Song Tan's Notes

Chapter 16 16. Digging Wild Vegetables

After the Jing Zhe is over, it is the spring rain.

The misty light rain fell silently, and the entire field and hills were covered with a faint blue mist, fluffy and wet.

Song Sancheng had just settled the wages for the villagers, and now he smelled the rain and soil outside, and a smile appeared on his face.

"It's really time for the rain to come."

For more than half a month, they have been busy every day. Wulan has to prepare meals for a large group of people and clean up outside the house.

Song Sancheng has to take people to weed the fields, weed the hillsides, chop down trees, trim tree trunks, and have to find time to build a pigpen, chicken coop, and duck shed...

The person who delivered the strains just came over this afternoon, and I plan to not go out and order strains at home tomorrow, so I settled the wages out to tens of thousands of dollars.

Look again, God takes care of people: it's raining!
Wulan sighed while holding the ledger: "Tan Tan, your 6 yuan is gone."

"The next time I have to spend money, that's what my dad and I will support, and we have to listen to our arrangements." Otherwise, I'm really afraid that she will let her go out again.

Song Tan thought about it—

The piglets haven't been brought back, but the pigsty has been set up, and her mother can't get the money.Ducks have to be bought, and they have to be paid for.

The chickens will not be bought this year. Grandma's house is hatching!

The hillside woodlands have been cleaned up, and the seeds have been bought. The next step is to pay for the bacteria, and there is nothing else to spend!

She nodded and asked the key question: "Mom, what are you eating?"

Wu Lan held her breath in her heart: "I have no money, what to eat? Go, take Qiao Qiao and dig wild vegetables on the slope!"

"okay!"

There are too many sloping fields with wild vegetables in the countryside. If nothing else, they are in the depressions on the hillside behind their homes, layer by layer.

However, the most suitable season for digging wild vegetables has not yet arrived. I am afraid that the amount is not much now, and it will be enough for them to eat two meals.

Song Tan went back to the room to clean up, thought about it, and put on his mobile phone holder: "Qiao Qiao, 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, it was foggy under the rain, and the ground felt a little wet. Where did the rain come from?
Jojo was silent.

The sister and brother rushed into the forest like monkeys, and Wu Lan was still shouting behind him: "Pull the wild onions, come back and scramble eggs for you!"

……

They all grew up in the mountains, the siblings moved quickly, and Song Tan went to take another look at the rough pigsty in the back mountain——

A large shed made of wood, the top is tightly pressed with branches and raincloths, and the inside is padded with stones. The straw has not yet been laid in, but it is already quite fresh and clean.

With such a large amount of pig raising activity, pork must be delicious.But there is also a problem. The pig must be urinating indiscriminately every day. The range of activities in the mountain is too large, and there is no way to enclose a septic tank for it. Therefore, Song Sancheng has been thinking about it for a long time.

However, he finally figured it out.

When the piglets were young, they were not allowed to run around, otherwise there would be grass, tree roots, and stones on the hillside, which would make them easy to fall.

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

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

Can you do it? Song Sancheng is also raising pigs on the mountain for the first time. Let's try it!It’s a big deal. It takes a lot of effort to shovel shit on the mountain every day. When it ferments, it can be used as fertilizer.

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

Qiao Qiao has already pointed to a large bush of green onions: "Sister! Scrambled eggs!"

Wild onion, also known as sand onion, mountain garlic.It is much smaller than ordinary onions and garlic, and even not as thick as leeks. Every time I eat this at home, Qiao Qiao's task is to choose and wash it, so I am very impressed.

Song Tan looked at it and hesitated: "This wild onion grows so well, should it be scrambled eggs at noon? Or stewed crucian carp?"

But anyway, pull it out first.

Not only are there wild green onions, but there is also a clump of newly grown Malan head beside the woods. It is a little small, but it will definitely be enough for a plate.

Next is the shepherd's purse, there are quite a lot of them, big and small, and Qiao Qiao has happily shoveled out with a shovel.

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

She sighed and suddenly thought of something—

Wild vegetables, what price are they selling now?

……

The siblings went out for an hour or two, and Wulan took the vegetable basket and asked in confusion, "Did you still go to the pond?"

"Yeah yeah!"

Qiaoqiao's sleeves were mostly wet, and at a glance, she knew that she was having a good time playing in the water.

Ulan flipped through the wild vegetables he brought: "This watercress is quite tender, don't even make you pinch it back when it has just sprouted—how do you eat it?"

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

Chicken shreds have to use chicken breasts. Who in the village still sells chicken breasts alone?

Wulan ignored her: "Okay, I'll fry some pepper oil, and I'll make it cold at noon. In the past few days, the guests are all big fish and meat, so I just eat something light."

"Why is there purslane here? That's all? We'll mix it together later."

There are quite a lot of wild onions, looking at this neat appearance, it must be that Qiaoqiao cleaned up while playing in the water by the pond.

Ulan looked basically satisfied:

"The crucian carp that I just caught last time was also thawed. Let's stew some more soup, and stir-fry the rest with double-cooked pork. Otherwise, it will be too cold to eat cold dishes all day."

In the end, there was a thick layer of shepherd's purse underneath, and Ulan made an arrangement decisively: "It happened to make dumplings for dinner at night!"

Song Tan, who doesn't cook, is not qualified to be picky, not to mention she is looking forward to it.

Another thing to mention here:

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

This time, Ulan was really impressed: "Are you going to set up a street stall? Have you been to the vegetable market?"

Song Tan understood what she meant—if it was her original self, she would definitely be thin-skinned and couldn't let go.

now...

After tossing for half a month, all the money was spent.If you don't come up with some grades, how much will it cost you to apply for funding next time?
What's more, taking advantage of this spring rain, she can attract a lot of spiritual energy to the pond on the hillside, and she will have to collect dozens of pounds tomorrow!
Shouldn't we test the market first?

So she patted her chest: "Don't worry! I will definitely do it tomorrow!"

Song Sancheng didn't say a word, but he heard the words: "The bus leaves at six o'clock in the morning, and we have to go around the town for a long time. It's almost nine o'clock in the city. How many people are there to buy food?"

"Let's do it, Tan Tan, you pack up the vegetables tomorrow afternoon, leave early in the morning, I'll take you to the intersection on a motorcycle, you take a van at the intersection, just in time for the morning vegetable market to sell vegetables."

　Say something you love to hear: still today.

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

　　It's so hard to write hungry!
　　Tan Tan's first pot of gold is coming!
　　[Those who really go to the market to buy vegetables usually hurry up, and those who can eat wild vegetables will of course hurry up. ]
　　
　
(End of this chapter)