Chapter 16 16 Digging Wild Vegetables

Chapter 16 16. Digging wild vegetables

After the Waking of Insects, comes the spring rain.

The misty drizzle fell silently, and the entire field and hilltops were covered with a light green mist, furry and wet.

Song Sancheng had just settled his wages to the villagers. Now he smelled the smell of rain and soil outside, and a smile appeared on his face.

"This rain came at the perfect time."

For more than half a month, they have been busy every day. Wulan has to cook for a large group of people and clean up at home and outside.

Song Sancheng had to take people to weed the fields, weed the hillsides, cut down trees, trim tree trunks, and take time to build pig pens, chicken coops, and duck sheds...

The person who delivered the strains just came here this afternoon, and I planned not to go out to order the strains at home tomorrow, so I settled the salary, which was tens of thousands.

Look again, God takes care of everyone: it’s raining!

Wu Lan took the account book and sighed: "Tan Tan, your 60,000 yuan is gone."

"If you have to spend money next, it will be supported by me and your father. You have to follow our arrangements." Otherwise, I'm really afraid that if she loosens her grip, she will make arrangements again.

Song Tan thought about it in his mind——

The piglet hasn't been brought back yet, but the pigsty has been set up, so her mother can't afford the money. Ducklings have to be bought and money has to be paid.

I won’t buy any chickens this year because they are being hatched at grandma’s house!

The woodland on the hillside has been cleared, and all the seeds have been purchased. Next, we need some labor to plant the strains, but there are no other expenses!

She nodded and asked the key question: "Mom, what do you want to eat?"

Wulan felt suffocated in his heart: "We have no money, what can we eat? Go, take Qiaoqiao and dig wild vegetables on the slope!"

"okay!"

There are too many slopes with wild vegetables in the countryside. Among other things, there are layers of depressions on the hillside behind their house.

However, the best season for digging wild vegetables has not yet arrived, and I’m afraid there isn’t much of it now, just enough for them to eat one or two meals.

Song Tan went back to the room to tidy up, thought for a while, and took his mobile phone holder with him: "Qiaoqiao, go dig wild vegetables!"

Song Qiaoqiao couldn't wait to rush out of the yard: "Oh! It's raining! I'm going to tread water with Mother Pig!"

However, the rain was misty and the ground felt a little moist. Where did the rain come from?

Qiao Qiao was silent.

The siblings ran into the forest like monkeys. Behind them, Wu Lan was still shouting: "Pull some wild onions and come back to scramble eggs for you!"

…

They both grew up in the mountains. The two siblings moved very quickly. In the meantime, Song Tan even took another look at the rough pig pen in the back mountain——

It was a large shed made of wood. The top was tightly covered with tree branches and raincoats. The inside was raised up with stones. The straw hadn't even been spread inside, but it already looked quite fresh and clean.

With such a large amount of pig raising activity, the pork must be delicious. But there is also a problem. Pigs must urinate randomly every day. The range of activities in the mountains is too large, and there is no way to build a cesspool for them. Song Sancheng thought about this for a long time.

However, he finally figured it out.

When the piglets are still young, don't let them run around, otherwise there will be grass, tree roots, and stones on the hillside, and they will be easily injured.

At this time, make their circle smaller, dig a shallow pit, and slowly throw the pig manure into it. Slowly, the pig will know where to poop.

Once you get used to it, expand the scope step by step...

Does it work? This is Song Sancheng’s first time raising pigs in the mountains. Let’s give it a try! At worst, if you put in more effort and shovel shit on the mountain every day, it can be fermented and used as fertilizer.

After bypassing this forest, we reached a gentle slope halfway up the back mountain, where green grass had begun to sprout.

Qiao Qiao was already pointing to a large bush of green onions: "Sister! Scrambled eggs!"

Wild onions are also called wild onions and mountain garlic. It is much smaller than ordinary onions and garlic, and not even as thick as leeks. Every time we eat this at home, Qiao Qiao's job is to choose and wash it, so she is very impressed.

Song Tan looked at it and hesitated: "The wild onions are growing so well. Should we have scrambled eggs for lunch? Or stewed crucian carp?"

But no matter what, let’s pull it out first.

Not only are there wild onions, but there is also a clump of freshly grown Malanthus on the edge of the woods next to it. They are a bit small, but they can definitely make up a plate.

Next came the shepherd’s purses, which were quite a lot, some big and some small, and Qiao Qiao had already shoveled them away happily with a shovel.

But... there are too few things in the end, and the mobile phone equipment was taken for nothing, and there is nothing worth taking pictures.

She sighed, and suddenly thought of another thing——

What are the prices of wild vegetables now?

…

The two siblings went out and worked for an hour or two. Ulan took the vegetable basket and asked in confusion: "You guys went to the pond?"

"Yeah yeah!"

Most of Qiaoqiao's sleeves were wet, and it was obvious that she was having a lot of fun playing in the water.

Wulan turned over the wild vegetables he brought over: "This watercress is quite tender. Don't worry, you have to pinch it back just after it sprouted - how do you eat it?"

Song Tan thought for a while and made a decisive choice between shredded chicken and stewed fish soup: "Cold shredded chicken!"

Chicken shreds must be made from chicken breasts. Who in the village can’t sell chicken breasts alone?

Wulan ignored her: "Okay, I'm going to fry some peppercorn oil and make it cold for lunch. These days, people are serving big fish and meat, so I just want something light."

"Why is there purslane here? Just a handful? We'll mix it together later."

There are quite a lot of wild onions. Looking at their neat appearance, Qiaoqiao must have cleaned them up while playing with water by the pond.

Wulan looked basically satisfied:

"It just so happens that the crucian carp I caught last time has thawed. Let's make some soup and stir-fry the rest of the pork. Otherwise, it's too cold to just eat cold dishes today."

Finally, there was a thick layer of shepherd's purse at the bottom. Wulan made a decisive arrangement: "Just in time to make dumplings tonight!"

Song Tan, who doesn't cook, has no right to be picky, and she is also looking forward to it.

At this moment, she mentioned another thing:

"Mom, the weather has been warm recently. I think wild vegetables will grow wildly after this rain. Otherwise, I will dig more tomorrow and take the bus to the city to sell them?"

This time, Wulan really looked at her with new eyes: "You are going to set up a street stall? Have you been to the vegetable market?"

Song Tan understood what she meant - if it were the old me, I would definitely be too shy to let go.

Now...

I have been back for half a month and all the money has been spent. If I don't make some achievements, I don't know how much trouble I will have to spend on applying for funding next time?

Moreover, she took advantage of the spring rain to attract a lot of spiritual energy to the hillside pond. She should harvest dozens of kilograms tomorrow!

Shouldn't she go to test the market first?

So she patted her chest and said, "Don't worry! I will definitely be able to do it tomorrow!"

Song Sancheng had been silent all the time, but he said, "The bus will leave at six in the morning, and it will have to go around the town. It will be almost nine o'clock when it arrives in the city. How many people will buy vegetables?"

"How about this, Tan Tan, you will pack the vegetables tomorrow afternoon and leave early in the morning. I will ride a motorcycle to send you to the intersection. You can take a van at the intersection and just catch up with the morning vegetable market to sell vegetables."

Let me say what you like to hear: there is more today.

In addition, the recipes in this chapter refer to "New Special Dishes in the Mountains and Wilderness"

It was written with hunger in my stomach, it's too difficult!

Tan Tan's first pot of gold is coming!

[People who really go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables usually go early, and those who eat wild vegetables will of course go early. ]