Chapter 355 Chicken Mushroom
Around the Qingming Festival in April, Lu Miao harvested the first batch of silk cocoons this year.
She took a small basket and gave it to Chen Guifen, asking her to help save the silkworm seeds.
I slowly tinkered with the rest, rinsing it with water and opening the cotton, and saved it.
As long as you have silkworm eggs, you can keep raising them until late autumn when the mulberry leaves are completely old.
She wanted to save some money and make a quilt or something else by the end of the year.
At the end of the month, during the Grain Rain Festival, the educated youth camps have a holiday.
The aunts in the team made an appointment to go to the Hongqi Commune on the other side of the mountain to pick tea.
Tea mountains are collective property and individual picking is not allowed under normal circumstances.
Grain Rain Day is an exception, and anyone who has time in the nearby villages can go there.
It is said that the tea on this day can cure diseases, and the female educated youth are eager to try it. Ren Bingxin also comes to invite Lu Miao.
Lu Miao had to take care of the children, and she wouldn't be able to handle the tea leaves even if she picked them.
He originally didn't plan to go, but then thinking about the college entrance examination, Lu Miao nodded again.
She asked Ren Bingxin to wait while she packed up Dabao and Erbao's things and some food rations to send to the He family.
Chen Guifen happened to be at home.
She had originally planned to go and take a look at the private plot, but after listening to Lu Miao's words, she thought that Lu Miao had been taking care of the children at home and had not gone out for a walk for a long time.
Chen Guifen took the child in and told her to have fun and not to worry about the family.
Lu Miao nodded, picked up the small basket and set off with Ren Bingxin and the others.
The aunts in the team left earlier, and they followed at a distance so that they would not fall behind and it would be convenient to talk.
Lu Miao talked about reviewing.
Geng Xiaoyun has been going to the Fu family frequently recently. Although she had been there before, she had never been as frequent as she is now.
Lu Miao spoke tactfully, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Gu Ying and the others who were more perceptive understood what she meant instantly.
This was just a rumor, and a few people nodded in understanding, but did not dare to speak it out loud.
But privately, my personal emotions are different.
Gu Ying was excited and ready to give it her all.
Yang Xiaojing was overwhelmed, feeling both happy and worried.
Fortunately, the college entrance examination has finally arrived and they have hope of returning to the city.
What I am worried about is whether I can pass the exam. What if I fail?
As for Ren Bingxin.
Ren Bingxin felt a little uncomfortable.
Previously, Geng Junhao was selected by the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University without any warning, and later Geng Xiaoyun kept running to the Fu family, obviously knowing something.
When Lu Miao was sick, Geng Xiaoyun took out a wild ginseng.
That ginseng saved Lu Miao's life, so it was understandable that Lu Miao chose to tell Geng Xiaoyun first when he had the news.
Ren Bingxin knew all these things and understood the logic, but she just felt unhappy.
She couldn't help but feel calculating in her heart, even though she had a better relationship with Lu Miao...
Ren Bingxin was angry at her own meanness.
It’s not that Lu Miao didn’t tell her, it’s just that he told her a little late.
It's really wrong for her to think so much.
Ren Bingxin took a deep breath, followed the crowd, and tried to adjust her mentality.
Lu Miao didn't know what Ren Bingxin was thinking, and even if he knew, he couldn't do anything about it.
She has never been the type to take the initiative to pay for others, and she prides herself on having done this with a clear conscience.
How things develop later and what the outcome will be has little to do with her, because the initiative and right of choice are in Ren Bingxin's hands.
At first glance, tea picking seems quite new, but after learning from a group of aunts, Lu Miao tried it himself.
The conclusion was reached in less than half an hour.
This job is not suitable for her.
You have to concentrate on trivial things and stand up.
She was so lazy that she just wanted to find a place to sit down.
While picking tea, Geng Xiaoyun and her friends chatted and laughed with the local aunties.
Lu Miao said hello to them and went to find a place to sit down and rest.
When the sun just came out, she sat in the sun for a while. Later, when the sun grew bigger, she felt hot and squatted down and crawled under the tea tree.
She ran around, but didn't pick many tea leaves. However, by sheer luck, she found two clusters of chicken mushrooms that had just broken through the soil under the tea tree stump.
The chicken mushroom tends to gather in clusters and form nests. There was plenty of rain in April, so if they appeared in these two places, there must be more nearby.
Lu Miao picked up a small stick and slowly dug out two clusters of chicken mushrooms.
After digging the mushrooms, don't forget to cover them with soil and step on them twice.
There is a termite nest underneath the chicken mushroom.
As long as the termite nest below is not damaged, new ones will emerge after a while when the temperature and humidity are suitable.
I continued looking and sure enough, I found another cluster nearby.
Lu Miao's small basket was almost full, and he couldn't dig any more, so he called Geng Xiaoyun and the others over, and everyone got some.
At noon, the aunts from Hongqi Commune went back to eat, and Lu Miao and the others also went back carrying their baskets.
It took me an hour and a half to walk to this area in the morning, and then I walked back for more than an hour at noon.
Geng Xiaoyun and the others planned to go again in the afternoon, but Lu Miao waved his hand and dragged his two cloth shoes, which were covered in mud, into the He family yard, refusing to go no matter what.
Going back and forth, just walking took half her life.
He Hongjin sat in the yard, repairing farm tools and changing hoe handles with the sound of "ding-dang-dang".
Seeing her enter the yard, with mud marks all over her hands, feet and trouser legs, He Hongjin pretended to sigh and said:
"Those who know you know you went to pick tea, but those who don't know would think you dug up someone else's old tea tree!"
Lu Miao was speechless.
Like a rebellious girl, she couldn't understand the jokes of her old father, with whom she had a generation gap. Her temper was aroused and she stomped her feet into the main room.
He Hongjin sat in the yard and laughed.
They laughed at her and said she was just a little girl. She was already a mother of two children, but she was still like a little girl and hadn't grown up at all.
In the main room, Chen Guifen brought her four children, who were babbling and calling each other "brother" and "sister", making the room very lively.
"I thought you had brought your rations and would be back this afternoon."
Lu Miao shook his head, sat on the small stool and took off his heavy cloth shoes. "I really can't stay here for a moment. If I didn't know the way, I would have run back by myself."
Her white and tender feet stepped on the ground, and Chen Guifen patted her calf.
"You are young and ignorant. What season is it now? Why are you barefoot?"
Lu Miao chuckled and took the clean straw sandals handed to him by Chen Guifen and put them on.
When Dabao and Erbao saw their mother, they twisted their bodies and reached out to hug her.
Lu Miao smiled and asked them to wait, and went to the backyard to wash his hands before coming back.
With her taking care of the eldest and second child, Chen Guifen took some time to quickly make her three sugar-water eggs.
The sweet soup with the candied egg yolk has a unique taste.
Lu Miao rarely resisted and ate it all, including the egg yolk.
Chen Guifen asked her to rest here for a while and wait for Fu Jingyou to come back later, and then go back together.
Lu Miao refused, cut the chicken mushroom in half, picked up Erbao and prepared to leave.
"The chickens at home are about to lay eggs, and I'm waiting to pick them up!"
Chen Guifen glared at her angrily:
"How many days have you raised your chicken? It's already laying eggs?"
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