Song Tan Jishi

  Chapter 16 16. Digging Wild Vegetables

  After the Awakening of Insects, comes the Spring Rain.

   Misty light rain fell silently, and the entire field and hills were covered with a layer of faint blue mist, fluffy and wet.

  Song Sancheng had just settled the wages for the villagers, and now he smelled the rain and soil outside, and a smile appeared on his face.

   "This rain is coming at a good time."

   It has been more than half a month, and they are busy every day. Ulan has to prepare meals for a large group of people, and also needs to clean up the house.

  Song Sancheng has to take people to weed the fields, hillsides, cut down trees, trim tree trunks, and take time to build pig pens, chicken coops and duck sheds...

  The person who delivered the bacteria just arrived this afternoon, and tomorrow he plans to order bacteria at home without going out, so the wages are settled tens of thousands.

   Look again, God takes care of people: it's raining!

  Ulan held the account book and sighed: "Tan Tan, your 60,000 yuan is gone."

   "If you need to spend more money next, it will be supported by me and your dad, and we have to follow our arrangements." Otherwise, I'm afraid that she will let go and arrange it again.

  Song Tan thought about it—

  The piglets haven’t been brought back yet, but the pigpens are set up, and her mother can afford the money. Ducklings have to be bought and paid for.

   I won’t buy chickens this year, grandma’s house is hatching!

  The forest land on the hillside has been cleared up, and the seeds have been bought. Next, some bacteria need some wages, and there is nothing else to spend!

  She nodded and asked the key question: "Mom, what are you eating?"

  Ulan held her breath in her heart: "I have no money, what should I eat? Go, take Qiao Qiao, and dig wild vegetables on the slope!"

"okay!"

  There are too many sloping fields with wild vegetables in the countryside. Among other things, they are in the depressions on the hillside behind their house, layer by layer.

  However, the most suitable season for digging wild vegetables has not yet arrived, and I am afraid that the quantity is not much now, which is enough for them to eat one or two meals.

  Song Tan went back to the room to tidy up, thought for a while, and put on his mobile phone holder: "Qiao Qiao, go dig wild vegetables!"

  Song Qiaoqiao couldn't wait to rush out of the yard: "Oh! It's raining! I'm going to tread water with Mummy Pig!"

  However, the rain was foggy, and the ground felt a little wet. Where did the rain come from?

  Jojo was silent.

  The two siblings rushed into the forest like monkeys, and Ulan was still shouting behind him: "Pull the wild onions, come back and scramble eggs for you!"

  …

  Both grew up in the mountains. The siblings moved quickly. In the middle, Song Tan went to take another look at the rough pigsty in the back mountain——

   A large shed built of wood, the top is tightly pressed with branches and raincloth, and the inside is padded with stones. The straw has not been spread inside, and it is already quite refreshing and clean.

  There is a lot of activity in raising pigs like this, and the pork must be delicious. But there is also a problem. The pig must urinate and urinate indiscriminately every day. The range of activities in the mountain is too large, and there is no way to enclose it in a cesspool. For this reason, Song Sancheng has been thinking about it for a long time.

   However, it finally made him figure it out.

  When the piglets are young, don’t let them run around, otherwise there will be grass, tree roots, and stones on the hillside, and they will be easily injured.

   At this time, first make their circle smaller, dig a shallow pit, and slowly throw pig manure into it. Slowly, the pig knew where to pull.

   Wait until you get used to it, and then expand the scope step by step...

  Will it work? It's also the first time for Song Sancheng to raise pigs on the mountain. Let's try it! The big deal is to spend more effort, shoveling **** on the mountain every day, and it can be used as fertilizer when it is fermented.

  Bypassing this forest, we arrived at a gentle **** halfway up the back mountain, where the green grass has begun to sprout.

  Qiao Qiao has already pointed to a large bush of green wild onions: "Sister! Scrambled eggs!"

