well-grown mulberry tree, and the mulberry was ripe, because it grew on the edge of a remote cliff, and no one noticed it.

Liu Wan picked a mulberry that had been ripe and blackened and put it in her mouth, feeling that the juice was sweet and slightly sour, so she looted all the mulberries here.

All the mulberries weigh about 10 pounds, except for two in the bamboo basket, the rest are put into the food locker.

There are not many varieties of fruits now, so store more fruits and supplement vitamins in the future if necessary.

Liu Wan also picked half a bamboo frame of mulberry leaves, just to fill the bamboo basket.

In the meantime, she found the herbs she needed, picked enough and put them in a bamboo basket, and went down the mountain.

The villagers saw her picking a basket of leaves, thinking that she had nothing to gain from going up the mountain, but they did not know that all her harvest was in the food locker.

When Liu Wan returned home, Wang Lian saw that she had picked two baskets of leaves, and said puzzledly:

"Mother, we don't raise silkworms at home, why are you picking mulberry leaves?"

"Hehe, make mulberry leaf cold cake, and loquat paste."

Liu Wan sent Wang Lian to raise the fire and boil the water.

Wang Lian took the flint and made it light.

Don't look at Wang Lian's young age, but the technique of making fire is very sophisticated, when the two flints touch, they smash out the sparks, and the sparks are lit with shavings, and the fire will be raised, so skillful in the fire raising technology makes Liu Wan ashamed.

Liu Wan still can't learn to use flint to make fire, and if she uses flint, she may not be able to do it all morning.

Therefore, Liu Wan usually buries a piece of charcoal in the stove, seals the hearth at night to ensure that the charcoal fire is not extinguished, and when she wants to cook in the morning, she pulls out the charcoal chop that is still burning, and puts it on it with shavings to blow, which can easily lead the fire.

Liu Wan went to the river and washed the mulberry leaves and loquat leaves, and by the way, washed the mulberries she picked.

When she got home, Liu Wan put the mulberries wrapped in a large mulberry leaf on the table and said:

"Li'er, come and eat mulberries, it's quite sweet."

"Okay."

Wang Lian was not greedy, so he took mulberries and looked for Wang Li everywhere, wanting to share food with him.

Wang Li was studying in the hall.

He was about to go to school in the town, and he was worried that he would not be able to do the interview, so he had been studying very diligently these days.

Wang Lian also supported the fourth brother to study, volunteered, and took over all the things that Wang Li had done before.

But fortunately, the work she has to do now is much easier than before, such as going up the mountain to hunt pigweed, Liu Wan outsources to the children in the village, who can send four or five baskets of tender grass every day, enough for chickens, ducks and cows to eat.

Feeding the rest of the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep is really a very light job.

As for spring ploughing, it hasn't started yet, but if it really starts, it's actually a busy month.

Liu Wan cut the washed loquat leaves into several pieces with scissors, and then boiled them in an earthen bowl that could hold about five liters of water.

This boil takes about three hours.

Liu Wan easily smashed the Chuanbei she bought before into powder in the stone mortar and set it aside.

Liu Wan took advantage of this gap and set out to make mulberry leaf cold cake.

After she blanched the mulberry leaves, she put them in a stone mortar and pounded them all, and then put all the mashed mulberry leaves in a clean bucket, added water and stirred, and filtered out the dregs with a muslin cloth for later use.

Then, Liu Wan burned a handful of straw, put the burned straw ash into a basin, added water, and after completely stirring it with a wooden stick, the straw ash water was also filtered with a muslin cloth to obtain a bowl of alkaline water.

Liu Wan mixed alkaline water with mulberry leaf water, and the mulberry leaf water, which was originally quite clear, immediately formed a paste when it encountered alkaline water.