Chapter 51 Harvest in Autumn, Looking for Wild Ginseng

After dinner, Li Yue'e came to teach Su Mo how to make cotton trousers.

Su Mo's learning ability is still very strong. In the morning, she watched Li Yue'e make cotton clothes and roughly understood the production process. As for cotton trousers, Su Mo volunteered to make them herself, and Li Yue'e just had to guide her.

Su Mo first sewed the cotton clothes she made in the morning again to get familiar with the operation of the sewing machine, and then fixed the cotton with the thread. Soon, the sewing machine was able to operate smoothly.

Li Yue'e also sighed in her heart that Su Mo was indeed a city educated youth, that is, she was smart. She had also taught the eldest and second brothers to make clothes before, but she didn't learn so quickly.

After finishing the cotton-padded jacket, Su Mo began to measure her own size, cut the pattern of the pants, and then sew, stuff the cotton, sew the edges, and make the seams. Under Li Yue'e's guidance, she did everything very well. In two hours, a pair of cotton-padded pants was finished.

Li Yue'e checked it and said with a smile, "Well done."

"Mother taught me well." Su Mo flattered Li Yue'e.

There is no style to clothes these days, and Su Mo is not a particularly particular person. As long as it can keep warm and not be particularly ugly, it's fine.

Su Mo looked at the newly made cotton-padded jacket and pants, and her heart was happy. A few days later, she went to the city again, bought a piece of coarse cloth, and made the cotton-padded jackets for both of them in the evening.

Calculating the time, they should arrive at the cowshed in three or four days. Then she will find an opportunity to go to the next brigade to check out the situation.

"By the way, mother, I heard that there are a lot of mountain products on the mountains in the northeast. Every autumn, we have to go to harvest the products. The mountain products are picked up in large baskets." Su Mo asked.

Li Yue'e heard this and smiled: "Who did you hear that from?"

"If there are so many mountain products, how can the farmers' lives be so hard?"

"There are a lot of mountain products, but there are also a lot of people. Everyone has nothing to eat, so they go into the mountains when they have time. There are too many people and you can't pick anything." "

Are there wild boars and pheasants on the mountains?" Su Mo was very curious.

"Of course there are some, but they are all in the deep mountains. They are rarely seen in the mountains outside. Even if there is one occasionally, they are killed by the militia of each brigade to improve everyone's food."

The militia is not a vegetarian. They are equipped with hunting rifles. If there are any wild animals that dare to come down and waste food, they will be killed by them.

"Does our brigade militia usually go to the deep mountains to hunt wild boars for everyone to improve their food?" Su Mo asked again.

"Every year during the winter of cats, they would go hunting and get something to add to the New Year for everyone. But they didn't dare to go too deep, they just dared to wander around the periphery, and they didn't get much every year, just a few pheasants and rabbits. Wild boars are not available every year, you have to be lucky to get one or two."

The current militia captain is Li Cuihua's husband. With his cowardly appearance, he is afraid of tigers in front and wolves behind, what can he get? It's just a few small things every year to fill everyone's teeth, so that people can't say that he is taking work points for nothing.

"Then why don't they go deep into the mountains?"

"Oh, the deep mountains are very dangerous. I heard that there are tigers, wolves and bears in them, all of which are man-eating creatures. We dare not go there." Li Yue'e said, and added that she was afraid that Su Mo would not believe it.

"A few years ago, a brigade had a poor harvest, so the militia risked going into the mountains. More than a dozen people went in, but only five came out."

"If you want to go to harvest, just walk around outside, but don't go into the mountains, understand? No matter how many things there are in the mountains, they are not as important as your own life." Li Yue'e said.

"Okay, I understand." Su Mo nodded.

Look at the heroines in those period novels, they go up the mountain and pick up wild boars and pheasants. She also wanted to go up the mountain to solve the problem of eating meat, but she didn't know if she had the fate to do so.

"Do you really want to go to harvest?" Li Yue'e just said it casually, but she didn't expect that the third brother really wanted to go.

"Yes, I want to pick some mushrooms and mountain products, and then make some mushroom sauce to send to Changzheng." Su Mo said. She really thought so. When the sweater is knitted, she will make some mushroom sauce to go with rice and send it to Lu Changzheng.

"Now the hazel mushrooms are almost over, and I guess there won't be many left. We have to hurry." Li Yue'e said. The third brother's family is caring. She knits sweaters and makes mushroom sauce. She also sent some pine nuts and walnuts before.

"Well, I'll ask Daya to accompany you tomorrow. You are not familiar with this place, don't get lost."

Two years ago, there were educated youths in other brigades who went to the mountains to harvest autumn harvest and got lost. I heard that it took two days to find them, and they were almost scared when they found them.

"Okay, then I'll go to the mountains with Daya tomorrow to see what mountain products there are." Daya is Lu Fengqin, the eldest daughter of Lu Xingjun, who is 9 years old this year.

