Wen Family Has a Wife

  Chapter 32 Substitutes for food

   When she found the target, she was not polite, and immediately let go and digging boldly.

  If Wen Youshan saw Tie Ding, his eyes would widen, after all, he had not seen Chen Ningya do such rough work for so many years.

  The wild taro is relatively small, and there will be a bunch of taro around a mother taro. Just loosen the soil on the surface and pull it hard, and the taro will come out. For Chen Ningya, this is a simple job.

  When she was busy, time passed quickly. When she came back to her senses, she realized that the taro around her was piled up like a hill. She hurriedly packed the things with the cloth bag on her body. It was about 60 to 70 catties.

  Chen Ningya looked at the unpicked taro with regret, thinking that she would have to come over next time.

  Once the things are packed, how to take them away is also a problem. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on her alone. After thinking about it, you still have to ask Wen Youshan to help.

   She was about to let go of her voice to call someone, but she didn't expect Wen Youshan to appear, "Miss, are you alright? I saw your basket was in the stream, and I thought you fell into the water."

   After saying that, Wen Youshan turned Chen Ningya around a few times, looked up and down carefully, and found that her body was fine except for the wet legs of her trousers, so she was relieved.

  Chen Ningya rolled her eyes helplessly, "It's fine even if the child falls into the stream, let alone an adult like me, hurry up, don't talk nonsense, help me carry this thing back first."

"What the hell, it has to weigh 60 to 70 pounds." Wen Youshan weighed it a few times and could estimate it. I really don't know how much time she can make so many things. Could it be that in this mountain? Is there really anything good?

Chen Ningya didn't have time to explain too much to her, so she walked ahead and said, "It's just something that will fill your stomach. When I go back, I plan to plant some of it and keep some of it as food. There's a lot more here. I'll get some more next time I come in, like this. You don't have to worry about being hungry anymore."

   "There is such a good thing!" Wen Youshan was excited, if it wasn't for Chen Ningya urging him to open the cloth bag to see what it was.

While they were talking, the two came to the place where the baskets were placed, Chen Ningya stepped on the stones and quietly approached the baskets in the middle of the water, quickly lifted the baskets, and smiled in surprise: "I caught them, but there are only a few, only six. "

  Wen Youshan saw that she liked it, and laughed: "I thought it was something, you like me to catch you, it will be fine soon."

   "Then be careful, this thing will bleed." Chen Ningya said worriedly.

However, it turned out that her worries were a bit unnecessary. Wen Youshan had always been naive in front of her, so much so that she forgot that the other party was the number one hunter in Fushan Village, and the crayfish was not threatening at all. Shan randomly found two arms-length branches, and after pinching them a few times like using chopsticks, he began to aim at the crayfish in the stream. The movement was called a quick, precise and ruthless little thing that was fierce in Chen Ningya's eyes. Youshan's hands are like little bugs, each clip is accurate.

After a while, the bottom of Chen Ningya's back basket was filled with crayfish. Roughly counted, there were about 20 or 30, which was not too small. .

  Wen Youshan simply grabbed more than a dozen times before he stopped. When they left, it was difficult to see the shadow of the crayfish in this section of the stream that they were so excited about. It was estimated that they either hid or ran away.

On the way back, Wen Youshan checked the traps again. These traps were distributed on both sides of the road. In order to prevent wild beasts, there were pits about 1.5 feet long. The sides were staggered and covered with branches. Youshan walked all the way and turned, and after seven or eight traps in a row, there was no prey.

   When the couple walked out of the deep mountains, there were two pheasants, a hare, and a non-poisonous snake on their bodies. Chen Ningya picked some wild peppers and wild vegetables at random. When they got home, they were full of things.

  The children playing in the yard looked up when they heard the movement, and hurried over to help.

   "Daddy, what did you bring back?" Wen Yuanliang stared at the big cloth bag that Wen Youshan put down, opened the hole, and was stunned when he saw what rolled out, "Dad, what is this?"

  Wen Youshan was also confused, he hesitated for a long time and couldn't say why, and even squatted down to study with Wen Yuanliang.

   Father and son stared at each other, Wen Yuanliang sighed helplessly, turned to look at Chen Ningya, "Mother, what is this?"

Chen Ningya was processing the crayfish, and replied without looking up: "That's taro, it can be used as a good food. Although it is midsummer now, the mountains are cool and not too hot. I plan to take some of them and try them on the hillside in the backyard. Kind of, if it were us this winter, we wouldn't have to go hungry."

When they heard that this thing could be eaten as food, several children looked cautious and didn't even dare to ask Chen Ningya to cook it. Wen Youshan quickly put the thing back into the cloth bag. He didn't understand this thing. Still don't **** ho.

Here, Chen Ningya has already put the crayfish in the basin to clean, she didn't dare to wash it directly, so she had to use a bamboo brush to keep stirring. .

  Because the oil is expensive, it is too extravagant to stir-fry it. Chen Ningya simply made it into a sauce and put some wild pepper. It was salty and numb, and it was quite enjoyable to eat.

Several children have never eaten crayfish, let alone this kind of sauce stew, and the bland green vegetables and brown rice porridge actually killed the whole pot of sauce stewed crayfish, and Chen Ningya only ate two, warm. Youshan didn't even use his chopsticks after paying for it. The whole big pot was almost eaten by three older children, so that they could hardly endure it.

   They sat slumped in the yard like little adults and rubbed their stomachs, which made people look really angry and funny.

   The next day, Wen Youshan went into the mountains to work as usual. As for the pheasant and hare he caught, he kept one, and asked the brothers in the village to sell the rest in the town, and he could also exchange them for hundreds of renminbi.

Chen Ningya led Wen Yuanliang and Wen Yuanzhen to the backyard hillside to open a plot. Their house was at the end of the mountainside, and behind the yard was the slope. No one cared, no one left, and no one could see them. No one would find out, but it was also because of this that there were overgrown weeds and snakes on the slopes, and the fences around them had to be regularly dewormed, otherwise they would have crawled into the yard long ago.

It is very difficult to open a sloping land. It depends on how long they have to do it. After thinking about it, Chen Ningya decided to draw out the land to be opened first, and then clean up the weeds on the edge, and the rest It was secretly burned while it was dark, and as long as the fire was put out before dawn, no fireworks would be left, and no one would find out.

   Wen Yuanliang was stunned when he heard Chen Ningya's plan, "Mother, if you don't get it right, it will turn into setting fire to the mountain!"

   "That's why I said it won't work for two days. Pick a windless night and burn it again." Chen Ningya made up her mind and started digging the ground.

  Wen Yuanliang shivered a bit, but he didn't open his mouth to persuade him, but instead he was a little excited. What happened?

   (end of this chapter)