I farmed and built a villa in ancient times

Chapter 73 Plum Wine 2
Zhou Chenyu watched Li Xiuju walk towards the entrance of Darongshu Village, and after a while, he came back happily carrying a piece of meat.

She looks much happier now than when Zhou Chenyu first traveled through time.

Zhou Chenyu laughed and teased her, "Old lady, didn't you just buy a piece of meat? Are you so happy?"

Li Xiuju was one of the first ones to go there, and the meat she bought was also good-quality fat and lean pork belly. "Of course, if you go to the market to buy this piece of meat, you have to spend a few more cents to buy it."

Zhou Chenyu used to buy meat when he saw thin ones in the supermarket. He picked them up casually and said, "Isn't this a piece of meat from a pig? I don't see any difference."

"You don't have a family, how do you know the quality of meat?" Li Xiuju added pointedly, "When you get a family in the future, you will know."

Not long after the issue of urging marriage subsided, Li Xiuju's thoughts began to surface again. Zhou Chenyu stuck out his tongue, silently closed his mouth, and said nothing to her again.

Li Xiuju glanced at her and happily put the meat back into the well and hung it up. When she walked out again, she saw a woman raking wet straw piles at the head of the field. A light flashed through her head, and she suddenly thought:
"It rained so much a while ago, so there should be a lot of straw mushrooms growing in the straw piles. The mushrooms are boiled with the pork, and the taste is indescribably sweet. When we finish here, Mom will go and have a look."

Picking up straw mushrooms?

Can straw grow mushrooms?
Zhou Chenyu had never heard of this. She was so bored at home these days that she finally had an excuse to go out. She immediately said excitedly: "I'll go too, I'll go too!"

"It hasn't been long since your legs and feet have recovered. Just stay at home and don't go anywhere." Li Xiuju rejected her idea without any hesitation.

Zhou Chenyu stamped his feet vigorously in front of her, shook Li Xiuju's arm, pretended to be pitiful while acting coquettishly, and said: "Old lady, my legs have healed long ago! Just let me go, and don't let me go out again." Come on, mushrooms are almost growing on my head, I beg you.”

"My hair is clean, how can mushrooms grow?" Li Xiuju was so annoyed by Zhou Chenyu that she had no choice but to say, "Okay, okay, mother, you are allowed to follow, you are allowed to follow."

Zhou Chenyu smiled slightly, "That's pretty much it."

The burned straw has been raked into the fields to be used as fertilizer, while the straw that was too late to be burned and had been exposed to rain could not be ignited, so it was piled on the ridge of the field or under the bamboo forest.

After weaving all the bamboo strips, Zhou Chenyu followed Li Xiuju to the fields wearing a rain hat.

There were several piles of straw just outside the entrance of Mingmingyuan. Li Xiuju insisted on taking a detour to the abandoned white house, "Old lady, why didn't you dig through those piles just now?"

"Those places that are visible to the naked eye must have been plowed over by people, and there is probably nothing left. We go to those remote places. The white house has a lot of shade and is cool. Everyone is threshing rice there, so there is naturally a lot of leftover straw. .”

"That's it." Zhou Chenyu silently remembered this survival skill in his heart. Li Xiuju stepped on the soft field ridge and climbed up the stone steps. There were several piles of straw that collapsed in the rain on the wasteland that was previously covered with mugwort. Pile, there is a faint smell of rot.

Zhou Chenyu knew that fungi liked these places the most.

They walked over and opened the haystack, and sure enough, many straw mushrooms appeared on it.

The head of the summer solstice mushroom is also umbrella-shaped, but the color is almost dark brown, while the unopened tip of the straw mushroom looks like a white ball, and the longer one looks like a newly opened umbrella. The bottom of the umbrella is white, and the head gradually becomes Dark purple.The heads of the older straw mushrooms are like a fully opened umbrella, and are dark purple or black in color. They are basically rotten, so they cannot be used.

Li Xiuju opened a pile, leaving Zhou Chenyu here to pick it up, while she went to other places.

The turned-over pile of straw was warm, and there were some small ants crawling on it. Zhou Chenyu carefully pulled out the straw mushrooms, which were scented with straw. After turning over the pile, he could grab it with one hand.

They are rare in quantity and difficult to preserve, so straw mushrooms cannot be bought at the market like summer solstice mushrooms. They are picked up and kept for home consumption.

"Chen Yu, have you finished picking them up over there? There are plenty of them here, come here quickly."

Li Xiuju was shouting over there. After Zhou Chenyu finished picking up the straw, he piled the straw again and immediately walked over to Li Xiuju, "Come on, come on!"

Zhou Chen's fish feet were free of restraints and he ran all the way over. Little Huangdou followed him running wildly in the grass.

Li Xiuju stared at her feet closely, her heart in her throat: "Chen Yu, please slow down, be careful with your feet."

The middle-aged woman who had finished digging taros on the other side of the forest heard her mother and son talking and walked out with a smile, "Where are you picking up straw mushrooms?"

When Li Xiuju saw that the person was Zhou Huilan, her neighbor diagonally across the house, she smiled and said, "Yes, it has been raining for a few days. I thought there would be straw mushrooms, so I came out to try my luck. I never thought there would be any. Look. , all of them are so big.”

Zhou Huilan smiled and nodded, "It's quite big. Your daughter is looking for something even bigger."

Zhou Chenyu still doesn't recognize the aunt in the village, so when he meets someone he doesn't know well, he can't go wrong with a polite smile and a wild compliment, "Auntie, these taros are grown well, one can feed several meals."

"It's not bad." Zhou Huilan was very impressed, her eyes were full of crow's feet when she smiled, and she exchanged business compliments, "But compared with your sugar water business, my ability to cook this kind of food is far behind."

However, this exchange of business compliments had the opposite effect on Zhou Chenyu. Her healed wound seemed to be torn open and a handful of salt was sprinkled on it. For a moment, she didn't know whether to laugh or not. cry.

Zhou Huilan also gradually realized that what she said was inappropriate, so she quickly put the taro into the dustpan and put it aside. She saw a few piles of unturned straw under the tree. When she lifted it with a shovel, many straw mushrooms emerged.

She pulled out a large taro lotus leaf, knelt down and picked up a little bit too. Then she saw the wound on Zhou Chenyu's leg that had been wiped with the medicinal juice, and asked curiously:
"I heard that Chen Yu went to set up a stall on the street, and the business was going well. Unfortunately, Qian Rushan kept picking on him one after another. The business went bad, and he even got injured all over his body. Did you get the foot injury at that time?"

Zhou Chenyu caught a glimpse of Li Xiuju's expression changing, stood up and took two steps, "It's nothing, my feet are almost healed."

"That bastard Qian Rushan is really nothing!" Zhou Huilan cursed angrily, stuffed straw mushrooms into taro and lotus leaves, looked at Zhou Chenyu, and sighed with pity, "If you go out early and come back late to do business, you can earn nothing. It's hard-earned money. You are a girl after all, and doing this will not last long after all. Has your marriage been settled? You are handsome, so why not find a good man to marry. If you have a man to support you, you won't have to suffer these hardships in the future. "

If you have a man, you can feed and clothe yourself?
Who drew this pie?
If she hadn't lived for more than twenty years, her father didn't care for her, her mother didn't love her, and even the money for college was earned by her work-study program, she would have really believed this nonsense.

(End of this chapter)