When Li appeared, covered in dust, carrying a bottle of Erguotou and a few bags of salt, Cheng Xingwan had already harvested several crops of wheat and rice.

She looked around for a while but didn't see the fawn, so she thought it must have gone home.

"My daughter, didn't you buy lime? I looked everywhere for it, but I couldn't find any. I only found salt and liquor for making salted duck eggs."

Cheng Xingwan thought about it and it seemed that she didn't buy lime, mainly because she felt that this thing would not be useful at the time and it should be available in this era.

After she collected the crops in the field, she replanted the herbs and took Li out of the space.

Half a day has passed in the space, but only a few minutes have passed outside.

After being cooped up for so many days, Cheng Xingwan also wanted to go out and take a look. Besides, everyone’s food was all gone, and only duck eggs, smoked meat and dried fish were left every day.

The people in Chengjia Village had never thought that they would get tired of eating meat and eggs, and now they were in urgent need of some food to fill their stomachs.

Li couldn't persuade her, so she could only carry her to go with her family to collect wild vegetables and chop firewood.

Passing by a bamboo forest by a creek, Cheng Xingwan's eyes were attracted by a group of mushrooms wearing white lace dresses.

Snow Skirt Fairy - Bamboo Fungus

Dictamni is a kind of cryptogamous fungus that parasitizes on the roots of dead bamboo. Its shape is slightly similar to a netted dried white snake skin. It has a dark green cap, a snow-white cylindrical stipe, a pink egg-shaped stipe, and a delicate white net skirt at the top of the stipe that spreads from the cap downwards. It is called the "Snow Skirt Fairy", "Mountain Treasure Flower", "Fungus Flower", and "Queen of Fungi".

Bamboo fungus is rich in nutrients, has a strong fragrance and delicious taste. It has been listed as one of the "Eight Delicacies of Grass" since ancient times. It has the effect of supplementing nutrition, strengthening the spleen and stomach.

Cheng Xingwan thought of the lotus root and bamboo fungus pork ribs soup, bamboo fungus fish maw and scallop soup, bamboo fungus chicken soup, bamboo fungus winter melon meatball soup... he drooled.

He impatiently pulled Li's sleeve with one hand and pointed at the bamboo forest with the other hand, urging her to pick bamboo fungus.

When Li saw large patches of bamboo fungus in the bamboo forest, she was suddenly delighted and wanted to go down to pick them up. But then she remembered that she was holding her little girl in her arms and she didn't have a basket with her.

"Forget it, let's go find your aunt and the others to pick it up first."

Liu and Wang followed the men of the Cheng family up the mountain. The men chopped wood, while the women and children picked wild vegetables.

There are not many edible wild vegetables in this season, only purslane and bitter herbs are edible. Other wild vegetables are old by this time.

Only a few purslane and bitter herbs were found here and there. The two sisters-in-law were about to go home with sad faces when they saw Li's mother and daughter coming from afar.

Just as he was about to go forward, he was overtaken by a group of brats.

"Sister, sister, look what I found. It's pineapple. It tastes delicious when roasted."

Cheng Zewen and Cheng Zewu took the lead and stood in front of Li, standing on tiptoe and showing their sister what they were holding in their hands.

Cheng Xingwan leaned over to take a look and saw that the skin was brown with tiny bumps and was spherical in shape.

Yam beans!

She danced with excitement, using both her hands and feet to try to get it and take a closer look.

“Ohh…Ohhh…!”

"Sister, do you want some? This isn't cooked yet, so you can't eat it yet. If you break the skin, your hands will itch. I'll give it to you after I bake it!"

Cheng Zewen felt very happy when he saw that his sister liked it.

Seeing that no one understood what he meant, Cheng Xingwan was in a dilemma.

Yam beans, doesn’t this mean that there are yams, and with yams you can fill your stomach.

She raised her head, tugged at Li's clothes on her chest, pointed at the yam beans in the little ones' hands, and then pointed in the direction of the mountain.

“Aa ...

Perhaps it was because the mother and daughter had a tacit understanding, Li suddenly realized.

"Children, I want to ask you where you found the surplus."

"There are a lot of them on the mountain over there. Do you want to go and see them, sister? I'll take you there."

A group of people went to the nearby cave in the mountain. Liu and Wang thought about it and followed them. Although the lingyuzi is relatively small, it is very easy to pick. Usually, you just need to pick it and wash it. There is no need to peel it. You can cook it directly or cook it with rice in a rice cooker. It tastes very good.

When large patches of green vines appeared in front of Cheng Xingwan, she couldn't help but let out a scream.

"what!"

Yam vine is a perennial climbing herb of the Dioscorea genus of the Dioscorea family; the stems are usually purple-red, right-handed, and glabrous, and the leaves vary from large ovate-triangular to broad ovate-halberd-shaped.

It’s yam without a doubt!

The vines climbed on the tree and the children could not reach them, so Liu and Wang took sickles to cut the vines, which were full of dense yam beans.

Cheng Xingwan rushed over there using both her hands and feet, and Li was sweating profusely because of her torture.

"My dear, you are still young, you don't have to pick them, we can just watch."

“Ah… Yeah… Oh…!”

"No, we just watch!"

...........

After gesturing for a long time, Li still didn't understand what she meant.

Helplessly, she looked around and saw that everyone was busy picking yam beans and no one noticed her.

With a thought, he took out a yam from the space.

Li looked at the yam that appeared out of thin air and suddenly realized that her daughter meant that this area was full of yam vines.

She was overjoyed and called out to Liu and Wang.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, stop cutting, come here quickly!"

Liu and Wang thought something had happened, so they hurriedly dropped the vines in their hands and ran over.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened?"

Liu threw down the sickle in her hand and was about to take the little ball to check it.

"Sister-in-law, you misunderstood. Nannan is fine."

Li handed the little girl to her, took a hoe, found a yam with the vines cut, and started digging.

But the hoe didn't obey her and she almost hit her foot.

Seeing this, Wang took the hoe speechlessly.

"Go away. You tell me what to do and I'll do it."

Li was filled with shame and blushed as she stood aside while Wang dug down along the vine.

Yam is drought-resistant but not water-resistant. It prefers fertile, loose, well-drained sandy soil rich in humus.

After digging for a while, thick yams appeared in front of them.

"What is this? Can I eat it?"

Liu asked while holding the little girl.

"This is yam, which can be eaten as a staple food and is also a very precious medicinal material. It is very good for regulating the spleen and stomach."

Hearing that it was edible, Wang worked harder with the hoe. He had already dug more than one meter deep. The more he dug, the more excited he became. The more he dug, the more side branches of the yam he found. Perhaps this yam had been growing for decades and was surprisingly large.

Seeing that Wang was exhausted and sweating, Liu handed the small ball to Li, took the hoe from Wang and continued digging.

Wang was so tired that she sat aside to rest, panting.

The deeper they dug, the harder it became. If they were not careful, they would break the yam. They had dug about one and a half meters deep and still couldn't see the end. The hoe was no longer useful. Liu dug little by little with a sickle and put the dug soil in a basket and handed it to Wang.

Seeing that it was getting late and the yam still looked like it hadn't reached the bottom yet, Li spoke up.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, why don't we go home first and call everyone together after lunch."

Liu and Wang were exhausted and could not dig anymore. After hesitating for a while, they nodded in agreement.

The yam that had been dug out from the ground probably weighed about ten pounds.

Cheng Xingwan was drowsy in Li's arms. The yam and bamboo fungus soup would not be good without pheasant.

With a thought, two fat pheasants fled out in panic from the bushes nearby and fell into the yam pit that had just been dug and died.

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