"At this time, there are still some hazel mushrooms in the mountains, pine nuts and walnuts, some chestnuts, and shepherd's purse, but they are not as tender as in spring. Now dig them up and dry them. When there are no vegetables to eat in winter, they are also good to cook and eat."

Su Mo nodded.

The mother and daughter talked for a while, and Li Yue'e was ready to go back. Su Mo quickly found a jar, filled it with about a pound of brown sugar, and took it back with her.

After Li Yue'e left, Su Mo saw that it was still early, so she took out paper and pen and started her literary creation.

She planned to write three or four short stories of about a thousand words and send them over first. They were all about interesting things that happened to the educated youth who went to the countryside and were full of positive energy. The country was encouraging the educated youth to go to the countryside, so this kind of article should be easier to be selected.

Su Mo kept writing until it got dark, then she stopped writing and put the manuscript away.

Su Mo was not going to eat steamed buns tonight, but was going to make a clay pot rice with preserved vegetables.

Closing the back window of the living room, Su Mo took out the small stove she used in the end times, and then took out a small clay pot. She found some thin firewood to light the small stove, then brushed the small clay pot with oil, put the washed rice into the clay pot, added an appropriate amount of water, and put it on the small stove to cook.

While cooking, she cut some bacon and sausage, and when the rice was almost done, she spread them on top of the rice. Then she took a handful of cilantro and green onions and diced them. After the rice was done, she sprinkled the cilantro and green onions on top, and then poured some soy sauce on it. A pot of fragrant bacon rice was ready.

Su Mo ate the rice in the clay pot, looking at the practical little stove, thinking that she had to find an opportunity to let this old friend who had accompanied her for several years in the end times see the light of day again.

Her stove was specially made for the end times. It was durable and easy to carry. It was especially suitable for the special teams going out on missions and singles like her.

After dinner, Su Mo put the cold stove back into the room, washed the clay pot and put it away. She

lit the kerosene lamp and started to boil water for a bath. After cleaning up, Su Mo returned to her room, closed the doors and windows, hung the curtains, turned on the desk lamp, and continued her literary creation. She wrote until after ten o'clock in the evening, then she turned off the lights and went to sleep.

The next day, Su Mo got up early and went to the vegetable garden first, where she germinated the seeds in several plots. Su Mo found that relying on the land here to grow plants actually saves a lot of superpowers.

In the end times, because the land contains zombie viruses, the soil for growing crops depends on soil-based superpowers. But the soil produced by soil-based superpowers does not contain the mineral components needed for plant growth, and is quite poor.

Seeing that using the soil is no different from directly inducing growth by oneself, many wood-based superpowers like to directly induce growth, and Su Mo is the same.

This discovery is really a pleasant surprise.

In this way, in winter, she will ask someone to make a few wooden frames, fill them with soil and put them in the living room, so that she can grow vegetables every day and pretend to be doing research.

By then, her new varieties of vegetables would have a source.

For breakfast, Su Mo fried two eggs and ate a steamed bun. Just after she finished, she heard someone outside the yard calling her.

"Auntie, Auntie, are you home?"

Su Mo walked out of the house and saw Lu Fengqin, who was standing outside the gate with a backpack on her back, looking inside.

The Lu family was not short, and Lu Fengqin also inherited the advantage of height. At the age of 9, she was about 130 cm tall. It's just that there was not much to eat in that era, so she was very thin, with big eyes and two small braids. She was a pretty girl.

Seeing Su Mo coming out, Lu Fengqin hurriedly said, "Aunt, my grandma asked me to take you to harvest the autumn crops."

"Fengqin, come in and sit for a while, I'll change my clothes." Su Mo called Lu Fengqin in, and Lu Fengqin pushed open the courtyard door and walked in. Su

Mo let Lu Fengqin into the main room and pretended to take a bun out of the steamer, "Here, have a bun."

Lu Fengqin's eyes lit up when she saw the bun, "Aunt, is this a leek bun?"

Yesterday, Li Yue'e took 6 buns back, and then took two to share with the children of the first and second wives. After Lu Fengqin finished eating, she had a deep memory. It was simply the most delicious bun she had ever eaten.

"Yes, leek buns, but there is only one left, eat it yourself and don't tell anyone." Su Mo said.

The first and second wives have many children, so it's okay to give them some delicious food occasionally, but she can't afford to give more, and she still understands the principle of gratitude and resentment.

Lu Fengqin was thinking about taking it home to share with her younger siblings, but after hearing what Su Mo said, she gave up and ate the bun in a few bites.

It's not that she, as the eldest sister, is ignorant, but it was the third aunt who said not to tell anyone, so she ate it herself.

Su Mo changed into work clothes, put on Jiefang shoes, took a backpack, and went out with Lu Fengqin.

Su Mo was a little excited. She went to the mountains to harvest autumn, absorb energy, and find wild ginseng!