Chapter 23 Calculation
Li Wanqing's plan was to live in the mountains for a few years first, and then find an opportunity to buy a few acres of land outside, build a house and move down the mountain to live.
By then they should have children, and when the children are old enough they will be sent to school.
As for doing business, Li Wanqing hasn't thought about it yet, and she doesn't know what the Great Shun Dynasty has to say about doing business.
For example, in some dynasties, children from merchant families were not allowed to take the imperial examinations. You must find out this clearly.
Otherwise it will have a bad impact on the next generation.
Also, should she tell Gu Yan about her space? It would be hard for two people to live together without him finding out.
What if Gu Yan knew about this and captured her as a monster?
In fact, the best way was to keep it from Gu Yan, but Li Wanqing was a carefree person. She was afraid that she couldn't hide it.
After thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't come up with a good solution. Finally, Li Wanqing just thought to herself, forget it, let it be, we'll deal with it when the time comes.
The land on the left side of the cave is not big, only about two mu at most. Li Wanqing finished turning it over in half a day. This is because the tools are not working well. If the tools were working well, it would not take half a day.
After turning the soil, Li Wanqing had nothing to do. She was bored, so she took a backpack and went out to dig wild vegetables.
Although she had eaten enough, she still had to eat if there was no other food.
She also had to dry wild vegetables to prepare for winter, otherwise she would have to go through the long winter without vegetables.
It's a good opportunity to see which hillsides nearby are suitable for growing crops. By the way, I also need to see if there are any herbs that I can dig.
Herbal medicines can not only be sold, but can also be used to treat headaches and fevers.
As expected of a remote mountain area, there are so many wild vegetables on the hillside.
Shepherd's purse, moss, bracken, prickly ash sprouts, dandelion, amaranth...
There were so many that Li Wanqing dug a whole basket without having to move.
I really get addicted to digging wild vegetables. When the backpack can’t hold them all, I put them in the space and then dig more.
She dug a lot without realizing it. When Li Wanqing came to her senses, she looked into the space and saw that there were already hundreds of kilograms of wild vegetables in the space.
Li Wanqing was also tired, so she straightened up and looked around.
The hillside was covered with trees of all sizes, the only ones she recognized were birch, locust, elm, and willow.
The trees are so dense that growing crops is almost impossible.
She didn't dare let Gu Yan cut down the trees. Without trees on the mountain, it would easily cause soil erosion. If there was too much rain, it would be disastrous if a landslide occurred.
If it doesn't work here, I'll just have to look somewhere else.
After picking a lot of wild vegetables, Li Wanqing went back.
As expected, Gu Yan did not come back at night. Li Wanqing closed the door and lay on the kang for a while. She felt a little scared to sleep alone, so she entered the space.
Li Wanqing had already changed into her own bedding on the bed in the space and was sleeping comfortably.
Nothing happened that night. Li Wanqing got up early the next day. Gu Yan was not at home, which made it convenient for her to cook.
After eating brown rice for several days in a row, Li Wanqing wanted to eat some noodles today.
She dug up a lot of shepherd's purse yesterday, and the thought of making dumplings with shepherd's purse and pork filling makes her mouth water.
The meat in the space was not needed. The wild boar hunted on the wedding day was not used much for the banquet. Zhang Dahua and the others took some back, and there was still a lot left at home.
In order to prevent the meat from going bad, they salted it and made it into bacon.
The meat has just been marinated for two days, so it's not too salty. After washing and soaking it, it's almost as good as fresh meat.
Li Wanqing kneaded a large piece of dough and prepared to chop it into dumplings. She would then secretly eat a few in her space whenever she felt craving them.
It’s not that she didn’t want to give it to Gu Yan, but she really had no excuse to take it out.
It took Li Wanqing more than two hours to make more than 200 dumplings.
Li Wanqing cooked fifteen for breakfast and lunch, and put the rest in the space.
After dinner, Li Wanqing had nothing to do so she could only go dig wild vegetables again. If she dug too much, she would put it in part of the space, and take the rest back to dry into dried vegetables.
Li Wanqing dug more than 200 kilograms of wild vegetables in one day. She was not idle when she returned home. She cut the roots of the wild vegetables, picked them and washed them clean. She took out two bamboo mats from the cave next to her that served as a warehouse, spread them on the ground, and evenly spread the washed wild vegetables on them.
If the weather is good, it can be dried and stored in two or three days.
After the wild vegetables were dried, Li Wanqing rested for a while. Seeing that it was getting late, she started preparing dinner.
She guessed that Gu Yan would be able to come back today, so she wouldn't be able to eat the food in the space.
There was no other food at home, and I didn’t have flour to make buns and dumplings.
I can only make brown rice and a dish of braised pork. According to the original owner's memory, only the chefs in the restaurant can make a big dish like braised pork, and ordinary people can't do it.
I picked a piece of pork belly, washed off the coarse salt on it, cut it into mahjong size, and then blanched it in water.
Then take out the rock sugar in the space and stir-fry the sugar color, then put the blanched pork belly in and stir-fry. Finally, add hot water, onion, ginger, garlic, and salt, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer on the lowest heat.
The meat was wild boar meat, which was difficult to cook, so Li Wanqing added more boiling water and stewed it for a while longer.
In addition to the braised pork, Li Wanqing also fried a bowl of fern and mixed it with some prickly ash sprouts.
After doing all this, I waited for Gu Yan to come back.
Gu Yan didn't get home until around eight or nine in the evening. The danger in the mountains increased doubly at night. Under normal circumstances, Gu Yan would definitely not have traveled overnight.
But now it’s different. Someone is waiting for him at home, and Gu Yan doesn’t want to stay outside for a moment longer.
"Wife, I'm back. Are you asleep?" When he arrived at the entrance of the cave, Gu Yan didn't dare to go in directly.
Instead, he stood at the door and knocked gently, for fear that Li Wanqing would be scared.
Of course Li Wanqing hadn't gone to bed yet. Gu Yan hadn't come back yet, and she was worried. How could he go to bed so early?
Just to save lamp oil, I turned off the lights early and lay on the kang.
Hearing Gu Yan coming back, she quickly got up, opened the door and let him in: "Husband, you're back. Are you tired?"
Seeing his wife caring about him so much, Gu Yan felt sweet in his heart: "I'm not tired, wife, look what I bought for you?"
Gu Yan put the things down and took out an oil-paper bag from his arms as if he was presenting a treasure. Inside was two meat buns.
Li Wanqing looked at the still warm meat buns that were brought to her, and it was impossible for her to say that she was not touched at all.
No one has ever cared about her so much in her life.
Li Wanqing took the meat bun and asked casually, "Have you eaten it?"
It was really just a casual question. She thought Gu Yan must have eaten it. It was very good in Li Wanqing's opinion that a man could think of his wife at home after eating and buy food for her and bring it back.
Li Wanqing didn't expect what Gu Yan said next, and she was even more moved.
"I don't want to eat it. You eat it, my wife. Meat buns are expensive, only five cents each." Gu Yan said with a simple smile.
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