Chapter 91 Jungle 3
"Uh, will there be snakes?" Although Yang Jin is tall and big, he is really afraid of soft-bodied reptiles like snakes.
"Yes, we are in the mountains, so it's normal to have snakes."
"Well," Yang Jinsheng looked at the fish swimming around in the puddle with regret, "Forget it, I don't want it."
Yang Xiufen also nodded and said, "If you want to eat fish, I'll buy it for you. Don't get bitten by a snake just for this bite. It's not worth it. If you run into a poisonous snake, you're done for. Xinbai and I can't move you."
At this moment, Jiang Xinbai suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed, "Look, is that a chestnut tree?"
"Where, where?" Yang Xiufen stood on tiptoe and looked at where Jiang Xinbai pointed. She squinted her eyes and looked hard for a while before shouting excitedly, "It's a chestnut. I saw the thorn ball."
"Let's go, don't worry about the fish, let's go pick chestnuts." Yang Xiufen took the lead, stepping on the stones to cross the stream, and then reached the other side.
"Sister, please slow down. Let me explore the way first. Look how anxious you are," Yang Jinsheng complained while supporting his wife and slowly walking to the other side.
As soon as Yang Xiufen reached the opposite slope, she saw a lot of chestnuts on the ground. She reached out and picked one up. It was round and had a pointed head. "This is a chestnut, but it tastes good too."
"It's different from the chestnuts we usually eat. It's much smaller." Jiang Xinbai looked at the tiny chestnut in his palm with some disgust. Last year's chestnuts were much bigger than this.
"Just be content. Chestnuts are small, and wild ones are even smaller. It's good enough to pick some up. Please don't give them all to me." Yang Xiufen was very happy with the things she picked up for free.
"Who said I don't want them? I want them. Everyone pick your own!" Jiang Xinbai said as he squatted down and started picking them up. The chestnut shells were small, and most of the ones that fell had cracks. The chestnuts inside came out with a slight break. One by one, several people gathered around a few wild chestnut trees and picked up all the chestnuts on the ground before stopping.
Yang Jinsheng looked around the chestnut tree carefully, then shook his head slightly, "Maybe the yield is not high this year, there is basically nothing left on the tree, and we have picked up all the ones on the ground."
Yang Xiufen weighed the bag in her hand with satisfaction, "Well, not bad, about ten pounds, I'll cook it up when I get home, it must be delicious. How come no one has discovered there are chestnuts here? Hehe, it's a good thing no one has discovered it, it's a bargain for us."
Jiang Xinbai found a clean stone and sat down, explaining with a smile: "It's not that no one knows, it's just that they think it's not cost-effective. This mountain is quite far from the city, and it takes an hour or two to go back and forth, and it's still unclear whether we can find anything. As for the villagers downstairs, they will not come, they are guarding the mountain themselves!" It is not a time of great famine now, so naturally no one would be idle enough to come all the way up the mountain, of course, except for the three of them who are bored.
After hearing this, Yang Xiufen nodded in agreement. Isn't that the truth?
"Jinsheng, let's go look for persimmon trees later. The persimmons we got last year were quite sweet." Jiang Xinbai said to her husband. She decided to make persimmon cakes from the persimmons she got this year so that they could be stored.
"Okay, you guys take a rest first, I'll take a look around." After saying this, Yang Jinsheng walked a little further inside.
"Xinbai, can you also dry persimmon cakes?" Yang Xiufen was a little curious. She had eaten persimmon cakes before. They were sweet and had a chewy skin, and the taste was different from fresh persimmons.
"Yes, it's not difficult. Just peel the skin and dry it in the sun. It just doesn't look very good, but we'll be eating it ourselves, so we don't have to worry about it." There used to be a persimmon tree in their yard. Whenever the persimmons were still green, they would be picked, peeled and dried into persimmon cakes, which were also a decent gift when visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year.
"Xiaobai, big sister, look what this is?" Yang Jinsheng suddenly ran back with something in his hand.
"What is so mysterious? Could it be that you have found gold?" Yang Xiufen joked with a smile.
"There's no gold, but there are a few pheasant eggs. Look, three pheasant eggs." Three small brown eggs were lying clearly in the palm of Yang Jinsheng's hand.
"Where did you pick it up? Do you have any more?" Jiang Xinbai also stood up. This was an unexpected gain.
Yang Jinsheng shook his head. "I also found it by accident. There are only three eggs. I didn't see any pheasants."
"Even if you see it, it's useless. You can't catch it. The eggs are good too." Jiang Xinbai used to see pheasants in the mountains often, but that was all he saw. He had no way to catch them.
"By the way, I forgot to tell you that there are indeed a few persimmon trees over there, but they are all quite small." Yang Jinsheng only remembered about the persimmon trees at this moment.
"What are you waiting for? Come on, find a place to put the eggs so that you don't break them."
Yang Xiufen looked at the persimmon tree in front of her and nodded with satisfaction, "Fortunately it's not a tall tree, so we can all get it. It's a little small, but it's good too."
"This one has a lot of seeds." Jiang Xinbai could tell the variety of persimmon at a glance. It had less flesh and more seeds. This was the case with wild persimmons.
Although he said something disdainful, Jiang Xinbai's hands moved quickly, and in a short while he had pulled out all the fruits from the persimmon trees.
"We can go back now. With the walnuts outside, we have enough food." Yang Jinsheng said.
Jiang Xinbai was also a little tired. She looked at the sun and felt hungry. "Let's go back. We haven't had lunch yet. Let's go back and eat. Sister, are you going home directly?"
Yang Xiufen looked at her harvest and replied, "I'll go home first. Just tell me what to do when the time comes."
"Okay, let's go back!"
When they passed by the walnut tree again, Jiang Xinbai said with some regret: "There are still many on the tree. I don't know who got the good deal."
"Don't worry, don't worry. I'll go check on Third Brother when I get back. If he says it's a walnut, I'll come back immediately and definitely not let anyone else get it for free. Is that okay?" Yang Jinsheng said helplessly.
So the three of them rode their bikes towards home again, and when they arrived at the yard, they ran into Xu Baoju, "Hey, where have you been again? There are so many things, what are they? Let me see..." As she said this, she was about to open the bag to take a look.
Yang Jinsheng blocked it with his hand and said with a smile: "Aunt Xu, these are all brought back from my mother-in-law's house. There's nothing to see. If you have nothing else to do, just go and do your work. We have to go back too."
"Hey, you kid..."
As soon as Jiang Xinbai entered the room, she heard the baby crying. She quickly took the baby over and said, "Mom, let me do it!"
Sun Erni breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Oh, you're finally back. He's finished drinking the milk I left for him this morning and is hungry again. Go feed him!"
Jiang Xinbai's breasts were swollen as she hadn't breastfed for several hours. As soon as she returned to the room and undressed, the baby came over following the scent and started drinking from it in big gulps.
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