Mu Yunxi and Wang Fang picked mushrooms in the mountains for two consecutive days.

There are basically no edible wild mushrooms in the mountains.

These past few days...

Most of the women and children in the village are looking for mushrooms and digging wild vegetables in the mountains.

The mushrooms in the mountains have only been growing for a few days and they are almost all picked up by everyone.

The mushrooms that can still be seen in the mountains now are either poisonous... or have been almost eaten by insects.

After picking mushrooms...

The ferns on the hilltop also grew taller.

Where bracken grows, all you see is a large field of bracken seedlings.

The small fern has grown about 20 centimeters above the ground, and its petioles are tender and the leaves have not yet unfolded.

The curly young stems look like they have been permed into fashionable curls, so tender and green, so cute!

One can't help but want to pick them all and take them home to preserve them well.

Moreover, the bracken at this stage has the freshest taste and the best quality.

If you pick them a few days earlier, the bracken will be too small and the yield will be much lower.

It’s just the right time to pick them now.

Mu Yunxi and Wang Fang continued to pick ferns in the mountains together.

I picked the bracken for several days, until the fern stems gradually became old and fibrous...

The two of them then stopped picking the fern stems which had begun to become thick and hard.

Spring is the season when wild vegetables grow in abundance.

I've stocked up on wild vegetables from the mountains...

The wild water celery by the river has also grown lushly.

The clusters of green water celery grew extremely lushly and were crowded together on the river bank.

Wild water celery has a strong taste, and not many people in the village like to eat it.

therefore......

The water celery growing beautifully along both sides of the river...was no different from other weeds at this time.

They grow wantonly, tenaciously and proudly showing their vigorous and tenacious vitality to the surroundings!

Wild water celery likes to grow in cool and humid places and can usually only be eaten in spring and autumn.

As the weather gradually became hotter, the water celery by the river slowly withered and died.

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Mu Yunxi and Wang Fang finished processing the bracken at home...

Wang Fang took Mu Yunxi to the river to cut wild water celery.

Water celery doesn't taste very good when stir-fried alone.

But if you add some meat and stir-fry it together, the taste is still very fragrant.

Moreover, there are many ways to eat water celery.

If they can’t finish eating all the fresh water celery, they can also dry the stems of water celery and use them to soak and stew later.

Or you can use it to make sauerkraut.

The sauerkraut pickled with water celery has a unique aroma and once prepared properly, it is a good dish to go with rice.

The two of them cut some more wild water celery and took it home, preparing to pickle some and dry some.

This way they can still taste water celery even in summer.

For these educated youth who went to the countryside, the vegetable plots each of them was allocated were not very large.

Plus, they are not very good at growing vegetables.

therefore,

The yield of vegetables grown is not so ideal.

So... if they want to have enough vegetables to eat all year round...

Therefore, it is very necessary to stock up on some edible dried vegetables in spring and autumn.

The two of them started harvesting the fresh water celery.

At noon and in the evening of that day... several dishes stir-fried and steamed with water celery appeared on the table for the two of them.

Water celery with dried tofu... Water celery with scrambled eggs... Water celery with bacon... Cold water celery salad...

I even ate dumplings and buns made with chopped water celery and other fillings.

Don't even mention...

This wild water celery has a fresh aroma and tastes fresh and crisp. When stir-fried with meat, the resulting dish is extremely fragrant and delicious.

It is also delicious when used with meat as dumpling filling.

The unique fragrance of water celery and the richness of the meat filling are perfectly blended, giving it a very rich taste.

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The two harvested a batch of water celery and pickled it into sauerkraut...

Then I cut some water celery and brought it home to dry in the sun.

The two of them lived a happy and fulfilling life.

But at noon today...

Jiang Bei suddenly found Mu Yunxi and Wang Fang,

I gossiped with them about the news about Song Mingzhe coming out of the Youth League Institute...!