Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

These are several old toon trees, with new branches growing next to them, and on them grow toon buds, a treasure of this season’s wild vegetables.

Clusters of red toon buds are shiny, and you can smell its unique fragrance when you get close.

This is the same as Zheergen. People who like it love it very much, but people who don't like it can't eat it at all.

There is no rush to pick toon buds, the most important thing is to find pine trees.

But with these toon trees here, the pine trees are not difficult to find.

Toon likes light, and pine likes shade, but they mostly grow in dry land.

Walking north along the toon tree, sure enough, just five minutes into the walk, I saw a small patch of pine trees. The seven or eight large ones looked to be more than thirty or forty years old and could be used to cut oil, but most of them were still more than ten years old. small tree.

Although the quantity did not meet expectations, it was enough in a short period of time.

The weather has been getting warmer recently, which is the perfect time to cut oil.

Zhao Yeqing first used a hatchet to carefully cut off the old dark brown bark on the outside. She moved slowly, trying not to damage the woody layer inside.

Cutting pine oil will not harm the tree itself. As long as you don't catch the pine oil from a tree every year, it won't be a big problem.

Scrape off the outer layer of old bark about a 25 cm wide circle, use a chisel and hammer to cut a vertical trench in the middle, open a slit at the bottom of the vertical trench, and insert the plastic piece.

Make two holes in the tree trunk under the plastic sheet, insert two wooden sticks, and place the bamboo tube on the wooden sticks to catch the pine oil.

Taking the upper vertical ditch as the middle point, dig a ditch on the left and right sides to form a V shape, and a tree is ready.

A pine cutter she met could cut nearly three hundred trees a day.

Zhao Yeqing was busy until three o'clock in the afternoon, which took three full hours to finish the eight trees.

She could hardly lift her arms.

After checking one by one to make sure the bamboo tubes were stable, Zhao Yeqing found that there was already some oil in the bamboo tube of the first tree. Zhao Yeqing was so surprised that his eyes widened slightly and the corners of his mouth raised.

Although she had seen other pine cutters cutting oil, she still found it very magical when she cut it herself.

I have to go home quickly before it gets dark.

Don’t forget to pick another handful of toon buds on the way.

Chun buds can only be eaten for a short period of time in a year. In a few days, the young leaves will become old.

The toon buds from old toon trees are rich in smell and bright in color, and are of the highest quality.

Zhao Yeqing walked all the way, and it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon when he got home.

When I opened the door, I found Lin She was pacing slowly in the yard. If I looked carefully, I could still see the unnaturalness on her feet.

Zhao Yeqing let out a soft 'ah' sound.

"Little one, you can walk~"

Lin She was no longer afraid of Zhao Yeqing, and when he saw her coming back, he took a few steps toward her.

Zhao Yeqing grabbed a handful of small red thorns from the basket on his back and handed them over.

Lin She moved her nose and used her hand to roll all the thorns in her palm into her mouth.

Zhao Yeqing touched its head: "When your legs are healed, I will let you go home."

With the tools packed away, it’s time to cook.

Steam the rice first. Since she eats alone and cannot use electricity, she always steams rice in bowls. Today she plans to steam two bowls.

Before frying, the toon buds need to be boiled in water to remove the nitrite and oxalic acid in them. The red toon buds will turn green after blanching.

Beat two eggs from the morning, add chopped toon sprouts, add some salt and mix well.

Heat a large amount of oil in a pan. When the oil is hot, break in the eggs and fry until crispy on both sides.

There are still a lot of bamboo shoots from yesterday. I peeled them all off and cut half of them into soup.

She planned to make the rest into sour bamboo shoots later.

After one dish and one soup was served, Zhao Yeqing took his mobile phone and opened a variety show he had downloaded before, and watched it while eating.

The unique aroma of the spring buds will make your index finger twitch. After one bite, the tender eggs inside are wrapped in the crispy spring buds. Together with the crispy eggs fried on the outside, the taste is rich and progressive.

