Farmer's Ruyi Manor

Chapter 3 Catching Pheasants at the Foot of the Mountain (1)
But how do I make money? I can't even eat enough, so I can only drink wild vegetable soup. It's really hard.It's only the beginning of spring now, and there are wild vegetables everywhere, but there is also a lot of rain in spring. It's really uncomfortable when it's raining heavily outside and light rain inside.Fortunately, it wasn't winter when I came here, so if I didn't want to die, I already had it.

"Xiaohua, mother is going to pick wild vegetables, you and mother can go together." The cheap old lady said to Xiao Ting while pressing her shoulder just after carrying water. "Now there are a lot of people picking wild vegetables. If we go later, there will be less picking. We can live on this now. Your grandma is old and her eyes are not good. Now she has to bring a small pillar and cook at home."

"Okay." Xiao Ting replied feebly, thinking to herself, "But we can't just eat wild vegetables. The small pillars are still so small, and the nutrition can't keep up. They are thin and weak, and they tend to have low IQs and become idiots. You have to think about it carefully. Think about how to solve the most pressing problems at present.”

In fact, she doesn't ask much. To be a happy rice worm, she should at least have enough food, warm clothes, and a good place to live, so she doesn't have to worry about money.But judging from the current situation, what a luxury it is!

With a broken basket in his hand and a pair of broken straw sandals on his feet, he followed the cheap lady and walked slowly, saying that he was going to pick wild vegetables.It's really hard to get fat these days.A family without a man is a family without a pillar in ancient times, and it is inevitable for orphans and widows to be bullied.She thought this was also the key factor why the house was so dilapidated that there was no one coming and going.Maybe I have to be said and looked down on by others from time to time, just like when I was a child, my family was poor.If the child goes out to play, no matter what you say, whether it is your fault or not, it is your fault anyway.

Whether in modern times or ancient times, those who have no money or ability are always the ones who are popular, and there is a saying in modern times that people laugh at the poor but not at the prostitutes.Hey... No wonder in ancient times many people wanted to concubine the rich. What a humble status a concubine is.But if you eat enough, dress warmly, and live well, you just feel superior to others.

Xiao Ting walked and thought about these random things over and over again, and didn't take a good look at them along the way, her feet were sore from walking, she didn't know how far she had walked, and she still hadn't reached her goal.

"Mom, how far is it?"

"Hurry up, it's just ahead." He said and pointed to the front.Following my mother's hand, I saw the direction of several mountains with a height of about 800 meters in front of me.

Khan, it looks close, but the road is twisted and twisted, and it looks like it will take about [-] minutes to walk.For ancient times, Xiao Ting really doesn't know how to count the time, and she doesn't know what time it is. She can only squint her eyes and look up at the position of the sun to judge the approximate time.

The time in ancient times and the time Xiao Ting knew, her time did not match, and in ancient times, especially for poor people, everything was done by manpower, which was really a laborious task.Forget it, look at the scenery along the way, maybe you can find something.In the days when everything recovers in spring, there are still many things to eat.

I saw a stream in front of me. The water was very clear and translucent. The volume of the water was not very large. I didn’t know where it would start or where it would end up. There were fine grains of sand and broken pebbles in the stream.The pebbles are smooth and the sand is yellow.The creek is stepping on the sand, caressing the pebbles, gurgling, ding ding dong dong.Along the stream grew many flowers, red and white, of every color.Because of these flowers, the small stream has added infinite picturesqueness, especially in spring.

You can faintly see some small fish in the creek, they are really small fish, and the biggest ones are no bigger than an adult's palm.Xiao Ting knew that although this kind of fish looked small and had many spines, it tasted very delicious, especially when it was deep-fried and accompanied by seasonings, thinking about it unconsciously took a breath.I haven't eaten this kind of fish for a long time, let alone in this strange world, the vegetables I eat are all wild vegetables, which don't even have any oily smell.

It seems that my best friend in the previous life was right, "Let you be picky eaters, don't eat this or that every day, don't eat beef and mutton, don't eat celery and coriander, send you to a remote mountainous area to starve for a week, I see you will eat everything." have eaten!"

Hey... I really miss my girlfriends, I really don't have anything to eat now, I want to bite my lips if I have a weak mouth, and eat it as if I have meat.The creek doesn't look very big, but there are quite a lot of fish, maybe you can catch some and go back to make fish soup for drinking.

"Mother, when we come back, let's catch some fish and make soup."

"Fish? What is it?" Xiao Ting resisted the urge to roll her eyes, looking at the bewildered mother at the moment.

"It's in the brook, look at the ones swimming around there."

"Oh, that's fish, Xiaohua. Let me tell you, you can't eat that one. In the past, Wang Ya's family fished fish that were bigger than that in the stream. After he ate them, everything they ate died. Yes. Mother told you, that must not be eaten, you know?"

Er, dead?Could it be that they eat pufferfish?Pufferfish are poisonous, if not handled properly, they will surely die.Even modern people dare not eat it lightly, unless there is a chef with particularly good processing skills, otherwise they really dare not eat it.However, I grew up in the countryside and spent some time by the river, so I can still recognize what is edible.

"Mother, don't worry, I know which ones are edible. The ones caught by their family are not edible, they are poisonous."

"That's not okay, what if something happens, mother can't take this risk."

It's easy to say, cheap mother just doesn't agree.At this moment, he has reached the foot of today's destination mountain.In fact, Xiao Ting really doesn't know what to eat and what not to eat.

Although I grew up in the countryside when I was young, I picked pigweed and cut rice when I was young, and that's all.There are also two kinds of wild vegetables, bitter herbs and bracken.In the past, bitter vegetables were cut into small pieces, soaked in boiling water to remove the bitterness, then scooped up and flattened into pancake shapes.Let it cool, waiting to make bitter vegetable soup with machine noodles (dry, flat, not wide, white).My mouth is watering now just thinking about it, it's so delicious.When I was a child, my mother said that it can be used to relieve fire, but not too much. It is usually made in late spring and early summer.Bracken is generally eaten cold.

I don't know what to eat here now.This era can't tolerate her being picky. It's good to have something to eat, unless you want to starve to death.

After the cheap lady told Xiao Ting which ones were edible and which ones to pick, she went to another place to pick them by herself.Xiao Ting didn't know what those were called, so they collectively called wild vegetables.

After Xiao Ting picked half a basket of wild vegetables that the cheap mother said, she didn't want to pick them anymore.Anyway, those are just to not starve to death.Jingle Bell's family is poor, except for the simple 4 people, there is no living thing.She wants to eat meat, especially these two days, sometimes she really wants to bite her lips like meat.

(End of this chapter)