Xiao Qing returned to the courtyard, and the Zhou and Qin clans were already preparing to cook on the fire.

It was dark, Qiao Erjing and a few children were still sawing trees in the woods behind the house, and she followed the two of them to make dinner as if nothing had happened.

She came to the stove and ordered: "Xiao Chengniang, you mix millet and white rice to cook thick porridge for dinner, don't be reluctant to put rice, so that the children are full, in addition, during the day, the children found a lot of notoginseng buds and gynostemma on the mountain, you put some salt, dip some lard, kill a piece of meat and fry a hot dish, and then mix a gynostemma, so that the family can eat enough and go to bed early." ”

Zhou sighed crisply: "Mother said how to eat, let's do it, mother, go back to the house to rest first, leave it to the two of us here, and call you up to eat when it is ready!" ”

Xiao Qing smiled and agreed, asked the Qin family to help the Zhou family, and went to lie down on the rattan shelf bed by himself.

At dinner, Qiao Erjing took Qiao Cheng and Qiao Yang, as well as a few people from the garden to carry a few logs back from the back woods, smelling the fragrance of rice at home, and the hungry people put down the cylindrical wood and walked under the grass shed.

"Such fragrant rice porridge, if it is smelled by the people in the village, will they come to our house to eat it at night?" Qiao Erjing lifted the lid of the pot and asked worriedly.

Qin clapped his hand, and Qiao Erjing was so frightened that he hurriedly put down the lid of the pot: "What are you yelling at as soon as you come back?" ”

At this time, Zhou poured the lard into the cauldron, the oil touched the water stains on the pot, and the frying sound, she put the shredded meat into the pot, and suddenly there was light smoke in the pot, followed by the hot pan to fry the meat, the stinging sound, and several children of the incense came around, looking at the meat in the pot.

Qiao Cheng ate a pork meal at noon, but he didn't expect to be able to eat meat in the evening.

"Mother, it would be nice if you could make more for me to eat......" Qiao Cheng's eyes stared at the meat, stuffy with wild vegetables, the fragrance was stronger, and he saw that his mother had sprinkled salt.

How expensive salt is, their family can even eat salt, and my aunt didn't put salt in her cooking at noon, but it was already delicious, but I didn't expect that there was salt in the dishes at night.

Qin Shi looked at a group of children around the hot pot: "Let's go out, Xiao Cheng and his younger siblings hurry up to wash their hands and get ready to eat!" ”

Qiao Cheng didn't miss the dishes in the pot this time, and took his younger siblings to wash his hands and call grandma to eat.

At the end of dinner, several children were so full that they even felt that it was not true when they slept in their dreams, and what they ate today seemed to be eaten in a dream.

After eating, Qiao Erjing went to the entrance of the village to fetch a few buckets of water and came back, scrubbed the family, and the family was full and cleaned, and they all lay down comfortably.

Qiao Erjing saw the sleeping people in the house, closed his eyes, and the corners of his mouth smiled thickly, this day seemed to be the first time in these years that he lived like a human day!

Following

Before dawn, Xiao Qing got up.

Hearing the movement, the Qin clan urged Qiao Yu to get up as well.

The three of them lightly put on the bamboo basket on their backs and began to go to the mountain.

The Qin family and Qiao Yu helped Xiao Qing to walk the mountain road, the mountain road was not easy to walk, Xiao Qing had to rest after walking a mile, so when the three of them reached the halfway point of the mountain, it was already dawn.

Because the fruits growing on the trees at the bottom of the mountain and the sweet potatoes growing on the ground have long been picked by the people of Yaoshan Village, they can only try their luck on the mountain today.

The further you go up the mountain, the more wild vegetables there are on the ground, bracken, wild garlic, more than the few kinds of wild vegetables under the mountain.

Yaoshan is steep and cannot grow food here, so the villagers will only come to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, cut firewood, pick mountain fruits, and hunt game.

The pheasants and hares are basically gone, and at the beginning of the great drought, the pheasants and live creatures in the woods and mountains were taken away by the villagers, and now it is difficult to see the taste of the mountains in the mountains.

"Xiaoyu, Yuanyuan Niang, you two look around to see if there is any fruit, let's pick it back." Xiao Qing assigned the two of them.

And she is sitting on the stone to rest, she has already sweated a little, today she is carrying a bamboo basket, feeling a thousand pounds, she can not climb up anymore, too tired, the original owner climbed to the top of the mountain and came down to die, she doesn't want to die so aggrieved.

The Qin family responded, Xiaoyu followed behind the Qin family, and the two of them looked around.

Xiao Qing changed the place with a sunny back, and then fanned the sweat on his face with his hands, looking at the surrounding lush woods, his heart was a little refreshed, in the middle of September, the leaves here were not yellow, and every household took advantage of the winter to quickly stock up on some grain, these fruits on the mountain, winter dates, and almost all of them that could be dried and put were picked away.

She casually grabbed a small fiery red fruit on the tree to quench her thirst, and looked like a wolfberry in her hand, there is a piece here, Qin and Qiao Yu saw it just now, why didn't they ask what it was? Why don't you pick this fruit?

I don't know if this thing can be sold for money, if it's really a wolfberry, then she will make money, even if she can't sell it, she can pick it up and dry it at home as a fruit to eat, it tastes very good.

She put the red fruit in her mouth and took a small bite, only to feel that the fruit tasted sour, and there was a bitter and bitter feeling after the sourness.

Xiao Qing took a sip and quickly spit it out, it was too unpalatable, what is this?

She picked up the little red fruit next to her that was blocked by the leaves, after this opening, Xiao Qing was shocked, the red and bright little fruit was full of fruit on several trees, she looked at the bunches of fruits carefully, and seemed to have seen it there.

It's a little sour, a little bitter, and a little spicy, not chili, and there are no chili peppers in the Daqing Dynasty at this time.

This is...... Dogwood!

Xiao Qing thought of the use of dogwood, her heart was happy, she stood up to see how many dogwood fruits, this station went up and found that behind this dogwood tree, there are a lot of dogwood trees scattered around, and a few are green fruits, and a few sunny ones have grown red and bright fruits, it seems to be wild, why is there so many dogwoods that no one picks?

Dogwood is a good thing!

Suddenly, a way to make money came to mind.

She picked up the basket and began to pick, and in a moment her forehead was sweating profusely.

Qin and Qiao Yu went to a distant place to look for fruits, and she picked them too slowly.

In the Daqing Dynasty, dogwood also has a role, that is, instead of chili pepper as a condiment, the ancient condiment is too little, and she can't use the number of steps directly from the mall to exchange for chili pepper to sell, but if you can mix chili noodles or powder in dogwood flour noodles, less dogwood, more chili, spicy taste is not only authentic, but also better than chili.

The more Xiao Qing thought about it, the more she felt that it was feasible, and she happily picked it.

After a while, her hands were stained with red, looking at the dogwood that was already half a bamboo basket, Xiao Qing felt that it was almost over, thinking that when the Qin family and Qiao Yu came back, she didn't stop in her hands, she wanted to pick more.

In the middle of the dense bushes, two people were squeezed out.

Xiao Qing saw the two of them and shouted loudly: "Yuan Yuanniang, I'm here, come on, see what I found?" ”

Qin and Qiao Yu walked to a wide place, they really didn't have the strength to see what Xiao Qing found, and the two of them sat on the big stone with a bamboo basket on their backs.