Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 498
"Isn't this here to see you? I've been out for more than a month, and I don't know how to call your grandma. The old lady comes to our house every day to inquire." Aunt Zhang Qian said well just now, but when I see He Yifan—— I couldn't believe it was my son standing in front of me.

When I was at home, I was white and fat, with a rosy complexion, but now I am tanned and shiny, as if I just came out of a black coal mine.Fortunately, she was in good spirits, otherwise she would have suspected that Zhang Qian and the others had abused her son.

In fact, the problem of tanning can be completely avoided. Zhang Qian suggested that He Yifan drink a few cups of honey every day or get some honey on his face, but this person is not used to the taste of honey, so he finally let it go.

Seeing her son's appearance, Aunt Zhang Qian was so distressed that she couldn't do it. Her son had never suffered a lot since he was a child, and she didn't expect to rush to Liujiagou to suffer.She insisted on pulling He Yifan home, saying that this job is not done by humans, and we don't want no matter how much money we earn.Don't you just want to buy a computer, the money is paid by my mother!
Liu Junhao finally understood that it wasn't that He Yifan had no idea, but that he was beaten by Aunt Zhang Qian.The way she raises her children is wrong, she spoils her children too much.He Yifan was seventeen or eighteen years old, at this age he could be a father in the countryside.Now he still treats his son like a child, and has no intention of letting him be independent at all. No wonder he has developed such a temperament.

Don't raise your own children like this in the future, you must cultivate their independence, Liu Junhao made up his mind again.

Fortunately, He Yifan didn't listen to his mother this time, saying that he had no intention of going back, and insisted on earning money to buy a computer.

Uncle Zhang Qian felt that it was right to let her son come to Liujiagou, at least now she knew that she was earning money.In the end, he persuaded his wife, saying that it is a good thing to let the children exercise.Besides, my own child is a child, isn't someone else's? Haven't you seen how many children younger than him in Liujiagou are also cracking cicada shells?
With the arrival of his parents, it is naturally impossible for He Yifan to open the cicada shell again.

A group of people sat under the neem tree to enjoy the shade. Liu Junhao was about to cut open a large flower skin when Xiao Jianhui yelled, "Uncle, I don't eat watermelon. I will go to the backyard to pick melons and eat them."

"Pick one for me too," He Yifan ordered from behind.Eating anything every day will make them feel normal, and they have eaten enough of the big flower skin, but now they feel that the melon tastes better.

Liu Junhao didn't deliberately plant melons, but only planted five melons in the backyard to eat at home.Under the nourishment of spring water, these melon seedlings are very competitive, and they can pick two or three bowl-sized melons every day. It is already August, and the flowers on the melon seedlings are still blooming very vigorously, and it is estimated that some of them will be fruited.

"This watermelon is good. Some time ago, you sent someone to pick up a few. The two of us ate it for half a month, and the last one was still about to be spoiled. Who knows, it will still be sweet when you kill it." Zhang Qian My aunt took a piece of watermelon and sighed.

"Hehe, the watermelon is fine for two months at room temperature." Liu Junhao replied with a smile.He has done experiments, and last year his own watermelons were eaten until November.

"It's raining?!" Uncle Zhang Qian was gnawing on a watermelon, feeling a few drops of rain dripping from her head, and hurriedly looked up to the sky, but the sun was shining brightly.

"Haha, Uncle, it's Zhizhi's pee." After Xiao Jianhui finished speaking, he took the bamboo pole from the side, and hit the neem tree a few times, and the Cicadas were frightened and "squeaked" and ran away. Before that, I didn't forget to drop a few drops of urine on the top of everyone's head.

There were guests at home, and when it was getting dark, Liu Junhao took everyone to dig cicadas in the courtyard.In half an hour, more than 20 were caught, and a dish could be fried at night.

Liu Junhao also wanted to fry an eel plate, but was stopped by Zhang Qian's aunt, who said that he ate a full stomach of watermelon in the afternoon, and now he is not hungry at all, so it should be simple.

So he went to the chicken coop to get some eggs, got some dried Chinese toon, and made a toon scrambled egg.Freshly picked cucumbers from the vegetable field are mixed with a few cloves of garlic, and then a loofah fried meat is done.

"Xiaohao, do you have soil poria cocos on this mountain? One of my sisters asked me to help dig some before I came here." Aunt Zhang Qian asked after eating the next morning when she was clearing the table.

"Soil Fuling, what is this stuff?" Zhang Qian looked at her husband suspiciously.

"It's nothing unusual. It's the Goulangtou on our mountain, and its scientific name is Smilax cocos." Liu Junhao explained afterwards, "There are, but they were almost dug up a few years ago. Now if you want to dig them, you need to go to the mountains to find them. .”

Smilax smilax is a kind of traditional Chinese medicinal material. Now is the time to dig it out, remove the fibrous roots, wash and dry it, and then sell it as a medicinal material.This is the ingredient in the "Soil Poria Cocoa Soup with Turtle" that Cantonese often drink. It is said that this soup has a good dehumidification effect.

People in Liujiagou have a tradition of digging dogs, but they were not used as medicinal materials at first, but as food when there was a famine.Goulangtou contains starch, which can be extracted and eaten with pancakes.

Liu Junhao heard from old people before that it is not easy to extract starch from "Goulangtou".First, dig out the root of Goulang head, rinse it with clean water, slice it, dry it in the sun, then grind it into powder, then use a sieve to remove impurities such as wood fiber, and finally wrap it with gauze and put it in a water tank for precipitation.After a day or two of hard work, a layer of white starch will be left at the bottom of the water tank, which can be used to make porridge or pancakes, and it becomes a life-saving good thing in times of famine.

