As the sun set, the four old ladies finally wandered back to the Mule Hutong tenement.
From a distance, I saw Li Anyuan peeking out the door. When he saw his grandmother coming back, he turned around and ran into the yard: "Grandma is back! She's carrying a lot of grass!"
Everyone who works or goes to school at home has returned and is waiting for the old lady to come home for dinner.
Li Mingyu and Li Mingli ran out upon hearing the noise and hurriedly took the backpack from Li Guifang.
Li Mingyu pulled away the grass on top of the basket and saw so many thorn balls inside. He looked disgusted and said, "Mom, why did you carry so many weeds all the way back?"
"What do you know? This thing is called chestnut, you country bumpkin."
Li Mingli answered Li Mingyu's question and rolled her eyes at him.
He picked up the "green bag" wrapped in banana leaves and swung it. With a "crash", the bag broke and the thorny triangles inside rolled all over the floor.
Several people exclaimed!
Li Jianghai ran out in his Liberation shoes, and Wu Xiaomei rushed to the yard without even putting down the water scoop.
Li Anyuan saw something strange on the ground and asked curiously, "Grandma, what is this?"
Li Jianghai squinted his eyes and took a look: "Oh, it's chestnuts!"
But when he turned around and saw those triangular nuts, he was in trouble again, "Well..." As he said this, he turned his head and looked at Li Guifang eagerly!
"You are such a shallow-minded person!" Li Guifang brushed off the grass debris on her body and began to show off her knowledge. "This
The triangular ones are beech nuts, they're not ripe yet. Let them air dry for a few days, then peel off the shells and you'll see what you've seen. These chestnuts will still be soft and sticky after being exposed to the sun!"
Wow! Great stuff!
As a result, everyone became more curious about what was in the backpack at the back, and Li Mingyu couldn't wait to turn the backpack upside down!
First, a bunch of thorn balls came out with a rustling sound, then two wilted grasses, and then a bunch of mushrooms and black rakes.
"That's it?" Li Mingyu continued to shake the backpack without giving up, and he would not stop until he could shake out nothing!
Li Mingyu looked at the henpecked man curiously and reached out to touch him...
"Ah!" He retracted his hand suddenly, his face changed, "What the hell is this! It's like touching..." Before he finished speaking, the pieces of black fungus had been thrown to the kitchen door.
He felt so sick after touching the soft and sticky thing!
"Pa! Pa!" Li Guifang slapped Li Mingyu twice, "You spendthrift! Why are you throwing it away? This is a good thing!" She glared at Li Mingyu with a face full of blame.
"What? Mom, your eyes are blurry. You think this piece of wooden snot is a treasure!" Li Mingyu covered his red face and retorted stubbornly.
Li Guifang was so angry that her face turned red. She directly grabbed Li Mingyu's ear and said, "You are the one with a snotty nose. You are a snotty person!
"You bastard, are you going to die? How dare you curse your mother? Eat this tomorrow, and if you have the guts, don't come back to eat it!" As he spoke, his voice became a little louder.
"If you don't want to eat it, then don't eat it. It's not meat, who cares?" Li Mingyu didn't care. Humph! That's it, and you're still trying to scare him!
His mother even beat him, and the fourth young master was so angry that he couldn't be appeased without a pound of braised pork!
Wu Xiaomei didn't have time to pay attention to Li Mingyu's "one-man show", and quickly squatted down to follow Li Guifang to pick up the scattered wood ears.
She said distressedly: "This is a good thing! The supply and marketing cooperatives in the city don't often have fresh ones!" She sighed as she picked them up.
Things are in short supply in the supply and marketing cooperatives now. Not to mention fresh wood ear mushrooms, even dried ones are rarely found.
Even if I saw it, I would not be willing to buy it. Dried black fungus is sold at the price of mountain products. Would you be willing to buy it?
Li Guifang looked directly at Wu Xiaomei and blinked her starry eyes, finally there was someone who understood.
Li Jianghai saw that the old woman treated these things as treasures, and he was very considerate. He ran to get the dustpan and prepared to help clean up.
Li Mingli was sharp-eyed. She saw the two grasses wrapped in newspaper and mud, squatted down and poked them: "Mom, what are these? And why are they wrapped so well?"
She tore off a bit of newspaper and said with a pout, "It's just weeds, why are you using newspaper?"
She was grumbling in her heart, paper costs money these days, and you have to go to the scrap yard to buy a few newspapers. If you don't talk sweetly, the old man at the scrap yard won't give them to you! And using it to wrap weeds is really a luxury!
Li Guifang snatched it away, rewrapped it, and shouted, "I brought it back because I liked it. It's just like the wild flowers you dug last time."
She paused, her tone softening. "Plant it in the southwest corner. Maybe it'll bloom in a while."
These words left Li Mingli speechless. What she brought back were flowers. How could they be the same as this grass?
“What? What I brought back are flowers!” Although her flowers were half dead, they were still flowers when she brought them back!!!
Li Mingyu was so happy when he saw his little sister was also jumping up and down!
Rubbing his red ears and pouting his lips, he started to show off, "Mom, I'm not saying anything bad about you, you just have nothing to do!"
You pick up wood, snot, and grass. If you think it's novel, just pick some and bring them back to see for yourself. But why do you pick up so many things? Don't you think it's tiring to carry them?
Besides, in this weather, even if you take something out of the water and leave it for two days, it will go bad, let alone these!"
He has seen all kinds of food in the restaurant cafeteria, and he dares to guarantee that even his chef doesn't know how to eat this wooden snot!
He became more and more angry and kicked the thorn ball at his feet. "Chestnuts can be dried, but why bother with these weeds and flowers?"
They were still waiting for her to eat at home! He was already hungry after running around in the kitchen!
Li Guifang didn't bother to pay attention to him and pulled Wu Xiaomei to start packing up the spoils.
A basket of chestnuts and mushrooms were spread out to dry, and the wood ear mushrooms were spread on a bamboo sieve under the eaves for ventilation. As for the two Clivia plants.
She personally carried the chicken to the southwest corner, dug a hole, planted it, and pulled out all the extra weeds. She was determined not to waste the chicken manure!
After doing all this, he even circled around the broken tiles for fear of being pecked by chickens.
Li Minghua shouted from the kitchen: "Mom, it's time for dinner!"
Li Guifang said without even turning her head: "You guys eat first!"
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