Chapter 237 Digging Wild Vegetables and Planting Vegetables



Half a month later, we finished planting crops in both vegetable plots at home.

Seeing that all the children in the village were picking wild vegetables everywhere, Tong Yiya also carried Yuanyuan on her back and joined the army of picking wild vegetables. In addition, some mushrooms had recently begun to grow in the mountains, and she picked them all when she saw them.

Almost a month passed like this, and Tong Yiya spent every day harvesting wild vegetables and mushrooms.

Over the past month, she has dried a lot of mushrooms. Now she doesn't dare to put the mushrooms in the space to keep them fresh. She can just take them out and eat them when she wants to.

Every time she picks mushrooms, she sorts them out, drains them, tears them open and hangs them up to dry.

There is more spring rain and the sun is not very strong, so these mushrooms are almost all dried by the kang.

After a month, all the vegetables planted in the family vegetable garden have sprouted, and those that need to be raised have grown big enough to be transplanted.

Tong Yiya was at home that day, preparing to plant the seedlings separately. She got up in the morning, made breakfast for the family, and waited for them to go out to work and dig herbs. Then Yuanyuan woke up. She prepared food for Yuanyuan and fed him, then put him in the small rocking chair under the eaves.

She changed her clothes, put on a hat, and began to shape the seedlings into balls under the sun, then dug holes and planted them one by one.

Then water them again. After about a month, when the seedlings are alive and have grown roots, you can add some farmyard manure, so that the seedlings can grow faster.

After finishing the vegetable garden in one side of the yard, it was already noon. She carried Yuanyuan and his little chair to the next door and entered the kitchen. She put Yuanyuan in a place that was sheltered from the wind and smoke, took a toy for him to play with, and went to light the stove to cook lunch.

The first person to come back after a while was Mr. Zhang who had gone to the mountain to collect herbs. He entered the kitchen and saw Yuanyuan sitting alone on a small chair playing with toys. He found a place to put down the basket on his back and said with a smile: "Our Yuanyuan is so well-behaved. She plays by herself while your mother is working."

"Master is back. Did you dig enough herbs today?" Tong Yiya asked

"It's OK. I'll take my time. There's nothing I can do if I don't have it. The captain won't say anything. Nowadays, people in the village don't keep medicine at home. If they need to get something, they come to me first and I'll prescribe medicine for them," said Mr. Zhang.

"Is that so? That's fine. Just dig some herbs. You can dig outside the mountain. Don't go deep into the mountains. It's too dangerous there," said Tong Yiya.

"Well, my old bones can't climb such a high mountain," said Zhang Lao with a smile

"Who said you are old? You are still healthy and will live for many years. You can watch our Yuanyuan get married, right?" Tong Yiya replied.

"That's great. If I can live to see Yuanyuan get married, I will be satisfied," Mr. Zhang was amused by her and replied

"He will definitely survive. You should take good care of yourself these years. If the herbs are hard to find, I will go get them for you. We clearly agreed that I would do it," Tong Yiya said.

"How can that be? I gave you money but you didn't want it. I won't take advantage of you," said Mr. Zhang.

Tong Yiya just came back and said that she would go to dig herbs as usual this year and wait for Mr. Zhang to see patients and prescribe medicine at home. However, Mr. Zhang said that he would give her half of his salary. Tong Yiya was unwilling to accept it, so Mr. Zhang said that he would go to dig herbs himself.

Tong Yiya did not want to take the money from her master, thinking that as his apprentice, it was her duty to dig some herbs for him for free. The main reason was that Mr. Zhang was not in good health. If he went to the mountains to dig herbs every day, they would worry that wild animals would attack him, or that he would accidentally fall while going up or down the mountain.

But she was unwilling to accept the money, and the old man was unwilling to take advantage of them, so he went to dig herbs himself out of spite and refused to accept the herbs that Tong Yiya brought back from digging wild vegetables.

Tong Yiya couldn't bear to see him go out early and come back late every day, so she said, "Then you can give me one-third of your salary, and I'll go dig the herbs, and you can just stay at home and see the doctor, okay?"

She thought that she would use the money to buy him some soft snacks, or make him a couple of sets of clothes if that didn't work.

Old Zhang thought about it and realized that he had been in the mountains recently and there were indeed very few medicinal herbs outside. Xiaoya had also told him about some places, but after he went to the mountains, he was a little disoriented and it was difficult to find them.

The herbs I dug in a few days were not as much as what she dug in a day. I thought that even if she was unwilling to take the extra money, I would ask someone to buy something for Yuanyuan.

After thinking it over, he nodded and said, "Okay, if I'm free sometimes, you can take me to the mountains to dig together. And you don't have to go deep into the mountains, okay?"

"I know. I have always attached great importance to safety issues. You can rest assured." Tong Yiya was relieved when she saw that he finally agreed.

The lives of the elderly people living in the shed have improved a lot in the past two years. Now they only help to harvest crops during the busy farming season, and take care of the cows' eating, drinking, defecating and urinating at other times.

The shed over there has been turned into a house. Although it is a mud house, it is much better than the original straw shed. In addition, with the food they deliver from time to time, the health of the elderly people has not continued to deteriorate.

After Mr. Zhang came to live here, he would occasionally prescribe some nourishing medicine for them, and stew it into soup with the pheasant sent by Fu Shinian and others, which helped to make up for some of the previous losses.

But because there are villagers and many outsiders watching from time to time, they can't nourish the elderly too well, so they still look as thin as before.

While she was talking, Tong Yiya had already cut all the vegetables to be cooked. With Mr. Zhang accompanying Yuanyuan, she started cooking.

Not long after the dishes were cooked, Fu Shinian and the other man came back from work.

They washed their hands and went into the house. They first picked up Yuanyuan and played with her for a while. Then they waited for Tong Yiya to call for dinner before they walked to the table and sat down. When Fu Shinian ate, he always held Yuanyuan in his arms. The little child was so greedy that his mouth was watering.

But he can't eat these large particles of food now, so he can only wait for Tong Yiya to make some porridge for him.

Seeing that he was so greedy, Tong Yiya picked up a piece of boiled cabbage and gave it to him so that he could drink the water off it.

The juice from the cabbage is a little sweet, but it makes him very happy eating it. With something to coax him, the child no longer pays attention to the food the adults at the table are eating.

After everyone finished eating, Guard Dong cleaned up the dishes and went to wash them, Tong Yiya prepared complementary food for Yuanyuan, Old Zhang packed up the medicine he had dug up in the morning, and Fu Shinian carried Yuanyuan for a walk outside.

When they came back, her complementary food was already prepared, so they took her outside to feed her. After a while, Yuanyuan finished half a bowl of complementary food, and the child began to feel sleepy soon after.

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