Hard times have room

Chapter 6 Mushroom Soup

After leaving the small forest, after a while, they got on the main road. After a few moments, they heard a call coming from behind.

"Hongying, where did you pick up the mushrooms today? It's a good place to pick up so many!" Xu Shufen, the aunt of the Xu family next door to the Old Wang family, said while rushing, and soon followed.

"Shufen, it's a coincidence, we all got together. We were lucky today, we found a good place, and we walked on the edge of the back mountain. The forest is small, and there are quite a few mushrooms in it."

While speaking, Su Hongying pointed her finger in the direction of the small forest and said, "You can go and see it tomorrow. Maybe that place will grow tomorrow, although it may not be as much as today."

The people in the village are closely connected. Which one is not related to the family, and finds a good place to pick up mushrooms and dig wild vegetables and shoots. Since I asked, I have to answer, and I can't hide it.

This is not a good face or something, but a customary rule. Unless you don't want to come and go, you will be hated by others.

Bao Lin saw that Aunt Xu was talking to her mother, and when they stopped talking, she called out obediently, "Aunt Xu."

"Yo, Paulin, it's really good, sensible, the back basket is full, I really should let my two stinky boys take a good look, I can't be ashamed of them." Aunt Xu looked at Baolin's small back basket and joked said.

Aunt Xu was wearing a blue top with a few patches and black trousers. She was very clean. Even though she had just walked through the woods, her clothes were still very clean.

With an amiable appearance and a round face, Aunt Xu's appearance is very popular at this time, and she thinks she is lucky.

She married Uncle Xu Gen Xu, who was next door to the Wang family, and gave birth to two sons.

The Xu family is right next door to the Wang family, and they have a good relationship, especially her mother Su Hongying and Aunt Xu can relate.

The two brothers of the Xu family are of the same age as Baolin. They played from childhood to adulthood, like catching fish, loach, climbing trees, birds, eggs, and firewood. Most of them were with Wang Wenhui, Wang Wencan, and Baolin. .

"There are so many, Auntie." Paulin retorted embarrassedly: "Brother Wenzi and Brother Binzi can do it. They caught a few big fish by the river the day before yesterday."

The day before yesterday, the two brothers, Wang Wenhui and Wang Wencan Baolin had just had a spring ploughing vacation. They went to the river to dig wild vegetables in the afternoon. By the way, they made a simple fishing rod with earthworms, ropes, bamboo poles and needles and went fishing beside the Daqing River.

Unexpectedly, the two brothers were so lucky that they actually caught four big fish with three or four fingers.

Like Baolin and Wenhui and Wencan, the luck was not so good. They were all one or two finger-sized fish, a dozen or so. They went to the offal and stewed with sour bamboo shoots that night. Hot and sour fish soup.

"Haha, that's their shit luck." Aunt Xu said with a smile, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes deepened a lot.

How can one's own children not love, others praise, there is nothing more happier than this.

"Yeah, Shufen, I'm going to tell you about this, Wenzi and Binzi are such good children, you are not allowed to be like this." Su Hongying said while glaring at Aunt Xu.

"Okay, I won't say it, but there are so many mushrooms in your family today. It must be two or three kilograms after drying." Aunt Xu said enviously, looking at the mushrooms on the family of three.

"Luck, luck, maybe there are so many people in the village who haven't been there for a few days, so there are so many. It's just about this day, and the next time may not be more than half of today." Su Hongying said humbly.

In just a short while, it was almost time to arrive at the village. At this time, the sun had fully risen, and the eyes were dizzy and yellow, but it looked a little bright.

When they were about to arrive at the village, they met other villagers and saw that Su Hongying, Wang Jiandang, and Baolin's family of three were full of baskets, and they all came forward to take a look.

Tsk tsk twice, expressing envy of good luck and good eyesight, and so on, they all invariably asked about the one they picked up. After knowing the place, they greeted each other and left.

After saying goodbye to Aunt Xu, the family of three pushed open the bamboo fence and entered the Wang's courtyard.

"Second child, where did you pick it up? There are so many mushrooms." Mrs. Wang was carefully picking mushrooms in the yard. She was the first person to notice that Wang Jiandang's back basket was full.

While talking, I touched the big mushroom inside, full of treasures.

Because Shanghe Village is too far from the county seat, it takes four or five hours for a quick round trip, and five or six hours for a slower one. Moreover, there are controls, and you need a letter of introduction from the team to go there. Therefore, when Paulin has grown so big, she still has a lot to do. I've never been to the county seat.

Fresh mushrooms are unlucky. Even if they are shipped out, they don’t know how to sell them. Therefore, all the mushrooms in the village are sold at the purchasing station. Large mushrooms can be dried and they are rare. Small mushrooms are not on the scale. .

As for the town, it is not far from Shanghe Village, only an hour away. Anyone who has no two relatives wants to eat wild food such as mushroom shoots. If you have time, you can pick it up yourself. If you don’t have time, relatives can help you with it. The business is very simple, so there is no place to sell fresh goods in the village.

"Mom, go back to the small forest in the back mountain, but everyone knows that mushrooms grow there. Next time you go there, it should be nothing." After Wang Jiandang finished speaking, he put down the basket and picked some fresh and clean mushrooms He came out and said, "Paulin, add mushroom soup to cooking at noon. I picked up a lot today. Let's try it together."

"Hey, I'll pack it in a bowl." After Pauline said that, she walked into the small kitchen, took out the bowl for washing vegetables, and put half a bowl of mushrooms in it.

"I'll wash it while I'm doing the laundry." Pauline stood up with the wooden tub, and suddenly, as if remembering something, she paused and said, "Milk, do you want to put some peanut oil in the mushroom soup? , it’s not that I’m blind to that oil, and I’ve been working hard recently.”

