OBS Chapter 390: Wild Vegetables No One Wants
Chapter 390: Wild Vegetables No One Wants
Zhou Guo was a little dazed, thinking that there were no vegetables at home and that fern tasted good, so he put down the backpack and started picking them with his two little hands.
Seeing this, Zhou Xing also came to help.
Chen and Li were walking at the back. Seeing the two men picking bracken, they couldn't help but ask, "Why are they picking this? This vegetable is nasty, bitter, and slippery. When it's fried, it looks like snot stuck to your nose. It's not tasty at all."
He said this with a look of disgust, as if he had eaten something, and even spat twice.
Zhou Xing froze in place, not knowing whether to pinch it or not, it seemed that it didn't taste very good.
Zhou Guo was still pinching the vegetables, and smiled when he heard it: "Aunt, there isn't a single vegetable growing in the garden yet. If we don't eat this, what else can we eat? We'll be lucky if we don't die from eating the wild vegetables we have now. How can we be so picky?"
After saying that, he looked at Zhou Xing and said, "Sister, hurry up and pluck them. It's such a large patch, pluck them longer, and then we can tie them up with wild vines and take them back."
Li had no choice but to join in the fight. She couldn't just leave the two children here and go down the mountain by herself, so she said to Chen, "Your wife is still waiting for us at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you go down first? I'll do the work for our girl for a while. She won't go back until I'm done. She has to rest here tonight."
Chen also put down her backpack and said, "Then I'll pick some to eat. Although it's a bit bitter, it's still a delicacy. The two old people like it very much. I'll bring some back for them."
Several people started picking wild vegetables on the mountain.
The men who were collecting wood at the foot of the mountain had been waiting there for a long time.
The couple in the family have a clear division of labor. The man collects firewood at the foot of the mountain, while the woman goes up the mountain to pick mushrooms. When the man collects firewood, he will also go up the mountain to help pick mushrooms for a few hours. After all, a pound of mushrooms is not cheap. They basically collect firewood when they go up the mountain, and then go up the mountain again after collecting it. When they see that the things they brought are full, or it has been a long time, they will go down the mountain to sort out the firewood and wait to go home together.
The old man was guarding a pile of firewood and eating steamed buns and barbecue. He waited and waited, but still no one saw him coming down. Finally, he could not sit still anymore. He moved his ears and heard the large group coming down from above.
When he arrived, he looked around and didn't see any of his family members.
Seeing him peeking out, everyone laughed and said, "Old man, let me tell you that your little disciple came across a patch of wild vegetables when he was going down the mountain. He is happily picking them now. The patch is so large that it may take too long to pick them all. I think you have to wait a little longer."
The old man thanked him.
Everyone went down the mountain chatting and laughing, carrying sheep mushrooms and firewood.
As they walked, they complained about the unpalatable wild vegetables, "Why does the little girl from the Zhou family like the fern? It's so bitter, slippery, and tastes so weird..."
The old man sighed and placed a few rabbits and pheasants beside him. The rabbits were still alive. He thought that Zhou Su and the others had nothing to do at home, so he found something for them to do.
Otherwise, everyone is tired of eating rabbits, so who would want to eat rabbits?
The mountain is large and there are many animals, but considering that there were so many villagers following him, he chose inconspicuous rabbits and pheasants, which were not inconspicuous.
Zhou Guo wanted to pick all the ferns home, but there were too many to pick them all. Zhou Xing was still trying to tie them up, and there were already more than ten bundles on the ground.
Li said, "Forget it, go back. Your Aunt Chen has a family waiting for you. Save these for tomorrow. No one will snatch them from you anyway. These are all yours."
Mrs. Chen smiled and said, "Guoguo, if you like to eat it, Aunt Chen knows several places with large tracts of ferns like this one. I guarantee that you can pick enough ferns not only for this year, but also for next year."
Zhou Guo said okay with a smile, and finally stopped pinching. These were enough for several meals. If they couldn’t finish them, they could spread them in the jar and make sauerkraut. If the jar couldn’t hold any more, the remaining ones could be dried and stewed with meat, which was also delicious.
Zhou Guo picked up the ten or so bundles of vegetables in one hand and swayed them as he walked. If you didn't know, you would think they were some small gadgets.
Although Chen had seen this many times, she was still shocked and said to Li: "Your Guoguo is really strong!"
Li could only laugh dryly, "I learned a few moves from the old man, so naturally I am stronger than an ordinary person."
At the foot of the mountain, the old man and Chen's man stared at each other and only said three sentences in a long while.
"Oh, you're here too?"
"Well, are you waiting for your wife?"
"Yes!"
Then it was gone.
The old man thought that Chen was a smooth talker, but the men in the family were a bit shy.
Zhou Guo was walking in the front at this time. When he saw the old man, he waved from a distance, "Master, Master, we are back."
When he got closer, he found that Chen's man was sitting opposite him, and he greeted him with a smile, "Uncle Wu, you are here too!"
The man smiled and nodded.
Zhou Guo ignored him, twisted his body and moved his backpack closer to the old man, and said with a smile: "Master, look, this is the goat mushroom that Aunt Chen mentioned. It is said to be very delicious. Let's try to stir-fry it when we get home."
Chen laughed and said, "Don't add insult to injury. I didn't say it tastes good. We haven't eaten it before."
"Ah?" All the men present except Chen were surprised, "You haven't eaten it before?"
Chen said, "What's so surprising about this? This thing is so expensive, how can we afford to eat it? Forty cents a pound, I am poor and cannot afford to eat this. This precious thing is only suitable for rich people."
Li sighed, thinking back to previous years, when her family had gone up the mountain to pick up small flower mushrooms and chestnuts, and they had to sell them instead of eating them. It was all the same. The money from the sales could be used in a variety of ways. It could be used to buy needles, thread, oil, salt, and some cloth. Wasn't it much better than eating those two bites of food?
Zhou Guo's small backpack was given to Zhou Xing. She picked up two dead trees on the ground, tied ferns on them, and carried them easily, thinking that she must prepare a meal in the evening to try them, as they tasted very delicious.
arrive home.
Everyone rushed out to look at the bumpy fungi in the backpack, and they were amazed. "What is this thing? How did it grow like this?"
I heard it was wild mushroom.
They all felt incredible, "There are so many strange things in the world, and there are fungi that grow like this, ugly and beautiful at the same time."
The pheasants that were hunted were scalded in boiling water to remove their feathers.
Stewed pheasant with lamb mushrooms is the most common way of cooking, and everyone at home can make it.
Zhou Guo also planned to make a stir-fry dish. He put the eggs into the pan and stir-fry the garlic slices. He then put the shredded lamb mushrooms into the pan and stir-fry the eggs evenly. He then added a little salt and served it. He could smell a strong aroma.
Wash the bracken you picked, blanch it in a pot for a while, and soak it in cold water for a while to remove the bitterness.
There was one last piece of bacon on the beam. I bought a lot of fresh meat during the spring plowing and didn’t eat it all, so I just cut off a piece and fried it with bracken.