Chapter 210 209: Decision
The two washed the Polygonatum odoratum and Ophiopogon japonicus and put them in the backpack. Zhou Huaian poked Yang Chunyan, "Boss, are you still going upstairs?"
Yang Chunyan looked up at the sky and said, "Forget it. There is still a lot of epimedium that has not been washed. I will go back after the water is drained!"
“Yes!”
The two men lifted the backpack aside and sat on a big rock to rest.
Zhou Huaian opened the kettle and took two sips, then handed it to her, "This is the easiest day today!"
"Hmm!" Yang Chunyan took it and drank two sips. "It would be nice if we had our own house in the mountains. After the busy farming season, we can go up the mountain to dig herbs and save ourselves from walking for hours on the road."
"The mountains here are all forest farms. The mountain in our village is just behind the bamboo forest where we went to carry wood last time. There are many sheep grazing there. I think there are no herbs left."
"That's right!" Yang Chunyan hung the kettle back on the backpack. "This time I went up the mountain and got a good harvest. Not only did I dig up so many things, I also collected two kinds of herbal seeds."
Zhou Huaian put his arm around her and said, "Lean on me and rest for a while!"
Yang Chunyan stiffened for a moment, leaned on his shoulder, and narrowed her eyes.
Zhou Huaian rubbed her head, leaned forward and kissed her temples, "You have to make it up to me when we get down the mountain. You cried and fell asleep last night, which made me excited for a whole day, but in the end I didn't accomplish anything. The whole night was wasted."
"Can't you just stop saying those things!" Yang Chunyan said as she pinched the soft flesh on his waist.
"Hiss~ Evil woman, wait and see how I teach you a lesson." Zhou Huaian rubbed the place where she pinched him, held her head with both hands, and kissed her.
After a while, Zhou Huaian finally let go of her hand and looked at her red lips. "Next time you pinch me, I'll kiss you."
"Baoqi!" Yang Chunyan pushed him away breathlessly, touched her slightly swollen lips, and pinched him angrily, "Yiding should be able to see it when we get back."
Zhou Huaian rubbed his thigh with a grin, looking at her guiltily, "It's okay, I can't tell, and it shouldn't be red when I get home."
"I don't want to bother with you!" Yang Chunyan stood up and said, "Let's go. If we don't go back now, it will be too late to cook."
Zhou Huaian also stood up, "I'll carry the basket of Asparagus cochinchinensis and Polygonatum odoratum, and you carry the Polygonum multiflorum vine."
"Yes!" The two took turns helping to carry the backpack. Zhou Huaian put on his gun, and they walked back together, leaning on the medicine hoe.
When they returned to the forest farm, Dahei and Dahuang were lying on the eaves of the steps, and when they saw the two men, they lay down again.
Zhou Yiding had already peeled the bamboo shoots. Seeing the two men coming back with two full baskets, he said, "What luck! They got so many again."
Zhou Huaian said smugly, "Of course, don't you see who I am?"
Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes and said, "You've blown the cow up to the sky, and you don't even know which one is the moldy winter melon."
Zhou Huaian helped Yang Chunyan put down the backpack, "The past is over, your brother is now in great fortune."
Zhou Yiding smiled and nodded, "We are so lucky. We can find more good stuff if we go out together!"
Yang Chunyan wiped the sweat off her face and looked at the bamboo shoots in the basket. "Were we eating bamboo shoots tonight?"
Zhou Yiding: "Yeah! We were supposed to make pork intestines and bamboo shoots that night, but we forgot about it."
Zhou Huaian looked at his legs and said with a smile: "Fortunately, I stewed the pig's trotters to cure the disease."
Zhou Yiding glared at him and said, "I'll deal with you after my leg is healed."
Yang Chunyan smiled as she watched the two bickering, "Huaian, spread out the asparagus and polygonatum to cool down the water vapor, I'll go get the pig intestines."
The last time she went to the cave, she felt that it was so cozy that even in the hottest days of summer, one had to wear cotton clothes when going in. It was like a natural refrigerator, one that didn’t need electricity!
Zhou Yiding said hurriedly, "Sister-in-law, my husband also bought some big bones. If you want to eat them, you can use them to stew radishes."
Yang Chunyan came out with the key and said, "No need. We haven't finished the pig's trotter soup from lunch yet. I'll just chop some cabbage and cook it to make the soup."
"Okay, you arrange it!"
Zhou Huaian spread out the asparagus and polygonatum to dry, and put the epimedium into the backpack, "Yiding, it's been a few days, have you thought about it, whether to confirm the relationship with the chili pepper."
Zhou Yiding nodded, "Let's look around! When my leg is healed, we'll go down the mountain together and I'll go find my third sister."
Zhou Huaian looked at him, "Have you decided?"
“It’s decided!”
"It's good that you've made up your mind!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "To be honest, I think Chao Tianjiao has a good personality. At least she's not like those girls on the team who cry at every turn."
"Didn't you always say that she doesn't look like a girl, but more like a boy?"
"You said it, I didn't say it!"
"Damn it, when I think about how she looked at my bare bottom without batting an eyelid when we were kids, I feel like she was targeting me back then."
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and said, "It's just a caterpillar hanging on a green hook (butt), what's the point of looking at it!"
Zhou Yiding glanced at him and said, "You have something to see, birds are flying all over the sky!"
"Haha..." The two recalled the time when they used to fish in the ditch together when they were young. They looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
The one lying down looked at the two of them in surprise, Dahei and Dahuang, not understanding what they were so happy about, and lay down again.
Yang Chunyan came back carrying the pig intestines. Seeing the two of them laughing so hard, she shook her head and carried the pig intestines into the kitchen.
Zhou Mu had washed the pig intestines and blanched them, then washed them again with warm water, and then started cutting the bamboo shoots and blanching them.
This kind of bamboo shoots will taste bitter if you don't blanch them. After blanching, rinse them in cold water for a while and the bitterness will disappear.
Zhou Huaian packed the epimedium, put it on his back and said to Yang Chunyan, "Yiding and I are going to the ditch to wash the herbs."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan went out with a colander and a kitchen knife to chop cabbage. Seeing that the basket containing the Polygonum multiflorum vine had not been taken out yet, she thought of the black thing.
She put down the basket and kitchen knife, walked forward to take out the golden thread vine and put it in the vegetable basket, then took out the Polygonum multiflorum vine and spread it out on the eaves, with the black thing and two pieces of Polygonum multiflorum placed underneath.
As soon as I finished holding the Polygonum multiflorum vine, I smelled a faint fragrance. I shook my head, feeling that my knowledge was ultimately too shallow.
Yang Chunyan put the black thing and two pieces of Polygonum multiflorum into a sack, put it on the cabinet beside the bed, turned around and went out to the vegetable garden with a kitchen knife and a basket.
I found a cored cabbage and chopped it, picked a handful of coriander, a handful of green onions, and a handful of chili peppers, went back to filter out the bamboo shoots that had been soaked for a while, washed them twice, and started cooking.
When I opened the rice jar, I saw it was full of white rice. It seemed that it was what Uncle Daqing brought up the mountain this time.
After thinking about it, Yang Chunyan scooped some corn crumbs from the bag, washed them together, and put them into the pot.
Just as the rice pot was boiling, I heard someone outside calling Zhou Yiding, and I heard Dahuang barking twice on the eaves. When I looked carefully, it sounded a bit like Cai Ermei's voice.
Yang Chunyan walked out and saw that it was indeed him. She glanced at him indifferently and said, "Yiding went to the ditch." Then she turned around and went into the yard.
Cai Ermei looked at her in surprise, thinking that this trip was in vain.
(End of this chapter)
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