A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

Gu Zhou had never eaten this dish, but judging from her reaction, it sounded like something he could eat.

Shen Wu nodded vigorously at the large patch of wild amaranth in front of her. Today's salad for lunch was ready! She quickly asked Gu Zhou to help: "Only the tender ones that can be easily broken! No other ones are needed!"

Gu Zhou believed her. He put the short hoe in his hand on the ground, put down the backpack, and started working with both hands, quickly breaking the vegetable called wild amaranth.

Shen Wu didn't want much, but when people pick things, they always have an urge to break off another one and get another one. Before he knew it... he had picked what felt like five pounds of tender branches.

It was Gu Zhou who spoke up to stop her from making any further moves: "Is that enough? Isn't it too much?"

Shen Wu grabbed a few wild amaranths that he had just broken off and looked back at the backpack... Damn! There were so many! In order to avoid tipping over, he did this himself, and said calmly, "It's okay."

After finishing this, Shen Wu continued to follow Gu Zhou inside. This time, she obviously found a lot of things that were different from before. She saw a field of wild onions and ginger. She rushed forward again, then rushed back to snatch the hoe from Gu Zhou's hand, and got a lot of onions and ginger for herself.

"This is good! This is good!" She walked with the things in her hand, laughing as she walked, showing Gu Zhou the good stuff she had made with her hoe.

"Don't we have some at home?" Gu Zhou also cooks, so he naturally recognized this.

Shen Wu is greedy for food and wants the best! He will definitely eat fresh food first! "Fresh food is better."

Gu Zhou took the hoe, onion and ginger from her hands, held the hoe in one hand and put them back into the backpack with the other hand: "Let's go."

Shen Wu still wanted to take it himself, okay..., he couldn’t take it anymore.

This time, Shen Wu did not run around until she reached the bamboo shoots, for she was afraid that if she got too excited, the basket would be full before she even picked up the bamboo shoots.

While she was confused, Gu Zhou had already put down his backpack and started digging bamboo shoots: "How did you know I was going to get bamboo shoots!"

Gu Zhou's back was already wet, but he didn't feel tired. He dug out the bamboo shoots and put them aside and said, "You said bamboo shoots are delicious on this day. What else can we eat if not bamboo shoots?"

Shen Wu felt quite silly, chuckled, and began to help him move: "You don't need that many, about five or six will be enough. If you want the filling for tomorrow, come back in the afternoon. It's better to have fresh ones."

In fact, the taste wouldn't change much due to the difference of a few hours. She said that mainly because she felt it was too hot at noon and she couldn't handle so much with just one backpack.

Gu Zhou finished six before stopping. He was so tired that he was sweating and panting.

"Take a rest. We'll go when you feel better."

Gu Zhou nodded.

He put the hoe aside, sat down on the bamboo leaves, and leaned against the bamboo as thick as his wrist to catch his breath.

Shen Wu took advantage of his break to use a hoe to gently scratch the surface of the bamboo shoots, and peeled off the outer skin one by one, leaving only the green layer inside. This way, there would be no dirt stuck on it, and it would be easier to wash.

Not long after sitting down, Gu Zhou stood up and put on the backpack: "I'm ready to rest, help me put the bamboo shoots in." After he said that, he slightly lowered his body towards Jiang Yu.

Of course Shen Wu wouldn't let go. She held all the peeled bamboo shoots in her arms: "You don't have to let me hold them."

Gu Zhou didn't ask for anything else and walked out first.

When they reached the river, Gu Zhou went back to get the weaving basket first, while Shen Wu started to prepare the vegetables. She separated all the vegetables so that she could wash them in the basket when Gu Zhou came over.

While she had nothing to do, she began looking for things like cattails and reeds by the river.

I still remember seeing it when I came to wash vegetables last time. After looking for a while, she saw a large field of reeds.

She couldn't remember when was the best time to get the reeds to be fleeced. There are many varieties nowadays, and reeds can be seen in late spring, summer and early autumn. The ancient varieties of reeds were not tall or big, and there were not many places with fleece. She probably needed quite a lot to make a set of clothes.

Gu Zhou was holding a basket and saw the vegetables placed by the river from a distance, but she was gone. His heart tightened and he hurried to the river, fearing that she had fallen into the river.

Before he could find her, he saw her standing by the river, facing the willows by the water. Gu Zhou put down his basket and walked over to her, puzzled and a little surprised: "Can this be eaten?!!"

Shen Wu turned around and saw his surprised expression and hurriedly explained: "No, this thing can't be eaten, but it has a lot of uses. I can't tell you now, but you need a lot of cloth and several sacks of reeds and cattails."

Gu Zhou had no idea what this thing could be done with cloth, but if she wanted it, she just had to pay attention to collecting it.

He was very curious about the name she told him: "You said this is the reed you want?"

Shen Wu nodded: "Yes! This also has cattail sticks!" She was a little confused as to why Gu Zhou asked this. The next second she suddenly realized that it might not be the same kind and name as modern things. Judging from his reaction, it should not be the same name as the one she said.

"What do you call this?" Shen Wu was very curious.

"Waterside Willow"

"So that's how it is."

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Shen Wu estimated that it was about 11 o'clock when the two of them took the washed vegetables back.

She hurried to the kitchen and started cutting bamboo shoots, but unexpectedly Gu Zhou came in to help her light a fire.

Bamboo shoots are easy to prepare. Cut them into slices and then shred them. Soak them in water and set aside. Cut wild amaranth a little and set aside. Just boil it in boiling water and you can eat it. As for purslane, cut it into sections and set aside. Then stir-fry it with lard and scallions.

While cutting vegetables, Shen Wu asked Gu Zhou to boil some water to blanch the vegetables, then took the washed onions and divided them into two parts. One part was separated from the onion whites and leaves to be used for frying onion oil, and the other part was cut into long pieces to be used for stir-frying purslane.

The pot over there was not yet boiling, Shen Wu cleaned the chopping board, wiped it dry with a clean cloth, and sprinkled a thin layer of flour on it. She brought back the basin that had been placed outside, and she lifted the cloth to see that it had risen quite well, with a little honeycomb.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether the dough rises or not. The main thing is to let it rest, so that it is loose and not so easy to pull. It's okay to let it rise a little bit, because you need to knead it a second time later, and then the dough will be better mixed and taste better.

Shen Wu took out the noodles with some difficulty, and finally got all the noodles onto the chopping board by pulling and tugging. She also pulled off the noodles that were stuck to the bottom of the basin and got all of them onto the chopping board.

She planned to make hand-rolled noodles, cook them, boil them in cold water and serve them with shredded bamboo shoots, scallion oil and scallion. It would definitely be delicious.

While I was kneading it, I heard Gu Zhou say, "Boil wild amaranth?"

Shen Wu took the time to look up and saw that the water was already boiling: "Well, just put it all in, remember to put a little bit of oil in the water."

“Add oil?” Gu Zhou was puzzled as to why it was necessary to add oil when blanching dishes?

Shen Wu had just finished kneading the noodles into a ball and was taking a break, so he took the opportunity to go over and demonstrate and explain to him: "Just this little bit will do. Adding this will make the dish look greener after blanching."

Gu Zhou watched her scoop a small amount of water into the pot with a spoon, stir the amaranth in the pot, and then put the lid back on.

"So that's what you mean. Do we need to add oil whenever we blanch the food?"

Shen Wu has returned to the chopping board at this moment and thought carefully about his question: "Salt will work too."

Gu Zhou had some questions again: "Then why didn't you add salt just now?"

Shen Wu started kneading the dough again and replied: "Both of them are fine. I subconsciously thought of oil."