While picking soapberries, she unexpectedly discovered several clumps of wild garlic with a tender green color.
Lin Momo hadn't seen this thing for many years. She vaguely remembered digging it up with her friends in the village while playing by the river. After all these years, she could still recognize it at a glance.
The pungent taste of wild garlic seemed to rise in my mouth.
That's amazing!
Although the carefree days of childhood are long gone, some things in my memory remain fresh and vivid.
Lin Momo naturally wouldn't let go of such a wonderful thing that carried her childhood memories. Without saying a word, she squatted down and started digging, planting the wild garlic with soil still attached in the vegetable garden of her small courtyard.
From now on, she will be able to enjoy wild garlic freely.
Wild garlic was also the first plant to take root in her online garden.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, Lin Momo spotted a pheasant in the distance. Her spirits lifted, and she tiptoed after it. When she got closer, she took a closer look.
Wow! It's a hen, all grayish-brown, not as beautiful as a male pheasant, and it doesn't have long tail feathers.
But they can lay eggs!
That alone is enough to make someone likable.
It was impossible for her to catch the pheasant, but she had a cheat device. No matter how high it flew, it would have to fly into her space.
The pheasant became restless after the sudden change of environment, and after a while it finally calmed down.
Seeing that she had finally become docile, Lin Momo was worried that it would eat the newly planted wild garlic, as well as the mushrooms and medicinal herbs on the cement ground. After searching around the space, she found that the pine needles and branches she had collected were usable.
So she used withered, dry pine needles to make a coop for the pheasant in the corner of the front yard wall, and then used branches to create a small area for it to move around in.
She was about to carry the pheasant inside when she suddenly remembered that pheasants can fly, and this height wouldn't stop it from escaping. So she used scissors to cut off a section of its wings, and even cut off its unusually long tail.
Once outside the space, Lin Momo gathered a couple of handfuls of grass to feed the chickens, and then collected some soft forest soil to spread in the chicken coop. This humus soil was very fertile, and contained some grass seeds and insects, which could provide food for the pheasants.
Pheasants have narrow intestines and cannot store food, so they spend more than half of their day busily foraging for food.
She still wants to eat wild eggs, so we can't let her go hungry.
After settling the pheasants, Lin Momo looked around the neighborhood again and actually found a nest of wild eggs. They were smaller than the eggs at home, darker in color, and uneven in size.
After reuniting the nest of baby eggs with the pheasant mother, she continued searching for her marker.
If she couldn't find it in one direction, she would try another.
The last tree I marked was a persimmon tree, with bright red persimmons hanging from its branches, resembling little lanterns, making it particularly eye-catching.
As long as she finds the right direction, she can see it at a glance.
Lin Momo deliberately left the persimmons on the tree to guide her, planning to pick them on her way back.
Therefore, after changing direction and walking for a short while, she spotted red persimmons on the branches in the distance in a forest full of trees.
Lin Momo was secretly delighted.
She didn't feel completely at ease until she ran to the persimmon tree and confirmed the markings on the tree with her own eyes.
It's still early. Judging from the shadow of the sun, it's probably around 1 p.m., so why don't we wander around the neighborhood a bit more?
As long as she doesn't stray too far from the persimmon tree, she won't get lost.
During this stroll, she encountered a familiar plant with heart-shaped leaves—yam.
Grandma Lin Momo used to grow yams in her old home's courtyard. They were the kind of yam beans that grew on vines, and they looked like small potatoes.
For a long time, when Lin Momo thought of yams, the first thing that came to mind was this kind of yam bean. It wasn't until later, when she went to school in the city, that she saw the kind of long yam that grew upright in the soil while shopping at the supermarket.
Actually, yam beans and long stick yams are different parts of the same plant; one grows above ground and the other grows underground.
The yam beans on the vines are easy to pick, but the tubers underground are not so easy to dig up.
In particular, yams grow vertically, so a one-meter-deep pit must be dug next to them before digging, and they are very easy to break.
In short, digging was quite difficult for Lin Momo, who only had a small shovel at hand.
"Sigh, if only I could get the little medicine hoe back!"
After sighing, she grabbed her small shovel, squatted down, and resignedly began digging in the dirt.
"High on the mountain, dig, dig, dig, dig long yams, eat, eat, eat..." He hummed a song, finding joy even in hardship, as he dug.
Yam nourishes qi and blood, regulates the spleen and stomach, and promotes digestion, which helps the body absorb nutrients and recover. It is very suitable for Lin Musheng, who has just woken up and needs to replenish his nutrition.
Although Lin Momo hasn't accepted this father yet, she hopes he can recover his health soon so that the burden on her and Lin Sanya can be lighter.
So, for the entire afternoon, before Lin Momo went to meet up with Uncle Lin, she kept digging and digging, and she was really exhausted.
However, before leaving, she made sure to take the persimmons from the tree with her.
In this day and age, it's not easy to get a piece of fruit. Since God has delivered it to her, she certainly can't let this kindness go to waste.
After taking stock of her loot in the space, Lin Momo was quite satisfied.
It might not make her rich overnight, but it will still bring in a considerable amount of money.
That should be enough to buy the two sisters new cotton-padded clothes and shoes, and to stock up on some food to solve her immediate problem.
Just as she was about to meet up with Lin Gensheng and his son, Lin Momo took out a small basket and a bamboo cage from her spatial storage. She carried them on her back and slung them over her arm. After checking that everything was in order, she continued walking forward.
Upon seeing him, Uncle Lin said angrily, "You little brat, how come you disappeared as soon as you ran away? I thought you were lost."
He was exhausted and starving after cutting down trees all day, and he wanted to go down the mountain as soon as possible.
Since I'm not working for my own family and no one's watching me, there's no need to exert myself too much.
But the girl just wouldn't come back, and he was so angry that he wanted to abandon her. But then he remembered his father's instructions to keep an eye on his niece.
If he dared to just leave his niece on the mountain like that, his father would hit him on the head with his pipe.
Just thinking about such a violent scene, he'd better not go through it.
He's a grandfather now; it would be too embarrassing for him to be beaten by his father in front of his children, grandchildren, and daughters-in-law.
We can only continue to wait.
"Where are my older brothers?" Not seeing her cousins Lin Zhiyong and Lin Zhiqiang, Lin Momo couldn't help but ask, "Did they go looking for me?"
"No," Uncle Lin said simply. "He went down the mountain with two loads of firewood. I'm waiting for you here."
"Oh," Lin Momo replied casually, then remembered to take off the heavy bamboo cage and basket from her body.
It's good that they didn't go looking for him. Searching for someone in the mountains is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and you might even get lost in the search.
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