Chapter 24: Into the Mountain
The next day we decided to go into the mountains.
We've been here for a few days, but today we're really in the mountains.
Walking on the path into the mountains, the side of the road is overgrown with a variety of shrubs, as well as some tall pine and cedar trees. On the left is a clear mountain stream that flows. There are a lot of iris growing on the side of the mountain stream, with small blue flowers, elegant and fresh.
We slowly walked deeper into the mountains, and the trees in our eyes grew taller and thicker. I was surrounded by trees and I felt like I was surrounded by green.
My sister-in-law took us to our family's pine forest, ten acres of pine forest is a large one, and it takes a long time to walk from one end to the other. After recognizing the scope of our own pine forest, we drove my sister-in-law away.
Looking at the pine forest that now belongs to our family, I don't know how to describe the feeling in my heart. Each pine tree is tall and straight, and standing under the tree, I have to look up to see the canopy, which I can see at least twenty or thirty meters by sight. A gust of wind blows, and the leaves sway with the wind, stirring up bursts of pine waves, beautiful, really beautiful.
Being here has fostered a sense of tranquility away from the world. This pine forest is like a holy and pure land beyond the mortal, where I have forgotten the last days, and the strong camouflage has been removed, and it has filtered out all the anxiety and boredom that have accumulated in my body for a long time, so that every root and every cell of my spirit is full of vitality.
I took Jiang Zhi's hand and ran from this pine tree to that pine tree, admiring the beautiful scenery at will. Jiang Zhi let me run in the pine forest, laughing happily.
After a while, I woke up from the shock that the pine forest gave me. He Jiang Zhi lay on the thick pine needles on the ground, looking at the sky blocked by the canopy, and sighed.
"I think I'm just a layman, and I can't learn to be noble."
"What's wrong?"
"I was moved by this pine forest for a while, and I automatically returned to reality. When I see the pine tree now, I think that there are so many pine towers that this tree can bear, and whether it is enough for my son to eat; If all those branches pick up space, it will not be enough for us to survive the cold winter; I even want to take away all the pine needles on the ground, thinking that it will be the end of the world, and everything is a resource, and it can't be wasted. You say I'm vulgar. I grabbed a handful of pine needles from the ground, gathered them on my head, and let go of my hand to let them fall onto my clothes.
"I don't know if it's vulgar or not, but I like it, because that's what I just thought." Jiang Zhi also learned from me and sprinkled a handful of pine needles on his body.
"In that case, let's get started." I sat up and regained my energy.
We take out the tools from the space and work together. I found a large pine branch on the pine forest floor, stacked it in one place, Jiang Zhi used a rake to hold the pine needles, and I put them in a sack.
We hadn't finished an acre of land in the morning, but we found something good under the pine trees. Matsu mushroom, commonly known as "sticky dumplings", is orange in color, its meat is thick, and it is especially delicious to stew with chicken.
It was noon, and we decided not to go back, it would be a waste of time to go back and forth. But staying in the mountain at noon can not skip eating, this mountain is beautiful, the water is more beautiful, very much the artistic conception of martial arts novels, I decided to emulate the ancient heroes, today at noon on the stream to make a flower chicken to eat, I haven't done it yet, decided to try it.
Step 1: We went back to the space first, Jiang Zhi went to the grass to catch a big rooster and killed it outside the space. I am responsible for going to the kitchen to boil a pot of hot water to remove the feathers of the chickens.
Step 2: Jiang Zhi put the killed chicken into boiling hot water by the stream outside, remove the chicken feathers, remove the internal organs, and wash it. (The internal organs can't be wasted either, so I took them and gave them to the puppies in the space to eat.) Oh it's a big dog now, and it doesn't seem to know me very well, it's very fierce to me, maybe we go to the wooden building in the space less during this time, because Jiang Zhi was obsessed with the creek when he was cultivating, and it is true that the double cultivation effect in the creek is better. So only come when it's time to feed. It stands to reason that they should be grateful to us, but they make a face at me, they are really a white-eyed wolf who is not fed. I decided to put them in the grassland, and the food for the future would be grass. Actually, dog meat is also quite delicious, I can consider it. )
Step 3: I found some salt in the space, and then pulled some green onions, ginger and garlic in the ground. When I was looking for salt, I found something good - barbecue sauce, and I thought it would be delicious if I put this sauce on the chicken.
Step 4: Jiang Zhi washes the freshly picked pine mushrooms in the stream, tears them apart and puts them in the chicken belly with the green onions, ginger and garlic. Spread salt and sauce on top of the chicken.
Step 5: Jiang Zhi went to the puddle in the space to pick a lotus leaf (the lotus flower has been harvested several times in the space), wrapped the chicken with the lotus leaf, and pulled a grass by the stream to tie the lotus leaf.
