The weather gradually warms up. After eating dumplings on the 15th day of the lunar month, the New Year is completely over. Tender sprouts appear in the fields and mountains. After a long winter break, all the fatigue and tiredness in the body are gone.

The farmers who make a living by working in the fields have also returned to the fields one after another, working hard to clear the newly grown weeds in the fields.

Yang Donghu changed out of his heavy coat and put on the new clothes Zhu Cuilan had made for him. Without the shackles of clothes, his movements seemed much lighter.

Others have land but they don’t, so they don’t have to worry about farm work, but when the harvest comes, others have income but they don’t.

Zhu Cuilan originally thought that the family had enough money, but when the problem arose, she felt that even so much money would not be enough.

She couldn't stay idle at home, so some good aunts asked her to go dig wild vegetables.

After eating meat during the New Year holiday, the fresh wild vegetables after the beginning of spring are the most popular among women. Wild shepherd's purse and purslane are no longer new things. These things are easy to grow and grow everywhere in front of and behind the eaves of the house. You can pick a big basket of them just by picking them.

Scarcity makes things valuable, so wild vegetables that are everywhere cannot be sold at a high price. It would be great if you are lucky enough to come across a patch of Chinese toon. The young leaves of Chinese toon have a unique fragrance, but they look strange. Unlike other saplings that are full of leaves on a tree, they only grow a cluster of thick leaves on one branch.

Such uncommon seasonal products are easy to sell at high prices. You can pick them and bring them to the town, set up a stall anywhere, and people who like to eat them will come to find them. They can be sold out in a short time, saving the effort of shouting.

The women were a little older and all had children as mothers. They couldn't get along with newly married young wives like Yang Donghu and the others. When the women were together, they talked about everything without restraint. Before they even said a few words about sex and children, the shy girls and boys would blush and dare not listen. If they said another word, they would run away in shame.

Yang Donghu had been surrounded by women once. The second time, no matter how much Zhu Cuilan asked him to join them, he was so scared that he waved his hands and said he would not go.

Zhao Luochuan and Zhao Fangyu went up the mountain after the 15th. Originally, Zhao Luochuan didn't want to go so early because it was just the beginning of spring and there weren't many prey out.

But Zhao Fangyu was as anxious as Zhu Cuilan. Zhao He had taught him since he was a child to be responsible as a man. His father and mother were anxious and angry about the money issue. Although they didn't tell Zhao Fangyu clearly, he could sense it himself.

Even though Zhao He is old, he still can't sit idle and has taken on several more jobs. Zhao Fangyu used to be a bricklayer and knew how tiring the work was. They were paid by the day, so if you worked one more day, you would be paid one more day's salary.

When meeting a customer who is very frugal, the time for eating and drinking must be calculated carefully, for fear that someone will be lazy. Even when the sun is scorching at noon in summer, you cannot rest for too long in the shade of a tree, otherwise you will be seen by the customer and scolded for being sneaky.

Although Zhao Fangyu didn't say it, he felt uncomfortable in his heart. He felt itchy all over if he stayed at home for one more day. He just wanted to earn more money so that Zhu Cuilan could relax and Zhao He could also relax.

Zhao Fangyu has been in the village for a long time and he knows it well. He still remembers the look of disdain on the face of the matchmaker who came to his house to propose marriage. He cannot let Fang Chu, a boy, be treated as coldly as himself.

Zhao Luochuan understood him and also wanted to earn more money so that Yang Donghu could live a life of plenty. After they discussed it, they went up the mountain the day after the fifteenth day of the lunar month.

Everyone in the family had something to do, and the two little brothers were really bored at home. Zhao Fangchu was noisy and active, and it was very uncomfortable for him to sit at home, so he called Yang Donghu to go with him to the mountains to look for wild vegetables, and also deliberately avoided those women who loved to laugh.

Picking wild vegetables is easier than picking mushrooms. At least Yang Donghu can distinguish which are grasses and which are wild vegetables.

He carried the small basket he had used to pick mushrooms, distractedly whispering to Zhao Fangchu while looking down at the ground. They were lucky; after walking for a while, they came across a large patch of wild shepherd's purse. Yang Donghu waved at Zhao Fangchu, "Fangchu, come here."

When you dig up wild shepherd's purse in the wild, clean the dirt on the roots and the yellow leaves sticking to the ground. When you get home, just wash it briefly and you can put it directly into the pot.

Zhao Fangchu shook the selected shepherd's purse twice more and put it into his basket. He turned to Yang Donghu and said, "This wild vegetable has been buried underground for a whole winter and is growing really well. The leaves are really big. A few of them can make a whole dish."

"Let's pick more. Even if we can't sell it at a high price, it's delicious for our family to eat." Yang Donghu still remembers the taste of cold-mixed wild shepherd's purse. The fragrance is unique to other vegetables. Even if we don't sell it, it's good to make a few fresh dishes that are delicious.

"What a pity! Anjin will be confined at home to embroider his wedding dress. She won't even have time to go out and look for wild vegetables. I wonder how bored he must be." Zhao Fangchu has always been very casual with Yang Anjin. Since he knew that Yang Anjin was his future sister-in-law, he has restrained himself a lot. He didn't talk about Yang Anjin like this before, but now he mentions her two or three times a day.

Yang Donghu hadn't seen Yang Anjin for a long time. Ever since the marriage certificate was given, Zhang Lanzhen was afraid that the soon-to-be-married boy would go out and about and be talked about by the villagers, so she didn't let him go out casually. He stayed at home embroidering the wedding dress and waiting for the wedding date to arrive.

The large shepherd's purse in this patch has been almost picked, and there are only a few small ones left. After blanching them in water, there is not much left, so it is better to leave them and let them grow bigger.

Yang Donghu asked Zhao Fangchu to continue walking up the mountain path, saying as they walked, "An Jin is busy. Embroidery is a delicate job, and I don't know when it will be finished. If you are worried that he will be bored, let's find a free time to go and see him."

"Okay, okay, I left some delicious food for him. I'm almost done eating it if I don't see him again."

While they were talking, they did not stop looking for wild vegetables. Yang Donghu had sharp eyes and spotted the Chinese toon hidden behind the bushes at a glance.

This Chinese toon is in its tender stage, dark brown all over, and as long as a palm. Chinese toon grows in patches, with a main trunk and many thin branches growing out from the side.

The small patch of Chinese toon we found was enough to fill almost the baskets of two people. The trunks of wild Chinese toon trees are slender and tall, and some of them cannot be picked by human power alone. They require special long hooks.

They didn't bring any tools, so they first broke off the Chinese toon from the long, short branches. On the way back, they marked the route and planned to ask Zhu Cuilan to bring her hooks to help pick the toon together.