"Yeah, milk, you've lost weight, it's time to put some oil on it." Wen Hui also came to Baolin's side and said in agreement.

"Yeah, milk, let it go, I want to eat mushroom soup with oil." Wen Jun came to Mrs. Wang's side, hugged Mrs. Wang's legs and acted like a spoiled child.

Madam Wang looked at her eldest grandson, little grandson, these two boys with a doting smile on her face, she couldn't stand it.

"Let it go, there's only so much oil at home, and you two are thinking about it all day long." After Mrs. Wang finished speaking, she went to the kitchen to get a small bowl and went to the back room.

Baolin, Wenhui, Wenjun and the three of them looked at Mrs. Wang's gesture of going to get the oil, and couldn't help but glance at each other and smile at each other.

"Very good, sister, there is oil and mushroom soup to drink at noon." Wen Jun said greedily.

"Well, when it's done, how about Wen Jun helping sister to taste it?" Bao Lin teased the greedy Wen Jun with a smile.

"Mmmm, big sister said yes, Wen Jun will definitely help you taste it when the time comes." After nodding with a smile, he ran off to find his sister.

"Big brother, second brother? Why didn't you see it, haven't you come back yet?" Paulin asked Wang Wenhui.

"I came back early, I was squatting in the pit, I had diarrhea, and I never came out." Wang Wenhui said while pointing to the toilet at home.

"Oh, I said, I didn't see him, maybe it was cold to my stomach last night." Pauline guessed, and said at the same time: "By the way, brother, are you still planting sweet potatoes today? It should be almost two days of sweet potatoes and corn. Plant them all."

"Well, we can finish the planting today, and the rest is fertilization. Maybe the brigade will drive the ox cart to the county to buy fertilizer in the next two days." Wang Wenhui said while helping the second room to clean up the mushrooms.

"Oh, it's quite fast, and our village is small, otherwise it would be so fast." Paulin answered while picking mushrooms.

After a while, the mushrooms were all packed up and dried on the flat mud ground rolled in the yard.

At this moment, Jingle, Jingle, the bell to go to work rang, Pauline's parents hurried back to the main house and brought the go-to-work guy to the field.

Wang Wenhui took Wang Wencan, who had just come out of the toilet, non-stop behind his second uncle and second aunt to go to work.

What they do is light work, that is, they are responsible for burying seedlings, but they don't need to bring any tools, because they are still young and can't do heavy work, and their work points are not high, only 5 points.

However, the two brothers are diligent and resilient. The ease of burying seedlings is relative to digging holes, but it is not easy. However, except for fishing on the afternoon of the holiday, the two brothers always follow adults. It is very rare to go to and from work together. After all, the family did not ask them to go to work with them every day.

After the adults went to work, Pauline took the clothes of their family of three to a place dedicated to washing clothes by the river, and also brought mushrooms to be washed.

After all, the water at home was brought back from the river by the three brothers of the Wang family in turn. It was very hard work, so those who could take it to the river for washing would not be washed with the water at home.

All the clothes at home are washed separately, including her grandmother's. According to her grandmother's words: "Everyone washes their own clothes, and your own men's clothes are washed by other women. Are you embarrassed?"

"Paulin, here." Wang Dongmei greeted Baolin with a smile.

Wang Dongmei is the granddaughter of Bao Lintang's grandfather. She lives close to the Wang family, and the house is related to each other. She is the one who usually asks Bao Lin to dig wild vegetables and pick up firewood.

Wang Dongmei is very warm-hearted, has a cheerful and lively personality, and has a loud voice.

"Dongmei, you're here too, I'll wash it on the stone next to you." Paulin said, putting down the clothes and the wooden basin she was holding.

Wang Dongmei replied with a smile, looked at the mushrooms in front of her, and asked with a smile, "Paulin, do you want to eat mushrooms today at your family? That's great, my grandmother said that I should dry the mushrooms and save them for money. cook."

"Yeah, I picked up a lot today, so I took some out." After Wang Baolin finished speaking, she began to clean the mushrooms seriously, and chatted with Dongmei. After all, mushrooms are mountain goods, and they are still stained. Less mud and dirt.

About an hour later, Paulin washed the clothes and mushrooms, and Wang Dongmei left half an hour ago.

Go home to dry the clothes first, then put the mushrooms in the kitchen and start cooking.

The big mushrooms are torn open, the small ones do not move, the sweet potatoes are steamed first, and then the oil that her milk has placed on the cabinet is carefully taken out, which will be used to cook the mushrooms later.

Not much oil, just below the bottom of the small bowl with oil.

Take two or three grains of salt out and put it in the water, dissolve the brine, and then go to the backyard to pull a few green onion leaves and ginger leaves.

Put water in the big iron pot first, add mushrooms after the water boils, cook for four to five minutes, then pour the oil into the soup, rinse the small bowl with mushroom soup several times, put salt and ginger leaves, and finally put Add chopped green onion and roll it out of the pot. The sweet and delicious mushroom soup is ready.

As soon as the mushroom soup was served on the table, she saw Wen Jun holding Bao Zhu and the two of them looking at her, Bao Lin smiled and said, "When I get the chopsticks, I will let you two little greedy cats try it first."

When Paulin put the tableware and chopsticks in place, she took the chopsticks and fed a piece of Wenjun Baozhu to each of them, and said with a smile, "I can't eat it, and the rest will be eaten together when everyone comes back. Wenjun, go see Grandpa and they are back. No."

"Hmm, I'll go right now." Wen Jun nodded quickly for food.

After a while, he flew back and shouted, "I'm back, it's time for dinner."

Seeing the mushroom soup with oil flowers floating on the table, each person shared a bowl of soup with sweet potatoes, and the Wang family had a very satisfying lunch.

(End of this chapter)