Chapter 17 Alternaria

Yang Chunyan squatted in the ridge. It was very hot and stuffy inside the cornfield. The edges of the corn leaves had teeth, which scratched her cheeks and neck, leaving fine marks. After sweating, she felt painful and itchy, which was very uncomfortable.

Her hands were never idle for a moment. She quickly crawled from the ridge to the edge of the field, turned around and picked up the weeds in the ridge and carried them to the edge of the field.

Zhao Huifang stood there with sweat all over her face, fanning herself with a broadleaf leaf, "Oh my god, it's so stuffy, it would be nice if it could rain a few times."

Yang Chunyan looked at the sky and said, "It rains every year during these few days. It should be these few days."

"After two rains, we can go into the mountains to pick mushrooms. There will definitely be a lot of mushrooms this year from the place where we picked chicken mushrooms last year." Before she finished speaking, Zhang Xiuxiang also came out.

Zhao Huifang recalled the place where they picked mushrooms last year and said with a smile: "Chunyan, we found a large area of ​​chicken mushrooms in the back mountain last year. We will take you to pick mushrooms when the time comes."

Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "Okay."

Li Qiuyue came out with two gray bags, broke them open and gave one to each person, then sat down on the edge of the field. "I haven't eaten this for a long time. It's still sweet."

Zhao Huifang took it and said with a smile: "I still remember when I was a kid, I would go into the corn and sorghum fields to look for ash bags to eat whenever I had time."

"That's right. At that time, I felt hungry all day long and wanted to eat everything I saw."

Yang Chunyan broke off a ash bag and put it into her mouth. The sweet taste is still fresh in her memory.

The ash buns have a sweet taste when eaten raw. The children in the mountains have no snacks and no food in their stomachs. They either cut grass or collect firewood every day and get hungry quickly.

Since childhood, Yang Chunyan and her friends have spared no effort to use their abilities to find all edible wild products.

What made them happy was that the mulberry trees in the mountains, the rice seedlings, sweet potatoes, sea buckthorn, jujubes, and chicken feed... were ripe.

Also, the corn and sorghum in the fields have formed ears. You can go to the corn and sorghum fields and look for the ears of corn and sorghum to pick and eat.

The gray bags looked ugly and even a little disgusting, but every time the children found a piece, they would stuff it into their mouths as if they had found a treasure...

Zhao Huifang thought for a moment and said, "Chunyan, when you go out to work in the future, it's best to bring the youngest along with you, so that he doesn't always hang out with Cai Ermei and the others."

Li Qiuyue nodded, "Exactly. I think Xiao Ding, He Dakuan, and Erchun are okay. But Cai Ermei, that androgynous guy, makes me sick."

Zhang Xiuxiang took over the conversation, "Don't be fooled by Cai Ermei's feminine appearance. She is very strong when beating her wife. Chunyan, although the Zhou family is poor, from father-in-law to Huaijun brothers, no one has ever beaten his wife."

Zhao Huifang nodded: "I have been married for more than ten years, and Huairong has never even touched me. We women are afraid of marrying a man who is incompetent, drunk, and beats his wife."

"As the old saying goes, follow a good person and learn to be a good person, follow Duan Gong and learn to be a god. It's best to avoid people like Cai Ermei."

What they said were all from the heart. Yang Chunyan said sincerely: "Thank you, sisters-in-law. I will remember it."

She wasn't worried about Zhou Huaian beating his wife, because they had been married for more than 20 years, and after he fell, he drank to drown his sorrows, and he never laid a finger on her.

But Cai Ermei is really not worth making friends with. That year, he, Zhou Huaian, He Dakuan, Zhou Yiding, and Xu Erchun went up the mountain to collect honey and were scratched by a black bear. They were injured to varying degrees. Only the Cai family came to the Zhou family to make trouble and asked them to pay for the medical expenses...

"Why should you thank us? It would be more effective if we thank you." Zhao Huifang patted Yang Chunyan, interrupting her thoughts.

