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Chapter 19 Digging Bamboo Shoots
Although Xiuniang is a latecomer, she also knows that each family has difficulties, each family has their own problems, and each family has more hardships. It is good for Chu Ge to move out. Being a man has to be tougher, anyway, her family has been in a hurry That's it.

On the top of the stream, looking at a green bamboo forest, Xiuniang sat beside the mountain path, and there was a big stone pier standing there, which was just right for people to sit and rest their feet.

Putting down the basket, Xiuniang looked around. The mountain road she was walking on went downhill and led to a flat field. There were patches of white flowers and short clusters of small trees in the middle of the mountain road. A small dirt road branched off and went up again. Chu Ge reckoned that this is where he entered the mountain.

Xiuniang thought that she could wait here, and she didn't dare to go into the mountains without someone to accompany her, because she hadn't been through the unfamiliar wild forests, and she was obsessed with the direction when she took a wrong turn, but she couldn't come back. .

Father Chen often went in and out of the mountains, and would always chat with Xiuniang brothers and sisters about the things in the mountains, calling to remember some useful things.

The wind coming out of the mountains is cool, accompanied by the big sun, making people feel sleepy all day long, waiting for people to talk is boring, Xiu Niang has nothing to do while sitting, she beats Yawning and rubbing his eyes, he searched for the bamboo forest.

Anyway, she couldn't see anything from the flowers on the hillside, she just looked at the strangely familiar ones. Compared with these yellow, white, and multi-colored flowers, people were less likely to look at the emerald green flowers. leaves.

Since she still wants to live in the mountains, she opened her eyes early in the morning and looked at the green forest, but it was good for her eyes, or Old Chen was old, but she was still running to find the mountains. You can see clearly and far away, and you can keep a close eye on it.

Xiuniang looked at these tall bamboos leisurely, and she was so emerald that she would be refreshed when she saw them, and then she looked at the small earthen bumps that rushed out from the side, and she just looked at... what?Small bag?

Xiu Niang stared at "bass" and then stood up, and ran over to take a closer look, mother, this brown thing that poked through the ground, isn't it a bamboo shoot?

Looking at the dewdrops on the tips of the bamboo shoots, and the thin caps on the shells, she held the tips and squeezed the bamboo shoots, holding Mozi to prick her hands, but it felt full.

These are really good things. Look at the side, there are many, tall and short, big and small, all surrounded by tall bamboos.

Xiu Niang couldn't help grinning, these are fresh bamboo shoots, after passing through the meat once, the soup will be fresher, and you can fry, roast, simmer or stew with.

She is really happy, these few days are today's love, so she saw this thing, saved some to eat, and fortunately asked Chu Ge to sell it in the town, which is another income .

Xiu Niang looked at it and started digging. She had to throw away the soil along the bamboo shoots and take it out bit by bit. It was slow, but she didn't (have) any blades at hand, or she could directly dig them out. Just cut it off.

Now she remembered the tune that old man Chen sang when he went into the mountain, digging the soil while looking for a stone, and her little mouth hummed along with it.

"It's a good thing to guard a big mountain. Xi Mo looked at the treasures all over his body, just to see if you can pull them out. If you miss the good taste, you will run all over the mountain..."

As this tune gradually became skillful in her hands, Xiu Niang dug three or four in a short time, and the more she dug, the lower she went. When she dug out another one, a shadow was blocking it. behind her.

She looked back quickly, and she saw Chu Ge, who was standing on the side and looking at herself, "Xiu Niang, what are you doing down there?"

"Hey, you're here, wait a minute, I'll go up now." Seeing him, Xiu Niang smiled, and walked up with her legs supported by the bamboo.

After a few steps, Chu Ge stretched out his hand to hold her, saw that the man's hand was covered with dirt, and was still holding a lump like a taro with a smile, he asked, "Xiu Niang, why did you dig this? "

Xiu Niang said, "What?"

Chu Ge pointed to her hand, "Bamboo Miaoer."

Xiu Niang looked at him shaking the bamboo shoots in his hand, "What are you talking about, do we call these bamboo shoots here?"

Chu Ge nodded, and Xiu Niang grabbed the bamboo shoots and looked at her eyes, thinking about it too, wouldn't the bamboo shoots be big bamboo tubes when they grow up, and the little Mo Yang would be bamboo shoots.

Xiu Niang smiled, "This is a bamboo shoot, it's good to serve with rice if it's cooked or fried, but it's a good thing."

Chu Ge just looked at it, and thought about it, maybe there are so many ways to eat it in Chenjia Village, he agreed, helped pick up a few on the ground and went to the stone pier by the side of the mountain road, and just walked out of the forest Seeing that there was no one there, he wondered if Xiuniang hadn't come yet, and since he could see the bamboo basket, he searched everywhere.

Behind him, Xiu Niang put the bamboo shoots aside, looked at the plastered hands, and said to Chu Ge, "You eat a potato head first, and if it gets cold, you can eat it first, and I'll eat it when you get home." Warm you up."

The old man said, if you want to eat, you can eat hot potato head and cold taro root. After a while of delay, it is estimated that the potato head will be cold by now, and it will be uncomfortable to eat.

Chu Ge said "hmm", he tried to get a warm one, and pulled most of it to De Xiuniang, "This one is still hot."

There were quite a few of them in the basket, and it looked like they were brought by Xiu Niang to eat together. Xiu Niang looked at half of them in Chu Ge's hand, and felt warm in her heart, "Eat first, I'll go down and wash my hands."

Chu Ge put the potato heads back, took out the bamboo tube at his waist, and stored water in it, "Don't go, I have water here, I'll wash it here, walking back and forth is exhausting."

Seeing this, Xiu Niang replied softly, "Yes", and stretched out her hand in front of him.

Chu Ge poured the water, and Xiu Niang filled it for rubbing hands. It felt really good. They ate two potato heads outside the bamboo forest. Xiu Niang put these bamboo shoots in the basket, They picked a few bamboo leaves and put them on top, and put the remaining potato heads on it, and they went down the mountain after they finished.

Chu Ge had killed three hares earlier, and caught a pheasant. When he returned to the village, he searched for Ji Laoliu, and together with them he took a bullock cart and drove to the town. I'm afraid it will be broken at night.

With the bullock cart, it didn't take much time to go back and forth to the town. Chu Ge found that he was not alive, so he went to the town to find a few regular customers who could sell them for some money.

Xiu Niang asked Chu Ge to bring the bamboo shoots along, and she assuredly said that as long as the cook of the big tavern saw it, he would take it, and after watching the people give the money, if he found more, he would go first. Next, after she finished digging up the mountain.

Ji Lao Liu didn't like it, but he didn't say anything. He thought it was the same as Chu Ge thought, and guessed that eating bamboo shoots was the way of eating in Chenjiacun.

Xiuniang is working at home, thinking about going to the mountain to dig some more. Today, there are only a few. If the town is big, it will be enough for people to eat. If it is good, maybe this is a way to get money. , then she will have a lot to do...

Ren'er was thinking about everything, but he just didn't expect that when Chu Ge came back at night, there was not a single mountain thing left, but half of the bamboo shoots were not sold.

(End of this chapter)