The happy little days of the Ye family

The Li family has no land, so they usually have to buy the food they eat.

Everyone in the family is a big eater, and with the three dogs, the Li family spends hundreds of cents just buying food every month.

Moreover, most of the food I buy is coarse grains, and I don’t dare to eat too much rice and white flour.

Therefore, the budget-conscious Yang spent a lot of effort to save food.

In order to save food, Yang cooked a large pot of pumpkin porridge in the morning. The porridge contained more pumpkin and less rice.

Yang and Yang Yufang grew pumpkins in the open space near their home. They also planted a lot of pumpkins, which saved a lot of money.

Going up to the mountains to hunt and collect herbs are both vital activities, and just eating porridge is definitely not enough.

Yang and his daughter-in-law made two large pots of pancakes using a mixture of corn flour and white flour.

While cooking porridge, Yang also steamed an egg for each person.

After breakfast, Yang and Yang Yufang packed a large bag of pancakes for the four of them, as well as a few eggs.

After taking food with them, the four of them went out chatting and laughing.

On the way, Li Guoer was in high spirits.

"Last night, I dreamed that I dug a big wild ginseng tree in the mountains. This must be a reminder from God. I will definitely find something good today."

Speaking of wild ginseng, Li Feng was also very excited.

"Didn't someone find a wild ginseng tree on Stone Peak a few years ago? If we're lucky, maybe we can find one too."

Li Feng heard that there were wild ginseng on the mountain, so he specially suggested that everyone come to the mountain to collect herbs.

Stone Bee is just behind the Boar Forest, a towering stone mountain.

There are many rocks on this mountain but little land, and there are two huge rocks on the top of the mountain, so everyone calls it Shitou Peak.

Most of the stone peaks are made of stones, and the only soil is not fertile. Most of them are covered with thin and small miscellaneous trees, and they grow sparsely.

There are not many weeds on the mountain, so there are very few small animals on it.

Not to mention the big guys like wild boars and wolves, even the common pheasants and hares are rare.

Although there is no prey on the mountain, there are many common herbs.

Flowers such as honeysuckle, nettle, eucommia, datura, polygonum multiflorum and polygonatum can all be found on stone bees.

There are a lot of medicinal herbs on this mountain. Many people in the village come to the mountain to wander around when they have nothing to do.

When Li Orion was young, he often collected herbs on Stone Peak.

However, since someone picked wild ginseng in Shitou Peak a few years ago, the mountain has been trampled to pieces by the villagers.

More and more people are coming to the mountain. Not to mention wild ginseng, even the common honeysuckle and other worthless herbs have been harvested.

In the past two years, all the medicinal herbs on the mountain have been harvested, and the number of people coming here has gradually decreased.

Li Guoer and the others might not have been to Stone Peak for a long time. If Li Feng hadn't said they were looking for wild ginseng, they would have almost forgotten the existence of this mountain.

The four of them came to the foot of the mountain and saw several half-grown boys wandering around the mountainside from a distance.

"I didn't expect there were other people coming to the mountain to look for wild ginseng."

Li Guoer thought that no one would come to this mountain now.

Orion Li smiled and said, "If you can think of trying your luck in the mountains, others can naturally think of it too. There is never a shortage of smart people in this world."

These mountains are ownerless and anyone can come.

The front of Stone Mountain is mostly made up of small stones, which is relatively flat and usually attracts more people.

With so many people coming, the good stuff has already been taken away.

So the four of them spared some distance and went to the back of Stone Peak.

There are many large rocks on the back that are taller than people. These rocks are exposed to wind and rain every day and have many cracks on them.

There are a lot of weeds growing in the cracks between the stones, and some of them have beautiful flowers.

As soon as they started going up the mountain, a few people discovered a few honeysuckle trees that were growing pretty well.

It's a pity that this year's flowering period has passed, and all the honeysuckles have been picked long ago.

There have been too many people in Shitou Peak in recent years, and all the valuable herbs have been harvested long ago.

Halfway up the mountain, all four people's baskets were empty. Only Li He found a Eucommia ulmoides tree.

But this Eucommia ulmoides tree is not big and not worth much.

Li Guoer wanted to find wild ginseng, and carefully searched every corner with a small stick, without taking her eyes off the ground.

It's a pity that my eyes are tired from looking at it. Not to mention wild ginseng, I didn't even see any other medicinal materials.

Li Guoer rubbed her dry eyes and regretted a little.

If I had known earlier, I would not have come to this stone peak. It would be better to hunt on any mountain than to mess around here.

Seeing that the three of them were dejected, Li Orion found a big stone and invited them to come over and rest.

"I'm too anxious to eat hot tofu. I've just gone up the mountain. There might be something good hidden at the top of the mountain."

Li Guoer sat leaning on the stone, took out a bamboo tube from her backpack, and drank water in big gulps.

"This damn weather is really too hot."

The trees on Shitou Peak are sparse and cannot block the sun at all.

One morning, Li Guoer and the four of them were drying in the sun, and their clothes looked like they had just been fished out of the water.

The energetic Li He was like a monkey, using his hands and feet to nimbly climb up a large rock that was taller than a human.

The stone was as big as two tables, and Li He looked at it curiously.

In the center of the stone, Li He found a crack and looked inside curiously.

Looking at it, I suddenly found a very familiar vine in the crack of the stone.

Li He shouted excitedly: "Dad, dad, there seems to be a dendrobium tree in the crevices of the rocks. Come and have a look."

Hearing the presence of dendrobium, the three people below quickly climbed up the boulder.

Li He, who was standing at the top, clearly felt that the stones were shaking a little, and nervously reminded:

"Take it easy, if you move any more, the stone will roll down the mountain."

The three of them actually felt the stone shaking, and they held the stone in mid-air without daring to move.

After a while, it felt like the stone had stopped moving, so the three of them took turns to climb up slowly.

Li Orion came to where Li He was and stretched his neck to look into the cracks in the rocks.

The crack in the stone was as wide as a hand, and looked quite deep. A hand's distance from the top of the stone, there was a very lush vine.

Orion Li recognized it as dendrobium at a glance.

At this time, Li Feng and Li Guoer also climbed over cautiously.

"Dad, is this dendrobium?"

Li Guoer looked at the plants below and felt they looked very familiar, but it was a little dark in the crevices of the rocks, so she couldn't see them very clearly.

"It's dendrobium."

As he spoke, Li Orion took out the machete from the basket on his back and stretched out his arm to cut off the dendrobium from the cracks in the stone.

Although this dendrobium is not very old, it is valuable and can probably be sold for two or three taels of silver.

After finding the dendrobium, Li Guoer was full of confidence, thinking that there must be something good behind it.

After descending from the boulder, Li Guoer didn't bother to rest anymore and immediately took Laifu around the mountain.

It's a pity that a few people dug through the entire stone peak before picking up two Polygonum multiflorum plants and some cheap herbs.

As for wild ginseng, there was no trace at all.

Li Guoer was very disappointed, "Oh, it turns out the opposite is true in the dream."