In order to avoid falling into the root of the disease, He Cuifang did not allow her to get out of bed and move freely in the first month, so she spent most of her time in the room.

Although she can't go outside, she is not idle, thinking about how to make money and improve the food at home every day.

This doesn't seem to be the end of spring soon, and this time is still a good time to dig spring shoots. Since there is such a dense bamboo forest at the foot of Python Mountain, there must be a lot of bamboo shoots, dig some bamboo shoots and come back to improve the food, maybe you can also dry the bamboo shoots and sell them for money.

Because Zhao Dalin's family mainly relied on farming to eat, after paying the levy tax every year, there was not much left, and life was tight. During this period of time, the daily meal is either vegetable paste, or coarse grain mixed noodles, not even a little white flour, let alone white rice and meat.

Thinking of doing it, after Lin Yunxuan told everyone about the idea of digging bamboo shoots, He Cuifang immediately shook her head and said, "We have also dug bamboo shoots to eat before, this bamboo shoot is not delicious at all, it is hard and astringent, and there is a strange taste." No one in the village likes to eat. ”

Lin Yunxuan was happy when she heard it, so no one would dig bamboo shoots, let alone make them into bamboo shoots. It's a good business to make money. It is estimated that their method is wrong, which is why the bamboo shoots are so unpalatable. After asking He Cuifang about the specific bamboo shoot method, her guess was further confirmed.

"Aunt Fang, don't worry, you can go digging bamboo shoots, and when you come back, I will teach you to make fried fresh bamboo shoots, which is guaranteed to be delicious." Lin Yunxuan said confidently.

He Cuifang was still a little skeptical, but it didn't look like nonsense to see Lin Yunxuan, so after hesitating, she took Zhao An and Zhao Yun'er to dig bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain.

The spring shoots that have not emerged and those that have just emerged are the most tender. According to Lin Yunxuan, after finding healthy adult bamboo with lush and green branches and leaves, He Cuifang looked for soft soil around it, slightly raised ground, or cracked, the crack has a center and extends to all sides, and when you step on it, the soil is soft, and there must be spring bamboo shoots there. After confirming that there are spring shoots below, first use a hoe to dig the surrounding soil until you see the roots of the spring bamboo shoots, and then hoe to cut off the roots of the spring shoots and dig up the spring shoots by root.

Due to the small number of people digging bamboo shoots, there are many spring bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, and after half an hour, they dig up two spring bamboo shoots full of two baskets.

After transporting the bamboo shoots home, He Cuifang processed the bamboo shoots to be eaten at night under the guidance of Lin Yunxuan.

Clean the bamboo shoots first, then use a knife to cut the bamboo shoots in half in half, peel off all the bamboo shoots, and use a knife to remove the hard skin and inedible parts of the bamboo joints and roots. Cut the bamboo shoots into several sections, put them in boiling water and boil them until they are six ripe, then take them out, and put them on a cutting board and cut them into shreds, so that the processed bamboo shoots will taste without astringency.

He Cuifang fried a plate of bamboo shoots and tried a piece, and couldn't help but light up, this bamboo shoot was fresh and crispy, and it was a world of difference from what they had made before.

"Xuan'er, why are the bamboo shoots made by the method you said not hard or astringent at all?" He Cuifang asked curiously.

"Because bamboo shoots contain a lot of oxalic acid, which will affect the body's absorption of calcium, blanching before cooking can decompose most of the oxalic acid in bamboo shoots, which will not only not affect the absorption of calcium, but also remove astringency and improve the taste." Lin Yunxuan replied without thinking.

"What? Does grass sour? What calcium? He Cuifang heard it in a fog, and was very puzzled by the new terms that appeared in Lin Yunxuan's words.

"It's nothing, you remember that blanching can remove the astringency of bamboo shoots. Tomorrow we will process the remaining bamboo shoots and dry them. Lin Yunxuan was almost revealing her stuffing for a while, so she hurriedly brought over the topic.

"Okay, we'll dry the bamboo shoots tomorrow." The success of the dish of fried fresh bamboo shoots gave He Cuifang confidence and agreed in one bite.

The next morning, after He Cuifang and Zhao Dalin were busy with the work in the field, she began to process the bamboo shoots. According to the method of the previous day, she cut the bamboo shoots to remove the hard skin and unedible parts, cut the bamboo shoots into small strips, and then put them in a pot to blanch.

It just happened that the weather was good these days, and after three days of drying, the bamboo shoots were done, and Lin Yunxuan asked Zhao Dalin to take them to the store in the town to sell them, but he didn't expect the boss to be unwilling to accept them. It turns out that no one here has ever eaten dried bamboo shoots, and no one has ever sold dried bamboo shoots, so naturally, no store is willing to accept dried bamboo shoots.

Lin Yunxuan was a little helpless, so she had to keep the dried bamboo shoots and eat them for herself. After she made money, she went to buy some pork belly and came back to stew dried bamboo shoots, the taste was also first-class, and she drooled when she thought about it.

Although the road of selling bamboo shoots is impassable, Lin Yunxuan is not discouraged, all roads lead to Rome, and there is always a way to make money.

She saw that He Cuifang would make some embroidery and take it to the town's cloth workshop to sell on consignment when she was free, but He Cuifang's craftsmanship was not particularly good, and she generally embroidered purses or handkerchiefs and the like, with ordinary styles, and she couldn't sell one or two pieces for a long time, and she couldn't sell them for a few dollars.

Lin Yunxuan was not good at needlework, so she couldn't help with embroidery, so she had to pick out some simple and classical patterns that could be used for embroidery according to some fashion magazines and fashion shows she had seen in her previous life, and draw them on the ground with branches for He Cuifang to see, so that she could embroider them on her purse or handkerchief. Because of the novel style, it is quite popular with the girls in the town, but it can be sold at a good price, and it helps the family, Lin Yunxuan feels better.

