Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 28 Xiao Yin hides in the room

Now that Li Xiangqin is here, she was going to cook.

Men take charge of the outside and women take charge of the house. This is the model for building the foundation of the family in this era.

Women are very good at cooking, and they have an instinctive sense of responsibility for cooking.

Not only do you have to cook well to entertain guests when they come to your home, but even if you go to a relative's home as a guest, you won't just sit and wait for the meal, and you will usually help them.

When Li Xiangqin came to Li Muyang's house, she didn't treat herself as a guest. She naturally had to cook.

But Li Muyang persuaded him to return.

Li Muyang asked her to talk to her mother today, and he would cook the food.

After today, he was going to dig Cordyceps in the mountains again, so Li Xiangqin would naturally have to worry about cooking at home.

Only then did Li Xiangqin stop insisting.

I took off my shoes and ran to the kang, lying next to my mother to chat with her.

Although she may be a bit willful and squeamish, she is very sweet-tongued and can always make her mother happy, which is also a skill.

When Li Muyang came out of the room, he did not go to the kitchen immediately to cook. Instead, he ran to the room next door where the debris was kept, opened the debris in the corner, and dug out a dirty brown jar underneath.

The mouth of the jar was wrapped with waste plastic paper and covered with a lid, which sealed it quite well.

It took some effort for him to open the jar, take out another small jar, open the jar again, and then take out a roll of money.

This is the money he originally saved, a total of 75 yuan.

At first, he would always carry money with him, but later he found that it was inconvenient to carry it with him all the time. It would be easy to drop and might be stolen or robbed.

too unsafe.

It is relatively safer to leave it at home.

But the problem is that in this era, there are always thieves at home, and maybe thieves will come to steal things.If it is placed on the open surface or in a regular storage place such as a clothes box, it will definitely not be hidden.

There are not many petty thieves in Wangjiacun, but there are often thieves from other villages wandering around to commit crimes. For example, in Wangjiacun... which is also Wang Tianxiao's village, there is a family named Cao, which is the Wang family of thieves.

They have been thieves for generations.

Their reputation as thieves was well known, and they robbed almost every village in the vicinity for dozens of miles. They killed countless people and did not even remember the disease.

Li Muyang was a little jealous of this kind of thief.

It must be shameless for them to steal.

If you don't catch it, they will definitely not admit it. If you catch it by chance, they will look like dead pigs who are not afraid of boiling water. What can you do to them?

A beating, they don't care at all.

If you hit me hard, you still have to be responsible.

For example, the woman from the Cao family was beaten and crippled after stealing. Instead of stopping, she led her children to steal even more violently.

There is nothing the villagers can do against such a person.

It's like a pile of smelly dog ​​shit is placed in front of you. If you don't want to pay attention to her, she will stink at you. But if you want to kick it away, then I'm sorry. I don't know whether it flies away. Your feet will be dirty anyway.

In view of this situation, Li Muyang must hide his money well.

In the hearts of the villagers, he didn't have much money to begin with, and the thief wouldn't think that he would stuff the money under a pile of garbage and wood.

But you can’t be careless about hiding money in jars. They need to be protected from moisture as well as mice.

There are so many rats in this era that they can eat people.

When you go to bed at night, you can hear mice running around and fighting on the ground. People who often make noises cannot sleep at all.

If the mouth of the jar is not sealed, the mouse will not care whether it is paper or money.

As long as they can eat, they will be exhausted.Li Muyang first wrapped the money in rags, and wrapped many circles of plastic paper around the outside to prevent moisture. After putting the money into the jar, he struggled to fasten the lid of the jar.

After placing the jar into the jar, the mouth of the jar was reinforced again.

Seal it tightly and thoroughly, firmly.

Not to mention mice, even weasels may not be able to bite them open right now.

He put the jar back in its original position, put the old wooden board on the jar again, piled garbage around it, and took the spider from the wall behind and put it here.

Return to the door and observe carefully to make sure that it is so strong and concealed that even Bao Qingtian may not be able to find it.

Then Chu locked the door and went to the kitchen to cook.

Now he has a total of 300 yuan in his jar.

Considered a huge sum of money.

In my previous life, I couldn't save enough money throughout the year, so I never got a wife.

This time, in just 7 days, I had the income of previous years, which is very good.

If this trend continues, when the cordyceps are almost dug out, the money in his jar may reach more than 1000 yuan.

With satisfaction, Li Muyang came to the kitchen.

The vegetables I bought were placed in the corner of the kitchen. I would look at them and start planning what to eat.

After thinking about it, my eyes suddenly lit up.

Didn't it rain just this morning? Why not go to the alfalfa field to find some ground to eat.

The so-called Di Ranran is a kind of dialect.

Li Muyang seemed to remember his daughter once telling him that the scientific name of earth should be "lichen" or "ear".

The word "ran" is a word that Longdong people particularly like to say, and it probably means "sticky", "confused" and the like.

For example, people here call a person "Ran Zi", and call someone who is very unreasonable and stubborn "Ran Zi".

Li Muyang didn't know how Di Ranran was formed, but he knew when it was formed and how to eat it to make it delicious.

Generally speaking, ground will appear on some nutrient-rich grass. You don't notice it when the weather is sunny on weekdays. Once it rains, it will grow very fast and a layer will appear on the ground.

The most common place among them is alfalfa fields.

Alfalfa is a kind of grass, its main purpose is to feed livestock, and cattle and sheep like to eat it.

When tender, it can also be used as pig grass, or used to feed rabbits, chickens, etc.

If it is more tender, that is, when the small alfalfa sprouts have just grown out of the ground and are about an inch or two in size, they can be picked and eaten.

There are many ways to eat it.

Alfalfa is a perennial herbaceous plant. As long as the roots are not dug out, it is like a leek. It can be cut in one crop without finishing.

Buds bud at the transition of spring and summer every year and bloom in late summer. If they are not cut in time, they will bear fruit in autumn.

When the weather gets cold, alfalfa will no longer continue to grow. After dormant for a winter, it can continue to sprout in spring and continue to grow.

Lichens, also known as lichen, like to appear in alfalfa fields.

Every year at the transition period between spring and summer, the land will naturally appear, and you can eat it until the seventh or eighth month of the lunar calendar. As long as it rains, you can eat it.

Li Muyang thought of this, and when he looked at the celery he bought, he found that the rapeseed didn't smell good anymore.

Apart from anything else in the mountains, there must be a lot of wild vegetables at this time. Why do we have to stick to vegetables that everyone can eat?
Wouldn’t it be more delicious to collect all kinds of wild vegetables and eat them with their original taste?

As far as he knew, there were dozens of dishes that could be eaten at this time.

(End of this chapter)