However, the younger generation has never caught up with this kind of thing, and most of them just heard about it from the elderly at home.At that time, there was a famine in spring, and people had to go up the mountain to dig for several months every year. It was not until the Dragon Boat Festival, when the wheat was harvested, that the spring famine was over.

Strange to say, 20 years ago there were a lot of dogs on the mountain, and their heads grew bigger.No matter how you dig, you can't finish digging.

Later, when people stopped digging, there were far fewer of these things. Liu Junhao and the others also pulled the vines when they went up the mountain to play when they were young. Its tubers were hard to find, and the vines often broke when they were pulled halfway.

On the contrary, the fruit on the vine tastes good, a little pink.

Later, this thing became a traditional Chinese medicine, and the town bought it in large quantities. Adults and children went to the mountains to dig it.

A few years ago, when the mountains were closed for forestation, Gou Langtou recovered.In addition, there are many ways for people to find money now, and few people go to the mountains to dig.Aunt Zhang Qian wants to dig, and she should be able to dig a lot.

In fact, there are many kinds of Goulangtou Liu Junhao stone locks, and the quality is definitely better than those outside.According to his thinking, he can dig some for them later, and don't let them go up the mountain to bother them.But Aunt Zhang Qian disagreed, and even said that she wanted to see it on the mountain and dig it by herself.

Well, Liu Junhao can only let his wife take care of the two babies at home, while he leads a group of people up the mountain to find Gou Langtou.

There are quite a lot of Goulangtou on a nearby hillside, but it is a pity that they are all thin vines that have just grown in the past two years. The tubers growing from the bottom are very small, and it is not worth digging at all.

However, the reason why few people come to this area is that there are a lot of cicada shells in the bushes, and most of them are attached to the half-meter-high wormwood leaves, which can be picked directly by hand.He Yifan and the others were very excited, immediately threw away the shovel, turned around and picked up the cicada shell.

Aunt Zhang Qian didn't want to run away anymore, she even said that there were so many Smilax seedlings, she could just dig some smaller ones.

"Auntie, I definitely can't dig it." Seeing her insistence, Liu Junhao had no choice but to demonstrate. He squatted down and picked a thicker vine and dug it up. After a few shovels, there was still a thin vine in the soil, and there was no tuber at all. .

Aunt Zhang Qian couldn't find it, so she could only follow Liu Junhao into the mountain to find it.

As for the little guys, they were digging their heads into picking up the cicada shells, so naturally they didn't follow.I wanted to lead Xiaopi to explore the way, but after a while, this guy didn't know where he went.

Liu Junhao led them to a ravine, which was formed by the erosion of mountain torrents. Later, the rocks collapsed and the mountain stream changed its course, which became a dry ditch.The bottom of the ditch is full of weeds such as thorn seedlings and thorn branches, so this is also a natural paradise for small animals such as foxes, rabbits, badgers and worms.

However, people in Liujiagou rarely enter this ditch, mainly because there are many snakes in it, and they are all quite big.

After hearing his description, Aunt Zhang Qian began to retreat.But fortunately, as soon as he entered the bottom of the ditch, Liu Junhao found a few thick vines.

He and Uncle Zhang Qian immediately started digging with a shovel. After digging a few times, they suddenly heard a soft crash above their heads.

Aunt Zhang Qian stood up awkwardly, but when she looked around, there was nothing.

She thought she was a hearing error, but just as she squatted down, the sound of "hua la hua la" came again.

"Xiaohao, what's that voice?" Uncle Zhang Qian also felt something was wrong.

"Maybe it's something wild, it's okay." There are many wild animals in this ravine, and it's normal to have movements.Liu Junhao replied and continued to wave the shovel.But he didn't know that the description of the ravine just now was a little scary, which made Zhang Qian and his aunt feel fear.

As soon as the voice fell to the ground, the voice sounded again in the grass in front.This time they all saw clearly, it seemed that there was something wriggling in the grass.

It's just that the wormwood is too deep to see clearly.

"It can't be a python, can it?" Uncle Zhang Qian said, holding the shovel across her chest.

"Let me see." Liu Junhao picked up the shovel and walked forward.

He walked to the wormwood bush and searched carefully for a while, but found no trace of the big snake.Just as he was about to turn his head to leave, he saw a half-clear bamboo pole beside him.Liu Junhao squatted down and pulled suddenly.

"Oh my god!" A loud cry came from a distance, and a person fell out of the grass, it was a fur boy.

Behind him, a few guys came out with a sneer.

"You brats, what are you doing running so far after knowing the shell? You are not afraid of encountering big snakes, and you deliberately scare people." Liu Junhao didn't get angry, and scolded the furry children by twisting their ears.

"It hurts, it hurts, Uncle Xiaohao, we are here to cut wild celery."

"Cut wild celery, what do you want to do, are you going to do something bad again?" No need to guess, Liu Junhao knew that these guys must have some crooked ideas.

Some time ago, they didn't know who said that drinking peppermint oil could increase their height, so they went up the mountain and cut half a snakeskin bag of peppermint to boil peppermint oil. Fortunately, they were discovered early, otherwise these guys would have been foolish enough to drink it.

And this wild celery is even more poisonous, so it's not good if it causes trouble.

(End of this chapter)