Chapter Eighty-Six: Two Watches in One

The first time Mrs. Xu knew about bellflowers, she watched "The Flower Girl" when she was a child, and the bellflower ballad in it sang: "Dauraki, Dauraki ......"

And Xu Tianxin knew about bellflower for the first time, or he saw that there was a bellflower house in the smart Yixiu, and he felt that it was very powerful and rich......

To get back to the point, bellflower is rarely pickled here.

The people of the village never worked pickling.

Because don't mention salt to them.

The conditions of all families in the village are similar, and if your family can't afford coarse salt and fine salt, will other families have it?

What's more, even if you can't put chicken powder and fish sauce in pickled bellflowers, in addition to salt, at least sugar, rice vinegar, soy sauce, chili noodles and so on.

So when Mrs. Xu muttered that all the roots should be kept for pickling, Yu Qinniang was very surprised: "Mother, in previous years, didn't you just keep the tender seedlings and leaves home to cook wild vegetable porridge, and save the roots and sell them to the medicine hall?" โ€

Mrs. Xu thought to herself: I won't sell it this year.

The town's medicine hall collected two catties of bellflower for seven copper plates, and he had to clean up the profits at home in advance. Walk by legs, go to the town to sell bellflower for more than five hours, if you take a car to spend four copper plate travel expenses, together with the last remaining copper plate home? She's going to that.

Even if you are reluctant to pickle pickles with sugar, you would rather keep them as cooking spices, and the fried chicken and braised pork will be fragrant inside.

In addition, the hospital will spend money to collect things, and it specifies that it is a good thing. When you look back, you can ask the big white butt bald old Liang - close the treasure chest.

And about the bellflower, Yu Qinniang and Xu Tianxin also played with its petals for a while, mainly this season is too difficult to see the blooming, usually up and down in September, they don't know what's going on where they are, and there are a few left.

The bellflower flower is purple with five petals like a star.

Yu Qinniang told her niece that when she was young, she didn't have much fun, so she liked to fold five petals into bulging bungabonds, which looked like a little monk's hat, and then pinched: "You try." โ€

Xu Tianxin tried it, not to mention, inexplicably it was more decompressive than pinching instant noodles, no wonder the spicy hands destroyed the flowers.

"Grandma? Milk, you try it too, the last flower. โ€

You are under a lot of pressure, and you need to decompress and defeat the fire.

Mrs. Xu was helpless and thought: With so much work, do you two still have the heart to play? This is really a girl who loves to play with flowers and plants.

She wants to decompress and beat her son, does she still need to pinch flowers?

However, Mrs. Xu still accepted her granddaughter's kindness, solemnly pinched the little bud, and then squatted with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter and laughed.

Xu Lao Er bundled a stack of fir branches and came over, and happened to see this scene.

Sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves, dappled shadows.

The fine sunlight shone on the smiling faces of three generations of women such as Niang, Xiaoqin and niece.

Three generations, it looks so good.

Xu Lao Er couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, and then turned around to work harder.

Not only did he find a lot of cedar branches to make buckets and basins, enough to make twenty pots and five buckets. But this is not enough, you need to use a lot of basins, basins and buckets to open a restaurant.

He also picked up a lot of firewood, packed four bags of pine towers and put them on the trolley.

It is indispensable to open a restaurant and firewood.

This year, it is necessary to store at least ten times more firewood than in previous years, and Xu Lao Er urged the fourth brother: "After cutting the bamboo for Tian Xin'er, I will draw more pine towers and carry them back." โ€

Xu Laosi's reply came from afar: "I know the second brother." โ€

Xu Lao Er calculated in his heart, how could the new house in the wasteland also need five large wooden structural columns, and fifteen beams to build a roof ridge to prevent heavy rain and snow, seven in the first and eight in the back.

The mother said that she didn't build a house like at home, the main room was in the middle, and the two side rooms were facing each other.

This is a shop, and the structure of three main houses directly connected together would require at least forty-five cedar trees.

It can be seen that before going to see Liu Laozhu this morning, the brother had already gone to the newly bought wasteland to see it, and he was a little excited after reading it.

Although the family owes an unimaginable famine, when standing on that wasteland, imagine that they want to build a house on the wasteland bought with the money that the eldest brother left for his niece, and rounding it up is to build a large new house for the eldest brother, and they will buy and sell in the eldest brother's house to earn money, and immediately feel that this wasteland is different.

Under their feet is waiting, and they are busy with hope.

Xu Lao Er marked the trees in his photo with hemp rope, thinking to himself: If you want to build an adobe house that can be used for many years, you need a lot of beams, and all these woods need to be peeled, rested, and controlled in advance, so he will have to carry these marked cedar trees home at the latest and the day after tomorrow, otherwise it will be too late to control the water.

And these beams and trees, even if Uncle Li Zheng goes to settle the bill as if he is his own family's business, he must collect at least three taels of silver, otherwise Uncle Li Zheng will not be able to explain to the town.

