The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 90

The mountain is full of pink sage flowers in full bloom, clusters dotted with emerald green foothills, very beautiful.But as Lin Xialai said, the mountain fruit is still green.There are only a few that are slightly pink and mature.Fang Yumin resolutely decided to pick them again in a month or two. By then, it will be the season when Shan Minoru will mature.It just happens to be the busy season of farming, and everyone will be busy then. I guess there won't be too many children going up the mountain, right?It just so happens that the whole family can go up the mountain to pick up special picks.

The mountain is not yet ripe, and the peaches and plums are a little bit less ready, but Fang Yumin's mouth still almost grinned to the ears.At this moment, she was lying on the ground carefully observing the red, pink or blue-white heart-shaped wild strawberry-like fruit with many holes and strong aroma.

Xiao Ming put down the small bamboo basket full of wild mushrooms, went to Fang Yumin and squatted down: "Mom, is this edible?"

Fang Yumin didn't answer, just pointed to the red fruit and asked Xiaoyang and Xiaohua: "Have you ever eaten this?"

"I haven't eaten it, it's the first time I've seen it." Xiaohua shook his head.He usually works with his father at home and rarely goes up the mountain.Usually, I go to pick some wild peaches from the mountain to eat for my younger sister, or go up the mountain with my father and the villagers to dig traps in the autumn hunting season, catch a hare and pheasants, etc. He will not pick these strange fruits and eat them. .

Xiao Yang went over to look at Fang Yumin carefully and said: "I have eaten this before. The red one is ripe, and it tastes sour and sweet. But the pink one and the blue and white one will be very sour. .These ground fruits are easy to rot. I picked them before and wanted to take them down the mountain, but they were half rotten when I got home.”

Fang Yumin reached out and grabbed Xiaoyang and asked in surprise: "Xiaoyang, have you really eaten it? Are you okay after eating it?"

It can't be blamed that Fang Yumin is so cautious. Although she has concluded that [-]% of the red fruit is strawberry, she knows that the origin of strawberry is not China (of course she doesn't know where this time and space is), but here she sees this How could she be so careless?What if this is not a strawberry but something that looks similar to a strawberry but is not edible?In this ancient time, even a cold could kill one's life, let alone poisoning?
"I really ate it. I used to go up the mountain with Xiao Zhu, and I would pick and eat it when I saw it." Xiaoyang said as he picked a red strawberry and put it in his mouth to show that he had really eaten it.

"Yeah, why did you eat it without washing?" Fang Yumin tried to stop it before it was too late.

Xiao Yang smiled at her with a strawberry in his mouth, and the unique fragrance of strawberries filled the air.Fang Yumin didn't care about cleanliness anymore, so she picked one and threw it into her mouth.After biting it a few times, Fang Yumin's eyes widened, and she said in surprise, "Wow, it's a strawberry, it's really a strawberry."

Xiaoming and Xiaohua looked at Xiaoyang eagerly, then at Fang Yumin, but unfortunately Fang Yumin didn't plan to feed them, so he made up an excuse and said: "After all, mother doesn't know if this is really a strawberry, so we picked you and brought it back. Let’s eat at home, okay? If it’s not a stomach ache after eating strawberries, Mother and Xiaoyang will rely on you to save them.”

These words made Xiao Ming and Xiao Hua not dare to eat, and they nodded solemnly, as if they had a heavy responsibility on their shoulders.

Xiao Yang turned her head silently, her shoulders shook several times before squatting down to pick strawberries.

There are not many wild strawberries, and even fewer ripe ones that have not been eaten by other animals.In the end, Fang Yumin and the others only picked a small bag.Fang wrapped the strawberries with soft leaves, and then wrapped them in cloth towels and put them in bamboo baskets.

Whether it is to be transplanted and planted at home, forget it for the time being.Fang Yumin has heard that strawberries are very pest-prone and difficult to grow. Otherwise, why do they always say that strawberries have a lot of pesticide residues?

After picking strawberries, Fang Yumin took the three children down the mountain to go home.They went up the mountain today to harvest a lot. Besides wild fungi, they also dug up a few late-maturing bamboo shoots.After finding last year's orchards, they also picked peaches and plums that had already begun to ripen. These fruits were estimated to be fully ripe in a month later.

Xiaohua and Xiaoyang dug a lot of traps along the way, plus those dug by those villagers, those stupid hares and pheasants just fell down.The two children worked together to tie them up with ropes, connected them into strings, and picked them up with bamboo.

Fang Yumin took Xiao Ming to dig a big bowl, mugwort, plantain, houttuynia cordata, purslane, etc. Later, Xiao Ming found a small green pepper, which turned out to be wild pepper!Fang Yumin smiled until her eyes narrowed.

Xiaoyang turned out to be a very naughty child, took Xiaohua and Xiaoming to dig out bird nests, and brought down several nests of eggs.While Fang Yumin was talking about his works, he wrapped them in mud and threw them into the fire to roast.

Xiaoyang carried peaches, plums and picked a bunch of hares and walked in the front, followed by Xiaoming, who carried straw mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, mint, big bowls and straw-wrapped bird eggs.

