The ancient farming life of liberal arts scum

Nearly ten days later, Shen Ge's illness was completely cured. After being confirmed by Doctor Qian, he was completely released, and he no longer had to stay at home to recuperate. Leave the root of the disease.

Shen Ge has been lying at home for so long, and there is nothing else he can do every day except read the books left by the original owner. His bones are all stiff, and he is so uncomfortable that he is dying.

Shen Ge is not considered a dead house in modern times. Not to mention playing ball with friends every now and then, he also does a lot of sports activities such as running and swimming, and he still has small smooth muscles on his body.

After the ban was lifted, Shen Ge liked to stroll around the village in the morning and evening, getting familiar with the scenery in the village and the villagers.

Now is the busy season of farming, when the sun goes down, farmers take advantage of the shade to hurry up and do farm work, but there are not many people on the road.Shen Ge walked along the road to the outside of the village, and saw a group of dark children carrying firewood and playing and playing noisily towards home.

"Liu'er, where have you been?" Shen Ge called to stop one of the boys.Not only was he carrying a bundle of wood on his back, but he was also carrying a simple wooden basket with green leaves hanging on it, apparently made today.

"Scholar." A group of children stopped when they heard Shen Ge calling.It is a major event in the village that Shen Ge wants to set up a private school in the village. This group of children have all heard the news, so they are very nervous when facing Shen Ge.

With the firewood on his back, Liu'er obediently replied, "We went up the mountain to collect firewood."

Shen Ge had seen their firewood a long time ago, and also saw the dead leaves specially wrapped in the firewood.Every household in the village burns earthen stoves, which require a lot of firewood every day. The adults in the village are busy with farm work every day, and they have no time to go up the mountain except in winter. The task of collecting firewood falls to these half-grown children.

Shen Ge smiled and said, "I know, I just want to ask what is in your basket."

"It's a mushroom." A child rushed to answer.

Someone took the lead, and the other children immediately added: "There are bamboo shoots."

"There are a lot of mushrooms in the mountains now, and I picked up a big basket the day before yesterday."

"I picked it up too, the soup is delicious."

Hearing what the friends said, Liu'er pushed the basket in his hand into Singer Shen, "Mr. Xiucai, I'll eat it for you."

"I'll give you mine too." Another child squeezed up and handed Shen Ge a basket.

"No need," Shen Ge patted their heads, "I've already eaten, you take it home for your parents to eat."

The children were very enthusiastic, Shen Ge managed to push the basket back into their hands, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and hurried back home.

Shen Ge's illness got better and he stopped eating at Aunt Niu's house. Although Aunt Niu is nice, her craftsmanship is not very good. Chen Ge, who is used to eating delicious food in modern times, has been eating boiled water for half a month. Vegetables and steamed eggs are very painful to eat.

It's not that Aunt Niu's craftsmanship is particularly bad, in fact, the skills of the people here are not very good.The seasoning is limited, and even simple oil and salt are reluctant to put more. Salt is better. If it is oil, generous people will drop a few drops into the dishes, and frugal people will just wipe the bottom of the pot to count. so it is.

Apart from eating chicken for the first few days after waking up, Shen Ge hasn't dipped in meat for a while, but he can still eat a bowl of egg custard every day, which makes Shen Ge feel like vomiting.

Today, Shen Ge cooks by himself. He also has some dishes sent by Aunt Niu and other neighbors, including eggplant, pumpkin, beans, pumpkin, etc. The vegetables here are almost the same as those of later generations. Shen Ge actually I also don't remember what kind of vegetables the later generations ate in summer. They looked almost the same, except that the pepper was missing, which made Shen Ge very uncomfortable.

When Shen Ge returned home, he scooped a bowl of pumpkin porridge out of the pot and drank it. His family lived well, and he could eat rice anyway, but the rice was not cleaned very well, and the shells irritated his throat.

Not long after Shen Ge returned home, Manzi also came over. This tall, dark boy lifted the wooden cover and looked at the water tank of Shen Ge's house. Without a word, he picked up a wooden bucket and went to fetch water for him from the old well in the village. Shen Ge couldn't hold back.

Shen Ge's illness has improved a bit, but Aunt Niu still often sends Manzi over to take a look, fetching water, sweeping the floor and picking firewood. Manzi will help out if he sees any work. Shen Ge postponed it several times but failed, so he had to Not so polite anymore.

After Manzi came back from carrying water, Shen Ge forced him to finish the pumpkin porridge in the pot.Although pumpkin porridge is not a good thing, Aunt Niu has always lived a frugal life. At least one meal a day is mainly coarse grains and wild vegetables, and the taste is much worse than this.

The two moved two benches and sat under the eaves, Manzi drank porridge and Shen Ge enjoyed the shade.

Shen Ge sat for a while, and said to the Manzi, "I want to go up the mountain tomorrow."

Manzi's hand holding the bowl paused, "I'll go with you."

"No need," Shen Ge waved his hand and refused, "It's not that I haven't been to the mountain before, and I won't go far, just go for a walk and come back."

Manzi can be regarded as a strong laborer, and now it is the busy farming season, he has to go to the fields with his father and brother every day to take care of the farmer, Shen Ge can't delay him.

