Chapter 215 214: Plan

Yang Chunyan and her friend dug some verbena in front, and then went to the place where they dug asparagus yesterday. They dug about ten nests of asparagus. Thinking that they had to go down the mountain in the afternoon, they washed the asparagus, packed up and went back.

They collected the sacks tied to the trees along the way and filled their backpacks. Finally, they tied the two sacks of herbs directly to the backpacks and carried them back home.

Zhou Yiding came out of the kitchen, saw the two of them, and said with a smile: "I think it's time for you to come back and prepare the dishes."

The two put down their backpacks, and Yang Chunyan asked with a smile, "What dishes have you prepared?"

Zhou Yiding: "Pork bones, radishes, taro, rapeseed sprouts, I saw you kneaded the dough and chopped some meat."

Yang Chunyan thought for a moment, "How about taro rice, bone and radish soup, and steamed buns?"

Zhou Yiding nodded with a smile, "Yes, cook more. I won't cook before you go up the mountain."

"Tsk tsk!" Zhou Huaian glanced at him and said with a tsk tsk sound, "Even lazier than me."

"Hehe!" Zhou Yiding smiled innocently and went to the yard to help spread out the yellow quail grass and verbena. "Come up quickly after you sell the herbs. I'm a little uncomfortable being alone after you leave."

"Hurry up and get your wife back." Zhou Huaian winked at him, "When your wife is with you, you won't want us to come."

Zhou Yiding: "You are talking about yourself! I remember that during the first two months after you and your sister-in-law got married, you were nowhere to be seen!"

After wrapping the buns, put them in the steamer to rise for a while, then stew the bone soup underneath. When the buns are cooked, put some radish in the bone soup and cook them.

Cut the taro into small pieces and stir-fry with lard for a few times. Add two scoops of water and pour in the washed rice. Bring to a boil and simmer until cooked.

The nutritional value of taro is also good. It has the effects of stimulating appetite, relieving inflammation and pain, and replenishing qi and benefiting the kidneys.

The taro rice is cooked, and the buns and steamed buns in the pot outside are also steamed. When the steamer is taken away, the milky white bone soup in the pot exudes a strong bone aroma.

Put the chopped radish into the pot, and after boiling it, scoop out some of it and put it in a jar. Add a handful of chopped green onions to the rest of the pot. The milky white bone soup, white radish, and green chopped green onions are so appetizing just by looking at them.

"It's time for dinner." Yang Chunyan shouted into the courtyard and started frying rapeseed sprouts.

Zhou Yiding picked the rapeseed shoots that had just grown flower buds. Each section was two inches long. The tender and lush shoots were the essence of the whole plant.

Stir-fry it in a pan with oil for a few times, add a little bit of salt and serve. It will be so green and fresh that it will make you drool. MSG and other things are simply unnecessary!

Finally, the three of them were full. Zhou Huaian said with his belly sticking out: "The rapeseed sprouts on the mountain are better than those on the mountain."

Zhou Yiding: "My sister-in-law is a good cook. The one I fried looks just like the one that was killed."

"More oil makes it taste better." Yang Chunyan said as she stood up to clean up the dishes. "Huaian, put away the asparagus, epimedium and golden thread lotus. I'll pack up and leave."

"Yes!" Zhou Huaian stood up and walked out.

"I'll go help you!" Zhou Yiding also followed him out.

"Ding Ding Cat, put these away before the sun goes down this afternoon and put them out to dry tomorrow morning. If we don't come up tomorrow, we can put them away in the afternoon and not dry them."

"Yes!" Zhou Yiding glanced at him and said, "Come up earlier!" He felt a little uncomfortable after the two of them left.

"Uh-huh!"

After cleaning the stove, Yang Chunyan took the steamed buns, steamed buns and carrot soup to the cave behind the house and placed them in the simple cupboard inside.

When she came back from behind the house, Zhou Huaian and the other man had already packed the herbs.