Behind Xiaohua's hall, his bamboo baskets are full of bamboo knots, which is one of the purposes of going up the mountain today, to make rice in bamboo tubes.In addition, I picked six pheasants with bamboo sticks. The pheasants were hanging upside down and still clucking and thrashing. It was really joyful.

Fang Yumin's bamboo basket contained everything, peaches, wild pepper, plantain, houttuynia cordata, purslane, wormwood, etc., and a pack of strawberries.

As soon as they got down the mountain, they saw Lin Xialai, who was wearing a straw hat, already waiting at the foot of the mountain, and the four quickly rushed over.

Fang Yumin gasped and said to Lin Xia: "Second Uncle, why are you here?"

The corner of Lin Xialai's mouth twitched and said, "Qiulai and the others are back, I thought if you don't go down the mountain again, I will go find you."

After hearing this, Xiao Ming didn't care about carrying the bamboo basket, so he jumped up and asked in surprise: "Second Uncle, are you serious? Daddy is back?"

Xiaoyang Xiaohua also looked at Lin Xia in surprise and asked, "Daddy (uncle) is really back?"

Lin Xialai took the pheasant and hare from Xiaoyang and Xiaohua's hands, and said, "Really, go home quickly."

Fang Yumin was also very happy in her heart, wishing to fly home, but she still had to be a little reserved in front of the children, so she endured and endured, but the joy on her face could not be concealed: "Okay, okay ,We go home."

"Okay." Everyone wiped off their sweat and ran home.

It was quiet when they rushed into the house. If there were not several huge cloth bags in the living room, Fang Yumin would have thought that Lin Xia had come to lie to them.

After searching the house, Lin Qiulai was not at home.So Fang Yumin said: "Qiu Lai may have gone to the elder's house, come on, let's share a share, and it happens that you can take the second uncle back."

Fang Yumin carefully took the bag of strawberries out of the bamboo basket.I don't know if it was damaged or smashed after walking on the mountain road for so long?
Xiaoyang came over with a basin of water, Fang Yumin picked six intact strawberries and put them aside for Peach Blossom, and put the other dozen strawberries into the water for cleaning.Wash it up, pick it up and say to everyone: "Come on, eat it, it will spoil if you don't eat it."

Xiao Ming first picked up one and threw it into his mouth. After biting, his eyes lit up, and that little paw had already grabbed the second one.Seeing this, Xiaohua quickly took a bite, and touched one with the other paw and held it in his hand.

Fang Yumin was hungry, but she still managed to eat only two.Lin Xialai ate one, and he said with a smile: "It's been a long time since I ate this fruit. If you went up the mountain ten days earlier, you would have picked more. It's almost past the fruiting period now."

"Oh?" Fang Yumin said excitedly, "Then next year I will pick them earlier."

The three children nodded while eating.

When the strawberries are finished, we start counting the harvest.The wormwood, plantain, wild pepper and most of the wild mushrooms are left to Fang Yumin, and Lin Xia will just share some fruits and pheasants.

Fang Yumin divided the fruits, pheasants and hares equally, which made Lin Xialai and Xiaohua very embarrassed. They were all alone, and his family was alone.

"Auntie, you gave us too much." Xiaohua refused to accept.

Fang Yumin smiled and said: "These are the results of the hard work of you and Xiaoyang, and it is fair to share them equally. Okay, okay, hurry up and take the things home, your mother and Taohua are waiting for you to go back."

"Well, that's fine." Xiao Hua looked at his father, and seeing that he took the things over without any objection: "Auntie, Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang, let's go home then."

Fang Yumin hurriedly called Xiaohua to stop, wrapped the strawberry and put it in his hand, saying: "Wait, take these strawberries back for Taohua to eat."

Lin Xialai took the pheasant from Xiaohua's hand, and Fang Yumin said, "Then let's go home first, and I'll stir the soy sauce later."

"Okay, let's go slowly."

After Xiaohua Linxia came and left, Fang Yumin asked Xiaoyang to stuff pheasants and rabbits into cages to raise them, and then urged them to take a bath.

Curative plantains, wormwood, etc. are dried in the yard; shiitake mushrooms are separated and put in the kitchen to dry for a while, and then stringed and dried into dried shiitake mushrooms; other grass aunts will be boiled and eaten today, otherwise It's going to break soon, and it's all discolored by now.

Pick out the ripe peaches and plums, and put all the unripe ones in the ear room. In such a hot weather, they will ripen after a few days of covering.

I picked a handful of wormwood, purslane, and bamboo shoots and put them in the kitchen. After washing the bamboo tubes with water, I put them in the yard to dry.

Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang came out with their wet hair wrapped in cloth towels. They were wearing shorts and looking fresh.

Xiaoyang said to Fang Yumin: "Mom, you should take a bath too. We will do the rest."

"It's okay, it's really uncomfortable to be sweating." Fang Yumin said with a smile: "But I have to deal with these mushrooms first, or they will go bad."

Xiao Ming went into the kitchen and took a wormwood and asked Fang Yumin: "Mother, isn't this used to prevent mosquitoes? Why did you put it in the kitchen?"

