After unloading the coal, Zhou Huaishan took two buns and set off again.
Several children went to the vegetable garden and picked green peppers, pinched fennel, cut leeks, and cut some saplings of Swiss chard.
Swiss chard is tender and juicy. In addition to being used as feed for pigs, chickens, ducks, geese and other livestock, it can also be used as food.
Its taste: sweet, cold, non-toxic. It is also rich in vitamin C, reducing sugar, calcium, iron, potassium, crude protein, cellulose and other trace elements, which are beneficial to human health and have the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding.
Swiss chard contains oxalic acid, which combines with calcium in food to form calcium oxalate, which is not conducive to calcium absorption. People with fractures and osteoporosis should not eat it.
After boiling and raking the Swiss chard, rinse it with water, squeeze out the water and stir-fry it with sour chili peppers, pickled ginger and fennel, scrambled eggs with leeks, and stir-fried meat with green chili peppers. Yang Chunyan also made a sour cabbage vermicelli soup.
The food was brought to the table and everyone gathered together to eat and talk.
Zhou Jiakang ate a piece of greasy meat and said, "It's delicious, not greasy at all!"
Zhou Xiaowen nodded, "I think fried pork is the most delicious meat."
Zhou Xiaoqian ate a piece and said, "Aunt, there are so many people on the mountain. If we don't teach them to recognize red mushrooms, my grandfather and grandma will be able to fill their baskets."
Mother Zhou nodded, "Some of the things that no one wanted in previous years are everywhere in the forest!"
Father Zhou continued, "Your eldest and second sister-in-law should be back soon. Tell them that they need to be careful when picking the red mushrooms today. It will be troublesome if they put poisonous red mushrooms in."
"Remember!" Yang Chunyan said to Zhou's mother, "Mom, go call a few aunts later and ask them to come over at three o'clock."
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "No need to shout, I've already told them."
As they were talking, everyone had finished their meal. The old man put down his bowl and went to clean up the red mushrooms. Zhou's father followed him out.
Zhou Jiaming and his friends leaned on bamboo chairs with bulging bellies, "The food cooked by Auntie and my grandma is still the best. We are all full."
Zhou's mother smiled and clapped everyone. "You little slick-talkers, you all learned this from your father. You always say that wherever you eat is good!"
Zhou Jiakang: "No, it's really delicious because of what you and Aunt Yao made!"
Yang Chunyan cleaned up the pots and bowls, fed Xiao Jiuer, and wanted to go to the big pit in the back mountain to see if there were any red mushrooms. So she gave the child to Zhou's mother, put on boots, carried a backpack, and set off towards the back mountain with a hoe and a machete.
As soon as we got to the top of the mountain, we saw Zhou Jiaming and his friends holding slingshots and preparing to go to the woods to shoot birds. "Where are you going, Auntie?"
Yang Chunyan stroked Zhou Jiakang and said, "Let's go to the big pit and see if there are any red mushrooms!"
"It's a big pit!" Zhou Jiaming and others followed, "We want to go too!"
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan said, "You can go! But you have to listen to instructions and don't run around. It will be troublesome if you get bit by Laosuo."
"Yeah!" Several children nodded rapidly.
Zhou Xiaowen said softly, "Aunt, my grandma said that Laosuo likes to stay in the shade these days, and he has to knock it with a stick before walking through the woods and grass."
Zhou Jialiang shouted: "I know, this is called stirring up trouble!"
"Show off!" Zhou Jiaming untied the rope tied to the fence and walked down the path dug by Zhou Huaian. "Dad will harden this place with cement someday."
Zhou Jialiang took a look and said, "If it hardens all the way down, we can use it as a tamarisk board."
Zhou Xiaoqian said: "It will cost a lot of money to pave it with cement at such a high place!"
Zhou Jiakang immediately agreed, "That's right, it's better to use it to buy delicious food!"
Yang Chunyan listened to the children talking excitedly and looked at the increasingly green pit. She thought this place was really nice. If a farm stay was built here, it would definitely be a good gimmick to attract people.
"Oh my god!" Zhou Jiaming shouted exaggeratedly, pointing to the big rock in the southeast, "Look, my dad even put a beehive in the big pit!"
"Where is it?" Several children came over.
Zhou Jiaming: "Look, the one with banana leaves covering the rock above is it."
"Let me see!" Zhou Jialiang squeezed forward and was bumped by Zhou Jiakang who squeezed forward from behind, and then he bumped into Zhou Jiaming.
"Ah~ah~" Zhou Jiaming shook and screamed. Yang Chunyan grabbed Zhou Jialiang but failed to catch him, and watched him slide down the slope.
"Brother~" several children shouted.
Yang Chunyan saw that it was only a few meters from the top of the slope to the bottom. Fortunately, there were no rocks and there were many fallen leaves below. She chased down while shouting, "Jia Ming, quickly hold on to that wild peach tree below!"
Zhou Jiaming also saw the wild peach tree and quickly hugged it.
"Jiaming, are you injured anywhere?" Yang Chunyan also chased after him and hurried forward to check if he was injured. "Are you hurt anywhere?"
Zhou Jiaming moved his arm and saw some scratches on his elbow. "It's just the skin that's rubbed off. There's no pain anywhere else."
Yang Chunyan pinched his hands and feet, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he had no broken bones or scratches. "Next time, don't talk while standing on a slope."
Zhou Jiaming stood up and said, "Aunt, I'm fine. I'll just take the shuttle bus."
At this time, Zhou Jialiang and others also rushed over, "Brother, are you okay?"
Zhou Jiaming waved his hand, "It's okay, riding on the shuttle board is very comfortable, I want to do it again."
