Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 29 In the Alfalfa Field (Additional Chapter)
"Qinqin, you stay with mother. I'll go grab some alfalfa sprouts and come back. We'll make buns for dinner tonight."

Li Muyang stood at the door and shouted.

"You want to make a bun? Then go ahead, brother, you can bring it back and I will help you make the buns."

"it is good."

Li Muyang put on the broken rain boots placed under the eaves, tied up his trouser legs, and walked towards the mountain carrying a small basket.

Living at the foot of the mountain is convenient. Although he has not planted any crops, there is a lot of wild alfalfa growing on the mountain ridge, which tastes even better than the alfalfa he grows himself.

Free and inexhaustible.

Don't underestimate this alfalfa. Li Muyang heard from his mother that during those difficult years, people didn't think much about eating it. All the alfalfa in the mountains was pulled out and eaten clean, and the alfalfa roots in many places were also pulled up and chewed. .

Many people owe their survival to alfalfa.

Ten minutes later, Li Muyang arrived at the foot of the mountain.

The mountains here are not the kind of terrain that goes straight up and down, but stack up layer by layer, a bit like a hilly area.

There are basically no trees at the location closest to the foot of the mountain, only some very low shrubs and bushes growing, and more of all kinds of weeds.

Don't underestimate weeds. Many are just delicate weeds in other places. In a place like this where there are no restrictions, they will grow unbridled.

For example, iceweed is the most common and most annoying weed to farmers.

This kind of weed looks very similar to leeks and wheat seedlings. It is used as an ornamental plant in other places or for laying lawns. It is a very good thing.

But in the mountains, this guy is like algae in the water. It will continue to reproduce desperately until all nearby places are covered with ice grass.

The vitality of ice grass is very tenacious. As long as there is a trace of roots in the ground, it will reproduce in a large area.Even if you dig it out of the soil, if it is not dried in time and placed on the ground casually, it will stubbornly re-insert its roots into the soil.

Moreover, ice grass grows very luxuriantly in the mountains. If there is enough rain, it can even grow to more than one meter high. From a distance, if you don't look carefully, you might think it is a wheat field.

Li Muyang was holding a basket in one hand and a stick in the other. He kept hitting ice grass from left to right and moved forward cautiously.

He was going to the alfalfa field, so instead of taking the regular mountain trail, he planned to cross directly through the ice grass field, which would save a lot of distance.

But this season, there are already snakes in the mountains.

Grass snakes are easy to appear in ice grasslands like this. If you are not careful, you will get a bite from them.

Most of these snakes are not venomous, but it is not entirely certain that nothing will happen to them.

Still be careful.

Snakes in the mountains are generally afraid of humans and will rarely attack humans unless humans encroach on their living space or encounter them on a narrow road and suddenly encounter them by chance.

Just keep hitting it with the stick along the way, and you can basically scare the snake away.

Many people in the village like to eat snake meat and make snake soup, but Li Muyang found it a bit hard to eat.

To some extent, he was still a bit taboo about this kind of thing.

He is not a particularly superstitious person, but he also believes that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be punished with evil. He is still a bit wary of some more mysterious things.

Especially after he was reborn, he firmly believed in the existence of magical power in the dark.

Walking through the ice grassland all the way, there is an entire mountain ridge of alfalfa fields in front of us.

Just after a spring rain, the alfalfa buds were green and tender. From a distance, the mountain ridge seemed to be covered with a thin green quilt.

This can be regarded as the last mountain ridge without planted trees.

The ridge above is already full of peach trees, and facing up is Peach Mountain.Li Muyang knelt down and began to pinch alfalfa sprouts.

It is the most comfortable and convenient season to pinch alfalfa sprouts. The alfalfa sprouts almost everywhere on the ground are very tender and can be picked and eaten at will.

If after a while, most of the alfalfa sprouts start to get old, and if you want to eat alfalfa sprouts again, you need to find the kind of sprouts that don't grow well at the corners, which is much more difficult.

Just like when corn just comes out of the cob, you can easily find edible cobs in the field. But if you want to find some more cobs that can be cooked in autumn, you have to look for those crooked melons and cracked dates because of malnutrition. Ungrown corn stalks.

"My family lives on the loess high slope~
A strong wind blew from the slope~
Whether it’s northwest wind or southeast wind~
They are all my songs, my songs~"

Li Muyang was roaring songs at the top of his lungs while pinching alfalfa sprouts happily.

Tenderly, he pinched one and put it in the basket, and then pinched another and put it in the basket. He felt very satisfied when he watched the bottom of the basket slowly being covered, and then there were more layers.

Or is this kind of life more suitable for me?

In his previous life, because he was alone, his children did not trust him, and his daughter even took him to live in Hangzhou. As a result, he lived in a bright and clean building, but he was uncomfortable. He did not think about food or tea all day long, and he often got sick. .

Wherever he went, people of his own age said things he didn't understand. He couldn't find anyone to talk to, and he was so lonely that he died.

Born to be tired, there is nothing I can do about it.

Just like my mother, she lay on the kang all day long and couldn't move, but she still couldn't finish worrying.

Because the supply was sufficient, it only took Li Muyang less than half an hour to pick up more than half of the basket of alfalfa. He weighed it and felt it was almost enough.

The remaining purpose is to find the land.

The soil is a combination of mycelium and bacteria, so it usually appears in very humid places where alfalfa does not grow well around it, so that it can absorb more energy.

Specifically, it is quite easy to find. Just look where the ground is bald and the alfalfa is sparse. You can find it there.

Standing up straight, he looked around, and sure enough he found an open space not far away.

He ran over with the basket in hand.

After running a few steps, a shadow suddenly swooped past him. He was startled and turned around quickly, only to find that it was a little gray-furred fox with a pheasant in its mouth.

The little fox didn't actually run very fast. If Li Muyang turned around and chased after him, he might still be able to catch up.

But he just smiled and ignored it.

There are also some small animals here in Taoshan, but they are just small things. In other words, there are no ferocious beasts in the entire Guoziling.

Unlike Yangziling, which is dozens of kilometers to the west, the mountains there are connected to Ziwuling. It is said that there are jackals and bears in the mountains, and there have been incidents of leopards eating children, which is very scary.

Therefore, there are many hunters there, and there is also a man from Lijia Village who often goes there to hunt. Once, he even brought back a small wild boar, which made the people in the village envious to death.

In this era, everyone has no money to eat meat, but a wild boar can kill a lot of meat.

Those days, the fragrant smell of cooking meat was always rising in that family's yard, causing many little children to gather around other people's doors all day long, just wanting to take the opportunity to smell more of the smell of meat.

The biggest beast in Guoziling is the fox. Occasionally, we see some badgers, but they are not very ferocious, and we have never heard of anything hurting anyone.

That's why the pheasants here can have room to survive.

What was taken away by the little fox just now was a male pheasant, with its long feathers still dragging on the ground.

When Li Muyang was a child, he liked to play with pheasant feathers. He stuck it in the back collar of his clothes, a bit like the Monkey King in Qin Opera.

　This is an extra update, and I will decide to test the waters again tomorrow. Please remember to read the latest chapter tomorrow, otherwise I will not be able to swim again and cry to death.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)