After picking the bamboo shoots, the men went down the mountain together.

Boss Zhou and Wang Youcai were discussing the work in the fields and were confident about the future harvest.

Brothers Wang Dashan and Zhou Mingzhi were also talking and laughing. I don’t know what the boys were talking about, but they burst into laughter, making Wang Dashan blush.

At the end of the village, the two families separated and returned to their own homes.

Old Mrs. Zhou, Mrs. Feng and their two children were peeling bamboo shoots at home. When they saw Old Man Zhou and his friends come back, they hurried to help unload the backpacks.

"Did you run into your wife and the others on the way? It's almost noon, it's time to come back."

"Yeah, it's okay, just wait a moment."

Instead of washing their hands, three people brought stools and joined the bamboo shoot peeling team.

Some are dried, and the rest are intended to be made into pickled bamboo shoots. So many bamboo shoots will last for a while.

After a while, a woman's voice was heard outside the door.

This is Liu and Zhu and the others coming back.

"Mom, we're back. There are still a lot of mushrooms on the mountain today. We picked up a lot of blue-headed mushrooms and chanterelles. We can make several plates of them."

"Okay, wash your hands and take a rest. The third brother and I will prepare lunch."

"Okay, I picked a lot of gardenias. I met Caixia in the mountains, so I asked her and her mother to pick some and bring them home to make soup."

"Oh~ You guys really met. We ran into Youcai in the bamboo forest. He was picking bamboo shoots with his kid."

"At this time of year, the couple never stop working, going out early and coming back late every day. Even in a year of famine, they won't starve. The couple knows how to make a living, how hardworking!"

Old Mrs. Zhou had always been full of praise for the couple. The fields of the two families were not far from each other, but there was no grass taller than a hand ever seen on their ground; it was always pinched off as soon as it appeared.

Now that the Wang family has split up again, Youcai's new house is not far from their Zhou family, so they would meet and chat when they have nothing to do.

Liu washed her hands and took out some gardenias from her backpack, planning to make a dish. She asked the maids to make the rest into ointment.

The mushrooms are also sorted and picked, and some of the ones you like are made into dishes.

"Mom, we picked a handful of water spinach in the mountains. Do you want to blanch it and eat it?"

"Let's cook it together. This dish will wilt if it's left for too long."

In this way, the lunch is quite complete, with one dish of gardenia, one dish of amaranth, one dish of shiitake mushroom, one dish of chanterelle, and one dish of fresh bamboo shoots.

Zhou Mingshu didn't care about anything else and started washing up when he got home.

Although I applied anti-itching cream to repel mosquitoes and relieve itching, it was still hot and stuffy in the mountains and my body was covered in sticky sweat after a morning of use. I felt uncomfortable if I didn't wash it off.

After tidying herself up, she began to prepare tools to wash the gardenias.

These petals are delicate and cannot be kept for long. Now that they have been picked, they should be processed properly to avoid waste.

"Sanya, do you want to make the ointment this afternoon?"

"Second sister, if you have nothing else to do, just do it. So many petals will rot if they are piled up."

"Yeah, okay, I'll help you."

Zhou Mingshu nodded in agreement and continued to work on his work.

There are still too few bamboo baskets at home. I will ask grandma to buy a few more when I have time.

Old Mrs. Zhou thought of something, wiped her hands on her apron, and came out of the kitchen.

"Shouren, you have to go to Lijiagou after dinner. We are going to the town tomorrow and we need to take a carriage. Ask him to leave some time for us."

"Okay, I see."

The lunch was very sumptuous, but everyone still hadn’t recovered from being hungry.

The air was filled with the delicious smell of food, saliva was constantly secreted in the mouth, and after a whole morning of non-stop work, everyone's stomachs were rumbling at the same time.

Look at the corn rice in front of you. There is no wild vegetable added. The light yellow color looks very appetizing.

With a bowl of corn rice and so many fresh and tender dishes, why would you want to eat meat?

After a voracious meal, the numerous plates and bowls looked as if they had been washed and were shiny.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Mingshu was numb. Since she came to this family, every meal has been like this. The delicious dishes were gone before she even had a chance to pick them up with her third chopsticks.

Therefore, her mother was angry with her, always feeling that she ate too slowly and could not compete with her brothers and sisters. She did so much work all day but could not even have a full meal. In the long run, her body could not bear it.

But who is Zhou Mingshu? He controls the system and she can never starve.

There are a lot of points saved in the system, so she can eat whatever she wants.

However, what she wants to eat most is meat!

While everyone was eating and taking a nap, she took a basin and went to the back of the house to wash clothes.

There were not many people out at this time, so she exchanged for a piece of laundry soap and rubbed the clothes, and soon the clothes were clean.

I couldn't help but sigh, this thing is really useful.

I picked up a handful of snails. Something under the water plants was startled, and it swam away quickly after flicking its tail.

Zhou Mingshu smiled slightly. The system had already given the answer. It turned out to be wild grass carp.

But she doesn't know how to catch fish, so let her eldest brother do this job.

I bought a three-pound grass carp directly from the system and threw it into the basin, then added some river water.

Then you carry the basin home and go home to eat meat, and the meat will be there.

"Grandma, there are fish in the river! I caught a big fish, come and see it."

Without waiting for Old Mrs. Zhou to come out of the kitchen, Zhou Mingjie and Zhou Mingyuan ran over quickly to see what was happening.

"Third sister, you caught this fish! It's so big, I want to catch it too. Where is it? Take me there quickly."

"Of course I caught it. Where else could it be? It was in the river behind the house. I was squatting there washing clothes. This fish foolishly stuck its head out to eat grass. I covered it with clothes and caught it."

Zhou Mingshu recounted his heroic deeds, which shocked the people around him and made them look admiring, especially Zhou Mingzhi and Zhou Mingjie.

The two brothers looked at each other, and something was surging in their eyes.

Old Mrs. Zhou grabbed the fish's mouth and lifted it, smiling so much that several more wrinkles appeared on her face.

"Although this fish is fishy and tastes bad, it's free. Let's eat fish tonight."

When Zhou Mingshu heard what Old Lady Zhou said, he was shocked.

This fish is fishy and unpalatable?!

It couldn't be what she thought. What if the family really didn't know how to cook fish... and if the taste was not as good as wild vegetables, then she would laugh her head off.

After thinking about it, she quickly made the gardenia ointment so that she would have time to cook the fish in the afternoon.

When Boss Zhou heard that San Ya had caught a big grass carp, he was so happy that he jumped up from the bed and didn't even take a nap.

He picked up a kitchen knife and the fish and began to gut it and scrape off the scales.

Men love those few things. From the time they learned how to pee, they like dog fighting, bird walking, and fishing. Even when they are in their seventies or eighties, their interests don't change.

Zhou Mingzhi brought his two younger brothers to the place where San Ya had just washed clothes and observed from time to time.

There was indeed some movement beneath the water plants, which must be fish.

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