  Wild onion, also known as sand onion, mountain garlic. It is much smaller than ordinary onions and garlic, and even less thick than leeks. Every time I eat this at home, Qiao Qiao’s task is to choose and wash it, so I am very impressed.

  Song Tan looked at it and hesitated: "This wild onion grows so well, how about scrambled eggs for lunch? Or stewed crucian carp?"

   But no matter what, let’s unplug it first.

   Not only are there wild onions, but there is also a clump of malan heads that have just grown by the woods next to it. It is a bit small in size, but it must be enough for a plate.

  Then came the shepherd's purse, which was quite a lot, big and small, and Qiao Qiao had already happily shoveled it with a shovel.

  But... After all, there are too few things, and the mobile phone equipment was taken for nothing, so there is nothing worth photographing.

  She sighed, and suddenly thought of one more thing—

   Wild vegetables, at what price are they selling now?

  …

  The siblings went out for a trip, tossing and tossing for an hour or two, Ulan took the vegetable basket, wondering: "Are you still going to the pond?"

"Yeah yeah!"

  Jojo's sleeves were mostly wet, and he knew that he had a lot of fun playing in the water.

  Ulan flipped through the wild vegetables brought over: "This watercress is quite tender, especially if you have just sprouted and you have picked it back—how do you eat it?"

  Song Tan thought about it, and made a decisive choice between shredded chicken and stewed fish soup: "Shredded chicken!"

  Chicken shreds must use chicken breast meat, who in the village can’t sell only chicken breast meat?

  Ulan ignored her: "Alright then, I'll fry some prickly ash oil, and I'll serve it cold at noon. These days, the hosts are full of fish and meat, so I just have something light to eat."

   "Why is there still purslane here? It's just a handful? Let's mix it together later."

  There are quite a lot of wild onions. Looking at the neat appearance, it must be that Qiao Qiao cleaned up while playing in the water by the pond.

  Ulan looked basically satisfied:

   "The crucian carp I caught last time just thawed, let's make another soup, and fry the rest with twice-cooked pork, otherwise it will be too cold to eat cold dishes this day."

   In the end, there was a thick layer of shepherd's purse underneath, and Ulan decisively made an arrangement: "It just so happened to make dumplings for dinner!"

  Song Tan, who doesn't cook, has no right to be picky, besides, she is looking forward to it.

   Now mention another thing:

   "Mom, the weather has been warm recently. I think wild vegetables must grow wildly after the rain. Otherwise, I will dig more tomorrow and then take the shuttle bus to the city to sell?"

   This time Ulan really took a look at him: "Are you going to set up a street stall? Have you ever been to the vegetable market?"

  Song Tan understood what she meant—if she was replaced by her original self, she would definitely be thin-skinned and unable to let go.

   Now...

  After half a month of tossing back, all the money was spent. If you don't make some achievements, how much will it cost you to apply for funding next time?

   What's more, she took advantage of this spring rain to attract a lot of spiritual energy to the pond on the hillside. No matter what, she will have to collect dozens of catties tomorrow!

   Why don't we test the market first?

  So she patted her chest: "Don't worry! I will definitely do it tomorrow!"

  Song Sancheng didn't say a word, but after hearing the words, he answered: "The bus leaves at six o'clock in the morning, and I have to make a big circle around the town. It's almost nine o'clock in the city. How many people are there to buy groceries?"

   "How about it, Tan Tan, you pack the vegetables tomorrow afternoon, and leave early in the morning. I will take you to the intersection by motorcycle, and you take a van at the intersection, just in time for the vegetable market to sell vegetables in the morning."

   Say what you like to hear: there are still today.

   In addition, the recipes in this chapter refer to "Mountain New Special Dishes"

   I was so hungry to write, it was too difficult!

   Tan Tan's first pot of gold is coming!

   [Those who actually go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables usually go early, and those who know how to eat wild vegetables will of course go early. ]

  (end of this chapter)