funbook-pk Chapter 8 Just like Arrow 1, right?
Chapter 8 Just like Arrow 1, right?
He actually took the dug grass and washed it. Is he really going to cook it later?
No, if that were the case, she would definitely stop her later.
Children love to play, maybe they are playing house with Minghua. Thinking this way, Mrs. Zhou felt that it was quite reasonable.
Viola yedoensis is extremely difficult to wash. It has many branches and leaves, as well as flowers and pedicels. One plant has dozens of leaves, which are very small. The roots need to have the outer layer of skin scraped off with something hard, otherwise the mud on it will not be clean even if you wash it ten times.
After Mrs. Zhou's lunch was ready, she finally washed the small handful of wild vegetables.
"Sister, it's time to eat, why aren't you back yet? I picked up some bird eggs today~"
Zhou Mingyuan stood behind the house and shouted at the top of his voice, so loudly that he seemed afraid that she couldn't hear him.
"I'm coming."
Controlling the water, she ran over in small steps.
Today, grandma picked some wild garlic and garlic sprouts, so she had to have a bite or two to taste them.
When all the family members are present, they can start eating.
The eldest son of the Zhou family also asked her where she had been, and she answered honestly.
Xiao Minghua took a bite of the wild vegetable steamed bun and said, "Uncle, my third sister dug a basket of wild vegetables today, enough for several meals."
Zhou Mingshu stopped and looked at his little cousin. This little girl always spoke to the point.
"Oh~ good, you are very capable and deserve a reward. Eat more bird eggs." Zhou Shouren smiled and picked up the largest piece of bird egg and put it in his eldest niece's bowl.
Although the others were craving for this bit of meat, they could not help themselves.
The bird eggs were taken out by someone else's younger brother, and the wild vegetables were also dug by someone else. The child had a wound on his head, and I washed their clothes, so it was reasonable for him to eat the bigger bird eggs.
Old Mrs. Zhou looked at her third daughter-in-law beside her, chewing the steamed bun in her mouth, and rarely spoke. No one knew what wild vegetables San Ya dug, but she and her third daughter-in-law knew it all.
Seeing that her mother-in-law was silent, Feng ate her meal in silence.
The taste of natural garlic and garlic sprouts is very good, with a strong flavor of leeks. They are even more fragrant and crisper than leeks. However, the seasonings at home are really limited, so I didn’t make them delicious.
However, this is also a delicacy.
After lunch, the adults went into the house to rest.
However, Zhou Mingzhi and Zhou Mingjie were pulled into the kitchen by Zhou Mingshu.
"Brother, Mingjie, just use the kitchen knife to slowly sharpen the stick until it's pointed. Don't sharpen it too hard, or it'll break easily. Don't sharpen it too bluntly, or you won't be able to poke out the meat..."
She talked a lot of nonsense, confusing Zhou Mingzhi and Zhou Mingjie.
"I say, second sister, what do you want?"
Zhou Mingzhi scratched his head. What on earth was this thing that his second sister was talking about used for?
"This stick is our first essential 'weapon' for eating sheep dung snails today. Without this thing, the meat of the sheep dung snail cannot be poked out!"
"Oh, Third Sister, I understand. Isn't it just sharpening a stick with a pointy end? It's just like an arrow, right?"
"Yes, yes, Mingjie, you are really smart."
Zhou Mingshu touched the back of his cousin's head and found that such a big head was indeed not in vain.
"Okay, how many do you want to cut? One for each person?"
"At least one for each person. If you can't carve them out, carve a few durable and sturdy ones. We'll need them this afternoon."
"Okay, Mingjie and I will definitely be able to carve it out for you."
As they spoke, the two men each took a kitchen knife and started to peel.
Zhou Mingshu was also busy. She was exhausted from washing a bunch of violets at noon, and she was not in time for lunch yet.
No matter what, we have to add two more dishes for everyone's dinner.
She picked out the dry grass and rotten leaves one by one. After this process, the Viola yedoensis became much cleaner.
It will be less tiring to wash later.
After picking for a while, Zhou Mingqi went to the toilet and turned into the kitchen.
"What are you doing? Hmm? Mingshu, what kind of vegetables are you picking?"
Zhou Mingqi and his elder brother and younger brothers had no doubts about the wild vegetables she picked.
To get to this stage of vegetable selection must have been supervised by my grandma.
Because there was nothing to eat at home, my grandmother often asked in the village what wild vegetables could be eaten.
Now that new varieties have been added, they can also change the taste, which is worth looking forward to.
"This is called Viola yedoensis, both the root and the leaves can be eaten, and it can also clear away heat and relieve summer heat. It's just the right time to eat it now. By the way, you and big sister should come back early this afternoon, I'm afraid I can't finish all the snails by myself."
"Don't worry, I've talked to my father and he's agreed. My elder sister and I will be back very soon."
"Yeah, okay, let's wait for some delicious food tonight."
Hearing this, several people laughed.
They are all at the age when they can eat, and nothing is more important than having a full stomach.
In one afternoon, Zhou Mingzhi and Zhou Mingjie cut a total of twenty bamboo sticks.
It’s enough. Even if some of them break while eating, there are still some left over.
In the afternoon, Boss Zhou took a group of people to reclaim wasteland again.
There were a lot of gravel in that piece of wasteland, and after sweeping it back and forth, everyone had picked up most of it.
You can plant something now, but if you want the soil to be more fertile, you have to mulch it a few times and then apply some fertilizer.
The family eats little, so even though there are a lot of people, the farm manure is not enough. When he has a few days of free time, he has to find something to do.
Zhou Mingshu spent the whole afternoon picking Viola yedoensis.
Old Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Feng were taking care of the vegetable garden at home and had no time to pay attention to her, so they asked Minghua to play with her.
This way they won’t have the children following them around to get in the way while they’re working.
Some long beans and cucumbers are planted in the vegetable garden. Winter melon and pumpkin have also sprouted, and the broad beans against the wall have also begun to climb up the wall.
Old Mrs. Zhou took care of it very carefully, and she couldn't stop smiling as she looked at the seedlings that were growing very well.
The same is true for Feng.
These are their future food rations, the more the better.
They prepared some sticks and tied very strong sticks in front of each seedling to help them climb.
Only when you wait for the fruits to be harvested can you produce more fruits.
Old Mrs. Zhou used a shovel to move the melon seedlings to the backyard.
These melon seedlings will not be fully grown until autumn, and when they are climbing up the vines, they are so large that they will not be close to the cucumbers and beans, thus saving them nutrients.
After finishing these things, they started to worry about dinner.
What to eat in the evening?
In the closet, there was only a bag of corn, and some leftover vegetable steamed buns from lunch.
The second and third sons have gone to carry the heavy bags and haven't come back yet, so we have to eat at home by then.
Old Mrs. Zhou gritted her teeth and decided to cook some wild vegetable and corn porridge tonight, and add more corn.
I will use the money I earn from carrying the heavy bags to let the second son exchange it for some grain at the grain store in town. If they continue to eat like this, everyone in the family will lose their energy.