Fang Yumin was busy cleaning straw mushrooms, she took a quick look and said, "That's edible, you should get to know it well, and pick more when you see them."

"Uh, good." Xiao Ming scratched his hair, and touched the big cloth towel.Since my mother passed out once last year, there are suddenly a lot of weird things that I can eat.Mom is really amazing!
Dry the grass aunt with a clean cloth towel, and then put it in the yard to dry.

"Xiaoyang, go to the vegetable garden and pick a few eggplants, wash some sweet potatoes, let's eat mushrooms today. Xiaoming, tie up your hair and call Xiaohua and Taohua over. Hurry up." Fang Yumin put the apron on Put it on and say.

"it is good."

Take out the flour, add eggs and water to make a slurry, which is used for tempura batter.Peel the sweet potatoes and thinly slice the eggplants. Wash and dry the water and thinly slice the eggplants for later use.

Xiaoyang lit a torch to boil the oil, Fang Yumin picked out some pulp to test the oil temperature, and when he saw that it formed and floated immediately, he knew the oil temperature was okay.Then put the starched sweet potato slices, eggplant slices and straw mushrooms into the oil pan and fry them until they are golden brown.Fragrant!While it was hot, Fang Yumin immediately sprinkled seven-flavored powder, so that it tasted even more fragrant.

This place is different from modern times. You have to wait until autumn to eat white radish.There is no way to make mashed radish, but it is also good to eat with seven-flavored powder.

"Xiao Yang, come and taste it and see if it's delicious." Xiao Yang is different from Xiao Ming, if Xiao Ming would have clamored to try it already.Fang Yumin used bamboo sticks to string some straw mushrooms, sweet potatoes and eggplants to Xiaoyang.

Xiaoyang took a bite and nodded hurriedly: "It's delicious, mother, you can eat it too." Then he raised the bamboo stick up to feed Fang Yumin.Fang Yumin also took a bite of the shiitake mushrooms on Xiaoyang's hand, and smiled proudly: "Oh, my skills are beyond cure, why are they so delicious?"

Xiaoyang couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard that, at this moment Xiaoming rushed in with Xiaohua and Taohua smelling the fragrance.

"Xiao Ming, go make a pot of cherry tea, Xiao Hua, put the table under the cherry tree, where can we eat it?"

"Okay."

Tao Hua stepped forward and looked at the tumbling pan of oil and the fragrant tempura and asked, "Auntie, what about me?"

"You don't need it if you're a girl, just sit and wait to eat. Hey, don't come so close, oil splashes on the skin will leave scars."

"Oh," Taohua took a step back, still watching Fang Yumin's movements with wide eyes.My aunt's cooking skills are very good, and she also wants to learn.My mother said that with this skill, I will be as happy as my aunt in the future.

Two large plates were quickly fried. There was no oil-absorbing paper here, so Fang Yumin just put the tempura on Kong Shu's bamboo plaque.Outside, Xiao Hua put away all the tables and benches, and Xiao Ming also filled five cups of cherry tea, waiting to eat.

Before serving it out, Fang Yumin sprinkled Shichimi powder on the freshly fried tempura, and then he and Xiaoyang served it out on a plate, Taohua held two small bowls of vinegar in his hand.

"Start! Be careful it's hot."

As soon as Fang Yumin announced, the four children picked up the bamboo sticks and poked what they wanted most.

Fang Yumin also took a fork of fried shiitake mushrooms and took a bite, um, not bad, although the taste is still a bit far from what I ate in Japanese restaurants, but it is still so.

While eating, he muttered to himself: "It would be great if there was ice, and it will be crispier and more delicious when fried with ice."

"If mother uses ice, it will have to wait until winter. But it's delicious now." Xiao Ming eats until his mouth is shiny, and both cheeks are bulging like a little hamster, which looks very cute.

After finally swallowing it down, Xiao Ming turned to look at Fang Yumin and asked, "Mother, why don't we wait for Daddy to eat together?"

When I asked this, the hands of the other three children stopped. That's right, didn't Lin Qiulai come back?His eyes were shining brightly at Fang Yumin.

Just as Fang Yumin was about to speak, there came the familiar sound of footsteps, accompanied by hearty laughter: "Xiao Ming, did you think of your father after eating so much?"

Xiao Ming turned around in surprise, called "Daddy" and dropped the bamboo stick into Lin Qiulai's arms.

"Father." Xiao Yang also jumped up and wanted to rush over, but stopped hesitantly.In front of his godfather and godmother, he is still not as open and coquettish as Xiao Ming.

"Uncle." Xiaohua and Taohua also stood up, looking at Lin Qiulai with a smile.

Only Fang Yumin was still sitting there, she raised her head and looked carefully at Lin Qiulai who hadn't seen her for more than two months.My yellowish skin was tanned after covering it all winter, and I lost weight, but I was still so energetic, and my teeth were so white when I smiled!

Slowly, the corners of Fang Yumin's mouth turned up, and she looked at Lin Qiulai with crooked eyebrows and said softly, "Are you back?"

The smile on Lin Qiulai's face became brighter, and he looked at Fang Yumin affectionately: "Well, I'm back."

(End of this chapter)