Because the children are not only responsible for collecting grass for the pigs, they also dig some tender wild vegetables to take home to eat. Corn porridge mixed with wild vegetables is the most common thing on every family's dining table.
The younger children who could not use sickles would pull out pig grass whole and catch insects to feed the chickens. During the busy farming season, they would rely on the two chickens at home to lay more eggs to nourish the strong laborers.
Seeing Chu Hongchen's stunned look, Ning Xi shamelessly said, "I have a strong talent for languages and am very good at English. I can understand what the teacher says once, and I can understand dialect very quickly.
But I can only roughly understand it, but I can’t speak it.”
Fortunately, this is not Fujian Province, otherwise there might be communication barriers between villages.
Chu Hongchen nodded and silently decided to learn from Ning Xi and improve his language skills so that he could get along better with the locals.
After all, they don't know how many years they will stay here, and it is impossible not to interact with the locals. If they can speak their dialect, they will be able to better integrate into the lives of the members.
"Sister Xiaoxi, this is horseweed, and this is cauliflower. Many of them are not tasty when they bloom. They are only delicious when they are tender. This one over here is white cauliflower."
Several children took the initiative to point it out to her.
The educated youth usually didn’t interact much with the villagers, so the children felt very fresh when they had close contact with them for the first time.
Ning Xi said sincerely, "Thank you, you are so cute and sensible. Having precious children like you must be the happiest thing in the world!"
The children were a little embarrassed and focused on cutting grass for their pigs. They kept stuffing food into their backpacks even when they were full. Ning Xi felt a little sad seeing this.
Everyone had their own work to do, and Ning Xi and Chu Hongchen also squatted on the ground digging wild vegetables.
The most common plant is purslane, which is also known as horseweed by children. There is plenty of sunshine here, and the stems of purslane are thick and the leaves are fleshy.
Although the original owner's living conditions were not good, he kept himself clean and had his nails polished until they were round and smooth, so he didn't even use his nails to pick wild vegetables.
Ning Xi simply grabbed them one by one and cut them with a sickle. It was convenient and saved trouble. This way, new ones should sprout soon without digging up the roots.
"Ding! Found a mutant purslane. Sell it?"
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