Nongmen Merchant Girl

Chapter 17 Picking Grapes

Since my mother can't walk too much on her feet, she will rest at home these two days, do some housework to take care of Abao, and do some light work.

For breakfast, I still eat mushy corn, and the dish is tofu mixed with shallots.As soon as Yinhua came back yesterday, she gave all the remaining money to her mother, and didn't say anything about Xu Ru helping the little beggar on the street.

"Mother, is there any big fish in our Qingshui River?" Xu Ru thought about coming back in the afternoon to make a pot of tofu fish.Put a little coriander and shallots on it, it is light, delicious and nutritious.

"There are only some small fish and shrimps in the river. There is a Yulong Lake upstream. There are big fish in the lake, but the fish are very delicate and hard to catch. I will ask your father to borrow a pole from your Uncle Jinge later. I'll catch two for you." Although this fishing is time-consuming, but seeing the girls take the initiative to say that they want to eat, let's try to be satisfied.

Xu Ru carried a bamboo basket, while Yinhua carried a pannier.The two sisters went up the mountain facing the autumn sun.

After these few days of living in ancient times, Xu Ru also slowly accepted the life here, which is simple, simple and natural.

Most people in ancient times were kind and honest, even if there was a little bit of conflict, it was all because of poverty and hunger.Xu Ru thought to herself, since she has been influenced by the culture of a great country for thousands of years, she should do her best to change the situation of this family. As for her mission, didn't the woman also say that at the time, let nature take its course.

When they passed by their family's field, Yinhua dug a few sweet potatoes with the small hoe she was holding, and said that they could fill their stomachs when they were hungry at noon.

"The rain is good this year, and the sweet potatoes are quite big, and they can be harvested in a month or so." Yinhua chatted with Xu Ru while walking.

"Second Sister, what does Uncle Jin Ge do? Why don't you get married in your 30s?" After living here for so many days, Xu Ru also knows almost all the relatives who have contacts with her family.

"I don't know. He came to our village ten years ago. When he first came, he didn't talk to anyone. He bought two old houses in Uncle Fu's house and lived there. I usually see him hunting in the mountains. pregnancy.

Seven years ago, my father went to the mountain to cut firewood and was injured by a bear. Fortunately, Uncle Jin Ge rescued my father, so the two families gradually got in touch.Let me tell you, Uncle Jin Ge's wound medicine is the best I've ever seen. The year before last, my father had a fall and injured himself. It was the medicine he gave me, and it scabbed within two days. "Yinhua leaned over and whispered in her ear again, "He is also good at martial arts, once I saw him fly from the ground to the tree..."

"I heard from my father that he went to sell furs in the city last month. He went there for more than a month, and he only came back two days ago." Yinhua added.

"Second Sister, have you ever been to the city?" The city they were talking about was the soil city.

"No, I heard that it takes ten days to ride in a carriage, so I don't know what kind of place it is so far away." Yinhua said lightly.

Xu Ru's physical fitness is still a bit poor, and she rested three times along the way. The sisters walked and watched, and Yinhua also taught Xu Ru to recognize wild vegetables, which ones can be eaten and which ones can't.

The mountains and plains were also full of bright yellow wild chrysanthemums, Xu Ru picked them while walking, humming a song.After walking all the way for an hour, I finally saw wild vines clinging to some bushes. There were quite a few pieces of them, and the trees were covered with purple-red grapes, some scattered and some in clusters.

"This place is called Tongziwan. This kind of black plum likes to grow in such a place with good sunlight and moisture." Yinhua often goes to the mountains and is quite familiar with Daliang Mountain.

"Hey, second sister, look quickly, what is this?" Xu Ru found that there were some small red and yellow fruits in the bushes, like wild jujubes, but Xu Ru pinched a red fruit, which was soft and contained Seeds are not like jujubes.

"This is real jujube, which is spicy and astringent, so it's useless." Yinhua explained.

Xu Ru looked at the small red, yellow and yellow fruit for a long time before remembering that it was called cornel.In my previous life, I went to an ancient city in Shaanxi with my classmates. I bought a bottle of cornel wine there. When I came back, I also Baidu the uses of cornel. The most impressive effect is that it can cure women’s uterine bleeding, profuse sweating, and menorrhagia. It can also nourish the liver and kidney, and relieve waist and leg pain, which is very useful for men and the elderly.

She decided to pick some dogwood and go back to dry it for storage. This is also an excellent medicinal material. When will I go to the pharmacy to ask.It is estimated that many of them do not know, or they would have been picked long ago.

She asked Yinhua to use scissors to pick the fresher grapes. At this time, some of the lower places were already ripe and dropped, so she needed to pick at a higher position. She followed suit and neatly picked the grapes. Put it in the pannier.The two sisters were a little tired after working for more than half an hour, so they sat down and started to bake sweet potatoes.

Xu Ru took out the sweet potatoes and found some hay to wipe the mud on them, while Yinhua picked up a few stones, surrounded a small hole she had dug, found some dry grass, put it under it and used fire to clean it. Light it, and then ignite the firewood. When the firewood is lit, put the sweet potatoes on the edge of the fire to roast, turning them over from time to time.After the two of them finished eating four sweet potatoes, they started picking grapes again.

"Second Sister, I want to pick some dogwood and take it back. I heard people say that this wine can cure back pain and leg pain, and it can also cure women's diseases."

"Hehe, fourth sister, who did you hear that from? I don't even know? Well, it's up to you." Yinhua knew that since her sister recovered from her illness last time, she had a lot of weird thoughts, anyway, there were many. Back it up, and she obeyed.

In this way, a lot of dogwood was picked, and Xu Ru's basket contained five or six catties. Yinhua asked her to take less because she was afraid that she would not be able to lift it, and the journey would take a long time.

When Xu Ru returned home, she felt that her heel was broken and her arm was sore and sad.Seeing the sweaty Yinhua on her back, Xu Ru thought to herself, these relatives are so sincere to her, she must make the family live a good life.

She busily plucked all the cornus officinalis one by one, squeezed out the seeds inside, spread the pulp on the sieve to dry, and then Yinhua helped to fetch two buckets of water, and put the picked wild grapes in the water. Wash it again, hang it in the yard, and wait for the water to dry before making wine.

(End of this chapter)