Su Yan walked forward with the basket on her back. Whenever she met pedestrians she knew, she would show her signature smile and take the initiative to greet them.
"Sister He, have you eaten?"
"Auntie Li, do you want to go up the mountain now?"
"Aunt Fang, hello!"
“…”
Su Yan knew that the original owner was a bit arrogant. In the military compound, besides the male protagonist, she only had eyes for his family and her good sister He Nini.
As for the aunties and sisters-in-law in the compound, she didn't care to pay any attention to any of them. The reason was simply because she happened to hear those old ladies talking about her behind her back.
Su Yan thought, the original owner was pretty and had a good family background, but she had no special talents. She chased men like a crazy girl, so wasn't it normal for people to talk about her?
The family quarters of the military hospital were six or seven kilometers away from their military compound. In the past, in order to come and see Lu Ting, she walked back and forth every day without feeling tired.
The original owner felt uncomfortable when he heard those people talking, because he had good intentions but was not good at speaking, and he didn't know how to refute others. He was like a dumb person with a sawed mouth, who didn't know how to communicate, and this made him even more unlikable.
Aunt Fang nodded awkwardly at Su Yan, "New daughter-in-law of the Lu family, are you going to pick wild vegetables?"
"Yes, Aunt Fang, are you going?"
"There's nothing much to dig on Girl Mountain. If you want to go there, you should go to Tiger Ridge. That mountain is close to the river and has lush vegetation."
"Okay, thank you Aunt Fang for the reminder."
As soon as Su Yan left, the group of old ladies started chattering, "What do you think, is there something different about the new daughter-in-law of the Lu family?"
"What's different?"
"Look at her, she's got a smile on her face, and she walks with a graceful gait. She's clearly a virgin. Most importantly, Saw-Billed Gourd actually spoke and took the initiative to greet us.
I don’t know who spread the rumor before, saying that Lu Tuan looked down on her and planned to never touch another girl in his life.
I think this girl is pretty good. Before she got married, she seemed naive, but after she got married and became the head of her own household, she felt completely different.
"I think it's okay. When Deputy Captain Lu went out on a mission, Miss Su stayed in her room all day except for going to the cafeteria to get food.
"Getting married and starting a family, getting married and starting a family, that's absolutely right. Look, she's finally come to her senses now and even knows to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables."
"Yeah yeah."
He Nini's aunt Wang Chunhua saw everyone praising Su Yan so much, she curled her lips and smiled contemptuously, "She can also dig wild vegetables?
I went to my daughter's house at 7 o'clock and asked her to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables together. As a result, her husband said that she was tired and had to take a day off today.
Can people who do nothing get tired?
Tsk! This little vixen must have been sucking the essence of her man all night last night. Now she can't even eat enough, damn it, she still has the mind to do those things.
Fang Lian, Li Xiu'e and He Xiaolan looked at each other in bewilderment when they heard Wang Chunhua say this, not knowing what to say.
Su Yan didn't know that He Nini's aunt would be so gossipy. If she knew she would say that, given Su Yan's temper, she would definitely spit bullshit at her.
It took Su Yan almost ten minutes of walking to reach the foot of Tiger Ridge.
After working like this today, the foxtail grass on the roadside turned yellow and I didn't know what was good to dig.
Going further up, I saw a field of withered yellow ferns. These are good things, so why doesn’t anyone dig them up?
"Miss Su, why are you standing still? Ferns sprout in spring but die in summer."
"It's Uncle Liao. What are you going up the mountain to dig? Why did you even bring the hoe from home?"
"My little Mao found a kudzu vine as thick as his arm on the mountain. He couldn't use his little rake to dig it up, so he asked me to carry a hoe to dig it up."
If the kudzu vine is as thick as an arm, the kudzu roots below should be as strong as a tree trunk. Even if you have 400 kilograms of old kudzu roots, you can only make a few kilograms of kudzu powder.
"Uncle Liao, in spring, we eat the young shoots of bracken. In summer and autumn, when the bracken dies, it's a good time to dig up its roots. Fern roots also have starch, and they're no less starchy than kudzu root."
“Fern roots also have starch?”
Su Yan nodded, squatted down, and started digging the dead grass on the ground with her small rake.
After digging and digging, I finally dug out a few thin roots.
She picked up a fern root from the ground, twisted it hard, pointed at the white part of the cross section, and said, "Uncle Liao, do you think there is starch in it?"
"You're right, there really is. It seems that these fern roots can really produce starch. The whole mountain of Girl's Mountain is covered with withered and yellow ferns, so we should be able to dig up a lot of fern roots."
"Well, there are indeed a lot of fern roots. Uncle Liao, you can go get the kudzu root that Brother Xiaomao found first, and then come back to dig fern roots when you have time."
Su Yan was not interested in fern roots. They were difficult to dig. After digging, they had to be washed one by one, pounded, and then rinsed with water to filter the pulp. Making fern root powder was more troublesome than making kudzu root powder.
What's more, there are ready-made fern root vermicelli in the kitchen. If you want to eat it, just cook a bag and mix it with cold food. Now there is a shortage of water, and if you want to make fern root powder, you have to go to the river to wash it. It's really unnecessary to make it so troublesome.
She reminded Liao Haiyang because many people were starving to death. They had nothing to eat, so they ate tree bark, roots, and leaves, and some even ate Guanyin soil.
I don’t know how many people have died across the country, and how many are still waiting to die.
Even if the people in the military compound had food to eat, what about their relatives in the countryside? In order to save food for their families in the countryside, they took the initiative to dig wild vegetables to make do and send the food they saved back home.
Just like when several relatives of He Nini died of edema, she brought her sick grandmother to the army to live with her uncle He Dali.
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