Chapter 471 Leek Box 3

Feng Qingxue is a skilled cook and is generous with the oil, salt and seasonings, making the dish particularly delicious. Wang Jiao ate two in one go.

The chive dumplings made of white flour are round and about six inches in diameter.

With corn grits porridge, Wang Cuilan, Chen Xuenniang and Feng Qingxue felt full after eating one each. The children only ate half, and only Lu Tianjun, who was still growing, ate one and a half.

"It's so delicious!" Wang Jiao patted her belly with satisfaction.

Feng Qingxue and a few others went to pick wild vegetables, and she also followed with Goudan on her back and a bamboo basket to join in the fun.

After lunch, Lu Tianjun went to work on the two thousand acres of land. Lu Tianzhi and Guan Yu also followed him. Although they were not very old, they could help put the peanut seeds in the dug pits or help plant the sweet potato seedlings in the pits. Other children of their age went to work, and they were worried that Feng Qingyun and Song Gang would stay at home.

So Feng Qingyun and Song Gang took Xibao and followed Feng Qingxue and her mother into the wild.

The mountains and fields are vast and open, and the wind blowing on the face does not feel biting but gentle, making people's minds clear and their hearts broad.

It rained two days ago, and the weeds grew wildly, with wild vegetables growing lush and green among them.

There were a few children of medium age digging wild vegetables all over the mountains and fields, and there were almost no adults to be seen.

"Both dandelions and toad grass are anti-inflammatory and relatively common." Feng Qingxue taught Chen Xueniang to identify wild vegetables, and only taught her to identify these two. "Dig some and bring them back to make steamed buns or soup. They're pretty good, but they taste a bit bitter. It's already April in the Gregorian calendar, and the shepherd's purse has already bloomed. It's too old to be tasty anymore."

However, some people still dig up old wild shepherd's purse because of food shortage.

Even though the living standard in Wanglou Brigade was higher than that in the surrounding areas, the hungry people were still desperately trying to store food and dig wild vegetables. They didn't want to be caught in a situation in the future where there was a large-scale harvest failure and they couldn't even dig up wild vegetables and grass roots.

Chen Xuenniang had an idea and quickened the pace of digging wild vegetables, only digging the dandelions and toad grass that she was familiar with.

Seeing that she was pretty, Wang Jiao couldn't help but move closer to her. "Don't you city people eat commercial grains and vegetables bought from the grocery store? Wild vegetables are nothing special. They are very bitter."

Chen Xuenniang smiled and said, "The grains and vegetables we eat are all grown by you. The state monopolizes the purchase and sale. In winter, we have radishes and cabbages, in spring, we have spinach and green vegetables, and in summer, we have loofah, eggplant and beans. But wild vegetables are not very common." They can only be seen on the black market, and the country people sell them to the city people to try. After all, there are very few of them. Food is more important.

Wang Jiao said, "There are two Chinese toon trees in the private plot behind my house. You can pick some Chinese toon buds when you leave. My mother-in-law went to work this morning and didn't have time to pick them. You can mix them with tofu when you go back. They are delicious! But the tofu is not cheap, eight cents a pound!"

Chen Xuenniang was stunned, then thanked him.

Although toon sprouts have a strong taste, Wang Cuilan and Chen Xuenniang like to eat them. They dug a basket of wild vegetables and went to Wang Jiao's house with her to pick a lot of toon sprouts. Wang Jiao also helped them tie them up with straw and stacked the bundles on top of the wild vegetables in the basket.

Although each person only picked two bundles, they were all grateful for Wang Jiao's generosity.

"Qingxue, your cousin is a nice person!" Wang Cuilan said on the way back in the afternoon, and Chen Xuenniang echoed her.

Feng Qingxue found it very funny and didn't tell them that Wang Jiao actually didn't like to eat toon sprouts and couldn't stand the taste of them. She probably felt dizzy from the smell of toon sprouts her mother-in-law mixed with them every day, so she was generous to them.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

(End of this chapter)