Dressed as a vicious stepmother, the whole family is full of wealth

Chapter 15, Uphill

When Xiao Qing returned to the yard, Zhou and Qin were ready to cook.

It was getting dark, and Qiao Erjing and a few children were still sawing trees in the woods behind the house. She cooked dinner with them, as if nothing had happened.

She came to the pot and told: "Xiao Chengniang, for dinner, you can mix millet and white rice to cook thick porridge. Don't be reluctant to put rice so that the children are full. In addition, the children searched for rice on the mountain during the day." There are a lot of Chichibuds and Gynostemma, you put some salt on the Chichibuds, dip some lard, kill a piece of meat and stir fry a hot dish, then mix a Gynostemma with cold, so that the family will go to bed early when they are full."

Mrs. Zhou sighed crisply: "Mother said whatever to eat, so let's do whatever. Mother, you can go back to the house and have a rest. Leave this place to the two of us. When it's ready, let's get up and eat!"

Xiao Qing agreed with a smile, asked Qin Shi to help Zhou Shi, and went to lie down on the wicker bed by herself.

At dinner, Qiao Erjing brought Qiao Cheng, Qiao Yang, and Yuan Yuan back from the woods behind carrying a few logs. Smelling the aroma of rice at home, the hungry people put down the logs and walked under the thatched shed.

"If people in the village smell such fragrant rice porridge, will they come to our house to steal it at night?" Qiao Erjing asked worriedly, lifting the lid of the pot.

Qin clapped his hands, and Qiao Erjing hurriedly put down the lid of the pot in fright: "Why are you yelling as soon as you come back?"

At this moment, Mrs. Zhou poured lard oil into the cauldron, and when the oil touched the water stains on the pan, it sizzled. The meat was fried in a hot pan, with a stinging sound, and several children gathered around, looking eagerly at the meat in the pot.

Qiao Cheng ate pork rice for noon, but he didn't expect to have meat at night.

"Mom, if you can cook more to make me full..." Qiao Cheng stared at the meat, stuffed wild vegetables on it, the aroma became stronger, and then saw that Mother sprinkled salt.

Salt is so expensive, and their family can eat salt. My aunt did not add salt when cooking at noon, but it was already delicious. I didn't expect that there was salt in the evening dishes.

Qin looked at a group of children around the hot pot: "Hurry up and go out, Xiaocheng and his younger siblings hurriedly wash their hands and prepare to eat!"

Qiao Cheng didn't miss the dishes in the pot this time, so he took his younger siblings to wash their hands and called grandma to eat.

After a meal, the children were so full that they felt that it was not real even in their dreams. What they ate today seemed to be eaten in a dream.

After eating, Qiao Erjing went to the entrance of the village to fetch a few buckets of water and came back to scrub the family. The family was full and washed clean, and they all lay down comfortably.

Qiao Erjing saw the people sleeping in the room, closed his eyes, and had a big smile on his lips. This day seemed like the first time he lived like a human in these years!
next day
Before dawn, Xiao Qing got up.

Qin Shi heard the movement and urged Qiao Yu to get up too.

The three of them lightly carried the bamboo baskets on their backs and started to go into the mountains.

Qin Shi and Qiao Yu supported Xiao Qing to walk the mountain road, the mountain road was not easy to walk, Xiao Qing had to rest after walking a mile, so when the three of them reached the halfway up the mountain, it was already dawn.

Because the fruits growing on the trees at the bottom of the mountain and the sweet potatoes growing on the ground have been picked by the people of Yaoshan Village, today they can only go up the mountain to try their luck.

The more you go up the mountain, the more wild vegetables there are on the ground. There are more bracken and wild garlic than those at the bottom of the mountain.

Yaoshan Mountain is steep and cannot grow food here, so the villagers only come to the mountain to pick wild vegetables, chop firewood, pick wild fruits, and hunt wild game.

The pheasants and hares are basically gone. When the severe drought started, the pheasants and living animals in the woods and mountains were beaten away by the villagers. Now it is very difficult to see the mountain flavor on the mountains.

"Xiaoyu, Yuanyuan, you two look around, if there are any fruits, let's pick them back." Xiao Qing assigned the two of them.

And she was sitting on a rock to rest, she had already sweated a lot, and today she was carrying a bamboo basket again, which felt like a thousand catties, she couldn't climb any more, she was too tired, so the original owner climbed to the top of the mountain again. Come down to die, she doesn't want to die again in such a grievance.

Qin Shi agreed, Xiaoyu followed behind Qin Shi, and the two went around to look around.

Xiao Qing changed to a sunny place, then fanned the sweat off his face with his hands, looking at the lush forests around him, he felt a little relieved. In mid-September, the leaves here were not yet yellow, and every family took advantage of the darkness to enter. Hurry up to stock up on some grain in winter. Almost all the fruits on the mountain, winter jujubes, that can be dried and put away have been picked.

She casually grabbed a small fiery red fruit on the tree to quench her thirst. It looked like a wolfberry in her hand. There was a slice here. Qin Shi and Qiao Yu saw it just now, why didn't they ask what it was?Why not pick the fruit?

I don't know if this thing can be sold for money. If it is really wolfberry, then she will make money. Even if she can't sell it, she can pick it home and dry it as a fruit. It tastes pretty good.

She put the red fruit in her mouth and took a small bite, only to feel that the fruit tasted sour, and after the sour taste, there was a bitter and pungent feeling.

Xiao Qing took a sip and quickly spit it out, it was too unpalatable, what is this?

She peeled away what was the little red fruit that was blocked by the leaves next to it, Xiao Qing was startled after she peeled it away, the bright red fruit was full of trees, she carefully looked at the bunches of fruits , seems to have seen it there.

It is a little sour, a little bitter, and a little spicy, not chili. There is no chili in the Daqing Dynasty at this time.

This is... dogwood!
Xiao Qing was delighted when she thought of the uses of cornel. She stood up to see how many cornel fruits there were. After standing up, she found that there were many cornel trees scattered behind this cornel tree, and some of them had green fruits. , there are a few sunny trees that have grown bright red fruits, which seem to be wild. How come there are so many dogwoods that no one picks?
Cornel is a good thing!
Suddenly, a way to make money came to mind.

She picked up the basket and started picking, and soon her forehead was dripping with sweat.

Qin Shi and Qiao Yu went to look for fruit far away, but she picked it too slowly by herself.

In the Daqing Dynasty, Cornus officinalis had another function, which was to replace chili as a condiment. There were too few condiments in ancient times, and she could not use the steps to exchange for chili from the mall to sell. But if you can mix chili powder or powder with cornel powder Here, less dogwood and more chili, the spiciness is not only authentic, but also tastes better than chili.

The more Xiao Qing thought about it, the more feasible it became, and she happily picked it.

After a while, her hands were covered with red, looking at the half-bamboo cornel, Xiao Qing felt that it was almost done, thinking that when Qin Shi and Qiao Yu came back, her hands didn't stop, she would pick more.

After a while, two people squeezed out from the dense bushes.

Seeing the two of them, Xiao Qing shouted loudly: "Ms. Yuanyuan, I'm here. Come quickly and see what I found?"

Qin Shi and Qiao Yu walked to a wide place, but they really didn't have the energy to see what Xiao Qing found, so they sat on the big rock with bamboo baskets on their backs.

(End of this chapter)