"Boasting!" Zhou Xiaowen exposed him, "The shuttle board came down by sitting down, but you clearly rolled down!"
"Haha!" Zhou Jiaming smiled and pulled her pigtails, "Little girl with sharp teeth!"
Yang Chunyan packed up her backpack and other things, looked at the peach gum on the wild peach tree, and said to the children, "Follow me and walk down slowly. Don't fall again. If you fall again, you all go back and are not allowed to follow me."
"Remember!" Zhou Xiaoqian and the other two who were picking wild sweet potatoes nearby hurriedly picked up the sweet potatoes in their hands, "Auntie, eat them, they are so sweet!"
"It looks delicious!" Yang Chunyan took one, broke it open, and took a sip. "Hmm! It's delicious. I'll pick some to take back when I go back."
The group continued to walk down. Not long after they walked a little further, Zhou Xiaoqian, who was walking in front, suddenly shouted, "Aunt, look, there are so many mushrooms down there!"
Yang Chunyan and a few others also saw it. Among the dead leaves and weeds on the slope, some were a little yellow, some were a little white, and some were bright red, pink... colorful mushrooms, like bamboo shoots after a rain.
"Hahaha, mushroom nest, we are here." Zhou Jiaming and others rushed up, shouting.
Zhou Xiaoqian spotted one, squatted down, patted it, shook it, and a big red mushroom appeared in her hand. "Aunt, this one is 5 cents a pound."
"Yes! 50 cents a pound!" Yang Chunyan picked up a pair of fat kids, "Go back and cut them into bacon and stir-fry with mushrooms to eat."
Zhou Jiakang took it and said, "Aunt, add a handful of garlic and a handful of green peppers, it will taste even better!"
Zhou Jialiang laughed and said, "Jiekang is almost a little fat boy, and he still thinks about food every day."
"Look, Auntie!" Zhou Xiaoru also held up a red mushroom with a skirt, "I picked up a beautiful red mushroom!"
"This is a poisonous red mushroom. You will be lying on the bed if you eat it!" Before Yang Chunyan could answer, Zhou Jiaming took it and threw it far away.
"I know, grandma said that!" Zhou Xiaoru thought about it and asked in confusion, "Why are those with skirts all toadstools?"
Zhou Jiaming was stunned for a moment. "How should I know? It has always looked like this. My mom said that all the beautiful mushrooms are poisonous!"
Zhou Jiakang gave a brilliant answer, "Wearing a skirt easily attracts people to look at it! My sister looks better in a skirt than in pants!"
"Hurry up and work, you're the only one who talks too much every day!" Zhou Xiaoqian picked up a piece of mud and threw it at him.
The lackey Zhou Jiakang immediately said flatteringly: "Sister, you really look good in a skirt."
Zhou Xiaoqian rolled her eyes at her talkative brother and simply ignored him and focused on picking mushrooms.
At this time, Zhou Xiaowen picked up a few mushrooms and came over, "Aunt, these red ones are not poisonous. My grandma said they are cluster mushrooms and they taste good when fried."
Yang Chunyan picked up a red mushroom and put it in the basket, then looked up at the brown-red mushrooms in her backpack.
I found out it was indeed a mushroom. "Yes, it's not poisonous! This is good. I'll pick it up and kill a chicken to stew it. It will make your tongue delicious."
She remembered that after the millennium, it was rare to pick up bush mushrooms in the forest. When they were expensive, the price was almost the same as that of chicken mushrooms, and they were hard to find.
Cluster mushroom, also known as insect mushroom, tree (cluster) mushroom, pine mushroom, pine hair mushroom, rivet mushroom. It has very high nutritional value and has the effects of anti-cancer, beauty, anti-aging, and improving human resistance.
It usually grows under pine forests. It looks like a small umbrella and comes in two colors, one is orange-red and the other is a little purple. It is about the same size as shiitake mushrooms.
Because it is a species of fungus that coexists with pine tree roots, it cannot be cultivated artificially, and it will deteriorate one day after being picked. Whether it is dried or frozen, its rich and fresh fragrance will be greatly reduced, so it is difficult to preserve and the price is high.
Zhou Jiakang swallowed his saliva and said, "Chicken stewed with mushrooms, bacon fried with big-foot mushrooms, I want to eat three bowls of rice tonight."
Yang Chunyan looked at the little foodie and seemed to see the chubby Zhou Jiakang again a dozen years later. She smiled and said, "Work hard and don't run around. I'll make delicious food for you tonight!"
"Okay!" Several children started to work seriously. Every time they picked up a red mushroom of excellent quality, they would exclaim and bring it back happily to put it in the basket.
Yang Chunyan found a few more red mushrooms, pinched the stems and shook them left and right, applying a little force, and a red mushroom of excellent quality went into the basket. She also picked up a few chicken mushrooms whose caps had already grown.
She thought that maybe few people came here, so the fungi inside were not destroyed, so the fungi grew so well. Seeing the low pine trees in front, she thought that the soil layer underneath might not be thick, otherwise why there were no big trees in the big pit?
I was thinking I’d have to come and see it when I dig for truffles, and I thought there were truffles in here too.
At this time, she saw several black-stalked carbonaria that looked like sheep horns in front of her, and walked over excitedly. When she got closer, she found that there were quite a few of them.
"There must be black ginseng underneath!"
She muttered to herself, and turned her head to look at the hillside that seemed to have entered the mushroom cultivation base. She thought that there were still many mushrooms that had not been picked up. She looked at the location and planned to go back and ask Zhou Huaian to dig them. (End of this chapter)
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