Talking while walking, we soon arrived at the brigade headquarters.

The team leader had already arranged the work, and each team leader took the people from his team and went to the assigned fields.

Xu Ningyan and a few pregnant women, elderly people, and children were left.

Today's light tasks include cutting cow grass, cleaning the cowshed, and going to the sesame fields to weed the grass.

The easiest and easiest thing is to cut cow grass, one centimeter to a large basket.

Cleaning the cowshed isn't tiring either, it's just dirty.

The sesame seeds are no higher than the palm of your hand. You have to pull the first grass. This is a careful thing. It is usually given to the elderly or half-grown girls. It is time-consuming and wastes the waist.

Xu Ningyan went up the mountain yesterday to get a bargain, so he chose to cut cow grass, picked up a big bamboo basket, and went up the mountain with a sickle.

There are several mountain depressions in my memory, where the water and grass are so fertile that you can easily cut them into a big basket.

There is also a small pool nearby. The water looks clear but is very deep.

There are mountain crabs and a kind of small fish in the pond. They look long and slender, but their meat is plump. They have only one main thorn, and they are the most delicious in soup.

Xu Ningyan went there just for that fish, hoping to catch a few so that he could recuperate when he went back.

The rabbit was indeed cute, but she couldn't skin it, so she had to keep it first. She had to find someone to help kill the rabbit in the next two days, otherwise she would be afraid that Xu's family would secretly kill it and eat it while she wasn't paying attention.

Those little bastards Xu Yewei can do this.

This time in the countryside is commonly known as the "Diaoyue Huang", which means there is no food in the vegetable gardens.

The water spinach I have been eating since March is old and tired of eating; the amaranth, which was planted earlier, is also old.

There are the local small peas. When they are ripe, they are tender with pods, and they are the most tender when fried with bacon.

The slightly older ones have peeled pod shells, and the deep green peas inside are also delicious and sweet when stir-fried.

If it's older, it won't taste good. It smells like beany. It's better to wait until it's older. When it's yellow, collect it and dry it in the sun. During the Chinese New Year, stir-fry it with local methods. The elderly can take a handful and eat it. It takes a long time to grind the teeth, and the men use it to drink wine, and the children eat it as snacks.

The only downside is that you will fart if you eat too much, but that’s not a big deal.

Therefore, the eldest girls and daughters-in-law in the team would go to the mountains to hunt for wild vegetables and provide food for the family.

Toon, young bracken, thorn sprouts, water celery, and spring bamboo shoots are all common dishes on rural dining tables in this season.

During this period of time in Pianxu's family, it was just Lao Yucai and Lao Kongsangcai who ate like a vegetable.

Xu Ningyan then decided to bring some wild vegetables back for a change.

Along the way I saw the wild celery, as well as the late-growing bracken and mangosteen shoots in the shade, and I picked up a lot of them without any hesitation.

First, I cut a basket full of cow grass, and then I went to the waterhole.

There was no one around, except for birds jumping and singing on the branches. There were also a few that were not afraid of people. They flapped their wings and landed on Xu Ningyan's shoulders. They tilted their heads and their green bean-sized eyes were filled with emotion. A clear sense of stupidity looked at Xu Ningyan.

If it weren't for the fact that the birds had too little meat, Xu Ningyan would have to let them know the consequences of hanging around casually.

The pond is located under a low cliff, with little sunshine all year round. The pond is cold, but as it goes down the stream, it gradually becomes warmer.

Xu Ningyan picked a few handfuls of the local weed called Bairi Zui, smashed the juice on the rocks beside the pond, and then soaked it in the shallow water beside the pond and ignored it.

I got up and turned over the stones in the stream and searched carefully. I saw that the mountain crabs were hiding under the stones.

One touch is accurate.

I touched about twenty mountain crabs. The big ones were as big as the palm of an adult's hand and the small ones were as big as eggs. They were tied into a string with a straw rope.

When we got to the edge of the pool, a dozen small, slender fish had turned up in the shallow water. They looked thin, but in fact, except for a thin thorn, they were all meat.

He picked up the fish and skewered it with grass, then picked up the grass that had been drunk for a hundred days and threw it far away. After waiting for a while, no more fish came up with its belly turned over, and then he got up and left.

After going to the clerk to hand over the cow grass and grabbing a handful of wild celery for him, Xu Ningyan went home first.

The clerk turned a blind eye, firstly because the captain had an explanation, and secondly because Xu Ningyan was still a sick person, so there was no need to force too much.

When they got home, Xu Ningyan was boiling medicine and picking up mountain crabs and small fish.

The fish and crabs are first fried in a pot over low heat until browned, then the crabs are taken out and boiled water is poured in. After a short time of cooking, the soup becomes milky white, sprinkled with chives, and the aroma is fragrant.

The fish soup is served in an enamel jar that I bought. The crabs are fried until crispy and sprinkled with a little chili powder. It is crunchy in the mouth.

Bake the spring bamboo shoots in their shells, boil them in cold water, then take them out and squeeze out the water. They are also delicious when eaten cold.

There are a lot of spring bamboo shoots, put them on the rack outside to dry, soak them in water when you want to eat them, and they will be very crispy when fried.

The bracken has also been boiled in water, soaked in cold water, picked up and dried in the sun.

When the Xu family came back, they saw that almost all the sunny areas in the yard were covered.

And there is still the fragrance of crab and fish soup floating in the yard.

Miao Cuihua said with a straight face: "Since you came back early, why don't you prepare the meal?"

Xu Ningyan was happy: "Okay! Give me the key to your room, and I'll keep it for cooking!"

Miao Cuihua took a step back and touched the key hanging around her neck. Thinking of the 70 yuan that had been extorted, her heart began to bleed again.

If this key was given to Xu Ningyan, she would probably take away all her ideas.

She rolled her eyes and asked Erya and Sanya to go to her room to get food for cooking.

When the meal was ready, Xu Ningyan filled a large bowl of rice and ate it all with the fish soup.

The Xu family couldn't swallow the smell of fish soup and vegetables and rice without oil or salt.

Especially the Xu Yewei brothers, whose eyes couldn't help but glance towards the corner of the yard.

Because raising rabbits in the room smells bad, Xu Ningyan tied the rabbit's legs with a rope and tied them under the tree in the corner. He threw in a handful of grass and made do for the time being.

In the eyes of the Xu Yewei brothers, it was just a piece of living meat.

After lunch, I usually take a short break and then go back to work.

Xu Ningyan was too lazy to rest and listened to the Xu family saying some weird things, so she simply carried the fried mountain crabs in her arms and went up the mountain, picking one out and gnawing on it. Although the meat was not much, it was extremely delicious. Occasionally, there were a few pieces of shell that she didn't have time to spit out. When it comes out, it should be used as a calcium supplement.

Not long after going up the mountain, I saw a few figures in front of me hurriedly coming down the mountain. When I met them, they turned out to be the female educated youths from the Educated Youth Point.

On weekdays, except for working, they stay in the educated youth area, rarely come out, and have little contact with people in the brigade.

The one at the head glanced at Xu Ningyan several times before trying to squeeze out a friendly smile: "Is that Comrade Xu Siya? We are educated youths from the educated youth area. We just met yesterday! The cherries and cherries you gave to Gu Zhiqing. Loquats, we also tasted a few, thank you very much."

"No, I haven't eaten fresh fruit for months. I finally got rid of my cravings yesterday."

"Si Ya, you are so amazing, you can actually pick so many fruits from the mountains -"

Several female educated youths looked at each other, surrounded Xu Ningyan tightly, and kept saying good things about not paying.

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