In the second month, Lin Yunxuan's feet were much better, and He Cuifang allowed her to go to the yard for a walk, so she went to the yard every day to hang around and move her muscles.

Looking west from the courtyard, you can see the Big Python Mountain not far away. Lin Yunxuan couldn't help but come up with the idea of Python Mountain. As the saying goes, relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, relying on the water to eat the water. Gangtou Village is so close to Python Mountain, if you don't go to the mountains to collect some medicinal materials that can be sold for money, catch a hare or something, Lin Yunxuan feels sorry for this strange mountain.

It's a pity that her feet are not good yet, she can't go into the mountain by herself, and if she is not forced to do so, Zhao Dalin and they will not venture into the mountain. Last time they rescued her in the mountains, they ventured into the mountains because the pot could not be opened at home.

Since it is not possible to rely on the mountain now, let's rely on water. Lin Yunxuan hit the idea again to the stream that flowed through Gangtou Village.

Now is the twilight of spring, there is more rain, this period is good weather, the temperature is good, compared to the previous are much more comfortable, and the rain also increases the oxygen in the water, the fish are oxygenotactic animals, naturally the fish in the water will be more active, at this time to fish, there must be a good harvest.

Better tools make good work.

If Lin Yunxuan wants to fish, she must have the tools at hand. Zhao Dalin had no fishing nets at home, nor did he have other fishing tools, so Lin Yunxuan had to weave a few fish cages by herself.

In the previous life, Lin Yunxuan and her younger brother grew up in her grandmother's house, her grandmother's family was in the countryside, there was a bamboo forest near her home, and her grandfather was not only a famous local barefoot doctor, but also a bamboo carpenter. Sometimes my grandfather would weave a few fish cages on a whim and take her and her brother to catch fish, and after many times, she also learned to weave fish cages and catch fish with them.

This morning, after Lin Yunxuan got up, she saw Zhao Dalin weaving bamboo baskets in the yard, so she went to the yard and asked him for a few bamboo strips, ready to make a few fish cages.

A few bamboo strips flew deftly in Lin Yunxuan's hands, and after two quarters of an hour, two fish cages with a length of 30 centimeters and a diameter of 15 centimeters were ready.

Zhao An saw the small and chic fish cage in Lin Yunxuan's hand, and came over curiously.

"Sister, what is this?"

"Fish cages, for catching fish."

"Xuan'er, it's very dangerous in the water, your feet are not good yet, you can't go into the water to catch fish." Zhao Dalin stopped what he was doing when he heard this, raised his head and said solemnly.

"Uncle, don't worry, I don't need to use a fish cage to catch fish in the water, I just get on and off the fish cage by the stream." Lin Yunxuan raised the fish cage in her hand and said.

"Sister, do you want to eat fish? But the fish was not tasty, fishy, bitter, and prickly. If you get stuck in a fish bone, it's uncomfortable. ”

Zhao An remembered his previous experience of being stuck in his throat by a fish bone, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

In the past two years, when there was nothing to eat at home, Zhao Dalin would also go to catch fish, but the fish he made was fishy and bitter, and there was a muddy smell, everyone didn't like to eat it, plus his son's painful experience of being stuck in the throat by a fish bone, and then he stopped catching fish.

People in the village rarely catch fish, and children usually go to catch and play. Everyone thinks that the fish smells fishy, unpalatable, and will be stuck by thorns if you are not careful, so everyone basically does not like to eat fish.

"The fish tastes delicious. When my sister catches the fish, she will make you a delicious fish, which will definitely make you eat and don't even want to put down the bowl, and keep it to make you forget the painful experience of eating fish before. Let's go, catch the earthworms. ”

Lin Yunxuan looked at the sturdy but not delicate fish cage in her hand with satisfaction, and said with a smile.

Zhao An had never seen a fish cage, let alone used a fish cage to catch fish, and he felt very fresh when he grabbed two fish cages and looked left and right.

Zhao Dalin looked at the fish cage in Lin Yunxuan's hand and frowned.

Seeing this, Zhao An hurriedly walked up to Zhao Dalin, patted his chest and said, "Dad, don't worry, I won't let my sister go to the water, we'll catch fish by the stream." ”

Zhao Dalin's eyes swirled back and forth on the two children, seeing that they looked eager to try, he thought about it again and again, and finally nodded in agreement, and then continued to weave his bamboo basket.

Zhao An excitedly tied the two fish cages together and carried them on his shoulders, helping Lin Yunxuan, who was not very good at walking, to go out to catch earthworms.

There were earthworms to catch in the vegetable patch near the thatched house, and after Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An dug up more than a dozen earthworms, they went straight to the stream not far from the thatched house.

After a while, the two arrived at the stream, Lin Yunxuan fixed the earthworm she caught at the bottom of the fish cage with fine aquatic plants, put some stones in the cage, and after walking along the stream for a while, she found a place with more aquatic plants to sink the fish cage into the water, and then walked home with Zhao An's help.

On the way, Zhao An couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked, "Sister, can you really catch a fish like this?" ”

"Well, if we're lucky, we'll be able to eat fish tonight." Lin Yunxuan smiled with crooked eyebrows, stunned Zhao An.

Although her face is now full of vegetables and her body is still weak, her delicate and good-looking facial features still can't hide her good-looking.

In fact, the day after Lin Yunxuan woke up, she found that her appearance and body were not what they used to be. Now she is only twelve or thirteen years old. In her previous life, her appearance belonged to the category of delicate and delicate, but in this life, her facial features were beautiful, but her eyebrows and eyes belonged to that kind of atmospheric and graceful beauty. But I'm still young, and I haven't fully grown yet, so it's not so obvious. In time, it will be amazing.