Listening to my mother, since their village offended Wang Jiagou, they also sent Wang Laoba to prison yesterday, and they will offend Zhenting again from today. Uncle Li Zheng and Erdaohe Village have become a thorn in the side of the town.

Therefore, these timbers cannot be without spending money, and they cannot be in arrears, and they must have receipts.

After all, in the past, there were errand servants who specialized in this, going to various villages and houses to check the beams of the house, check the storage wood, and ask the head to read the note.

Once it is found that someone's family is cutting down indiscriminately, it is not the king's land in the whole world, that is, taking advantage of the official's family will be punished, and Li Zheng, who did not find the indiscriminate felling, will also be punished, which is why they can only rely on the autumn harvest to save straw and pick up branches.

If you don't spend money, you can cut it indiscriminately, and it will save you more trouble to directly chop wood and burn it on fire while guarding the mountain.

And Uncle Li Zheng and their village offended people again, this silver money really can't be saved, and it is also worry-free to give the wood money first.

Fortunately, their brother brought back nineteen taels of silver this time, plus the one or two or four dollars that their mother gave them before leaving, and they still had more than twenty taels at home, which should be enough to remove the cost of wood and buy lard, rapeseed oil and store other grains.

Xu Lao Er thought about these detailed accounts, and at the same time picked three trees, these three trees are to make wooden tables, kang tables and counters that my mother said.

And while looking for a suitable fir tree, Xu Lao is still not idle in pulling suitable thick branches and tying them together. He planned to use these coarse branches, which cost nothing, to make a few more ice climbing plows, and the family did not have spare money to buy planks to make more trolleys, and then the goods from his home to the restaurant could be hauled with the climbing plows.

When Xu Laoer was busy with all kinds of wood, Xu Laosan was responsible for all kinds of soil. He had already brought a batch of loess to his home to make adobe, and now he was back in the mountains and put bags after bags of soil on the cart to be used to make the clumps of soil that had been excavated from ploughing.

What is a head? The ranking is like this, if you can't afford to buy green bricks, you use adobe to build a house, and when you don't have time to make so many adobes, you can use a head of wood, which can be seen that it is also a building material.

Xu Laosan planned to use the head of the head to build a mule and cowshed.

The mother said that the caravan came, people unloaded and entered the house to eat, the goods were put in a special room for others, the house could not be too bad, it was best to put up a cabinet or a table or something, the door was locked, and the key was handed over to the caravan, so that people could rest assured that we would not steal the goods.

Then the mule and oxen team went into the barn to rest and eat forage, and where the animals stayed, there should be thatch on the ground, and there should be sheds outside to protect them from rain and snow, and there must be special people to feed the animals.

On the side of his shop, he is tentatively assigned to take the silly eldest child of the eldest lady with a table full of people to be responsible for feeding the livestock outside.

So Xu Laosan planned to build a livestock shed with a head of the head, but he couldn't bear to spend money to buy adobe.

Mrs. Xu looked at her third son, tired and sweaty:

"Third child, you listen to your mother's words and do it leisurely, it's really not enough, so our family spends money to buy blanks. Isn't there such a saying, the horses are all purchased, can you still miss the saddle? Go and suck two sips of birch sap, let's rest and don't dry. โ€

Originally, Mrs. Xu didn't know how nutritious birch sap was, but didn't the family members in the live broadcast room tell her, so she used the water as "fairy water".

After all, we are here again in ancient times, and it is not easy to know that there is a supplement of vitamins and minerals, and Mrs. Xu must not waste it.

No, even she had nothing to do to suck it, and she also pinned the water bladder to the tree with a wicker to catch water, planning to go home and drink it. She couldn't get much water for more than an hour, and she visually measured that it took an hour for the water to tick and fill a third of the mineral water bottle.

As for the fourth child, after Xu Youyin cut three yellow bamboos for his niece, he was arranged by Xu Tianxin to do a job: "Uncle, you will pick this back when you see this." โ€

Gentian, four-leaf gentian.

Xu Youyin asked his niece: "What do you do with it, it seems that you can't eat it, right?" โ€

And also recommend another one to my niece.

He ran away, bending down to pick a handful of small purple flowers.

The small flowers droop their heads downwards and look a bit like lily of the valley flowers.

Xu Youyin handed his niece a handful of "lily of the valley flowers" with both hands and said: "You see how strong this flower grows, this can be eaten, eat its roots raw, chew it a little sweet." You believe in my taste, and you should believe me if you see it looks so strong. After speaking, he gave his niece a sample, and put the root of the little purple flower in his mouth and chewed: "Sweet".

In the live broadcast room, many family members from all over the world immediately typed:

"The little purple flower your uncle took is called Shisha Shen."

"We call it horse meat here, white horse meat."

"I heard that the temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is too high to plant, and it is everywhere in the north."

There are many family members who tell the practice:

"Hurry up and pick more with your uncle, its leaves are called crooked neck vegetables in our place, it can be used to make dumplings as wild vegetables, it is delicious to put bean noodles steamed and eaten, the roots do taste a little sweet, the little assistant tastes for me, I haven't eaten it for many years."

