Hard times have room

Chapter 270 Time Flies

Early the next morning, when the sky was still bright, the whole family of three went into the mountains with their backpacks on their backs to pick mushrooms.

At times like this, the time to go to work is postponed. Even Xu Aiguo and his family dispatched their whole family to go into the mountains. This is a bit of a stutter, but you have to hurry up. Who knows when this ghost weather will be. It's raining, and it's hard to dry some mushrooms and keep them for winter.

After more than two hours, the three members of Paulin's family were carrying a basket full of mushrooms behind their backs, the most of which were white mushrooms, which were long and most of them in the mountains.

Everyone else was slowly pushing in from the outside, but Paulin and the three of them went inside to look for it, which was more than a step faster than the others, and only picked so many mushrooms in more than two hours. .

It took so much time to go out because Pauline was not very strong. In the end, after Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang were full of the back baskets, they turned around to help her pick them up, but it didn't take much time.

When the three of them came out of the mountain with the full baskets on their backs, they attracted a lot of envy from the people who saw them, but when they turned around and looked back to see that they were already full of mushrooms, they didn't say anything sour, but put this envy. Turning it into motivation, he walked forward firmly, believing that he could fill it up too, after all, there are so many mushrooms in this mountain.

This mountain is huge. It rained so many days ago, and the mushrooms are growing crazy now. It is not difficult to fill up the back basket. Just wandering around in the mountains is enough.

After returning home, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang were drying mushrooms on the flat ground in front of the house, while Paulin went to the kitchen to cook porridge.

Today's recipe is very simple, the potato and white rice porridge is thick and thick, and the potatoes are finished. Today is the last meal, and these are the only ones left on purpose.

After finishing the breakfast with the side dishes, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang took the guy to work. After locking the yard, Paulin went to the back mountain with a basket on her back. Now the weather is fine and the sun is shining. After drying for a day, the mushrooms will be almost dry, and they will not be damaged. Store them in a sealed tank. When the weather is good, they will be poured out and dried. There is no problem at all in the spring.

For the next two days, besides cooking, Pauline went to the mountains to pick up mushrooms.

During this period, she also met a lot of acquaintances on the way up the mountain. The old lady of the old house and two aunts and uncles suddenly saw them in the mountain. They were not surprised. They just said hello and passed by. On the side, I will go there, there is no particularly strong emotional fluctuation, and there is no idea of ​​being old and dead, just a light greeting, and then, turn around and leave.

Of course, she also met Dongmei, and the two of them talked a lot. They didn't go back to their respective homes until the baskets behind the two were full. No one said anything about going to the mountains together in the afternoon. Now is not the time to play. , Now everyone is busy, and no one has the time to wait for the other to cooperate. Both of them are very aware of this.

In addition to going to the mountains in the morning, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang would go back to the mountains in the sun after they went home for lunch at noon.

After two days of unremitting efforts, the dried mushrooms at home have filled the jar that can store [-] catties of wine at home. The small ones are all crowded together. Looking at this jar of mushrooms, Pauline felt in her heart. The sense of achievement is full.

Since they are all dried in the sun in about a day, the mushrooms are very beautiful, and you can see what kind of mushrooms are dried when you pick them up. It is rare to see them.

In winter, grab a handful, soak it, and stir-fry it with chopped peppers. That's a great and delicious side dish.

I didn't feel that time at home passed by quickly, but this time, Pauline felt it. Two days ago, she felt that it was over in the blink of an eye. Tomorrow is the last day of vacation, and she has to go back to school.

In the evening, Paulin also deliberately took out a palm-sized crucian carp from the space and simmered the crucian carp and mushroom soup.

In fact, this stuff is the best stewed tofu, but now there is no tofu in the village. In her memory, tofu is only available at home during Chinese New Year. For beans, one pound of beans can be exchanged for two pounds of tofu. Of course, take Money can also buy it, it seems to be two cents a pound, which seems to be more expensive.

However, according to the situation this year, this tofu seems to be hanging, and the idea of ​​soybeans will definitely be saved in case of emergency. The guild is moldy and can be stored for a long time, and it seems that this thing is nutritious, and there is still a little in Paulin's space.

In the evening, as soon as Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang entered the house, they smelled the fish. It was very fragrant. Without thinking about where the fish came from, they swallowed involuntarily.

"Mom and Dad, you guys are back. I was lucky today. I found a half-dead crucian carp in the water and grass by the river. It turned its stomach. I pulled it over with a stick." Pauline said with a smile.

She caught this fish from the ditch a few months ago, but she didn't eat it at the time, but now it's just right, and the family hasn't tasted any meat for more than a month.

"Then you didn't go into the water, did you?" Su Hongying hurried over and grabbed Paulin's hand when she heard this.

There has always been a saying in the village that the water ghosts in the river like to turn into fish to lure people into the water and then drown them.

Every year, those children who could swim and drown in the river would say that the water ghost had killed them, grabbing the children's feet in the water, preventing them from going up, and killing people.

Su Hongying has been taught by her family since she was a child, and she is convinced of this.

Therefore, Pauline was never allowed to play in the water since she was a child, and she was not allowed to learn to swim with the brothers. She was convinced that anyone who drowned could know how to swim. , no problem at all.

Now that Pauline has grown up without disaster, she feels that she is doing the right thing, as it should be.

There is no problem with this shallow river and the banks of the river, but if you can't go into the water, there will be water ghosts that will harm people.

"No, I pulled it with a stick. Besides, I don't know how to swim. The water in the Daqing River is so fast now that I haven't lived enough!"

"Oh, mom, don't worry, I won't go into the water. I remember very clearly what you told me before."

After speaking, Bao Lin patted Su Hongying's arm and pulled her hand, showing her that she has no problems with her now, it's alright!
(End of this chapter)