Chapter 24 Digging Bamboo Shoots

He paused, and then said: "Tomorrow you bring three taels of silver to your parents, and I will give them the rest when I come back."

"If my mother... makes you angry and embarrassing you, then you..."

"Don't worry, my mother is getting old. What's the point of saying a few words?" Xu Xiumei understood what he meant.Su Genliang is filial, but not stupid.

"Yesterday I sent fish to the second master's house. If there is anything, I will go to the second master." Su Genliang was still very worried, and gave a few instructions before leaving.

Su Yunxue and Su Yunman went out early in the morning facing the dew.They are going to dig bamboo shoots on the bamboo mountain in the west with girls from other families.

In the past few days, the rain has softened the ground, and the green has gradually infected the branches everywhere.The bamboo shoots on the bamboo mountain on the west side of Haiming Island also began to rise.Someone went to dig some small bamboo shoots yesterday, and they made an appointment to go together today.

Su Yunxue was carrying a big bamboo basket containing two stone picks.Holding her sister in one hand, she followed the group and chatted with her sister Chen Wei.

Zhushan is not far from here.almost there.Chen Wei's second brother Chen He took the lead.He swept all the way with a stick.He was afraid that the hibernating snake would frighten the little girls.

Chen He was two years older than Xu Su Yunxue and Chen Wei, but two heads taller than Su Yunxue.After he sends his sisters here, he will go to the mountains to cut firewood.

"Weier," he picked some small strawberries from somewhere and put them on a big leaf.He glanced at Su Yunxue and said shyly, "I'll share with you. I'll go first."

Chen Wei smiled and walked over.Before Su Yunxue could say thank you, she saw Chen He turn around and leave.

"Is your brother in such a hurry to chop firewood?" Su Yunxue was a little surprised.

"Well, the matter is very urgent." Chen Wei smiled even more happily. "There's more work at home."

As she spoke, she stuffed a berry into Su Yunman's mouth.She looked at the sour wrinkled nose and laughed.

Su Yunxue hit her angrily, "Don't bully Yunman." The three of them went up the mountain fighting.

About a dozen people came to dig bamboo shoots, but none of them got together.Su Yunxue chose the sunny side to go up the mountain, and soon discovered a "bonanza".

Su Yunxue took out a small stone pickaxe, handed it to Yunman, and taught her to dig bamboo shoots.

A stone pick is ground from a trapezoidal stone similar to obsidian.The wide side is perforated and padded with a wooden handle.The narrow side is sharpened.It can be used to hoe the ground and cut off the roots of bamboo shoots.

Su Yunxue touched a fat bamboo shoot with the pointed tip, loosened the surrounding soil with a hoe, dug deep enough, held the tip of the bamboo shoot, shook it back and forth, and then cut off the surrounding bamboo roots, The bamboo shoots were dug out.

Su Yunman had never come to dig bamboo shoots before.At first, she was clumsy and almost hit her foot with a hoe.Su Yunxue stopped her from digging bamboo shoots, and asked her to peel off some of the hard shells of the bamboo shoots, so that she could reduce some weight when she moved back.

Su Yunxue and Chen Wei are already used to working.Their eyes are sharp and their hands and feet are sharp.After a while, they all dug up baskets full of bamboo shoots.They started peeling bamboo shoots again.In the last two bamboo baskets, there are cleanly peeled white bamboo shoot hearts.

Su Yunxue took off the skin of the peeled bamboo shoots and put them in the bamboo basket.He was afraid that the heart of bamboo shoots would be dried up by the gradually hot sun.The three of them sat down and rested for a while.

"Run Man", Chen Wei was particularly interested in the little girl who suddenly recovered.She leaned on the tree behind her and dug on the roots for a long time, then suddenly threw a black object at Su Yunman.

(End of this chapter)

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