Step 6: Jiang Zhi dug a small pit by the stream, buried the chicken in it, and we lit a small fire on it, and set up a small pot on it to boil vegetable porridge. (Ignitions are not allowed on the mountain, but we lit them in special circumstances.) )
After the fire was lit for a while, I became a little impatient, so I threw the task of watching the fire to Jiang Zhi, and I wandered around.
Jiang Zhi didn't worry about me, asked me not to run around, and asked me not to go out of his sight.
I'm angry, I'm an adult, I can take care of myself.
Jiang Zhi said: "This is in the mountains, don't forget, yesterday we just went into the bamboo forest and ran into snakes, so we may not be able to meet anything here." "Jiang Zhi's intention was to scare me, but my eyes lit up when I heard him mention yesterday's snake.
"Are there snakes here too? Let's grab a few and go back. "I want to drool when I think of the smell of that snake yesterday.
"You think it's Chinese cabbage, you can have it if you want." Jiang Zhi was annoyed and angry, and he wanted to scare me into not letting me run around, but he miscalculated my desire for deliciousness.
"I know, I won't run around!"
I walked along the stream, and the water was really clear and cold. I pulled the rocks under the creek, trying to find a few nice ones to take back and give away.
As I was pulling, my eyes casually glanced at a tuft of grass by the stream. Then I came back and pulled the stone for a long time, and then I realized in my mind that I seemed to have seen something familiar just now.
I hurriedly raised my head again, looked at the grass, and saw that there was a small green grass that looked very similar to the cool grass I had seen in the alchemy book.
The whole grass has only two sword-shaped leaves, and in the middle of the leaves stands a flower stem with four small pink flowers hanging on it, which looks like small bells. I didn't know how to go up and smell the flowers, but there was no smell as described in the book.
I think this should be the cool grass. But why is there cool grass here?
I didn't know what to do, so I called Jiang Zhi over, Jiang Zhi said that since I saw it, it was fate, let's transplant it into the space first, and when we have time, we will go to the study to find out, what is the effect of this cool grass. I believe that the plants recorded in the space study should have some special functions.
So we transplanted this cool grass to the side of the puddle.
Soon the chicken we made was cooked. It's the first time we've done it, and we don't know if it's right.
Digging out the hot lotus leaf bag, I was anxious to open the straw rope. Jiang Zhi grabbed me and said, "What's the hurry, it won't fly, wait for it to cool and open it again." ”
I waited next to me for a while before Jiang Zhi allowed me to get started.
The chicken in this space is still very fat, and it has to weigh 4 or 5 pounds, and Jiang Zhi and I have eaten it. Does it taste, in general, not as good as I imagined, but how to say that it is also the fruit of my own labor, who supports it if I don't support it.
After we finished eating, we carefully checked the extinguished fire before leaving the creek, and I asked Jiang Zhi to carry a bucket of water to pour it on it, we must not bring danger to the mountains and forests, and we must eliminate all potential safety hazards.
In the afternoon, we continued to collect pine branches and needles and were busy until about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. It's not that we're tired, it's that I'm afraid that we'll go back too late, and my aunt is worried.
When we returned to my aunt's house, it was already twilight, and my aunt had finished cooking and waited for us to go back.
I asked my aunt if she was worried that we hadn't come back from the mountains for so long, and my aunt said no, the pine forest where we were located was often visited by the villagers, and there were no beasts there at all, even small animals such as squirrels or pheasants were rarely seen. It's safe there. If you want to be in danger, you have to go deep into the mountains.
I think this man's deterrent power is too great, and the animals have taken refuge in the mountains. Actually, when I came, I wanted to catch two roe deer and a deer, and I heard that the meat was delicious, but it seemed hopeless.
In the next few days, Jiang Zhi and I ran into the mountains every day, and came back later and later every day, and my aunt didn't say anything, just emphasized that she couldn't spend the night in the mountains.
During our few days in the mountains, we collected a lot of pine branches and pine needles. I secretly went a little deeper into the mountains and picked up a lot of branches. I think if I make all of this into charcoal, it will last a long time.
Jiang Zhi also found a place with thick rotten leaves, dug up the soil for a day, and put it in a storage bag. I asked him what he wanted the dirt for, but he didn't tell me, he said he would know later. Cut, who is rare, I have black soil, which is not much stronger than this. Finally, we filled the stream with 100 buckets of water.
After a few days in the mountains and a long time at my aunt's house, it was time for us to go home.
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The author has something to say:
Today, I am very happy to finally see that a book friend (Blooming Moment) in the book review area wrote a single chapter review for me. Although it was only to point out my mistakes, I was also very grateful. It's true! Ever since I started writing this book, I've experienced the common feelings of rookie authors online. Novels written by novice authors pay too little attention. Maybe many book friends are like me in the past, just read books and never write reviews.
I'm still a little puzzled.,My novel should be a good number of hits (I think so).,But why don't I recommend it.,There's no collection.。 Brothers and sisters, are you really not good-looking? Isn't it pretty? Is it good-looking? See?
I look at my recommendations and favorites one by one every day, and I want to cry.