Hard times have room

Chapter 679 Digging Wild Vegetables

If Wang Jiandang didn't come to wash his face again, the water would be completely cold, and he wouldn't be able to wash his face by then.

Thinking of this, Su Hongying thought that it would be great if there was a kettle at home, but unfortunately, the kettle is not only money, but also tickets, water bottle tickets, which is something that ordinary people in the countryside can afford.

There is also one in the old house. It was bought by the old lady seven or eight years ago. At that time, ticket management was not implemented, so it was a bit expensive, but it was still available. Unlike now, that It's really hard to buy with money.

After Wang Jiandang washed her face, Paulin made her breakfast, so she made the wild vegetable and mushroom soup. She didn't even put sweet potatoes in it.

She looked at the food at home, but she still had to eat it sparingly. It just happened that there were wild vegetables and mushrooms, so she could just drink the soup. After a few days, when the snow completely covered everything, she could only eat the food at home. Something, now save it!

After eating, the bowls and chopsticks were placed in the basin. Now the weather is cold, and no one wants to touch the water. Therefore, the bowls at home are stacked together, and they are washed together after dinner at night, which is convenient and convenient.

Baked warm by the fire, Paulin finally went to the main room, put on a bucket hat and a sharp sickle that had not been sharpened for a long time, and was about to go out.

"Paulin, what are you doing on this snowy day?" Su Hongying called out just in time when Baolin was walking out with one foot.

Now it's freezing cold outside, and Pauline doesn't know what to do. It's okay if she doesn't see it, but she does, so she wants to ask clearly.

"I'm going to dig some wild vegetables and wild onions and come back. It's snowing outside now. In two days, the snow will get heavier and heavier. It will be difficult to find green leafy vegetables outside. I'd better take advantage of this time to get more and come back. Bar!"

"Didn't I say before that I want to pickle the shallots, it's just today, pick it up when I get home, and pickle it right away." Paulin said with a little anxiety looking at the snow covered outside.

This snow fell, and I don't know how many families' plans were disrupted. There are still many people in the village who haven't prepared firewood!

Of course, if there is really not enough firewood at home in the end, then the whole family can only spread out and go to other homes to make fire, which is really common at this time.

Her family didn’t really have any reserves of green leafy vegetables. More than 20 days ago, it was still raining at that time, but it stopped for several days. At that time, cabbage and radish seeds were scattered at home. However, judging from the current situation, After that, I can only eat frozen cabbage seedlings and frozen radish seedlings.

"Then my dad and I will go with you and get some more back. It's snowing outside now. I won't know what the situation will be until tomorrow!" After Su Hongying finished speaking, she rushed back to the kitchen to call Wang Jiandang.

The family is neat and tidy, and everyone goes, that's fine.

At the end, everyone has a basket on the back, a bucket hat, a sickle or a shovel in the basket, and a bamboo pole in his hand.

It's snowing now, and it's been raining for a long time before. The road was wet and it was difficult to walk. Now it's better, and the road is icy directly. In some places the ice is very flat, and in others Concave and convex, the flat ice surface is not easy to walk, and the slippage is severe, so a bamboo stick to support the body is essential.

Of course, the ice is no more stable than the road, and in fact, walking on ice is very easy to slip.

Of course, the snow that fell before was velvety. The snow surface accumulated by this kind of snow is still relatively easy to walk on. As long as it is not the kind of road that has been walked over many times and stepped on extremely firm roads, it will be fine. When you step on it, there will be a rustling sound, and the friction with the shoes is enough, so it will not slip in most cases.

Paulin and his family of three did not go far, so they looked for wild onions and wild vegetables in the field next to the house. It was a dry land. Every winter, wild onions grow every year. There will also be wild green onions in the ground, but there may be weeds grabbing nutrients, so the growing heads are relatively small.

When I got to the ground, I started to use the sickle to clear the snow in the ground, but the efficiency was very slow. Finally, I went home and got a rake, which made it more efficient.

Baolin's rakes are made of bamboo, and they use their own hands. Wang Jiandang is the main force, while Baolin and Su Hongying are the ones who do it.

The main function of this rake is to collect pine needles and leaves and dry things, such as rice and peanuts, when they are dried, a rake is needed to turn them over.

As soon as the rake arrived, the efficiency increased. Paulin took the rake to scrape the snow on the ground, while Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang plowed the ground, but the sickle was too useless because the ground was frozen. Yes, that's why the little sickle can hardly do anything. In the end, I went home and took a hoe to dig. Only then did I catch up with Pauline's movements. One waved the hoe to dig the ground, and the other shook the mud behind. The family of three divided the work. , the efficiency is still very good.

Not long after their family of three worked, just when they had just dug half a basket of wild onions, the people from the Wang Cheng family next door also came.

"Hongying, let's dig some wild onions and go back." Wang Cheng's wife took the initiative to say hello.

She has a lot of family, but she doesn't have to go to battle with her whole family. She is the only one who brought her eldest and youngest daughters here, which is similar to what Paulin and his family brought, all of which are baskets and hoes.

She hadn't thought of this before, but she still saw Wang Jiandang go out with a hoe. Out of curiosity, she sent the youngest member of the family out to have a look. Only then did she know what the family next door was doing. No, call someone quickly and take it. Something to use has arrived.

To say that what Wang Cheng's wife brought is different from that of Baolin's family, it is the lack of a rake and a bamboo stick.

Everyone in the Baolin family likes to use the bamboo sticks or the heads that Baolin wears. Because they often watch them use them, and because of Baolin's urging and urging, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang also often carry bamboo sticks. It is very convenient to get used to having a stick around.

"Even if you come, there are so many wild onions growing in this field, don't you want to dig it?" Su Hongying also laughed and replied.

She has no objection to Wang Cheng's daughter-in-law getting it. The place is so big, with several acres of land, and their family of three can't dig it all out, so why be so stingy.

Of course, this place doesn't belong to her, even if she is a stingy person, she can't stop others from digging wild vegetables.

"By the way, don't you bring a rake? It may not be so convenient to work without a rake. Use the rake to scrape off the snow covering the soil, so as to accurately find where the wild vegetables and onions are, you Go home and get one!"

(End of this chapter)