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Ruhua flew out by herself last night.

In the morning, when Xu Wenyan was making breakfast, he saw the nest it had dug on the loess slope over here.

This is a semi-wild pet, so it’s a relief.

There was still some yam left from yesterday, and Xu Wenyan planned to make some yam cakes in the morning.

First steam the yam, then mash it into yam paste. There is a little wheat at home, and Xu Wenyan wants to save it for the New Year.

Add salt to the yam paste, knead it into a ball, put it in a pot and steam it for a while until it is cooked.

Today the whole family is out again. In addition to mushrooms, the most important thing is to find where there are kiwi vines. Half-ripe kiwis can be kept at home for a month without going bad.

After reaching the mountain, everyone went their separate ways. Rong Xiaoliu originally wanted to stick to Xu Wenyan but was glared back by Chen Sanlin.

"Why are you scaring him?" Xu Wenyan kicked Chen Sanlin.

Chen Sanlin didn't say anything either, and Xu Wenyan didn't know why Chen Sanlin seemed to always be unhappy with Rong Xiaoliu.

The two walked a long way, all the way down the mountain, to the place where they had found the mountain pepper before. Now the mountain pepper and star anise were ripe.

Xu Wenyan climbed up the tree. It was easy to pick the mountain pepper. He just had to break off the branches in bunches.

The baskets they brought were obviously not enough. The two mother trees were also very strong, and the branches were almost weighed down by the fruits.

Xu Wenyan kept a small portion and picked the rest back.

The star anise is even easier to pick. After picking them all, they can be packed into two cloth bags.

I turned around and saw the walnuts and chestnuts next to me. There were so many of them that I could never pick them all.

"Brother Chen, let's go back."

Chen Sanlin suddenly jumped down from the tree, holding a backpack in one hand: "You continue picking here, I will bring it back for you." The round trip was both climbing up and down the mountain, and Chen Sanlin was afraid of tiring him out.

"it is good."

The hickory nuts around here still have brown-green skin. It is precisely because of this outer layer of skin that it has been protected from being eaten by squirrels until now.

After a few days, the outer shell will fall off and there will be no place for Xu Wenyan.

The walnut juice is difficult to wash off once it gets on your hands, but there is no time to worry about anything else and just pile them together.

As for the chestnuts, he just relied on the armor on his arms to smash them. Even if he was careful, he was still pricked by the chestnut thorns many times.

There were now several small red dots on the fair hands.

They were busy for more than two hours, and they transported Chen Sanlin back four times.

After returning home, Xu Wenyan did not rest. He picked the mountain peppers one by one and put them in the sun to dry tomorrow. The others helped to wash the mushrooms and dry them.

I didn't take a break the whole afternoon and continued working after dinner.

This is all for winter.

Early the next morning.

Yesterday everyone said that yam cakes were delicious, so Xu Wenyan made some more this morning and also cut the chestnuts he had picked into pieces and put them into the pot to cook a full pot.

Xu Wenyan buried the other chestnuts in loess and piled them in the corner of the house, so that the chestnuts could be preserved longer.

Today, I am still busy with what I need to do.

When Xu Wenyan put the dustpan outside, he saw Xiaohu coming back from the mountain with a look of grievance on his face.

"What's wrong? Huzi, who bullied you?"

Xiaohu didn't say anything either, he just stood there with his hands behind his back.

Xu Wenyan was about to say something when he smelled the smell of poop in the air.

After walking around Xiaohu, Xu Wenyan picked up his hand, smelled it, and then threw it away with great disgust.

"Oh my god, Huzi, you pooped on your hand?"

"I didn't! Brother Xu, I went to the woods in the east and picked up some small fruits on the ground. I thought I could eat them, but when I peeled them, I found this. The taste is so bad that I can't wash it off no matter how hard I try. Woo woo."

Only then did Xu Wenyan understand why his hands smelled so bad. The fruits Xiaohu picked up were ginkgo nuts, which are slightly poisonous. You can eat them, but you can't eat too much.

It is also good for stewing wild boar meat.

When its flesh is slightly rotten, it has a foul smell.

Although it is poisonous, it has considerable nutritional value, contains a variety of nutrients, and is said to have anti-aging effects.

It can also be used as medicine. Ginkgo is sweet, bitter and astringent in nature, and can treat asthma, cough, and some sexually transmitted diseases.

"Wen Yan, come and see this basket of mushrooms that your sister picked." Wang Dongmei came down from the mountain excitedly. When she came to the two of them, she was about to say something when her brows furrowed, "Which of you two pooped?"

Xu Wenyan immediately pointed at Xiaohu: "Him."

"Ah? I didn't!" Xiaohu immediately explained to Wang Dongmei.

"Oh, then since they are edible, why don't we get some more? We have almost picked all the mushrooms around here, and there are still some small ones left."

Although the smell is a bit stinky, ginkgo nuts can be preserved for a very long time and their seeds will not go bad until the beginning of next spring.

Xu Wenyan nodded. Although it was a bit smelly, it could be washed off. Otherwise, Xu Wenyan would never touch that thing even if he was beaten to death.

The three of them worked for a whole afternoon and returned with two large backpacks.

Now we are hoarding all the edible things because everyone has gone hungry.

After returning, Xu Wenyan rubbed his hands repeatedly with bamboo charcoal and mugwort leaves, and the smell on his hands was finally removed.

The smell on the hands is easy to remove, but the stench of the ginkgo nuts themselves is difficult to remove. Xu Wenyan put them into the river together with the backpack, soaked them for half an hour, and then spread them on the ground to dry.

Pheasants won't eat this stuff, so it's safe to put it on the ground.

Throughout the fall, the whole family started a crazy stockpiling mode.

Mushrooms, chestnuts, walnuts, ginkgo nuts, etc., we collect at least one basket every day.

It was the fat season for hairy crabs in the mountains, and the traps made by Chen Sanlin also caught a deer, two wild boars and several muntjacs.

The bamboo poles above the stove are hung with various dried meats.

The first and second floors of the house are filled with food, and I need to check at regular intervals every day to make sure the food has not been eaten by rats.

Ruhua is watching over the house during the day. Although it doesn't eat mice, it can discover them at the first sight.

It saves a lot of trouble.

Winter is coming.

When Xu Wenyan went up the mountain yesterday, he saw a lot of willow catkins floating on the ground. In addition, the seeds of Rama, dandelion, wind grass, etc. had grown white fluff.

Xu Wenyan plans to pick more and sew them into a quilt tomorrow.