In the book, I was fed by my sister

The sun was scorching the earth like a fireball. The hot air seemed to be frozen. Even a cloud was reluctant to float over to bring a touch of coolness to the land.

Song Ran and Song Li, carrying bamboo baskets, walked down the winding mountain road.

The sweat dripped onto the dry and thick yellow soil and quickly disappeared into the soil.

Fortunately, they picked up some wild fruits when they went down the mountain, otherwise they would not even have water to drink now.

The shadow of the village slowly appeared. Song Ran and Song Li first saw the chimneys that were no longer smoking, and then heard the mooing of cows coming from the distance.

Cows are precious treasures, and when they are needed to plow the land, every family will line up to hire one. So where there are cows, people must be nearby.

Those who were playing mahjong under the shade of the trees all looked at the two sisters of the Song family.

Many people went to the mountains today, and many people got something out of it, but none of them were as lucky as the two sisters from the Song family.

Those four pheasants are eye-catching, and the things in the basket make people unable to help but fantasize.

Although there is a layer of reeds on it, everyone knows that it is impossible to carry a basket of grass. But if it is really a basket of mushrooms, how much would it sell for?

A fat lady was the first to greet Song Ran and the others: "Song Ran, are all the baskets in your back full of mushrooms?"

Song Ran stopped and wiped his sweat, then saw the winning number in front of Wang Guifang and said, "Aunt Guifang, I see you have good luck today."

Wang Guifang smiled and said, "Oh, you are so lucky, you can carry it on your back as well as in the carry-on."

"We walked high today, and I estimate there is still a lot higher up, but we are just two girls, so we dare not go any higher."

"I found mushrooms in several houses in the mountains today. I wonder if the rich master can buy so many. If they can't buy them all, please sell some to me at a low price." These mushrooms are precious and it is impossible to give them to servants. The master only has a few mouths to feed, and mushrooms will not last long. Guifang thinks that the rich master cannot buy them all.

Wang Guifang didn't just say this to Song Ran, she said it to everyone who picked mushrooms.

After hearing what she said, everyone around her thought it was really annoying. She dropped her work in the fields in such hot weather and went into the mountains just to make money from selling this.

The sale hasn't even started yet and you're already saying such disgusting things.

"Okay, we'll see then." Song Ran agreed, but she didn't think so in her heart. At worst, she could go into the city again. But now she just wanted to go home quickly, take a shower, and eat a cucumber.

As people watched Song Ran walk away, they noticed Song Li who was following him: "Oh, is that girl completely healed? She can even go into the mountains now."

"It should be. I've never seen her go far away before. Song Ran is such a good girl. It's easy to marry a girl with her." The complete sentence should be "It's easy to marry a girl with good health", but Li Chunzhi didn't say it. She and the parents of the two sisters were acquainted, and she felt a little pity for them.

Song Ran and his companion walked through the village to the end, and met girls of different ages along the way. These children had never seen Song Li walking on the ground, so they put down their toys and looked at Song Li with curiosity.

"Sister Ranran, is she your sister?" The little girl who spoke was about five or six years old. She was wearing an embroidered round-necked shirt and two braids tied with silver bells. Compared with the four or five thin little girls around her, she looked very plump.

"Li Zi, Xiao Li'er has recovered from her illness. You should play with her more often in the future."

The round-faced girl named Li Zi nodded in agreement, "Xiao Li'er has recovered from her illness. I will take her to play with us in the future."

After returning home, the two put the items in their hands under the locust tree. Song Ran said softly: "Let's rest for a while and then drink some water."

Song Li nodded. She had seen with her own eyes some people who had passed out because they drank water or ate food too quickly.

The two of them sat leaning against the locust tree, the breeze blowing through the leaves, gently blowing away the heat on them.

After drinking the water to quench her thirst, Song Li was stripped naked. She was wiped all over with a warm towel and then put on clean clothes. She curled up like a shrimp: Sister is too rough, after all... I am an adult too.

Song Ran looked at the dirty clothes he had taken off and said, "You don't have many clothes. If you don't take care of them, you will have nothing to wear. You will have to stay naked."

It’s better to stay at home. She doesn’t want to go out and play with children, Song Li thought to herself, but when she saw her sister’s slightly angry face, she swallowed the words back.

Forget it. If you make my sister angry, you will have no good meal.

Grandma Gu arrived home a little later than them.

"Oh, I'm almost fainting from the heat. Ran'er, can you help me see which ones are edible?" Grandma Gu put down the full basket of mushrooms and fanned them with her hands.

"Take a rest first and then drink some water." Song Ran handed over a palm-leaf fan and placed a bowl of boiled water aside.

When Song Shiqiao was alive, he often took Song Ran into the mountains. As a chef, he also passed on his ability to identify mountain delicacies to Song Ran.

In the past, people in Lihua Village would look for Song Shiqiao when they picked mushrooms they didn't recognize, but they didn't think that Song Ran, who was so young, could recognize all kinds of mushrooms, so they would look for mushrooms they knew every time they went into the mountains.

Song Ran picked and chose the mushrooms on the ground. At least half of them were poisonous.

"Thank God, half of them are edible." Ordinary people would be angry and complain if they had to throw away half of the mushrooms they carried down from the mountain with great effort. But Grandma Gu was very satisfied.

"We were lucky today when we went into the mountains. We caught four pheasants. I'll kill one later. You don't have to keep the stove warm tonight."

"Then I might as well stew the mushrooms I found today with the chicken."

"That won't work. We have to harvest mushrooms tomorrow."

"I just had fish at your house, and now I'm here to eat chicken. You're making excuses to me, so I don't have the face to eat this meal at your house."

Song Ran couldn't persuade Grandma Gu, "Okay, I'll kill the chicken first. Grandma Gu, do you have any sand ginger at home?"

"Yes, I'll go back and get it, but did you kill the chicken so early?"

"I plan to remove the chicken bones and stew them with chicken feet, chicken wings, chicken necks and mushrooms, and use the remaining meat to make a ginger chicken pot. The chicken for the chicken pot cannot be blanched, but must be soaked in scallion and ginger water first to remove the blood and fishy smell."

Song Ran couldn't help but feel a little sad when he said this. These methods were all left by his father. He started working as an apprentice in a restaurant when he was five years old. He studied what he ate and saw for more than 30 years and compiled a thick booklet.

"Sister, sister, honey."

When going down the mountain, Song Ran told Song Li a dish of honey chicken with honey and chicken. Recently, her little sister didn't like to listen to stories before going to bed, so she twisted her and asked her to tell the recipe.

"Little greedy cat, I haven't forgotten. I'll roast a chicken drumstick just for you when the time comes."

The sun burned the clouds in the sky, and smoke began to rise from the chimneys of every house in Lihua Village.

People working in the fields frequently looked up in the direction of their homes. If they saw smoke coming out of their chimneys, they would quickly tidy up the work in the fields and then go back.

When Grandma Gu heard Song Ran say that she would cook rice with the big-foot mushrooms in the evening, she brought over a small piece of bacon from home.

"Then it will taste even better with the bacon." Song Ran took the bacon and started processing it.

The cured meat from the autumn before the New Year had to be boiled and washed carefully, so Grandma Gu naturally took over the job of cooking.

At this time, Song Li had no work to do. But she was not idle, always paying attention to her sister's movements and quickly handing her the tools she needed.