American Ranch

Chapter 732 Wild Fruit (15)

*There was a power outage last night, and I felt dizzy. The high temperature was over 30 degrees. It was like going to a sauna. I barely slept, and the mat was drenched in water!It's five shifts today, let's start with a chapter, and come back to the rest in the evening.

On the embankment is a two-meter-wide dirt road. There are few heavy vehicles driving on it, so the road surface is very smooth. If you ride a bicycle on it, you can hardly feel the bumps.

There are dense vegetation on both sides. Most of the trees are poplars that are as neat as guards, and a few are mixed with plane trees, locust trees and wattle bushes.

The entire embankment was covered with emerald green, which almost completely covered the sunlight, and provided Qin Yi's family with comfortable shade during the autumn tiger season.

Occasionally a breeze blows by, and the branches and leaves make the sound of clashing, like natural music, which makes people feel unstoppable peace of mind.

There is a dense canopy covering the top, and various weeds grow on the ground.

Mostly short thatch.

Seeing this familiar plant, Qin Yi couldn't help thinking of when he was a child, every spring, he would follow his sister to pick up the thatch and pick up the needles. The tender needles, soft and slightly sweet, were one of the few snacks when he was young. one.

It's a pity that the needles at this time have grown into long hair ears, which are already inedible.

Along the thin ridge along the roadside, there are dogtail grasses of different heights. The thin stems support a spike like a millet ear, nodding and swaying with the breeze, which has a harmonious and natural charm.

When Angel got out of the car, she changed her princess skirt into jeans. At this time, she was picking a fur tassel and a dandelion on the embankment, and ran around happily, causing the three little guys to stare at her all the time. It seems that I want to come down and play with my sister!

Wild mint, wild hemp, cat's eye, scorpion seedlings, pitcher plants, and various unknown weeds are dotted, mixed with various small saplings and deciduous shrubs that are not tall. Less than land!
Amanda and Diana couldn't wait to run to play.

Only Sarah, who likes to be quiet, walks slowly beside Susa and Rachel, admiring the rural scenery of her hometown with a smile.

But Ke Luo, who stuffed the baby in his arms to Qin Yi, also ran over quickly.

The third daughter and Angel were running around on the grass. From time to time, they saw a plant that had never been seen before, which seemed to be different from the United States. They called Qin Yi tenderly and asked this guy to help explain it.

It's a pity that more than half of these complicated weeds and vegetation are unknown to Qin Yi!
Those who know each other only know the local common name.

But even if you don't know the name, it doesn't affect the interest of the girls at all. If you catch a cocklebur, you can pose for a lot of photos.
Qin Yi smiled, and didn't care how they ran around, just hugged the baby, walked slowly with Susa and the three, chatted with each other about the feelings of the countryside, and teased the three little guys who were learning how to talk. A contented ease.

When he walked to a peach forest, Qin Yi saw a familiar plant under the peach tree, and childhood memories suddenly flooded his mind.

Solanum nigrum is called "Tianmi" in the dialect of my hometown, and it is called Tianbaizi in other places, probably because the shape of its leaves is similar to that of eggplant leaves.

The height of the plant varies from tens of centimeters, and it bears a small purple-black berry, the size of a bean, which is very sweet. It is a delicacy bestowed by nature on the farm children in the early years. Every autumn, the children search for it all over the field!

Qin Yi still remembers that when he was a child, he sneaked out with his friends, took a bath in the river with bare buttocks, played for an hour, then walked along the river bank to find Tianmi Yangzi, and cheered when he saw the small purple-black berries Pounce on it and grab it!
That's really fast and slow!

A few children would save one by one to eat, but most of them still picked a handful as Qin Yi did at that time, and put them all in their mouths, splashing the juice from chewing.
Of course, if you eat the fruit that is half green but not red, the astringent and numbing taste will definitely make people spit, and make friends laugh loudly!

"Aha, babies, I saw something good!" Qin Yi hugged the baby, bent down and ran under the peach tree, "Shut up, let's taste it first, such a little thing is not enough!"

