bayedsolid Chapter 16 Digging Wild Vegetables
Chapter 16 Digging Wild Vegetables
"Aunt Meihua, we have just settled down and are planning to make a housewarming dinner tomorrow night. We would like to invite Aunt Meihua and Uncle Qian to come to our place tomorrow night to have a housewarming dinner and have some fun." Wen Xi struck while the iron was hot and made the invitation.
Aunt Meihua nodded with a smile on her face, "Okay, I will definitely go with your Uncle Qian to warm your house tomorrow night."
After bidding farewell to Aunt Meihua, the three of them walked out of Aunt Meihua's yard. Wen Xi immediately saw Jin Changfeng standing outside the door next to Aunt Meihua's house.
Wen Xi's eyes flashed with surprise. Did Jin Changfeng live here? She also stayed in the countryside for two years in her previous life. How come she had never seen him and didn't know anything about him?
Or is he here to work and just living here temporarily?
Jin Changfeng naturally also caught the flash of confusion in Wen Xi's eyes. He didn't know what she was confused about. Was she confused about why he was here?
After Wenxi and the other two left, Aunt Meihua and Captain Qian lamented that the quality and character of these three people were much better than those before them, and she liked to associate with such open-minded people.
After returning home, everyone drank tea and went back to their rooms to rest. Because they got up too early in the morning, many people had not gotten up yet on days when they didn't have to go to work. They returned from Captain Qian's house.
After waking up from a nap, Wen Xi wanted to go out for a walk, find out what was going on, and then go to the back mountain to dig some wild vegetables. She would go to the educated youth camp for dinner in the evening, and she didn't want to bring good things with her, but it would not be nice to go empty-handed, so she wanted to cook two wild vegetables and bring them over to show her gratitude.
Wen Xi planned to ask Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue to go out together, but they were both still sleeping soundly, so she locked the door and set off.
"Sister, does your family have a shovel for digging wild vegetables? I want to borrow a shovel and a basket from you and go to the mountains to dig some wild vegetables." Seeing that the gate of Chang Qingqing's house next door was open, Wen Xi walked over and knocked on the door.
Chang Qingqing came over puzzledly, "Xiaoxi, have you finished eating all the dishes we changed yesterday?"
Wen Xi was a little embarrassed. "No, I heard that shepherd's purse is delicious, so I want to dig some to taste and see where I can find firewood. There are three of us living together, so we need a lot of firewood."
"Xiaoxi, you just arrived and don't know the situation in the mountains. Don't go inside! Just walk around the outside." Chang Qingqing came over with a basket and a shovel, and reminded.
"Thank you, sister. I understand. I will do it." After taking the basket and shovel handed over by Chang Qingqing, Wen Xi turned and left after saying thank you.
The alley between their two houses leads to the foot of the mountain, and the end of the alley is at the foot of the mountain.
When we reached the foot of the mountain, we saw several children coming out of the mountain. They all carried baskets on their backs, some of which were filled with wild vegetables and some with firewood.
Children from poor families have to grow up early. Children of the same age in the city are enjoying their childhood happily, but they start to work for the family.
After the children came down the mountain laughing, Wenxi took the road that everyone usually took and walked up the mountain.
In this season, all the leaves have fallen and the weeds have turned yellow, so any bit of green can be seen very clearly. Although Wenxi doesn't recognize other plants, she recognizes most of the wild vegetables here. After all, she had dug them up in her previous life.
But it was still early, and Wenxi didn't want to go digging wild vegetables so early. There were no snakes, insects, rats or ants at this time, so there was no need to worry about being bitten, so Wenxi just walked aimlessly on the mountain.
Besides, people often come here, and there are almost no good things left. She wants to go deeper inside!
As Wen Xi was walking, her foot suddenly stepped on something hard, which almost made her fall. When she looked down, she found that it was a chestnut shell that looked like a hedgehog.
Wen Xi was delighted, so he quickly lowered his head to look for it. Unexpectedly, he actually found chestnuts among the dead branches and leaves, so he happily squatted down to pick up the chestnuts.
I spent almost half an hour picking chestnuts around the tree, and collected about three or four pounds of chestnuts of all sizes. Although they were of different sizes and did not look good, who cares so much in this day and age?
Anything that can fill your stomach is good.
What's more, she has a way to make chestnuts taste particularly delicious.
After picking the chestnuts, Wenxi continued walking forward. As she walked, she heard the sound of flowing water. She hurried towards the source of the sound, but unexpectedly it was a river.
The river spreads down from the mountain. The drop in height is quite large in some places, and the sound of water falling is quite loud. That is why she can hear the sound of rushing water from such a distance.
The river is not big, only about two or three meters wide. It is obviously not dug by humans, but a purely natural one. There is probably a waterfall upstream, but Wenxi does not have time to explore these today, because she came here to dig wild vegetables and has to go to the educated youth site for dinner in the evening!
There happened to be a large area of green wild vegetables by the river, so Wenxi squatted down and started digging the vegetables. There should be very few villagers here, and there were no signs that the wild vegetables had been dug up by anyone.
Wenxi quickly dug up a whole basket of wild vegetables. When leaving, he couldn't help but look back at the river. He didn't know if there were any fish in it.
Thinking of this, Wenxi put down the basket, walked to the river, looked down into the river, the water was clean, transparent, and so clear that even the stones at the bottom could be seen clearly.
Thinking that no one would come here anyway, Wen Xi took out the imported umbrella-shaped fish and shrimp nets that she had signed for from the system warehouse, and opened the nets like an umbrella. Then she took out a box of earthworms and opened the box. She was shocked to see that it was full of big earthworms as long as chopsticks.
To be honest, she had been in the countryside for two years and had never seen such big earthworms!
She picked up a branch from the ground, broke it and used it as chopsticks, then picked up two earthworms and put them into the fish and shrimp net. Then she carefully put the fish and shrimp net into the river and hid the traction rope in the cracks of the rocks.
After that, she carried the wild vegetables back. Anyway, they lived at the foot of the mountain and it was convenient to go up the mountain. They would go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables tomorrow, and then find a chance to set up the fish and shrimp net to see if there were any fish in it.
Life in the countryside is hard and it is difficult to eat meat. If we can catch fish, we can improve our food.
Wen Xi returned home with a basket of wild vegetables. Seeing Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue busy at home, he ran over anxiously after closing the gate. "Jiaojiao, Xiaoyue, I just heard something in the mountains that shattered my worldview. Do you want to hear it?"
"What's the matter?" Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue came over, looking at Wen Xi with curiosity, and forgot to ask her why she was digging wild vegetables.