When eating, what can make people happier than having delicious food and a variety show to accompany the meal.

After finishing two bowls of rice and drinking a bowl of spring bamboo shoot soup, Zhao Yeqing burped with satisfaction and left the variety show.

Just read it sparingly, it won't be over after you finish it.

I put away the dishes and went to water the two vegetable fields outside. I had to go out in the morning and I could water after the sun went down. However, tomatoes are more delicate and not suitable for watering at night. They are easy to freeze, but once in a while, it can be done. Well enough.

The bamboo shoots that you just peeled need to be processed now, otherwise they will be oxidized tomorrow.

She especially likes to eat sour bamboo shoots. Fried meat and rice with a handful of sour bamboo shoots will make your mouth water.

When I was a child, I watched cartoons. There was a cooking cartoon in which the protagonist made a bowl of sour plum fried rice for an official who had no appetite. She was so greedy that she pestered her grandma to cook it for her.

There were no sour plums at home, so grandma took out the sour bamboo shoots and said, use this instead first, and then buy some sour plums when we go down the mountain.

Her grandma made her fried rice with sour bamboo shoots, but she never ignored her. A few days later, she went down the mountain to buy some plums for her to make fried rice with, but she still felt that the fried rice with sour bamboo shoots was better at the beginning.

Sour bamboo shoots are especially easy to make. After washing the bamboo shoots, cut off some of the old ones near the roots. Break the bamboo shoots into two halves and then cut them in the middle to become large bamboo shoots.

Find a glass jar and wash it clean to make sure there is no drop of oil inside. Put the bamboo shoots in it and mix it with mountain spring water and you're done.

The sour bamboo shoots made with mountain spring water are the most fragrant.

Cover the glass jar and place it next to the bracken jar.

The hotter the weather, the faster the fermentation of sour bamboo shoots. Now it takes more than a month to eat at this temperature. If you want more flavor, you can soak it for a whole year.

Clean the kitchen, chop up bamboo shoots and egg shells and throw them into the compost bin.

I glanced at the time, half past six.

She planned to go to bed now and get up in the middle of the night to look at the vegetable patch.

Five days passed like this: I tended the vegetable garden in the morning and afternoon, went to bed in the evening, and got up in the middle of the night.

A wild boar came once during the journey. Before it even got close to the vegetable garden, it was frightened away by Zhao Yeqing knocking on the stainless steel basin.

At dawn, Zhao Yeqing packed up his things, grabbed a small piece of bread, and planned to go out and get the pine oil back.

The forest deer was already jumping up and down in the yard. Seeing that there was no problem with the forest deer, she opened the door to let it out.

In fact, Lin Shek had recovered well in the past two days and was able to jump out on his own. Maybe he didn't leave because he felt that Zhao Yeqing was not a threat.

Now seeing her opening the door, Lin She looked at her and then jumped out of the door.

Zhao Yeqing saw the forest deer turning back before entering the forest, and felt that it was really spiritual. He waved to it at the door, watched the forest deer enter the forest, then locked the courtyard door and set off.

The sky is a bit gray today, it might rain.

Zhao Yeqing quickened her pace. When she reached the toon tree, she picked out all the few toon buds on it. This should be the last toon bud she would eat this year.

The bamboo tubes on every pine tree were filled with pine oil, and some even flowed out.

One of the branches supported under the bamboo tube failed to bear enough weight and broke. The bamboo tube fell to the ground. Fortunately, the temperature was low in the morning and the pine oil had condensed into a white solid, so it could still be picked up.

She put all the pine oil in the bucket, which she estimated weighed more than thirty kilograms, and was about to return home with satisfaction.

Suddenly I noticed that the thick trunk of a cypress tree next to the pine tree that had just knocked over the bamboo tube was beyond recognition.

A big hole was dug out of the tree trunk.

Zhao Yeqing picked up the bucket and ran home without hesitation.