Chapter 423 Wild Vegetables

According to the custom in my hometown, except for the door outside the yard, couplets must be posted on the door of every room, including the back door of the yard.

In addition to praying for distinct four seasons and good weather, one also wishes to gain more blessings and longevity.

When my family was still around, my pocket money was not enough and I always felt that it would be better to have money. It is only now that I truly understand what the elders often say: living a healthy and good life is much more important than anything else.

Unlike the north where people have to paste window decorations during the Spring Festival, this year, in addition to pasting festive Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters all over the house on New Year's Eve, there is also a most troublesome thing to do -

Give your dogs a bath.

Bathing the dogs is the most labor-intensive task today. Every time I give them a bath, they don't cooperate much. It's not that they are afraid of water and don't want to take a bath, but they are either impatient or too excited.

Dahuang and Xiaohua are the most excited ones, while Xiaohei and Xiaohuang have very poor patience. They always want to run away every time they take a bath. They slip away with a cover of white foam after just a few rubs.

Xiao Huang and Xiao Hua were washing and shaking at the same time, and their bodies were covered with foam and water droplets.

In September and October of this year, the two of them picked up a lot of soapberries and put them in the foaming bottles they found to make cleaning agents. When pressed, dense and soft foam came out, saving a lot of time in making foam.

Each person has one. Wash the impatient one first, because you will have to chase it back. After washing the two that are running around, you can wash the two that like to foam at the mouth. After washing, both of you can take a bath. According to custom, you must take a bath on New Year's Eve, but you can't take a bath in the first few days of the first lunar month.

The New Year pig has been slaughtered and the New Year dishes have been prepared. They will be ready to eat in the evening. After bathing a few dogs today, it's time for people to take a bath.

The dogs returned to the house refreshed, while the two men's hair, clothes, and faces were covered with foam.

This year's Chinese New Year is very special. After midnight, in addition to welcoming the New Year, there is also the Beginning of Spring.

The twenty-four solar terms of the ancients are really not a joke. Although the climate is changeable, we can still hold on to the solar terms and never let go. We can always find some signs corresponding to the solar terms.

It snowed on the first day of the New Year before the polar night. As soon as the beginning of spring arrived this year, it began to drizzle over the meadow that had been silent for a long time. After enjoying the leisurely New Year atmosphere for a few days, the two had to prepare to start a new round of rice planting.

This year, in addition to letting the rice seeds sprout, we also have to cultivate the seedling beds.

The spring rain lasted for three days, so even the initial flooding of the rice fields was no longer necessary. We just used a rake to dig the ground and weed. The land was moist and soft, but the wet soil was a bit heavy to dig.

We started working after the rain stopped. During the few days of digging the rice field, we could see obvious changes in the meadow. Yesterday the grass was only ankle-high, but today it is up to the knee.

When the two saw the growth, they ran to the back of the house and picked all the new bamboo shoots.

I was still a step too late. Many bamboo shoots grew taller than people in just two days. But there were still many left, and I could see new ones growing every day.

Spring is the most lively season of the year, even more pleasant than autumn when the fruits are ripe.

As soon as Zhao Yeqing had his first meal of spring bamboo shoots, he set his sights on wild vegetables in the forest.

"If you ask me, I should go find some duck feet vegetables. Duck feet vegetables are the most delicious in this season and can be eaten until after Qingming Festival."

Mu Xi put a piece of bamboo shoots fried with bacon into her bowl with chopsticks, "Okay, but I don't feel comfortable with you going to the forest to find me alone. Let's go together after we finish building the nursery bed."

We have removed the weeds and spread lime and manure in the past two days. Today I went to check and found that the rice seeds have sprouted small white sprouts one centimeter long. We will stack up the seedling beds tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and plant the seeds and we will be done.

Zhao Yeqing also knew that he had to deal with the one and a half acres of land at home first. After all, the Grain Rain was about to arrive, and there were finally a few sunny days. If he didn't finish the work, it would rain again in two days.

Mu Xi suddenly thought of something else, "Look on the grass inside the wooden fence. Maybe you can find some other wild vegetables."

After throwing away the weeds turned out from the ground in the afternoon, you still have time to wander around the area. In this season, even if it is not Schefflera, you can still find other wild vegetables.

For example, fresh dandelions, purslane, chrysanthemum, shepherd's purse, and Artemisia selengensis used to make Qingming rice cakes.

There were lush ferns near the edge of the forest. Zhao Yeqing bent over and quickly found edible varieties. He broke off the newly grown shoots and fried them with bacon or fresh pork belly in the evening.

The area around the forest is mostly covered with wild ferns, each as thick as the tip of a chopstick. Zhao Yeqing picks ferns very quickly and can easily end up picking the inedible white ferns, which are thicker, with each ferns being nearly as thick as a little finger. They have to be picked out, as eating one by accident can cause dizziness and diarrhea.

Unfortunately, I still couldn’t find the duck feet dish I wanted to eat.

The thing I want to eat is not that it is so delicious that nothing else can replace it, but once I have that thought, I will always feel unsatisfied if I don’t eat it.

After clearing the weeds in the rice field, Mu Xi was so tired that he didn't want to move. In contrast, Zhao Yeqing was still enthusiastically picking a bunch of wild vegetables. It can be seen that he really loves it.

He could already foresee that for some time to come, the food at home would revolve around various wild vegetables.

Zhao Yeqing really thought so. Who could bear not eating vegetarian food after the Chinese New Year? From the time the pigs were slaughtered until a few days before the Chinese New Year, there were meat dishes every day. Whenever a plate of green food appeared on the table first, it would definitely be the dish that was consumed the fastest.

This "custom" seems to be the same in every household from childhood to adulthood. After the Chinese New Year, people don't want to see meat for several days.

There are many dishes that can be made with wild vegetables, such as sage made into glutinous rice cakes, chrysanthemum brain cooked into a greasy soup, cold-mixed purslane, and chopped wild vegetable pancakes that are coated with batter and fried in a frying pan until golden and crispy.

We finally finished eating the leftover meat dishes from the Chinese New Year. There has been no meat on the table for several days. This fried vegetable pancake is the dish with the most oil.

Even the dogs were tired of eating meat. The cabbages Zhao Yeqing collected were placed on the ground in the corner of the kitchen. When he came back in the afternoon, only a small half of the nearly ten kilograms of fresh cabbages were left on the ground, with vegetable residues scattered around.

In the next few days, the dogs' meals became cabbage and pork soup with rice, which was cooked lightly. I don't know if eating this way can help these dogs lose some weight.

After the fence was built, the dogs grew bigger, moved less and ate more, and each of them became smooth, smooth and round.

It's time to go out for a walk to lose weight.

Zhao Yeqing came out of the house after checking the gasoline reserves and said to Mu Xi, who had just come back from sowing seeds on the ground, "Let's go get some gasoline tomorrow and see if there are any good things in the forest after the beginning of spring."