Playing hide-and-seek with Xiaobai, especially when it's dark?

This game is clearly a disadvantage for Erniu.

Li Xiyue couldn't help but laugh. She coaxed, "Don't be sad, I'll scold it for you." Then she called out to the yard, "Little White, aren't you coming out?"

"Woof woof woof." Sure enough, a dark figure rushed out from behind the water tank, came to Li Xiyue's side and wagged its tail incessantly, "Yueyue, you're back. Xiaobai missed you so much."

Li Xiyue said, "I didn't realize you didn't come out to greet me when I got back."

"I'm just playing games with her," Xiaobai said.

Li Xiyue grabbed its ear and pretended to scold it, "You've grown up, bullying a child like this."

"I'm innocent! She wanted to play hide-and-seek with me, and when she couldn't find me, she complained." Xiaobai felt extremely wronged.

When Erniu saw Li Xiyue pulling Xiaobai's ear, she felt sorry for it. "Sister, Xiaobai didn't bully me. I just couldn't find it. Please don't hit it."

Li Xiyue didn't use any force, she was just pretending. She took the opportunity to release Xiaobai, saying, "Look, you bullied her, and she even spoke up for you."

Erniu quickly rubbed Xiaobai's ears with her little hands, "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt."

Little Whitey proudly raises its head, looking angry, the kind that can't be appeased.

Seeing that it was getting late, Li Xiyue asked Erniu, "What medicine did you bring today?"

"I didn't go dig for medicinal herbs today. Lai Di and I went up the mountain to collect firewood, picked some mushrooms, and dug up some wild vegetables for Sister Huang," Er Niu said with a grin.

Li Xiyue took out her money and said, "Then I'll give you some money."

"No need, sister." Erniu waved her hand. "It's for you to eat, it's free."

She finished speaking and ran away quickly without waiting for Li Xiyue to say anything more.

Seeing her running so fast, Li Xiyue reminded her, "Slow down, don't fall." Still worried about her going back alone, she quickly said to Xiaobai, "Aren't you going to see your friend off?"

Xiao Bai took off chasing after him, no longer showing any anger.

Li Xiyue smiled and returned to the educated youth settlement.

Smoke curled from the kitchen.

Wang Jiaxing, Huang Xinrui, and Chu Xun were all busy.

"Yueyue, you're back. We're having qingtuan tonight." Huang Xinrui smiled and showed her the wild vegetables in the basin. "There are also a lot of mushrooms, all brought by Erniu. Deputy Commander Chu bought a chicken, so we'll make a chicken stew with mushrooms."

Li Xiyue walked over and asked, "What kind of wild vegetables are these?"

Huang Xinrui explained, "This is called wormwood locally, and this is called cotton vegetable."

"What's the scientific name?" Li Xiyue picked up one plant to examine it. The leaves of the wormwood plant looked a bit like maple leaves and had a faint bitter taste. It was very similar to mugwort leaves, but there were differences.

The cotton bollworm has a layer of white fuzz on its surface, resembling cotton, and blooms with yellow flowers.

She had seen these two wild vegetables in the book "Complete Collection of Chinese Herbal Medicines". The scientific name of the wormwood is Artemisia argyi, and the cotton vegetable is called Gnaphalium affine.

Artemisia argyi is a traditional Chinese medicine that is widely distributed and can be found throughout the country. It is a plant that can be used for both food and medicine.

Gnaphalium affine is also a traditional Chinese medicine. The whole plant can be used as medicine and has the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, dispelling wind and dampness, clearing heat and detoxifying, soothing the liver and regulating qi, reducing swelling and relieving pain.

She had eaten qingtuan in later years, but had never seen how it was made, so she asked, "How do you make this?"

"Once it's cooked, chop it up, add salt and glutinous rice flour, knead it into a dough, and then steam it again," Wang Jiaxing said.

Li Xiyue thought for a moment, "Do we have glutinous rice flour?"

"I went to the village to exchange some," Huang Xinrui said with a smile.

Li Xiyue was indeed a little hungry, and the wild vegetable leaves looked delicious to her.

“Erniu brought so many things over, and I offered her grain in exchange, but she refused to take them, saying she would wait for you to come back,” Huang Xinrui said in a low voice.

Li Xiyue said, "I will find a way to return it to her."

Erniu is a grateful child, a good child, and she will take extra care of her.