That's a lot of money. Even if it's divided into five parts, each family would have more than one thousand. If Chunyan hadn't discovered the bezoar, where would they find such a large sum of money?

They think they should be content!

Zhang Xiuxiang and the others understood what she meant and nodded with a smile, "That's right, our Xie Ni is pretty good."

Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, let's stop thanking each other and finish pulling the grass quickly so that we can go back and make some lazy tofu."

"Okay, there's still half a field left. I'll go home when I'm done."

Everyone went into the corn field.

After Yang Chunyan had weeded half a ridge, she suddenly found some light grey mushroom caps in front of her. She thought it was a chicken mushroom, so she hurriedly bent her waist and walked a few steps quickly. When she looked over, she found that it was indeed a chicken mushroom.

She hurriedly called Zhao Huifang who was working in the field next to her, "Sister-in-law, come here quickly. There are so many chicken mushrooms here."

Alpinia hortensis has thick and plump flesh, fine white silk, and tastes sweet and crispy. Whether it is stir-fried, deep-fried, pickled, pan-fried, mixed, stewed, roasted, braised, steamed or made into soup, it tastes delicious and the price is also good.

"Really?" Zhang Xiuxiang and Zhao Huifang's surprised voices rang out.

"It's absolutely true!" Yang Chunyan counted them, "There are about thirty or forty of them!"

As she spoke, she held a stalk of the chicken mushroom and shook it with force. The soil in the corn field was loose and not compacted, so it was easy to pull up.

At this time, Zhao Huifang and the other two came over and looked at the chicken mushrooms in surprise. "Really? There are quite a lot of them."

Yang Chunyan nodded, "Enough for us to eat tonight."

Zhang Xiuxiang looked at Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan, your luck has come! These past two days, I have been picking up duck eggs or chicken mushrooms."

Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "That's right. When luck comes, even door panels can't be stopped. I have picked up chicken mushrooms in corn fields in previous years, but this is the first time I have seen so many."

Zhao Huifang: "Maybe it's because I watered it the day before yesterday."

Yang Chunyan was also very happy, thinking that maybe God's compensation to her in this life was good luck!

Li Qiuyue went out and broke off a few sticks. The four sisters-in-law took turns picking up the chicken mushrooms.

There was a chicken mushroom that was particularly thick, and its stem was cracked.

The four of them laughed for a while, then gently carried the chicken mushrooms to the edge of the field and placed them there, then continued to pull weeds in the field.

It was already dusk when the four sisters-in-law finished pulling the weeds in the corn field. Several of them carried out the weeds piled in the ridges of the corn field and placed them on the edge of the field.

I went to the fields again and picked out twenty or thirty tender corn cobs that were already full of corn.

After leaving the corn field, I picked up some broad bean stalks from the edge of the field, put chicken mushrooms on top of the stalks, and went to the pumpkin field on the slope to pick up pumpkin vines.

Zhao Huifang hit the lush pumpkin vines with a carrying pole to drive away the snakes and insects hiding under the vines.

Several people picked the tender pumpkins that grew too densely on the pumpkin vines, as well as the male pumpkin flowers, and pollinated the female flowers. They also pinched off the tips of the pumpkins that had too many branches and affected their growth, and put them into a backpack. It didn't take long for the basket to be full.

"Huairong, go home." Zhao Huifang yelled at the sweet potato field.

"Here we come!" Zhou Huairong and his two brothers came over, each holding a handful of sweet potato tips, carrying a hoe and a basket.

Li Qiuyue looked at Zhou Huaishan and said, "Let me tell you, we picked up dozens of cockleburs in the corn field."

Zhou Huaishan picked up the chicken mushroom on the bean stalk and took a look. "None of them opened their umbrellas. They are lucky!"

Li Qiuyue pointed at Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan found it. I said her luck is coming."

Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "The chicken mushroom grows there, and anyone can see it."

Duangong is the name for male wizards in Sichuan Province.

(End of this chapter)