Chapter 130: Digging wild vegetables!
As soon as the door opened, Li Lele looked at her with a smile, "Sister Xiaobai, take a rest tomorrow! Do you want to go to the mountains with me to dig wild vegetables?"
Jiang Xinbai looked back at the wall between the two houses. It was quite high and thick! How come Li Lele invited him to dig wild vegetables right after he finished speaking?
"Sister Xiaobai? What's wrong? Is there any problem?" Li Lele looked puzzled.
"Ah, it's nothing. I was just telling my girlfriend that I wanted to pick wild vegetables, and now you're here. It means we think alike, so we're destined to be together." Jiang Xinbai laughed as he spoke. It really is fate that matters.
Upon hearing this, Li Lele also laughed: "Sister Xiaobai, what else can we do in spring if not digging wild vegetables? Do you want to go? If so, let's go early tomorrow morning. I know a place with a lot of wild vegetables. I dug there last year."
"Go, why not? By the way, is it just the two of us? Aren't your mother-in-law and sister-in-law going?" Li Lele's sister-in-law Jiang Xinbai had only met her a few times, but she didn't seem like someone who was keen on digging wild vegetables.
As expected, Li Lele shook her head. "My sister-in-law takes my brother and his family back to her parents' home every day off, and my mother-in-law takes Yaoyao with her. It's just the two of us."
"Then can I call my second sister too?" Jiang Xinbai always thought of his second sister when there was anything good.
Li Lele nodded indifferently, "Sure, let's ask her to come along!"
The next morning, the three of them rode their bicycles out of the city and after a long time they arrived at a low hill.
Li Lele stopped first, hid the car in the bushes, pointed with his finger, and said with a smile: "This is it. Xiang Ming and I came here last year."
When Jiang Xinbai and Jiang Xinlan saw Li Lele hiding the bicycle, they remembered that they hid it in the haystack in the same way when they went to pick chestnuts last year. They couldn't help but laugh out loud, causing Li Lele to look at them in confusion.
"Sister Xiaobai, Sister Xiaolan, what are you laughing at? Hide the car quickly. We are going up the mountain. We should have come in March, but now it's April 10th. I wonder if the wild vegetables on the mountain are ripe."
"Okay." Jiang Xinbai hid the bicycle quickly and followed Li Lele up the mountain.
Jiang Xinlan recalled the shepherd's purse dumplings from yesterday and said with a smile, "It would be great if I could pick some shepherd's purse today. Yesterday, my third brother and his wife got married, and the big bowl of shepherd's purse dumplings was very fragrant and tasted better than the braised pork."
"Yeah, that's what I said, so when Lele asked me to pick wild vegetables, I thought of you." Jiang Xinbai was also thinking about shepherd's purse.
Li Lele, who was walking in front, smiled and turned back and said, "You have come to the right place. Shepherd's purse only grows well in March and April. I picked some last year. Since you like to eat it, everything I pick will be yours."
Jiang Xinbai waved his hands after hearing what she said, "That's not necessary. No matter how delicious shepherd's purse dumplings are, they still need meat and flour. I can't make many, so I just want to eat some for freshness."
"That's right, but we can see if there are any ferns later. They are delicious after being blanched and served cold. Or we can dry them into dried vegetables, soak them in hot water and stir-fry them when we want to eat them, or mix them together." When talking about food, Li Lele was in high spirits, with golden light shining from his eyes.
"Le Le, you are talking so clearly, you must be a good cook! I really like the kimchi you pickle, I want to follow your example and make it later, second sister, I will ask you to join us then. The kimchi Le Le makes is very appetizing, and it tastes good even when eaten raw."
"Okay, I usually like what you like."
The three of them chatted and laughed and soon arrived at a flat ground. Li Lele squinted and looked over, then smiled, "Pointing, Sister Xiaobai, look, that's all shepherd's purse, go pick them quickly, I'll look for the rest."
"Okay, Lele, don't go too far. Although there are no tigers, wolves or anything like that on the mountain, there are still wild boars. Be careful." Jiang Xinbai was just about to squat down to pick wild vegetables when he saw Li Lele continuing to walk up, so he quickly reminded him.
Li Lele nodded and replied, "Sister Xiaobai, I won't go far. I'll wait for you in front."
Jiang Xinbai squatted down and started digging shepherd's purse after hearing what she said. "Second sister, there are quite a lot of shepherd's purse in this area. They are quite tender. Let's hurry up and finish digging them before going to look somewhere else."
"Yeah, I didn't expect there were more. I thought they had all been dug up!" Jiang Xinlan kept moving her hands while talking. With a few whooshes, she threw a few more shepherd's purse into the bag behind her.
"Oh, by the way, Xiaobai, has the tree in your yard sprouted? Is it a pear tree?"
Jiang Xinbai got angry when her second sister mentioned this. She poked the ground with a shovel and complained, "You're still talking about this. It makes me angry. Second sister, how could someone cause such a big disaster? You don't know what Yang Jinsheng did. He actually poured a urinal full of urine at the roots of the tree, and he did it every day. I was wondering why there was a strange smell every day when I walked over there. I thought something was rotten, but I didn't expect it was his doing."
"Ah," Jiang Xinlan looked at Jiang Xinbai in surprise, "Will the tree be burned to death?" Who doesn't need to dilute the farmyard manure? This is too stupid.
"Yes, it's dead, completely dead. And that's not all. He even felt aggrieved and said that he carefully mixed some of Xiaobao's golden poop into it every day, saying that it would be less smelly and more nutritious. I really admire him." Jiang Xinbai was glad that it was not summer now when he said this, otherwise he would not be able to stand it even if it didn't smell so bad.
Jiang Xinlan shook her head helplessly, thought for a moment and said, "But it's not necessarily Jinsheng's fault. If vegetables are watered like she does, their roots will definitely burn, but trees won't. It's probably that there's something wrong with the plant itself."
"Who knows? Anyway, the tree was cut down and placed in the front yard to dry in the sun, ready to be used as firewood." Jiang Xinbai was thinking about what kind of tree he could plant in the vacant land. When it grows up, it will be cooler in the summer.
"Okay, we've finished digging up all the shepherd's purse in this area. Let's go up again. Why hasn't Lele made any movement for so long?" Jiang Xinlan stood up, patted her back, and looked up again.
"They should be digging wild vegetables. Let's go up and take a look." Jiang Xinbai tied the mouth of the bag and shouted directly upwards: "Lele, Lele, are you still up there?"
Soon, Li Lele's voice came from above, "Sister Xiaobai, come up, there are a lot of ferns here, come quickly!"
When they heard about the bracken, Jiang Xinbai and the other person's back pain and foot numbness instantly disappeared, and they quickly ran over to take a look. Wow, there were large areas of bracken, and Li Lele was squatting beside them, picking them happily!
"Sister Xiaobai, come here, look at how good the ferns I picked are! This patch is growing really well." Li Lele showed Jiang Xinbai and the others the ferns she picked, each of which was plump.
Jiang Xinbai glanced over and saw, wow, some of the ferns in this patch have just sprouted, there are quite a lot of them and they are quite tender.
So the two of them found a piece of vacant land and started picking them. After all, they could dry and preserve them, so they naturally picked as many as they could.
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