Chapter 38 Testing Cherry and March Bubble
Yu Zhile's footsteps were particularly clear in the quiet environment.
Da, da, da.
Zhou Yuesheng's heartbeat coincided perfectly with it, and he gradually lowered his hands.
"Is the squid ready?" Yu Zhile was dazed and miscalculated the distance, and his forehead hit Zhou Yuesheng's chest.
The next second, she took another big step back and fell backwards like a tumbler.
Zhou Yuesheng put his arm around her shoulders to prevent her from falling and hummed.
Yu Zhile shook his body slightly left and right, trying to break free from his hand, muttering something under his breath.
"It stinks, go away."
Zhou Yuesheng moved closer to hear her words clearly, and he indeed smelled strongly of tobacco.
"I'm sorry," he said softly.
Yu Zhile's eyelids were glued together, his head was nodding, and he kept repeating one sentence: "I want to drink water"
Zhou Yuesheng bent down and carried her into the house, then went to the main room to pour her some water.
The cool water touched her lips, and she took two sips before brushing it away.
During the action, the cloud symbol was exposed to the moonlight, making it look even more mysterious.
Zhou Yuesheng was silent for a moment, his fingers falling on the skin on the side of the mark.
One second, two seconds, three seconds—
He made stroking movements, and half a minute passed without anything happening.
The fingertips hesitated for a few seconds, then moved and covered the mark, repeating the previous action.
His brain regained consciousness and Zhou Yuesheng lay on the ground, feeling the coolness flowing into his body from his spine.
He returned to the west room, stared at the dark ceiling and analyzed the clues, and fell asleep at daybreak.
Yu Zhile woke up early and felt a slight itch on his wrist.
When I raised my hand, I saw that the skin around the cloud symbol had turned red and small bumps had appeared.
Allergic? She thought for a long time, but couldn't remember what allergens she had come into contact with. She just applied some ointment and got up.
As soon as he stepped out of the room, Yu Zhile heard a knock on the door.
"Le Le, good morning!" Zhang Wenxin was standing outside the door holding a three-finger-wide piece of bacon, looking in high spirits.
Yu Zhile stepped aside to let her in and asked, "What are you doing with the bacon?"
"She stuffed it into my pocket, so you can think of it as me lending it to you. This is my tuition." Zhang Wenxin went straight to the eaves, hung up the bacon, and took out a few steamed buns made of 200g flour from the backpack. "My mother gave it to me, saying that I can't eat your breakfast for free."
"No tuition fee, you can take the meat home." Yu Zhile refused.
Haiyu Village only slaughters pigs twice a year. She guessed that this piece of bacon was saved by the Zhang family when they distributed the annual pigs.
"My family doesn't need this. The old lady has many connections." Zhang Wenxin advised, "Just accept it with peace of mind."
Speaking of which, after reconciling with Yu Zhile yesterday, she began to understand the old lady.
After she returned home, the old lady was afraid that she was hungry and wanted to bring her some food. She followed her into the house and discovered that the old lady's small house was a different world.
"There's also goat milk powder. I really don't know where it comes from. Is this the strength of an old lady?" Zhang Wenxin sighed. She swallowed the name she used before when it was about to come out of her mouth. "Could she still be running the black market in her seventies or eighties?"
She made random guesses, and felt that the picture was very vivid, so she burst out laughing.
Yu Zhile spat out the last of his mouthwash, wiped his face and said, "Your aunt bought it, right?"
"My aunt and uncle work in a textile factory workshop. They don't have so many connections." Zhang Wenxin ruled out this statement.
Yu Zhile walked under the eaves and turned over the squid slices. After a whole night of drying, the squid, which was originally 70% to 80% dry, was now completely dry. He could smell the tempting aroma as he turned it over.
"Dried squid? It smells so good." Zhang Wenxin walked closer.
Yu Zhile tore off two pieces and handed them to her: "I made them last night."
The dried squid is thick and chewy, and the sweet and spicy seasoning makes you unable to stop eating it.
"It's so delicious!" Zhang Wenxin's cheeks were sore after eating a piece, but she still felt unsatisfied.
Yu Zhile smiled and said, "Take some home and roast them with wine to make them more fragrant."
Zhang Wenxin pestered her and asked how to bake with wine, and followed her into the kitchen.
The two chatted idly until Yu Yue and Yu Chi got up.
The freshly cooked porridge was steaming, and on the side was a plate of fried pickles and fried steamed bread slices.
"Brother Zhou didn't sleep well." Yu Yue found a good excuse for Zhou Yuesheng.
Yu Zhile said, "Oh!" and suddenly remembered that the house was in need of a multi-layered dustpan rack. He said, "Tell him to go cut two bamboos and make a rack when he comes back."
"Okay." Yu Yue responded and at the same time picked up some steamed bread slices for Yu Chi.
The breakfast table at the Yu family was not that lively, with basically only the sound of bowls and chopsticks colliding.
After breakfast, Yu Zhile took Zhang Wenxin up the mountain, and the first stop was the back slope.
"People usually come here to dig wild vegetables. There are many varieties and they grow well." Yu Zhile pointed to the ground.
Zhang Wenxin stared blankly at the lush green grass for a long time, and said weakly: "Don't these grasses all look the same?"
As soon as she said this, the audience in the live broadcast room responded one after another.
[Agree, totally unrecognizable.]
[+1, each one is green, and it’s impossible to tell them apart! ]
"This is shepherd's purse, its leaves look like feathers." Yu Zhile said, pointing to a plant.
Zhang Wenxin pulled up another one and asked, "Is this also shepherd's purse?"
