Traveling through time and space to meet a replacement bride? But I’m a man!

Xiaoman is expected to arrive at noon.

Xu Wenyan was preparing to go to the small pond, this time bringing Xiaohu and Rong Xiaoliu with him. It had been a long time since he had gone out with the two little boys. In the past few days, he was always stuck to by Chen Sanlin.

"Huzi, Xiaoliu, take the sack."

Now the road leading to the pond has been built by Zhou Jianye and Chen Xingjie. It is fine on normal days, but when it rains, it is extremely slippery to step on the fallen leaves and you can easily fall if you are not careful.

Not only were the collected items scattered all over the ground, but the people also fell heavily.

"Brother Xu, you went out yesterday and we picked a lot of wood ears. The brown mushrooms are ripe too. Uncle Jianye asked me to ask if we can pick them." Rong Xiaoliu was sitting side by side with Xu Wenyan. It was not easy for him to go out with Brother Xu, and he seemed to have endless things to say.

"Okay, let's go take a look."

The several wooden sticks that had grown fungi were also put together and placed on low branches so that the fungal spores could spread throughout the stick and the yield would increase.

From a distance on the rotten wood, you can see mushrooms growing luxuriantly. Wild mushrooms are small, and the largest ones are about the size of a tangerine.

"Okay, you can pick them now. Put them in a cloth bag. Don't pick up the small mushrooms around them when you pick them." Mushrooms will grow all year round as long as the climate is suitable.

The flesh of shiitake mushrooms is thick and delicate, delicious, nutritious and also has medicinal properties. It is mainly a health product.

The fat content of dried shiitake mushrooms is about 3%, and it contains unsaturated fatty acids. It is precisely because shiitake mushrooms are rich in essential fatty acids for the human body that they can lower blood lipids, serum and cholesterol.

Shiitake mushrooms have been expensive since ancient times. Xu Wenyan rarely sees them on stalls in the county, and most of them are oyster mushrooms.

These mushrooms only grow on three wooden sticks, and the mushrooms picked by three people combined cannot fill half of the cloth bag.

"Okay, it will grow longer in another ten days or half a month."

When he arrived at the small pond, Xu Wenyan saw the main purpose of his trip. Looking at the cattails not far away, Xu Wenyan thought of the delicious starch sausage. He didn't know if he could replicate the starch sausage in ancient times. That thing was so delicious.

When I was making quilts before, this stuff hadn't been dried yet. I'll pick some more today. After the wheat is harvested, I'll mix it with the wheat husks to make pillows. I'll add chopped sandalwood and dried mugwort leaves to it. When spring comes and the wild roses bloom, who doesn't like a fragrant and soft pillow?

Moreover, the pollen of cattail is also a medicinal ingredient. It is not available in this season. Xu Wenyan had collected some of it before. Cattail pollen has the effects of astringency and hemostasis, blood circulation and blood stasis removal, and diuresis and urination.

It is mainly used to treat trauma, and can be used in combination with Wulingzhi to treat dysmenorrhea and postpartum blood stasis.

As for Wulingzhi, it is the dried feces of the flying squirrel.

"Brother Xu, when I was a kid I loved picking cattails to play with. If I pinched them all, they would all fly away. Look, Brother Xu!" Xiaohu held a cattail in one hand, pinched it open, and waved it into the air.

It looked like rain in the sky, which was quite romantic.

"Play less and be careful of respiratory infections." Xu Wenyan fanned the front of his nose with his hand.

"What is a respiratory infection?"

"Something got into my nose and can't come out, so it's inflamed." Xu Wenyan bent down and pulled up a cattail, breaking off all the leaves to reveal the white core inside.

He plucked one for each of them: "Try it."

Rong Xiaoliu took the white and tender stem and took a bite. Slightly sweet juice flowed out of the stem, and there was no other strange taste.

"Pick the cattail stalks and put them in the backpack. Pull out the cattail grass and put the leaves aside. The white stems inside are edible. We can take them back and cook them." Xu Wenyan demonstrated the whole thing once and the two boys learned it.

The leaves of the cattail can be used to make cattail fans, cushions, and are more than enough to weave a large mat, which is what Xu Wenyan wanted.

A woman as clever and skillful as Wang Cuijuan would definitely be able to do it. Now that Zhou Rong is here, the family can do it even faster. After lighting the kang once before, Xu Wenyan felt his butt was a little hot.

I've been wanting to use a mat for a long time.

This cattail field was not too small and it would take a long time to work. After the backpack was full, Xu Wenyan cut a piece of wooden stick and placed it on the cattails to prevent them from being blown away by the wind.

The three backpacks were filled with cattail sticks, the two cloth bags were filled with cattail stems, and there was also a small cloth bag containing half a bag of shiitake mushrooms. The harvest this time was quite rich.

"You two take the backpacks and put them out to dry. The cattails inside need to be dried out." After the cattails are thoroughly dried out, the seeds inside will not fall off so easily.

Unless you pinch it hard, this dried cattail can be used as a mosquito coil in the summer.

Xu Wenyan stepped into the chicken coop and grabbed a hen. He was going to use the mushrooms and cattails to make a pot of chicken soup today.

While they were preparing to cook, Xiaoman and Luo Sanyuan came shouting at the other side of the waterfall with seven soldiers.

"It's a lot of trouble to come here, Brother Xu, why don't you treat us to a meal?" Luo Sanyuan strode over, picked up the water on the table and drank it. He just looked at it and saw that it was the water that Xu Wenyan had drunk.

Little Chen Dong frowned and looked at this strange adult. He picked up his uncle's bamboo tube, ran to the stream and washed it more than ten times.

"Of course you will." Xu Wenyan also smiled. It was noon and they had to rush back after getting the goods. If they didn't have a full meal, what was the difference between this and exploitation?

"Haha, you guys hurry up and call Xu brother, you are my brother from now on."

"Hello, Brother Xu!" Several soldiers had smiles on their faces. Along the way, Luo Sanyuan kept saying that if they spoke sweetly when they got there, they would have meat to eat.

It hasn't arrived yet, but several people are already excited. That's meat. They were not there when Commander Wang invited them to dinner yesterday.

Looking at the young soldiers, Xu Wenyan estimated that these soldiers were no more than twenty years old.

Xu Wenyan was really happy to have so many younger brothers at once, and he felt like he was floating in the air.

All the cattails picked today have been fried. We won’t kill any more chickens, so let’s all drink the soup together. Each person only has a bowl of rice as the staple food, but there are enough vegetables.

They were all grown men, and they were chatting harmoniously at the dinner table. Most men are actually very simple.

"You have so much stuff. We'll have to transport it in several trips, right?" Luo Sanyuan was slightly shocked when he saw the mountain of food.

"Hey, how come you caught so many of these large prey? Brother Xu, you caught them, right? When can we have a competition?" Luo Sanyuan smiled and raised his chin towards Xu Wenyan.

"I fought you, you can spar with me." Chen Sanlin pulled Xu Wenyan back, as if he felt that he was a little close to Luo Sanyuan.

Luo Sanyuan was a little embarrassed: "Haha, okay, we will definitely compete next time."

After saying that, he took Xiaoman and the soldiers away.

"Xu Wenyan, we're leaving." Xiaoman said goodbye.

Xu Wenyan looked at Chen Sanlin and shook his head helplessly.

"Who did you learn this from? You're so jealous."

Chen Sanlin seemed a little proud.

"self-taught."