Hard times have room

Chapter 814

After getting rid of the mother and daughter, Pauline didn't walk so fast. She walked slowly. She hasn't come back for a long time. Now that she is walking on the familiar path, she still has some nostalgia and some emotions. Overall, , the mood is very pleasant.

When passing through the small woods in Shanghe Village and Chenjia Village, she made an unexpected discovery, so she went into the woods and wandered around, and she found a clump of March bubbles, which is also called raspberry raspberry .

It tastes sour and sweet after being soaked in March. It tastes sour and sweet. In this year without fruits, it is very popular among men, women and children.

Although it's a little strange that no one came to pick the Sanyuepao so close to the village, forget it, don't care, pick it first as a respect, Pauline thought about it for a while and then put it aside, thinking about these boring things, picked the red fruit, Taking it home to eat is the real business.

I took out the lunch box from the space, which was specially used to hold this thing, and after picking all of them, the lunch box was already more than half full, and the harvest was good.

When Pauline was in a good mood, she was about to walk out of the forest and walked to the middle of the dirt road. Suddenly, she saw a piece of snakeberry again. However, she looked at the thing in her hand and left with just a glance.

There is also a chain of contempt among wild fruits, and there are better ones, who can look down on the bad ones!
The reputation of Snake Berry has a hook with snakes, and there are rumors that snakes saliva spit before they can grow Snake Berry, just like this, they are definitely disgusting!

Pauline wouldn't touch them if she wasn't really hungry.

Back to the familiar home, there is no one in the house, obviously, work has not been done yet.

Pauline opened the door with a key, and after putting away her things, the first thing she went to look at was the bamboo rats in the back of the house. This is a big treasure. Three of them sold for 40 yuan last year. This bamboo rat is a big family. I'm planning to make offerings. It takes a little effort to raise this thing, but the rewards are very high!Who will not be rare, who can not be rare.

Feed them a few young bamboo shoots, and Pauline doesn't care about them.

Turning his head to look at his own vegetable field, sure enough, things have been planted in it, but it is peanuts and beans.

Among them, there are mostly peanuts, all four plots, only one plot of soybeans, and some odds and ends, where peppers, onions, garlic, and ginger, which are inseparable from home, are grown. Of course, peppers are the most grown.

Also, this year, the chopped peppers at home are almost finished. Obviously, the ones made last year are not enough!

In these years, the food is very bland, without oil and water, if there is no chili seasoning, it will be really uncomfortable to eat. The chopped chili at home, hot and sour appetizer, porridge alone tastes delicious.

Besides, the winter in the south is cold and humid, so you need to eat some spicy food to warm up and get rid of dampness.

As for the front yard, pumpkins, loofahs and winter melons are planted, and a few plants are planted so far away. When these things grow in summer, the yard will definitely be extraordinarily lively.

The land outside the yard was not spared either, and some pumpkins and sweet potatoes were planted piecemeal, among which sweet potatoes were the most.

Although the land outside may not be very good and the land is barren, it can still harvest some things, but it’s just that it’s nothing to do a little work for food.

Their place is remote. Logically speaking, they can grow things in the front and back of the house, as long as they divide the land with the neighbors.

Last year, her family planted sweet potatoes in the vegetable field. This year, it is time to replace them with peanuts and beans. Otherwise, if they continue to grow sweet potatoes, the harvest will not be enough, and it is easy to make the sweet potatoes sick. When the time comes, the seedlings will be wiped out. Not to mention harvesting this stuff.

Baolin went outside to pick a basket of wild vegetables and came back, and cooked porridge with the sweet potatoes at home. Finally, she added a little salt, and the taste was still very good. She hasn’t had sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge for a long time. Now that she is eating, she doesn’t feel as good as she remembered. unpalatable.

There is not much food in the family, and the most leftover is peanuts, which are mostly what they eat, and then there are sweet potatoes, which still have about ten catties.

There are still more than [-] catties of rice left at home, just a little, and I don’t want to eat it at all. Every time Baolin comes back, Wang Jiandang will take five catties of rice to the village to scoop it up, and ask Baolin to take it to school to eat. Of course, in Baolin For the dinner before Lin went to school, she ate white porridge.

Their family does not advocate that all good things must be eaten by children. In fact, everyone has a share, but Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang have a deep affection and habitually give the best things to Pauline. They only taste Enough.

To put it bluntly, they are still poor. If the family has money and food, what else can they let everyone have enough to eat.

The hope for the family to get better now is that Pauline went to work after studying, and the other is the bamboo rats in the family. If they really have a good way to raise them, the family will earn a hundred or so yuan a year relying on those ten or so bamboo rats, isn’t it? The problem is that now that prices are low, the family of three can live a good life with just this money.

Oh, by the way, the family originally had 15 to [-] catties of peanuts, but at the beginning of March, Wang Jiandang took [-] catties of peanuts to the black market in the county town, and returned in exchange for [-] catties of sweet potatoes and [-] yuan. Sweet potatoes are cheaper than peanuts. In addition, peanuts have skins, so sweet potatoes are more durable and look more delicious. This is why there are sweet potatoes in her house, which are bought on the black market.

The next day, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang went to work early in the morning. The peanuts, beans, and corn in the team were already inches high. It was time to weed and loosen the soil. This is a big project. Second, as long as you work hard, the field can be harvested.

In addition, there are some weeds growing in the rice seedlings planted in the paddy fields in the village. These are all manual work, but the calculation of the work is relatively easy.

Pauline went to the back mountain to pick up mushrooms, and dig wild vegetables along the way. If she was lucky, she would bring back some wild fruits or something. These are the third kind, and she is familiar with them.

When she returned home with a full load and a basket on her back, when she was walking past the fork in the road leading to the old house, she was suddenly stopped by someone.

"Baolin~Baolin, etc." Li Tao called out to someone while running, which made her anxious.

The old woman at home asked her to go to the second child's house to call for someone, but the second child's house was so far away, she didn't want to go, and just as soon as she went out, she saw Wang Baolin, and there was no more suitable messenger than her.

No, I called him right away, with a slightly affectionate tone.

As soon as Pauline heard the voice, she knew that the person calling her name was an acquaintance. When she turned her head, she saw that it was her eldest aunt. This person had such a loud voice and was running towards her. She couldn't stop walking.

When people approached, looking at the person who was panting non-stop, Pauline greeted first: "Auntie, what's the rush?"

"I'm right here, I can't escape."

(End of this chapter)