Farmer girl with space for good farming

Chapter 16 Still Too Poor

"Isn't there wild mushrooms and wild vegetables at home today? Adding a catty of wild vegetables and a catty of wild mushrooms to the porridge won't take half a bowl of rice." Sun said, grabbing the bowl from Muli's hand, and pouring it into the bowl. I poured all the rice into the rice jar, and reached in to grab a handful of rice.

Mrs. Sun's hands, used to doing farm work, are very thick and big. A handful of rice is worth more than two or three taels. Put it in the basin and ask Mu Li to wash it.

Mu Li looked at the rice grains in the basin that couldn't even be filled, and looked at Sun's helplessly: "Mother, there is too little rice."

There are six people in the family, with six mouths, or four men and two women. It is too economical to just order rice, a catty of wild vegetables and a catty of mushrooms.

"A lot, a catty of wild vegetables cooked with a catty of mushrooms, it will be a lot." Sun said as usual.

Mu Li frowned, but she could only cook it.

Today, I took the risk of picking these wild mushrooms and came back, just thinking that my family could have a full meal tonight. I didn't expect that after the mushrooms and wild vegetables, Sun actually withheld most of the rice.

Mu Li shook her head and didn't insist anymore. After all, her family was too poor.

After washing the rice, I poured the rice into the pot with a large basin of water, and licked the firewood again. Muli went to get wild mushrooms. A few catties of wild mushrooms were made, and half a catty of wild mushrooms was made in the afternoon. Half a catty of wild mushrooms, not much left.

Mu Li wanted to pick wild mushrooms that weighed a catty and a half, but there was no other way. If the amount of rice was reduced, more wild mushrooms had to be added, otherwise, just relying on such a small amount would not be enough to fill the stomachs of three adults.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Sun knew how bad her daughter was recently, so she was not allowed to pick up Muli when she picked up almost a catty, and then took the catty of wild mushrooms and asked her to pick it up. The wild vegetables she had washed just now were chopped up for porridge.

The wild mushrooms are all broken, so there is no need to cut them, they can be boiled in the pot directly after washing. Therefore, Mu Li, who wanted to secretly take some wild mushrooms from the space and cook them in the pot, had no chance.

"Mother, there are too few. I can't get enough of it. If Ye Junzi wants it, there are many more." Mu Li said with a frown.

"When has the family been full? As for the wild mushrooms, if there are still some that can be stored in the sun, are you afraid that you won't be able to finish them?" Sun looked at this girl who was too ignorant recently, and said, "The rice at home is almost gone. , your father has to borrow rice from others, and it will take three months for the crops in the field to be harvested, so if you don’t worry about it, what will you eat at home?"

Didn't Mrs. Sun know that if you cook less dinner, everyone will not be full, but if you really cook a full meal as Mu Li said, how much rice will be spent and how many days' food will be reduced?
Furthermore, even if it is saved like this, it will not last for many days.

Mu Li couldn't refute.

After all, she was too poor, and she had to find a way to solve the food crisis at home as soon as possible.

"Hey, why is there so much less salt?"

When the porridge was about to be cooked, Mrs. Sun wanted to put salt in it, but seeing that there was a lot less salt in the salt jar, she immediately glared at Mu Li.

Where is the salt missing? She only added a little bit of wild mushroom soup twice. It's really not much. It can be seen from this that Mrs. Sun counts salt in grains?

"It's just a little bit in the wild mushroom soup." Mu Li could only say that with such a little salt, you can find that it's gone.

Sun stared: "The wild mushroom soup is very delicious, there is no need to add salt, and it is not allowed to be added in the future."

(End of this chapter)