The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 70 Picking water shield

Seeing that it was almost dawn, Chu Ying hurriedly got up, put on her clothes on tiptoe, and walked out of the bedroom slowly. "Bring two pancakes, don't starve."

"Hey." Chu Ying gently closed the door, put on the back basket that was installed yesterday and took two pancakes on her back, and then hurried to get on the bullock cart.

After waiting in the city for a while, the pharmacy opened and Chu Ying went in, "Grandpa, take a look."

Wen Sanqi looked at the pine resin, most of them were whole pieces, and the quality was good, "Isn't this picked?"

"I cut it from my own pine tree, or heated it below to let the pine resin flow out."

"That's good. But you have to cut the mature pine trees. If you cut the juvenile pine trees, you can't live." Grandpa Wen asked someone to lift the pine resin and weighed it. It was 46 catties, and he asked Yaotong to withdraw the money.

"Well, I know that." Chu Ying put 1 tael and 5 coins in the back basket, covered it with a linen cloth, and put the other 1 coin and 10 coins in her pocket.

"You don't have to worry about these pine trees, but you still have to be careful. After all, unlike before, you can cut down some pine trees. Now you can't cut or cut them. The harvest is not large."

"Okay, thank you for reminding me, grandpa." Chu Ying put on her basket and went to the market to have a look. Ye Qiu said that she wanted to buy soy sauce, but she didn't know how much the soy sauce would cost, but now that she had income, her life would be better, after all, she In long body.

After buying two larger clay pots and a liter of soy sauce, Chu Ying stopped by Qin Zhong to ask about the planting of aquatic plants.

"I'm right, the pharmacy will definitely take it." Qin Zhong wrapped the lotus seeds bought by the customer in paper, tied them with fine hemp rope, and left a loop on it that could be carried.

"Thank you very much. I want to plant some lotus root, gorgon and water chestnut, but I don't know how to do it." Chu Ying put down the basket and looked at the seeds in Qin Zhong's shop.

"You can go to the lake to dig some lotus roots and plant them, or you can wait until August or mid-September to collect black and hard lotus seeds to plant. But you have to grind off some of the skin, or it will not germinate well. Gorgon and water chestnut are also Similarly, just harvest the seeds in autumn and sprinkle them in the pond, they will grow by themselves."

"Well, I thought we had to buy seeds like wheat. What about water shield? How do we plant them?"

"It's good to pick water shields in the lake. If you want to plant them, you can take the strong, old stems with fibrous roots and put them into the mud for an inch before and after Qingming."

"Okay, I have dug a pond at home, and I'm thinking about planting something. I'll go back and have a look, thank you." On the way back, Chu Ying thought that water chestnut and Gorgon could be sown like lotus seeds, but they were all seasonal fruits. , I'm afraid I can't buy seeds now, so I can only buy water chestnut powder.

When Chu Ying went back to see Ye Qiu was embarrassed by a rabbit lying on a wooden pier, "What's wrong? Is it dead? Eat it."

"Maybe it's because the dew on the leaves hasn't dried up, and three of them died. Hey...it's all my fault." Chu Ying moved the wooden block to a place where the rabbit's nest could not be seen, and the three rabbits bore fruit. The good rabbit was given to Ye Qiu, and the three rabbit furs were spread out to hang on the wall.

"It's okay, it's fine to make bacon, or it's fine with fish.

"Preserved curds are made in the first month of the twelfth lunar month. I'm afraid they won't be stored for long. Fish and bream can be made now, but if there is a pond, there is no need to store them."

"Then eat it, eat two for yourself, and I'll send the other one to Aunt Wang. There's not much meat here, so just eat it."

"Okay, let's make a hare." Chu Ying strung up the hare with grass, and led it to Aunt Wang's house.

"Have you caught a rabbit again?"

"Yes, if you catch too many rabbits, you will raise them. If they are eaten bad, a few will die, and they will be used to honor you." Aunt Wang took the rabbits into the kitchen with a smile.

"This rabbit is not easy to raise. When it's hot, there are a lot of people suffering from heatstroke. Liyuan liked to raise a few of them before. Later, they either had diarrhea or died of heat, and finally got in their mouths." Rabbits are indeed difficult to raise. , but this wild one is not so delicate, but you still have to be more careful.

"Well, I have to build a house for them, or it won't be good if it's too hot in summer. Then I'll go first." This rabbit likes to chew wood and grind its teeth, and the smell of shush is a bit strong. I'm afraid the smell will be bad when the weather is hot. Smell, if you want to build a house, ventilation and deodorization are the key. The rabbits I raised before did not turn on the air conditioner in summer to get heatstroke.

