Seventy cannon fodder is a ruthless man

Chapter 206 Digging Wild Vegetables

Meng Tao changed the subject, said a few more words to Captain Bao, and then found an excuse to slip away. Captain Bao is addicted to training people, and she can't stand it.

After getting rid of the old Bao, he ran into a small Bao again, Bao Dongmei.

Bao Dongmei, who is fifteen or sixteen years old, is white and fat. She wears a red flower jacket and a green cotton scarf (although the weather is warm, but spring is windy), and she wears two shoulder-length short ponytails. It was bright red, no matter how you looked at it, she felt happy, when she saw Meng Tao, she immediately closed her eyes with a smile, and ran over and shouted, "Sister Taohua!"

Meng Tao: "Dongmei, what are you doing?"

Bao Dongmei shook the bamboo basket hanging on her arm, and there was a short-handled spatula in it: "Go dig wild vegetables. My dad sent me to patrol the canal yesterday, and I found a lot of wild vegetables in several places along the way." , tender and good, I picked a big bag of shepherd's purse from the foot of the mountain spring and came back, mixed it with boiling water, it was delicious! Today my mother specially told me not to go to work in the team, but to pick more tender Wild vegetables, if you can’t finish them, dry them and save them for winter. Sister Taohua, will you go? Shall we go together?”

Meng Tao was moved by Bao Dongmei's words. She had eaten shepherd's purse dumplings in her previous life, and they were really delicious. She also had cauliflower soup, scrambled eggs with shallots, and green moxa dumplings. They were all wild vegetables, and they were really delicious.

In the black market in Mengzhou City, I saw rural aunts picking wild vegetables to sell, and many people bought them. The first crop of wild vegetables in the fields in spring may not be as good as the serious vegetables grown in the vegetable garden, but they have a natural flavor. And now that the vegetables in the vegetable garden have not been grown yet, people must have taken a fancy to wild vegetables.

"Then I'll go dig some wild vegetables with you. When I get home and get a basket with Xiao Wangcai, it will definitely be willing to run in the fields."

"Okay, I'm with you!"

When the two returned home, Bao Dongmei reminded Meng Tao to change into old clothes. Meng Tao is now wearing a thin woolen jacket and woolen pants. In spring, the field is full of water and the soil is soft, so it will not stain the clothes.

Taurus heard that they were going to dig wild vegetables, and his eyes were full of envy. He also seemed to go for a walk in the field and participate in labor, but he couldn't do it now. I am afraid of accidentally falling, but I am not afraid of pain, and it will be troublesome to get injured again.

Knowing that he could go to the field to play, Xiao Wangcai was so happy, he abandoned Brother Taurus decisively, and ran inside and outside the house with Meng Tao. Meng Tao changed his clothes and rubber-soled cloth shoes, took a bamboo basket from the hook on the eaves, and told Taurus a few words , followed Bao Dongmei away.

Walking out of the village entrance, I met five or six little girls, with an average age of eight or nine, all of them holding bamboo baskets. It seemed that they were also preparing to dig wild vegetables. Seeing the equipment of Meng Tao and Bao Dongmei, they knew what they were going to do Go, and the very fluffy and cute Xiao Wangcai naturally followed behind.

Meng Tao was walking on the field stalks, yelling at Xiao Wangcai to tell him not to run far away, but he didn't intend to look back: Wow, there is a bunch of tadpoles behind him, am I going to be the king of children today?

Bao Dongmei, who was walking ahead, also noticed it, and she wanted to shake off the children. She was dizzy from being quarreled by five younger siblings at home all day, and she finally came out. She was not happy to be able to play with an older sister Enough, so many brats come again, let people live?

Meng Tao signaled Bao Dongmei not to yell, and said to the little girls: "Follow if you want, let Sister Dongmei take us to dig wild vegetables, but follow her instructions, go and return together, and don't go away on your own halfway. .If you can’t do it, don’t follow us.”

The girls agreed in unison: "I am obedient."

Bao Dongmei puffed her cheeks: "Why should I take you with me?"

Among the girls, there was a clever one who said crisply, "Because your father is Captain Lao Bao, and you are Captain Xiao Bao, so you can take us with you!"

The girls all giggled and cheered, and echoed: "Yes, yes, Sister Dongmei is our team leader!"

Bao Dongmei laughed angrily: "Go, whoever loves to be your team leader is so annoying!"

After the quarrel, I still have to take a group of little guys through a field and walk to the hilly area.

Bao Dongmei was a water patrolman yesterday, and by the way, she stepped on the spot. It really is not false. Everywhere the group went, there were all kinds of fresh and tender wild vegetables. Bao Dongmei and Meng Tao are big girls after all, so be quick. Soon enough, I dug a basket and helped the little girls dig together. After a while, everyone’s baskets were full and ready to be sent home. They could dig another basket before lunch.

When everyone was digging wild vegetables, Xiao Wangcai was also very busy, fluttering butterflies for a while, chasing birds for a while, not to mention having a lot of fun, but no matter how far he ran, he would always fly back to Meng Tao after a while , Seeing that Meng Tao is okay, he ran to play again.

Meng Tao saw a few girls with bare feet without shoes on, and told them to walk slowly, so as not to let the wooden thorns pierce the soles of their feet, they would have to pick them out with needles when they got home, and that would be very painful.

When I came here, the bamboo basket was empty, and walking was easy, so I took a shortcut. When I returned, everyone struggled to hold the heavy bamboo basket. Get covered in muddy water, the good wild vegetables are also dirty, how many times have to be washed before they can be eaten.

So Bao Dongmei took everyone around a bend, walked on a relatively wide and compacted dirt road, and went back to the village just passing the peach grove, and everyone stopped for a while.

The peach blossoms in full bloom are as beautiful as the clouds, which amazed Meng Tao. The two peach blossoms in the space are also beautiful, but after all, they can’t compare with a whole piece of luxuriant peach blossoms. No wonder some people use the word "burning" to describe peach blossoms. The sun shines Next, it is indeed dazzlingly beautiful.

Even Xiao Wangcai was attracted by the beauty of this peach blossom grove, standing on a small soil bag and staring in a daze.

Bao Dongmei and the little girls were calm. They saw it every day, and they were no longer surprised. They definitely liked it, otherwise they would not sigh with regret:
"Oh, the flowers on the ground are thicker today, and the peach blossoms are almost gone!"

"The wind is really annoying, what is it blowing?"

"That's right, according to this, the flowers will be gone in a few days!"

Meng Tao said with a smile: "The flowers are gone, and peaches will be born. In June, there will be peaches to eat."

The girl with a sweet and crisp voice said: "It's not our turn to eat the peaches. The adults said that they will be picked and sent to the supply and marketing cooperative."

Meng Tao: "..."

It seems that this is the case. The peach forest belongs to the collective property. The production team needs money to buy fertilizer and farm tools from the supply and marketing cooperative.

This is a spoiler topic, so I won't continue.

There are a few pear trees beside the peach forest, which are also full of pear blossoms. When the wind blows, the snow-white petals flutter one after another. Meng Tao's heart is moved: she collects the falling peach petals in the space to make wine, and also makes chrysanthemum wine, but there are no pear blossoms. liquor.

(End of this chapter)