Li Yu walked in and looked at the stove Lin Hai had bought. It was pretty good, the kind that burned charcoal.
A frying pan. Judging from the stove and the frying pan, Li Yu felt that the blacksmithing skills of this era were not so backward.
Lin Hai walked over, taking out some money as he walked, and said to Li Yu, "I pawned the bracelet for five taels of silver. The pot and stove cost three taels, and the oxcart cost one tael. I bought ten kilograms of flour. Here are the remaining 700 coins. Take them, mother."
Li Yu took the money and put it in his sleeve pocket. He said to him, "Okay, let's eat first. Your wife should have prepared dinner. I have plans later. There's nothing to do in the fields these days, so you don't have to go out this afternoon."
In the afternoon, all the family members except the little one went out to move. Lin Jiang was arranged by Li Yu to cut grass for the cows, chickens and ducks, while Lin Mei stayed at home to take care of Xiaobao.
The remaining Li Yu, Yang Liu, Lin Hai, and even Lin He went up the mountain to collect mushrooms and fungus. They tried to avoid spending money on raw materials whenever possible. Fungus can also be dried and saved for later use.
Yangshulin Village is nestled against a massive mountain. During a famine, most villagers survived, largely thanks to the mountain.
Although families are not very wealthy now, they can eat their fill, and not many people go up the mountain to look for food. Occasionally, you can still meet a few people, but that's to see if they can find some wild game to satisfy their hunger.
There weren't many people like Li Yu who were actually going up the mountain to look for wild vegetables. Everyone was an acquaintance, and they all greeted Li Yu. Li Yu didn't hide anything and openly told everyone that he was going up the mountain to pick wild vegetables.
Everyone in the village knew what was going on in Li Yu's family, so no one asked in detail.
After bidding farewell to the enthusiastic villagers, Li Yu and her family set out to search. Seeing that everyone was searching diligently and no one noticed Li Yu, she finally had time to take a closer look at the mountain.
Though not high, the mountain teemed with life. Sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the ground. The occasional chirping of birds added a touch of vibrancy to the tranquil forest. Li Yu observed her surroundings while carefully searching for wild vegetables. She discovered a wide variety of wild vegetables on the mountain, including bracken, shepherd's purse, and more.
These wild vegetables are not only delicious but also rich in nutrients. Li Yu carefully picked them and put them into the basket he carried with him.
The family spent most of the day wandering around the mountain and had a fruitful harvest. They not only found a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms, but also discovered some wild fruit trees, their branches laden with red fruits that made people salivate.
Li Yu and his family picked some fruits to take home and enjoy. On their way down the mountain, Li Yu met some villagers who were chopping wood. Seeing Li Yu and his family carrying bags full of wild vegetables, they all looked at him with envy.
Li Yu generously invited them to taste the wild fruits together.
Fruits were very scarce in that era, and the wild fruits on the mountains near the village were basically picked up by the village children before they were ripe.
None of Li Yu's family could find these, and it was a small tree that Lin He discovered by chance. Because there was a cliff next to it, the children probably didn't see it.
Li Yu's family got the upper hand.
After returning home, Li gave Lin Hai some wild fruits and asked him to deliver them to Uncle Lin's family. He also gave him 20 coins and asked him to ask his aunt to buy 20 eggs for his stall the next morning when he came back.
After Lin Hai left, Li Yu and Yang Liu prepared dinner together. She cleaned the wild vegetables and made a delicious cold bracken salad with chili peppers and minced garlic from her own garden. She also made some mushroom soup and steamed a pot of cornmeal steamed buns.
Lin Hai came back and told Li Yu that his aunt didn't want any money, so he stuffed the money directly into his uncle's pocket and returned. Li Yu told him, "You're right. We're in this business for the long term. We use eggs every day, so how can we not pay for them?"
The family sat around the table, tasting delicious wild vegetables and talking about today's harvest.
He picked a basket full of wild fruits, and Li Yu had pulled out all the pluck from a small tree. He also picked about ten pounds of wood ear mushrooms and another ten pounds of mushrooms.
Li Yu asked Lin Mei to take some wild fruits to the neighboring Deng Dasao's house after dinner. They had helped the original owner many times before. Lin Mei agreed while eating.
Little Bao Lin Yaozong said to Li Yu in a baby voice, "Grandma, how come the wild vegetables you cook are so delicious? My mother only knows how to use wild vegetables to make steamed buns and soup."
"If it tastes good, just eat it quickly. Why are you talking so much? You're even being picky." Yang was a little annoyed and angry. Anyone would feel uncomfortable when their own son complained at the dinner table that their cooking was not as delicious as their mother-in-law's.
Li Yu laughed and said, "Boy, that's because no one told your mother how to make it. If your mother had someone to teach her, she would definitely make it better than me."
Li Yu's words were not groundless. Yang Shi did have a talent for cooking, which she discovered on the first day she woke up. She just grew up in this small mountain village and had no chance to contact the outside world.
Besides, the Lin family really doesn't have the conditions to let her perform.
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