Chapter 353 Missed the Good Things

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Yang Chunhua was awakened by a noise in the middle of the night.

I got up and opened the window to check. There were two backpacks in the yard under the moonlight, but Xiaotao and Atang were nowhere to be seen. I went back to bed and lay down again.

When I woke up in the morning, there was a pile of walnuts, chestnuts, and oil-tea fruits in the yard, and seven or eight winnowing baskets were full of sour dates.

"Oh my god!" Yang Chunhua covered her mouth in shock. These two girls went into the mountains in the middle of the night? "A Ying!"

"Second Aunt is awake? Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Su Ying skillfully spread out the chestnuts, tea oil fruits and walnuts to dry in the sun.

Yang Chunhua wanted to come down to help, but was stopped by Su Ying, "Second Aunt, don't come over!"

"Aying!" The clever Yang Chunhua finally noticed something strange and had something to say.

"Aunt, are you worried about the two girls?" Su Ying came over.

Yang Chunhua nodded. "It's the middle of the night, aren't you afraid of wild animals?"

"It's okay, Atang is here!" Su Ying smiled meaningfully.

Yang Chunhua was stunned, and suddenly remembered that Atang's appearance was very abrupt. He was not a child from the village and appeared inexplicably in the Su family.

Thinking back to the time when the wild beasts in the mountains were making a lot of noise in the middle of the night, they became quiet soon after the Su family arrived.

"Aying, Atang..." Yang Chunhua's voice trembled and her heart was pounding wildly.

Su Ying smiled and nodded, "If you see them playing with the spotted tiger, black panther, or white wolf, don't be alarmed, Second Aunt."

Yang Chunhua's eyes widened even more. Playing with a spotted tiger, a black panther, and a white wolf? Was he hallucinating?

"There are a lot of wild fruits drying in the yard these days, so please be careful when walking!"

Su Ying tried her best to leave a three-foot wide path on the side, for fear of affecting Second Aunt's entry and exit.

"Aying, Aying! Let's go pick up some mountain products!" Madam Zheng and a group of widows shouted loudly outside the yard.

"Well, you guys go first. I still have to take care of the children, so I'll leave in a while!" Su Ying replied.

Xiaotao and Atang were sleeping soundly in bed. Su Ying smiled and did not wake the two sisters up. She came back at dawn.

He carried a large backpack, took out the bamboo spears that his second uncle and his friends had carved last year, put on his leggings, tied his sleeves tightly, and went to the school building to gather the children.

"Wow, the gentleman looks so heroic in this outfit, just like a majestic female general!" Niu Xiaobao and others exclaimed.

"Are you ready?" Su Ying asked.

"Ready!" the children said in unison.

"Let's go into the mountains!" Su Ying waved her hand, and the children lined up and set off.

Each person carries a small backpack, and they form a group of four and cannot get separated.

As soon as we left the school building, the girls and a few younger boys from the village arrived and everyone found their own groups.

After making sure everyone is present, follow the villagers into the woods.

Because of the frequent honey harvesting, small paths have been trampled out in the woods.

The road was originally entangled with vines, and a lot of kudzu roots were dug out. There are still thorns, bushes and big trees in the woods, but it is much easier to walk on than before.

The children were very excited as it was their first time to go into the mountains. They chattered non-stop, startling the birds in the forest and making them fly around.

The girls, the Zhou family, the Song family, and the Qin family were all entering such a big mountain for the first time, and they were curious about everything they saw.

Looking at the somewhat dark woods, he looked around nervously from time to time, fearing that a ferocious beast would jump out.

At the front of the team were the village elders and strong men, in the middle were Zheng Niangzi and the others, and at the end were the children, as well as Pei Sanlang and Pei Silang, who were the main force.

When we arrived at the flat land from last year, chestnuts, walnuts, and oil tea fruits were ripe and it was time to pick them.

"Wow, wow!" Adults and children were all very happy. The ground and trees were full of fruits.

