Chapter 113: Writing and Drawing
Although some accidents interrupted their collection process this morning, their previous harvest was not small.
The fir fungus picked up is not much, it is only more than two catties, Qin Xi plans to eat it by himself, eat it fresh.
Most of the back basket of bracken, a sack and a basket of bamboo shoots, Qin Xi needs to spend a lot of time to deal with, but fortunately, her brother helps her.
The jar that I bought at home for more than a month and soaked in water for more than a month can finally come in handy, pour out the water in the jar, wash it, and put it aside to wait for it to dry naturally.
Qin Xi planned to pickle a jar of sour bracken, a jar of sour bamboo shoots, and the rest were all dried in water.
It took a long time to select bracken buds, and the bamboo shoots were quite difficult to peel, but after using a knife to peel off part of the bamboo shoots, peeling was much simpler, and the speed of two people working together was not slow.
Qin Xi felt that the dried bamboo shoots were delicious, so he planned to dry them more, after all, the fresh bamboo shoots with a thick thumb were sun-dried, thinner than the little thumb, and they were held in the palm of his hand.
After more than two hours of the bracken and bamboo shoots were all processed and dried on the bamboo poles, the brother and sister went back to cooking, one to light the fire and the other to wash the fir fungus.
The lunch is a simple sweet potato porridge, and the dish is fir mushrooms picked in the morning, with a little lard and chopped green onions, and then seasoned with salt and soy sauce, which is very fragrant.
After it was done, Qin Xi directly took a bowl of porridge and prepared to eat.
"Sister, don't you wait for the second child? He hasn't come back yet. Qin Jiang saw that Qin Xi took the bowl and chopsticks and planned to serve porridge in the big soup bowl, and asked.
In the past, it was three people who ate, he was used to it, and suddenly it became two people to eat, and he was really a little unaccustomed, when he just took the bowl, he reflexively took three bowls, and then put one back.
"Don't wait for him, he hasn't returned at this time, maybe he went to the town health center to see the excitement, and when he comes back, I don't know when it will be!"
"We'll just leave his share for him."
"Aren't you hungry? My stomach is already rumbling with hunger anyway, waiting for him, impossible. Qin Xi said while serving porridge.
If Qin He is going to do something big, it is very hard, or he will come back soon, then it doesn't hurt to wait, she is willing, but he went to see the excitement, and the time of return is uncertain, waiting for him, it is impossible.
"I'm hungry too, so let's eat first!" Brother or something, how can a sister be important!
"Okay, give me the bowl, I'll serve it to you."
On the other side, Liu Ming finally returned to Chen Hui Village with Chen Yue on his back, tired and sweating profusely, after putting the person down, his legs were weak, and he sat directly on the ground.
Although there is a barefoot doctor in Chen Hui Village, everyone in the village knows what level he is, and he usually goes to the town clinic if he has any problems.
Before Liu Ming ran back and had a big quarrel with her, Chen Yue was not stubborn, apologized to him, and relented, and then, the two reconciled, and Liu Ming carried Chen Yue to the town to see the doctor in the next second.
Their operation made the newcomers Tang Ying, He Yuan and Qin He stunned, and they were still making a fuss before, so simple to reconcile, it's too hasty!
In this regard, Yang Jianhua said that it was all a routine operation, otherwise, how could he have suffered a nosy loss in the first place.
As for Qin He, they also went with them, He Yuan also brought his harvest this morning, they were going to the town's supply and marketing cooperatives to ask about the purchase price of mushrooms and bamboo shoots this year, so they had a bottom in their hearts.
Of course, by the way, take a look at the excitement, killing two birds with one stone!
By the time Qin He returned home, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon.
"The sweet potato porridge is in the soup bowl, the vegetables are in the pot, go and serve it yourself!"
Qin He sat on the edge of the simple small table, and while pulling porridge into his mouth, he told Qin Xi and Qin Jiang what he had just experienced.
This year's purchase price of fir mushrooms is five cents a catty, although bamboo shoots are also collected, but the price is very cheap, ten catties of fresh bamboo shoots are only four cents, this is the price of bamboo shoots without stripping bamboo shoots, of course, they need to send them to the town themselves.
This price is no different from previous years.
The price of dried bamboo shoots is much higher, three cents a catty, so there are many people who will choose to sell dried bamboo shoots, five catties of fresh bamboo shoots can be dried for a catty, it is still very cost-effective, and the most important point is that dried bamboo shoots are convenient to preserve and transport, do not need to be like fresh bamboo shoots, you need to spend time and energy to send them to the town, if the bamboo shoots are dry, wait until the bamboo shoot season is about to pass, just send them to the town to sell, you can save a lot of things.
Of course, because the price is not beautiful, many villagers will not choose to sell dried bamboo shoots, dried bamboo shoots taste good, but also full, can be used as sweet potatoes, corn potatoes these staple food in addition to the spice food, after eating those things, occasionally eat a meal of dried bamboo shoots, change the taste, is also a good choice.
At noon, Qin Xi slept at home for more than an hour, and couldn't stay any longer, so she took her brother and went to the field to have a look.
Last year, the rape flowers planted in the village were blooming, and the yellow one looked very beautiful.
Those industrious little bees are almost too busy in the field where rape flowers are planted, and they can't finish harvesting, they can't finish harvesting at all.
"Brother, you said that with these little bees, can you find their nests?"
"If we can really find their nests, we won't be able to send them!"
There is honey in the hive, it is pure wild honey, since ancient times, the price has been high, if you are lucky, pick it a dozen catties of honey, two months of food expenses.
In addition to honey, there are bee pupae in the hive, which is a high-protein food, with a little oil, put it in a pot and stir-fry, put a little salt and pepper, it is fragrant.
"Probably can! But they fly so fast that we can't keep up. ”
"This is also true, or the rape flower in front of us is real, I don't know how much rapeseed oil we can get when the oil is extracted."
There are three types of oil eaten in the village: lard, rapeseed and peanut oil.
As the name suggests, lard is the oil refined from pork, rapeseed oil is the oil squeezed from rapeseed, and peanut oil is the oil squeezed from peanuts.
At this time, no one will pick and choose these oils, and they are all good things.
Now Chenhui Village is really in full bloom, what peach blossoms, pear blossoms, apricot blossoms, camellias, that is called a colorful, even if you don't do anything, when the weather is good, find a hillside with a better view, and see the beautiful scenery, that is also a kind of spiritual enjoyment.
Sometimes there is nothing to do, she will also take a pen, take a notebook, and draw on the real thing, she has never learned to paint, but she still knows how to draw a scoop according to the gourd, at the beginning it is a four-like, and practice makes perfect in the back, but there is so much meaning in it, in short, it is idle.
Although the road to writing is blocked now, the story in her mind is still there, when she has nothing to do, she takes a pen to write and draw in a notebook, although she can't publish it, but it is also a good choice to write it for herself, in the countryside, she is not short of time.
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