When Shen Ge was young, he often went up the mountain with his friends, picking up a mushroom back to light firewood, especially the demand for dead leaves at home was very large, and a handful of dead leaves were needed to start a fire every day, so the children in the village had to go up the mountain to collect them every now and then. dead leaves.These Shen songs are all familiar, even if he is left alone to go up the mountain, there is no problem.

Manzi didn't try to persuade him much, and said sullenly: "Okay, if you have something to do, you can call, everyone is working at the foot of the mountain, and you will hear."

Although there are no large carnivores such as tigers and wolves in the mountains near the village, there are still some wild boars, bison, foxes, eagles, etc., and they are not completely without danger.

Shen Ge nodded, "I know."

Manzi finished his porridge and washed the dishes before leaving. Shen Ge made some preparations, found a basket and a small hoe, and prepared to go up the mountain the next morning.

There are mountains around Shenjia Village, and everyone usually takes turns to go there, and go to the mountain with the most firewood.

Shen Ge decided to go to Zaoziya. This mountain is a bit far away from the village. The children in the village are not willing to go that far to this mountain, but this mountain is relatively close to Shen Ge's home, and Shen Ge doesn't think much about it. I bumped into a group of children in the mountains, so I chose this one on purpose.

Shen Ge originally wanted to get up earlier, but he didn't expect the sun to rise when he got up. Shen Ge went out and looked around, and there were farmers working in the fields everywhere.Shen Ge simply stopped being in a hurry, and after cooking breakfast, Shen Ge locked the door and went up the mountain.

Along the way, Shen Ge met many villagers who came out to work, and greeted them all the way, and many people knew that the little scholar was going up the mountain.Many villagers advised him not to go, if he wanted to eat mushrooms, they still had them at home, and they would send them to Chen Ge when he returned home at noon.

Shen Ge declined one by one with a smile, saying that he wanted to take a walk, and the villagers told him to be careful on the mountain, there are moss in many places, don't fall.

After finally reaching the foot of the mountain, Shen Ge walked up the mountain along the path opened up by the predecessors.It is estimated that no one has been on this road for a while, and the plants on the side have grown up, densely packed, either caught Shen Ge's hair or hung on his clothes, he gasped in embarrassment, and regretted that he didn't bring it The hatchet opened the way.

After walking about ten meters or so, Shen Ge saw a clump of wild bamboo. He pushed aside the bamboo branches and walked over, and sure enough, he saw a bamboo shoot at the root of the bamboo.

Some of the bamboo shoots grow on the periphery, which are easy to dig, while others grow crookedly to the middle of several bamboos. Shen Ge spent a lot of effort to dig out a few. A mosquito bit him, and a big red bump grew on Haobai's wrist.

Shen Ge continued to climb up with five and a half bamboo shoots, and picked a few mushrooms that he saw on the road.

It rained the night before yesterday, and the fallen leaves were still covered with water, and they were wet and slippery when they stepped on them. After walking for a while, Chen Ge sat on a rock panting to rest. Only then did he realize that the bamboo shoots should be dug when they go down the mountain. Now It is too heavy to carry.

But after thinking about it, Shen Ge felt that going down the mountain might not be the way to go, and it would be even more troublesome to go back without digging now.

Shen Ge rested for a while, and continued to walk up, paying attention to looking for mushrooms along the way. When he reached the halfway up the mountain, the basket was already half full, and Shen Ge was already a little far away from the point of going up the mountain.

Shen Ge raised his eyes to look at the sun, seeing that it was almost noon, he decided to simply go around to the other side and take another road down the mountain.

Shen Ge walked around the hillside with the basket, and suddenly thought that if he had carried the basket instead of the basket, it would be much easier to walk now.

After finally detouring to another road, this road is obviously frequented by people, and the road is relatively clear.As a weak scholar, Shen Ge sat and rested on the side of the road for a while.

Shen Ge didn't expect that as soon as he sat down, he saw a person coming down from the mountain. From a long distance, Shen Ge saw that person was carrying a few prey in his hands and a big bow on his back. After walking in, he found this handsome man. The man looked strangely familiar.

"Lord Xun?" Shen Ge stood up and greeted.

The well-dressed man nodded, "Going up the mountain today?"

"Well, let's go up the mountain and pick up some mushrooms by the way." Shen Ge replied awkwardly, "Did Master Xun go hunting?"

Several large and small rabbits and birds in Xun Feiguang's hands dripped a few drops of blood from time to time, obviously they had just died.

"Yes."

Standing next to Xun Feiguang, Shen Ge found that he was half a head shorter than Xun Feiguang, and his figure was much thinner. He was not as tall and fit as Xun Feiguang, not to mention that Xun Feiguang still had a sense of majesty.

Shen Ge was a little nervous, and he calmed down before saying: "Thank you Master Xun for saving me. If it wasn't for Master Xun that day, I would have turned into a piece of loess at this moment. If it wasn't for the ginseng and silver taels sent by Master Xun, I wouldn't be so good quick."

Shen Ge's reserved and sincere voice sounded from behind, Xun Feiguang turned to look at him, only to see that his fair and delicate face was flushed with heat, but his eyes were shining brightly.

Xun Feiguang's eyes paused for a moment, and he said, "Go to the village and sit down?"

Shen Ge let out an "ah" dully, and hurriedly refused, "I won't trouble you, I..."

"It's almost there." Xun Feiguang glanced at Xunjiazhuang not far away, and motioned for Shen Ge to follow.