"Yan'er, are we leaving now?"

"Leave early, so you don't get home until it's dark."

Yang Chunyan went back to the house and took down the sack containing Polygonum multiflorum and the black stuff on the box. She put on a straw hat and went out. She put the sack on the backpack and tied it up with a rope. "Yiding, I put the steamed buns in the cave. Remember to heat them up and eat them."

Zhou Yiding nodded, "Yes."

Yang Chunyan looked at Zhou Huaian and said, "Let's go."

"Yes!" Zhou Huaian helped Yang Chunyan lift the backpack, squatted down and put the straps on his shoulders. Zhou Yiding pulled him and stood up. "Don't send us off. We know how to walk on our own."

"I'm too lazy to send you off." Zhou Yiding waved at the two of them, "Go slowly on your way."

"Okay!"

The two men walked out of the yard, the sun was shining hotly on their bodies, and it was only when they entered the woods that it became cool.

More than three hours later, the two arrived at the back door. The door was open and Zhou's mother was carrying Zhou Xiaolin on her back in the yard turning over and drying herbs.

"Mom, we're back!"

Mother Zhou turned around and said, "It's quite early today. Come back earlier next time to avoid the danger on the road."

Yang Chunyan nodded, "Yes! Have you finished harvesting the rapeseed?"

Mother Zhou smiled and walked forward to close the gate, then followed the two people to the front yard. "We finished harvesting yesterday. Let's get some more sun. I'll go to the oil press to make some oil. You can all send some back to my parents' home."

Life at home got better and Zhou's mother became more generous.

"Okay!" Yang Chunyan also wanted to go back and take a look, so she agreed readily.

Mother Zhou helped the two put down their backpacks and said to Zhou Huaian, "Second Sister Cai started collecting herbs again this morning, and the price is the same as ours."

Zhou Huaian said in a deep voice: "Everyone should do their own business, ignore him!" Then he picked up the burlap bag containing the black thing and walked towards the room.

Mother Zhou glared at him and turned her head away, saying, "You see, he gets unhappy every time he talks about his bad friends."

"Huai An is not annoyed with you, but with Cai Ermei." Yang Chunyan helped her put down the sleeping Zhou Xiaolin, "Did my sister-in-law and the others go into the mountains to collect herbs?"

Mother Zhou shook her head. "I went to the early-ripening corn field over there to pick corn. The vegetables sent to Ning An this morning were all collected by the team. I plan to plant a few more vegetables in the rapeseed field on the back mountain."

"This morning, Secretary Xu and his men measured the homestead and wasteland. The boss and his men cleared the large rocks from the wasteland. They will be used to build the retaining wall and foundation after they are carried down the mountain."

"I'll go take a look too." Yang Chunyan handed the herbal seeds to Zhou's mother, "Mom, help me dry these seeds and keep them."

Mother Zhou took it over and said, "I heard from Xiuxiang that you plan to grow herbs to sell. Can you grow them?"

"These are common herbs, such as ground lily and epilepsy seeds. Try sowing some after the ground has opened up."

"It's okay to try a small amount!" Zhou's mother went to get a winnowing basket and poured the seeds in to dry them.

Yang Chunyan spread out the asparagus she dug today to dry, and went to the room to see Zhou Huaian already lying on the bed. "Are you going to the earthen kiln? I want to help out in the corn field."

"It's better to go and take a look." Zhou Huaian sat up lazily and pointed at the black thing on the box. "It smells good to me. Take a look and wrap it up."

Yang Chunyan thought for a moment, wrapped it up in an oilcloth bag and put it in the bottom layer of the cabinet, "Let's go!"

"Yan'er, give me 2.4 yuan. I'll bring the dog back from the kiln."

"You really want to hold two?"

"Hold two!"

"Oh!" Yang Chunyan gave him the money, and the two of them went out with straw hats. They took the sickle, said hello to Zhou's mother, and walked towards the corn field.

(End of this chapter)