Although the day of the educated youth is bumpy, Su Qing's day is happy.
Because Su Qing was in the same production team with the newly arrived mountain people.
Naturally, no one wants the newly arrived mountain people to share the peanuts they have worked so hard to grow.
Peanuts can be used to extract oil. Besides lard and chicken fat, peanut oil is one of the main sources of oil and water for villagers.
So the only thing left for Su Qing's family was to rush to plant the seeds.
In the evening, Su Qing and his mother went to irrigate the fields. Early in the morning, Su Che took Wen Li to plow the fields.
Some of the scratches on Daya's body had disappeared and some had already scabbed over. She took Su Qianya and Erya out early to pick wild vegetables.
Su Qing disagreed at first because the weather was really hot and many people had heatstroke.
But Daya repeatedly assured her that she would be back soon.
After the three of them kept nagging, Su's mother waved her hand and told them to go and come back early.
The three of them were as excited as if they had found money.
Sanya originally wanted to go with her sisters, but they thought she was in the way, so they ran away when Sanya wasn't paying attention.
San Ya had no choice but to stay at home and play with Siya.
Daya brought the two of them to a shallow river in the village.
The shallow river channel is worthy of its name, it is very shallow, only reaching Daya's knees.
This is also the reason why Su Qing felt at ease letting them go.
Water celery and watercress are most common in shallow rivers.
But the watercress had already been picked up by the women in the village, not a single one left.
"He Fang! That was the water celery I saw first!" Erya said angrily.
"Your name isn't on it, so why do you say it's yours?"
He Fang took advantage of Erya's inattention, plucked some water celery, put it in the basket, and showed a smug expression to Erya.
Seeing this, Erya was about to go up and beat He Fang, but He Fang ran away quickly with the water celery.
Erya tried to chase after him but was stopped by Daya.
"Don't go, just scare her."
"But she gathered a good handful of water celery."
"It's okay. The water celery she pulled out is old and not tasty. If you dig a little further, you'll find some new, tender water celery."
Erya and Su Qianya started digging when they heard it.
"Sister, come here quickly." Erya was very excited, but didn't dare to show it.
It turned out to be a nest of wild duck eggs. I counted them and there were thirteen in total.
The three of them carefully placed the eggs in the basket and covered them with wild vegetables.
"Look again. There's a lot of water plants here, so I think we can probably find it."
After saying that, the three of them began to search separately.
Sure enough, two more nests were found.
I also found a piece of very tender and fresh water celery.
The three sisters returned with a full load.
"Sister Daya, you are so amazing. You can find all these places."
"That doesn't matter who I am. Mom said I've got a wild vegetable scanner installed. Wherever there are wild vegetables, there I am. Come on, come on, I'll take you to a nice place."
The two followed Daya through many twists and turns and finally arrived.
What comes into view is a field of wild grapes.
The color was still very green, but Daya picked one to try and it was still very sweet.
"Sister Daya, why don't you call Mom, Dad, and Auntie over later? We've got a basket of duck eggs with us."
"That's fine. Let's go back first. Erya, let's go. Don't eat anymore."
"Sister, it's delicious."
"Wait until mom comes and pick some to eat at home. We'll go wash our faces and cool down before going back."
About fifty meters away from the grapes is a sparkling lake.
It’s not really a lake, it’s just a little bigger in area and looks like a lake.
The water from the mountain stream flows into the lake, and the water in the lake flows out again.
There are also many clams in the lake.
"Sister, look at this thing, it's so beautiful." Erya said happily while holding the river clam.
"Don't go in the water, come back quickly, wash your face and leave."
The three of them returned home happily. The whole family was there, but they were all busy with their own things.
Su Qianya excitedly told everyone about the wild grapes.
Upon hearing this, Su's mother was about to pick up the backpack and set off.
Su Qing had sharp eyes and saw the clams in Erya's basket at a glance.
"Erya, tell mother where you picked this up." Su Qing was curious for a reason. When she was releasing water to the fields, she walked through all the rivers in the water village, but there were only some fish, shrimps and snails.
"It's right there with the wild grapes."
"Mom will open it for you, and after it dries, this beautiful shell can be kept for a very long time, okay? If you don't open it, it will go bad soon."
Su Qing was telling the truth, but what she wanted to know more was whether there were pearls inside.
Erya liked this shell very much and quickly asked Su Qing to help her fix it.
Su Qing found a knife specifically for opening river clams from somewhere and began to pry them open skillfully.
The smooth and flowing movements stunned everyone.
Su Che looked at his mother in confusion, "Mom, when did my younger sister learn how to open clams?"
Of course, Su's mother knew that before she traveled through time, many people in her husband's hometown raised river clams.
Generally, late October is the season for clams to open, and the two of them would take Su Qing back to their hometown to play for a few days.
Therefore, Su Qing is very skilled in opening river clams.
But can she tell the truth?
He just made up excuses to fool his own stupid son.
"I guess your sister had a hard time after getting married, so she secretly learned these tricks. Didn't you see that when I first met them, they were so skinny that they weren't even as strong as the monkeys in the forest of Stone Village. They must have been searching for food all over the world, so it's not surprising that they know how to open this. Maybe your sister knows other tricks too."
Not only did Su's mother successfully deceive people this time, she also laid the groundwork for Su Qing's future endeavors.
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