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

"General Wang, where have you been? You look a little unwell."

Xiao Liu ran forward and asked with concern.

Wang Zeren shook his head: "I went to the toilet, nothing. Go ahead and do your thing."

After a while, Xu Wenyan brought Chen Sanlin back. There were not many sand crabs below, but there were many river shrimps and small fish.

The two of them touched some and fried a plate of them.

"Brother Xu, are you guys being lazy? Ah Yin and I just went over there to take a look, and the peppers are growing pretty well this year."

Xiaohu pointed to the cloth bag on the ground, which was full of green peppercorns.

Xu Wenyan forgot about this at the time and didn't go too far inside when he came here before. As the business became more and more popular, the seasoning issue became a problem again.

There is a world of difference between the food produced with or without seasonings.

Xu Wenyan also bought peppercorns in the county, but they were ridiculously expensive and not as spicy as the wild ones.

The few trees planted in front of my house will not start to bear peppercorns until at least next year.

If the output here is large, Xu Wenyan can make the villagers achieve financial freedom just by growing pepper.

"We've picked so much, have you finished picking them all?" Xu Wenyan weighed the bag on the ground, which weighed at least five or six kilograms.

Last year, we harvested a total of three pounds of dried peppercorns.

"There are still a lot of them. The grass we got this year was all dried Sichuan peppercorns last year. Brother Xu, didn't you say it would taste better if mixed with Sichuan peppercorns?"

Xiaohu will never forget anything about food.

"Where is Wang Zeren?" Xu Wenyan looked around but didn't see anyone.

"General Wang said he was bored and went back." Yuyin came over with a bunch of small loaches in her hand.

"oh oh."

Although this forest is dangerous, Wang Zeren should have no problem with his skills.

A farmer going into the mountains without a machete is like a soldier going into the battlefield without a weapon.

"Brother Chen, let's clean up this side." The stone mill in the chili factory can also grind pepper powder.

The same thing will taste very different after being ground into powder.

"Okay, if you're tired, just rest over here." Chen Sanlin squatted down and wiped Xu Wenyan's feet with his clothes, then picked up the machete and walked into the woods.

Although Xu Wenyan felt a little warm in her heart, she was still quite embarrassed as there were so many children watching her.

When we came into the woods, the grass and trees around several larger pepper trees had been cleared by Xiaohu, and three small pepper trees could be seen around them.

I didn't bring a hoe today, so I can only come back tomorrow to transplant the plants.

At this point, Xu Wenyan couldn't help but admire the growth ability of plants. Last year they had completely weeded this area, but this year so many weeds have grown again.

The two of them cleaned up together and soon arrived at the place where they found mint last year. There was still a lot of mint growing this year. Xu Wenyan planned to leave some of it for seeds and plant it in the yard behind the tavern.

"Daughter-in-law, come quickly."

"Coming." Xu Wenyan ran over in two steps.

In front of the two men were two slightly larger pepper trees. The weeds around the trees were very deep, and the peppers they produced were not as many as those that had been cleared away before.

"Brother Chen, be careful not to clean out the pepper seedlings."

"Okay, be careful, there are a lot of birds around."

This bird-not-landing tree is the Aralia dasyphylla, also known as the prickly dragon bud. Xu Wenyan looked around and found that there were quite a few of them. The leaves were all old now.

As for the name "Bird Don't Land", it means that its branches are covered with dense thorns, and birds have no place to land and no bird can build a nest on the aralia.

Generally, it is collected in spring when the leaf bracts just grow out.

It is a wild vegetable that can be eaten and used as medicine, with extremely high nutritional value and health-care functions.

The young sprouts contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, and have the effects of removing dampness and activating blood circulation, calming the mind and removing wind, and strengthening muscles and bones.

It is often used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, impotence, diabetes and other diseases.

Xu Wenyan had not seen many Aralia trees in the village, they usually grew on moist soil: “Brother Chen, don’t move these birds until they land.

Wait until next year to continue growing.”

It took the two of them nearly an hour to clean up this piece of land. After Xiaohu and the others filled their backpacks, they came over to help.

This is how it was cleaned up.

Because it was getting late, Xu Wenyan didn't continue picking peppercorns and decided to wait until tomorrow morning to come back.

..........

"Xiaoman, is this dog fierce?" Wei Ren sat down on the rocking chair and looked at the black bear.

The dog barked twice when he first came in, and perhaps it calmed down when it saw that he posed no threat to Xu Wenyan.

During this time, the dog kept running in the yard, and Xiaoman had his own things to do.

This resulted in Wei Ren and the black bear being alone for quite a while.

He was always afraid that the big black dog would suddenly rush over and bite him.

"Black bears are very smart. You'll be fine if you don't provoke them."

Wei Ren frowned: "No, the way it looks at me is like it's looking at a chicken leg."

"It's okay, just don't touch it."

Xiaoman chopped up the yellowish vegetable leaves together with the main dish, mixed them with some wheat bran flour, and went to feed the cows with the bucket.

Xu Wenyan will probably continue raising pigs next year, and he will be even busier then.

Wei Ren watched Xiaoman running around all afternoon.

"Are you busy with these every day?" Wei Ren supported his head and looked at him.

"That's about right. The work at home is not fixed. I go wherever there is a shortage of people."

Wei Ren sighed: "Oh, you have such a leisurely time here. I'm really envious of you."

"Help me make a fire. We need to cook the rice in advance and Xu Wenyan will come back to cook." Xiaoman took the firewood into the kitchen.

"Okay." It's just a matter of making a fire. Wei Ren knows how to do it. Besides, the food cooked by Xu Wenyan is really delicious.

Even if Xu Wenyan gave Wei Ren one tael of silver a day, he would not feel it was a loss.

Just as Wei Ren was about to walk towards the stove, Yu Bai came over with a backpack.

The two looked at each other: "Beauty, who are you looking for?" Wei Ren spoke first.

"Is Xu Wenyan at home?" Yu Bai asked.

"No."

"Xiao Man is always here."

Wei Ren nodded and shouted to the inner room: "Xiao Man! There's a beautiful girl looking for you!"

Seeing Wei Ren yelling like this, Yu Bai laughed twice: "You are so funny."

"That's right, I'm just an interesting man."

"What's wrong?" Xiaoman scooped out a spoonful of rice.

"A nest of ducklings was hatched today. It would be a waste to burn charcoal on the ranch with just this nest, so I sent them here."

Xiaoman nodded: "Well, put it next to the stove. Come over for dinner tonight. Yuyin is going to catch crabs with me today."

"it is good."

After Bai left, Xiaoman passed by Wei Ren, and Wei Ren patted him on the butt.

"doing what?"

"You were so happy chatting with that beautiful lady, why didn't you talk to me?"

"You know it well enough."

For dinner, Xu Wenyan made crab meat stew, which was stewed in a large pot. In addition to crab meat, there were side dishes, and potato flour was added as the staple food.

Each person gets a big bowl and there’s no need to fight over the pot.

Everyone enjoyed their meal.

This really made Xu Wenyan tired. There were so many people in their group, and they ate up a week's worth of food for Xu Wenyan in one meal.

Xu Wenyan didn't feel bad either, since Wang Zeren had given her the food expenses anyway.

"Eat as much as you want today. There will be a lot of work to do at home tomorrow."

Xu Wenyan naturally wouldn't be polite to these people.