Xu Tianxin hurriedly listened to the words of the family members in the live broadcast room, and picked stone sand cucumbers with his uncle.

At the same time, he still commanded Xu Youyin to pick gentian grass.

The gentian in modern gentian capsules and gentian laxative liver pills is it, and it also treats toothache and mouth foaming, soaking in water to drink, and the effect is also good.

Gentian grass is really not told by the family members in the live broadcast room, but Xu Tianxin went to Grandpa Guan's house and saw that the Guan family had a lot of sun-dried gentian grass, and she also tied it into a handful, she felt that this thing should be able to sell for money.

It doesn't matter if you don't sell it, leave some of your own water to drink, and give the rest to Grandpa Guan to make medicine.

When Xu Tianxin and his grandmother and aunt walked into the valley in the distance, they saw a mountain thorn rose.

Thorn rose belongs to the Rosaceae family, and this Xu Tianxin really knows it.

In modern times, when she was a child, she had seen this flower growing scattered on the side of the road, along the avenue, and by the river.

So Xu Tianxin really didn't want the live broadcast effect, but was happy from the bottom of her heart, because she once had a dream full of flowers, dreaming that there would be a courtyard at home and planting half of the yard with various colors of thorn roses.

At this time, Xu Tianxin walked into the middle of a mountain thorn rose and sniffed deeply the small wildflower named "Wild Rose", which was the smell.

The more urban gardens there are, the more they should plant this kind of flower, and in her opinion, planting anything else is not enough.

Only the thorn rose is very fragrant and at the same time has the smell of the mountains, which is the taste of the idyllic courtyard standing under the neon lights of the city.

Its flowers are very fragrant, you can also soak in water to drink, drink a few more sips of prickly rose water, and there is a floral fragrance when you speak.

Xu Tianxin thought to himself: she can also distill fragrant flower water as perfume, and finally there is no need to smell salted fish at home.

Not to mention that Xu Tianxin was very happy, even Yu Qinniang and Mrs. Xu were very happy when they looked at the thorn rose.

Yu Qinniang was happy to hurriedly pick the thorn rose fruit, sweet and sour, this thing is delicious, pick more, and give her man a taste of the fruit in a while.

On the wedding night, when her man hugged her and told her interesting stories when she was a child, he mentioned the prickly rose fruit, saying that this fruit was the rarest snack her husband ate when he was a child.

Mrs. Xu was happy: Oh, this thing is really good, you can use flower petals to brand sugar cakes for your granddaughter, and use flower petals mixed with sugar to make filling.

Pickle it with flowers and honey, make more, and you can also keep it for sticky bean buns to eat in the future, if you use it and crushed peanuts and sugar, you can wrap the Lantern Festival. It is also good to use stewed duck with prickly roses to remove the smell.

Anyway, stop talking nonsense, pick it up.

This lady is envious enough for the family members who like to go up the mountain to pick in the live broadcast room.

After all, today is not digging for mushrooms, but for flowers.

It's not that there are no mushrooms, it's that they've basically been lighted. Xu Lao Taiji wondered, aren't the women of Erdaohe fishing for fish? When did those old sisters come to pick mushrooms, so that she only picked half a basket of mushrooms for half a day, and there were not many flowers that she hadn't picked yet.

And Xu Laosi, who has been with three generations of women, looks at his mother, sister-in-law and nieces are so rare flowers, especially his niece in lace, how can he look a lot better than before.

He felt a little white.

Xu Youyin suddenly looked up aesthetically, touched Xu Tianxin's arm with his elbow and said: "It's too ugly for you to carry this broken basket, and the uncle asked your second uncle to weave a few small baskets for you with corn leaves, and use the small baskets to hold flowers." โ€

The younger uncle asked the second uncle to ...... Then you still need to let it?

The second uncle is about to die of exhaustion, and he has to make basins and buckets and wooden tables and beams.

Don't say that the uncle is useless, because the uncle's ears moved, and he suddenly turned around and ran in the woods, and then Mrs. Xu reacted the second fastest, holding a scratcher and running behind her little son: "Emma, pheasant!" โ€

Copy the guy.

Whether the pheasant can be recovered today is a matter of course.

Do you know how much remorse she felt for losing a chicken that time on the mountain?

This time, Mrs. Xu is not afraid.

I only saw that the six members of the old Xu family caught pheasants together, and a total of two of them flew together, so that the chicken feathers that these six people took flew and died on the spot......

At the same time, in Shanxia Village, Mrs. Xu's cousin Hao Yinhua was embarrassed.

The grandmother and aunt of the "ไปจๆœ‰" came, and the outside padlock could not enter the Xu family, so the "ไปจๆœ‰" aunt pleaded with her mother-in-law and wanted to enter the Xu family from the springboard stick in the west courtyard.

Hao Yinhua persuaded: "Auntie, just drink water at my house and wait, they are coming back soon." โ€

Mrs. Xu said impatiently: "If you take the ladder, you can get it quickly." โ€