"This is dandelion. If you pinch it, white juice will flow out, and there is fluff on the surface. But both types are edible." Yu Zhile took the dandelion from her hand so that the audience could see it more clearly.
Then, she introduced other kinds of wild vegetables to Zhang Wenxin.
Zhang Wenxin was enjoying picking the vegetables so much that he didn't even raise his head, determined to catch all the wild vegetables within his sight.
Yu Zhile picked some of the fruits and put them in the backpack, and stored the rest in the small warehouse.
The two did not stay on the back hillside for too long and continued walking into the mountains.
Along the way, they encountered many crude traps and carefully avoided them.
"Little cherries!" Zhang Wenxin saw the crystal clear little fruits like rubies at a glance and shouted excitedly.
She ran to the tree, reached out and picked a few and put them in her mouth.
The sour and sweet juice was released in her mouth, and she showed a satisfied expression.
"It's sweet and sour, with a strong fruity aroma." Zhang Wenxin praised, his hands moving non-stop to break off the fruit stems and put the cherries into the backpack.
Yu Zhile was picking cherries on the other side of the tree, storing some of them in a small warehouse, and chatting with her from time to time.
After working for more than half an hour, they stopped only when each of them had filled half a bamboo basket with cherries.
"I'll take you to pick grapes from the tree later." Yu Zhile wiped the sweat off his forehead.
Although the sun is not shining brightly today, the air is still very hot and stuffy.
"Okay!" Zhang Wenxin was so tired that he sat on the ground, but his eyes were shining.
Yu Zhile looked carefully at the sparse grass behind her and walked towards her.
Zhang Wenxin was confused and felt uneasy when she thought of the way Zhou Yuesheng looked at her.
However, Yu Zhile walked past her, stepped into the grass, and stood in front of a plant.
The brown-yellow main stem has no leaves, and the flower buds are evenly arranged upward along the top, blooming from bottom to top.
"Gastrodia elata, a traditional Chinese medicine, is very effective in treating headaches." Yu Zhile touched the rhizome and began to dig the soil.
Before long, the yellow oval tubers appeared.
Zhang Wenxin stared at the strange-looking Gastrodia elata with curiosity, and exclaimed: "You also know Chinese medicine! Is there anything else you don't know?"
"I only know a little." Yu Zhile brushed off the dirt on the surface and did not break the stem so that it would be easier to carry it down the mountain.
The backpack was too heavy to carry around, so she introduced some common edible plants nearby to Zhang Wenxin.
Zhang Wenxin was enjoying learning so much that he wished he had a notebook at hand to write down everything she said.
The audience in the live broadcast room also learned a good lesson and left messages asking her to put the small display window on the shelf.
Whenever Zhang Wenxin came across something new, she would rush over to study it, which also made it convenient for Yu Zhile to stock the small display window.
After resting, the two planned to go down the mountain, and when they returned along the same route, they found a newly opened path.
The freshly cut grass on the roadside still exudes a refreshing scent of grass and trees, as if inviting people to set foot on this road.
Zhang Wenxin regained his energy and took Yu Zhile's arm to go explore.
The path twists and turns and leads to a hidden valley entrance with a narrow entrance.
Their attention was on the patch of March bubbles surrounding the entrance.
The red March is dotted on the branches, and it is even more attractive against the backdrop of green leaves.
"Le Le, I'm so lucky to go up the mountain with you!" Zhang Wenxin said excitedly, and buried his head in picking March bubbles.
"This is March bubble. It will be put on the shelves in the small window today." Yu Zhile walked to the other side.
Then, she shifted her gaze to the short trees and the pepper fruits growing upwards on one side of the bushes, and introduced them to the audience: "This is wild pepper, a seasoning. It can be made into pickled peppers. Pickled pepper-flavored dishes are very appetizing and are perfect for eating in the hot summer."
As she spoke, she began to pick.
After a while, the two returned with a full load and went back down the mountain along the same route.
Zhang Wenxin was so tired that he was gasping for breath.
Passing by the bamboo forest, a pheasant flapped its wings and flew into Yu Zhile's arms.
Zhang Wenxin was stunned. After she came to her senses, she hugged her arm and rubbed it hard, saying with a smile: "Lele, share some of your blessings with me!"
This scene happened to be witnessed by Zhou Yuesheng.
Zhang Wenxin saw his figure and retracted his arm.
The backpack on Yu Zhile's shoulders was tied too tightly, so Zhou Yuesheng took the backpack for her.
"The shelf is ready," he said.
This time the rack is very simple. You only need to prepare four legs, make openings at the bamboo joints, and insert four horizontal bars into each layer.
Yu Zhile said with a hint of boasting: "I'm very lucky today. This pheasant jumped into my arms on its own initiative."
"Well, you're lucky." Zhou Yuesheng glanced at the artificial fracture marks on the chicken's foot and was silent for a few seconds before answering her.
As he spoke, his gaze swept into the depths of the bamboo forest.
Zhang Wenxin deliberately fanned herself with her hands: "Oh, I'm suddenly hot and thirsty. I'm going to go back and drink some water to cool off. You two can walk slowly."
After saying this, she walked quickly down the mountain without looking around.
The backpack was filled with fruits and wild peppers, leaving no room for the pheasant, so Zhou Yuesheng asked them to take another route down the mountain.
Yu Zhile followed him, holding a Gastrodia elata stem in one hand and a pheasant leg in the other.
After a while, a dusty man walked out from the depths of the bamboo forest, looked in the direction the two had left, and cursed in a low voice.
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