"What is this?" Chu Ying saw that there was rice in the rabbit broth made by Ye Qiu.

"Rabbit cockroach, there is no wine, and magnolia skin. It would be great if there are bean drums and bitter wine. You can try it." Chu Ying took a sip and the taste was slightly sour. I have never seen it before. This ancient delicacy is a bit unique, but it is very appetizing.

"It's okay." Chu Ying ate around the stove after serving the meal. In ancient times, spicy rabbit meat and braised rabbit meat were not extravagant. Chu Ying had never seen this chili pepper in the market, and there was no sugar for braised rabbit meat. The sugar here is darker in color, and it doesn't seem to be used for cooking.

"You said before that the water that rabbits drink should be boiled, and the grass should not have dew. I remember all these. What else should I pay attention to? The two big rabbits seem to be about to give birth, and their temper is a little irritable."

"Anyway, the dirty grass can't be fed to rabbits, and the washed grass can only be fed after drying. Then I will make some rabbit cages to separate the female rabbits. It is best not to be with the male rabbits when the female rabbits are born. It is not good for it to keep giving birth to small rabbits, and when the time comes, pair some rabbits together to control the coat color, otherwise it will not look good if they all give birth to variegated ones."

"That's right, and it's hot and you can't stay outside all the time." It's not easy to raise anything, Chu Ying looked at the pond after dinner, took a slightly larger wooden basin, put on clogs, and prepared to go to the lake to dig lotus root and Pick water shield stems.

"Where are you going? Are you fishing? You can't play in the water..."

"Got it, Nanny Ye." Chu Ying chased Ye Qiu out and ran away quickly.

When I went to the lake, I saw one or two people sitting on wooden basins picking water shield.Chu Ying put the wooden basin by the lake first, and then slowly lowered it. Although it was a little unbalanced, sitting cross-legged in the wooden basin, she could grasp it a little bit, but she was still a little timid, not wanting those girls to be handy, watching Those girls picked water shield like a fish in water in the lake.

Chu Ying only picked a small amount. Others have finished picking and went ashore to go home. Chu Ying sighed and could only continue to reach under the water surface to pick the stems of water shield. When there is almost a wooden basin, Chu Ying Slowly row to the shore and put the water shield stems on the ground first, and then come back to continue picking.

When the picking was almost done, Chu Ying stood up slowly on the shore, but her center of gravity was unstable. She ate a mouthful of mud all at once, touched the front teeth that were still there, and saw that half of her body was in the water. A little stunned, but it was all dirty, so Chu Ying moved to the small lotus leaf next to her, groping for the lotus root below with her feet, and when she stepped on it, she thought about lifting the lotus root joints with her feet.

But the intertwined root joints are not so easy to dig out, so Chu Ying can only slowly bend down and reach for the lotus joints with her hands. When the lotus joints are dug out, half of her face is already dirty. Go to a place with a higher ground, but it will still get your face dirty, and then Chu Ying couldn't care about it anymore.

After digging for a while, the silt in the water had risen up. Chu Ying moved all the dug lotus joints to the bank. They looked almost the same, but she couldn’t handle too much, so she climbed ashore and looked at the lotus joints that were full of The muddy clothes made Chu Ying feel funny, and she would be told by Ye Momo again when she went back.

Ye Qiu sat in the yard, leaning against the wall, slowly embroidering pieces, saw a mud child walking in the distance, and snickered, "These children in the village are too wild, so Chu Ying should be good, if If Chu Ying came home like this, she must be beaten out, hey..."

After a while, the clay figurine walked up to Ye Qiu. Ye Qiu raised his head and waved his hand, "The family is poor and has nothing to eat, you should find another house."

"Pfft..." Chu Ying blew the mud off her mouth, and took off her pants and clothes. It was still a bit cold this day, and the wet clothes took away too much heat from her body. If she wasn't afraid of being laughed at by people on the road , I had already taken off my clothes.

Even though she had wrung it out before, her clothes were still wet. Chu Ying poured a bucket of water onto it to wipe her face clean, and glanced at Ye Qiu who was stunned.

"My ancestor, did you fall into the mud? Hey, put it on quickly, I'll boil the water." Chu Ying looked at Ye Qiu who was running to boil the water, and smiled softly, covering her mouth.

(End of this chapter)