Scrape off the fish scales, then evenly coat it with salt and hang it under the eaves to air dry. Once it's half-dry, bring it inside to prevent it from being stolen.
"Okay, sister-in-law, let's go see what the chicks are doing."
Wu Lei told his sister to go check what the chicks were doing while he went to pour some hot water.
Half an hour later, the bone broth was ready. Wei Yuyan ladled out three bowls and put them on the table to cool. Then she started to stir-fry the pork liver. She just stir-fried the pork liver for a couple of seconds and it was done.
"Kids, come and have some soup."
When Wei Yuyan brought out the dishes, she saw the two children still standing at the entrance of the chicken coop.
"Here it is, sister-in-law, the bone broth smells so good."
Wu Lei was already drooling.
"Hmm, eat the radish first, then drink the soup, because the soup is a bit hot. The steamed buns are still steaming, so it's perfect to eat the steamed buns after drinking the soup."
After Wei Yuyan finished speaking, she picked up a piece of pig liver with her chopsticks. Hmm, the taste is not bad. A day has passed, and it hasn't changed. It's slightly spicy.
"There's a little bit of meat on this bone."
Wu Qian picked a piece of meat off the big bone and put it in her mouth.
"The bone marrow of this bone is actually delicious. I'll teach you how to eat it."
Wei Yuyan picked up a bone marrow, washed it clean, put chopsticks into the bone hole, picked out some marrow and put it in her mouth. The children followed suit.
"tasty".
Wu Lei nodded in agreement.
"You love meat, next time I'll buy pork ribs to make soup for you."
Wei Yuyan felt that they still had an obsession with meat.
"Sister-in-law, this is fine. No need to buy ribs. Is this pig liver? Let me try it."
Wu Lei didn't want to waste money, as pork ribs are very expensive. He has only eaten them a few times since he was born. The last time he ate them was when his older brother got married.
I picked up a piece of pig liver, put it in my mouth, and chewed it slowly.
"How is it? Is it delicious?"
Wei Yuyan went to the kitchen and took out a few heated steamed buns.
"It's delicious, Qianqian, have a taste."
Wu Lei thought it tasted pretty good, so he picked up a piece and gave it to Qianqian.
"Come on, eat whatever you like. Drink soup if you want, and eat vegetables if you want."
Wei Yuyan gave each of them a steamed bun. They still needed to eat staple food, and eating more noodles was better than rice.
Wei Yuyan could only eat one steamed bun and couldn't eat anymore. She could drink the soup she didn't finish tomorrow morning.
Wei Yuyan fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow that night; gathering herbs was really tiring.
In the morning, Wei Yuyan woke up naturally. With such bright sunlight, she knew there was a strong sun without even going outside. As long as there was sunshine, the Panax notoginseng would dry quickly.
After getting up and getting dressed, Wu Qian was already feeding the chicks.
"Qianqian, have you had breakfast yet?"
Wei Yuyan guessed that they must have heated up the soup themselves. Was she, as an adult, being too unreliable, sleeping so late every day?
In fact, Wei Yuyan didn't sleep too late; she got up before eight o'clock every day.
The two children go to bed early and naturally wake up early in the morning. Since there's nothing to do, they quickly get up.
"Sister-in-law, we drank bone broth and ate steamed buns."
Wu Qian replied that she was continuing to feed the chicks.
"good".
Wei Yuyan fetched water to wash up.
"Sister-in-law, what's this called? I saw it yesterday, but I didn't know it was a medicinal herb. If I had known, I would have dug it up."
Wu Lei looked at the dendrobiums drying in the winnowing basket. He hadn't looked closely yesterday, but upon closer inspection, he realized that he had seen them on the mountain yesterday.
"This is called Dendrobium, which is also a kind of medicinal herb, but I don't know if pharmacies will accept it. I'll have to ask in town next time."
Wei Yuyan explained patiently.
"Oh, I see."
Wu Lei nodded, secretly praying that the clinic would accept this medicinal herb, so that he could make a lot of money.
Wei Yuyan went to the kitchen, where there was a bowl of soup and a steamed bun on the stove, which the children had left for her.
"Xiao Lei, Qian Qian, your sister-in-law wants to give you a task."
Wei Yuyan remembered that the paddy fields needed fertilizer.
"Sister-in-law, just tell us, we'll definitely do our best to complete it."
Wu Lei and Wu Qian quickly ran over to listen.
"The reason why our paddy fields produce so little rice is because they lack nutrients. The nutrients they need are chicken manure and cow manure."
So, my sister-in-law needs a lot of chicken and cow manure. Where do you think she should get it from?
Wei Yuyan decided to dig a composting pit, and decided to dig it behind the kitchen, because there was a ditch behind the kitchen, and the mud in the ditch was very fertile.
"I know, there's a lot of chicken droppings in Little Fatty's chicken coop, and Grandpa Niu's cow pen must have cow droppings too. I'll go and carry some back for you."
After saying that, Wu Lei planned to carry the basket on his back.
"Hey, wait a minute, Xiao Lei, do you think Little Fatty would be willing to give you chicken manure?"
Wei Yuyan didn't know if Xiao Pang was his good friend, so she thought it best to ask first.
“Of course he’d like to. If I offered to clean their chicken coop for free, they’d be overjoyed.”
Wu Lei thinks no one would disagree.
"Okay, then you can go to Little Fatty's house to shovel. Qianqian, do you want to go with your brother or your sister-in-law?"
Wei Yuyan patiently combed Wu Qian's hair.
"I want to follow my sister-in-law, even though chicken manure is smelly."
When Wu Qian heard that it was going to be chicken or cow manure, she thought it smelled terrible and refused.
"You don't know anything."
Wu Lei changed into an old jacket. His sister was right; chicken manure and mud from the chicken coop certainly smelled terrible, but he didn't want to admit it.
"Hahaha".
Wei Yuyan was amused by the bickering between the two children.
"Xiao Lei, ask your friend Xiao Pang to help you out. Tell him you'll treat him to fried pork cracklings for lunch."
Wei Yuyan believed in the allure of pork cracklings; who wouldn't love them?
"good".
Wu Lei slipped away like the wind.
"Qianqian, your sister-in-law has gone to work. Go to the backyard and help pick out any bad vegetable leaves so the chicks can eat them later."
Wei Yuyan put the bowls and chopsticks in the kitchen, then picked up a hoe and went to the back of the kitchen to start digging a compost pit, which didn't need to be too big.
It only needed to be about the size of a square table. After digging it out, before I could even catch my breath, Wu Lei came back.
"Sister-in-law, I'm back. Is this enough for you?"
Wu Lei carried a basket that was more than half full of mud, which smelled foul, so it must have been mud from the chicken coop.
There was a chubby boy following behind, about the same height as Wu Lei; he must be Xiao Pang.
"Okay, pour it in. This is Little Fatty, right?"
Wei Yuyan took the initiative to greet Xiao Pang.
"Hello, sister-in-law, is it true that Wu Lei said there will be pork cracklings for lunch?"
Little Fatty asked with a smile, "If it weren't for the delicious fried pork cracklings, why would I have endured the humiliation of shoveling chicken manure?"
"Yes, it's true."
Wei Yuyan nodded.
"Little Fatty, we still need to shovel cow dung before we can eat. Let's go."
Wu Lei took Xiao Pang to Grandpa Niu's house, while Wei Yuyan used a hoe to dig up the silt from the stinky ditch and put it on top of the chicken manure mud.
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