"Don't get separated, each group should act together and don't lose sight of each other!" Su Ying reminded again.

"That saves!" the children said in unison, dragging their small backpacks to pick wild fruits.

"Hey, Aying, why don't you pick it up?" Madam Zheng saw that Su Ying didn't move.

"I'll go see if there are any sour dates left!" Su Ying pointed ahead.

I spent the entire night picking them last night, so I won’t compete with you guys and just get more sour dates.

"Come on, I'll accompany you!" Madam Zheng was very loyal and didn't want Su Ying to be alone.

"Let's go too!" Zhou Wulang, Liu Lang, and Qin Tieniu all followed.

After walking about 200 meters forward, I saw many jujube trees in this area, and a lot of them had fallen on the ground.

"Oh, so many!" Everyone immediately dispersed and picked up the fresh sour dates that had fallen on the ground not long ago.

Then use broken branches and stones to hit the tree trunk to shake off the sour jujubes on the tree.

In more than half an hour, everyone's backpack was full.

Carry it out and fill this side as well.

Everyone stopped to take a break only when the backpacks were full, and everyone had a great harvest.

"Sir, sir, come here quickly!" the children cheered over there.

The adults rushed over, only to see the children pointing at a cluster of green plants with leaves as big as taro leaves. "Sir, taro, big taro!"

"Let me see!" The village elders were all very surprised that there were taro here, and they were so big!

Everyone looked at it, unsure. It looked like taro, but not quite. You looked at me, I looked at you, and finally everyone looked at Su Ying.

They are really not as good as Su Ying in farming and wild plants, otherwise they wouldn't have been hungry for so many years.

"That's not taro!" Su Ying took a look and found that this thing looked very familiar. It was a potted green plant called Weeping angel.

"If it's not taro, then what is it?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Calla lily, also known as weeping angel, Guanyin taro, elephant ear taro, wolfsbane, and wild taro! It is poisonous and cannot be eaten!" Su Ying said.

"Ah? We thought it was taro, the leaves are exactly the same!" The children couldn't tell the difference.

“Alocasia has dark, shiny green leaves, while taro has lighter greenish-white leaves.

Taro will not grow in such places. Calla lilies are shade-tolerant and do not like strong light. They often grow beside ravines and woods.

You can’t eat calla lilies, they can kill you!” Su Ying warned.

"We thought we were picking up big taro!" The children were so disappointed.

"What? Are you not thinking that so many chestnuts, walnuts and oil-tea fruits are not enough?" Su Ying laughed.

"Haha, enough, just looking at such a big taro plant, I want to buy one more!" The children laughed foolishly.

"Hey, there's something good here!" Zhou Liulang rode on the tree, holding a handful of strange branches in his hand and stuffing them into his mouth.

"What a great thing!" the children rushed over.

"Jujubes! Catch them!" Zhou Liulang threw them down and the children picked them up.

"Can this be eaten?" The children looked at it because it looked like a branch and was ugly. They wanted to eat it but didn't dare to.

"Eat it, it's sweet! There are a lot of them in the mountains of our hometown, and we pick them as snacks at this time of year." Zhou Liulang continued to pick them, stuffing big mouthfuls into his mouth from time to time.

"Sir, can I eat it?" The children did not dare to act rashly.

"It can be eaten. Zhou Liulang is right! It's a good thing. It can be eaten raw, used to make wine, and boiled into sugar. The wine soaked in it can cure rheumatism." Su Ying nodded.

"Wow, Zhou Liulang, hurry up! Pick them all!" The people below tasted them and found that they were indeed sweet.

The village elders put it in their mouths and chewed it slowly. It had a sweet and astringent taste.

I have encountered it before when I went into the mountains. It looked strange and I didn’t dare to pick it randomly, but I didn’t expect to miss out on such a good thing.

In fact, this thing can be found in many places, but the village elders at that time were aristocrats, so they naturally didn’t know about things that only the grassroots people came into contact with.