Chapter 64 Raising Pigs and Rabbits
Horsetail, shepherd's purse, wild chrysanthemum...
Liu Yinyin bought all kinds of seeds, mixed them together and scattered them around, and the wild vegetables were very tenacious.
Even though it's not taken care of, it should still grow a little.
Otherwise, we should sow some seeds. Liu Yinyin brings the children to dig wild vegetables every day. I am afraid that it won’t be long before all the vegetables in the nearby mountains are dug out by them.
When the children had finished digging wild vegetables, Liu Yinyin led them down the mountain.
The children dug up different amounts of wild vegetables, and Liu Yinyin did not set a specific amount. Since there were so many people, they could just give a little to each person and the total amount would be quite large.
After handing over the wild vegetables, they were allowed to go back.
"Zhizhi, please help me look after Yanyan." Liu Yinyin stuffed two big shrimp cakes into Liu Zhizhi's mouth and asked her to help look after her son.
"Yeah!" Liu Zhizhi nodded heavily. She loved doing this job. It was just to accompany her cousin. Her aunt would always give her some snacks, either biscuits or candies.
She can also have a full meal at her aunt's house from time to time. Liu Zhizhi feels so happy. If her aunt's house had no place to live, she would not want to go home.
Fortunately, Mrs. Liu didn't know what her young lady was thinking, otherwise she would have scolded her for being ungrateful for giving up even her own parents just for a little food.
Liu Yinyin went into the kitchen, scooped up two bowls of flour, kneaded it into dough and put it in a basin to ferment.
Then I went to deal with the wild vegetables. Twenty-two baskets of wild vegetables were dumped in the yard. It looked like a lot, probably about fifty or sixty kilograms.
The children handled the wild vegetables very cleanly and there were no weeds.
Liu Yinyin grabbed some wild vegetables and threw them to the chickens and rabbits.
There was no need to wash the rest. I took out a few winnowing baskets from the utility room and spread the wild vegetables directly on the winnowing baskets to dry.
That’s right, Liu Yinyin plans to stock up more dried wild vegetables.
She picked out some fresh shepherd's purse as she wanted to eat buns stuffed with shepherd's purse and eggs in the evening.
Wash and blanch the shepherd's purse, chop it into small pieces, add the fried eggs, add some salt, chicken essence, oyster sauce, thirteen spices and sesame oil, mix well......
Liu Yinyin made a total of twelve fist-sized buns and cooked a bowl of mushroom soup. She didn’t need to prepare any other dishes and could just eat the food from the cafeteria.
Just after finishing dinner, Gu Cheng came back on his bike and helped her get food from the cafeteria.
"Uncle." Liu Zhizhi called shyly. She was a little afraid of this tall uncle.
Gu Cheng responded, put down his lunch box and went to wash his hands.
Seeing that Gu Yanyan's mouth was covered with saliva in the crib, she simply picked up her son and went to clean him up.
Liu Zhizhi said hello and ran away quickly.
"Let's eat first." Liu Yinyin saw Gu Cheng coming in with his son in his arms and put the food he got from the cafeteria on the table.
Two wild vegetable nests, cabbage stewed with vermicelli, and pickled cabbage fried with bamboo shoots.
It's the busy farming season, and the meals in the cafeteria are richer than usual. After all, only when you're full can you have the energy to work, right?
The more you work, the hungrier you get. Liu Yinyin has been busy all day and her stomach is growling with hunger.
Gu Cheng sat down with his son in his arms. He glanced at Liu Yinyin and saw that she looked fine. He asked, "How was your day?"
He really underestimated his wife. He didn't expect that she could manage a school by herself. Although there are not many students, this is not something that just anyone can do.
"It's okay, but I'm a little tired at the beginning." Liu Yinyin picked up a piece of cabbage. When you are hungry, everything tastes delicious.
Although I was a little tired, the day was quite fulfilling.
"Don't force yourself if you can't handle it." Gu Cheng felt that it was really hard for Liu Yinyin to take care of the children and attend classes at the same time.
"It will be fine in two days. It's nothing. It's much easier than working in the fields for a whole day." Liu Yinyin smiled and suddenly thought of something. She said to Gu Cheng, "You have done me a big favor today."
"Me?" Gu Cheng was slightly stunned, a little confused for a moment, "What does this have to do with me?"
Liu Yinyin told him about arranging Liu Dazhuang as the squad leader, and said with a smile: "When you have time later, take him to the mountains for a walk. If possible, catch a pheasant or a rabbit for him."
She didn't say anything about the little brat who was small in stature but had a big mouth and wanted to hunt wild boars.
This was just a small matter for Gu Cheng, so he casually asked her, "What about you? Do you want to go?"
Liu Yinyin paused while picking up vegetables, her eyes lit up and she said, "You want to take me hunting with you?"
Gu Cheng said nonchalantly, "You can go together if you want."
In fact, he would rather go alone with his wife.
Liu Yinyin nodded without hesitation: "Of course I thought about it!"
She's not too interested in hunting, but she loves picking mushrooms. Wild mushrooms are definitely one of her favorite foods, and one she never gets tired of.
It’s delicious for stir-frying and making soup, and the leftovers can be dried in the sun, so of course you have to stock up.
If you go further, you will definitely find more wild mushrooms in the mountains, maybe even spring bamboo shoots and bamboo fungus!
Gu Chengcheng said, "Then let's go together."
Maybe she was really hungry, Liu Yinyin ate three shepherd's purse and egg buns for the first time, drank a bowl of mushroom soup, and ate a lot of vegetables as well.
Gu Cheng also ate three steamed buns and two wild vegetable dumplings.
There are six shepherd's purse and egg buns left. The weather is not too hot now, and the family has dug a well.
The buns hung in the well can be saved for tomorrow morning, and then you can make some egg porridge for breakfast.
Now that we both have to go to work, we have a simple breakfast.
It is convenient to have a well at home, so we can take a shower directly in the yard at night.
After taking a shower and returning to the room, when I was distracted by doing this and that with my wife, Liu Yinyin was already so tired that she fell asleep on the bed.
Gu Cheng: “…”
The next day, Liu Yinyin had two classes in the morning and went home before ten o'clock.
After arriving home, before I could even sit down, Jiang Cuihua came in a hurry.
"Yinyin, there are piglets in the village. If you want to raise one, hurry up and buy one, or else all the good ones will be picked up."
After saying that, without waiting for the girl to reply, he said, "Forget it, just give me the money and I'll help you choose."
Anyway, the girl doesn't know how to choose piglets.
Liu Yinyin went to get the money.
Jiang Cuihua came and went in a hurry.
Liu Yinyin was very happy thinking that there would be two little piglets at home soon, so she took a broom and cleaned the pigpen.
When we decided to raise pigs, we built a chicken coop next to it and left the pig pen empty.
The rabbits were raised among the miscellaneous items, and Gu Cheng specially built a row of wooden cages to raise the rabbits.
Speaking of which, there is another good news. The female rabbit at home seems to be pregnant again.
The five little rabbits that were born earlier have grown quite fat after being raised for a few months, and are actually ready to eat now.
But Liu Yinyin couldn't bear to do so, because three of the five little rabbits were female and two were male.