Susa, who wanted to call Ke Luo and the others, smiled softly when she heard this, and followed quickly with the little tiger in her arms.

Rachel hugged the lion cub, walked slowly with Sarah, and looked curiously at a plant in Qin Yibala.

A small nightshade seedling is full of hundreds of berries, clustered like small lanterns!
Now is the season for a large number of various small wild fruits to ripen. Of course, the weather will turn cold soon, and this is also the last feast.

Qin Yi picked a plump one and waved it in front of the baby, causing the little girl to open her mouth to eat, but he turned his hand and stuffed it into Rachel's mouth!
The baby made two ahh sounds, seemingly a little unhappy, looking at her mother pitifully, her little mouth twitching, greedy little girl!
Both Susa and Sara were amused, and Rachel was also amused, but she patted Qin Yi lightly to vent her anger on the baby girl. Qin Yi laughed, picked another one and crushed it, and fed the juice to the baby. Open your mouth wide and kiss the baby on the cheek twice!
Naturally, one can't favor one over another, Qin Yi fed the cub and lion cub, Susa and Sara also tasted it, the light sweetness is still good.

The three of Ke Luo and Angel, who were running around more than ten meters away, rushed over seeing this, and the little girl murmured dissatisfiedly: "No, I don't call anyone for anything delicious!"

"Haha, Dad wants to surprise Angel. Look, Dad picked a lot for you!"

Qin Yi handed over the fruit, and the little girl was immediately happy, and squeezed out a few to feed to Ke Luo and the others, and then tasted it deliciously.

After eating the nightshade fruit, Qin Yi thought of the girl fruit again.

Also called Brocade Lantern, the fruit looks like a small hanging lantern, with a thin layer of air bag outside, and the fruit inside is about the size of a peanut kernel, the good quality is as big as a jujube, golden yellow when ripe, exuding Intense fragrance.

The meat is thick and sweet, and it is a wild fruit that is more delicious than black nightshade!
Bean fields and sweet potato fields are the most widely distributed. Every autumn harvest season, this kind of fruit is the most attractive. Parents are often reluctant to eat it and leave it to their children. However, children should help with more farm work!

It may be that the material conditions are better now, and the wild fruits are gradually being ignored. The family searched all the way, and they really found a lot.

The nightshade fruit was eaten casually, and the girl fruit was easy to preserve, so most of them were left to taste slowly, so Angel's pockets were filled to the brim, and even Qin Yi's two pockets were taken up!
In a remote bush, everyone even found a clump of wild grapes, dripping and covered with purple-black grape grains!

The fruit of wild grapes is relatively small, the big one is like the belly of a little finger, and the small one is as big as a bean, densely packed, which brings a lot of surprises to the family.

Qin Yi felt the deepest. He had never heard of wild grapes in his hometown before. Today he really learned a lot!
But thanks to the remoteness of the location and the cover of the bushes, otherwise let alone these few vines, even if the river embankment is full of grape groves, it would not be able to stop the appetite of the working people!

Ke Luo took out a knife from Qin Yi's body, carefully cut off the bunches of grapes, trying not to hurt the vines, so that the grapes will be full in the coming year, so that those who come after can taste them.

The green grapes are sour, but the ripe purple grapes are as sweet as honey, and they are full of pearls, which is cheap for their family.

Eating wild fruits all the way, we came to a willow forest.

A hundred meters along the embankment, it is full of willow trees. The long branches hang down and spread down from the embankment to the riverside tens of meters away. Some willows even hang down to the river surface. However, there were layers of ripples.

It's a pity that it's autumn now. Although the willow leaves are still thick and dark green, they are slightly mottled, and the willow branches are also stiff and old, which affects the visual effect.

If spring comes here, under the warm sunshine, the spring breeze blows, the delicate willow branches sway, and the emerald green willow leaves sprout, the scene will have an unspeakable beauty.

It's the coolest place here, and the girls don't want to leave, clamoring to go fishing here!

(End of this chapter)