Chen Chunhua didn't find a chance to have a private chat with Lin Guoqing about the 7.41 yuan until she went out in the morning. She was really too busy.
After seeing Liang Shengdi off, he had to hurry to clean up the dishes, tidy up the kitchen stove, and then rush to send his eldest daughter to school.
"Danny, when you go to and from school, just walk with Yinchun and the others. Don't be alone, okay?"
Chen Chunhua would say this every morning, and Lin Shuying would also respond with a good temper and warmth every morning.
"Got it. I'm going to school now. Goodbye, Mom and Dad, and goodbye to my brothers and sisters."
"Goodbye, big sister."
"Goodbye, sister~"
“Sister…sister…sister…”
"Second brother, you're home alone today. Be careful and don't go near the water, okay?"
After giving instructions to one person, she hurried to give instructions to the next one. When she saw Lin Guoqing was about to go out with Lin Shuchao in his arms, she shouted at him,
"Lin Guoqing! Don't let Chaochao run too far today! If you let him make trouble by the river again..." I'll break your dog legs!
"Got it~" The only answer she got was Lin Guoqing's voice which had already walked away.
Six-year-old Lin Shugan looked at his mother with his eyes wide open, "Where's grandma?"
"Your grandma went up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots."
As usual, Chen Chunhua put her little daughter into a big basket and carried it on her back. She had just cleaned the basket with both wet and dry rags, and then covered it with a thin quilt. It was now clean.
Lin Shugan: "...Will she come back for lunch at noon?"
"What do you think?" Chen Chunhua asked back. With Liang Shengdi's personality, skipping a meal would be considered abuse. She definitely needed to eat more after coming home tired from work.
"I steamed two extra sweet potatoes in the pot today. Remember to give them to your grandma later."
"OK."
Lin Shugan nodded obediently, and only closed the door after everyone in the family had left. Then he began his daily routine as a six-year-old child.
Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, catching insects, feeding the chickens. He also had to pay attention to the weather from time to time. If it rained, he had to quickly take in the clothes his mother had hung out in the yard.
The rest of the time I either sat on a small stool counting ants or leaned against the door watching the little mud monkeys running from one house to another.
He would only go out to play with them after dinner in the evening when his sisters and brothers were around, or sit with his grandmother under the big tree at the entrance of the village to listen to gossip when she was around.
When he was alone, he kept in mind Shen Chunhua's teachings and refused to step out of the house.
His mother said that if he went out alone, the outside world would be too scary for a 6-year-old like him. He would drown if he went to the water, be hit by a car if he went to the roadside, and he would be caught by a beagle if he was not careful. Then he would never see his parents, grandmother, older sister, and younger siblings in his life!
"Ah~" Xiao Shugan held his face in his hands and sat on the small stool, "May time pass quickly. In autumn, I can go to school with my sister..."
***
Liang Shengdi felt like she had been walking for almost half an hour before she reached the nearest mountain that Chen Chunhua mentioned. This was also the mountain where Lin Guoqing came to dig bamboo shoots yesterday.
She pulled at her collar, took a breath, and muttered, "I didn't know you would have thought I was running away from the famine..."
Thinking of the chicken that Chen Chunhua had promised her, and the braised bamboo shoots she would be eating tonight, she felt like she had taken a blood potion, and her strength instantly returned to full. Grabbing the basket, she lowered her head and began to look for bamboo shoots.
I searched for a long time at the foot of the mountain, but didn't see a single bamboo shoot tip. However, I found several bamboo shoot holes. I also ran into several women who were digging the soil with baskets and hoes.
A skilled worker who has dug bamboo shoots many times can use his experience to find the bamboo shoots even if the tips do not emerge.
Liang Shengdi couldn't do that. It was already very good that she knew how to find the bamboo shoot tips.
"These robbers..." She cursed and started to walk towards a higher place. There was no other way. It would not work here at the foot of the mountain. She had to go to the top of the mountain to have a look.
This mountain is not high, it is called a mountain here. In the west and north, where there is a mountain every three steps, it can only be considered a hill.
Liang Shengdi soon reached the mountainside, where bamboos and trees grew in a disorderly mixture. In the area with many bamboos, she actually found a few bamboo shoots.
Then, according to what Chen Chunhua had just taught you, you can dig along the bamboo shoots under the dug bamboo shoots, look around and find more bamboo shoots.
Finding one is like finding a whole nest. After digging a dozen bamboo shoots, Liang Shengdi discovered that this job was not as tiring as she had imagined!
Mainly, looking at the bamboo shoots in the basket made her feel full of energy! Twelve bamboo shoots, six of them could be eaten tonight! The bamboo shoots were so thin, how much meat could be found after peeling them apart... No, I have to dig more!
Liang Shengdi was digging bamboo shoots there with great effort. When she finished one end, she would move on to the other. She had dug up every bamboo forest on the mountain. Just when she felt that her strength was almost exhausted and there was not much space left in the basket, she thought that she had done a lot of work.
She saw the forest on her left. It looked empty, with only tree stumps and some trunks that had been cut down but not carried away lying there.
The point isn't the trunks or stumps, the point is what grows on them.
It has been raining quite often recently, but not heavily, just like last night, when it drizzled for a few hours. It was as if it was giving them a signal that spring had arrived and they could come out and breathe some fresh air.
Liang Shengdi walked over and squatted beside the tree stump to take a look.
The yellow umbrella caps were held wide open. A gust of cold wind blew by, shaking the umbrella caps, but they remained very firm and motionless.
Liang Shengdi reached out and picked one to examine it carefully. It was indeed an enoki mushroom.
This kind of enoki mushroom is not the common one on the market later, with a white surface and a small hemispherical cap.
The cap of wild Flammulina velutipes is relatively large, similar to that of oyster mushrooms, and is usually golden yellow in color. It generally grows on rotten wood piles or roots of broad-leaved forests such as elm and willow, and occasionally grows on standing trees of various broad-leaved trees.
Before Liang Shengdi fled the famine, she had eaten a lot of mushrooms. The main reason was that there was nothing else to eat. They lived off the land, but there were no bamboos or bamboo shoots in their mountains. The only food they had was wild vegetables or mushrooms.
She was quite wicked at the time, and would eat most of the common mushrooms that were edible. If she came across an unusual one, she would just wait and see if others picked it up, and if someone else did, she would pick it up too.
She picked it up, but didn't eat it today. She would first see if there were any problems the next day after the person who picked it up ate it. Only if there were no problems would she dare to take it out and cook it.
In this way, she really accumulated a lot of experience in mushrooms and wild vegetables.
There was no way. If something really happened to her from eating, her parents would not be willing to spend money to send their child to the hospital for treatment like Chen Chunhua did. They would probably just find a broken straw mat to wrap her up.
You still have to cherish this person's life.
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