The first peasant daughter of the green garden

Chapter 45 Uphill Mushroom Picking

"Three pennies apiece."

Three pennies a piece, a bit expensive.But it’s still a good deal, “Excuse me, is this a female duck?”

"Mine is a pure female duck, and there is absolutely no male duck in it."

Li Caiwei nodded and pondered for a while, if buying a duck can still lay eggs, the duck can be sold in the market during the Chinese New Year, and it will kill two birds with one stone.

"Grandma, I want to buy 20." The grandma gave her a bamboo basket to hold ducklings. She wanted to buy some more chickens, but chickens are difficult to raise and she has no experience in raising ducks.

The family also has land now, so they should buy some vegetable seeds.Li Caiwei happily took the duckling to the seed shop to buy witty seeds.I saw a variety of seeds displayed in the seed shop.I also bought two grams of carrot seeds, five grams of white radish seeds, eight grams of cabbage seeds, four grams of lettuce seeds, and one gram of celery seeds.

After carefully thinking about what else is missing at home, every night when I sleep on the hard bed, I feel flustered.It seems that I still have to buy a quilt. The weather is still very hot, so I can just buy a thin quilt.After buying the quilt, I bought a lot of vegetables and specially bought a chicken. It is rare for the family to eat meat, so I have to eat a meat supplement.Chicken is a rare dish. One is that chickens are difficult to raise, and the other is that chickens grow slowly. The price of chickens on the market is several times more expensive than ducks.

When the ox cart arrived at the entrance of the village, seeing Liu Jiacheng standing there, he happily got out of the ox cart with the bought things.The two returned home with a full load of things.

The ducklings are easy to get sick when they are just bought, so they have to be taken care of all the time. "Dididi..." She threw a little rice in, and when she called out, the ducks flapped their immature wings happily.Seeing the ducks flopping happily, I don't know how happy I am.Three-month-old ducks will mature, and it will be almost Chinese New Year by then.

Li Caiwei tied up her hair, and took out the vegetables she bought today from her bag, a handful of beans, a few eggplants, half a catty of pepper, and three taels of lean meat.The meat is perishable, so it needs to be cured with salt.Other vegetables can be stored in a cool place in the backyard for a period of time.

She calculated it carefully, and it was enough for two people to feed for a day, but it would not work after having ducks, and an extra two or two meters would be needed.About [-] to [-] catties of rice are needed a month. When the ducks grow up, they can't eat rice, they have to be fed rice.It costs nearly [-] Wen in a month. If you keep spending and have no income, the money will be used up sooner or later. You have to find a way to earn some money.

In the evening, I cooked three dishes, one with stir-fried beans, one with chili fried meat, and one with garlic mashed eggplant.It’s the first time that the food at home is so good. I used to eat porridge every day, and sometimes sweet potatoes to satisfy my hunger. Now it’s better, I can have rice every day, and I have to buy some flour and make some dumplings when I have time.

Li Caiwei handed Liu Jiacheng a full bowl of rice, and filled half of it herself.

As dusk approaches, the afterglow of the setting sun falls on the bamboo forest on the back hill and the plum tree next to the yard.A few rays of sunlight quietly fell on the few strands of hair under her temples. She glanced at the little yellow duck at the door, which was chirping and calling. It must have been playing with each other after eating!A smile couldn't help but fell into his clear and dark eyes.

Li Caiwei picked up some lean meat for him, "Jia Cheng, eat more meat."

Liu Jiacheng also took a piece of lean meat and sent it to her bowl.

Seeing him eat big mouthfuls, I feel inexplicably relieved, "Jiacheng, tomorrow I will go to the mountain to find some mushrooms, and I will make you chicken stewed with mushrooms, have you ever eaten it?"

Liu Jiacheng shook his head.Li Caiwei added vegetables to his bowl again, "It's not the busy farming season yet, I'll go up to the mountains tomorrow to pick some mushrooms, and check if there are any wild vegetables. When I get busy at the end of August and early September, I'll go find some farm work. You don’t have to use cash all the time.”

"Yes." Liu Jiacheng nodded.The thick black eyebrows looked more delicate.

Aunt Nian happened to pass by the door with the vegetables, and when she saw a duck calling at the door, she immediately called out, "I'm a daughter-in-law, how much is this little duck?"

Li Caiwei walked to the door with her rice bowl in her hand, "Aunt Nian, I bought [-] for three Wen each."

"I think the duck's coat color is uniform, and the duck should be pure."

"I was also afraid of buying a bad duck, so I asked the person who bought the duck."

"It's August, and the ducks will grow up in a few months, and you can eat duck meat during the Chinese New Year."

Li Caiwei said happily: "I think so too. Ducks can lay eggs, and when they grow up, they can be sold in the market."

"Isn't it? Ducks are difficult to raise when they are young. When they grow up, you just need to feed them, and basically don't care about them." Aunt Nian knew that Li Caiwei had no land, and this countryman had no land and no land, so he had to go shopping for vegetables. This life was not easy. up.It happened that I just picked a lot of vegetables from the field, took a handful from the basket, and handed it to Li Caiwei, "The family is a wife, and your house has no land. I just picked a basket of water spinach, and I will give you a handful." He said: "There's been plenty of rain recently. Tomorrow I'll go to the mountain to collect mushrooms. Are you going?"

She was still thinking about going to the mountain to step on some mushrooms, and she happened to have a companion when she went together, "Go, I just want to go to the mountain tomorrow."

"Alright, I'll wake you up tomorrow morning. This fungus is a precious thing. It will disappear within a few hours after it grows."

"Okay, then I'll get up early tomorrow."

The next day, Li Caiwei prepared a bamboo basket, fearing that there would be too many thorns in the mountains, so she specially wore a long-sleeved one.

As soon as he left the house, he happened to see Aunt Nian coming over with a bamboo basket.

Liu Ergou's daughter-in-law was sharp-eyed, watching Aunt Nian pass by the door, and immediately shouted: "Aunt Nian, are you going up the mountain to pick mushrooms?"

Aunt Nian hehe said, "Yes."

"Hey, you went up the mountain so early, wait for me later, I want to pick it too, otherwise there will be no mushrooms on the mountain in a few days." Liu Ergou's wife glanced sharply at the man who came out of the house. Li Caiwei shouted with a bright voice: "Jia Cheng's daughter-in-law, why don't you step on mushrooms? Let's go together."

She still doesn't know what this fungus is, but seeing what Liu Ergou's daughter-in-law said, she knows that it must be a good thing.

"Let's go together then."

Aunt Nian approached her and whispered: "Every year, the women in the village go to the mountains to collect mushrooms. This Liu Ergou wife is annoying. The mushrooms have to grow to three inches before they can be eaten, but this Liu Ergou wife Pull up the roots that have just grown, and the mushrooms will not grow in the second year. If this continues, the mushrooms will become extinct.”

Liu Ergou's daughter-in-law snorted, knowing that Aunt Nian must be talking about herself behind her back, "Aunt Nian, there is nothing wrong with you, you just like to speak ill of people behind your back."

When Aunt Nian heard this, her face darkened, she was not happy about being told.Li Caiwei didn't like Liu Ergou's daughter-in-law at all, but it was not easy to refuse in person. The aunt was getting old, and this Liu Ergou's wife was strong and strong, so she could help out if something happened, so the three of them went up the mountain together.

(End of this chapter)